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On the streets of Sudan: Dreaming of riches and apples – Al Jazeera English
Khartoum, Sudan: “I am eight years old,” Omniya says. At least, that’s what her mother tells her, she adds. The mother and daughter live together on the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
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Brennan Center Releases a Report on Crime in the United States – The Atlantic
The Brennan Center for Justice released a report on Thursday that explores crime trends in 30 cities in 2015. In it, the report’s authors sought to test a hypothesis put forth by some scholars and journalists about a purported crime wave this year. …
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Belgium ‘at risk of attack’ – PM – BBC News
Belgium has raised its terror alert in the Brussels region to the highest level, warning of a very serious and imminent threat. The prime minister, Charles Michel, said there was information on a possible attack with weapons and explosives similar t…
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Hillary Clinton and the Resurgence of Cross-Stitching – The Atlantic
When it comes to presidential campaign merchandise, the U.S. has come a long way since “I Like Ike” buttons.
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When Congress Slut-Shamed Ingrid Bergman – The Daily Beast
The camera loved Ingrid Bergman. Her Ilsa Lund, a mélange of iridescent eyes, nourishing smile, and disarming vulnerability, glides across the screen like a seraph, bathed in celestial light.
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Donald Trump’s Perilous Rhetoric About American Mosques – The Atlantic
The first mosques in America might have looked at home at a Trump resort. Lavish and flashy, literally fantastic but not built to last, they were reproductions of notable Islamic houses of worship constructed for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.
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Wildlife crime scene investigators – Al Jazeera English
As harsh laws and a string of murders target Bangladeshi bloggers, 101 East meets those risking their lives. The story of King Idris I, who unified Libya and became its first king in 1951 before being toppled by Gaddafi in 1969.
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Indian villagers ‘crushed’ between militia and Maoists – Al Jazeera English
Bijapur, India – The violence that took place in this village nearly a decade ago is still visible. Charred logs are all that remain of a razed home, and barren land has replaced a once-thriving forest.
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Senator Bernie Sanders’s speech on Thursday explaining his democratic socialist ideology carried little risk among supporters and other Democrats: A solid majority of them have a positive impression of socialism, according to a New York Times/CBS Ne…
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EU drops food waste and marine litter reduction targets, leak reveals : environment
EU drops food waste and marine litter reduction targets, leak reveals https://t.co/JWkHCPGJwr https://t.co/cnorUwseUm via /r/environment
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Paris attacks: Armed soldiers patrol Brussels’ streets – BBC News
Belgium has raised its terror alert in the Brussels region to the highest level, warning of a “very serious” and “imminent” threat. The metro system will be closed till Sunday, and the public has been warned to avoid crowds, including shopping centr…
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The Saturday poem: The Bible | Books | The Guardian
Big as a suitcase, heavyas a log, the cover wrinkledin elephant skin.Budby opened the book,and the frontispiece lit up the room;there were angels and saints,all the shimmering animalsof heaven. Christ on his cross.Budby’s eyes glimmeredin this new l…
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Indiana Managed to Keep One Syrian Refugee Out. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen Again. | Mother Jones
Earlier this week, a Syrian family of four on their way to the United States received an unexpected surprise: their long-awaited resettlement to Indiana was, with less than 24 hours to go, being shifted to Connecticut, because Indiana Gov.
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Tom Gauld on a class system fit for the 21st century – cartoon | Books | The Guardian
Illustration: Tom Gauld
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By the end of the year, the federal government will likely propose taking the grizzly bear off of the endangered species list. To some, this would mark an unprecedented victory: the resuscitation of perhaps the most iconic large mammal on the contin…
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After years in the background, Brock Osweiler is ready to play | Sport | The Guardian
The tallest quarterback in the NFL has long been accustomed to lurking in the background. Staring football games was never a given right for Brock Osweiler. Not in the NFL and not in college.
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Cold air digs in across Europe – Al Jazeera English
The weather has finally turned wintry across much of Europe. Cold air has pushed south, ramming the mild conditions out of the way and causing the temperatures to drop like a stone.
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No closure for Ukraine’s heavenly hundred – Al Jazeera English
Kiev, Ukraine – Sergey Shapoval is a Ukrainian hero. There is a memorial to him on the wall outside the block of flats where his 70-year-old mother lives with the two cats he rescued.
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Tennis physics via /r/gifs https://t.co/FgVk45oGzN https://t.co/hIfukZWQ6r https://t.co/F3hDhLsoj6
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Half of the Amazon’s tree species are threatened (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Tennis physics via /r/gifs https://t.co/FgVk45oGzN https://t.co/k2Stt514wf https://t.co/5mPtagUXF7
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Tennis physics via /r/gifs https://t.co/FgVk45oGzN https://t.co/k2Stt514wf https://t.co/5mPtagUXF7
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Equatorial ridge on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, taken by the Cassini space probe [800 x 452] https://t.co/ykYZazzik5 https://t.co/3wHlpOQBOx
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Nature Spirits Guardians of the Cosmic Multiversal Waystation 21 https://t.co/Ooz4DAK0Fu https://t.co/VYMCZaMY2j
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Half of the Amazon’s tree species are threatened : environment
Half of the Amazon’s tree species are threatened https://t.co/aDW8LGvuA0 https://t.co/KcvH9l58BC via /r/environment
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Half Of The Amazon’s Tree Species Are Threatened
Half of the Amazon’s tree species are threatened https://t.co/aDW8LGvuA0 https://t.co/KcvH9l58BC via /r/environment
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This was the top image on November 20, 2013. Past Imgurians had it right. – Imgur
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BBC Sport – Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini should face Fifa sanctions – panel
The Fifa panel investigating corruption allegations has called for sanctions to be taken against president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini. The investigatory chamber of Fifa’s ethics committee has passed its findings on to adjudicator…
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43% of Americans feel that discrimination vs. whites is as big as a problem as discrimination vs. blacks and other minorities (washingtonpost.com)submitted 52 minutes ago by [
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to take two months paternity leave – BBC News
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he will take two months of paternity leave after the birth of his daughter. Mr Zuckerberg made the announcement on his timeline, calling it “a very personal decision”.
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Former Namibia captain Raymond van Schoor has died at the age of 25, five days after he suffered a stroke playing for his country. The wicketkeeper collapsed batting against Free State on 15 November in a Cricket South Africa one-day match.
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Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction | Books | The Guardian
It was something of a shock for the writer Kevin Barry to find he was working on a piece of historical fiction.
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Gold Miners Sue Over Bans of Dredging Equipment | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — The General Mining Law of 1872 promised Americans who went west that whatever gold or other precious minerals they found would be theirs for the keeping — the main driver of the California Gold Rush that fueled the nation’s great westw…
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Had Samuel Pepys lived in the dullest of times he would still have been the most compelling diarist – his beguiling mix of frankness and frailty would have ensured that. The times he lived in, however, and the part he played in them, were anything b…
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The gifs that keep on giving: Gaelic games, Ronaldinho and Benny the Bull | Sport | The Guardian
No stopping that Ronaldinho v David Seaman, 13 years later Crossing the line This is plain weird One way to climb the stairs An overqualified mascot Will these volleyball teams ever learn? Goal with the wind You can’t keep a good bull down
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Constituency Councils – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constituency Councils are the most local statutory representative bodies today in Barbados. The Constituency councils are somewhat similar to parish councils that existed in Barbados at one time, mainly to communicate local opinion to larger bodies …
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If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’ (motherboard.vice.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Paris attacks suspect detained in southern Turkey – Al Jazeera English
A Belgian citizen of Moroccan origin suspected of playing a role in the Paris attacks has been arrested in the southern Turkish city of Antalya, a police official told Al Jazeera. The detained suspect was being questioned at the prosecutor’s office …
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If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’ : environment
If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’ https://t.co/1LNAf4w4Eu https://t.co/EyKIu0gAum via /r/environment
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If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’: Climatologist | Motherboard
If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’ https://t.co/1LNAf4w4Eu https://t.co/EyKIu0gAum via /r/environment
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Barbara Walters’ Wet Kiss to the Donald – The Daily Beast
In case anyone didn’t notice that Donald Trump represents the complete celebrification of American politics and policy, Barbara Walters drove the point home Friday night in what amounted to a Trump for President campaign commercial on ABC’s 20/20.
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Paris attacks: UN unites in battle against IS – BBC News
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to “redouble” action against Islamic State, following last week’s deadly attacks in Paris. The French-drafted document urges UN members to “take all necessary measures” in the fight agains…
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How to draw… Monet’s garden | Children’s books | The Guardian
Claude Monet was not only an amazing painter – he was one of the founders of the Impressionist movement – but he also created one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, in Giverny. Now, with some help from his cat, you can combine both his pass…
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On the nights that Diana Athill lies awake in bed, in those uncountable minutes when the body waits for sleep and the mind won’t give it, she lets her imagination wander.
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
20 years after the events of her childhood, Jean Louise Finch goes back to her childhood home (Maycomb, Alabama) to visit her family and friends – though she quickly begins to realise that everything is not as it seems and a lot has changed in Mayco…
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When asked where he got his ideas, the late Terry Pratchett would confidentially tell his audience, “Well, there’s this warehouse called Ideas R Us.” That was a good answer, because it did two useful things: get a laugh and deflect the question.
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FIFA probe demands sanctions for Blatter and Platini – Al Jazeera English
FIFA’s ethics committee says it completed its investigation into the conduct of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA head Michel Platini and requested sanctions against both of them.
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New Yorkers are used to living in shoe box apartments. Now, more of them can see what it is like to live in something even smaller.
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Landslide causes US road to buckle – BBC News
No one is thought to have been injured, as Gavin Gray explains.
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The Secret Life of Janis Joplin: A Girl, Interrupted – The Daily Beast
“I managed to pass my 27th birthday without really feeling it,” Janis Joplin remarks with tragic prescience in one of many bittersweet moments in Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue, an engrossing new documentary from Oscar-nominee Amy Berg that brings t…
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The Great Pacific garbage patch is one of the world’s least talked about environmental disasters. At Kamilo beach in Hawaii, Sophie Thomas from the Royal Society of Arts has documented pieces from the patch washed up on land, including discarded bot…
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eating at bed via /r/gifs https://t.co/j8As1sRzTF https://t.co/KblWYoP4hZ https://t.co/0nYc7qn9JN
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Was this the first image? : Catloaf
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A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig review – an instant Christmas classic | Books | The Guardian
I have to confess that I’ve never been a great fan of Christmas, or as it’s known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year.
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The orphans of ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Baharka camp, Erbil, Iraq – Thirteen-year-old Dunya can neither speak nor hear, but she has learned to narrate through sign language how her father was killed by fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
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BBC 100 Women 2015: Bollywood star Asha Bhosle ‘feels 30’ – BBC News
Asha Bhosle, 82, is a Bollywood singing star whose career has spanned seven decades. But despite her advancing years, she still performs worldwide and says she feels 30 inside.
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My young Grandfather in Iraq (1924). (imgur.com) James Mohamed Franco?
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Nature Spirits Guardians of the Cosmic Multiversal Waystation 19 https://t.co/KdaAmHRfEU https://t.co/jrgKoSFGjD
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Clinton slams Sanders on taxes, but it could backfire: “Those middle-class families would no longer have to pay health insurance premiums. They’d face no annual deductibles, or co-pays, or co-insurance, coverage limits or any of the myriad other thi…
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Iran’s leader orders the expansion of green economy and raising awareness of the environment. (english.khamenei.ir)
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Paris attacks: Brussels on highest terror alert – BBC News
Belgium has raised its terror alert in the Brussels region to the highest level, warning of a “very serious” and “imminent” threat. The metro will be closed till at least Sunday, and the public has been warned to avoid crowds, including shopping cen…
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Tradition is a concept that’s prevalent throughout Grimm. Many wesen cultures boast of a heritage that runs all the way back to medieval times (if not older), and their naturally insular way of life means that many aspects of that tradition have sur…
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In 1990, as a surprised world emerged from the cold war, the Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer expressed his fears at the passing of the bipolar world order.
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“Why do you want to be a cheerleader?” they said. “That’s so gay” they said. – Imgur
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Conflict persists despite South Sudan peace deal – Al Jazeera English
Yambio, South Sudan – On a long narrow path that cuts through a dense tropical forest, half a dozen youths clutching AK-47s man an improvised checkpoint, 30 minutes outside the city of Yambio.
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Entrepreneurs dream big in Lebanon’s Tripoli – Al Jazeera English
Tripoli, Lebanon – Now may be a better time than ever to launch a business in Beirut. Despite myriad political, environmental and social challenges in Lebanon, the picture remains rosy for entrepreneurs in the country’s capital, with major acquisiti…
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Hoyer Sees Possible Wave for House Dems in 2016: “Hoyer pointed to the 2006 midterm elections, in which Democrats flipped 32 seats to take a majority after Republicans had controlled Congress for more than a decade” (realclearpolitics.com)submitted …
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Cast of The Walking Dead crashed my birthday dinner : pics
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Why Seth Rogen Is the Greatest Comedian of His Generation – The Daily Beast
Seth Rogen grows up, again, in The Night Before, a Yuletide comedy of wanton drug use, rapid-fire pop culture references, and boisterous boys-will-be-boys debauchery.
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This needs to be on highdeas.
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China coal mine fire kills 21 – state media – BBC News
The fire began on Friday at the coal mine run by a state-owned company in Jixi City, Heilongjiang province, Xinhua news agency says. It earlier reported that 22 people were trapped underground. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.
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China coal mine blaze kills 21 workers – Al Jazeera English
State-run Xinhua news agency said on Saturday the fire at the Xinghua mine in the city of Jixi was brought under control, and 21 bodies were recovered from the mine – owned by the Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group.
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You asshole. I put it down for ONE MINUTE. : cats
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What was it like to be a Nintendo game play counselor? · Expert Witness · The A.V. Club
With so many entertainment options available to consumers today, the bygone era of all-encompassing Nintendo mania in America seems quaint.
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Scape Goating Refugees for the Paris Attacks Is for Idiots | VICE | United Kingdom
Not long after the body of a three-year-old Syrian boy called Aylan Kurdi was found washed up against a beach in Turkey, unleashing a vast tide of sympathy across Europe, strange stories started appearing in the press.
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An app for lists, live Rush, and 3 old Promise Ring favorites · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
For whatever reason, I came to The Promise Ring too late, probably sometime around Wood/Water, which—as any P’Ring fan knows—was not the time to get into the band. But like so many people, I first fell hard for Nothing Feels Good, the group’s 1997 e…
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Dont Look Back is in such a hurry to get going that it doesn’t even have time to find an apostrophe for its title. Shot during Bob Dylan’s 1965 London tour, which took place just after the release of Bringing It All Back Home (his first “electric” a…
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Analysis: Mali hotel siege was horrifically predictable – Al Jazeera English
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves le Drian told French television that Belmoktar, who was the target of a US air strike in the Libyan town of Ajdabiyah in June, “is likely behind this attack although we are not certain of it”.
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Enter: Luke Skywalker!In 1976 Roy Thomas was an 11 year veteran of Marvel Comics. He had been Stan Lee’s hand-picked successor to the position of editor-in-chief at the company when, in 1972, Lee began the long process of disentangling himself from …
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Olympia, Wash. — OVER the last week, a growing number of governors, representatives, senators and presidential candidates have demanded that America slam shut our borders to refugees who are fleeing unspeakable horrors at the hands of the Islamic St…
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Big enough to eat your dinner off | Environment | The Guardian
“You’ve really got to see them,” he said excitedly as he came into the coffee morning. “They’re huge, bigger than dinner plates.” Veteran scouter Bill Edwards is in his mid-80s and walks everywhere.
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Russian author Count Tolstoy dead: archive, 21 November 1910 | Books | The Guardian
ST. PETERSBURG, SUNDAY.Count Tolstoy passed away at five minutes past six this morning without having regained consciousness. ASTAPOVO, SATURDAY.Count Tolstoy to-day had a strong cardiac seizure, which, however, happily passed away.
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Looks like there’s a goddess in this orange. : mildlyinteresting
Looks like there’s a goddess in this orange. (imgur.com) PRAISE THE SUN!
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‘The Knick’ Recap: Woman’s Work | Rolling Stone
There is every reason to believe that being a woman in 1902 … well, most likely it sucked. With no meaningful political rights, massively unequal wages and every breath dictated by a man and a corset, life as a member of the fair sex must have felt …
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Leonids and Friends via NASA https://t.co/piR28xdREd https://t.co/F0yy6rLbcH https://t.co/fcMySIaVDW
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When Ellen Page feels bored : gifs
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APOD: 2015 November 20 – Leonids and Friends
Explanation: Leonid meteors rained down on planet Earth this week, the annual shower of dusty debris from the orbit of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. Leonids streak through this composite night skyview from a backyard observatory in southern Ontario.
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Helicopter crash kills seven in New Zealand – Al Jazeera English
A helicopter crashed on a New Zealand glacier killing all seven people aboard on Saturday. A photo taken by a police search crew showed the wreckage wedged into a crevasse in unforgiving terrain, nearly 800 metres up the Fox Glacier on South Island.
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Rowboat and Birds Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Judge denies Wash. state kids’ petition on climate change (komonews.com)
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Judge denies Wash. state kids’ petition on climate change : environment
Judge denies Wash. state kids’ petition on climate change https://t.co/nnqlAH35EK https://t.co/6n3TJGy6Z0 via /r/environment
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Judge denies Wash. state kids’ petition on climate change https://t.co/nnqlAH35EK https://t.co/6n3TJGy6Z0 via /r/environment
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JACKSON, Miss. — Sometimes American politics is about ideas, powered by Jeffersons and Adamses and Reagans. Sometimes it is about strategy, with races determined by the chess-match machinations of Axelrods and Roves.
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Gestures Are Defining Apple Watch | TechCrunch
Instead of the touches and swipes that power most of our screen-based computing devices, many of the core Apple Watch capabilities — like checking the time — are powered by gestures.
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Bill Maher Criticizes Syrian Refugees: ‘Their Values Are At Odds with Our Values’ – The Daily Beast
In the wake of the horrific Paris attacks carried out by ISIS-affiliated jihadists that left 130 people dead and scores more injured, the chest-thumping, xenophobic rhetoric emanating from the clown car of GOP presidential hopefuls has reached level…
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Belgium warns citizens of ‘serious and imminent’ threat – Al Jazeera English
Belgium raised its attack alert in the capital to the highest level on Saturday, warning the public to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat. The move was made in Brussels after a meeting of top ministers, police and security serv…
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Getting Up Close and Personal with an Earth-Sized Exoplanet
An artist’s impression of an exoplanet transiting a red dwarf star in the same way as the newfound, Earth-size exoplanet GJ 1132b does.Credit: ESO/L. Calçada View full size image Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed …
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MRW my friend writes some code and says he can see blonde, brunette, redhead – GIF on Imgur
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That’s how you open an episode. You wave a disembodied eye in our face. Not an eyeball, mind. This is the facade of a single human eye, lids and all, somewhat resembling the Freemason Eye Of Providence, subtly suggesting an organized secret power.
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Some shows are easy to grade; they make their own rubric from the available resources, and reach their potential to a generally-obvious degree episode to episode.
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State of emergency in Mali after deadly hotel attack – Al Jazeera English
Mali was under a state of emergency on Saturday after a brazen siege by gunmen at a five-star hotel killed 21 people in the heart of the capital, Bamako. The president cut short a trip to a regional summit in Chad in the wake of the attack.
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Jessica Jones’ villain steps out of the shadows in its fifth episode · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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It’s invigorating to watch a show this in control. Every episode has been laugh-out-loud funny and movingly honest—not just confessional or trenchant but true in ways that make you realize you’ve never seen that on TV before, like when Josh tunnels …
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When Your Gig Is A Mass Casualty Event – The Daily Beast
Let’s say you make sandwiches for a living. You’ve been making sandwiches every day for 20 years, or thereabouts.
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If You’re Hungry For Joni Mitchell, Eat Here – The Daily Beast
“You’re in Laurel Canyon right now,” restaurateur and club owner Alan Nathan chanted, like a Sixties shaman peeking from a kaleidoscope sky.
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This Pacemaker Runs on Light – The Daily Beast
The pacemaker may seem like a miracle of modern medicine, but it actually has a lot of drawbacks. Most patients who have had the device implanted say they would go back to the days they before they needed it in, well, a heartbeat. But a new discover…
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Your Great-Grandma’s Dirty Books – The Daily Beast
A hundred years ago, there was only one way to explain a woman having sex outside of marriage: she must have been drugged, defiled, and sold into prostitution.
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Russian Soldier Busted In NYC Murder – The Daily Beast
Yes, Americans and Russians are able to work successfully together to confront pure evil. The extraordinary dedication and cooperation of everyone involved in both countries further proves that a united effort against the worst in human nature can b…
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Hemingway’s Love Letters to the City of Light – The Daily Beast
The timeless appeal of Paris has lured American expatriates of all shapes and varieties for more than a century. We went there to touch history, and romance, and creative freedom.
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High Design Safe Spaces for Heroin Addicts – The Daily Beast
In 60 cities across eight countries worldwide, injection drug users can safely get their fix under medical supervision. The United States is not one of those countries. These spaces are called supervised injection facilities (SIFs) and there are ov…
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Praying for a Winner – The Daily Beast
Eddie Kay turned up the edge of his hole card. Beautiful, he said to himself. Ace of diamonds. He already had an ace showing. There were no pairs and no higher card out on the table. The guy next to him, a luncheonette owner, put out forty.
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Winston Churchill’s Wife Made Him Great – The Daily Beast
Clementine Churchill is traditionally seen as the archetypal devoted wife, in her case of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill throughout their fifty-seven year marriage.
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Open thread for night owls. Dayen: Congress is making it tougher to bust white-collar crooks
At The Fiscal Times, David Dayen writes—Congress Is Making It Even Harder to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime. An excerpt: The House Judiciary Committee this week finalized a bipartisan criminal justice reform package, with a level of cooperation u…
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The last episode of With Bob And David mixes together everything that made Bob, David, and the rest of the Mr. Show team a permanent fixture in comedy culture.
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Jessica Jones’ fourth episode gets back to its film noir roots · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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Jenny McCarthy slams Charlie Sheen for not telling her he had HIV… before he had it. So, in sum: Sheen has HIV; he couldn’t have given it to McCarthy; but she is mad because he didn’t tell her about it because of her son’s autism, which Sheen’s HI…
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Mistaken Identities and Monkeys are the Backbone of Elementary This Week
It’s a night of mistaken identity, estranged fathers, a return to police service, and overly-convoluted doppelgängered murder mysteries for this week’s Elementary.
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Donald Trump would be willing to make all Muslims register in a database and get special IDs – Imgur
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IT is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net.
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Famous Musician Nails Mali Terrorists – The Daily Beast
It was literally poetic justice when West African music legend Sekouba Bambino escaped the Radisson Blu in Mali and gave the police key intel on the religious extremists who attacked the hotel, took 170 people hostage and killed as many as 27 Friday.
