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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet Near Syrian Border | Al Jazeera America
Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday, claiming it had violated Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings. Russia denied that the plane crossed the Syrian border into Turkish skies.
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Placester Raises $27M Series C Round For Its Real Estate Marketing Platform | TechCrunch
Placester, a service that helps real estate agents and brokers to serve their clients and market themselves better, today announced that it has raised a $27 million Series C round.
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Mark Twain’s Patented Inventions for Bra Straps and Other Everyday Items | Open Culture
Much has been made of Mark Twain’s financial problems—the imprudent investments and poor management skills that forced him to shutter his large Hartford estate and move his family to Europe in 1891.
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Fifa vice-president Michel Platini could be facing a life ban from football, according to his lawyer. The suspended Uefa chief is serving a 90-day suspension on corruption charges alongside outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter, while Fifa’s adjudica…
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Jeremy Clarkson gets plaque at hotel where Top Gear fracas took place – BBC News
The scene of Jeremy Clarkson’s infamous fracas with a BBC Top Gear producer has been commemorated with a plaque at the hotel where the altercation took place. Simonstone Hall in the Yorkshire Dales shared a picture of the plaque, donated by a hotel …
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Thanksgiving is one of our favorite holidays in large part because of the big meal. Few celebrations center so completely on a feast. Given our collective concern over health and nutrition, it is inevitable that many people worry about how much they…
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Our loaf was on the news today! : Catloaf
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Marco Rubio: US must not demonize police officers amid ‘rare’ misconduct | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said the US should be “vigilant” in prosecuting police officers who do a bad job, but he also warned of the danger of demonizing people in law enforcement in the wake of a number of high-profile cases.
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Marco Rubio on law enforcement: ‘The majority of police do a good job’ | US news | The Guardian
In an exclusive interview with Guardian political reporter Sabrina Siddiqui, the Republican presidential candidate said he thinks the ‘overwhelming majority’ of police officers in the United States do a good job.
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US-coalition strikes in Syria ‘killed 250 civilians’ – Al Jazeera English
At least 3,952 people have been killed in the US-led coalition’s campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, according to a monitoring group. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday…
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Why it’s wrong to demand that Muslims condemn Isis | Media | The Guardian
There is an insistent call for Muslims to condemn Isis. (I’ll come back to that groupist description in a moment). The MCB’s secretary general, Dr Shuja Shafi, said it was “important that our fellow Britons hear this message loudly and clearly”.
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Sexual Innuendo in the ER – The Atlantic
Ever since Anita Hill testified in front of Congress about her experiences working for Clarence Thomas, then the chair of the EEOC, the issue of sexual harrassment has received significantly more attention.
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ISIL fighters are not the new Assassins – Al Jazeera English
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, a flurry of pieces emerged in the media, situating how the incidents fitted into ISIL’s mission and vision of itself. One of the persistent attempts in the Western media and public discourse has been to situate…
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Alphabet prepares to turn off parental support for Google’s moonshots | The Verge
In August, Google surprised the tech world by restructuring its sprawling business into separate firms owned by a larger parent company, Alphabet; a change that was designed, in part, to increase accountability.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Tracking new missions from down under
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There’s a Dark Web GitHub For Controversial Code | Motherboard
It’s not uncommon for files hosted on sites for open source coding, like GitHub, to draw the unwanted attention of authorities. From copyrighted material to software in support of ISIS, there are numerous examples of content that might piss off the …
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Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Field Guide to Finally Getting Started
How often do you catch yourself putting things off until tomorrow? Does “tomorrow” ever really come? In Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, you’ll learn what causes you to procrastinate, how it can negatively affect your life, and some practical way…
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Startup Battlefield Companies, Where Are They Now? Luka | TechCrunch
We were impressed with a company called IO at Disrupt Europe 2014 in London — the service made it feel like you were having a human conversation with a foodie friend who gives great restaurant recommendations, and not the AI-driven machine running b…
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Sport picture of the day: Jordan Spieth and golf’s next generation | Sport | The Guardian
Jordan Spieth plays a bunker shot as he hosts a golf clinic for junior golfers in the runup to the 2015 Australian Open at The Australian Golf Course in Sydney. Photograph: Matt King/Getty Images
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Dr. Hammond spared no expense on his comedy lessons (OC) – GIF on Imgur
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Never leave your car door open when unloading groceries. – Imgur
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Bezos spaceship makes second flight – BBC News
The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has conducted a second flight of his New Shepard spaceship. Intended eventually to carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday with no-one aboard.
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The Drug Lords of Tomorrow Will Be Biohackers | Motherboard
Through various sources—mainly transhumanist biohacker friends—I’ve been hearing about how some drug traffickers might be taking an interest in cranial implant technology.
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Essay: Why I will not apologise for ISIL – Al Jazeera English
With rare exception, Muslims appearing on mainstream Western news outlets are asked, in some way, to apologise for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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The chancellor is a busy man. The day before the results of his Comprehensive Spending Review, I doubt he is giving too much thought to cycling but if he did he would see the real opportunity it offers to boost the economy and lighten the load on th…
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Algeria military court to try intelligence official – Al Jazeera English
Algeria’s former head of counterterrorism will appear in a military court in the country’s first trial of a high-ranking officer in the secret services, according to his lawyer.
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Syrians who entered Honduras illegally ask for asylum – BBC News
Five Syrians who entered Honduras on forged Greek passports have requested asylum, Honduran officials have said. They were arrested last week on arrival at Toncontin airport in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, from where they planned to travel to …
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Climate study finds evidence of global shift in the 1980s : environment
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Climate study finds evidence of global shift in the 1980s
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First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain : environment
First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain (theguardian.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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DIY Computer For Kids Maker Kano Ships Its Build-Your-Own Screen Kit | TechCrunch
Learn-to-code startup Kano is now shipping a 10.1-inch HD display to go with its keyboard plus Raspberry Pi DIY computer kit for kids.
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COP21 primer: A brief history of climate talks – BBC News
Next week, representatives from 195 countries will arrive in Paris to take part in a major UN climate summit. Outcomes of previous meetings have ranged from promising to downright disappointing, ending without agreement and in some cases acrimony.
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Time to act on natural capital is now, says Charles – BBC News
Prince Charles has lamented the “economic invisibility of nature” and called on business leaders to act now to save the world’s natural capital.
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Game of Thrones tweet teases Jon Snow return – BBC News
A poster of a bloodied, but very much alive Jon Snow, has appeared to end months of speculation as to whether the popular Game of Thrones character will return in the sixth series.HBO tweeted the image with the message: “April #GoTSeason6 #GameOfThr…
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Pfizer’s $160bn Allergan deal under pressure in the US – BBC News
Drugs giant Pfizer’s $160bn (£106bn) deal to buy botox-maker Allergan has been criticised by US politicians as an attempt to slash its tax bill. The deal proposes that the merged company will maintain Allergan’s Irish domicile, allowing Pfizer to es…
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Security forces during a raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, last week. The French Parliament voted last week to extend the state of emergency for three more months.
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Kerry condemns Palestinian attacks as ‘acts of terrorism’ – BBC News
US Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced as “acts of terrorism” a wave of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis, on a visit to Jerusalem. “No people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks in the streets, with knives, with scis…
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Discovery Channel Is Finally Breaking Up With Bad Science | Mother Jones
John Hoffman is the new boss of documentaries at the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and the Science Channel, and he wants you to know big changes are coming to the networks sometimes criticized for favoring overcooked “docu-tainment” over scienti…
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Inside Anonymous’ Messy Cyberwar Against ISIS | Mother Jones
The Saturday morning following the deadly terrorists attacks in Paris, the hacktivist network Anonymous declared war on ISIS.
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It’s time to give up on the ideal of perfect privacy…
Many people view the internet as an unstoppable force with regenerative powers. They believe our insatiable appetite for information ensures that even if data gets removed from a particular website, it’s just a matter of time before the vanquished m…
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Spider Dances For His Life!! – Life Story – BBC – YouTube
What can a spider do to impress a female when faced with mating or being killed? Taken from Life Story.Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c…BBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarthBBC Earth Facebook …
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If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate …
When I go online, I feel like one of B F Skinner’s white Carneaux pigeons. Those pigeons spent the pivotal hours of their lives in boxes, obsessively pecking small pieces of Plexiglas.
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The Republicans Who Support Bernie Sanders – The Atlantic
When Tarie MacMillan switched on her television in August to watch the first Republican presidential debate, she expected to decide which candidate to support. But MacMillan, a 65-year-old Florida resident, was disappointed.
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How Donald Trump’s Muslim Policies Threaten All Religions – The Atlantic
The only group Donald Trump seems to like less than Mexicans is Muslims. The presidential frontrunner incited controversy this week after he indicated to two reporters that he wouldn’t rule out setting up a national registry or special identificatio…
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November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin Publishes ‘On the Origin of Species’ | The Nation
As noted a few weeks ago in our post on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, The Almanac prefers to limits its researches to those events that occurred within the 150-year lifespan of The Nation itself.
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Bleak outlook for Nepal’s urban refugees – Al Jazeera English
Kathmandu, Nepal – Refugees have organised sit-in protests in the Nepali capital demanding that UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, which provides for them, revokes its decision to cut monthly allowances starting next year.
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Despite the organization and funding behind groups which try to cast doubt about the causes and implications of climate change, the facts have spoken. The world continues to warm and their favorite myths have died. We know that human-emitted heat-tr…
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College bowl games are creeping dangerously close to the precipice | Sport | The Guardian
When you blindfolded me – handcuffs in one hand, a Weed Eater in the other – I didn’t ask questions. Not a peep. When you whispered sweet nothings in my ear, breath as hot as a Shreveport summer, about Famous Idaho Potatoes and late December in Detr…
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China’s Smog Levels Reach 50 Times the Limit: ‘Everybody is at Risk’ : environment
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China’s Soaring Smog Puts Residents at Serious Risk, Experts Say
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China’s Smog Levels Reach 50 Times the Limit: ‘Everybody is at Risk’ (livescience.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Marium Mukhtiar, Pakistani female fighter pilot, dies in crash – BBC News
Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine training mission when her plane met an “in-flight emergency” over Mianwali district, the air force said. She and her co-pilot ejected. She later died from her injuries in hospital.
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More Than 16 People Were Shot Near a New Orleans Playground on Sunday | VICE | United Kingdom
On Sunday night, about 500 people gathered in a New Orleans park to participate in the filming a music video at a block party. But what began as a peaceful gathering in the Upper Ninth Ward turned violent just after 6 PM, when gunfire broke out, inj…
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No invention of modern capitalism so enrages the public as does the tax haven. When giant corporations and very rich people choose not to pay their taxes, and government turns a blind eye, faith in the state crumbles.
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Eastern Pacific hurricane season refuses to die – Al Jazeera English
A tropical depression, lying some 500km to the southwest of Mexico’s holiday resort of Acapulco, is expected to intensify in the coming days. It is likely to affect both local people and the many thousands of holidaymakers enjoying a Thanksgiving ho…
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If you could have dinner with three authors, dead or alive, who would it be and why? Neil Gaiman, because he’s one of my favourite writers, Terry Brooks, to tell him one of his books inspired me to become a writer, and Shakespeare, just because that…
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Could the Panthers be the most likeable NFL team in 30 years? | Sport | The Guardian
With six games left in the season, the Carolina Panthers are on pace to make history. Yes, there’s the opportunity to go 16-0, which would be an impressive feat indeed.
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Are Black Women Ready for Hillary? | The Nation
Rock Hill, South Carolina—Picturesque Winthrop University buzzed with pride and energy on the first weekend in November, when the “First in the South Democratic Candidates Forum,” moderated by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, came to campus.
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Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes receives International Emmy – BBC News
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has received an International Emmy at an event in New York. Lord Fellowes was presented with the honorary Founders award by Downton actress Elizabeth McGovern, who plays the Countess of Grantham.
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The Great Academic Novel – In These Times
Are the humanities doomed? In 2015, it can certainly seem that way as universities reinvent themselves as global brands, investing their resources in amenities and administrators while turning the slow labor of teaching over to cheap, disposable adj…
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Xiaomi’s Mi Pad 2 is an iPad mini that runs Windows 10 | The Verge
Chinese tech firm Xiaomi has unveiled three new products to mark the end of the year, and one of them is a real surprise.
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Dell apologizes for laptop security scare, will remove vulnerability today | The Verge
Dell has been shipping an SSL certificate on a number of its laptops, generating security concerns that hackers could misuse the certificate to spy on web traffic. After being made aware of the problem yesterday, Dell says “we deeply regret that thi…
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Turkey Downs Russian Warplane on Syrian Border — NYMag
Turkish forces shot down a Russian jet along the Syrian border on Tuesday, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency. A Turkish military official told Reuters that the SU-30 fighter plane was warned several times that it was violating Turkish a…
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Citheronia hamifera – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Citheronia hamifera is a species of moths in the Saturniidae family. It is found in Trinidad, Peru, Guyana,[1]French Guiana, Argentina, Bolivia,[2]Ecuador and Brazil. Larvae have been reared on Ligustrum ovalifolium.
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Did you miss out on the first few waves of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt London 2015? Don’t fret. There’s another round of tickets just been released. To score your spot at the best Hackathon in London, just head over to our ticketing page to …
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Tracking new missions from down under / Estrack / Operations / Our Activities / ESA
For beachgoers, Australia’s pristine west coast is an ideal location to catch some rays. It is also ideal for catching signals from newly launched rockets and satellites, which is one reason why ESA is redeveloping its tracking capabilities down und…
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ISIL thrives on divisions among countries under attack – Al Jazeera English
After the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, France has decided to intensify its military airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.
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Fighter jet goes down in flames near Syrian border: Turkey’s Haberturk TV footage : worldnews
Syria/IraqFighter jet goes down in flames near Syrian border: Turkey’s Haberturk TV footage (reuters.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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JFK assassination: Woman sues for return of film – BBC News
A woman whose grandfather filmed the assassination of President John F Kennedy as a home movie is suing the US government for its return.Gayle Nix Jackson is also seeking $10m (£6.6m) in compensation over the film shot by Orville Nix in November 196…
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Turkey ‘shoot down warplane on Syria border’ – BBC News
Turkish warplanes have reportedly shot down an unidentified military aircraft on the border with Syria. Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s shot down the plane after warning its pilots that they were violating Turkish airspace.
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Tanzania’s Magufuli scraps independence day celebration – BBC News
Tanzania’s newly elected President John Magufuli has cancelled independence day celebrations, and has ordered a clean-up campaign instead. Cholera has killed about 60 people in Tanzania in the last three months.
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Aftermath of shooting at Minnesota protest site – aerial video | US news | The Guardian
Five people have been shot near the site of an ongoing protest camp in Minnesota set up after the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer.
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Bangkok bomb: Thai court charges two over Erawan blast – BBC News
Two men have been charged by a military court in Thailand in connection with the bombing of a shrine in the capital Bangkok. Twenty people were killed in the attack on the Erawan Shrine in August.
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Britannia Obscura by Joanne Parker review – hidden landscapes mapped out | Books | The Guardian
There’s something interesting about the timing of this book: it arrives at a point when we are becoming untethered from the maps of our land.
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Gól v podání Jan #Šimák do sítě Vyšehradu. Neskutečný trestňák ve @FN_liga. Vyhráli jsme 2:0. pic.twitter.com/DZXV2c60kT
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King’s Shadow by Philip Womack – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
There is another world out there that is dark and miserable and all you have to do to get there is walk in a Surrey forest.
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Spain’s Glovo, Another On-Demand Local Delivery Startup, Picks Up €2M Funding | TechCrunch
There’s little doubt in my mind (and industry experts and VCs I talk to) that the local on-demand delivery space will soon get messy given the number of startups entering the space and the amount of venture being thrown at the opportunity. The lates…
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Brits 2016: Critics’ Choice shortlist announced – BBC News
Three new acts are being tipped for success in 2016 after being shortlisted for the Brits Critics’ Choice Award. Multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt, pop singer Frances and soul diva Izzy Bizu will compete for the honour.
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Wild things return to Angkor Wat | Environment | The Guardian
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to wake to gibbons’ song piercing the rainforest fog, you’ll know there are few sounds more haunting on our little planet.
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One Man-Band Plays Amazing Covers, Note-for-Note, of Yes, CSNY, Zeppelin & More | Open Culture
I’ve had the opportunity to meet many incredible musicians in person, and I’ve always enjoyed watching them do something better than I ever could, whether it’s wailing away on the drums, guitar, keyboards, bass… whatever the instrument, it’s great f…
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Turkey shoots down warplane on Syria border – Al Jazeera English
Turkey has shot down a warplane of unknown origin on the Syrian border, according to a military official. Reports said that the plane was downed on Syrian territory in Latakia’s Yamadi village.
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Egypt plane crash: Easyjet cancels more Sharm el-Sheikh flights – BBC News
Easyjet has now cancelled all flights between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and the UK until 6 January. The airline, along with other carriers, had cancelled all outbound flights to Sharm el-Sheikh up to this week.
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Any excitement over Danny’s return after his lengthy absence from The Mindy Project is pretty much squashed by this episode’s end, as our favorite sitcom couple is at yet another crossroads.
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‘Warplane shot down in Syria’ by Turks – BBC News
Turkish warplanes are reported to have shot down an unidentified military aircraft near the border with Syria. Turkish media broadcast video footage of a plane crashing into mountains near the border with Hatay province.
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British heavyweight Tyson Fury says boxing has a “big problem” with doping. Fury, 27, will fight for the world title against Wladimir Klitschko in Germany on Saturday.
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Eric Garner Grand Jury Docs Won’t Be Made Public — NYMag
Nearly a year after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the police officers involved in Eric Garner’s death, sparking massive protests, New York’s highest court has declined to hear an appeal requesting the release of the grand jury tra…
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CIA Directors on ISIS After Paris: ‘They’ll Come Here’ – The Daily Beast
Current and former CIA directors and analysts weigh in on ISIS and the terrorist attacks in Paris. They’re featured in the new documentary The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs, airing Nov. 28 at 9 p.m. on Showtime.
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Fear of xenophobic attacks persists in S Africa – Al Jazeera English
Durban – Immigrants and foreign African nationals in South Africa say the government has not done enough to reintegrate them into communities after becoming targets of xenophobic violence. Many moved to refugee camps due to the attacks and some are …
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Cheddar Chesterson wuvs you! : cats
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In 1914 Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in the first world war, rescued a baby bear and named her Winnie.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A 212 Hour Exposure of Orion
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Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study | Environment | The Guardian
Neonicotinoid pesticides may be contributing to the disappearance of butterflies from the British countryside, according to the first scientific study on the chemicals’ impact on the insects.
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Gratitude: Oliver Sacks on the Meaning of Life and the Dignity of Dying | Brain Pickings
proclaimed a 1924 guide to the art of living.
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Fracking at Kings Canyon shot down by Northern Territory government | Australia news | The Guardian
The Northern Territory government has denied a mining permit to a company seeking to frack the Watarrka national park, which encompasses Kings Canyon in central Australia.
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Rolls-Royce plans ‘major restructuring’ – BBC News
Engineering group Rolls-Royce has said it will give details of a “major restructuring” of the business later. Chief executive Warren East, who took the reins in July, said his changes would “simplify the organisation, streamline senior management, r…
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I was very nervous when I saw last week’s promo for tonight’s Jane The Virgin, which made the episode look like one long ad for Target, it’s most aggressive corporate sponsor.
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Overwhelmed New Orleans Public Defenders Face Cuts | Al Jazeera America
NEW ORLEANS — It was early October, and Alvin Parker was on suicide watch at Orleans Parish Prison. He had been there for weeks, unable to make bail or see his overworked lawyer. The 28-year-old schizophrenic had recently relapsed.
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When Migrant Kids Become Homeless | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — The community where Cristian Gomez grew up in rural Guatemala didn’t have traffic lights. So it wasn’t until he was 13, when he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to live with his aunt, that he learned how to cross a busy city street.
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Sharp shares surge on debt relief report – BBC News
Shares in troubled electronics maker Sharp have surged on a report that its lenders might waive some of its debts to allow new investment. At one point, shares in the company were up 35%, but they then fell back to close 13.7% higher.
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Boy completes Rubik’s Cube in 4.9 seconds to break world record – video | Technology | The Guardian
A teenager from the US, Lucas Etter, breaks the world record for the completion of a traditional Rubik’s Cube at an event in Clarksville, Maryland, on Sunday, finishing the puzzle in an amazing 4.9 seconds.
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North Korean kimchi put forward for Unesco award – BBC News
The United Nations is poised to grant Intangible Cultural Heritage status to the making of North Korean kimchi. Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency, has already bestowed the honour on the manufacture of the South Korean version of the pickled cabbage d…
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Trump Defends Tweeting Fabricated, Racist Murder Statistics : Liberal
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Vatican leaks scandal: Five face trial in Holy See – BBC News
Five people are set to go on trial in the Vatican accused of leaking and publishing secret documents revealing mismanagement in the Holy See. Two journalists who cited the documents in two books will face the tribunal, along with two members of a pa…
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Trump Defends Tweeting Fabricated, Racist Murder Statistics (thinkprogress.org)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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Let’s take stock for a second. Gravity Falls is ending. This much we know. After tonight’s episode, there’s one hourlong episode left that figures to tie up … well, just about everything, from the lingering mysteries of Gravity Falls to the relation…
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5 Shot Near Jamar Clark Protest | Al Jazeera America
Five people have been shot near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesman said. Spokesman John Elder told The Associated Press in an email just before midnigh…
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Since the late 1970s humanity has been on a self-constructed economic treadmill. We have believed that our economies must grow because we think this is progress. If the economic motor slows, economists, politicians and business leaders tell us, the …
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For anyone out there who thought Rebecca was going to handle this whole “Josh is moving in with Valencia” thing in a healthy way: nope.
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Xiaomi Unveils The Redmi Note 3, Its First Phone With A Fingerprint Scanner | TechCrunch
Increasing the focus on its nascent payments service, China’s Xiaomi has brought a fingerprint scanner to its range of affordable smartphones for the first time after it unveiled its third-generation Redmi Note in Beijing today.
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Genetically engineered salmon faces upstream battle – Al Jazeera English
It is a controversial decision that got buried in all the talk of terrorism in the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.
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Dell apologizes for HTTPS certificate fiasco, provides removal tool | Ars Technica
Dell officials have apologized for shipping PCs with a certificate that made it easy for attackers to cryptographically impersonate HTTPS-protected websites and issued a software tool that removes the transport layer security credential from affecte…
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Frank Sinatra centenary books review – ‘the medieval monarch of showbiz’ | Books | The Guardian
Frank Sinatra’s favourite time of day was dawn, especially the ice-blue desert dawn of Las Vegas, the signal that he had slaked his gargantuan thirst for fine music, fast company, beautiful women and booze.
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Don’t Blame Trump for His Racist Retweets — NYMag
Some politicians might apologize after spewing wildly incorrect information about an entire racial group, but Donald Trump isn’t one to apologize – or even delete a widely discredited tweet.
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Can the planet handle China’s new two-child policy? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
China has a knack for world-changing policy shifts, whether it’s devaluing its currency, launching a national carbon cap-and-trade system or, most recently, changing its decades-old restriction on how many children its citizens can have.
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Seth Meyers Grills Sarah Palin on Syrian Refugees and Donald Trump – The Daily Beast
More than seven years after he watched a very pregnant Amy Poehler rap with then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, Seth Meyers welcomed the former Alaska governor-turned-reality star to his late-night s…
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Several people shot near protest site after police killing of Jamar Clark | US news | The Guardian
Five people have been shot near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, a Minneapolis police department spokesman said. Spokesman John Elder told the Associated Press in an email just before midnigh…
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Brussels lockdown extended as US issues travel alert – Al Jazeera English
Brussels will remain under the highest level of alert for another week due to an ongoing “terrorism” threat, but schools and the underground train system could reopen from Wednesday, according to Charles Michel, Belgium’s prime minister.
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Kimchi taste test: North and South Korea’s pungent pickle rivals – BBC News
The subtle flavour of North Korean kimchi looks set to join the spicy South Korean version on a UN heritage list. South Korea’s version of the pickled cabbage dish won a place on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2013.
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Inside Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas wonderland | Travel | The Guardian
The horse is sparkling. It prances around the ring, head held high, its features exaggeratedly pretty, like an equine version of those Big Eyes paintings or a cartoon. When the light catches the animal’s back it seems to shimmer. And that’s when I r…
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How European emission tests can be cheated – BBC News
A laboratory test carried out for the BBC’s Panorama programme shows that Volkswagen diesel cars programmed with a “defeat device” can cheat the official European pollution test, as well as the test in the United States.
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Thailand Indicts 2 for Deadly Bangkok Bombing | Al Jazeera America
The Aug. 17 blast at the popular Erawan Shrine was one of the most deadly acts of violence in Bangkok in decades. Authorities have declined to call it an act of terrorism out of apparent fear that it would hurt the country’s huge tourism industry.
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Why the Media Can’t Tell the Truth About Donald Trump’s Lies – The Daily Beast
On Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump retweeted an objective lie. The lie claimed that 81 percent of murdered white people are killed by black people. In truth, 84 percent of murdered white people are murdered by other white people, almost the exact opp…
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Don’t Ban Smoking in Public Housing – The Daily Beast
So the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has proposed a new rule that would ban all forms of smoking in public housing across the nation. If adopted, the ban would go into effect early next year.
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Will Chicago Cop Face Murder Charge for Firing Every Bullet Into Teen? – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager armed with a knife 16 times last year is set to be criminally indicted Tuesday morning, a day before video of the shooting is scheduled to be released.
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Tammany Hall on Trial Again – The Daily Beast
The words of an 18th-century politician seemed to ring in the chilly air outside Manhattan federal court on Monday morning.
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When Your Doctor Is on a 30-Hour Shift – The Daily Beast
I cannot even count the number of times that I have been told by medical faculty members that nowadays “residents have it SO easy.
