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What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking? Industry Discloses Less and Less : environment
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What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking? Industry Discloses Less and Less | InsideClimate News
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Fairfax Pest Control: Green Pest Services : environment
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FBI seeks hacker after 1.2 billion logins are stolen – BBC News
The FBI has linked a hacker to the theft of 1.2 billion internet credentials – the largest heist of its kind. The hacker was linked to the stolen logins via a Russian email address.
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What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking? Industry Discloses Less and Less (insideclimatenews.org)
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Oscar Sabini’s Paper Zoo – video! | Children’s books | The Guardian
Oscar Sabini’s gorgeously creative book Paper Zoo (which helps you make helps you to make seven collage pictures of animals a roaring lion, a splashing hippo, a colourful toucan, a trumpeting elephant, a naughty monkey, a dashing bear and a snapping…
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“It breathes your ideas”, Mondrian once said of the artist’s studio, with his own very much in mind. Visits to these private dens, which can range from the creatively cluttered to the bleakly austere, are always instructive.
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Movie Review: ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Pixar’s First Movie Just for Kids – The Atlantic
A conspiracy theory: A huge conglomerate is universally recognized for decades as the best maker of widgets worldwide. Then one day, it’s confronted with a much smaller business that, over the course of several years, proves that it is a better widg…
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The Simple Wearable Device That Can Help You Keep Tabs on Your Pet | Motherboard
It’s a brisk fall day in Bushwick Inlet Park, and I’m sitting with Ben Jacobs and Julia Waneka (both humans) and Willow, a Goldendoodle.
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Uptown food pantry brings Thanksgiving feast to New York’s poorest | Business | The Guardian
This holiday season the tale of two cities – one rich, one poor – is playing out once again in New York neighborhoods like the Upper West Side.
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On Marvel’s Latest Nexflix Show, It’s Jessica Jones Vs. The World | New Republic
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Lessons from past failures will help push nations towards a robust climate change agreement that will push down greenhouse gas emissions, the White House has predicted.
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ExoMars prepares to leave Europe for launch site / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
The two ExoMars spacecraft of the 2016 mission are being prepared for shipping to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of their launch in March. A joint endeavour with Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, ExoMars comprises two missions.
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French Muslim activists debate ‘licences’ for imams – Al Jazeera English
France’s leading Islamic body has called for imams to be licensed before being allowed to preach, a move that has prompted criticism from voices within the country’s Muslim community.
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How the Growing Trade in One Tortoise Puts Others at Risk
They’re pretty. They’re harmless. And they won’t give you salmonella, unlike the once popular pet, the red-eared slider turtle. Indian star tortoises are now the stars of the pet trade. They used to be a species conservationists didn’t worry about.
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World Fantasy award seeks designs to replace HP Lovecraft statuette | Books | The Guardian
Organisers of the World Fantasy awards are calling for artists to submit new designs for their trophy to replace the previous statuette featuring HP Lovecraft.
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Cambridge Gates scholars urge foundation to divest | Environment | The Guardian
Recipients of Cambridge University scholarships funded by and named in honour of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have attacked the global health charity’s “untenable” investments in fossil fuels.
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Comic Dieudonne given jail sentence for anti-Semitism – BBC News
Controversial French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala has been sentenced to two months in jail by a Belgian court for racist and anti-Semitic comments he made during a show in Belgium. Dieudonne was also fined €9,000 ($9,500; £6,300) by the court in…
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Haiti election results trigger violent protests – BBC News
Violent protests have erupted in Haiti after the electoral council announced the official results of the first round of last month’s presidential election.
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What the backlash against Bollywood’s Aamir Khan tells us about India – BBC News
The bitter backlash against Bollywood star Amir Khan’s remarks about “growing intolerance” in India tells us a few things about the world’s largest democracy.
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Watch a neural network describe what it sees on a stroll through Amsterdam | The Verge
In the last few years computers have made massive advances in image recognition. Neural networks especially — systems which can be trained over time — have become eerily good at describing even quite complex scenes.
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Who Turned My Blue State Red? https://t.co/5tWouTcazl
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Paris attacks: Fear, mourning and indifference – Al Jazeera English
At Place de la Republique, Frederic and Emma are catching up at a bar. Like many others in France, the old friends are sharing their analysis of the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead.
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Mail Online US almost doubles advertising growth | Media | The Guardian
The popularity of Mail Online’s US site is starting to translate into meaningful revenue with advertising growth of more than 60% in the last eight weeks – almost double the rate it has seen over the last year.
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Black Friday Sales Numbers Are Useless And Wrong | FiveThirtyEight
Sometime on Thursday, after the football game and the second slice of pie, you might turn on the television and see a cheerful local news reporter standing outside a mall and reporting on the long lines of deal-seeking shoppers.
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‘Easy’ Cooking Isn’t Easy: A Thanksgiving Lament – The Atlantic
I write about food for a living. Because of this, I spend more time than the average American surrounded by cooking advice and recipes.
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Doha deluge – Al Jazeera English
It may not rain very often in Qatar but when it does, it often makes headlines. The country, which has a sub-tropical desert climate, usually records an annual rainfall of just over 50mm.
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“It’s been tough – really tough,” says Labour’s John McDonnell, about his first months as Shadow Chancellor, as we wait on the St James’ Park platform.
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Congress Prepares to Replace ‘No Child Left Behind’ – The Atlantic
In the next few weeks, a bipartisan majority in Congress is likely to pass a law that, in various ways, repudiates the education legacies of both the Bush and Obama presidencies. House and Senate negotiators last week agreed to a legislative framewo…
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Fire crews struggle to contain bushfire near Adelaide – BBC News
Australian fire crews are struggling to bring a major bushfire near the southern city of Adelaide under control. Homes and cars have been destroyed and many roads near the blaze have been closed.
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November 25, 1947: The Hollywood Ten Are Blacklisted After Refusing to Testify to HUAC | The Nation
A month ago, in the Almanac post of October 20, we featured The Nation’s editorial comment on the beginning of Congressional hearings investigating the influence of Communism in the American film industry.
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November 25, 1947: The Hollywood Ten Are Blacklisted After Refusing to Testify to HUAC | The Nation
A month ago, in the Almanac post of October 20, we featured The Nation’s editorial comment on the beginning of Congressional hearings investigating the influence of Communism in the American film industry.
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Samurai, spy, commando: who were the real ninja? — A…
A few people might know a commando, even fewer might know a spy, yet the ninja, or shinobi, of Japan is both a commando and a spy, an instantly recognisable figure from the worlds of combat and espionage who occupies the borderland between reality a…
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100 years of General Relativity – Al Jazeera English
On November 25, 1915, 35-year old German-born Albert Einstein presented a series of equations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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Pakistan’s political Islamists tried to kill me — Ae…
It was a November night in Islamabad, not too different from that evening when the assassins came for me. The two nights are inseparable in my memory. A little after midnight, I had walked out of the television studios after a current affairs live s…
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What Will it Take For Netrunner to Be Played Like Professional Esports? | Motherboard
In 2012, author TL Taylor catalogued the rise of esports as it transitioned from a marginal, niche activity to something we might call mainstream today.
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Beyond the cliches: how the trans poetry community is finding its voice | Books | The Guardian
For a long time, trans writing meant memoir.
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Mockingjay Part 2 books top slot at UK box office – BBC News
Mockingjay Part 2, the final Hunger Games film, has topped the UK box office on its opening weekend, taking £11.26m. Jennifer Lawrence’s fourth outing as Katniss Everdeen ended James Bond’s three week chart-topping run.
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It’s Cheaper for Airlines to Cut Emissions Than You Think | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fuel economy is hardwired into the airline industry’s DNA. After all, fuel costs money, and using less of the stuff is an easy way to beef up t…
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The eco guide to bottled water | Lucy Siegle | Environment | The Guardian
In 2012 the University of Vermont bravely banned bottled water on campus. It backfired – the number of plastic bottles rose by 6% as students went for soft drinks and juices, increasing their plastic consumption. Eco-friendly bottled water sounds li…
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When national governments fail to halt climate change, can city action fill the gap? | Grist
Climate action by cities is important, but it’s crucial that we avoid double counting municipal achievements. It turns out the suburbs are great habitat, and the United States now has more wild turkeys than we know what to do with.
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Investigative journalism by Inside Climate News (ICN) into Exxon’s internal documents revealed that the company was at the forefront of climate research, warning of the dangers posed by human-caused global warming from the late-1970s to the late-198…
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To Protest Walmart on Black Friday, Organizers Are Seeking Food for Underpaid Workers | Mother Jones
The people who organized the largest-ever Black Friday demonstrations against Walmart last year are leaving their protest signs at home this year. Instead, they’re launching a campaign to support 1,000 food drives around the country to help struggli…
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In the late 19th century, when the Victorian football codes were still to become the sports we recognize today, there was plenty of room for crossover. Today such transitions between football, rugby and soccer are not so simple, and it’s a rare crea…
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The holiday season hasn’t even begun, and already people are already starting to wonder if this year’s Golden State Warriors team is not just great, but historically great. In many ways, this is absolutely ridiculous, but that’s a byproduct of the W…
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Aging Star’s Weight Loss Secret Revealed | ESO
A team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris.
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Fashion Startups On Show At Disrupt London, Dec 7-8 | TechCrunch
We’re continuing to announce speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015 (Agenda, Tickets). The conference will feature global startups, investors, amazing speakers and more. And one area we will zero in on is a stron…
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How the NBA learned to love zone defense | Sport | The Guardian
Americans can be slow to adopt European approaches, so the NBA’s halting embrace of the zone defense is not surprising.
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Russia’s Gazprom halts gas to Ukraine – BBC News
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it has halted gas deliveries to Ukraine after the Ukrainian government failed to pay for supplies in advance. Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller said Ukraine had used up all the gas it had paid for.
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Plans for more poo-powered buses to hit Bristol and Bath | Environment | The Guardian
Dozens of “number two” buses – powered entirely by gas generated from sewerage – could be picking up passengers in Bristol next year.
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Under cloudless Australian skies, the Sydney Cricket Ground can feel almost cocooned from the cares of the world. Like all sports grounds, it was built to stage triumphs, not tragedies. But a year ago, real life intruded in the most brutal fashion.
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Beyonce and Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia confirm 2016 launch – BBC News
A launch of retail billionaire Sir Philip Green’s new clothing venture with singer Beyonce is planned for spring next year.The owner of the Arcadia group, which includes Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins, and Burton, has been working with the star on a new …
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Analysis: The battle for Taiz – Al Jazeera English
Several weeks ago, six-year-old Fareed Shawky pleaded with the doctor as he treated his shrapnel wounds, crying, “la taqbroonah”, which literally means, “Do not bury me.” Shawky was receiving medical care in a Taiz hospital after being injured in an…
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False Promise | George Monbiot
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Carbon content of temperate forests overestimated, study suggests : environment
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False Promise by George Monbiot : environment
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Carbon content of temperate forests overestimated, study suggests (sciencedaily.com)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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How Plastic Injection Works, And What’s So Brilliant About LEGO’s Design – Digg
Explainer Design Science Technology An explanation of why plastic things are almost never perfectly square, and why plastic forks always have those little nubs on the handles.
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Nazi-inspired TV advertising removed from New York subway – BBC News
Nazi-inspired advertising for the TV show The Man in the High Castle has been removed from the subway in New York after complaints. The Amazon show is about an alternate world where Nazi Germany and Japan rule the US after winning World War ll.
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Sport picture of the day: Austin Budke lungers for the Kansas State Wildcats | Sport | The Guardian
Austin Budke grabs the ball … and a pair of shorts. Photograph: Jamie Squire/Getty Images
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The hardest climate change quiz ever | Environment | The Guardian
1Under the Kyoto protocol, the first international climate change treaty, how much, on average, did industrialised nations pledge to reduce their annual greenhouse gas emissions by?4.5% by 2015 compared to 19905.2% by 2012 compared to 19906.8% by 20…
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On the trail of Albert Einstein’s last mystery – BBC News
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Namai village in remote, mountainous central Laos has seen immense change in just 20 years. Its isolation only ended when a road was pushed up the valley in 2003, and electricity came several years later.
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Turkey won’t lose any sleep over Russia’s harsh words – Al Jazeera English
“Lesser incidents have resulted in world wars breaking out in the past,” one Russian official joked gloomily in a conversation with me when I asked him what he thought about the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber by the Turkish air force on Tuesday.
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Hunting for Einstein’s missing gravitational waves – BBC News
It is 100 years since Albert Einstein submitted his Theory of General Relativity, a pillar of modern physics that has transformed our understanding of space, time and gravity. Most of the predictions that he made back in 1915 have subsequently been …
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – NIRSpec on James Webb Space Telescope
Europe’s NIRSpec instrument will be launched in 2018 as part of the NASA–ESA James Webb Space Telescope.
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What is Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity? – BBC News
One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein submitted his Theory of General Relativity, a pillar of modern physics that has transformed our understanding of space, time and gravity. But what exactly is general relativity and what did Einstein predi…
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2015 likely to be warmest on record says UN weather body – BBC News
Global average temperatures in 2015 are likely to be the warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Data until the end of October showed this year’s temperatures running “well above” any previous 12 month period.
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UN: Climate change endangers millions of children – Al Jazeera English
The UN has warned that children are the worst affected by climate change. It says nearly 700 million of them live in areas at the highest risk of severe drought and flooding.
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Wild turkeys are tough old birds. Here’s why you should hunt and cook them | Grist
Scientists graded presidential candidates on their public statements on climate science. Here’s how they fared. This cold, salty abyss is much more interesting than the one you might be experiencing this holiday season.
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As Blue Origin Gets the Spotlight, SpaceX Plans Its Next Flight | Motherboard
The private space company Blue Origin made history Tuesday when it announced it successfully launched and recovered its New Shepard rocket after reaching what is technically “space.
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Sirin’s story: A voice raised and silenced – Al Jazeera English
Sirin Kilicalp lived the modest life of a school teacher in Turkey, leading classes of more than 40 pupils and struggling to make her pay cheque last until the end of the month.
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Apple confirms it bought a motion capture startup used in Star Wars | The Verge
Earlier this year it was rumored that Apple had bought Faceshift, a Swiss startup which specializes in facial animation using real-time motion capture.
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Crimea explosion leaves millions without power – Al Jazeera English
People living in the annexed Russian region of Crimea have been without a reliable source of electricity for three days. Power lines supplying the region from Ukraine were blown up over the weekend and people are having to rely on handouts.
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China robot event showcases service, sport and dancing robots – BBC News
The World Robot Conference in Beijing has drawn big crowds to its showcase of “jiqiren”, or “machine people”, in Chinese.
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Neil Peart – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neil Ellwood Peart, OC (/ˈpɪərt/; born September 12, 1952), is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush. Peart has received numerous awards for his musical performances, and is known for his technical pro…
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A French MP and an academic are set to defy an attempt by the Anne Frank Fonds to keep control of the copyright on Anne Frank’s diary by publishing online texts of the world famousl second world war account from one of the Holocaust’s most recognisa…
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Do terrorists really think they’re going to win? – BBC News
With Europe enduring a major security alert after the Paris attacks, there is much discussion about what drives this current generation of radicals. The history of terrorism contains many lessons, writes Benedict Wilkinson.
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‘Chi-Raq’: Spike Lee’s Urgent, Mesmerizing Call to End Gun Violence in Chicago – The Daily Beast
Concerned Chicagoans needn’t worry that Spike Lee’s searing new joint about urban violence in America is a reductive takedown of their hometown, even if Chi-Raq takes for its title the ultraviolent endonym that makes many locals bristle.
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The recent collapse of a mining dam in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is one of the biggest environmental disasters in the country’s history. Apocalyptic images of communities swallowed by mud and a river flooded by mining waste have shocked a …
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ISIL claims deadly attack in Egypt’s Sinai – Al Jazeera English
A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targeted a hotel in Egypt’s northern Sinai region, killing at least seven people, including two judges, according to the state MENA news agency.
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League of Legends will punish troublesome players by depriving them of loot | The Verge
The massively popular League of Legends online battle arena game is headed toward its biggest update in many years with a slate of changes coming at the beginning of 2016.
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Pope Francis due in Kenya at start of African tour – BBC News
Pope Francis is due in Kenya at the start of a three-nation African tour – his first to the continent as pontiff. Thousands are expected to line the streets of the capital, Nairobi, to welcome him for his three-day stay.
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Steven Gerrard confirms he will train with former club Liverpool next week | Football | The Guardian
Steven Gerrard has confirmed he will train with former club Liverpool next week and is relishing the opportunity to work with Jürgen Klopp. The LA Galaxy midfielder has ruled out a return to a playing role with Liverpool and is only training at Melw…
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It was nearly a year to this day that I first spoke to Evan Graj, founder and CEO of London-based restaurant delivery startup Dine In. Taking time out from attending the NOAH conference where he’d been pressing flesh with VCs, externally at least, I…
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It feels safe to say that no one could have predicted that Scream Queens’ best episode would be completely devoid of Niecy Nash and would kill off Nasim Pedrad.
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Wonder by R. J. Palacio – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Wonder is a book about August ‘Auggie’ Pullman, a 10-year-old boy that loves Star Wars and who is born with a disorder called Mandibulofacial Dysostosis (Treacher Collins Syndrome) that severely affects his life (I won’t tell you too much – read the…
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Buster Keaton: The Wonderful Gags of the Founding Father of Visual Comedy | Open Culture
Tony Zhou’s video essay series, Every Frame a Painting, returns with “Buster Keaton: The Art of the Gag.” Although his series never disappoints, this particular installment may be one of Tony’s best, taking you inside the comedic gags of Buster Keat…
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Sony Says It Has Now Sold More Than 30 Million PlayStation 4s | TechCrunch
With the holidays incoming, Sony has picked today to reveal that it has now sold more than 30 million PlayStation 4 consoles to date — over 30.2 million to be precise — putting it well ahead of its rivals in the video games race.
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Canada to fall short on 25,000-refugee pledge – Al Jazeera English
Around 10,000 refugees will be brought to Canada by the end of the year, less than half of the 25,000 that was pledged by the prime minister. Justin Trudeau, sworn in this month, made the initial pledge as part of his election campaign but his criti…
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Climate Change is impacting Salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s Why You Should Care. (medium.com)
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Michael Foreman: how I started drawing | Children’s books | The Guardian
One Sunday morning in the early 1950s I had a new customer on my newspaper round. He had just arrived in our Suffolk village from Yorkshire. His name was Tom Hudson. He asked me a strange question. “Is there clay in the local cliffs?”
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Mark Hamill hints at Luke Skywalker’s return in Star Wars: Episode VIII | The Verge
We’ve seen Han, Leia, and Chewie in the various Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV spots and trailers, but there’s still someone big missing.
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China eyes world leadership in dinosaur fossils – Al Jazeera English
Zhuchen, China – China’s growing stature in the world is pitting it more and more in competition with the US. Now in addition to rivalry in diplomatic, military and economic spheres, comes a new race: to be the world’s pre-eminent leader in dinosaur…
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China Punishes VPN Users In Its Rural Northwest By Cutting Their Mobile Service | TechCrunch
China’s crackdown on VPNs, software that enables Internet users circumvent the country’s web censorship, continues unabated after the New York Times reported that VPN users in one part of the country had their mobile service cut entirely.
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THE practice of forced feeding has been highlighted by its use on hunger strikers in Guantánamo Bay and, more recently, in Israel, where a vigorous debate about the ethics of such a practice is taking place. But you don’t have to be in prison to hav…
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Came home to a loaf on the floor. : Catloaf
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If you want to look after your property and garden in the most effective manner, call on the leading tree surgeon Horsham has to offer. DG Tree Services will care for your trees, garden and property, allowing you to enjoy y… http://dgtreeservices.co.
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Stealing Cows for Meth | Al Jazeera America
OKEENE, Okla. — It likely took thieves a bag of feed, a cattle trailer and 15 minutes to steal 20 cows from rancher Doug Barnes. It took about three months for him to find out.
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Japanese 3D Printing Startup Kabuku Lands $6.1M Series A | TechCrunch
Kabuku, a Tokyo-based startup that explores new uses for 3D printing, plans to expand around the world after raising a $6.1 million Series A round. The company runs Rinkak, an online marketplace that lets makers upload their 3D printed designs and s…
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Everybody is talking about how Giovanni Gambino – son of noted mobster Francesco Gambino – declared that the Sicilian mafia is ready to go to war with the Islamic State.
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Anton Chekhov wrote in an 1886 letter to his brother, outlining the eight qualities of cultured people — among them sincerity, “no shallow vanity,” and a compassionate heart that “aches for what the eye does not see.
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Phuc Dat Bich ‘cried wolf’ over Facebook name battle – BBC News
An Australian called Phuc Dat Bich who made global headlines after saying he was fighting to use his real name on Facebook has admitted it was hoax. He said what had started as a joke between friends “became a prank that made a fool out of the media…
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Fears in Libera after new Ebola fatality – Al Jazeera English
A teenager has died in Liberia in the first such death since the country was officially declared free of the virus in September, according to an official.
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Pope Francis in Africa | Al Jazeera America
Pope Francis left Rome Wednesday morning bound for Kenya, and on his first visit to Africa, he is expected to address the continent’s fast-growing Catholic congregation during a trip that will test his ability to bridge faultlines between Christians…
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Ted Cruz is so thrilled that someone who wants abortion providers to be killed is supporting him that he actually sent out a press release to celebrate the endorsement. Is that what this Republican primary has come to? (huffingtonpost.com)
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How the Clouds Got Their Names | Brain Pickings
“Clouds are thoughts without words,” the poet Mark Strand wrote in his breathtaking celebration of the skies. And yet clouds are in dynamic dialogue with our thoughts beyond the realm of the poetic — psychologists have demonstrated that cloudy days …
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What can the world learn from Växjö, Europe’s self-styled greenest city? | Cities | The Guardian
Within minutes of meeting the mayor of Europe’s self-proclaimed greenest city, it is clear where he draws much of his inspiration from. It’s not just the fact that 61-year-old Bo Frank is wearing a black Beatles T-shirt and has a Beatles badge pinne…
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After the crisis of 2008, every concerned citizen wanted to understand what had been going on in the City to take us all to the brink of bankruptcy.
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VSCO makes its expensive desktop photo filters half as expensive | The Verge
VSCO, the app formerly known as VSCO Cam, offers some of the best photo editing tools available on mobile. But Visual Supply Company got its start years ago producing high-quality film-like filters that plug into pro desktop applications like Lightr…
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‘Football match-fixer’ Dan Tan freed by Singapore court – BBC News
A Singapore court has ordered the release of a man alleged by Interpol to be the mastermind behind a global football match-fixing ring.Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, has been held under indefinite detention since October 2013.
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Remembering Operation Condor – Al Jazeera English
South Africa’s miner strike led to the country’s deadliest act of police violence since the end of apartheid. We follow one man’s astounding undercover crusade to expose judicial corruption in Ghana.
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A cartoon of Charles Darwin and the crew of the HMS Beagle – believed to be the only image of the great naturalist on the voyage that inspired his theory of evolution – is to be sold at auction in December.
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Hassleback Apples (Trust me! Make Twice As Many So You Can Have It In The Morning!) – GIF on Imgur
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Red Rocks Sunrise, CA [OC] [3180 x 2124] : SkyPorn
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Where blasters are made. : pics
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Effects Of Fluoride & Arsenic Poisoning (Part 2) : environment
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Know More About Fluoride & Arsenic Poisoning | NASAKA
Effects Of Fluoride & Arsenic Poisoning (Part 2) https://t.co/AIcLSQFAbA https://t.co/zQuXxBs9fS via /r/environment
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Focusing on the fact that Australia’s actual greenhouse emissions are set to increase by 2020 is “one of the oddest and strangest and I’ve got to say …
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China’s biggest brokerage Citic in $166bn error – BBC News
China’s biggest brokerage, Citic Securities, had overstated its derivative business by $166bn (£110bn) from April to September, according to the country’s securities association.
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Effects Of Fluoride & Arsenic Poisoning (Part 2) (nasaka.in)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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Russia suspends military cooperation with Turkey – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s defence ministry has announced suspension of military cooperation with Turkey and Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister, has cancelled a planned trip to Turkey following the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday.
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Watch Captain America battle Iron Man in the first trailer for Civil War | The Verge
The box office event of the decade is just around the corner, but even Star Wars won’t stop the Marvel movie machine from rolling on.
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We all need to wake the F*** up! (self.environment) WARNING: Read this post because this is your problem too. In fact, you are part of the problem, just like I am and everyone else is.
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The Japanese Americans Who Helped the U.S. Win World War II – The Daily Beast
Last week, Roanoke Mayor David Bowers ignited controversy when he opposed the settlement of Syrian refugees in part of Virginia by drawing a comparison to World War II that justified the Japanese internment. Bowers wrote, “I’m reminded that Presiden…
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PlayStation 4 sales hit 30 million worldwide | The Verge
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 has sold through over 30.2 million units worldwide since its release in late 2013. The figure is as of Sunday, November 22nd, and Sony says “PS4 continues to demonstrate the fastest and strongest growth in P…
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As travelers pack trains to visit family this Thanksgiving, Bernie Sanders has helped make it possible for them to take their guns along with them. After all, he says, in home state of Vermont, people need to travel with their guns, by train, to go …
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Republican Muslims Hope the GOP Hate Away – The Daily Beast
Being a Muslim Republican in these rhetorically charged times requires a mix of optimism and a certain detachment from religious-based attacks. One could be forgiven for wondering how any Muslim could support a party where a broad swath of voters su…
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Ted Cruz’s ‘Donnie Jr.’ Strategy – The Daily Beast
Cue the scary-minor-key power chord: Ted Cruz is within the margin of error of Donald Trump in Iowa. It’s Trump 25 and Cruz 23, but as we will see further down, other numbers from the poll suggest that Cruz is well positioned to win what might now b…
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Hozier and Tori Kelly: 2015’s Biggest Breakout Stars Look Back on Their Huge Years – The Daily Beast
On a rainy Thursday night at a Manhattan track and field arena converted into a concert hall on the upper, upper, Upper West Side, Hozier and Tori Kelly are killing it.
