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Early snow causes major disruption in US Midwest – Al Jazeera English
Over 500 flights were cancelled by Saturday, with Chicago’s O’Hare International and Midway International airports the hardest hit, as the first major snowfall of the season hit the US Midwest.
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How Fire, Once a Friend of Forests, Became a Destroyer
This summer, eye-watering smoke hung over much of the western United States, and flames threatened homes, towns, and even the giant sequoias of Kings Canyon National Park. By mid-November, wildfires had burned 9.
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Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor review – scintillating narrative | Books | The Guardian
In Search of Lost Time, also known to British readers as Remembrance of Things Past, is a million-and-a-half-word masterpiece, ostensibly about French life from the early years of the Third Republic to the aftermath of the first world war.
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A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When people think of the second world war today, they immediately picture bombs dropping and ships sinking. However war affected people’s lives far more.
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Health insurance nightmare: a Texas family struggles to keep PPO plan | US news | The Guardian
Dealing with two types of cancer, Linda Moore felt happy to live in Houston, home to one of the country’s top hospitals. Then came a letter from her insurance company earlier this year. “I was quite sure I must not be reading it correctly,” she said.
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West Virginia mine explosion trial showcases challenge of jailing a CEO | US news | The Guardian
Last week, a jury in West Virginia struggled with a question that has vexed America for years: when can you jail a CEO? It looks like the panel’s members will be struggling again come Monday. The CEO in question is Don Blankenship; the company is Ma…
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A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past | US news | The Guardian
Chuck Morgan is back where he began. Almost. “There used to be an old building, like a barn, up on the hill there. We lived there and we had no water, no electricity, no bathroom. We had an outhouse. We had to live by lamps. Wood stoves. Trucked our…
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Paris’s Longest Night – The New Yorker
At half past nine in the evening, on Friday, November 13th, Matthieu, a thirty-three-year-old resident of Paris, was eating dinner outside with friends at Le Petit Cambodge, a restaurant in the Tenth Arrondissement, near the Canal Saint-Martin.
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“Did… did he come in here?” *trot trot* *boink* “Ruuuuunnnnn!” 😀 – GIF on Imgur
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November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated in Dallas, Texas | The Nation
In the issue of The Nation following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on this day in 1963, the editors wrote: A young President, John F. Kennedy must have known or sensed that he did not have all time and eternity to accomplish his maj…
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The Woman Who Created “Transparent” Wants You to “Borrow White Male Privilege” | Mother Jones
FOR TV WRITER and director Jill Soloway, making good television was never enough. “I used to go on pitch meetings and say, ‘I want to write something that’s never been written before, something that’s going to change the world,’” she said at a recen…
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Take a Tour of Battlefields, Protests, and Prisons With These Photography Legends | Mother Jones
Photographers working with Magnum Photos—the premier photo collective founded after World War II by Henri Carter-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour—have been exceptionally busy this year releasing a trove of photo books.
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Red Bulls look to midfield trio for Sunday success against Columbus | Football | The Guardian
If the New York Red Bulls are to get past the Columbus Crew in the MLS Eastern Conference final the game may be won and lost by the effectiveness of their midfield trio of Felipe Martins, Sacha Kljestan and Dax McCarty. Generally, as those three go,…
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A tale of two cities: Victims of one barbarism – Al Jazeera English
I observed the two terrible atrocities committed by the extremist movement, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while in London.
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Paris attacks: Eagles of Death Metal describe gig horror – BBC News
Eagles of Death Metal, the US rock band whose fans were targeted in the Paris attacks, have spoken about the tragedy that saw 89 people killed at their gig. All of the band were safe following the attack, but members of the crew and friends were amo…
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Yes, Mizzou should be concerned about their image! They caved and pandered to a small group of people who’s only complaint were alleged acts of un-witnessed unsubstantiated acts of ‘racism’ by individuals, not the institution.
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Palestinian Campus: ‘A wall of fear has come down’ – Al Jazeera English
These sorts of clashes have become commonplace at a number of educational institutions throughout the occupied West Bank, amid a wave of unrest that has gripped Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past two months.
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Indigenous people from the Philippines are using coco noir to help avoid soil erosion (subselfie.com)submitted 50 minutes ago by loading…
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Methane emissions from different animals : environment
Methane emissions from different animals (self.
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Now THIS is a playground. : pics
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Now THIS is a playground. via /r/pics https://t.co/dG0Q9UEYWm https://t.co/caQKUvIpRv https://t.co/KU1dY2vqih
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Syrian groups: Russian strikes kill over 400 civilians – Al Jazeera English
Russian air strikes in Syria have killed over 400 civilians since September this year, monitoring groups say.
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On eve of Paris climate summit, Britain pulls the plug on renewables – The Washington Post
On eve of Paris climate summit, Britain pulls the plug on renewables https://t.co/VWlY0I2MZt https://t.co/k9Y8mrTfRM via /r/environment
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On eve of Paris climate summit, Britain pulls the plug on renewables : environment
On eve of Paris climate summit, Britain pulls the plug on renewables https://t.co/VWlY0I2MZt https://t.co/k9Y8mrTfRM via /r/environment
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Car Stolen With 8-Year-Old Boy Inside, Thieves Drop Him Off at School : nottheonion
This kid has a better excuse to miss school in his 8 years of living than I’ve EVER had in my 22. AND YET HE STILL GOT THERE…. Just goes to show you, kidnapping is no reason for truancy, boys and girls.
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Ben Carson tells black leaders he’s seen no racial bias by US police : politics
Ben Carson tells black leaders he’s seen no racial bias by US police https://t.co/FxKyGO37uU https://t.co/55tzAzkzHZ via /r/#politics
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Ben Carson tells black leaders he’s seen no racial bias by US police | NOLA.com
Ben Carson tells black leaders he’s seen no racial bias by US police https://t.co/FxKyGO37uU https://t.co/55tzAzkzHZ via /r/#politics
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Terror attacks: Belgium ‘looking for several suspects’ – BBC News
Belgium says the threat it faces is larger than that posed just by Salah Abdeslam, wanted for the Paris attacks. Interior Minister Jan Jambon said several other terror suspects were being sought.
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I Love Dick has the status of a cult novel among young feminists and fashionistas. Lena Dunham is a fan. Sheila Heti says reading it tore down assumptions “of what the form can handle”.
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Stigmatising Muslims in France can only do more harm – Al Jazeera English
France is in mourning. Struck by a carnage that killed 129 innocent people and injured more than 300, the country is now recovering from the worst attacks it experienced since World War II. Confronted by such a tragedy, national unity is no longer a…
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Santos Stadium – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santos Stadium is a sporting venue located in the Adelaide Parklands immediately to the north of ETSA Park, Adelaide’s largest netball complex.
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APPLE VALLEY, Calif. — Outside her two-story tract home in this working-class town, Debbie Alberts, a part-time food service worker, has torn out most of the lawn. She has given up daily showers and cut her family’s water use nearly in half, to just…
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Brené Brown: ‘People will find a million reasons to tear your work down’ | Books | The Guardian
Five years ago, Brené Brown was an obscure academic – an associate professor of social work at the University of Houston – and then, overnight, she was famous.
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Meet The 88 Democrats Who Just Voted To Enable Racial Discrimination In Car Buying : Liberal
Meet The 88 Democrats Who Just Voted To Enable Racial Discrimination In Car Buying (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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Asean’s quest to boost free trade – BBC News
Malaysia’s Prime Minister has announced the formal establishment of the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Economic Community. It means Asean is a step closer to becoming a free trade area for 600 million people, but many hurdles still r…
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Hong Kong vote tests protest movement’s strength – Al Jazeera English
Hong Kong is voting in district-level elections that mark the first real test of public sentiment since pro-democracy protests crippled parts of the Chinese-controlled territory last year.
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Last time Matthew McConaughey hosted SNL back in 2003, he was deep in the pastel-wearing, leaning on his leading lady on the poster rom-com phase of the pre-McConaissance. (Think Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, people.
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NEW ORLEANS — With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards, soundly defeated United States Senator
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The Tapper Twins Go To War by Geoff Rodkey – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When I was told that I was going to be reviewing The Tapper Twins Go To War I wasn’t exactly delighted.
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Short story round-up – marriage, mischief and a flesh-eating stationwagon | Books | The Guardian
“It’s annoying not knowing how long we’ve got left, don’t you think?” one woman asks another in Cockfosters, the title story of Helen Simpson’s sixth collection.
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Hillary’s War Whoop: In a presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton made it clear that if she’s elected in 2016, she’s going to drag the country straight to war. (counterpunch.org)
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Norman Foster: ‘I have no power as an architect, none whatsoever’ | Art and design | The Guardian
“Do you believe in infrastructure?” asks Norman Foster, with challenge in his voice. He does. Infrastructure, he says, is about “investing not to solve the problems of today but to anticipate the issues of future generations”.
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The Wonder Garden gallery: stunning animals – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Slowly winding through the branches is the long, strong anaconda. This snake is the largest in the world, killing its prey by wrapping it and crushing it to death. Illustration: Kristjana S Williams Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post F…
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Paris attacks: Eagles of Death Metal speak about terror attacks – BBC News
Members of the band that was playing at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris when gunmen stormed the building last week have spoken out about the attack.
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Emergency declared in Crimea over power crisis – Al Jazeera English
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine were blown up, cutting off power to almost two million people, according to local media and the Russian government.
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Quiet, please… In praise of the British Library | Books | The Guardian
My favourite place to work in London, my private club and second home, was once described by Prince Charles as “the assembly hall of an academy for secret police”. He was directing his ire specifically at Humanities 1, the main reading room of the B…
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Bernie Sanders Disappointed that @HillaryClinton doesn’t think we should guarantee health care through a single-payer system saving families $5,000 a year. (twitter.com) I like single payer healthcare too… but we literally just enacted Obamacare. …
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Former Drone Operators Say They Were “Horrified” By Cruelty of Assassination Program: Drone operators refer to children as “fun-size terrorists” and liken killing them to “cutting the grass before it grows too long” (theintercept.com)submitted 8 min…
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Oh look, my heart is melting through my chest cavity. – GIF on Imgur
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Should You Binge Watch Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ This Weekend? – Digg
Fresh off the success of its original Daredevil series, Netflix is back with another gritty superhero drama. This time, Krysten Ritter stars as the titular Jessica Jones, a detective-type with superpowers from the Marvel universe. So is Jessica Jon…
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Empty streets amid Brussels terror fears – BBC News
Central Brussels was almost empty on Saturday night as a terror alert led restaurants and bars to shut early amid fears of a Paris-style attack. Soldiers patrolled the streets as a manhunt continued for the fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who was thought t…
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Polar bear enjoys snow at US zoo – BBC News
Suka was filmed rolling in the snow at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison. The zoo’s Arctic Passage exhibit has been especially designed to resemble the bear’s habitat in the Arctic.
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Something tells me the pucker factor in Republican circles is red-lining at the moment. This is a harbinger of things to come. The Conservative movement and the political establishment are in major trouble in both parties.
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In his latest chronicle of the city of his birth, Orhan Pamuk takes as his subject the “life and daydreams” of Mevlut Karatas, streetfood vendor and Istanbulite everyman.
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Three loaves via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/lIya2YV5Ox https://t.co/wMEikgaNJm https://t.co/eRY0HYQtFO
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Three loaves via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/lIya2YV5Ox https://t.co/wMEikgaNJm https://t.co/eRY0HYQtFO
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Why are autumn leaves mostly yellow in Europe and red in North America? | Environment | The Guardian
The stunning display of autumn is almost over – a few tattered yellow and russet leaves still cling to almost bare branches. I’ve loved these last few weeks, getting out into the woods to soak my retinae in the reds, oranges and yellows against ling…
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ASEAN nations sign deal for economic community – Al Jazeera English
Southeast Asian nations have established a formal community that attempts to create freer movement of trade and capital in an area of 625 million people with a combined economic output of $2.6 trillion.
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So are we witnessing an EU meltdown? – Al Jazeera English
I was having my omelette and chips with a journalist friend in a greasy spoon restaurant in one of the suburbs of London last week when our discussions inevitably turned to the latest spate of violence in France.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: IMG_2333
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: IMG_2334
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Mars’ Doomed Moon, Phobos (APOD) [3374×3300] https://t.co/H8wpCG1iUS https://t.co/rQWgFjriLl
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: IMG_2335
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Trump Supporters Filmed Viciously Punching and Kicking Black Lives Matter Protester at Rally (usuncut.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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The Kurdish Women Battling ISIS : pics
The Kurdish Women Battling ISIS via /r/pics https://t.co/bYXzVCwqEz https://t.co/golayho8F2 https://t.co/7H7efapSc1
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The Kurdish Women Battling ISIS via /r/pics https://t.co/bYXzVCwqEz https://t.co/golayho8F2 https://t.co/7H7efapSc1
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Server level 100 via /r/pics https://t.co/ubU1mcDpKZ https://t.co/a4cjyyLu71 https://t.co/BTYQ45y2o9
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Luc Sante loves the lower depths, cutting his teeth a couple of decades ago with Lowlife, a book about crime and prostitution in bygone Manhattan.
