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Holy Smoke! New Raspberry Pi Zero Costs Just $5… | TechCrunch
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has upped the ante when it comes to low cost single board computers, announcing a new additional to its family of microprocessors today, called Pi Zero. And it costs… just $5. (Or £4 in the U.K.)
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South Africa lifts ban on domestic rhino horn trade – BBC News
It overturns a moratorium on the trade imposed by the government in 2009 to address rhino poaching. One of the breeders, John Hume, blamed a sharp increase in rhino poaching on the ban.
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London’s black cabs to accept contactless payments next year | The Verge
Transport for London (TfL) lost its high court battle to challenge Uber on behalf of London’s black cabs last month, and now it’s announcing proposals to modernize all London taxis. If approved in February, all London taxis will be required to accep…
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Cameron Says UK Must Start Bombing Isil in Syria | Al Jazeera America
Prime Minister David Cameron told lawmakers on Thursday that Britain owes it to allies France and the United States to join airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria.
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On 10 September, Dr Mahmoud Solh, director general of the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (Icarda), sent an urgent request to the Svalbard global seed vault asking for the return of collections of seeds once held in Alepp…
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How connected is your city? Urban transport trends around the world | Cities | The Guardian
Cities exist to provide access to people, goods, services and information: the better and more efficient this access, the greater the social and economic benefits of urban living.
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Switzerland Briefly Legalized LSD Therapy and Then Couldn’t Let It Go | Motherboard
In 1988, Switzerland made therapy with psychedelic drugs legal. Five psychiatrists and psychotherapists were given permission to prescribe MDMA or LSD to their patients. It was a hell of an allowance, and at the time, shocked even the therapists who…
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The safety tips, concise and chilling, have been passed from friend to Muslim friend on social media, by imams to their congregations, by Islamic groups to their members, by parents to their children heading off to school:When in the
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12 ways to spend Black Friday instead of wasting your money | Grist
In Montana, the Blackfeet tribe have been fighting the oil drilling leases for decades. We looked into our COP21 crystal ball and saw James Inhofe in a snowball fight, a fun field trip to Versailles, and a lot of Camus.
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The graceful Felis domesticus stalks its prey – GIF on Imgur
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Add Another Layer To History With StoryCorps’ Great Thanksgiving Listen | TechCrunch
This is the time of the year when you see a million “how to survive the holidays with your family” guides appear. Even for people who actually like their relatives, Thanksgiving is often so hectic it’s hard to actually sit down and have a real conve…
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Diana Athill stopped thinking of herself as a sexual being in her mid-70s, and “after a short period of shock at the fact, found it very restful”.
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The War on Black Thursday | New Republic
At some point in the recent past, Black Friday invaded Thanksgiving. While it’s unclear exactly when this trend began, it gained enough momentum by 2007 to warrant a story from The New York Times.
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What Thanksgiving Says About America | New Republic
For many Canadians, the end of November is a puzzling time of year, because we start hearing from American friends about the stresses of Thanksgiving, which include arduous travels to see quarrelsome relatives. Both the timing and the argumentativen…
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Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is a historical adventure about the extraordinary story of Arthur Hobhouse when he emigrated to Australia. He is joined by many characters including: the hateful piggy bacon, Dear Ida, Marty, Aunty Maggs and lots more.
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La décision du gouvernement français d’interdire les manifestations, marches, défilés et autres « activités de plein air » pendant le sommet sur le climat de Paris est inquiétante – de même que l’inégalité fondamentale de la crise climatique elle-mê…
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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call (1997) – YouTube
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John McDonnell’s Chairman Mao Joke Shows Why Labour Are Unelectable | VICE | United Kingdom
Which Communist icon is a laugh riot? That’s right – Chairman LMAO.
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Steal From Women, Give to Women: The UK’s Bloody Stupid Tampon Tax | Broadly
The majority of women on planet earth shed their uterine lining regularly, making health products related to menstruation an obvious, basic human right. But while other products that sustain life are exempt from tax in the United Kingdom, there is a…
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So Are We All at War Against the Islamic State, and Is That Legal? | VICE News
Twelve days after the attacks, and Paris can breathe again.
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Essex’s New Privatised Police Force Sells Fear to Old People | VICE | United Kingdom
Stephen Beardsley has the handshake of a bouncer and the CV of a mercenary.
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Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA. [OC] [7439×4962] : EarthPorn
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South African judge lifts domestic ban on rhino horn trade | Environment | The Guardian
A South African judge on Thursday lifted a domestic ban on trade in rhino horns, in a direct challenge to government policy put in place in 2009 to try to stem rocketing poaching numbers.
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O Governo do Reino Unido irá fornecer apoio financeiro no valor de centenas de milhões de euros à companhia petrolífera brasileira, embora esta enfrente investigações por corrupção em vários países.
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Pakistan Taliban commander allegedly killed by drones – Al Jazeera English
A senior commander of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been killed in US drone strikes in Afghanistan’s Khost province, Pakistani intelligence officials told Al Jazeera.
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Do you remember the ancient history of HIV/AIDS? — …
How do I teach the history of HIV/AIDS to today’s students? I find myself pondering this question, trying to figure out how to convey the dramatic story of a catastrophic, culturally charged epidemic (one that has claimed nearly 40 million lives) to…
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What Whole Foods’ ‘Responsibly Grown’ Label Really Means. (nbcnews.com) New found respect. Good read. Thank you…
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Moonshots for the Earth: can we find technological solutions for climate change? : environment
Moonshots for the Earth: can we find technological solutions for climate change? (thelongandshort.org)
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Your Thanksgiving Turkey in 6 Eye-Popping Charts – Because what’s holiday dinner without some know-it-all facts to share? (motherjones.com)
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Earth Doesn’t Have Be Doomed Like Atlantis — We Can Change Course – A cheat sheet on how epic floods have shaped civilization. (motherjones.com)
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What Whole Foods’ ‘Responsibly Grown’ Label Really Means. : environment
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What Whole Foods’ ‘Responsibly Grown’ Label Really Means – NBC News
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November 26, 1863: Abraham Lincoln Proclaims Thanksgiving Day | The Nation
Forget the Pilgrims, forget Plymouth Rock, forget Squanto: the real origin of modern Thanksgiving, as with so much else of goodness in our national tradition, comes directly from the pen of Abraham Lincoln, who declared that this day in 1863—the las…
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Earth Doesn’t Have Be Doomed Like Atlantis — We Can Change Course | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to confronting global climate change, we don’t have much experience to draw on.
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Wearable fitness trackers are becoming increasingly popular, but a lot of them are quickly abandoned after the novelty of tracking exercise and sleep wears off. GOQii, however, believes it has landed on the winning formula for long-term success.
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Peace among the Hillary-bots & Bernie-bros: This Thanksgiving, it’s not your right-wing Trump-loving uncle you have to worry about… Forget right-wing relatives. The real Thanksgiving fight to avoid this year is the Sanders vs. Clinton battle (salon.…
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You Say You Hate Black Friday. Maybe You’re Just Lying to Yourself. | Mother Jones
Over the past five years, Black Friday has migrated steadily into Thanksgiving, with each new year bringing fresh examples of big box stores flinging their doors open on Turkey Day. But this year the trend hit the skids.
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The New Attack on ‘One Person, One Vote’ – It’s been settled law for 5 decades—but now the Supreme Court might shoot it down. (thenation.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Hey VCs, Here Are The Companies On Display In Startup Alley At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
Attention all you investors out there. We’re excited to unveil the companies that will be participating in the Startup Alley at Disrupt London 2015, and you can catch a glimpse of all of them by visiting our new Startup Alley Hub.
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It’s every politician’s dream: an electronic feature that automatically changes people’s votes from no to yes. It’s the perfect antidote to those tiresome folk who insist on having their voices heard. You know, the ones who claim we live in a democr…
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Sony to pay staff $8m compensation over cyber attack – BBC News
A US judge has granted approval to a settlement of up to $8m (£5m) damages between Sony and employees affected by the 2014 hack of the firm’s computers.Sony agreed to reimburse current and former staff up to $10,000 each to cover costs related to id…
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Even the Food Standards Agency Could Access UK Surveillance Data Under New Bill | Motherboard
The UK’s proposed mass surveillance powers, if made law, will force internet service providers to store every citizen’s web browsing history for up to a year. From there, police forces and security agencies will be able apply for a warrant to access…
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Qatar orders inquiry after rain exposes construction flaws – BBC News
Qatar’s prime minister has ordered an inquiry after heavy rain exposed poor construction in the country set to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup. The official Qatar News Agency said five firms were under investigation and “parties responsible for derelic…
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Man survives after being hit by Alabama demolition – BBC News
Tim Phifer, the driver of the vehicle that the smokestack collapsed on, was left with only a scratch. During the demolition explosive charges initially failed to bring the tower down.
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Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post in takeover talks – BBC News
The publisher of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) has confirmed that it is in talks to sell the popular English-language newspaper.
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If the crucial Paris climate summit is the highest stakes poker game of international diplomacy ever held, David Cameron will sit down on Monday with little but bluff.
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What has Bristol achieved as Europe’s ‘Green Capital’? – BBC News
Climate change is one of the biggest threats the world faces today and next week Paris plays host to a major international conference on climate change.
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Citizen journalists capture life in Raqqa under Islamic State – BBC News
The citizen journalists behind Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) are the main – and often only – source of information about life in a city controlled by the so-called Islamic State.
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Eagles of Death Metal recount horror of Paris attacks for the first time | The Verge
Eagles of Death Metal, the band that was playing at Paris’ Bataclan concert venue during this month’s terrorist attacks, say they want to be the first act to perform at the club when it reopens.
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White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study – NBC News : politics
Scary thing: more people will die of drunk drivers this Thanksgiving than all the terror incidents in the US’s history combined. I think we know who the real terrorists are Its owned by the Belgium company InBev. Belgium had citizens involved in the…
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US West Point military academy bans mass pillow fights – BBC News
Huge pillow fights among US cadets to mark the end of summer training at the prestigious West Point military academy are to be banned, officials say. At least 24 cadets were reported to have been left unconscious because pillows were stuffed with ha…
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Port neighborhoods demand action from the EPA | Grist
It’s cheaper for airlines to cut emissions than you’d expect, according to a new study. According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined.
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Turkey expects new talks on its EU bid next month – BBC News
The EU will give fresh impetus next month to Turkey’s bid to join the 28-nation bloc by opening talks on economic policy, Turkey has announced. Turkey’s new Europe Minister Volkan Bozkir said the EU had agreed to open a new chapter in stalled negoti…
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Pope urges ‘essential’ interfaith dialogue in Africa – Al Jazeera English
Pope Francis’ first Africa trip will highlight the problem of a lack of dialogue between Christianity and Islam, the two fastest growing religions on the continent.
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Cameron: Britain should join Syria air strikes – Al Jazeera English
Britain should join air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria and should not “sub-contract” its security to allies, Prime Minister David Cameron said.
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Sweden’s Minister of the Future Explains How to Make Politicians Think Long-Term | Motherboard
Kristina Persson’s job is rather unique. Just over a year ago, Stefan Löfven, Sweden’s current social democratic prime minister, decided the 70-year-old from Österstund would be the perfect figure to lead the country’s new ministry of future issues,…
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Today I’m thankful for Raspberry Pi and its $5 Zero computer | The Verge
We don’t have a Thanksgiving Day in the UK, but we do have Raspberry Pi. The British company that grew around its titular Raspberry Pi programmable computer is back with a new model today that’s even more affordable and accessible than the $25 origi…
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It does not take much to go from mostly unknown athlete to the talk of the sports world. All it takes is dominating and then knocking out a fighter generally considered to be unbeatable.
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Sweden is challenging the world to go fossil fuel-free | Åsa Romson | Environment | The Guardian
The world can tackle climate change, but time is short. Sweden aims to be one of the world’s first fossil fuel-free welfare nations. With our initiative Fossil-free Sweden, we now challenge other countries to do likewise. Global warming threatens th…
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Satago is a UK fintech startup with a simple premise — to help small businesses and freelancers get paid on time.
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1) Tyson Fury is a born entertainer: he has warmed up his vocal chords in the build-up to this weekend’s bout with Wladimir Klitschko, serenading the Big Ukrainian with ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ in Düsseldorf. Don’t forget Fury has already dressed up …
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Despite its title and setting in and around the Palace of Westminster, this rollicking debut novel from journalist and political sketch writer Quentin Letts is less a political satire than a love song written to the grand old Church of England.
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Heathrow protesters cause chaos by blocking entrance to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 (theguardian.com)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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Long Road to Paris – Al Jazeera English
In December 2015, world leaders will meet in Paris for the UN climate change conference, COP21, to negotiate agreements on a radical reduction in carbon emissions.
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Babi (title) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Babi enters in various Indian titles.
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Environmental activists have caused rush-hour chaos at Heathrow by parking a van across the entrance tunnel to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 and locking themselves to the vehicle so it cannot be moved. The campaign group Plane Stupid says three of its member…
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US DJ Casey Kasem’s children sue stepmother for wrongful death – BBC News
Three of US DJ Casey Kasem’s children and his brother have sued the late star’s widow for wrongful death in the latest move in a bitter family feud.
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Black widow spider web gives up DNA secrets – BBC News
Spiders can be identified from the DNA they leave on webs, say US scientists. Analysis of genetic material stuck to spiders webs also reveals what the insects have eaten weeks after catching their prey.
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Donald Trump mocks reporter’s disability : politics
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Donald Trump mocks reporter’s disability – Nov. 25, 2015
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Man narrowly escapes bushfire in South Australia – BBC News
George Hooker was filming on his phone when smoke and flames engulfed his car near Hamley Bridge. He told the BBC that he was surprised by how quickly he ended up in a dangerous situation.
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Donald Trump under fire for mocking disabled reporter – BBC News
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has been criticised for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter. He has used a 2001 article by Mr Kovaleski to back up widely disputed claims that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the …
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The Raspberry Pi Zero Is a $5 Computer the Size of a Stick of Gum
The Raspberry Pi has long been one of the best credit card sized computers, but today a new version is available that comes in at about the size of a stick of gum. Plus, it’s only $5. The Raspberry Pi Zero is obviously less powerful than the Raspber…
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Uh, Yeah. He’s an asshole. All this shit is just gonna play into his supporter base. “Man, the liberal media can’t even take a joke! The PC in this country has gone too far.”
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Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Reading Girl on a Plane, and experiencing first-hand the terrifying event of a terrorist plane-attack, made me hate planes even more, kept me reading on until the last page in one sitting, but still didn’t really interest me in any way.
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Why are they all so OLD? : democrats
Why are they all so OLD? (victorhanson.com)
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Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi gets smaller – BBC News
It was launched in February 2012 with modest ambitions to give young people a small cheap programmable device – and has become Britain’s most successful homegrown computer. Now Raspberry Pi is getting smaller and cheaper. The latest edition is the R…
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Breakthrough carbon capture technique ushers in era of guilt-free gas (theconversation.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Breakthrough carbon capture technique ushers in era of guilt-free gas : environment
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Breakthrough carbon capture technique ushers in era of guilt-free gas
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A Rollicking French Animation on the Perils of Drinking a Little Too Much Coffee | Open Culture
Moderate coffee consumption may decrease your risk of dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease, reduce your risk of letting colon cancer take you to the grave, possibly help you stave off dementia, and maybe, writes The New York Times, dodge a …
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Mother who left baby in New York church manger won’t be charged | US news | The Guardian
A woman who left her newborn son in a manger at a New York City church will not face criminal charges for giving him up, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. A custodian on Monday found the crying infant with his umbilical cord still attached.
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The Great Stan Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” | Open Culture
What work of American poetry has proven more irresistible than Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven? Certainly we can seldom refrain ourselves from featuring it here on Open Culture.
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Japan to deploy troops near East China Sea islands – Al Jazeera English
Japan is planning to deploy about 500 ground troops on a southern island as territorial disputes with China continue to escalate.
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Tesco agrees $12m payout to US shareholders over accounting scandal | Business | The Guardian
Tesco has agreed to pay $12m to settle a US shareholder lawsuit claiming that accounting irregularities inflated the share price of Britain’s largest retailer. The all-cash settlement was disclosed in filings on Wednesday in Manhattan and requires c…
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Buy Two New Chromecasts, Save $20
We still have yet to see a true discount on the new Chromecasts, but for Black Friday, you can at least save $20 when you buy two. The deal applies to both the Chromecast and the Chromecast Audio, but sadly, you can’t get one of each. [Two Chromecas…
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Your Once-A-Year Nest Thermostat Deal is Live
Nest Learning Thermostats never really go on sale, so if you think you might want one, this $50 gift card promotion is about as good a deal as you’ll ever hope to see. [Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Generation + $50 Amazon Card, $250]
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Mapping ISIL’s attacks in 2015 – 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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LG restructures to boost efficiency and ‘high-growth’ areas beyond TV and mobile | The Verge
LG Electronics has announced major top-level executive changes designed to make the company stronger and more nimble.
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This Massive Anker Battery Pack Just Got Its Biggest Discount Ever
Anker’s ubiquitous Astro series of USB battery packs are some of the most popular items we’ve ever posted, but today we have the best deal we’ve seen on a high capacity model from their brand newer PowerCore line.
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The Arab World is at war with itself – Al Jazeera English
As if the severe damage inflicted by the US-led invasion of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine were not enough, the Arab world is now engaged in a self-destructive process of sectarian polarisation and violence.
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Zano drone makers detail spending and apologise – BBC News
The company behind the failed mini-drone Zano has provided some details of how more than £2.3m in funding was allocated. Torquing Group was criticised for a lack of communication over the Zano after the project folded last week.
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Mario: what was your inspiration for Echoes? I’m a big fan of ‘spy-fi’ TV shows like Alias and Fringe and with Echoes I wanted to try and write a novel with that kind of exciting and hi-tech – but also emotional – feel to it.
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ISIL attacks in 2015 – 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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Amazon’s Memory Sale Includes RAM, Flash Storage, and a Stupid-Cheap SSD
Amazon just kicked off a Thanksgiving “memory” sale, which in this case includes great deals on both Lexar flash storage for everyone, and Crucial RAM for tinkerers. The most exciting deal though is a Crucial BX100 500GB SSD for $120.
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Russian jet navigator: ‘No warnings at all’ from Turkey – Al Jazeera English
The surviving crew member of a Russian fighter jet shot down by Turkey has rejected Ankara’s explanation of the incident, saying there were no warnings given before the plane was attacked.
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Analysis: What does US Intel really know about ISIL? – Al Jazeera English
Many analysts had for years argued that Obama’s lack of vision on Iraq and his ineffective strategy in Syria would create a radicalising momentum that would help ISIL expand its power.
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Palestinian shot dead in West Bank clashes – Al Jazeera English
A Palestinian man was shot and killed during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said. “Yahya Taha, 21, from the village of Qatanna …
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In August, the government announced plans to cut subsidies for rooftop solar by almost 90% in the new year. We asked 20 people affected to share their response to the cuts with us
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A Grim Holiday Season Awaits America’s Hungry | Al Jazeera America
For households that struggle with food insecurity, November often marks the beginning of the particularly lean months. Cooler evenings mean bigger heating bills, putting more stress on grocery budgets.
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Airbus patents modular cabins that turn planes into trucks | The Verge
Flying coach in commercial airliners is already a fairly miserable process, but it can seem like aircraft designers are bent on making the experience even worse.
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Venezuelan Opposition Politician Shot Dead | Al Jazeera America
The shooting took place in the central town of Altagracia de Orituco, said the leader of Democratic Action party, Carolos Prosperi. He said he heard gunshots as the rally was breaking up and the party’s leader for the town, Luis Manuel Diaz, was hit.
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Lessons from Leicester … the UK’s unlikely new poster city for cycling | Cities | The Guardian
Leicester was eviscerated in the 1960s by modernist town planners. They scythed through the medieval core of the city with two inner ring-roads, and multi-lane highways were built to provide fast access to the M1 motorway.
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In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco – in what some might consider an act of lèse majesté towards his literary hero, Jorge Luis Borges – gave his murderous blind librarian the name of Juan de Burgos.
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New York nativity baby: Mother found and will not be charged – BBC News
A mother who left her newborn baby in a manger in a nativity scene in a New York church on Monday has been found and will not be charged, officials say.The district attorney of Queens borough said the mother had been interviewed but he would not nam…
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Germany to send 650 troops to Mali after hotel attack – Al Jazeera English
Germany plans to send about 650 troops to Mali to help with the peacekeeping mission in the restive West African state, the defence minister said. The move comes after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako and killed 19 people last wee…
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Nicki Minaj’s Racist Media Coverage – The Daily Beast
According to Us Magazine, Page Six, and a bunch of other people with a lot of time on their hands, Nicki Minaj “shaded” Jennifer Lopez at the AMAs.
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Which candidate would best fix issues like this if elected? VA goes aggressively after overpayments to veterans and makes disability claims long and difficult, but publicly lets 2 VA executives get away with half million in corruption and even gives…
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Czech Republic [880×1243] : EarthPorn
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, My way is quicker. via /r/gifs…
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Remember in September when a potentially lifesaving medicine suddenly went from $13.
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Pope Francis holds rain-soaked Mass in Kenya – BBC News
Tens of thousands of people are celebrating Mass with Pope Francis at a university campus in Kenya. Francis has urged Kenyans to work for peace and reconciliation as a rise in militant violence threatens his first trip as pontiff to Africa.
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Can Killer Mike Help Bernie Sanders Win Black Voters? | VICE | United Kingdom
If there is one thing that embodies the surreal magic that is the Bernie Sanders Revolution, it is the unlikely friendship that the Vermont Senator has struck up with Atlanta rapper-barber-political theorist Killer Mike.
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This post originally appeared on VICE Canada. Yesterday, Canadian Justice France Charbonneau released her long-awaited report on the state of corruption in Quebec’s construction industry.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto
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So this is what I dealt with today at my LA Fitness Pool – Imgur
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I’m so awkward that I don’t even know if I am using this correctly… – Meme on Imgur
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The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold | Books | The Guardian
On an evening when Anonymous were berating the 1% in Trafalgar Square, I was in a book-lined salon a short distance away with a man who has spent a lifetime dressing the wives of le premier cru.
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Imprisoned Chinese journalist’s jail time reduced – Al Jazeera English
An imprisoned 71-year-old Chinese journalist had her sentence reduced on Thursday to five years from seven following an appeal in a case that has provoked outrage among international rights groups.
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Mekong: a river rising. The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. (theguardian.com)
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Our democracy is completely unrepresentative: Citizens United, gerrymandering, and the real story behind the GOP’s takeover (salon.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Is it still safe to fly? – Al Jazeera English
Airlines and travel companies are bracing themselves for a potential drop in customers as the full impact of the Paris terror attacks and other events sinks home among a normally flying-hungry public and business community.
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Donald Trump appears to mock disabled reporter – video | US news | The Guardian
Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday night Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump seems to mock New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition called arthrogryposis which affects the movement of his arms.
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The case of Sierra Leone’s missing ambulances – Al Jazeera English
Freetown, Sierra Leone – Mariam Momoh was already unconscious when the taxi pulled up in front of her house. She was pregnant and had been vomiting all morning, unable to keep anything down.
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Ola, Uber’s Archrival In India, Hires Its First CFO | TechCrunch
Indian ride-sharing company Ola boosted its efforts to beat Uber this month when it closed its $500 million Series F round, and, fresh off the heels of that news, it has confirmed the hiring of its first CFO.