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America Extradites Mexican Drug Kingpin’s Son – The Daily Beast
After a year of purgatory inside a Mexican federal prison, the son of “the most powerful drug trafficker” will be joining his two locked-up brothers on American soil.
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Will Runway Riot Make Fashion Get Real About Body Shape? – The Daily Beast
I must admit there’s something refreshing about going to RunwayRiot’s homepage and seeing images of Chloë Grace Moretz, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, and Lena Dunham all centimeters from each other without any special distinctions made about how one is “cu…
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Can a Centrist Save Argentina? – The Daily Beast
After 12 years of rule by Nestor de Kirchner and his wife, Cristina Fernandez, Argentina welcomed a new era on Sunday with the former mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, winning the presidential election.
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Monsieur Le Pen Wants to Guillotine Terrorists in France – The Daily Beast
PARIS — With France still reeling from the November 13 terror attacks, one infamous French politician has made a bizarre, Donald Trumpian statement by calling for the return of the guillotine to France.
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Happy Evacuation Day! Why It’s Time To Bring Back This Britain-Bashing Holiday – The Daily Beast
Sorry. But that’s about as close as I can get to equating a history column with a current event everyone is excited about.
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You Guys, I’m Starting to Miss Dubya – The Daily Beast
When billboards featuring the likeness of former President George W. Bush and the words “Miss me yet?” started popping up in 2010, it was understandable that many people initially thought they were an Internet hoax. After all, the Bush years were ex…
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Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS! : democrats
Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS! https://t.co/1g2EYD9F9g https://t.co/KCwq91Mahx via /r/democrats
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Earth’s Atmosphere Just Crossed an Epochal Threshold. (theatlantic.com)
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What Police Said About The Killing Of Laquan McDonald Before The Video Showed What Really Happened (thinkprogress.org)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS! (dailykos.com) Unfortunately. This country is going to hell in a handbasket with this current round of candidates.
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Facebook’s Internet.org Now Available Throughout India | TechCrunch
Internet.org, Facebook’s initiative to provide free Internet services in developing countries, is now available to all Indians through the Free Basics app on Reliance Communication’s network.
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Spike Lee Talks Laquan McDonald Tape: ‘I Am Hopeful That Nothing Crazy Happens’ – The Daily Beast
In Spike Lee’s new movie CHI-RAQ, women in Chicago force a ceasefire among gang members by going on a sex strike until their men stop shooting each other.
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my kitty milkshakes loafing it up : Catloaf
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Study shows new potential indirect effects of humans on water quality https://t.co/rtK1jyXNcv https://t.co/07A505UCW2? via /r/environment
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Iron Man and Captain America go at it in the Civil War trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
We’ve known for a while now—ever since the title was released, really, given the famous comic story it’s being loosely adapted from—that the upcoming Captain America: Civil War would see Tony Stark and Steve Rogers tearing into each other with gusto.
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Tips For Buying A New Computer – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
First you must determine which type of computer will best suit your needs. Are you looking for a desktop, laptop, tablet, backtop, superblet, or fulltop? Do your research and pretend to gain even a cursory understanding of what it means for a comput…
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GREENVILLE, NC—Aiming to accommodate family members’ preferences and avoid any frustration, local parents Melissa and Ron Walters officially designated the upstairs television for anybody who did not want to watch the Thanksgiving football games on …
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A.V. Undercover 2015: Watch the recap and vote for your favorites · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
Another year of Undercover has come to a close, and with that means it’s time to open the polls and let you all vote for your favorite of this season. Here’s how voting will work: Because we know how painful it will be to choose just one favorite, y…
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TV dinners: 25 shows to binge-watch this Thanksgiving weekend · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Thanksgiving weekend in the United States is a four-day festival of overindulgence: Giant meals, giant balloons representing pop-culture favorites, giant savings at the big box store on Friday morning. As we did in 2013, The A.V.
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What are you playing this Thanksgiving weekend? · What Are You Playing This Weekend? · The A.V. Club
Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend? Howdy,…
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Fresh air · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
A couple of months ago, I got candida (a fungal infection) under my foreskin. I went to the doctor, picked up some cream, and used the cream as directed. The infection went away for about a week and then returned.
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In “Quay,” a 10-minute documentary by Christopher Nolan about avant-garde animators Stephen and Timothy Quay, the Inception director tours the twin brothers’ studio, getting a good look at the grubby mirrors, vintage equipment, and curious props the…
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Code Black and the Lion King musical go together like… um… · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, November 25. All times are Eastern. Code Black (CBS, 10 p.m.): Code Black may only be in its first season, but it clearly knows that November sweeps are a way of life.
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Cajun Pasta With Chicken Breasts And Sausage In One Pot! – GIF on Imgur
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Vila Velha Sunset Image, Brazil – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Aurora over Clouds via NASA https://t.co/AawTCv2V5n https://t.co/gba6Ap8nYu https://t.co/W9HgFEFRGq
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Tor Turns To Crowdfunding To Lessen Its Dependence On Government Money | TechCrunch
Tor, the network that facilitates hidden communications and secure Internet activity, has begun accepting donations in a move aimed at lessening its financial dependence on the U.S. government.
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‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer Is Here – The Daily Beast
Jimmy Kimmel promised a “BIG” surprise from his superhero guests Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans Tuesday night and the duo delivered, unveiling the first trailer for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War during their joint late-night appearance.
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Dashcam footage shows fatal shooting of Chicago teenager – BBC News
Dashboard camera footage has been released of the moment a black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer in Chicago. There have been protests in Chicago following the video’s release.
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Adele and Jimmy Fallon Perform ‘Hello’ with Classroom Instruments – The Daily Beast
Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and some classroom instruments help Adele make “Hello” a little less devastating and a bit more ridiculous.
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Militants storm India Kashmir army camp – BBC News
Three militants have forced their way into an army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir and a gun battle has been going on, the army has said. The camp is near the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border that divides Kashmir between India and Paki…
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Study shows new potential indirect effects of humans on water quality : environment
Study shows new potential indirect effects of humans on water quality (discover.umn.edu)submitted 28 minutes ago by loading…
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Sugar Glider wants a drink : gifs
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MoveOn.org Presidential Forum released; Hillary ‘snubs’ MoveOn
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Black Lives Matters Activists Vow Not to Cower After 5 Are Shot : Liberal
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Black Lives Matters Activists Vow Not to Cower After 5 Are Shot https://t.co/0dvt5p3nJi https://t.co/wQff1Ot13K via /r/Liberal
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Captain America: Civil War Official Teaser #1 : movies
Wow, that two man beat down of Tony by Cap and Bucky. These guys aren’t playing around. The delivery of that line was pretty good.
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Holy Crap, The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer Is Fantastic
The first trailer for Captain America: Civil War is here. It’s Iron Man vs. Captain America and holy crap this looks awesome. Directed by the Russo Brothers, the film opens May 6.
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Chinese Video App Developer Yixia Tech Raises $200M Series D At $1B Valuation | TechCrunch
Yixia Tech, the Beijing developer behind Chinese video blogging app Miao Pai, has raised $200 million in Series D funding from microblogging platform Weibo, Sequoia Capital, YG Entertainment, and other investors at a valuation of $1 billion.
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Protesters in Chicago clash briefly with police during marches in response to the release of footage showing a white police officer shooting dead a 17-year-old black teenager.
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APOD: 2015 November 24 – Aurora over Clouds
Explanation: Auroras usually occur high above the clouds.
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Pastor among seven charged with murder of teen in New York church | US news | The Guardian
The pastor of an insular New York church was one of seven people charged on Tuesday with the murder of a young man who wanted to leave the congregation and the assault of his brother.
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Japan waiters compete in water-balancing race – BBC News
More than 120 waiters have taken part in this year’s Waiters’ Race Japan, held in Yokohama on Monday. Contestants had to run down a 300m (985ft) course, balancing trays of glasses and bottles filled with water. The winning waiter in the individual r…
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Ivy club leaving do for the insect sodality | Environment | The Guardian
Under high blue skies, where the path runs against the wood, there’s a hum like strip-light static. It comes from the wings of hoverflies and wasps feeding on ivy flowers. In hedges and trees the curious, yellow knucklebone jacks of the ivy flowers …
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World Bank Launches $16 Billion Africa Climate Business Plan To Tackle Climate Challenges (eurasiareview.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
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Oneonta Gorge, OR [4000 x 2667] [OC] : EarthPorn
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MoveOn.org Presidential Forum released; Hillary ‘snubs’ MoveOn : democrats
Do you think it might be because moveon was made specifically to get over Monica?
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Black Lives Matters Activists Vow Not to Cower After 5 Are Shot (nytimes.com)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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On His Way Out, Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights for 140,000 People : democrats
On His Way Out, Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights for 140,000 People (motherjones.com)submitted 45 minutes ago by loading…
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MoveOn.org 2016 Presidential Forum – full video plus filter and watch question-answer specific clips (2016forum.moveon.org)submitted 19 minutes ago by – stickied postloading…
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Black Lives Matters Activists Vow Not to Cower After 5 Are Shot (nytimes.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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This film is designated as a Critics’ Pick. At a recent screening of “Creed,” as the familiar fanfare of Bill Conti’s beloved “Rocky” score signaled the start of the final round of the big fight, the audience burst into spontaneous applause.
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MRW I think it’s Under Pressure but it turns out to be Ice, Ice Baby – GIF on Imgur
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Art Basel–Goers Can Take a $2,200 One-Way Private Helicopter and Jet t | Vanity Fair
The time is nigh for Art Basel Miami, the annual happening that brings some art collectors, and many more collectors of selfies, to South Beach in early December.
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Canada staggers resettlement 25K Syrian refugees | Al Jazeera America
Canada’s new Liberal government said Tuesday it will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year and another 15,000 by the end of February. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had wanted to resettle 25,000 refugees in Canada by Dec.
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10 Tech Buzzwords And How To Explain Them To Your Extended Family | TechCrunch
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Paris attacks: Schools and metro reopen in Brussels – BBC News
The Brussels metro and schools are due to reopen after they were shut four days ago in a security crackdown following the Paris attacks. But the Belgian capital remains on the highest alert level, with hundreds of armed police and soldiers on patrol.
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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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The first episode of Syfy’s The Expanse is already online · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Those looking to mix in some sci-fi—sorry, Syfy—spaceship noir with their Thanksgiving day festivities are in for a treat: The House That Sharknado Built is offering up the first episode of its new, space-based conspiracy thriller The Expanse online…
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Work ahead on the long road to realistic casting – BBC News
It’s just a small clip in a trailer for a comedy, but Benedict Cumberbatch’s cameo as an apparent transgender model, All, in Zoolander 2 has stirred up an angry social media protest for alleged transphobia.
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The Pope’s five big issues in Africa – BBC News
Pope Francis will go to Africa for the first time this week, visiting a refugee camp, a slum and a mosque. He is expected to focus on religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence at a time of rising political instability and extremism in much of the…
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People take to the streets in downtown Chicago the release of a year-old dashcam video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting dead 17-year-old black teen Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
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Obama Finally Finds His Voice on ISIS – The Daily Beast
President Obama has found his voice on the Paris attacks, showing the strength of resolve that the American people longed to hear from him in the escalating battle against the terrorist group known variously as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh.
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There’s no candidate like Donald Trump – Al Jazeera English
There has never been a presidential candidate like Donald Trump. He inspires and frightens the Republican party in almost equal measure. While his poll numbers continue to tick upwards, Republican operatives are planning a campaign to try to take hi…
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Ifixit is the new Justice League of America and Kyle Wiens is its Superman / Boing Boing
Motherboard’s Jason Koebler follows Kyle Wiens around the Electronics Reuse Conference — Burning Man for the service-people who fix your phones, laptops, and other devices — in New Orleans.
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The hunt for Albert Einstein’s missing waves – BBC News
In the Italian countryside, not far from Pisa, a vast experiment is about to be switched on. If it’s a success, one of Albert Einstein’s greatest predictions will have been directly observed for the first time.
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Naughty by Nature Plot 25th Anniversary Tour | Rolling Stone
Nineties hip-hop favorites Naughty by Nature will release a new EP in 2016 and embark on a 26-city tour in January in celebration of their 25th anniversary. The New Jersey trio kicked off an international leg earlier this month, and actually have a …
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Open thread for night owls: For T-Day, some language tactics for talking about climate change
Modern wind turbines create energy in concert with an old windmill near Rio Vista, California. At Grist, Heather Smith writes—Here are the latest market-tested words for selling climate action: Explaining climate change to people has been described …
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In its season finale, Drunk History launches into space, with narrators Holly Laurent, Matt Gourley, and Kyle Kinane each embodying different but effective qualities of successful drunk historians. A part of me wishes the first and last segments of …
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Brazil World Cup winner Edilson accused of fraud – BBC News
Prosecutors in Brazil have requested the indictment of former international football player Edilson for involvement in a lottery fraud scheme. Edilson, who is now 45, played in Brazil’s 2002 World Cup winning squad and some of the country’s top club…
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Ramayana: Indian children playing god with royal patronage – BBC News
For two months every year, five children in Ramnagar town in the northern Indian city of Varanasi don greasepaint and are dressed in silken robes to perform in the Ramlila festival, based on the Hindu religious epic Ramayana.
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Afghan Taliban seize at least 13 soldiers after helicopter crash – BBC News
At least 13 soldiers have been captured by the Taliban after a helicopter crash landed in Afghanistan, killing three of those on board. The military-contracted civilian aircraft was ambushed after it went down in Faryab province, near the border wit…
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Here are some of Donald J. Trump’s favorite ways to deal with a difficult question: Asked what he would do on issues like trade deals or terrorism, he warns that bad things are happening “all over the place.
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Been looking for a pediatrician lately. I think I’ve found the one… – Imgur
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Fifa investigates HK football group for second booing incident – BBC News
Football’s governing body Fifa is investigating the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) for a second booing incident in a match against China. Fans booed the national anthem Hong Kong shares with China during last week’s World Cup qualifier match.
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Scott Porter to play Coach Taylor in the Friday Night Lights musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Variety, the visionaries behind the O.C. musical we reported on earlier this year are back, and they’ve managed to add singing and dancing to another beloved TV show: Friday Night Lights.
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NYPD: Postal Worker Spat on Muslim Woman | Al Jazeera America
Dainton Coley, 34, was still wearing his Postal Service uniform when he was led out of a police precinct in handcuffs Tuesday night. He held his head down and said nothing as officers escorted him to a waiting police car.
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Sitcoms shouldn’t start out great. It’s just basic TV science. Some start out good and become great, some even start out terrible and become great. But there are few that start out positively fantastically and stay that way throughout their run.
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The first words spoken in Victor Frankenstein are “You know the story,” and anyone who simply mutters “Yep,” gets up, and heads back to the box office for a refund will be well ahead of the game.
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This season is enormous. In seven episodes it’s covered a year. Despite the deaths and departures, the cast keeps expanding.
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Li-Fi has just been tested in the real world, and it’s 100 times faster than Wi-Fi – ScienceAlert
Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi – a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) – in the coming months.
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Pakistan female fighter pilot Marium Mukhtiar mourned after crash – BBC News
The first Pakistani female fighter pilot to die on operational service has been laid to rest after a funeral at a Karachi air force base.
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Beethoven disrupts anti-migrant rally in Germany – BBC News
German police are taking legal action against theatre staff in Mainz for disrupting an anti-migrant rally by singing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. About 300 people gathered over the weekend near the theatre in the south-western city to protest against the…
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Shark drones to patrol stretch of Australia’s coast – BBC News
Beachgoers will be protected from sharks by drones and “smart” drum lines, according to the New South Wales (NSW) government. The drones will feed images back to operators looking for sharks using GPS co-ordinates.
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Homeless photographer captures New York – BBC News
Jonathan Weber spent years living on the streets of New York City. Now, he is documenting what that life was like using photography. He’s one of 14 participants in a programme called “Through the Eyes of the Homeless,” which pairs professional photo…
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Babies born at weekends ‘have higher death risk’ – BBC News
Babies born in hospitals in England at the weekends have a “significantly” greater chance of dying than those born on weekdays, researchers say. This compared with 6.5 deaths per 1,000 births on weekdays.
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Ancient adventure texts at last unearthed / Offworld
Well, this is wonderful—Jason Scott, creator of the GET LAMP documentary and tireless historian in the service of games, is releasing a huge trove of scans from the archives of Infocom veteran Steve Meretzky.
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Cooking up Cuba’s post-Soviet restaurant revolution – BBC News
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s left communist Cuba without vital supplies of oil and raw materials from its former allies. The crisis became known as “the Special Period”, a time when food shortages and power cuts were commonplace in …
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Ben Affleck won’t bullshit you: There’s a lot riding on Batman V Superman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been something of a middling year for Warner Bros.
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Back in October, we reported that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s much-hyped Alien sequel had been put on an indefinite hold so Ridley Scott could keep making Prometheus sequels with weird names.
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Hillary Clinton pledges not to use term ‘illegal immigrants’ again | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday that her use of the term “illegal immigrants” was a “poor choice of words” and she pledged not to use it anymore, responding to criticism from immigration activists.
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Baby found abandoned in manger at New York church | US news | The Guardian
The crying infant was found on Monday wrapped in towels in the indoor nativity scene by the custodian at the Holy Child Jesus Church, a New York police spokesman said. The custodian had just set up the scene before taking a lunch break.
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Everything about watching the Laquan McDonald video has messed with my brain. Everything. The muted sound, making the sirens and blaring horns sound strangely distant, as if underwater, or in some horrible dream.
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What Happens to Your Body When You Stay Up For More Than 24 Hours? | Upvoted
In 1959, a famous DJ named Peter Tripp decided to raise money for charity in an unusual way. The 32-year-old entered a glass room right in the middle of Times Square. From there, he would work on his radio show for eight days straight without any sl…
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Laura Haim, France’s Voice In Crisis – The Daily Beast
French television White House correspondent Laura Haim—who has been a near-constant presence on MSNBC since the horrific events in Paris on November 13th—was in the middle of a hairstyling appointment in Washington, D.C when she learned of ISIS’s ma…
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The Creator of Jessica Jones Helped To Make Harley Quinn Really, Really Creepy
Melissa Rosenberg just helped redefine what we expect from superheroes on screen with the new Jessica Jones Netflix series. But let’s not forget her previous foray into superheroics: the 2002-2003 Birds of Prey TV show, which featured a ridiculously…
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Laquan McDonald response reflects major shift in year since Ferguson riots | US news | The Guardian
A year to the night that Ferguson, Missouri, went up in flames after the decision not to charge a white police officer for shooting dead a black teenager, authorities in Chicago were braced on Tuesday for their own unrest after deciding to do the op…
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Haven’t seen this posted yet. Caption contest on my FB page – Imgur
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Brazil dam breach: Toxic mud ‘devastated vegetation’ – BBC News
Toxic mud that swamped several Brazilian towns when a dam collapsed earlier this month has devastated forests over a large area, said Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira. Red sludge burst out after a dam used to hold waste water from iron product…
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Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need! – GIF on Imgur
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17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot dead by officer Jason Van Dyke on October 20, 2014. Here is how the police union described the shooting to the Chicago Tribune for an article published on October 21: Officers remained in their car and followed M…
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The Facts About Terrorism – The New Yorker
On Monday, I posted a long piece about how we perceive acts of terrorism in the age of social media.
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China tops developing world with $89b investment in clean energy : environment
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China tops developing world with $89b investment in clean energy – Business – Chinadaily.com.cn
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Chris Christie Bulls—s About Past Support for Gun Control – The Daily Beast
Chris Christie has been having a difficult time with his memory this week. On Sunday evening, when he was asked about Donald Trump’s claim that New Jersey Muslims took to the streets of Jersey City on Sept.
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Downing of Russian Jet Over Turkey Inevitable | Al Jazeera America
The downing of a Russian fighter jet that allegedly crossed into Turkish airspace on Tuesday realized fears of what many had thought inevitable: that the increasingly crowded airspace over northern Syria — where Russian and Syrian regime jets bombar…
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Spray for Paris: Street art with a message of hope – BBC News
Street artists have been paying tribute to Paris with bespoke murals in the aftermath of Paris attacks. Over 52,000 people have used the Instagram and Twitter hashtag “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur” to share this art, a reference to “it is tossed by the wav…
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Black Protester Beaten at Trump Rally Ready to Sue for Hate Crime – The Daily Beast
Mercutio Southall’s attorney told The Daily Beast his client are working to file a complaint with an Alabama magistrate for misdemeanor assault charges against several men seen kicking and dragging Southall during a Birmingham, Alabama event.
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Apple Has Acquired Faceshift, Maker Of Motion Capture Tech Used In Star Wars | TechCrunch
As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space.
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China tops developing world with $89b investment in clean energy (chinadaily.com.cn)submitted 33 minutes ago by loading…
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The Alaska fishing village taking on ‘Godzilla’ – BBC News
Alaska is a vast wilderness of natural beauty. But it also holds more coal than all the other US states put together.
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The trouble with saying you don’t want children – BBC News
When Holly Brockwell spoke to the BBC about her decision not to have children, she knew she might be criticised on social media. But the attacks went far beyond what she had expected – accusations of selfishness soon turned into vitriolic abuse that…
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Cop Who Shot Black Chicago Teen 16 Times Charged With Murder
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As a 6 year old this book was fucking incredible : pics
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Four things you need to know about the Paris climate change talks https://t.co/uZEHuCgqMf https://t.co/DQI9aYAzxE via /r/environment
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“Where Did All of Mars’ Carbon Go?” –JPL and Caltech https://t.co/sOrY86DrMT https://t.co/O1XeWqi3up
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Putin’s Very Bad Day in Syria – The Daily Beast
There was scarcely any news value in Vladimir Putin’s claim today that Russia is busy fighting “terrorists” in Syria.
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There’s a formula to sitcoms, particularly holiday episodes. Someone gets in a snit, or wants everything to be perfect, or decides to do something really special for themselves, and then things go wrong. Too many guests. Failed turkeys. Small fires.
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The Making-Of eleVR’s Virtual Reality Puzzle Game “Float” Is Fascinating | TechCrunch
Almost as fascinating as the game premise itself is the explanation of what went behind it…a lot of research. The story is fascinating, and reminds me a lot of the movie Inception as it pertains to building worlds for people to explore. eleVR’s Vi H…
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Hoverboard: massive, mysterious XKCD game (with a hidden story?) / Boing Boing
Sgt Crispy writes, “XKCD creator Randall Munroe, has made a spiffy little hoverboard game. Looks to be small, however, when you realize that boundaries are made to be broken, A massive world opens up to be explored.” He’s not kidding about the “mass…
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Richard Dawkins has sparked a wave of criticism after appearing to draw a tenuous link between Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas Muslim teenager whose homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, and a child forced by Islamic State militants to behead his victim.
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Iraq is also next to Saudi Arabia. And Qatar cares more about playing soccer than fighting ISIS.
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Four things you need to know about the Paris climate change talks : environment
Four things you need to know about the Paris climate change talks (independent.co.uk)submitted 21 minutes ago by loading…
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Naked Australian man arrested over alleged burger theft – BBC News
Western Australia police have arrested a naked man accused of rifling through a car and stealing a hamburger. Police say a man from the remote town of Derby forced his way into a tradesman’s car and took the Hungry Jack’s Whopper burger.
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My Meg reminds you to rescue your next best friend : aww
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/LiI47mrOEt
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Cop Who Shot Black Chicago Teen 16 Times Charged With Murder : Liberal
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Amazon Yanks Controversial Ad Campaign With Nazi Imagery | Rolling Stone
Amazon has pulled ads for its series The Man in the High Castle plastered throughout the New York City subway system that featured symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Variety reports. The new series, based on Philip K.
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This Special Effects Artist Did Something Totally Amazing With Her Pregnant Stomach
Special effects artist Maria Bradley has been doing some amazing body art—including some cool “baby bump painting” for years. So when she became pregnant herself, it was a chance to do something really unusual. That is the creepiest part of the whol…
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Hey Look, Another Black Friday Deal on a Brother Laser Printer
If you missed out on the last Brother laser printer Black Friday deal, here’s another chance. The Brother DCPL2540DW is down to $85 on Amazon today, an all-time low.
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Google’s Star Wars Easter Egg Is Adorable And Timely | TechCrunch
Hey! Have you heard? There’s a new Star Wars movie coming out. Surprise! I know, right? Who knew. You’d think someone would have said something about it by now. Just kidding. Star Wars is on just about everything right now. Really. Walk into a toy s…
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As The Playoff Nears, Notre Dame Is Running Out Of Time | FiveThirtyEight
The new college football playoff committee rankings are out, and the committee shook lots of things up. Notre Dame fell from No. 4 to No. 6 after an ugly win against Boston College last week. Oklahoma (at No. 3) and Iowa (at No.
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Amazon on Monday agreed to pull advertisements for a new television show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery from New York City’s subway system, hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the company to do so.
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The Work and Play Dual-Purpose Workspace
Today’s featured workspace is one part battlestation and one part productive home office. Altogether, it’s an impressive setup with lots of gadgets to appreciate. The setup belongs to Imgur user breoidneo, who details just about everything in the ph…
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I favorite these kinds of things so I can find the shortcut later… – Imgur
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Here’s the story of the farmworkers behind your sweet potato pie | Grist
This cold, salty abyss is much more interesting than the one you might be experiencing this holiday season. Words have power in discussions about climate change. Here are the phrases you should use and the phrases you should avoid.
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Chicago dashcam video shows police killing of Laquan McDonald – video | US news | The Guardian
Dashcam video footage showing the killing of a black teenager by a police officer was released on Tuesday. The video captures the final moments before 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times. The Chicago police officer involved in the shooting…
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The Encryption Debate Isn’t Taking A Thanksgiving Break | TechCrunch
Lawmakers and Congressional staffers may be trickling out of their Hill offices and to the airports, the encryption debate is not taking a holiday this week.