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Sarah Palin: ‘Jesus would fight for our Second Amendment’
Warning: Proprietors are not responsible for reader aneurisms caused by the following sentence. Sarah Palin takes to Facebook to say Jesus likes guns.
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You can now reply to individual story snaps in Snapchat | The Verge
Snapchat quietly dropped an update last night that makes its chat feature a lot more interesting. Now, when viewing a snap in someone’s story, you can swipe upward to send that user a direct chat message.
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This is Bill. For every upvote, Bill gets one frame of animation. – Imgur
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Imgur’s reaction when I try to resurrect an old meme – GIF on Imgur
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My wife found these socks in Target today. My whole life has led to this moment. – Imgur
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Helicopter crashes at New Zealand glacier – BBC News
A helicopter has crashed in New Zealand, with the fate of seven people believed to be on board still unknown, officials say.The country’s Rescue Co-ordination Centre says helicopters have been sent to the crash site at Fox Glacier.
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This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Cats Eye Nebula [1600×1200]
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Paris attacks: UN backs ‘all necessary measures’ against IS – BBC News
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to “redouble” action against Islamic State, following last week’s deadly attacks in Paris. The French-drafted document urges UN members to “take all necessary measures” in the fight agains…
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Netflix is reportedly rebooting Lost in Space | The Verge
What’s next for the streaming service that introduced audiences to the ruthless shenanigans of Frank Underwood, and proved that Marvel characters could be gritty, dark, and morally complex? A reboot of a family-friendly 1960s space romp, apparently.
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Everything and nothing happens in second High Tower episode · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero is watching all of the first season of The Man In The High Castle on Amazon Prime. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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France’s Best Movie of the Year Is a Beautiful Muslim Coming-of-Age Story – The Daily Beast
Opening exactly one week after the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead at the hands of radical ISIS-affiliated jihadists, the best French film of the year is a stirring marvel about five young Muslim girls rebelling again…
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What almost 8 years of being a president looks like : pics
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UN Approves Resolution Urging Action Against ISIL | Al Jazeera America
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a French-sponsored resolution Friday calling on all nations to redouble and coordinate action to prevent further attacks by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and similar organizations.
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Adele goes undercover and enters an Adele impersonator competition. The moment she starts singing, everyone knows. (youtube.com) Ha. Little did she knew she did, that’s great.
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John Wolf, a dentist in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, is well known in the neighborhood — not only for his popular, light-filled offices, but also for his AIDS activism.
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Not surprising that any of the Israel-first billionaires would say this. Sheldon Adelson said democracy is over rated in response to Israel’s march toward apartheid.
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New Wisconsin poll shows, in the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Russ Feingold is supported by 49 percent of registered voters while Republican incumbent Ron Johnson receives 38 percent support (law.marquette.edu)
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Spot and Ner’zhul via /r/cats…
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Hotel Attack Underscores Mali’s Security Problems | Al Jazeera America
For anyone who has followed news of Mali or traveled there in recent years, Friday’s attack that killed at least 19 people at the Radisson Blu hotel is unsurprising, but no less tragic or horrific for its apparent predictability.
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Math Can Equal Fun – Scientific American
Harvey Mudd College math professor Arthur Benjamin talks about his new book The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why.
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Jessica Jones stumbles in its second outing · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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The Fingerprints of Water on Sand Are Like a Living Organism
Nature is filled with repeating patterns. Take this image of dried-up riverbeds in Oman, which could just as easily be the subterranean root structure of a giant tree, or the threadlike tendrils of a fungal mycelia network, or a microscopic collecti…
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In Washington, teenagers take a state agency to court over carbon emissions — and win | Grist
It had all the makings of a volume of The Hunger Games: Aji and Adonis Piper. Wren Wagenbach. The rest of the scrappy eight, bucking the will of the elders; fighting tooth and nail toward an ultimate victory against foes that are saddling us with a …
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Our three legged cat. via /r/cats…
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New Hampshire SEIU branch backs Sanders | TheHill
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/dGu4jCxP7H
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Jameis Winston threatens to sue CNN over rape movie The Hunting Ground | Sport | The Guardian
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston is threatening to sue CNN if the network airs a documentary on campus sexual assault that accuses him of rape, according to a letter obtained by the Hollywood Reporter.
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An Open Letter to Tinder’s Sean Rad from Vanity Fair’s Nancy Jo Sales | Vanity Fair
Congratulations. I hear that Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, the dating app you co-founded in 2012, successfully went public yesterday. That’s great for you.
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Kylie Jenner and Tyga most likely broke up this Thursday—good news for staving off the L.A. drought, horrible news for the wider Hollywood tabloid ecosystem.
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In pictures: The Muslims of Yangon – BBC News
Image copyright Andre Malerba Image caption Thwarhairah has run a betel nut stand on a primarily Muslim street, which she took over from her parents.
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Week in Fashion: It’s Not Even Christmas Yet, but Olivia Wilde, Kate H | Vanity Fair
A really splendid and jazzy Naeem Khan jumpsuit with sequins meant for kicking ass, taking names, and potentially breaking it down on the holiday-party dance floor—Kate Hudson tested; Mrs. Claus approved.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
“It is important to remember: nothing about what these assholes are trying to do is going to work. France is going to endure, and I’ll tell you why. If you’re in a war of culture and lifestyle with France? Good fucking luck.” —John Oliver
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In this Dark Fairy Tale, a Sheltered Young Girl Seizes Control of Her Future
Blood Ties is directed by Sophie Kavouridis, Manon Lazzari, Marion Louw, Simon Pannetrat, and Thomas Ricquier.
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E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Chipotle Spreads | Al Jazeera America
An outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle that originated in the Pacific Northwest has spread south and east and has now infected people in six states. New cases have been reported in California, New York and Ohio, the Centers for Disease Control an…
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Week in pictures: 14-20 November 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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ALESUND, Norway — For a man who saved the world, or at least helped ensure that Adolf Hitler never got hold of a nuclear bomb, 96-year-old Joachim Ronneberg has a surprisingly unheroic view of the forces that shape history.
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Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Working on ‘Funny, Disarming, Honest’ Memoir | Rolling Stone
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is working on a “funny, disarming, and honest” memoir that will trace his path from being a young Clash fan to becoming one of the most eclectic voices in rock music.
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Paris attacks: Europe ponders security challenge – BBC News
There was applause for the French security services and police in the National Assembly on Thursday when it was announced that they had caught – and killed – the planner of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
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So, Uh, Here’s An Absolutely Insane Goal Scored By The Wind – Digg
16 diggs Vimeo Sports Curious Generally, when the soccer ball goes into the goal, it’s because it was kicked or headed in the direction of the goal. Not because a gust of wind decided to blow it halfway across the field.
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New Hampshire SEIU branch backs Bernie Sanders : democrats
New Hampshire SEIU branch backs Bernie Sanders (thehill.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Bitwalking dollars: Digital currency pays people to walk – BBC News
Bitwalking dollars will be earned by walking, unlike other digital currencies such as Bitcoins that are “mined” by computers. Initially, users will be given the chance to spend what they earn in an online store, or trade them for cash.
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The most important local election of 2015 is on Saturday. Do you know about it? : democrats
The most important local election of 2015 is on Saturday. Do you know about it? (dailykos.com)
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Timeline: Political violence in Mali | Al Jazeera America
Friday’s attack on Radisson Blu hotel that left as many as 27 people dead in Mali’s capital, Bamako, highlights the fact that despite a peace accord signed last summer, the wave of political violence that began four years ago in the country’s sparse…
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Sanders: Trump’s Muslim database idea ‘outrageous and bigoted’ : democrats
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Sanders: Trump’s Muslim database idea ‘outrageous and bigoted’ | TheHill
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Maybe a repost? Not my OC, so probably a repost? But maybe a new repost? – Imgur
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Why is Hillary Clinton leaving out ‘Rodham’? – BBC News
Many US newspapers have always referred to Hillary Clinton as Hillary Rodham Clinton – Rodham being her maiden name, and the family name she stuck with in the early years of her marriage. But now her campaign has told the Washington Post that she pr…
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Mark Zuckerberg will take two months of paternity leave when his daughter is born | The Verge
In the latest sign of evolving attitudes toward parental leave in the tech industry, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today he would step away from his role for two months when his daughter is born. Zuckerberg announced in July that he and his wife…
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Faster than Usain Bolt? – BBC News
When Usain Bolt broke the 100m world record in 2009, it took him 4.64 seconds to run the first 40m. But it’s been reported that Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin ran the same distance in 4.41 seconds. So could Bellerin beat Bolt in a race?
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Patty Murray introduces Social Security expansion bill for women
Here’s further evidence of how far the debate on Social Security has come among elected Democrats in the last few years: Sen. Patty Murray, part of the leadership team, is reintroducing legislation to expand benefits for women.
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Gravity Falls is ending · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gravity Falls showrunner Alex Hirsch has announced that his beloved exploration of Bigfoots, interdimensional travel, and the joys of being a kid will be ending very soon, with its soon-concluded second season to be its last.
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A stylish premiere kicks off our Jessica Jones binge-watch · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response.
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Almost Always Win the Game Guess Who With This Math-Based Strategy
The next time you sit down for a riveting game of Guess Who with one of your younger family members, you can win 96% of the time with this mathematical approach. In this video from Mark Rober’s YouTube channel, Rober explains the absolute best strat…
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The Walkmen’s Walter Martin released a new song via his LinkedIn profile · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Providing the first instance in human history of someone gaining anything other than spam folder ballast from a profile on the hypothetical networking platform LinkedIn, Walter Martin from The Walkmen has released a new track via the apparently popu…
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The Right Way To Fix A Sticking Door – Digg
13 diggs How-To Don Spencer is the king of doors, and he’s here to share some knowledge with us.
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Sanders: Trump’s Muslim database idea ‘outrageous and bigoted’ (thehill.com)submitted 38 minutes ago by loading…
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Post-paris Calls for More Surveillance Fall Flat | Al Jazeera America
It is perhaps not surprising that an event like last Friday’s Paris attack would raise questions about why government surveillance didn’t spot such a sweeping and apparently coordinated assault in advance.
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LONDON — When about 100 heavily armed police officers and soldiers took position shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday outside the building in the Paris suburb of St.-Denis where the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks was holed up, a young woman appe…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Biggest trap ever via /r/cats…
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PT 1: Glenn Greenwald on “Submissive” Media’s Drumbeat for War and Anti-… https://t.co/3J7RkL2Qe2 https://t.co/oSgdrhsNXn via /r/Liberal
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A Rigged Economy: This Is How it Works : Liberal
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A Rigged Economy: This Is How it Works – YouTube
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Sleeping in on weekends linked to health problems | Ars Technica
Before you brush aside your alarm clock for the weekend, you may want to rethink any extended morning snoozes (however glorious they may be).
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To Dam or Not to Dam? 12 Photos of the Mekong River
France just banned the import of sport-hunted lion trophies. In the U.S., where the majority of trophy hunters come from, some lawmakers are trying to do the same.
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One of the Biggest Sci-Fi Novels of the Fall is Coming to Theaters Thanks to Brad Pitt
If you get to see the brand-new novel Illuminae on the big screen at some point, thank Brad Pitt. His company Plan B just bought the rights to adapt the unique sci-fi story into a movie.
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Miss Canada World denied entry to pageant in China – BBC News
Anastasia Lin, the winner of Miss World Canada, says that she has been denied the right to compete in this year’s Miss World competition because she has spoke out about Chinese human rights abuses.
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Mali’s Hotel Hostage Siege – The New Yorker
The Radisson Blu hotel, in Bamako, Mali, is the city’s finest: peach-colored brick, with a swirling pool and sleek, minimalist rooms.
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Terror in Mali – The New Yorker
Today’s hostage crisis at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in the Malian capital of Bamako, where about a hundred people were held, has ended, with as many as twenty-seven deaths, according to a United Nations official. A joint operation by U.S.
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West Wing Week: 11/20/2015 or, “Crossing Every Timezone” on Vimeo
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — and across the ocean. This week, the President traveled to Turkey, the Philippines, and Malaysia. He met with world leaders at the G-20 summit in …
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A Rigged Economy: This Is How it Works (youtube.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off From Facebook For Paternity Leave | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg, the face of Facebook since the company’s founding back in 2004, will be taking a few months off for paternity leave. Priscilla and I are starting to get ready for our daughter’s arrival. We’ve been picking out our favorite childhood…
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PT 1: Glenn Greenwald on “Submissive” Media’s Drumbeat for War and Anti-… : Liberal
PT 1: Glenn Greenwald on “Submissive” Media’s Drumbeat for War and Anti-… (youtube.com)
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Gunmen in Mali stormed a luxury hotel in the capital city of Bamako on Friday, killing at least 18 people and taking more than 100 others hostage. Malian troops subsequently launched a rescue operation that ended the crisis, but some details remain…
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The Bizarre Disappearance (And Bizarre Return) of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson became a superstar after founding her church in 1923 Los Angeles; her Foursquare Gospel teachings still have millions of followers today. But she made her mark on history beyond religion, too—by mysteriously vanishi…
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Voter Is Tinder For Politics | TechCrunch
As we approach election season the average person is probably confused by the plethora of candidates. Should you vote Trump? Hillary? Dr. Fantasmus the Libertarian Cyborg? Voter can probably tell you. This app is basically a swipe left/swipe right i…
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Half of all tree species in Amazon ‘face extinction’ – BBC News
More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction, warn international scientists. According to new data, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened.
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NSA replaced secret e-mail metadata program with more expansive tools | Ars Technica
Though it was revealed by Edward Snowden in June 2013, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) infamous secret program to domestically collect Americans’ e-mail metadata in bulk technically ended in December 2011. Or so we thought.
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Defying Michigan governor Rick Snyder—who released a statement earlier this week saying that the state would no longer be taking in refugees from the fighting in the Middle East—filmmaker Michael Moore has offered his own home to any refugees who wa…
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ISIS Fighting Schoolgirl Convicted on Terrorism Charges – The Daily Beast
LONDON — A British schoolgirl who gave up her comfortable life in London and volunteered to join the fight against ISIS in Syria has been convicted of terrorism offenses.
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Imagined Celebrity Connections: Kristen Stewart Reacts to the New Snow White Trailer | Vanity Fair
Each week, Josh Duboff looks at the biggest celebrity news—and amuses himself by imagining how those celebrities might have reacted. Kylie Jenner and Tyga reportedly break up.
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Yuna loafing on a bag : Catloaf
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Hillary Clinton Joins The ‘Make Silicon Valley Break Encryption’ Bandwagon (techdirt.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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What’s Up With The Accent People Had In Old Movies? – Digg
2 diggs Language Culture Curious Explainer Movies The Transatlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent used to signify that you were in the upper crust of society, but it soon caught on with actors precisely because it was hard to associate with a geographical …
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Bernie Sanders’s New Deal Socialism: “Bernie Sanders’s socialism is Eisenhower’s and F.D.R.’s world if Reagan had never happened…” (newyorker.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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ICYMI and True 4 years ago: Bernie Sanders says 6 banks have assets equaling 60% of U.S. GDP (politifact.com)
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Mama Seems Happy 🙂 via /r/aww…
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How to Properly Celebrate : gifs
How to Properly Celebrate via /r/gifs https://t.co/WGxPVxpvJJ https://t.co/dTH97jsgLb https://t.co/HovPpeWacj
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Ex-TechCruncher Launches Y Combinator’s “Not News” Publication The Macro | TechCrunch
There are plenty of tech blogs. But The Macro can go where no blogs are allowed — deep inside the Hogwarts of startups, Y Combinator.
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Cloud Wakes Behind the Prince Edward Islands : Image of the Day
Located about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from South Africa, the Prince Edward Islands jut out of the southern Indian Ocean at a remote point between Africa and Antarctica. The larger of the two islands—Marion Island—reaches an elevation of 1,230 m…
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US air strike on IS in Iraq ‘killed civilians’ – BBC News
A US air strike aimed at an IS checkpoint is likely to have killed four civilians, possibly including a child, the US military has said.On Friday the military released the findings of an investigation into the incident, which took place in March.
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Sub-Mariner beats up a bunch of tiny, pink-helmeted Nazi soldiers / Boing Boing
There’s nothing like an Alex Schomburg Golden Age comic book cover. Feast your eyes on Sub-Mariner #12, Winter 1943. I’m not a WWII historian, but I don’t recall the Germans having pink helmets, pink rifles, or pink and green swastika flags.
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Rdio’s shutdown begins November 23rd with a transition to ad-supported listening | The Verge
Rdio today laid out a plan for shutting down its music streaming service after announcing earlier this week that it was filing for bankruptcy and selling its remaining assets to Pandora.
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This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero is watching all of the first season of Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response, then link to it on this page.
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This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede is watching all of the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. After she’s finished with an episode, she’ll post a quick response, then link to it on this page.
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NASA Is Scouring Mars to Find a Site for Its First Manned Base | Motherboard
NASA is getting serious about sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, which means it’s high time we picked the perfect spot to build our Red Planet outpost.
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Liven Up Your Holiday Meal With Spiked Cranberry Sauce
If you’re looking for a fun way to jazz up your adults-only holiday meal, you can spike your cranberry sauce with a little vodka and orange-flavored liqueur.
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Cartoon: Politely protesting with Mr. Manners
The protests at Mizzou and other universities caused a lot of old pundits to critique teenagers’ and young adults’ methods for achieving social justice. No college kid cares what pundits have to say.
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See John Conlee’s Bluegrass Update of ‘Common Man’ | Rolling Stone
In 1983, John Conlee notched his third Number One hit with the song “Common Man.” Written and originally recorded by Sammy Johns, it is part of country music’s long tradition of (and fixation upon) expressing pride for one’s inherited class.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Black slashes of tape appeared across the portraits of some African-American professors at Harvard Law School on Thursday morning, outraging students and faculty members and touching off a day of discussion about racial injustice …
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Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott Recording Gospel Album | Rolling Stone
Now that Lady Antebellum’s fall and winter hiatus is in effect, the group’s Charles Kelley is gearing up for his solo tour — which kicks off November 28th in advance of his solo LP.
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Why People Keep Saying, “That’s What the Terrorists Want”
On September 11, 2001, I was enjoying the tail end of my summer holiday with family in Connecticut. Over the past year, I had been studying Osama bin Laden’s enigmatic fatwas as a graduate student at Oxford.
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Pray For Paris: Religious Leaders On Making Sense Of Violence : NPR
Many Americans have turned to their faiths in the wake of the attacks on Paris. So we turn to three religious leaders to see how they are leading their congregations in praying for Paris.
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Sony CEO Reflects On Immobilizing Cyber Attack 1 Year Later : NPR
One year ago this month, Sony suffered a cyber attack perpetrated by North Korean hackers. NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton about how the company has recovered.
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Roanoke mayor David Bowers called his comments “unwise and inappropriate” and said he plans to continue in office despite calls for him to resign. In his statement on Wednesday, Bowers cited the government’s internment of Japanese-Americans.
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Parisians show defiance one week on from deadly attacks – BBC News
One week on from the deadly attacks which left 130 people dead, Parisians have gathered to remember the victims. In a show of defiance and solidarity the people of Paris came together at the time the first attack began.
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The Gear VR now has its own version of Steam Early Access | The Verge
Over the past few years, it’s become totally normal for developers to test out their games in public before an official release. The ambiguous status and relative novelty of virtual reality headsets, meanwhile, has made for a chaotic market of VR ex…
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Paris, Beirut Expats Wonder If They Can Go Home — The Cut
A week after the terrible events in Paris and Beirut, expatriates from both cities who have chosen to make their lives in New York (as so many do) have begun wondering: Is it time to move back home? We spoke with former residents of both cities to h…
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Is This the Grossest Cake Ever Made? | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular new videos of the week.
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Man Wields Samurai Sword at Apple Store — NYMag
He was quickly apprehended by two police officers inside the flagship store. Police tackled a man who decided to bring a samurai sword to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on Friday afternoon and start swinging it — and dropping it — on the store’s spira…
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Phuc Dat Bich Keeps Getting Kicked Off Facebook — NYMag
It’s his real name! Phuc Dat Bich is a 23-year-old Vietnamese-Australian who works for a bank.
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Millennials: A Bit Meh on Free Speech — Science of Us
Part of the recent controversy (and media hysteria) over campus activism has centered around the question of free speech.
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Jellyfish Pendant Lamps : pics
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My Moms new cat looks like a cartoon! : cats
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Fallout Players Are Obsessed With Cleaning Women — Following: How We Live Online
Fallout 4, the newest blockbuster role-playing video game, came out last week. You may already know this, since the game has been the subject of a pretty heavy media blitz before launch.
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Parisian nightclub owners say they plan to re-open this weekend · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last week’s terror attacks in Paris were clearly intended as an attack on Western culture, but the club owners of Paris have no intention of allowing that plan to succeed. “Today we mourn the loss of our friends and all the victims.
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Win the official soundtrack and poster for Todd Haynes’ Carol · Contest · The A.V. Club
After debuting at Cannes way back in May, Carol is finally making its debut in U.S. theaters today and is currently getting praised all over the place.
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Mississippi state election settled by ‘drawing straws’ – BBC News
A Democrat has won a Mississippi House race by drawing a longer straw, an official way to break a tie in a legislative election for the state.Democrat Bo Eaton met Republican Mark Tullos to draw straws and Mr Tullos drew the shorter one.
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An Albany-area Walmart employee fired from his job for redeeming $2 worth of cans he collected while gathering shopping carts in the store’s parking lot has drawn widespread sympathy and support on social media.
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This List of iOS Actions Get You Started with Automation
Automation on iOS is a complex process, but over on One Tap Less, they’re collecting together some of the most useful actions for 1Writer, Drafts, Editorial, Launch Center Pro, Pythonista, Workflow, and even Safari. iOS automation is essentially abo…
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Nasa signs first contracts with SpaceX for manned commercial spaceflight | Science | The Guardian
Manned commercial space flight took a giant leap forward as Nasa signed its first mission orders with California-based private spaceflight company SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Ted Cruz campaign organizes ‘national prayer team’ to pray for Ted Cruz
Republican presidential candidate and sitting senator for some reason Ted Cruz is organizing a national prayer team.
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These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism – The New Yorker
One of the great last lines in movie history is from the 1947 film noir “Nightmare Alley,” when two supporting characters catch a glimpse of the fallen hero: “How can a guy get so low?” “He reached too high.
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Are efforts to tackle ‘radicalisation’ misplaced? – Al Jazeera English
Just days after the Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured, there’s been a broad agreement on the need for stronger security laws. That’s the sentiment across Europe, particularly in France, Belgium and the UK.
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Mercury Music Prize: Benjamin Clementine is the 2015 winner – BBC News
Benjamin Clementine has won the 2015 Mercury Music Prize for his debut album, At Least For Now. The Londoner beat competition from the likes of Florence + The Machine, Wolf Alice and Supergrass star Gaz Coombes.
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While Sylvester Stallone has been busy discussing who should take over for Rambo or promoting his latest film, Creed, he took some time to discuss his work as a filmmaker with fellow director Robert Rodriguez.