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A full loaf of fluff : Catloaf
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David Vitter won’t run for his U.S. Senate seat again | NOLA.com
David Vitter won’t run for his U.S. Senate seat again: https://t.co/kn0WhvSiUz https://t.co/n3wG9wWEQ6 via /r/Liberal
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MRW I check front page cause this time last year, everyone loved me. – GIF on Imgur
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Mizzou protesters condemned by fellow college students (campusreform.org)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading…
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David Vitter won’t run for his U.S. Senate seat again: : Liberal
David Vitter won’t run for his U.S. Senate seat again: (nola.com)
David Vitter won’t run for his U.S. Senate seat again: https://t.co/kn0WhvSiUz https://t.co/n3wG9wWEQ6 via /r/Liberal -
Baby owl after a bath. via /r/aww https://t.co/l2Ve6rgc2b https://t.co/585FMgnEqE https://t.co/XHf4hFW4DV
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Baby owl after a bath. via /r/aww…
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Turkish plane diverted over bomb threat – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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The Twin Gangsters Who Ruled London – The Daily Beast
“They were the best years of our lives,” said Ronnie Kray in his 1993 autobiography My Story. “They call them the Swinging Sixties, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were rulers of pop music. Carnaby Street ruled the fashion world…and me and my bro…
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Canelo Alvarez takes middleweight title after epic against Miguel Cotto | Sport | The Guardian
Canelo Alvarez made a case for himself as boxing’s next star on Saturday night, landing the bigger punches to take a unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto and win a piece of the middleweight title.
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Democrat Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor’s Race : democrats
Democrat Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor’s Race (nytimes.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Now Jindal and Vitter can go spank each other in peace. Everybody wins. Hurricane Jindal was the most expensive disaster for Louisiana in decades.
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How Can ISIS Be Defeated? – The New Yorker
In the week since the attacks on Paris, there has been a great deal of talk about waging war on the Islamic State, but scant clarity about how such a war might succeed.
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I’m starting to realize that Guardians of the Galaxy is trying to be more “cartoon” than “animated action show.” This is a bad idea, for a few reasons.
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Sunday Talk: Get the flock out!
Meet The Press: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta; New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Face the Nation: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Terrorism Roundtable: Special Envoy to the Global…
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Early snowfall in Wisconsin. (os) [4160×2340] : EarthPorn
Early snowfall in Wisconsin. (os) [4160×2340] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Xgo53D9b6m https://t.co/Rxuri76Cd7 https://t.co/8Xt1ntxNIt
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Early snowfall in Wisconsin. (os) [4160×2340] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Xgo53D9b6m https://t.co/Rxuri76Cd7 https://t.co/8Xt1ntxNIt
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, November 22. All times are Eastern. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox, 8:30 p.m.): It’s time for one of those grand sitcom traditions on Brooklyn Nine-Nine this week, the Instant Birth Just Add Water scenario.
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Just a little bun via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/TYMxddNoDP https://t.co/13EK4B14Ma https://t.co/j3CLvwAQx5
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Five years ago, Kanye West dropped what many consider to be the greatest album of his career, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. With its expansive production, built-in redemption story, and memorable flows, it was nearly guaranteed to be a critical…
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 20- November 22 · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
We’ve expanded the definition of AVQ&A—our weekly thought-starter—by asking you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or sm…
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Just a little bun via /r/Catloaf…
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The Stingy Are Fined, While the Rich Soak | The contrast in California between strict enforcement on some struggling to conserve water during the drought and unchecked profligacy in places like Bel Air has unleashed anger. (nytimes.com)
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, IMG_2333
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Spectacular save via /r/gifs https://t.co/1D0w9LE7ES https://t.co/iKTTsfjZuK https://t.co/oeUO1hJZtd
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I Want To Run Stateful Containers, Too | TechCrunch
Using Amazon for everything feels wrong to me — a bit like the rebels in Star Wars renting a Star Destroyer from Darth Vader rather than recruiting the Millennium Falcon to fight the Empire. “Raaaw, don’t run stateful apps in a container, Raaaw.
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M/21/5’10” (120lbs – 195lbs)(5+ Years Natural Transformation) : Fitness
Before any training: 2009, Mr Skeltal. ~ 120 lbs? (54.5kg), Hungry Skeleton After 2 years: 2012, ~175 lbs. These 3 ladies lost their faces in an unfortunate blur factory accident.
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1000W LED Flashlight – Worlds Brightest (90,000 Lumens) – YouTube
This homemade flashlight light bar uses ten 100W LED chips to produce an estimated 90,000 Lumens of light.
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100 women 2015: Africa’s first female navy commander – BBC News
The first African woman to command a navy vessel has recently been appointed in South Africa. Zimasa Mabela broke new ground when she took charge of a de-mining ship based in Cape Town last month.
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My friend who works at a shelter found them like this : aww
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Recycling NGC 5291
Recycling NGC 5291 https://t.co/Im98KuQgbm https://t.co/V0iDZfmkiJ
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The real J.J. Abrams introduced a bunch of actual (and fake) celebrity auditions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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This isn’t the end of Clara Oswald. If nothing else, her death here figures to reverberate throughout each of the next two episodes, and it’s frankly hard to imagine the finale will pass without some appearance from Jenna Coleman in one form or anot…
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Recycling NGC 5291 via NASA https://t.co/hvCokttXE7 https://t.co/29Gu7XWXsJ https://t.co/OVlLD4SRhb
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Autumn Tree Image, Wales – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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APOD: 2015 November 21 – Recycling NGC 5291
Explanation: Following an ancient galaxy-galaxy collision 200 million light-years from Earth, debris from a gas-rich galaxy, NGC 5291, was flung far into intergalactic space.
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PRETTY regularly, I receive an urgent call from a distraught friend or friend of a brother. “Zeke, Mom was at home and her heart stopped. The E.M.T.s are rushing her to XYZ hospital in Miami. Can you help me find the best cardiologist there for her?”
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SNL’s Ben Carson Trashes Syrian Refugees in Idiotic Fashion – The Daily Beast
It was a special Thanksgiving edition of Fox & Friends during the cold open of Saturday Night Live this week, but all the hosts wanted to talk about were the Syrian refugees who are almost definitely not trying to sneak across the Mexican border int…
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Toxic mud concern after Brazil dam burst – BBC News
A wave of toxic mud travelling down the Rio Doce river in Brazil from a collapsed dam has reached the Atlantic Ocean, amid concerns it will cause severe pollution.Barriers were put up to try to protect plants and animals from the mud. Samarco, the m…
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Kid battles through hiccups; performs AMAZING anthem – YouTube
Last night 7-year-old Ethan battled through the hiccups to perform perhaps the greatest rendition of the Australian national anthem EVER SEEN. His reaction after the song is priceless.The anthem was performed pre-game at an SA Power Networks Adelaid…
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Open thread: Terrorism, hate and fear
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … Thirty-five years of terrorism, by Mark Sumner The Democratic down-ballot hemorrhage: Is it as much of a crisis as it seems, by Steve Singiser Fear, hatred, intolerance, and ignorance only feed the monster known as D…
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Belgium state of alert continues into second day – Al Jazeera English
Belgium’s state of emergency has entered a second day amid concerns that a “Paris-style” attack involving explosives is imminent in the capital Brussels.
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On the Death of Takoma Park’s Anita Datar in Mali | The Nation
My neighbor Anita Datar was murdered last week, one of 27 to die at the hands of terrorists in Friday’s killings in Mali. Anita’s son Rohan goes to my kid’s public school here in Takoma Park, MD. They are in the same grade and are friends.
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WWLTV calls Louisiana Governor’s race for John Bel Edwards (twitter.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]TweetPoster [score hidden] 1 hour ago(0 children)@WWLTV: 2015-11-22 03:02:29 UTC WWLTV calls Governor’s race for John Bel Edwards pic.twitte…
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Cameron to set out Syria strategy to MPs within days – BBC News
Prime Minister David Cameron is to set out his strategy for Syria and tacking the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. The cross-party Foreign Affairs Committee said last month that British military action in Syria could not be ex…
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The Returned understands the intoxicating allure of the easy explanation. It would have to, given the way it treats conclusions and answers like narrative pollutants.
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Faith, ritual, and religion have permeated many episodes throughout the first season of The Last Kingdom.
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME – extremley detailed map of the Roman Empire at it’s fullest extent (ancient.eu)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Traffic Noise on Crescent St in Long Island City, Queens, NYC – YouTube
In Long Island City, Queens, NYC, right at the base of the Queensboro Bridge.
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Guillermo Del Toro calls Gravity Falls ” One of the best realized, most compelling series around.” (twitter.com)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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Notable Beers of the Month – The Atlantic
Sculpin IPA, from the Ballast Point site
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Quality Phone/Tablet Backgrounds – Album on Imgur
Quality Phone/Tablet Backgrounds https://t.co/toeDb6pAku
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Don’t worry I wouldn’t actually do anything to them – Meme on Imgur
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MRW I go to the future to save myself but I’m too late – GIF on Imgur
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Video shows black protester pushed down, kicked at Donald Trump’s Birmingham rally : politics
This happened in Birmingham? Well, I for one am shocked. The Brownshirts are coming.
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BREAKING: Democrats win and David Vitter loses in Louisiana
In a result that would have been unbelievable even two months ago, Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards has defeated GOP Sen. David Vitter in the Louisiana gubernatorial race.
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During one event in Richmond, Virginia, a Trump supporter spit on a Latino protester, and one woman threw a punch. In Doral, Florida, at least four immigration protesters were escorted out of the venue.
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Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally : politics
Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally https://t.co/wXscWBKoxZ https://t.co/UtPVmOcKmN via /r/#politics
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Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally – CBS News
Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally https://t.co/wXscWBKoxZ https://t.co/UtPVmOcKmN via /r/#politics
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John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana’s next governor | NOLA.com
John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana’s next governor https://t.co/MQEhBmhUZj https://t.co/PdZfJdQp9K via /r/democrats
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John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana’s next governor : democrats
Awesome! Vitter is scum.
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Daily Kos Elections Louisiana gubernatorial liveblog thread #4
To recap, it’s a big night in Louisiana: Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards has won the gubernatorial race, defeating the odious Republican Sen. David Vitter for the seat being vacated by Bobby Jindal. He currently leads 54-46, with 67 percent o…
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Doctor Who: This Was All The Doctor’s Fault
For years now, Doctor Who has been exploring the dark side of the Doctor, that quasi-immortal time traveler from another planet. He turns people into weapons, he inspires his friends to be reckless, he makes his enemies worse, etc.
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Miguel Cotto v Canelo Alvarez – en vivo y en español! | Sport | The Guardian
Señoras y señores, bienvenidos a esta batalla inmensa en Mandalay Bay en Las Vegas. Miguel Angel Cotto (40-4, 33 KO), campeón mediano del CMB, se enfrenta contra Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez (45-1-1, 32 KO) para defender su título por la segunda vez.
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‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ Recap: Feed Your Head | Rolling Stone
Last week on Ash vs. Evil Dead, the show put its unique splatstick spin on Hellraiser. This time out, it took on the Monkees’ Head. The Pre-Fab Four’s film, a free-form psychedelic-era artifact (written by Jack Nicholson!), is as good a touchstone a…
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Miguel Cotto v Canelo Alvarez – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Cotto and Canelo will meet for the lineal middleweight championship. Photograph: Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports
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Looking back, we’ve seen Ash do a lot.
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WASHINGTON — When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat…
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Daily Kos Elections Louisiana gubernatorial liveblog thread #3
Louisiana holds its gubernatorial runoff tonight, and our guide can be found here. Polls show a lead for Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards, but Republican Sen. David Vitter may be able to pull off a win in this conservative state.
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Jeb Bush adviser just comes out and says it: Donald Trump looks like a fascist : politics
Result: GOP voters turn further away from Bush, stand up for Trump, slam Bush for teaming up with the lying media’s cynical attempt at bringing down Trump. Countdown to backfire: 3, 2, 1… oh wait those are Jeb poll numbers.
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Cat vs. cucumbers / Boing Boing
Looks like a scene from a Kubrick film, but it’s just a snapshot of a cat hiding under the blankets. Uploaded by Redditor attigirb. Cats have a million different ways of being pissed off. This is one we hadn’t seen before.