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‘Too quiet’ electric and hybrid cars create headache for US regulators | Environment | The Guardian
US regulators are grappling with new rules for electric and hybrid cars that are too quiet, leading to fears of collisions with cyclists and sight-impaired pedestrians unless the vehicles are fitted with artificial noise-making systems.
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Greg Hunt confirms Australia has ‘officially’ met its 2020 climate goal | Environment | The Guardian
Australia has already met its 2020 greenhouse emissions reduction target, an outcome the government claims enhances its credibility ahead of the Paris climate summit next week, but analysts and climate campaigners say is proof the target was always …
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Chicago Officials Release Video of Officer Shooting and Killing Laquan | Vanity Fair
Under pressure from a court order and community leaders, city officials on Tuesday released the dash cam video of a white Chicago Police Department officer, Jason Van Dyke, fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old.
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Google Photos: Did Microsoft Get There First? – The Atlantic
Panorama photo created by Microsoft’s Photosynth software. For details, read on.
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100 WOMEN 2015 Sania Mirza: “No one has the right to ask me what happens in my bedroom” – BBC News
In a country where cricket is a religion, Sania Mirza made tennis famous. As the world tennis number one in doubles, she is one of the highest-paid athletes in India. She spoke to the BBC’s Yogita Limaye as part of the BBC’s 100 Women Series about t…
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Turkey Russia jet: Marine killed in pilot rescue bid – BBC News
A Russian marine has been killed on a helicopter mission to rescue the crew of a jet downed by Turkey near the Syrian border on Tuesday.He died when his helicopter came under fire from rebels in northern Syria, where the plane crashed.
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STERLING, Va. — When Donald J. Trump bought a fixer-upper golf club on Lowes Island here for $13 million in 2009, he poured millions more into reconfiguring its two courses. He angered conservationists by chopping down more than 400 trees to open up…
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Meeting Malala: When Anwar’s wish came true – BBC News
Anwar Ullah, 17, suffers from a rare form of lung cancer. Doctors say they can’t do much more for him.
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ThanksKilling Is Almost So Bad It’s Good … But Not Quite
So you’re casting about for something fun to watch on Thanksgiving. You’ve already seen the grande dame of B-movie turkeys about turkeys: Blood Freak. Your search turns up a 2009 ultra low-budget bit o’ giblet entitled ThanksKilling. Is it worth it?…
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The War in Syria and the Russian Jet – The New Yorker
In case you were wondering how that grand alliance to destroy ISIS was shaping up, look no further than the Russian fighter jet that fell from the sky on Tuesday.
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Chicago and Minneapolis prepare for protests over police violence – live | US news | The Guardian
Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of protests over police violence in Chicago and Minneapolis. Police in Chicago have just released a chilling dashcam video of the fatal shooting of a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, more than a year after t…
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Presidential medal of freedom awards ceremony – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content Barack Obama Presidential medal of freedom awards ceremony – in pictures Obama recognises 17 Americans with the nation’s highest civilian award, including giants of the entertainment industry such as James Taylor and Gloria Este…
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Astronomers have used the bending of light predicted by general relativity as a cosmic lens to study distant stars. A video produced for Einstein’s birthday in March explains:
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Chicago police release dashcam video of fatal shooting – BBC News
US officials have released dashboard camera video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times in Chicago last year. Officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with first-degree murder for killing Laquan McDonald, 17. Polic…
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The inventor who helps the birds – BBC News
Nigel Butcher is sometimes referred to as the RSPB’s “gadget man”. He heads a very small team that build electronic devices to help scientists from the conservation charity gather data in the field.
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Chicago police release dash cam video of officer killing Laquan McDonald
After a press conference at 4:30pm CST in which Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel claimed to have never seen the video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 16 rounds into Laquan McDonald’s body and killing him, police released dash cam video o…
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Seth Meyers Calls Out Sarah Palin For Repeating Refugee Lies; She just got schooled. : democrats
Seth Meyers Calls Out Sarah Palin For Repeating Refugee Lies; She just got schooled. (huffingtonpost.com)
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Seth Meyers Calls Out Sarah Palin For Repeating Refugee Lies; She just got schooled. : Liberal
Seth Meyers Calls Out Sarah Palin For Repeating Refugee Lies; She just got schooled. (huffingtonpost.com)
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Sly and the Family Stone Co-Founder Cynthia Robinson Dead at 69 | Rolling Stone
Cynthia Robinson, a founding member for Sly and the Family Stone who played trumpet, has died after a battle with cancer. The musician’s Facebook page and Billboard confirmed the news Tuesday. She was 69.
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PCs running Dell support app can be uniquely ID’d by snoops and scammers | Ars Technica
On Monday, Ars reported that Dell was shipping PCs that came preinstalled with digital certificates that made it easy for attackers to cryptographically impersonate any website on the Internet.
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The US government still doesn’t know how to protect itself from basic phishing attacks | The Verge
Even after data breaches at multiple agencies and overall vows to do better on cybersecurity, government employees continue to be duped by cyber attackers’ phishing emails.
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Earth and Moon by Expedition 24 crew member js – Just Space
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Chicago Police Release Video Of Officer Shooting Teen : NPR
Chicago police released dash-cam video of a white officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The officer has been charged with first degree murder.
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Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg awarded presidential medal of freedom | US news | The Guardian
Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Gloria Estefan were among the honorees awarded the presidential medal of freedom at the White House on Tuesday.
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Teleport on iOS Uses Uber to Deliver Your Friends and Family to You
You can technically hail an Uber for someone else already, but it can be a long, frustrating process. Teleport on iOS makes it super easy to hail an Uber for someone else and have them delivered to you. They don’t have to sign up, download, or pay f…
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A Sub-Zero Kind of Holiday and More from Byredo. | Vanity Fair
As seen in V.F.’s December issue, Ben Gorham, perfume-maker of Byredo, is dispatching his limited-edition La Sélection Parfum, a discovery set that also serves as travel kit, consisting of six iconic scents that are reminiscent of fragrance-note ori…
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MRW I take a dump at my friend’s house and flush, but the water just keeps rising. – GIF on Imgur
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LG’s six-day-old smartwatch cancelled due to “image quality issues” | Ars Technica
Late last week, LG shockingly cancelled its latest smartwatch after just six days on the market.
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Do you have what it takes to prevent disastrous climate change? Take the quiz! | Grist
Answer these questions to see if you can beat the 2-degree-C target. Scientists graded presidential candidates on their public statements on climate science. Here’s how they fared.
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Chicago Police Release Video Of Cop Shooting Teenager 16 Times In 30 Seconds | ThinkProgress
After a prolonged legal battle, Chicago police released a video of one of their officers, Jason Van Dyke, shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times Wednesday. The video shows McDonald carrying a small knife, walking away from Van Dyke before the…
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On Blindspot, We Finally Get Some Answers
The mid-season finale of Blindspot is upon us, promising some answers to the show’s mess of mysteries. Well, sort of. A few. Kinda. Define “answers.” SUPER SPOILER: It’s Jane! Jane is the mastermind!!! OK, let’s do this, my Blindpost buddies. We’ve …
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“Where Did All of Mars’ Carbon Go?” –JPL and Caltech
Caltech and JPL scientists suggest the fingerprints of early photochemistry provide a solution to the long-standing mystery.
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Costco chicken linked to E. coli outbreak – BBC News
Wholesale outlet Costco is the latest retailer to be linked to an outbreak of E. coli. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Costo’s rotisserie chicken salad has been linked to 19 cases of E. coli.
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Billy Ray Cyrus is not happy : pics
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With traffic fatalities rising, safety officials see tech as cause and solution | Ars Technica
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released numbers on Tuesday showing a slight decrease in the number of fatal accidents in 2014, but an 8.1 percent increase in estimated fatalities in the first half of 2015 compared to the …
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Google says its version of Facebook’s instant articles will arrive early next year | The Verge
Last month Google introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages, its open-source program designed to make web pages load much more quickly on mobile devices. AMP, which comes in the wake of similar efforts from Facebook and Apple, has been in a technical prev…
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Billionaire Battle: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Square Off on Reusable-Rocket Test
A reusable-rocket milestone has sparked a mini-squabble between two of the billionaires who are helping transform the private spaceflight industry. On Monday (Nov. 23), Blue Origin — a company established by Amazon.
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The Honourable Assassin by Roland Perry review – crime thriller falls flat | Books | The Guardian
Melbourne academic Roland Perry is best known for his nonfiction works, most notably for his award-winning biography of the Australian general John Monash, Monash: the Outsider Who Won a War, and his bestselling biography of cricket legend Donald Br…
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Steven Spielberg on new film Bridge of Spies – BBC News
Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s new thriller about the Cold War. Ahead of its release in the UK on 26 November, Spielberg has been speaking to BBC Newsnight’s culture correspondent Stephen Smith.
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“Creed” Is a Knockout – The New Yorker
There’s a majestic, bitter irony to “Creed,” Ryan Coogler’s stirring, heartfelt, tough-minded, and insightful reboot of the “Rocky” franchise. It’s a satisfying genre movie, and it meets the requirements of the series, but it’s very much a personal …
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Some Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Books To Keep You Sane on that Long Ride Home
Thanksgiving weekend is almost upon us! Many Americans will be making the long or short trek to family gatherings, or maybe a short vacation. Whether you’re flying, driving, or train-ing, you’ll want some good fiction to read or listen to on the way…
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Clinton to Stop Saying ‘Illegal Immigrant’ — NYMag
Hillary Clinton has agreed to stop using the term “illegal immigrants.” In a Telemundo-hosted Facebook chat with the presidential candidate on Tuesday, Jose Vargas, a prominent immigrant-rights advocate, asked the Democratic candidate to tweak her t…
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Three Questions About the Downed Russian Jet – The New Yorker
On Tuesday, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet, flying near Turkey’s border with Syria, shot down a Russian Su-24 fighter jet. It is not clear whether the Russian plane, which was presumably deployed as part of Russia’s operations in support of the Assad re…
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Bernie and Killer Mike’s Imaginary Conversation — NYMag
On Monday, a magical event happened, making this election cycle’s 47-month premature start completely worth it. Rapper-thinker-speaker Killer Mike stumped for rapper-thinker-presidential-hopeful Bernie Sanders in Mike’s hometown of Atlanta.
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Royce Da 5’9″, DJ Premier Tap DOOM, Phonte for ‘Highs and Lows’ | Rolling Stone
PRhyme, the collaborative project of Royce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier, have tapped MF DOOM and Phonte for a clattering, breathless new track, “Highs and Lows” that debuted on Beats 1 radio, Pitchfork reports.
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The age of terror is an age of shocks. Individuals, families and whole societies get torn apart by unexpected stabbings, shootings and bombings.
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One Day in Charkh – Al Jazeera English
The United States spent more than a decade and tens of billions of dollars to arm and train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) combating the Taliban.
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More organizations speak out against Congressman’s NOAA investigation | Ars Technica
In a major move, seven scientific organizations came together today to send a message to the Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Lamar Smith (R-TX).
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You Can Adopt a Pet from a Shelter for Free This Weekend
If you want to skip the shopping blitz and add a fuzzy member to your family instead, Zappos will cover the cost of any dog or cat adoption this weekend starting on Black Friday. For a four-day period (Black Friday through Cyber Monday), Zappos.
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Connected cars aren’t just for hacking | Ars Technica
Love it or hate it—and we know many of you hate it—the connected car isn’t going away. That much was evident at this year’s Connected Car Expo, held in Los Angeles last week just ahead of the LA Auto Show.
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Soil Moisture in the United States : Image of the Day
Compared to the amount of water stored elsewhere on the planet, the amount in the soil is minuscule. But that small volume has great significance around the world. Measurements of soil moisture are relevant for a variety of applications, particularl…
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One of the greatest aspects of science fiction is that the genre raises so many fascinating questions.
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Turkey and Russia in war of words over downed jet – Al Jazeera English
Turkey, Russia and their respective allies have entered a war of words about the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border – raising tensions in a region struggling to cope with the ongoing Syrian conflict.
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The Missing Black Students at Elite American Universities, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.24.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Matt Mullenweg, John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 3pmPT/6pmET.
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‘You Can’t Prepare Yourself’: A Conversation With Adele : NPR
Adele’s career so far has been a story in numbers — and not just the ones in her album titles. Her latest LP, 25, has sold more copies than any other album in its first week of release —- more than 2.4 million so far — and the week is only half-over…
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Bringing Up Genius – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Before Laszlo Polgár conceived his children, before he even met his wife, he knew he was going to raise geniuses. He’d started to write a book about it. He saw it moves ahead.
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More Americans should take the HIV prevention pill, CDC says | The Verge
About 1.2 million people in the US are HIV positive — and each year, that number grows by about 40,000. That’s why the US government announced today that it wants more people to take Truvada, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP.
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Germany to refugees: ‘Leaving Afghanistan? Think again’ – Al Jazeera English
As a result of the persistent influx of Afghan refugees into Germany, a new campaign has been launched asking potential refugees to think twice before they embark on their perilous journeys.
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Amazon backtracks after covering NYC subway car in Nazi symbols | Ars Technica
Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel The Man In The High Castle imagined a world in which the Axis nations of Germany and Japan won World War II—and won so decisively that they overtook the United States.
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World leaders react to Turkey’s downing of Russian jet – Al Jazeera English
NATO has called on Turkey and Russia to show restraint as tensions rise in the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Turkey-Syria border. The plane was shot down for violating Turkish airspace on Tuesday morning, according to …
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Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Successfully Launch And Land A Rocket For The First Time – Digg
Space Sorry, Elon, but it looks like Blue Origin has beat out SpaceX in the race to successfully land a reusable rocket after launch.
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Tunisia Declares State of Emergency After Explosion Kills 12 Presidential Guards – The Atlantic
Last month, the Norwegian Nobel Committee bestowed the world’s most prestigious prize upon The Quartet, a body consisting of four Tunisian groups, whose work helped ensure a peaceful democratic transition in Tunisia in 2013.
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Kevin Bacon Will Star In a Tremors TV Reboot!
Well, chalk this one up on the list of things we never expected to hear today.
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How Kickstarter Helped a 60s Legend Preserve a Piece of Rock History | Vanity Fair
Almost two years ago, we told you about Woodstock-based rock ’n’ roll photographer Elliott Landy’s Kickstarter campaign to fund production of a book of his photos of the Band. At the time, he’d raised $35,000 of his $65,000 goal.
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When the World’s Greatest Artists Become Art Themselves | Vanity Fair
ADAM PENDLETONThe artist standing next to his installation, Abolition of Alienated Labor, at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. “The piece,” Pendleton said, “was a timeline of sorts.”Courtesy of Jason Schmidt.
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Who What Wear’s Parent Company Acquires Shopping Startup Wantering | TechCrunch
Clique Media Group, the company behind shoppable fashion site Who What Wear, has acquired Canadian startup Wantering.
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3D Slash Brings 3D Design To The Raspberry Pi | TechCrunch
The program allows students to design 3D objects on the single board computer, a feat unthinkable only a few years ago. By enabling users of the Pi-Top to move objects with the trackpad and interact with the keyboard you basically create a CAD/CAM s…
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Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke Charged With Murder – The Atlantic
Prosecutors in Chicago filed first-degree murder charges on Tuesday against a white police officer who fired 16 shots in 15 seconds at a black teenager last year, as the city braces for the public release of footage from the incident on Wednesday.
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Turkish F-16 shoots down Russian jet for disputed airspace violation | Ars Technica
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On Tuesday afternoon, days after pictures and video of the Cleveland Browns quarterback partying over the weekend emerged, the team announced that Johnny Manziel has been demoted from starter to the third string for the foreseeable future.
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New Shepard: Test flight for ‘re-useable spaceship’ – BBC News
The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship. Intended to eventually carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday, with no-one aboard.
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Friday Night Lights: The Musical Is Coming to Make You Cry | Vanity Fair
Get ready to sing “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” at the top of your lungs: is becoming a musical.
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Two Suspects Arrested After BLM Shooting — NYMag
Police have arrested two unnamed men in connection with Monday night’s shooting of five Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis. Police have identified the individuals only as a 32-year-old Hispanic man apprehended in South Minneapolis and a 23…
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How to Cook a Faster, Juicy Turkey with a Salt Crust
Don’t have all day to waste cooking a turkey this Thanksgiving? Try this trick from Chef Matt Griffin at Fedora: cook the turkey in a salt crust for a quick, juicy bird. Wrap the wings in tin foil and coat the turkey in butter, both under and over t…
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Last night, November 23, five people were shot while protesting at a police precinct in Minneapolis. The protests, which have lasted over a week, are in response to the police killing of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who witnesses say was unarmed and han…
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Universal Denies Morrissey Fan Site’s Claim It Blocked ‘Paris’ Reissue | Rolling Stone
Universal Denies Morrissey Fan Site’s Claim It Blocked ‘Paris’ Reissue The company called story claiming it was focusing on current artists for its own tribute “hurtful and wrong”
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Kevin Bacon rejoins the Tremors-verse for upcoming TV reboot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At the age of 30, with his career in free fall, Kevin Bacon dropped to his knees on a busy New York City sidewalk and, as he told The Telegraph in 2013, cried to his wife, “I can’t believe I’m doing a movie about underground worms!” This would have …
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1988 was the year that Who Framed Roger Rabbit bounded into theaters and obliterated the box office.
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R.I.P. Rex Reason, star of This Island Earth · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, ’50s and ’60s leading man Rex Reason has died after a battle with bladder cancer. He was 86.
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Ted Cruz and James Woods Love This Country a Lot — NYMag
“.@SenTedCruz and I just spoke for 40 minutes by phone about our love of this country. This man is the real deal. I’m all in!” —Actor James Woods Cruz: Hello.
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Hillary Clinton: Pfizer is gaming the tax system – video | Business | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has condemned Pfizer’s deal with Allergan, the largest ever of its kind, as a tax dodge on Tuesday.
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Wait, is this plush children’s toy jingle an absolute banger? | The Verge
Ty Inc. — that’s the company behind Beanie Babies and a host of other Beanie-related creatures — is releasing a new line of plush toys called Peek-a-Boos, little animals that double as cellphone stands and microfiber screen cleaners.
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 24, 2015 On Tuesday, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane it says violated its airspace. Russia says its jet never threatened Turkey’s territory. Related Article
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Joan Collins Nearly Starred in This Movie About a Killer Pike
In 1982, Cliff Twemlow, a former nightclub bouncer turned library music composer for De Wolfe Music, sought to adapt his novel, The Pike, into a feature film starring Joan Collins.
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Scientists Create Mosquito Malaria-Blocking Genes | Al Jazeera America
Scientists battling malaria said this week they have produced a strain of mosquitoes carrying genes that block the disease’s transmission, with the idea that these insects could breed with other members of their species in the wild and produce offsp…
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Indiana Faces Lawsuit for Blocking Syrian Refugees | Al Jazeera America
A lawsuit challenging the Indiana governor’s decision to stop state agencies from helping resettle Syrian refugees alleges that the action wrongly targets the refugees based on nationality, and violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
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See the Flashcards the Stasi Used for Facial Recognition | Atlas Obscura
When verifying someone’s identity today, the first step is to assess whether or not they look like the photograph they have presented to you.
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Don’t worry, be happy: your life might depend on it | Life and style | The Guardian
I am a bit of a nerd. That is why this column is about subtle and surprising patterns in the world, often teased out of big datasets. My subject is the signatures of long and happy lives. Why this topic? In broad terms, I think that each of us wants…
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Why you shouldn’t compare Blue Origin’s rocket landing to SpaceX | The Verge
For the past year, SpaceX has been trying to gently land its Falcon 9 rocket after launching it into space.
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Windows 10 November update was pulled for forgetting privacy settings; it’s now back | Ars Technica
The mystery behind the removal of the Windows 10 November Update, version 1511, has been revealed. Last week Microsoft received reports that, when upgrading from the Windows 10 July release to the November update, four privacy-related settings were …
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The Physics Of Non-Newtonian Goo Could Save Astronauts’ Lives | Popular Science
The slimy, gloopy, colorful oobleck has a very interesting set of properties. There’s an experiment you may have done in high school: When you mix cornstarch with water—a concoction colloquially called oobleck—and give it a stir, it acts like a liqu…
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New Cases Of Ebola In Liberia Show How Much We Don’t Know About The Virus : Goats and Soda : NPR
“The reality is this outbreak’s not over,” says Dr. William Fischer, speaking about Ebola. “It’s just changed.” Fischer, a professor at the University of North Carolina who’s been studying Ebola survivors, was speaking about the new cases in Liberia…
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Beaches in northern NSW will have “smart” drum lines installed off the coast this summer, which will be used to hook and tag sharks before releasing them further out to sea.
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AT&T, Verizon try to prevent ban on text message blocking | Ars Technica
AT&T, Verizon, and other wireless carriers are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition that would impose common carrier regulations on text messaging.
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John Carpenter teases a return to directing, possible U.S. live shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to his wife and longtime producer Sandy King Carpenter, John Carpenter is looking to make a return to television with four series waiting to go to network. (Carpenter directed two episodes of Showtime’s Masters Of Horror in 2005 and 2006; …
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Dell Laptops Are Shipping With a Superfish-Like Certificate Vulnerability
Security researchers recently revealed that a certificate with security vulnerabilities has been shipping pre-installed on some Dell laptops. Here’s what you need to know about this Superfish-like vulnerability, and how you can check to see if your …
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WASHINGTON—Providing insight into how American citizens participate in the political process, a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center revealed that the vast majority of civic engagement in the U.S. centers around oppressing other people.
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BBC Sport – Barcelona 6-1 Roma
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique did not confirm whether Lionel Messi will start their penultimate Champions League group game with Roma at the Nou Camp. The forward returned from two months out with a knee injury as a substitute in Saturday’s 4-0 win ov…
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Hillary Clinton Showed Exactly How the Government Still Doesn’t Understand Encryption : Liberal
Hillary Clinton Showed Exactly How the Government Still Doesn’t Understand Encryption (mic.com)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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Tracing The Roots Of Wearable Technology | TechCrunch
The interrelated trends around miniaturization and portability, wireless communications, power-efficient computing and advanced display technologies have come together to create the smart devices of today.
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More than seven years ago, President Obama called for one million electric cars to be on the road by this year, and the vehicles have gained a large fan club. Environmentalists promote them as a smart way to cut dangerous emissions. Owners love thei…
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The Edges Of This Book Have A Beautiful Secret – Digg
In Cornell’s rare books library there are a few examples of the fore-edge painting technique, which is as stunning as it is unexpected.
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Obama administration admits review of Guantánamo cases will take years | US news | The Guardian
The US government has acknowledged it will take “several more years” to review the cases of prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, despite a promise made by Barack Obama in 2011 that all detainees would receive hearings within a year.
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The Most Famous Dog in the World on Instagram – The New Yorker
Last Christmas Eve, the line outside the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory was creeping across Bayard Street when a group of tourists noticed a celebrity in its midst: Marnie the Dog, a Shih Tzu with a tilted head and a tongue too long for her mouth.
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Acid Fog on Mars Likely Took a Bite Out of Its Rocks
On the surface of Mars, the three Cumberland Ridge outcrops: a) Larry’s Lookout, b) Jibsheet and c) Methuselah. Their progressively different terrain and levels of iron oxidation suggest they were affected by acidic fog.Credit: D. Savransky and J. B…
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Methane Has Been Spewing From This Southern California Gas Site For A Month | ThinkProgress
CREDIT: Shutterstock A gas storage site in Los Angeles has been leaking for more than a month, in what environmentalists say should be a “wake-up call” for regulators about the state’s aging gas infrastructure.
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Court: King of Kong’s Billy Mitchell isn’t an exploding, floating cartoon head | Ars Technica
If you watched the 2007 documentary The King of Kong or follow the insular world of arcade high score competitions, you know Billy Mitchell as a controversial, bearded braggadocio who sells hot sauce and was the first person to ever play a perfect g…
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Tara Subkoff: Actor, Designer, Director, Operator | W Magazine
“I love an event,” Tara Subkoff said as she stood in a corner of Gagosian Gallery, in Beverly Hills, on a cool night in early fall.
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Disabled Fans and Creators Are Kept Out of Too Many Conventions. Now They’re Not Alone.
Science fiction and fantasy conventions exist in the venn diagram between professional networking events, marketing expos and fan celebrations. Between all three of those things, they do a lot to shape fandom and the stories we love.
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BBC Sport – Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-4 Chelsea
Boss Jose Mourinho says Chelsea players are “getting their confidence back” as they prepare for Tuesday’s Champions League tie at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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New York Launches Terrorism Prevention App – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The state of New York has unveiled See Something, Send Something, a free mobile app through which users can send photographs or tips of suspicious activity directly to New York law enforcement, which will then send the information to the proper agen…
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The Atlantic Daily: Turkey and Russia, Minneapolis Shooting, Hollande and ISIS – The Atlantic
Turkish forces shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Turkey-Syria border, claiming it had violated its airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave. Russia denied these claims and called the incident “a stab in the back.
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BBC Sport – Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Arsenal have more injury problems ahead of Tuesday’s must-win Champions League match against Dinamo Zagreb. Midfielders Francis Coquelin (knee) and Mikel Arteta (calf) both came off with knocks during Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at West Brom.
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Canada to resettle 25,000 refugees by end of February 2016 – BBC News
The newly elected Liberal government in Canada will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year and 15,000 by the end of February. The government had previously promised to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the year’s end.
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Win Amy, Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, on DVD · Contest · The A.V. Club
After giving audiences an in-depth look at the life and death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, director Asif Kapadia turned his focus to another talented figure who was gone too soon: Amy Winehouse.
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A Square Pop, And A Drop | TechCrunch
Square’s IPO came in hot, bouncing more than 40 percent in its first day of trading. Priced conservatively, the offering did what all IPOs must do to set a positive narrative: rise. In the ensuing days of trading, Square has slipped.
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Why we enjoy stroking animals and popping bubblewrap / Boing Boing
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, one of the central characters is Lennie, a man with some form of mental development disability who enjoys petting mice and puppies. Only he enjoys it so much he can’t stop and often ends up squashing them litera…
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Russian Military Jet Crash Heightens Debate Over Syria No-Fly Zone : NPR
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Republican candidates Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, and other voices including Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., all support a no-fly zone or safe zone in Syria.