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Koreas hold rare meeting to kick-start peace talks – Al Jazeera English
North and South Korean officials sat down for rare talks on Thursday aimed at paving the way for a high-level, lasting dialogue that has constantly eluded the two North Asian rivals.
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Fifty years ago, Arlo Guthrie took out the trash after Thanksgiving dinner. Little did he know the subsequent chain of events would lead to his most celebrated song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”—an 18-minute deadpan-and-guitar monologue.
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Leaving the UK and going “home” to Ghana – BBC News
A growing number of young professionals born in the UK are choosing to migrate to Africa. Nancy Kacungira went to meet some to find out why. On a typical party night, DJ Kobby can be found at one of the hottest bars in Accra, showing off some of the…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, A very friendly deer. via /r/aww…
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The New York Times has criticised Donald Trump as “outrageous” after the Republican presidential front-runner mocked one of its reporters and appeared to imitate his disability.
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David Cameron to make case for Syria air strikes – BBC News
David Cameron is to present his case to the Commons later for the UK launching air strikes against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria. The prime minister will urge MPs to back military action as he sets out a “comprehensive strategy” to tack…
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War Machine Mocks Rape Case in Court – The Daily Beast
He may be War Machine, but he wants the world to know he’s all heart.
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Can Dogs Prevent Anxiety in Kids? – The Daily Beast
Dogs are the centerpieces of many families: the jokers, the playful ones, the troublemakers. But what if their presence does something more serious—like prevent anxiety in kids?
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Can Soul Icon Allen Toussaint Topple Robert E. Lee in New Orleans? – The Daily Beast
Funerals in New Orleans are an art form, a mirror of the mind of the town.
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Inside the Gentrification of Food – The Daily Beast
They came in their smart little cars—a Cooper, a Fiat, a rented Zip Car or whatever was en vogue. They brought their shelter dogs, not unlike the pooches back home that used to dart over the avenues and into alleys in search of scraps from last nigh…
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This Is How to Celebrate ‘Friendsgiving’ – The Daily Beast
Not every Thanksgiving resembles a Norman Rockwell painting, a wholesome picture of a family quietly sitting in reverence around the table as grandma places a perfectly cooked turkey at the head.
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The Muslim Media Mogul Standing Up to ISIS and the Taliban – The Daily Beast
The specter of an attack by radical Islamic terrorists is an unfortunate reality for Afghan media mogul Saad Mohseni.
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Frank Sinatra’s Voice Saved His Life – The Daily Beast
James Kaplan’s Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan’s previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Fr…
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Will Anthony Bourdain’s Market Be Sweet or Sour? – The Daily Beast
From Midtown’s Michelin-starred cathedrals of fine dining to the multicultural ethnic food scene in Queens, New York City is a place of eating.
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How to Have an Expat Thanksgiving – The Daily Beast
It was almost two years ago when my husband came home one day and said a recruiter had contacted him about a promising job in London. At the time I quickly put it out of my mind—he’d already considered a few positions outside San Francisco, from Por…
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Why Thanksgiving Matters: It’s Not About the Turkey – The Daily Beast
My family was, and is, nontraditional in all the ways America is becoming: It’s blended; it’s geographically disparate; it’s multi-cultural. We are riven by divorces and fused by adoptions. There are many more marriages than there are pairs of peopl…
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Recently, Russia’s parliament voted on two important bills that will help determine the country’s future. The first proposed to restrict foreign funding for Russian media.
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It’s the kind of conspiracy theory so all-encompassing that it explains the very roots of all modern American wars, depression, economic boom, and (most importantly!) the darkest, best-kept secrets of international banking.
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How Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’ Uses Superpowers to Expose the Evils of Abuse – The Daily Beast
Over the last few years, Netflix has proven to be uniquely invested in shows that don’t shy away from the dark side of women’s experiences.
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Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto via NASA https://t.co/Zn2z4XycR5 https://t.co/SxPEUEBqZo https://t.co/ztyjBVLI3l
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In 1939, the nation’s largest retailers sent Franklin D. Roosevelt an urgent plea. Thanksgiving fell on the last day of November that year, giving merchants too few days before Christmas to unleash the season’s sales. The holiday might be a time-hon…
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America Celebrates Thanksgiving – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
All across the nation, families and loved ones are gathering to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. What are you thankful for this year?
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The climate circus comes to town | Suzanne Goldenberg | Environment | The Guardian
On the evening of 18 December 2009, Barack Obama and a trail of White House and State Department officials swept through a cavernous exhibition centre in Copenhagen and barged, uninvited, into a private meeting between the leaders of four powerful d…
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Hey, Hera: why did you just send Kanan and Rex out to save Ezra and Commander Sato? Sure, Kanan’s original idea, bringing the whole gang out to save him, was a bad, incomplete idea, but you never bothered to explain why your idea–sending two people …
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Obama ‘Deeply Disturbed’ by Chicago shooting | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama said he was “deeply disturbed” by the graphic video footage of the death in Chicago of a black teen shot 16 times by a white police officer. The dash-cam video shows Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white, shooting 17-year-old L…
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Chat App Line Is Testing A Gift Shop For Sending Real-World Goods To Friends | TechCrunch
Line, the messaging app from Japan, dipped its toes into commerce when it launched a grocery service back in Thailand back in February, now it has extended that with a new gift shop for offline products.
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Thanksgiving TV is Elementary, my dear Watson · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 26. All times are Eastern. Elementary (CBS, 10 p.m.
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How to Watch 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
The 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade begins Thursday at 9 a.m. ET, with NBC covering the festivities once again. Lasting a full three hours, the parade will feature 8,000 participants, from pop singers and high school marching bands to dance squa…
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Sydney police say a man was left “quite embarrassed” after several neighbours mistook his efforts to kill a spider for a domestic violence incident.
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APOD: 2015 November 25 – Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto
Explanation: Why are there unusual pits on Pluto? The indentations were discovered during the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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Chicago protests over police shooting of black teen – Al Jazeera English
The release of a graphic video showing the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white policeman has ignited peaceful protests in the US city of Chicago.
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Cartoons for Thanksgiving – The New Yorker
Thanksgiving is upon us! As someone who’s half English and half American, I normally eat half a turkey on Thanksgiving, with a side of half a fish with half a portion of chips that have all been cut in half lengthways.
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The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale – The New Yorker
The Foro Italico is a large sports complex in Rome that was built between 1928 and 1938 at the behest of Benito Mussolini. Originally, it was called the Foro Mussolini, and, at its entrance, a towering obelisk bears the inscription “MUSSOLINI DUX.
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Eureka Dunes in Death Valley National Park – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The Best Deal of Black Friday: Amazon Fire Tablet For $35
Tablets don’t have to be amazing to be useful, and there’s no better standard bearer of that philosophy than Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet.
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‘Empire’ Recap: Kiss Off | Rolling Stone
All the great shows ask big questions.
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New houses will have to be retrofitted, UK climate watchdog warns | Environment | The Guardian
Housing built in the UK today and in the next few years may have to be expensively retrofitted with energy-saving technology within the next two decades, according to the government’s climate advisers.
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Nature’s stormcock on mistletoe duty | Environment | The Guardian
A mistle thrush has proved to be our foul-weather friend over these last few storm battered weeks. High winds summon it to the treetops, a row of limes, where it guards the mistletoe against all comers.
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Amazon’s 4K Fire TV and Affordable Fire TV Stick Are Both On Sale For Black Friday
You need a 4K-capable streaming box to go with your new TV, and Amazon’s new Fire TV has all the horsepower you could want, plus a $25 Black Friday discount. That’s the best deal we’ve ever seen. [Amazon Fire TV, $75]
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The Best Deal of Black Friday: Amazon Fire Tablet For $35
Tablets don’t have to be amazing to be useful, and there’s no better standard bearer of that philosophy than Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet.
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North and South Korea hold rare talks aimed at improving ties – BBC News
Officials from North and South Korea are meeting for rare talks aimed at improving long-strained ties, after a military standoff in August. The meeting is taking place at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone.
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Queen and Duke of Edinburgh travel to Malta for three-day tour – BBC News
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are set to arrive in Malta later for a three-day tour. The royal couple lived on the island as newlyweds before the Queen’s accession to the throne, and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary there in 2007.
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Here It Is, Your Black Friday Amazon Echo Discount
In spite of all the snark when it first launched, the Amazon Echo is actually pretty great, and you can save $30 on yours for Black Friday.
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Man convicted of killing wife, posting Facebook photo – Al Jazeera English
A jury found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook.
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500 Startups Extends Thailand-Based Micro-Fund To $12 Million | TechCrunch
Weeks after more than doubling the size of its fund for Southeast Asia, US-based VC firm 500 Startups has intensified its focus on the region once again after it increased the size of its micro-fund for Thailand to $12 million.
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TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges. (newyorker.com) Or to have no effect because it’s 2015 and every remaining fax machine is engineered to prevent these kinds of att…
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This year, an area of the ocean the size of India has been protected from overfishing, putting the world on track to reach the UN goal of 10% of the oceans protected by 2020 (flipboard.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Venezuela opposition politician Luiz Manuel Diaz ‘killed’ – BBC News
A regional opposition leader in Venezuela has been shot dead, his party says, less than two weeks before parliamentary elections.The Democratic Action party says Luiz Manuel Diaz was killed by attackers in a car as he was holding a public meeting in…
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Venezuelan opposition politician shot dead – Al Jazeera English
A Venezuelan opposition politician was shot dead during a public meeting days before a legislative election that has raised tensions around the politically polarised nation.
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Julia Margaret Cameron at the V&A – BBC News
Julia Margaret Cameron first exhibited her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum 150 years ago and now to mark the bicentenary of her birth, more than 100 of her prints are back on show.
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The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that encapsulates some of the dil…
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Amazon’s Taking 30% (Up to $10) Off Any Physical Book. Yep, ANY Book.
Category-wide sales on Amazon are few and far between, and this is one of the most wide-ranging discounts they’ve ever offered: Promo code HOLIDAY30 will take 30% off any physical book they sell, up to $10.
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Amazon’s Taking 30% (Up to $10) Off Any Physical Book. Yep, ANY Book.
Category-wide sales on Amazon are few and far between, and this is one of the most wide-ranging discounts they’ve ever offered: Promo code HOLIDAY30 will take 30% off any physical book they sell, up to $10.
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Listen to Wikipedia being updated in real time, each update corresponding to a musical note (repost) (listen.hatnote.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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India parliament braces for stormy session – BBC News
India’s parliament is to begin a winter session, where the government will seek to push a key bill on an uniform countrywide goods and services tax. The government wants to implement one of India’s most significant tax reforms since Independence by …
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Wondermark » Archive » Classic Wondermark Thanksgiving comics
I hope my American friends have a nice Thanksgiving this week! Here are some instances in which Wondermark has touched upon the subject in the past. Open ’em all in new tabs and have a good several minutes of reading delight!!
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To See Deep into Space, Start Deep Underground
The Davis Cavern on the 4850 Level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility was once home to Ray Davis’s Nobel Prize-winning solar neutrino experiment.
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For anyone worried CBS was burning off two sub-par episodes the night before Thanksgiving, fear not: This season’s quality streak continues apace, with two great episodes that end with either an epic blindside or an epic mistake (or maybe a little b…
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A radar scientist’s day in the field: At NPOL during OLYMPEX : Notes from the Field : Blogs
The western side of the Olympic Mountains are a sight to behold, with crashing waves along the rocky coasts and mossy trees in the rain forest signifying the impressive amounts of precipitation that falls in this area.
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Open thread for night owls: Ah, Thanksgiving, when pie fights are only about who gets the last slice
At Daily Kos near this date in 2009—Gobble Gobble … ROAR! Millions of us will be sitting down to enjoy a good meal and great company today, followed by gravy drenched sandwiches for the rest of the week.
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Golden love floof learning how to blow bubbles. – GIF on Imgur
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James Madison University’s football team is on a roll. The Dukes are 9-2 on the season and have advanced to the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. The Virginia school even hosted ESPN’s flagship college football broadcas…
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China Reduces Gao Yu’s Sentence to 5 Years From 7 | Al Jazeera America
An imprisoned 71-year-old Chinese journalist has had her sentence reduced to five years from seven following an appeal, her lawyer said Thursday. Gao Yu appealed her April conviction of leaking state secrets at a closed hearing on Tuesday at Beijing…
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Wow. What a fucking douchebag. Unfortunately some people will eat crap like this up. How would he feel if someone said something horrible like that about his dead family member. Shit, that’s one of the tamer things this pastor has said.
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Pastor who hosted Ted Cruz calls Paris victims ‘devil worshippers.’ : politics
Pastor who hosted Ted Cruz calls Paris victims ‘devil worshippers.’ https://t.co/2SdeHmaoCo https://t.co/9pzYPXEFA8 via /r/#politics
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Pastor who hosted Ted Cruz calls Paris victims ‘devil worshippers’ – Houston Chronicle
Pastor who hosted Ted Cruz calls Paris victims ‘devil worshippers.’ https://t.co/2SdeHmaoCo https://t.co/9pzYPXEFA8 via /r/#politics
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Save on Guy Fawkes and War Boy bandannas and lockpick earrings / Boing Boing
Boing Boing readers already know about MakieLab, the startup where my friends and I make 3D printed, customizable dolls called Makies. Sgt Crispy writes, “XKCD creator Randall Munroe, has made a spiffy little hoverboard game.
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Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist – BBC News
A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.
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Controversial Nicaragua Canal Project Delayed | Al Jazeera America
China’s Hong Kong Nicaragua Development (HKND) Co. obtained approval for environmental studies of the canal earlier this month. But on Wednesday, a company statement said, “The construction of locks and the big excavations will start toward the end …
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What is piecaken, you ask? It sounds like a figment of some weird Thanksgiving fever dream, but it’s real: three types of pie stuffed in a cake.
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The Other Laquan McDonalds: More Questionable Killings by Chicago Police – The Daily Beast
Laquan McDonald was one of 19 men killed by the Chicago Police Department last year.
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Brazil Mine Disaster Floods Area With Toxic Substances: The November collapse released enough mercury and arsenic to cause irreversible health damage (scientificamerican.com)submitted 27 minutes ago by loading…
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The list of what a child needs in order to flourish is short but nonnegotiable. Food. Shelter. Play. Love.
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I’ll admit that I was beginning to worry that Kingdom’s second season was suffering from the dread sophomore slump. I can’t quite put my finger on what’s been underwhelming me, though; I’m not even sure that “underwhelming” is the right word.
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As Bernie Sanders points out, “The media is giving up to a large degree any pretense at serious journalism, and you’re moving into the trend of the USA Today — simple, and stupid, and color pictures” (medium.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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South Korea orders Volkswagen to recall 125,522 cars over emissions scam | Business | The Guardian
South Korea has ordered the recall of 125,522 Volkswagen cars after revealing that its own testing showed that the carmaker deliberately manipulated a diesel emissions device in vehicles with an older engine.
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Facebook has a fix for frustrating password entry on the Apple TV | The Verge
Entering usernames, passwords, and just about any text at all is a pain on the new Apple TV, but Facebook thinks it has a solution. The company’s new SDK for tvOS apps lets developers lean on Facebook for the login process; users can go to facebook.
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The Two Lives of Michael Jackson – The New Yorker
Do me a favor. Go on YouTube and find the footage of Michael Jackson singing “Who’s Lovin’ You” on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” He is eleven years old. It is one of his first times on national television. In the intro, he looks and sounds like . . .
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Growing Stupid Together “Reality-concealing rhetoric” and our responses to terrorism : Liberal
Growing Stupid Together “Reality-concealing rhetoric” and our responses to terrorism (nplusonemag.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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AIDS-drug-gouging hedge-douche reneges on promise to cut prices for Daraprim / Boing Boing
Leaked recording: pollution lobbyists discuss exploiting Syrian refugee crisis 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 companies…
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Indian rules: Women educate ‘ignorant’ Smriti Irani – BBC News
A group of female students and women’s activists in the Indian capital, Delhi, have come up with a unique response to minister Smriti Irani’s declaration that women in India have complete freedom to decide what to wear or whom to meet. The BBC’s Gee…
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US credit union regulator crushed Internet Archive’s non-predatory, game-changing bank / Boing Boing
The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle writes, “We founded a credit union to build a new path after the banking debacle of 2008 and it’s been crushed by federal regulators. The regulators close 200-300 credit unions every year, and have been since th…
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Ukraine crisis: Crimea in the dark in Russia power row – BBC News
Electricity pylons and cables lie amidst a sea of mud, in a field outside the southern Ukrainian town of Chaplynka, tangible reminders of the fragility of Russian and Ukrainian relations. Tensions are again escalating between Kiev and Moscow, after …
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Russia and Iran: an uneasy alliance – BBC News
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran this week has been greeted with much enthusiasm in official circles. There has been warm praise for his decision to head straight from the airport to a meeting with Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
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That’s what happens when you build your network around Skip & Stephen A. This isn’t the problem at all. The problem as that the cable companies are losing subscribers, and therefore ESPN doesn’t get its monthly fee.
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The Tryptophan Epidemic of 1989 | Van Winkle’s
It’s the myth that launched a thousand slumbers. Post-turkey drowsiness is caused by tryptophan, the melatonin-inducing essential amino acid, found in the festive fowl. We now know this to be an oversimplified explanation. A group of scientists lead…
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TrialPay Cofounder Back With Point, A Novel, Fractional Home Ownership Startup | TechCrunch
Point, an 11-month-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based home equity marketplace that plans to take people’s homes and and make them completely liquid, divisible and tradable by letting owners sell fractional equity in them, is raising funding, according to a n…
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Thanksgiving with black families (and white, Mexican, and other families too) – BBC News
To celebrate Thanksgiving, witty observations and experiences about how the day is spent in African-American households have been flying around social media – with people from other backgrounds joining in the fun. The hashtag “Thanksgiving with blac…
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The freelance journalist whose lawsuit forced the Chicago Police Department to release video of a fatal police shooting of a black teenager says he was barred from attending a news conference with the mayor and police superintendent on Tuesday.
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Frank Gifford, a Hall of Fame running back who was involved in one of the most brutal collisions in the N.F.L.’s history, was found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease.
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The last quarter-century of climate talks explained, in comics form / Boing Boing
Nick Sousanis, who delivered his doctoral dissertation in comic book form, has a new comic in the current Nature magazine, explaining the last 25 years’ worth of climate talks, as a primer in advance of the Paris climate talks next week.
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Amazon will reportedly soon add other online services to Prime Instant Video | The Verge
Amazon Prime Instant Video subscribers will soon be able to add other major TV and movie channels to their subscription packages, Bloomberg Business reports, making Prime more like a cable TV service than competitors such as Hulu and Netflix.
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Behind bars: The firms offering hope to Mexican prisoners – BBC News
After spending almost a year in one of Mexico’s most feared maximum security prisons, Jorge Cueto-Felgueroso knows a thing or two about dealing with adversity. In 2012 he was charged with fraud, and thrust into the midst of 13,000 inmates at Puente …
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After the Taliban: Revisiting scarred Kunduz – BBC News
The Taliban’s brief takeover of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz in September shocked its residents as well as the Afghan government and its Western allies. It was the first time the insurgents had taken control of a provincial Afghan capital sinc…
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Mark Rylance: From Bridge of Spies to BFG – BBC News
Mark Rylance, arguably the greatest stage actor of his generation, already has three Tonys, two Olivier awards and a TV Bafta to his name. But he remains modest about the Oscar buzz around his latest film role as a Soviet agent in Steven Spielberg’s…
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Advances In Facial Animation Will Increase Communication and Creativity | TechCrunch
There’s way more to human communication than just words.
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Why Greeks are exhuming their parents – BBC News
Cemeteries in Greek cities are so overcrowded that bodies are often only kept in the ground for three years. Then families have to pay for exhumation – and for the bones to be kept in a building known as an ossuary. But many cannot afford to pay eve…
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Hung Wankenstein is the Frankenstein Remake You Actually Need
We’re still bummed that Victor Frankenstein turned out to be kind of a dud. But at least there’s always Hung Wankenstein, which has one of the funniest titles of any porn spoof ever. In the scene above, Dr. Wankenstein has just attached a monster-si…
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Is there a danger to environmental jargon? – BBC News
The United Nations is promising a “universal climate change agreement” when leaders from almost 200 countries meet in Paris. But is the jargon used in environmental discussions actually putting people off the subject rather than enthusing them?
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Holiday Makies: careers & outfits for the dolls you design! / Boing Boing
Boing Boing readers already know about MakieLab, the startup where my friends and I make 3D printed, customizable dolls called Makies.
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Hungary terrorist suspects are WWII hobbyists – court – BBC News
The men were arrested after visiting the site of a wartime tank battle at the weekend, carrying old weapons they had found with a metal detector. News of their arrest drew heightened attention in the wake of this month’ Paris attacks in which 130 pe…
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Large Boise, Idaho crowd rallies to welcome refugees
Hundreds of Idahoans gathered on a bright, cold Saturday to reiterate to the state’s leaders that Idaho is a place for everyone, including Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Speakers included state Rep. Hy Kloc, “who was born in a Displaced Persons camp in …
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All of the Sept. 11 attackers entered the United States using tourist, business or student visas. Since then, most of the attackers in the United States claiming or appearing to be motivated by extremist Islam were born in this country or were natur…
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Turkey releases audio of ‘warning’ to downed Russia jet – BBC News
The Turkish military has released an audio recording of what it says were warnings to a Russian warplane before it was shot down on the Syrian border. “Change your heading south immediately,” a voice is heard saying in English. Turkey said it had tr…
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I wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life
Light pollution. It really screws up the view. It would be so great if the stars in the sky could still be seen over big metropolitan areas. But it doesn’t work like that.
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A Gift of Giving: Kiehl’s Continues to Support Feeding America | Vanity Fair
Did you know that in the U.S., there are people who struggle with hunger? That’s a fact. One in six Americans are confronted with hunger on a daily bases – that’s almost 50 million Americans, 16 million of which are children. It’s a shocking statist…
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Bernie Sanders’s refreshingly sane foreign policy (salon.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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A Washing Machine That Recycles Its Own Water Three grad students have invented a filter that allows washers to reuse 95 percent of the water from each load. (theatlantic.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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Trump: Report your neighbors for suspicious activities. “Most likely you’ll be wrong, but that’s OK.” (thehill.com) It’s your duty, man! Like, the President of the United states said so! … https://www.whitehouse.
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The Paradox: a secret history of magical London worthy of Tim Powers / Boing Boing
In The Oversight, Charlie Fletcher introduced us to a secret history of London and the ancient order that defended it from the creatures of the dark. Now, with The Paradox, a sequel, Fletcher plunges the bedraggled heroes of the Oversight into dange…
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Supergirl is casting a young Superman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ever since it premiered last month, CBS’s Supergirl has flown in the shadow of its title character’s more famous Kryptonian cousin, constantly referencing Kara Danvers’ efforts to establish herself outside Superman’s almost overpowering legacy.
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Iguaz.io Lands $15 Million Series A | TechCrunch
Iguaz.io, an 11-month-old, Herzliya Israel-based company, isn’t yet saying exactly what it’s up to, but investors must like what they’re seeing.