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Daily Kos Elections Louisiana gubernatorial liveblog thread #2
Louisiana holds its gubernatorial runoff tonight, and our guide can be found here. Polls show a lead for Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards, but Republican Sen. David Vitter may be able to pull off a win in this conservative state.
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We can’t see the forest for The Man In The High Castle’s films · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero is watching all of the first season ofThe 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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Pamela Harriman: The Queen of Party Politics – The Daily Beast
Almost nineteen years after her death, Pamela Harriman is being exhumed through not just one, but two, novels.
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The Best Presidential Thanksgiving Recipes – The Daily Beast
With the tragedies of last week and the resulting xenophobia flooding this country, I feel Thanksgiving could not have come at a better time.
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Everything You Need to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs – The Daily Beast
Egg freezing is increasingly popular amongst American women, with 76,000 predicted to be undergoing the procedure by 2018 (up from just 500 in 2009 and 5,000 in 2013).
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Can Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin Fix Syria Together? – The Daily Beast
There was no sound, only pictures conveyed to the media when the U.S. President and the Russian President sat down to talk at a coffee table in a hotel lobby in Turkey last weekend.
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Salt Lake City Elects Gay Mayor, While Utah Exports Anti-Gay Hate – The Daily Beast
Salt Lake City made history this month by electing Utah’s first openly gay mayor, whose victory was finally certified this week. Outside the liberal capital city, however, the conservative state has become a leading exporter of anti-gay legislation,…
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The Bible is Crystal Clear About Refugees – The Daily Beast
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris we have seen fortitude, courage, tragedy, grief, resilience, and a stunning display of anti-Christian social teaching. No, I don’t mean ISIS.
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The Most Important Film of All Time: 26.6 Seconds by Abraham Zapruder – The Daily Beast
What is the most influential film of all time? If you trust the 846 cinema experts polled by film magazine Sight & Sound magazine, you might pick Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo—which won the periodical’s most recent vote for the best movie of all time.
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College Students Say Remembering 9/11 is Offensive to Muslims – The Daily Beast
The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offend…
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Is ISIS’s Voice of Death Hiding in France? – The Daily Beast
PARIS—The rain was pouring down on Saturday afternoon, a week and a day after the horrific massacres that shattered this city.
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We’ve come to expect our wineries in beautiful, peaceful, almost romantic places. We expect marble, granite, and stone tasting rooms set amongst bucolic grape fields surrounded by mountains, perhaps with a nearby stream or lake.
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Grindr Tries To Become A Lifestyle Brand – The Daily Beast
Last month, Playboy announced it would do what someone 30 years ago would believe to be unthinkable: The naked women magazine is taking naked women out of their magazine. Amidst the flood of perilously bad “I read it for the article” jokes, there wa…
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A Brash Brit’s Subversive Siege of Ancient Rome – The Daily Beast
Mary Beard has shaken the dust off the Classics world with her vivid vision. With her new book SPQR, she sees our modern life in the empire’s everyday people.
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Will Jihadis Hijack the Vatican’s Jubilee Year? – The Daily Beast
ROME — Sometimes it’s better to just stay silent rather than call attention to obvious flaws. That could certainly be considered the case when it comes to Rome’s readiness—or seeming lack thereof—ahead of the Vatican’s Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy tha…
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Cultural critic Megan Pugh emulates her subject in America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk, a celebratory mash-up of a century’s history within studies of two legendary performers (Bill Robinson and Michael Jackson), one classic screen te…
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New Zealand helicopter crash: Two British couples among dead – BBC News
Police in New Zealand have released the names of four Britons killed in a helicopter crash. They are Andrew Virco, 50, from Cambridge, Katharine Walker, 51, also from Cambridge, Nigel Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, both from Hampshire.
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My wife thinks she’s clever. : gaming
My wife thinks she’s clever. (m.imgur.com) She’s at work, hence the notes, but as soon as she gets home, I will oblige this request.
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No, Donald Trump, The Paris Victims Would Not Have Been ‘Better Off’ With Guns | ThinkProgress
SPARTANBURG, SC — Speaking about the terror attacks in Paris during a campaign event in South Carolina on Friday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said that if the victims had been armed, they would have “been so much better off” because there wo…
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Crimea without power after pylons ‘blown up’ – BBC News
Crimea has been plunged into darkness after pylons carrying power lines which supply electricity from Ukraine were reportedly blown up on Saturday night. All four power lines were cut, reports said, leaving the region’s two million inhabitants witho…
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MRW I realize I don’t have Photoshop, only Paint… – GIF on Imgur
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Ben Carson On Racial Bias In Policing: ‘I’m Still Waiting For The Evidence’ | ThinkProgress
COLUMBIA, SC — Speaking to a bipartisan group of black lawmakers and community leaders on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said he has yet to see evidence that black men and women are being disproportionately targeted by law en…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/09tziZaNOH Stories via @NWF
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Spotlight on green news & views: Republicans in Congress determined to undermine Paris climate t
OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIES Republicans are trying to undercut Obama in Climate Negotiations prior to the Paris Climate Summit written by Lefty Coaster: “Acting with a breathtaking level of corruption Republicans are doing everything in their power …
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The Disruption Of Millennial Investing | TechCrunch
The media proliferates stories analyzing millennial work ethics, buying patterns and values.
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Talking Heads – Fear of Music – YouTube
Talking Heads – Fear of Music https://t.co/UWHT9BNhQc
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Doctor who? The celebrities who became instant academics – BBC News
Singer Ed Sheeran is just one of the latest in a long line of celebrities to pick up an honorary degree for “outstanding contributions” in their field. But should the rich and famous be handed academic plaudits on a silver platter?
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The ‘ID card challenge’ asks Iranians who they really are – BBC News
Young Iranians are using photos on Instagram to show who they really are – alongside the formal pictures they’ve had to take for state ID cards. Two popular Instagram pages have been asking Iranians post these photos – and many are embracing the “Ka…
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George Nakashima: Artisan imprisoned in US internment camps – BBC News
This week, one US mayor lauded the Japanese internment camps which imprisoned US citizens and residents during World War 2. A family that lived in such a camp responds. Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Virginia, doesn’t want any Syrians resettled in h…
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A brief history of online trolling between Western and Russian diplomats – BBC News
As tensions persist between Russia and the West, governments have resorted to posting sarcastic digs at each other on social media – with the US Embassy in Russia making a particularly bold jibe this week.
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Scientists say deforestation may threaten a staggering half of Amazon tree species with extinction (washingtonpost.com)submitted 47 minutes ago by loading…
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100 Women 2015: Desperate not to have children – BBC News
Some women are desperate to have children – but some are desperate not to. Here two who want to stay child-free explain why. Holly Brockwell, 29, from London, has been trying to get sterilised, while in Tehran thirty-something Nina Nikoo (not her re…
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In Paris, searching for the comfort of the familiar – BBC News
The BBC’s Kevin Connolly finds Paris in the wake of the attacks subdued but stoical – and takes comfort in the fact that, on the surface, ordinary life continues as before. November was never really the month to visit Paris.
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What Does the Bible Say About Refugees? Depends Who You Ask : NPR
Evangelicals see the Bible as the ultimate source of guidance for every aspect of life. But how exactly to apply to that to difficult moral dilemmas isn’t always clear.
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Book of limericks transforms struggling author Ranjit Bolt into literary lion | Books | The Guardian
In the summer of 2014, the spectacle of a middle-aged playwright selling limericks about “comedic giraffes” and “Spanish cicadas” was a regular one at Cambridge market.
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Open Channel: Which Show Are You Binging On Tonight?
Yesterday, two major shows dropped from streaming giants Amazon.com and Netflix: The Man in the High Castle and Jessica Jones. On one hand, you’ve got superheroes, while on the other, dystopian alternate histories. So, of the two, which one are you …
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Darren Rogers’s living room is full of surfboards, but it is all he can do to get back in the water. The first time he tried, he looked down at his submerged legs and had a flashback of fellow surfer Tadashi Nakahara’s horrific injuries.
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Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week. Programming is a valuable skill for kids of all ages to pick up, and when they learn by playing with their favorite…
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Brussels Deserted as Threat Level Raised to Four | Al Jazeera America
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The streets in Brussels were deserted Saturday evening after authorities raised the city’s threat level to four —the maximum, indicating that the risk of an attack is “serious and imminent,” according to the country’s security co…
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This week in the war on workers: Shocker. Paul Ryan’s ‘anti-poverty’ idea would lead to funding cuts
Remember how, prior to becoming House speaker, one of Paul Ryan’s big things was that Congress was going to end poverty by converting assistance programs to block grants because flexibility and freedom or something? Well, wouldn’t you know, block gr…
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Kenneth Branagh to direct, star in Murder On The Orient Express · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Steadily working his way down some hypothetical nerdy teenager’s bookshelf, from Shakespeare to Thor comics to Agatha Christie novels, director Kenneth Branagh has signed on to star in and direct an adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express.
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The Old And New Star Wars Droids Meet For The First Time — In A Cell Phone Ad? – Digg
C-3PO and R2-D2 are iconic members of the Star Wars universe, while the upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will introduce a new friendly droid — the cute, spherical BB-8. And for some reason, this ad from UK mobile company O2 features all thre…
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Short film: Lost Property Written & Directed by: Åsa Lucander Producer: Tom Mortimer – Executive producer: Dave Anderson Art by: Åsa Lucander – Assistant Artist: Marc Moynihan Animation: Marc Moynihan, Ana García Sebastiá, Anna Fyda, Simon Testro, M…
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St. Vincent Full Album St. Vincent – YouTube
St. Vincent – St. Vincent https://t.co/AO5LqctA4f
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Adele shows up to Adele impersonator contest in disguise
This is all sorts of charming. BBC held an Adele impersonator contest and arranged for Adele to compete in disguise as a woman named Jenny. I love the looks on the women’s faces when they realize what’s going on.
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St. Vincent Full Album St. Vincent – YouTube
The fourth album of St. Vincent.All song titles in description.DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of these songs, All credit goes to St. Vincent and UGM.Rattlesnake 0:00Birth in Reverse 3:34Prince Johnny 6:50Huey Newton 11:27Digital Witness 16:05I Prefer …
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Talking Heads – Fear of Music – YouTube
Talking Head’s third album from 1979.(All songs written and composed by David Byrne, except where noted.)Side one1. “I Zimbra” (David Byrne, Brian Eno, Hugo Ball) 0:002. “Mind” 3:083. “Paper” 7:224. “Cities” 10:06 5. “Life During Wartime” (David Byr…
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High plains aquifer peak use by state, overall usage decline, study finds (sciencedaily.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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Earth’s climate more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought (sciencedaily.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Couple Gets Married in Brussels Amid Terrorist-Attack Warnings – The Atlantic
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What Pluto Looks Like Over One Day, or 6.4 Earth Days | Motherboard
Ever since New Horizons completed its closest flyby of Pluto on July 14, NASA has been gracing us plebeians with the most stunning Pluto porn that a $700 million mission can buy.
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Myanmar Kachin jade mine landslide ‘kills 50’ – BBC News
The state of Kachin produces some of the best jade in the world, but landslides are not uncommon. Most of the dead are thought to be people who tried to make a living by climbing on waste material dumped from nearby mines, searching with their hands…
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Cute Spring hare wants to go back home : gifs
Cute Spring hare wants to go back home via /r/gifs https://t.co/jEf9dLW3dy https://t.co/qppNBq6BLa https://t.co/0wl3B9bnX4
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Cute Spring hare wants to go back home via /r/gifs https://t.co/jEf9dLW3dy https://t.co/qppNBq6BLa https://t.co/0wl3B9bnX4
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Friendly moment between a little girl and a biker – GIF on Imgur
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Protester Tackled by Crowd at Trump Rally — NYMag
CNN reports that a black protester who tried to disrupt Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Alabama Saturday was involved in an altercation with several crowd members.
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Argentina to go to polls in first ever presidential run-off – BBC News
Argentina will go to the polls on Sunday for a run-off election – the first in the country’s history – after neither presidential candidate managed to win the initial vote outright. Daniel Scioli, the governor of Buenos Aires province, is up against…
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Fires Across Madagascar : Image of the Day
On November 11, 2015, dozens of small fires burned across Madagascar. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured a natural-color image of the island at 2:00 p.m. local time (11:00 Universal Time) that day.