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What Rand Paul’s Totally F**ked Campaign Says About America – The Daily Beast
In 2013, the case for Rand Paul’s presidential bid went something like this: his father, Ron, was able to create a grassroots movement by appealing to people—many of them young—who thought the government was too involved in their lives and too eager…
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My Parents Were Put In Internment Camps—Don’t Bring Them Back – The Daily Beast
Following the horrific attacks in Paris, a parade of state and local officials across the country proclaimed that refugees are no longer welcome in their communities.
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Experts: Yes, Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Helps ISIS – The Daily Beast
President Obama said Sunday that by rejecting and vilifying Syrian refugees, Republicans (and Democrats who are going along with them) are doing the terrorists’ work for them. Arie W.
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Mexico’s Bloodbath That Won’t Stop – The Daily Beast
When the French tricolor on Facebook became ubiquitous after mass murder in Paris, thousands of Mexican users responded with a reminder of a lesser-known war in their own country.
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Kinsey Was Wrong: Sexuality Isn’t Fluid – The Daily Beast
Some things are spectrums: rainbows, radiation, political positions. But as much as we’ve grown accustomed to the idea, sexual orientation might not be one of them. A new study from researchers at Washington State University (WSU) analyzed data from…
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Girls, You Don’t Need to Join the Boy Scouts – The Daily Beast
Throughout U.S. history, women have fought tooth-and-nail to beat down the doors of prohibited, male-exclusive spaces: Congress, the military, universities, McSorley’s Old Ale House. For me, championing these battles to break down barriers against f…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, November 24. All times are Eastern. Scream Queens (Fox, 9 p.m.
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The Controversial Challenge of Dealing with Canada’s Packs of Wild Dogs | VICE | United Kingdom
On Remembrance Day, the man in charge of animal control for Sturgeon Lake First Nation stopped at a house known to be crowded with dogs and was greeted outside by an eager but ragged-looking pup named Fluffy.
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Ben Carson’s Latest Bad Idea: A Foreign Policy Tour – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson may join a legion of presidential candidates who have gone on overseas trips during the campaign cycle in a thinly-veiled effort to demonstrate foreign policy credentials. But if history is any guide, it’s unlikely a trip will do much goo…
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Dead at 26, Baby Huey left the world one grand LP · Permanent Records · The A.V. Club
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. Surrounded by golden cornfields and rolling country roads, Richmond, Indiana, is a small Midwest enclave, located a few miles west of the Ohio border—less than an hour’s dr…
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What, exactly, constitutes a war? Here on Earth, the definition is a little unclear. The United States has been in some state of industrialized conflict for the majority of its 240-year history, but the U.S.
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Where to start with Jamaican dancehall · Primer · The A.V. Club
Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: Jamaican dancehall music.
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How dawn rain delayed execution of Pakistani Abdul Basit – BBC News
On death row for murder, Pakistani paraplegic Abdul Basit was minutes from being hanged before a last-minute delay saved his life in September. His family fear a rescheduled execution could take place later this week. Campaigners say hanging him wou…
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The Danish Girl · Film Review The Danish Girl can’t figure itself out · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
The strange thing about The Danish Girl is that it conveys its transexual heroine’s experiences in terms of erotic obsession—with silk stockings as the major fetish item—but is itself mostly sexless, at least as far as her life as a woman is concern…
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An actor best known for her slightly devious roles on shows like Game Of Thrones and The Tudors, Natalie Dormer knows how to make an audience just a little bit afraid of her.
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This past summer, Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy served as a kind of “What happened?” postmortem for anyone looking to understand how fame, drugs, emotional damage, and tabloid shamelessness conspired to kill an uncommonly talented woman at age 27. …
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Apple plans Apple Pay for China by February, says WSJ | The Verge
Apple has struck deals with China’s four main state-run banks in an effort to bring Apple Pay to the country, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Apple is said to be hoping for a launch before the Chinese New Year is celebrated on Febr…
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The incredible plan to make money grow on trees | Sam Knight | World news | The Guardian
One day about five years ago, Frank Nolwo, a compact, quietly spoken boat skipper from the upper reaches of the Sepik river, in northern Papua New Guinea, woke up and headed into town. Nolwo, who is 42, has nine children.
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First bomb explodes in Athens since Syriza took power – BBC News
The night-time blast – outside the Greek Business Federation offices and close to the parliament building – shattered windows in nearby buildings. It is the first such incident since the radical left led by Syriza under Alexis Tsipras took power in …
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Two American Answers to the Refugee Question – The New Yorker
When Republicans, and a few dozen Democrats, in Congress rose up last week to vote to make it almost impossible for Syrian refugees to enter the United States, President Barack Obama defended his decision to make America a safe haven.
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Collecting Meteorites in Your Own Backyard – Scientific American
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“After spending 5 hours with someone who has spent the last 50 years radically fighting for your rights and mine, I can tell you that I am very proud tonight to announce the next President of the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders” – Killer Mike …
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Thai military court charges Bangkok blast suspects – Al Jazeera English
A military court in Thailand has charged two men police accused of carrying out a deadly August bombing at a Bangkok shrine that left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured.
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A force to be reckoned with | Environment | The Guardian
Wide enough for a cart, this now grassy track was once well used. It curves down, gate-posted by alders, to a stone bridge, also greened by turf over time.
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New paper confirms corporate funding caused ideological polarization about climate change (desmogblog.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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APOD: 2015 November 23 – A 212 Hour Exposure of Orion
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: The constellation of Orion is much more than three stars in a ro…
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If you thought Saturday Night Live’s latest Star Wars audition tape sketch played like an advertisement for Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Jimmy Kimmel took things to a whole new level Monday night when he dedicated his entire late-night show to th…
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Korean families reunited after 65 years of separation – Al Jazeera English
It is a month since an elderly South Korean mother and son said goodbye, almost certainly for a final time, to their North Korean husband and father. The family had been separated since 1950, when the two Koreas went to war.
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Tom Brady calls ‘Rex Ryan’ audible as Patriots down Bills | Sport | The Guardian
James White scored the first two touchdowns of his career, one running and one receiving, and the New England Patriots improved to 10-0 on Monday night with a 20-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills.
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Early this afternoon it occurred to me that I was genuinely looking forward to watching another episode of Supergirl. While this show is far from perfect, it doesn’t feel like a chore to watch.
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Apple Pay Could Finally Launch In China Early Next Year | TechCrunch
There’s been plenty of speculation over Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in China, but now it appears that the mobile payment service could finally land in the country early next year.
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Paris attacks: ‘Suicide bomb belt’ dumped on street – BBC News
French police are examining what appears to be a suicide bomb belt dumped on a Paris street, 10 days after the attacks that killed 130 people. It is said to resemble belts used by the attackers and was found in a suburb which a suspect is thought to…
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If you’re still suffering through a Survivor Series hangover—if you’re still recovering from one of the more baffling and disappointing PPVs in recent memory—take comfort in the fact that you’re not the only one.
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Iraq tries to recover lost heritage – Al Jazeera English
Baghdad – The UN is warning that Iraq’s ancient heritage could be lost forever. Thousands of artefacts have been looted and destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Many were also stolen following the US-led invasion in 20…
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Beijing Court Hears Gao Yu’s Appeal | Al Jazeera America
Lawyer Shang Baojun said he could not discuss Tuesday’s closed hearing on Gao Yu’s case by the city’s high court, but said that he expected a court decision to be announced in early December.
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Geothermal Pool Image, Iceland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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US seen as ‘Britain gone wrong’: archive, 24 Nov 1964 | Books | The Guardian
The British had an ancient delusion that America was Britain gone wrong, Mr Alistair Cooke, chief American correspondent of the “Guardian,” said in London last night. This he described as an extension into manhood of the impulse of every child to as…
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A Wisconsin law that requires abortion providers to get admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday. (msnbc.com)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading…
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Killer Mike Introduces Bernie Sanders in Atlanta: “After spending five hours with someone who has spent the last 50 years radically fighting for your rights and mine…I am very proud tonight to announce the next President of the United States, Sen.…
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Red States Begin To See The Light On Medicaid Expansion : democrats
Red States Begin To See The Light On Medicaid Expansion (thinkprogress.org)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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Pew: 65% say the news media has a ‘negative effect’ on America : politics
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Pew: 65% say the news media has a ‘negative effect’ on America | Washington Examiner
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Rare sand cat makes an appearance : cats
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Donald Trump: I’d approve waterboarding ‘in a heartbeat’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The frontrunner in the race to be the Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 elections speaks at a rally on Monday and says he would absolutely approve the use of waterboarding – a controversial interrogation technique which simulates drowni…
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Holiday 2015/2016 U.S. Credits | Vanity Fair
Chris Hemsworth’s RAG & BONE jeans from Rag & Bone stores nationwide; Anne Christensen for Art & Commerce. His hair styled with BUMBLE AND BUMBLE Semisumo, and Prep; Jimmy Paul for Bumble and Bumble/Susan Price.
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A Secretive Air Cargo Operation Is Running in Ohio, and Signs Point to Amazon | Motherboard
In 2013, at the height of the holiday season, a surge of last minute Amazon orders and bad weather left many customers without gifts under the tree on Christmas day.
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This show looks great, doesn’t it? And it sounds great, too. The colors are crisp and wintery and a little sad, and the music is full of unexpected song choices, plus some solid scoring that’s reminiscent of the original movie’s soundtrack.
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The New York Times will be checking assertions made throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Follow NYT Politics on Facebook and Twitter to get fact check updates. NOV. 18, 2015 He was less clairvoyant than he suggests.
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‘Fargo’ Renewed for ‘All-New’ Third Season | Rolling Stone
‘Fargo’ Renewed for ‘All-New’ Third Season Series creator Noah Hawley also working on miniseries adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Cat’s Cradle’
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Abigail Breslin to play non-freak in Freak Show adaptation · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Abigail Breslin has joined the cast of Freak Show, an adaptation of the novel by Disco Bloodbath author James St. James.
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Fantastic Four Sequel Removed From Fox’s Release Schedule : movies
You mean we won’t get a chance to see 2fan24stic? WE’RE GOING TO NEED A MATHEMATICIAN, STAT!
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Star Wars VR experiences are coming to Google Cardboard on December 2nd | The Verge
ILMxLab, Industrial Light & Magic’s division dedicated to augmented and virtual reality experiences, is going to step into the spotlight right before the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon hopes to visit North Korea – BBC News
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he hopes to visit North Korea “at the earliest time”, but that no decision has been made. It was his first acknowledgement that discussions are ongoing.
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WASHINGTON — Inaccurate and unreliable medical tests are prompting abortions, promoting unnecessary surgeries, putting tens of thousands of people on unneeded drugs and raising medical costs, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded. Life-thre…
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How I Fell Face First for an Epic IRS Scam | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
I received a call on my home phone recently from someone who identified himself as Officer Jason Dean with the Investigative Bureau of the Department of Treasury.
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Clock Kid and Family seek $15 Million in Damages | Al Jazeera America
The family of a Texas Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school where it was mistaken for a bomb are demanding $15 million in damages and an apology from the city of Irving and its schools to avoid a lawsuit, lawyers said on M…
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When I see the comments, “Someone should photoshop this!” – GIF on Imgur
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Open thread for night owls. UN: Climate talks must address human cost of extreme weather disasters
Underscoring yet another reason why an ambitious climate deal must come out of upcoming COP21 talks in Paris, a new United Nations report warns of the “high price” of extreme weather disasters that are spurred in large part by a warming globe and ri…
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If Michael Cera started a clothing line, he could use the slogan “Try Cera Tops” : Showerthoughts
Fitting with his performances, every shirt will be exactly the same. But they still get the chicks.
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Two dead in US Army helicopter crash in South Korea – BBC News
Two US military personnel have been killed when their helicopter crashed outside South Korea’s capital, Seoul. The AH-64 Apache helicopter went down on Monday night on a road in Wonju, 50 miles (80km) east of the US Camp Humphrey’s base, said the US…
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Sunday night’s American Music Awards may have brought with a startling realization. We’re grown-ups, and we like Justin Bieber’s music. And also Selena Gomez. And Demi Lovato. Oh yeah, and Nick Jonas, too.
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The Star Wars Virtual Reality Experience Is Coming On December 2nd | TechCrunch
We’ve been waiting for an official Star Wars virtual reality experience for some time. With the movie coming out next month, that time is almost now. In an announcement today on StarWars.com, we got some updates on what to expect.
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Mud and mining waste from the bursting of two mining dams in Brazil on 5 November reaches the coast on Monday, spreading out to sea. The brown plume has been working its way down the Rio Doce river since the accident, in which 12 people died with a …
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No Australian combat troops to fight in Middle East – BBC News
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group is weak and Australia has no plans to send combat troops to fight it, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says. Mr Turnbull was speaking after shootings and bombings in Paris claimed by IS.
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What does the depiction of war and terrorism in fiction say about American culture?
For the most part, when there are ideological shifts within a society, they aren’t contained just to the “serious” aspects of a culture. One can see the ripples throughout the society, since almost everything, even our fictional entertainment, is a …
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Trident ‘could be rendered obsolete by hackers’ – BBC News
The UK’s Trident nuclear weapons systems could be rendered obsolete by cyber attacks, former Defence Secretary Des Browne has warned. The ex-Labour minister told the BBC unless “weak spots” were protected against hackers there was “no guarantee” of …
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It may be more than 70 years since the end of World War Two and the liberation of the concentration camps, but photographers are still drawn to explore the physical remains of the sites where the Holocaust took place.
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Tesla Model X production starts in earnest, pricing revealed | Ars Technica
Several months ago we found out pricing for the fully loaded “Signature” edition Tesla Model X electric SUV. Now, we’ve got a better idea of what the cheapest Model X will set you back: $80,000 before any options and tax rebates or incentives.
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Adele Can Fix All Of Your Awkward Thanksgiving Conversations – Digg
14 diggs Funny Music “SNL” perfectly recreates the awkward political discussions that you’ll be having at Thanksgiving, and shows you how to fix them with some Adele.
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Watch Killer Mike Introduce Bernie Sanders at Atlanta Rally | Rolling Stone
Watch Killer Mike Introduce Bernie Sanders With Moving Speech at Atlanta Rally “In my heart of hearts, I truly believe Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country,” Run the Jewels rapper says
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Can eating less meat help reduce climate change? – BBC News
As the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP21) draws near, the international spotlight is more focused on climate change than at any time since the Copenhagen talks of 2009. But amid all the talk of decarbonising energy and transport systems, one cr…
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Al-Shabab wants IS to back off in East Africa – BBC News
Somalia’s militant Islamist movement al-Shabab is battling to keep the loyalty of its fighters, as the Islamic State (IS) group tries to gain a foothold in East Africa.
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Futurama is coming back as a mobile game | The Verge
After being canceled, resurrected, and canceled again, Futurama is coming back — this time as a mobile game.
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Hamster gets cozy with a carrot / Boing Boing
Bookmark this page for your next bad acid trip, or perhaps an evening when you’ve bitten off more pot cookie than you could handle, or maybe the day after Donald Trump becomes president. That’s the life.
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(Don’t) give me your tired, your poor – BBC News
Three weeks ago I sat at a dinner in New York organised by the International Rescue Committee, the aid agency run by the former British foreign secretary, David Miliband. It was their annual shindig, and about 800 people filled the ballroom of the W…
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The Man Beaten And Choked At Donald Trump’s Rally Tells His Story | ThinkProgress
When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought, “I can’t die today. I’ve got shit to do. I have little kids. Fuck …
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How the Paris attacks are affecting Muslim children – BBC News
Many parents have found it hard to talk to their children about the Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed – but it has been particularly difficult for Muslim families. With that in mind, a daily children’s newspaper is devoting Tuesday’s pag…
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GoPro: Apartment Symphony – A Looping Masterpiece – YouTube
Normally cleaning up your apartment is a chore. Keith Peskosky turns it into a looping masterpiece.Shot 100% on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com.Get stoked and subscribe: http://goo.gl/HgVXpQTo license clips from this video go to …
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Are smartphones ruining weddings? – BBC News
Are smartphones ruining weddings? 24 November 2015 Last updated at 00:48 GMT Earlier this month, a Facebook rant bemoaning the use of smartphones at weddings sparked a raging debate about whether guests should leave the photography to the profession…
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NHS to get inflation-busting £3.8bn cash boost next year – BBC News
Front-line NHS services in England will get a £3.8bn, above-inflation cash injection next year, amid mounting fears about the pressures they face. The funding boost represents a rise of nearly 4% on NHS England’s £101bn front-line budget this year.
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Mutant mosquitoes ‘resist malaria’ – BBC News
US scientists say they have bred a genetically modified (GM) mosquito that can resist malaria infection. If the lab technique works in the field, it could offer a new way of stopping the biting insects from spreading malaria to humans, they say.
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For Sale: The Real Treasures of a Great Wine Counterfeiter – The Daily Beast
On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service will auction off 4,711 bottles of wine once owned by one of the world’s greatest wine counterfeiters.
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A woman whose grandfather shot a home video of the assassination of president John F Kennedy that has since been misplaced is suing the US government, demanding the film be returned or that she be paid $10m in compensation.
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In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump defended tweeting a series of fabricated murder statistics designed to perpetuate racist stereotypes. Trump actually copy-and-pasted a tweet from @SeanSean252, an anonymous Twitter user.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — “Whenever Republicans get into the White House, they mess it up. They mess it up, folks,” Hillary Rodham Clinton told a crowd gathered in a field lined with trees covered in Spanish moss here on Saturday. At rallies these da…
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Migrants spend night stuck on Macedonia border – BBC News
Scores of migrants are spending another night stuck on the Greece-Macedonia border after they were not allowed to continue their journey. Groups of people have been seen trying to warm up around bonfires on a cold night on the Greek side of the bord…
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Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘Even if it doesn’t work they deserve it’ | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump touted the benefits of waterboarding in a campaign rally on Monday night, telling a crowd that “you bet your ass” he would bring it back into use.
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Peter Sellers Is the March Hare In The Most Demented Alice in Wonderland of All
There have been a lot of adaptations of Alice in Wonderland over the years, including a Disney animated version, an X-rated musical, and Tim Burton’s lavish CG fantasia (which is getting a sequel!). But the strangest, and maybe best, is the 1972 ver…
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Record First Snowfall in the U.S. Midwest : Natural Hazards
Much of the midwestern United States was drier and significantly warmer than normal in October and November 2015. So when snow blanketed the region from South Dakota to Ohio on November 20–21, it probably gave some people weather whiplash.
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An Amazon Ad Reimagines The Subway If The Nazis Won – The Daily Beast
No, America didn’t lose WWII. But a train on New York City’s 42nd Street shuttle line is decorated with fascist imagery.
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This full trailer for Legends Of Tomorrow, the super spin-off of Arrow and The Flash, contains the line, “I’ve seen men of steel die and dark knights fall.
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Pusha T Sets Date for ‘King Push’ Prelude ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ | Rolling Stone
Pusha T Sets Date for ‘King Push’ Prelude ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ New LP will arrive in December, followed by official follow-up to 2013’s ‘My Name Is My Name’ next spring
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When I think about why comic book shows like Arrow and The Flash work so well, one of the main reasons is because even if the show falls into a rough patch, the pacing of the plot is so rapid that odds are you just have to wait an episode or two bef…
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Rape conviction thrown out after 16 years as new DNA evidence emerges | US news | The Guardian
A Los Angeles judge on Monday overturned the conviction of a man who spent 16 years in prison for sexual assault and other charges, after new DNA evidence cleared him of the crimes and linked them to the notorious “teardrop rapist”.
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Southwest is the airline of privilege and entitlement. Who knew?
Cheap flights and cattle-call/first-come, first-served seating, that’s Southwest Airlines. Who would have thought they would graduate to racial privilege and entitlement? Because that’s essentially what they’ve done by catering to Islamaphobes durin…
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Two Texas police jailers indicted over Jonathan Paul’s death in custody | US news | The Guardian
Two police jailers in Texas have been indicted on charges of criminally negligent homicide over the death of Jonathan Paul in police custody. Paul, 42, was found unresponsive in his cell on 12 March, three days after he was arrested by police.
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Burundi violence: US to place sanctions on officials – BBC News
The United States is to put sanctions on four current and former officials in Burundi in connection with the continuing violence there. They include the minister of public security and the deputy director of police.
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Nestle Confirms Thai Seafood Suppliers Abuse Labor | Al Jazeera America
Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA’s supply chains.
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They Shoot Kangaroos, Don’t They? | Outside Online
We spot 40 kangaroos in the distance and creep toward them. “Act like they do,” Don Fletcher whispers. “Put your head down, like you’re grazing. Don’t move straight at them.
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Texas Lands In Court For Trying To Defund Planned Parenthood (thinkprogress.org)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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Dear Americans — YOU’RE SOCIALISTS! (dailykos.com)
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Killer Mike Speaks at Bernie Sanders Rally in Atlanta | News | Pitchfork
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Marriage venue owners fight $13,000 fine for refusing lesbian wedding | US news | The Guardian
Owners of a New York wedding venue who were fined $US13,000 for violating the state’s anti-discrimination law are arguing Monday that they should be legally allowed to follow their Christian faith.
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Popular New York City Dentist Booked on Child Porn and Meth Charges – The Daily Beast
It’s the last Yelp review any respectable business would want shared online. The amateur critic—going by the name Kat J.—ultimately awarded one star to the office of Dr. John Wolf in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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I’ll Take The Google Self-Driving Car With Florence Swanson’s Artwork On It | TechCrunch
Google’s fun little project called “Paint The Town” for their self-driving cars is a great way to connect with communities. It takes trust to allow vehicles that drive themselves for the most part, and Austin seems to be trusting Google quite a bit.
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Is ‘Zoolander 2’ Really Transphobic, Or Are Protesters Too Quick and Sensitive? – The Daily Beast
Zoolander, let us be clear, is not a work of gritty social realism; the now-franchise is a send-up of the absurdity of the fashion industry and its colorful population’s love of aesthetics and frozen faces. It’s parody and satire, with a massive, ar…
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Are paedophiles’ brains wired differently? – BBC News
There has been immense concern in recent years over the scale of child sexual abuse. But even after years of study and investigation there’s still disagreement over what causes paedophiles to be the way they are, writes Richard Sanders.
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We did it Reddit! After 3 years, Wally Krauss has uploaded a new video! : videos
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In 1980, when Hillary Rodham Clinton was about to become a mother, she was working as a partner at Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. At the time, paid maternity leave, or leave at all, was a rare benefit.
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Did 24-hour drinking actually change anything? – BBC News
It has been 10 years since the government changed drinking laws in England and Wales to allow pubs – theoretically at least – to serve alcohol 24 hours a day. But did anything actually change? When the Licensing Act came fully into force at midnight…
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Sometimes, you need just a couple of essentials, then a good selection of your favorite pens. Everyday Carry reader Brook shares his bag that’s packed with a small selection of his favorite pens. The bag is a David King bag. Here’s what’s inside:
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North Korea has scored a major victory in the kimchi war with the UN all but elevating its pickled vegetables to the same lofty status as its southern neighbour’s spicy capitalist cabbage.
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In the high Andes, young backpackers are risking their lives daily by carrying drugs on remote mountain paths. TAP HERE see how dangerous life is for them in Peru’s notorious cocaine valley.
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Lomu, 40, died last week at his home in the city. Capped 63 times by his country, he was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995. Monday’s service will take place at Auckland’s Eden Park stadium.
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That Was Definitely the Strangest Episode of The Leftovers Ever
When last we saw Kevin Garvey, he was twitching in poison-induced death spasms, shortly before Virgil, the man who pledged to revive him, shot himself in the head.
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100 women 2015: India’s ‘unwanted’ on life with a name – BBC News
Maharashtra is one of the wealthiest and most advanced states in India, but it is not immune to the country’s stark preference for boys. Such is the case that second or third daughters are not even given a proper name, but instead are called ‘Nakush…
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Donald Trump: 21 things the Republican believes – BBC News
Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican race to be the presidential nominee for next year’s election. What are his policies and beliefs? 1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11.
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One of the interesting wrinkles in NBC’s decision to let noted fact-creator and presidential candidate Donald Trump host Saturday Night Live was the FCC’s so-called “equal-time rule,” which requires radio and television stations to give opposing pol…
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Encrypted Messaging App SOMA Launches Group Voice And Video Calling | TechCrunch
Secure messaging app SOMA announced the launch of group voice and video calling for up to four people. Users can now use the app to video chat with up to four friends from phones running both iOS and Android.
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100 Women 2015: US’ Arquette slams Hollywood pay gap – BBC News
US actor Patricia Arquette reveals what happened after she called for pay equality in her Oscar acceptance speech earlier this year.
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NASA paying $1.16 billion so Aerojet Rocketdyne can start making engines for Mars | The Verge
NASA wants a whole new crop of rocket engines from engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne. The space agency just awarded the company a $1.16 billion contract, restarting Aerojet’s production line for its RS-25 engines.
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Young uBiome Launches Its Own Microbiome AngelList Syndicate | TechCrunch
Ubiome – a three-year-old startup that sequences the collected microbes in the human body and sells $89 kits to anyone wanting to understand their own microbiome better — is doing something fairly unusual. The San Francisco company, which has so far…
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100 Women 2015: ‘I don’t objectify women’ – Bobbi Brown – BBC News
US make-up artist Bobbi Brown says she “doesn’t objectify women”. “I empower women” she says. Ms Brown told the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko she wanted to have make-up for “all skin colours”.
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The Indigenous way of life at risk from fracking – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Proposals which could allow exploration for fracking in Australia’s Northern Territory have been met with concern by the region’s Indigenous peoples.
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Corporate bond markets spark cheap money fears – BBC News
The past few months have seen a number of market watchers express concern about the corporate bond market. This is a $10tn market in which companies sell debt to investors for set terms averaging about eight years.