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The director of Space Jam is getting a DGA lifetime achievement award · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Joe Pytka, director of Space Jam, will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America.
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John Carpenter Has Developed Four New Horror and Science Fiction TV Shows
Adjust your eye patches and put on your sunglasses, John Carpenter fans, for this great bit of news that shook loose from horror podcast Killer POV: the famed genre director (Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Litt…
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For Thanksgiving, can you stretch your stomach to eat more?
It’s a popular notion that dieting shrinks your stomach, so that, eventually, you feel less hungry and get fuller faster.
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Iron workers union endorses Bernie Sanders: The union represents more than 3,000 workers in New Hampshire and northern New England (unionleader.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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Review: Asus’ excellent midrange laptop gets much better with Skylake | Ars Technica
It’s easy to find cheap PCs and it’s easy to find good PCs, but it can be difficult to find a PC in between those two poles that gives you a really great value for your money.
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Rapid Learners: How Pixar Animators Created A Very Scary River : NPR
It’s a heart-stopping scene: The protagonist of The Good Dinosaur, an 11-year-old Apatosaurus named Arlo is chasing a little thief who’s been stealing his family’s food. Arlo’s not looking where he’s going and he slips and falls into a river.
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Sneezes spray ‘sheets, bags and strings’ of fluid – BBC News
Researchers in the US have mapped out, for the first time, a striking sequence of shifting shapes found in the fluid we eject when we sneeze. They used high-speed video footage to discover precisely how the stream of mucus and saliva breaks up into …
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America’s Addiction to Prescription Pills Is Way Deadlier Than You Thought | Mother Jones
A troubling poll published Tuesday shows the extent of America’s addiction to prescription painkillers.
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California Farmer Works To Restore Groundwater By Purposely Flooding Crops : NPR
California farmers are pumping groundwater faster than it can be replenished. One farmer is spending millions of dollars trying to restore it by deliberately flooding his crops when there is water to spare.
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Canada Releases Details Of Plan To Resettle 25,000 Syrian Refugees : NPR
The Canadian government released details Tuesday of its ambitious plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year. The first refugees are to arrive next week.
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Obama, Hollande Vow To Expand Attacks Against ISIS : NPR
French President Francois Hollande met with President Obama at the White House Tuesday to discuss the fight against ISIS in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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Blue Origin Announces Successful Launch, Landing Of Rocket : NPR
Commercial space startup Blue Origin announced Tuesday the successful launch and landing of one of its rockets. NPR explores what the success means for space travel.
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5 People Shot At Black Lives Matter Protest In Minneapolis : NPR
Five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when gunmen opened fire near the site of a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis Monday night. Two suspects have been arrested.
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French Investigators Continue Search For Suspect After Finding Explosive Belt : NPR
French investigators are checking an explosive belt found in a trash bin in Paris to see if it is linked to the November 13 attacks. The city is still tense, with a bomb scare closing part of the metro on Tuesday.
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Former Rep. Lee Hamilton Urges Importance Of Engagement In ISIS Fight : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Lee Hamilton, the former congressman from Indiana, who has won the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. He says diplomacy should come before force in the fight against ISIS.
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Kentucky Boy Solves Rubik’s Cube In Record Time : NPR
A 14-year-old boy from Lexington, Ky., has solved a Rubik’s Cube in less than five seconds. As Guinness World Records declares this a record-breaker, we hear how NPR covered a Rubik’s Cube competition in 1981.
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Letters: Series On Opiate Addiction In Pregnant Women : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro responds to listener letters about our series from Tennessee about opiate addiction and pregnant women.
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Mormon Woman Grapples With New Church Guidelines On Same-Sex Relationships : NPR
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently issued a handbook that outlines a strict policy toward Mormons in same-sex relationships. Children of parents in same-sex relationships can no longer be baptized at age 8, and Mormons in same-…
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Local Charities Capitalize On Holiday Rush With Day Of Giving : NPR
There’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday and, in some places, a single day dedicated to getting people to give to local nonprofits. In Lancaster County, Penn., they call it the Extraordinary Give — 24 hours of events designed to entice donations to art…
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Chicago Police Officer Charged With First Degree Murder In Death Of Black Teen : NPR
A white Chicago police officer was charged in the shooting death of 17-year old Laquan McDonald. A judge ordered that dash-cam video of the shooting be released by Wednesday.
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Pope Prepares To Visit Africa Amid Burundi Crisis : NPR
As the Pope prepares for an African tour, the United Nations is warning of a another Rwanda-like genocide in Burundi. In this overwhelmingly Catholic country, can the Pope’s words bring peace?
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China’s Greenhouse Gases Don’t Seem To Trouble Most Of Its Citizens : Parallels : NPR
China is the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter and drives climate change more than any other country. As the world warms and seas rise, researchers say it stands to lose more heavily populated coastline as well. Most Chinese, though, don’t seem…
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Turkish Forces Shoot Down Russian Fighter Jet For Violating Its Airspace : NPR
President Vladimir Putin has responded angrily to the downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border Tuesday. Turkey said its aircraft shot down the Russian fighter after it violated Turkish airspace — a claim Moscow denies.
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Glorkian Warrior stickers / 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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The Hacktivist Encyclopedia: Enemies of Anonymous, From ISIS to the KKK
Anonymous, the loose collective of “hacktivists,” first crawled out of the primordial slime of 4chan as a troll, but it has since evolved into a political beast that fights its own brand of vigilante justice.
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Thom Yorke: Tony Blair’s Advisers Tried to Blackmail Me | Rolling Stone
Thom Yorke: Tony Blair’s Advisers Tried to Blackmail Me Radiohead singer also discusses activism in music.
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The dilemma facing Syrian refugees – Al Jazeera English
With winter setting in across Europe, refugees escaping war and hardship in the Middle East and Africa are now more vulnerable than ever. It is not stopping some from feeling that they have no choice but to leave their homeland.
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See Jason Isbell’s Haunting Americana Honors Performance | Rolling Stone
See Jason Isbell’s Haunting Americana Honors Performance Singer-songwriter and wife Amanda Shires deliver “Something More Than Free”
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Unauthorized ‘Friday Night Lights’ Musical Headed to L.A. | Rolling Stone
Friday Night Lights — the book, turned movie, turned TV show about football in a small Texas town — will assume a new cultural form next year when it’s staged as a musical in Los Angeles, E! reports.
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Cultural appropriation? Hindu nationalists used yoga as an anti-colonialist export / Boing Boing
Devi was a Russian-born yoga practitioner who was part of an Indian Nationalist movement to fight the British colonial characterization of India as a backwards, primitive place by exporting its culture and traditions, including yoga.
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When Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos Clash Over Reusable Rockets, We All Win | Popular Science
This week, a private spaceflight company did something extraordinary. Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, sent a rocket up to the lower reaches of space and then landed it back on Earth in the upright position. Nailed i…
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This Interactive Map Shows Exactly How Much Daylight Saving Time Affects You
Daylight saving time always causes a pretty sudden shock to our internal clocks, but if you’ve every wondered exactly how much it changes things, cartographer Andy Woodruff created an interactive map that shows just how many sunless evenings (and mo…
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ISIL Attacks Hotel in Egypt’s Sinai, Killing 7 | Al Jazeera America
The attack on the Swiss Inn hotel in the coastal city of El-Arish was the latest violence convulsing the troubled peninsula, where Egyptian troops are struggling to put down an insurgency. ISIL’s Sinai-based affiliate quickly claimed responsibility …
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Tango, Chat App Unicorn, Lays Off 9% Of Staff Following Failed Move Into E-Commerce | TechCrunch
Tango, the mobile messaging unicorn that reached a billion dollar valuation when Alibaba invested $280 million in it early last year, has laid off around nine percent of its workforce after it shuttered a brief effort at e-commerce.
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Government Employees Got Hacked and Didn’t Find Out Until Facebook Told Them | Motherboard
Hackers working for the Iranian government reportedly broke into the social media accounts of several people at the State Department last month. And neither the victims nor the US government knew about it until Facebook alerted them to the breach.
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Watch a Neural Network Try to Describe a Live Feed of Amsterdam’s Streets | Motherboard
It’s one thing to show a machine a picture of a dog and expect it to say it’s a dog. And it’s another thing entirely to show it a video and ask it what’s going on.
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Buffer Rejiggers Its Open Salary Formula | TechCrunch
Buffer, a company known for its radical transparency, has reformed its salary algorithm that it uses to calculate the pay of its staff. It’s been several years since Buffer first published its salary list.
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A Child of Refugees, and a Grateful, If Not Always Proud American | The Nation
The partition of India in 1947 created some 12 million refugees. My parents and grandparents were among them. They were part of a mass, and bloody, migration in which people lost their homes, family members, and dignity.
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This article is adapted from The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. It’s the time of year when Americans remember a gritty story of conquest and death by decking their houses in warm fall colors and loading their pla…
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Indiana governor sued over bid to block refugees – Al Jazeera English
The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a lawsuit against Indiana Governor Mike Pence for trying to block the resettlement of refugees in the US state.
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Why People Stick With Outdated Technology – Scientific American
It’s no surprise that Sony Corp. will finally stop manufacturing Betamax videocassettes. Betamax transformed the world’s viewing habits 40 years ago but it quickly succumbed to the rival format, VHS. No new Betacam recorders have been available, eve…
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Jose Mujica Was Every Liberal’s Dream President. He Was Too Good to Be True. (newrepublic.com)
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Two arrested in shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters; third suspect remains at large
Two arrests have been made in last night’s shooting of five Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Police Department took a 23-year-old white man into custody around 11:20 a.m. in nearby Bloomington, Minnesota, according to a …
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When the news broke back in August that HBO had picked up the rights to air new Sesame Street episodes, lots of people on the internet made snarky jokes about the show being changed to fit HBO’s traditionally “adult” reputation.
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Fox pulls Fantastic Four 2 from release schedule, disappointing no one · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s more than enough blame to go around for the box-office failure of Fantastic Four, with the director blaming the studio, the studio blaming the director, and everyone else blaming a steaming garbage pile of a movie.
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Here’s what’s coming to (and going from) Netflix this December · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Year-end traditions may vary, but they all involve overeating and nodding off in front of the TV, which is where Netflix comes in.
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Donald Trump: I have proof Jersey residents celebrated 9/11 attacks – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump says he has found evidence to back up his claim that he witnessed thousands of Muslims in Jersey City celebrating following the 9/11 attacks.
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12 Things We Loved About Jessica Jones (And 4 We Didn’t)
This weekend, the world met the whiskey-drinking, super-powered Hell’s Kitchen detective known as Jessica Jones.
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How Tumblr Users Transformed a Homophobic Post Into a Dystopian Science Fiction Lovefest
Tumblr users have taken a tired homophobic post and given it a futuristic twist, making it funny and inclusive instead of intolerant.
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Obama appointed-judge to hear Benghazi lawsuit against Trey Gowdy | MSNBC
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This week on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver rails against the penny. This seems like such an obvious thing, that we should stop using pennies, but I bet if the government ever moved to ban pennies, it would set off a firestorm of protest.
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What If Trump Wins? | New Republic
On Monday, the John Kasich campaign released a remarkable video in which one of the Ohio governor’s supporters, Colonel Tom Moe, a Vietnam veteran and former POW, speaks against Donald Trump by paraphrasing Martin Niemoller’s famous “First the came”…
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Punch Hutton’s 2015 Holiday Gift Guide | Vanity Fair
As the creative force behind Vanity Fair’s Fanfair and Fairground sections, deputy editor Punch Hutton is one of the magazine’s coveted curators of culture and lifestyle.
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Black Lives Matter Activists Shot While Trump Busy Sharing Neo-Nazi Graphic on Twitter | The Nation
Last night around 10:45 in Minneapolis, a group of suspected white supremacists opened fire on a crowd of Black Lives Matter activists, injuring five people. All five were takento the hospital and one underwent surgery early this morning.
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The Bookworm’s Bespoke Gift Guide | Vanity Fair
SHERLOCK HOLMES SET, $150.Courtesy of Juniper Books.
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JEFFERSONTOWN, KY—Expressing frustration at not having left the house sooner, local bigot Doug Weber, 43, was reportedly annoyed late Monday night after discovering that the mosque he intended to deface had been vandalized before he got there.
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Leaked recording: pollution lobbyists discuss exploiting Syrian refugee crisis / Boing Boing
A leaked recording made of a conference call posted by the Edison Electric Institute, which lobbies for the power industry, reveals lobbyists for high pollution lobbyists talking about how they can exploit the Syrian refugee crisis to get a rider in…
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The Unlikely Home of the World’s Next Tallest Skyscraper: Basra, Iraq – CityLab
So many things about the Bride of the Gulf seem unlikely. It’s planned to be the world’s tallest skyscraper, soaring nearly three-quarters of a mile into the sky.
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Obama appointed-judge to hear Benghazi lawsuit against Trey Gowdy : Liberal
Obama appointed-judge to hear Benghazi lawsuit against Trey Gowdy (msnbc.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Economists tested 7 welfare programs to see if they made people lazy. They didn’t. : Liberal
Economists tested 7 welfare programs to see if they made people lazy. They didn’t. (vox.com)
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With US government as top donor, Tor Project looks to crowdfunding | The Verge
Following up on goals set earlier this year, the Tor Project launched its first crowdfunding project today to expand its donor base beyond the US government and allow for spending flexibility.
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Why “Secure Empty Trash” Is Gone in El Capitan (and What To Do Instead)
If you’ve been using OS X El Capitan for a while, you might have noticed that the old option to “Secure Empty Trash” is gone from the trash can’s right-click menu. There’s a pretty good reason why, but it’s still possible to do it you don’t mind dig…
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Dell apologizes for preinstalling bogus root-certificate on computers / Boing Boing
Yesterday, Dell was advising customers not to try to uninstall the bogus root certificate it had snuck onto their Windows machine, which would allow attackers to undetectably impersonate their work intranets, bank sites, or Google mail.
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UN Members Are Having Closed-Door Meetings on Global Internet Policy This Week | Motherboard
In December, representatives from more than 190 countries will come together for a high level meeting at the United Nations to determine the future of the internet. But first, a select few are meeting behind closed doors this week to set the agenda.
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Street Art and Subversion from Stephen (Espo) Powers – The New Yorker
At half past eight on a recent Monday morning, Stephen (Espo) Powers arrived at his painting studio, near Broadway and Franklin.
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Tortured Prisoner Pleads for Case to Be Reviewed | Al Jazeera America
Lawyers for the last Mauritanian prisoner in the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order the Defense Department to grant their client a parole-like hearing to determine if his ongoing detention without…
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The Original Cosmo Girl’s Apartment Is for Sale — The Cut
Of course Helen Gurley Brown’s apartment has a pink living room. The late Cosmopolitan founder’s Central Park West digs are on the market for $20 million, according to Variety.
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Meet the lonely online warriors leading the fight against looted art | Fusion
“Why, when we’ve seen people burnt alive, murdered in ways that you wouldn’t butcher an animal, does this resonate so much?” an Iraqi-American scholar told Boston Globe correspondent Thanassis Cambanis earlier this year, choking through words while …
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BBC Sport – Uefa team of the year: Premier League has two players on shortlist
Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus have more players on Uefa’s 40-man shortlist for its team of the year than the entire Premier League combined. Barcelona provide eight players, while Bayern and Juventus both have six.
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In these, the final months of 2015, Trevor Noah and J.J. Abrams face a similar challenge: Shepherding a beloved pop-culture franchise into its next phase of existence. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens has a pretty low bar to clear: J…
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Given the efforts of people like Malcolm McLaren to turn punk rock into a viable commercial product—or at least a quick cash grab—it’s a little surprising it took as long as it did for “pop punk” to find its profitable 90s/oughties teenage niche.
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Amazon pulls Nazi symbols from New York subway ad campaign | The Verge
Part of Amazon’s ad campaign for alternate history series The Man in the High Castle hasn’t gone over well — specifically, the part that wrapped New York subway seats with iconography from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
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Degrassi: Next Class is in session (and in this trailer) · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
School was indeed out for the summer when TeenNick canceled teen dramedy Degrassi after 14 seasons. Fortunately for the afterschool-special crowd, the series was soon picked up by Netflix (with or without Drake’s help).
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UFC’s Conor McGregor: ‘Donald Trump Can Shut His Big Mouth’ | Rolling Stone
UFC’s Conor McGregor: ‘Donald Trump Can Shut His Big Mouth’ After the GOP’s resident hairpiece rips Ronda Rousey, McGregor comes to her defense: “I don’t give a fuck about Donald Trump”
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Eagles of Death Metal Drummer Recalls ‘Unimaginable’ Paris Attack | Rolling Stone
Eagles of Death Metal’s touring drummer Julian Dorio recounted the “unimaginable” terrorist attacks in Paris, which claimed 89 lives at the band’s show at Bataclan, in an emotional post on Instagram.
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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic (21 photos) https://t.co/I4c5YiJZ6D https://t.co/qJJt1mgEqv
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Solved! The Mystery of the Missing Dwarf Galaxies https://t.co/UEhERAzxQL https://t.co/qvAYUtDVxH
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Soul Nebula, Cassiopeia [1600×1102]
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Killer Mike Introduces Bernie Sanders in Atlanta : Liberal
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2016 Presidential Forum | MoveOn.org
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Killer Mike Introduces Bernie Sanders in Atlanta – YouTube
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The 20 Best Unicorn Companies For Paying Software Engineers Top Dollar | TechCrunch
Last week we brought you the 20 highest paying unicorns, based on median annual salary for all employees. This time around, we centered our search on the unicorns paying best for programmers.
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Theo only likes to lay like this. : cats
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Watch this insanely cool simulation of deep Antarctic water | Grist
We begin with Raijin, the Shinto god of thunder, lightning, and storms. No, seriously — that’s what Australian researchers named the supercomputer that they used to make this incredibly detailed simulation of what’s going on at the bottom of the Sou…
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Officer Started Shooting At Teenage Boy 6 Seconds After Exiting Car | ThinkProgress
According to Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez, Officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald within 30 seconds of arriving at a Chicago crime scene. Six seconds passed between the time Van Dyke exited his vehicle and fired his first sh…
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From football to Friends: 10 things to watch this Thanksgiving | Television & radio | The Guardian
There are so many traditions each year on Thanksgiving: getting stuck in a traffic jam that would give even the Dalai Lama road rage, eating so much turkey you pass out with your hand in your pants, and arguing with your drunk uncle about the future…
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Niger’s Fima festival cancelled amid security fears – BBC News
One of Africa’s foremost fashion shows, the Fima festival in Niger, has been called off by authorities amid security fears, the organiser has announced.
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This was pretty sweet in person. Killer Mike can get a crowd going.
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2016 Presidential Forum (MoveOn) : Liberal
And HRC is too good for it. /s
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Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica 2015 : Notes from the Field : Blogs
November 19th — 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 actua…
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Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) 2015 : Notes from the Field : Blogs
I live in Seattle, part of the Pacific Northwest in the NW corner of the continental United States. We have the reputation of being a very rainy place, but it’s nothing compared to the Olympic Peninsula, just to my immediate west.
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EU diesel emissions testing under fire from environmental group | The Verge
In the wake of Volkswagen’s massive diesel emissions cheating scandal, every carmaker is under increased scrutiny with regulators around the world. One of those is Renault, which has denied violating EU emissions regulations with its popular Espace …
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Violence, Moral Equivalence, and the End of a Two-State Solution in Israel-Palestine | The Nation
A full-page advertisement in The New York Times of November 14 accuses Secretary of State John Kerry of anti-Semitism. The accuser is a Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who has designated himself as nothing less than “America’s Rabbi.
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Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson | The Nation
In the wake of Princeton students’ protest over the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, there have been a few attempts by historians to defend Wilson, most of which has been pretty weak tea.
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Turkey Brings NATO to the Precipice of War With Russia | The Nation
Following today’s news that Turkey has shot a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft out of the sky, NATO ministers, former and current US government officials, and the wondrously pliable American punditocracy immediately began circling the wagons, po…
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Do or Die: The Global Climate Summit in Paris – Scientific American
World leaders at the U.N. climate conference are trying for the 21st time to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s how they can finally reach meaningful agreements
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2014 saw a slight rise in US carbon emissions | Ars Technica
The US Energy Information Administration has run the numbers on 2014’s carbon emissions, and some of them are quite good. The amount of CO2 emitted per unit of energy dropped by 0.3 percent, and the energy use per unit of GDP dropped by 1.2 percent.
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[OC] Never turn your back : cats
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Midday open thread: WTO ruling on tuna labeling shows how trade deals can hurt environment
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country’s own laws. Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that dolphi…
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How to Get Better Obamacare Coverage – The Atlantic
Being on Obamacare has, for me, been a first-rate education.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is the most ubiquitous presence in popular science these days.
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“Breast Screening Decisions” Helps You Make a Plan For Mammograms
There are four different sets of guidelines on when you should start getting mammograms and how often you need them—and they disagree with each other. A tool called Breast Screening Decisions can help low-risk women figure out what schedule is best.
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State Department Issues a Rare Worldwide Alert for Americans Traveling Abroad – The Atlantic
Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions.
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How to Make Mock Apple Pie | Lucky Peach
We can’t remember how we first stumbled upon mock apple pie, but it’s fascinated us from the start; it tastes almost exactly like apple pie but, true to its name, there’s not a single apple in the recipe.
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One Year Later: Still No Justice For Tamir Rice
One year ago, Cleveland, Ohio police shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice within two second of encountering him. There is still no justice for Rice and his family. If the prosecutor has his way there will be no justice for Tamir Rice.
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Veronica Belmont on being overtaken by a meme / Boing Boing
A long time ago, Veronica Belmont was featured in a blooper reel for her old TV show in which she clowned around with a Cthulhu t-shirt, wiggling back and forth and saying “So lifelike.
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MRW I slowly turn the settings of the vibrator in my ass to max power – GIF on Imgur
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My local humane society has a tough time getting any work done sometimes – Imgur
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Felicia Day is joining the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 | The Verge
Two weeks ago, comedian Joel Hodgson launched a Kickstarter to revive cult favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000, and now he’s announced a new piece of key casting: comedian Felicia Day.
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Why The Hunger Games Books Will Always Be Better Than the Movies
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 arrived this past weekend, and now it’s official: This outstanding series of dystopian young-adult novels have gotten an equally outstanding movie series.
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Britain’s Tyson Fury says his world heavyweight title clash with Wladimir Klitschko in Germany on Saturday will be “one of my easiest fights”. Ukrainian Klitschko, 39, defends his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against Fury in Dusseldorf’s 55,0…
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GitHub CFO Vlado Herman Is No Longer At The Company | TechCrunch
We’re hearing from sources that GitHub CFO Vlado Herman, who joined in December 2012, is no longer at the company.
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How to Make the Perfect Bone Broth – The Awl
1. Visit nutritionist. Submit to sermon on restorative powers of gelatin, glucosamine, and collagen. Admit to gut neglect and gluten poisoning. Embrace wellness. Accept the broth into your heart. Resolve to save and boil bones and drink the marrow o…
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Obama urges Americans to ‘not succumb to fear’ in fight against Isis | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to the American people on Tuesday to not give in to fear and stay true to the values enshrined by a gift from France: the Statue of Liberty.
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Rapper Killer Mike gives a fiery introduction to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Atlanta, calling on the crowd to ‘confront the bullshit at every turn’.
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Obama: France and US must do more to fight Isis – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama says the US will stand by France and will work together against the threat of Islamic State militants. Obama welcomed French president François Hollande to the White House on Tuesday in the shadow of the 13 November attacks claimed by I…
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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk spar over gravity of Blue Origin rocket landing | Ars Technica
On Monday at 11:21am CT, Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft made a successful suborbital test flight and ascended 100.5 km into the heavens. But that was only part of the story. After reaching its apogee the space vehicle began falling back to Ear…
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High Castle Nazi Ads Pulled From NYC Subway — Vulture
Amazon Studios is pulling ads for its new drama, The Man in the High Castle, from New York City subways.
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Magic Leap’s plan for the future used to be incredibly weird | The Verge
As we start learning more about Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset, it’s becoming clearer than ever how little we know about rival headset Magic Leap.
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This fun and fruity toilet paper looks good enough to eat / Boing Boing
In the desert they use sand. But what about fruit? You’ve never wiped your keister with a kiwi?
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J Edgar Hoover was angry that the Boy Scouts didn’t thank him effusively enough / Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “From Boy Scouts to movie stars, no one was safe from J. Edgar Hoover’s all-watching surveillance apparatus at the FBI — or his sharp tongue.
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Psychedelic Parenting Is About More than Just Drugs | Motherboard
One night, after an especially challenging ayahuasca experience, I came home to find my then-toddler girls having difficulty falling asleep. I was exhausted, but they were crying inconsolably. I got out my phone and started the playlist from the sac…
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Tracking Planes Over the Ocean Is About to Get Easier | Motherboard
Canadian researchers are preparing for an orbital launch in 2016 that they say will serve as one of the first real tests of a major new satellite-based flight tracking technology.
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Obama Makes Impassioned Plea For Calm After Paris Attacks; “America is strengthened by people of every faith and every background.” (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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Adele’s 25 Shattered the 1st-Week Sales Record. But Does It Have Staying Power? – The Atlantic
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Civil Rights Group Blasts Jeb Bush’s Plan Screen Out Muslim Refugees By Last Name | ThinkProgress
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush told a New Hampshire talk show Tuesday that he continues to believe the U.S. should have a religious test for Syrian refugees and only allow Christians into the United States.
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US Climate Envoy Vows, ‘we Will Get This Done’ | Al Jazeera America
With one week to go before international climate talks in Paris, the United States’ chief climate negotiator said he believes world leaders will forge a substantive deal to lessen the effects of climate change — even though key parties have been una…
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Meet the Sweden Democrats, a creepy far-right nationalist group / Boing Boing
The Guardian has a video report on the Sweden Democrats, the third largest party in the country, which runs on a platform of blatant racism, anti-immigration, and nationalism.