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Portland ghosts a somber reminder not to text and drive | Grist
The fast-growing German city has a shortage of housing, so it’s turning old shipping areas into new green developments.
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U2’s amazing ‘lost’ early single: ‘A Celebration’ | Dangerous Minds
I have a grudging respect for U2, although I am not really a fan of their music.
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Attacks Put a New Squeeze on Things Named Isis — NYMag
Remember when ISIS wasn’t a scary word? As early as three years ago, the name Isis was mainly associated with the goddess of ancient Egypt, daughter of Geb, god of the earth, and Nut, goddess of the sky.
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War on Drugs Harms Young People | Al Jazeera America
Although touted as a way to protect youth, the global war on drugs has done far more harm than good to young people, needlessly jailing them and making addictive substances even more dangerous, according to a report released Friday.
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Koch Spy Agency Led by Voter Fraud Huckster : democrats
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Koch Spy Agency Led by Voter Fraud Huckster | PR Watch
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The Weird, Sketchy History of Internet Cafes
Internet cafes started as coffee shops where you could check email. But over the years, people turned them into dens for sharing pirated music, hotspots for video game addiction, and even temporary housing.
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Ben Carson: ‘We should have a database on everybody’ : democrats
What an amazingly ridiculous domino effect of stupid.
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Celebrate Marceline With This Stunning Adventure Time Art
Tim Doyle’s work is always amazing, but he outdid himself with two variations on art starring Marceline for Galerie F and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time miniseries. You can see more of Doyle’s work on his site and buy it at his store. These partic…
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Mysterious McConnell Boosters Backed by Megadonors | Al Jazeera America
The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition raised more than $21 million during 2013 and 2014, including $15 million last year alone, according to documents the group filed this week with the Internal Revenue Service. Most of the money came from just a handf…
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When asked to name five prolific female directors, ones with at least three movies to their credit a piece, most people would probably have to resort to Google for some help. (For the record: Nora Ephron, Penny Marshall, Kathryn Bigelow, Ida Lupino,…
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When Remembering Becomes a Political Act | New Republic
On the morning of September 11, 1973, the residents of Valparaiso, a coastal city in Chile, awoke to find themselves under military control.
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Snow in the Himalaya : Natural Hazards
The name Himalayas in Sanskrit means “abode of snow.” On November 20, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the snowy Himalayan mountain range in central Asia.
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The Newest Raspberry Pi Is Down To $33, Including a Case
The humble Raspberry Pi has been inspiring clever hacks for years, and whether you’re new to the Pi or just want to upgrade your original model, we’ve found a great deal on the new (and much-improved) Raspberry Pi 2.
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House Democrats who backed refugee bill face social media backlash | US news | The Guardian
House Democrats who voted on Thursday in favor of additional restrictions on refugees from Syria and Iraq applying for entry to the United States were met with constituents’ wrath on social media, with many commenters rejecting the notion that added…
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The Choreographer of The Apple Really Thought He Was Going To Win an Oscar
The Apple is one of the most legendary cult movies of all time—this disco dystopia, in which a singing duo from Saskatchewan get perverted by the Satanic music industry, is a legendary study in excess. But Nigel Lithgoe, the film’s choreographer, re…
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Bryan Fuller made a creepy Hannibal-themed PETA ad with Gillian Anderson · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hannibal mastermind and pescatarian Bryan Fuller—a guy who knows a thing or two about the visceral thrills and disgusts offered by the wonderful world of meat—has contributed his talents to a new campaign supporting People For The Ethical Treatment …
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Earlier this year, before most of us started paying close attention, the death cult of the Islamic State released a video of two men being thrown from the rooftop of a building.
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Rafael Nadal warmed up for his ATP World Tour semi-final against Novak Djokovic with a 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-4 win over fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in his final round-robin match.
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Mali hotel hostage stand-off over, US says – BBC News
An attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at Radisson Blue Hotel in the Malian capital is over, US officials say. The National Security Council condemned the “heinous attack”.
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10 Nifty New Things That Could Make Our Homes Smarter and Greener
They don’t just save energy and water. They also could help avoid bird deaths, remove pollutants from the air, keep homes running during power outages, and provide safe drinking water to poor people worldwide. While some are high-tech and high-end, …
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For Perfectly Cooked Brussels Sprouts, Cut Out the Core
Brussels sprouts have long been synonymous with “disgusting vegetable everybody hates”, but in recent years it seems we’ve figured out how to cook them properly. Here’s a killer recipe from Chef Janine at Root & Bone.
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White House asks supreme court to rule on executive immigration action | US news | The Guardian
One year ago, President Obama unveiled a sweeping initiative to shield from deportation millions of people living in the country illegally. In a televised address to the nation, the president said: “We are and always will be a nation of immigrants.”
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Letters to the Editor: Exploding Guns, Future Bots, and War Porn | Motherboard
Big week here—we published a major investigation into Pentagon’s exploding guns, debuted our very own future-predicting twitter bot, and ran a bunch of stories that proved adept at kicking up conversation.
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When And How To Pick Your Next Launch Country | TechCrunch
International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. As a long-time investor in both the U.S. and Europe, I often get asked by the venture community about the difference between the two.
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Watch This Giant Pile of Leaves Explode | Motherboard
I have truly led a cursed life. We had no trees in our yard, which meant that, come fall, there was no leaf diving, leaf tumbling, or leaves-covering-giant-holes pranks to speak of. Perhaps that’s why, when given the opportunity to jump into giant p…
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Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooter Receives 20-Year Sentence | Rolling Stone
Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooter Receives 20-Year Sentence Jimmy Winfrey, a Young Thug associate, pleads guilty to six gang-related charges stemming from April incident
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Holocaust Museum to US: Don’t turn away Syian refugees – Al Jazeera English
The Republican-controlled US Congress is riding a wave of anti-refugee public sentiment following the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead and more than 200 injured. But one museum in the US that knows a little something about the value of acc…
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I Hired a Millennial Life Coach | VICE | United States
This story appears in the November Issue of VICE. My life coach’s name is Hailey Jordan Yatros. She’s 21. I’m 29. Yatros is a natural encourager; it’s one of her gifts. I know this because she told me so the first time we talked. She’s also a rule b…
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81% of Isis-linked suspects charged in US are American citizens : politics
Looking at it another way. We have a problem with some mosques recruiting teenagers and young adults – and with screening refugee/asylum seekers. Period.
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BET to Livestream Criminal Justice Forum Featuring Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley (bet.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Bernie Sanders’s New Deal Socialism : democrats
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How Bernie Sanders is mainstreaming ‘democratic socialism’ : democrats
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Chipotle shares fall as three more states report E coli infections | US news | The Guardian
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that three additional states reported E coli infections of the same strain as the Chipotle outbreak, sending shares in the chain down more than 9%.
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Musicians Urge Viewers, ‘Don’t Vote for Racists’ | Al Jazeera America
Two big-name musical acts urged audience members at this year’s Latin Grammys to vote against “racist” politicians, in an apparent shot across the bow at Donald Trump and other presidential candidates who have made disparaging remarks about Hispanic…
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An Open Letter to Congress: Do Not Cede to Fear | The Nation
Four years ago, the people of Syria rose up to demand democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners. Bashar al-Assad’s response was to brutally repress the protesters, pushing his country into a civil war that has attracted local and for…
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2016’s SF Sketchfest lineup is kind of bananas · Newswire · The A.V. Club
San Francisco Sketchfest has released its lineup for next year’s festival, set to kick off on January 7, 2016, and, even for a festival known for pulling out all the stops, it’s a pretty crazy collection of names and groups.
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Republican congressman: Americans don’t trust Syrian refugees because of ‘Benghazi’
We are ruled, really, by monsters.
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The release of any Neil Cicierega track is always a cause for celebration.
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We Made Old-Fashioned Condoms and It Was Much Grosser Than We Expected
Way back in September, our very own Esther Inglis-Arkell found a recipe for condoms from 1844. It was only two paragraphs long, so we thought, how hard can it be? Really hard, it turns out. Also gross and potentially dangerous.
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Candidates Drew Straws in Tied Mississippi Race — NYMag
Democratic incumbent Blaine Eaton II was named the winner in a key Mississippi House race Friday after the contest reached a peculiar climax: A mathematically improbable tie forced candidates to draw straws — yes, actual straws — to determine the wi…
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WTC Arts Center Will Get Built — for Something — NYMag
If you look down from an east-facing window in One World Trade, you see a tenacious patch of nothingness amid the new construction. That’s the future site of the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center (WTC-PAC), and also a testimonial to a histor…
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Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting… : environment
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Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting, UCI-led team finds
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Funny photos of cats that pose like pin-up models / Boing Boing
Paintings by incarcerated Native activist Leonard Peltier has been removed from the walls of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Tumwater following complaints form a group of retired FBI agents.
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Square Investor Suggests IPO Hoopla Overblown | TechCrunch
Several years ago, the venture firm GGV Capital invested in the Series C round of payment technology company Square, whose shares soared more than 40 percent on their first day of publicly trading yesterday (and trading down a few percent today at $…
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Can you pass this personal financial literacy test? / Boing Boing
Standard & Poor’s, Gallup, the World Bank, and George Washington University gave a five-question test on personal financial concepts to 150,000 people in more than 140 countries.
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NASA orders first crewed mission from SpaceX to the International Space Station | The Verge
NASA has officially ordered its first commercial crew mission from private spaceflight company SpaceX. That means SpaceX has NASA’s authority to proceed with the first crewed launch of the company’s Crew Dragon capsule, which can carry up to seven p…
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Wash. state government building censors Leonard Peltier art / Boing Boing
Paintings by incarcerated Native activist Leonard Peltier has been removed from the walls of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Tumwater following complaints form a group of retired FBI agents.
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Chipotle shares hit as E. coli scare widens – BBC News
Shares in Chipotle have slumped almost 10% after US health authorities reported more cases of E. coli linked to the Mexican restaurant chain. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) said 45 people had been infected with a strain of E. coli, 43 of whom …
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Amazon Storywriter Is a Simple, Free, Auto-formatting Screenwriting Tool for the Web
Screenwriting tools tend to be on the pricey side when it comes to software, but Amazon’s released a free tool called Storywriter that provides a barebones screenwriting tool that saves directly to the cloud.
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Bartlett Sher, Mastermind of Beloved Musicals, Tackles Fiddler on the | Vanity Fair
Bartlett Sher is my dear friend and the younger brother I always wanted. He also happens to be a genius. He grew up in a large, loud, crazy Catholic-Jewish family in the San Francisco of the 1970s, and that has informed everything he has ever done i…
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An Amish man turned heads as he whizzed by fellow runners at a recent marathon – not because of his speed but because of his unusual racing attire. Twenty-two-year-old Leroy Stolzfus finished the 26.
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Ernest Hemingway’s ode to Paris sells out – BBC News
Since the attacks in Paris last Friday, one book has been selling out in bookshops across the city – Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. The author’s account of living in Paris in his youth is seen as a love letter to the city, its cafes and bars, …
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Disabled job seekers face stairs at India Railways – Al Jazeera English
An attempt by Indian Railways to recruit disabled staff backfired when candidates had to make their way up a building with no lifts or ramps, the Times of India reported.
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A Problem of Education in Israel and the West Bank – The New Yorker
A small, sad record was set on Thursday, for the largest number of deaths in a single day in the two-month rash of scattered attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. Five people died, two by stabbing in Tel Aviv and three by automatic gu…
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Mississippi state house incumbent draws green straw to break election tie | US news | The Guardian
A Democrat in Mississippi did not draw the short straw. In fact, Bo Eaton drew the big green straw, giving him the tiebreaker win in a state house election. When the election ended in a tie 3 November, state law said it would be broken by a drawing …
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One Day in Charkh | Al Jazeera America
The United States has spent tens of billions of dollars arming and training the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). With the end of NATO combat operations in Afghanistan, the security of the country and its people has been left primarily in the …
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Canadian couple cancels wedding to help Syrian refugees – BBC News
Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian had a civil ceremony instead and asked guests to support a Syrian family’s bid to live Canada in lieu of gifts. The Toronto couple was planning their wedding when they saw a photo of Aylan Kurdi, a young refugee…
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Enable this Setting to Silence Siri with the Mute Switch
Siri can be loud no matter what your iPhone’s settings are, but OS X Daily points out that you can control Siri’s voice feedback setting with a toggle in the Settings. Open up Settings > General > Siri > Voice Feedback and you’ll find the options to…
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Everything is miscellaneous: why publishing needs tagging / Boing Boing
Walk into a bookstore, and chances are you’ll see books divided into sections by genre. Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery, and so on. It’s the most common system of categorizing books, conversationally and from the data-management perspectiv…
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This week, between 11 p.m. and midnight local time, the constellation immortalizing one of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology — Perseus — will pass directly overhead. Its prominent variable star, Algol — known as “the Demon” — will be vividly vi…
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New Space Mining Legislation Is ‘History in the Making’
Space mining just got a big boost. The U.S. Congress’ passage of a bill that allows American companies to own and sell materials they extract from the moon, asteroids or other celestial bodies should help spur the development of off-Earth mining, re…
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I recently found the essay that I wrote as part of my application to divinity school six years and one spiritual lifetime ago. The power of the liturgy was the framework through which I confessed a faith that was unselfconscious in its candor and ex…
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Two Russians facing doping bans say they are innocent and have threatened legal action to clear their names. Russia’s athletics federation has been provisionally suspended by the IAAF.
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Watch Elon Musk Talk Turkey on Big Bang Theory
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched rockets, spaceships and electric cars, and after his stint on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” last night, he can add TV sitcom to his epic list of achievements. On Thursday (Nov.
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Playing almost like a particularly claustrophobic Dario Argento film produced by Roger Corman, but starring Hammer’s two most notable leading men, the gory low-budget—but totally wonderful—Horror Express is one of those films that we of a certain ag…
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Thirty years on, Microsoft Windows still dominates – Al Jazeera English
In 1985 most computers ran on command-line operating systems. That meant to get them to do anything, the user had to manually input largely arcane instructions. It was simple but hardly user-friendly.
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Rockstars are go! For the 50th anniversary of the puppet adventure show Thunderbirds, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is joining Portishead’s Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory for a ginormous tribute concert on Dec. 1. Contact the author at char…
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Adele Blocks New Album From Streaming – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Though her new album 25 is on track to shatter sales records nationwide, digital streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music will not have access to Adele’s latest release, a marketing decision that Adele herself was reportedly instrumental in m…
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Iraq War Vet Bitchslaps the Bigots – The Daily Beast
With a surfeit of anti-refugee rhetoric this week following the terror attacks in Paris—including the passage of a bill in the House on Thursday that would suspend the program allowing refugees from Syria and Iraq into the country, and a majority of…
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U.S. Military Personnel Help Rescue Hostages From Hotel In Mali : NPR
American military personnel helped rescue some Americans and others in Mali after the hotel where they were staying was overrun by gunmen.
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Paris Attackers’ Use Of Suicide Vests Marks Important Change In ISIS Fight : NPR
Last week’s rampage in Paris marked the first time suicide vests have been used in a European terrorist attack. NPR reports on how difficult they are to make and the damage they can do.
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Alberto Nisman Conspiracy Theories Fly As Argentine Election Nears : NPR
The mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman riveted Argentines 10 months ago. But amid a swirl of confusing conspiracy theories, it’s not an issue in Sunday’s presidential vote.
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‘Scandal’ Abortion Storyline Marks Bold Move For Network Television : NPR
The winter season finale for the hit ABC TV show, Scandal, featured the lead character seemingly getting an abortion. That’s highly unusual for network television and an invitation to controversy. NPR recaps the episode and the reaction.
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More Than 130 Survive Hostage Situation At Mali Hotel : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Katarina Hoije, a freelance journalist who is outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital where gunmen held at least 170 people this morning.
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National Institutes Of Health To Retire Last 50 Research Chimps : NPR
The National Institutes of Health announced their 50 remaining chimps will be going into retirement. NPR’s Ari Shapiro spoke with Cathy Willis Spraetz, president and chief executive of Chimp Haven, where the chimps will ultimately be housed.
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What Questions Would You Ask Your 18-Year-Old Or Older Self? : NPR
After our interview with man who videotaped himself at age 18 asking questions to be answered by his older self, we tweeted this question: If you could talk to your 18 year-old self — or ask your older self questions — what would you say? We read so…
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When Fees Attack: Rolling Over A 401(k) Can Trigger Big-Time Charges : NPR
Each year Americans pay billions of dollars in fees when they roll over their retirement accounts — and those fees can be hard to see. Elizabeth Merry, 49, a marketing manager at a technology company, has saved up $150,000 in a 401(k) there.
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Paris Attacks Heighten Debate Over Europe’s Open Borders : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro interviews Peter Sutherland, the United Nations special representative of the secretary general for international migration and development, about the migrant policy changes being discussed in European countries since the Paris att…
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The French Are ‘Charlie Hebdo’: Reflecting On Life In Paris 1 Week Later : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel reflects on life in Paris one week after the terror attacks. He offers comparisons between last week’s attacks and the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January.
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Week In Politics: Terror Attacks In France And Mali : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times about the terrorist attacks in France and Mali.
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More Than 2 Dozen Dead After Attack On Radisson Hotel In Mali : NPR
American troops have been supporting French and Malian military operations against Islamic extremists for years, and a few U.S. personnel were on hand at a terror attack Friday in the capital, Bamako.
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When Drug Treatment For Narcotic Addiction Never Ends : Shots – Health News : NPR
Opioids have a stranglehold on parts of the U.S. And where addictive pain medicines are the drug of choice, clinics for addiction treatment often follow. Sometime these are doctor’s offices where patients can get painkiller-replacement drugs, such a…
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Yahoo blocks some users from accessing email until they turn off ad-blocking / Boing Boing
The company says it’s not policy to do this — yet — but they’re testing locking Yahoo Mail users out of their accounts unless they turn off ad-blocking. Many (many, many!) Yahoo Mail users actually paid for their Yahoo Mail accounts, in the form o…
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Donald Trump distances himself from endorsement of tracking Muslims in US | US news | The Guardian
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from comments in which he said that as president he would “absolutely” implement a tracking system that would require Muslims in the US to register with a federal database.
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Natalie Dormer Makes a Viewmaster Scary in the Trailer for The Forest
Thanks to Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, the world knows that Natalie Dormer is fantastic. She’s becoming a bigger star by the day, and now she’s the lead in a supernatural thriller called The Forest, based on an actual place.
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The holiday season is synonymous with family get-togethers. It’s the time of year when relatives from all over gather ’round for stilted conversations, probing questions about your personal life, and unconditional love.
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Rep. Steve King, again: Obama is ‘filling our country up’ with people who will ‘attack us’
We’ve had so many vile people saying so many vile things in the aftermath of the Paris attacks that it’s hard to even remember what the worst pieces of shit in American politics had been saying before the rest of our political leaders joined them in…
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Still no shame in sight in the trailer for Shameless season 6 · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Shameless comes back in January, and with it, the endlessly dysfunctional Gallagher family and their ever-evolving host of addictions, money woes, and prison sentences.
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Because hope springs eternal, and also because the internet has roughly the memory of a goldfish, everybody keeps batting around the idea of Hocus Pocus 2 happening, even though any rumors about the idea are immediately quashed, like when Tina Fey s…
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The New Adventure Time Miniseries Was an Amazing Meditation on Change
The theme song of the eight-part Adventure Time miniseries that just concluded, “Stakes,” is called “Everything Stays,” and it’s about how things remain where you left them. Sort of a fitting theme for a series about change and how everything goes i…
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The behind-the-scenes featurettes included on DVDs and Blu-rays are usually little more than promotional fluff, an opportunity for cast and crew members to compliment one another on a job well done and maybe swap some innocuous backstage stories.
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Students Won’t Have to Make ISIS Propaganda — NYMag
Thanks to a few concerned parents, a bunch of Utah ninth-graders won’t have to make ISIS propaganda after all.
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NYC Dentist Arrested on Child-Porn Charges — NYMag
John Wolf, a dentist with an office on West 15th Street in Chelsea, was arrested on Friday for allegedly letting a drug dealer who needed dental work pay him in crystal meth.
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Mode Media Maps Out The Video Landscape | TechCrunch
The advertising and media world must have a weakness for industry visualizations — I probably hear about Lumascapes several times a week. Now Mode Media is making its own bid for Lumascape glory, with a new map of the online video ecosystem.
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British and American public opinion towards refugees has hardened following the terrorist attacks in Paris. More than one in four (44%) Britons now believe that the UK should close its borders to refugees entirely, up five points since October, acco…
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Sophie and Ben: A Mother and Son’s Journey Through Asperger’s – The Atlantic
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Paris attacks: The huge implications for Europe – BBC News
Boarding the train last night from Paris to Brussels, I had a bit of an unholy feeling, as did many of my fellow passengers. How can you know which parcel, which passenger is suspicious?
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Mississippi House Race Literally Decided by Drawing Straws | Vanity Fair
Both candidates implied that they believe the law is incredibly stupid.
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LAX to build terminal exclusively for celebrities and generic, boring rich people / Boing Boing
Movie stars, pro athletes, and rich people will no longer have to suffer the company of their lessers at Los Angeles international airport. For about $1,500 to $1,800 the elite will be dropped off behind closed doors, away from aggressive paparazzi …
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Climate change is gonna be rough on farmers and eaters | Grist
The fast-growing German city has a shortage of housing, so it’s turning old shipping areas into new green developments.
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Generals Shoot Down Trump’s Fear-Mongering Plans for Muslims – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump and Ben Carson have spent the last 24 hours proposing bigoted and constitutionally questionable methods for keeping tabs on Muslims and Syrian refugees. And that’s causing some retired generals and admirals to speak out against the GOP …
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Trump Is So Very Wrong to Target Mosques; They Are Part of the Fabric of America | The Nation
Followers of Islam have lived in what is now the United States since before the American Revolution. Like Christians and Jews, Muslims worshiped initially in their homes. But as communities grew, they began to construct mosques.
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Trump drives the debate on Syrian refugees – BBC News
Billionaire Donald Trump continues to dominate the polls and drive the debate in the Republican presidential nomination, staying a step ahead of his competitors on the issues of immigration, border security and the Syrian refugee crisis. Some specul…
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Republicans Are Pro-Life, Except When It Comes to Refugees | Rolling Stone
This is the mainstream Republican line on a woman’s right to choose. Since becoming the party of faith, firearms and fetuses, the GOP has regularly subjected Americans to grand declamations about the sacredness of life.
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Shouldn’t Social Security Recipients Get A CEO-Sized Raise?
CEOs got an average 3.9 percent pay increase last year. This increase is subsidized by taxpayers because corporations can deduct it as an expense.
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More Trans People Have Been Killed in 2015 Than Ever Before | Rolling Stone
More Trans People Have Been Killed in 2015 Than Ever Before At least 81 transgender people have been killed this year, according to new, possibly incomplete data
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best One Direction Song? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best One Direction Song? Cast your vote in our weekly poll N
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Wingnut Week In Review: Ugly Americans
In the worst of times, we need leaders who call us to heed “the better angels of our nature.” In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, right-wing media, officeholders, and candidates have instead embodied the term “ugly American.