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How to charge your mobile phone using a mud oven – BBC News
Small generators that use heat to make electricity have gone on trial in parts of Malawi where only 10% of the population has access to power. The device – called a thermo-electric generator – gets attached to a mud oven so people can charge up a to…
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Carmen Blandin Tarleton on her face transplant – BBC News
What is it like to have a new face? That is a question that only a very few of people in the world can answer. One of them is Carmen Blandin Tarleton, a nurse from the US who was attacked by her estranged husband.
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Compassion, Sacrifice, Endurance – The New Yorker
Last night, I dreamed the dream of France. Mother was in the post office exchanging money, and signed all her traveller’s checks in the wrong place. What pretty handwriting, I thought, as she exclaimed “Sainte Vierge!,” using an expression I had not…
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Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking – The New Yorker
It’s possible that Asian food is more prominent in the American imagination than the Asian people who produce it. In the mid-nineteen-fifties, the political scientist Harold Isaacs became curious about how average Americans had formed impressions of…
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California public school textbooks mislead students on climate, study says | US news | The Guardian
Textbooks in California public schools are misleading students on climate change, with material that expresses doubt over whether it is real and promotes the view that increasing temperatures may be beneficial, according to a Stanford University stu…
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A “music for cats” Kickstarter is doing (un)surprisingly well · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The internet loves cats, and that is a fact. Some parts of the internet like dogs, but cats are easily the dominant internet species, surpassing even humans.
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The CW orders more episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sing a celebratory song and then come back from the dead or something, because The CW has ordered additional episodes of its freshman series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and sophomore series iZombie.
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Windows 10 November Update mysteriously pulled, as concerns about bugs grow | Ars Technica
Downloadable versions of Windows 10 version 1511, the November 2015 update, appear to have been removed after their release earlier this month. Initially, Microsoft let people download full copies of the installer using the Media Creation Tool (MCT).
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A New Science Fiction Magazine That Aims To Be The Most Beautiful of Them All
A new project on Kickstarter aims to create the most beautiful science fiction magazine ever. Considering the team behind TYCHO, we think they can pull it off.
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Top 10 Most Depressing Departures of Doctor Who’s Companions, Until Now
Clara’s time on Doctor Who is coming to an end—no spoilers here—and it’s bumming us out. But she’s not the first companion to leave the Doctor’s side in a totally bummer fashion. Here are the 10 most depressing companion departures, until now.
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NBC has to give Republicans 12 minutes of airtime because Trump was on SNL | The Verge
In his ongoing efforts to turn modern political campaigning into the most frightening dystopian satire in history, Donald Trump appeared on Saturday Night Live earlier this month — and now NBC is going to have t
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You are the Animal Inspector, and some pets just aren’t any good / Offworld
If you like the idea of stamping approved and rejected stamps on animals’ helpless faces, Animal Inspector is the game for you.
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Meat tax far less unpalatable than government thinks, research finds | Environment | The Guardian
Taxing meat to simultaneously tackle climate change and improve global health would be far less unpalatable than governments think, according to new research.
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Conventional wisdom on the politics of terror seems to be faring just as badly as conventional wisdom on the politics of everything. Donald Trump went up, not down, in the polls after Paris — Republican voters somehow didn’t decide to rally around “…
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US issues global travel warning amid increased terror threats worldwide | US news | The Guardian
Americans should be alert to possible travel risks, especially during the holidays, following increased terrorist threats around the world, the State Department warned on Monday.
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Roast Your Pumpkin Pie Filling Before Baking for a More Decadent Pie
After you make the filling for that Thanksgiving pumpkin pie you’re planning, roast it in the oven for just a few minutes on its own. Doing so boosts that nutty, roasted flavor and draws out the spices that make pumpkin pie a Thanksgiving classic.
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It’ll still be many months before Tesla is able to fill all the orders for its Model X crossover, but at least would-be owners are now able to choose options and colors for their cars: the company announced this a
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It was only in July that Deliveroo raised $70 million in Series C funding, but today the London-headquartered company has announced that it’s been dining at the VC table again. This brings Deliveroo’s total funding to approximately $200 million sinc…
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Ten Republican US senators, including presidential candidate Marco Rubio, have written to the Pentagon and military chiefs demanding to know why the joint chiefs of staff (JCS) apparently withheld their approval for the recent release of British res…
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Carson Campaign Confused by 9/11 Comment – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson told an ABC News reporter on Monday that he “saw the film” of American Muslims cheering after the World Trade Center fell on 9/11. But his campaign tells The Daily Beast they’re “a bit of a loss” about what Carson meant by that.
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On the night of November 23, 2012, Jordan Davis, 17, and his three friends were parked at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. There, they were confronted by Michael Dunn, 45, who objected to the loud rap music blaring from the teenagers’ car.
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Let us be clear. The US immigration process takes up to 2 years. What terrorist is going to wait 2 years to immigrate to the US when they can simply fly in to the US on almost any European passport without a visa? Or they could get an education visa…
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The Female ISIS Suicide Bomber in the Bathtub Was Exactly None of Those Things
You may have heard of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died in a raid carried about by French police in the days after the attacks in Paris.
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John Oliver Explains Why The Penny Is A Fool’s Errand – Digg
2 diggs Late Night Curious Economics TV Getting rid of the penny wouldn’t be the worst thing. It wouldn’t even be the first coin the US has gotten rid of.
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Movie Review: Political Doc Democrats Mesmerizes — Vulture
Access is often the lifeblood of the political documentary. Case in point: Danish director Camilla Nielsson’s Democrats, shot in Zimbabwe over the course of three years, follows the efforts of two men on opposing sides of the political spectrum as t…
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Amazon’s Man in the High Castle ads put Nazi symbols on NYC subway | The Verge
Early this year, New York’s MTA voted to ban “political” advertising from the city’s bus and subway system.
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China’s “sponge cities” use smart infrastructure to prevent massive water issues | Grist
Nope, a sponge city isn’t a metropolis built from retired dishwashing sponges. Nor is it Bikini Bottom, that underwater hometown of one SpongeBob SquarePants. It’s a city built around the urban design concept of managing water in a ecologically sens…
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With less than a month before the release of the first Star Wars movie in a decade, there’s little point in trying pull attention away from that pop-culture juggernaut, even if you do have a brand new late-night talk show that you’re getting ready t…
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This essay, which is featured in our forthcoming Winter issue, was originally given as a lecture during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop.
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Princeton students demand removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from buildings | Education | The Guardian
Students at Princeton University have called for the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs, the latest development in a growing trend across American campuses as students hone in on historical figures a…
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In the world of chocolate, there are few places as sweet as Hershey, Pennsylvania. The small industrial town, located around 150 kilometres west of Philadelphia, is the home of one of the United States’ oldest chocolate companies – and makers of the…
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There are only three northern white rhinos left on the planet | The Verge
This weekend, a 41-year-old rhino named Nola died. She had been living the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for close to 27 years. Her death means that there are only three northern white rhinos left on the planet. Nola was euthanized on Sunday.
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Trudeau’s Government Believes In Climate Change, Wants to Do Something About It | Motherboard
Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the country’s premiers and territorial leaders on Monday to talk about climate change, and the result was pleasantly surprising.
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U2 reschedules canceled Paris concert and live HBO special · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Earlier this month, the French government asked U2 to cancel a pair of concerts in Paris that were scheduled for a few days after the deadly terrorist attack that hit the city on November 13.
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Mali Says Two Gunmen Who Stormed Hotel Are Dead — NYMag
Initially, authorities were unsure how many gunmen staged the attack — early speculation had put the number as high as ten. Now Malian officials are fairly confident that just two people charged the hotel, though they have not yet identified the men…
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Netflix and Marvel Know the Exact Ten Seconds Which Will Make Us Squeal
Last week, the Daredevil Twitter account had a short video of Luke’s taking over for Josie’s in Hell’s Kitchen. Now, Jessica Jones is getting in on the act.
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An older homeless man and his black and white border collie have been calling a street corner near my home their home for the past few months. Today I decided I wanted to give away a doggie bed that was too big for my small dog, and the thought occu…
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Could Showing Sadness Help You Get What You Want In A Negotiation?
Crying at work may feel like a major office faux pas, but showing emotion at certain times could work to your advantage.
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Record First Snowfall in the U.S. Midwest : Image of the Day
Much of the Midwestern United States was drier and significantly warmer than normal in October and November 2015. So when snow blanketed the region from South Dakota to Ohio on November 20–21, it probably gave some people weather whiplash.
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Oil-rich Alberta is getting serious about climate action, just in time for Paris talks | Grist
Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs. Too bad for them they’re poised to fail.
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The impact of air strikes against Islamic State – BBC News
David Cameron has said he will take his case to parliament to extend air strikes by the UK from Iraq into Syria. The BBC’s World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been looking at the impact of air strikes in the fight against IS – and what effect Brit…
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What Will Smith Learned from the Failure of Wild Wild West | Vanity Fair
Will Smith has said in the past that After Earth was the “most painful failure” of his career, but the first time he felt disappointment in his work was with Wild Wild West. Joined by Samuel L.
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Tangerine’s trans actresses will reportedly be considered for Oscar nominations | The Verge
It looks like the Oscars are now poised to make history. An unnamed source tells Slate that, in the wake of Tangerine’s groundbreaking Oscar campaign, the Academy will officially consider transwomen for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
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Dilbert creator enrages internet, says he meant to do that · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Just as Cathy’s famous cry of “Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Aack!” was a sublimated cry for love, apparently it’s not really his dead-end job that’s making Dilbert’s life a living hell. It’s women.
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Raise a Glass to This New Trailer for the Arrow/Flash Crossover
The biggest look yet at next week’s “Heroes Join Forces” crossover event on Arrow and The Flash is here, including more Hawkpeople, more Vandal Savage, and way mo’ problems for Oliver and Barry.
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Traditional owners of the land encompassing King’s Canyon in Australia’s central desert are petitioning the federal environment minister Greg Hunt to guarantee their protection against mining operations.
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Learn How to Lead Different Types of Individuals With the “DiSC” System
A strong leader knows that different team members often require different communication tactics, and the “DiSC” behavior assessment system might help you speak everyone’s language and get through to them.
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Pfizer Buying Allergan So It Can Pretend To Be Irish In Tax Scam
The pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer will acquire pharmaceutical corporation Allergan in a deal valued at $160 billion. My colleague Richard Eskow called this combination of Pfizer (the maker of Viagra) and Allergan (the maker of Botox) “a merger o…
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Nominations For The 9th Annual Crunchies End Soon — Get Yours In Today | TechCrunch
The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner, and if we’re going to give out any awards to the great startups out there, we need your help.
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NASA Orders 1st Crewed Mission from SpaceX
It’s official: SpaceX will fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station a few years from now. California-based SpaceX has secured its first astronaut taxi order under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract with NAS…
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You Don’t Know What Tony Romo’s Got Till He’s Gone | FiveThirtyEight
By beating the Miami Dolphins Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys preserved their undefeated record this season with quarterback Tony Romo under center. That’s the good news for Cowboys fans; the bad news is that Romo has only played three games.
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Mutagenic chain reaction could knock malaria out of mosquitoes for good | Ars Technica
The best way to get rid of an infectious, mosquito-spread disease like malaria may be to beat it at its own game.
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Percentage of women at Microsoft dropped 2 percent in the past year | The Verge
Microsoft today released its most recent diversity statistics, and recorded some small gains in representation, as the company claimed “nearly all racial and ethnic categories” were better represented at the company compared with the previous year.
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2 Reasons the Tech Bubble Could Bust Sooner than You Think | Vanity Fair
From one perspective, it was yet another great week for the tech industry. Gravity-defying mega-unicorn Airbnb recently closed a $100 million fund-raising round at a valuation of nearly $26 billion.
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Volkswagen has submitted plans for fixing its cheating diesel engines | The Verge
(Alexander Koerner/Getty Images) Last week, Volkswagen submitted plans to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for recalling and fixing emissions on its 2-liter diesel cars that have “defeat devices” designed
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A huge brown plume of mud and mining waste spread out along the coast of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo on Monday, a little over two weeks after the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine.
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Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Medicaid Cuts | Al Jazeera America
Five Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas filed a suit against the state on Monday over its plan to block the health care provider from receiving Medicaid funds to serve poor women. Ten women, who remain anonymous, joined as “Jane Doe” plaintiffs …
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Forget psychadelics. If you wanna get weird, check out this bioart | Grist
Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs.
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Dear America — YOU’RE SOCIALISTS! : Liberal
Dear America — YOU’RE SOCIALISTS! (dailykos.com)
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Clinton bashes Pfizer-Allergan deal, to propose anti-inversion steps : democrats
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Flashback: See Kris Kristofferson and Darius Rucker’s White House Duet | Rolling Stone
That’s how President Barack Obama introduced the artists who were on hand to participate in a special In Performance at the White House, which turned the East Room at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a “country-music hall,” he told the invited audience…
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The personal fortunes of the 782 wealthiest people on the planet would be enough power Africa, Latin America and much of Asia with 100% renewable energy by 2030. (theecologist.org)
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Clinton bashes Pfizer-Allergan deal, to propose anti-inversion steps (reuters.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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US issues worldwide travel alert – BBC News
Up to 10,000 troops could be deployed in the event of a Paris-style attack, David Cameron says, as the estimated cost of renewing the UK’s nuclear deterrent increases by £6bn.
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With a week to go before Rightscorp trial, Cox loses key DMCA motion | Ars Technica
Nearly a year after two music publishers and online copyright cop Rightscorp initiated a high-stakes lawsuit against Cox Communications, a judge has made a ruling that’s potentially devastating to Cox’s case.
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Why Is This Subway Car Covered in Nazi Symbols? — NYMag
If you overhear someone talking about the subway and Nazis in the next few weeks, don’t blame Godwin’s Law. It turns out that Nazi and Imperial Japan insignia have actually taken over the 42nd Street subway shuttle, all thanks to Amazon.
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Adele Has Sold More than 2 Million Copies of 25 in the U.S. in Three Days | Vanity Fair
Adele, Adele, Adele! It is going to be impossible, for the rest of the year (if not longer), to have a conversation with a friend, a family member, a stranger, who doesn’t somehow reference the 27-year-old singer and her new album.
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BBC Sport – Paris attacks: Paris St-Germain in shirt tribute to attack victims
Paris St-Germain players will wear special shirts for their next two games as a tribute to those who died in this month’s attacks in the French capital. The shirts will carry the message “Je suis Paris” (“I am Paris”).
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Carol’s Jake Lacy on His Crazy, Breakthrough Year | Vanity Fair
It’s only been a year since Jake Lacy first appeared on the big screen opposite Jenny Slate in the critically acclaimed Obvious Child. And what a difference a year makes.
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Making Scents with Ex Nihlo’s Demi-Bespoke | Vanity Fair
Meet the new kids on the fragrance block, who will show you how they have taken the meaning of personal fragrance to a whole new level.
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Musician/songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint, who died while on tour in Madrid on November 11 at the age of 77, may not have been terrifically well known to the public at large, but that does not lessen the impact he had on R&B, soul, and jazz, espe…
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Want to See Angelina Jolie As the Bride of Frankenstein? You Aren’t Alone
Coming off a monster year at the box office, Universal Studios is hard at work developing their own monsters. Specifically, a huge universe based on Universal Monsters, which will start with The Mummy and expand from there.
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This Week’s Night Sky: Moon Eclipses the Bright Star Aldebaran
Bull and Moon. After nightfall on Wednesday, November 25, the full moon pays a visit to the Taurus constellation. All night, Earth’s lone natural satellite will appear nestled within the face of the bull that is marked by the bright Hyades star clus…
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BBC Sport – Crystal Palace 0-1 Sunderland
Crystal Palace will again be without striker Dwight Gayle, who missed the win at Liverpool with a hamstring problem. Marouane Chamakh is back after a similar injury, but Bakary Sako is a doubt and Kwesi Appiah is ruled out.
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Is There a Place for the West Along China’s New Silk Road? | The Nation
The US is transfixed by its multibillion-dollar electoral circus. The European Union is paralyzed by austerity, fear of refugees, and now all-out jihad in the streets of Paris.
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Should Hope Be a Virtue in Art? – The Atlantic
I’ve been thinking a lot about the implied notion that writing that does not offer hope is necessarily deficient or somehow useless. To be less coy, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea that my own writing is somehow cheating the reader because i…
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Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley slam Pfizer-Allergan merger : democrats
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley slam Pfizer-Allergan merger (washingtontimes.com)submitted 50 minutes ago by loading…
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Watch a new trailer for Adam McKay’s financial drama The Big Short | The Verge
Anchorman director Adam McKay is making his biggest prestige play yet with The Big Short, a dramatization of the late ’00s financial crisis adapted from Michael Lewis’ 2010 book of the same name.
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Engineered Mosquitoes Could Eliminate Deadly Malaria Strain — NOVA Next | PBS
Human-engineered, malaria-resistant mosquitoes could be ready for field tests in less than a year. Scientists now have all the pieces in place to release mosquitoes into the wild with traits that would could eliminate them as vectors for Plasmodium …
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Sleeping In Too Much on the Weekend May Be Bad for Your Health
Past studies suggest that messing with your natural circadian sleep rhythm can have adverse affects on your health. A new study, however, suggests that greatly altering your sleeping schedule on the weekend can have a similar effect. The study, led …
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How to destroy an American family
Made with Atavist. Make your own. How to destroy an American family The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it. By Aaron Sankin and William Turton “Mom is dead, and they did it.
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Wizard of Oz : Dorothy dress worn by Judy Garland sells for $1.5m – BBC News
One of the dresses worn by Judy Garland when she played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz has sold for $1.5 million at an auction in New York.
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Racist Trolls Are Behind NYU’s ‘White Student Union’ Hoax – The Daily Beast
The “White Student Union” Facebook pages began appearing en masse on Friday, November 20.
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Watch This 12-Year-Old Jazz Prodigy Slay the “St. Louis Blues” | Vanity Fair
“As you can see, I’m a jazz musician,” says 12-year-old Joey Alexander in this behind-the-scenes video from Vanity Fair’s young-jazz portfolio.
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Pebble Time can now reply to text messages with an iPhone | The Verge
Pebble today announced an expansion of the voice control features in its Pebble Time line of smartwatches that allows iPhone users to reply to incoming messages from their wrist. Replies can be dictated by voice or selected from a set of preset resp…
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First day of installation : Notes from the Field : Blogs
— After the final cargo flight on November 17th, we finally had all our equipment and could prepare for installation. This wasn’t without some drama, as we initially received only four batteries and various pipes, but none of the actual instruments.
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Barack Obama has confidence in the staff who brief him on the war against Islamic State, his spokesman said on Monday, despite an official investigation into claims of an intelligence whitewash.
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Miss America to continue being a thing, at least until 2018 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You might say that the Miss America pageant—which has somehow just entered its 95th year—has grown more than a little long in the tooth, and that scholarships can be obtained in less questionable ways these days.
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Church of Scientology Moscow branch ‘dissolved’ by court – BBC News
The Moscow city court accepted the arguments of Russia’s justice ministry that as the term “Scientology” is a registered US trademark, the Church cannot be considered a religious organisation. The organisation plans to appeal, reports said.
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Brussels to remain at highest alert level for a week – Al Jazeera English
Brussels will remain under the highest level of alert for another week due to an ongoing “terrorism” threat, but schools and the underground train system could reopen from Wednesday, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said.
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The Atlantic Daily: Terror Warnings in Brussels, Clues in Paris, Fact-Checks for 2016 – The Atlantic
The city is in its third day at the country’s highest terror alert level as security forces search for suspected extremists that government officials believe could stage a Paris-style assault.
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Print out your own map of Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise / Boing Boing
The Jungle Cruise at Disneyland in California was an opening day attraction in 1955. Walt Disney’s desire to bring the mystique of faraway lands to what were once orange groves in Anaheim, combined with the inspiration from his series of “True Life …
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Hear Adele’s ‘Hello’ Sung in 25 Different Styles | Rolling Stone
Hear Adele’s ‘Hello’ Sung in 25 Different Styles Ten Second Songs’ Anthony Vincent covers the hit in styles ranging from Alice in Chains to Donna Summer
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What’s Standing Between Jessica Jones and Season 2? | Vanity Fair
The Netflix show is a critical success and a no-brainer for a renewal, but the story gets tricky from there.
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Amazon Has Plastered New York Subway Cars with Nazi Imagery | Vanity Fair
Amazon’s intriguing new series The Man in the High Castle imagines an alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II and America is divided under Japanese and German rule.
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Donald Trump’s Most Obvious Lie Gets a Boost from Ben Carson | Vanity Fair
He might succeed in making Dr.
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Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Headlines Sundance’s Midnight Slate | Rolling Stone
Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Headlines Sundance’s Midnight Slate Rob Zombie’s horror flick ’31’ also to premiere at film festival
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Is This the Most Racist Political Race in Years? | Rolling Stone
This weekend felt like a low point for the 2016 race, and for Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric in particular, even in an election cycle that’s seemed like an ever-accelerating race to some elusive bottom.
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So Long, Turkey: 3 Ways To Spice Up Thanksgiving Without The Bird : The Salt : NPR
If you are turkey-averse, turkey-phobic or just bored with the bird, fear not. We’ve got some other main dish ideas for you.
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This Star Wars Expanded Universe Story Proves That Luke Is the Worst Jedi Master
Hello, and welcome to a nostalgic trip through the old Star Wars Expanded Universe. This time, I’m looking at the first EU books I ever read, Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy. Brace yourselves, because there’s a lot of stupid going on in her…
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This Week’s TV: Doctor Who’s Weirdest “Experimental” Episode Yet!
Gravity Falls is airing its final episodes. Doctor Who is trying a strange experiment. The Walking Dead shambles off with a midseason finale, and the premiere of Regular Show: The Movie! All this, Gina Gershon, and more, on This Week’s TV!
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Jitters Before Chicago Police Release Video | Al Jazeera America
Chicago police and community activists are carefully planning for the release this week of a video showing the shooting death of a black teen at the hands of a white police officer, with some city officials worried the video could spark civil unrest…
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Bernie Sanders is top contender in Time’s Person of the Year poll : politics
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Sanders is top contender in Time’s Person of the Year poll | TheHill
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Analysts Accuse CENTCOM of Covering Up Cooked ISIS Intelligence – The Daily Beast
In July, a group of intelligence analysts at the U.S. military’s Central Command accused their bosses of distorting and selectively editing intelligence reports about the fight against ISIS in order to portray that campaign as more successful than i…
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How to Replace Your PlayStation 4’s Hard Drive
If you’re running out of space on your PS4, a hard drive replacement may be in order—and it’s so easy you can do it yourself in no time at all. Here’s how.
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The Case of the Disappearing Quasars – Scientific American
Astronomers peering across the universe think they’ve caught a dozen quasars—extremely bright and distant objects powered by ravenous supermassive black holes at the centers of ancient galaxies—in a disappearing act.
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Sadiq Khan promises London will be run on clean energy by 2050 | Environment | The Guardian
The Labour mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, has pledged to put London on course to be run entirely on clean energy by 2050 if he is elected next May, amid criticism that the capital is falling behind its emissions targets.
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Planned Parenthood sues Texas over blocked Medicaid funding | US news | The Guardian
Planned Parenthood sued again on Monday over efforts by Republican governors to block Medicaid funding to the nation’s largest abortion provider, this time against Texas, where the organization says healthcare access to 13,500 women is on the line.
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No, It’s Not 1937: Getting Our Words About Russia Right | The Nation
At the annual ‘Valdai Club’ gathering of Russia experts at Sochi on Russia’s Black Sea coast a month ago, an earnest Western journalist asked Russian President Vladimir Putin whether Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in Ukraine’s …
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Ahmed Mohamed: ‘Clock boy’ seeks $15m from city and school – BBC News
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was held by police and suspended from his school in Texas because his teacher mistook the clock for a bomb. His lawyer said in a letter that the incident, which made global headlines, sparked threats against the teenager and left …
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Adele sold 2.3 million copies of 25 in a single weekend | The Verge
Sorry, *NSYNC fans: Adele’s new album 25 is going to sell more copies in the US in its first week than any other album in modern history. According to Billboard and Nielsen Music, the British superstar’s first album in nearly half a decade has sold …
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Steven Moffat Reveals the Nightmare Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special We Could Have Had
52 years ago today, Doctor Who aired for the very first time—and two years ago, it took over the world as it broadcast “The Day of the Doctor,” the show’s 50th anniversary special.
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Mars might have a ring like Saturn’s in 20 million years | The Verge
Mars’ gravitational pull is slowly tearing apart one of its two moons, Phobos, which will lead to the space rock’s inevitable destruction. But instead of disappearing into space, the leftover materials from Phobos may form a ring around the Red Plan…
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Surprise, Sanders leads in an internet poll. This poll matters so little to everyone important. But sure.
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Chaotic Moon Explores Biometric Tattoos For Medicine And The Military | TechCrunch
The future of wearables could be inked on your skin.
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Mali Attack Highlights Underlying Connections Between Terror Groups In Africa : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to retired Gen. Carter Ham, former head of U.S. Africa Command, about U.S. military efforts to counter jihadist groups in Africa.
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‘Mustang’ Takes On Women’s Rights In Fairy Tale Form : NPR
It sounds like a fairy tale: Five beautiful sisters with long flowing hair are locked up together and forced, one by one, into marriage. But it’s not a fairy tale — it’s the story of a new movie called Mustang set in a contemporary, rural Turkish vi…
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Fallout 4’s User Interface Is Truly Terrible
You’ll spend a lot of Fallout 4 fighting irradiated super mutants, giant killer cockroaches, and deadly cyborgs. You’ll spend just as much time fighting the game’s awful user interface.
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Utah’s First Openly Gay Mayor Hopes To Build Bridges With LDS Church : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Jackie Biskupski, mayor-elect of Salt Lake City. She is the first openly gay mayor of the city, and one of the first openly gay politicians in the state of Utah.
