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What Putin is really after – Al Jazeera English
The shooting down of the Russian bomber by Turkish F-16s last week has taken the relationship between Moscow and Ankara to its lowest point in the past two decades. All signs indicate that the two countries are not going to back down from the stando…
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Brazil’s recession deepens in third quarter – BBC News
Brazil’s economy shrank by 1.7% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter, deepening the country’s worst recession in 25 years. Compared with a year ago, the economy is 4.5% smaller.
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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
One of my greatest fears is reading books that many people love. The reason for this insane fear is because when I pick up a book that many readers love I feel pressure to love the book and this is normally not the case – I end up disliking the book.
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Significant Digits (Paris Climate Talks Edition) For Tuesday, Dec. 1 | FiveThirtyEight
The Paris climate talks kicked off Monday and run through Dec. 11.
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Michigan law takes effect eliminating gun license screening by local boards | US news | The Guardian
A Michigan law that goes into effect Tuesday has eliminated an individualized gun license screening that critics say has prevented many potentially dangerous individuals from obtaining a concealed carry license.
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Inside the Nigerian city targeted by Boko Haram – Al Jazeera English
Adamawa’s state capital used to be a haven for Nigerians on the run from Boko Haram’s violence. Lately, however, the city of Yola has been the site of several bombings. The most recent occurred on Tuesday, November 17, and claimed 34 lives. Al Jazee…
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The Woman Who Stared at Wasps – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). n undergraduate in the 1970s, Joan Strassmann split her time between writing short stories and laying siege to the office of her mentor, the sociobiologist Dick Alexander.
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Marking World AIDS Day – Al Jazeera English
Despite major advances, HIV/AIDS remains one of the most significant public health challenges in the world, particularly in low and middle-income countries. An estimated 36.9 million people globally have the virus.
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Ladies: Don’t Be Afraid of Chest Workouts
Workouts that include dedicated chest routines will improve your upper body strength, posture, and confidence. Unfortunately, many ladies discount these chest-acular benefits from fear based on misguided notions.
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The climate clock may tick loudly when world leaders turn their gaze in its direction, but it never stops.
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Turkey-Russia row: A brief history of presidential war of words – BBC News
The shooting down by Turkey of a Russian war plane on its border with Syria last week has led to an almost daily war of words between the nations’ leaders. Russia has demanded an apology but Turkey has repeatedly defended its actions.
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Ed Sheeran and Years & Years up for BBC Music prize – BBC News
Ed Sheeran, Adele and Years & Years are among the artists shortlisted for this year’s BBC Music Awards. Jamie XX, Florence + the Machine and Foals are also up for the British artist of the year prize.
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Many of the world’s companies pay no attention to how their supply chains are damaging forests, the Prince of Wales has warned as he urged action to stop deforestation.
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The Difference Between Sexting and Abuse | Motherboard
In 2010, William Whillock, a vice principal of a UK school, was given a three-year community order for coercing a pupil into texting him sexually explicit images.
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Fantasy climate football: A footy fan’s guide to the Paris summit | Environment | The Guardian
The aim of the political game in the Paris climate summit is to reduce global emissions while furthering one’s own interests at the expense of everyone else. There are around 20 negotiating groups, and the rules, which have been set by the rich coun…
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The Future Of Polling May Depend On Donald Trump’s Fate | FiveThirtyEight
Does Donald Trump lead the race for the Republican presidential nomination? Or does he lead it by a “yuuuuuge” margin? Bloomberg recently released a poll that gave Trump 24 percent to Ben Carson’s 20 percent.
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Obama Urges Turkey, Russia to Focus on ISIL | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Turkey and Russia to set aside tensions over the downing of a Russian warplane and focus on the common priority of combating the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In a meeting with T…
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Music is marvellous, but not mysterious: an intervie…
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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Colombian army kills ELN rebel accused of deadly ambush – BBC News
The Colombian security forces say they have killed a senior rebel of the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN). Jose Daniel Perez, also known as One-eyed Lucho, died in a clash between the rebels and the security forces in Santander province on M…
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Five Years After Revolution, Internet Censorship Is Creeping Back into Tunisia | Motherboard
Tunisia has made great improvements in promoting a culture of internet freedom in the five years since the Tunisian Revolution.
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We’re closer to Alpha Centauri than to cryopreservin…
Cryonics – the hi-tech freezing of living or recently dead organisms in the hope of later resurrection – has quite a following. Its thousands of supporters include prominent life-extension theorists such as Aubrey DeGrey. It enjoys cult status in so…
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Hillary Clinton’s $275 Billion Infrastructure Plan – The Atlantic
It’s hard to call a plan that spends $275 billion in taxpayer dollars over five years “modest” and keep a straight face. But that may be the best way to describe the proposal Hillary Clinton unveiled on Monday to upgrade the nation’s ailing infrastr…
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Nigeria’s Dasuki ‘arrested over $2bn arms fraud’ – BBC News
Nigeria’s former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has been arrested for allegedly stealing $2bn (£1.3bn), his representatives say. Mr Dasuki is accused of awarding phantom contracts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and ammunition. He…
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University at Buffalo Students Say Art Project Is Unacceptable – The Atlantic
In the middle of September, students arrived on campus at the State University of New York at Buffalo to find “White Only” and “Black Only” signs plastered near elevators, water fountains, benches, and bathrooms. It was not immediately clear who put…
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Congress’s AUMF Debate in the Wake of the Paris Terrorist Attacks – The Atlantic
When Senator Lindsey Graham introduces a new authorization for the use of military force against the Islamic State, as he’s expected to do shortly, it’ll be a high-profile reminder to Republican voters that he’d like to be the most hawkish candidate…
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Spike Lee’s production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, is named after a particularly shameful episode in American history.
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The Reagan Administration’s Unearthed Response to the AIDS Crisis Is C | Vanity Fair
One of the most prominent stains on the reputation of the much-mythologized Reagan administration was its response, or lack of response, to the AIDS crisis as it began to ravage American cities in the early and mid-1980s.