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Half-baked croissant : Catloaf
Half-baked croissant via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/ysBIDMQLZN https://t.co/U832mKN3uw https://t.co/mqY5paBPu4
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Half-baked croissant via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/ysBIDMQLZN https://t.co/U832mKN3uw https://t.co/mqY5paBPu4
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Got my 70 year old dad a new friend : aww
Got my 70 year old dad a new friend via /r/aww https://t.co/xQTENxprr2 https://t.co/djqe9jqqlU https://t.co/DN89rElRmQ
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Got my 70 year old dad a new friend via /r/aww https://t.co/xQTENxprr2 https://t.co/djqe9jqqlU https://t.co/DN89rElRmQ
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Microsoft’s new Android app will try to convince you to switch to Windows Phone | The Verge
Microsoft has been working to provide its services across all platforms, including iOS and Android, but its latest app, called AppComparison, might have a pretty small target audience.
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Learn How to Serve an Orange Like a Fancy Restaurant With This Video
Oranges actually make for a great healthy dessert. This video can show you how to peel and serve them in a way that makes them look even tastier. In this video, from youtuber DaveHax, you’ll learn how to quickly and easily peel an orange with just a…
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The Man In The High Castle Is This Year’s Most Political Show, And What It Reveals Is Frightening
When Amazon.com dropped the pilot for their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, expectations ran high. The first episode was stunning, and the second episode was just as good. Now, the rest of the season explores just how fasc…
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Eternal optimist Vin Diesel promises new Riddick TV show, movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Proving that hope always springs eternal in the (massive, brawny) human breast, film star and twelfth-level paladin Vin Diesel has put two more projects in the saga of Pitch Black protagonist Richard B. Riddick into development.
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Brussels shutdown amid fears Paris fugitive has suicide belt – BBC News
Central Brussels has been left deserted as restaurants and bars shut early amid fears of a Paris-style attack, hours after Belgium raised its terror alert. Soldiers patrolled the streets as a manhunt continued for the fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who wa…
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UK government sets up £1bn fund to fight malaria – BBC News
The UK government is to create a new £1bn fund aimed at eradicating malaria and other infectious diseases. The Ross Fund will be run in partnership with US philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates.
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After the attacks in Paris, the world is again challenged by fear. With every bombing, beheading and mass shooting, the dread spreads, along with the urgency of defeating this nihilism. But no less a challenge for the civilized world is the danger o…
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/SbLWdUseqb https://t.co/BPWI8kCSOs https://t.co/DV5okhBaUg
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/SbLWdUseqb https://t.co/BPWI8kCSOs https://t.co/DV5okhBaUg
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Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism https://t.co/BylznA8j3v https://t.co/qqPyvNespZ via /r/democrats
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Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism https://t.co/BylznA8j3v https://t.co/qqPyvNespZ via /r/democrats
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ : democrats
Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ https://t.co/FeVJWois1i https://t.co/4cCrVWvjhe via /r/democrats
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This Video Shows How This Stunning Art Project Came Together
Penang, Malasysia is now home to a really beautiful art project: The Star, constructed by artist Jun Hao Ong as part of the Urban XChange public art festival. This is really beautiful, and the video shows off how Ong constructed the project.
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“100% INFANT MORTALITY IN ORCAS, WEST COAST MASS DIE-OFFS ALL MARINE CREATURES FOR 4TH YEAR” (havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.ca)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ (time.com)
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Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism : democrats
Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism (nytimes.com)submitted 48 minutes ago by loading…
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This Video Shows Why Joss Whedon’s Serenity Was A Unique, Genre-Bending Film
Digging Deeper is a new video channel that goes in depth on a film topic. In their latest video, they profile Joss Whedon’s Serenity, examining how it uses a whole bunch of genres to really succeed as a film.
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Southwest Airlines criticized over ‘singling out’ Middle Eastern passengers | US news | The Guardian
Southwest Airlines has become the subject of criticism over reports that it singled out Muslim or Middle Eastern passengers on two flights this week, after fellow fliers said they feared for their safety if those passengers were allowed to fly.
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Watching 1,000 Tubes of Go-GURT Get Eviscerated Is Pure Joy
Go-GURT: The colorful yogurt-in-a-tube product you haven’t thought about since you were twelve. What’s a childless adult to do with a box of slurpable, berry-flavored dairy goop? Easy: Go buy a hundred more boxes, and crush ‘em with an anvil.
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ : Liberal
Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ https://t.co/GcxPUo7koM https://t.co/4cCrVWvjhe via /r/Liberal
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’
Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ https://t.co/GcxPUo7koM https://t.co/4cCrVWvjhe via /r/Liberal
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Comcast internet subscribers shopping around for streaming video services are going to have a pretty convincing reason to opt for the company’s own product, called Stream TV. That’s because data used for the service won’t count against subscribers’ …
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“In Canada, we have some nice falcons.” by OlonJohnson in pics – Imgur
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High Castle continues to set up pins without knocking any down · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
This weekend, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero is watching all of the first season ofThe 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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Here’s the first shot of Wonder Woman from her own damn movie, finally · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With a new director in tow, and no longer forced to pay third wheel to all the Batmen and Supermans and their inevitable, justice-dawning versusing, Wonder Woman’s own superhero movie has finally started in on principal photography.
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ (time.com)
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Refugees Present Moral And Political Conundrum For Iowa Evangelicals : NPR
Evangelical voters in Iowa are divided over whether to side with religious teachings urging compassion for downtrodden Syrian refugees or Republican politicians who say it’s too dangerous to allow Syrians to enter the United States.
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That Time Wyclef Jean Ran For President Of Haiti : NPR
Haitian-American musician Pras Michel talks about his new documentary, Sweet Mickey for President, which chronicles an unconventional presidential election in post-earthquake Haiti.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Work And The Painful Process Of Getting Conscious : NPR
All of which has taken place at a time when this country has been deeply engaged in questions about race. Coates spoke with All Things Considered’s Michel Martin by phone just as he was about to return to Paris, where he and his family have been liv…
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Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis : NPR
Religious leaders discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and how people of faith are navigating politics. NPR speaks to Pastor Russell Moore, head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention and Rabbi David Wolpe of…
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The Mali Hotel Assault: The Day After : NPR
The residents of Bamako, Mali, are in shock after Friday’s deadly terrorist attack on a hotel, for which an al-Qaida linked group has claimed responsibility.
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The Pitfalls Of Politics At Holiday Dinner — And How To Handle Them : NPR
This week’s Barbershop will explore whether politics or mobile phones should be allowed at the Thanksgiving dinner table with Steven Petrow, who writes the Civilities column for the Washington Post, Harriette Cole, who writes the syndicated advice c…
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On A List Of Big Names, Little-Known Activist Earns His Posthoumous Spotlight : NPR
On Tuesday, Minoru “Min” Yasui will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his fight against the military curfew imposed upon Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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Netflix Orbits Around ‘Lost in Space’ Reboot | Rolling Stone
Netflix Orbits Around ‘Lost in Space’ Reboot Streaming service wins bidding war to revive beloved Sixties sci-fi series
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“[The USA] constitute[s] 4.6 percent of the world’s population. We generate 40 percent of the world’s trash.” (themorningnews.org)submitted 12 minutes ago by [
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Deer from the perspective of the leaf via /r/pics https://t.co/7jtVSD0eG4 https://t.co/5iStYZgr7w https://t.co/0VZJqGFOu1
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Deer from the perspective of the leaf : pics
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Bamako hotel attack: Mali’s security challenges – Al Jazeera English
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has declared a 10-day state of emergency after the attack on a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako. Gunmen stormed the Radisson Blu hotel early in the morning and took at least 170 people hostage.
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This Video Illuminates the Benefits of Pessimism
Being pessimistic is typically seen as a bad trait, but it’s not all bad news. The School of Life takes a look at some of pessimism’s more redeeming qualities in the video above. The big pitch here is that pessimism helps you with defining expectati…
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Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism https://t.co/v5oyWlYAvY https://t.co/qqPyvMWR1p via /r/Liberal
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Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism : Liberal
Poll Watch: Democrats, Even Clinton Supporters, Warm to Socialism (nytimes.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam dies – BBC News
Mr Kim was taken to hospital with a fever and died of a blood infection and heart failure on Sunday morning. For decades, Mr Kim fought against military rulers and pushed for democratic reform.
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Colbert is slipping in the ratings · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Two months into his tenure as the king of CBS late night talk, Stephen Colbert has slipped into third place in the primetime rankings, falling behind competing hosts Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.
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Readbug Wants To Be Spotify For Indie Magazines | TechCrunch
Anyone who’s worked for any length of time in the publishing industry will, given the slightest amount of alcohol, wax lyrical about broken business models and the clickbaity-hell being wreaked on editorial content.
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The Big Logical Error Made By Everyone Linking Syrian Refugees To The Paris Attack | ThinkProgress
All the perpetrators of the mass murder in Paris who have been identified are European nationals from France and Belgium. Still the effort to link the attacks to Syrian refugees has continued. Specifically, some are pointing to the fact that at leas…
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Belgian Terror: Brussels on Lockdown – The New Yorker
On Saturday, Brussels was essentially shut down, as the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel warned that the threat of a terror attack was “serious and imminent.
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Foster babies 1, 2, & 3 Not as innocent as they look. : aww
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My sister is studying abroad in Switzerland right now and woke up to this outside her house. – Imgur
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Seimsgrend, Norway at Midnight [2048 x 1367] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Vin Diesel Is Bringing Riddick Back With A New Movie And TV Show
This is pretty exciting news: Vin Disel has announced that he’s intending on developing two Riddick sequels: a fourth film titled Furia, and a television show titled Merc City.
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For those of us who worried a lot about Japan in the late 1990s and now find the whole advanced world facing similar problems, deja vu comes so often that we get deja vu about getting deja vu.
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Maybe Think Twice Before Uploading Your ID to Twitter | Motherboard
Repeat after me: Twitter is a public space. Bearing that in mind, it might be worth thinking twice before tweeting your work-issued identity card, even if it is for a noble cause, as experts say doing so may expose you to identity theft or other for…
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Don’t scapegoat our children, say Molenbeek mothers – Al Jazeera English
Since the Paris attacks, the impoverished neighborhood of Molenbeek in Brussels has become infamous as the home base of some of the attackers. Belgium Interior Minister Jan Jambon has chimed in, promising to “clean up” Molenbeek.
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Gov. Kasich walks back idea of federal agency to promote ‘Judeo-Christian’ values in Muslim nations
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is now walking back his profoundly un-American idea.
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Raqqa, in northern Syria, became the de facto capital of the Islamic State after the militants seized it in late 2013. What was once a bustling city has been transformed under the group’s brutal rule. Here is a tour of Raqqa as current and former re…
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Tightly-packed croissant, and loafage off the pan : Catloaf
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It used to be that you’d know if a show would be cancelled after just a couple of weak episodes. With the enormous amount of new television shows out there, networks are more reluctant to give programs the ax, opting to give them a bit more time to …
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Taking Action Is Better Than Having the Perfect Plan
Having a plan is good. Waiting until you have the perfect plan before you take action, on the other hand, can keep you from doing anything at all. As business blog Entrepreneur points out, too much planning can be a cathartic distraction from taking…
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Adele Went Undercover To Compete In An Adele Impersonator Contest – Digg
17 diggs Music Funny Internet With some clever make up and a fake nose, we were fooled too.
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Former navy admiral behind bin Laden raid warns of ‘barbarians at our gate’ | US news | The Guardian
William McRaven, the former US navy admiral who is credited with coordinating the 2011 special forces operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, has said the US and its allies should prioritize fighting Islamic extremists, or else the Ameri…
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Scholar finds rare New Testament manuscript on eBay priced at $99 | The Verge
While you’re scouring eBay for Christmas presents, there are scholars and collectors out there who are keeping an eye out for one-of-a-kind finds.
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Six Lessons From Cybersecurity Superhero Training | TechCrunch
One of my distinct grade-school memories is filing out of fourth grade class, nervous, but excited to miss a portion of math class. We were having our quarterly disaster-survival drill; instructing students on what to do in case disaster strikes.
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Danger, nostalgia-phobics! Netflix is remaking Lost In Space · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Netflix has picked up the rights to a remake of Lost In Space, the old Irwin Allen sci-fi series that dared to ask, “How long could a family of boring people survive in space at the mercy of a rampaging character actor?” (Three seasons in the 1960s …
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Americans see a government of, by, and for the rich (washingtonpost.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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Sanders: ‘To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ : democrats
Sanders: ‘To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ (thehill.com)submitted 32 minutes ago by loading…
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While reporting on last week’s horrific terror attacks in Paris, we realized with shock that the band playing at the Bataclan, the venue where 89 rock fans had their lives taken, was Eagles of Death Metal.