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Huckabee: Obama ‘Probably’ Wants to Make Americans Memorize the Quran (politico.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…[–]grayk47[S] 0 points1 point2 points 5 minutes ago(0 children)I don’t know how this asshole is still in the race.
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More undocumented immigrants from Mexico have left the US than have entered between 2009-2014, Pew Research says. (pewhispanic.org)
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One Athlete’s Quest for a Perfect Night’s Sleep | Outside Online
For my fortieth birthday, I decided to climb the Grand Teton, a 13,770-foot peak in my backyard of Jackson, Wyoming. The Grand is technical, requiring rock climbing and rappels on exposed faces with 5,000-foot drops. Make a mistake and you’re dead.
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Huckabee: Obama ‘Probably’ Wants to Make Americans Memorize the Quran : Liberal
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Mike Huckabee 2016: President Obama ‘probably’ wants to make Americans memorize the Quran – POLITICO
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A Portrait of India’s Daughter: Jyoti Singh’s Parents Describe Her – The Atlantic
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The Kip Thorne Award: Your Vote Wanted for the Best Science on Film
If you loved the movie “The Martian,” here’s your chance to show it. Raw Science will also host its second annual film festival early next month, to celebrate the best of science-oriented movies of 2015.
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Reproduction “Rosebud” sled could fetch up to $200,000 at auction · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A “Rosebud” sled that looks like the one featured in the Citizen Kane (but isn’t) is expected to sell for somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 in a movie memorabilia auction hosted by Turner Classic Movies and Bonhams auction house in New York Ci…
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With the next Star Wars movie only weeks away now, some fans of the Force may find themselves absolutely starved for content related to the space opera franchise and unsure of where to turn for the Wookiees, Ewoks, droids, and Hayden Christensens th…
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One second of video for each day spent on a 333-day trip around the world / Boing Boing
My friend Tom Fassbender took a year off to go on a round-the-world trip with his family. He wrote a bunch of excellent dispatches for Boing Boing, which you can read here.
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Adele’s 25 set to be fastest-selling album ever in US | Music | The Guardian
Adele’s 25 is now a certified blockbuster. In its first three days of release, the singer’s third album has already sold 2.3m copies in the US, according to Nielsen Music. Industry forecasters are now betting the album could sell 2.9m copies in the …
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The Pfizer–Allergan Merger Is a Disgrace – The New Yorker
In an announcement on Monday morning, Pfizer, the big drug company, headquartered on East 42nd Street, in Manhattan, said that it is merging with one of its competitors, Allergan PLC.
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Keep Your Mashed Potatoes Warm and Ready to Eat With These Three Tricks
Big family holiday meals can take a while to cook, so some dishes will be ready to serve before others. If you manage to whip up your mashed potatoes before the rest of the meal is ready, these easy tricks will keep them ready to eat whenever dinner…
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Will Our Descendants Survive the Destruction of the Universe?
Billions of years from now, the universe as we know it will cease to exist. The good news is, that gives us a lot of time to prepare, and maybe even figure out a way to cheat cosmic death. Here are some possible ways our descendants might survive a …
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How Zoning Laws Exacerbate Inequality – The Atlantic
As urban cores become more populated, the need for more buildings—more housing, more offices, more everything—increases.
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Where are Americans buying the most sex toys? | Fusion
Despite their intended purpose, sex toys aren’t really that provocative anymore. No longer are the personal pleasure devices niche items only in shady adult shops; they’ve evolved to become an almost mainstream appliance that can be purchased at you…
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Poll: 1 In 5 Americans Trusts The Government : NPR
Only 19 percent of Americans — about one in five — say they trust the government “always or most of the time,” according to a study released by the Pew Research Center Monday.
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Look Who’s Back: Price-Gouging Pharma Bro’s New Investment Is Surging | Vanity Fair
Martin Shkreli, the young pharmaceutical executive who rose to infamy earlier this fall, has a way with inflating prices. First, the C.E.O.
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Here’s the “Emotional Gut Punch” of a Thanksgiving Film You’ve Been Wa | Vanity Fair
Just as you’ve probably begun thinking of all the ways your Thanksgiving family dinner can go wrong, a trailer arrives to bring these fears to life.
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Watch This Teen Casually Break a Rubik’s Cube World Record | Motherboard
This Saturday a 14-year-old Lucas Etter appears to have broke the standing world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solution in Clarksville, Maryland—4.904 seconds. Casually. He kind of just stared at it for a second with just one person watching a…
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Pastor Who Hosted GOP: Paris Victims Were ‘Devil-Worshippers’ – The Daily Beast
Kevin Swanson of Generations Ministries said last Thursday that the 89 people massacred inside the Bataclan theater were “devil-worshippers.” Two weeks earlier, Swanson headlined his own “Freedom 2015: National Religious Liberties Conference” featur…
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On Jessica Jones, rape doesn’t need to be seen to be devastating | The Verge
It’s only been out in the world for four days, but Netflix’s Jessica Jones is already one of the most talked about new shows this fall.
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David Cameron Tries to Coax Anti-War Britain to War – The Daily Beast
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain must join the international coalition launching airstrikes in Syria. Unfortunately for those welcoming British support in the battle against ISIS—this is a promise he’s made before.
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Watch a woman get 11 tattoos representing American tattoo history / Boing Boing
Craig Thompson’s second graphic novel, the 582-page mammoth Blankets, swept the field’s awards, taking three Harveys, two Eisners, and two Ignatzes.
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UConn Bro Emerges From Hiding to Appear in Court — NYMag
Luke Gatti, better known as the UConn kid whose hunger for jalapeño-bacon macaroni and cheese outweighed his respect for human life, has come out of hiding to appear in court. He recently applied for “accelerated rehabilitation” in Rockville Superio…
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‘Edelweiss’: The Story Behind the Theme Tune of ‘The Man in the High Castle’ – The Atlantic
The Man in the High Castle tells the story of an America that is no longer, in the traditional sense, American. It’s set in a place that emerged from an Axis victory in World War II, with the area run in the east by the Nazi Reich and in the west by…
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Russian and Iranian leaders discuss Syria in Tehran – Al Jazeera English
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, who called for closer ties between the two countries. During their meeting on Monday, Khamenei said that US policies in the Middle East are a threat t…
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Police In Colorado Crackdown On Diesel Truck Owners For ‘Rolling Coal’ : NPR
Diesel trucks used to be known for belching black, polluting exhaust. Over the years, manufacturers have worked hard to shed that image, building cleaner engines. But there’s a small group of diesel truck owners who are going in the opposite directi…
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One Of Last 4 White Rhinos Euthanized At San Diego Zoo : NPR
One of the last four northern white rhinos was euthanized at the San Diego Zoo Sunday. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Rick Schwartz, the zoo’s global ambassador, about how the species was so decimated and what might be done to save it.
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CNN’s ‘The Hunting Ground’ Scrutinized For Portrayal Of Campus Sexual Assault : NPR
CNN’s documentary The Hunting Ground makes the case that universities are letting rapists walk free and has come under withering attack for ignoring facts that contradict the film’s claims.
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String Of Recent Attacks Signals Growing Capacity Of ISIS : NPR
ISIS has set an unprecedented tempo of terrorist attacks. It began in October when it downed a Russian airliner near Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, moved to Lebanon and now Paris all in less than a month. Counterterrorism officials say it is wrong to look …
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Brussels Remains On High Alert Due To Terror Threats : NPR
Brussels remains on high alert for the third day with schools and the metro system closed. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with reporter Teri Schultz in Brussels about how this is affecting residents there.
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Pharmaceutical Companies Pfizer, Allergan To Merge In $160 Billion Deal : NPR
U.S. drug giant Pfizer and its rival Allergan have agreed to merge in order to lower its corporate taxes, creating the world’s largest pharmaceutical company by sales.
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British Prime Minister Urges Parliament To Approve Airstrikes In Syria : NPR
British Prime Minister David Cameron is making a second attempt to persuade parliament to allow the Royal Air Force to take part in attacks on ISIS in Syria.
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Are Last-Minute Death Penalty Delays Cruel And Unusual Punishment? : NPR
America’s death penalty is under scrutiny after a series of botched executions, drug mix-ups and difficulty acquiring lethal injection drugs. Just last month, President Obama called certain parts of capital punishment “deeply troubling.”
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U.N. Chief: Paris Convention Represents ‘Turning Point’ In Climate Policy : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, about why she’s optimistic about the climate convention in Paris.
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Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ Hits French Bestseller List After Paris Attacks : NPR
Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast has hit the French bestseller list a half century after its publication, all because of a French granny. A 77-year-old Paris woman who lives near the Bataclan concert hall gave a TV interview that went viral.
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Writer Domingo Martinez Says ‘Crybabies’ Podcast ‘Makes Me Choke Up’ : NPR
Domingo Martinez, author of The Boy Kings of Texas, recommends the podcast Crybabies, particularly the episode in which the hosts talk to comedian Guy Branum about the things that make him cry.
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U.S. Bioterrorism-Detection Program Is Unreliable, Report Finds : The Two-Way : NPR
In a report released Monday, the Government Accountability Office says the BioWatch system has issued dozens of false alarms since its introduction.
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Mendocino Coast Fights To Keep Its Lone Hospital Afloat : Shots – Health News : NPR
Board meetings for the Mendocino Coast District Hospital are usually pretty dismal affairs. The facility in remote Fort Bragg, Calif., has been running at a deficit for a decade, and barely survived a recent bankruptcy.
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Experimental Brain Imaging Detects ADHD Markers : Shots – Health News : NPR
“There’s an intrinsic signature,” says Monica Rosenberg, a graduate student and lead author of the study in Nature Neuroscience. But the approach isn’t ready for use as a diagnostic tool yet, she says.
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Annotation And Document Management App LiquidText Releases New Features For IPad | TechCrunch
LiquidText, the annotation and document reader app developer for iOS (and a critical darling that has been one of Apple’s selected apps in its store nearly since its launch), has launched a new version with features for the new iPad Pro.
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Your Least Favorite Aliens Character Could Star In the Upcoming Sequel
Some fans of James Cameron’s Aliens consider Newt the worst part of the movie: Her high-pitched scream, laughable dialogue, it can be painful. If you are one of these people, I have some potentially bad news: Newt might be the star of Neill Blomkamp…
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Registering drones with the FAA should be easy and free, task force says | Ars Technica
A government task force that is helping to plan a national drone registration system says the registration process should be simple and free, because onerous requirements could hinder the market for small unmanned aircraft.
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The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization.
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Rubio Doesn’t Want You to Know Abortion Position — NYMag
Marco Rubio opposes the legal right to abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. This extreme position would pose a significant liability in a general election. But since Rubio still has to win the nomination, he can’t wriggle out of it yet. Instea…
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“Intellectual property” is a term that comes up often in online discussions of popular culture, even though hardly anyone who uses it seems to know what it actually means.
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The new trailer for Disney’s Zootopia is excruciating · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The previous trailer for Disney’s Zootopia took exposition too far by having Jason Bateman’s scam artist/fox Nick Wilde over-explain a familiar conceit of a world occupied only by animals, despite the fact that everything about society seems to have…
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A Progressive Majority Waiting To Be Convinced Government Can Work
The conclusions of a new extensive survey released today by the Pew Research Center are not surprising to people who have followed our chronicling of the Populist Majority over the past two years: Solid majorities of Americans accept a significant r…
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In drought-struck rainforests, the tallest trees die first | Grist
Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs.
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Clinton’s Biggest Donor: ‘More Scrutiny’ For Muslims | The Nation
Hillary Clinton’s Muslim problem isn’t actually her own Muslim problem. She’s spoken eloquently, several times now, about tolerance for Muslims. “Islam is not our adversary.
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The Avett Brothers Announce New Live Album | Rolling Stone
The Avett Brothers Announce New Live Album ‘Live, Vol.
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Desperate To Reach Europe, Refugees Are Sewing Their Mouths Shut | ThinkProgress
At least six Iranian refugees sewed their mouths shut at the Greek-Macedonian border to pressure authorities to let them pass into Macedonia on their way to western Europe, according to Reuters.
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Sharon Jones and Dap-Kings Celebrate ‘White Christmas’ in New Video | Rolling Stone
Sharon Jones and Dap-Kings Celebrate ‘White Christmas’ in Festive New Video Group infuses soul into yuletide standard for ‘It’s a Holiday Soul Party’ track
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US airstrike ‘hits 238 IS oil tankers’ in Syria – BBC News
A US airstrike has destroyed more than 238 oil tankers controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants in north-east Syria, the US military has said.It is thought the pilots found the oil tankers parked up together, waiting to be loaded at an oil product…
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What Donald Trump Got Wrong About Homicides in America – The Atlantic
Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump—or someone working on his behalf—fired off another incendiary tweet. This one’s especially brazen, not only for its race-baiting statistics and clip-art, but also for its complete factual inaccuracy.
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Why aren’t more farmers turning poop into power? | Grist
Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs. Too bad for them they’re poised to fail.
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How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot – Scientific American
The world is counting on an international climate agreement in Paris next month to stop the rising fossil fuel and biofuel emissions that are warming the planet.
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Doc Brown Skypes With Back To The Future Superfans In Puente Hills, CA | TechCrunch
In it he answers a bunch of questions from folks who are dressed up for the viewing of Back To The future. It’s actually quite touching, and a reminder of how powerful the movie has been for our generation…and for generations to come:
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Add an IP Address and OS Version Display to the OS X Login Page
The login screen on a Mac is purposefully devoid of information, but if you’d like to add just a little more info, MacIssues shows you how to with Terminal command.
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Manned Mission to Mars Must Not Ignore Human Struggles, Expert Stresses
A successful crewed Mars campaign must recognize, and take pains to ameliorate, the psychological and cultural challenges that Red Planet pioneers will face, a prominent space architect says.
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Will Our Descendants Survive the Destruction of the Universe?
Billions of years from now, the universe as we know it will cease to exist. The good news is, that gives us a lot of time to prepare, and maybe even figure out a way to cheat cosmic death. Here are some possible ways our descendants might survive a …
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Mars May Become a Ringed Planet Someday
Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn’s famous halo, new research suggests. In a few tens of millions of years, the Red Planet may completely crush its innermost moon, Phobos, and form a ring of rocky debris, according to the new work.
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Hacker Outs Himself as FBI ‘Snitch’ and Claims He Helped Track Down ISIS | Motherboard
A hacker who in the past gained notoriety for hacking the Anonymous semi-official Twitter accounts, now claims he served as an FBI informant and helped the US government track down the hacker turned ISIS fighter Junaid Hussain.
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Canelo Alvarez is now boxing’s biggest star as Gennady Golovkin looms | Sport | The Guardian
The first weekend of May and the second weekend of September represent the most important dates on the boxing calendar, the traditional stomping ground of the sport’s biggest star.
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New York governor cites Paris attacks to promote app for reporting suspicious activity | The Verge
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is seizing recent fears of terrorism to promote an app called See Send (short for “see something send something”). The app allows users to send written reports or photos of suspicious activity directly to law enforceme…
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The GOP’s Plan to Thwart the Paris Climate Conference | New Republic
Republicans are trying to subvert their own government’s foreign policy on climate change. Next week, President Obama will fly to Paris for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, a meeting to work out a global agreement to reduce climate pollution.
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WHO Criticized For Slow Response To Ebola Outbreak – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A Harvard-led panel of medical experts analyzing the World Health Organization’s response to the Ebola crisis concluded the WHO was too slow in declaring a public health emergency, findings they presented alongside 10 recommendations for proper hand…
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11 Awesome Gifts For Your Favorite 20-Something | TechCrunch
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Dodgers’ appointment of Dave Roberts represents important step in modern era | Sport | The Guardian
Several years ago, on a lost spring training morning, a former Brooklyn Dodgers relief pitcher named Joe Black told a story about Jackie Robinson.
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The Choice Carol Had to Make | New Republic
There is a scene in the beginning of Carol, Todd Haynes and Phyllis Nagy’s brilliant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s second novel, The Price of Salt, where we see two women—the older, sophisticated Carol and the younger Therese—having evening tea…
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Empire’s Power Couple Is Getting Their Own Holiday Variety Show | Vanity Fair
Cookie and Lucious aren’t done with each other just yet, and while they’d probably like to spend the holidays apart, Fox is bringing them together for a special White Hot affair. Well, Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard, anyway.
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PlayStation 4 And Xbox One Bundles Available At $299 For Black Friday | TechCrunch
The console war is back for a new holiday season. Microsoft and Sony both announced sales for their gaming consoles. Both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are going to be available for $299 this weekend only for Black Friday. Let’s start with the Xbox…
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Common pesticides make bees into poor pollinators. : environment
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Someone really had to wipe. : pics
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Common pesticides make bees into poor pollinators. (cen.acs.org)
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Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will host White Hot Holidays on Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Following the final showdown (of 2015, anyway) between Empire Records and Lyon Dynasty, Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will be roasting chestnuts for Fox to keep their Empire timeslot warm.
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Those ’90s kids just won’t stop rejoicing as Variety brings word that Nickelodeon, soon after announcing its intent to put some of the most beloved shows from the network’s past back on the air with its ’90s-centric The Splat programming block, is t…
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FX’s Fargo is being renewed for a third season | The Verge
Fargo may still be powering through its second season on FX, but a decision’s already been made regarding the show’s future. The cable network announced this afternoon that Noah Hawley’s dark, quirky examination of assorted rural Minnesotans will co…
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No charges for attackers or the attacked at Trump rally
No charges have been filed against Mercutio Southall Jr., an Alabama Black Lives Matter activist, for disrupting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally in Birmingham this past Saturday.
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Texas boy arrested for bringing clock to school demands $15m in damages | US news | The Guardian
Attorneys for the 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Texas school say he was publicly mistreated and deserves $15m. A law firm representing Ahmed Mohamed sent letters Monday demanding $10m from the city of Irving an…
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10 Weird Facts You Never Knew About Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving food is a link to the past, a thing to be grateful for, and a way to keep your extended family from talking to you about politics or religion. But it has a weirder, wilder side to it. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about your favori…
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Thief Gets Bank Robbery Right on Second Try — NYMag
A bank robber showed the value of perseverance after he managed to steal cash from one midtown bank after he’d botching a hold-up a few blocks away earlier in the week. The suspected robber apparently hit up a Park Avenue bank on Tuesday, brandishin…
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Futurama will live on as a mobile game, shut up and give it your money · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Planet Express crew has been saved from cancelation once again, meaning we’ll soon be seeing even more wacky adventures from Fry, Bender, Leela, Amy, Hermes, Scruffy, Professor Farnsworth, and the other characters who aren’t as memorable.
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America’s worst nightmare: Donald Trump in the White House, acted out by marionettes|Dangerous Minds
It’s definitely worth your time to watch “Hail to the Trump,” Vanity Fair’s darkly funny Team America-esque glimpse of what a Donald Trump presidency might be like, performed by marionettes.
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Clinton bashes Pfizer-Allergan deal, to propose anti-inversion steps : Liberal
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Clinton bashes Pfizer-Allergan deal, to propose anti-inversion steps| Reuters
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Hail to the Trump: America’s worst nightmare, acted out by marionettes|Dangerous Minds
It’s definitely worth your time to watch “Hail to the Trump,” Vanity Fair’s darkly funny Team America-esque glimpse of what a Donald Trump presidency might be like, performed by marionettes.
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Did Paris Terrorist Move Freely Between Italy and Greece? – The Daily Beast
ROME — Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted man in Europe right now after his role in the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, traveled freely through Italy and Greece last August because he was not on a watchlist that prohibited him from doing so, accordi…
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck announces she is leaving Fox & Friends | US news | The Guardian
Fox & Friends is losing a friend. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the hit morning show’s star attraction, will quit by the end of the year to spend more time with her family.
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PSA: Pre-Thanksgiving one-day sale drops a Steam Machine’s price to $300 | Ars Technica
Valve’s “Steam Machine”-certified line of gaming computers ranges from affordable to astronomically priced, but while we haven’t gone hands-on with most of them, we feel like its lower-end machines at the $500 level offer too low a price-to-power ra…
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The big climate march is off in Paris, but still on in a city near you | Grist
Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs.
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A young Louis CK chats with Paul Provenza in 1991 · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Long before Comedy Central came into its own as a network with Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, South Park, and The Colbert Report, the fledgling cable network resembled something quite different.
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A 91-Year-Old Skier’s Wisdom – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “A 91-Year-Old Skier’s Wisdom” Presented by
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Rival Libyan tribes sign ceasefire deal in Doha – Al Jazeera English
Rival tribes from southern Libya have signed a ceasefire agreement in Qatar, ending 14 months of fighting in the city of Obari in southern Libya.
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The World’s Toughest Animals Borrowed a Sixth of Their DNA From Microbes – The Atlantic
The toughest animals in the world aren’t bulky elephants, or cold-tolerant penguins, or even the famously durable cockroach. Instead, the champions of durability are endearing microscopic creatures called tardigrades, or water bears.
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Report: Lost in Space series remake coming to Netflix | Ars Technica
Fifty years ago, a live-action sci-fi TV series predicted what the year 1997 would look like—giving an entire nation a new series of zany-sounding insults to use for their eventual robot companions (“you cackling cacophony,” et al).
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Israeli bill allows jailing of 12-year-old Palestinians – Al Jazeera English
An Israeli ministerial committee has approved a law sharply criticised by human rights groups as it will allow the imprisonment of Palestinian children as young as 12.
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You betcha Fargo just got renewed for a third season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that Fargo, that engrossing TV mystery and subject of several Polite Fights, has just been renewed for a third season.
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Newly Sequenced Tardigrade Genome Shows They’re Even Weirder Than We Thought | Motherboard
I’m going to call it: tardigrades are the weirdest animal on the planet (and beyond). Also known as water bears, the microscopic eight-legged creatures have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and are best known for being almost indestruc…
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Jeff Tweedy is turning a box full of letters into a memoir · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy is writing a “funny, disarming, and honest” book about his life, according to Rolling Stone.
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Clinton bashes Pfizer-Allergan deal, to propose anti-inversion steps (reuters.com)submitted just now by progress18loading…
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Netflix’s Jessica Jones is complex, funny, and super watchable | Ars Technica
The opening scenes of Netflix’s new series, Jessica Jones (based on the titular Marvel comic book character), are light, playful, and stylized. Jones (played by Krysten Ritter) narrates off-screen as a camera takes shots of a couple who are apparent…
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Your Best Stories of Leaving Nightmare IT Jobs
We asked Gizmodo readers about exiting an awful IT job. Whether you quit in a blaze of glory or were laid off in ridiculous circumstances, these are your getting-the-hell-out stories.
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Tara Subkoff on Trading Fashion for Horror Films | Vanity Fair
Tara Subkoff has a loaded business card. In the two decades since she left home in Westport, Connecticut, she has been an actress, fashion designer, and, as of this month, a feature-film director. Last week, her directorial debut #Horror premiered a…
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Idol Worship: Two Days on Tour with Tyler, the Creator | Rolling Stone
Sorry, you can’t come in here,” Tyler, the Creator’s bodyguard, Vill, says. “There’s a no pants policy on the bus.” Vill is a huge guy from a small island off the coast of Samoa. I tell him that I’m not taking off my pants, but he assures me that I …
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Can games exist without players? / Offworld
Has [Nina] ever been concerned about the implications of putting herself out there so honestly? “Putting myself into these stories in a vulnerable way has definitely taken practice. I’m more and more comfortable with each project.
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A day after Donald Trump made widely debunked claims that crowds of thousands in New Jersey had cheered as the the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, Ben Carson reportedly has vouched for him.
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Understanding the Paris Attacks: Is ISIS a Rational Actor? – The Atlantic
In killing 130 civilians in Paris—the worst such attack in France since World War II—ISIS has forced us to contend, once again, with the question of the “rationality” of self-professed ideologues.
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Netflix continues its movie theater invasion with a new film from Bob Odenkirk | The Verge
Netflix recently released Beasts of No Nation both in movie theaters and online, and it’s building upon that strategy with two new films — one of which features Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk.
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This Thanksgiving Calculator Tells You Exactly How Much Food You’ll Need for Everyone
If you’re hosting the big, turkey-centric meal this Thursday, you may be experiencing some anxiety over how much food to serve. This calculator can help with that.
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Midday open thread: The page who busted Foley; Indians keep making legislative inroads in MT
Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Home of the brave: What you may have missed 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, hatre…
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Pfizer’s injection of Botox may cause more than cosmetic damage | Business | The Guardian
Ian Read, chief executive of Pfizer, has been obsessed with finding a tax “inversion” deal for at least two years. He tried AstraZeneca but lost the takeover scrap in embarrassing fashion. Then, it is said, he tried to chat up GlaxoSmithKline but go…
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Al Roker Files N.Y.C. Taxi Complaint | Vanity Fair
Al Roker, the powerful but genial wizard who controls America’s weather, has filed a discrimination complaint with the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission after he says a Manhattan yellow cab passed him by to pick up a white passenger a bloc…
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How Refugees Are Admitted Into The U.S. – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The United States’ effort to accept Syrian refugees seeking asylum has been the subject of much controversy over security concerns and the rigor of the vetting process.
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Slack Is Having A Panic Attack | TechCrunch
Slack seems to be running intermittently at the moment. We first noticed it internally, and then saw reports on Twitter.
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Lamb of God on Canceled Tour: We Won’t Play ‘Terror Alert Hopscotch’ | Rolling Stone
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe wrote a lengthy statement defending his band’s decision to cancel their European tour following terror threats on the continent.
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The Inside Story of David Bowie’s Stunning New Album, ‘Blackstar’ | Rolling Stone
One Sunday night in the spring of 2014, David Bowie walked into 55 Bar, a 96-year-old jazz joint tucked away on a quiet side street in New York’s West Village. A friend, jazz bandleader Maria Schneider, had suggested he check out the night’s headlin…
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Halo 1: where friendships are one quick-scope away from being broken. – GIF on Imgur
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Paris attacks focus of Marco Rubio ad: ‘Either they win, or we do’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio’s campaign released its first television ad on Sunday, in which he warns the recent attacks in Paris could happen in the US.