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Black Friday: What is it and what is the point of it? – BBC News
Black Friday: What is it and what is the point of it? 26 November 2015 Last updated at 00:04 GMT The BBC’s Emma Simpson looks at the origin of the shopping phenomenon known as Black Friday and its impact on the UK economy.
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My life after 44 years in prison
One man’s story of reintegration with the modern world. Stepping out into Times Square in New York City, Otis Johnson is struck by the overwhelming number of people. Everyone seems to be walking quickly with blank faces and wires in their ears.
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100 Women 2015: Marriage can ‘oppress women’ – Dlamini-Zuma – BBC News
Chair of the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says marriage can “oppress women”. She says: “We are running a huge campaign in Africa right now about child marriage. It’s something we are dead against in every country as we don’t think children s…
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You can now own the Fez soundtrack on gorgeous translucent colored vinyl / Offworld
Disasterpeace’s wonderful soundtrack for Polytron’s seminal game Fez has just been released on mouth-watering, lucent pollen-colored vinyl sheathed in a gold-embossed gatefold jacket. It looks as beautiful as it is certain to sound.
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Oil lease on sacred Blackfeet land is canceled — but the fight is far from over | Grist
According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined. We’re now out of time: This next round of U.N. climate negotiations has to result in real progress. At least Obama se…
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100 Women 2015: Afghan rapper who escaped child marriage – BBC News
Sonita Alizadeh, a rapper from Afghanistan, was inspired to write music when her family “had to sell” her to “buy a bride for my brother”. “Those girls who are forced into underage marriage lose their childhood. They lose their hope,” she says.
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Aside from the time, battery level, and music in the lower left corner, you might think this is just a wallpaper, but it’s not—it’s Dan C’s desktop, and he likes it empty. Every time he sits down it’s a glorious fresh start. Here’s how he made it.
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Sydney’s Taronga zoo has announced the birth of a bright orange François’ langur, one of the world’s rarest monkeys. The male infant, named Nangua – the Mandarin word for pumpkin – was discovered in his mother Meili’s arms by keepers on 7 November.
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Here’s what you could do in 1920s Manhattan that you can’t do today: Catch what’s playing at the Roxy or who’s playing at the Polo Grounds. Buy a pair of alligator shoes at Franklin Simon or see a pair of alligators at the Aquarium.
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Step aside, ‘90s kids. You’re officially as old and useless as the angsty Gen-Xers whose bones turned to flannel-covered dust many years ago.
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The Miserable Life of the Presidential Turkey
Every November, deep in the White House’s rose gardens, the President of the United States raises his hand above a specially-selected turkey’s head, and gives it a Presidential pardon. Today, Mr. Obama will honor the 31st such bird, a 40-pounder nam…
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All of the Sept. 11 attackers entered the United States using tourist, business or student visas. Since then, most of the attackers in the United States claiming or appearing to be motivated by extremist Islam were born in this country or were natur…
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Sanders campaign says it has more women donors than Clinton – The Washington Post
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Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner : democrats
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Hundreds Protest Laquan McDonald’s Murder in Chicago Streets : Liberal
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Hundreds Protest Laquan McDonald’s Murder in Chicago Streets
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Hundreds Protest Laquan McDonald’s Murder in Chicago Streets : democrats
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‘Reckless eyeballing’ really is a thing for Megyn Kelly
With all that has happened over the past 48 hours in the U.S. (never mind the rest of the world), Fox News once again sinks to the occasion with indignation at another so-called injustice.
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Man killed wife and posted Facebook photo of her body – BBC News
Derek Medina admitted taking the picture on his phone and uploading it onto the social media site. He failed to convince the jury that he had shot Jennifer Alfonso eight times in self-defence after years of abuse.
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Hundreds Protest Laquan McDonald’s Murder in Chicago Streets (dailykos.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is Rated PG-13, Which Is Kind Of A Surprise
The director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams, recently said he wanted the movie to be “delightful.” And it very may well be, but it’s also going to be dark. The MPAA has given the film a PG-13 rating, only the second time it’s happened …
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How would you react if Donald Trump ended up leading the U.S. Into a golden age? : Liberal
How would you react if Donald Trump ended up leading the U.S. Into a golden age? (self.Liberal) I’d have my blood tested for hallucinogenic drugs.
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Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Top scientists accuse House panel of harassing climate researchers : Liberal
Top scientists accuse House panel of harassing climate researchers (theguardian.com)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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Cyber-thieves ‘target Christmas shoppers’ – BBC News
Cyber-thieves are preparing malware and spam campaigns in a bid to catch out retailers and shoppers during the run-up to Christmas, experts say. One gang had updated the sophisticated malware it used to target tills in stores, security company iSigh…
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Sanders campaign says it has more women donors than Clinton : democrats
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Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite Gitmo Provisions | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $607 billion defense policy bill, despite his opposition to restrictions in the legislation that ban him from moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States — a campaign promise that remains unfulfi…
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Man stole brains from former insane asylum and put them on eBay | US news | The Guardian
David Charles, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to six charges including receiving stolen property and burglary in a Marion county court. Magistrate Amy Barbar sentenced him to one year of home detention and two years of probation, county prosecutor …
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United Nations climate meetings are curious events where the future of the world’s climate and everything that’s part of it can come down to the removal of square brackets on documents and the strike of a gavel.
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The UK Has Its Very First Professor of Comics
There are many university-level art and literature courses that revolve around the history and creation of comic books—but Lancaster University in England has just hired the first Professor in the country to specifically teach comics.
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Princeton and the Fight Over Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy – The New Yorker
Just before noon last Wednesday, more than a hundred Princeton students began a sit-in in the office of the university’s president, Christopher Eisgruber. The president’s office is in Nassau Hall, which is directly across from the front gates leadin…
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A super rare Andean mountain cat. : aww
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A Rikers Thanksgiving | The Marshall Project
This week, we were invited to Rikers Island to watch eight men cook sixty turkeys. The men are inmates nearing their release dates. They learned cooking as a job skill that might help them get their footing back out in the city.
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My cat is incapable of looking calm. : aww
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Mozilla: we’re not getting money from Google any more but we’re doing fine | Ars Technica
For many years, Firefox developer Mozilla generated substantial income from a sponsorship deal with Google; the search and advertising firm paid Mozilla in return for Firefox making Google its default search engine.
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COP21: Rhone Glacier drone footage shows ice retreat – BBC News
Diplomats and climate experts are to meet in Paris for the UN Conference on Climate Change, aiming to secure a new global deal that would limit emissions of carbon dioxide.
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The hunters who campaign against lead shot – BBC News
About 100,000 wetland birds are killed every year from poisoning by discarded lead ammunition in Britain, according to a report published on Thursday.
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When you rip a awesome fart and want everyone to hear it. – GIF on Imgur
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MRW I show up to the Imgur office and there’s no one there but a dog. – GIF on Imgur
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Stock Up on Cheap Containers to Give Guests Thanksgiving Leftovers
Sharing Thanksgiving leftovers with your guests keeps the spirit of the holiday going, but can leave you without a lot of dishes. When you stock up on last minute groceries, grab a set of cheap containers to hand out leftovers in.
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Funeral for Jamar Clark, slain Minneapolis man | Al Jazeera America
Hundreds of people filled a Minneapolis church on Wednesday for the funeral of a black man whose death in a confrontation with police has sparked days of ongoing protests, while charges were pending against four men suspected in a shooting that woun…
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Africa Behind on Fight Against Child Marriage | Al Jazeera America
As the populations of many African countries boom and governments struggle to implement effective social policies, child marriage is expected to increase dramatically across much of the continent over the next 35 years according to a new UNICEF repo…
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Killjoys say Empire shouldn’t be shilling that sweet, sweet sugar water · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Public health advocates—the same lifespan-obsessed sticks in the mud that are always telling us not to consume our weight in red meat or do something cool, like die of cancer—are mad at the producers of Fox’s smash hit hip-hop drama Empire for hoppi…
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Newborn baby found in New York church nativity manger – BBC News
A newborn baby has been called ”a miracle child” after being found in the nativity manger of the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens, New York.The boy was wrapped in towels and still had his umbilical cord attached. He is said to be healthy and in a…
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Protesters chant ’16 shots’ over Chicago police shooting – BBC News
The US city of Chicago remains on edge after hundreds of protesters took to the streets to vent their anger over a police dashcam video.
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Rep. Steve King: Muslim immigrants are ‘incompatible’ with Americanism
If you want to know what all the respectable racists will be saying tomorrow, look to Rep. Steve King. He milked a demand for English-Only laws into a career in the House. He was certain brown-skinned immigrants were all drug-runners long before Don…
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Canada ‘strong role to play’ against IS, says PM Justin Trudeau – BBC News
The end of Canada’s bombing campaign against Islamic State does not mean it is scaling back its role in the wider mission, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Wolves have returned to a large national park on the northern outskirts of Warsaw, decades after they were wiped out in the area under a hunt launched by the communist authorities (france24.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Maine Department of Health and Human Services renews push for ban on buying soda and candy with food stamps (pressherald.com)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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According to a new study published in the journal Energy Policy, fracking companies have become less forthcoming since 2013 about the chemicals used in their operations, citing “the use of proprietary compounds” as grounds for limiting their disclos…
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The Trailer For ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Is Dark As Hell – Digg
28 diggs Trailers Comics Movies The gang’s all back (with a few new faces — hey Black Panther!), and they are not happy with each other. An explanation for why they’re fighting on Comicbook.
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Even If Terrorists Do Use Strong Encryption, We Still Need It — Backchannel — Medium
It was a popular item, getting a bunch of retweets. But I realized later that I was wrong to post it, because I fell right into a trap the surveillance statists have been laying.
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Will There Ever Be a ‘Star Wars’ Sex Scene? | Inverse
Sex is probably the furthest thing from your mind when you think about Star Wars even though the entire saga is predicated upon a particularly convoluted paternity issue. Unfortunately Maury doesn’t live in the galaxy far, far away.
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In Memory of Tech Journalist Steve Wildstrom | Re/code
When we started Tech.pinons in 2011, we searched for the best talent we could find to help us launch our analytical tech blog.
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What am I thankful for? Science, with a big slice of Pluto pie | Ars Technica
As we slide into another end-of-year holiday season, I’m thankful for a lot of things, from family and friends to a great new job at Ars. But I’m also thankful for New Horizons, the grand-piano-sized spacecraft that revealed Pluto to humanity for th…
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Dog reacts to owners singing Happy Birthday : gifs
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Daylight Moon, Captured With an iPhone [640×1136] : spaceporn
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Star on a Hubble diet js – Just Space
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That man needs a bigger towel : trippinthroughtime
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Frank Gifford: NFL legend had brain trauma at death – BBC News
A legend of American football, Frank Gifford, suffered from a concussion-related brain injury when he died, his family has said.The former New York Giants star had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a statement released by NBC said.
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Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday announced the creation of an $850 million initiative called ThriveNYC, which he said would help combat New York’s problems with mental illness — which costs the city’s economy an estimated $14 million annually in lost …
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BBC Sport – Manchester United 0-0 PSV
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney is fit for Wednesday’s Champions League clash with PSV Eindhoven but may not start, says manager Louis van Gaal. Striker Anthony Martial is also fit, but midfielder Ander Herrera and defender Phil Jones are una…
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Last chance to get these knitted touchscreen gloves for just $10 / Boing Boing
These knitted gloves are here to save the day (and your hands) with an ultra-comfy, double-layer that will allow you to stay warm and use your phone. Now you can take photos on the fly, text, Tinder, and more without letting freezing temperatures ge…
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Volcanic Island in the Pacific Turns Two : Natural Hazards
Two years ago, a new island, or “nijima,” rose above the water line in the western Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo. It grew out of the sea just 500 meters from Nishinoshima, another volcanic island.
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A Slice of Iowa in Brazil : Image of the Day
Growers looking to replicate the industrial-scale farming techniques common in the U.S. Midwest increasingly have a new destination: Brazil. In particular, Bahia, a coastal state in eastern Brazil, has emerged as one of the country’s premier areas f…
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Federal Officials Are Warming Up To Self-Driving Cars | TechCrunch
As self-driving cars rapidly develop, federal officials are beginning to rethink their stance on the technology. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced yesterday that an update would be coming to the nation’s self-driving car policy in comi…
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Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner
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Tibet’s melting glaciers show climate crisis : environment
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Tibet’s melting glaciers show climate crisis | Reuters.com
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MOSCOW — The Russian navigator who parachuted out of a warplane shot down by Turkey said on Wednesday that there had been no warning before a missile slammed into the aircraft, giving him and the pilot no time to dodge the missile. The navigator, Ca…
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Ladies and gentlemen, glass blowing artist Satoshi Tomizu with a blow torch. – GIF on Imgur
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Tibet’s melting glaciers show climate crisis (reuters.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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New York City bus driver hospitalized after passenger fires laser | Ars Technica
After a number of reported laser strikes against airline and, even more recently, ferry pilots, apparently awful people are now firing the handheld devices against bus drivers as well.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Gobble, gobble. Carlos Barria / Reuters
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Documents reveal extent of sex abuse allegations against Minnesota priests | US news | The Guardian
Sex abuse allegations against priests at St John’s Abbey in Minnesota were revealed in stark detail on Tuesday with the release of confidential documents concerning five priests accused of child sex abuse.
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Make a Secret Compartment Tie for Storing Valuables and Other Goodies
We’ve show you how to make secret compartments around your home before, but what about in your clothing? This secret compartment tie can hide your cash and valuables, or help you sneak a drink into the club.
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Europe’s ExoMars missions are go – finally – BBC News
The first of Europe’s ExoMars missions is finally ready to get under way. This initial venture will involve a satellite going to the Red Planet to study trace gases, such as methane, in the atmosphere.
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HIV pill in 5,000% price rise storm will be made cheaper in US – BBC News
The company that sparked an outcry by raising the price of its HIV drug in the US by 5,000% says it will cut its price for some users. Martin Shkreli’s drug company Turing Pharmaceuticals bought the rights to 62-year old drug Daraprim and increased …
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Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner : Liberal
Scientists: Ted Cruz Understands Less About Climate Than A Kindergartner (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Cat 11
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Cat 11
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Cat 12
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Teaching Grownups How to Eat – The New Yorker
Until the twentieth century, Japanese food was often neither delicious nor nourishing.
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Wellspring Gives Big Boost to Judicial Crisis Network With $6.6 Million Grant – The Daily Beast
A secretive nonprofit that has given millions of dollars to conservative 501(c)(4) groups over the years sank more than $6.
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Chief Coca-Cola scientist leaves amid criticism over obesity research | Ars Technica
Rhona Applebaum, Coca-Cola’s chief scientist and health officer, is stepping down from the company. The news follows reports that Applebaum helped set up a nonprofit research group tasked with downplaying the role of sugary drinks in the obesity epi…
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FBI: Manhattan dentist offered tooth cleaning, flash drives with child porn | Ars Technica
Dr. John Wolf, a dentist in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, ran a solid practice with glowing reviews on sites like Yelp. He lived nearby in a West Village apartment, was an expert on AIDS as it affects dental practice, and was a former membe…
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Jewish historian Adam Sandler adds Jared Fogle to “The Chanukah Song” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Semitic chronicler Adam Sandler—best known for his historical missives “The Chanukah Song” Parts One, Two, and Three—has updated his living history of the Jewish people once again.
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Officer who shot Laquan McDonald had 20 misconduct claims filed against him | US news | The Guardian
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who has been charged with murder in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager, had 20 allegations of misconduct filed against him, according to an independent database of police complaints.
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Black Sabbath Wrote ‘A Whole Load’ of Riffs for Abandoned LP | Rolling Stone
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has revealed that the group had a particularly fruitful writing session before deciding not to make a follow-up to 13. “I’ve got so many riffs,” he told Q (via Blabbermouth). “I wrote a whole load of stuff for anot…
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Drinking Coffee May Help You Avoid a Premature Death
There’s already a lot of evidence that coffee is good for certain aspects of your health, but a recent 30-year long study suggests it may actually help you avoid a premature death.
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Jennifer Lawrence wants to direct, will soon just take over Hollywood · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In October, Jennifer Lawrence announced that she no longer gives a damn about coming across as “adorable” or “likable” just so institutionally misogynistic movie studios won’t get offended by a woman speaking.
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‘We All Have To Do Something’: Nina Jacobson On Diversifying Hollywood : NPR
No one knows the struggles and successes of women in Hollywood better than Nina Jacobson, the producer of the Hunger Games movies. NPR catches up with one of the most powerful women in the business.
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Classix: So stabilisiert der Kampfpanzer Leopard seine Kanone (1986) – YouTube
Seine große Feuerkraft kann der Kampfpanzer Leopard auch unter schneller Bewegung optimal einsetzen. Die Waffenstabilisierungsanlage ermöglicht trotz holpriger Fahrt durchs Gelände eine hohe Treffergenauigkeit – ein entscheidender Vorteil beim Kampf…
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Since Ferguson, A Rise In Charges Against Police Officers : NPR
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez rejected that notion Tuesday. “Pressure? This is no pressure! Why — I would never be pressured into making any kind of decision, quickly,” she said.
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In the Trailer, Fox’s Second Chance Resurrects a Cop and Makes Him Better, Stronger, Faster
They have the technology. Second Chance used to be Lookinglass which used to be Frankenstein Code. Looks like we’ve dropped the literary pretenses entirely, save for the fact that Jimmy Pritchard is wearing a Lookinglass-branded outfit and “Mary” is…
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More than a year after, death of Laquan McDonald haunts streets of Chicago | US news | The Guardian
There’s a small memorial of candles, flowers and a sign at the intersection of 41st and Pulaski Street in Chicago where 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by veteran cop James Van Dyke.
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Jamar Clark: calls for justice heard at funeral for man killed by police | US news | The Guardian
Family members and community leaders renewed their calls for justice at the funeral of Jamar Clark, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police officers 10 days ago in Minneapolis.
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Fine Brine From Appalachia: The Fancy Mountain Salt That Chefs Prize : The Salt : NPR
Thanksgiving feasts are always in need of something special. Can a sprinkle of artisanal salt noticeably pump up the experience?
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has officially received the MPAA rating that makes 12-year olds feel cool when they go to the theater: PG-13. It’s the second Star Wars film to receive a PG-13 rating after Revenge of the Sith, though to be fair PG-13 di…
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Intralist Is A Site For Everyone Who Just Can’t Get Enough Top Five Lists | TechCrunch
Lists! Everybody loves ’em, right? I mean, even if you pretend that you don’t, I’m guessing you find yourself furtively clicking on “top five” or “top 10” articles every once in a while. So what about a site that’s built entirely around lists? That’…
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Barack Obama ‘pardoned’ turkeys at a White House ceremony on Wednesday. ‘For months there has been a fierce competition between a bunch of turkey’s trying to win their way into the White House,’ he quipped in a dig at Republican presidential candida…
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A day after the Turkish military shot down the warplane, Turkey and Russia traded barbs about what happened in the skies over Syria.
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UN accuses Houthis of blocking aid into Yemen’s Taiz – Al Jazeera English
The UN has accused Houthi fighters and their allies of blocking the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian supplies for 200,000 residents living in “virtual siege” in Yemen’s third-largest city of Taiz.
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“Bro, everyone got shot… Everyone got shot. They took hostages. I’ve got blood all over me.” Josh Homme, co-founder of the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal, received this message via text on the night of November 13.
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How Toyota Used Nascar to Sway Loyal American Car Buyers – Bloomberg Business
One year into its Nascar Sprint Cup experiment, Toyota took new driver Kyle Busch on a tour of its offices and plants. Not in Honshu or Hokkaido, but rather California, Texas and Kentucky.
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Why So Many People Are Yelling About Dead or Alive Xtreme 3
It never seemed clear that Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, a brand-new entry in the sexy fantasy spin-off series, would leave Japan. But when publisher Koei Tecmo made one poorly translated comment on Facebook about why it wasn’t happening, the Internet exp…
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Obamacare linked to increase in early detection of cervical cancer
Here’s some good news on the healthcare front—there’s been a substantial increase in early detection of cervical cancer among young women under 26 in recent years, likely because in 2010 the Affordable Care Act began allowing them to stay on their p…
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The Best Printer Deals of Black Friday Are Back In Stock, For Now
The cagiest deals of Black Friday 2015 are back in stock, if you hurry. We’ve seen the Brother HL2380DW for $80 and the DCPL2540DW for $85 already this week, but they both disappeared within hours. At least for now though, they’ve available and read…
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Cook Stuffing in a Muffin Tin for More of That Delicious Crust
The best part of Thanksgiving stuffing is the crispy outside. Chef Trae Basore from Pearl & Ash shows us how to get a bit more of that delicious crust. Instead of baking the stuffing in one giant pan, you can bake smaller, individual portions in a m…
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it is shocked by a US military report on an American airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. Christopher Stokes, general director of MSF, says the errors listed in the report into the strike in Afghanistan amounted t…
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Muslim forced off plane as US anti-Islam rhetoric rises – Al Jazeera English
After passing through regular security checks at Newark Liberty International Airport on her way to a holiday in Istanbul, Kameelah Rasheed was called for further questioning by customs officers.
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Anti-Islam group publishes addresses of Muslims and ‘Muslim sympathisers’ | US news | The Guardian
An anti-Islam group which staged an armed protest outside a Dallas Islamic centre has posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathisers” on its Facebook page, adding to growing tensions in north Texas following the Paris terror attacks.
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In the world of professional football, there are few names that evoke more credibility or deference than Frank Gifford. Gifford, who died in August, was a Hall of Fame quarterback, an Emmy award-winning broadcaster, and ambassador for the sport.
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Obama gives thanks to daughters for indulging his antics at turkey pardon | US news | The Guardian
They are not the only teenagers who find public outings with dad – and listening to his bad jokes – something of an ordeal.
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The Force Awakens joins the Dark Side with a PG-13 rating · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Entertainment Weekly reports that the Motion Picture Association of America has rated Star Wars: The Force Awakens PG-13 for “sci-fi action violence,” freaking out all those cool uncles who already bought tickets for their 6-year-old nieces and neph…
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Quickly Clear the Leaves in Your Yard With Some Flexible Plastic Sheeting
Raking leaves can take forever and wear you out. With some flexible plastic sheeting, however, you can clear up your lawn in no time at all. Youtuber Brian Shreves wanted an easier to clean up the leaves on his lawn so he found a piece of plastic sh…
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The WTO Just Dealt a Blow to U.S. Consumers and Dolphins | Sierra Club
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Marco Rubio: ‘Ignore’ gay marriage decision because ‘God’s rules always win.’ : politics
Where can I get a list of God’s rules? We certainly don’t follow all of the rules stated in the bible, and 8 of the Ten Commandments are not even actual laws in the U.S.
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The WTO Just Dealt a Blow to U.S. Consumers and Dolphins. : environment
The WTO Just Dealt a Blow to U.S. Consumers and Dolphins. (sierraclub.org)
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And why should anyone be surprised? You really think our congressman give half a damn about these people serving them? Just like they pretend that they aren’t bribed by the banks and big corporations, they can pretend that there’s nothing they can d…
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System Shock is being reimagined, and we’ve got the first look | Polygon
The classic cyberpunk adventure, which went on to spawn a sequel and inspire Irrational Games’ BioShock franchise, received a high-definition makeover, which is now available for purchase.
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Love Cranberry Sauce? The English Probably Didn’t (At First) – Modern Farmer
Of the food served on the original Thanksgiving table, food historian Joyce White says, “Venison and turkey—that’s all we really know for sure.