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10 Things You Should Know About the Killing of Laquan McDonald by Police | Mother Jones
One week ago, Chicago officials finally released a disturbing video of police officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald—an incident that took place back in October 2014.
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The Planet’s Most Important Meeting, Decoded | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This week, more than 140 world leaders are gathering in Paris to kick off tense two-week treaty negotiations over the fate of a planet in crisi…
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December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested | The Nation
Rosa Parks was far from the first black person to put themselves at risk by refusing to give up a seat on a bus to a white person.
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These Stark Photos Reveal a Hidden Battlefront in the War on AIDS | Mother Jones
Outside her makeshift shelter in a section of the Tijuana River Canal known as El Bordo, Reyna Ortiz holds a heroin syringe in her mouth. Reyna was in one of the highest risk groups for HIV: a female who injected drugs and had regular unprotected se…
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This Is Why Donald Trump Is Scaring the Shit Out of the Republican Party | Mother Jones
Donald Trump and Ben Carson may lead in the GOP primary polls, but if one of them actually became the nominee, some Republicans might not vote at all come November 2016. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy might also be a disincentive for some Democrats to …
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Why Doesn’t This Big Mac Container Have a Picture of Baby Jesus? | The Nation
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Two Expert Reports Slam Cleveland Cops for “Reckless” Killing of Tamir Rice | Mother Jones
On Saturday, attorneys for the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot to death by a Cleveland cop last November, released two new reports concluding that the actions of the two officers involved, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, …
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In late spring, a group of college sports and Olympic sports officials met at Duke University. Topic A: What is the future of our sports now that we’re paying extra for our student-athletes? The conclusion: we must hang together or be left hanging s…
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Beginning in the late 1970s, Exxon scientists started telling their top executives about the risk from climate change. By the 1980s, Exxon scientists shared the consensus view that the global climate was sensitive to greenhouse gases such as carbon …
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The world’s tallest building will be one kilometer high | The Verge
Scheduled for completion in 2018, the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is poised to overtake the Burj Khalifa in race to the top The Burj Khalifa in Dubai currently holds the title of world’s tallest building, but its architects are now looking to overt…
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Conservatives’ Planned Parenthood Response: Who Are You Calling a Radical Terrorist? | New Republic
The right’s reaction to the deadly holiday weekend shootout at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs—a white evangelical redoubt of a rapidly diversifying state—followed a predictable trajectory through what you might call the five stages of inform…
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Could downed warplane contain Russian aggression? – Al Jazeera English
We explore the hip side of Congo-Brazzaville with a style icon, a rap artist, a wrestler, and a radio talk show host. Why have we waited so long to acknowledge the real threat of global warming?
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Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job | New Republic
Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. Melissa Harris-Perry works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn’t stopping anytime soon.
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Abu Khdeir: ‘It is like Mohammed is being burned again’ – Al Jazeera English
Jerusalem – Each time Ansam Abu Khdeir, 28, attends the trial of her cousin’s killers, she returns home physically ill. On Monday, she nearly lost her voice too.
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The iconic Holga film camera is dead, and here’s why that’s sad | The Verge
The Holga, a plastic 120 film camera first designed in China in the early ’80s before developing a global cult following, is no longer being made. US distributor Freestyle Photographic announced the news, reporting comments from a Chinese factory sp…
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COP21: Stop testing world to destruction, says Charles – BBC News
Prince Charles has expressed hope that politicians and businesses are starting to act on the need to protect forests. The Prince of Wales told a meeting at the Paris climate summit that attitudes were beginning to change, with forest protection init…
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Storms batter northern Europe – Al Jazeera English
Parts of Europe have been hit by strong wind and heavy rain. Flights were diverted and traffic ground to a halt as the storm blasted through the north of the continent.
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A vest that lets you feel words could help deaf people – BBC News
A prototype vibrating vest which could change the way deaf people understand speech by creating a new route to the brain, has been developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.
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The Hidden Acoustics and Physics Behind Anti-Shoplifting Tags | Motherboard
Ever tripped a shoplifting alarm? There’s a fairly exact science behind why those alarms can pick up the little magnetic anti-theft strips you usually find on CD cases, electronics, or expensive articles of clothing.
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Attenborough urges renewable energy action – Al Jazeera English
David Attenborough, English broadcaster and naturalist, has called on world leaders to take action on climate change, urging nations to support a plan for gathering, storing and distributing non-polluting sources of energy.
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Nokia Is Betting On VR Making It In Hollywood | TechCrunch
Former mobile phone maker Nokia has professional filmmakers in its sights with a new piece of camera hardware it’s been cooking up since early 2013. After teasing its plans this summer, the Finnish firm has today confirmed a forthcoming pro level VR…
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Adele tour tickets go up for sale – BBC News
Advance tickets for Adele’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour have gone on sale this morning. Members of Adele.com were able to register for advance tickets on the singer’s website, with tickets available from 9am this morning.
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Manchester City group sells 13% to Chinese investors – BBC News
The group that operates Premier League leaders Manchester City has sold a $400m (£265m) stake to a consortium of Chinese investors. City Football Group (CFG) has sold a 13% stake to CMC (China Media Capital) and investment company Citic Capital.
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LISA Pathfinder launch and media briefing webcast / ESOC / About Us / ESA
On 2 December, ESA’s LISA Pathfinder will lift off on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, at 04:15 GMT (05:15 CET). Project managers, scientists and mission control experts at ESA’s ESOC operations centre, Darmstadt, Germany, will begin a medi…
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How Ralph Nader Changed America | The Nation
It’s 1938, and rose nader is taking her four young children for a visit back to the family’s homeland of Lebanon. They’re in line to meet an archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the city of Zahle. But when it’s 4-year-old Ralph’s turn to kis…
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Watch LISA Pathfinder launch / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
Follow the launch of our LISA Pathfinder mission on 2 December. Coverage starts 03:55 GMT (04:55 CET) with commentary from experts at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou.