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Americans see a government of, by, and for the rich : democrats
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Mali attack explainer: Who, why and what’s next? – Al Jazeera English
Malian security forces were hunting on Saturday for at least three at-large suspects involved in the brazen attack on a five-star hotel that killed 21 people in the heart of the capital, Bamako.
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An Illustrated History of American Money Design
It’s not just paper. From the first notes issued by the Continental Congress to the latest star-spangled bills released by the Federal Reserve, the history of money in America is laced with rebellion, propaganda, and—of course—lots and lots of wealt…
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A Fossil Tropical Forest Is Helping Solve an Ancient Climate Mystery
A team of scientists has unearthed the fossil remnants of a tropical forest on the arctic island of Svalbard, and it could help explain one of the most dramatic climate shifts in Earth’s history.
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Argentina Holds Presidential Runoff | Al Jazeera America
Noisy rallies Thursday marked the end of weeks of campaigning in Argentina’s first-ever presidential runoff, which could see a pro-business right-winger end 12 years of leftist government.
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MRW I click on a link at work and Internet Explorer starts booting up – GIF on Imgur
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Pennsylvania to seek death penalty against man accused in killing spree | US news | The Guardian
A New Jersey man who is accused of killing seven people in two states over a seven-week span this summer could face the death penalty if he is convicted in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said. Todd West, 23, is charged in Pennsylvania with homicide and r…
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Five Years Later: Italian Supreme Court Lets Earthquake Scientists Off the Hook | Motherboard
One of the bleaker events in the recent history of science occurred over five years ago with the trial and conviction of six Italian seismologists and engineers following a devastating earthquake responsible for the deaths at least 308 residents.
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Israel stabbings: ‘Four injured’ in Kiryat Gat attacks – BBC News
Four Israelis have been injured, two of them seriously, after being stabbed in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, Israeli police say. An Israeli police spokesman told AFP news agency that security forces were searching for at least one person over a “…
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Watch Miley Cyrus’ Kaleidoscopic ‘Lighter’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Miley Cyrus’ Mesmerizing, Kaleidoscopic ‘Lighter’ Video Singer and Wayne Coyne co-direct colorful, hallucinatory clip for ‘Dead Petz’ standout
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Sanders: ‘To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ : politics
They’re on a highway to hell. He said this in context of campaign contributions.
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Jessica Jones’ ninth episode breaks out the glass case of emotion · 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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Reid seeks GOP support for bill that prevents “suspected terrorists” from buying guns (msnbc.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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BRUSSELS — Warning of a “serious and imminent” threat of a Paris-style terrorist attack, the authorities in Belgium on Saturday shut down the Brussels subway system, canceled soccer games and advised citizens to avoid public places amid a security l…
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Louisiana Votes in Tight Governors Race | Al Jazeera America
Louisiana voters decide Saturday whether to elect a Democrat to statewide office for the first time since 2008 in a close competition that has seen the Republican former frontrunner, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, plagued with questions of character and in…
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This week at progressive state blogs: Snarling at Syrian refugees; health care on the brink in MS
This week in progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Let me know via comments or Kosmail if you have a favorite state- or city-based blog you think I shoul…
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Hillary Clinton hints that she supports backdoors in encryption : Liberal
Hillary Clinton hints that she supports backdoors in encryption (dailydot.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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As Working Families Cry Out For A Living Wage, McDonald’s Pays Shareholders $30 Billion (VIDEO) (reverbpress.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Meetbug Makes It Easy to Find a Time and Place to Catch Up with Friends
Web: Services that promise to make scheduling get-togethers easy are a dime a dozen, but Meetbug makes the whole affair so easy you won’t feel like you’re struggling to find the right time—you’ll just enjoy looking forward to spending time with your…
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Mali Searches for Suspects in Hotel Attack That Killed at Least 19 People – The Atlantic
Mali declared a 10-day state of emergency and three days of national mourning on Saturday after attacks on a hotel in the capital of Bamako left at least 19 people dead. Gunmen stormed the hotel Friday morning around 7 a.m. local time, opening fire …
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Adam Shatz · Magical Thinking about Isis · LRB 3 December 2015
Before the Lebanese civil war, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. Today, Paris looks more and more like the Beirut of Western Europe, a city of incendiary ethnic tension, hostage-taking and suicide bombs.
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Try going to college parties and look less like a cop. Did you not go to college?
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BBC Sport – Manchester City 1-4 Liverpool
Venue: Etihad Stadium. Date: Saturday, 21 November. Striker Daniel Sturridge could be fit enough to feature against former club Manchester City on Saturday, says Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.
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Two Bangladesh Opposition Leaders Executed | Al Jazeera America
Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, a move likely to draw angry reaction from supporters.
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Reid: GOP cares more about NRA than closing ‘terrorist loophole’ : democrats
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The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa : environment
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Reid: GOP cares more about NRA than closing ‘terrorist loophole’ | TheHill
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The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa – The Ecologist
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Friendly moment between a little girl and a biker : gifs
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Internet Sleuths Have Found Aliens Again | Motherboard
Last week, astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo that he took from a window of the International Space Station, where he has been living for nearly eight months.
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Upthere’s Beta Users Have Uploaded More Than 3.5M Files | TechCrunch
Upthere launched their first apps into beta last week, and so far the beta period is off to a good start, the company tells me. No word on how many users have slipped through during the beta, but I’m told that invites are being slowly doled out. Ove…
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Fears Brazil dam mud may cause severe sea pollution – BBC News
A wave of toxic mud in the Rio Doce river in Brazil from a collapsed dam at an iron ore mine is expected to reach the sea soon amid concerns it will cause severe pollution. Tons of iron ore waste and silica has spread over more than 800km (497 miles…
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Reid: GOP cares more about NRA than closing ‘terrorist loophole’ (thehill.com)submitted 50 minutes ago by loading…
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Гидрогель на сковороде – YouTube
Пришла мысль типа: А что если… И тут понеслось
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Leaked Apple Support app could lead to shorter lines at the Genius Bar | The Verge
Apple is taking its support services to its customers. Years after its business has come to rely almost entirely on iPhone sales, the company appears to be giving its support site a home on iOS devices.
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Hourglass Nebula js – Just Space
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Brown University plans to spend $100m to improve race relations on campus | US news | The Guardian
Brown University plans to spend $100m over the next decade, in order to address diversity and racism on the campus.
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At The Current Rate, The U.S. Won’t End Homelessness For Another 40 Years | ThinkProgress
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2015 report on homelessness in the United States, released on Thursday, found that the number of people living without adequate housing is declining, as it has every year since 2010.
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All UK coal-fired power stations to close by 2025 : environment
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Lincoln has all the chill : cats
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Bangladesh executes two opposition leaders – Al Jazeera English
Bangladesh has hanged two top opposition leaders who failed to secure a pardon from the president.
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All UK coal-fired power stations to close by 2025 (scotsman.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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Sanders: ‘To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ (thehill.com)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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Pearl Jam Cover Eagles of Death Metal in Brazil | Rolling Stone
Pearl Jam is currently in the midst of their South American tour, where each night the band’s set lists have featured a heavy dose of covers by artists like the Beatles, John Lennon, Pink Floyd and now, to mark the one-week anniversary of the Paris …
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See Eric Church, Smokey Robinson Team Up at ‘Shining a Light’ Concert | Rolling Stone
See Eric Church, Smokey Robinson Team Up at ‘Shining a Light’ Concert Rhiannanon Giddens and Aloe Blacc also join in on Church’s “Kill a Word” at A&E’s ‘Concert for Progress on Race’
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Garrus and his first time seeing snow = mind blown : cats
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An encampment of protesters outside a Minneapolis police station vowed on Saturday to maintain their vigil over the death of an African American man who was shot by police, saying they would not move until video recordings of the encounter were rele…
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Craigslist kidney donor connection turned match could save a life | US news | The Guardian
A misplaced Craigslist ad brought together a woman in need of a kidney transplant and a donor who lost his wife to kidney failure. Glenn Calderbank, whose wife died four years ago, said he ran across the ad seeking a donor while scanning a section o…
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BBC Sport – Real Madrid 0-4 Barcelona
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique will decide an hour before the game if Lionel Messi will start against Real Madrid on Saturday after his return from injury. Real, who will overtake Barca at the top of La Liga if they win, have a fully-fit squad.
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Jessica Jones heads to the suburbs for an excellent two-hander · 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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Chipotle E. Coli Outbreak Spreads To Six States | ThinkProgress
Forty-five people in six different states have contracted food poisoning after eating at a Chipotle restaurant this fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most cases, 26, were in Washington State.
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Netflix’s Next Remake Is More Popular Than You Might Remember | Vanity Fair
Cult sci-fi series Lost in Space went off the air in 1968, though it’s remained in popular culture thanks to reruns and the enduring power of the phrase “Danger, Will Robinson!” Now, it’s headed back to TV, or more specifically to Netflix. Executive…
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Bangladesh executes opposition leaders – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Mali Hotel Attack Shows Highly Planned Operation | Al Jazeera America
The heavily armed attackers who shot up a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, killing at least 19 people, planned their assault for the moment when guards would be the most lax, allowing them to easily blast their way past a five-man security team befor…
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View from the left—the gutless state of GOP politicians on Syrian refugees
Just once I would like to see Republican politicians have a reasonable response to something. Whether it’s Ebola or Latin American kids fleeing gangs or the Paris attacks, GOP politicians, by and large, manage to deploy some wildly uninformed knee-j…
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Sleeping in Is Slowly Killing You, Study Finds | Motherboard
I can only speak for myself, but generally the best part of the weekend is getting to sleep through it.
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Usually, by the time the public learns the names and biographies of Islamic State militants, or radicals from other groups who attack civilians, they are already dead, and so unable to speak for themselves, except occasionally in the ritualized form…
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Manhunt under way after four Israelis stabbed – Al Jazeera English
Four Israelis have been stabbed and wounded in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, prompting a search for at least one alleged attacker who was said to have fled the scene.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Dems push to end ban on gun violence research : Liberal
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You Probably Only Need Two or Three Fans in Your Computer
When you build a computer, your case probably comes with a couple fans, with room to expand. But do you need to? The folks at Linus Tech Tips decided to find out.
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Italian Muslims Tell Terrorists to Stop Killing in the Name of Their God – The Daily Beast
Never mind that there are an estimated 1.7 million Muslims in the country and that Islam is the second most practiced religion after Catholicism.
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Hillary Clinton hints that she supports backdoors in encryption: …condemned tech companies’ staunch refusal to weaken their encryption to make law-enforcement and counterterrorism investigations easier for the government (dailydot.com)submitted 2 …
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Microsoft’s Free Anthology Includes Some Of Today’s Best SF Authors
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a short anthology titled Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft, enlisting some of the best science fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by visits to the company’s research labs.
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Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim [Full Album] [HD] – YouTube
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Surface halo + twinkling dew js – Just Space
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Samsung Gear VR Sold Out Online At Amazon And Best Buy | TechCrunch
If you didn’t pre-order the new consumer version of Samsung Gear VR, you might have some difficulty finding it on your favorite online shopping destinations.
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Unbelievable Snow Scupture : pics
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Army patrols deserted streets as Brussels on edge – Al Jazeera English
Streets that would normally be heaving with pre-Christmas shoppers thinned out in a tense Belgian capital on Saturday evening after the government announced the highest possible terror alert for the city.
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Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim [Full Album] [HD] – YouTube
Laura Marling’s first album “Alas, I Cannot Swim” in its entirety. I have no rights to the music and make no money off of this video. All rights belong to Laura Marling, Virgin Records as well as UMG [Merlin] Domino Recording Co. This is for enterta…
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NRA blocks law to prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns. From 2004-2014, over 2000 suspected and known terrorists on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist have legally purchased firearms. (nydailynews.com)
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I’m not even Muslim anymore and I still have to deal with this shit. Muslims hate me because I’m an apostate. Non-muslims hate me for being muslim. Can’t get a break!
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When Fees Attack: Rolling Over A 401(k) Can Trigger Big-Time Charges : NPR [ Why you go Vanguard: Advisor Rolled Her Over into Load-Fee Funds, instead of a No-Load Vanguard Total Market Index Fund. ] (npr.org) By the way, We’re Still Waiting for a V…
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US man freed after 23 years in jail over another’s crime – BBC News
A US man whose conviction was overturned after serving more than 23 years in jail for crimes including the killing of a UK tourist has been freed.”It’s a great day,” Robert Jones, 42, said as he left Orleans Parish Prison in Louisiana on Friday.