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Downed Russian Warplane Highlights Regional Divide On Syria : NPR
Hugh Pope, director of communications and outreach at the International Crisis Group in Brussels, explains the growing divide between Turkey and Russia on their priorities inside Syria.
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Chicago Doctor Treated Syrian Refugees On Greek Island Of Lesbos : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Dr. Zaher Sahloul, head of the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation, who recently returned from the Greek island of Lesbos where he treated Syrian migrants.
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What will happen at the Paris climate talks? We’ve got some unconventional ideas | Grist
According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined.
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Islamic State: Merkel vows Germany will do more to fight extremists – BBC News
Germany will do more in the fight against the Islamic State militants, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. It was Germany’s “duty to reflect” and to “act quickly”, Mrs Merkel said in Paris, after being urged by President Hollande to commit more resou…
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Q&A: ‘We are being evicted because we are Palestinians’ – Al Jazeera English
The Sub Laban family has lived in their home in the historic Old City of occupied East Jerusalem for more than six decades. More confusing still, Rafat and his family have never seen the settlers in court: Only their lawyer and their representative …
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My cat is incapable of looking calm. : cats
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CERN starts first lead collisions in upgraded Large Hadron Collider | Ars Technica
The LHC was primarily designed as a particle discovery machine. It has already spotted the Higgs boson, and the hope is that its upgrade to higher energies will allow it to uncover more.
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David Tennant explains Einstein’s greatest theory on its 100-year anniversary | The Verge
In 1915, a 26-year old physicist named Albert Einstein published a paper on the theory of general relativity, which posits that gravity between objects is caused by curvatures in space and time (hence, “spacetime”).
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A Chicago Cop Is The Latest To Be Charged Using Video Evidence | FiveThirtyEight
More police officers are being prosecuted for killing people — and the availability of video evidence is a big reason why.
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Sure, Revenge Of The Sith Is The Best Star Wars Prequel, But Is It Actually Any Good?
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the quintessential Star Wars prequel. Finally, after stalling for two movies, George Lucas delivers on all his promises. However, in true prequel fashion, he does it in a wildly uneven way. Welcome to ou…
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Three Thanksgiving Recipes from Watson, the Computer that Won Jeopardy | Motherboard
The best part about Thanksgiving is going home to all of the delicious food that’s been cooked for you by a computer. Okay, maybe that’s not how you’re spending your Thanksgiving, but it might be, if Watson has its way.
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Teardown shows Nest Cam is “always-on” even when you think it’s off | Ars Technica
It turns out your home security camera may see more of your home than you thought it did.
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Eagles of Death Metal Detail Horrific Paris Attack, Offer Support | Rolling Stone
Eagles of Death Metal have opened up for the first time about the horror they endured when ISIS attackers opened fire on their concert in Paris two weeks ago, killing nearly 100 people.
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Freak TV: Welcome to the Golden Age of Weird | Rolling Stone
Shortly after indulging in a blood-sucking orgy on the premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel, Lady Gaga is asked, “Where are weirdos like us supposed to live?” The answer now is: on television.
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Plantwatch: Fleeced by the warmth, petals persist and leaves linger | Science | The Guardian
Bonfire night years ago was a cold and frosty time, when trees had lost their leaves. But this November plenty of trees were in full leaf, despite all the wind and rain, and there was an impressive show of autumn colour.
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Watch Erykah Badu Scold Audience, Sing ‘Phone Down’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Erykah Badu Scold Audience, Sing ‘Phone Down’ at Soul Train Awards Singer strolls through audience, confiscates phones in exclusive Soul Train Awards preview clip
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Last week, Eagles Of Death Metal released a statement about the horrific attack on the Bataclan theater in Paris on November 14, which took place during one of the band’s concerts.
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The Stunning Numbers Behind Laquan McDonald’s Death | Rolling Stone
Laquan McDonald was shot to death by Officer Jason Van Dyke of the Chicago Police Department on October 20, 2014. On November 24, 2015, the department was finally forced to release its dashboard camera footage of the shooting, after losing a court b…
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The messy business of NYC’s live poultry industry — Hopes&Fears
Over 80 live poultry markets quietly thrive in NYC, with a clientele made up mainly of the city’s immigrant populations. Hopes&Fears took a trip to a Brooklyn slaughterhouse to go behind the scenes.
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Public Opinion Matches Partisan Divide Over U.S. Ground Troops In Syria : NPR
After the Paris attacks, the debate over the use of U.S ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria has deepened. Polls indicate the politicians reflect a similar split in public opinion.
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Climate Activists Scale Back Plans For U.N. Summit In Wake Of Paris Attacks : NPR
Environmental groups hoping to put pressure on delegates by staging rallies in the run up to and during the climate summit are rethinking plans after the recent attacks in Paris.
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Plunging Oil Prices Force Producers To Lay Off Skilled Workers : NPR
Gasoline prices have been plunging this fall, which is great for consumers. But it has been very hard on oil producers, who have been laying off legions of skilled workers.
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Once Prone To Danger On The High Seas, New System Protects Alaska Fishermen : NPR
When regulations were imposed to protect Alaska’s fisheries it led to a dangerous race to catch fish as fast as possible. A new system to manage sustainable fishing is making the job safer.
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Database Shows Complaints Against Chicago Officer Charged In Teen’s Death : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Jamie Kalven, co-founder of the Invisible Institute, which with the University of Chicago put together a database of police misconduct in Chicago.
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The Music Of ‘Creed’ Puts A Modern Character Into Rocky Balboa’s World : NPR
When filmmaker Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Goransson went to work on Creed, they wanted to create an ambient, urban score like the one Goransson composed for Fruitvale Station. But they found they couldn’t get away from the iconic theme Bill Co…
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Top U.S. Commander In Afghanistan Calls Hospital Bombing ‘A Tragic Mistake’ : NPR
An American airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last month was “a tragic mistake,” the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. He cited a long list of what he called “human” and “process” failures that led to the…
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‘All My Children’ Actor David Canary Dies : NPR
David Canary, who played twin brothers Stuart and Adam Chandler on All My Children, has died.
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Eritrean Priest’s Mission Takes On New Urgency Amid Migrant Crisis : NPR
Father Moses, an Eritrean priest, fled his homeland for Italy 14 years ago. His mission preaching to refugees has new urgency with the recent flood of migrants, including many of his compatriots.
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New York Police Heighten Security Ahead Of Thanksgiving Day Parade : NPR
New York City officials say there could be a record turnout for the Thanksgiving Day parade. In addition to regular staples like The Rockettes, the NYPD will deploy its new critical response team.
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Brussels Reopens For Business Even As Authorities Extend Security Alert : NPR
Schools and shops reopen in Brussels even as authorities extend a security alert until Monday. It was imposed following the attacks in Paris waged by extremists with ties to France and Belgium.
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Ecuador’s Oil Bust Draws Parallels To 1990s Financial Crisis : NPR
Ecuador’s economy is faltering thanks to a year of record low oil prices and fears of a “godzilla” El Niño forming in the Pacific Ocean. The situation is drawing bizarre parallels to the last major financial crisis to hit the small South American co…
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Death Haunts A Football Player Years After The Fatal Hit : Shots – Health News : NPR
We know more than ever about concussions, the permanent brain damage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the other physical risks of football.
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Explaining Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity On Its 100th Birthday : NPR
Einstein’s theory of general relativity turns 100 Wednesday. Astrophysicist Adam Frank tells us what this meant for science.
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Top scientists accuse House panel of harassing climate researchers | Science | The Guardian
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation into the activity of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
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“Worst ever” air rage passenger jailed for drunken rampage / Boing Boing
They’re calling Jasbir Singh Bharaj the “Worst ever” air rage passenger. He was given 11 months in prison for his drunken tantrum on a flight from Dubai to Birmingham, UK. The judge who handed down the sentence spared no harsh words for Mr. Bharaj:
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Why did Turkey shoot down a Russian plane? – Al Jazeera English
Military analysts and observers have long warned of the dangers of Syria’s “internationalised” conflict, where a range of world powers are carrying out military action for different ends.
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Play this Game: Is It a Pokémon or Big Data? | Motherboard
If you’ve been a couple generations removed from Pokémon, you might be wondering: when they add like more than 500 more of them? And when did they all start sounding like big data apps? This quiz might be a bit sobering if you think you really know …
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Knight of Cups Trailer: Existential Despair Is So, So Beautiful | Vanity Fair
It’s been a while since we’ve seen anything from Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick’s gorgeous-looking mind-bender of a film—but that’s probably because the powers that be decided to skip this year’s Oscar race and debut the film in 2016.
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EPA announced it will revoke its controversial approval of Dow’s Enlist Duo after determining that its combination of chemicals may be significantly more harmful than initially believed (commondreams.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran.
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Making Black Lives Matter Means Making Serious Changes
The release of the video of Laquan McDonald’s death, and the murder charges against the Chicago police officer who killed him show how much has changed since Ferguson, and how much still needs to change. Today, something happened that Chicago offici…
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Instead of buying something this Friday, fix something | Grist
It’s cheaper for airlines to cut emissions than you’d expect, according to a new study. According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined.
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Frank Gifford had degenerative brain disease CTE, says family | Sport | The Guardian
Frank Gifford, the Pro Football Hall of Fame running back and broadcaster who died of natural causes in August, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, his family said on Wednesday.
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Reeder 3 Adds Support for iOS 9 Features
iOS: Reeder’s long been our favorite RSS reader on the iPhone and iPad. Today, it gets a little better with the addition of a handful of new iOS 9-specific features. Reeder 3 brings in support for iOS 9 Split View and 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s.
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Thanksgiving treats that look like sh*t / Boing Boing
There’s still time to run down to the supermarket and buy this cake for the coprophages joining you for Thanksgiving dinner. Check out more unusual Thanksgiving treats in the gallery here.
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Will Smith might be America’s first president to get jiggy wit’ it · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After a couple centuries of reasonably successful democratic elections, it seems like a pretty safe assumption that the American political system as we know it is on its way out.
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How The House Of Representatives Voted To Make Refugee Resettlement Impossible | ThinkProgress
Last week, 289 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for a bill to prevent Syrian and Iraqi refugees fleeing persecution and torture from being resettled in the United States.
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The Problem With The Post-Bungie Halo Campaigns
Halo used to mean quality. Its campaigns were all heroic military sci-fi, full of brilliantly-designed levels and enemies. The multiplayer was some of gaming’s best, supplying pulse-pounding firefights and thrilling victories. There was a time when …
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Rubio says gay marriage ruling isn’t ‘settled law’ cuz it conflicts with ‘God’s rules’
Marco Rubio continued his charm offensive with social conservative homophobes Wednesday when he told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network that the Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage and abortion are “not settled law” and that we…
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Victor Frankenstein Is Like Watching Your Cute Friend Get High and Blowtorch Their Own Face
Seriously. Did you ever have a ridiculously good-looking friend who was also brilliant and talented, but they made some really bad choices and threw it all away? Victor Frankenstein is like that. This movie has so much going for it, and just fritter…
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Let Them In? How Immigration Can Help the Economy – Learn Liberty : Liberal
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We’ve Used Racial and Ethnic Profiling for Centuries, and It Hasn’t Worked Yet | The Nation
ISIS’s brutal terrorist attacks in Paris have occasioned a manhunt in Europe, the shutting down of Brussels, emergency measures in France—and blatant political opportunism from Republican presidential candidates here at home.
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Let Them In? How Immigration Can Help the Economy – Learn Liberty (youtube.com)
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Greg Sargent has lately been driving home the point that Donald Trump just isn’t vulnerable to typical establishment attacks — at least in the Republican primary. (The general election might be different.
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How a Russian Tsar’s Relative Died Alone in Australia – The Daily Beast
His grandmother was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia, and he was the great-grandson of Alexander III, the penultimate Tsar, but when Leonid Kulikovsky, 72, died alone and unknown in a small Australian town this year, the extravagances of a …
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Trump asks his supporters to report on their neighbors. ‘Most likely you’ll be wrong, but that’s OK’
There is no bad historical idea that Donald Trump will not embrace. Or pat on the back, or lick roughly across the face, from left ear to right eyeball, in front of the gathering crowds. “You’re pretty smart, right?” he asked his audience.
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Scream Queens Actually Made a Pretty Good Point About Thanksgiving
For people who don’t have families, live far away from their families, or have families they’d rather not see, Friendsgiving is the best option this time of year.
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How to Migrate Playlists from Rdio to Spotify
Rdio is shutting its doors, but that doesn’t mean you need to lose that playlists forever. It’s a pretty easy process to convert and migrate those playlists from Rdio over to Spotify. Here’s how to do it.
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What’s wrong with the people who read celebrity magazines? / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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How to Start Cooking (Even If You Feel Doomed)
How do you cook anything? Like, I get how heat and knives work, but the steps in front of me for making anything more complicated than a grilled cheese seem completely overwhelming.
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Members of the city of Chicago’s Black Caucus on Wednesday called for the resignation of Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy following the release of dashcam video showing the deadly shooting of a black teenager in 2014.
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Hillary Clinton’s No-Tax Pledge Divides Democrats : democrats
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Hillary Clinton’s No-Tax Pledge Divides Democrats
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Obama pardons pair of turkeys named ‘Honest’ and ‘Abe’ – BBC News
President Barack Obama has pardoned turkeys for the seventh year in a row, this time a pair named “Honest” and “Abe”. The two turkeys will be spared from someone’s Thanksgiving dinner and will instead go to a Virginia farm.
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The Federal Reserve Could Boost Employment and Investment. Here’s How. | The Nation
The right is pretty clear on what it wants to do with the Fed. Ted Cruz openly talked in a presidential debate about bringing back the barbaric relic of the gold standard, and the House GOP wants to tie the hands of the Fed, preventing it from doing…
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Why isn’t it faster flying west?
Why isn’t it super-fast to fly west in an airplane, given that the Earth is spinning at 700-1000 miles per hour relative to its center? This seems like a sorta-variation on the old airplane on a treadmill question, doesn’t it?
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Johnny Manziel has a ‘heavy dose of adversity’ after benching by Browns | Sport | The Guardian
One day after Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel was demoted from starter to third string, Cleveland’s head coach Mike Pettine characterized the reasoning behind the move as a violation of “trust”. “We told him yesterday, this isn’t a dead end.
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Almost 5,000 unaccompanied minors caught at US-Mexico border last month | US news | The Guardian
Nearly 5,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were caught illegally crossing the US border with Mexico in October, almost double the number from October 2014, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
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R.I.P. Setsuko Hara, Japanese screen legend · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Setsuko Hara, the luminous Japanese movie star of the 1940s and ’50s, has died. Best known today for the films she made with director Yasujirô Ozu, the prolific and popular Hara starred in more than 100 movies before unexpectedly retiring from actin…
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Gambia bans female genital mutilation – Al Jazeera English
Gambia has become the latest in a string of African nations to ban female genital mutilation (FGM), an ancient tradition of removing external parts of a girl’s vagina that has been widely condemned.
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How the Most Extreme Trips on Erowid Transformed Modern Drug Culture | Motherboard
“I began going into space. There were stars, and they seemed to be in a cylinder shape. They were far apart, but looking from a distance from normal eyes it would look just like a picture of space but as I came closer I could see that sorta had a cy…
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Oh, so she’s officially against the current FMLA reform bill now I guess. If she says “read my lips, no new taxes” I wouldn’t be surprised. It depends on how you define the middle class. Oh by the way it is not the middle class who needs their taxes…
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“Donald Trump Is a Fascist: This isn’t a partisan attack. It is the political label that best describes what the GOP front-runner has become.” (slate.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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On ‘The Preponderance of the Evidence,’ Bernie Sanders Is a Democrat: With a boost from Democratic Party officials, the senator is formally approved for the first primary ballot. (thenation.com)
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The Thanksgiving Sky: The Moon Meets a Bright Star at Dawn
As the moon moves around the Earth in its monthly orbit, it often passes in front of background stars. Such events are called “lunar occultations” and one will happen Thursday at dawn in a Thanksgiving lunar treat.
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Box’s Diversity Strategy Could Use Some Work And Transparency | TechCrunch
Last week, Box announced the winner of its third annual engineering diversity scholarship, Amanda Sopkin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Cartoon Lounge: Cartoonometrics – The New Yorker
The Greek philosopher Protagoras stirred up a controversy in ancient times by claiming that “man is the measure of all things,” which many took to mean that truth is not absolute but based on our perceptions. Well, as regards to humor, I’m with Prot…
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PSA: Watch Captain America punch Iron Man in first Civil War film trailer | Ars Technica
It might not be The Avengers 3, but next May’s Captain America: Civil War already appears ready to reuse Marvel films’ current flagship actors for another summer blockbuster. Not to add to the hype machine or anything, but this one looks pretty good…
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MRW I’m about to answer an easy question but my mind suddenly goes blank. – GIF on Imgur
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Tropical Storm Sandra Nears Mexico : Natural Hazards
At 20:35 UTC (1:35 p.m. Mountain Standard Time) on November 24, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this view of Tropical Storm Sandra over the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Went to my school’s Ferguson Rally today and tried to have a rational discussion – Imgur
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Midday open thread: 2015 will be hottest year ever, until 2016; Woodrow Wilson’s racist impact
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is America’s drunk uncle: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … Another barrier to Democratic downballot majorities: Are Democratic voters more ‘bipartisan’? by Steve Singiser This is fascism, and we should say it clearly …
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Conductor of the Anonymous | The Nation
As soon as I read the first chapters of Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time, I knew that I absolutely had to translate this book and make it available to the greatest possible number of readers.
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The Little Prince Movie Looks Just As Magical As You’d Imagine
The Little Prince is one of those stories where, even if you don’t know it, you’ve heard of it. Originally written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, it’s been adapted into all kinds of different versions. Next year, it’s getting a star-studded Hollywood …
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This Giftable, Cardboard-Compatible VR Headset is Down to $20 Today
It’s not as advanced as a Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift, but if you have a smartphone and $20, you can experience VR with this View-Master VR starter set. The View-Master is actually just a Google Cardboard-compatible VR headset, except, you know, …
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Is Serious Landscape Painting Still Possible? | The Nation
Does anyone today still believe that landscape can be the subject of great painting? Artists as renowned as Gerhard Richter and Alex Katz have made memorable landscape paintings—albeit under the sign of photography in Richter’s case, abstraction in…
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Real, Realist, Realistic, and False | The Nation
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sheila Heti, Tao Lin: When did we start calling memoir “literary fiction,” and why? The roman à clef predates these contemporary writers and their lightly fictionalized works of autobiography by generations, but the 20th-century…
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ISIS Wants a Clash of the Civilizations: Let’s Not Give In | The Nation
After 9/11, French President Jacques Chirac rejected the “war on terror” proposed by George W. Bush, urging the United States to treat terrorism as a form of criminality.
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Through the Slaughter | The Nation
Sky—have mercy. When flechettes flyforth from a shell, shot by a tank taking Ezekiel’s chariot’s name— Or summon Presence? Is its savor pleasant?As the rage unfurlsin a storm of flameand the darts deployin a shawl of pain?
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Happiness and the Hidden Wealth of Nations | The Nation
First came the earthquake: it occurred in the summer of 2013 and was called Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Two years and 1.5 million copies later, the aftershocks have arrived, including Anthony Atkinson’s Inequality: What Can Be Done? and Jos…
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Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong Is Just One More Great Idea From Damien Chazelle | Vanity Fair
Meme machine Ryan Gosling is thinking about making one small career step for a man and one giant leap for mankind. Famed astronaut Neil Armstrong is the subject of an upcoming biopic from Damien Chazelle.
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Google ‘right to be forgotten’ requests keep piling up | The Verge
Europe’s “right to be forgotten” rules remain a growing issue for Google.
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Lawsuit in which MPAA sought SOPA-like powers ends with a whimper | Ars Technica
A lawsuit in which activists accused the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) of seeking SOPA-like powers has ended without resolving much of anything. Whoever was behind the accused piracy website MovieTube seems to have disappeared.
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YouTube Kids accused of shilling for Coca-Cola | Grist
According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined.
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A welcome return to the Waterstones of old | Letters | Books | The Guardian
Thirty years ago, when Tim Waterstone opened his first bookshops, British bookselling was a dull old place, dominated by WH Smith. Opening hours were limited, books were few and ordered from head office. Tim Waterstone revolutionised all this.
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Highway Teardowns across America – The Atlantic
America loves its freeways. After the 1956 Federal Highway Bill created the pathway for a 41,000 mile interstate highway system, states and cities jockeyed for the funding to build ever-more extensive networks of pavement that could carry Americans …
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Green campaigners condemn cuts to energy efficiency scheme | Business | The Guardian
Green groups and charities have reacted with anger after the government announced cuts to the UK’s most important energy efficiency programme, which was created to help the poorest homeowners.
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Don’t Launder Foam Pillows, Spot Clean Them Only
Washing your pillows in the washing machine can make them look like new again and not yellow. While we’ve advocated properly laundering your pillows before, this does not apply to foam pillows.
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The New Attack on ‘One Person, One Vote’ | The Nation
In 1963, while preparing for his speech at the March on Washington, John Lewis saw a photo in The New York Times of a group of black women demonstrators in Rhodesia holding signs that read: one man, one vote.
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R.I.P. David Canary, veteran TV actor and All My Children star · Newswire · The A.V. Club
David Canary, veteran TV actor who starred on ABC’s All My Children for 26 years, died on November 16 of natural causes. He was 77. Canary was born in Indiana, but grew up and went to college in Ohio, attending the University Of Cincinnati on a foot…
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Turkey releases recording of ‘warning’ to downed jet – Al Jazeera English
The Turkish army has released what it said was audio recordings of warnings to a Russian warplane before it was shot down along the Syrian border. According to the Turkish armed forces, the warnings were issued by the Diyarbakir airbase and not by p…
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Massive Rocks Gave Moon It’s Mysterious Tilt
The mysterious tilt of the moon’s orbit is due to gravitational tugs it received from giant, close-passing rocks that eventually slammed into the Earth, new research suggests. The leading explanation for the moon’s origin is that a Mars-size rock ca…
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How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce
The retail giant is watching. In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized with the efficiency that had built a retail empire.
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‘Audio warning’ to Russian plane released by Turkish military – BBC News
The Turkish military has released what it says is an audio recording of the warning given to the Russian plane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border. In the recording, a voice can apparently be heard saying ”change your heading south” to the Ru…
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Climate crisis should be top of world leaders’ agenda | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Your article (Paris attacks cast shadow over climate talks, 23 November) helpfully draws attention to the different responses we have to crises.
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Guardian first book award 2015 goes to poet Andrew McMillan | Books | The Guardian
The poet Andrew McMillan has won the 2015 Guardian first book award with his elegantly poised and intimate collection of poems, Physical. McMillan is the first poet to win the £10,000 prize since it began in 1999, replacing the Guardian fiction priz…
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Shots fired 2nd night in a row during Minneapolis protest
Protesters at Minneapolis’ 4th Precinct police station experienced gunfire for a second night in a row late Tuesday. No injuries were reported this time. The protesters have been encamped at the police station demanding justice for Jamar Clark who w…
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Life with a dashcam: Sadly, we saw no meteorites | Ars Technica
Widespread in Russia, dashcams are also starting to proliferate on US streets.