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Ralph Nader on 2016, Wall Street, and Our Broken Political System | The Nation
Ralph Nader is a man of the present, not the past. Fifty years after he became a national figure, the consumer advocate, civil libertarian, and former presidential candidate is fighting harder than ever to reverse what he sees as the deterioration o…
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Media on the move / Highlights / ESA
Access our press releases, media calendar and ESA TV information for media professionals via the new media section on our mobile ESA website.
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Trump demands CNN pay him $5M to participate in next debate : politics
“This is how tremendous my negotiating skills are. I had CNN pay millions and millions of dollars to our wonderful vets in a matter of five minutes. Vets that I love, all over the place. Thousands and thousands of them… all over the place, that I …
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Lenovo’s Zuk Z1 is a cheap smartphone with more battery than bite | The Verge
The Zuk Z1 has a goofy name and feels pretty goofy, too. It’s the first smartphone from Lenovo’s Zuk sub-brand and joins a growing roster of cheap but well-specced Android handsets like the Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 and Asus ZenFone 2.
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Liberate Tate are the artists’ collective who for five years have campaigned against BP’s sponsorship of the Tate. In this performance at Tate Britain in London, held two days before the opening of the Paris summit on climate change, 35 protesters t…
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India and France launch a solar alliance — and a book of environmental quotes | Grist
On day one of the climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande made some big announcements. Support independent environmental journalism. Help Grist inform, educate, and shine a light on today’s climate …
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US to tighten visa waiver programme after Paris attacks – BBC News
The US says it will tighten travel restrictions on foreigners who visit the country without needing full visas. About 20 million people from 38 countries enter America each year under the visa waiver programme.
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The weirdest Windows phone in years comes from Japan | The Verge
Microsoft’s first Lumia smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile have just landed, but we’re yet to see much in the way of third-party support for the new OS.
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As the presidency of Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner enters its final days, her greatest – and arguably most controversial – legacy project is just getting under way in the remote grasslands of Patagonia.
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Finally, Life Insurance For People Living With HIV – The Daily Beast
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Deontay Wilder challenges Tyson Fury to world heavyweight unification bout | Sport | The Guardian
Deontay Wilder has challenged Tyson Fury to a unification fight to decide who is the world’s No1 heavyweight. The American Wilder holds the WBC belt, while Fury’s surprising victory over Wladimir Klitschko means the Briton is the IBF, WBO and WBA ch…
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Italy Drives Muslims Underground – The Daily Beast
ROME—Every day around noon a group of four or five men roll out a faded red prayer rug on the sidewalk about midway down the narrow one-way Via Aurelio Saffi that leads from the Janiculum Hill to the medieval district of Trastevere. They kneel in pr…
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Viewpoints: How to defeat Islamic State – BBC News
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has set out his strategy for Britain to join other countries in carrying out air strikes against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
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The ocean is filling up with a mysterious life form and scientists don’t know why: Phytoplankton, micro-organisms that float, as opposed to swim, are rapidly thriving in the North Atlantic, suggesting an environmental shift that defies previous scie…
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Paris climate talks: Prince Charles to call for forest protection | Environment | The Guardian
The Prince of Wales is to give a speech on protecting forests as efforts to cut emissions from deforestation are discussed at the UN climate talks in Paris.
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Isaac E. Messmore – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac E. Messmore (1821 – 1902) was an American legislator, jurist, and Civil War officer.
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Faulty Rudder, Pilot Faulted in Asiaair Crash | Al Jazeera America
Indonesian investigators say a faulty rudder control system and the pilots’ response led to the crash of an AirAsia plane last year that killed all 162 people on board.
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Christmas lights might be slowing down your Wi-Fi | The Verge
The problems with your internet are, everyone knows, arcane and demanding. Do you have thick walls? Is your provider throttling your speeds? Maybe your router just doesn’t look evil enough? These are all potential difficulties, but here’s one you mi…
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Several inmates ‘decapitated’ in Guatemala prison riot – Al Jazeera English
At least 17 prisoners have been killed in a gang brawl inside an overcrowded Guatemalan prison, including seven who were decapitated, officials say.
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China’s Xi Jinping in Zimbabwe for talks with Mugabe – BBC News
China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived in Zimbabwe, making him the most prominent global leader in many years to visit the country. The two nations had a “deep and firm” friendship, Mr Xi said in an article in Zimbabwe’s state-run Herald newspaper.
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China smog: “The air is so polluted it’s darkened the sky” – BBC News
For the fourth day in a row, large sections of northeast China remain covered by a thick layer of smog considered hazardous to human health. Millions of people have been told to stay indoors, and most factories and schools have been shut.
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Syria conflict: German cabinet approves IS mission – BBC News
The German cabinet has approved plans for military support in the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria. A vote on the decision will be taken in parliament on Wednesday. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be pub…
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Genetic Cars Coding experiment by Rafael Matsunaga employs genetic algorithms to produce and evolve 2D vehicles to complete a race track – once they fail, they evolve and try again and again and again … (but it is fun to watch): The program uses a s…
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Why the time is now for YA speculative fiction | Children’s books | The Guardian
All through my teens I was too afraid to experiment. Maybe it’s a measure of the society where I grew up (in Mumbai), where compliance to the larger system was demanded as the route to success; success itself being defined in terms of material posse…
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Macau’s casino revenues fall by more than a third – BBC News
Revenue in Macau’s casinos fell by more than a third in November from a year earlier as China’s corruption crackdown continued to drive away some punters. Official numbers showed revenues down 32.2% for the period to 16.4bn Macau patacas ($2.05bn; £…
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Scholars and activists stand in solidarity with shuttered research-sharing sites / Boing Boing
This week, the scholarly publishing giant Elsevier filed suit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, two sites where academics and researchers practiced civil disobedience by sharing the academic papers that Elsevier claims — despite having acquired …
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Lebanese troops freed by Syrian jihadists in prisoner swap – BBC News
Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate has freed 16 Lebanese security personnel held captive for almost 16 months as part of a swap deal, Lebanese media report. The official National News Agency said the handover was under way outside the north-eastern border …
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Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I have read all three of E. Nesbit’s famous books about the Psammead and I absolutely love them. The books are so magical and exciting to read and no matter how many times I read them, it still keeps me on the edge of my seat.