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Lying About Geography and Minimum Wage [ Large Corporations TERRIFIED You’ll Find Out You Getting a Raise would BOOST the Economy. ] (ritholtz.com)
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Microsoft cuts thousands of movies and games to 10 cents for Windows 10 | The Verge
Microsoft is trying to tempt millions more people to upgrade to Windows 10 over the next 10 days. The software giant is kicking off a huge promotion for its Windows Store, with more than a 1,000 movies, songs, apps, and games discounted down to just…
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Gunmen abduct ‘ethnic Hazara’ in southern Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Mirwais Noorzai, the Zabul police chief, told Al Jazeera that the buses were stopped on Saturday on the main road between Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar. “They entered the bus pointing guns and asked if there were Shia Hazaras among us.
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Jindal Returns Seventy Dollars Raised for Presidential Campaign – The New Yorker
BATON ROUGE (The Borowitz Report)—Just days after withdrawing from the 2016 Presidential race, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said that he would return the seventy dollars raised by his campaign.
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My sister is studying abroad in Switzerland right now and woke up to this outside her house. [1334 x 750] (imgur.com)
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New Research Finds Half of Amazonian Tree Species Could Be in Danger by 2050 (inverse.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Eating less meat would protect water quality | The Columbus Dispatch
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Eating less meat would protect water quality : environment
Eating less meat would protect water quality (dispatch.com)submitted 54 minutes ago by loading…
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The Jezabels- Come Alive on Vimeo
Directed by Darcy Prendergast & Xin Li @ Oh Yeah Wow Made by Oh Yeah Wow: ohyeahwow.com Facebook: facebook.com/ohyeahwow Twitter: @ohyeahwow Instagram: oh_yeah_wow Special thanks to Paige Prendergast. http://www.thejezabels.com Facebook.com/TheJezabels Twi…
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The Drone Racing League Puts a New Spin on Spectator Sports
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. When you think of spectator sports, you think of big crowds. Hot-dog stands. Beer vendors. Foam No. 1 fingers. Although some sports may actually be better on TV, at least there’s the option of watching…
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Brussels in lockdown after terror threat level is raised to maximum | World news | The Guardian
Brussels has been blanketed with security after the Belgian government raised alert levels on terrorist threats to the maximum, warning of the “serious and imminent” possibility of a Paris-style attack involving firearms and explosives.
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Escaped red panda remains free as zoo appeals for help on social media | US news | The Guardian
Several resident of Eureka, California joined employees of the Sequoia Park zoo and city officials to search for the 18-month-old female, who went missing between 11am and 2pm on Thursday.
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Bernie Sanders launches petition drive to preserve Syrian refugee program. “When hundreds of thousands of people have lost everything and have nothing left but the shirts on their backs, we should not turn our backs on these refugees escaping violen…
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Gillmor Gang: Shelf Space | TechCrunch
The Gillmor Gang — Josh Elman, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Facebook jumps in with Notify and gives Twitter a run for its money in Notifications.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Before the hostage crisis at a Malian hotel was over, before the gunmen had even been identified, admirers of Al Qaeda and the rival Islamic State started jostling on social media over which of the jihadist organizations was more r…
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Kenneth Branagh Casts Himself As the Most Famous Detective This Side o | Vanity Fair
Since we’re already remaking every children’s fairy tale and ‘80s cult movie, we might as well get started on remaking all our adaptations of classic literature as well.
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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is about a man (Mo) and his daughter (Meggie) and what happens when, after they read a book, something in that book comes to life.
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Porcelain figurines transformed into creepy-cute insects / Boing Boing
Judith (AKA Miss Mantis) remakes kitschy-sweet porcelain figurines, transforming them with polymer clay, flocking and paint into statuettes of anthropomorphic insects going about their weird, daily business:.
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Wonder Woman Gives You A Piercing Stare In The First Official Movie Picture
Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot has released the first official picture from the upcoming flick, announcing that filming is now underway.
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Only 31% of Preteens Can Distinguish Paid Ads from Real Search Results | Motherboard
Well, this is alarming: a new study revealed that only 31 percent of 12 to 15 year-olds could recognize the difference between Google Ads and regular Google search results. In kids ages 8 to 11, the number was much lower, at only 16 percent.
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Composer Carter Burwell on ‘Carol’ and the Coen Brothers | Rolling Stone
I’ve never done one of these press days before,” Carter Burwell says into the phone, the composer’s allegro voice inflected with the curious enthusiasm of a kid playing the first level of a new videogame. “Interview after interview — I’m enjoying th…
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Jessica Jones has a game-changing seventh 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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Livin’ Thing: Jeff Lynne’s ELO Triumph at First U.S. Show in 30 Years | Rolling Stone
Higher and higher, baby. Now this was a momentous occasion: Jeff Lynne’s ELO playing their first real American show in 30 years, an intimate gig at New York’s tiny Irving Plaza that sold out within seconds.
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Inside an abandoned church in France : pics
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In Defense Of Theranos | TechCrunch
Walgreens, Theranos’ flagship partner, has announced it’s suspending their rollout of new labs pending an investigation of their technology and grocery giant Safeway announced that it’s canceling a roll out of Theranos clinics, a deal worth an estim…
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I’m sorry, but as a former Republican…what point are they trying to make? That they don’t know what planned parenthood really does? Or that they know and are willingly ignorant? Both are equally unacceptable.
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Democrats Try To End Drought In The South With Louisiana Governor Win : democrats
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Democrats Try To End Drought In The South With Louisiana Governor Win : NPR
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What’s on my ballot? Where do I vote? Guide to the Louisiana election | NOLA.com
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The US secretary of state John Kerry will travel to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah on a trip to the region, the State Department said on Saturday.
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Fifa Calls On Sanctions For Blatter and Platini | Al Jazeera America
FIFA ethics investigators called on Saturday for sanctions against president Sepp Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini, dealing a fresh blow to Platini’s bid to succeed Blatter as head of world soccer’s governing body. Both men were suspe…
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How easy is it to buy a Syrian passport on Facebook? – Al Jazeera English
When a man who blew himself up as part of the attacks in Paris last week, was found to be in possession of a fake Syrian passport it highlighted just how easy it was to come by such a thing.
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What’s on my ballot? Where do I vote? Guide to the Louisiana election : democrats
What’s on my ballot? Where do I vote? Guide to the Louisiana election (nola.com)
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Democrats Try To End Drought In The South With Louisiana Governor Win (npr.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole : Liberal
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Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole | WIRED
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How To Survive A Long Car Trip With Your Kids
It’s that time of year. Time to visit those weird, faraway relatives in weird, faraway places, where the Target and the Costco and the Whole Foods are all switched around.
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Hillary Clinton on Saturday expressed her condolences to the family of Anita Datar, the American aid worker who was killed in a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel in Mali on Friday.
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Driver accused in Oklahoma parade crash was not legally drunk, filing says | US news | The Guardian
Related: Police identify adults killed in Oklahoma State homecoming parade crash A document filed in court shows that the woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens of others after driving through Oklahoma State University’s homecoming…
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This is the feel-good overclocking manga you’ve been waiting for | The Verge
We’ve been waiting for a feel-good story about competitive overclocking for a while. Officially known as 87 Clockers, it’s the story of a talented violinist named Kanade Ichinose who falls into the high-stakes world of overclocking, drawn by the pro…
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The Right Way to Do Wrong, Houdini on deception / Boing Boing
The Right Way to Do Wrong presents a unique opportunity to experience Harry Houdini in his own words. A collection of the master magician’s interviews of police, grifters, swindlers, and criminals of all sort. These papers also give a fantastic glim…
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People Hated This Game So Much It’s Being Recalled | Motherboard
Back in June, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight launched with so many technical problems, Warner Bros. made the highly unusual decision to pull it from sale and refund players who bought it. It was simply too broken to stay in stores.
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Here’s Our First Ever Look At The North And South Poles Of Ceres
The Dawn Spacecraft is still orbiting Ceres and sending back some fantastic images. The latest are images taken of the dwarf planet’s north and south poles.
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PsBattle: Cat in an unusual pose : photoshopbattles
Tricky 9-ball shot. That has to be a winner.
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“Please, you have to help. There is a group of ghouls just around the corner. They will be taking us over before you know it.” I had to go to the fucking Data->Quest screen (then “Show on map”) to find this one. Miles away.
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A Group of Kids Is Suing the Federal Government Over Climate Change | Motherboard
It’s becoming more and more clear every day that governments, big business, politicians, scientists, and pretty much everyone else is not getting much done to fix climate change. But now, one group is trying to succeed where others have failed—and t…
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SpaceX Lands NASA Contract to Take Astronauts to the ISS in 2017 | Motherboard
NASA’s space shuttle program ended in 2011, leaving the agency awkwardly dependent on Russia to get astronauts to the International Space Station. That’s changing, however. On Friday, SpaceX became the second private American company to receive an o…
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Luke Cage brings the drama in Jessica Jones’ tense sixth 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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Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole (wired.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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GOP ‘Guerilla Campaign’ Seeks to Destroy Trump — NYMag
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Liz Mair, a “well-connected” former online communications director for the Republican National Committee, is trying to line up secret donors behind
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New research: Air pollution levels higher in states with Republican governors (psmag.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Standard procedure. For example, the twin towers attacks were twisted to justify an elective disastrous war in Iraq.
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Biodegradable is Bunk: World’s ‘Ocean Waste Baskets’ Still Filled With Plastic Trash : environment
Biodegradable is Bunk: World’s ‘Ocean Waste Baskets’ Still Filled With Plastic Trash (commondreams.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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There is no legal protection for climate change refugees. : environment
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There is no legal protection for climate change refugees. That’s inexcusable.
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5 Times Republicans in Congress Screwed Veterans
“These Republicans should stop pretending they give a shit about vets.” https://t.co/GU7NfJUMgy https://t.co/ZUkaDqk0g5 via /r/#politics
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BBC Sport – Newcastle United 0-3 Leicester City
Newcastle goalkeeper Rob Elliot is expected to continue in goal despite missing international duty with Ireland because of his ongoing thigh problem. Fellow keeper Karl Darlow could be named on the bench after returning to training following a foot …
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Adele Surprised a Room Full of Adele Impersonators, Leading to Tears, | Vanity Fair
If you’re looking for an ideal pick-me-up after 24 hours of crying along with Adele’s new album, 25, consider watching this clip from a BBC special that aired Friday night where Adele surprises a room full of her own impersonators.
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BBC Sport – Chelsea 1-0 Norwich City
Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois returned to training this week after a knee injury but Asmir Begovic will continue to deputise. Defender Branislav Ivanovic looks set to be involved, having recovered from a hamstring injury.
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Obama: countries must stop building islands in disputed South China Sea | World news | The Guardian
President Obama said on Saturday that countries should stop building artificial islands and militarising their claims in the disputed South China Sea. China insists it has undisputed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, a claim that overlap…
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“These Republicans should stop pretending they give a shit about vets.” : politics
This is typical GOP hypocrisy. Also, many of these bills were killed not for lack of a majority, but because a minority of Republican blocked those bills that would have had a majority of votes.
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Autumn Sunset in Burlington, NC [3114 x 2196] : SkyPorn
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Belgium Places Brussels Under Highest Threat Level Warning – The Atlantic
Belgian authorities placed Brussels at the highest state of alert Saturday, warning that the capital city was vulnerable to terrorist attacks, closing public transportation systems, and urging citizens to avoid large crowds.
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Extortionists Are Threatening To Release Patreon User Data | TechCrunch
Cartoonist Steve Streza posted a tweet claiming that an extortionist would release his “tax id, tax forms, SSN, [and] DOB” if he did not pay one bitcoin to a certain bitcoin wallet.
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How much shallower would the Oceans be if they were all devoid of life? : askscience
MathematicsHow much shallower would the Oceans be if they were all devoid of life? (self.askscience) About 10-20 microns.
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The Best Force Awakens Spoof Comes From The US Navy
There’s already been a whole bunch of The Force Awakens spoof trailers out there, but the absolute best one comes from the US Navy and the sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). These guys seriously nailed it, from the BB-8 washbucket…
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Vatican leaks scandal: Five people charged – BBC News
The Vatican has charged five people over a scandal that saw confidential documents leaked to the media. High-ranking priest Lucio Vallejo Balda and former employee Francesca Chaouqui were arrested early in November.
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Living Hawaii: Two-thirds of an electricity price revolution? Hawaiian Electric wants to offer shockingly lower rates to customers — at least for part of the day. (civilbeat.com)
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An Upside-down Diver under ice : gifs
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An unlikely memorial runs across the middle of the marketplace in Kettering — an otherwise unremarkable English market town. This slab of granite, set into the paving as part of a timeline of local history, reads “Russian Satellites: Grammar School …
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Poor leadership blamed for Kunduz fall: report – 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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Our Updated Dinner-Conversation Policies – The New Yorker
Welcome to our home. Please take a moment to review our latest statement regarding so-called micro-aggressions, together with a revised list of “trigger warning” requests. Kindly commit the following to memory.