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What If Companies Shared Exactly How They Determine Salaries? – The Atlantic
Comparing salary numbers with a coworker seems like it could only do damage: If there’s a pay differential, which there almost always is, the conversation (and relationship) could get awkward, and the person being paid less might start to harbor ill…
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Architect plans to swim across Pacific to raise environmental awareness | US news | The Guardian
A Texas-based architect is attempting a six-month, 5,500-mile swim across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to raise awareness of environmental issues. Benoît Lecomte will set off from Tokyo at the end of December.
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On a blustery afternoon in eastern Iowa, Marco Rubio’s voice grew stern as he sounded a warning one week after deadly terrorist attacks struck Paris.
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Secrets of the World’s Best Schools – The Daily Beast
The journey through school is perhaps one of the most important and defining stages of our lives. It’s where we go not just to learn, but to uncover a wider understanding about the world and ourselves.
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Nest Thermostats updated for better temperature control and energy efficiency | The Verge
Nest is pushing out a software update that will improve its ability to make small changes to your home’s temperature on the fly. This is based on more intelligent algorithms, Nest says, as well as better controls for more advanced heating systems.
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The Phase 2 Marvel Movies Look Better Than Ever in This Stunning Blu-ray Art
Everyone is talking about Captain America: Civil War this week, and for good reason. The first trailer is out and it promises to be a mega kick-off to Phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The Refugee Crisis Is Europe’s Chance to Atone for the Holocaust | The Nation
Vienna—“The refugees are showing us the best of Austria,” a Viennese friend told me over tea last month in one of the cozy cafés near St. Stephen’s Cathedral, “and also the worst.
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After the first murder charge against an active-duty Chicago police officer in over three decades, the city’s political establishment is eager to move on.
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Mr. Malick goes to Hollywood in the Knight Of Cups trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
While three films in six years can only be considered “prolific” for a director who once took a 20-year break between projects, Terrence Malick does seem to be on a bit of a hot streak lately.
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There has only been one time when I’ve been forced to remain indoors in the evening whilst covering a sporting event. Only one occasion when the hotel door was physically barred from the inside and the management told us to stay put.
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For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win – In These Times
There is no ache more profound as the experience of losing a loved one, so my heart goes out to LaQuan McDonald’s family. This young man is more than a symbol of a violent and morally bankrupt system—he was someone’s child. So, let my first words be…
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Inside the World of Egypt’s Salafist Muslims
This month’s deadly attacks on Paris and Beirut, along with the recent downing of a Russian airliner, represent the latest attempts by the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS, to terrorize world powers and spread chaos.
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Ron Howard could have saved us from The Phantom Menace, but chose not to · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Way back in the mid-’90s, George Lucas apparently exerted some mental energy trying to decide whether he’d rather create a trilogy of bloodless films in order to experiment with his new computer-imaging software, or hire some real filmmakers and mak…
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Before Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow chowed down on a kitchen comedy · 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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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks dig into their “Dragonfly Pie” · 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. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks’ Real Emotional Trash starts off with a “dessert” song that’s real…
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Male Film Critic Savagely Mauled By ‘P.C. Twitter Goons’
Dear, dear friends, we gather together today to mourn the untimely disemboweling of Jeffrey Wells, film critic, rent asunder “like a wildebeest being surrounded and torn apart by hyenas or wild dogs” by the “P.C. Twitter goons.
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“We not only have massive wealth and income inequality, but a power structure built around that inequality, which protects those who have the money.” – Bernie Sanders (youtu.be)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.) – The Washington Post
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Here’s how the airline industry could cut its emissions in half | Grist
It’s cheaper for airlines to cut emissions than you’d expect, according to a new study. According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., and France combined.
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WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Your Thanksgiving Watch-a-thon | WIRED
Thanksgiving is known for a lot of very important things. Turkey. Family. Wine naps. But perhaps most important, it gives us a four-day weekend to finally catch up on all those shows we’re behind on.
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NFL’s Best Thanksgiving Games: From the Bounty Bowl to the Butt Fumble | Rolling Stone
Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for parades, mashed potatoes, familial shame and a heaping helping of football. For more than a century, Americans have made pigskin a part of their Turkey Day traditions, and the NFL has returned the favor by dishing out pl…
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Clint Black Plans 2015 Christmas Tour | Rolling Stone
Clint Black Plans 2015 Christmas Tour Trek gets underway December 1st in the Villages, Florida, and will hit 12 cities
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Paris Venue Owners Ask for Government Aid as Industry Slumps | Rolling Stone
While many of Paris’ music venues have reopened their doors since the November 13th terror attacks in the French capital, the majority of concertgoers are still reticent about attending shows following the tragedy.
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Roger Waters’ ‘Wall’ Box Sets to Be Built Into Graffiti Wall | Rolling Stone
Roger Waters has announced the details of a super-deluxe box set edition of his recently released film and soundtrack album, The Wall. The set will contain vinyl, Blu-rays, CDs, a book and art prints and will be signed by Waters.
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In ostensibly liberal democracies in the West, attitudes towards free speech vary widely given different historical contexts, and can shift dramatically over time. We’re living in the midst of a generational shift on the issue in the U.S.
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Images From The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards – The Atlantic
The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards are now taking entries, and the organizers have been kind enough to share some of their early entries with us, gathered below. Last year’s competition attracted over 173,000 entries from 171 countries. Entries …
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From Cleopatra to John Carter: The Biggest Box Office Turkeys in Holly | Vanity Fair
The Grande Dame: Cleopatra (1963)We start with the film that heralded the end of the studio system and gave the world the endless gossip feast that was Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Watching it now, even knowing disaster is imminent, Cleopatr…
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Trump Explains His Muslim Registration Project in Detail | The Nation
Good management is what it’s called. No reason to be vexed. We’ll round up all the Muslims here, And then we’ll see who’s next.
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Deflect, Explore, or Confront Your Relatives’ Nosey Questions
Holidays are for family and sometimes that means trying to survive awkward or intrusive questions like “When are you two going to get married?” or “Still single, huh?” Here are some scripts you can use to handle these tired old questions.
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Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue | The Nation
In Eric Foner’s “Letter to Bernie Sanders” [Nov. 16], he suggests that Sanders refer to America’s radical history rather than Denmark’s, mentioning Eugene Debs at length.
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Men in Black 4 Producers Promise a “Prominent” Woman in Black | Vanity Fair
It’s 2015, people! That means women can be Ghostbusters, superheroes, and major Star Wars heroines in movies. The next cinematic franchise to get a healthy shot of feminism, it seems, will be Men in Black as its producer promises to give audiences a…
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My CEO’s face ripples with strobing house centipedes, their legs scratching away at the flesh around his eye sockets, and I want to reach across the table and flick them off him.
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A Skeptic’s Guide to Buying (or Not Buying) a 4K TV
I bought my beloved television half a decade ago, a (then) impressively thin 32-inch Samsung for around $500. Today, you can buy a 50-inch 4K TV for $500. The real question is: Should you buy a 4K TV at all?
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to packed crowd at Fox theater. “You are not going to get huge tax breaks when children in Georgia and Vermont go hungry, ain’t going to happen.” (fox5atlanta.com) in the Georgetown Speech, Bernie quoted Pope Francis twice…
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The 3 Arrests in Minneapolis’ Black Lives Matter Shooting – The Atlantic
Minneapolis police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of five Black Lives Matter demonstrators on Monday. The first, Allen Lawrence “Lance” Scarsella III, was caught by police. Two others, Nathan Gustavsson and Daniel Macey…
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Is Double-Dipping a Food Safety Problem or Just a Nasty Habit? – Scientific American
What do you do when you are left with half a chip in your hand after dipping? Admit it, you’ve wondered whether it’s OK to double dip the chip. Maybe you’re the sort who dips their chip only once.
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Melvin Van Akin Burd obituary | Books | The Guardian
Melvin Van Akin Burd, who has died aged 101, devoted most of his academic career to the study of John Ruskin.
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Discover Sunny’s Origins in This Exclusive Look at the Into the Badlands Comic
Since it launched a few weeks ago, AMC has also been releasing digital pages from an Into the Badlands comic alongside the TV show, exploring the background of this crazy, bloody world.
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Wolves return to Poland more than 50 years after being wiped out | Environment | The Guardian
Wolves have returned to a large national park on the outskirts of Warsaw, decades after they were wiped out there under a hunt launched by the communist authorities. Park employees spotted a first wolf in 2013, but the animal was just passing throug…
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Russia sends clear message to Turkey: Don’t try it again – BBC News
President Putin’s phrase leapt from the front pages of Russian newspapers on Wednesday morning, along with furious commentary on Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter plane. Worse still, he was shot at as he attempted to parachute to safety from his…
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Meet TurboRoo & His 3D-Printed Pawsthetics | TechCrunch
Some of us, four legged friends included, hit some bad luck once in a while. Some have it harder than others. A good friend of mine, TurboRoo, has an interesting story to share and a new campaign to help others in his situation. Turbo was brought in…
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What will downing of Russian jet mean for Turkey-Russia relations? – BBC News
Russia has bitterly condemned the downing of its fighter jet on the Turkey-Syria border, with President Putin calling it “a stab in the back”. But what will it mean for Turkey-Russia relations?
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Online Shopping While Black – Racked
Last November, I found myself at Walmart, covering its Thanksgiving sale for a California newspaper. But once I finished my reporting, I didn’t even consider following the customers I’d interviewed inside to score a deal on a TV or a tablet.
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‘Creed’ Is the Movie ‘Rocky’ Fans Have Been Waiting For – The Daily Beast
Sylvester Stallone returns to his roots in this rousing Rocky reboot, which channels the larger-than-life, up-from-your-bootstraps fantasy of the original. A third of the way through Creed, up-and-coming-boxer Adonis “Hollywood” Creed (Michael B.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 25th – The New Yorker
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Cloud HR platform Zenefits may have allowed salespeople to illegally act as insurance agents in at least seven states. According to a Buzzfeed investigative report, the startup let unlicensed brokers sell health insurance, leading to at least one co…
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Tank with stabilized gun excels at balancing beer
The Leopard 2 battle tank was developed for the West German army in the 70s and has a fully stabilized main gun. What does that mean? It means that even if you’re flying along at 30 mph on bumpy ground, your gun remains steadily pointed on-target (l…
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No specific or credible threat to US – Obama – BBC News
President Barack Obama has announced ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday that there is no “specific or credible” threat of a terrorist attack in the US. In the wake of the deadly Paris attacks, he said it is understandable that Americans fear somethin…
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Mad At All These Star Wars Spoilers? Install Star Wars Spoiler Blocker | TechCrunch
There are two kinds of people: those who are sick of all this Star Wars news nonsense, and those who just want to avoid any spoiler before seeing Star Wars Episode VII. In both cases, you’re in luck because the Jitbit co-founders have something for …
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It is one of the most famous and most damning accusations in all of popular culture: “You double dipped the chip! You dipped the chip, you took a bite, and you dipped again!” Actor Kieran Mulroney as “Timmy” levied those harsh words at Jason Alexand…
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This Video Explains How Procrastination Is Mostly About Fear
We all procrastinate now and then. While it might feel like we procrastinate out of laziness or a lack of willpower, the root of the problem is often fear, as the video above from The School of Life illustrates.
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Alleged ISIS Supporter Tweets About Making Bombs, Gets Arrested | Motherboard
The so-called Islamic State as well as its supporters have significant presence on social media. One suspected supporter may have got a bit too enthusiastic though, and announced his bomb-making plans on Twitter, which led to his arrest.
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Jessica Jones Is a Show About Trauma That Doesn’t Skip Over The Complexity of PTSD
Plenty of media narratives touch on trauma and recovery nowadays, and PTSD has become a common trope. But in real life, everybody deals with trauma differently—and Marvel’s new series Jessica Jones actually shows the vast array of responses that peo…
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This Sad Short About a Woman Who Can’t Find Anything at a Lost and Found Has a Happy Ending
“Lost Property” is a short where everything is perfect. The metaphor of the office and the photos is wonderfully executed. The characters are animated with a lot of sympathy. And the visuals are beautiful.
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America Is Too Dumb for TV News | Rolling Stone
“Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.” It was a hell of a …
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Someone actually bought that crazy expensive Wu-Tang album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Marking a historic day in album gimmickry the likes of which haven’t been seen since Michael Jackson floated a statue of himself down the River Thames, a mystery buyer has reportedly bought that extremely limited edition—as in there’s only one copy—…
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Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists. 100% global warming consensus in Exxon scientists’ research contrasted its $31m campaign to cast doubt on that consensus. (theguardian.com)
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The Unlikely True International Story of the Man Called Orange Brother
Li Hongjun did not usually take selfies. But out in the orange grove, he was not in his usual state of mind. It was early February, and the lunar New Year was approaching.
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Fracking Companies Have Been Getting Worse About Disclosing The Chemicals They Use | ThinkProgress
Want to know what chemicals energy companies use in their hydraulic fracking operations? Turns out it’s getting harder and harder to answer that question.
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UK Peatland Code designed to attract private funds – BBC News
Private investors are being invited to help fund the restoration of about one half of the UK’s peatlands. The Peatland Code, say its developers, has been designed to link potential private funders with accredited restoration projects.
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More Blood Is Shed and a New Villain Is Born on Manhattan
We get a case study in how small compromises can eat away at a person’s integrity over time on this week’s episode of Manhattan, as Jim Meeks makes a critical choice that transforms him from well-meaning spy to true villain. Spoilers below….
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Jennifer Lawrence is directing a movie about ‘mental warfare in the ‘60s’ | The Verge
It only took Jennifer Lawrence a few years to conquer both the box office and the Academy Awards, so you can’t blame her for exploring a new creative frontier: direction.
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How Does Drug Use Affect Typing Speed? A Highly Scientific Investigation | Motherboard
In the information age, touch typing skills are crucial for clear and efficient communication. But typed communication requires fine motor skill that could be impaired by commonly used psychoactive substances. This study examined the effects of vari…
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Iranian military spear-phish of State Department employees detected first by Facebook | Ars Technica
More details have emerged about the hacking the computers of US State Department and other government employees, first revealed earlier this month in a Wall Street Journal report.
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Farewell, Cynthia Robinson: Mother of All Hype Men and Heart of the Family Stone – The Daily Beast
Cynthia Robinson, who died Monday of cancer at age 69, was a co-founder of Sly & the Family Stone and the only black female trumpeter to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Obama: I will warn of ‘specific and credible’ terrorist threats against US | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama has pledged to publicly announce any “specific and credible” intelligence he receives of terrorist threats against the United States, in an effort to reassure Americans ahead of a holiday weekend that has seen heightened security fears.
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The last JFK murder mystery: where is the grassy knoll film? | US news | The Guardian
The Nix film is the Betamax of JFK assassination movies. Historically, it has been overshadowed by Abraham Zapruder’s film, which captured the 1963 shooting in horrific detail, and yet Orville Nix’s home movie could actually reveal more – at least f…
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Pandora is streaming Adele’s 25 and her label can’t stop it | The Verge
Adele’s 25 is the biggest album in the world right now, and it’s made it there all without a single stream on Spotify.
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US: human and tech error behind Kunduz hospital attack – video | Global | The Guardian
American military official says a series of human and technical failures contributed to a US airstrike against an MSF hospital in Kunduz last month.
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There’s no fixing the iPad Pro Smart Keyboard, but here’s what’s inside | Ars Technica
iFixit’s product teardowns often show you how to fix gadgets, but in the case of Apple’s Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil accessories for the iPad Pro they have been more academic. Neither device is meant to be opened, and the act of opening them als…
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The holiday tech support field guide | The Verge
Holiday dinner table talk can be rough. When you’re not slicing up a strange hybrid turkey or serving up dishes of root vegetables, it’s easy to feel as though you’re both moderating a political debate and taking on the role of family IT support.
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Pope Francis kicks off Africa tour with peace message – Al Jazeera English
Pope Francis has called for ethnic and religious reconciliation after arriving in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at the start of his landmark three-nation Africa trip.
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Holiday tech support: routers, printers, security cameras, and more | The Verge
What’s Thanksgiving without turkey and routers? Everything is connected these days. Not only are our households filling up with an ever-increasing amount of screens, but the rest of our physical world is becoming wired as well.
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Holiday tech support: 5 tips for Android phones | The Verge
Android phones don’t usually need that much care and maintenance — assuming that your loved ones don’t do anything crazy with them. But, well, that’s probably a bad assumption. More so than iOS, Android phones make it easy to do lots of weird and co…
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Holiday tech support: 4 tips for the Mac | The Verge
It doesn’t matter if a computer is brand new or several years past its prime, it seems like some relative you bump into over the holidays will always have encountered a problem with it.
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Holiday tech support: 7 tips for Windows computers | The Verge
It’s that time again: Thanksgiving. For the past 12 months you’ve been telling your parents to just “restart it” and the family PC has been running fine, kind of. You just want to enjoy your oven-roasted turkey on Thursday, but your parents are read…
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Holiday tech support: 7 tips for the iPhone | The Verge
You finally convinced your parents it was time to leave their beloved flip phone behind and upgrade to a more modern device. They went with the iPhone, a dependable choice we’ve recommended as the best smartphone you can buy for several years in a r…
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The Steam Controller Is the PC Controller I’ve Been Waiting For
I love my PC. I use it for gaming, and have a spare home theater PC in my living room for everything else I could ever want. The one problem I’ve had is finding a good way to control my HTPC from the couch. The Steam Controller has finally solved th…
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What are you reading in November? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
We’ve expanded the regular AVQ&A discussion prompts to ask several of our regular contributors (and you) a simple question: What are you currently reading? If you have suggestions for future AVQ&A questions, big or small, email them to us here.
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If there truly are an infinite number of alternate universes, each with its own subtle differences, perhaps there exists one in which The Man In The High Castle has figured out where it’s going by its third episode.
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Why Do We Remake Great Foreign Films As Mediocre American Ones? | ThinkProgress
This post contains spoilers for the plot of Secret In Their Eyes. The Secret In Their Eyes, the American crime film starring Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Nicole Kidman, takes viewers back to the time immediately after 9/11, when Americans we…
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Thanksgiving can be a stressful time of year, especially for the people hosting it.
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Donald Trump undermines our fight against the Islamic State “He appears to be inflaming the situation deliberately, to advance his presidential campaign. It’s rare that we see this level of demagoguery in U.S. politics, but it’s frightening.” (washi…
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The Keep is often referred to as Michael Mann’s horror film.
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Islamophobia plays right into the hands of Isis | Owen Jones | Comment is free | The Guardian
When a Muslim optician told me of the hate crime committed against her, it was her flippancy that shocked me most. She was driving to work when a man parked his van in front of her. When she objected, he yelled: “You’re a fucking Muslim – leave the …
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Singing Glasses – Scientific American
Introduction Thanksgiving can be a wonderful time of year, with friends and family getting together. The table is full of delicious food—a big feast—and there might even be some fancy dishes and glassware on the table to make the celebration even mo…
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Malcolm London, Laquan McDonald, and the Problems With Chicago’s Police Force – The Atlantic
Marchers took to the streets of Chicago Tuesday night, protesting the death of Laquan McDonald. McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014, but video of his death was only released Tuesday, the same day Van…
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Fix a clock tower on a mysterious island, you dashing horologist / Offworld
Once upon a time, clock towers were a sort of public utility, a shared temporal reference point that synchronized communities where personal timepieces were often a rarity.
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Dan Fante: underground writer expressed madness of the US workplace | Books | The Guardian
Dan Fante, who died on on Monday aged 71, was one of the American literary underground’s most significant writers.
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The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN in Geneva established collisions between lead nuclei, this morning, at the highest energies ever.
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Smokestack falls on Alabama construction worker – video | US news | The Guardian
A construction worker in Alabama is lucky to be alive after a smokestack fell on the backhoe he was driving. Engineers brought in the construction vehicle to help topple the structure after initial attempts to implode the smokestack failed.
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Because anything another network can do, Fox can do stupider, the channel is plunging ahead with its decision to air Grease: Live, a real-time performance of the hit musical.
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What We’re Following This Afternoon, November 25 – The Atlantic
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Girl Meets World to continue introducing itself with a third season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that the first two seasons of the show have covered all middle-school concerns (including whatever happened to Minkus), Girl Meets World is ready to introduce itself to high school.
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Now That We Can Edit Cancer’s Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs | Motherboard
The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the last year alone, hundreds of papers have been published using CRISPR.
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Obama: We Got This. Enjoy Thanksgiving. | Mother Jones
Heading into the long holiday weekend, President Obama assured the country Wednesday afternoon that there is no imminent threat of a terrorist attack and urged Americans to enjoy the Thanksgiving festivities.
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Decomposing Jellyfish Goop Is Clogging Up Norway’s Northern Fjords | Motherboard
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The Actual “American Spirit” Is Apple Brandy From New Jersey | VinePair
Taking for granted the slew of cultural distortions already embedded in the holiday, and bringing none of those up (because Uncle Reggie’s had a few), here’s a fun holiday quiz: this Thanksgiving, ask your assembled friends and family, “What’s the m…
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The Native American Community Faces Dangerously High Rates Of Food Insecurity | ThinkProgress
It’s been nearly 400 years since the Wampanoag people encountered the starving, cold pilgrims in Plymouth Bay.
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Republican Elites Emerge From Trump Denialism | New Republic
The contours of the outsider-as-favorite Republican primary began to take shape this summer, when the candidates without establishment support, led by Donald Trump, consolidated half of the vote in national polls. The news for GOP elites has grown c…
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Uber Chases The Perfect Ride With Back-To-Back Trips | TechCrunch
There’s a secret equation Uber is constantly trying to optimize, where Uber and the driver earn the most money possible while the passenger pays the least. Internally, I’ve heard Uber refers to this as “the perfect ride”.
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The Other Side of Black Friday Price Tags | The Nation
When the glass doors fly open this Friday, riotous crowds will spill into a tide of mass consumption at Walmarts nationwide.
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Thom Yorke: Tony Blair advisers tried to force me to meet the PM | Music | The Guardian
Thom Yorke has claimed that advisers to Tony Blair tried to force him to meet the former prime minister in 2003.
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Apple’s Holiday Ad Features Andra Day, Stevie Wonder And VoiceOver | TechCrunch
Named ‘Someday at Christmas,’ Apple just shared its holiday video ad ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the holiday season. Surprisingly, it doesn’t showcase Apple’s latest and greatest products. Instead, it focuses on music and family time. It a…
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Tarzan in the 21st century: the trials of being a writer in Cuba | Books | The Guardian
I walk on a lava desert, sweat runs down my forehead, my shoulders, my back, beneath my feet the blanket burns with boiling flames. Eh … the blanket? I suddenly come out of my dream in a bad mood and stretch. Did they cut the power again?! I look si…
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Obama assures Americans there’s ‘no specific and credible’ terrorist threat to the U.S.
After meeting with his national security team Wednesday, President Obama assured Americans that there’s currently “no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland.
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Your cheat sheet for talking about tech this Thanksgiving | The Verge
Holiday dinner table talk can be rough. When you’re not slicing up a strange hybrid turkey or serving up dishes of root vegetables, it’s easy to feel as though you’re both moderating a political debate and taking on the role of family IT support.
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Clinton and Sanders continue to rack up labor support (dailykos.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Fox News Contributor Gets Death Threats for Daring to Make Fun of Star | Vanity Fair
Just when you thought comic book and video game fans were the most obnoxious, fundamentalist Star Wars kooks are showing their true, terrible colors.