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The Joy of Six: athletes’ pushy parents | Sport | The Guardian
There are many stories of pushy, obsessive, overbearing sports parents who manipulate their child’s athletic lives and then there is Marv Marinovich.
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The empire of Prince is a tightly controlled kingdom, ruled by an enigmatic and eccentric musical genius with a legendarily contentious relationship with the music industry.
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US Marine Guilty of Killing Transgender Filipina | Al Jazeera America
A U.S. Marine has been found guilty of killing a transgender Filipina after discovering her gender in a hotel in the Philippines last year. Lance Cpl.
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US Marine guilty of killing transgender woman in Philippines | World news | The Guardian
L/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted on Tuesday of homicide by first strangling Jennifer Laude and then dunking her head into a toilet bowl in the hotel they had checked into after meeting in a disco bar in Olongapo city, north-west of Manila.
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J.J. Abrams wrote new Star Wars cantina music with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda | The Verge
With less than three weeks until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits movie theaters, director J.J. Abrams is still danging tidbits of information over our heads.
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EAT BUGS: Monetary incentives distort our perceptions of what’s good for us / Boing Boing
There are lots of transactions that we’re either prohibited from making (selling kidneys), or that are strictly regulated by statute (parental surrogacy).
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Beijing pollution: Schools keep children indoors – BBC News
Schools in the Chinese capital Beijing have been ordered to keep children indoors amid extremely high levels of air pollution. Pollution climbed to up to 35 times World Health Organisation safety levels on the third day of the city’s “orange alert” …
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Empowered female heroines work hard / Boing Boing
A classic Mallory Ortberg humor column sets out a day in the life of an “empowered female heroine,” a fictional staple on whom society (and literature) project a huge amount of aspirational demands. “The girls are totally going to win,” she said, “Y…
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Lebanese hostages released in prisoner swap – Al Jazeera English
Beirut – The body of one of the Lebanese hostages killed while held hostage by Syria’s al-Nusra Front has been handed over to the Lebanese authorities, with the rest of the living captives to be released throughout Tuesday in an official prisoner ex…
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The wonders of a series like Marvel and Netflix’s Jessica Jones seemingly never cease. Over 13 episodes, the nuanced, noir-ish adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’s Alias comic book series introduces a world of firsts to the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
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Erdogan challenges Putin to prove ISIL oil claim – Al Jazeera English
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, has said he would be ready to quit office if allegations by his Russian counterpart that Turkey traded oil with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group were proved.
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Here is the thorny math problem facing New York State education officials: If the percentage of students passing the Algebra I exam falls to 63 percent from 72 percent, and the passing grade is scheduled to increase by 14 points in coming years, sho…
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Mesopotamian boundary stones: the DRM of pre-history / Boing Boing
Sarah Jeong had me standing up and cheering with her comparison of kudurrus — the ancient Mesopotamian boundary stones used to mark out territorial land-grants — and the way that laws like the US DMCA protect digital rights management systems.
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It’s important to be objective. It’s important to realize that even the things one loves aren’t without flaws.
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US marine guilty of transgender killing – BBC News
David Cameron is to ask his cabinet to endorse a one-day Commons debate and vote on Wednesday on bombing so-called Islamic State in Syria.
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Pandering to the lizard brain: American media versus objective reality / Boing Boing
Matt Taibbi, in typical blazing form in the Rolling Stone, asks how it can be that millions of Americans believe Donald Trump’s fairy-tale about Muslims cheering after 9/11 when it just didn’t happen.
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Canadian civil servants grooming new minister to repeat Harper’s Internet mistakes / Boing Boing
Mélanie Joly is the newly appointed Canadian Heritage Minister, and she’s been given a briefing book by her ministerial staffers laying out the ministry’s view of what’s going on in the Heritage brief. The book’s copyright section is a disaster.
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Van Gogh wrote to his brother in contemplating how ambition is transmuted into art, adding wistfully: “Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of t…
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Hipchat-Maker Atlassian Sets Share Prices For Its IPO | TechCrunch
Enterprise software company Atlassian, which filed a month ago to go public on NASDAQ, has disclosed how much its shares will cost. In a SEC filing, the company said its 20 million shares will be priced between $16.50 to $18.50.
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Climate Change Threatens Historic Landmarks | Al Jazeera America
The seaport of Annapolis, Maryland, had seen floods before. But many residents were unprepared for the deluge of stormwater that gushed into the streets in mid-September 12 years ago as Hurricane Isabel struck the coast. Water rose through the drain…
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Faulty part caused AirAsia crash – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Dhaka: the city where climate refugees are already a reality | Cities | The Guardian
Parul Akter travelled across Bangladesh to escape the flood waters, but they seem to have followed her. The shack she shares with her husband and four children in Dhaka, the nation’s capital, sits on the edge of the sprawling Korail slum – next to a…
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Deadly shooting in US revives abortion issue – Al Jazeera English
Los Angeles – The armed man accused of killing three people and wounding nine at a birth control clinic in Colorado Springs has made his first court appearance.
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Puerto Rican families facing hardships in US – Al Jazeera English
Kissimmee, Florida – Puerto Rico’s financial crisis is driving tens of thousands of people to leave the island in search of jobs and security. It is estimated that 1,000 Puerto Rican families a month are arriving in Florida, a US state that is alrea…
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Rushing to bomb Syria would be lunacy – Al Jazeera English
You know what a good reaction to fear and tragedy and terror would be? A kneejerk response.