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The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun Feels Bad About Keeping Glenn‘s Fate a | Vanity Fair
Spoiler warning for those who aren’t caught up on The Walking Dead. Much like with Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead fans refused to believe Glenn had shuffled off this mortal coil.
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The U.S. Is Deporting Fewer People | ThinkProgress
The number of deportations has fallen nationwide over the past year, following Obama’s announcement of a new immigration enforcement initiative that instructs the Department of Homeland Security to go after “felons, not families.
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This Perfect Snowpiercer Poster Takes You All The Way To The Front of the Train
Snowpiercer, the action-packed 2014 dystopian drama, is jam-packed with evocative imagery. The train against the snowy countryside, the radically different cars on the train, as well as the battles that happen on it. Choosing a single moment for a p…
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School Gardens Take the Classroom Outside – The Atlantic
This story is part of a short series on innovative ways teachers are rethinking the traditional lesson plan. What’s one that resonated with you or the student in your life? Tell us about it: hello@theatlantic.com.
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This story is part of a short series on innovative ways teachers are rethinking the traditional lesson plan. What’s one that resonated with you or the student in your life? Tell us about it: hello@theatlantic.com.
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Hear Arcs’ Ghostly Record Store Day Exclusive ‘Young’ | Rolling Stone
Record Store Day will celebrate its own Black Friday on November 27th with a new wave of exclusive and limited edition releases, including a 10-inch of the Arcs’ new EP The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. I.
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How The Campus Speech Wars Could Wind Up In The Supreme Court | ThinkProgress
According to a letter signed by eleven graduate students at the University of Kansas, Professor Andrea Quenette is simply an awful instructor.
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Girl Scouts v Boy Scouts – what’s the difference? | Society | The Guardian
A group of five Girl Scouts in northern California are fighting to join the Boy Scouts, saying that they found the girls’ group to be too sedate.
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Crossroads creator Hazel Adair dies, aged 95 – BBC News
British soap opera pioneer Hazel Adair, who helped create Crossroads, Compact and the UK’s first daily soap Sixpenny Corner, has died aged 95. She created Crossroads with Peter Ling, based in a motel in the fictional village of King’s Oak near Birmi…
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Read this: Comics bloggers say goodbye to Apartment 3-G · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
After more than half a century as a staple of the funny pages, the comic strip Apartment 3-G, centering around the romantic and professional exploits of three young women sharing a New York apartment, quietly ended its run on Sunday, having been can…
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1. Registration with the United Nations. 2. Interview with the United Nations.
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The Bean and Pirate waiting for food : cats
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I walked in my room to see my cat on my bed like this : cats
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Man Hit by MTA Bus on Lower East Side — NYMag
The man, who remains unnamed, was crossing Madison Street at Jackson Street around 11 a.m. when the bus struck him. Witnesses said the bus reversed and then hit the man again, pinning him under the vehicle.
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Rubio has missed about 35% of his votes in the Senate this year. Ranking Senators and Representatives based on how many votes they’ve missed. (braid.io)
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Burundi officials and coup plotters sanctioned by US – Al Jazeera English
The United States has imposed sanctions against former and current senior Burundi government officials, which it says have contributed to the ongoing crisis in the country.
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How Waterstones thrives minus the sound of muzak | Letters | Books | The Guardian
Your article about the extraordinary turnaround in the fortunes of Waterstones (21 November) omits to mention another reason why so many of us have returned to shop in the store.
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Holly Holm Says Floyd Mayweather Is ‘The Greatest of All Time’ | Rolling Stone
Holly Holm Says Floyd Mayweather Is ‘The Greatest of All Time’ After taking Ronda Rousey’s title at UFC 193, the new Bantamweight champ sides with ‘Rowdy’s’ eternal foe in the ‘best boxer ever’ debate
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Rihanna Details Massive ‘Anti’ World Tour | Rolling Stone
Rihanna Details Massive ‘Anti’ World Tour Travis Scott joins singer for North American dates, while the Weeknd and Big Sean tagged for European shows
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The Space Subplot on The Last Man On Earth is Setting Up Something Big
No matter what happens with the crew back on terra firma on The Last Man on Earth, I find the scenes up in space more fascinating.
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A chess set that could teach aliens how to play / Offworld
What if you could learn how to play chess simply by looking at the pieces? That’s one of the ideas behind Orthogonal/Diagonal, an exhibition where artist Nova Jiang has reimagined chess with 3D-printed pieces designed to convey their rules of moveme…
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Report Finds Bahrain Continues to Torture | Al Jazeera America
Bahrain, a U.S. ally in the Middle East, has failed to curb human rights abuses, with its security forces continuing to torture detainees during interrogations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released this week. The allegations are partic…
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Lawmakers Want To Help Poor People Afford Diapers | ThinkProgress
Food stamps don’t cover diapers, nor does the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program. And welfare benefits from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) usually aren’t enough to buy them. So to help poor families afford this basi…
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Julio Jones, Aspiring Robot – The New Yorker
When Julio Jones, the otherworldly Atlanta Falcons wide receiver (allegedly from Alabama) was a second-year player, back in December of 2012, he acrobatically caught a touchdown pass that helped seal a win against the mangy Detroit Lions.
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Dropbox Now Lets You Edit PDF Files While On The Go | TechCrunch
Dropbox says that, starting now, customers will be able to edit PDF files saved into their Dropbox account while using iOS applications, with support for Android set to arrive in the near future.
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Lamb Two Ways – The New Yorker
Every year between Halloween and Christmas, my grandmother Grace transforms her apartment into a bakery. Tables and chairs are covered with racks of cooling cookies, eight baking sheets slip in and out of the oven—as tiny as something in a troll’s h…
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What’s inside a “Hello Barbie” surveillance toy? / Boing Boing
Mattel’s Hello Barbie has a microphone and a wifi interface, and it transmits the phrases it hears to a central server in order to parse them and formulate a response.
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Sidefari Puts Two Safari Windows Side-by-Side in Split View on the iPad
iPad: The split view multitasking feature in iOS 9 is great, but you can’t run two instances of the same app. With something like a web browser, this is kind of a bummer. Sidefari makes that possible.
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Joel Hodgson reveals his picks for MST3K’s new Mad and the ’Bots · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that the ”Bring Back MST3K” Kickstarter campaign has reached its $2 million goal, The A.V. Club feels confident in saying: Felicia Day will definitely play the villainous Mad on the newest incarnation of Mystery Science Theater 3000. (As comfort…
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The Small Agency Trying to Prevent Catastrophic Solar Storms | Motherboard
In case you weren’t worried about enough things already, there’s a lurking threat to the stability of modern civilization that you may have never even considered: solar storms, which can disrupt the Earth’s geomagnetic field and cause massive power …
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In a year full of new sci-fi series from Image Comics, writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Kagan McLeod’s Kaptara has stood out by taking a sillier approach, detailing one man’s fantastic journey to an alien world heavily inspired by the ’80s Masters Of …
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Voter apathy in Egypt – Al Jazeera English
Many voters stayed away from polling stations on the final day of the parliamentary election in Egypt. Many candidates also boycotted the vote. Some blame voter apathy, others call it voter fatigue.
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Two Dell laptop models are shipping with a Superfish-style certificate hack | The Verge
Dell users may have a serious security problem on their hands, thanks to an unorthodox SSL certificate that comes pre-installed on a number of the company’s laptops.
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US police seized $4.5 billion through civil asset forfeiture (through which police can take money and valuables away from citizens without charging anyone with any crimes) in 2014; in the same period, the FBI estimates that burglars accounted for $3…
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Rep. Mo Brooks: Syrian refugees are coming here for ‘a paid vacation’
Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, demonstrating once again that the party base has been electing monsters. “We’re paying them about $15,000 a year in free health care, free food, free shelter, free clothing, free transportation,” Brooks said.
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‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Hateful Eight,’ ‘Hail Caesar’ and More: A Winter-Movie Preview – The Atlantic
Each winter brings with it an odd mix of tentpole films, Oscar leftovers, and cheap horror flicks dumped into the mix.
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FAA Task Force Proposes Registration Procedure For Drones Weighing More Than 250 Grams | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, the FAA convened a task force to work out a proposal for drone registrations. As expected, the task force published its report today and it looks like you will indeed soon have to register your drone before you’re allowed to fly …
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J Edgar Hoover loved Efrem Zimbalist’s “FBI” / Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “While J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t a big fan of much media in the 60s — he worked to rewrite one of Hitchcock’s scripts and made Walt Disney re-work Tomorrowland — there was one show that struck a chord: ABC’s The FBI.”
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Here’s your first look at WGN’s new Underground railroad drama · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
We first reported on it back in August of last year, but WGN’s underground railroad drama set in the antebellum South finally has a teaser.
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Big Night is a food-film classic good enough to devour · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Thanksgiving is upon us, so let’s gorge ourselves on films about food.
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Dallas Mayor Says He’s More Fearful Of Armed White Men Than Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
The mayor of Dallas is pushing back against politicians who say Americans should be skeptical of Syrian refugees, saying he is “more fearful” of armed white men than people fleeing civil war in the Middle East.
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Read This: How The Simpsons took on the Caitlyn Jenner story · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Because of its quick, streamlined production methods, Comedy Central’s South Park can and often does take on controversial current events. With the molasses-slow turnaround time required by its more traditional animation, The Simpsons does not have …
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Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” cooks up the least subtle food metaphor possible · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We’re celebrating Thanksgiving with songs about all kinds of pie.
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NASA: “Streams of Dark Matter, Some Larger Than Our Solar System Flow Through the Milky Way”
Based on many observations of its gravitational pull in action, scientists are certain that dark matter exists, and have measured how much of it there is in the universe to an accuracy of better than one percent.
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Belgium PM: ‘Attack threat imminent and serious’ – BBC News
The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said the state of alert will remain at the highest level in the Brussels area. He said from Wednesday, schools would be re-opened and the capital’s metro system would start running again.
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Vocal Cords Bioengineered From Starter Cells – Scientific American
Nathan Welham, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. But a person can lose his or her voice because of severe damage to the vocal cords, also called the vocal fold mucosa.
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The $100 Billion Climate Question – Scientific American
What’s a difference in opinion worth? When it comes to interpreting a climate pledge by richer countries to help poorer ones tackle the problem of climate change, about $60 billion last year.
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ChargeHub Finds Charging Stations for Your Electric Vehicle
Web/iOS/Android: If you have an electric vehicle, you probably have a couple of spots you regularly charge your car. ChargeHub lets you find additional spots by mapping out nearby charging stations. The map includes extensive coverage of North Ameri…
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In the Greatest Casting of All Time, Felicia Day May Be MST3K’s Next Mad Scientist
OH. MY. GOD. In news that literally has my heart racing, Joel Hodgson has announced his pick for the new “Mad” of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a.k.a. the insane scientist that forces the host to watch all those bad movies. That choice? Felicia frea…
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Turkey Closes Borders to Syrian Refugees, HRW Says | Al Jazeera America
Turkey has “all but closed its borders” to Syrian refugees, many of whom say they have been beaten, detained and expelled by Turkish border guards while trying to escape the devastating civil war that has sent millions fleeing Syria, nongovernmental…
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The MoveOn.org 2016 Presidental Forum Featuring Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley is Tomorrow! (moveon.org)
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“Donald Trump is constantly lying: The past week has made it very clear that Donald Trump has zero concern about the truth.” (washingtonpost.com)submitted 34 minutes ago by loading…
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Open source hardware autonomous tractor uses repurposed drone autopilot / Boing Boing
Matt Reimer’s homebrew autonomous tractor uses open source components to accomplish the kind of automation that John Deere’s super-proprietary tractors are known for.
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The Myth Of Autonomous Vehicles’ New Craze: Ethical Algorithms | TechCrunch
The sheer magnitude of the inevitable transition from human-driven vehicles to autonomous vehicles (AV) requires the careful consideration of a vast array of potential issues. Chief among them are cybersecurity, job loss and an appropriate regulator…
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Planned Parenthood Sues Texas For Slashing Its Funding For Low-Income Patients | ThinkProgress
Planned Parenthood, which has been plagued by controversy for months thanks to a deceptive video campaign accusing the organization of selling aborted fetal tissue, is fighting back in court.
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“Sanders, who was little-known when he began his unlikely bid for president in April, has become a hero on the Democratic left among progressives disillusioned by growing income inequality and money in politics.” (time.com)submitted 1 hour ago by lo…
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If you want to see gaming’s future, see Guitar Hero Live | Polygon
The most important part about the resurrection of the Industrial video game/plastic instrument complex in 2015 wasn’t that Guitar Hero and Rock Band were resurrected within weeks of each other. It wasn’t new songs, new features or an extra row of bu…
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There seems to be no bottom to the cesspool of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Republican candidates. The tone of anti-Muslim musings post-Paris attack has become so poisonous that it cannot portend anything positive.
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BBC Sport – Rafael Benitez: Real Madrid president gives boss full support
Rafael Benitez’s future at Real Madrid is under threat following Saturday’s crushing 4-0 home defeat by Barcelona.
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Former NOAA researcher comments on whistleblower allegations | Ars Technica
House Science Committee Chair Rep. Lamar Smith’s (R-TX) latest allegation against NOAA climate scientists was that the organization’s recent research study was “rushed.” That study has repeatedly drawn the ire of Rep.
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Bernie Sanders calls the largest drug company takeover in history a ‘disaster for American consumers’ (businessinsider.com)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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Weather Disasters Occur Almost Daily, Says UN | Al Jazeera America
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heat waves have occurred almost daily in the past decade — nearly twice as often as two decades ago — with Asia being the hardest-hit region, the United Nations said in a report released Monday.
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FAA task force issues recommendations for new drone regulations | The Verge
The task force of private companies and interest groups charged by the Federal Aviation Administration with coming up with recommendations for new drone regulations has issued its final report.
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Snapchat’s Live Stories now show you moments from multiple angles | The Verge
Snapchat’s Live Stories offer a compelling collection moments of each day from cities around the world. The company is now getting so many submissions in some cities that it’s expanding Live Stories to include multiple snaps for each moment.
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Welcome to the Animal DMV in This Hilarious New Zootopia Trailer
The idea of Zootopia is both incredibly simple and insanely difficult to get your mind around. It’s set in a world where animals live, walk and dress like humans. Okay, but what does that mean? A new trailer, with a scene we can all relate to, gives…
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Toll roads should be introduced around Heathrow to help pay for the costs of building a third runway, according to the boss of British Airways’ owner, IAG.
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This Inside Amy Schumer Deleted Sketch Rubs Its Engagement Photos in Your Face | Vanity Fair
Engagement photos are now as big a deal as wedding photos, because after all, “Engagement shoots are the single best way to rub your happiness in the fat townie face of every person you went to grade school with.
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DisneyLife, Disney’s New Streaming Service For Movies, TV, Music And More, Goes Live | TechCrunch
Disney has now entered the subscription-based streaming services market with the launch of DisneyLife, a Netflix-like service that lets families of up to 6 people stream Disney movies, TV shows and even music, audiobooks and e-books online, to their…
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Donald Trump’s Fact-Free Weekend – The Atlantic
In other words, it was a fairly typical weekend for the Republican presidential frontrunner.
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Mother shocked to discover a gay drama teacher, demands refund / Boing Boing
A mother who enrolled her kids in a musical theater program was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that gay people have infiltrated the world of performing arts. Who would have guessed? The mother went on Facebook to demand a refund, and the g…
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Alanis Morissette and Demi Lovato Do ‘You Oughta Know’ at the AMAs, Mysteriously – The Atlantic
The top trending topic to emerge from last night’s American Music Awards was, as is typical for awards shows in 2015, Nicki Minaj. She didn’t say anything controversial; she didn’t give a risqué performance; she won a few trophies and accepted them …
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Rockers Coheed and Cambria Explore Space Tech at NASA JSC: Gallery
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Boston Globe reporters Jenn Abelson and Liz Kowalczyk talk to ProPublica’s Marshall Allen about their investigation into the hospital practice of booking two surgeries at the same time.
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The movie that no one will see for 100 years
Perhaps inspired by the long time scale filmmaking of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, John Malkovich and Robert Rodriguez have teamed up to make a movie that won’t be released until 2115. Why? As a promotion for luxury brand Louis XIII Cognac, which is…
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President Barack Obama has slapped sanctions against four top current or former security officials in Burundi, linking them to the country’s descent into violence.
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A 14-Year-Old Just Solved A Rubik’s Cube In Under Five Seconds | FiveThirtyEight
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter is now the Roger Bannister of the Rubik’s cube. On Saturday, Etter became the first person to solve a Rubik’s cube in less than five seconds under sanctioned competitive conditions.
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Red States Begin To See The Light On Medicaid Expansion | ThinkProgress
Conservative leaders may be warming up to Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion — a program that has been traditionally gridlocked in GOP-led states — in an emerging trend that could have a serious influence on the program’s adoption in fellow red…
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Snapchat Now Offers Extended Editions Of Live Story Moments | TechCrunch
Today Snapchat has launched a new tool within Live Stories called Story Explorer, which gives users the ability to look at all of the snaps of a single, special moment.
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Migrants Stranded Greece Hunger Strike | Al Jazeera America
Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe on Monday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants and refugees in the Balkans that has raised human rights …
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Kurt Russell keeps everyone cool at glitchy Hateful Eight screening · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At a New York screening of Quentin Tarantino’s latest, The Hateful Eight, some technical difficulties brought the evening to a screeching halt. Luckily, the audience just had to relax, because Jack Burton himself was there to save the day.
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We create the names of paint colors for a living – we’ve recently named over 500 colors and have named paint colors for many brands you have used in your home. Ask us anything! (self.IAmA)
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You can download the new Foo Fighters EP, Saint Cecilia, for free · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been quite the year for Foo Fighters, but more specifically, for Dave Grohl.
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Overestimate Your Spending to Build a Better Budget
It’s so easy to blow a budget. Part of the reason for this is we often underestimate our spending. One simple way to combat this: err on the side of overestimating. My parents taught me this trick as a kid.
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Give the Gift of Fitness With These Workout Tools and Gadgets
Whether you’re hitting the gym, the trails, or the road, a few well-chosen accessories can make the difference between an okay workout and a really awesome one. Here are some of our favorite gifts for the jock in your life.
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Can You Finish These Absurd Donald Trump Quotes? : Liberal
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Into the Badlands: These Characters Kick Ass, But Need More Personality
I’m really digging AMC’s Into the Badlands for its hypnotizing, gorgeous skirmishes. But these acrobatic, limb-chopping warriors need to be showing a bit more personality—otherwise, we’re never going to care if the good guys get sliced to ribbons or…
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Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool In California, More States Coming Soon | TechCrunch
Google is now a licensed mortgage broker in California. The company today launched a mortgage comparison tool for home shoppers in California, with support for more states coming soon.
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Artist Turns a Crop Field Into a Van Gogh Painting, Seen Only From Airplanes | Open Culture
Formally Trained as an avant-garde, abstract expressionist painter, Stan Herd went on to become something a little different — an earthworks artist who takes fields where crops are grown and turns them into sprawling canvases on which he makes art o…
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France is to protect water systems from attack during the global climate summit that begins in Paris on 30 November with up to 45,000 people attending, including 138 heads of state, just over two weeks after Islamist militants struck in the French c…
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Genetic history of Europeans revealed – BBC News
It confirms that farming spread across Europe due to the influx of ancient people from what is now eastern Turkey. Many modern Europeans owe their taller stature to these early farmers – and a later influx of Bronze Age “horsemen” – say internationa…
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Zimbabwe’s Mr Ugly contest winner ‘too handsome’ – BBC News
Some of the crowd at Zimbabwe’s annual Mr Ugly contest have complained that the winner was not ugly enough. The runner-up and his supporters said Mison Sere’s ugliness wasn’t natural since it was based on missing teeth.
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Groundwater Not as Renewable as Thought, Study Finds | The Tyee
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Today in History: November 23 – The Atlantic
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Weekend Box Office: Another year, another Hunger Games “disappoints” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of being disappointed with the enormous opening weekend for their big hit of the year, Lionsgate is disappointed with the enormous opening weekend for their big hit of the year.
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Just in time for the Paris climate talks, this new blueprint shows how the U.S. can shift to clean energy while adding half a million jobs.
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Last night I was invited to a screening of The Big Short, which I thought was terrific; who knew that CDOs and credit default swaps could be made into an edge-of-your-seat narrative (with great acting)?
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What Triggered the Big Bang? It’s Complicated
Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and Realspace, and the YouTube series Space In Your Face. He contributed this…
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“Sunrise” suffers a bit from Second Episode Syndrome. While it does advance the story on several fronts, much of the hour is given over to reinforcing what we’ve already learned from the pilot.
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Our Visit to the Mind-Blowingly Realistic Spaceship Sets of Syfy’s The Expanse
Last night, Syfy released the first episode of The Expanse, its space opera based on James S.A. Corey’s novels, and everyone learned what we’ve known for months: This show is going to blow your mind. We visited the set back in May, and here’s what w…
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Netflix picks up Bob Odenkirk’s noir comedy, Girlfriend’s Day · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has picked up two new indie films from Bob Odenkirk and Chris Sparling (The Sea Of Trees, Buried), both of which will be released in theaters ala.
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How Emo Night Vindicated the Scene | Rolling Stone
One year ago, Barbara Szabo, T.J. Petracca and Morgan Freed simply wanted to host an emo-themed bar party with their friends. “We made a Facebook event, and all of a sudden, 500 people showed up,” Petracca recalls.
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As the hunt for terrorism suspects intensified in Brussels, the authorities requested that Belgians refrain from posting messages on Sunday that might expose or interfere with police operations.
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Hear Nikki Lane and Buddy Miller Cover Dolly and Porter | Rolling Stone
There’s nothing at all unusual about a hoedown in a honky-tonk, but one aboard a 2,300-person cruise ship doesn’t exactly scream traditional.
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Groundwater Not as Renewable as Thought, Study Finds : environment
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BRUSSELS — The capital of Belgium entered the third day of a siegelike lockdown on Monday: Schools, shopping malls, public transit and food markets remained closed, and hotels and bars were desolate, as the total number of arrests in a sweeping coun…
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Belgium charges man over Paris attacks – BBC News
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What We’re Following This Afternoon, November 23 – The Atlantic
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Belgium PM on so-called Islamic State manhunt – BBC News
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel gives a statement as police hunt a suspected Islamist militant who has been on the run since this month’s attacks in Paris.
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Russian judge shuts down scientology / Boing Boing
Earlier today the Moscow City Court ordered the local Church of Scientology to set up a commission to liquidate in six months.
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Is Trey Gowdy a Fair Man in an Unfair Town? — NYMag
Outside the Longworth House Office Building, a man in a brown suit spots Trey Gowdy and shouts, “Great job on that Benghazi Committee!” It’s a November afternoon in Washington, the sky is the same color as Longworth’s marble façade, but Gowdy’s reac…
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The Planet’s Worst Nightmare: A Republican White House | New Republic
In the second Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton deflected a question about her electability with an observation that could apply to pretty much any issue in the presidential race.
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable get 71% of new Internet subscribers | Ars Technica
Comcast and Time Warner Cable are dominating the market for new wireline Internet subscribers in the US, with AT&T and Verizon lagging far behind. Cable already had a majority of the broadband market, even when you count slow DSL as “broadband,” and…
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How Fish Make Themselves Invisible—Mystery Solved
It may seem like there’s nowhere to hide in the open ocean, but fish have figured out a way to mask themselves in nothing but water and sunlight, a new study says.
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The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Wrong side of Right follows Kate, the daughter of a now-dead mother and an unknown dad. All of a sudden Kate’s dad turns up, and Kate is thrown into the spotlight. Senator Quinn is running for president and invites Kate to come and campaign with…
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With $160 billion merger, Pfizer moves to Ireland and dodges taxes | Ars Technica
In what’s called a “reverse-inversion,” Allergan, a small Dublin-based drug company that makes products such as Botox, will technically buy the US-based pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer, which makes products such as Viagra and Lipitor.
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Square launches a new card reader that accepts Apple Pay | The Verge
Square is launching a new card reader today that’ll let merchants accept Apple Pay and other wireless payments systems. The new reader is a stand-alone device that, like other wireless payment terminals, a customer just needs to tap their phone to i…
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Vatican Puts Whistleblowers On Trial – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — When Italian journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi walk into a Vatican tribunal on Tuesday morning, it will be the first time in centuries that anyone has been tried for what amounts to heresy at the Holy See.
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Adele Might Remix Drake’s “Hotline Bling” | Vanity Fair
In what, to use a hackneyed expression, would, if not break the Internet, at the very least briefly incapacitate it, Adele has said that she would enjoy remixing Drake’s excessively memed “Hotline Bling.
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Syrian refugee hands out food to homeless in Germany to “give something back” – Imgur
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Trump excited to bring back waterboarding cuz it’s ‘peanuts compared to what they’d do to us’
More good ideas from Donald Trump, who’s proving to be as much of a menace on foreign policy as he is on domestic issues. Trump now supports reviving the CIA’s discredited interrogation tactic of waterboarding, reports Bradford Richardson:
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Not just Lenovo: Dell ships computers with self-signed root certificates / Boing Boing
Last February, Lenovo shocked its security-conscious customers by pre-installing its own, self-signed root certificates on the machines it sold.
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Only Three Northern White Rhinos Remain
The death of one of the four remaining northern white rhinos has further stoked fears that the subspecies is doomed for extinction. After a series of illnesses, Nola, a 41-year-old female, had to be euthanized by San Diego Zoo staff Sunday.
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Why Is Chipotle Off the Hook in the Fight for Better Pay? – The Atlantic
Two days earlier, Clinton had stopped at a Chipotle located in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. The event was covered in obsessive detail, as the public learned that her order was a chicken burrito bowl with guacamole.