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Texas Governor Picks Fight With Faith Groups Over Syrian Refugees xpost-/r/CornbreadLiberals) (reddit.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia is a country that is easier to write about from afar, where you can just tee off on the place as a source of the most austere, antipluralistic version of Islam — the most extreme versions of which have been embrac…
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Awesome Music Video Parody Sings ‘Hey, Hey, NASA Is Good!’
NASA’s Johnson Space Center interns have created yet another hilarious parody music video, with this latest one highlighting Scott Kelly’s epic one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. The song, called “NASA Is Good,” is based on And…
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How Food Bloggers Do Thanksgiving: Delicious Meals For Your Holidays – The Daily Beast
If you’re not someone who does the cooking for Thanksgiving, the holiday is associated with warm memories of families gathered around the table, sharing their gratitude while reveling in a delicious meal.
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Bitfusion’s New Cloud Adaptor Lets Developers Use GPUs And FPGAs In The Cloud | TechCrunch
Disrupt Battlefield alum Bitfusion wants to help developers get to best compute performance out of their hardware, be it their legacy desktops or specialized high-performance compute clouds.
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Movie of the Week: “Heaven’s Gate” – The New Yorker
The reviews of Michael Cimino’s 1980 Western “Heaven’s Gate” (which I discuss in this clip) belong less to the history of cinema than to the sociology of the mob.
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READ: issue one of Mike “Hellboy” Mignola’s Frankenstein Underground / Boing Boing
The creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, has long been fascinated and inspired by Frankenstein’s monster.
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Yemen conflict: Houthis ‘blocking Taiz aid deliveries’ – BBC News
The UN’s aid chief has accused Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the country’s third city of Taiz. Stephen O’Brien warned that up 200,000 vulnerable civilians were living under “virtual state of …
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The Culture Shock of Moving From Mexico to Missouri – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Obama Delivers National Security Speech Before Thanksgiving – The Atlantic
Go about your Thanksgiving business, everyone. That was the gist of President Obama’s surprise announcement to the American people on Wednesday, which came after a meeting about U.S. security in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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Today, November 25, marks the 100th anniversary of German physicist Albert Einstein’s world-changing theory of general relativity, described by The New York Times as “the equation that rules the universe.
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The Surprisingly Feminine Core of Dark Knight III
Frank Miller’s Dark Knight series has, for better or worse, been one of the most highly influential pieces of Batman media in decades—and a return to that universe is one that usually could be fraught with danger.
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UK government carbon capture £1bn grant dropped – BBC News
The UK government has announced it is axing a £1bn grant for developing new carbon capture and storage technology. Peterhead power station and the White Rose scheme in North Yorkshire were the bidders in the competition.
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Will Smith says he may enter politics ‘in the near future’ | Film | The Guardian
Will Smith, tired of the current state of affairs in the US, has declared an intention to perhaps enter the political arena “in the near future” in a podcast interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
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The next Men In Black will have a (Wo)man In Black · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After Men In Black 3 ended up being far better than it had any reason to be, it felt like the franchise had found its natural ending point—which, naturally, meant it was time for Hollywood to start planning the next one.
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This week we’re barely putting up with Black Friday · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
The return of Investigation Discovery’s least tawdry program, A Crime To Remember. It’s like Mad Men, if Mad Men was made by the same network that brought you Swamp Murders and Evil Twins. The trailer for The Huntsman Winter’s War.
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Faces from the Border: Choosing Friends – The New Yorker
This is the third in a three-part series, “Faces from the Border,” about Mexican-American agents on the border between the United States and Mexico.
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Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. Monday Night Football commentator Mike Tirico closed his broadcast of the New England Patriots’ 20-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills this week by complaining about the referees.
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Guess Who’s Helping Seattle Homeless Veterans? Syrian Refugees | KUOW News and Information
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Are you guys seeing this too? : trippinthroughtime
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Is Erykah Badu secretly a huge smartphone nerd? | The Verge
Erykah Badu just announced her long-awaited mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone is coming out on Black Friday through Apple Music and iTunes before receiving a wide release on December 4th.
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Martin Shkreli walks back on pledge to lower price of HIV drug Daraprim | Business | The Guardian
Controversial pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli has has decided he’s not going to lower the price of his HIV medication after all.
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For clues to how the Syrian Civil War might finally end—or devolve into an even more nightmarish conflict—look to the congested skies over Syria.
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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America’s Scientists To House Science Committee: Go Away | ThinkProgress
Seven major American scientific societies sent a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) on Tuesday, rebuking the congressman and defending a paper published in Science last year that Smith has been investigating in his role as chairman of the House Commi…
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CRISPR, The Revolutionary Gene-Editing Technique, Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses – The Atlantic
Humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes, but which of these really matter? Which are essential, and which are merely optional add-ons? It’s crazy to me that we still don’t know, even though it’s been almost 15 years since the first draft of the …
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Pentagon Cites Human Error in Doctors Without Borders Airstrike in Afghanistan – The Atlantic
Nearly two months after American strikes killed 30 people at a Doctors Without Borders trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said that the strikes were the result of “human error.
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French ex-minister delivers baby girl on plane – BBC News
Philippe Douste-Blazy, who previously worked as a cardiologist, assisted the birth alongside a midwife. The baby was born above Algeria around two hours before the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle airport, travelling from Gabon’s capital Libreville.
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US military commanders in Afghanistan took 17 minutes to act after being warned by Médecins Sans Frontières that their aircraft was firing on a medical centre full of doctors and civilians, an internal investigation has found.
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Veteran film blogger says The Revenant too ‘unflinchingly brutal’ for women | Film | The Guardian
Film blogger Jeffrey Wells has sparked outrage after suggesting that the forthcoming Leonardo DiCaprio film The Revenant will be unsuitable for female audiences due to its “unflinchingly brutal nature”.
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Why New York May Reduce The Role Of Tests In Teacher Evaluations | ThinkProgress
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is trying to reduce the role of testing in teacher evaluations, perhaps to zero, according to The New York Times’ interview with two people involved in state education policy.
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What Thanksgiving Stories Share: Welcoming the Stranger
Thanksgiving is here. Let’s eat! America’s most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Indians enjoyed together in the fall of 1621.
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The FBI Refused Our FOIA Request for Information About Its Attack on Tor | Motherboard
The FBI and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) really don’t want to talk about their relationship.
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Syrian War Wreaking More Havoc Than ISIS, Satellites Reveal
Videos of Islamic State militants shattering ancient statues and blowing up classical temples have shocked the world. But according to a new analysis of satellite images by U.S. archaeologists, these high-profile acts obscure the actual extent of da…
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We all have personal reasons to be thankful this Thursday, but among them should be the fact that we exist in the first place—after all, it easily might have been otherwise.
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2015 to Be Hottest Year on Record
Just days before international negotiations on climate change are set to begin in Paris, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has announced that 2015 is shaping up to be the warmest year on record.
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The Greatest Gift Ideas for People Who Work at io9
Still need more holiday gift ideas? Well, here’s what the io9 staff members are desperately hoping to receive this holiday season. No, you don’t have to buy them for us; this is still mainly to help you guys.
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President Obama delivers a statement on national security
We’ll have a more in-depth account coming soon, but the summary is this: President Obama just met with his national security team and wants “the American people to know that we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe.
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Inside One Man’s Quest to Build a Photo Ark for Animals
Ten years ago today, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore’s wife, Kathy, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Unexpected trip. : trippinthroughtime
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Guess Who’s Helping Seattle Homeless Veterans? Syrian Refugees : politics
Guess Who’s Helping Seattle Homeless Veterans? Syrian Refugees (kuow.org) You know, I was all set to make a snide comment, but this is a genuinely uplifting article…
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Man Generates Almost No Garbage in Two and a Half Year Trash-Free Experiment : environment
Man Generates Almost No Garbage in Two and a Half Year Trash-Free Experiment (niume.com)submitted 52 minutes ago by loading…
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The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving | JSTOR Daily
When you think of the history of Thanksgiving, you’d be hard-pressed not to picture funny Pilgrim hats and stereotyped Native Americans. These days, most of us know that the sanitized story we learned in grade school bears little resemblance to the …
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Deezer Introduces Family Plan, $16 For Up To 6 People | TechCrunch
Shortly after indefinitely postponing its IPO, music streaming startup Deezer just announced a new family plan to keep up with the competition. You can now subscribe to a family plan for €14.99 per month ($16).
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Man Beaten At Donald Trump Rally Exploring Legal Action Against Trump | ThinkProgress
Black Lives Matter activist Mercutio Southall, who was choked and beaten Saturday by Donald Trump supporters in Birmingham, Alabama, is exploring legal action against both his attackers and Trump himself.
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“This is all bad news for the planet,” noted WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. In particular, crossing the 1°C (1.8°F) means we are halfway to the 2°C (3.
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2015 set to be ‘hottest year on record’ – Al Jazeera English
This year is likely to be the hottest on record, the UN’s weather agency has warned ahead of a global climate summit starting in Paris next week.
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Coalition or Cold War with Russia? | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War.
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Laquan McDonald death: Five arrested in protests – BBC News
Police in Chicago say they arrested five people on Tuesday who were protesting over a video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times in Chicago last year. The video, released on Tuesday, showed the 2014 shooting of Laquan Mc…
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The day after Thanksgiving last year, 14 black activists shut down Bay Area Rapid Transit—the San Francisco Bay Area’s public transit system—for more than two hours. They did so by chaining themselves to each other and to both east- and westbound tr…
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Page not found | The A.V. Club
Tom Hanks, the reigning king of the guys everyone wants to be friends with, just notched a few more cool points. In a recent appearance on the U.K.
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Native American books to read on Thanksgiving | Books | The Guardian
For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a time spent in celebration of the wacky pleasures of the heteronormative nuclear family and gorging on industrial poultry and its associated trimmings. For others, it’s a more fraught holiday.
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Sensation of Taste Is Built into Brain – Scientific American
Roast turkey. Stuffing. Mashed potatoes and gravy. Pie. Thanksgiving conjures up all sorts of flavors. If you close your eyes you can almost taste them. In fact, one day you may be able to—without food.
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‘The Danish Girl’ Takes The Transgender Story Off Of E! And Into Oscar Consideration | ThinkProgress
This post contains spoilers from The Danish Girl. Director Tom Hooper’s latest film The Danish Girl is already stirring Oscar buzz, as well as a bit of controversy.
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Ezekiel Elliott and the Overdue Thaw of College Football Politics | The Nation
Ezekiel Elliott has apologized. The star Ohio State running back went off on his lauded fifty million dollar head coach Urban Meyer after garnering just twelve carries in a brutal loss to the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday. Among many other thi…
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Our Grins Have Grown Wider Over the Last Century, Machine-Vision Algorithms Show | Motherboard
When looking through old school yearbooks, we usually notice outdated hairstyles and clothes, but a new arxiv study featured in the MIT Technology Review, reveals that people’s smiles also change over time.
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Seth Meyers Calls Trump’s 9/11 Claims What They Are: Lies – The Daily Beast
The mainstream media may be having some trouble this week calling out Donald Trump’s claims about Muslim-Americans cheering on 9/11 and bogus crime statistics about black-on-white crime. But Seth Meyers has no problem calling them what they are: lie…
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By SERGIO PEÇANHA and K.K. REBECCA LAI NOV. 25, 2015 All of the Sept. 11 attackers entered the United States using tourist, business or student visas.
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Volkswagen posts video showing how it will fix its cheating diesel engines | The Verge
A video posted on YouTube today by Volkswagen Group presents the company’s plan for fixing its so-called EA 189 diesel engines — the 1.6-liter and 2-liter powerplants that make up the majority of vehicles embroiled in an ongoing emissions cheating s…
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Are open carry protesters fueling fear outside a Texas mosque? : politics
Are open carry protesters fueling fear outside a Texas mosque? (csmonitor.com) Why write an article as a question if the answer is obviously “no shit”?
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How a viral video of a unicorn is changing the way we poop
The Squatty Potty looks like a typical medical device. It’s plastic, white, and efficiently designed but not too streamlined. It props your legs up while you poop and nothing more. Squatty Potty is a small family business, based in Saint George, Ut…
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Here’s Your First Look at the Newest Cards in Star Wars Card Trader
Warning! This article contains highly addictive content. The last time we wrote about the Topps app Star Wars Card Trader, tons of people told me I got them hooked, and I think that’s going to happen again because we’ve got some huge news.
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The Execution of Laquan McDonald | New Republic
Laquan McDonald seemingly breathed his last through the bullet holes. As he is perforated, you don’t see his blood so much as the visible air that escapes from his freshly made wounds. It looks like bursts of exhaust.
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Teacher Evaluations Fall Off The Education ‘Reform’ Agenda
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently shook up the education policy world when she challenged one of the pillars of the education establishment for the last 10 to 15 years, that teachers’ job evaluations and pay should be linked…
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Forensic Architects Investigating Violence In Gaza – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Thanksgiving Food Is Bad | New Republic
I love Thanksgiving. There is a coziness to it, a distinctly autumnal serenity, a hush that falls over conversations even when the house is full of friends and family, a warm note that colors all my memories of Thanksgivings past.
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The World Bank has devised a $16bn (£10.6bn) strategy designed to help Africa adapt to climate change and prevent millions of people from sliding into poverty.
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Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel called for calm on Tuesday night ahead of the release of video from 2014 showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.
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The trailer for Johannes Roberts’ The Other Side Of The Door is chockablock with horror-movie references, including a grieving mother (played here by The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies), spooky kids, an ancient evil that’s all-too-casually acces…
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Managing a 100 percent renewable grid, without batteries | Ars Technica
Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson likes to take current thinking about renewable energy and supersize it. Rather than aiming for 50 percent renewables, like California is, he has analyzed what it would take for each of the 50 states to go fully rene…
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On Limitless, Everybody’s Robotic Arms Go on a Crime Spree
On this week’s Limitless, all the fancy robotic arms in New York get hacked to commit crimes. The episode’s title? “Arm-ageddon.” I love this show.
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A manhunt in Sweden for a terrorist who wasn’t – Al Jazeera English
Stockholm, Sweden – A week after the Swedish Security Service (Sapo) detained a man on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, only to let the 22-year-old Iraqi man go days later, Swedes have been left pondering how badly they had been misled.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Hubble Captures a Galactic Waltz
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Moon Setting Over Philly [OC] [5100×3400]
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Milky way and lone tree [OC] [2000×3000]
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey and Russia promised on Wednesday not to go to war over the downing of a Russian fighter jet, leaving Turkey’s still-nervous NATO allies and just about everyone else wondering why the country decided to risk such a serious con…
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FBI reportedly tracks ‘biggest hack ever’ back to Russian email address | The Verge
A hacker going by the name of “mr.grey” might have been at least a participant in, if not the mastermind behind, the creation of the world’s largest stolen login credentials database.
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Steve Wildstrom, Tech Journalist, Dies After Battle With Brain Cancer | TechCrunch
Steve Wildstrom, a long time Business Week columnist and one of the first journalists to focus primarily on technology, died on November 24 of brain cancer. Wildstrom wrote the Technology & You for Business Week from 1994 to 2009.
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I have a subscription to coconut oil / Boing Boing
“This coconut oil melted during a heat wave and later re-solidified. Why did it form this honeycomb structure?” asked pensive badger on the askscience subreddit.
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World Book Night criticised for all-white 2016 giveaway list | Books | The Guardian
Carol Ann Duffy, Jonathan Coe and Matt Haig are some of the major authors whose books are due to be handed out for free on World Book Night next year in a quest to create a “reading nation” – but a selection of titles hailed as “diverse” by organise…
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Full Moon Rises Tonight in Pre-Thanksgiving Lunar Show
Astrophotographer John Chumack captured this amazing view of the full moon on July 31, 2015 from Dayton, Ohio. The November full moon rises tonight (Nov. 25).Credit: John Chumack – GalacticImages.
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Robot Doppelgängers and What It Means to Be Human – The Atlantic
On a hot Saturday evening in early August, an endearing Canadian robotics project came to a grisly end in Philadelphia. A talking robot, HitchBot, had been decapitated and dismembered, its smooth bucket body separated from blue pool-noodle limbs.
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Gravitational Waves, If We Could See Them | Space Wallpaper
About this Image A calamitous impact in space, with no visible evidence: the crash and merging of two black holes. Although, as seen in this intriguing image, if we could see gravitational waves the event would reveal not only immense power but a st…
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We’re Thankful for Adele, “Hotline Bling,” and Prince Harry’s Beard This Thanksgiving | Vanity Fair
Hello . . . it’s us. As we have done for the past two years, we have decided to reflect, this Thanksgiving, on what it is in this world—pop culturally and otherwise—that we are thankful for right now.
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Earth’s Cousin Find ‘Whispers The Possibility That We Are Not Alone’ | Video
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‘Good’ settlement for UK science may come with strings – BBC News
The UK chancellor George Osborne has said that the £4.7bn science budget would be protected in real terms. This is an improvement on his commitment in 2010 when science funding was frozen but eroded by inflation.
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Australia deploys drones to track sharks and prevent attacks | Environment | The Guardian
Shark-tracking drones are being deployed to protect Australia’s beachgoers following a series of attacks on surfers.
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On ‘The Preponderance of the Evidence,’ Bernie Sanders Is a Democrat | The Nation
It’s official, Bernie Sanders is sufficiently Democratic to run as a Democrat. For the purposes of the New Hampshire presidential primary, and presumably for the 2016 primaries and caucuses to follow, the veteran independent from Vermont has been ap…
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Holly Holm on Ronda Rousey KO: ‘That Fight’s in the Past’ | Rolling Stone
Two weeks ago, Holly Holm was an unknown. That changed on November 15, when the former boxing champion knocked out Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, shocking the so-called experts who pegged her as a 16-1 underdog and taking the Bantamweight title in the pro…
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Despite peaceful protests in Chicago, multiple activists arrested
Protesters have been taking to the streets in Chicago for days now to demand the release of the video of police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting and killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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Watch: The Grease: Live! Cast Was Born to Hand Jive | Vanity Fair
Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens, and Carly Rae Jepsen were born to hand jive, baby. All four star in Fox’s upcoming broadcast of Grease: Live!, which is exactly what it sounds like: a live performance of the musical.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 11 – Inside LISA Pathfinder, with narration
ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for future spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories. It will operate about 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun, orbiting the first Sun–Earth ‘Lagrangian point…
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Watch Ellie Goulding Remix ‘Love Me Like You Do’ Eight Different Ways | Rolling Stone
Watch Ellie Goulding Remix ‘Love Me Like You Do’ Eight Different Ways Singer and James Corden reimagine single as rock, reggae and rave song on ‘Late Late Show’
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Inside Adele’s Nashville Connection: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Inside Adele’s Nashville Connection: The Ram Report With her new album ’25’ breaking sales records, we look at Adele’s ties to Music City
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My cat Leo living up to his name : cats
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Carly is kicking herself for not taking this tactic for her video that no one ever saw. I saw it. It came out on the internet like a week later. Except it was a micarriage rather than an abortion like she had claimed.
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Teen solves Cube in under 5 seconds
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter solved a randomly scrambled Rubik’s Cube in just 4.9 seconds the other day, the first time anyone has ever solved one under five seconds. As Oliver Roeder writes over at 538, Cube solve times have fallen quickly in the …
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US activists to launch Guantánamo protest along camp’s perimeter | US news | The Guardian
Fourteen peace activists from across the United States will begin a protest vigil and fast along the perimeter fence of the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday in an attempt to draw attention to what they consider to be …
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Get on Terry Crews Level : pics
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Moon Setting Over Philly [OC] [5100×3400] : spaceporn
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For a few moments, the sight could have been confused for a miraculous arrival ahead of the Christmas season: A newborn baby, hours old and full term, appeared within a nativity scene at a Queens church on Monday.
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Depressing Comic week only gets more and more Depressing – Imgur
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It’s really sad when your parents are getting divorced and you have to divide the dog up. – Imgur
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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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Having moved to Korea a couple weeks ago, I won’t have the chance to partake this year in the beloved institution of American culture known as Thanksgiving. (Korea has its own Thanksgiving, but it happened two months ago.
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UK cancels pioneering £1bn carbon capture and storage competition | Environment | The Guardian
The UK government has cancelled its £1bn competition for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology just six months before it was due to be awarded, breaking a key pledge in the Conservative party manifesto.
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Was it a catastrophic collision in the star’s asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets breaking apart? Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star’s energy? Just …
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Oklahoma up to third as Notre Dame fall in college football rankings | Sport | The Guardian
Oklahoma moved into third and Iowa was fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings as Notre Dame slipped to No6 on Tuesday night. Clemson and Alabama remained the top two teams in the third-to-last selection committee rankings.
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For anyone who has wondered what it might be like to attend a movie marathon after inhaling a whole box of those fruit-scented markers in a room without proper ventilation, possibly while listening to Meddle by Pink Floyd in its entirety, the altern…
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The Scientist Trying To Reverse Extinctions (Think ‘Jurassic Park’) | FiveThirtyEight
What if extinctions were only temporary? Yes, we’re talking “Jurassic Park”-level science. It’s called de-extinction, and Dr. Mike Archer, a paleontologist, is trying to make it happen.
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Fitness Isn’t Just for the Wealthy: How to Stay Healthy on a Budget
Personal trainers, fresh vegetables, and gym memberships all cost money. Not everyone can afford such luxuries. It’s one reason why being poor is too expensive—a crappy diet and sedentary lifestyle costs more down the line.
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Meditation Helped Me Survive Death Row and 19 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment | Motherboard
I am a magician. I don’t pull rabbits out of hats, saw attractive young women in half, or wear a tuxedo. I practice magick, spelled with a “k” in order to differentiate it from slight of hand, and once upon a time I was sentenced to death for it.
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Texas Governor Picks Fight With Faith Groups Over Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
Faith groups in Texas are pushing back against a request from their governor to stop helping Syrian refugees settle in their state, saying the lawmaker’s actions are unChristian and possibly illegal. On November 16, Texas Gov.
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The Good Dinosaur Makes the “Coming of Age” Story Brand New Again
At first glance, The Good Dinosaur looks weird as hell, even by Pixar standards. It’s the story of an alternate world where the dinosaurs never went extinct, and it’s a “boy and his dog” story where the “boy” is an apatosaurus and the “dog” is a hum…
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The 12 days that will decide Earth’s future: A guide to COP21
Undaunted by terrorism, 40,000 diplomats, experts and advocates, including more than 135 world leaders, are set to meet in Paris beginning Nov. 30 for a major U.N. Climate Summit. The goal is a new global climate treaty, involving all nations, that …
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Kasich Campaign Invokes Famed Anti-Nazi Passage in Trump Attack Ad | Vanity Fair
In a new ad released on Tuesday, John Kasich, one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump in the 2016 G.O.P. primary field, drew a connection between Trump’s recent flirtation with the idea of a national registry for Muslims and Nazi-era Germany.
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Taking home the title: Who will be this year’s National Thanksgiving Turkey? | whitehouse.gov
In a time-honored tradition dating back to the 19th century, each Thanksgiving the President “pardons” a hand-selected turkey. Since 1947, the chairman of the National Turkey Federation has presented a turkey to the President for national, official …
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Pope Francis in Africa: On board the papal plane to Kenya – BBC News
Prior to his arrival in Kenya for a three-nation African tour, Pope Francis was filmed on board the papal plane greeting reporters. The BBC’s Caroline Wyatt was one of the journalists to speak to him.