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The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears | Brain Pickings
“If you need to cry you should cry,” Maira Kalman wrote in her marvelous philosophical children’s book.
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Quikr, which claims to be India’s largest classifieds site, is in talks to acquire Commonfloor, a property listings portal. A source says the deal will be worth roughly $200 million and help Quikr build its real-estate listings vertical into an indu…
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RBS and Standard Chartered weakest in bank stress test – BBC News
Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were the weakest of Britain’s seven largest lenders in a Bank of England stress test. For the second year, the central bank has subjected the lenders to economic tests to measure whether they would survi…
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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi holds a news conference alongside French president François Hollande on Monday to launch a global initiative for the promotion of solar power.
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Zuckerberg, Gates and other tech titans form clean energy investment coalition (theguardian.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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How cycling could help the Paris climate talks change the world | Environment | The Guardian
People ride a bike for all sorts of reasons: they’re fun; they keep you fit; in congested cities they have an amazing ability to deliver you to your destination on time. But what about saving the planet? That’s a tricky one.
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Food Discovery Service Burpple Eats Up $6M To Expand In Asia | TechCrunch
Food discovery service Burpple is savoring the taste of cash today after the Singapore-based company landed a $6 million Series A round from Tembusu Partners, Singapore Press Holdings’ Media Fund and Triumph Capital.
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Out past the floating villages, the daytrippers and the mangrove arcades, the brown waters of the Tahas river open into a vast, dull green lake fringed by forest and a seemingly endless horizon.
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Giving Tuesday: 10 ways to change the world | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian
Today is the second time the UK has marked #GivingTuesday – the global day of giving. Hot on the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when we were all encouraged to buy more, Giving Tuesday encourages us to focus on giving instead.
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Smoggy Beijing’s Schools to Keep Students Indoors | Al Jazeera America
Schools in Beijing were ordered to keep students indoors Tuesday after record-breaking air pollution in the Chinese capital soared to up to 35 times the safety levels.
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116 y/o Emma Morano looking at a much younger portrait of herself – Imgur
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How Nokia is reinventing itself with a $60,000 virtual reality camera | The Verge
Last July Nokia revealed Ozo, a high-end virtual reality camera designed to capture video and audio in full, 360-degree glory.
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Unaccompanied child refugees flee Burundi – Al Jazeera English
Nduta Camp, Tanzania – A bright purple bus roars into the dusty compound carrying scores of Burundians who have left their country to seek refuge in neighbouring Tanzania.
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Hold onto something, because DMX is coming to Fresh Off The Boat · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, December 1. All times are Eastern. Fresh Off The Boat (ABC, 8:30 p.m.): DMX, the world’s most intense rapper, is apparently ready to get back into the acting game after six years away by playing himse…
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MRW I see some of the garbage you Imgurians upvote to the front page. – GIF on Imgur
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I feel like we are watching the Mindy and Danny relationship dissolve. It’s odd after so many episodes, and seasons, of watching them inch closer and closer together, to now see them drift farther and farther apart.
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11,571 Norwegians have registered for licences to kill 16 wolves, although the country may have only 30 in the wild (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Listen to Beyoncé’s collaboration with Coldplay | The Verge
For Coldplay’s upcoming album — out this Friday — one of the world’s biggest bands asked one of the world’s biggest artists to join forces.
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Prince Charles is expected to call for better protection of the world’s forests at the UN climate conference in Paris. He will condemn corporations which, he will argue, appear not to care if their business activities result in forest destruction. (…
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‘Toned’ Maryland Preacher Accused of Serial Escort Rape – The Daily Beast
“I didn’t do it,” the god-fearing son preached to his dad—not from a pulpit as the trained pastor he pretended to be but from behind bars as he denied raping and robbing prostitutes at knifepoint.
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This is Freyja. via /r/pics https://t.co/zBbfz7eldt https://t.co/ObwsYNmFNk https://t.co/k93nBLs635
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This is Freyja. via /r/pics https://t.co/zBbfz7eldt https://t.co/ObwsYNmFNk https://t.co/k93nBLs635
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In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 via NASA https://t.co/TpVImsFlxe https://t.co/5J6qRzCAen https://t.co/gyVV61QKs8
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US yacht owner’s expensive mistake – BBC News
The 40-foot vessel, named “Gotcha”, ran aground on top of a breakwall near the San Francisco Bay. Two people were aboard and had to be rescued by the Coast Guard.
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APOD: 2015 November 30 – In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521
Explanation: This huge swirling mass of stars, gas, and dust occurs near the center of a nearby spiral galaxy. Gorgeous spiral NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years distant, toward the constellation Leo.
In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 via NASA https://t.co/TpVImsFlxe https://t.co/5J6qRzCAen https://t.co/gyVV61QKs8 -
Chaz Ebert: Where Are All the Diverse Voices in Film Criticism? – The Daily Beast
Meryl Streep’s use of the word “infuriating” to describe the disproportionate ratio of male to female reviewers on the Rotten Tomatoes is apt. But the need for diverse voices in film criticism does not suffice with gender.
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Ukraine’s Ultra-Right Cuts the Lights on Crimea – The Daily Beast
MOSCOW—On Sunday, Nov. 22, the lights went off for close to two million people in Crimea.
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Banning Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses was ‘wrong’ says Indian minister | Books | The Guardian
India’s ban on The Satanic Verses in 1988 was “wrong”, a former minister from Rajiv Gandhi’s government has said, prompting Salman Rushdie to ask how long it will take for the “mistake” to be corrected.
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A week ago today, Chicago released a police video of Laquan McDonald being killed by Officer Jason Van Dyke. A week later, and more than 13 months after Laquan’s death, the city is still hiding most of the evidence about what really happened.
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Britain’s Conservative Sex Bus Scandal – The Daily Beast
LONDON—Blackmail, extra-marital affairs, bullying, cover-ups, and sex on a pool table—three senior Conservative Party officials are gone and one young activist is dead after a series of lurid accusations were detonated inside party HQ.