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13 hospitalized in San Diego after overdose of synthetic drug Spice / Boing Boing
Thirteen people were hospitalized on Sunday after they were found vomiting, convulsing, and behaving oddly in downtown San Diego, California.
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Britain needs the lynx effect | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
Last Wednesday, at dusk, a good friend of mine went to close his curtains overlooking the Norfolk countryside. About 100 metres away an animal stood, motionless, in a field. At first my friend, a farmer and wildlife-lover, assumed it was a deer, but…
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Good morning. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, in Paris today with the French president, François Hollande, said he will seek Parliament’s approval this week to join bombings in Syria.
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Refugees go on hunger strike at Greece-Macedonia border – Al Jazeera English
A group of refugees stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border have launched a hunger strike in protest of a filtering system by some Balkans countries which began days ago, rejecting those classed as “economic migrants”.
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Let a Robot Park Your Car in 2 Minutes in Denmark’s Underground Parking Lot | Motherboard
If the path to the future looks like a slow but sure climb toward full efficiency, consider this automated car park a short cut to the summit. This fully automated car park, designed by German firm Lödige Industries, opened its doors on December 11.
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For Female Football Players, It’s Pay to Play (And Pray Someone Sees) | The Nation
On a drizzling day last winter, Rebecca Samuelson drove from her job at Galvanize, a technology startup in Seattle, about an hour south to a high school football field in the city of Kent. When she arrived, it had already been dark for at least an h…
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CBU to become first energy self-sufficient campus in North America : environment
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The National Weather Service says an instrument that fell from the sky, prompting a Philadelphia bomb squad response, weighed about a pound and had been launched with a weather balloon about 165 miles away.
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“Water-in-salt” electrolytes can make lithium-ion batteries safer | Ars Technica
Lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable, have a high energy storage capacity, and exhibit minimal loss of charge when not in use. In our day-to-day lives, we enjoy the benefits of this technology.
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Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root certificates | Ars Technica
In a move eerily similar to the Superfish debacle that visited Lenovo in February, Dell is shipping computers that come preinstalled with a digital certificate that makes it easy for attackers to cryptographically impersonate Google, Bank of America…
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Report: World Cities Are Leading The Way On Climate Change | ThinkProgress
More than half the world’s population lives in a city, which means reducing the carbon footprint of urban areas is critical to keeping global warming below 2°C. Luckily, they are already working on it.
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Homeland Is Back in Season 5, Thanks to Focus on ISIS | Vanity Fair
With its focus on terrorists, counterterrorists, and activist hackers in Europe, the Showtime drama has shed its obsession with emotional contortions and become a crucial dark mirror of our times.
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HBO Teases Game of Thrones’ Worst Kept Secret in a New Poster
This is a spoiler alert. So is this. And this. This makes four spoiler alerts. Seriously, by clicking on this article, you acknowledge that you understand the risks herein, okay? No one is allowed to complain about being spoiled.
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Tessa Thompson’s Creed Character Won’t Just Be “a Ringside Cheerleader | Vanity Fair
Tessa Thompson is more than familiar with Hollywood—she grew up in the heart of the city. “It was my backyard; we would walk on Hollywood Boulevard to do errands or whatever,” the 32-year-old actress recalls.
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Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ Becomes a Best-Seller Again – The Atlantic
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached.
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Bomb Attacks Kill 17 in Nigeria and Cameroon | Al Jazeera America
Seventeen people were killed over the weekend in Nigeria and Cameroon after explosives strapped to five girls were detonated, officials said Monday.
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Army Col. John Hope blew the whistle on a task force that spent $43 million to build a useless gas station in Afghanistan. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction says the useless gas station should have cost about $500,000.
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Mark Zuckerberg is starting his parenting career on the right note | The Verge
On Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he’ll be taking two months off from work after the birth of his daughter to focus on being a parent.
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An American Christmas Story – Racked NY
It’s about 1am on Halloween in Manhattan, and Kent Fritzel is having a holiday-related emergency. It has nothing to do with ghouls, goblins, or girls dressed as Sexy Elmo vomiting into the gutters of Second Avenue. In fact, it has nothing to do with…
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17 Injured During a New Orleans Block Party — NYMag
Police in New Orleans are looking for information that could help explain what happened to make a block party at Bunny Friend Park quickly turn violent on Sunday evening.
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Thanksgiving Is Almost Here, and Over a Million New Yorkers Might Go Hungry | The Nation
This Thanksgiving, New Yorkers will be asked to “Remember the Needy.” But for millions of households, that starts with thinking about themselves. The latest statistics on hunger in the city tells the proverbial Tale of Two Cities as a Tale of Two Pa…
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Watch Donald Trump Get Irate Over His Secret Service Code Name | Vanity Fair
Immigration is once again a hot topic on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, in the hopefully alternative future depicted by Hail to the Trump (VF.
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Watch Joe Manganiello Serenade Sofia Vergara at Their Wedding Rehearsal | Vanity Fair
Joe Manganiello may be saving his best moves for the honeymoon, but for his wedding rehearsal, he whipped out some Guns N’ Roses.
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Donald Trump did it again. And then again. At a rally on Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama, the leader in the GOP presidential contest claimed that on September 11, 2001, “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were ch…
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COP 21: Philippines wrestles with climate dilemma – BBC News
A developing country dubbed one of the most vulnerable to climate change has confirmed controversial plans for more coal-fired power stations. The president of the Philippines has told the BBC the new coal plants are needed to meet demands for energ…
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Dine Simplifies Your Search for the Perfect Restaurant
iOS: Yelp isn’t always the most reliable source for a great restaurant. Establishments might fudge reviews; users might leave feedback based on stuff you don’t care about. Dine is a simplified version of the Yelp experience, telling you only what yo…
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More Than Half the Trees in the Amazon at Risk of Extinction. Are Your Groceries to Blame? (civileats.com)
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A car from Disneyland’s iconic PeopleMover just sold for nearly half a million dollars | The Verge
The PeopleMover was a fixture of California’s Disneyland for nearly 30 years, a chain of slow-moving, open-air pods on a raised platform that took park goers on a guided tour of Tomorrowland.
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The closest I have ever come to attending a big-tent church revival was at Blizzcon two years ago in sunny Anaheim, California.
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Giphy Cam 2.0 Lets You Import Pictures And Videos From Your Camera Roll | TechCrunch
Giphy, the Google of GIF, has introduced an update to Giphy Cam, the app that lets users create their own shareable GIFs.
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Let’s overanalyze the first Game Of Thrones season 6 poster · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that that whole Walking Dead thing is settled, and The Force Awakens has stooped to premiering new clips that are just extensions of old clips lest it pry open the mystery box, the internet needs something to occupy itself so it doesn’t have to …
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Myanmar Landslide Kills More Than 120 Miners — NYMag
It was the worst jade-mining disaster in recent history. The encampment, called Plastic Village, contained more than 70 huts housing three to four workers each. All but five shacks were buried when a nearby 200-foot mound of earth collapsed around 3…
Myanmar Landslide Kills More Than 120 Miners https://t.co/YIEpZQ620V Many more are still missing. via Daily Intelligencer -
[REDACTED] has some thoughts about that bullshit Walking Dead pulled · Newswire · The A.V. Club
[Massive spoilers abound in the below discussion of the season six episode of The Walking Dead, “Head’s Up,” so don’t read any further unless you’ve already seen it or don’t care about ruining the story for yourself, which, frankly, may not be the w…
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Has HBO Confirmed Jon Snow’s Fate With a New ‘Game of Thrones’ Poster? – The Atlantic
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After more than 160 years, America’s second-largest drug company is moving out — and taking tens of billions in unpaid tax dollars with it, forever. Pfizer will merge with Dublin-based Allergan and relocate its executive offices to Ireland to minimi…
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Why do people want to be good? — Hopes&Fears
In the wake of the Paris attacks and the resulting debates around the refugee crisis, people are confronting complex ethical issues.
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How Republicans Learned to Stop Hating France — NYMag
Extreme nationalism, by its nature, requires its adherents to form judgments about the nature of foreign countries that are clear-cut, but also wildly inconsistent over time, as the interests and alliances of one’s own country inevitably mutate.
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Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses hidden by Republican chaos – Chicago Tribune
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Lake Sunset, Northern Wisconsin [OC] [5760×3840] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/mo3X9uGksB https://t.co/JVXh18bsxH https://t.co/0B0v5vNVLm
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Lake Sunset, Northern Wisconsin [OC] [5760×3840] : EarthPorn
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November Puzzler : Earth Matters : Blogs
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The November 2015 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image sho…
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U.K. Carrier EE Looking At Giving Users Control Over Mobile Ads | TechCrunch
The momentum against increasingly intrusive ad tech is continuing to gain strength, with major U.K.
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A Broad Coalition of Okinawans Says No to a New US Marine Corps Base | The Nation
Last week, with the world’s eyes focused on the latest terrorist threats to Europe and Africa, 45 activists from the Japanese island of Okinawa came to Washington to demand justice for a country where the US military has held sway since World War II.
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Migrant crisis: ‘Iranians’ sew lips shut in border protest – BBC News
Migrants stuck on the border between Greece and Macedonia sewed their lips together to protest against not being allowed to continue their journey. About six men, apparently from Iran, stripped down during the demonstration near the village of Eidom…
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Tim Peake ‘ready’ for flight to International Space Station – BBC News
British astronaut Tim Peake says he’s “definitely ready” for his first space flight, finally fulfilling a childhood ambition after two and a half years of intensive training.
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News | Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter
The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. Dark matter is an invisible, mysterious substance that makes up about 27 percent of all matter and energy in the universe. The regular matter, which makes up everything we can see around us, i…
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Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses hidden by Republican chaos : democrats
Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses hidden by Republican chaos (chicagotribune.com)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — In late 2011, as killings, kidnappings and sectarian strife crept across its battle-scarred city of Homs, Syria, the family of four made a sorrowful decision: to flee.
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Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses hidden by Republican chaos : Liberal
Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses hidden by Republican chaos (chicagotribune.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Hillary Clinton’s pledge to avoid middle-class tax hikes is bad news for progressive politics (vox.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Donald Trump’s Recipe for More Tamir Rices | New Republic
As of today, Tamir Rice has been dead for a year.
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Hillary Clinton’s pledge to avoid middle-class tax hikes is bad news for progressive politics (vox.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Copenhagen’s Bike Lane in the Sky – The Atlantic
Denmark loves bike lanes so much, it’s building one on top of a skyscraper. Copenhagen Gate is a spectacular plan to link disparate parts of the Danish capital’s harbor, using a suspension bridge designed especially for cyclists and pedestrians.
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DNA study finds London was ethnically diverse from start – BBC News
The analysis reveals what some of the very first Londoners looked like and where they came from. The first results are from four people: two had origins from outside Europe, another was from continental Europe and one was a native Briton.
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Watch the Team Behind Kaptara Create the World’s Silliest Villains
The fifth issue of Kaptara, one of our favorite sci-fi comic books of the year, is out this week, and within it is a spectacular array of villains under Villektra’s command.
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Kenneth Branagh to play Hercule Poirot in Orient Express film – BBC News
Sir Kenneth Branagh is to play Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in a new film version of Murder on the Orient Express. Sir Kenneth will also take charge behind the camera while The Martian director Ridley Scott will co-produce.
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How climate risk is like a flaming truck barreling toward us, and why it’s time to hit the brakes (ensia.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Michael Rosenberg obituary | Environment | The Guardian
Throughout the golden age of wildlife film-making, during the last quarter of the 20th century, a handful of visionary pioneers created the memorable TV nature programmes that millions watched and enjoyed.
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UK to buy 9 Boeing patrol planes in $18 billion defense budget boost | Ars Technica
As part of a set of defense decisions that Prime Minister David Cameron described as delighting President Barack Obama, the British government announced plans to purchase nine P-8 Poseidon long-range patrol planes from Boeing through a foreign milit…
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UK will speed up purchase of F-35 jets | Ars Technica
In a rare display of increased military spending, George Osborne has told the BBC that the UK will significantly speed up its acquisition of new carrier-based F-35 stealth fighters.
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Adele: I Want to Do ‘Hotline Bling’ Remix With Drake | Rolling Stone
Adele: I Want to Do ‘Hotline Bling’ Remix With Drake Singer addresses memes mashing up track with “Hello” and says she “even got the coat that’s in the [Bling] video”
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Rihanna Teases Impending ‘Anti’ With Cryptic Ads, Mobile Game | Rolling Stone
Rihanna Teases Impending ‘Anti’ With Cryptic Ads, Mobile Site AntiDiaRY.
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How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Became TV’s Best Stalker Musical Comedy | Rolling Stone
You’ve probably seen the ads at a bus stop or on a billboard by now: A woman standing slack-jawed and murder-eyed in a hot pink dress, clutching the string of a heart-shaped balloon that’s threatening to sink back to earth. Beside it, in unhinged al…
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See Hank Williams Jr. and Eric Church’s Rowdy New Video | Rolling Stone
See Hank Williams Jr.
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Carson Palmer’s Long, Strange Trip | Rolling Stone
So Carson Palmer got his revenge on the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday night. Big deal? Seemed like it. Fighting back after a miserable first quarter in which he threw two bad interceptions, the Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback was all daggers the rest of …
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The Roboroach Is Either The Best Or Worst Holiday Gift Ever | TechCrunch
Let’s say you have a certain someone on your list who is really into biohacking. Let’s also assume you’re Ok with having discoid roaches in the house. Then also let’s assume you don’t mind people operating on those roaches on your dining room table.
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Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battle | TechCrunch
German media giant Axel Springer, which operates top European newspapers like Bild and Die Welt, and who recently bought a controlling stake in Business Insider for $343 million, has a history of fighting back against ad-blocking software that threa…
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Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump’s Polls | FiveThirtyEight
Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
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Beware of the dog via /r/aww https://t.co/T6XtJa5H8O https://t.co/VNen8Vs4nF https://t.co/IPodpMulLT
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Springtime in the South Atlantic via NASA https://t.co/s9dT8IHEGd https://t.co/Zw9SJDIzXN https://t.co/xyKZWKB3u9
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Springtime in the South Atlantic | NASA
Springtime in the South Atlantic via NASA https://t.co/s9dT8IHEGd https://t.co/Zw9SJDIzXN https://t.co/xyKZWKB3u9
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Ebola Experience Leaves World No Less Vulnerable – Scientific American
The world is no better prepared for the next global health emergency than it was when the current Ebola epidemic began nearly two years ago, an expert panel warns.
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Stephen Sondheim Finally Reveals What Princess Diana Whispered to Him | Vanity Fair
The 61st Evening Standard Theatre Awards ended on Sunday, surprisingly enough, with Princess Diana.
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Scientists name ‘muscular’ fossil fireworm after Henry Rollins|Dangerous Minds
In the never ending mashup of cool nerds and music enthusiasts, a group of scientists from the University of Bristol in the UK and the Natural History Museum in London have named a newly discovered species of particularly muscular fossil fireworms a…
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How a Democrat Can Win in the South | The Nation
The last time Louisiana backed a Democrat for president was not in some Democratic landslide year like 1964 or 1936; nor even in some particularly good Democratic year in the South like 1976.
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LOS ANGELES — In the face of threatened legal action from the football star Jameis Winston, CNN did not back away from broadcasting “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses that has stirred controversy since its J…
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Chinese forces ‘used flamethrowers’ in Xinjiang operation – BBC News
The People’s Liberation Army Daily said that, at one point, flamethrowers were used to flush out militants hiding in a cave, who were then shot. It said they were behind a “brutal” attack on the public, which may refer to an attack on a mine in Sept…
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Target extends Cyber Monday for entire week | The Verge
While some stores launch their Cyber Monday sales days before Thanksgiving itself, Target is extending its online deals for a week following the holiday. Various departments will have deals throughout that week, and Target is offering 15 percent off…
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Dissents From Palo Alto: The Students – The Atlantic
Photo emailed by a parent in Palo Alto: “one of the post-its left on kids’ cars in the parking lot of Gunn on November 6th, 2014,” two days after the school learned of Cameron Lee’s suicide.
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Ever wonder why people in old movies talk funny? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Seeing as how your local mixologist is now sporting arm garters and a Dali mustache and swing music is certainly bound to have a third wave revival, it’s only a matter of time before the Transatlantic accent makes it way back to filmYouTube page Bra…
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On a shaded lot in a quiet residential enclave in the La Crescenta valley sits a collection of Spanish Colonial cottages.
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Everyone loves dogs—or, more specifically, everyone should love dogs. They’re cuddly and fun, and sometimes their ears are soft. They keep you warm in the winter, and when they poop inside, they generally at least appear to feel really badly about i…
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Tinder Confidential: The Hookup App’s Founders Can’t Swipe Away the Past
Ashley Terrill was in hiding the first time I heard her voice, splitting time between her Los Angeles home and a $600-a-night room at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
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Health Experts WHO ‘Egregious Failure’ On Ebola | Al Jazeera America
The World Health Organization’s failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak was an “egregious failure” that added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health experts said on Monday.
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BBC World Service gets funding boost from government – BBC News
The government is to invest £85 million a year in enhancing BBC services around the world including in Russia, North Korea, the Middle East and Africa. The money is to help “build the global reach of the World Service” to half a billion people and “…
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Microsoft’s Xbox One Elite console is worth the extra cash | The Verge
Microsoft’s Xbox One console hasn’t changed much since its introduction two years ago. It’s still a big black set-top box that will dominate your living room, but Microsoft has a new, slightly more powerful version available this month.
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Explore the magical ruins of Petra on Google Street View | The Verge
Google Street View has expanded to Jordan, home to some of the world’s oldest and most breathtaking ancient ruins. As of today, Street View users can explore 30 historical sites across Jordan, including the 2,000-year-old city of Petra, one of the S…
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Crimea hit by power blackout and Ukraine trade boycott – BBC News
Ukraine has suspended trade with Crimea, where a power blackout has caused major disruption. Only essential services and government offices are operating in Crimea after key electricity pylons connected to the peninsula were knocked down in Ukraine.
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This Is How the FAA’s Mandatory Drone Registration Program Will Work | Motherboard
Since it was announced last month, the drone hobbyist community has been wondering how the Federal Aviation Administration is going to implement its mandatory drone registration program. Monday, the agency released a list of formal recommendations.
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Great Britain’s Davis Cup team, which includes Andy Murray, has arrived in Belgium amid heightened security for this weekend’s final against the Belgian side in Ghent.
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ESA issues call for new Earth Explorer proposals / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
ESA is announcing an opportunity for scientists involved in Earth observation to submit proposals for the next potential Earth Explorer satellite mission. Traditionally, Earth Explorers use new measurement techniques to explore and understand differ…
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A Los Angeles judge was expected Monday to exonerate a man convicted of three rapes after DNA evidence linked the crimes to a serial rapist wanted for assaults dating back two decades.
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How the U.S. goes to war. Every. Single. Time. : politics
How the U.S. goes to war. Every. Single. Time. https://t.co/fcYP6WysZy https://t.co/j2ekeZZR8L via /r/#politics
How the U.S. goes to war. Every. Single. Time. (washingtonpost.com) This would be more accurate if the guy on the left was wearing the Uncle Sam hat. -
The Librarians Saves the Library, Bores the Hell Out of Us
In The Librarians “And the Hollow Men,” we, sigh, spent most of the time on Flynn and Baird’s relationship with him. An electron microscope could not find how little I care about either.
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‘Hey Arnold’ Movie in Works, Nickelodeon Reviving Shows | Variety
Nickelodeon hopes to score a new touchdown with a favorite animated character who has a head shaped like a football.
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David Letterman Is Not Slowing Down | Maxim
When David Letterman slid out from behind his modernist, L-shaped desk for the final time on May 20, passing the keys to the Ed Sullivan Theater to Stephen Colbert, one might have expected him to take it easy. After 33 years as a television fixture,…
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The Anonymous ‘war on ISIS’ is already falling apart | The Verge
When a video first arrived announcing an Anonymous campaign against ISIS, many were skeptical. Coming in the wake of ISIS attacks on Paris, the #OpIsis campaign offered online activists an easy way to fight back against a frightening and genuinely e…
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Footage shot by CNN political reporter Jeremy Diamond shows a Black Lives Matter protester clashing with Donald Trump supporters at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday. The man, identified as Mercutio Southall, told CNN he was subjected to r…
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Could Liquid Lakes Form on Mars Today? – Scientific American
Water from sources such as aquifers could last long enough to pool, with larger pools remaining liquid for at least a year, according to researchers By and SPACE.com | A simulated image of a lake filling Mars’ Gale Crater in the ancient past.
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Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag
For the latest installment of Every Frame a Painting, Tony Zhou examines the artistry and thought silent film master Buster Keaton put into the physical comedy in his movies. I used to watch all sorts of old movies with my dad (Chaplin, Keaton, Laur…
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Comment from the November 30, 2015, Issue – The New Yorker
In “ISIS After Paris,” Steve Coll writes that a study of insurgencies offers lessons in the aftermath of the attacks on the French capital. You can read previous Comments published in the magazine, as well as our online Daily Comment and Cultural Co…
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Transgender Women’s Health Benefits From Transition Surgery, Study Finds | ThinkProgress
A new study finds that transgender women may actually experience physical health benefits from undergoing transition-related surgery compared to those who only use hormone therapy.
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A book of previously unseen photos of the Beatles from the set of Help! / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. In 1964, Italian photographer Emilio Lari was 24, newly arrived in London and looking for work.
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“Extreme weather tied to over 600,000 deaths over 2 decades” : environment
“Extreme weather tied to over 600,000 deaths over 2 decades” (nytimes.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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He helps an older gentleman cross the street safely : gifs
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Enough love to make a kitten smile : aww
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Former NASA official: NASA must shed “socialist” approach to space exploration | Ars Technica
In recent years, SpaceX has upended the rocket industry. Whereas established rocket companies like United Launch Alliance and Arianespace once scoffed at the California upstart, the success of SpaceX has them rapidly scrambling to cut their own laun…
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog – it’s great to be back.
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Save 20% On Target’s Entire Kitchen Selection, Today Only
Today only, Target is taking 20% off hundreds of kitchen items with promo code KITCHEN. If there are any home cooks on your holiday shopping list, this is a great chance to pick up some gifts. We’ve highlighted a few options below, but head over to …
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Last year we featured artwork from the Dune movie that never was, a collaboration between Alejandro Jodorowsky, the mysticism-minded Chilean director of such oft-described-as-mind-blowing pictures as El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and the artist Jea…
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The First Official Look at Game of Thrones Season 6 Is All About Jon Snow | Vanity Fair
If you believe the word of Game of Thrones’s creators, Jon Snow is as dead as it gets. But that doesn’t mean they can resist featuring him prominently in the first marketing materials for their new season.
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Adam Pally screws over his boss when he sleeps with the man’s jilted ex-mistress in the trailer for Night Owls.
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On The Walking Dead, It’s Time for the Alexandrians to Save Rick
Remember how last week I begged for The Walking Dead to get on with it? Well, this week I got my wish in an episode full of some much-anticipated answers, some great characters moments (amidst some shocking stupidity and assholery), and one hell of …
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Google built a prototype Star Trek communicator for voice searches | The Verge
How much does Google love Star Trek? Enough that the company built, and then abandoned, a voice search device modeled after the badge-and-communicator pin worn by members of Starfleet.
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Version Tracker examines how different artists have performed the same song over the years, adapting it to suit their own needs and times. Leon Payne was just a lad—nearly 22—when he hit the road with Western swing bandleader Bob Wills and the Texas…
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Game of Thrones announces season six premiere with a bloody Jon Snow | The Verge
HBO is bringing back Game of Thrones early next year. The network shared the first promotional still on Twitter this morning, and it features everyone’s favorite (possibly deceased? possibly a zombie? we’re not sure?) bastard: Jon Snow.
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RZA Is Ready for a Female President | Rolling Stone
One day after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, RZA gave an interview saying that the election signified America “practicing our principles passed down by our forefathers” in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
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H. Jon Benjamin has done a lot of weird stuff in his career, from playing a talking can of vegetables in Wet Hot American Summer to voicing a talking head of cabbage for an episode of American Dad. His latest project, Well, I Should Have…, might be …
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See Ashley Monroe and Miranda Lambert’s Stirring Duet on ‘The Blade’ | Rolling Stone
Ashley Monroe’s 2015 album The Blade is so steeped in heartache that it seems at times as if the Knoxville, Tennessee native much have bottomless reserves of the stuff at her disposal.
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Top 5 TV: ‘Jessica Jones’ Gets Gritty, Glenn’s Back From the ‘Dead’ | Rolling Stone
First David Letterman retired, then Jon Stewart — and now, out of the blue, E! just canceled The Soup. After December 18th, we’ll no longer get to watch Joel McHale savage the idiocy of reality-show celebrities, a vital public service he’s performed…
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Redskins Player Says Officials Target Them — NYMag
The Washington Redskins got blown out by the undefeated Panthers yesterday, and the Redskins were unhappy with several calls by the officiating crew, including an unnecessary roughness penalty that negated a Washington touchdown.
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‘Game of Thrones’ season 6 teaser poster shows Jon Snow | EW.com
Game of Thrones has released teaser art for season 6 featuring a broken and bloody Jon Snow. HBO is clearly embracing the speculation over the fate of Kit Harington’s character who was (spoiler alert) killed in the season 5 finale.
Despite the actor, producers, and HBO all insisting the character is truly dead, everybody is wondering whether that’s really the case (especially since Harington was spotted in costume in Belfast on the Thrones set). -
Black Friday through the years: Toys parents fought over | Fusion
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is widely considered the opening of the holiday shopping season. This annual tradition may have earned its colorful name because it represents the time of year when retailers finally turn a profit (they’re n…
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Austria to Decide on Class Action Vs Facebook | Al Jazeera America
Austrian student Max Schrems’s attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook over its privacy policies will head to Austria’s Supreme Court to determine whether such collective legal action is allowed, his group said on Monday.