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Autumn statement and spending review – the key points at a glance | UK news | The Guardian
Tax credits All cuts to tax credits are to be cancelled. Rowena Mason, political correspondent: Osborne has clearly surprised his MPs by totalling abandoning his tax credit changes that would have cost families up to £1,300 each, which caused conste…
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Global emissions nearly stall after a decade of growth, report shows | Environment | The Guardian
Global carbon emissions virtually stalled last year after a decade of rapid growth, figures published on Wednesday show, just days before world leaders meet in Paris for international talks on climate change.
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The best Black Friday 2015 phone deals at Verizon, T-Mobile, Best Buy, and more | The Verge
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are usually reserved for gadgets, games, and televisions. But the most ubiquitous device of all — the smartphone — has joined the party over the last few years.
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No deal on Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica – BBC News
A meeting of Latin American nations in El Salvador has ended without agreement on how to deal with thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica.Some 3,000 Cubans heading for the US have been stuck at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua…
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Naughty By Nature announces new EP, tour dates, and documentary · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rolling Stone reports that Naughty By Nature is down with the O.P.P.-ortunity offered by the latest outbreak of ’90s nostalgia, and has announced plans for a new EP and a 25th-anniversary tour in early 2016.
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Looking deep into Fargo’s mirrors · Polite Fight · The A.V. Club
On this week’s unflinchingly affable Polite Fight, Gus and John see double as they look into the mirror images and ambiguities of “Did You Do This? No, You Did It!”—a Fargo episode that’s two-sided down to the title.
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The Secret Censorship of Online Porn | Motherboard
The XXX internet is often portrayed by the media as a hedonistic playground where no urge is too depraved to capture on camera—a place where the only limit to a scene’s filthiness is the director’s imagination.
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Is Selena Gomez Dating One Direction’s Niall Horan? Is Selena Gomez Da | Vanity Fair
We told you that love is strange and confusing, didn’t we? A mere two days after it seemed that Selena Gomez, half actress and half singer, was back together with Justin Bieber, singer and half man, there are new rumors that Gomez is, in fact, datin…
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Find My Pope: A New App Lets You Track the Pontiff in Kenya | Vanity Fair
It is true that the whole world is besotted with Pope Francis. On his recent visit to the United States, he brought millions of people, who were actually being nice to each other, together to line the streets in hopes of catching a glimpse of his pe…
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It’s 5 PM on a Friday and Kane Robinson is sat in his parents home in North Shields, a fishing town on the North bank of the River Tyne in the North East of England. He’s patiently watching the new Call…
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Google’s Plan To Accelerate The Mobile Web Will Go Live Early Next Year | TechCrunch
Google has plans to accelerate your web browsing on mobile devices, and we’ll start seeing the results of those efforts as early as next year, the company says.
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A Thanksgiving Travel Companion From What’s The Point | FiveThirtyEight
For this week’s What’s The Point, I’ve compiled excerpts of some of my favorite conversations so far. Is this a clip show? A rerun disguised as a “best of”? Basically, yes. But I still think these conversations are worth revisiting.
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Thanksgiving Comes During a National Debate Over Syrian Refugees – The Atlantic
When President Obama announced an executive action last November to protect millions of immigrants from deportation, his East Room pitch was framed as an appeal to the commonality of American heritage.
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“Ring” is the doorbell I never knew I needed / Boing Boing
Apparently I’ve had crummy doorbells for the past 45 years and didn’t even know it. It took visiting a good friend’s home to find out what I was missing. When I got there, I was greeted by what looked like a mini-HAL.
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Image of the Day: “Milky Way Monster” –A Red Hypergiant
VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30-40 times the mass of the Sun and 300 000 times more luminous.
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Video Is Never Enough – The Atlantic
On October 20, 2014, a white Chicago Police Department officer named Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots at a black Chicago resident, a 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald.
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“Mars” · Casual · TV Review Casual tries a cliffhanger on for size · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Oh, Valerie. That could really be revised to say “oh, everyone,” but since so much of the series to this point has been either “oh, Alex” or “oh, Laura,” Valerie’s little adventure seems more monumental.
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Lucas on the Star Wars divorce
George Lucas says he had nothing to do with The Force Awakens and furthermore that the movie was not done the way he would have done it. “The issue was ultimately, they looked at the stories and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,’” …
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Cook a Last Minute Thanksgiving Dinner With the Help of This Timeline
Thanksgiving is only a day away, so if you’re hosting, it’s crunch time. Whether you’re having people over last minute or you just want a game plan, the Kitchn has you covered with this handy timeline.
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How evolution took us from Neolithic farmers to modern Europeans | Ars Technica
The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing written language and forming social cliques.
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David Lynch and the Second Coming of Transcendental Meditation | Motherboard
It’s Thursday night at Carnegie Hall, and Jerry Seinfeld, Katy Perry, and Sting are all set to perform. Most of the women in the audience are decked out in designer dresses, and the men boast expensive suits.
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Donald Trump actually admitted that he doesn’t check his facts. Seriously. : Liberal
Donald Trump actually admitted that he doesn’t check his facts. Seriously. (washingtonpost.com)
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Hubble Captures a Galactic Waltz | NASA
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Sunset in Tainan, Taiwan [OC][5184×2629] : SkyPorn
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Hundreds Protest In Chicago After Video Of Cop Shooting Teen Released : democrats
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Hundreds Protest In Chicago After Video Of Cop Shooting Teen Released
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Science & Faith Can Solve Climate Change Together – Moral conviction, backed by facts, could finally inspire global action (scientificamerican.com)submitted 56 minutes ago by loading…
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Clean energy tax credits mostly go to the affluent. Is there a better way? : environment
Clean energy tax credits mostly go to the affluent. Is there a better way? (vox.com)
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2015 set to be hottest year on record: UN (Update) : environment
2015 set to be hottest year on record: UN (Update) (phys.org)submitted 38 minutes ago by loading…
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Watch Charli XCX’s Feminism Film ‘The F Word and Me’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Charli XCX’s Feminism Film ‘The F Word and Me’ “Female musicians are still in the minority.
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Wu-Tang Clan sold the single copy of its secret album for millions of dollars | The Verge
If you’re a hardcore Wu-Tang Clan fan, you can stop combing your couch for loose change and eating instant ramen: the single physical copy of the group’s secret album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has been sold.
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In Delivery Race, Deliv Scores Win with Walgreen’s Deal | TechCrunch
With competition between same-day delivery startups as fierce as it’s ever been, every win counts. And today, Deliv, a three-year-old, 50-person, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, is putting one on the board with a new same-day prescription delivery de…
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Apple Pencil gets rave review / Boing Boing
I use a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet, but don’t want to. Because I’m used to the quality of this product, though, I can’t even use the toys that pass as art styluses for iOS an Android tablets.
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Rat takes selfie on sleeping mans phone in the subway – GIF on Imgur
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | New Republic
The Danish Girl, which tells the story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people in history to undergo gender reassignment surgery, from male to female, seems like a prime candidate for this problem, a movie inherently politicized by its subject matter.
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Human error caused deadly US strike on Afghan hospital – Al Jazeera English
US forces who launched a deadly air strike on an Afghan hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had intended to attack a nearby Taliban-controlled compound and the mistake was caused by human and technical error, according to the US commander …
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Laquan McDonald video reveals police lied – but how to fill in the blanks? | US news | The Guardian
Four hundred days after 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer as he ran-walked down the city’s Pulaski Road, dashcam footage was released Tuesday showing the entire fatal encounter.
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Carol Exclusive Clip: Cate Blanchett Invites Rooney Mara on a Life-Cha | Vanity Fair
When Cate Blanchett asks you if you’d like to join her on a trip, you say yes. And if you’re a young woman in 1952 who’s just becoming aware of her attraction to a woman, that goes double.
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Smartwatch cancelled after 6 days in stores / Boing Boing
The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE was the company’s latest answer to Apple’s dominating entry into the market. But it died fast, pulled off the shelves within a week due to an unspecified problem with the display. Failed quality assurance at this …
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Russia: No war with Turkey over ‘planned provocation’ – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey as a “planned provocation” but said the two countries would not go to war over the incident.
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2015 Will Be Hottest Year on Record–Until Next Year – Scientific American
By Tom Miles GENEVA, Nov 25 (Reuters) – This year will be the hottest on record and 2016 could be even hotter due to the El Niño weather pattern, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, warning that inaction on climate change could …
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What’s Your Favorite New Startup of 2015? | TechCrunch
We have now entered the final stretches of one of the most exciting times of the year…and I am not referring to the holidays. The nominations for the 9th Annual Crunchies Award Show are open and we are in the final days of the nomination period that…
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Cthulhu fhtagn: 2016’s ‘Lovecraftiana Calendar’ makes an eldritch Christmas gift|Dangerous Minds
Are you a fan of H. P. Lovecraft? Or, maybe just seeking that perfect something for the Lovecraftian in your life? Then look no further than John Coulthart’s Lovecraftiana Calendar for 2016, which contains twelve sumptuous illustrations of some of L…
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ISIL Claims Responsibility for Tunisia Attack | Al Jazeera America
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on a Tunisian presidential guard bus, a statement from the group said on Wednesday.
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#Einstein100 – General Relativity on Vimeo
A short film celebrating the centennial of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. → twitter.com/eoinduffy → fb.me/eoinduffyanimation JAMIE LOCHHEAD – Writer / Producer EOIN DUFFY – Design / Animation DAVID TENNANT – Narrator WESLEY SLOVER – Sound …
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New study spills doubt on some fingerprick blood tests | Ars Technica
With just a wee prick and a few drips, researchers hope to one day test for a wide range of ailments. Such low-pain, low-drain blood diagnostics would mean doctors could ditch big needles and vein-hunting, making patient care more pleasant.
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Hundreds Protest In Chicago After Video Of Cop Shooting Teen Released (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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The Post-Pardon Life of the Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey – The Atlantic
The moment Tom 1 stood up, the crowd knew he was the one. While his competitors gobbled in fits last Thursday morning, he stood tall, meaty chest puffed and tail feathers fanned, to a gaggle of elementary schoolers and reporters looking on.
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NFL reveal 2016 International Series fixtures, including first at Twickenham | Sport | The Guardian
The Washington Redskins could become the first team to play two NFL games in London in the same season after the fixtures for the 2016 International Series were confirmed. The Redskins will face the Cincinnati Bengals on 30 October at Wembley – and …
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Making a Washing Machine That Wastes Less Water – The Atlantic
Earlier this year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted the inaugural MIT Water Innovation Prize, inviting attendees from around the world to pitch their water-conservation device or business to a panel of judges for a chance to win gran…
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Star Wars ‘Awakens’ Staggering Sales – The Atlantic
More than two months before the consumer rush of Black Friday this year, another equally cutthroat holiday took over toy aisles and electronics departments: the inaugural Force Friday.
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Senator Says White Men More Of A Threat Than Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) remains devoted to receiving Syrian refugees and feels they aren’t nearly as big a threat to the United States as another group of people. White men account for more mass murder cases than radical Islamists in the U.S., …
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Start Making Sense: Bernie Sanders’s Socialism | The Nation
When Bernie Sanders talked about democratic socialism in his major speech at Georgetown University last week, he used FDR to explain what socialism could do for the country today.
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What Is Your Best Affordable Gift Idea?
Buying gifts can wreak havoc on your holiday budget, but having a list of inexpensive present ideas stops you from overspending. What are your best affordable gift ideas? The start of the holiday season also means the start of buying gifts for cowor…
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Should I feed the birds visiting my garden with fatballs? | Life and style | The Guardian
Since I installed nut feeders and fatballs in my garden the birds have abandoned the seed feeders completely. Have I ruined their diet?
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Spoiler alert: with money. They didn’t do anything. The media did. When you see a headline saying “XXXX Year was the hotest ever!”, and then you find out that the planet has been warmer before.
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Every Hint and Clue Hidden in the Captain America: Civil War Trailer
You’ve seen the trailer and basked in its glory. It’s huge-cast, heroes-fighting-heroes glory. Now it’s time to slow down and figure out what it all means. Spoilers in the form of references to rumor and theory ahead.
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Sherrod Brown: Mass Shootings By White Men Are Terrorist Attacks Too
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Bob’s Burgers’ Thanksgiving Episodes | Flavorwire
Thanksgiving is one of the big three sitcom holidays, along with Christmas and Halloween. These holidays lend themselves well to comedies: families coming together, over-the-top costumes, awkward and hilarious conversations, and sticky-sweet emotion…
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Not long after jurors convened on Tuesday to decide whether Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful politicians in New York State, was guilty of fraud, there were already unmistakable signs that their deliberations had taken a cont…
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This Week On Bullish: Meeting Your Match Online | TechCrunch
Hello and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we took a look at online dating, which was once a curiosity. It’s now just a bit more than that.
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US E-Commerce Holiday Spend Will Reach $70B, Mobile Booms As Online Growth Slows To 9% | TechCrunch
Ahead of the holiday sales season kicking off tomorrow online, comScore has published its annual e-commerce forecasts for the period between now and New Years. The researchers predict that collectively, U.S.
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Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot is a hilarious book about George, Harold, and a strict teacher called Mr Krupp. Mr Krupp is under their spell and whenever George and Harold snap their fingers he turns into Captain Und…
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Review: Victor Frankenstein is a madcap, ultimately pointless bromance | The Verge
The problem with Mary Shelley’s 1818 horror classic Frankenstein has always been protagonist Victor Frankenstein.
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Corbyn criticises government’s record on renewable energy | Environment | The Guardian
Britain will go to the Paris climate talks with the biggest gap between current renewable energy usage and 2020 targets of any EU country, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
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Proving once again that she is goddamn charming, goddammit, Adele joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots last night to perform a version of her hit single, “Hello,” on classroom instruments.
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Scientists unable to explain starling mass drownings | Environment | The Guardian
Starlings have been consistently drowning in large groups in a phenomenon yet to be fully explained by scientists, according to new research led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
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UK to ban import of lion trophies if hunting industry doesn’t reform | Environment | The Guardian
The UK will ban imports of lion trophies by 2017 unless the hunting industry cleans up its act, environment minister Rory Stewart has said.
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Chicago poised for new protests after Laquan McDonald video released | US news | The Guardian
Chicago is braced for more protests on Wednesday after anger spilled on to downtown city streets overnight following the release of video footage showing the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a police officer.
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Tunisia blast: ‘Attacker among the 13 dead’ – BBC News
Tunisian authorities are trying to identify a 13th body found at the scene of a deadly bomb blast who they suspect is the attacker. Ten kilograms of military explosives were used in the attack on a bus carrying presidential guards in the capital Tun…
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This Week In College Football: The 13 Teams That Still Have A Shot | FiveThirtyEight
Thanksgiving week: time for turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. And college football, too! For many teams, it’ll be their last game of the year. But some are eyeing the College Football Playoff. Thirteen, to be exact.
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The fund to repair America’s crumbling infrastructure is almost out of cash | The Verge
Imagine you’re driving. Maybe on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, or down Interstate 95 through New Haven, or I-94 in Milwaukee. Chances are you’ll encounter a truck-swallowing pothole, or lanes strewn with orange cones, or traffic at a standstill.
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A Tiny Canadian Satellite Is Going to Watch the World’s Climate Offenders | Motherboard
A tiny Canadian satellite designed to monitor the greenhouse gas emissions of any facility in the world is ready to launch.
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Oil and gas companies ‘risk losing $2tn’ – BBC News
The world’s biggest oil and gas companies risk losing $2.2tn (£1.5bn) by overestimating future demand for fossil fuels, a report suggests.
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Marvel‘s Captain America: Civil War Trailer Tears the Team Apart | Vanity Fair
Marvel dropped the first Captain America: Civil War trailer late last night—and it still went crazy viral, even at that ungodly hour. Yes, it features the return of Captain America (Chris Evans) and The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). Yes, it featu…
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Taras Domitro was not a basketball fan when he joined the San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 2008. Domitro, who was born in Havana, happened to arrive in the Bay Area one year before the Golden State Warriors drafted Stephen Curry.
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Student protesters at Princeton performed a valuable public service last week when they demanded that the administration acknowledge the toxic legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as university president and New Jersey governor before being elected …
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Sherrod Brown: Mass Shootings By White Men Are Terrorist Attacks Too : politics
Yes, it is, there is even a name for it, “Domestic Terrorism” and there is a whole task force in the FBI devoted solely to responding to it. Doesn’t count cuz whitey.
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If you’ve ever tried to talk about tech or science with a five-year-old, 85-year-old, or speaker of another language, you’re familiar with this problem: It’s really hard to explain everyday one-word concepts like “wifi,” “GPS,” “Bluetooth,” “atoms,”…
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St Matthew Island : environment
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Catharsis Is a Superhero · thewalrus.ca
Like many people who have a penchant for binge watching, over the weekend I took in the entire first season of the new Netflix series Jessica Jones.
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25 Incredible Views From Plane Passengers’ Windows, Collected By an Airline Pilot | Atlas Obscura
The view from a Quantum 912 Microlight over York Flying Club airfield, September 2015. (Photo: Aaron Sherer) When I decided to write a book about my job as an airline pilot, I knew one thing for certain.
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Eight Common Questions about Paris Climate Talks Answered – Scientific American
What is happening in Paris next week? Diplomats from more than 190 countries will gather on an airfield in Le Bourget, just outside the French capital, to negotiate a new international agreement on climate change through the United Nations.
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Kunduz strike ‘was US human error’ – BBC News
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Downed plane pilot denies Turkey warning – BBC News
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Of the 14,000+ McDonald’s franchises in the United States only 8,000 of them carry The McRib sandwich. Your chances of finding a McRib are about 55%. And that’s freaking some people out.
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India’s beef sanctity – Al Jazeera English
Beef has become an incendiary issue in India. Last month a Muslim teenager was burned alive in Kashmir for the unproven sin of transporting beef in his truck.
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Freeze Cranberry Sauce and Gravy for The Best Thanksgiving Croissants Possible
Thanksgiving leftover-stuffed croissants are a great way to use up any extra gravy, turkey, and cranberry sauce, but rolling up gravy in pastry dough can prove a little difficult, thanks to the nature of liquids. To keep your filling from spilling, …
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The New Trailer for Gundam Thunderbolt Has All the Space Jazz Action We’ve Ever Wanted
Recently, we got our first look at Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, an adaptation of the classic manga of the same name, that might as well be called Mobile Suit Cowboy Bebop. But now we’ve got an extended glimpse, and it’s making us yearn for more s…
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WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII | Ars Technica
Thirty-two years ago, just months after the release of the movie WarGames, the world came the closest it ever has to nuclear Armageddon.
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Game Over for Donkey Kong Record Holder’s Right of Publicity Lawsuit | Motherboard
In February 2011, Cartoon Network’s The Regular Show aired an episode called “High Score.” In it, the show’s two main characters, a talking blue jay and a talking raccoon, try to beat the universe-wide record for an arcade game called Broken Bonez.
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The Great Thanksgiving Game That Wasn’t | Rolling Stone
Ninety-five years ago today, the biggest, most important professional football game that no one knows about took place in Chicago.
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Brazil Mine Disaster Floods Area With Toxic Substances – Scientific American
The accident buried the small historic town of Bento Rodrigues, a subdistrict of Mariana, under mud. At least 11 people have died and more than 600 were displaced. In addition, the water supply of more than 250,000 people in the area was interrupted…
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What was discovered in secret IS tunnels in Sinjar, Iraq? – BBC News
Hundreds of metres of underground tunnels used by Islamic State militants under the Iraqi city of Sinjar have been discovered by Kurdish forces. Sinjar was retaken by Kurdish and coalition forces on 12 November.
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Watch Robert Plant Perform in Bonnaroo Thanksgiving Special | Rolling Stone
Watch Robert Plant, D’Angelo Perform in Bonnaroo Thanksgiving Special Comedian Jo Firestone hosts quirky, cozy holiday special and festival wrap-up featuring performances by Mumford & Sons, Alabama Shakes and Tw
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Burundi refugees: A life of displacement and despair – Al Jazeera English
Kasulu, Tanzania – At the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp on Tanzania’s western border, a young man stands apart from the crowd of people pushing against the bent gate, clamouring for their monthly ration of two bars of soap and a mosquito net.
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Watch Jared Leto Teach Us Important Fruit Knowledge | Vanity Fair
Jared Leto is famously unpredictable, rocking beach waves one moment and pink hair the next, winning an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club and then following it up by playing the Joker in the upcoming Suicide Squad.
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Watch Adele, Fallon, Roots Sing ‘Hello’ With Classroom Instruments | Rolling Stone
Watch Adele, Fallon, Roots Sing ‘Hello’ With Classroom Instruments ‘Tonight Show’ supergroup perform chart-topping ballad with melodica, tambourine, toy xylophone, kazoos
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Working-Class Voters Hold Key to 2016 – To win in 2016, candidates in both parties must capture working class voters of all stripes. (prospect.org)
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The false resurrection of George W. Bush: Don’t be fooled by calls to reassess his loathsome legacy – Our 43rd president looks reasonable compared to what came afterwards. But you shouldn’t be fooled by appearances. (salon.com)
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An Illustrated Guide to the Dumbest Things Republicans Have Said About Refugees – Words are not enough to capture how far the GOP’s rhetoric has devolved. (thenation.com)
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Nearly 9,000 Rhode Islanders Lose Abortion Coverage Thanks to Democratic Governor (rhrealitycheck.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Americans See a Government Of, By, and For the Rich – Democrats would be wise to adopt policies that help level the economic playing field. (prospect.org) Democrats would be wise to start by getting rid of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and her Republican…
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Sanders Leads TIME’s Person of the Year: “Sanders, who was little-known when he began his unlikely bid for president in April, has become a hero on the Democratic left among progressives disillusioned by growing income inequality and money in politi…
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Curious: How do Bernie’s numbers compare to Barack’s 8 years ago? (self.Liberal) Bernie’s campaign so far seems to mirror Barack’s 8 years ago. I was curious to how his numbers compare to Barack’s in the ratings and I had a surprisingly difficult ti…
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After Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) last week said that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rushed the publication of its June climate study, the research journal “Science” that published the research, rebutted the congressman’s cla…
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Chemical leak at California oil field may have contaminated some water supplies; Investigation suggests the company waited months to report the leak at its East Bay Facility. (nbcbayarea.com)
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The incredible plan to make money grow on trees (theguardian.com)submitted just now by InstantIdealismloading…
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Porter Ranch gas leak increasing California’s greenhouse gas output by 25 percent (scpr.org)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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These Children Are Suing The Federal Government Over Climate Change – Twenty-one children are taking the federal government to court over its inaction on climate change. (thinkprogress.org)
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One Broken Pipe Is Leaking A Huge Amount Of Methane – The company says the leak could take months to fix. (thinkprogress.org)
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The GOP’s Plan to Thwart the Paris Climate Conference (newrepublic.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Last weekend I was privileged to have attended a performance by Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers/puppeteers/mad scientists Trace “Dr. Clayton Forrester” Beaulieu and “TV’s Frank” Conniff.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading a very special Thanksgiving edition of Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Increase in foot traffic in department stores on Black Friday, according to a Google analysis of its users’ locat…
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Top 10: the best dialogue in crime fiction | Books | The Guardian
I think the most important ingredient of a crime novel is style, and I have tried to embody this philosophy in my new book, The Yellow Diamond, which concerns a unit of the Metropolitan Police that investigates the super-rich.