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Amazon Resets an Unknown Amount of Passwords Due to Leak
If you received an email from Amazon today saying your password has been reset, you’re not the only one. ZDNet is reporting that a number of people were notified by Amazon that their password has been reset due to unidentified reasons.
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World-famous magician Adam Trent stopped by the Vanity Fair office, and some magic happened. Or maybe just excellent sleight of hand and misdirection—we’re still trying to figure that out. Rubber bands, tea bags, the V.F.
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Kentucky Restores Voting Rights to Ex-Felons — NYMag
More than 1o0,000 Kentucky residents with nonviolent criminal convictions will almost immediately regain the right to vote and hold public office, thanks to an executive order issued Tuesday by Kentucky governor Steve Beshear.
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Israel to displace thousands of Palestinian Bedouins – Al Jazeera English
An Israeli plan to build several new Jewish-only communities in the Negev region of the country’s south will displace thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel from two Bedouin villages, rights groups have said.
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We can have it all: that is the promise of our age. We can own every gadget we are capable of imagining – and quite a few that we are not. We can live like monarchs without compromising the Earth’s capacity to sustain us.
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Outgoing Kentucky governor restores voting rights for thousands of felons : politics
Fuck yeah, give people back their power! Given the abysmal turnout of this past election, I think they really need to do something to pad the numbers…
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Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS!
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‘Hostage situation’ in northern France – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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BET’s Surprising Hit Drama Being Mary Jane Is Redefining Single Woman | Vanity Fair
But the show’s titular character, Mary Jane Paul, is a successful, late-thirtysomething news woman, played with real-girl aplomb by Gabrielle Union, who has yet to hit that marriage milestone.
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Sesame Street’s first HBO season will premiere on January 16th | The Verge
Earlier this summer, Sesame Street announced that its next five seasons would air on HBO, after running for more than four decades on PBS. Now that first HBO season — Sesame Street’s 46th — has a premiere date: January 16th, 2016.
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Here are the latest market-tested words for selling climate action | Grist
Explaining climate change to people has been described as “the problem from hell.” It’s hellish because it’s a risk-perception problem, and that is something that humans already have trouble with.
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JetBlue now allows free in-flight video streaming for Amazon Prime customers | The Verge
After being teased earlier this year, Amazon Prime customers can stream video and music aboard any Wi-Fi-equipped JetBlue flight for free, starting this week.
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In Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel, stories are an opiate It’s not surprising that The Man in the High Castle — an adaptation of Philip K.
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Star Trek to go Beyond in IMAX theaters worldwide · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that Star Trek Beyond officially will be released in IMAX theaters worldwide on its July 22, 2016 opening.
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Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS! : Liberal
Most Popular Senator in America? BERNIE SANDERS! (dailykos.com)
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What’s America’s Endgame in the War Against ISIS? – The Atlantic
In August 1941, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met off the coast of Newfoundland to outline a shared vision for the post-World War II era.
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Two men arrested over shooting at Minneapolis Black Lives Matter protest | US news | The Guardian
Minneapolis police have arrested two of the three men who allegedly opened fire on protesters near the site of an ongoing Black Lives Matter demonstration over the fatal police killing of an unarmed black man.
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The person I listen to the most regarding books I should be reading is Tyler Cowen…he has never once steered me wrong. So when he wrote about the best fiction of 2015, I perked up.
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200GB (!!) For $100, and More Black Friday MicroSD Deals
The world’s highest capacity microSD card is now down to an all-time low price. [SanDisk Ultra 200GB Micro SD, $100] If you don’t need quite that much space, smaller capacities of the same card are also on sale.
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Alberta’s new climate plan is drawing praise from sources that have rarely got on with the oil-exporter – Al Gore, labour unions and some of North America’s biggest green groups.
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Model, painter, disco diva, TV personality and the absolute fiercest of the pioneering transsexuals (along with Candy Darling), Amanda Lear was born Alain Maurice Louis René Tap in Saigon, 1939. Or it could have been Paris. Or Hong Kong.
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America is debating how to respond to the terrorist attacks in Paris. Unfortunately, both President Obama’s current policy and other recent proposals lack a strategic vision for the Middle East once the Islamic State, or ISIS, is actually defeated.
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Sadie will bite (slobber on) the top of your head. : cats
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Ukraine’s Biggest Rock Star Doesn’t Want to Go Back Into Politics—Yet – The New Yorker
On August 31st, while the Ukrainian parliament debated a bill to grant greater autonomy to separatist regions in the country’s restive east, ultra-nationalist protesters hurled firecrackers, Molotov cocktails, and a grenade at National Guard troops …
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Consumer watchdog groups announced today they’ve filed additional complaints with the FTC over the advertising content in the YouTube Kids application, this time focused on how the app allows food and drink advertisers to violate their self-regulato…
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See Christian Bale on a Leash in Dramatic ‘Knight of Cups’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
See Christian Bale on a Leash in Dramatic ‘Knight of Cups’ Trailer Terrence Malick–directed film, which co-stars Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman, will come out next spring
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One Percenters Stuff Their Pumpkin Pie Holes
This Thanksgiving, in dining rooms across America, the turkey will be smaller, the stuffing more meager, the pumpkin pie sliced thinner. Gratitude will be given. But roiling just below the surface, for far too many families, will be economic anxiety.
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Rapper Killer Mike Delivers Powerful Endorsement of Bernie Sanders – The Daily Beast
Even if Bernie Sanders somehow managed to beat Hillary Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire — a fate that is still not outside the realm of possibility heading into December — he will have a brick wall waiting for him in South Carolina.
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Comparing air strikes against Islamic State to past conflicts – BBC News
The US-led coalition launches about two combat aircraft sorties per hour against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, but how does that compare to previous aerial campaigns?
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Learn to Protect Yourself with These Krav Maga Self-Defense Moves
Krav Maga is a hand-to-hand combat system developed for the military in Israel. The moves are efficient and can help you defend yourself against a variety of attacks. Greatist points out 4 Krav Maga moves that anyone can do.
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Emails Reveal Coke’s Role In Anti-Obesity Group | Al Jazeera America
But emails obtained by The Associated Press show the world’s largest beverage maker was instrumental in shaping the Global Energy Balance Network, which is led by a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Kickstarter learned of Zano collapse “through a bare-bones project update” | Ars Technica
Less than a week after Torquing Group announced that it was dissolving, Kickstarter said it is mystified as to how the British startup and its Zano drone raised $3.4 million in less than a year then totally collapsed.
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NEW YORK—At a loss as to how they could emerge from a weekend of regular-season football without any fresh insight whatsoever, ashamed and humbled members of the sports media admitted to the public Tuesday that they learned absolutely nothing from w…
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Robinhood Gives Zero-Fee Stock Trading To Other Apps | TechCrunch
What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developer can bake its zero-commission stock trading into their products. Stop for a second and think about how bi…
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How Railroad History Shaped Internet History – The Atlantic
Council Bluffs is a mid-sized town in Iowa, right on that state’s border with Nebraska. Although better known for cultivating presidential candidates than server racks, Iowa is a pretty popular site for data centers, especially new data centers buil…
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Eight-year-old Utah girl diagnosed with rare form of breast cancer | US news | The Guardian
An eight-year-old girl in the United States is one of the youngest people ever to receive a breast cancer diagnosis after she developed a rare form of the disease.
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Blue Origin Makes Historic Reusable Rocket Landing in Epic Test Flight – Scientific American
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas. The private spaceflight company Blue Origin just launched itself into the history books by successfully fly…
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Some Gay Porn Directors Make Bad Airbnb Guests — NYMag
Ever wonder where pornographers get those gorgeous mansions they seem to film in? Sometimes, according to a complaint recently obtained by the Smoking Gun, they find them on Airbnb.
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Obama and Hollande Hang Out at White House — NYMag
French president François Hollande is in the middle of his grand world tour to try and extract political pinky swears from as many leaders as possible when it comes to promising to help fight ISIS.
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This is the best restaurant spiciness scale / Boing Boing
“…when officers searched [Marcus] Banwell they found another four [Scotch Bonnet] chili peppers in his pocket, a stolen milkshake and fruit juice, and a clarinet stashed in his waistband, which was missing from a music shop.” Scotch Bonnets are up t…
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Discovery Channel boss claims “dramatic shift” in approach to science | Grist
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California textbooks aren’t totally sure about climate change | Grist
Too lazy to go to the grocery store? Watch our video to find out which meal delivery kit we liked best, and why.
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Watch Nicki Minaj Whip Out Her “Black Amex” in Barbershop 3 Trailer | Vanity Fair
The Barbershop crew is back, but this time they have Nicki Minaj in their corner. The Grammy-nominated rapper brings a little “Va Va Voom” and some “Bang Bang” to the franchise that stars Ice Cube, Eve, Cedric the Entertainer, Anthony Anderson, Regi…
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How The Danish Girl Forgets About the Girl | Vanity Fair
Eddie Redmayne and his Les Miserables director have made a prestige movie that’s too refined for its own good.
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With “Pie,” Karp makes learning delicious · 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. Karp has a beautiful knack for pairing unlikely subjects to their sludgy, hardcore sound.
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Come for the tasty performances, stay for the food porn · 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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Despite helming Jeff Bridges’ Oscar-winning turn in Crazy Heart, and then a bunch of great actors in the underperforming Out Of The Furnace, it wasn’t until his gangster flick Black Mass that director Scott Cooper experienced real opening-weekend su…
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Business is booming in the Barbershop: The Next Cut trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The trailer for Barbershop: The Next Cut picks up some years after the second entry in the series, during which time the threat of gentrification has receded, and the long-standing concern of gang violence has reared its head again.
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Ted Cruz becomes GOP frontrunner in Iowa despite never leading polls | US news | The Guardian
Without ever leading in a single poll, Ted Cruz has become the frontrunner in Iowa.
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Looking for Kabul-Style Corruption? Try K Street. | The Nation
A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to work out the details of a potentially lucrative “national energy policy.” Later, that same official steers billions of government dollars to his…
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African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana : environment
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African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana | New Scientist
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As with every Marvel Cinematic Universe property, Netflix’s new hit Jessica Jones is filled with references to the rest of the broader Marvel Multiverse. Mr.
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Sufjan Stevens will be releasing a special 10-year anniversary edition of Illinois this upcoming spring, just in time for the 11-year anniversary of the critically acclaimed album’s July 2005 initial release date.
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The Pioneer of Paterson – Howler Magazine
AMERICAN SPORTS FANS love their founding fathers. Civil War general Abner Doubleday invented baseball (even though he didn’t), Yale’s Walter Camp tinkered with rugby and midwifed American football, and the YMCA’s James Naismith invented basketball b…
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NATO urges calm after Turkey shoots down Russian jet – Al Jazeera English
NATO has called on Turkey and Russia to show restraint as tensions rise in the wake of the downing of a Russian jet near the Turkey-Syria border.
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North Korean interiors look like a Wes Anderson film set / Boing Boing
Randall “XKCD” Munroe’s Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words arrives in stores today: it combines technical diagrams and wordplay in pure display of everything that makes XKCD brilliant and wonderful in every way.
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20 years into “Marry an architect & chill,” and he gives you this nook. – Imgur
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We tried a bunch of meal delivery kits, and here’s what we think | Grist
If you — like 35 percent of your peers — have recently moved to a new place, you might find yourself in an unfamiliar, frigid city on this fourth Thursday in November.
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The Pfizer-Allergan Merger: A Shrewd Move That Will Save Billions in Taxes – The Atlantic
The headlines covering Pfizer and Allergan’s $160 billion merger deal evolved quickly on Monday: In the morning, they relayed an image of a blockbuster merger that will produce the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company. By the afternoon, the story …
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How ChefSteps and Gabe Newell Plan to Transform Sous Vide Cooking – Eater
Kitchen tech is getting more gonzo. Earlier this year, Museum of Food and Drink founder Dave Arnold unleashed the Searzall, a hand-held broiler meant for up-close meat searing.
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How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives – ProPublica
On a drizzly afternoon in January 2013, almost a month after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 first-graders dead, more than a dozen religious leaders assembled in Washington, D.C.
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Cop Who Allegedly Shot Black Teen in “Fetal Position” Finally Charged With Murder | Mother Jones
The day before Chicago authorities plan to release a violent video showing the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the Chicago police officer who allegedly shot him 16 times in October, 2014 will face first-degree murder charges, according to the…
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Repeated Airspace Violations Lead Turkey To Shoot Down Russian Warplane | ThinkProgress
Turkish warplanes shot down a Russian military aircraft over the Turkish-Syrian border Tuesday, leading to harsh words from Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is not the first time Russia has violated Turkey’s airspace.
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Carol leads Independent Spirit Award nominations – BBC News
Cate Blanchett romance Carol leads the way at next year’s Independent Spirit Awards with six nominations. Blanchett, who plays a housewife in 1950s New York who falls for a younger woman, is up for best actress, as is her co-star, Rooney Mara.
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African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana (newscientist.com)submitted just now by XavierSylvanloading…
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Solved! The Mystery of the Missing Dwarf Galaxies https://t.co/vEwU62516y https://t.co/PfeRhzFbmA https://t.co/bVasSLanUD
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Brine and Thaw a Turkey at the Same Time
Ideally, by this time you’d have a thawed turkey ready for some flavor-and texture-boosting dry brining, with the bird perhaps already spatchcocked for quicker cooking on Thanksgiving Day. But what if you’re working with a brick hard frozen turkey? …
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Three-time UK Championship winner John Higgins had no trouble in winning his first-round match on the opening day of this year’s tournament. The 40-year-old Scot, the world number seven, beat Leo Fernandez 6-1 to set up a second-round meeting with T…
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Fox Finally Admits It Doesn’t Want to Make a Fantastic Four Sequel
At least not anytime soon. The studio has rather quietly dropped the non-anticipated sequel from its production schedule, according to Box Office Mojo. The only question is why Fox ever announced it wanted to make a sequel in the first place.
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CHICAGO — As this city prepared to make public a video from the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old by a white Chicago police officer, a state prosecutor charged the officer with first-degree murder on Tuesday.
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How racism explains Republicans’ rise in the South “If Republican candidates were as popular among minority voters as they are among white voters, winning elections would be much easier. And Democrats would dominate the polls today if they had maint…
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CNN’s Cuomo Grills Trump Surrogate Over False 9/11 Claims, Support For “Rough[ing]” Up Protester (mediamatters.org)submitted 51 minutes ago by loading…
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Egypt’s Local ISIS Branch Overruns Sinai Hotel — NYMag
The Sinai Province, the ferociously effective local Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, has more blood on its hands: It claimed, via Twitter, responsibility for an attack early Tuesday morning on a heavily guarded hotel that was housing several ju…
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Zeplin Raises $1.2M To Sync Designers And Developers With Less Hassle | TechCrunch
When Pelin Kenez and her co-founders were at their previous company, they were constantly moving files between designers and developers. That ended up producing a hassle, with developers having to basically manually pull in elements from the design …
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Vine arrives on the Apple Watch | The Verge
Vine has come to the Apple Watch. Its watchOS app launches today with the ability to play tiny videos on your wrist and add a complication on certain watch faces that’ll keep wearers up to date on how many times their videos have been looped.
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Is it funny that when police searched the home of one of the men accused of the Hatton Garden heist, they found a copy of the book Forensics for Dummies? This article answers that question and more! Read on to become an expert on Dummies! On one han…
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According to a report by the Associated Press, a Hollywood, Florida judge has ruled against misunderstood entrepreneur and infamous arcade-game champion Billy Mitchell, throwing out his lawsuit against Cartoon Network.
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A Crash Course In NFL Rushing Stats | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Nov.
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The Good Dinosaur may be the oddest duck in the whole Pixar menagerie.
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Mounting a tractor tire : gifs
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The Soul Nebula, Cassiopeia [1600×1102] : spaceporn
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Home for the holidays : trippinthroughtime
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Diversifying Technology Education | TechCrunch
We all know the tech industry has a diversity problem. The major tech companies have released their bleak workforce diversity numbers, and one year later most of them are unchanged. Obviously, this is not an easy problem to fix.
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A Brief History of Microdosing | Motherboard
James Fadiman’s inbox is stuffed with thousands of emails from people describing how they’ve conquered anxiety or depression or even things like cluster headaches and painful period cramps. Will the scientific establishment ever begin taking their e…
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What We’re Following This Afternoon, November 24 – The Atlantic
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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Hayao Miyazaki and the Essence of Humanity in Animation – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Hayao Miyazaki and the Essence of Humanity in Animation” Presented by
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What to Expect When Pfizer and Allergan Are Expecting | Motherboard
The Pfizer-Allergan pharmaceuticals merger is huge by all accounts: Assuming the $160 billion deal passes US and European antitrust regulators, it will be the largest merger of the year, the second largest of all time, and create the largest drug co…
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Hollande, Obama, and the Fight Against ISIS – The Atlantic
Hollande has embarked on a whirlwind tour this week to discuss that pledge, meeting with the leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Germany, and Italy to urge them to come together in a “grand and single coalition” that transcend…
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Woman asks St Louis judge to restore parental rights of long-lost mother | US news | The Guardian
Fifty years after a St Louis gospel singer says she was told that her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights.
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Obama: ‘Turkey has the right to defend its airspace’ – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bitterly condemned the downing of a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border. He described it as a “stab in the back” committed by “accomplices of terrorists”.
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Video time-lapse of terrorist attacks from 2000-2015 / Boing Boing
Designer Milan R. Vuckovic produced this video time-lapse of terrorist attacks around the world over the last 15 years. Only attacks with 20 or more fatalities were included.
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Lightning nearly strikes a car / Boing Boing
Stormchaser/photographer Nick Moir posted the gorgeous video clip below of a shelf cloud off Sydney, Australia. The whole shot is quite surreal, as if the cloud background was digitally added later. Massive shelf cloud off #sydney #storm pic.twitter.
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9 Holiday Gifts For The iPhone Lover In Your Life | TechCrunch
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John Malkovich Compares ‘Being John Malkovich’ to a Blowjob | Rolling Stone
At the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, director Spike Jonze spoke of John Malkovich’s initial reluctance at starring in Jonze’s lofty debut, Being John Malkovich. “He said: either the movie’s a bomb and it’s got …
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Jim James on Paris: ‘Music Must Always Go On. Fear Must Never Win’ | Rolling Stone
Jim James on Paris Attacks: ‘Music Must Always Go On. Fear Must Never Win’ “Music is God and God is love,” says My Morning Jacket singer.
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Jerrod Carmichael: Meet the Comic Who’s Saving the Old-School Sitcom | Rolling Stone
For Jerrod Carmichael, nothing is funnier than the things we’re not supposed to laugh at. “I’ve laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I’ve been to,” says the Los Angeles–based comedian. “Because everyone’s so serious.
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Adele Shatters ‘NSync’s First-Week Album Sales Record | Rolling Stone
Adele has already sold at least 2.433 million copies of her new album 25 according to Nielsen Music, breaking the single-week U.S. album sales record long-held by ‘NSync’s No Strings Attached, Billboard reports. Amazingly, those numbers only account…
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Milky-Way over the Dunes at Sleeping Bear Michigan. [3887×6116] [OC] https://t.co/pAykUGlIM9 https://t.co/FU15fMQGeY
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Historic Formation Flight of NASA’s WB-57s Over Houston https://t.co/cB4Rw1z2Nh https://t.co/RH77XvWpXt
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How a flight attendant gears up for the perfect weekend trip — Hopes&Fears
The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s are some of the most stressful times to travel in America—people who are only occasional travelers flood airports, train stations and highways, while the possibility of weather-related delays grows with …
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China Wants to Fight Floods With ‘Sponge Cities’ – The Atlantic
Could sponge cities be the answer to China’s floods? Three years ago, when flooding in Beijing killed 79 people, the Chinese government was quick to blame the size of the storm, not the city’s failing drainage system. But the excuse didn’t persuade …
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Movie Review: ‘Creed’ Is a Fresh and Nostalgic Entry in the ‘Rocky’ Franchise – The Atlantic
Anyone who’s ever seen a Rocky movie will know what to expect from Creed, the seventh entry in the “underdog boxing hero makes good” series.
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The First Reusable Rocket – The Atlantic
For the first time in history, a rocket has successfully taken off vertically, breached Earth’s atmosphere and entered space, and successfully landed intact and vertically, says Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company owned by Jeff Bezos.
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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Ted Cruz Surges in Iowa Poll, Barely Trails Donald Trump – The Atlantic
As a senator, Ted Cruz has been more of a hare than a tortoise.
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T-Mobile will give you three months of unlimited data if you use low-quality video | The Verge
For the next three months, T-Mobile is giving unlimited LTE data to all of its existing Simple Choice customers. Regardless of which tiered data plan you’re on, you can forget about paying attention to your data usage.
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Is Creed too formulaic for its own good? · Film Club · The A.V. Club
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Animal Planet being sued for hurting animals, the planet · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unfortunate news today for those of us who enjoy binge-watching episodes of Too Cute!: Animal Planet, the channel we rely on to deliver images of animals we can stare at and say, “Aw, I want one,” while our cat stares balefully in our direction, is …
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Outgoing Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights To 140,000 Ex-Felons | ThinkProgress
In a small handful of states, people convicted of a felony are automatically stripped of their voting rights, even after they’ve finished serving their sentences. Today, Kentucky took a major step to fix that problem. Outgoing Gov.
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Solved! The Mystery of the Missing Dwarf Galaxies
An astonishing number of faint low surface brightness dwarf galaxies recently discovered in the Fornax cluster of galaxies may help to solve the long-standing cosmological mystery of “The Missing Satellites”.
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Shark Feeding Frenzy Caught on Camera in Florida
Blake and Tyra Whitlow posted video of the encounter to YouTube, writing that it was the “craziest thing we’ve ever seen!” The couple was visiting from Huntsville, Alabama, they told local media.
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Carol, Beasts of No Nation Lead 2016 Independent Spirit Award Nominations | Vanity Fair
As the Oscar race continues to heat up, the Independent Spirit Awards have recognized the year’s best of the independent-film circuit—many of which will undoubtedly compete for the Academy’s attention in the weeks ahead.
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Donald Trump says he probably wouldn’t nuke anyone as president
Good to know. That’s a four-highly promise, people. That’s pretty solid.
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IAAF president Lord Coe is facing conflict of interest allegations after emails emerged suggesting he lobbied his predecessor over the hosting of the 2021 World Championships. Eugene, USA, was given the event without a bidding process, despite inter…
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Millions of Baby Spiders Create Giant Silken Blanket
Cloudy, with a chance of spider? Apparently that was the forecast in Memphis, Tennessee, where millions of spiders have taken to the air and coated fields with their silk, according to local news reports.
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Give the Gift of Better Eats with These Kitchen Tools
If there’s ever a time to request super cool, but maybe-not-quite-necessary kitchen items, it is the holiday season.
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Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Undoing of the GOP — NYMag
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: the GOP debate over Syrian refugees, Trump’s latest surge, and the comparatively low-key Democra…
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The White House’s pardoned turkeys aren’t so lucky after Thanksgiving | US news | The Guardian
Every year as Americans gather around a table of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and turkey, two fortunate birds are saved from the serving plate and sent to the White House, where they are granted a stay of execution.
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Well, Looks Like Supergirl Has Her Own Lex Luthor Now
Supergirl is busy laying all the groundwork for Kara to have all the stuff her cousin has, including her own versions of the Daily Planet and the Kents. And now, she’s got her own Lex Luthor, too. But is he nasty enough? Spoilers ahead…
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“They’re the ones actually giving a lot of arms and weapons to radical Islamists. They’re taking zero refugees,” said Paul. He would tell the Saudis America will stop selling them weaponry unless they accepted refugees. (wlwt.com) In September, Saud…
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‘Gene Drive’ Mosquitoes Engineered to Fight Malaria – Scientific American
An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Mutant mosquitoes engineered to resist the parasite that causes malaria could wipe out the disease in some regions—for good.
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MRW my ex tells me I’m jealous of her new boyfriend and that I want her back – GIF on Imgur
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When I’m at Department of Transport to renew my driver’s license – GIF on Imgur
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What’s the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? / Boing Boing
After watching this video, I realize I’ve never eaten a yam. According to the President of the Sweet Potato Council, yams in the United States are only found in “specialty stores.
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James Naughtie: the lost Scotland of Sunset Song | Books | The Guardian
The light fades on a way of life that is now changed utterly, but the song can still be heard.
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The Refugee Issue is a Religious Liberty Issue | New Republic
Late last week, nonprofit and charitable organizations around Texas received a troubling letter from the executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
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Comp. No. 61: Thanksgiving Conversation Stoppers — NYMag
Welcome back to the New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Mondays (or, this week, Tuesday), we lay out a challenge and offer sample responses. Enter in the comments section or on Twitter with the hashtag we’ve provided, and the editors will se…
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Cold Turkey: Life without football, far from the Madden crowd – SBNation.com
Let’s just get this out of the way: Football, as a game, is really kind of dumb. Eleven men on each team line up, run into each other, fall down, get up, and do it again. Sometimes someone throws the ball, sometimes someone catches it and keeps goin…
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Pool at the Amangiri Resort in Utah. : pics
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Gender gap in alcohol consumption closes as women drink more – study | US news | The Guardian
The drinking habits of men and women in the US are becoming more alike, a new study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has found. Although men have generally outpaced women in how much and how often they drink, the gap is cl…
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Catapult | The Interloper | Kashana Cauley
It’s Thanksgiving 2013 at my husband’s cousins’ apartment and his aunt is holding my six-week-old son, which leaves me free to confuse everyone by sticking three pies on the dining room table.
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8 Gifts For Your Grandparents That They Won’t Just Toss In A Drawer | TechCrunch
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Analysis: Downing of Russian jet hardly a surprise – Al Jazeera English
The shooting down of a Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 jet by Turkish F-16 fighters after it reportedly violated Turkish airspace is a dangerous escalation in the context of Russia’s continuing confrontation with NATO in Eastern Europe and Syria. How…
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Storm leaves Washington residents facing Thanksgiving without power | US news | The Guardian
Janet Gray gave up living in her house when the thermostat hit 38F (3C) and moved to a hotel. She is one of tens of thousands of people in Washington state without power a week after a major windstorm damaged the electrical grid in Spokane, the stat…
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America has just lived through another presidential campaign week dominated by Donald Trump’s racist lies.