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Suicide Attack in Cameroon Kills at Least 10 | Al Jazeera America
Boko Haram has mounted numerous attacks in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria this year and is turning the border region near Lake Chad into a war zone, the United Nations refugee agency said last month. Boko Haram has waged a six-year campaign in no…
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GOP operative prepares anti-Trump ‘guerilla campaign’ – “The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.” (thehill.com)submitted 2 hours …
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Adopted a hurdle for our husky yesterday. : pics
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5 Things A ‘System Shock’ Reboot Must Have to Be Good | Motherboard
It seems like System Shock, the classic cyberpunk first-person PC game, is making a comeback.
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Man killed in Washington DC police shooting identified | US news | The Guardian
District of Columbia police have identified the man who was shot and killed by an officer on Thursday, after he confronted the officer with a large knife and another sharp object. In a news release on Friday, police identified the man as 34-year-old…
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Tech Update: a Hit, a Miss – The Atlantic
Front courtyard of The Queen’s College, Oxford, recently, in a panorama that Google Photos automatically created from several overlapping smart-phone shots. Here is a link to the same composite picture in full rez.
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Watch This Madman Flaunt the NYPD Hoverboard Ban | Motherboard
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When Jennifer Schuur Herbert passes a rack of tabloid magazines in her Los Angeles neighborhood, she is often reminded of what can happen in even the most glamorous Hollywood marriages.
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One year after a Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice dead, emotions still run high. On Monday, a year will have passed since an officer mistook for the real thing the toy gun with which the 12-year-old boy was playing.
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On Friday afternoon, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared to partially walk back comments he had made earlier saying all American Muslims would “have to be” required to to register in a database. On Twitter, he said the idea didn’…
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Feds Won’t Release Video From Jamar Clark’s Shooting By Police | ThinkProgress
Backing up local and state officials — and rebuffing protestors — federal investigators said Friday they would not release video of Jamar Clark’s fatal shooting last week in Minneapolis.
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Is your ‘surprise album’ really a surprise? | The Verge
It’s becoming harder and harder to make it through a week of new releases without an album being deemed a “surprise.” In its purest form, a surprise release occurs when an artist takes their new music and unleashes it on the internet without so much…
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2015 Los Angeles Auto Show tech: Augmented reality manuals and retina-display maps | Ars Technica
LOS ANGELES—The LA Auto Show got underway this week with press preview days on Wednesday and Thursday. It was a relatively low-key show this year, with only a few cars blowing our socks off with excitement.
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Top 10 Tips to Work a Room Like a Champ
Whether you’re headed to your office’s boring holiday party or attending your weird neighbor’s potluck, parties—which should be fun—come with all sorts of awkward moments and stressors attached. Here are 10 ways to work that room like a champ.
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Having Success With Code Bootcamps: A Guide For Employers And Bootcamp Grads | TechCrunch
Anyone hiring engineers in tech knows how much competition there is for talent; there just aren’t enough good engineers to go around. As a result of the incredibly high demand for talent, the supply side has responded by launching coding bootcamps a…
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“The Higgs mass that we measure is consistent with the Standard Model if the parameters of the model are carefully tuned to something like 30 decimal places,” said Joe Incandela, a UC Santa Barbara physics professor and scientist in CERN’s Compact M…
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Stephen Colbert Lectures Scientists on ‘Lord of the Rings’ | Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert Lectures Scientists on ‘Lord of the Rings’ ‘Late Show’ host takes umbrage after new species of spider is named after Smeagol instead of Gollum
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Get the Microsoft Office specialist Excel certification bundle for just $19 / Boing Boing
Excel skills aren’t just good to have, they’re essential to your career success. Start from the basics and advance your skills through these dual expert-taught courses. You’ll be fully prepped to earn yourself a coveted certification, and score the …
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Unless you’re a goddamn communist. I wasn’t sure where to post this. It’s a poster from a high school.
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Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ : politics
Obama: U.S. Will Welcome Refugees ‘As Long as I’m President’ (time.com) This is being said a lot, but last-term Obama is by far the best Obama. Fuck your xenophobia, America.
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The Republican campaign is now engaged in classic “pre-genocidal” levels of hate rhetoric. (self.politics)
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Ease Shopping, Lower Bills -The U.S. proposed new Obamacare rules Friday that it says will make it easier for people to shop for health insurance, protect them from some out-of-pocket costs, and help states run the marketplaces where plans are sold.…
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Poll: Clinton leads Sanders by 25 points nationally (thehill.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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Poll: Clinton leads Sanders by 25 points nationally : Liberal
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In Canada, we have some nice falcons. : pics
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A Gladiator Spider Hunting : gifs
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Poll: Clinton leads Sanders by 25 points nationally : democrats
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Poll: Clinton leads Sanders by 25 points nationally | TheHill
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Everyday life for Muslims in the USA – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content US news Everyday life for Muslims in the USA – in pictures Photographer Robert Gerhardt has been documenting the lives of Muslims living in America for the last five years and says of the project Muslim/American, American/Muslim…
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Djokovic (right) inflicted Nadal’s second ever defeat at the French Open this yearATP World Tour Semi-FinalsVenue: O2, London Date: Saturday 21 November20:00 GMT – Stan Wawrinka v Roger Federer.
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Paul Casey shuns Ryder Cup chance by focusing on United States tour | Sport | The Guardian
Paul Casey will not feature in next year’s Ryder Cup, with one of golf’s longest-running sagas resulting in a surprise decision by the Englishman not to rejoin the European Tour. Casey has cited family commitments for a move which will inevitably ra…
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Curling (the Sport) Has a Technology Dilemma | Motherboard
The sport of curling is based on three fundamental things: ice, rocks, and a broom. While wrestling has it and every other modern sport beat by many millennia, curling, with its roots in Medieval England, predates most anything else practiced regula…
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Netflix Is Bringing Lost In Space Back For Your Binging Pleasure
Netflix might as well be known as the Island of Lost TV Shows. The latest show to be resurrected from the dead is 1965’s Lost In Space, which comes to Netflix after a “competitive situation, with multiple bidders”.
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Muslim Mothers in Belgium Say Stigma Hurts Youth | Al Jazeera America
Since the Paris attacks, the impoverished neighborhood of Molenbeek in Brussels has become infamous as the home base of some of the attackers. Belgium Interior Minister Jan Jambon has chimed in, promising to “clean up” Molenbeek.
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Ben Carson Defends His Foreign Policy Chops – The Daily Beast
CONCORD, NH – “Go, Ben, Go” rang out through the packed hall of the New Hampshire State House a number of times before the candidate actually showed up.
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BBC Sport – Graeme Souness: Liverpool great admitted to hospital
Former Liverpool and Rangers manager Graeme Souness has been taken to hospital in Bournemouth. No details of the 62-year-old’s condition have been made available.
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Belgium on High Alert Under Threat of an Attack | Al Jazeera America
Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections in Brussels, and subways were closed in Belgium’s capital Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks. At least one suspect from the deadly Paris attacks is at la…
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How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
This weekend, thousands of young prospective lawyers across the nation will receive the results of the July 2015 bar exam.
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The Secret History of Silicon Valley and the Toxic Remnants of the First Computers
Today, Silicon Valley is a dreamy officescape, a place where ideas and networks are currency. But in the 1960s and 70s, Silicon Valley proper manufactured hardware–and this industrial boom created one of the most polluted places in America.
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Poll: Clinton leads Sanders by 25 points nationally (thehill.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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Can a $7,000 E-Bike Replace Your Car? We Spent 30 Days Riding One to Find Out. | Outside Online
Earlier this fall, I performed an of-the-moment transportation experiment. Several days every week for a month, I ditched my beloved hauler of a minivan for an electric bike.
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My pit after his shower via /r/aww https://t.co/7phhkK8y7t https://t.co/T3M0eTaPal https://t.co/A4SVukarXH
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‘America is a country of … great contradiction’ – 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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Midwest gets foot of snow in season’s first major wintry storm | US news | The Guardian
The first significant wintry storm of the season blanketed parts of the midwest with a foot of snow and more was on the way Saturday, creating hazardous conditions as some travelers prepared to depart for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Poet Anderson… of Nightmares by Tom Delonge – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink-182 (a very good band), and Suzanne Young, author of The Program, teamed up to write Poet Anderson… Of Nightmares, the first in a trilogy.
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Steve McCurry’s India Photographs Will Display in Rubin Museum of Art – The Atlantic
This month, the Rubin Museum of Art will display a selection of images from Steve McCurry’s travels to India over the last three decades.
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An Unexpected Detection Reveals Gravity Waves in Our Atmosphere’s ‘Nightglow’ | Motherboard
Quite by accident, a group of physicists based at Colorado State University has detected gravity waves rippling across Earth’s highest atmospheric layers.
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ELI5: Why are you required to swear an oath on the bible at court even if you are not religious? (self.explainlikeimfive) They are not religious to any faith?
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Brussels on Lockdown After Terrorist Threat — NYMag
The Belgian capital of Brussels in under a state of lockdown after officials raised the city’s terror alert to the highest level possible following their detection of a “serious and imminent threat” to the city.
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Boundaries and Renewal in Bosnia – The New Yorker
In November, 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement brought the Bosnian War to a halt by formally dividing up the country among the warring parties. Diplomats accorded about half the territory to the Bosnian Serbs, and the other half to the Bosniaks (Musl…
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Last January, Geoffrey Smith, a scholar of early Christianity at the University of Texas, noticed something startling: an eBay listing for an ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John — with an opening bid of only $99. “I thought, This ca…
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Saturday’s Best Deals: Early Black Friday Sales, Your Favorite Headphones, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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Biden takes mic for weekly address, blasts ISIS, and those opposing taking in Syrian refugees
Good morning everyone. This past week we’ve seen the best and the worst of humanity. The heinous terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, in Iraq and Nigeria. They showed us once again the depths of the terrorist’s depravity. And at the same time we s…
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Having a Strong-Willed, Even Disobedient Child Can Be a Good Thing
We all want our kids to listen to us and do as we say, but sometimes they’re simply headstrong and defiant. Some kids are more like this than others, and that might not be an entirely bad thing. Lauren Knight describes on The Washington Post what it…
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Ask Stoya: My girlfriend wants to read my texts — is that normal? | The Verge
The internet and technology have totally changed sex and relationships, we know you — you adults, anyway, this column is not for children! — have questions about the world of sex. In order to answer them, we’ve asked our friend Stoya — a professiona…
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Watch Disguised Adele Prank Adele Impersonators | Rolling Stone
Watch Disguised Adele Prank Adele Impersonators Singer plays Jenny the nanny, surprises unsuspecting devotees for BBC special
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Congressman: Syrian Refugees Are Just Looking For A ‘Paid Vacation’ | ThinkProgress
Rather than escaping a bloody civil war, a United States congressman suggested that Syrian refugees are coming to the U.S. for free vacations. In an appearance on the Dale Jackson Show on Friday, Rep.
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Russia sends puppy to French police to replace fallen police dog : UpliftingNews
Russia sends puppy to French police to replace fallen police dog (news.sky.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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SOUTHERN TURKEY — Dua had only been working for two months with the Khansaa Brigade, the all-female morality police of the Islamic State, when her friends were brought to the station to be whipped.
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NASA Contracts SpaceX to Send Astronauts to Orbit
In a major step forward for crewed commercial spaceflight, NASA has contracted private rocket company SpaceX to blast astronauts off US soil beginning in 2017.
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BBC Sport – Rio 2016: South Africa hockey teams prohibited from Olympics
South Africa’s men’s and women’s hockey teams have been prevented from competing at Rio 2016, by their country’s Olympic committee (SASCOC). The South African Hockey Association (SAHA) says the decision will “cripple the sport” in the country.
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Man waving samurai sword at New York Apple store sparks customer terror | US news | The Guardian
The man walked into the Manhattan store and began waving the sword, authorities said. A video posted online showed him swinging the sword as he walked down a staircase.