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The ‘Oscar conversation’ is only as white as The Hollywood Reporter wants it to be | The Verge
Every Oscar season, The Hollywood Reporter, one of the most powerful trade magazines in entertainment, runs a series of roundtables featuring the stars poised to win it all at the Academy Awards. And, with some notable exceptions, those roundtables …
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Man wearing full Amish garb clocks great time in marathon / Boing Boing
This is Gordonville, Pennsylvania resident Leroy Stolzfus, 22, who recently finished the Harrisburg Marathon in three hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds, close to what it would take for him to qualify for the Boston Marathon. He did it wearing his trad…
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‘Scandal’ Gracefully Tackled Abortion In Its Midseason Finale – The Atlantic
Around this time of year, “Silent Night” typically evokes nativity scenes: a mother and child, in heavenly peace.
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On Saturday, Louisiana voters will elect a new governor—Republican Sen. David Vitter or Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards. They’ll also celebrate the end of one of the strangest campaigns in recent history.
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Quora launches Writing Sessions as challenge to Reddit’s Ask Me Anything | The Verge
Question and answer site Quora is now hosting “Writing Sessions,” or live Q&A sessions with selected experts in various fields. Much like Reddit’s Ask Me Anything, users can submit questions that are prioritized by popularity.
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Novartis Agrees to settle kickback allegations | Al Jazeera America
Novartis, a pharmaceutical company, has agreed in principle to pay $390 million to settle U.S. allegations that it used kickbacks to specialty pharmacies to push sales of some drugs, the Swiss company said on Tuesday. The U.S.
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‘Scandal’ Shows an Abortion: Inside the Shocking, Controversial Episode – The Daily Beast
Thursday’s Scandal included the most realistic depiction of an abortion in TV history. (Praise Shonda!) Forty-three years after Maude, why is this still so controversial?
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France says two Paris bombers travelled through Greece – Al Jazeera English
Two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up at a football stadium in Paris last week had passed through Greece posing as Syrian refugees, the Paris prosecutor has said.
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Ben Carson: ‘I hope that we have a database on everybody’ : politics
So it’s OK to have a database on every citizen and their religion just not with what kinds of guns they own. If they wanted religion to be protected, they should have included it in the Constitution like they did with guns.
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A Good Week for Lions, Despite Demand from U.S. Trophy Hunters
We all came to know Cecil, the majestic lion with the black mane shot by a Minnesota dentist. “Justice for Cecil” became a rallying cry, and soon people who’d never been involved in the conservation movement before had found a new cause—ending lion …
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Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic Sta…
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Researchers Grow Vocal Cord Tissue That Can ‘Talk’ – Scientific American
Researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab, and it works — the tissue was able to produce sound when it was transplanted into intact voice boxes from animals, according to a new study.
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10 Carpooling Apps In This Weekend In San Francisco That Aren’t Uber | TechCrunch
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Mali Hotel Attack: Who Is Behind It? – The Atlantic
A hostage situation in Bamako, Mali, has ended with at least 18 people killed. Details are still streaming in, and much of what has been reported is still tentative. My colleague Adam Chandler has a running post on the facts so far.
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What do bats and skateboarders have in common? / Boing Boing
They use inertia to land their tricks which, in a bat’s case, means landing upside down.
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Florida Sacrifices Its “Death-Metal” Cop – The Daily Beast
“Let the killing begin!” may not be the best lyric for a uniformed police officer to sing on stage.
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Epic Video Simplifies ‘How to Go To Space’
MinutePhysics teamed up with the Web comic xkcd to explain how to go to space, using just the most common 1,000 words in the English language.
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Obama Asks the Supreme Court to Take Up the Fight Over Immigration | Mother Jones
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to take up a case that has stymied the president’s sweeping executive actions on immigration.
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South America’s vast Amazon region harbors one of the world’s most diverse collection of tree species, but more than half may be at risk for extinction due to ongoing deforestation to clear land for farming, ranching and other purposes, scientists s…
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Charles Haggerty is a promising candidate for the best and most chill dad of all time. In the late 1950s, in a much less progressive era, he had a talk with his son, who would come to realize later in life that he (the son) was gay, about the respon…
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The Pentagon Supplied Soldiers With Defective Gun Parts That Sometimes Explode | Motherboard
Earlier this week, Motherboard published a year-long investigation that revealed the Pentagon has been sending defective gun parts to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. In more than 60 cases, the barrels of guns have literally exploded and, in at lea…
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Appeals court awards Newegg $15k after patent troll’s “frivolous” appeal | Ars Technica
The largest publicly traded patent-holding company will have to pay online retailer Newegg $15,000 after bringing a frivolous appeal. The order brings to a conclusion what was a once-classic example of sprawling “patent troll” litigation.
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How to Get Away With Murder’s Kendrick Sampson on That Shocking Mid-Se | Vanity Fair
Kendrick Sampson thought he had the big plot twist on How to Get Away With Murder figured out, so he ran it by Viola Davis.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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337 Whales Beached in Largest Stranding Ever
Scientists made a startling discovery on an observation flight over a remote fjord in southern Chile’s Patagonia: 337 dead whales. That is the biggest single whale stranding event known to science.
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Film about Lou Gehrig’s disease by filmmaker who has it / Boing Boing
After hitting the film festival circuit earlier this year (unsurprisingly picking up a handful of awards along the way) TRANSFATTY LIVES is finally available on demand. This labor of love and celebration of life deserves your attention. Get TRANSFAT…
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Zayn Malik never asked to be our token Muslim | The Verge
Why does the former One Direction member keep coming up in this conversation? Earlier today, The Huffington Post apologized for the following tweet, which paired a picture of former One Direction member Zayn Malik with a headline about ISIS.
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More than half the myriad tree species in the Amazon could be heading for extinction, according to a study that makes the first comprehensive estimate of threatened species in the world’s largest rainforest.
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Montana governor frees man convicted in 1979 beating death of classmate | US news | The Guardian
Montana’s Democratic governor on Friday ordered the release of Barry Beach, whose cause drew widespread support as he maintained his innocence throughout three decades in prison for the killing of a high school classmate.
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The GOP Stampede Toward Fascism After the Paris Attacks | The Nation
I have spent the past week shuddering at the vast depths of nihilism that ISIS represents—at a movement that takes joy in killing innocents, be they Russian holidaymakers over Egypt; shoppers and businesspeople in Beirut; diners, sports fans and con…
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Rights group slam ‘Islamophobia’ of US candidates – Al Jazeera English
Rights groups have criticised American politicians’ comments about Muslims as a debate over the future of Syrian refugees in the United States intensified in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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The Racial Symbolism of the Topsy-Turvy Doll – The Atlantic
The doll is two-headed and two-bodied—one black body and one white, conjoined at the lower waist where the hips and legs would ordinarily be. The lining of one’s dress is the outside of the other’s, so that the skirt flips over to conceal one body w…
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Displaying a surprisingly optimistic outlook for a project that listens to as much Nine Inch Nails as this one, the producer of that notoriously troubled Crow remake tells Variety that the film is still on track to shoot early next year.
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This cool short reminds people why film must be preserved · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It’s easy to forget how fragile film actually is. Time, the elements, poor handling, all pose threats to the physical medium of film and thus requires someone out there to preserve and restore it for future generations to enjoy.
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Chat with The A.V. Club’s editor-in-chief right here, right now · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Happy Friday afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our first “Ask The Editor-In-Chief” Q&A session. As promised, I’ll be down in the comment threads for the next hour to answer questions, field your thoughts and concerns about the site, and make stupi…
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Google Play is giving away digital copies of Thriller for the next week · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Due to our strong personal convictions, we wish to stress that this Newswire article in no way endorses a belief in Michael Jackson.
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 20th – The New Yorker
Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day.
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Down With Cords! These MEE Audio Bluetooth Headphones are Cheaper Than Ever
Today only, Amazon’s offering all-time low prices on a pair of inexpensive MEE Audio wireless headphones.
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From the looks of the trailer, Central Intelligence is too busy pointing out the disparate sizes of its two leads to be bothered to bring something new to the buddy film genre. But does that even matter when the dick jokes are right there on the mov…
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Hillary Clinton surged to a 25-point lead over Bernie Sanders in the latest Bloomberg Politics national poll out Friday, as the former secretary of state continues to solidify her advantage among the Democratic base. (politico.com)
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Ever since we first learned of Fox’s new series about a disgraced former cop who is killed and then reanimated into a younger body, we’ve been offering up superior names for the show. Not surprisingly, the producers of the series kept doing the same…
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McCain was a reasonable Republican who got destroyed by a primary process, and bulldozed over Obama’s impossible-to-stop candidacy. it’s a shame. Though he does same some thing that I disagree with wildly.
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In D.R. Congo – The Story Of A Solar Fridge on Vimeo
In October 2015, I accompanied the humanitarian organisation Medair to eastern Congo, a region in crisis for more than two decades. Medair has been bringing relief to people suffering in some of the most remote places in DR Congo since 1997. DR Cong…
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Midday open thread: What do voters think of your governor? Tribe still hopeful about pot resort
On Saturday, Louisiana will decide one of the most chaotic elections in recent memory. The polls show Democrat John Bel Edwards beating scandal-tarred Republican David Vitter in the gubernatorial contest.
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Christine O’Donnell: Not a Witch, but Victim of a Witch Hunt – The Atlantic
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Here’s What Your Part Of America Eats On Thanksgiving | FiveThirtyEight
Thanksgiving — when we give thanks and celebrate a tale about the welcoming of foreign refugees to American shores — is once again upon us. For some, it’s a day of mass media consumption, with a parade and three NFL games.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: November 13th to 20th
This week we compared NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards, talked about the end of Black Friday and what it means for your wallet, learned about creativity from Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, and more. Here’s a look back at this week’s most popular pos…
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Antibiotic resistance may not seem as urgent as terrorism or the NHS funding shortfall. But it is actually a threat that could kill many more people and degrade the quality of civilised life much more.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Smart Fragrance Dispensers And Other Oddities | TechCrunch
The Apple Watch dock. The Pura Scents smart fragrance dispenser. A review of this badass gift guide. The Coolest Cooler. And an argument over 3D printers. Long story short, we wander near and far through this week’s TC Gadgets podcast.
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Tesla proactively recalling 90,000 cars because of a single fault | Ars Technica
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always said that his company is on a mission to change the car industry. Tesla is challenging the entrenched model of US car sales by doing away with conventional dealerships, and it has a refreshingly open attitude toward li…
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Famous Mexican musicians say ‘don’t vote for the racists’ like Donald Trump | US news | The Guardian
Amid the crooning boleros, swivelling hips, and Cumbia beats, it was a stark moment of political protest that stole the show at this year’s Latin Grammy awards.
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When Tragedy Becomes Content | Motherboard
In the current content farm paradigm of online news consumption, it has been difficult for me to feel at ease with big box content farms and their coverage of ISIS. After their signature Western world attack in Paris, it has offered the group a cont…
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And Now ISIS Takes on China – The Daily Beast
The slick, cynical online magazine of the so-called Islamic State ran a one-page ad in its September edition announcing that a Norwegian and a Chinese hostage were up “for sale.
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As seen in December issue of Vanity Fair’s Hot Looks and More! | Vanity Fair
Tom Ford Lip Color: I scream, you scream, we all scream for Tom Ford! But before you scream, drench the lips in this buttery formula that feels as narcissistic as its name, So Vain.
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Watch Pusha T Ride Through the Night in ‘Untouchable’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Pusha T Ride Through the Night in ‘Untouchable’ Video Song is first single off sophomore solo LP ‘King Push: Darkest Before Dawn’
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Scientists Made an Electronic Circuit Inside a Rose | Motherboard
The idea of combining electronics and plants sounds like something you might see in a far-flung corner of Glastonbury festival, but it’s actually been an area of research since the 1990s.
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Batman ’66 Was A Shining, Joyous Beacon In The Dark World Of Batman Comics
Until recently, DC desperately avoided any sort of acknowledgement of the classic 1960s Batman TV show. Not only did it not represent who Batman was now—a layered, gritty character—it was viewed as an embarrassment. That is, until Warner Bros.
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Paris Attacks Death Toll Rises to 130 — NYMag
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The Deepening LGBT Divide in the Mormon Faith – The Atlantic
On November 5, the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly changed a handbook that is available only to Church leaders.
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Say goodbye to the circus before it vanishes forever / Boing Boing
My father took me to see Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the old Madison Square Garden in the early 1960s.
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Which way’s up? Figuring out how our spinal cord ended up on our back | Ars Technica
Our left and right sides are largely mirror images of each other. That makes us bilaterians, a large group of animals that range from tiny flies to giant whales. But we and the whales share a significant difference with flies—where we put our nerve …
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In the world of multi-room audio, one name has dominated the industry for years. Sonos’ speakers have been the go-to solution for getting sound in every room of your home without any pesky wiring or advanced installation.
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What Presidential Candidates Are Saying About Surveillance Post-Paris Attacks | ThinkProgress
Last week’s deadly Islamic State-led Paris attacks that killed 130 people and injured more than twice that has incited nationalist calls to refuse asylum to Syrian refugees in the interest of national security, but have also made the more divisive t…
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Spoof captures how advertisers approach millennials and consumerism | Grist
The fast-growing German city has a shortage of housing, so it’s turning old shipping areas into new green developments.
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Trendquiz Is A Super Addictive Game Using Google Trends Data | TechCrunch
I’m a fan of Google Trends. Whenever a new meme pops up or some major news breaks, I head there to check how interested people are in said information and whether they’ve been interested all along, when it got really hot…and when it became not.
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What used to be called “dog whistle” politics became a shrill blast heard around the world this week as American politicians reacted to the Paris terrorist attacks with an anti-refugee backlash that sounded ferocious even by the standards of the 201…
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Big Corporations Are Using a Record Amount of Clean Energy | Mother Jones
On November 30, world leaders will flock to Paris to hammer out an international agreement to slow global warming.
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Chalmun’s Cantina, located in beautiful downtown Mos Eisley, was a masterwork of world building. As Roger Ebert said in his 1977 review of Star Wars, The most fascinating single scene, for me, was the one set in the bizarre saloon on the planet Tato…
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Journalists take MEPs to top EU court over expenses – BBC News
A group of 29 European journalists is taking the European Parliament to court in the hope of making MEPs’ expenses more transparent.The complaint has been filed with the European Court of Justice (ECJ), whose rulings are binding EU-wide.
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Two Tech-Bubble Experts Explain Why the End Is Still Nigh | Vanity Fair
Yesterday, the sky did not fall, the bubble did not pop. In fact, Square, the mobile-payments company led by Jack Dorsey, began selling public shares at $9 (a market capitalization that was nearly half its most recent private valuation) and then . .…
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The bill adding a new layer of scrutiny to the process for admitting Syrian and Iraqi refugee to the US faces major obstacles towards becoming law, despite passing in the House of Representatives by a veto-proof margin on Thursday.
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PasswordBox To Close Service To Focus On Intel’s True Key | TechCrunch
Less than a year after being acquired by Intel, PasswordBox is closing its password manager service and pushing users to migrate to — yes, you guessed it — Intel’s alternative, True Key, which launched earlier this year.
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A number of New Yorkers were frightened on Thursday night when fireworks went off on a barge near Ellis Island with little warning. “Distant explosions is not a cool feel right now,” one Twitter user posted. “Anyone else in greenpoint hear all that …
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This Derek Jeter Rumor May Be a Dumb Story, but That Doesn’t Mean It’s | Vanity Fair
Derek Jeter, master sportsman and Tampa resident, is known for many things. Obviously there is his long and fruitful baseball career, playing for the New York Yankees for 20 seasons, successfully hitting and catching balls over and over again for ye…
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Kickstarting a new science fiction magazine from the propietors of Singularity & Co / Boing Boing
The people behind Brooklyn’s brilliant science fiction bookstore Singularity & Co are looking to raise $60,000 to launch a new science fiction quarterly magazine called the Tycho Journal. They plan on an 8.
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Innocence ends for good as Winnie The Pooh’s skull goes on display · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ah, science: righter of wrongs, demolisher of false beliefs, corrector of childhood fantasies.
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Gay Talese on Alabama Football’s Chances — NYMag
The previous two Saturdays the college team has defeated LSU, 30–16, and then Mississippi, 31–6. Charleston Southern is up November 21.
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As a recent South Park episode demonstrated, the internet is very rarely a “safe space.” Those who heedlessly post pictures on social media sites had better damned well prepare for those pictures to attract negative comments.
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BBC – Future – Catching a thief by their face
A man walks up to the front door of a jeweller in the centre of Rotterdam and buzzes to enter but it doesn’t budge. He waits.
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The 20 Most Dysfunctional TV Families
It takes a special kind of TV show to accurately depict the gritty inner workings of a screwed-up family while still making us want to watch.
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This Project Is Digitizing Wax Cylinders So You Can Listen Like It’s 1880 | Motherboard
Wax cylinders—the earliest commercial medium for recording sound—will probably never make a massive comeback in the same way as vinyl. But there’s still a sizeable fan base for the sound recording device from Thomas Edison’s era.
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Tesla forced to disable autopilot features for Hong Kong owners | The Verge
Tesla’s controversial autopilot mode has hit a roadblock in Hong Kong.
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Don’t Stuff Your Turkey, Put Cooked Stuffing in While the Turkey Rests
Alton Brown says stuffing is evil when it comes to turkey and offers an alternative method to save your Thanksgiving dinner. That’s because stuffing goes into the middle of the bird and is extremely porous.
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Four Iraqi civilians, including a child, ‘likely’ killed in US airstrike | World news | The Guardian
Four civilians, including possibly a child, were “likely” killed in a US airstrike against an Islamic State group checkpoint in Iraq in March, according to a US military investigation.
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Refugee border controls putting lives ‘at risk’ – Al Jazeera English
New border control measures imposed by some Balkan countries risk people’s lives by leaving hundreds stranded outside amid plunging winter temperatures, aid agencies have warned.
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A Visual History of Campus Protests | Vanity Fair
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5 Reasons Bernie Sanders Is More Qualified to Be Commander in Chief Than Hillary Clinton : democrats
5 Reasons Bernie Sanders Is More Qualified to Be Commander in Chief Than Hillary Clinton (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 27 minutes ago by loading…
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Proposed National Law Would Crack Down on Swatters with Serious Jail Time | Motherboard
On Wednesday, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Rep. Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania introduced the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015, a federal anti-swatting bill. Swatting is the act of calling in a fake police emergency in order to send…
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Donald Trump finally realizes that it’s not a good idea to wholeheartedly endorse Nazi ideals
Donald Trump has demonstrated that he thinks forcing American Muslims to register and carry special ID is a bully of an idea. He’s done so twice. Not just databases. More than databases. Okay.
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What is behind ISIL’s attacks? – Al Jazeera English
After ISIL’s deadly attacks on Paris, Beirut and a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, has the group changed its strategy?
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Greenpeace India’s shutdown ‘temporarily halted’ – BBC News
An Indian court has put on hold an order cancelling Greenpeace India’s registration to operate in the country. The court ruled the group could continue operating until there is clarity on accusations of financial irregularities levelled by the gover…
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Analysis: Kotaku, blacklisting, and the independence of the gaming press | Ars Technica
As someone who’s written about games for nearly 20 years, I spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between the press and the larger games industry.
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‘Beyond terrifying’: Muslim Americans shocked by Trump and Carson quotes | US news | The Guardian
Prominent Muslim Americans have reacted with anger and dismay to the incendiary remarks of Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential race who called for a database of all Muslims in the country to be set up, in order to…
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The Solution to Hollywood’s Gender Gap Is In These 63 Photos | Vanity Fair
Maureen Dowd gives Hollywood’s absurd gender disparity the massive examination it deserves. “All of a sudden, we’re in this era of, ‘Oh, my God, girls.’ It’ll last about as long as it always does: about five more minutes.
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Something You May Not Know About George Lucas’ Inspiration for Star Wars
“Well, is any of this written down? Can I find this?” Kathleen Kennedy, current president of Lucasfilm, asked George Lucas after he told her one of his earliest inspirations for Star Wars. “No,” Lucas said. “It’s all in my head.”
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A Deal On A Major Bipartisan Education Bill Includes A Few Victories For Democrats | ThinkProgress
The House and Senate reached a deal on major bipartisan education legislation Thursday, with Democrats coming away from the table with more than they had in July.
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Bombs will ‘absolutely not’ beat ISIL: Ex-M16 offical – Al Jazeera English
A former senior intelligence officer in Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency says airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will “absolutely not” eliminate them.
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Comedy Central announces premiere dates for Broad City, Workaholics, more · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Perhaps sensing that viewers were growing anxious to find out if Atticus and Poppi live happily ever after, Comedy Central has announced the premiere dates for Broad City and other shows in its 2016 lineup.
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‘Dangerous Men’: Inside a So-Bad-It’s-Great Trashterpiece | Rolling Stone
He has a woman that takes a knife out of her behind to kill somebody. How does he think this is going to make money?” More than 30 years after Iranian filmmaker Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, a.k.a. John S. Rad, began work on the L.A.
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Netflix appears to be moving forward with plans to begin streaming Rob Schneider’s new self-financed cringe-comedy, Real Rob, in multiple countries beginning December 1.
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Watch Raucous Trailer for Melissa McCarthy’s ‘The Boss’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Raucous Trailer for Melissa McCarthy’s ‘The Boss’ “I’m gonna shove a box of chocolate clusters up that tight ass of yours,” comedian threatens
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Hear Adele Cover Chris Stapleton | Rolling Stone
Hear Adele Cover Chris Stapleton U.K.
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Princeton students ended a 32-hour sit-in in the university president’s office on Thursday night after administrators signed a document that committed them to begin conversations about addressing racial tension on campus, including
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Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine – The Washington Post
CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ | This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle East, and efforts by the U.S. government and others to undermine it.
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Disco’s been dead for decades, yet disco bashing never seems to go out of style. The sleazy fashions, the soulless music, the lumpenproletariat streaming ‘cross bridge and tunnel to shake their sweaty, polyester-clad booties like cut rate Travoltas……
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Sleeping later on weekends may be bad for you. Several studies have shown that there is an association between shift work and an increased risk for heart disease and diabetes.
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Greying Obama says no to hair dye unlike other leaders – BBC News
US President Obama has jokingly admitted that he does not dye his hair, unlike other world leaders. Mr Obama entered office in 2009 with dark black hair, however in recent years it has turned markedly more grey.
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Alan Moore’s brilliantly bonkers lost 1980s Star Wars comics / Boing Boing
Jahfurry writes, “Ben McCool over at Tech Times unearthed five brilliantly bonkers Star Wars comics written by Alan Moore in the ’80s.