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Quiet Desperation and American Fascism | “There’s a must-read article if you want to understand why Democrats are losing the support of low income people who benefit from government programs like Medicaid and food stamps and logically should vote fo…
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How to Deep-Fry a Turkey Without Killing Yourself | WIRED
There are few things quite so American as fried food and Thanksgiving dinner. Have the best of both worlds by deep-frying your Thanksgiving turkey. Deep-frying a turkey is pretty simple, but also very dangerous.
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Story: Imprisoned inside its packaging and stuck on a toy shop shelf, a lonely radio-controlled toy truck uses its imagination to go on an adventure and find its happy place. Happy Place is another passion project made solely by us – we hope you enj…
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Patent troll’s stock soars 20% after court victory over Samsung, Huawei | Ars Technica
Patent-holding company Unwired Planet has won the first in a series of London patent trials against Samsung and Huawei, and the company’s stock jumped nearly 20 percent as a result.
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Outgoing Kentucky governor restores voting rights for thousands of felons | Lexington Herald-Leader
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Vine Lets You Swipe Left To Find Similar Vines, Launches On Apple Watch | TechCrunch
Fresh on the heels of Snapchat announcing Story Explorer, Vine has today announced a new way to discover Vines following a similar theme. When browsing in a channel or through your own feed, simply swipe left on a Vine to see other content that is o…
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Paris attacks: Warrant issued for new suspect Mohamed Abrini – BBC News
A Belgian judge has issued a European and international arrest warrant for a man named as Mohamed Abrini, 30, in connection with the Paris attacks.Prosecutors say two days before the attacks, Abrini was seen driving a car with Salah Abdeslam at a pe…
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Sanders is Most Popular Senator in America : politics
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Seeing as he’s running on almost the exact same platform as Obama did in ’08 it’s not a surprise that he’s well liked. It’s hard to even think of another senator that isn’t corrupt and dishonest.
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Sanders is Most Popular Senator in America – Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
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Translation Tuesday: from The Atlantic Grows by Julie Sten-Knudsen | Books | The Guardian
It is not white. The wall is white.
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The Agony and the Eggstasy – The New Yorker
Now is the winter of our discontent. Not because it’s cold; after all, we’re in Berkeley. But even in California, daylight grows short at this time of year. When daylight grows short, chickens lay fewer eggs.
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Johnny Manziel’s starting place in danger after nightclub video released | Sport | The Guardian
Johnny Manziel’s travails continue. A week after the quarterback won the starter’s job at the Cleveland Browns, his role is in peril again after footage emerged of him in an Austin nightclub. On Monday, TMZ published video of Manziel with a bottle o…
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The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq – The New Yorker
The new issue of Dabiq, the ISIS propaganda magazine, has hit the digital stands. The “cover” page is a color photo of corpses in Paris and worried city firefighters joined by the words, in block letters, “JUST TERROR.” Like any magazine, Issue No.
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The Inu is a flashy, self-folding electric scooter made for carving through cities | The Verge
The way we move around cities is changing. Ride-hailing and -sharing apps are helping lower our dependency on cars, and we’re also seeing more ways to move around that don’t involve cars at all.
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Travel Back in Time and See Picasso Make Abstract Art | Open Culture
Pablo Picasso, as you may know, produced a fair few memorable works in his long lifetime. He also came up with a number of quotable quotes.
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A Stunning Art Installation Inspired by Islam, for Everyone – The Atlantic
In Pakistan, women are often excluded from mosques, says the artist Anila Quayyum Agha. In the entire time she lived in the country, Agha maybe went inside a mosque five times, and it was never to pray.
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10 Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving Instead of Talking to Your Family | Vanity Fair
You cannot choose your family. But because this is a free country—thanks to the Pilgrims! I think—you can choose whether or not you’d like to spend the holidays with them. Well, technically.
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Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, and Emma Stone United for Mexican Food Last Night | Vanity Fair
In an outing that might, once and for all, end the term “squad goals” as we know it, Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, and Emma Stone gathered for dinner Monday night in New York. You’ve got questions, assuredly, and we’ll try to answer them!
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Cool T-shirts featuring Ken Russell, Klaus Nomi, John Waters, Sylvia Plath & more|Dangerous Minds
It’s getting near that time for buying presents and shit. The one present I’ll certainly be adding to my holiday wish list of hoped-for Christmas goodies is a Ken Russell T-shirt from Hirsute History.
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Broad Squad creators sell another rhyming ’70s cop show, Soul Patrol · Newswire · The A.V. Club
More than a year ago, ABC ordered a female-led police procedural called Broad Squad that has since entered a TV purgatory from which it may never escape.
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Chicago Cop Charged With Murder — NYMag
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
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Top Democratic pollsters agree: climate change is a winning issue for Democrats : environment
Top Democratic pollsters agree: climate change is a winning issue for Democrats (vox.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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A False Alarm on Millennials and Free Speech — Science of Us
Last week, I wrote about a new Pew poll that showed that 40 percent of millennials would be in favor of government bans on speech offensive to minority groups.
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Outgoing Kentucky governor restores voting rights for thousands of felons : democrats
Outgoing Kentucky governor restores voting rights for thousands of felons (kentucky.com)submitted 32 minutes ago by loading…
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Ditch plastic food containers and get a 10 piece Pyres set for $13 / Boing Boing
About a year ago my family started replacing plastic leftover containers with pyrex containers and we have been really happy with them. The best part about using them is popping them into microwave, lid and all, to heat up food. The lids are BPA-fre…
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Gut Bacteria Signal Your Brain When They’re Full – Scientific American
This Thanksgiving, as you savor your turkey and stuffing, here’s something else to give thanks for: the army of microbes that help you digest the feast. Because when you eat, you’re feeding them too—and triggering an enormous bloom of gut bacteria. …
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More than half of the world’s primates now on endangered species list | Environment | The Guardian
More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned on Tuesday.
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Hellboy Investigates A Haunted Pub With a Fantastic Name In This Exclusive Preview
Following on from last month’s opening duology, Hellboy and the BRPD: 1953 returns with another double dose of English horror with two new stories from Mike Mignola, Ben Stenbeck and Dave Stewart.
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Jordan Spieth says he will treat Rio Olympics golf like a ‘fifth major’ | Sport | The Guardian
Perhaps Jordan Spieth will use the coming days to convince Adam Scott, Olympic golf’s most high-profile cynic, of the merits in the sport’s return to the Games. Spieth insisted in Sydney on Tuesday that he will be treating the Rio event as “a fifth …
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Obama: ISIL a ‘Scourge That Threatens All of Us’ | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant a “scourge that threatens all of us” during a joint press conference with French President François Hollande at the White House.
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The team behind SunsetWx has already published a thorough methodology of its algorithm and a case study of successfully predicted “vivid” sunsets its first day of forecasting last week.
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Washington D.C. pot arrests at near zero after legalization: Data provided by the Metropolitan Police Department shows that they have conducted only seven arrests for marijuana possession this year, dropping a staggering 99.2 percent from 895 in 201…
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The Best and Worst Times to Shop on Black Friday, According to Google
Black Friday isn’t what it used to be, but if you’re going to head to a store anyway on that day, you can reduce the stress of shopping in crowded stores by strategically timing your visit.
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Thanksgiving at the White House – The Atlantic
Looking back at decades of Thanksgiving menus at the White House is fascinating—and, frankly, a little gross.
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Tunisia Bus Blast Kills at Least 11 People | Al Jazeera America
Tunisia’s Interior Ministry on Monday said an explosion struck a bus carrying members of the presidential guard in the country’s capital, killing at least 11 people. The blast occurred on a tree-lined avenue in the center of the capital, Tunis.
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Jeff Bezos’ Space Program Successfully Lands A Rocket | TechCrunch
The rarest of beasts – a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, can look easy. Check out video: https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3 The “New Shepard” vehicle flew to space, reached its test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.
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A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager arrives in court on Tuesday. Veteran officer Jason Van Dyke was indicted on a murder charge in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 t…
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Guitar Trailblazer Mary Halvorson Turns Jazz on Its Head | Rolling Stone
WHO: Mary Halvorson’s guitar playing can be challenging and at times even confrontational, but it is never conventional.
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The New Game Of Thrones Season Starts In April, But What About That Book? | FiveThirtyEight
HBO confirmed yesterday that the sixth season of “Game of Thrones” will premiere in April of 2016. For fans of the show, this is presumably fantastic news, but for fans of George R.R. Martin’s long-running book series — the basis for the show — it’s…
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Sigur Ros to Test Drive New Music Next Summer: ‘Trust Us on This One’ | Rolling Stone
Sigur Rós announced their intention to write new music in a more spontaneous manner in a statement that accompanied their upcoming European tour dates.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Cancel December Tour Dates Over Guitarist’s Health | Rolling Stone
Lynyrd Skynyrd fans will have to wait until 2016 for their next chance to see the band perform live.
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Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes Talk ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ | Rolling Stone
Last summer, Shawn Mendes and Fifth Harmony’s Camila Cabello hit the road together as openers on Austin Mahone’s tour.
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Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values | FiveThirtyEight
P-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy study results, encouraging bad research practices and promoting false-positive study results.
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Will Your Holiday Flight Be On Time? | FiveThirtyEight
Thanksgiving is traditionally a driving holiday: AAA estimates that some 42 million Americans will travel by car to their Thanksgiving dinners this week. But there will also be about 3.
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OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that the university confront the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as its president before becoming New Jersey’s governor and the 28th president of the United Stat…
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Ted Cruz’s long-anticipated Iowa surge came a step closer on Tuesday with a new poll showing him just behind Donald J. Trump and leaping ahead of Ben Carson, as terrorism and foreign policy now drive the 2016 nominating race. Mr.
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Can eating less meat help reduce climate change? – BBC News
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Alex Mar got two kinds of reviews when she published her book, Witches of America, last month.
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Officer who killed Laquan McDonald becomes the first Chicago officer charged with murder in decades
In a long-expected development, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been officially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laquan McDonald, according to a Tweet from local ABC news reporters.
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Chicago Officer Charged with Murder in Shooting Death of Black Teen | Vanity Fair
Laquan McDonald was shot more than a year ago, but the state prosecutor’s office charged Officer Jason Van Dyke, a white, 14-year police veteran, days after a judge ordered officials to release a video captured from a dashboard camera in a police ca…
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Online Black Friday Deals Are Just as Good as Offline Ones, Says the Wirecutter | Motherboard
When it comes to finding the perfect Black Friday deal, there’s two things you ought to do this year: Know what you’re looking for, and be quick about it. That’s the sage advice of Jacqui Cheng and J.D.
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Without question, we’d all like to think we’re all independent geniuses, following our wits and whims without worry and question.
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Use a Dell? Hackers Can Grab Your Laptop’s ID | Motherboard
On Monday, Ars Technica reported that Dell has been shipping computers with self-signed certificates–files that usually assure web users the site they are browsing is legitimate–making it easy for even moderately skilled hackers to hijack encrypte…
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A seven-year-old kid just totally served Princess Leia in Star Wars trivia.
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I Conducted The Sun’s ‘Muslim Poll’ and Was Shocked By How It Was Used | VICE | United Kingdom
I helped conduct the poll that The Sun splashed all over its front page on Monday under the inflammatory headline: ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis’.
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Man convicted in New York subway bomb plot receives 40-year sentence | US news | The Guardian
A Pakistani man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison over a failed al-Qaida bomb plot on the New York City subway.
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The best tablet you can buy | The Verge
Shot on location at WeWork. Also available on YouTube. Apple’s iPad Air 2 is the best tablet for most people. The Air 2 is extremely well-built, exceptionally thin and lightweight, and is blazing fast.
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“Clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed wants an apology—and $15 million | Ars Technica
The Texas teenager who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school has sent letters to the city of Irving, Texas, as well as the Irving school district, demanding $15 million and a written apology. If he doesn’t get both within 60 days, A…
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These people don’t write their own books. Do you really believe that? I didn’t think it was possible, but I’m really starting to second guess myself with this guy.
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Algorithm Predicts Relationship Success Through Couples’ Tone Of Voice | TechCrunch
They say most of our communication is not through explicit words, and a new algorithm is able to determine the success rate of couples in relationship therapy based on the tone of their voice alone.
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ExxonMobil, Koch Brothers Have Paid To Make Climate Change A Polarizing Topic | ThinkProgress
When it comes to climate deniers in the halls of Congress, some have suggested that their rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change stems from their financial ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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Regina Hartley: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume | TED Talk | TED.com
Given the choice between a job candidate with a perfect resume and one who has fought through difficulty, human resources executive Regina Hartley always gives the “Scrapper” a chance. As someone who grew up with adversity, Hartley knows that those …
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Demonstrators gathered on the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery this week pressure Gov. Robert Bentley (R) to reverse his decision to cut the hours of more than a dozen state DMVs — a move they say will make it much harder for many re…
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How Governments Will Change To Better Serve Citizens In 2016 | TechCrunch
In 2015, civic technology investment and activity piqued the interest of investors, analysts and app developers as an industry growth segment ripe for disruption and opportunity.
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Can eating less meat help reduce climate change? : environment
Can eating less meat help reduce climate change? (bbc.co.uk)
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Rolls-Royce boss says company’s ‘confidence not good’ – BBC News
Rolls-Royce’s chief executive has said the company will be more transparent about the risks it faces and will cut up to £200m of costs a year. Warren East said the engineering group had developed an “accounting fog” which had left investors unclear …
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Murder charge for Chicago officer who shot teen 16 times – BBC News
A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year has been charged with first-degree murder, state lawyers have said.It comes a day ahead of the expected release of a video shot from a police car of Jason Van Dyke shooting …
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Poaching Upsurge Threatens South America’s Iconic Vicuña – Scientific American
This story was first published on Mongabay.com as part of its Latin American Wildlife Trade series. Corsino Huallata Ibarra was helping his parents round up their herd of llamas at their home in the Bolivian countryside when the sound of gunshots ma…
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Super-Pac Releases ‘Greatest Hits’ Trump Ad — NYMag
Donald Trump held a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, and the super-pac supporting Ohio governor John Kasich decided to warmly welcome him with a new web ad reminding voters of some of the front-runner’s “greatest hits.
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Never before published photos from Psychedelic Conference II in Santa Barbara, 1983 / Boing Boing
One of the few major psychedelics conferences during the dark age of the “Just Say No” Reagan regime was the Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference (aka Psychedelic Conference II), held on the campus of UC-Santa Barbara on May 13-14, 1983.
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Arcadia Quest – Reclaim the throne from the vampire lord and his goblin army / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. In Arcadia Quest, the mighty city of Arcadia has fallen to a foul vampire lord, Lord Fang, and his army of orcs, goblins and other monsters. They control the entire city, but the guilds of the city aren’t going to take i…
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When a freight ship loses control of its anchor, bad things happen / Boing Boing
This video appears to be a freighter’s anchor being lost as it is dropped. The situation just gets worse and worse as the chain’s momentum increases.
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Explosion hits bus in Tunisian capital – Al Jazeera English
An explosion has hit a bus in the centre of the Tunisian capital. Local media reported that several people were killed as the bus, reportedly carrying presidential guards, was hit on Tuesday evening.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Back In Stock For Black Friday: An $80 Laser Printer That You Won’t Hate
Brother makes the most popular home laser printers on the planet, and one of their most popular all-in-one options is down to $80 on Amazon today. I own a very similar model, and if you’re sick of fighting with ink-guzzling, unreliable inkjets, this…
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Family Thanksgiving with Giada De Laurentiis from Owen Burke, Funny Or Die, Jon Mackey,…
Additional Credits Additional Credits: Staring Giada de Laurentiis Talent: Kirstin Eggers, Will McLaughlin, Clayton Long, Ele Woods, Joh Mackey, Jackie Loeb, Bill Kottkamp, Sarah De La Isla and Trevor Martin Writer: Owen Burke Director: Bryan Madole…
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Chicago Cop Charged in Death of Black Teen | Al Jazeera America
The officer, Jason Van Dyke, who shot McDonald 16 times, was being processed at Chicago’s main criminal courthouse and will appear at a bond hearing at noon, the statement said.
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Review: Creed passes on the Rocky torch and recaptures the original’s spirit | The Verge
In one of Creed’s many defining scenes, an aged Rocky Balboa, having long ago put down his boxing gloves, once again climbs the iconic Rocky Steps up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Adonis Creed, his protégé and heir apparent, is with him, goadin…
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Black Lives Matter protesters continue rally after shooting – video | US news | The Guardian
Black Lives Matter protesters continued a demonstration in Minneapolis early on Tuesday, just hours after a shooting linked to the event. On Facebook, the group said the shooting occurred after counter-demonstrators showed up and refused to leave.
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Adele just broke *NSYNC’s record for single-week US album sales | The Verge
We knew it was coming, and now it’s official: Adele’s 25 has sold more copies in the US in its first week available than any other album in history.
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The Tradition of Calling Out ISIS Online — Following: How We Live Online
As world governments mull strategies in their quests to stop the Islamic State, many people at home are wondering, “What can I do to stop ISIS?” The answer for many: Record a video calling them out.
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Five things Spotify should steal from Rdio | The Verge
The death of on-demand streaming service Rdio officially began Monday, when the company stopped billing current users and shut down new subscriptions.
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This Guy’s ‘Fallout 4’ Pagoda Will Make You Feel Bad About Your Shitty Shelter | Motherboard
This guy’s massive scrapheap pagoda in Fallout 4 is making my dinky Hooverville look totally pedestrian. In Bethesda Softworks’ newest game, you come out of cryostasis and into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where you’re given the chance to fix other…
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How to Fix Everything | Motherboard
It happened suddenly, like most of these stories do. My alarm went off. I kicked my leg out as I jolted awake, making solid contact with my new laptop, which was innocently lying at the foot of my hotel bed for some reason. It landed on a chair leg;…
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Blast hits state security bus in Tunis – BBC News
President Putin condemns the downing of a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border, saying it is a “stab in the back” by “accomplices of terrorists”.
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Totally ripped worm named after Henry Rollins · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dangerous Minds reports that scientists at the University of Bristol have named a newfound species of extinct fireworm after singer/actor/lecturer Henry Rollins.
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The Amazon series, The Man In The High Castle, is set in a dark, alternate reality/past in which the Axis powers defeated the Allies, creating a Nazi-occupied America.
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Donald Trump might actually be invincible: His hateful message has taken a fascist turn—and the press is letting him get away with it (salon.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…[–]noselfdoxman [score hidden] 1 hour ago(8 children)Surprisingly goo…
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Bernie Sanders is the Most Popular Senator in America – A comprehensive survey of more than 75,000 voters in all 50 states (morningconsult.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Hillary Clinton’s speech on ISIS to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) showed clearly what to expect in a Clinton presidency: more of the same. In her speech, Clinton doubled down on the existing, failed U.S. approach in the Middle East, the one…
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Google Wants To Text Message You With Holiday Shopping Deals | TechCrunch
A number of startups emerged this year to offer consumers an easier way to shop: instead of immersive, e-commerce experiences, companies like Magic, Operator, Fetch, GoButler, and others, including Facebook, are testing out messaging-based virtual a…
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Einstein’s Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World – Scientific American
Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This November marks the centennial of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This theory was the crowning achievement of Einstein’s extraordinary scientific life.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Relive the thrill of using Windows 95 in this office simulator / Offworld
Remember back in the heady days of the mid-1990s, when playing computer games felt like running around in a endless maze of cardboard walls? Relive it today in Payroll, a game that simulates both the excitement of working in an office building, and …
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PRINCETON, N.J. — By the fall of 1915, Albert Einstein was a bit grumpy. And why not? Cheered on, to his disgust, by most of his Berlin colleagues, Germany had started a ruinous world war. He had split up with his wife, and she had decamped to Switz…
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The Dawn of the Space Mining Age – Scientific American Blog Network
The recent passage of the Space Act of 2015 in the U.S. House and Senate marks a key milestone for the commercial space industry. Ever since the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations have been banned from claiming or appropriating any celestial resource …
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Outgoing Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear restores voting rights to nonviolent former felons
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear waited until the final weeks of his administration to issue an executive order restoring voting rights to nonviolent former felons. Beshear didn’t want the issue to become politicized in the governor’s race, so he waited …
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How to Seduce a Turkey: The Bizarre Poultry Sex Experiments of the 1960s | Atlas Obscura
Two men hovered over the turkey pen, watching. A large, male bird walked in a circle, readying his mating dance, keen for the right moment.
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Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Is Just $75 Today
Twin Peaks is an incredible television series and fingers crossed, its 2016 reboot will measure up. This beautiful Blu-ray packaging of the original series is just $75 today and includes 90 minutes of deleted and extended scenes! Makes a great spook…
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The Crystal Gems Are Cuter Than Ever in Funko’s Amazing Steven Universe Toys
We’ve known for a while that the delightful Steven Universe would be getting some long-awaited merchandise, and now we have our first look at it: four glorious little Pop! Vinyls from Funko. They’re so adorable, we just want to shove as many of them…
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Square’s New Apple Pay And Chip Card Reader Available To Pre-Order | TechCrunch
Shortly after going public, Square announced that its new card reader is now available to pre-order on its website for $49. The new reader will ship in early 2016. It’s been a slow roll-out for the company’s new reader as Square first teased its rea…
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At the entrance to the Trump Plaza residential tower in Jersey City, the view is merely decent. The tower sits directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, but it’s a few blocks inland, and big buildings on all sides obscure the water.
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Chicago police shooting video of Laquan McDonald to be released soon – CNN.com
Chicago (CNN)Anger has been simmering for months about the shooting of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, by a white Chicago police officer. Will it erupt when video showing McDonald’s death goes public? “Many in the community feel betrayed,” Acree,…
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Republicans think being pro-family means forcing women to have babies : politics
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of November 24, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
This week try wearing less make-up when you leave the house, even if it means angering the other members of KISS. While being a good friend means telling the truth, you’ll soon realize that being a true friend means keeping your mouth shut. E.B.
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Dearborn Residents Fear Attacks From ISIS And White Supremacists | ThinkProgress
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN — When news broke that ISIS killed 130 people in Paris, this Detroit suburb known for its thriving Arab American community prepared for the inevitable retaliation.
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T-Mobile gives existing customers three months of unlimited LTE | Ars Technica
T-Mobile US is giving a large chunk of its existing customers an upgrade to unlimited LTE on their smartphones for the next three months. The holiday promotion announced yesterday is available to postpaid Simple Choice customers whose accounts were …
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Watch My Morning Jacket Bring Thunderous ‘Tropics’ to ‘Colbert’ | Rolling Stone
Watch My Morning Jacket Bring Thunderous ‘Tropics’ to ‘Colbert’ Jim James and Co.
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Car Seat Headrest: Dorm-Room Prodigy to Indie-Rock Sensation | Rolling Stone
When Will Toledo was 19, he wrote a song called “Fuck Merge Records” after trying and failing to submit his music to the North Carolina label.
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Remember, to a good Republican the sanctity of life begins at conception and ends at birth. When you cut the cord, so should the state. Free bootstraps for everyone!
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Denying refugees based on nationality illegal | Al Jazeera America
About 1,000 refugees and migrants are stuck at the main crossing point into Macedonia from Greece as authorities deny entry to some nationalities in contravention of international law, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Mars May Become a Ringed Planet Someday – Scientific American
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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Google has another surprise for Star Wars fans today – Quartz
Google is going all-out for the upcoming release of the latest Star Wars installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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What’s the Best Way to Teach English Grammar? – 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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Imagination Technologies Is Crowdfunding A Dev Kit For IoT | TechCrunch
Another dev kit targeting developers and startups that want to build devices for the Internet of Things has launched on Kickstarter — although its maker, Imagination Technologies, is no startup, but rather an established company which licenses IP to…
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Project-Based Learning Helps Teens Focus on Real-World Problems – 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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On the Edge at Schiaparelli Crater | Space Wallpaper
About this Image Several impact craters surround and intersect the Schiaparelli basin on Mars, named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli.
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How The Golden State Warriors Are Breaking The NBA | FiveThirtyEight
The first time I saw my boss, Nate Silver, give a talk was at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. As usual, he was going on about numbers and statistics, but what stuck with me longest wasn’t quantitative.
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STRATHAM, N.H. — In the course of a two-hour campaign stop here, Gov.
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Five shot at Black Lives Matter protest; white gunmen sought / Boing Boing
Five protestors were shot Monday while protesting the recent shooting death of a black man. Police are looking for three white suspects. The victims’ injuries are reportedly not life-threatening.
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Rapper Killer Mike endorses Bernie Sanders for president after Atlanta tour | US news | The Guardian
Rapper Killer Mike showed presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders around his hometown of Atlanta on Monday, and delivered an impassioned speech in support of the Democratic presidential candidate. Killer Mike, a member of rap duo Run the Jewels, first e…
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Bruce Watkin obituary | Environment | The Guardian
My stepfather, Bruce Watkin, who has died aged 98, was one of the founder members of Mass Observation, the social research organisation set up to record everyday life in Britain.
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There have been a ton of funny takes on Adele’s “Hello” already, but none are quite as insane or off-kilter as “Hello (Steve Aoki Remix),” a clip that has surfaced online courtesy of comedian Joe Pera.
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Crush syndrome may be in the title of this episode, but post-traumatic stress disorder is the condition driving the storytelling.
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No one knows how much illegal fishing goes on in the oceans. They’re too vast to patrol. But a small nonprofit is helping governments track down seafood pirates by using powerful software, digital maps and publicly available data.
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Eating less meat only way to save planet, warns climate think tank: “We cannot avoid dangerous climate change unless consumption trends change.” (express.co.uk)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading…
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Just a few weeks after the Supreme Court justices agreed to hear a case that could reshape the entire landscape of abortion rights in America, a lower court judge issued a scathing ruling against a similar anti-choice law — and revealed the central …
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Why Washington players may finally kill the ‘Redskins’ name for good | Sport | The Guardian
As far as excuses go, it was absurd. After Washington were trampled 44-16 by the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, defensive end Jason Hatcher suggested the NFL’s officials are against his team because “Redskins” is increasingly considered a racial slur.