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America’s Creepy HIV+ Registry – The Daily Beast
Despite the fact that President Obama has not proposed—and if he’s as politically savvy as he seems to be, never will propose—a federal gun registry, the NRA and pro-gun extremists continue to fear monger about this mythical possibility.
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Laquan McDonald Shows That Black Lives Matter Is Right to Target Dems – The Daily Beast
When Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted Democratic presidential candidates, liberal Democrats hemmed and hawed. Why protest your political allies, many asked, rather than target your foes? Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
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When White Girls Deal Drugs, They Walk – The Daily Beast
Twenty-four hours after authorities arrested Sarah Furay on charges of drug possession and manufacture charges, the 19-year-old Texan was safe at home.
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This Beauty Queen Is the Accidental Spokesperson for China’s Oppressed – The Daily Beast
HONG KONG—Sometimes, pageants court controversy. From feminist flour bombs in London to widescale protests in Bangalore, the Miss World Organization is no stranger to rocky events. This year’s Miss World pageant has its dispute too.
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How ISIS Suckered the West – The Daily Beast
LONDON—It began with the refugee crisis. Photographs of dead children being washed ashore shook the international community’s new isolationist convictions. But it was the jihadist attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th that united politicians from acro…
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Why We Love Tim Tebow’s Virginity Freak Show – The Daily Beast
Just as our Thanksgiving turkey was drying out, the New York Daily News was ready to fill a different hunger with a deliciously juicy report of sex, religious convictions, heartbreak, and an exceptionally attractive semi-famous couple.
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Last month, I once again had the pleasure of attending the Internationale Spieltage in Essen, Germany for four days of activities at the world’s biggest board gaming festival.
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Floor told metal dudes that it’s okay to be boy crazy · Permanent Records · The A.V. Club
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. Despite many metal heads’ tendency to see themselves and their culture as standing in direct opposition to mainstream ideals, the reality is that the metal world is highly …
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Craig Finn and Esmé Patterson cover Low · Holiday Undercover · The A.V. Club
With this season of A.V. Undercover now in the books—don’t worry, there’s still time to vote for your favorite Undercover this year—it’s time for The A.V. Club to give the gift of Holiday Undercover.
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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Trevor Noah: Donald Trump Is ‘Confusing Bullsh*t With Truth’ on 9/11 – The Daily Beast
In his first Daily Show back from a weeklong Thanksgiving break, Trevor Noah took a brief detour through the strange ritual that is Black Friday before catching up on his favorite TV show, Trumpire.
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If you’re a parent, as well as an A.V. Club reader, you undoubtedly want to raise your kid with that same pop-culture savvy. Our new A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, j…
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A couple of years ago, Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd starred in a mediocre not-quite-comedy called All Is Bright, about a couple of former petty thieves trying to eke out a living selling Christmas trees on the streets of New York.
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Samsung’s Struggling Mobile Business Has A New Leader | TechCrunch
As its smartphone sales continue to lag behind competitors, Samsung Electronics announced today that it will reshuffle the leadership of its mobile division. J.K. Shin will no longer be in control of its day-to-day operations and instead hand that r…
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A Who’s Who of movie-buff directors (David Fincher, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Richard Linklater, Arnaud Desplechin, Martin Scorsese, etc.
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Heathrow expansion should face strict environmental conditions, say MPs | Environment | The Guardian
Final government approval for the expansion of Heathrow should be withheld until Europe’s busiest airport can demonstrate that it accepts and will comply with key environmental conditions, a parliamentary committee has concluded.
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TIL Bill O’Reilly taunted a women’s health physician on the air for years as a “savage baby killer” until a viewer shot him dead in the pews of his church. (en.wikipedia.org) Isn’t there a sub for misleading titles?
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Malcolm Turnbull pledges $1bn to help tackle climate change – video | Australia news | The Guardian
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, tells the UN summit on climate change in Paris on Monday that Australia is “inspired and energised” in the face of the challenges posed by global warming and rising sea levels.
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Taj Mahal: India monument ‘not a Hindu temple’ – BBC News
India’s government has refuted claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple. Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim.
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New Mexico Faces Backlog of Untested Rape Kits | Al Jazeera America
An estimated 5,000 untested rape kits are in New Mexico’s crime labs and warehouses, and it could take five years to work through the backlog, state officials said Monday.
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There was a brief moment at the beginning of Raw when I though maybe, just maybe, tonight would be different. I thought, as the glorious timbre of Big E’s voice told me not to be sour, that perhaps WWE was going full steam ahead with their best stuf…
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BANFF PORN! Mount Rundle, Banff, Canada. (OC) [1365 x 2047] : EarthPorn
BANFF PORN! Mount Rundle, Banff, Canada. (OC) [1365 x 2047] (i.imgur.com)
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Pope Francis: The world is near ‘suicide’ on climate change; ‘it’s now or never’ : environment
Pope Francis: The world is near ‘suicide’ on climate change; ‘it’s now or never’ (washingtonpost.com)submitted 6 hours ago by loading…
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India unveils global solar alliance of 120 countries at Paris climate summit : environment
India unveils global solar alliance of 120 countries at Paris climate summit (theguardian.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Elizabeth Warren Only Female Senator Not To Endorse Hillary Clinton : politics
The republican female senators didn’t endorse Clinton either. The title left me wondering if the Republicans actually managed to have no female senators but no, the title is just terrible.
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Winter storm? No worry for the family catloaf. : Catloaf
Winter storm? No worry for the family catloaf. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/mCrAFd3njD https://t.co/OD4x3iQ0jY https://t.co/Tj5xEi82aH
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Snowy Streets of Istanbul Image – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The wonder of wigeon | Environment | The Guardian
The wind was bitter and ice-edged and it inflicted a final layer of melancholy on the dank marsh, the slumped reeds, the plain of grey overhead and the river Yare, which was just leaden ooze twisting on an outgoing tide. Eventually I felt it all as …
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I miss 30 Rock. (imgur.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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UPS person protected my package from the rain : mildlyinteresting
Kudos to UPS guy… but literally my boss gives me a whole roll of bags to carry around with me on my route specifically for this purpose. Cloudy? Bag it. No covered porch? Bag it. Fits in mail box, but the box doesn’t have a door that works? Bag it.