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Painting Jalouzi, Haiti’s Largest Slum – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “The Colorful Transformation of a Haitian Slum” Presented by
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In Which I Agree With Senator Inhofe – The Atlantic
A few of the thousands of owner-flown small aircraft that gather each summer for the Oshkosh AirVenture convention
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The Director of Mockingjay Has a Solid Idea for a Hunger Games Prequel
With the release of this weekend’s final Hunger Games film, the story of Katniss Everdeen is over. What isn’t over, though, is a demand for more of this franchise, both from fans and movie executives.
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Astronauts in Space Honor Paris Attack Victims (Video)
The crew of the International Space Station and flight controllers worldwide held a moment of silence this week for the victims of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared some remarks in a new video.
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Following The Launch Of Its Ad-Free Tier, Hulu Breaks Into The Top 10 Apps By Revenue | TechCrunch
Following a number of big moves to attract subscribers and grow its revenue, including a deal with Epix films and the introduction of a commercial-free paid tier to its service, streaming service Hulu has managed to shoot up the ranks on a number of…
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The secret history of the Haunted Mansion’s hall of changing paintings / Boing Boing
Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion sports a hall of changing paintings in which people and scenes are transformed into sinister versions of themselves.
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Our First Look At Tripped, the New Sci-Fi Comedy Show From One of Doctor Who’s Best Writers
Jamie Mathieson wrote two of the best episodes of Doctor Who’s last season, Flatline and Mummy on the Orient Express. Now he has his own series coming to E4, the UK channel that was home to Misfits, and its all about multi-universe shenanigans.
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Our holographic future: a Q&A with HoloLens head Scott Erickson | The Verge
It’s been almost a year since we first learned about Microsoft’s HoloLens, the experimental augmented (actually, Microsoft prefers “mixed”) reality headset that can run Minecraft, reconstruct Mars, and take Skype calls.
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Bob Ross Ipsum Generates Dummy Text with Happy Little Paragraphs
Need to generate some placeholder text? Sure, you could use the standard Latin gibberish, but a more soothing and entertaining alternative is this generator using quotes from painter Bob Ross. Ross was so Zen painting his happy little clouds and tre…
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Elections Time Machine: It’s 1991, and ex-Klansman David Duke may become Louisiana’s next governor
We don’t have long to go before the gubernatorial runoff between Democratic ex-Gov. Edwin Edwards and GOP state Rep. David Duke—yes, that’s right, the former head of the state Ku Klux Klan. Edwards outpaced Duke 34-32 in the October jungle primary, …
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Paris attacks: Woman ‘was not suicide bomber’ in raid – BBC News
French media have cast doubt on the possibility that the female cousin of the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks blew herself up in Wednesday’s police raid in the Saint-Denis suburb. Police sources now say that the suicide bomber was in fact a…
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Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories – The New Yorker
By the time that Felix Eberty, a German jurist and amateur astronomer, anonymously published “The Stars and World History,” in 1846, it was well known that light had a finite speed. Ole Rømer, a Danish scientist working in Paris, had proved as much …
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The Maquiladora Workers of Juárez Find Their Voice | The Nation
Ciudad Juárez—After more than a decade of silence, maquiladora workers in Ciudad Juárez have found their voice. The city, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, is now the center of a growing rebellion of laborers in the border factories.
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How to Get Cheaper Car Insurance: Be White – The Atlantic
As something that tens of millions of American driver are required by law to pay for every month, auto insurance is one thing that most people believe should be priced fairly.
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Frightened, Ignorant and Cowardly is No Way to Go Through Life, Son | Whatever
So, this week. Seriously, I don’t think the bedwetting about Muslims has been this bad in a very long time, which is saying something, and the panic on Syrian refugees is particularly ridiculous. Here’s a nice, juicy quote from a just released essay…
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Polls: Americans believe in evolution, less in creationism.
Few issues have divided the American public as bitterly as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Madeleine Albright, Who Came To America As A Refugee, Slams Proposal To Ban Syrians | ThinkProgress
After recalling her own childhood fleeing Czechoslovakia, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told reporters Wednesday that she was appalled at political calls to ban Syrian refugees from the United States in the wake of recent terror …
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Chernin’s Otter Media Invests $22M Into Anime Service Crunchyroll | TechCrunch
Otter Media says it’s investing another $22 million in Ellation, the joint venture between the Chernin Group and AT&T, the parent company of anime-focused video service Crunchyroll.
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Volvo teases its upcoming S90 full-size sedan, full reveal coming in January | The Verge
Volvo is teasing its new, top-of-the-range S90 sedan with a pair of vague images ahead of its debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January. It will be the sedan version of the very excellent XC90 SUV.
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Retracing the footsteps of Paris attacker as EU strengthens border checks – BBC News
Ministers from across the EU have met for emergency talks in Brussels in the wake of the Paris attacks. They have agreed to strengthen the EU’s external borders by the end of the year by increasing checks on EU citizens arriving from outside.
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Dealmaster: Save 40 percent on Samsung devices with Amazon’s Black Friday sales | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have many deals to share with you thanks to early Black Friday! Amazon begins its Black Friday sale a week early today with lightning deals every five minutes.
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Stampery Now Lets You Certify Documents Using The Blockchain And Your Real Identity | TechCrunch
Shortly after participating in our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF, Stampery raised $600,000 from Draper Associates with Boost VC, Blockchain Capital and Di-Ann Eisnor also participating.
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In the wake of the Paris attacks, the French National Assembly has declared a state of emergency with sweeping powers, without any substantial debate.
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Syria crisis: Massive Russian air strikes on ‘IS targets’ – BBC News
Russia has intensified its air raids on what it calls “terrorist” targets in Syria and raised to 69 the number of its aircraft there. But President Vladimir Putin said the current level of attacks was not enough to defeat so-called Islamic State (IS…
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Is Senate Cafeteria Contractor Still Violating Labor Rules?
On Monday, we explained in our post, “34 Senators Stand With Senate Cafeteria Workers – And With All Workers,” how the (foreign-owned) contacting company that operates the Senate and the Capital Visitors Center cafeterias pays employees so little th…
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A Carrot-Garnished Cocktail to Make You Feel Good About Your Choices | Vanity Fair
As the holiday season swiftly approaches, visions of decadent meals, readily available cookie platters, and pie-based breakfasts dance in our heads.
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How First Aid and Emergency Response Can Combat Terrorism – The Atlantic
One hundred and forty minutes. That’s the amount of time between when gunmen at the Bataclan theater began rounding up survivor-hostages after their initial killing spree, and when police began their successful assault on the theater.
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Friday Is Transgender Day of Remembrance | Al Jazeera America
Anti-transgender violence has killed at least 21 people across the United States in 2015, according to rights activists who gathered on Friday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance, in which the trans community honors it members killed in acts of v…
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Hillary Clinton: Gun Violence Is A National Emergency
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Hillary Clinton: “Gun Violence Is A National Emergency” : Liberal
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Could micronaps be the ultimate productivity tool for our sleep-deprived age? – The Long and Short
Our weekly newsletter features updates on all the latest articles from The Long + Short, and a roundup of the best stories of innovation from around the web, too. Sign up below.
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Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)
From six in the morning until five in the afternoon, five days a week, for thirty years, my Grandmama Catherine’s fingers, palms, and wrists wandered deep in the bellies of dead chickens.
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Why American Landlords Love Refugee Tenants – Bloomberg Business
One week a refugee family is fleeing the brutality of civil war and living in a shipping container near the Syrian border, and the next they might be moving into a furnished apartment in Cleveland. Completing this trek from war-torn villages to safe…
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Leap-second decision delayed by eight years : Nature News & Comment
A leap second is gone in the blink of an eye. But a long-awaited decision on whether to ditch these occasional time insertions — which ensure that official time is synced with Earth’s rotation — has been delayed for at least eight years.
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Believe It: Trump Can Defeat Hillary | The Nation
It hurts to put these words in print, but…Ann Coulter may be right. Shortly after the Paris attacks began last Friday, she tweeted, “They can wait if they like until next November for the actual balloting, but Donald Trump was elected president toni…
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Sleepy Hollow Is a Case Study in Why TV Shows Lose Your Trust—and Why It’s So Hard To Get Back
Remember what made the first season of Sleepy Hollow so great? The show’s definitely trying to remember. Last night’s fall finale reads like a callback list of big moments from season one—right down to the final sacrifice.
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Governors Anti-Refugee Words Spark Death Threats | Al Jazeera America
Refugee resettlement agency staff said this week that U.S. governors’ statements that Syrian refugees are unwelcome in their states after the Paris attacks have fueled death threats against agency workers and the immigrants themselves, and have cont…
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What These Common Turkey Labels Actually Mean
If you’re picking out a turkey this Thanksgiving, you’ll probably be met with a number of different labels: fresh, premium, young. What does it all mean? This report from NPR can help you figure it out.
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The Pleiades Open Cluster js – Just Space
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Paris raid police: ‘We were shot at with machine guns’ – BBC News
The BBC’s Fergal Keane has spoken to the head of the elite police assault group which carried out the raid in Saint Denis.
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Paris attack: Gunman Salah Abdeslam’s family ‘hope he surrenders’ – BBC News
A relative of Salah Abdeslam, a gunman who attacked bars and restaurants in Paris, has urged Salah to surrender to the authorities.Brahim Abdeslam was killed in the attack after blowing himself up but his brother, Salah, is is now the most wanted ma…
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The Browns Have A Tight End Who’s Defying Time | FiveThirtyEight
Cleveland Browns tight end Gary Barnidge is 30 years old. Most would call him a young man — a millennial, even! He was 4 when the Berlin Wall came down, one of his favorite actors is Jonah Hill, and he’s participated in a reality TV dating show. In …
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11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week two major tech companies went public, Pandora acquired Rdio and Lyft financials leaked. The Cribs crew visited the visually stunning Minted HQ, and we discussed the rentpocalypse with the CEO of Zumper on Bullish. These are our biggest sto…
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Comedy Central renews The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail for third season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been a great year for stand-up comedy fans, what with the new John Mulaney special, the new Tig Notaro special, and Ben Carson’s presidential campaign.
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Ansel Adams’s Images of Japanese Internment Camp Manzanar – The Atlantic
During World War II the United States government operated a heavily-subsidized childcare program—the likes of which Americans haven’t seen since.
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Rugrats artist depicts the ex-babies as dumpy, sad adults · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Taking younger characters from cartoon shows and aging them is hardly a new phenomenon. Hell, it’s practically an internet obsession. But those “age progressions” are usually performed by fans. What is unusual is when someone who actually worked on …
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PlayStation 2 Games Are Coming to Your PlayStation 4 | Motherboard
Time to party like it’s 2000. Sony confirmed that it’s working on bringing PlayStation 2 games to its most current PlayStation 4 console.
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GMO Salmon That Proponents Call ‘Sustainable’ Has Environmentalists Up In Arms | ThinkProgress
After 20 years of study and decades of controversy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally decided to deem a genetically modified animal as safe for human consumption, a first in the United States. The animal in question is a salmon, crea…
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TrueCrypt is safer than previously reported, detailed analysis concludes | Ars Technica
The TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts is safer than some studies have suggested, according to a comprehensive security analysis conducted by the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Info…
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Ebola crisis: Liberia confirms fresh cases – BBC News
Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The three patients include a 10-year-old boy from Paynesville, a suburb of…
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The Rock’s New Spy Movie Looks Hilarious—Until the End of This Trailer
Two of the most ubiquitous stars right now—Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart—are wildly contrasting sizes, so their buddy movie has a built-in visual gag. But there’s one big problem with this Central Intelligence trailer.
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Noma: My Perfect Storm is a feature-length documentary about chef René Redzepi and his Copenhagen restaurant Noma, which is currently ranked #3 in the world.
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Justin Bieber tops UK singles chart and breaks top 40 record – BBC News
Justin Bieber has topped the UK singles chart with Sorry, ending Adele’s three-week run and breaking a chart record for the most tracks inside the top 40. The chart features eight songs from Bieber’s new album Purpose, the first time a living artist…
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Robert Carlyle Talks ‘Trainspotting 2’: ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing’ | Rolling Stone
Robert Carlyle Talks ‘Trainspotting 2’: ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing’ “You’re going to think, ‘Of course he’s going to say this,’ but honestly, it’s one of the best scripts I’ve fucking read,” actor says of sequel
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Google wants to launch its Play Store in China next year | The Verge
Google is hoping to bring its Play Store to China in 2016, according to a report from Reuters.
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In a little over a month we’ll be updating our Privacy Policy. We know this is important to you, so I want to explain what has changed and why. Keeping control in your hands is paramount to us, and this is our first consideration any time we change …
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Talking Jimmie Dimmick action figure (from Pulp Fiction) and his “really fucking good” cup of coffee Toymaker Beeline Creative are the geniuses behind what appears to be the greatest line of action figures ever created – four thirteen-inch likenesse…
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Curling, the ice sport with brooms, is roiled in controversy over — what else? — the brooms.
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Updated, 1:25 p.m. | NEWTON, Iowa — Donald J.
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Photos of the Week: 11/14-11/20 – The Atlantic
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Half A River Falls Into This Hole, And No One Knows Where It Goes – Digg
3 diggs Nature Curious The Brule River hits a waterfall in Minnesota. Half of it does totally normal waterfall stuff and the other half falls into The Devil’s Kettle, never to be seen again.
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This year’s fantasy football season has seemed like an especially unknowable hallucination. A lot of us drafted our way straight into the cellar. Let’s see if we can fix some of your awful fantasy teams by drafting them completely at random.
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Leroy Stolzfus clocks a 3:05 at Harrisburg Marathon in full Amish garb | PennLive.com
Leroy Stolzfus, 22, of Gordonville, crossed the finish line of the Harrisburg Marathon Nov. 8 in three hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds. That’s a pretty impressive time for anyone, less than a minute away from a Boston Marathon qualifying time for a …
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Exploring identity with Kevin Barry and Vendela Vida – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
This week we investigate the mysteries of identity with two very different writers, whose novels both question what it is that makes a person who they are. In Kevin Barry’s award-winning Beatlebone, that person is John Lennon, who sets off in search…
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The time is surely ripe for a ripping satire of contemporary Britain, and hopes were high for Jonathan Coe’s Number 11, which the author has called a “slippery sequel” to his classic send-up of the Thatcher era, What a Carve Up!.
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‘Generous’ Is Trying to Make Pay-What-You-Can the Normal Way to Buy Online | Motherboard
The pay-what-you-can model should be familiar to anyone who’s seen “PWYC” scrawled across Xeroxed zine fair posters. It’s a great way show your favourite artists and creators how much their stuff means to you.
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Flaws In Password Manager LastPass Expose Users Passwords | Motherboard
On the internet, nothing is unhackable. That’s the main takeaway from new research showing that the popular password manager LastPass, which is generally considered secure, actually has a series of flaws that could expose users’ passwords.
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350,000 Sign Petition Asking for Federal Probe of Exxon | “The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,” Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to …
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Bernie Sanders Reaches New High in Support: Poll; “Sanders is now the preferred candidate of 33% of Democratic and independent voters who lean Democratic. However, he still trails Hillary Clinton…” (nbcnews.com)
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I always worry that the barrier to entry on getting involved in politics is too high for most people to care, but the stamping thing seems nice because it’s easy. Fingers crossed it gets some real momentum.
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Democracy in Jeopardy | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
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It’s been a busy last few months since Steve Huffman returned to Reddit in July to become its CEO.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Seeing a Galaxy’s Heartbeat
The endangered Mekong giant catfish can be as big as a grizzly bear. One was just caught and released.
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Give the Perfect Handmade Gift with These DIY Projects
In many ways, gifts you make yourself are better than any you can get in the store. You can customize them for your recipients, show off your skills, and often save a little cash while still giving a thoughtful, memorable gift. Here are a few useful…
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Eagles of Death Metal documentary pulled from festival – BBC News
A documentary about the Eagles of Death Metal has been pulled from the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Screenings have been cancelled of The Redemption Of The Devil, which follows band frontman Jesse Hughes in the build up to t…
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Any open-ended adaptation of a novel is going to have to take substantial liberties with the source text in order to keep the narrative engine cranking for however long it continues. (Take it from me, the guy who reviewed Under The Dome for three se…
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Because it’s Star Wars Week here at The A.V. Club, we’ve singled out some of the more interesting movies inspired or influenced by George Luc…
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io9 Newsstand: Tyrants Need To Learn That “Leaving, Too, Is Resistance”
This week’s stories are about the necessity of resistance. Resisting the pull of depression, government control, or temptation by an apple. On the side of the hill at the edge of the town, Bander Ayer Puteh, is a failed housing development project, …
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of this week’s theme, we’re doing songs with Star Wars references.
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National pride on line as Cotto and Alvarez vie for middleweight glory | Sport | The Guardian
As ever with boxing’s most storied ancestral rivalry, the atmosphere will be positively fevered and the stakes through the roof when Miguel Cotto climbs through the ropes on Saturday night to defend his lineal middleweight championship against Canel…
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Why The U.S. Is Getting Beaten On Women’s Equality | ThinkProgress
While the world has made progress closing the gap between women and men in health, education, economic participation, and political empowerment over the last decade, the United States is not keeping up.
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When the Backstreet Boys released Black & Blue 15 years ago on November 21, 2000, they were at the height of their boy-band powers: The record sold a staggering 1.6 million copies in its first week in the U.S.
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Why Don’t We Just Throw All Our Garbage Into Volcanoes? | Popular Science
Even before the rockfall, the lava lake was bubbling, splattering onto the sides of the lava lake. This photo of lava splatter was taken at Kilauea on April 23. Great question. Glad you asked.
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Why the UK Is Simulating a Cyber Terrorist Attack on London | Motherboard
There’s a suspected data breach at ZSB Formulas, a company that makes chemicals such as those used in nerve gases. Clues in the firm’s network reveal a plan of Church House, an old building in the shadow of Westminster Abbey.
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Tesla Recalls Every Model S Ever Sold Over Single-Time Seatbelt Issue In Europe | TechCrunch
Shares of Tesla, an electric car company and Silicon Valley darling, are down several points today on news that the company will recall every Model S sedan over a seatbelt issue uncovered in a single incident in Europe. The recall includes nearly 90…
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Facebook launches a version of Messenger for use at work | The Verge
Facebook has launched a version of Messenger that’s meant for the office. The app, first spotted by TechCrunch, is an expansion of Facebook at Work, a business platform Facebook has been testing that allows co-workers to talk and collaborate.
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Watch BBC News Anchor Andrew Neil Lay into ISIS’s “Loser Jihadists” | Vanity Fair
Hats off to Andrew Neil, the British journalist and anchor of the BBC1’s late-night political show This Week, who stuck it to Islamic State in his introduction to the show with a cadenza of righteous vituperation that is up there with the best of Jo…
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Tesla recalls all 90,000 Model S cars over faulty seat belt | The Verge
Tesla is voluntarily recalling every Model S it has ever made — some 90,000 cars — because of a single report from Europe where the seatbelt wasn’t assembled properly.
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Illinois court sets new rules for cops using Stingrays | The Verge
A recent court ruling just made it harder for police to track down your cell phone. An Illinois district court judge issued new requirements earlier this month to better protect innocent bystanders from Stingray devices deployed in their vicinity.
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The Rolling Stones’ 1989 ‘Steel Wheels’ tour was only rock & roll, but I liked it|Dangerous Minds
One Sunday afternoon in Fall of 1989 I was walking around Greenwich Village and I popped into Bleecker Bob’s record store to see if my old friend Nate Cimmino was working that day.
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Kate Middleton Goes Rock Climbing, Toys With Prince William | Vanity Fair
O.K., everyone, prepare yourselves: this is not an everyday royal occasion. This is not “Kate Middleton Dons a Stylish Dress for Charity Gala.” This is not “Prince William Plays Rugby, Waves to Assembled Crowd.
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This Interactive Tool Estimates Your Social Security Benefits
Social Security is the government’s way of making sure you have some money coming in when you’re old enough to retire. But how much you’ll get depends on a few different factors. This new tool from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates …
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Canadian City Becomes The First In The World To Implement Climate Change Warning Stickers At Gas Stations: North Vancouver, BC passed a law that mandates climate change warning stickers be applied to gas pumps (thinkprogress.org)submitted 24 minutes…
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Hillary Clinton Joins The ‘Make Silicon Valley Break Encryption’ Bandwagon : politics
This should surprise nobody. Hillary loves the patriot act and nsa spying. She’s no fan of privacy. Of course not.
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Hubble image of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) [2856 x 3951] https://t.co/iAReeSDP3x https://t.co/EkaXIutTex
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The Times’ First-Ever LOL — Following: How We Live Online
LOL just sneaked into an op-ed in America’s paper of record. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of several society-satirizing books, wrote a piece for the New York Times on the failures of French leadership following the recent attacks i…
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There has never been a better time to be a Robin fan.
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Chart of the Day: Terrorism From Syrian Refugees – The Atlantic
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Stephen Hayward obituary | Books | The Guardian
Stephen Hayward, who has died of a heart attack aged 61, founded the independent publisher Serif in 1992 and ran it from his east London home with great creative care. The book jackets, by Pentagram Berlin, are works of art in themselves.
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This is your next jam: Adele, David Bowie, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this week’s selections have been shaped by last week’s battle for the hearts and ears of teens around the world.
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How Facebook Is Making It (Slightly) Easier to End a Relationship – The Atlantic
Sometimes I wonder how Facebook’s algorithm sees the world. Every day, it watches hundreds of thousands of people fall in love, their mutual timeline posts increasing up to that fateful moment when they make their love Facebook Official.
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The doctrine of expansionary austerity — the proposition that cuts in government spending would actually cause higher growth despite their direct negative impact on demand, thanks to the confidence fairy — was all the rage in policy circles five yea…
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Once You See Superman III Reimagined As A Horror Film, You’ll Never See It The Same Again
People love to talk about destruction and violence in the latest Superman movie, Man of Steel, but they haven’t seen anything yet. Today, you’re about to see the trailer for undisputedly THE most violent Superman movie: Superman III.
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Airline loses Boston Marathon bombing survivor’s prosthetic leg | US news | The Guardian
Haslet-Davis lost her lower left leg in the April 2013 attacks. She danced again publicly at a March 2014 TED Conference in British Columbia thanks to a prosthesis made for her at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
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‘Fear and despair’ of Paris eye-witness who filmed people people fleeing – BBC News
The journalist who filmed people running for their lives during an attack on a Paris concert hall has described the moments after he started recording.
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Green news round-up: polar bears, climate marches and Indian tortoises | Environment | The Guardian
Environment news Features and comment Multimedia And finally … The French footballer has been moonlighting as a partner of a biochemical company that could revolutionise the energy industry – and net him £20bn.
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The Muslim Student’s Burden in the Wake of Terror – The Atlantic
Even before the Paris Attacks, Muslims on American college campuses were often the targets of hatred or violence. In November, Virginia Tech responded to a threat that claimed “I will kill all Muslims,” and Islamophobic posters were hung at American…
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WASHINGTON—According to a poll released Friday by the Pew Research Center, 23 percent of Americans would vote for Jeb Bush in the presidential election if the Republican candidate was standing directly beside them in the voting booth.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt lip-synced “Rhythm Nation,” and it was spectacular · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Say what you will about Lip Sync Battle and the Jimmy Fallon-hosted Tonight Show that spawned it, but sometimes it’s just really cathartic to watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt put on a fun outfit and dance around.