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In September, Iranian football player Niloufar Ardalan, missed the final of the Asian Games in September because her husband, sports journalist Mahdi Toutounchi, enforced the right given to him by Islamic sharia law to prevent her from traveling.
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On Gotham, a Show Ostensibly About Batman, a Bunch of Killer Monks Invaded an Erotic Massage Parlor
This is not a joke. It’s not a metaphor. This is me not obliquely trying to tell you how ridiculous this show is.
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The Best Drug for Quitting Smoking Can’t Shake Its Suicide Stigma | Motherboard
One night while watching TV, Chris Kunkel decided to kill himself. He found a bottle of Tylenol PM in the medicine cabinet, swallowed the contents, and put himself to bed.
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The U.S. Airlines With The Best Wi-Fi | Conde Nast Traveler
American carriers are rolling out much faster satellite-based Internet connectivity, and some will even offer it for free. For years, U.S. airlines have charged for domestic Wi-Fi because they had to use market forces to throttle usage.
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The Biblical Rheology of Deep-Dish Pizza : Longreads Blog
The following is the Illinois chapter from Matthew Gavin Frank’s exceptional new tour of signature foods from fifty states, excerpted here courtesy of Liveright Publishing.
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Guardian journalist’s City of London exposé hits bestseller payday in Holland | Books | The Guardian
A two-year Guardian investigation into the City of London by a Dutch journalist with no previous knowledge of banking has become a bestselling book in Holland, where it has sold almost 300,000 copies and last week landed a major prize.
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Let me spoil Fallout 4 so that you can enjoy playing Fallout 4 | The Verge
Fallout 4 is a very long game comprised of one large mystery and hundreds of smaller stories / quests based in the world of post-apocalyptic Boston. It’s the kind of adventure that’s arguably better when you have access to a compendium of sorts.
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Vatican Is Still Charging Journalists — NYMag
Despite protests from media groups and a request to dismiss the charges, the Vatican is going forward with a trial against two journalists and the three Vatican employees who reportedly leaked secret Holy See documents to them.
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UK bomb plotter sentenced to 40 years in US jail – BBC News
A Pakistani man extradited from the UK to the US has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks in several countries.Abid Naseer, 28, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York.US authorities said he had been part of a plot to attack …
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Two Military Helicopters Crash on Monday — NYMag
Six U.S. soldiers died Monday evening after two helicopter crashes, one in South Korea, one in Texas. The circumstances behind both crashes have yet to be officially announced at this point.
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Blue Origin Makes Historic Reusable Rocket Landing in Epic Test Flight
The private spaceflight company Blue Origin just launched itself into the history books by successfully flying and landing a reusable rocket. Powered by the company’s own BE-3 engine, the rocket kicked off the launchpad yesterday (Nov. 23) at 11:21 …
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How to Get That Annoying Political Person to Shut Up During the Holidays
Every family has that one relative that can’t stop forcing their controversial political stances down everyone’s throats. You’re home for the holidays and want to get through an enjoyable meal in peace, but they just won’t stop talking about what’s …
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The barb in trade agreements’ tail is the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, which lets companies sue governments to repeal rules that interfere with their profitability.
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Beyond Gun Control | New Republic
On a drizzly afternoon in January 2013, almost a month after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 first-graders dead, more than a dozen religious leaders assembled in Washington, D.C.
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The share of women who lose their fertility to cervical cancer in their early twenties appears to have fallen due to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance, according to an early analysi…
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Amazing sunset in southern NJ [OC] [3796 x 4673] : SkyPorn
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Amazing sunset in southern NJ [OC] [3796 x 4673] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/vKCWkwR3Zc https://t.co/KjMJLVuQLe https://t.co/0z35NmkyEp
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Rila, Bulgaria (OC)(1572×750) : EarthPorn
Rila, Bulgaria (OC)(1572×750) via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/lBCII0mI5I https://t.co/EhpA4Oty4k https://t.co/ZDRCFyzYeg
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Rila, Bulgaria (OC)(1572×750) via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/lBCII0mI5I https://t.co/EhpA4Oty4k https://t.co/ZDRCFyzYeg
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An abandoned ferris wheel via /r/pics https://t.co/29sKDDzRVU https://t.co/wVI3o3Pxx9 https://t.co/3lChI3E9qY
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An abandoned ferris wheel : pics
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Repugnant Religious Litmus Tests https://t.co/qdJWPQnp3s https://t.co/95jxpC5NAI via /r/Liberal
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Kentucky Restores Voting Rights for Thousands of Ex-Felons | The Nation
Governor Steve Beshear, Democrat of Kentucky, only has two weeks left in office but he’s determined to go out with a bang. Beshear announced today that he is issuing an executive order restoring voting rights for non-violent ex-felons who have compl…
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Tearful plea of migrants ‘stuck’ on Greece border – BBC News
Thousands of migrants say they are “stuck” on the Greek border with Macedonia because they are being told that only those who can prove they are escaping war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan can pass. But many migrants who have travelled from other co…
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In the Wake of Paris, Republicans Want You to Remember American Values | The Nation
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Killer Mike Ate Soul Food With Bernie Sanders — Vulture
Killer Mike sadly isn’t running for president (though he did try to run for Georgia state representative), but earlier this year he did the next-best thing and endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
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The Man Beaten And Choked At A Donald Trump Rally Tells His Story – “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” [Trump] said. “It was disgusting what he was doing…This was a very obnoxious guy, a troublemaker, looking to make trouble.” (thinkprogress.or…
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Repugnant Religious Litmus Tests : Liberal
Repugnant Religious Litmus Tests (nytimes.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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When I get invited to dinner but they don’t recognize me – GIF on Imgur
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When politicians meet in Paris next week to negotiate a global climate deal, their commitments will have far-reaching consequences. Pastoralist communities in Somaliland are among those who have a vital stake in the talks, as a changing climate cont…
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Turkey Downs a Russian Jet and Twitter Immediately Declares “World War | Vanity Fair
Tuesday morning’s headlines were dominated by news that Turkish forces shot down a Russian fighter jet operating near Turkey’s border with Syria.
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Harrison Ford and Chewbacca End Their “Feud” Through the Healing Power | Vanity Fair
It’s true what they say: Adele does heal all wounds. Harrison Ford and Chewbacca had some unfinished business back in 2013.
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Airbnb is being used for hook-ups – Business Insider
Pedro Ribeiro Simões / Flickr, CCA small number of Airbnb customers appear to be using the service for hook-ups.
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City Settles Millions in Killing of Homeless Man | Al Jazeera America
The city of Fullerton, Calif., agreed on Monday to pay $4.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a homeless man beaten to death by two then-police officers, an incident that sparked protests in the Los Angeles suburb, the plaintiff’s…
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Shamrock shake: Pfizer’s Irish “unpatriotic loophole” ducks US taxes / Boing Boing
Pfizer’s used a tax-dodge called a “reverse-inversion” to sell itself to a much smaller, Irish pharma company, moving its corporate nationality to Ireland at the stroke of a pen.
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Celtic’s Tom Rogic backs plans for club to play Premiership game in US | Football | The Guardian
The Celtic midfielder Tom Rogic has backed plans to take the club to the United States for a Premiership game as it could give Scotland a much-needed boost.
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Democratic hopeful Martin O’Malley proposes alternative to Obamacare | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley unveiled a healthcare plan Tuesday that emphasized strengthening Obamacare but avoided any mention of the single-payer health care plan championed by rival Bernie Sanders.
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Bezos’ rocket achieves controlled landing back on Earth
A rocket built by Blue Origin, an aerospace company backed by Jeff Bezos, recently reached space and executed a controlled landing back on Earth, which allows it to be used again. Bezos himself joined Twitter1 this morning to announce the news.
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US economic growth greater than estimated but figure remains modest | US news | The Guardian
The key measure of the US economy was revised from bleh to meh on Tuesday as businesses restocked goods at a stronger pace than first thought. The overall economy, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP), grew at an annual rate of 2.
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Candid photos of Johnny Thunders, Siouxsie Sioux and The Clash from the mid-1970s|Dangerous Minds
Photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of former Sex Pistols’ road manager and early manager of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nils Stevenson (RIP), took some pretty remarkable photos of the punk rock movement back in the mid-70s.
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The smell of books in a spray, lotion or candle / Boing Boing
Smell of Books is an amusing selection of imaginary fragrances for bilibiophiles, with names such as “classic musty” and “eau you have cats.” “Have you been avoiding e-books because they just don’t smell right?,” the site asks.
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Chris Cairns trial: Jury mulls verdict on ex-NZ cricketer – BBC News
The jury in the trial of ex-New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns has retired to consider its verdict. Cairns, 45, has denied charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice at the trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
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How Do You Make a Long Flight Comfortable?
Flying is a pretty incredible experience, but it can also be an uncomfortable one. It can be a pain to be confined to a small, hard seat for hours at a time. We want to know: how do you make long flights comfortable? A lot of your comfort depends on…
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Dealmaster: Save over 50 percent on the Lenovo Yoga Pro 3 ultrabook | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we’re bringing you a bunch of laptop and PC deals, with some of the best ones coming from Lenovo. The company has already begun its Black Friday sales, which include incredible savings on…
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016: Organisers set to keep fan zones in France
Euro 2016 organisers are hopeful supporters will be allowed to watch matches on big screens in public areas of France next summer. However, France’s sports minister Patrick Kanner said fan zones would “tell the French people and foreigners that ever…
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New Yorkers Can Fight Terrorism With New App — NYMag
New Yorkers are used to being told to speak up when they see suspicious activity, but in the wake of the recent attacks on Paris, they now have another option: taking photos of things that seem weird with a brand-new counterterrorism app.
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Joyce Carol Oates, the author of more than 50 books, faced a spirited backlash on Twitter after she posed a question Sunday about whether anything is “celebratory & joyous” within the Islamic State.
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Five people were shot and wounded Monday night near a police precinct in Minneapolis where demonstrators have been protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man, the police said.
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The Variant Covers For The Dark Knight III #1 Are A Treasure Trove Of Amazing Batman Art
Tomorrow, Frank Miller’s wildly influential (and batshit crazy) Dark Knight series returns with the unfortunately-named The Dark Knight III: The Master Race. Such an event has not escaped DC, and they’re putting out some spectacular variant covers t…
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Meat tax far less unpalatable than government thinks, research finds. People are more likely to back policies to curb meat eating for health and climate reasons. (theguardian.com)
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Sociologist suggests corporate disinformation at root of climate change polarization : environment
Sociologist suggests corporate disinformation at root of climate change polarization (phys.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Programmer automates his job – Business Insider
There’s a hilarious project that’s popular on GitHub, the website that hosts all kinds of software that programmers want to share with each other. The project was shared by a programmer named Nihad Abbasov, known as “Narkoz” on GitHub.
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Fan-Designed Lego Saturn V Moon Rocket Qualifies for Product Review
A fan-designed scale model of NASA’s historic Saturn V rocket has landed on Lego’s launch pad and is now waiting an official “go/no-go” call as to whether it will lift off as a commercial set.
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Why not just oust the agency and respect people’s rights to do with themselves as they see fit? But we need the government in out lives … Well unless they attempt to give us any form of health care or try to regulate predatory markets.
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You Won’t Believe Which Two Stars Share a Baby Name | Vanity Fair
Let’s take a trip, north. Way north. Up the misty spine of Oregon, across the gray waters of Washington, through the green fjords of British Columbia. Up and up along the coast until we’ve reached a vast place known as Alaska, the great American exp…
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Rescuer saves an injured kayaker via /r/gifs https://t.co/wfVVu95cMZ https://t.co/qFiFvXcBjj https://t.co/rayEJGmzIX
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A teenager just pushed the Rubik’s Cube world record under 5 seconds | The Verge
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter dragged the world record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube under 5 seconds at Saturday’s River Hill Fall competition in Clarksville, Maryland, where he solved a cube in 4.904 seconds.
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India remains Apple’s great untapped opportunity | The Verge
The latest data from IDC, covering India’s smartphone market, provides a rather unusual visualization: a pie chart representing smartphone market share where the iPhone is nowhere to be seen.
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5 Black Lives Matter Protestors Were Shot in Minneapolis Monday – The Atlantic
Minneapolis police are shooting for suspects who shot five people at a Black Lives Matter protest Monday night. Since Jamar Clark was shot by police on November 15, protestors have been camped out outside the city’s Fourth Precinct police station, n…
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How the Death of Voicemail Is Changing Doctor-Patient Communication – The Atlantic
I’d spent all week waiting for it, checking my phone repeatedly for the voicemail telling me that the results of my recent pap smear and STD screening were in. But the voicemail never came. Instead, I got an email telling me to log on to the same on…
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Self-published Check, Please! shows the value of a passion project · Comics Panel · The A.V. Club
One of the best things about reading creator-owned comics is the clear care and love that goes into every page of content.
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The Everyday Carry Card is a real tool for real jobs and it’s TSA approved / Boing Boing
Carrying this EDC card is like slinging around a handheld toolbox wherever you go. Its minimal design is small enough to fit in your wallet’s billfold, and it’s TSA-compliant so you’ll never leave it behind.
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Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik: Your New Celebrity “It Couple”? | Vanity Fair
Gigi Hadid—20-year-old model, best friend to Kendall Jenner and Taylor Swift, sister of fellow model Bella—is the closest thing we have, pop culturally, to a cheerleading captain right now.
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Amazon may have a secret air cargo operation called ‘Aerosmith’ | The Verge
Amazon may be behind a secretive air cargo operation that launched earlier this year, according to a new report from Motherboard.
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Money is not just currency. It is the most common piece of artwork. It represents our history, culture and mythology. Thus, it does not only appear as the material backbone of our civilization – it´s dialectic is that it constitutes and is being con…
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Speaking style says volumes about GOP race https://t.co/ivfstcAzeO https://t.co/N7vr2Fz7tS via /r/Liberal
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Speaking Style Defines GOP Presidential Candidates
Speaking style says volumes about GOP race https://t.co/ivfstcAzeO https://t.co/N7vr2Fz7tS via /r/Liberal
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For The Love Of All That Is Good And Holy, Please Buy A Swiss Watch | TechCrunch
Times in the tiny Swiss watch ateliers are getting tough. While I originally assumed that Swiss watches would survive the onslaught of smartwatches, I was wrong.
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Somali pirates attack Iranian and Thai vessels – BBC News
Pirates have attacked two foreign fishing trawlers off Somalia’s coast, seizing the crew of one of them, maritime experts and residents say. Pirates had seized an Iranian-flagged vessel’s 15 crew after an attack in northern Somalia, officials said.
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The UK government will provide hundreds of millions of pounds worth of financial support to Brazil’s national oil company despite it facing corruption investigations in multiple countries.
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‘WWE Raw’: Roman Reigns Takes on the World | Rolling Stone
After crowning a new champion and celebrating a quarter-century of the Undertaker at Sunday’s Survivor Series, WWE rolled into Nashville last night, giving us a Raw that was heavy on Sheamus and Heath Slater – smell the ratings! – and light on prett…
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Five BLM Protesters Shot in Minneapolis — NYMag
Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis say that Monday night wasn’t the first time a “group of white supremacists” showed up at their encampment, but it was the first time that they had ever opened fire.
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Sarah Palin Talks Donald Trump’s Success, Louis C.K. Apology | Rolling Stone
Sarah Palin Talks Donald Trump’s Success, Louis C.K. Apology on ‘Late Night’ [Trump’s] not a politician, thank the lord.
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On Thursday, most Americans will gather together with family and friends to have dinner and celebrate Thanksgiving. But not everyone will be able to enjoy the holiday the way they’d like.
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Global refugees take long detours through Latin America to reach the US | World news | The Guardian
When eight Syrians handed themselves in to immigration authorities on the Texas-Mexico border last week, the incident was held up by conservative politicians as a troubling reflection of the new threats facing the US after the Paris terror attacks.
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Planet Earth experienced a global climate shift in the late 1980s on an unprecedented scale, fuelled by anthropogenic warming and a volcanic eruption, according to new research published this week.
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Scientists still can’t settle on what killed the dinosaurs – The Washington Post
It’s one of the biggest unsolved whodunits in history: What killed off the dinosaurs? Scientists are pretty sure that something awfully big slammed into the planet about 66 million years ago, but many suggest that rampant volcanic activity may also …
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10 Things We Learned From Carly Simon’s Revealing New Memoir | Rolling Stone
Carly Simon could have gotten away with just the name-dropping. In her life, she’s crossed paths with an astonishing range of famous people, from Cat Stevens and Jimi Hendrix to Benny Goodman and Albert Einstein.
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Half a year after Amazon originally announced a partnership with JetBlue to bring its Amazon Prime Instant Video service and its Prime Music service to the airline’s passengers, the company says today that the service is now available on the majorit…
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Cartoon: Thanksgiving through the years
Follow Jen on Twitter at @JenSorensen
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Boy Dies Of Ebola In Liberia | Al Jazeera America
Nathan Gbotoe tested positive last week and died late Monday in a hospital near Monrovia, the capital. The boy’s father and brother are also being treated for Ebola in the same hospital, officials said.
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Florida’s Orange Industry Is In Its Worst Slump In 100 Years: “Florida oranges are threatened with destruction if scientists and the government can’t find a way to stop an Asian bug from spreading a tree-killing disease.” (bloomberg.com)submitted 3 …
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Most of What You Learned in Econ 101 Is Wrong – Bloomberg View
Harvard’s Greg Mankiw, author of the most popular college introductory economics textbook, is often regarded as America’s econ teacher. He famously refers to his “Principles of Economics” as “my favorite textbook,” and I must admit that it’s also my…
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Speaking style says volumes about GOP race (blogs.rollcall.com)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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Fire tornado in super slow motion
The Slow Mo Guys lit a bucket of kerosene on fire, surrounded it with 12 box fans, whipped the fire into a tornado, and filmed it with slow motion cameras at up to 2500 fps.
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We are delighted to reveal that the 2016 Imagine Children’s Festival is set to to take place at London’s Southbank Centre from 10-21 February 2016, and as always there is lots in store. Here are some of the highlights:
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Tiffany & Co’s third-quarter results miss Wall Street expectations | Business | The Guardian
A strong dollar and economic uncertainty tarnished Tiffany’s third-quarter results. The luxury jeweler also lowered its full-year earnings guidance.
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NIH Retiring All Research Chimps – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Due to continued public outcry and the dwindling need to conduct research on primates, the National Institutes of Health announced they will retire all 50 of their remaining research chimpanzees, who will be relocated to various sanctuaries nationwi…
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VERONA, WI—Having waited until everyone at the table had finished their dinner Monday, a knowing grin reportedly spread across local mother Angela Hopkins’ face as she announced to her family that the mashed potatoes had in fact been made using caul…
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UTICA, NY—Shooting anxious glances at each other across the dinner table upon the introduction of the unexpected topic, relatives of Mary Turner, 76, expressed concern to reporters Tuesday over where their grandmother is going with her discussion of…
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Cuomo Vetoes MetroCard Transfer Expansion — NYMag
Late yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have provided a small measure of fair relief to city commuters that have to take a subway and two buses in order to get to their destinations every day.
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Hot Takes on Cold Pies | Lucky Peach
We checked in with editor David Chang, a notable scrooge about traditional holiday practices, on what kinds of desserts to stock the Thanksgiving side table with. It didn’t really go that well. Key lime pie is the best.
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Inside Ikea’s Innovation Lab For The Future Of Better Living
The open-source lab in Copenhagen will help Ikea come up with the catalog of 2026, not 2016. Ikea usually keeps a close lid on what it is working on next. But with Space10, an innovation lab recently opened in Copenhagen’s hip meatpacking district, …
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People Are Going To Have a Lot of Sex in Driverless Cars | Inverse
If you can create a scenario in which two willing people share a space that offers even the illusion of privacy, they will find a way to bone. That is both humanity’s greatest superpower and the foundation for lucrative porn genres. Vehicles are not…
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The U.S. Can Lead the World to a Climate Agreement – Scientific American
In two weeks officials from nearly every country on Earth will gather at the 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris. This is the latest gathering of nations, convened by the U.N., to discuss and potentially agree on a global strategy for reducing g…
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Black Friday 2015: the best gaming deals for PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, and PC | The Verge
Video games are expensive, which is what makes Black Friday great particularly for gamers: you can grab both games and hardware for steep discounts. It’s good for catching up on titles you may have missed through the year, upgrading your PC, or fina…
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Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Is Over | Motherboard
Now, it’s a waiting game for Megupload founder Kim Dotcom. His nine-week extradition hearing concluded on Tuesday and all that’s left is for Judge Nevin Dawson to decide whether New Zealand will hand over to the United States Dotcom and three other …
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NOAA Climate Science Probe: Cover-up or ‘Weapon of Mass Distraction’? – Scientific American
In the past month, congressional Republicans have subpoenaed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to gain access to the private documents and emails of scientists involved in a landmark climate change study to look for evidence of all…
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Square, lightweight plastic flask from Stanley / Boing Boing
I’ve been using Stanley’s classic flask for years (I literally packed one, full of nice bourbon, in my suitcase this morning for the Melbourne/Sydney/Berlin trip I’m leaving on tonight), and I have no complaints: it’s beautiful, easy to close, and r…
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Turn Orange Peels into Cheap, Disposable Bird Feeders
Building a bird feeder is a great all-ages project, and turns your yard into a visually stunning and environmentally friendly refuge. It’s easy too: all you need is an orange, some yarn or twine, and some birdseed.
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Mortgage Startup Lenda Raises $2 Million To Make Refinancing A Home Easier | TechCrunch
Tech companies who’ve long overlooked the home lending market and as fertile ground for new business are waking up to the opportunity in the market and money — and new offerings are pouring in.
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Watch Adele’s First Live Performance of “Water Under the Bridge” | Vanity Fair
First the U.K., then SNL, and now Adele continues her world domination on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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Véronique Geoffroy de Bourgies, surrounded by children in Madagascar. She and her husband adopted two children from Madagascar, who are now 12 and 15 years old. Credit Stéphane de Bourgies
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Bill O’Reilly to Donald Trump: “You Shouldn’t Tweet, Ever” | Vanity Fair
Twitter’s been around for long enough that people know this fundamental truth: someone may say that retweets don’t equal endorsements, but no one actually believes that.
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Fastest application of swim cap ever. : gifs
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Reflections on a cold day. [4953×2670] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Reflections on a cold day. [4953×2670] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Ux1BaDVCTt https://t.co/BGpLBJmE6g https://t.co/YmCnKY1mFi
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Paris attacks: Hollande and Obama to intensify anti-IS push – BBC News
The fight against so-called Islamic State (IS) will dominate talks in Washington shortly between French President Francois Hollande and US President Barack Obama. The Paris suicide attacks claimed by IS have prompted the US to issue a worldwide trav…
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UK Mobile-Only Atom Bank Picks Up $128M Led By BBVA, Owner Of Simple In The U.S. | TechCrunch
All major banks today offer a way for customers to bank online, but this is not stopping a rush of startups emerging to build new, mobile and online-only banks from the ground up.
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Black Friday gaming deals feature $300 consoles, $40 controllers, $1 games | Ars Technica
The Black Friday sales bonanza (which is now officially bleeding over into the surrounding days) is one of those rare times when game consoles, retail titles, and gaming accessories are available en masse at prices below the often-strict MSRPs set b…
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How memes evolved from dancing babies to an everyday part of internet life | The Verge
I remember my first meme. I was in my grade school computer lab — this was a time when computers were still novel, not mandatory.
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How To Avoid Distraction While Working Online – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Abandoning all interest in current events or your loved ones’ lives is the first step in avoiding the distractions of the internet, though it’s advisable never to have been interested in those things to begin with.
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Burn Notice: J. Edgar Hoover’s best insults
During his nearly forty-year reign as director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover annotated thousands – if not millions – of pages of memos, reports, and other documentation, all is his immutable loopy cursive.
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Researchers poke hole in custom crypto protecting Amazon Web Services | Ars Technica
Underscoring just how hard it is to design secure cryptographic software, academic researchers recently uncovered a potentially game-over weakness in a code library protecting Amazon Web Services.
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Chicago Officer Who Shot Black Teen 16 Times To Be Charged With First Degree Murder | ThinkProgress
As Chicago braces for the release of dash cam footage showing officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times, the city’s controversial lead prosecutor is expected to charge the cop with first degree murder on Tuesday.
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Marco Rubio Just Can’t Decide Whether We Should Accept Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio now thinks that Syrian women and children fleeing violence and civil war should be granted access into the United States — pivoting away from a previous stance he took to refuse them refuge in the countr…
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Chicken With Quinoa And Veggies One Pot : gifs
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Jamar Clark: Five people shot at Minneapolis police protests – BBC News
A search is under way for three white men who allegedly shot five people protesting about the fatal police shooting of a black man in Minneapolis.None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident on Monday night, which involved …
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When the Antidepressants Are Worse Than the Depression | Motherboard
When I was 17 years old, my father died unexpectedly. He wasn’t really sick, he wasn’t very old, but one day he was alive and the next day he was not. I was, understandably, a mess.
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Who are the Turkmen in Syria? – BBC News
Turkish military officials say two F-16 fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday after repeated warnings that it was violating Turkish airspace. Video footage is circulating of what appears to be the body of one of the pilots, surrounded…
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Doctor Who: Matt Lucas and Greg Davies join Christmas special – BBC News
Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and The Inbetweeners’ star Greg Davies are joining the cast of Doctor Who for this year’s Christmas special. Producers have confirmed Lucas, who starred in Pompidou and Bridesmaids, will play a character called Nardole.