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Cartoon Physics (i.imgur.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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Woman rescued from Oregon mountain after husband plunges to his death | US news | The Guardian
Rescue climbers ran into rough terrain when they first tried to reach Alison Fountain on Sunday. They finally managed the 2,000ft climb on Monday morning, Marion County Sheriff spokesman Chris Baldridge said.
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Restored photos retrace Shackleton’s Antarctic voyage – Al Jazeera English
London, UK – One hundred years ago, 28 men were putting the final touches on a ramshackle camp on a drifting iceberg. That was not how it was supposed to be: Ernest Shackleton and his crew had set off from England in 1914 to be the first to cross th…
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“One banker who has contributed to Bernie Sanders is Paul Ryan, a partner at Hayfield Financial, a firm that advises private equity and hedge funds. He’s been on Wall Street for 30 years and says the financial system has become so… corrupt that on…
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Kick six on last play of game gives Ravens stunning win over Browns | Sport | The Guardian
Will Hill returned a blocked field goal 64 yards for a touchdown as time expired, giving the Baltimore Ravens a 34-27 win on Monday night over the luckless Cleveland Browns, who lost their sixth straight game along with starting quarterback Josh McC…
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Grist takes your support very seriously. Watch this video for proof | Grist
If you read Grist (or watch the video above), you already know we’re a little bit different. That’s because we took a big gamble back in 1999. “Hey,” we said, “let’s start an environmental news site. Let’s use that newfangled thing called email to s…
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“Red Faced” · Supergirl · TV Review Supergirl’s secret? She’s always angry · TV Club · The A.V. Club
After some awkward reshuffling, Supergirl gets its timeline straightened out and picks up right where “Livewire” (the episode that aired two weeks ago) left off. Unfortunately, “Red Faced” is a pretty disappointing follow-up.
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IMF approves China’s yuan as reserve currency – Al Jazeera English
The International Monetary Fund has approved China’s yuan into its elite reserve currency, in a decision hailed as “an important milestone” for the world’s second largest economy.
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There’s nothing so volatile as a person who doesn’t know their own mind. It’s become increasingly obvious that Peggy Blumquist isn’t the most stable woman around. Her decision to drive home with a half-dead man on the trunk of her car is really only…
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Officers ‘Reckless’ in Shooting of Tamir Rice | Al Jazeera America
The shooting of Tamir Rice by Cleveland police was “unreasonable, unjustified and entirely preventable,” according to analysis by a veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD).
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The Great British Bake-Off is a national institution in its native land: even if it wasn’t currently airing on PBS stations and streaming on Netflix/Amazon (albeit as The Great British Baking Show, for copyright reasons), its cultural footprint is u…
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Do you ever look at someone and wonder whats going on inside their head? – GIF on Imgur
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Guys someone has stolen the water…. NNNNNOOOOO!!!!! – GIF on Imgur
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Do you ever look at someone and wonder whats going on inside their head? – GIF on Imgur
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COP21: Prince Charles to call for forest protection – BBC News
Prince Charles is expected to call for better protection of the world’s forests at the UN climate conference in Paris. He will condemn corporations which, he will argue, appear not to care if their business activities result in forest destruction.
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Black Pastors Say They’re Praying to God About Donald Trump Support – The Daily Beast
It was supposed to be a match made in heaven, but in the end Donald Trump was forced to forgo 12 pearly gates and streets paved with gold in favor of his luxury office tower in Midtown Manhattan.
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Non-bee insects just as important as bees for world’s crops : environment
Non-bee insects just as important as bees for world’s crops (abc.net.au)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Vintage Circus Freaks via /r/pics…
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Turkey challenges Russia over IS oil trade claim – BBC News
Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS). He was responding to the accusation by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who also said last week’s downi…
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Shigeru Mizuki mourned: ‘Death of a master’ – BBC News
Known for having popularised horror manga globally, Mr Mizuki was best known for his series Gegege no Kitaro, about a young boy fighting monsters based on Japanese folklore. It was also made into an animated series that ran for several years.
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Interacting Galaxies in the Capodimonte Deep Field https://t.co/cXKQiztsd6 https://t.co/CC0975JPJg
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Anti-obesity Group Funded by Coke is Disbanding | Al Jazeera America
The Global Energy Balance Network said on its website Monday night that it is “discontinuing operations due to resource limitations.” The decision was effective immediately.
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Burkina Faso elects new leader after historic election – Al Jazeera English
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected Burkina Faso’s new leader, the second civilian to become president since the West African country won independence in 1960, according to preliminary results released by the country’s electoral commission.
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Open thread for night owls. Hertsgaard: Leading proposals at Paris could be disastrous
At The Nation, Mark Hertsgaard writes that the emissions-controlling proposals pushed by the most powerful governments represented in the Paris climate talks would produce a disastrous result: “There is such a thing as being too late,” Obama said to…
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Interacting Galaxies in the Capodimonte Deep Field by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Sunset in Beijing [2048×1217] : SkyPorn
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Japanese whaling ships depart for Antarctic hunt – BBC News
Japanese whaling ships have departed for the controversial annual Antarctic hunt, despite international opposition, local media said. The ships left from the port of Shimonoseki in south-western Japan, according to the public broadcaster NHK.