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Republican Governors Demand President Obama Suspend Syria Refugee Program | ThinkProgress
The governors wrote that while the U.S. “has long served as a welcoming beacon” to refugees fleeing war and persecution, they want to prioritize “ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our citizens.
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Terror accused ‘in plot to kidnap UK ambassador’ – BBC News
Three men fighting extradition from the UK are alleged to have been key members of a terror group that planned to kidnap a British ambassador. Bakr Hamad, 38, Zana Rahim, 32, and Awat Hamasalih, 33, held senior positions in Rawti Shax, Westminster M…
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How do Democrats who surrendered to fear explain themselves?
Forty-seven House Democrats said yes to fearmongering and bigotry in Thursday’s vote on a bill to make it harder for Syrian refugees to enter this country—harder than a screening process that already takes 18 months and is more difficult than that f…
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The Latin Grammys Just Called Out Trump’s Racism | ThinkProgress
The 2015 Latin Grammys turned political Thursday night when the Mexican rock band Maná and norteño-band ensemble Los Tigres del Norte unfurled a sign on stage reading, “Latinos unidos no voten por los racistas” (or “United Latinos, don’t vote for ra…
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Trump: I would ‘absolutely’ use database to track Muslims (thehill.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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The Farce Awakens – What explains the modern right’s propensity for panic? Part of it, no doubt, is the familiar point that many bullies are also cowards. But I think it’s also linked to the apocalyptic mind-set that has developed among Republicans …
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Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Vicious Peacemonger (nymag.com)submitted 17 minutes ago by loading…
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Trump: I would ‘absolutely’ use database to track Muslims : democrats
Trump: I would ‘absolutely’ use database to track Muslims https://t.co/iHQNvgV5Wu https://t.co/c03jMi8lJ2 via /r/democrats
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Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Vicious Peacemonger : Liberal
Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Vicious Peacemonger https://t.co/dnidgd0sKq https://t.co/QKuaUmU0g9 via /r/Liberal
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Trump: I would ‘absolutely’ use database to track Muslims | TheHill
Trump: I would ‘absolutely’ use database to track Muslims https://t.co/iHQNvgV5Wu https://t.co/c03jMi8lJ2 via /r/democrats
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Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Peacemonger — NYMag
Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Vicious Peacemonger https://t.co/dnidgd0sKq https://t.co/QKuaUmU0g9 via /r/Liberal
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Walking around my ranch, looking for everything that makes intersting noises. Andando pelo meu sítio, procurando por tudo que faça barulhos interessantes. Sony a7s Zeiss 24 – 70 Zoom H2n
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Easy 1+2+3 projects from the pages of Make / Boing Boing
Back in 2004, when designer David Albertson and I were creating a prototype for the magazine that would become MAKE, one the things we came up with was an item called 1+2+3. It was a one-pager with instructions for making a simple project in three s…
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Ever rollo your eyes so hard you do a backflip? – GIF on Imgur
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Is America a Nation of Xenophobic Trumps?| New Republic
When Donald Trump first entered the Republican presidential primary, there was a widespread impulse to treat him as if he were a joke candidate. The Huffington Post, for one, famously announced that it would cover Trump only as entertainment news.
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A Florida police officer has been fired after singing a song titled Let the Killing Begin with a death metal band – while on duty and in uniform. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Sanford police officer Andrew Ricks had previously notified the city …
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Mali attack: Hostages describe siege at Radisson Blu Hotel – BBC News
Two men held hostage at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, have spoken of their experiences. Gunmen seized 170 people at the hotel before special forces stormed the building. At least 18 people died.
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Princeton considers dropping Woodrow Wilson name after protests – BBC News
Princeton University students have urged school officials to rename programs and buildings named for former US President Woodrow Wilson because of his views on race relations. University President Christopher Eisgruber has agreed to consider their d…
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Bill Hicks is a comedy legend, and for good reason. He inspired dozens, if not hundreds, of today’s biggest comedians and helped bring quote-unquote “alternative comedy” to the masses. Hicks is also one of those guys whose material, thankfully, has …
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It’s been a fun ride with Star Wars Wars, our voting feature pitting Star Wars vehicles (and a tauntaun) against each other each day. Play time’s over, though: There can be only one winner of Star Wars Wars, and today our rumble decides which vehicl…
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Watch Miranda Lambert Cover Jessi Colter’s ‘Storms Never Last’ | Rolling Stone
In the wake of Miranda Lambert’s high-profile divorce from Blake Shelton, there’s been infinite scrutiny placed on every single song choice she makes: Was her performance of “Bathroom Sink” at the CMA Awards reflecting her self-doubt during the spli…
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Watch genetically-evolving cars race in 2D / Boing Boing
Genetic Cars is a transfixing simulation of procedurally-generated vehicles attempting to traverse rough terrain. Each round comprises genetic variations of the previous round’s most successful car. You can randomize the terrain and tweak mutation r…
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What the Hell Is Going on With Ben Carson? | Rolling Stone
When you meet new people and tell them your job, there’s always one response you know you’ll eventually get. Doctors wait for a shoe to drop and someone to say, “Can you tell me what this thing on my foot is?” Lawyers expect people to try to weasel …
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BBC Sport – El Clasico: Extra security for Real Madrid v Barcelona
Security measures will be significantly increased for matches around Europe, including Spain’s El Clasico, following the Paris attacks last Friday.
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Brian Muir, the legendary artist who sculpted the original Darth Vader helmet based on Ralph McQuarrie’s designs, recently announced on Twitter that he began work on Star Wars: Rogue One.
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Toxic spill from the mine in Brazil’s kills the river and everything in it, is expected to reach the Atlantic ocean. (bbc.com)
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Centaurus A [2800X2430] : spaceporn
Centaurus A [2800X2430] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/OP27yKOeHm https://t.co/YBXJMwj9zT https://t.co/w775SYDg0a
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Centaurus A [2800X2430] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/OP27yKOeHm https://t.co/YBXJMwj9zT https://t.co/w775SYDg0a
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PARIS — The French authorities said on Friday that they had discovered a third body in the wreckage of the police raid that killed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant suspected of planning the Paris terror attacks. Along with Mr.
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Syrian Refugees, Jelly Beans, and Murderers
If i gave you a bag of 50000 jellybeans and told you 100 are poisonous, you wouldnt accept them right? Then why would we accept 50000 refugees if some of them are bad? I like jelly beans and numbers so I did a back of the envelope calculation. In th…
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Coin Launches A Rewards Program Using Amazon Gift Cards | TechCrunch
Coin, the $99 smart card that lets users keep all their credit cards and gift cards on a single device, is today announcing a rewards program for owners of the Coin.
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Rusty loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/JmP7tc47PU https://t.co/F8bQGd8z4G https://t.co/0seT7ksPgI
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Calico Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/RwgYVnJeND https://t.co/vLGrkHNbIO https://t.co/I4yJM8pDvZ
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Get back to the work! via /r/aww…
Get back to the work! via /r/aww https://t.co/PxLwxvgdhV https://t.co/w7XWtUfFvB https://t.co/YTTEekJAwy
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The good people at Vox EU are engaged in a laudable effort to clear the ground for euro reform, starting with the formulation of a “consensus narrative” about the origins of the euro crisis.
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Help a blind girl find her cat in a world where you see without eyes / Offworld
I watched the Bob Ross marathon on Twitch recently, where a whole new generation got to discover the magic that emerges from his brushes: how you can turn away for a moment and turn back to find a whole new world materializing across a blank canvas.
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Incredible Art and Delightful Home Gifts for All the Nerds In Your Life
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—and the most obnoxious. Trying to figure out gifts for nerds is hard, because they usually buy themselves whatever toys or movies or books they want.
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Jawbone cuts 15 percent of staff in second round of layoffs this year | Ars Technica
It looks like the holiday season is not starting off so brightly for Jawbone. According to TechCrunch, the wearable devices company will lay off about 60 employees, representing 15 percent of its global workforce.
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Over the last year, three people have jumped ship from Google and landed at ZIRX, an on-demand valet and car services startup. The recent new hires include Christopher Knape, Jo Hainsworth and Richard Magee.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Could Break a Record Before It Even Opens | Vanity Fair
Obsessing over opening-weekend box office as a moviegoer is a pointless pastime—you’re not making any of the money, the real money is overseas, and often the true hits don’t emerge until many weeks after opening (see: the highest-grossing film of 20…
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Netanyahu on Israeli spy’s release: ‘I have longed for this day’ – video | World news | The Guardian
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomes the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard after 30 years of imprisonment in the United States.
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Mali attack: Why the country is an insurgent hotspot – BBC News
While most global attention has been focussed on Nigeria, Mali has been West Africa’s other insurgent hotspot in recent years. It is threatened by various armed groups – from Ansar Dine, which is linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), to …
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Amazon’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Is a Chilling Vision of a Nazi America – The Atlantic
The premise of The Man in the High Castle is undeniably fascinating. What if Hitler had won the second world war? What if America had been conquered by the Axis powers, and partitioned into a German-occupied east and Japan-controlled west? Amazon St…
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Moo-ving violation: police chase cow through San Antonio streets – video | US news | The Guardian
Police in the Texas city used their squad cars to round up a stray cow on the loose in the downtown streets. After containing the boisterous bovine, an officer who had grown up on a ranch then lassoed the animal.
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Payday Lenders Keep Evading Their Regulators. Can Anyone Stop Them? | The Nation
Payday lenders are extremely good at what they do. They present their predatory products as the solution to financial emergencies. They seek out and find low-wage workers through enticing commercials in English and Spanish.
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With one in 45 adults on probation or parole and one in 100 behind bars, America looks like a nation of captives. From a business perspective, though, it’s a captive market. Yet prison reform is gaining political currency.
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Stull Cemetery: A Hellmouth in the Heart of Kansas | The Lineup
Pretty much anyone who grew up in Kansas—or watches the show Supernatural—knows about Stull Cemetery, even if they’ve never seen it.
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Amazon now lets Prime subscribers share their unlimited photo storage | The Verge
Amazon is expanding the perks of Prime membership to give it a better chance of taking on photo storage services like Flickr and Google Photos.
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Yahoo is locking down Mail access for some people with ad blockers | The Verge
Yahoo Mail is not looking kindly on some users of ad-blocking software.
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1,000 Yellowstone bison marked for death could be spared by relocation plan | US news | The Guardian
Bison roaming Yellowstone National Park that are controversially earmarked for slaughter could be spared, with the park looking at implementing a plan next year that will see members of the famed herd relocated to other areas rather than culled.
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NASA unveils new metallic look for its Orion crew vehicle | The Verge
Shiny, captain! On Thursday, NASA showed off a new look for its Orion crew capsule — the spacecraft that could eventually take humans into deep space and on to Mars someday.
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Economists tested 7 welfare programs to see if they made people lazy. They didn’t. (vox.com) Clearly you haven’t met my cousins. They are unbelievably proud of every angle they work to stay on every possible form of welfare.
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Red panda escapes from zoo in northern California | US news | The Guardian
The 18-month-old female went missing from the Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, California, sometime between 11am and 2pm on Thursday.
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CNN Didn’t Suspend Labott for Liking Refugees — NYMag
Yesterday, CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks over a single sentence. House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish @CNNPolitics https://t.co/5RvZwVftgD
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Mississippi to Settle State Race by Drawing Lots | Al Jazeera America
One election ended in a tie Nov. 3, and state law says the tie is broken by a drawing of lots. So, on Friday afternoon, 20-year Democratic incumbent Bo Eaton and his Republican challenger, Mark Tullos, will meet in the governor’s office near the sta…
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Get back to the work! via /r/aww https://t.co/PxLwxvgdhV https://t.co/w7XWtUfFvB https://t.co/YTTEekJAwy
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Why Do Some People Say “Yuge” Instead of “Huge”? | Mental Floss
It’s not so surprising that Sanders and Trump should share some dialect features in common. They were both born in New York in the 1940s. Indeed, this “yuge” for huge substitution has been a recognized feature of the New York City dialect for a long…
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How Google Maps knows about traffic – Tech Insider
Last Saturday, as I was driving out of Brooklyn, Google Maps alerted me that there was traffic on the highway and that it had found a faster route out of the city.
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The Problem with Comparing Syrian and Jewish Refugees | New Republic
The heated anti-immigrant talk from many European and American politicians in the aftermath of the Paris attacks has led those of us who find that response abhorrent to seek out strategies of our own. Things like, for example, reminding that the att…
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U.S. Air Force Seeks New Space Situational Awareness Data To Track Threats
AGI, an orbit-modeling software provider based in Pennsylvania, is expected to respond to the Air Force request for information. It recently was awarded an $8.4 million Air Force contract for a subscription to data from its Commercial Space Operatio…
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The Best Strategy Against ISIS in Syria and Iraq: Containment – The Atlantic
ISIS’s attack in Paris has prompted calls for a reassessment of the strategy the United States and its allies have pursued in the past 14 months to, in Obama’s words, “degrade and ultimately destroy” this vicious group.
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Guy spent 20 hours to build a giant animated tower in Fallout 4 – GIF on Imgur
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 opens with this: Our heroine having a neck brace removed to reveal bruises that wrap around her throat, where her recently-rescued POW boyfriend throttled her at the end of the last film. It’s not pretty. It’s n…
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Facebook At Work Gets Its Own Version Of Messenger With Debut of “Work Chat” | TechCrunch
Facebook at Work, the version of Facebook designed for use in the workplace for chatting with colleagues on a private social network, now has its own chat client as well.
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Bacon And Cheese Surprise Mashed Potato Balls! – GIF on Imgur
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It may well be that the major pivot points of history are only visible to those around the bend. For those of us immersed in the present—for all of its deafening sirens of violent upheaval—the exact years future generations will use to mark our epoc…
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It’s the time of year when TV shows all seem to bust out their holiday episodes, and it seems that even Casual isn’t immune.
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Report: Google Play’s move into China now scheduled for 2016 | Ars Technica
A report from Reuters gives us the latest update on Google’s ongoing effort to get Google Play into China. The report says that Google employees are “working hard in China to lay the ground for the app store’s launch” and the store will go live in 2…
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My Little Pony movie to take on Thor: Ragnarok in 2017 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When the My Little Pony movie trots into theaters in two years, it will go head-to-head with a few Norse gods. Digital Spy reports that the film will share a November 3, 2017 release date with Thor: Ragnarok.
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Flash fiction: Hurry Up, Please | Books | The Guardian
Do I want to hear a drinking joke? Do I seem like the type who would answer that question? A guy walks into a bar, and so what? Maybe he nods at the regular who keeps to the corner or eyes the ragged blonde grabbing a smoke from a guy whose paunch p…
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Yemen: ‘Dozens killed’ as troops and militants clash – BBC News
Dozens of troops and militants have been killed in clashes in eastern Yemen, Yemeni security sources say. Yemeni officials said soldiers were ambushed by al-Qaeda insurgents, while so-called Islamic State’s (IS) Yemen branch said it carried out the …
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Princeton To Consider Excising Woodrow Wilson Name | Al Jazeera America
Princeton University will consider removing the name of former U.S. President and university president Woodrow Wilson from buildings and school programs under a deal signed with student demonstrators over what they say is his racist legacy.
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Democrats just released a 2014 autopsy report. There’s only one sentence in it that matters. | “… Republicans, on the other hand, led by the Republican State Leadership Committee, have poured millions into the effort — and have reaped the rewards.…
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Lake Harriet, MN sunrise [1200×630] [OC] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/LLEXDRPQN5 https://t.co/HaNbzmbWoZ https://t.co/iuIbrHYV0m
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Dynjandi Falls, Iceland [1600 x 1067 px] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Dynjandi Falls, Iceland [1600 x 1067 px] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/taD3TPFkyR https://t.co/BTEv6AngnS https://t.co/VIdt3UOBny
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The Original Container Ships | Hakai Magazine
Manila galleons were the economic lifeblood of Spain’s Pacific empire. From the 1560s to the early 1800s, fleets of these behemoth ships sailed between Spain’s colonies, swapping commodities for exorbitant profits and dominating trans-Pacific trade.
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So Longboard Dancing Is A Thing That Is Very Cool – Digg
16 diggs Vimeo Sports You know what’s lame about this? Nothing.
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Coinbase Partners With Shift Payments To Issue Bitcoin Debit Card | TechCrunch
This isn’t the first bitcoin debit card in the world, but this is the first one that works with your Coinbase account. Coinbase has partnered with Shift Payments so that you can get a Visa card for just $10 and pay everywhere with your bitcoins. The…
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We Aren’t Imagining It: The Tech Industry Needs More Women
This evening I’m giving a talk to my daughter’s Girl Scouts troop about careers in technology. I’m going to tell themthat women have done amazing things in tech. I’m going to tell them that they too can do anything they set their minds to in this ar…
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Cisco Snags Acano for $700 Million To Enhance Video Conferencing Capability | TechCrunch
Cisco announced today it plans to buy video conferencing firm Acano for the widely reported price of $700 million. The company, which is based in the UK, has developed video infrastructure and collaboration software.
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Ansel Adams Images of Japanese Internment Camp Manzanar – The Atlantic
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Donald Trump: we need to track all Muslims in America – video | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential frontrunner said that if elected president, he would implement a system to track Muslims in the country.
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New trailers: Zoolander 2, Transparent, A Very Murray Christmas, and more | The Verge
If you can pause that Adele album for a few minutes, there are some great new trailers to watch. Here’s some of what you have to look forward to this week: raunchy comedies with female leads, glamour shots of Chris Hemsworth, and a time-traveling Ja…
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11 years of Saturn photos from the Cassini probe
The Cassini probe, launched from Earth in 1997 (six months before I started publishing kottke.org), has been taking photos of Saturn and its moons for 11 years now. The Wall Street Journal has a great feature that shows exactly what the probe has be…
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Mali attack: A history of militancy – BBC News
An armed siege at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako is the latest sign of unrest in Mali. In recent years, the former French colony has seen a rebellion by ethnic Tuaregs, an army coup and the rise of Islamist groups.
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Need An Easy Gift Idea? A Ton of Anker Charging Gear is On Sale Today,
Anker makes some of the best and most popular charging gear in the world, and a huge assortment of it is on sale today on Amazon. These battery packs, USB chargers, and kevlar-wrapped Lightning cables would all make great gifts for the holidays, so …
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Nike shares jump on share buyback – BBC News
Shares in Nike have jumped more than 5% after the US sportswear giant announced a dividend rise, a massive share buyback and a stock split. The $12bn (£7.9bn) buy-back, 14% dividend increase and share split were revealed late on Thursday and sent Ni…
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When a parking lot attendant dared to recycle trash he picked up outside an upstate New York Walmart, the store fired him. Now generous strangers are trying to help cushion his sudden fall.
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Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather — Not Just Mosques | ThinkProgress
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seems to be going further than even Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in advocating the crackdown of U.S. Muslims. He doesn’t just want to consider shutting down mosques, as Trump says, but wants to shut down “anyplace wher…
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Lauren followed the drag mark for a mile down the gravel road and then another half mile down her dusty driveway and then parked her truck and cried.
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Erdem Moralioglu’s Spring Collection Is All Romantic, Prairie Vibes | Vanity Fair
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Sponsor Content: Fresh Ideas for Future Cities
Historians will probably describe the hundred years to 2050 as the century of the city, the period when people around the world moved away from the countryside in search of jobs and prosperity. As we approach that mid-century point, the pace of urba…
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Exclusive First Look: Mary J. Blige as The Wiz Live’s Wicked Witch of the West | Vanity Fair
The Wicked Witch of the West has been portrayed many different ways in pop culture, but we’re not sure she’s ever looked as glamorous as she does here. Get your first look at Mary J. Blige as Evilene, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West, in NBC’s up…
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They Saved The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie For Last
The Hunger Games book and movie series has always been about resistance, and particularly about using the machinery and iconography of the oppressor to fight back. Katniss Everdeen is a creation of a violent, manipulative system, but she turns all o…
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New Yorker Novella: Callan Wink on Fiction and Fly-Fishing – The New Yorker
“I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant,” Ian McEwan wrote, on this Web site, a few years back. The novel, he explained, “is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, …
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Show Us How Your Week Went With the Gif Party!
It’s been a long week, and I think it’s about time we all go out and get ourselves a little something. Even if it is. . . green. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Homelessness Up in 17 States, HUD Finds | Al Jazeera America
More than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, from the U.S.
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Dems push GOP to get on board with climate talks | “Well, let’s put it this way, they’re [Republicans] looking in the rearview mirror and think they see the future.” (thehill.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Why do the largest animals have the tiniest sperm? A brief investigation. – Vox
Stefan Lüpold is a sperm guy. The Swiss evolutionary biologist did his masters work on sexual selection and bat genitalia, his PhD on the evolution of bird sperm, and a postdoctorate on how fruit fly sperm compete.
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In a speech on Thursday, Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a strategy for fighting the Islamic State that shows significant differences with President Obama’s. Some of her ideas make sense; others are familiar retreads, previously rejected, that remai…
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The Gruesome History of the Galapagos Islands’ Nietzsche-Fueled Homesteader Death Showdown
The Galapagos Islands are best known for their giant tortoises, but they’re also the site of one of the most bizarre homesteading misadventures ever, complete with proto-hippies, a polyamorous baroness, potentially poisoned boiled chicken, births in…
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My Brilliant Career: Inside the wild outlaw world of pre-WWF pro wrestling in Chicago – Night Flight
In the early 1970s, before Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation (today World Wrestling Entertainment) turned professional wrestling into a pay-per-view cash cow, pro grappling was a wide-open game run by maverick regional promoters and caterin…
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Image of the Day: A Collage of Ghostly Nebula –“We Can Now Measure Their Distance For the 1st Time”
The collage above shows 22 individual planetary nebulae artistically arranged in approximate order of physical size. The scale bar represents 4 light years. Each nebula’s size is calculated from a new distance scale, which is applicable to all nebul…
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Don’t Delete Your Digital Past | New Republic
We live doubled lives, online and off, and both form the stuff of nostalgia. Offline, it’s polaroid photos and long gone places; online, it’s shuttered sites and old Facebook statuses. Online, however, we leave public traces that live until we decid…
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The Pros And Cons Of Accelerating Your Startup | TechCrunch
Startup accelerators are an excellent way for early stage startups to get up to speed quickly, identifying their best growth strategy and a reasonable plan to achieve it.
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Mobile OS Maker Jolla To Cut Half Its Staff, Restructure Its Debt After Funding Stalls | TechCrunch
Finnish alternative mobile OS startup Jolla is facing the situation startups dread the most: running out of financing to keep the business going in the way they’d like to. Today the Sailfish OS maker said it is being forced to adjust its operations …
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Photo Printing Startup Chatbooks Acquires Guesterly, A Printed Event Directory | TechCrunch
Chatbooks, a subscription service for printed photo books, has acquired Guesterly, a company that creates pocket-sized printed event guides. Founded in 2014, Chatbooks has raised $2.1M in seed funding, and will sell its one millionth photo book by t…
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Tesla Model S Owners in Hong Kong Find Autopilot Features Suddenly Disabled | TechCrunch
After a very long wait for long-promised autopilot features, Model S owners in Hong Kong were surely unhappy to discover yesterday that those same features have now been remotely disabled.