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Toyota recalls 1.6m more cars over defective airbags – BBC News
Toyota is recalling another 1.6 million vehicles equipped with faulty air bags. The Japanese car maker has recalled nearly 15 million vehicles fitted with the bags since 2013.
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Watch Captain America Fight Iron Man in First ‘Civil War’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
The first trailer for Captain America: Civil War has arrived, and as the title suggests, the action film boasts plenty of Avenger-on-Avenger violence.
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» 15 Seconds Of Video, 3 Arrests, And A Night Of Black Lives Matter Protests
After dash cam footage of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald was released Tuesday night, highly-anticipated protests began in the streets of Chicago. The video, which shows Van Dyke shooting the 17-year-old 16 times in the span of 15 se…
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Graydon Carter on the Scourge of Modern Slavery | Vanity Fair
Like tuberculosis and landlines, slavery seems very much a throwback to another century. But as William Langewiesche reports in his stirring dispatch “Slaves Without Chains,” slavery can still be found in some form all over the world.
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‘Man in the High Castle’: Inside the Mindblowing Sci-Fi Drama | Rolling Stone
An old-fashioned newsreel plays in a movie theater, detailing how the good people of the U.S.A. “keep our country strong and safe.” Shots of well-stocked grocery stores, soaring eagles and smiling 1960s families circa play across the screen.
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Made: Atelier Savas Leather Jackets
By Hannah Elliott | Nov. 24, 2015 Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and craftsmen behind them.
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John Kasich’s Campaign Releases Donald Trump Attack Ads – The Atlantic
New Day for America’s 47-second ad splices together some of the Republican front-runner’s most awkward video moments: his suggestion he might date his daughter, his claim of “a great relationship with the blacks.
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Russia, Turkey React to the Downing of a Russian Warplane Over Syria – The Atlantic
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his forces were in their right to fire at the Russian aircraft, which he said had violated the country’s airspace when it approached the border with Syria.
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My Love Affair With Relativity – Guest Blog – Scientific American Blog Network
The general theory of relativity was born on November 25th, 1915, when Albert Einstein delivered the final lecture that presented his equations of gravity to the world.
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Campus Racial-Justice Protests Unfolding Across America: An Overview and Timeline – The Atlantic
The country’s college campuses have seen a surge in student activism amid escalating tensions over their hostile racial climates.
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Considering the Many Punny Headline Options for Match.com’s Impending IPO, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Police Took More From Citizens Than Burglars In 2014 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Economist Martin Armstrong notes that $4.5 billion in personal property was seized by police in 2014 via civil forfeiture, the process by which a criminal suspect surrenders goods possibly connected to that crime, figures that well surpass the $3.5 …
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Does YA fiction need to check its privilege? | Children’s books | The Guardian
YA fiction has kick-started some important conversations for me. With topics ranging from sexuality, race and gender to mental health and terminal illnesses, it is clear that diversity is on the rise in literature.
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Gain extra storage space with the HyperDrive MacBook storage expander / Boing Boing
Store more on your Mac without making a scene thanks to this microSD memory card adapter. Compatible with MicroSD, MicroSDHC, and MicroSDXC, HyperDrive sits unnoticeably inside your machine without any protruding parts getting your way.
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The Best Health-Care Fix You’ve Never Heard Of | New Republic
And then Martin O’Malley tried to chime in. “I really wish you’d come back to me on this on, John,” said the former Maryland governor to moderator John Dickerson. “Because we have found a way to reduce hospital costs, so whenever we come …”
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12 movies to see with (or without) your family this Thanksgiving weekend | The Verge
Hey, you have to get out of the house at some point, right? You have the day off work, the entire family together, and you’ve already finished playing two games of Clue and then Scrabble ended early after no one could agree on whether “qat” was a wo…
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Citi criticised by investors over Abengoa collapse | Business | The Guardian
A Spanish renewable energy group has collapsed into insolvency, it said on Wednesday, just months after US investment bank Citi led a €100m (£70m) share sale to rescue the group.
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You Don’t Need to Close Your Eyes to Meditate
Many first-time meditators (myself included) assume that the most productive (and only) way to meditate is with their eyes closed. The choice is actually yours: keep your eyes closed or open. Each has pros and cons, with neither method guaranteed to…
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Inside the World of Egypt’s Salafist Muslims
The young arachnids, spotted in Tennessee, were throwing out silk to fly to new territory when wind likely grounded them, expert says.
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James Gunn Just Shot Down a Tantalizing Rumor About Guardians Of The Galaxy 2!
Steven Moffat reveals why he wanted River Song back on Doctor Who. Mark Hamill talks about the legacy of Star Wars. There’s even more rumors about Game of Thrones’ worst-kept secret. Plus, pictures from the Flash/Arrow crossovers, and Chris Hemswort…
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Readers Respond to “Wired for Touch” and More – Scientific American
I was amazed at the article by Amanda Boxtel, “Walking 2.0,” and at her undaunted courage in her efforts to walk after being paralyzed in a skiing accident. Her story of learning to use an exoskeleton is truly remarkable and a great example for ever…
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World number nine Ding Junhui is facing disciplinary action for his angry outburst following his shock first-round exit from the UK Championship. The two-time winner was beaten 6-2 by amateur Adam Duffy on Tuesday.
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Science and Faith Can Solve Climate Change Together – Scientific American
President Obama and Pope Francis walk along the Colonnade during Pope Francis’ 2015 visit to North America.
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Is political Islam compatible with democracy? – 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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Minneapolis police ‘suggested Jamar Clark protesters wanted shootings’ | US news | The Guardian
Protesters trying to tend to the wounded were also maced.
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Smolensk air crash: Poland’s Tusk targeted by new government – BBC News
A Polish government spokeswoman has called for former Prime Minister Donald Tusk to be put on trial for his handling of the 2010 air disaster in which President Lech Kaczynski died.Mr Kaczynski’s Law and Justice party never accepted an inquiry that …
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Paris attacks: Fury over claims by philosopher Onfray – BBC News
Recriminations are flying in the elevated world of Paris intellectuals, after a leading philosopher said France brought the 13 November attacks on itself.
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This 20-carat gold is almost as light as air – Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Scientists have created a new type of foam from real gold. It is the lightest gold nugget ever created.
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Cannabis Coffee Makers Are Hoping to Become Bulletproof 2.0 – Bloomberg Business
It was during an endless drive home from a camping trip in eastern Washington that entrepreneur Adam Stites came up with his latest product. “What would happen if I infused heavy cream with cannabis, then mixed it with my coffee?” he mused.
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37 Reasons Actual People Asked the US Treasury for Bags of Shredded Money | Motherboard
On the US Treasury’s site for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, you can pay 45 US dollars for a big sack containing $10,000. The catch? The money has been shredded to confetti.
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Turkish embassy in Moscow pelted with eggs – BBC News
Eggs and stones were thrown at embassy windows, some of which were smashed. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.
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Paris is the last best chance for the world to save itself | Grist
We’re now out of time: This next round of U.N. climate negotiations has to result in real progress. At least Obama seems to know that. Climate action by cities is important, but it’s crucial that we avoid double counting municipal achievements.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Meet ISIS’s Newest Recruits / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we meet ISIS’s new recruits, the result of its successful Paris recruitment drive. Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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Here’s one to take home to the family for Thanksgiving.
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Women Candidates Face Implicit Bias Hurdle – Scientific American
“In general, even those who purport to have very egalitarian view or even feminist views of the world, when they were taking this test, it’s called the Implicit Association Test…people are struggling to really associate women with leadership words.
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Watch Adele Perform “Hello” With Classroom Instruments with Jimmy Fallon | Vanity Fair
In what could—just a warning!—cause unwanted flashbacks to elementary-school music class (“Everyone grab an instrument and then sit on the green circle!”), Adele joined forces with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots to perform “Hello” (would anyone be surpr…
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Twitter’s Pro-ISIS “Hackers” Are Just Good at Using Google | Motherboard
Last week, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne laid out plans for more capabilities for law enforcement and intelligence agencies in response to a “cyber threat” from ISIS. But it looks like the threats made by some apparent pro-ISIS…
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Baby abandoned at New York church nativity scene – BBC News
A newborn baby with his umbilical cord still attached has been found laying in a manger at New York’s Holy Child of Jesus church, police say.They say that a church custodian found the crying infant wrapped in towels in the indoor nativity scene.
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We Need to Clear Up Space Debris to Make Way for the Small Satellite Boom | Motherboard
CubeSats and other small-sized satellites promise to democratise space and open up the final frontier. But there’s one big thing in their way—or rather hundreds of thousands of small things: space debris.
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Morning Digest: This Republican ad-man helped destroy David Vitter’s hopes and dreams
● LA-Gov: While John Bel Edwards has already earned admission to the Campaign Ad Hall of Fame with his unforgettable “prostitutes over patriots” spot that eviscerated David Vitter, a couple of outside groups also played big roles in setting up Edwar…
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Target’s Best Black Friday Deals Are Available Right Now
Yesterday, Best Buy pushed out a bunch of their Black Friday deals early in a one-day sale, but today, it’s Target’s turn.
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Skeletons in the Closet: An Interview with Glenn Danzig | NOISEY
Photo courtesy of Girlie Action PR Five minutes before you go into an interview with Glenn Danzig, it’s almost a guarantee that your mind is either trying to unknot the man from the myth (or the meme) or convincing yourself that your questions will …
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$750/pill pharma company reverses decision to lower drug price | Ars Technica
Turing Pharmaceuticals AG will not reverse its decision to raise the price of a decades-old drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent, backing out of previous statements that it would cut the cost by the end of the year.
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Canada: ‘Trudeaumetre’ rising? – Al Jazeera English
An innovative citizen initiative keeping track of whether electoral promises made by Justin Trudeau, Canada’s newly elected prime minister, are being fulfilled, has been launched.
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On Sunday, zookeepers euthanised a 41-year-old rhino who was suffering from a painful bacterial infection at the San Diego zoo safari park.
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BRUSSELS — A month before the Paris terrorist attacks, Mayor Françoise Schepmans of Molenbeek, a Brussels district long notorious as a haven for jihadists, received a list with the names and addresses of more than 80 people suspected as Islamic mili…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: click on the embedded player above go to NetrootsRadio.
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» Young Woman Are Getting Screened For Cancer Earlier. Thanks, Obamacare.
More young women are getting screened and diagnosed with early-stage cervical cancer, potentially because Obamacare allows them to access insurance benefits through their parents’ plans, according to a new study from American Cancer Society research…
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Samsung perfectly captures the Black Friday spirit in new TV ad | The Verge
I don’t need a new TV and, chances are, neither do you. But the Black Friday sales have never been about what you need. They are about what you can get.
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Reggie Clemons, a Missouri prisoner who has spent 22 years on death row for the 1991 rape and murder of two sisters, has had his convictions thrown out by the state’s highest court on grounds that he was denied a fair trial through prosecutorial mis…
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Spending Review: DCMS budget down 20% but Arts Council protected – BBC News
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) is to have its core administration budget cut by 20%, the Chancellor George Osborne has said. But he promised that Arts Council England, national museums and galleries will see a cash increase as par…
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If You Want to Be More Likable, Start Having Fun
Being likable and charismatic is a learned art form like any other. However, there’s one easy shortcut to a magnetic personality: start having fun. As business blog Inc. points out, you can always practice your non-verbal communication and presentin…
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Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton on How to Talk to Strangers – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Savvy Psychologist by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Savvy Psychologist: This week we’ll talk about how to talk to strangers and with us is the expert.
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Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh bans female genital mutilation – BBC News
The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) saying it is not required in Islam. The announcement at a rally was met with a huge applause, AFP reports.
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The best Black Friday 2015 deals on laptops and tablets | The Verge
The weekend of Black Friday and Cyber Monday marks one of the best times of the year to pick up gadgets you may not necessarily need to own but have been eyeing for months now. In other words, it’s a good time for a new tablet.
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The Golden State Warriors hold a new NBA record for starting a season after their 16th consecutive victory, beating the LA Lakers 111-77 on Tuesday night.
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I can’t help it. This always happens when there’s less than 24 hours on the clock ’til Thanksgiving. My icy cynicism melts away to reveal a heart bursting with Twinkie fluff, pork rinds and a renewed faith in humanity. I know it’s just a phase that’…
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Meet the woman leading China’s new organic farming army – Al Jazeera English
Beijing, China – We’d been driving for an hour and a half since leaving central Beijing when the car suddenly slowed to a halt. “This isn’t exactly where the GPS told me to go, but I think it’s the place,” says the driver.
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The Electric Turing Acid Test | Motherboard
Parts of this essay by Andrew Smart are adapted from his book Beyond Zero And One (2015), published by OR Books. Machine intelligence is growing at an increasingly rapid pace.
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Putin Sends Air Defense Missiles to Syria | Al Jazeera America
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered state-of-the art air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey, a move that raised the threat of confrontation be…
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Brussels Schools, Metro Reopen | Al Jazeera America
Schools and much of the Brussels metro system reopened Wednesday as the Belgian capital started to return to normal after four days of lockdown, but troops on the street were a reminder it remains on the highest alert. With police still hunting a Br…
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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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A lawsuit claims that Indiana farmers lost millions of dollars after a Swiss agribusiness company prematurely marketed and sold its GMO corn seed without approval from key export markets. (indystar.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Dell faces fresh security questions as new issue found – BBC News
Dell is facing further questions after admitting to a second security issue with its computers this week. The new problem – similar to the first – could leave users’ personal information vulnerable, researchers backed by the US government said.
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Corbyn questions Cameron on environment and women’s refuges – video | Politics | The Guardian
In a relatively low-key exchange at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Jeremy Corbyn questions David Cameron on the government’s environment policy, including support for solar panels and wind turbines.
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PS4 sales officially pass 30 million | Ars Technica
Sony, as of November 22, has now sold 30.2 million units of the PlayStation 4. By comparison, total sales of the Xbox One are somewhere between 15 and 18 million (Microsoft hasn’t released an exact figure since last year).
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No matter which side is responsible, the downing of the Russian plane over the southernmost part of the Turkish border will only complicate further the already complex picture of the conflict in Syria.
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Ukraine and Crimea: A Report From the Front | The Nation
When I decided to go to Ukraine, I e-mailed my old friend Natalia from the Helsinki Citizens Assembly (hCa).
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Creativity Can Come With Some Seemingly Negative Traits, and That’s Fine
Would you like to be more creative? Of course! While creativity is something you can cultivate, it can also bring along traits that may be viewed as negative. That’s not as problematic as you’d think, though.
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Shopping centre scraps live penguins event after opposition by activists | UK news | The Guardian
Touchwood in Solihull, West Midlands, said the purpose of the Penguin Encounter, described as an educational event featuring endangered Humboldt penguins, had been misunderstood by campaigners. Management apologised to families and children who were…
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In the shadow of terror attacks in Paris and Bamako, Mali, with the world closer to a widening war thanks to Turkey’s shooting down a Russian warplane, it’s hard to approach a holiday like Thanksgiving.
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WASHINGTON — Four months after a historic accord with Tehran to limit its atomic ambitions, American officials and private security groups say they see a surge in sophisticated computer espionage by Iran, culminating in a series of
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PLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Tisha Wheeler and Elizabeth Mziray and we’re here to discuss our PLOS Collection that examines evidence-based solutions to curbing transmission of HIV and other STIs among sex workers – Ask Us Anything! (self.science)
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More Evidence of Electronic Vote Tampering in Ohio… : politics
More Evidence of Electronic Vote Tampering in Ohio… (youtube.com) How much of this has to be reported until we do something about it!
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How to take action on climate change that will actually make a difference : environment
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How Europe’s Good Environmental Intentions are Inadvertently Destroying America’s Forests – Extremely vulnerable natural forests in the southeast are being felled to send biomass fuel to Europe. (alternet.org)
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Hassan Haji Towakal has lived in one of the world’s toughest environments for 80 years. He has seen many droughts, but the recent prolonged lack of rainfall is the worst he has experienced in Somaliland, the breakaway country situated in Somalia’s r…
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2015 Presidential Justice Forum – Sanders, Carson, O’Malley 11-21-2015 – YouTube
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Now Another U.K. Carrier Is Eyeing Mobile Ad Controls | TechCrunch
U.K. carrier O2 is the latest tech firm to throw its hat into the ad-blocking ring, telling Business Insider it’s actively testing a technology that can block mobile ads at the network level. Franks’ comments follow news that emerged on Sunday, with…
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The Joy of Using Skype Instead of Traveling on Thanksgiving – The Atlantic
This week, 42 million Americans will travel for Thanksgiving. They will be among the throngs pretending that a jogging stroller is a “small personal item.” They will be reminded, once again, how difficult it is to explain veganism to Aunt Patsy.
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» What It’s Like To Be Forced To Go To Work On Thanksgiving
Connie Miller isn’t really sure when she’s going to be able to get some sleep over the next three days. She’ll be working at Kohl’s the day before Thanksgiving, on the holiday itself, and on Black Friday. Her shift on Wednesday ends at 12:30 a.m.
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» These Children Are Suing The Federal Government Over Climate Change
Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez is not your average 15 year old.
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Magnetic protein may provide animals with navigation information | Ars Technica
What do monarch butterflies, salmon, lobsters, bats, mole rats, and marine nudibranch mollusks have in common? As I’m sure you already knew, all of these species (among others) can sense and use magnetic fields.
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Turkey’s move against Russia: Cold War redux? – Al Jazeera English
On November 24, a Russian Su-24 warplane was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border. According to Turkish officials, the plane was running an assault against Sunni-Turkmen groups fighting joint Russian-Syrian ground forces.
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Climate change makes past five-year period the warmest on record: WMO | Environment | The Guardian
Climate change made 2011-2015 the warmest five-year period on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) state of the global climate report.
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Johnny Depp and George Clooney among biggest 2015 film flops – BBC News
Films starring Bradley Cooper, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth and George Clooney are among the biggest film flops of 2015. Rock the Kasbah starring Bill Murray is number one on the list by Forbes.
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Hypergiant Star’s Weight Loss Secrets Revealed (Video)
A new view of one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way gives the skinny on how giant stars quickly lose mass near the ends of their lives, preparing for huge supernova explosions.
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As Hypergiant Star Dies, Observatory Zooms-In For Closer Look | Video
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Thanksgiving in Space: What Astronauts Eat On Turkey Day (Video)
Astronauts give thanks and preview their “traditional” space meal in a video greeting from the International Space Station just in time for Thanksgiving.
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Spaceflight Is Entering a New Golden Age, Says Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos
Early Monday (Nov. 23), the private spaceflight company Blue Origin made a major stride in the pursuit of fully reusable rockets, when it launched an uncrewed vehicle into space and then soft-landed the rocket booster on the ground.
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Peyton Manning in walking cast as he contemplates time on sidelines | Sport | The Guardian
Peyton Manning will spend the next week in a walking cast and is expected to miss at least two more games with a torn plantar fascia in his left foot. Manning missed the Denver Broncos’ 17-15 win at Chicago last week when his longtime backup Brock O…
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Paul Casey will be the big loser after his Ryder Cup snub | Ewan Murray | Sport | The Guardian
The biggest loser from Paul Casey’s decision to preclude himself from Ryder Cup inclusion is not the biennial event. Nor is it the European team.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Chicago, Cleveland and the Donald
As previously reported, police officers generally tend to exhibit a higher bias against black people, making officers more likely to shoot black suspects than white ones. This bias can eventually be mitigated by training, but that’s quite a long-gam…
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Someone finally looked into the physics of chocolate fountains – The Washington Post
Chocolate fountains are a revelation. Observe: But it turns out that they can be great tools for studying basic math.
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Within a few minutes of my meeting Edmund de Waal, he was putting things in my hands.
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“I started playing the guitar about 6 or 7, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. I was influenced by everything at the same time, that’s why I can’t get it together now.
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Yes, Double-Dipping Chips Can Spread a Lot of Gross Germs
Ever since Seinfeld tackled the topic in 1993, we’ve known that double-dipping is socially unsavory. But is it really a viable way for disease-carrying germs to spread? Well, of course it is.
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First Click: It’s time to give thanks for being your family’s tech support | The Verge
It’s Thanksgiving week in the US. A ritualistic pilgrimage to the place of thy birth for many a stray child. A four-day holiday where thanks is given, turkey is eaten, and relatives offend with anecdotes verging on mild to Mel-Gibson racism.
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With the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP) in Paris just days away, a global strategy for reducing carbon emissions is tantalisingly close.
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St Louis Rams receiver Stedman Bailey critical but stable after being shot | Sport | The Guardian
St Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey is in critical but stable condition after being shot in the head on Tuesday night, according to multiple reports in the media.
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One Test Detects Every Vertebrate Virus – Scientific American
When doctors want to identify the virus behind an infection, they usually turn to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method for “amplifying” scattered bits of DNA into a sample large enough to study.
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South Africa urged to screen Emmy-winning Marikana film – Al Jazeera English
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have been urged by activisits and the civil society to broadcast a documentary depicting the Marikana massacre of 2012 on public television.
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How Chicago tried to cover up a police execution | Chicago Reporter
It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being vigorously investigated,” as Kalven recalls.
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Here’s Why Millennials Really Aren’t That Different – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
By the year 2020 five separate generations will occupy the workplace: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen 2020. In just five years, the newest person hired at a company could be working right next to her great grandfather. Thi…
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By SERGIO PEÇANHA and K.K. REBECCA LAI NOV. 25, 2015 All of the Sept. 11 attackers entered the United States using tourist, business or student visas.
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Migrant crisis: ‘EU cannot take any more refugees’ – BBC News
European countries cannot accept any more refugees, the French prime minister has been quoted as saying. Manuel Valls said stricter control of the EU’s external borders would determine the bloc’s fate, in comments published by the Sueddeutsche Zeitu…
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Congolese NBA star Dikembe Mutombo’s number retired – BBC News
Former NBA basketball player Dikembe Mutombo has been honoured by the Atlanta Hawks by retiring his shirt number 55. Retiring a number is a mark of respect and means no player from that team will wear 55 in the future.
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Army ants ‘mind the gap’ efficiently – BBC News
Ants are well-known for building with their bodies, but a new study has shown that army ants can optimise traffic flow using bridges that move. Army ants are a predatory nomadic species: they raid other insect colonies and are always on the move, wi…
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Marco Rubio Is Using a Convicted Felon to Help Him Win Florida | Mother Jones
Earlier this month, when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) named his top campaign representatives across Florida, he tapped a conservative activist named Clyde Fabretti as one of the leaders of his presidential effort in Orange County, a key district that i…
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Officials confirm Tunis attack was suicide blast – Al Jazeera English
The explosion that killed on a presidential guard bus at least 13 people in Tunis was carried out by a suicide bomber, Tunisian security officials have said.
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Lifestyle Inflation Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
Personal finance is not about living like a poor college student for the rest of your life. Spending and lifestyle inflation get a bad rap, but they’re not necessarily the enemy when it comes to your finances. It’s more about how you approach spendi…
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Petrobras probe arrests Brazil billionaire Andre Esteves – BBC News
One of Brazil’s richest businessman has been arrested as part of the corruption probe into the state oil giant Petrobras. Andre Esteves was reportedly arrested at his home. Documents were seized both from there and from the bank’s headquarters in Sa…
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