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Americans fear gun violence over terrorism by large margin. Voters nearly two times more concerned about being a victim of gun violence than terrorism. (mcclatchydc.com) It’s not even close. In a recent 10-year period, guns killed more than 112 time…
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Sony matches Xbox One with $299 price for Black Friday weekend | Ars Technica
Last week, Microsoft kicked off the holiday shopping season right by announcing an across-the-board, $50 price cut for the Xbox One from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday weekend.
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Joe Manganiello Serenades Sofia Vergara – The Daily Beast
In case you missed it, Sexiest Man Alive / werewolf / Magic Mike XXL star Joe Manganiello and Modern Family star / clothing designer / 32nd most powerful woman in the world Sofia Vergara tied the knot last weekend in a star-studded gala that TMZ-fan…
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Origin of Earth’s First Species –A New Theory
During the earliest evolution on earth, life probably resembled one big genetic jumble. At some time, presumably around 3.8 to 3.5 billion years before today, the very first biological species appeared – the ancestor of all life forms that developed…
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He likes to show off his spotted tummy. : cats
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“Too hot for humans? Scientist discusses scary Persian Gulf forecast” : environment
“Too hot for humans? Scientist discusses scary Persian Gulf forecast” https://t.co/OBtTg32U85 https://t.co/a5iLBr5Zx9 via /r/environment
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Too hot for humans? Scientist discusses scary Persian Gulf forecast
“Too hot for humans? Scientist discusses scary Persian Gulf forecast” https://t.co/OBtTg32U85 https://t.co/a5iLBr5Zx9 via /r/environment
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Weather disasters occurred almost daily over last decade, UN says | Environment | The Guardian
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a UN report said on Monday.
Weather disasters occurred almost daily over last decade, UN says https://t.co/A9cgT4Xjl1 https://t.co/NTN4HVElcL via /r/environment -
Black Lives Matter Protester Tackled, Beaten by Crowd at Trump Rally in Alabama (nymag.com)submitted 49 minutes ago by loading…
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Crystal Palace’s co-owner Steve Parish is hoping to have the deal to sell a sizeable shareholding to American investors in place before Christmas and has moved to reassure fans that he remains committed to the club.
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A Wily Ted Cruz Makes His Move | The Nation
As the months of Donald Trump’s GOP primary dominance turn into seasons, with the inscrutable outsider Ben Carson as his only serious challenger, anxious party leaders continue to hope that one serious candidate might emerge from the gaggle of senat…
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Star Wars Met Pentatonix at the American Music Awards | Vanity Fair
How can J.J. Abrams and the Star Wars team top their Comic-Con musical mic drop, a.k.a. that pop-up concert that saw cosplayers waving their toy-lightsaber candles in the wind? Perhaps with a musical tribute to John Williams from Pentatonix.
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Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Back Together or What? | Vanity Fair
Love may be patient, and it may be kind, but love is also confusing and slippery, mutable and mysterious.
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Terrorism in the Age of Twitter – The New Yorker
In his influential 2004 book, “Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah,” the French political scientist Olivier Roy pointed out that what he termed Islamic “neofundamentalism,” despite its frequent references to the past and to the Koran, repre…
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Group Identifies Gunmen Behind Mali Hotel Attack | Al Jazeera America
Mali began a three-day mourning period with flags flying at half-staff on Monday for victims of the assault on a luxury hotel full of foreigners, a day after a dueling claim of responsibility emerged.
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Well, the man unfortunately has a point. That’s true, GW, Cheney, Jeb and the rest of PNAC.
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Hillary Tweets All Sexual Abuse Accusers Deserve To Be ‘Believed,’ Is Reminded Of Her Husband (dailycaller.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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A 90,000-Lumen Flashlight Is Damn Bright – Digg
13 diggs Technology Curious How-To At a certain point, lights get so blindingly bright that they’re basically useless.
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Historian Roxaane Dunbar-Ortiz describes the incredible origin of the term “Redskin.” Something I didn’t have any idea about. (youtu.be)
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Mars might get rings just like Saturn’s one day – The Washington Post
Mars’s moon Phobos might put a ring on it. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) Earlier this month, scientists announced that Phobos — one of Mars’s two moons — is probably falling apart.
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Adele album on course for UK chart history – BBC News
Adele’s album could be the UK’s fastest-selling album ever, having already sold more than half a million copy in just three days. The total sales for 25 stand at 538,000 so far, with four days of the chart week still to run.
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Most of Britain’s major cities pledge to run on green energy by 2050 | Environment | The Guardian
Most of Britain’s major cities will be run entirely on green energy by 2050, after the leaders of more than 50 Labour-run councils made pledges to eradicate carbon emissions in their areas.
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Stick to Your Fitness Regimen by Thinking Like an App Developer
You stick to your fitness routine about as well as butter sticks to a teflon pan…covered in melted butter. So how can you turn fitness into something that holds your attention? Learn from the single most addicting thing in your life: your smartpho…
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Mars Will Have a Saturn-Like Ring After Its Biggest Moon Disintegrates | Motherboard
Slowly but surely the Martian moon Phobos is spiraling inward toward its guardian planet. As it approaches Mars, one of two Phobos fates is foretold: Either the moon will smash into the planet’s surface, or it will be ripped apart by ever-increasing…
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This Is What the Net Neutrality Rules Actually Say About Comcast’s Stream TV | Motherboard
Last week, we learned that Comcast and other internet providers believe they’ll be able to skirt the Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules by providing free data that doesn’t count against your home or mobile service data caps.
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Google today launched version 2.0 of its Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) for writing apps for its mobile operating system. Android Studio, which is based on IntelliJ, launched back in 2013 and came out of beta a year ago.
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Armed Protesters Gather Outside Mosque in Irving — NYMag
A dozen brave souls armed with nothing but an American flag, a Ted Cruz sign, and many large guns gathered outside a mosque in Irving, Texas, on Saturday to protest an illegal Sharia court that does not exist.
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Bionic Roses Implanted with Electronic Circuits – Scientific American
Every rose has its thorn—but roses grown in a Swedish lab have transistors and electrodes too. Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic materials into them.
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Belgian Police Conduct Raids, Arrest 21 People in Brussels – The Atlantic
Belgian security forces have arrested 21 people in Brussels and elsewhere in a search for suspected extremists that government officials fear could launch a Paris-style attack on the capital city.
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The Bills Are Proof That A Team Needs More Than Just A Good QB | FiveThirtyEight
The Buffalo Bills — yes, the same Buffalo Bills franchise that hasn’t made the playoffs since 1999 — enter their Week 11 matchup tonight against the New England Patriots with a 5-4 record.
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How to poop like an astronaut | The Verge
If humans are going to go to Mars, or mine asteroids, then recycling is going to matter. And that means recycling everything — including human waste.
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BBC News – Fresh deaths in Jerusalem and West Bank violence
Earlier, two Palestinian girls stabbed and wounded an elderly Palestinian man in Jerusalem, apparently mistaking him for an Israeli, Israeli police said. One of the girls was shot dead. They were the latest in a recent wave of stabbing attacks targe…
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Louisiana votes for Medicaid expansion
The monumental David Vitter loss in Louisiana Saturday promises to be a big win for Louisiana.
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The headline above came straight from the press release because it made me laugh. Can’t think of what to buy your favorite magus for Christmas? [Or Noel Fielding, wait, he’s already got one.] Yes that’s right, Kenneth Anger, avant garde underground …
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Obama says GOP doing the terrorists’ work for them : politics
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DEA chief: Medical marijuana is “a joke.” Science: No, it’s not. : politics
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Obama says GOP doing the terrorists’ work for them | TheHill
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DEA chief: Medical marijuana is “a joke.” Science: No, it’s not. – Vox
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Mining the Solar System –Will it Spawn the Next Google? https://t.co/FfUEZeSzuZ https://t.co/ehW6i5AAmK
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Rey and Finn Go on the Run in the First Clip From Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sure, if you’ve been following along with all the trailers and TV spots, you’ve probably seen a good 5-to-10 minutes or so of The Force Awakens already.
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http://www.rikukarjalainen.com/ 4K/UHD Version: youtu.be/MozX3qFIkpQ Today I’m privileged to share with you the Finland I got to experience. I’ve witnessed the diversity and immense beauty of this land from the very north all the way to the southern…
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Goosebumps stories adapted into ‘spine-tingling’ immersive performance | Books | The Guardian
Featuring everything from the deadly camera of Say Cheese and Die! to the creepy ventriloquist’s dummy of Night of the Living Dummy, an immersive theatre experience based on the bestselling Goosebumps series by RL Stine is due to launch in London ne…
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How wily wild turkeys struck it lucky in America | New Scientist
Delicious and nutritious, wild turkeys were heading for extinction in the US a century ago – but now the tables have turned for the iconic gobbler WE HUMANS have a fondness for calling someone or something we consider inept a “turkey”.
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John Kerry: ‘People Need to Not Panic’ — NYMag
Eighty-three percent of Americans think a terrorist attack in the U.S. is likely to happen in the near future, according to a recent Washington Post–ABC News poll. Sixty-six percent of Americans think President Obama doesn’t have a good idea of how …
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DEA chief: Medical marijuana is “a joke.” Science: No, it’s not. (vox.com) Yeah, the blowback is justified here. Turns out weed has a ton of beneficial uses and the surface has only been scratched due to decades of prohibiting research.
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I agree, what a hate storm they have generated. All the Republican candidates shouting their fear and hate, is not only embarrassing, it is shameful to our entire nation. I have a Muslim friend who texted me yesterday really freaked out about things.
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Sick Passengers Cause 3K Train Delays Per Month — NYMag
The Times reports that there is a plague of “sick passengers” holding up the subway, with an estimated 3,000 train delays every month this year. For reasons unknown, that number has grown dramatically from roughly 1,800 illness-caused delays per mon…
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The Bankrupt Irishman Who Created the Dollar Sign by Accident | Atlas Obscura
Wars cost money. So when the Revolutionary War broke out, the Colonies turned to a number of sources for backing. The top contributors to America’s Independence: The Kingdoms of France and Spain, the Dutch banking conglomerate, and a single Irish me…
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China shuts down service for some phones with foreign messaging apps | The Verge
As mobile users try to evade censorship in China through software, the government appears to be trying a new technique to head off such attempts.
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Jesse Jackson speaks out against Islamophobia – Al Jazeera English
Chicago, United States – Reverend Jesse Jackson stood with hundreds of American Muslims at a suburban Chicago mosque on Friday, to protest against suggestions made by some politicians that they should carry special government-issued identification c…
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Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers will premiere at Sundance | Film | The Guardian
Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers, which features Johnny Depp alongside his daughter Lily-Rose, is among the films selected for the Sundance film festival’s influential horror-oriented Midnight section.
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How Turducken Went From Food Of Kings To Poultry of the Populace | Atlas Obscura
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie–the blue-blood ancestor of the turducken. (Image: Mother Goose’s Melodies/WikiCommons Public Domain) Once upon a time, you had to be royalty to be surprised by your food.
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How Frozen Turkeys Inspired the First Research on Trans Fat and Heart Disease – The Atlantic
Of the roughly 46 million turkeys that Americans will consume this Thanksgiving, an estimated 85 percent will be purchased as blocks of solid ice. But as ubiquitous as frozen turkeys may be, their origin story isn’t one that’s particularly well know…
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Will Tornado Prediction Ever Improve? – The Atlantic
Predicting tornadoes is so difficult that many people still rely on natural warning signs and folklore. Sky the color of pea soup, eerie stillness, and thundering hailstones are all ominous tornado warning signs. But none of these conditions, alone …
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Trump defends claim that Muslims cheered 9/11 attacks – BBC News
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has defended claims that he saw “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the attacks of 9/11. There is no evidence of large-scale celebrations in New Jersey in the wake of the atta…
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UK’s new military hardware – in numbers – BBC News
Two 5,000-strong “strike brigades” that can be rapidly deployed to help the UK respond to “diverse” threats are part of a planned £12bn increase in defence spending which the prime minister is due to outline? But how else will the extra money be spe…
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Only three northern white rhinos left. Can we save the rhinos? – CSMonitor.com
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Canada’s Largest Oil-Producing Province Wants A Limit On Carbon Emissions | ThinkProgress
Alberta’s carbon footprint, spurred on by the tar sands industry, has been steadily growing in recent years. So when the New Democratic Party took power in a surprise victory earlier this year, environmentalists hoped it signaled a turning point for…
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Only three northern white rhinos left. Can we save the rhinos? : environment
Only three northern white rhinos left. Can we save the rhinos? (csmonitor.com)
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Argentina’s President-elect Macri lays out new course – BBC News
Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri said he would correct errors made by the outgoing administration, such as currency controls. Mr Macri won Sunday’s run-off election by a narrow margin over Daniel Scioli, who was backed by outgoing president …
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Trailer for season 2 of Transparent
Transparent was my favorite first season of television since Game of Thrones, or maybe even Mad Men. So I’m delighted to see the trailer for the show’s second season, which starts on Dec 11. If you haven’t seen the first season yet, I would highly r…
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Tchotchke porcelain figurines altered with insect heads|Dangerous Minds
Big Bee-autiful Bee Lady “Mìfēng” I must be on a nana kick today. I just blogged about Golden Girls “granny panties” and now I’ve moved on to altered versions of your grandma’s favorite “valuable” porcelain figurines.
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“The often chaotic budget and debt-ceiling battles between the president and congressional Republicans (along with a great deal of demagoguery on immigration, race and Islam) have inspired little confidence among either friends or foes that we can m…
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To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral…
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Egypt border guards shoot Sudanese migrants dead – BBC News
Egyptian border security forces have shot dead at least five Sudanese migrants as they attempted to cross into Israel from northern Sinai. Earlier this month the bodies of 15 African migrants were found on the border in the same area, near Rafah.
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This IRS Tool Tells You If You Can Claim a Dependent
If you’re taking care of someone, whether it’s a child or a family member, chances are, you can claim them as a dependent and get a tax break. But the rules can get tricky. This IRS tool tells you whether you can claim someone as a dependent.
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Homeless Man Finds Missing Army Reserve Weaponry — NYMag
On November 11, a 51-year-old homeless man collecting recyclables from a garbage can in Mullaly Park near Yankee Stadium discovered a garbage bag with an M-4 semiautomatic rifle and two SIG Sauer 9mm handguns inside. He contacted the police.
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My dog looks like an ancient philosopher : pics
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There are treats behind this door : aww
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Look, It’s A New Star Wars Trailer! | TechCrunch
In case you can’t get enough Star Wars Episode VII trailers, Disney is here for you. The company aired a brand new teaser last night during the American Music Awards. It’s a short and packed 30-second video with many quick scene previews.
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Orion’s Belt Holds More Than 3 Stars | Video
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John Hurt Battles the Daleks in a New Clip From His Doctor Who Audio Adventures
We’ve only seen a brief snippet of John Hurt’s Time-War-ravaged incarnation of the Doctor, just his appearance in Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary in 2013.
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What Does Barack Obama Now Have in Common with Gwyneth Paltrow and Blue Ivy Carter? | Vanity Fair
What do Beyoncé, Blue Ivy Carter, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Barack Obama all have in common, other than the fact that they’ve never waited for a table at a restaurant in the past decade? We’ll get right to it: all of ’em will be featured on . . . the new…
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Ben Carson Reportedly Mulls Trip to Australia to Prove He’s Hip to Glo | Vanity Fair
After several weeks of foreign-policy blunders—and a disastrous interview with an adviser who said Carson’s knowledge of international affairs was lacking—Dr.
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A New Way to Fund Unicorns Starts to Look Less Magical | TechCrunch
If you haven’t heard of a fairly new twist on investing called special purpose vehicles (SPVs), you probably aren’t an institutional investor or a wealthy individual with direct ties to either a venture firm or a high-flying startup like Pinterest o…
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Migrants ‘stuck’ on Greece border with Macedonia – BBC News
Thousands of people are stuck on Greece’s border with Macedonia because they are being told that only those that can prove they are escaping war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan can pass. It means that migrants from Pakistan, Iran and Bangladesh have …
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The Ripple Effects Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Two-Month Paternity Leave | ThinkProgress
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced late last week that he’ll take two months of paternity leave when his daughter is born.
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Hey GOP, Will You Stop Your Fascist Now? – The Daily Beast
I’m still not sure it’s 100 percent clear that Donald Trump really understands that he’s a neo-fascist. He may not know enough history to be fully aware of the now-undeniable odor of his rhetoric and campaign.
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of November 23, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Realtor Was Not Expecting Such Hard-Hitting Questions About Water Pressure Go To Article Congress Members Spend Afternoon Drawing Pictures Of Their Dream Capitols Go To Article Desperate Obama Just Wants To Know Who To Give Weapons To In Order To St…
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Texas Votes Against Experts Fact-Checking Textbooks – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The Texas school board has voted against allowing academic experts to fact-check their textbooks, instead instituting a rule that any textbook review panels must be composed of a majority of people with “sufficient content expertise and experience” …
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Siberia’s melting permafrost fuels climate change : environment
Siberia’s melting permafrost fuels climate change (aje.io)submitted 26 minutes ago by loading…
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Mali TV Airs Images of Two Hotel Attack Suspects | Al Jazeera America
Authorities in Mali published photographs on Monday of a man and a woman they said helped plan last week’s armed attack on a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako.
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Hillary Clinton’s solution to the charter school crisis is what exactly? She seems to be saying that charter schools have major problems, but the best way to fix them is to redouble our belief in this flawed and failing system. (laprogressive.com)
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The Norwegian Secret To Enjoying A Long Winter
Residents of Norway view their long dark winters as something to celebrate. How it’s possible to be cheerful for the next four months. As the days get darker and colder in much of the northern hemisphere, it’s easy to indulge in gloom. For the next …
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Are Syrian refugees in the U.S. likely to be affiliated with ISIS? So far, the math suggests native-born Americans are a far bigger source of concern. (nbcnews.com) There are 5 ways for ISIS (or other terror group) to get fighters in the US 1.
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Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people : environment
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Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people – BBC News
Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people https://t.co/tVK2wpxUk5 https://t.co/VAfs16ZXhr via /r/environment
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He helps an older gentleman cross the street safely – GIF on Imgur
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How 3D Tech Is Saving The Animal Kingdom | TechCrunch
Not since the extinction of the dinosaurs has Earth lost so much life. This time, however, it can’t be attributed to asteroids, volcanic eruptions or an ice age: Humans are the perpetrators.
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Mining the Solar System –Will it Spawn the Next Google?
Asteroids are primordial material left over from the formation of the Solar System. They are scattered throughout it: some pass close to the Sun, and others are found out beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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After Dropbox finds a child porn collector, a chess club stops his knife attack | Ars Technica
Dustin Brown wanted a secure grip on the two knives he had selected to slaughter the children. Before leaving his Morton, Illinois, home on the afternoon of October 13, the 19-year-old wrapped each knife’s handle carefully with duct tape. He then pu…
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The Kano DIY Screen Kit can teach kids how computer displays work | The Verge
Last year, after earning more than $1.5 million in Kickstarter donations, a small, London-based startup named Kano released what it hopes will become the Lego of computing. The Kano Kit is a small computer kit designed to let kids aged 6-14 (and eve…
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The Hague to hear competing claims in South China Sea dispute | World news | The Guardian
Rival claims to strategic reefs and atolls in the disputed waters of the South China Sea will go before an international tribunal in The Hague on Tuesday.
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Get Free Admission to State Parks in California, Minnesota, and Missouri on Black Friday
Forget standing in line for hours. Black Friday is dying, so spend your day doing something more fun: like visiting a state park for free. This year, state parks in California and Minnesota are offering free admission, and state parks in Missouri ar…
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Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Refugee Boy is about a boy whose parents are from Ethiopia and Eritrea. It’s set at a time of civil war between the two countries; his mum is from Eritrea and his dad is from Ethiopia. The story is really about their son Alem.
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Google Brings Street View To The Ancient City Of Petra | TechCrunch
Google continues to expand the range of its Street View project.
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Drone madness: take an additional 15% off these high flying drones today only / Boing Boing
The Code Black is our top-selling drone of all time—and for good reason. This powerful, palm-size drone is not only insanely fun to fly, but can capture some serious video footage from up above.
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The Dragon Path by Helen Moss – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Dragon Path is the second addition to The Secrets of the Tomb series by Helen Moss. In this adventure, our two quirky protagonists, Cleo (who is terrible at lying) and Ryan (her brother), are to accompany their parents to a dig in China.
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Sundance Film Festival unveils its midnight movie lineup · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Next year’s Sundance Film Festival will feature evil clowns, snarky convenience store clerks, and conspiracy-obsessed stoners. Although that sounds like it could be the premise of Kevin Smith’s entry alone, it’s actually the complete lineup for the …
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Profits Of Doom – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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How a Forest Responds to the Threatening Heat of 2100 – Scientific American
Last of a four-part series. For the previous parts, click here, here and here. EL YUNQUE RAINFOREST, Puerto Rico—Yellow cables marked “danger” carry 480 volts of electricity through the rainforest. The cables reach into a circular metal scaffold tha…
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Follow the outsized successes and failures of mogul Howard Hughes · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or you need a reminder of America’s policy toward refugees. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,01…
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LOS ANGELES—Concerned moviegoing citizens across the nation issued an urgent appeal to Hollywood studios this week to make more films in which a guy is shot multiple times in the chest and then, later on, is revealed to have been wearing a bulletpro…
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA—Grieving family members of local aunt Laurie Shelton confirmed Monday that the 48-year-old woman’s unexpected death had caused a major breach in their gossip pipeline, suddenly disrupting access to the latest dirt on all their rel…
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Watch Explosive Clip from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Explosive First Clip from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ “We can’t outrun them!” screams Finn in this first glimpse at a scene from Episode VII
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10 Things We Learned From Colbert-Abrams ‘Star Wars’ Talk | Rolling Stone
They came via hyperdrive and warp speed, and even by New Jersey Transit, these devotees of Stars both Trek and Wars to mix with the high-rolling, arts-underwriting swells at a benefit performance for the Montclair Film Festival.
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For all some possibly a few of your holiday shopping needs, be sure to visit TT’s online store!
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Watch Jonny Greenwood Perform Intimate ‘Junun’ Outtake ‘Hu’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Jonny Greenwood Perform Intimate ‘Junun’ Outtake ‘Hu’ Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express also perform mesmerizing track from Paul Thomas Anderson film
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Hear Bruce Springsteen’s Powerful ‘Party Lights’ From New ‘River’ Box | Rolling Stone
Hear Bruce Springsteen’s Powerful ‘Party Lights’ From New ‘River’ Box Sad tale of a young mother, cut during sessions for ‘The River,’ has never been heard until now
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OAK PARK, IL—Swiftly regaining his composure after initially jumping at the sight of flames erupting from the cocktail glass, local bartender Nick Brower confirmed Thursday that he was just going to pretend he had every intention of serving that las…
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WWE ‘Survivor Series’: Roman Reigned, Then Sheamus Cashed In | Rolling Stone
Confetti raining down from the rafters usually signifies the end of a memorable night. But as the paper fell at the conclusion of Survivor Series, the feeling I had wasn’t elation, it was annoyance.
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I created a movie database site that combines Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Letterboxd and Metacritic scores, with Netflix and Amazon Prime availability, to quickly help users find what to watch (cinesift.com)submitted just now by yombatloading…
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Watch John Oliver Explain Why Pennies are ‘Garbage’ | Rolling Stone
It costs the U.S. Mint 1.7 cents to make one penny – a mind-boggling statistic. And in a 2002 Gallup poll, 2 percent of Americans admitted to throwing the currency away. “The U.S. Mint is spending millions to make garbage,” John Oliver says in this …
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Chris Martin hires a Barack star
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Angry Red Dwarf Star Would Probably Prevent Life | Animation
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Paris attacks: Who were the attackers? – BBC News
French officials investigating the deadly Paris attacks have named seven people they believe to have carried out the assaults, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. One of the seven was detained by Belgian police and has since been released witho…
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Adele’s isolated vocals from SNL
At the risk of turning this into an Adele fan site, here are the isolated vocals for her performance of “Hello” for Saturday Night Live. They are raw and flawless and real and everything pop music isn’t these days.
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Quiz: The Pieces Everything Is Made Of – The New Yorker
Several years ago, Randall Munroe, the creator of the Web comic “xkcd,” published his own blueprint of a Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle that sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon. He called it “Up Goer Five.
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Your train is delayed because of a sick passenger. Subway riders sit and wonder: Who is this sick passenger, and why is he or she on my train? Any sympathy for the mysterious person is often mixed with annoyance.
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Will gamma-ray detector find asteroid treasure? – Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Two recent events—one legal and the other technological—have brought asteroid mining a step closer to reality.
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Sure, stoned drivers are more paranoid and less likely to break traffic laws, which means cops are giving out less tickets and can’t hit their quotas. I’m proud of Colorado.
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10 of the Toughest Old-School Explorers and Adventurers
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Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day | The Verge
It’s been a while since we checked in with Google’s Transparency Report, the company’s blog that keeps tabs on search result takedowns and related issues, but it seems the war on piracy has only been getting more frantic.
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Blinkset Shows You All Of The Coolest Stuff As Quickly As Possible | TechCrunch
In the land of the tiny attention spans the app that shows images as quickly as possible is king. That’s what Blinkset does: it flashes “what’s trending” past your face at “hyperspeed,” a prospect that should make even the most plugged among us wond…
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You think holiday air travel sucks? Try flying while disabled. On American Airlines. / Boing Boing
Air travel is degrading, stressful, and humiliating enough as it is, so imagine doing it when you can’t get up and walk off the plane. If I could walk, I wouldn’t have missed my connection.
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Simulation of two planets colliding : space
Any idea how long this simulation, theoretically, took to play out? Looking at how fast stuff is orbiting the planet, assuming earth like qualities, I’d say a few days.