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Toward Basic Rights for College Athletes, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Marijuana Startup Incubator “Gateway” Fires Up | TechCrunch
“People should be focused on the business, not hanging out and getting high” insists Carter Laren, co-founder of marijuana startup funder and incubator Gateway, which launches today in Oakland, CA. But even if you’re stoned, you should be able to se…
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HG Wells wrote several classic, visionary novels about the very worst consequences a past and a present can have on a future, and a great deal of what he wrote, though it takes fantasy form, has come to pass, with stunning corollaries with his own t…
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Gigantic Ice Cloud Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan (Photos) – Scientific American
As winter sets in at Titan’s south pole, a cloud system called the south polar vortex (small, bright “button”) has been forming, as seen in this 2013 image. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a massive, never-before-seen icy cloud at the south p…
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Aaron Rodgers for president · Block & Tackle · The A.V. Club
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. The pregame rituals at Sunday’s games recognized the victims of the Paris terror attacks with dignified tributes—moments of silence and displays of the French blue, white, and red.
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The Type Deck: playing cards with beautiful fonts / Boing Boing
To me, there’s no deck of playing cards that uses intertwining fonts better than the Type Deck. It took designer Chris Cavill over 5 months to get this project off the ground and I think it was worth the effort.
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A Sanford, Florida police officer was relieved of duty after video surfaced this week of him singing, while uniformed, onstage with death metal band Vital Remains.
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Skip to main content Children’s books David Almond wins the Guardian children’s fiction prize – in pictures Join in the fun of the Guardian children’s fiction prize party with our gallery from the night Newsflash! David Almond wins the Guardian chil…
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In the 2004 Marvel Comics one-shot What If… Jessica Jones Had Joined The Avengers?, writer Brian Michael Bendis jokes about Jessica Jones’ experience as a superhero: “She had a handful of ‘adventures.’ All good and all fine…but nothing they were goi…
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Obama administration takes immigration fight to Supreme Court
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to review a federal court decision blocking President Obama’s executive order granting quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of undocumented workers.
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Teens can’t tell the difference between Google ads and search results | The Verge
The familiar narrative of teens and technology is one of natural proficiency — that young people just get technology in a way that older generations don’t.
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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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Talking to Dave Meyers, the director behind Missy Elliott’s ‘WTF’ music video | The Verge
Last week Missy Elliot finally and fantastically returned with the video for “WTF (Where They From).
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Third Body in Raid in Paris Suburb | Al Jazeera America
Police have already identified the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, alleged to have planned the attacks. The identification of the other two bodies was still underway, prosecutors said in a statement.
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A rainbow made out of miles of thread : pics
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Biodegradable plastics not breaking down in ocean, UN report says : environment
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Biodegradable plastics not breaking down in ocean, UN report says – North – CBC News
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How Europe Can Reduce the Terrorist Threat From Its Muslim Minority – The Atlantic
Bomb ISIS. Go ahead. They deserve it. It certainly satisfies the primal need for visible retaliation after the Paris attacks. It may even do some good in the struggle against terrorism in Europe. Some—but probably not very much.
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‘No more hostages’ in Mali hotel – BBC News
Malian special forces enter the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, where suspected Islamists are holding dozens of guests and staff hostage.
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New Ebola case confirmed in Liberia – Al Jazeera English
A new case of Ebola has been identified in Liberia, a country declared free of the deadly disease in September, health officials have said.
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US wiretapping capital reportedly used hundreds of illegal wiretaps | The Verge
Prosecutors in the Los Angeles suburb of Riverside County — home to the biggest wiretapping operation in the United States — likely broke the law when they approved as many as 738 wiretaps without proper appro
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Drivers in one Canadian city will soon be getting a dose of climate reality when they go to the gas station. The city of North Vancouver, British Columbia passed a law this week that mandates climate change warning stickers be applied to gas pumps i…
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Watch Steve Angello’s Nostalgic New ‘Remember’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Steve Angello’s Nostalgic New ‘Remember’ Video Moody, evocative clip accompanies third single from former Swedish House Mafia member’s solo debut
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This Is What Wonder Woman Would Have Looked Like in George Miller’s Justice League
In an alternate universe somewhere, George Miller’s Justice League movie wasn’t canceled by Warner Bros. and Megan Gale (Mad Max: Fury Road) would be Wonder Woman. Occasionally, things slip through to remind us that this could have happened.
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Tom Gauld on short story collections – cartoon | Books | The Guardian
Illustration: Tom Gauld
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Watch Donald Trump Get Bashed Over Immigration Policy at Latin Grammys | Rolling Stone
On Thursday night, the 16th annual Latin GRAMMYS broadcasted two of the biggest Mexican bands on one stage in one invigorating performance with one powerful message: “Latinos unidos no voten por racistas” (“Latinos united. Don’t vote for racists”).
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Car-Freshener Giant Victorious in Legal Battle — NYMag
Little Trees, makers of the ubiquitous pine-tree-shaped air fresheners often seen hanging from rear-view mirrors (especially in taxis!), won a legal battle on Thursday against a competitor the company claims was stinking up its brand identity.
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Should we be grateful we’re only at the “proto-fascist” stage? I’m ashamed for my country. I truly believe we’re better than this. I used to wonder how the german people elected Hitler. After watching Bush, post 9-11, I don’t wonder so much anymore.
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Hillary Clinton condemned Donald Trump’s call to require Muslims to register in a database, calling his idea “shocking.” (politico.com)submitted 26 minutes ago by loading…
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Aziz Ansari As Bobby Jindal Returns to Fallon — Vulture
On last night’s episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon marked the occasion of Bobby Jindal suspending his campaign for president to invite back another master of none Aziz Ansari to reprise his impression of the politician.
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Bush Speechwriter Attacks Obama As Peacemonger — NYMag
Last week, at a press conference in Turkey, a reporter asked President Obama to respond to the charge that “your reluctance to enter another Middle East war, and your preference of diplomacy over using the military makes the United States weaker and…
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New Case of Ebola in Liberia — NYMag
Ebola has resurfaced in Liberia, a country that has twice been declared virus-free. The night before the virus was confirmed, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had praised Liberians for coming together to overcome the “scourge” of Ebola.
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was the first of more than 30 primarily Republican governors who are attempting to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees. When asked about his specific concerns regarding the two-year screening process for refugees …
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The Left’s Green Lantern Problem | New Republic
The story of the post-Obama Left began just a few years into his presidency, with the rise of Occupy Wall Street.
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Homeless Men Sue Their City, Claiming Their Constitutional Rights Have Been Trampled | ThinkProgress
A year ago, the city of Manteca, California made it illegal to sleep or set up encampments outside. Another ordinance banned urination and defecation in public.
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Former Westboro hate mouthpiece on leaving the church / Boing Boing
Be sure to read Adrian Chen’s gripping profile of former Westboro Baptist Church twitterer Megan Phelps-Roper, who left the church after coming to realize the futility of its hate gospel.
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The Jewelry Collection Made from the “Material of the 21st Century” | Vanity Fair
The latest collection from Swiss jewelry designer Suzanne Syz, renowned for her vibrant, eccentric, and playful pieces, will debut this month at the annual New York Art, Antique, and Jewelry Show at the Park Avenue Armory.
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Alaska Would Rather Go Broke Than Pay Taxes | FiveThirtyEight
In June, Randy Hoffbeck flew to Fairbanks for a conference on Alaska’s mounting budget crisis.
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Pawprint Manages Your Pet’s Health Data
iOS/Android: Pets—they’re just like us! Well, sort of. They’re harrier and their breath smells worse, but they have vital records, just like we do, and Pawprint makes sure you keep track of all of those records in one spot.
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An international team of physicists has published ground-breaking research on the decay of subatomic particles called kaons – which could change how scientists understand the formation of the universe.
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Jawbone cuts 15 percent of its workforce | The Verge
Jawbone has laid off 15 percent of its staff, totaling around 60 people, as first reported by TechCrunch. The company, best known for making fitness trackers and Bluetooth speakers, attributed the latest cuts to streamlining in a statement to The Ve…
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Russia to overhaul national security after plane bomb – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s parliament has backed a sweeping overhaul of national security, including a possible expansion of intelligence powers, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb downed a Russian plane over Egypt last month.
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Fires Rapidly Consume More Forests and Peat in the Arctic – Scientific American
Third of a four-part series. For the first two parts, click here and here. HOARFROST RIVER, Canada—Burning taiga changed everything for the Olesens on July 4, 2014.
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Review: Adele’s 25 Is the Confessional Blockbuster You Expected | Vanity Fair
Aw, look at the music industry.
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The NSA’s web surveillance program is alive and well and living overseas | The Verge
When the Snowden leaks first revealed the National Security Agency’s web surveillance systems, it came with a mystery.
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Retailers Recycling Black Friday Deals – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A financial blog analyzed this year’s Black Friday sales and found that 11 percent of the deals at major U.S. retailers are identical to last year’s offerings, with items listed at the same price and discounted at the same rate as in 2014. What do y…
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The titles of Melissa McCarthy’s recent movies have tended to name her character or her character’s occupation: She’s been Tammy and an Identity Thief, as well as a Spy (but she wasn’t St. Vincent, we know).
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This week we had a chance to watch Hillary Clinton respond in real time to a complex foreign policy challenge. On Thursday, six days after the Paris attacks, she gave a comprehensive antiterrorism speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. The spee…
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Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
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OPEC Sees Oil Prices Exploding to $200 a Barrel — The Motley Fool
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Party Like It’s 2003 As PlayStation 2 Emulation Is Coming To PlayStation 4 | TechCrunch
If you’re into big pixels, Sony has a treat for you. The company has secretly been working on a fully functioning PlayStation 2 emulator for the PlayStation 4. It is taking advantage of this emulator for classic PS2 Star Wars games.
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Space Station Astronauts Pay Tribute to Paris Victims | Video
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Donald Trump on whether his Muslim database plan is Nazi-like: “You tell me” / Boing Boing
Donald Trump, back on top of Republican polls, has called for the creation of a national database of Muslims. Similar to the systems used by the Nazis to track Jews during the Holocaust, the idea has not gone down well, even among his party’s rival …
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Donald Trump Doubles Down on Registering Muslims – The Atlantic
Being Donald Trump means, among other things, never backing down and never saying you’re sorry. He is a Mitt Romney book title come to life.
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I grew up watching Bob. Decided to finally paint with him. – Imgur
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MRW my hooman is so amazing I can’t be sure she’s real. – GIF on Imgur
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Bagpipes Played In Space For First Time | Video
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Trump: ‘Absolutely’ Register All Muslims In A Database | ThinkProgress
All Muslims living in the United States might be forced to register their personal information in a federal database if Donald Trump is elected president.
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Once hopeful Dreamers fear for future without youth immigration program | US news | The Guardian
When she was undocumented, Greysel Sousa worked as a housecleaner. She did waitressing. Then she got a job as an office administrator for a Las Vegas recycling company, a position she describes now as “one of the worst, most abusive experiences as f…
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Mali hotel attack: UN troops on the ground in Mali – BBC News
United Nation’s peacekeepers, including French troops, have been based in Mali for several years. The country’s stability has been repeatedly threatened by al-Qaeda linked militants – prompting France and then the UN to intervene.
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French state of emergency allows website blocking, device search powers | Ars Technica
In the wake of last Friday’s attacks in Paris, France is bringing in new legislation extending the country’s temporary state of emergency to three months, and granting the authorities new powers to carry out searches of seized devices, and to block …
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Newest Enterprise: Flipping Houses | Vanity Fair
In 2013, the year future Olympic athlete, multi-Grammy winner, and Vogue cover model North West arrived on this planet, a year before Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would get married, the couple bought a house—one of those mansions that is always pre…
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Met Police apology for women tricked into relationships – BBC News
The Metropolitan Police has made an “unreserved apology” to seven women who were tricked into relationships with undercover officers. In a statement, Scotland Yard said the women were deceived “pure and simple”.
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Watch Aziz Ansari as Bobby Jindal End Presidential Run on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
Aziz Ansari donned a wig and a smile Thursday night to reprise his role as Louisiana governor, and now ex-Republican presidential candidate, Bobby Jindal on The Tonight Show. The faux interview with Jimmy Fallon focused on Jindal’s recent announceme…
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On the Lip Sync Battle, the extra effort always pays off. Think Anne Hathaway expertly riding the “Wrecking Ball” as Miley Cyrus or Jimmy Fallon bringing out a full gospel choir for Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”
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PSA: Chat with The A.V. Club’s editor-in-chief today at 2 p.m. Central · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hello, friends. John Teti here, your editor-in-chief. As a staff, we spend almost all our time on The A.V. Club talking about the art that inspires, delights, and challenges us, and we spend little time talking about The A.V. Club itself. That is as…
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What We Know About Abdelhamid Abaaoud — NYMag
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected architect of the Paris attacks, was killed in a police raid early Wednesday morning.
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OPEC Sees Oil Prices Exploding to $200 a Barrel — The Motley Fool : democrats
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Paris Lees: On Germaine Greer and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Left’ | VICE | United Kingdom
Excuse me, just using my free speech to shame you. Bunch of fucking hypocrites. When I was growing up there was always some tosser on the bus going on about how “You can’t say anything these days” because someone had challenged them for being a prej…
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In 1995, Danny Hillis came up with the idea of building a clock that would last 10,000 years. I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium.
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Amazon Households Program Expands To Include Unlimited Photo Storage | TechCrunch
Amazon Household, the program that allows adults living under the same roof to share their Amazon Prime benefits, including free shipping and access to Prime Video streaming, has been expanded today, to now include Prime Photos storage.
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170 hostages reportedly taken in Mali hotel attack / Boing Boing
Gunmen stormed the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital earlier today, reportedly taking up to 170 hostages. The BBC reports that Malian special forces are fighting to take back the building and free the captives.
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Elon Musk Tweets About “Super High Priority” Project | Vanity Fair
Elon Musk has long been lauded as one of the greatest minds of our generation, rethinking and tinkering with everything from automobiles and space travel to energy efficiency.
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Obama Embraces Grey Hair, Says He Will Never Dye It | Vanity Fair
It’s a well-known fact that presidents leave office looking battered and old. But President Barack Obama is taking it in stride. “The first thing I want from young people is to stop calling me old.
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Working Remotely With the Telecommuting Double Robot – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Body Doubles: A New Way to Work From Home” Supported by
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Some Canadian Gas-Station Nozzles Will Soon Have Climate-Change Warning Labels – The Atlantic
That’s because the Canadian city just passed a bylaw requiring stations to put climate-change “warning labels” on pumps, informing consumers about the hazards fossil fuels pose to world stability. CBC News reports: North Vancouver, B.C.
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The nomadic writer: when the world is your desk | Children’s books | The Guardian
A detailed map of all seven continents looms by the chair in my home office. It’s a relatively new purchase; one I made as soon as I realized that my YA alternate history novel Wolf By Wolf featured a cross-continental motorcycle race from Germania …
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FIFA Has A Sexism Problem. Here’s How They Can Fix It. | ThinkProgress
It’s been quite a year for FIFA.
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Transform Old Pallets into a Cheap, Sturdy Bike Rack
Having a dedicated rack to store your bike is great, but they can be pretty expensive. Instead, make one yourself with a few free wooden pallets, the right tools, and an afternoon of work. Once you have all your materials, cut one of the pallets in …
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Pigeons Tend to Land on the Right Spot When Looking for Breast Cancer – Scientific American
The pigeons’ training environment included a food pellet dispenser, a touch-sensitive screen which projected the medical image, as well as blue and yellow choice buttons on either side of the image. Pecks to those buttons and to the screen were auto…
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Agnes Gund, Art’s Grande Dame, Still Has Work to Do | Vanity Fair
Four years ago, the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies honored Agnes Gund with its Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts.
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Ash vs Evil Dead’s Exec Producer Talks Season 2—Plus a Clip From the Next Episode!
It’s been a while since we’ve been as excited about a new show as we are about Ash vs Evil Dead, which expands the world of Sam Raimi’s movies with humor, horror, and so much glorious Bruce Campbell. We spoke with executive producer Craig DiGregorio…
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America’s War on the Kissing Bug and Chagas Disease – The New Yorker
If Thomas Cropper, a public-health veterinarian at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas, thought about Chagas disease at all, he thought about it as a Central and South American problem.
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Burundi says Belgium behind plot to overthrow president – Al Jazeera English
Burundi’s government has accused its former colonial ruler Belgium of instigating an attempted coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza in May – a charge Belgium called absurd.
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Three Books Explore the Spiral of Shame – Scientific American
Social media has the power to shame people in just a few clicks.
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Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often …
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Cartoon: Keep calm and panic on
The terrible attacks in Paris have been met with widespread condemnation and horror, but they’ve also been met with overreaction and panic. Let’s take a few breaths and realize that ISIS is not about to take over the world.
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Aziz Ansari masters his Bobby Jindal impression on The Tonight Show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Master Of None Aziz Ansari reprised his role as deranged sprite and now-former presidential candidate Bobby Jindal on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Thursday night.
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Global Warming Sparks Hollywood Production Meltdown | Three high-profile movies suffered significant budget overruns or extended shooting schedules this year thanks to unpredictable weather conditions exacerbated by unseasonally warm temperatures. (…
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Vukovar: Still divided by war – Al Jazeera English
Vukovar, Croatia – “It’s cows,” says Marko Mlakic to his friend Grga Krajina, describing the smell in the fields of Vukovar, a town on the border between Croatia and Serbia.
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Why is a major foundation investing in fossil fuels and ignoring grassroots action? Too many philanthropies fail to practice what they preach on climate change. It’s time to close the gap. (alternet.org)
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Leading Economist: Divest From Fossil Fuels Now : democrats
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Beset by blackmailers and tabloid rumors, actor Charlie Sheen was recently forced to announce that he is HIV-positive. The most newsworthy thing to come out of it, I think, is a nondisclosure agreement that potential sexual partners must sign in ord…
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The developers at Facebook have hit upon the perfect way to celebrate Adele Day.
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“Did I Simply Think That I Should Behave Like a Girl?” | New Republic
I was sitting beneath my mother’s piano, and her music was falling around me like cataracts, enclosing me as in a cave. The round stumpy legs of the piano were like three black stalagmites, and the sound-box was a high dark vault above my head.
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Man, I’ve Got to Stop Overestimating Heroes Reborn
The fall finale of Heroes Reborn has come and gone, and it’s left us with some major revelations—and some confusion. Mostly confusion.
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Jos Buttler broke his own record for the fastest one-day international century by an England batsman in the fourth ODI against Pakistan in Sharjah. The wicketkeeper reached three figures in 46 balls, beating the 61-ball ton he made against Sri Lanka…
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Rhode Island was founded by refugees looking to flee religious persecution in England, but now a lawmaker from that state is urging her governor to put Syrian refugees into camps “segregated from our populous” if the state is called to act as host.
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William S. Burroughs in ‘Energy and How to Get It’|Dangerous Minds
Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer collaborated on a few movies in the 70s and 80s.
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New Case of Ebola Found in Liberia, U.N. Official Says – Scientific American
Doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières and the American CDC put on protective gear before entering an Ebola treatment ward in Liberia, August 2014. The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, …
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SYRACUSE, NY—Documenting intense activity in the pleasure centers of subjects’ brains, a study published Thursday by neuroscientists at Syracuse University has found that unleashing anger in unhealthy and inappropriate ways is among the most satisfy…
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Conductor Fatigue Blamed In Massive Model Train Crash – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
BLOOMINGTON, IN—After surveying the dozen railcars and cargo of Lincoln Logs strewn haphazardly across the grass mat, investigators concluded Friday that a massive model train derailment was the result of conductor fatigue.
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LOS ANGELES—Hollywood leading man Brad Pitt hissed and skittered away into the safety of the woods surrounding his house Friday after reading a screenplay from his agent and detecting the musk of fellow actor Chris Pine on its pages, numerous source…
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Strategies To Defeat ISIS – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following last week’s deadly Paris attacks and numerous other violent incidents perpetrated by the terror group ISIS, many governments and populations worldwide are wondering how we can eliminate this threat.
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Dana Gas reports $9m loss for third quarter [ Solar and Carbon are Linked: With a NEGATIVE CORRELATION. ] (gulfnews.com) Solar projects are booming. Carbon is a glut on the market with very slow growth at record low prices.
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Taking an inventory of all the water stored under ground | Ars Technica
You probably make it through most days without thinking about groundwater. All you know is that water comes out of the faucet when you turn the handle, and there’s fresh produce (and beer!) at the grocery store.
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US Corporations Support Clean Power With Huge Buys [ Economy Shifting to Clean Power – Wall Street TOTALLY In the Dark. ] (cleantechnica.com) See, the thing is Republicans fish, they like clean, unpoisoned fish. That’s now possible.
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The Insiders: Will the climate change conference in Paris be useful? : democrats
The Insiders: Will the climate change conference in Paris be useful? (washingtonpost.com)
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Donald Trump would ‘certainly’ and ‘absolutely’ create a database of Muslims : politics
Another reporter asked Trump to explain the difference between a Muslim database in the United States and the registry of Jews that once existed in Nazi Germany. The reporter isn’t running for president of the United States, you orange fucking idiot.
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My cat watching me take a shit : cats
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A glacier lagoon in Iceland [990×742] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/ReasnO1aAj https://t.co/wKGho4R7hi https://t.co/2GtglWNuJz
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A glacier lagoon in Iceland [990×742] : EarthPorn
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Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PS4’s PlayStation 2 emulation • Eurogamer.net
Overnight, Sony has confirmed PlayStation 2 emulation for PS4, but is remaining tight-lipped on its plans for the project. “We are working on utilising PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,” Sony told Wired.
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Jawbone Lays Of 60, 15% Of Staff Globally, Closes NY Office, Downsizes 2 Others | TechCrunch
Some difficult news this week for Jawbone, maker of fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company yesterday laid off around 60 employees, or 15% of staff.
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How Tumblr’s delightful activists turned a homophobic post into a YA novel / Boing Boing
A dumbass posted a thought experiment “proving” that homosexuality was wrong posited three islands: a gay island, a lesbian island and a straight island, in which the two former dwindle away without replenishment while the latter thrives.
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Page not found – ThinkProgress
According to new data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis increased dramatically in 2014, specifically in college-aged populations.
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Solid Gold was an acutely ‘80s syndicated pop music variety show that set itself apart from similar offerings with the utterly baffling Solid Gold Dancers.
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Keep Your Pets Fed and Hydrated With Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deals
Pet owners looking to get a gift for their furry roommates should check out today’s Amazon Gold Box, which is packed with gear to make pet ownership just a little bit easier.