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What’s Killing Alaska’s Sea Otters? | Hakai Magazine
So far this year, at least 250 sick or dead sea otters have washed ashore on Alaska’s southern coast, and no one knows why. This is more than double the number reported last year—itself higher than the average— says Joel Garlich-Miller, a biologist …
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A Noble Idea: Beer Without Hops
Brewers in our modern era live in a time of riches unparalleled in the history of their art. The quality and range of ingredients, from grain to yeast to hops, provide both commercial and hobbyist brewers with the capability to make any style imagin…
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Donald Trump urinal|Dangerous Minds
This is just too good not to post: a Donald Trump urinal “art piece.” Now, I’m not entirely sure if this is real or just a concept. The Rolling Stones-inspired urinals are from a bar in Paris. When I Google them or do a reverse image search, the uri…
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Steady B, Life in Prison / Boing Boing
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! With less than a handful of songs the Beastie Boys got to tour cross-country in 1985 during Madonna’s “Virgin” tour.
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Donald Trump and Foreign Policy – The Atlantic
Nope. In poll after poll after poll since then, Donald Trump’s support has gone up.
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Last Week’s Doctor Who Had the Weirdest Star Wars/Back to the Future Easter Egg
It’s almost second nature for sci-fi to be self-referential—not just to itself, but to the wider pantheon of shows and movies.
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What Makes Our Brains Special? – Scientific American
The human brain is unique: Our remarkable cognitive capacity has allowed us to invent the wheel, build the pyramids and land on the moon. In fact, scientists sometimes refer to the human brain as the “crowning achievement of evolution.”
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Better Than Sci-Fi – Scientific American
Science fiction has imagined some pretty wild ideas about the universe and our place in it. Parallel or alternative universes have been a recurrent theme in Star Trek. In Interstellar, an astronaut explores hidden extra dimensions.
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Essay: Why BDS is a feminist issue – Al Jazeera English
On September 22, 2015, 19-year-old Hadeel Salah al-Hashlamon died after being shot for allegedly trying to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint near Hebron.
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like an Earworm? – Scientific American
If you are one of the 92 percent of the population who regularly experience earworms—snippets of music that pop uninvited into your head and won’t go away—you might wish there was a way to make them stop.
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Pay Attention! New “Brain Fingerprints” Predict Your Ability to Focus – Scientific American
During a 1959 television appearance, Jack Kerouac was asked how long it took him to write his novel On The Road. His response—three weeks—amazed the interviewer and ignited an enduring myth that the book was composed in a marathon of nonstop typing.
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At least 30 social media profiles of so-called “white student unions” have been set up in the last week, in response to nationwide student protests demanding action to address campus racism.
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Thanksgiving is known as a time to return home to family, with the holiday calling to mind images of grandmother’s house. But for many Americans, it’s also now a chance to go on vacation. This week, Florida will see a surge in the number of people a…
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Billionaire Shuffle: Jeff Bezos May Head into Space as Jack Ma May Hea | Vanity Fair
Some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs are venturing into the future, while others are gunning to throw their money at more traditional problems. Let’s start with the future, if only because it is hard to ignore a rocket flying through th…
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Google To Donate Up To $1 Million Toward Education In Android Pay Charity Campaign | TechCrunch
In an effort to kickstart its mobile payments solution, Android Pay, Google this morning announced a holiday campaign that will see the tech giant donating up to a million toward special education projects in partnership with nonprofit DonorsChoose.…
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Vitter Defeat Clears Way For Obamacare Medicaid Expansion In Louisiana
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My Grandpa taking a selfie in 1935 : pics
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This is the perfect gif : gifs
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Here they come now, winter hats, making their annual flight from the recesses of our closets to the crests of our persons.
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The Secrets Behind All Those Gorgeous Photos of Space | WIRED
Caption: This image of galaxy M82 combines several wavelength images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Liberia Sees First Ebola Death Since July — NYMag
A 15-year-old boy died of Ebola in Liberia late Monday night; it is the first death from the virus that the country has seen since July. Nathan Gbotoe’s brother and father are also sick, and are being monitored closely.
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AWS Lamda Makes Serverless Applications A Reality | TechCrunch
Most companies today develop applications and deploy them on servers — whether on-premises or in the cloud. That means figuring out how much server, storage and database power they need ahead of time, and deploying all of the hardware and software i…
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Putin: Turkey’s downing of jet a ‘stab in the back’ – Al Jazeera English
President Vladimir Putin has said Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border is a “stab in the back” committed by “accomplices of terrorists”. The Russian warplane was shot down on the Syrian border for violating Turkish airspace …
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Algeria fire at camp for migrants in Ouargla kills 18 – BBC News
At least 35 people were also injured at the camp, which is housing about 650 people mostly from Niger and Mali, in Ouargla, 800km (500 miles) south-east of the capital, Algiers. The cause of the fire, that began at about 02:00 GMT, is being investig…
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Australia trial for GM fruit fly – BBC News
Australia will carry out trials of a genetically modified insect to see if it can control a destructive crop pest. The engineered Mediterranean fruit flies possess a gene that prevents female flies from reaching adulthood.
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The Doctor on a Quest to Save Our Medical Devices From Hackers | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The Internet of Things has introduced security issues to hundreds of devices that previously were off-limits to hackers, turning innocuous appliances like refrigerators and toasters into gateways for d…
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Watch Harrison Ford, Chewbacca Reconcile Thanks to Adele’s ‘Hello’ | Rolling Stone
One night after Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered its first short snippet from the film, Jimmy Kimmel Live! dedicated its entire episode to the upcoming blockbuster. The bulk of the film’s main cast – Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, A…
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How to talk to your family about politics this Thanksgiving – The Washington Post
With the arrival of the holidays each year, political Web sites looking to wring a last few clicks out of people waiting at airports dutifully put together “how to talk about [CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL ISSUE] with your [CRASS UNCLE/SNOTTY NIECE] at Th…
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Hear Axwell’s Wedding Gift to His Wife, ‘Waiting for So Long (Gloria)’ | Rolling Stone
In celebration of the tenth birthday of his label, Axtone Records, former Swedish House Mafia member Axwell is curating a deluxe compilation — Axtone 10, out December 11th — that features his first solo single since 2013.
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The Plight of the Picky Eater | New Republic
The problem with food is we care too much. Take the example of Diane, a 48-year-old office manager who took part in a study of eating habits in 2010. She believed food was entirely about pleasure and imagination, a matter of “what I like and what I …
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Why Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith – The Atlantic
If you want to annoy a scientist, say that science isn’t so different from religion. When Ben Carson was challenged about his claim that Darwin was encouraged by the devil, he replied, “I’m not going to denigrate you because of your faith, and you s…
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Shutting Down Jihadist Websites Won’t Stop Terrorism – The Atlantic
The homepage of al-Fateh is a colorful mess straight out of the nineties. Cartoon squirrels and a rainbow adorn the banner, which welcomes kids to the online home of a magazine for the “builders of the future.
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Updated, 6:03 p.m. | Donald J. Trump has been under fire for insisting that Muslims in New Jersey were cheering when the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001 — a claim that has been difficult to corroborate. But on Monday, one of Mr.
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How China Conquered France’s Wine Country | New Republic
In 1996, Chinese premier Li Peng surprised his audience at the National People’s Congress by toasting the Ninth Five-Year Plan with red wine: “Drinking fruit wines is helpful to our health, does not waste grain, and is good for social ethics,” he an…
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Vitter Defeat Clears Way For Obamacare Medicaid Expansion In Louisiana : Liberal
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Great Britain’s Davis Cup team are satisfied with security arrangements in Ghent for this weekend’s final, says British number one Andy Murray. Belgian capital Brussels, 35 miles away, remains on a high state of alert amid the threat of Paris-style …
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What Women Actually Say to Each Other | New Republic
In most forms of entertainment, friendships—and conversations—between women are all too often portrayed as backstabbing, competitive, or simply perfunctory.
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This Judge Just Condemned Wisconsin’s Abortion Law as Unconstitutional. Read the Withering Ruling. (motherjones.com)
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Encourage More Critical Thinking by Treating Every Day Like April Fool’s Day
Every year on the first day of April, everyone puts on their thinking cap and knowingly views much of what they hear or see with a healthy dose of skepticism. Instead of doing this only on 4/1, treat every new piece of information as if it’s April 1…
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US economic growth revised up to 2.1% in the third quarter – BBC News
US economic growth for the third quarter has been revised up due to stronger investment and house building. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product rose at an annual pace of 2.1%, not the 1.5% rate it reported last month.
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Chris Hayes barreled into his office from the rain, wearing a blue hoodie over an art deco-style T-shirt of the cover of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.
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An Arrow Hero Could Play a Key Role in the Justice League Movie
And said hero could also be helping to launch another spin-off. Mark Hamill drops another Star Wars hint. Familiar foes will be making their presence felt in the next season of Game of Thrones. Plus more iZombie episodes, Ryan Reynolds goofs around …
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Contextual Search Platform Atlas Is Ivy Softworks’ First Spinoff | TechCrunch
Ivy Softworks — a so-called “innovation studio” founded by Napster’s Jordan Ritter in Seattle — is taking the wraps off its first products today. It is launching a contextual information search platform called Atlas; and it’s also unveiling Recall, …
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Best Buy Just Launched A Bunch Of Their Best Black Friday Deals
Best Buy’s not waiting for the turkey to cool to push out their best Black Friday deals; a whole bunch of them are available right now. There’s a ton of great stuff here, including up to $100 off the Apple Watch, $125 off iPads, a 50” TV for $300, a…
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Uber will pay $1.8 million to settle lawsuit over airport fees | Ars Technica
Ride-sharing giant Uber will reimburse $1.8 million in fees it collected in 2013 and 2014, under a settlement reached Friday. The settlement is a rare concession from a company that continues to fight hard in its most important legal battle: over ho…
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Vitter Defeat Clears Way For Obamacare Medicaid Expansion In Louisiana : democrats
Vitter Defeat Clears Way For Obamacare Medicaid Expansion In Louisiana (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted just now by progress18loading…
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Don’t Spill the Beans: Zero-G Cup Lets Astronauts ‘Smell the Coffee’
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti sipped espresso for the first time in space May 3, 2015, from a cup designed for low-gravity use in the cupola of the International Space Station. Researchers are building such cups to learn abo…
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. NATO has called an “extraordinary meeting” after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
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A charge of murder is expected to be filed against a white Chicago police officer accused of shooting a black teenager 16 times, just one day before a deadline by which a judge has ordered the city to release a squad-car video of the incident.
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Your Move, SpaceX: Blue Origin Just Secretly Landed a Reusable Rocket | Motherboard
In a development that has come more or less out of nowhere, Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, called Blue Origin, secretly launched a rocket to space and then landed it within five feet of its takeoff point, taking the lead over SpaceX in the race to mak…
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Jimi Hendrix’s Excalibur and the Secret Teachings of Heavy Metal|Dangerous Minds
This coming Friday is Jimi Hendrix’s birthday. In honor of that event, guest blogger Adam Ganderson contributed this bit of heavy metal history to Dangerous Minds.
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Randall “XKCD” Munroe’s Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words arrives in stores today: it combines technical diagrams and wordplay in pure display of everything that makes XKCD brilliant and wonderful in every way.
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Downing of Russia jet ‘stab in the back’ – Putin – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has bitterly condemned the downing of a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border. He described it as a “stab in the back” committed by “accomplices of terrorists”.
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Blue Origin sticks rocket landing, a major step toward reusable spaceflight | Ars Technica
Jeff Bezos finally one-upped Elon Musk in space. On Tuesday Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, announced its New Shepard space vehicle had ascended to 100.5km and returned successfully to the ground near its West Texas launch site.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Will Finally Win an Oscar for The Revenant, If Voter | Vanity Fair
This is going to be the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins that Oscar. We’ve been saying it for months now—and years, really, if you go back to those heady Wolf of Wall Street/Blood Diamond/The Aviator days—but now it’s happening. For real this tim…
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How to cope with writer’s block | Children’s books | The Guardian
‘Writer’s block’ is a weird phrase. It implies that writing is an arcane art that channels a mysterious force—a force which may, like a drain, become blocked by malevolent forces beyond the writer’s control. You can probably guess that I don’t belie…
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Kim Dotcom’s New Zealand extradition trial wraps up | Ars Technica
After nine weeks, Kim Dotcom’s extradition trial has ended. US prosecutors are seeking to have the founder of the now defunct Megaupload cyberlocker site shipped from his New Zealand home to the US to face trial on charges of criminal copyright infr…
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Don’t Bet on Your Business To Fund Your Retirement
If you own your own business and business is good, your plan might be to fund your retirement by selling your company someday. But as Entrepreneur writer Sujan Patel puts it: your business isn’t a retirement plan. Betting on your company is a risky …
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Note: Here’s the posting schedule for the rest of the week. Regular C&J tomorrow, a special Thanksgiving edition Thursday, and then no C&J Friday. Back Monday for the ceremonial fighting over the leftover gizzards. Days `til the Lighting of the Nat…
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How to Get More Dads to Take Paternity Leave – The Atlantic
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced last week (on Facebook, of course) that he is planning to take two months of paternity leave when his daughter is born.
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French president Francois Hollande heads to the White House on Tuesday, calling for urgency in the war against Islamic State but also attempting to smooth ruffled feathers over his next diplomatic stop.
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COP 21: Malawi’s battle to hold on to forests – BBC News
You’d be pushed to find a more uplifting display of the transformative power of renewable energy. In a one-room house in rural Malawi, the little face of six-year-old Rachel is framed in a soft white halo.
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This Could Be The Mortgage Industry’s iPhone Moment | TechCrunch
The goal was to allow a person to get a mortgage or refinance their home while standing in line for a cup of coffee. The process takes less than 10 minutes. Like TurboTax, the service repackages complicated applications into a simple online form.
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In the Caribbean island of Grenada, people know the ocean is rising. Water is about to reach houses in the coastal villages of Soubise and Marquis. Climate change is happening and it is affecting us, and in particular our female farmers.
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The best Black Friday TV deals on 4K, Ultra HD, and smart TVs | The Verge
Aside from maybe Super Bowl weekend, there’s really no better time to buy yourself a brand new TV than Black Friday.
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Uber Exec Shares How They’ve Built A Global Business | TechCrunch
Uber has become a market leader in transportation but that wasn’t always the case. The startup had humble beginnings in San Francisco before it expanded to other cities.
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Turks Shoot Down a Russian Fighter, Raising Cold War Fears – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — Russia and NATO member Turkey came head to head on Tuesday as Turkish war planes shot down a Russian fighter jet near the border with Syria, setting the stage for a possible Cold-War-style confrontation between East and West.
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Think Campus P.C. Is Out of Control? Look at the Military. | New Republic
To put political correctness on college campuses in some actual perspective—terrible scourge, or media hysteria?—it helps to look at another institution that houses and trains a lot of angry and hormonal 18- to 24-year-olds: the U.S. military.
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Kerry condemns Palestinian attacks in Israel as ‘terrorism’ – BBC News
The US Secretary of State has denounced as “acts of terrorism” a wave of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis, on a visit to Jerusalem.
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The Secret Sauce Behind Dr. Seuss’s Made-Up Words – The Atlantic
In the world of Dr.
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Earth’s Atmosphere Just Crossed a Threshhold – The Atlantic
Where were you on November 11, 2015? It was only a couple weeks ago, but already you may not remember. It was a humming but unexceptional news day. In the United States, protestors at the University of Missouri had just successfully ousted their pre…
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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Syria Border – The Atlantic
Turkey has shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border after the aircraft violated its airspace and ignored repeated warnings, according to the Turkish military.
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After Paris: ISIL’s strategy against the ‘far enemy’ – Al Jazeera English
“The directive that came to us so far is not to target the West and America from al-Sham [Syria and other parts of the Levant]. And we are committed to the directive of Dr Ayman [al-Zawahiri] may God protect him.
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After years of unprecedented financial and enrollment gains, the for-profit college industry is in a tailspin as once-mighty firms are shuttering or agreeing to large legal payments to settle cases in which they were accused of misleading students.
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The photography of Philip Larkin – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Philip Larkin aged 14, with his sister Kitty, during one of the family’s trips to Germany, in 1936. Larkin didn’t say much about the political situation they would have encountered there, but he wrote that their father, Sydney, “liked jolly singing …
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COP21: Malawi requests funds to battle climate change – BBC News
Malawi is one of the world’s poorest countries, where the majority of people have no electricity. In spite of its lack of wealth, the African nation has promised to join the battle against climate change, but on the condition that richer countries p…
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Rude Behavior Spreads like a Disease – Scientific American
People exposed to rude behavior tend to have concepts associated with rudeness activated in their minds, and consequently may interpret ambiguous but benign behaviors as rude.
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California public school textbooks mislead students on climate, study says : environment
California public school textbooks mislead students on climate, study says (theguardian.com)submitted 7 hours ago by loading…
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It will soon be too late for Barack Obama to correct the ruling that unleashed dark money into the election cycle (usatoday.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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The homeless people who live beside the LA river – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
Recently Oliver Wainwright reported on plans to revitalise Los Angeles’s concrete-lined waterway. But what of the many homeless people who rely on a river that can turn deadly in a winter storm? Portraits by David McNew
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Earth’s seasons time lapse from space : space
Florida’s seasons time lapse from space. Where’s that on the main submission? Always getting fucked by something.
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Dell admits security flaw was built in to computers – BBC News
A security hole that could allow attackers to access users’ personal data was inadvertently placed on Dell computers, the company has admitted.The hole represented a “profound security flaw” that could allow access to bank details and other personal…
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Dark Matter ‘Hairs’ May Surround Earth
Earth may sport a thick coat of superlong dark matter “hairs,” a new study suggests.
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Six Ways To Climate-Proof Your Thanksgiving | ThinkProgress
Figuring out just how to reduce your personal carbon impact can be a daunting, and at times, confusing task (just ask the King of Sweden, who recently decided to give up baths for the environment).
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How Refugees Make It In America | FiveThirtyEight
One of the first things college English majors learn is how to riff (semi-coherently) on the concept of “The Other.
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Private bus routes that inspired rowdy protests around Silicon Valley in recent years will now deliver some shared prosperity in that booming but divided region. Drivers on the routes are seeing their wages and benefits increase dramatically thanks …
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The Best Culture Writing Of 2015 | ThinkProgress
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Round-up season! Here is our second annual unranked list of (some of the) best culture writing of the year. Read on for the reasoning behind our picks and excerpts from each of the selected stories.
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Don’t Cry for Tracy Morgan | GQ
Last year, he was in an automobile accident so devastating, so spirit-breaking, it was difficult to imagine ever laughing at him again. Now, though, as he makes his defiant return to comedy, Morgan shares the grim and gritty of his recovery. And we …
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This is How Mundane Events Turn Into Overblown Controversies
Everyone is so angry these days, right? Not necessarily. While there are plenty of legitimate things to be angry about, here’s how sites can turn a relatively mundane event into a “controversy” everyone comments on.
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A crowd helps a man who got his leg stuck : gifs
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My morning advice: Don’t talk about taking down Donald Trump. Just take him down. : democrats
My morning advice: Don’t talk about taking down Donald Trump. Just take him down. (reddit.com)
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Bill Hicks’ ‘Arizona Bay’: With unreleased material—and without the terrible music|Dangerous Minds
In 1997, when Rykodisc gave wide commercial release to the work of the deceased comic visionary/cosmic truth-seeker Bill Hicks, two of those releases heavily featured his guitar playing as well as his comedy.
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The Republicans Who Support Bernie Sanders : democrats
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Egypt hotel attack: Four killed in el-Arish, Sinai – BBC News
Two suicide bombers and a gunman have killed four people in an attack on a hotel in North Sinai, Egyptian officials say. The attackers, who targeted the Swiss Inn hotel in provincial capital el-Arish, were all killed, they said.
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Ebola crisis: Liberia boy dies after fresh cases – BBC News
A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, officials have told the BBC.He tested positive last week and died late on Monday at a treatment centre near the capital, Monrovia…
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Meet Bobbie McGee AKA ‘Gladys Glitter’: Glam rock’s ‘lost’ none-hit-wonder|Dangerous Minds
A few weeks ago Cherry Bombed, one of my co-conspirators here at Dangerous Minds, was working on a post about vintage Swedish rock and roll trading cards and contacted me to ask if I knew who “Bobby McGee” was. As well-versed in glitter and glam as …
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ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets on patrol near the Syrian border shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday that Turkey said violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West.
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Move Over Moonshine–Here Comes Sunshine – Scientific American
Researchers in the US have demonstrated a remarkably efficient new way to distil alcohol from water—using light. The method needs less energy than conventional thermal distillation and produces a more concentrated distillate.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Calling out Donald Trump’s lies
In the Republican field, Mr. Trump has distinguished himself as fastest to dive to the bottom. If it’s a lie too vile to utter aloud, count on Mr. Trump to say it, often. It wins him airtime, and retweets through the roof. This phenomenon is in fact…
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How Optogenetics Could Shine a Light on the Causes and Treatment of OCD | Motherboard
Obsessive compulsive disorder is an oft-misunderstood illness. Frequently used as flippant shorthand for “tidy” or “organised,” OCD can, in reality, be deeply debilitating for sufferers; the World Health Organisation describes it as causing “conside…
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Thanksgiving Chemistry AMAScience AMA Series: my name is Sally Mitchell, a high school chemistry teacher and current Albert Einstein Fellow at DOE’s Office of Science. Ask me anything about kitchen chemistry hacks for Thanksgiving cooking, AMA! (sel…
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The reusable space rocket is nearly here with Blue Origin’s first successful landing | The Verge
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin, helmed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says it has landed its main rocket, New Shepard, back on Earth after launch. That would make it the first rocket ever to have gently landed and remain in tact after taking…
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HRW: Turkey pushing back Syrian refugees at border – Al Jazeera English
Human Rights Watch says Syrian refugees who have been attempting to enter Turkey are being pushed back as they try to cross. In a report released on Monday, the New York-based rights watchdog group said Turkey has now closed all its borders to Syria…
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A group of white supremacists opened fire on an encampment of Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis on Monday night, according to witnesses. Five protesters were shot and sustained injuries. The police are seeking three white male suspects.
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Analysis: Is Turkey’s ‘open door policy’ an illusion? – Al Jazeera English
As thousands of Syrian refugees continue to make their way to safety across Europe, many of their countrymen left behind are finding it much more difficult to flee the war, allegedly as a result of a shift in Turkey’s border policy.
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Turkey-Syria border: Russian plane downed – CNN.com
One of the world’s most volatile regions was roiled further Tuesday when a Russian warplane went down near the Turkish-Syria border. Turkey said it “responded” to a plane after the aircraft repeatedly violated its airspace and ignored several warnin…
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Are mini nuclear reactors the answer to the climate change crisis? | Environment | The Guardian
Mini nuclear power plants could be trucked into a town near you to provide your hot water, or shipped to any country that wants to plug them into their electricity grid from the dock.
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One of the safer crossings into Syria is at a small town called Fishkhabour, in the far northwestern corner of Iraq.
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Early one weekend morning in January 2014, Janet was sleeping fitfully in her parents’ home in Toronto. A junior studying elementary education at a nearby college, she had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse.
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Brown University Releases a $100 Million Plan to Increase Inclusivity – The Atlantic
Every university responds to student protests in its own way.
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The American SAFE Act and Paul Ryan’s Broken Promise to Fix the House – The Atlantic
Before taking the speakership last month, Paul Ryan made a promise to fix a “broken” House of Representatives and return the chamber to “regular order.
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The Great Cranberry Scare – The New Yorker
On November 26, 1959, Mamie Eisenhower served applesauce with dinner. Although the First Lady might have preferred not to make headlines with her choice of stewed fruit, the actor Rosalind Russell, a guest at the White House that evening, disclosed …
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Peugeot Citroen to publish ‘real world’ emissions data – BBC News
French carmaker Peugeot Citroen plans to measure and publish the “real world” fuel usage and pollutant emissions of its main passenger vehicles. Environmental group Transport & Environment will help it to collate the figures, which will be based on …
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‘Normality’ in Brussels amid hunt for Paris suspects – Al Jazeera English
As Belgium extends the lockdown of its capital Brussels for another week, those in the city have told Al Jazeera life is continuing as normal for many of its residents.
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Navigate the Jungle of Tech Ecosystems – Scientific American
That was an important question immediately after the arrival of the iPhone and its competitors. But now it’s time to admit that today’s smartphones (and tablets) are nearly identical.
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Adele Mailer, an artist and actress who made headlines in 1960 when her husband, the novelist Norman Mailer, stabbed and seriously wounded her at a drunken party in their apartment, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 90. Her death was confirmed by…
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Sweet peas: wild at heart | Life and style | The Guardian
It’s that time of year again. That time of year when I battle with the question of whether I should sow my sweet peas now or in the spring. One thing I don’t battle with is which varieties I am going to sow.
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BBC Sport – Michel Platini: Fifa seeking life ban for suspended vice-president
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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This Video Explains Why You Should Talk Salary With Your Coworkers
Despite how troublesome the idea is, many of us still assume that discussing salary is either rude or potentially illegal. In most cases, it only hurts yourself and everyone in the company.
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Facebook privacy judgement ‘waiting for translation’ – BBC News
A judgement requiring Facebook to make major changes to privacy settings in Belgium has been delayed while the court document is translated into English, the BBC has learned.
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Five people were shot near Black Lives Matter protest site : democrats
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Gunfire erupts at the site of Black Lives Matter protest; 5 are injured – StarTribune.com
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Pakistani female fighter pilot dies in air crash – Al Jazeera English
A female Pakistani fighter pilot has been killed after her trainer jet crashed near the central town of Mianwali, according to the Pakistan military. It was the first such loss for the country’s tiny community of women pilots.
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First Click: 5 billion connected ‘things’ still lack meaningful connections | The Verge
By this time next year, Gartner expects there to be 6.4 billion connected things in use, or almost one device for every human being living through the Internet of Things hype cycle. That number represents 30 percent growth from 2015, and a doubling …
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Shutting up shop: Why s ADIA closing its London office? – Al Jazeera English
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world’s richest wealth funds, is planning to close its London offices. Worth an estimated $773bn, ADIA has issued a statement saying the decision won’t affect its investments or commitments to th…
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Refugees sew lips together in border protest – Al Jazeera English
Refugees stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border have stripped down and sewn their lips together to protest against the restrictions placed on their movement.
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