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The Danish Girl to be screened at the White House | Film | The Guardian
The Danish Girl, the biopic of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, is to be screened at the White House as part of an event honouring “champions of change” in the LGBT community, it has been announced.
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Pfizer and Allergan to Make It Official in $160 Billion Deal | Vanity Fair
Let’s toast the happy couple.
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Martin O’Malley Justifies The Discredited ‘Ferguson Effect’ | ThinkProgress
COLUMBIA, SC — Republican candidates have largely embraced the myth of the “Ferguson effect,” which theorizes that police are more hesitant to do their jobs after high-profile police protests in Ferguson and other cities, driving up crime rates.
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The ultimate granny panties: Yep, there’s a 4 pack of ‘Golden Girls’ underwear|Dangerous Minds
I love this. I mean really, really love this! A 4 pack of Golden Girls “panties” by Etsy shop Bullet and Bees. If you take a closer look, you’ll notice the Blanche Devereaux panty is crotchless! Perfect, right? The Golden Girls underwear set sells f…
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Paris attacks: President Hollande’s search for allies – BBC News
It was only just light when the French president led his British guest to the Bataclan site. For David Cameron, in Paris for private talks and public declarations, this wordless gesture was perhaps the most important statement of all.
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There Are Only 3 White Rhinos Left on Earth — NYMag
As of yesterday, there are only three northern white rhinos left in the whole wide world. Nola, a 41-year-old, 4,000-pound rhino who has lived at the San Diego Zoo since 1989 was euthanized over the weekend. She had an infection that had been gettin…
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Yesterday, Donald Trump tweeted a series of inaccurate murder statistics from the “Crime Statistics Bureau — San Francisco.” The bureau doesn’t exist and the statistics were fabricated. It appears the numbers were manipulated to perpetuate racism ag…
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Chris Kyle, fifth from top left, was the most celebrated sniper in American history. His killer, Eddie Ray Routh, may have been suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia.
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Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation : Liberal
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Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation | MSNBC
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Canada’s Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 : environment
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Canada’s Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017| Reuters
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Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation : democrats
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Real Drugs, Virtual Reality: Meet the Psychonauts Tripping in the Rift | Motherboard
Imagine you’re soaring through a colorful, 360-degree virtual world full of obstacles, making giant leaps, jumping walls and swinging through the air with a grappling hook, Spider-Man-style.
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How to Legally Buy a Kilo of Pure MDMA | Motherboard
Inside a nondescript building in a quiet town in Massachusetts, there sits nearly a kilogram of 99.9 percent pure, powdered MDMA. That’s enough Molly to get all 10,000 attendees of the annual Baals music festival rolling pretty hard.
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How salt will keep giant solar plant running into the night – BBC News
One of the world’s biggest solar thermal plants will open in Morocco next month. The mirrors at the plant at Ouarzazate cover the same area as the country’s capital Rabat, and will use the Sun’s warmth to melt salt – which will hold its heat to powe…
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Let’s Get Lit Up | Motherboard
Welcome to LIT UP, our November theme week. We’ll be dialing into the state of altered states over the next few days, with a range of reported stories, forgotten histories and oddities, and speculations on the various inputs (and outputs!) lighting …
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Pouring Cold Water into Your Left Ear Is a Temporary Cure for Insanity | Motherboard
As a coping mechanism, denial can be extremely useful. You can delude yourself into thinking you’re qualified for your dream job, you’re going to lose those last ten pounds, or that AMC will be able to replicate the Breaking Bad success with other f…
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High on Audio: I Tried to Relax With Binaural Beats | Motherboard
The voice is dulcet and relaxing. “I’ll call you when it’s time to return,” it says, before fading out to a reverberating sound like the distant ocean. This sound, the voiceover tells me, is pink.
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Foo Fighters Drop Surprise Free EP ‘Saint Cecilia’ | Rolling Stone
The mysterious countdown clock on the Foo Fighters’ official website finally ticked down to all zeroes Sunday night, and it was revealed that Dave Grohl’s surprise for fans was a new EP titled Saint Cecilia.
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I Just Said Yes to All the Drugs in ‘Fallout 4’ | Motherboard
Psycho Jet is a hell of a drug. Time slows down, Fallout 4’s decrepit, post-apocalyptic wasteland suddenly seems colorful, and I get a rush of energy that makes blowing raiders’ heads off laughably easy. Mentats, Med-X, and Buffout.
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Your Friendly Guide to Nootropics | Motherboard
Every morning, Steve Cronin kicks off his day with 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation. For breakfast, he mixes grass-fed organic unsalted butter, MCT oil, and organic coconut oil into his morning tea.
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Three killed as Israeli-Palestinian violence continues – Al Jazeera English
Two Palestinians have been shot dead and an Israeli has been stabbed to death during alleged attacks in the occupied West Bank and West Jerusalem, as violence between Palestinians and Israelis continues unabated.
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Luke Bryan Debuts Sexy New Duet: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Luke Bryan Debuts Sexy New Duet: The Ram Report “Home Alone Tonight,” with Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, gets its live premiere at the American Music Awards
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The Promise and Peril of Marco Rubio’s Trump Triangulation | New Republic
If the range of Republican attitudes toward religious minorities and non-citizens who want to live in the U.S. extends from one exclusionary pole, represented by Donald Trump, to another pole of grudging tolerance, represented by Jeb Bush, Marco Rub…
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Siberia’s melting permafrost fuels climate change – Al Jazeera English
Reykjavik, Iceland – Over the past year, a number of giant, mysterious holes have emerged in Siberia, some as deep as 200 metres.
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Pfizer seals $160bn Allergan deal to create drugs giant – BBC News
US drugs giant Pfizer has sealed a deal to buy Botox-maker Allergan for $160bn (£106bn) in what is the biggest pharmaceuticals deal in history. The takeover could allow Pfizer to escape relatively high US corporate tax rates by moving its headquarte…
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Santa Monica’s Mountain Lions Are Stuck on an Island, and Fast Disappearing – Scientific American
Last August, driven by the instinct to establish his own territory and find a mate, P-32, one of only a handful of male mountain lions left in the Santa Monica Mountains, navigated three freeways before being struck and killed by a vehicle, the 13th…
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France wants a global anti-Isis coalition, but only Russia looks willing | World news | The Guardian
France is pulling out all the stops as François Hollande scrambles to fulfil his ambitious pledge to build a global military coalition to defeat Islamic State following the Paris attacks. The French president has won public approval and internationa…
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How an inept gang of crooks attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body / Boing Boing
In 1876, a gang of inept Chicago counterfeiters launched an absurd plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom.
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The War Over Breastfeeding | New Republic
A dozen or so years since the emergence of the feminist blogosphere, it’s no surprise that a book about “lactivists”—the most fervent of breastfeeding advocates—contains a preponderance of stories from the “mommy wars.
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Best children’s books on winter | Children’s books | The Guardian
Before we get to the festivals, I want to celebrate how the seasons have changed. What are the best books about the coming of winter and how it alters the world around us?
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More Star Wars Merchandise Hints At Some New Force Awakens Details!
The Iron Fist show is still happening, according to Marvel. Get a look at Wonder Woman’s emblem in Batman v Superman. Steven Moffat discusses the moments that lead up to Doctor Who’s latest climax. Plus, a look at Galavant’s second season, and a fam…
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John Oliver Explains Syrian-Refugee Vetting Process
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Watch John Oliver Explain the Vetting Process for Syrian Refugees : Liberal
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Russia resumes nuclear trade with Iran as sanctions lifted – BBC News
Russia will resume exporting nuclear technology to Iran, President Vladimir Putin has decreed on a visit to Tehran. The move follows Iran’s agreement to international curbs on its nuclear programme.
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So the numbers went from +31 for Clinton in the last poll to +26 for the current poll, which is a difference of 5 points. Each poll has a margin of error between 5.5 and 6.0 percent, which means the race hasn’t changed.
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Why you always get sick over the holidays – Quartz
Lucky are the few who haven’t gone on a much-needed holiday only to spend their vacation hugging a box of tissues in a bed-bound Theraflu blur. So commonly do people seem to fall ill on vacation that some psychologists have christened it “leisure si…
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How Bobby Jindal (and Grover Norquist) Doomed David Vitter | New Republic
When Bobby Jindal bowed out of the 2016 presidential race last week, he seemed determined to drag his long-time foe, Senator David Vitter, down with him.
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Your Fitbit now automatically knows when you’re exercising | The Verge
Fitbit has just released a software update for its Charge HR and Surge activity trackers that lets you get a little lazier when it comes to being active.
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Samsung Pay now works with Chase Bank | The Verge
Samsung Pay just picked up support from Chase Bank, one of the more important banks the service needs in its push to work with all debit cards.
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Save Your Angry Energy Until You Have a Plan to Use it More Effectively
You’ve finally had it. You’re angry and you’re not gonna take it anymore. Before you tell someone off, quit your job, or finally toss that aggravating project, come up with a plan to “spend” your anger effectively. As business blog Inc.
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Detour is taking its city-wide virtual tours to more cities soon | The Verge
It’s been nine months since Andrew Mason, the founder and former CEO of Groupon, first launched Detour, an iOS app that offered a collection of walking tours throughout San Francisco.
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Google built (and then canceled) a “Star Trek Communicator” prototype | Ars Technica
Google loves itself some Star Trek, and a report from Time says that the company-wide fandom led it to prototype a version of the Star Trek combadge. A chest-mounted Bluetooth speaker-and-microphone could allow the user to talk to Google Voice Searc…
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Let’s say you’re an ageing ex-punk who’s made it in the world of high finance. You’re on top of the world, but still something is still missing.
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Shazam Update Offers Better Search, Faster Song Recognition | TechCrunch
Shazam, founded in 2002, is keeping things fresh today with the launch of a new update, making search results faster than ever. The update also revamps text search so that users can find artists and songs more easily.
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Mockingjay Part 2 Fell Victim to Blockbuster Fatigue, and Anyone Could | Vanity Fair
This is the way Panem ends, not with a bang but a whimper—well, a $101 million whimper. As expected, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 roundly conquered the box office this weekend, with a $101 million domestic haul and a $274.
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One man spent four years and $35,000 to unmask a troll commenter | The Verge
On December 28th, 2011, Bill Hadley read the comments. It was a simple article in the Freeport Journal Standard, detailing Hadley’s run for a newly vacant seat on the county board. But the commenters were less polite.
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When is it immoral to have children? – Quartz
New parents can be overwhelmed by questions about the type of mother or father they’ll be, but few consider whether by bringing a child into the world, they’re wronging their future offspring.
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Larry David and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Are Furious | GQ
Imagine you have just lost 20 precious minutes careening your bulky rental car in ever more frantic ellipses around an upscale French-themed café.
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John Oliver Thinks Pennies Are Stupid — NYMag
One of the only things that pennies are actually good for — some Americans admit that they just throw the nearly worthless currency away instead of storing them in their pockets, where they will waste away and be forgotten — is making wishes in foun…
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New Orleans mayor asks for witnesses as gunmen remain at large in shooting | US news | The Guardian
Police were trying to figure out what sparked a gun battle in a crowded New Orleans park that left 16 people wounded on Sunday. The mayor called on witnesses to come forward.
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Google Lets You Give Its Apps A “Star Wars” Makeover | TechCrunch
Want to have a little fun with Google today? Ahead of the forthcoming release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Google has teamed up with Lucasfilm and Disney to build out a new tool that lets you theme its suite of apps, including Gmail, YouTube, …
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Blame Carl Linnaeaus. The father of modern taxonomy started it all when – possibly mind-numbingly bored by the prospect of assigning Latin binomials (double-barrelled genus/species names) to every living species – he decided to have some fun with th…
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Taking a neural net out for a walk
Kyle McDonald hooked a neural network program up to a webcam and had it try to analyze what it was seeing in realtime as he walked around Amsterdam. See also a neural network tries to identify objects in Star Trek:TNG intro. (via @mbostock)
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Score Pre-Black Friday Savings on Storage and Networking Gear, Today Only
If you were waiting for a Black Friday sale to upgrade your home network or buy a NAS, today’s your lucky day. As part of their Deals Week promotion, Amazon is offering great prices on a number of routers, networked storage, hard drives, and powerli…
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Lost William Faulkner play published for first time | Books | The Guardian
An early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known for his intense, dark depictions of life in the southern US tries his hand at light humour and romance, has been published for the first time almost a century after it was wr…
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The Net Worth of All Presidential Candidates : dataisbeautiful
How the fuck am I worth more than Marco Rubio?? You are not, congrats or sorry, however the case may be.
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Donald Trump’s white fascist brigade: His rallies are now a safe space for racism : politics
The typical Trump follower doesn’t care if his statements are true or not. They want those statements to be true, so that’s good enough. It’s truthiness in real life, and it would be hysterical if it wasn’t about becoming the President of the United…
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Blankets: new edition of Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece / Boing Boing
Craig Thompson’s second graphic novel, the 582-page mammoth Blankets, swept the field’s awards, taking three Harveys, two Eisners, and two Ignatzes. More than a decade later, and buoyed by his later successes (such as 2011’s seminal Habibi), Drawn a…
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Significant Digits For Monday, Nov. 23, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll gives us a glimpse of an alternate timeline where Mitt Romney entered the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Don’t Gift The Apple Watch This Year
The smartwatch may be good someday, but not today. We’ve been pretty critical of the Apple Watch around these parts. We stand by that criticism. In fact, as a wearer of the Apple Watch since its launch, I’m here to underline it: Don’t buy an Apple W…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: click on the embedded player above go to NetrootsRadio.
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ColorChip Raises $25M To Stop Your Video And VR From Flickering | TechCrunch
Transceivers and optical splitters are part of the crucial plumbing of the internet as services scale up into streaming HD video, virtual reality, cloud computing, and IoT. Data-centers are literally groaning under the weight of all this traffic.
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Vitter retirement shakes up Louisiana Senate race : democrats
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David Vitter retirement shakes up Louisiana Senate race – POLITICO
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Spike Lee’s controversial Chi-raq receives strong reviews | Film | The Guardian
Spike Lee’s much-discussed comedy drama Chi-raq has received strong reviews after being unveiled at a world premiere.
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In February 1960, four black students from North Carolina A&T walked into Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at its “whites only” lunch counter. Every day for six months black students returned to the lunch counter; over time th…
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Here’s how the U.S. can dump fossil fuels for good | Grist
The world must go fossil-free — and fast. But the proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that the U.S.
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Atlantic Readers Share Their Stories of Adoption – The Atlantic
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Syria conflict: Army captures western towns from IS – BBC News
Syrian government forces are reported to have gained ground from Islamic State (IS) in the west of the country. State media and activists said troops, backed by Russian air strikes, had seized the towns of Mahin and Hawwarin.
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Focus on Hooks and Hot Buttons to Navigate Emotional Confrontations
When you’re having an emotional argument, you really have two problems. The emotions and the actual issue. Solve the first one by focusing on what are known as “hooks” and “hot buttons.”
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How This Unlucky, Irritable, Disorganized Astronomer Was Thwarted by Uranus | Motherboard
Pierre Charles Le Monnier, born 300 years ago today, was a “notoriously disorganized” astronomer, according to science historian CM Linton.
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More than 2,000 academics from over 80 countries – including linguist Noam Chomsky, climate scientist Michael E Mann, philosopher Peter Singer, and historian Naomi Oreskes – have called on world leaders to do more to limit global warming to a 1.5C r…
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Columbus and Portland move within step of MLS Cup final showdown | Sport | The Guardian
When considering the effects of the international break on these conference finals, spare a thought for Justin Meram, who travelled for 27 hours through 13 time zones in a journey featuring two layovers, only to find that Iraq did no require his ser…
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Who Impugns Hillary’s Integrity?
At the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton inadvertently sparked a firestorm when she invoked her woman donors and 9/11 as a defense to Bernie Sanders calling out her Wall Street donors.
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Female cyclists face challenges in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Afghanistan has few women in sport but a group of them in Bamiyan are training for the country’s women’s cycling team. These women hope to be able to compete on the international stage in a few years.
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Pfizer To Buy Allergan For $160 Billion | Al Jazeera America
Pfizer and Allergan will join in a $160 billion deal to create the world’s largest drugmaker. It’s the biggest health care deal ever and the largest so-called inversion in history, a tax-saving maneuver in which a U.S. company reorganizes in a count…
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Note: If you need an angry drunk relative for Thanksgiving, take an angry drunk relative for Thanksgiving. If you have an angry drunk relative for Thanksgiving, leave an angry drunk relative for Thanksgiving.
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TalkDesk Founder To Talk About Enterprise At Disrupt London, Dec 7-8 | TechCrunch
Yes, there’s more. Many, many more speakers to be announced for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an amazing slate of global startups, investors, influential speakers and more.
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Ringo Starr has been doing some mighty heavy house cleaning lately, and a HUGE collection of personal effects, decorative objects, and of course Beatles memorabilia belonging to him and his wife Barbara Bach is being auctioned on the first weekend i…
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Snakebite Antivenom Development Is Stuck in the 19th Century. What’s Next? – Scientific American
The Indian cobra, Naja naja, opens its hood when threatened. It is one of the deadliest snakes on the Indian subcontinent.
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Chris Hemsworth Is a Model of Decency, Modesty, and Good Humor. Is It | Vanity Fair
I feel like I’m in a movie.
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Nutrition AMAScience AMA Series: We are David Zeevi and Tal Korem, graduate students at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and authors of a recent study which showed that people respond differently to the same food, Ask Us Anything! (self.science) H…
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Five girls wearing makeshift scout uniforms stood before top Boy Scout brass this month and made an announcement: We want in. “I want to be a Boy Scout,” Allie Westover, 13, told a panel of men in khaki uniforms weighted by pins…
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini could get seven-year bans
Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini could face seven-year bans from football if found guilty of corruption claims. Fifa ethics investigators are likely to have recommended the sanctions over a “disloyal payment” t…
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Lower-cost wind and solar will drive energy storage technology : democrats
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Lower-cost wind and solar will drive energy storage technology – San Jose Mercury News
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Sony employees on the hack, one year later.
Animation by Lisa Larson-Walker. Images by Maciej Noskowsk/Getty Images, courtesy of Footage Island. Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of S…
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‘Tech Tats’ Are Temporary Tattoos for the Casual Biohacker | Motherboard
Before we move from wearables into the bloody business of embedding actual machines into our skin, we’ll have to take baby steps. Maybe think about breaching the sanctity of your epidermis a little bit at a time with some temporary electronic tattoo…
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Follow the Grain of Rice Principle to Change How You Think About Investments
If someone offered you the choice of $1 million today, or one penny that would double itself every day for a month, which would you rather take? If you’re not sure, consider the grain of rice principle to learn how to think about investments.
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Phuc Dat Bich: Australian with ‘misleading’ name thanks supporters – BBC News
An Australian man, Phuc Dat Bich, has said he is glad his fight to use his name on Facebook has made people happy. Mr Bich, who is of Vietnamese origin, shot to fame last week over his complaint that his account had been shut down because Facebook c…
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Letter from Raqqa: ‘A prison guarded by men in black’ – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s Raqqa province was taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group in late 2013 and declared as its capital. What was once a busy and bustling province is now a place where people live under a brutal and oppressive regime. A resident…
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In Somaliland, climate change is now a life-or-death challenge | Global development | The Guardian
If you drive north from the Somaliland village of Gargara – where women speak of their heartache at losing goats in this year’s drought – and ford the fractured beds of dry rivers, passing the sun-bleached bones of dead animals, you eventually arriv…
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Three years ago, Jordan Davis, an African American 17-year-old high school student, was shot dead in the parking lot of a Gate gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, by Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man.
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2015 Los Angeles Auto Show: The sporty stuff | Ars Technica
LOS ANGELES—We’ve already taken a look at the interesting technology on display at this year’s LA Auto Show, as well as the cool concepts and custom cars. Today it’s the turn of the sportiest stuff. Many of the big names we saw in New York—Aston Mar…
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Police Arrest 16 as Brussels Remains on Lockdown | Al Jazeera America
Belgian police carried out raids throughout Brussels, detaining 16 people as the city remained locked down under high alert Monday. In Paris, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would ask for parliamentary approval for the U.K.
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There’s no shortage of dumbass on the right. It’s like a secret energy source. Or SATAN.
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Voluntary School Desegregation Is The Future — But How Will It Work? | ThinkProgress
Six decades after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that determined that segregating white and black children is unconstitutional, American schools are drifting back toward racial segregation.
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Why Climate Finance Is So Important, According To An Economist | ThinkProgress
Last week, Senate Republicans moved to undermine the impending climate talks in Paris by vowing to block the $3 billion President Obama had pledged to help developing nations prepare for the impacts of climate change.
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Early Lead Exposure Linked to Sleep Problems – Scientific American
Lead exposure in early childhood is associated with increased risk for sleep problems and excessive daytime sleepiness in later childhood, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania, US.
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The Fate Of Over 4 Million People Could Rest With Justice Scalia | ThinkProgress
After a slow crawl through the lower federal courts, the fate of President Obama’s long-delayed immigration programs is finally before the Supreme Court. On Friday, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a trial judge…
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BBC – Earth – How do we know that things are really made of atoms?
Atoms are small. Really, really small. You’ll probably have heard that matter is made of bundles of these tiny things. You’ll likely also know that you can’t see them with the naked eye.
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Pfizer gets tax boost in record-breaking $160bn Allergan deal | Business | The Guardian
US drugs firm Pfizer has agreed a record $160bn (£105bn) tie-up with Ireland-based Allergan in a deal that will be the largest healthcare merger in history.
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Meteor Showers on Mercury May Explain Astronomical Puzzle
Mercury can experience meteor showers as Comet Encke periodically peppers the planet’s tenuous atmosphere with dust, new research suggests.
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China says repatriated dissidents ‘guilty of crimes’ – BBC News
China has defended its repatriation of two Chinese activists from Thailand who had been granted UN refugee status. The foreign ministry said the men were guilty of crimes but did not say which laws they were accused of breaking.
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VW cars can also cheat European emissions tests – BBC News
A laboratory test carried out for BBC Panorama shows that Volkswagen diesel cars programmed with a “defeat device” can cheat official European pollution tests, as well as tests in the US.The company told the BBC it believes this is the first time th…
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Phuc Dat Bich: How do you pronounce his name? – BBC News
Phuc Dat Bich: How do you pronounce his name? 23 November 2015 Last updated at 12:34 GMT A Vietnamese-Australian man has become famous on social media after posting a photograph of his passport to prove that his name is real – after Facebook repeate…
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The Voice: ITV confirms three-year deal and The Voice Kids from 2017 – BBC News
ITV has confirmed it will air singing talent competitions The Voice and The Voice Kids from 2017. The broadcaster announced it has signed a three-year deal for The Voice and a spin-off ITV2 show, as well committing to two series of a children’s vers…
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Muslims have been Americans since U.S. began; the ‘Green Lantern’ snare
The Republican presidential candidates’ public obsession with creationism, though, isn’t really about education.
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Creative Commons image by Paul Boxley John Cleese, you say, a spokesman for the American Philosophical Association? Why would such a serious organization, whose stated mission is to foster the “broader presence of philosophy in public life,” choose …
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Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator
Diamonds in the sky might recall a popular Beatles song, but researcher from Penn State University think that’s exactly where these diamonds belong. They discovered a way to produce ultra-thin diamond nanothreads that could be ideal for lifting a sp…
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Program a Virtual Computer in Minecraft To Control Stuff in the Real-World | Motherboard
Computers exist in Minecraft, of course. You can build your own virtualized machine with a mod called OpenComputer (and probably others) and it will sure enough be a “real” computer.
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Blatter: I was close to dying in hospital – Al Jazeera English
Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he had been close to death as he lay in hospital due to a stress-related illness earlier this month.
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Paris attacks cast doubt on future of Schengen Area – Al Jazeera English
The Paris attacks and the subsequent pressure on France to tighten its borders have put the future of the Schengen Area of passport-free travel at risk. The Schengen treaty allows travellers to move through most EU countries without having their pas…
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How Could Paris Climate Talks Change Africa’s Future?
PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa—On a hot morning in mid-November, giraffes and zebras mingled near a watering hole. Yet elsewhere in this parched game reserve, home to lions and leopards, the scene is far from placid.
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A crescendo of tough talk on Syrian refugees and terrorism seems to be elevating the toughest talkers in the GOP primary — most notably Donald Trump. But among the broader American public, the most trusted person to handle the issue is Hillary Clin…
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What We’re Following This Morning, November 23 – The Atlantic
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In the Northern capital, dusty populus,Sighing, mantles the time’s transparency,And, through green dark, a frigate or an acropolis,Brother to water and sky, glows distantly.
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What Killed the Dinosaurs – Scientific American
The Church on Spilt Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia, is like something out of a fairy tale. Perched on the edge of a frigid canal, it has a forest of onion domes that stretches toward the sky and pastel-colored mosaics that cover every square inch o…
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Highly Logical! ‘Star Trek’-Inspired Vulcan Ale Makes US Debut
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Even a veteran Starfleet officer would have a hard time turning down a pint of Vulcan Ale, a new “Star Trek”-inspired IPA perfect for a crisp autumn night of stargazing. In “The Conscience of the King,” the 13th episode of the origi…
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First Click: JJ, LA, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
We’re smack in the middle of the holidays which means it’s time to start buying all the tech released over the last 11 months and start watching movies, lots and lots of movies. So stop binging on Jessica Jones long enough to preview the Thanksgivin…
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Delight Turns Every New Tab Into an Inspiring Time-Lapse Scene
Chrome: There are lots of ways to brighten up your new tab page, but Delight is one of the most inspiring (and beautiful) I’ve seen.
Love Everyone Often 11/24/2015
Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet Near Syrian Border | Al Jazeera America Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday, claiming it had violated Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings. Russia denied that the plane crossed the Syrian border into Turkish skies. tags: Pocket al jazeera america news tumblr turkey shoots…
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