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Obama on why it’s so hard to do the right thing in government: “I have to persuade my own party…I have to prevent the other party from blocking [it and ] now I can anticipate this lawsuit, this lobbying taking place, and this federal agency that t…
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Russia’s puppy present for Paris – BBC News
Moscow has announced it will be sending a puppy to Paris, in a show of solidarity following the recent terror attacks in the French capital. Police are still searching for some of those responsible for the attacks that left 130 people dead.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Tabby Cat Loaf! via /r/Catloaf…
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Shipping emissions can cause 10,000 premature deaths every year : environment
Shipping emissions can cause 10,000 premature deaths every year https://t.co/TEGe2hJi6u https://t.co/q6rMT1NJ4V? via /r/environment
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Shipping emissions can cause 10,000 premature deaths every year
Shipping emissions can cause 10,000 premature deaths every year https://t.co/TEGe2hJi6u https://t.co/q6rMT1NJ4V? via /r/environment
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Steve McCurry’s India (12 photos)
Steve McCurry’s India (12 photos) https://t.co/cC4Vmd59w7 https://t.co/L6sgpMm5Yq
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I don’t know anyone else with this odd conflict in their emotions and logic so I’m presuming it’s kind of an odd or rare thing. The gist of it is, while my logical mind is very liberal, my emotions are very aggressive and more conservative. I realiz…
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As US lawmakers voted this week to block the entry of Syrian refugees into the United States in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris, Abdulla Sindi struck a despondent tone.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week The aftermath of the Paris attacks, Europe’s refugee crisis, a juvenile dinosaur under the hammer – the best photography in news, culture and sport from a…
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Deadly suicide attack rocks northern Cameroon – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide attack near the Nigerian border in Cameroon’s Far North region, security sources have said.
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Teacher suspended over cucumber condom presentation allowed to return | US news | The Guardian
A Starkville high school teacher has been cleared to return to the classroom after being suspended over a student’s vegetable-based presentation for how to properly put on a condom.
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Welfare Reform’s Broken Promises Exposed Again
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says he wants to double down on so-called “welfare reform” from his new perch as speaker of the House. But Ryan should first look at the experience of Maryland, and specifically to a recent study that exposes the broken promi…
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Michael Caine Does His Michael Caine Impression – YouTube
Everyone has a Michael Caine impression, including Michael Caine.Subscribe To “The Late Show” Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTubeFor more content from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, click HERE: http://bit.ly/1AKISnRWatch full episodes …
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My correspondence and cornflakes with JD Salinger | Books | The Guardian
I wrote to Mr Salinger (never Jerry) from a military base in Greenland in 1962 after reading Franny and Zooey in an aeroplane, a normal fan letter. I wasn’t surprised that he answered; maybe I should have been.
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Southwest Airlines surrenders to racists, refuses boarding to Arab-American passengers / Boing Boing
After bigots alerted Southwest Airlines ground crew that there were two people speaking Arabic in the boarding area, the airline’s employees opted to harass a Palestinian-American pizza-parlor owner and his friend who were returning to Philadelphia …
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A Review of ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’ from Someone Who’s Never Seen ‘Star Wars’ | Motherboard
For the past several nights I’ve come home from work, walked my dog, cooked and ate dinner, and then immersed myself in Star Wars: Battlefront, the uber-hyped online shooter that publisher Electronic Arts expects will shift 13 million copies through…
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This week in the war on voters: Alabama settles with DOJ over failure to follow ‘Motor Voter’ law
This week in the war on voting series is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades. Montgomery Advertiser Editorial Board blasts Alabama policies on voting rights: In memorandums of understanding, the U.S.
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How to properly celebrate : sports
Are you not entertained?! This is how to properly celebrate.
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Dems push to end ban on gun violence research : politics
Dems push to end ban on gun violence research https://t.co/UH6ApFuSSt https://t.co/7OkyuEaQ2G via /r/#politics
This was put in place because the CDC was not studying violence but was engaged in partisan gun control advocacy. And note the Dickey Amendment only effects the CDC. The has been plenty of other parts of the government studying guns and violence. Th… -
Dems push to end ban on gun violence research | TheHill
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Ars Cardboard: Best board games to play this Thanksgiving | Ars Technica
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our new weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think.
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Money For Nothing For Everyone | TechCrunch
Universal Basic Income 101: “a form of social security system in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, in addition to any income received from elsewhere,” to quote Wikipedia.
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Alfa Romeo 4C Spider: driving the most impractical car I’ve ever loved | The Verge
Driving the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider is a bit like listening to Prince. It’s mind-blowingly good, but sometimes it’s just staggeringly inappropriate.
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Former BBC broadcaster Peter Dimmock has died, aged 94. Dimmock was the first presenter of Grandstand and Sportsview, and was also the first host of the Sports Personality of the Year awards.
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Exercise wheel for cats / Boing Boing
While looking for a new wheel for our hamster, my wife spotted this cat exercise wheel, which began life (where else) on Kickstarter and is now an object in the stream of commerce.
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Why Affluent Parents Put So Much Pressure on Their Kids – The Atlantic
With financial success ought to come some measure of relief—a chance to take in a deep breath, exhale, and survey the world from the top.
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When Air Force One next touches down on US soil, at an Alaskan refuelling stop this Sunday, Barack Obama will have completed a week-long circumnavigation of a world that can rarely have felt further from his control.
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Hair Braiders Challenge Regulations In Court | Al Jazeera America
Achan Agit has been braiding hair since she was 5. Fourteen years ago, she fled her home in what is now South Sudan, according to a profile of her on the website of the Institute for Justice, a legal advocacy group.
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‘Beyond terrifying’: Muslim Americans shocked by Donald Trump and Ben Carson quotes (rawstory.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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‘Payroll’ Is A Vision of ‘Office Space’ From Windows ’95 | Motherboard
For many office workers, the daily grind isn’t just something that comes with the job. It’s a way of life. Mind-numbing small talk with coworkers, bottomless cups of coffee, and endless sojourns to the copier aren’t the most exciting career perks, b…
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Pebble Time Round reviewed: You can judge this book by its cover | Ars Technica
Keeping up with Pebble has been a challenge this year. First, the company released the Time and Time Steel smartwatches, featuring the new “Timeline” watch interface that breaks up your day into past, present, and future events.
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As a Vet when someone asks why I’m drinking by myself on a Friday. – Imgur
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Under assault from Democrats and Republicans alike, Donald J. Trump on Friday drew back from his call for a mandatory registry of Muslims in the United States, trying to quell one of the ugliest controversies yet in a presidential campaign like few …
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A wonderful artifact just popped up on YouTube this week—a 1985 Melvins rehearsal tape, of pretty high quality for a boombox recording, bookended by the complaints of band member Dale Crover’s mom that the band is drowning out the TV! Melvins, as co…
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Little Fusion, Deep Learning and Other World Changing Ideas [Video] – Scientific American
In our annual World Changing Ideas roundup, we select 10 innovations—from software that uses eye movements to control wheelchairs to cameras that can see around corners—that could become game changers.
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How apt to be meeting Kenneth Goldsmith at Eisenberg’s.
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This week in science: when it rains it pours …
On average, the warmer it is, the more it will rain, both greater amounts during a single storm and on average over months or years. That happens because, up to a point, warm air has more capacity to hold moisture than cool air.
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Scientists Are Mapping the World’s Largest Volcano
After 36 days of battling sharks that kept biting their equipment, scientists have returned from the remote Pacific Ocean with a new way of looking at the world’s largest—and possibly most mysterious—volcano, Tamu Massif.
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Given some news I heard about how ISIS operates, this actually sounds like a really good thing. Go Anon. Hopefully they don’t go underground with it too much. As the article states, that’s a risk.
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Why do people join ISIL? – 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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The Plan to Save the World What success at the Paris climate conference looks like. (newrepublic.com)
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“A piece of sweeping legislation that would have expanded healthcare and education for veterans, After clearing a procedural vote by a 99-0 margin…. hijacked by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans… ultimately defeated with 41 of 45 Senate Rep…
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So, they conspire in unlawful spying operations that breach the 4th amendment, lie to Congress and then lie that they’re going to end the program. I’ve heard of “thinking like a criminal” to catch a criminal… but relentlessly acting like one – see…
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Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS : politics
Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS https://t.co/GgynC6bnpL https://t.co/vifHaXbCwB via /r/#politics
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Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS
Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS https://t.co/GgynC6bnpL https://t.co/vifHaXbCwB via /r/#politics
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Adele and the Women of Hollywood: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing – The Atlantic
The Women of Hollywood Speak Out Maureen Dowd | The New York Times Magazine “The Orson Welles model still stands. Male directors who act out are seen as moody, eccentric geniuses. Women are dragons.
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When California recently became the first state to officially outlaw use of the term “Redskin” for mascots throughout the state, it again sparked conversation over the use of Native imagery and likenesses in sports—from amateur to collegiate to prof…
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The Limits of Bombing Oil Fields: How ISIS Makes Its Money – The Atlantic
About a month ago, the United States started accelerating its attacks on the Islamic State’s finances with an expanded military campaign against its oil fields. The industry that U.S.
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Here’s how to live with a 16GB iPhone | The Verge
It’s 2015, and the entry level phones from both Apple and Google still come with only 16GB of storage. It’s an unreasonably tiny amount for anyone who regularly uses their phone to take photos and videos, or play games, or even just install a lot of…
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Good news: Big companies are using a record amount of clean energy | Grist
Companies like Walmart and General Motors are starting to defect from the fossil fuel-powered electric grid. Thanks to a new court decision, the state will have to design an emissions reduction rule that protects future generations.
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I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything | Ars Technica
Press events are usually decadent affairs of food, drink, and well-dressed executives in up-market hotels. Not this one.
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India’s ‘blockade’ snuffs out Nepal’s medical lifeline – Al Jazeera English
The three-month closure of Nepal’s main border crossing with India has led to a dangerous shortage of essential medicines and other supplies including oxygen, the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) said on Saturday.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The rush to demonize refugees is despicable
Paul Waldman: It isn’t just the presidential candidates; almost every Republican governor has declared that he or she will refuse to accept any Syrian refugees (even though they don’t actually have that legal authority), and Republicans in Congress…
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Reality Check: The myth of a Sunni-Shia War – 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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Book Review: Pacific – Scientific American
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers by Simon Winchester HarperCollins, 2015 (($28.
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Brussels Put at Highest Terror Alert Due to ‘Precise’ Threat – The Daily Beast
Brussels has raised its terror alarm level to the highest possible. “We have received precise information about a threat in which several arms would be used on different locations, similar to those in Paris.
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BBC Sport – Lokeren v Anderlecht called off as Brussels terror alert raised
Anderlecht’s game at Lokeren in the Belgian first division has been postponed because police have been kept in Brussels amid fears of an attack “like the one that happened in Paris”. The decision to call off the game was taken by the mayor of Lokere…
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Headliner: Richard Barrett – 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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Double standards in the Paris attacks coverage – Al Jazeera English
As news of the attacks in Paris was breaking, Facebook launched a feature allowing its users to “check-in” and let their family members and friends know they were safe.
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The Podcast Hit ‘The Message’ Is ‘Serial’ Meets ‘The War of the Worlds’ – The Atlantic
When Orson Welles’s radio drama The War of the Worlds aired in 1938, simulating a news broadcast about an alien invasion of Earth, newspapers published stories detailing the national hysteria it sparked.
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A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Thanksgiving
When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration.
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Not Just Thanksgiving: 15 Photos of Food-Centric Celebrations
Wildlife Watch Is a Washington Initiative to Ban Ivory Sales a Model for Other States? While many states have failed to pass laws to combat wildlife trafficking, one state bypassed special interests and went straight to the voters.
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Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is upon us. Some people will be very thankful there is wine at the table. They do. A lot.
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Is a Washington Initiative to Ban Ivory Sales a Model for Other States?
Voters in Washington state sent a strong message to the world on November 3 when they passed the country’s first ever comprehensive state ban on commerce in endangered animal species.
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What if Saturn flew past the Earth : space
What if Saturn flew past the Earth (imgur.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
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Along North-east Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon, there’s a stretch known as the “Green Mile”. Here, medical marijuana dispensaries are budding. Almost two years ago, when Matt Walstaller opened Pure Green in the area, there was only one competi…
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Hamburgers in Paradise by Louise O Fresco review – why we overeat | Books | The Guardian
One of the paradoxes of modern eating is that we remain so entranced by abundance. In the affluent west, we are drowning in sugar and fat and yet we dream of more.
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Derecka Purnell was one of the first Harvard law students to see the black tape placed over about six portraits of Harvard Law School’s tenured black faculty Wednesday morning. “I was surprised to see it …” Purnell said, before reconsidering: “Act…
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Night Owls by Jenn Bennett – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Jack and Beatrix are both art lovers but on two completely different spectrums. ‘Cadaver Girl’ and ‘Vegetarian Graffiti Boy’ met in the Night Owl bus. They had an instant intense connection which sets up the relationship on a high.
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Love Everyone Often 11/22/2015
Early snow causes major disruption in US Midwest – Al Jazeera English Over 500 flights were cancelled by Saturday, with Chicago’s O’Hare International and Midway International airports the hardest hit, as the first major snowfall of the season hit the US Midwest. tags: Pocket al jazeera english brainiacs & opinion…
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