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Stephen Colbert doesn’t want to talk about ISIS. Or ISIL. Or Daesh. “Or P. Diddy, or whatever the hell they’re going by this week.
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Hillary Clinton surged to a 25-point lead over Bernie Sanders in the latest Bloomberg Politics national poll out Friday, as the former secretary of state continues to solidify her advantage among the Democratic base. (politico.com)
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Hillary Clinton’s Strange Definition of “Middle Class” (motherjones.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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More immigrants from Mexico are leaving the United States than coming into the country, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center, a finding that indicates the end of the largest wave of immigration from a single country in…
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The Daily 202: Why teacher unions hated Hillary Clinton when she was Arkansas First Lady (washingtonpost.com)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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Hillary Clinton’s Strange Definition of “Middle Class” : democrats
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The PS4 can now emulate PlayStation 2 games | Ars Technica UK
If you own a PS4, I have good news: It is now capable of playing PS2 games through emulation. Rather unusually, though, Sony hasn’t actually announced anything officially.
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When your IT guys switches from coffee to medical grade amphetamines – Imgur
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I seriously thought this shit only happened on Tumblr. – Meme on Imgur
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Are Higher Minimum Wages Eliminating Restaurant Jobs? – The Atlantic
Few economic policies have been as hotly-debated as raising the minimum wage, and now that seven major U.S. cities have implemented increases in the last year, the race is on to assess their impact.
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The Irony of Writing About Digital Preservation – The Atlantic
Recently, Adrienne LaFrance wrote in The Atlantic about the digital death and rebirth of a story that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2008.
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Clinton Sheds Progressive Façade with Bold Rightward Lurch (commondreams.org)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Sanders: Turning our backs on refugees destroys the idea of America (pbs.org)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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President Obama held a conference call with 34 governors yesterday to remind them that, no, they aren’t allowed to restrict movement of refugees once they have been granted legal status and entered the United States. (americablog.com) The fact that …
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Sanders: Turning our backs on refugees destroys the idea of America : democrats
Sanders: Turning our backs on refugees destroys the idea of America https://t.co/Ia0Pu9kuip https://t.co/xqdS4dli5U via /r/democrats
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Gunmen Take Scores of Hostages in Mali Hotel — NYMag
More Than 100 People Taken Hostage in Mali Hotel https://t.co/DB0tmZB8vw At least three people are dead. via Daily Intelligencer
Three people have died, and law-enforcement are trying to figure out how to rescue the remaining hostages. Around 80 hostages were freed already. According to the Washington Post, they were reportedly let go if they were “able to recite a Muslim pro… -
Bookshops launch Civilised Saturday as antidote to Black Friday | Books | The Guardian
In Kibworth next Saturday, a bookshop will be offering tea, cake and hand massages in a green velvet armchair. In Crickhowell’s local bookstore, there’ll be a butler on the door serving prosecco.
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Lumia 950 review: Windows Phone finally has a new flagship—will anyone care? | Ars Technica
The wait for a flagship Windows Phone has been a long and rather unhappy one. Many mobile operators try to encourage people to get new phones each year (which strikes me as astonishingly wasteful), but for most of us two years between phones is abou…
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Assad government secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death / Boing Boing
Khartabil has been imprisoned in a Syria’s Adra Prison since 2012, though as of October, he has been transferred to an undisclosed location. The free software/open culture activist was the lead for Creative Commons Syria and has contributed to Wikip…
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The PS4 can now emulate PlayStation 2 games | Ars Technica
If you own a PS4, I have good news: It is now capable of playing PS2 games through emulation. Rather unusually, though, Sony hasn’t actually announced anything officially.
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National Book Award winner Adam Johnson: ‘Storytelling isn’t a game to me’ | Books | The Guardian
“I was absolutely surprised,” Adam Johnson says emphatically, to the admittedly indelicate question of whether his win on Wednesday night at the National Book awards was a little unexpected.
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Behind the scenes of ‘Taxi Driver’|Dangerous Minds
Paul Schrader wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver in about ten days. He was 26 years old. He wrote continuously, intuitively, from the gut—not like screenwriters today who write for a market, an audience, a paycheck.
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How a Small-Town Crime Syndicate Stole Kentucky’s Bourbon | Atlas Obscura
Welcome to Wild Turkey Bourbon! (Photo: Chris Breeze/flickr) It started as early as 2006, when bottles of whiskey started disappearing from distilleries in Kentucky. These weren’t one-off petty thefts.
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Sentinel-3A on its way / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
The latest satellite for the European Commission’s Copernicus environmental programme has left France bound for the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and launch late next month.
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Nassim Taleb defends homeopathy / Boing Boing
The statistician and risk analyst, who rose to prominence with his 2007 book The Black Swan, has a history of sticking up for junk science, but has crossed a Rubicon with his latest set of tweets, in which he defended homeopathy as harmless placebos…
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Federal funding drop sending universities scrambling to pay for research | Ars Technica
The National Science Foundation funds a lot of the general science research in the US, much of which takes place at the US’ educational institutions, like universities and medical schools. Other federal grants come from organizations like NASA, NOAA…
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Hurts so good: 12 hours with the new Samsung Gear VR | The Verge
I have long been fascinated with the idea of virtual reality, but despite the explosion of VR devices and media over the last few years, I haven’t really spent much time trying it out. I’ve done a total of maybe 15 minutes in an Oculus Rift and anot…
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The Samsung Gear VR Is Your Window Into The Future | TechCrunch
Virtual reality is a reality…in the sense that the hardware, software and content stars are finally aligning to make the platform approachable by more than just hardcore developers, gamers and hobbyists.
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Take an additional 15% off select deals in the Boing Boing Store today only! / Boing Boing
Take an additonal 15% off today only on the below products in the Boing Boing Store by using coupon code: DOORBUSTER at checkout! The future of photography is here–and Lytro has taken their technology up a notch with the Ilum.
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Amazon’s newest collection of indie Christmas music is available today | The Verge
Amazon Prime Music’s latest batch of exclusive music is Indie for the Holidays, a 23-song collection of Christmas originals and covers that Prime members can stream for free in eligible countries.
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Microsoft Lumia 950 review | The Verge
It’s probably been a long time since a Microsoft smartphone has crossed your mind. The last time Microsoft had a high-end Windows smartphone in the US, it was nearly two years ago and the phone came wearing a Nokia logo and ran Windows Phone 8.
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How Senate Republicans fight ISIS: By blocking President Obama’s national security nominees
Senate Republicans are all about national security these days—when it comes to the families fleeing Syria and Iraq, refugees who might come to the United States.
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The best recent science fiction and horror – review roundup | Books | The Guardian
Adam Nevill excels at making nightmares real. His previous novels have been out-and-out horror, stories of hauntings and occult phenomena peopled by fully realised, three-dimensional characters. Lost Girl (Pan, £7.
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Pefin Manages Your Entire Financial Picture Like an Advisor
It’s easier than ever to manage all aspects of your finances. There are great online tools for budgeting, investing, and making savings goals. Pefin aims to combine all that and also learn everything about your money situation, much like an advisor …
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Inside David Tennant’s Chilling Transformation From Geek Hero to Jessica Jones Villain | Vanity Fair
Jessica Jones star David Tennant was unsurprisingly cagey when pressed for details on how his new Netflix show may or may not connect to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. “For the rest of the evening tonight, I’ll be thinking, Should I have ment…
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How Titanic Changed Director Xavier Dolan’s Life | Vanity Fair
The French-Canadian wunderkind filmmaker Xavier Dolan thinks the reason he’s so bad at interviews is that he likes them so much. “I love confiding my worries, opinions, states of mind—everything.” The New York Times called him “an erratic conversati…
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The MLB awards were pretty much right – but Mike Trout’s snub was a farce | Sport | The Guardian
By hook, crook, or sheer overwhelming dominance by a couple outstanding individuals, the voters – with one exception – got the MLB awards right this year. They’ll never bat 1.
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One of The Walking Dead’s Most Infamous Scenes May Be Headed To Television
You may not be ready for Clara’s exit from Doctor Who. Justice League Dark is on the lookout for a villain. Mark Hamill talks keeping secrets for Star Wars. Plus, a first look at a new villain on Supergirl, Bryan Singer teases the X-Men Apocalypse t…
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The Mystery of the Cat’s Inner Eyelid – Scientific American
A cat has upper and lower eyelids that meet when the eye closes, along with a mysterious third eyelid—more properly called the palpebra tertia, also known as the nictitating membrane or “haw.
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Hillary Clinton surged to a 25-point lead over Bernie Sanders in the latest Bloomberg Politics national poll out Friday, as the former secretary of state continues to solidify her advantage among the Democratic base. (politico.com)
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Who was Europe’s first female suicide bomber? – BBC News
Who was Europe’s first female suicide bomber? 20 November 2015 Last updated at 13:55 GMT More details have emerged about Hasna Aitboulahcen, Europe’s first female suicide bomber. The 26 year old French woman blew herself up, after police stormed a f…
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‘Our melting, shifting, liquid world’: celebrities read poems on climate change (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Documentary | In one segment, the alliance’s supposed climate experts promote creationism. “There has to be a designer – a creator behind this,” says David Legates. (desmo…
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Two-thirds of the world can’t pass this basic financial literacy test. Can you? – Quartz
We could all use a crash course in personal finance. Two-thirds of people around the world failed a short test of basic financial concepts.
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Paris attacks: The ‘beginning of a terrorist world war’ – BBC News
European Union interior ministers, including the Home Secretary Theresa May, are meeting for emergency talks in Brussels as they consider tightening border security.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 10 – Tim Peake mission overview
Named after Isaac Newton’s text Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ESA’s Principia mission will be the eighth long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
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Eddie Jones says his players could face the “angel or the devil” when he begins his reign as new England head coach. The Australian, 55, succeeds former coach Stuart Lancaster after England’s poor showing at the recent World Cup.
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Hillary Clinton’s Strange Definition of “Middle Class” | Mother Jones
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent much of the past week trumpeting her pledge to protect the middle class from tax increases.
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Obama Reveals His Favorite Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theory
Obama Reveals His Favorite Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theory https://t.co/SQLMspCcyf https://t.co/MdJK5MBKNR via /r/democrats
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Obama Reveals His Favorite Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theory : democrats
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Greene’s punt return helps Jaguars beat Titans 19-13 | Sport | The Guardian
Rashad Greene fielded the line-drive punt, weaved through a few defenders, broke into the open field and nearly scored. It was the big play the Jacksonville Jaguars needed to beat Tennessee. It was the key moment they had to have to gain ground in t…
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Erick Erickson, the editor in chief of the website RedState.com, is a serious power in right-wing circles. Speechifying at RedState’s annual gathering is a rite of passage for aspiring Republican politicians, and Mr.
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Ethiopian hats and wigs made from recycled consumer goods / Boing Boing
Eric Lafforgue is a prolific, talented photographer who’s travelled the world, living among people in many hard-to-reach places and telling their stories with his camera.
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— Cassie Sadowitz (@CS0) November 20, 2015 #BeBold #TNF #MOREJAX #TENvsJAX @jaguars #JagsGamedayLive pic.twitter.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho confident that he retains Roman Abramovich’s trust
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he is confident he retains the trust of owner Roman Abramovich. The Premier League champions are three points above the relegation zone after losing seven of their opening 12 Premier League matches.
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How Washington D.C.’s Food Scene Is Being Changed by Money in Politics | Vanity Fair
Let’s start with an elegy for Pour House, one of Washington, D.C.’s legendary and deceased dive bars.
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France Seeks European Help on Borders | Al Jazeera America
France called Friday on its European Union partners to take immediate and decisive action to toughen the bloc’s borders and prevent the entry of individuals with ties to violence. “We can’t take more time. This is urgent,” Interior Minister Bernard …
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Sahara Reveals Remains of Ancient River – Scientific American
“The city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year. Wiped clean by the wrath of God.” Indiana Jones’s friend Marcus Brody, explaining the fictional fate of the city of Tanis in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Verizon Customers Can Get 1GB of Bonus Data, Several Other Perks For Free
If you’re a Verizon customer, you might want to check out these freebies. To celebrate “Thanksgetting” (ugh), Verizon’s giving away extra data, iTunes and Amazon gift cards, and more (yay!).
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MPs call for diesel cars scrappage scheme to tackle air pollution | Environment | The Guardian
The government should consider a scrappage scheme for diesel cars to get polluting vehicles off the streets of England’s cities, where they contribute to tens of thousands of premature deaths every year, according to an influential committee of MPs.
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Hemingway’s Paris memoir shoots to No 1 in France following terror attacks | Books | The Guardian
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir about his time in the city during the 1920s.
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Jimmy Page Jams ‘Rock and Roll’ with Nirvana, GN’R Members | Rolling Stone
For the entire night, the party line was that there was absolutely no way that Jimmy Page was going to perform.
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Hear Beach Boys’ Stripped-Down Bob Dylan and Beatles Covers | Rolling Stone
An upcoming, expanded edition of the Beach Boys’ 1965 album Beach Boys’ Party! will present the group’s original unplugged, raw recordings of the album’s songs without the original LP’s canned audience cheering.
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Bernie Sanders is right: The top 0.1 percent have as much as the bottom 90 percent : politics
From the trends in the graph, it seems likely that the 0.1% has surpassed the 90% since 2012. But the big picture is telling – in 1986, the 90% had nearly 4 times the wealth of the top 0.1%. The economic system is rigged against most of us. And it w…
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NEWTON, Iowa — Donald J. Trump, who earlier in the week said he was open to requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a database, said on Thursday night that he “would certainly implement that — absolutely.” Mr.
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Pigeons identify breast cancer ‘as well as humans’ – BBC News
Pigeons, with training, did just as well as humans in a study testing their ability to distinguish cancerous from healthy breast tissue samples. The pigeons were able to generalise what they learned, correctly spotting tumours in unseen microscope i…
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There was a time in the not-too-distant past, before velvet ropes and winding metal barriers and that song little kids sing about putting their finger on the wall, when Americans didn’t wait for things by neatly arranging themselves one behind the o…
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When Meth Was an Antidepressant – The Atlantic
That’s not an uncommon view among the tough-on-drugs crowd. But, in the age of hemp-oil seizure medication, it’s not exactly a tactful thing to say. Now, a bipartisan group of seven lawmakers is calling for Rosenberg’s firing.
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This Animal Has A Suit of Armor with Hundreds of Built-In Eyes – The Atlantic
Many animals are covered in protective armour—shells, scales, plates, and frills that protect their soft bodies. But one group of little-known sea creatures called chitons have evolved armour that’s unlike anything else in nature. Because it contain…
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The Integration of Hawaiian Pidgin, Ebonics, and Other Creole Languages Into Schools – The Atlantic
“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a language. “Oh really?!” the colleague responded,…
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Nearly 200 people taken hostage in Mali. – The Atlantic
Gunmen in Mali have killed at least three people and taken 170 guests and staff members hostage at a luxury hotel in the capital city of Bamako, according to multiple reports. Details remain sketchy so far.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
They have a passion for space and are some of the best engineers anywhere, conducting flight operations for exploration, technology and Earth missions worth billions of euros.
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Attacks on Yemeni army kill dozens – Al Jazeera English
Attacks on two army positions in southeast Yemen killed 15 soldiers and 19 assailants and wounded several civilians, according to army and medical sources.
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November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi War Criminals Begin | The Nation
On this day in 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. In an editorial blurb in this same issue, The Nation argued that the trials featured “the trappings of legality with little of its essence.
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Enable This Setting to Make Windows 10 Boot Up Faster
Windows 10 came with no shortage of performance improvements, but one of the neatest is its fast boot times. If your machine is taking too long to boot up, ensure this setting is enabled to speed things along. The feature in question is called Fast …
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures A balletic hippo, vervet monkey and rarely seen dancing lizards are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Friday 20 November 2015 08.
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A young person in Britain should be flush full of optimism for their future, but all too often they’re not.
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Heat building on Exxon as multiple probes explore climate cover-up: ‘We need to get to the bottom of this,’ says Moms Clean Air Force upon delivery of 360,000 petitions to Justice Department. (commondreams.org)
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Nick Denton’s Evolving Definition of Gawker — NYMag
A few days ago, Gawker Media proprietor Nick Denton revealed that the company’s flagship site, Gawker.com, will shift its focus to “political news, commentary and satire,” laying off several people and hiring six new staffers.
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Photographic Evidence Of The United States’ History Of Taking In Refugees | ThinkProgress
The United States has long taken in refugees from around the world, resettling more people than any other country — a fact that may not seem obvious in the current political atmosphere. In the latest struggle for the country to lay out its welcome m…
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Mini-review: Asus’ Chromebit is somewhere between a Chromecast and a mini PC | Ars Technica
Asus’ new Chromebit isn’t the first computer-on-an-HDMI-stick, nor is it the fastest or the most flexible. You’re going to be able to do more with a Windows PC, just as a cheap Windows laptop can do more stuff than a Chromebook despite having simila…
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Transgender Day Of Remembrance Highlights Invisibility Of Anti-Trans Violence | ThinkProgress
Friday marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual memorial first started in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith. This year, a record number of transgender murders were documented, a depressing reminder of how rampant anti-trans violence is.
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That was Ambassador Ronald Jumeau of Seychelles, speaking to House Democrats on Thursday about the global need to address climate change — and, with it, sea level rise.
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The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away | Motherboard
One of the hackers suspected of being behind the TalkTalk breach, which led to the personal details of at least 150,000 people being stolen, used a vulnerability discovered two years before he was even born.
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Nietzsche’s Concept of Superman Explained with Monty Python-Style Animation | Open Culture
I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? Lo, I teach you the Superman!
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Last week, the EU made public its initial proposal for legal text on trade and sustainable development in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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Significant Digits For Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Ahaan Rungta, a 15-year-old who obtained the entirety of his elementary and secondary education from online courses provided by MIT, has been accepted t…
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U.K. Kids Increasingly Credulous Online, Finds Ofcom | TechCrunch
While there has been high profile U.K.
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Gunmen Seize Hotel In Mali, Take 170 Hostages | ThinkProgress
A group of 10 men armed with guns have seized a hotel in the West African nation of Mali. 170 hostages were seized and three people have died so far in the attack. SECURITY MESSSAGE (1/4) The Embassy is aware of an ongoing active shooter operation a…
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Could Liquid Lakes Form on Mars Today?
Despite its frigid temperatures, Mars might be able to host lakes of water on its surface today, a new study suggests.
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Why NASA Europa Probe Will Study Jupiter Moon’s Dust
BOULDER, Colo. — “Think about it as pieces of a puzzle,” Zoltan Sternovsky said.
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Donald Trump’s Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany (nbcnews.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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First Click: Embrace your sadness and watch season two of The Leftovers | The Verge
Paris, Mali, Beirut, Kano… the world’s on fire. So why not embrace your melancholy. Own it this weekend, let those misty lavender donuts of gloom wash over you with episode after episode of The Leftovers.
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Microwave-Powered Rockets Would Slash Cost of Reaching Orbit – Scientific American
Humans have been riding rockets into space for more than 50 years, and for all that time, the cost of reaching orbit has remained astronomical—$5,000 to $50,000 per kilogram, depending on which rocket is used. The problem is that none of our rockets…
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Should Computers Decide Who Gets Hired? – The Atlantic
Anyone who has ever looked for a job knows that sometimes connections can trump qualifications. That’s why networking—despite its awkwardness— has become such a highly touted skill.
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Google Fit Now Tracks Your Runs, Plugs Into Sleep and Nutrition Apps
When Google Fit first came out, it was little more than a step counter, but now it’s stepping up its game. You can now track your runs, and plug into third-party apps that track things like sleep and nutrition.
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Google streams apps to Android handsets – BBC News
Google has started streaming apps to Android phones so people can use them even if they are not installed on a handset. It said it had introduced the technology to help people get better results when they search.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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BAMAKO, Mali — At least two gunmen stormed a Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on Friday morning, and seized 140 guests and 30 staff members as hostages, killing at least three people.
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Nascar Says Goodbye to Jeff Gordon—and the Golden Era He Created – The New Yorker
With two laps to go at Martinsville, drivers were racing not only each other but a sinking Virginia sun. If the light left, the race would end early.
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Movie Review: ‘Mockingjay—Part 2’ Is a Dull Slog to the Very End – The Atlantic
Perhaps the greatest surprise of the Hunger Games franchise to date had been the degree to which the films reversed the quality trajectory of the books. The first novel in Suzanne Collins’s trilogy was the best, with the second moderately worse and …
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The App-Driven Web Is Too Prudish for Sex | Motherboard
Sex and the internet have been deeply intertwined for decades.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Rejecting refugees goes against American values
[I]t’s pretty hard to find anyone on that side of the aisle, even among seemingly respectable voices, showing the slightest hint of perspective. […] But we shouldn’t really be surprised, because we’ve seen this movie before (unless we were too sca…
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Postcards from landfills: where one man’s trash turns into methane gas | Environment | The Guardian
Rubbish piles up next to the monument of Mexico’s late President Benito Juarez in Mexico City after authorities announced the shutting down of the Bordo Poniente landfill. Photograph: STRINGER Mexico / Reuters/Reuters Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shar…
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Gaming Company Razer To Launch Corporate Investment Fund In 2016 | TechCrunch
Razer, the high-end gaming hardware firm headquartered in the U.S., made waves last year when it entered the billion dollar unicorn club courtesy of an undisclosed investment from Intel.
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Like all good Louisiana Catholics, David Vitter knows when to send up a prayer for lost causes.
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EU drops food waste and marine litter reduction targets, leak reveals | Environment | The Guardian
The EU has dropped a plan to pressure countries into cutting food waste and marine litter by nearly a third, documents seen by the Guardian show.
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Google offers YouTube copyright support – BBC News
YouTube owner Google says it will help fund up to $1m (£650,000) in legal fees for some content creators who have received copyright takedown notices. It will step in if it feels their material is considered to be fair use.
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Why I Had My Babies With a Midwife Instead of a Doctor
“Are you having an ultrasound?” the midwife asked, at my first appointment. I thought there had been a miscommunication: nobody had told me whether I would have one. “Well, it’s up to you,” she said. She could explain the pros and cons, but the deci…
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Lost Island of Ancient Greece Discovered in Aegean Sea
An international team of archaeologists and geophysicists believe they have discovered a lost island in the eastern Aegean that was once home to the ancient city of Kane. The island, mentioned by the ancient Greek historian Xenophon, is famous for i…
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Mali hotel attack: ‘I saw bullets on the floor’ – BBC News
At least three people have been killed after gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked an international hotel in the centre of Mali’s capital, Bamako. Michael Skapoullis, a survivor of the attack, fled from the hotel’s gym after the siege started.
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Donald Trump’s Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany : democrats
Donald Trump’s Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany (nbcnews.com)submitted 29 minutes ago by loading…
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On the streets of Sudan: Dreaming of riches and apples – Al Jazeera English Khartoum, Sudan: “I am eight years old,” Omniya says. At least, that’s what her mother tells her, she adds. The mother and daughter live together on the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. tags: Pocket al jazeera…
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