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I spent Wednesday night following a gaggle of protesters through the streets of downtown Chicago. The air was unseasonably warm, but the sentiment in the air burned with a rage and revulsion. Disturbing video had been released of the police shooting…
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Girlfriend said she would take a pic of me outside the Emirates Stadium … – Imgur
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The Core Offers Booming Stereo Sound From One Tiny Wireless Speaker | TechCrunch
Home audio is rarely just plug-and-play. Systems I’ve dealt with installing over the years have come with dozens of feet of wiring and multiple units that require an afternoon or more to get all set up.
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Little Girl’s Reaction to Meeting Mickey Mouse for the First Time – GIF on Imgur
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The very white and European ‘Gods of Egypt’
There was a movie back in the ‘90s called White Man’s Burden that starred John Travolta and Harry Belafonte. Its premise was an alt-history where Africans colonized North America and Europeans are the oppressed underclass in the United States.
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Reese Witherspoon developing a movie about the creation of Barbie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Tracking Board, Reese Witherspoon is developing a movie about the creation of the Barbie doll with production company Pacific Standard.
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Can Turkey help stop the flow of refugees into Europe? – Al Jazeera English
After months of confusion and disputes on how to deal with the refugee crisis facing Europe, the European Union has finally come up with what it hopes will be the solution. It has struck a deal with Turkey to try and control the flow of asylum seeke…
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New Order ‘Disappointed’ in Peter Hook Lawsuit | Rolling Stone
New Order has issued a statement following news that their former bassist Peter Hook is suing his ex-band mates over unpaid royalties.
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Scott Walker Bankrupts Wisconsin Food Banks — Just in Time for Christmas! (esquire.com)
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betsy the camel cannon : trippinthroughtime
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Come Celebrate James Tiptree, Jr. With Ursula K. Le Guin and David Gerrold!
This is an incredible event. If you’re anywhere near Eugene, OR, this weekend, you should absolutely go to the University of Oregon for their two-day James Tiptree, Jr. symposium. Featuring Tiptree’s biographer, Julie Philips, plus authors Ursula K.…
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Sumner Redstone: no urgent need for tests on Viacom-CBS head, says judge | Media | The Guardian
Former girlfriend Manuela Herzer filed a lawsuit seeking to have Redstone declared mentally incompetent and petitioned to have him examined to determine if he could still make decisions for himself.
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Kabore Elected President of Burkina Faso | Al Jazeera America
Roch Marc Kabore was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election in Burkina Faso and will become the country’s first new leader in decades, the Independent National Electoral Commission said on Tuesday.
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Watch Superman Unmask Batman in New ‘Dawn of Justice’ Teaser | Rolling Stone
Watch Superman Unmask Batman in New ‘Dawn of Justice’ Teaser Tensions mount between Man of Steel and Dark Knight in latest look at 2016 blockbuster
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Since When Did Putin Want to Save the Planet? – The Daily Beast
At Monday’s United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, Russian President Vladimir Putin took the podium to cast Russia in a new role: as leader in the effort to combat global warming.
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Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked : environment
Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked (npr.org)submitted 55 minutes ago by loading…
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Livestock falling ill in fracking regions – livestock on farms near oil and gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying (investigations.nbcnews.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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100 Women 2015: The grandmother looking for Argentina’s stolen babies – BBC News
Estela de Carlotto is a 85-year-old Argentine activist and the president of The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organisation that reunites biological grandparents with people that were snatched as babies in prisons and clandestine detention ce…
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Found this on the beach. : pics
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Does the Royal Institution have a future? – BBC News
The Royal Institution (RI) is to auction ninety of its most precious scientific tomes at Christies today in order to balance its financial books. The sale has led to concerns that the revered scientific body is selling off the family silver simply t…
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Visa protest sign of new boldness in Cuba – BBC News
As Europe’s winter approaches and many hundreds of thousands of immigrants across the continent face an uncertain future, in Havana rare street protests have been held in recent days over a separate, very different kind of immigrant crisis that’s ta…
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Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice – New Teaser! : movies
TrailersBatman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice – New Teaser! (youtube.com) Unmasking Bats infront of people Supes? Not cool…not cool at all.
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Hikers on Mount Rainier at night [1600×1067][OC] https://t.co/ktBq3eDwgV https://t.co/Ft2W0dKJtU
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The EPA raises the Renewable Fuels Standard. Here’s why that makes no sense | Grist
Hundreds of thousands of people joined 2,300 marches in 175 countries, demanding a strong climate deal from leaders in Paris. Advice maven Umbra Fisk adopts a not-so-casual attitude to the question of dry cleaning, one of our most toxic personal hab…
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Do 20% of British Muslims really sympathise with jihadists? – BBC News
Last week, the UK’s most popular newspaper, the Sun, ran the headline “1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis”. Where did that statistic come from and how reliable is it?
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It’s only been a few days since the trailer for Captain America: Civil War premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but now we have a glimpse at another movie about superheroes fighting each other: Batman V Superman.
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In the New Batman v. Superman Sneak Peek, Batman Has Superman Just Where He Wants Him
After all, Batman is never more dangerous than when he’s being underestimated. Spoilers ahead… I’m willing to bet that the scenario in this new clip from Batman v Superman—with the bondage, the unmasking, the bunker, and all of it, is some kind of…
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Argentina Plaza de Mayo grandmothers find child 119 – BBC News
Argentine campaign group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo say they have found the son of a woman who was held captive by the military junta in the 1970s and 80s.
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Appeals court orders Chicago sheriff to stop attacks on Backpage.com escort business | Ars Technica
In a sharply worded opinion (PDF), a panel of appeals judges has ordered Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart to stop his campaign seeking to “crush” Backpage.com’s adult advertisement section. Ars last wrote about the dispute between Dart and Backpage i…
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When Gotham returned with its second season, coming off a debut season defined by fits and starts, it came back with a real sense of purpose.
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New 3D Shape Model Shows the Rosetta Comet in Unprecedented Detail
The ESA has released a new 3D shape model of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This model integrates the latest images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft, and includes previously unknown features. It can be used for 3D printing or graphical representati…
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Bruce Wayne is unmasked in the latest Batman v. Superman teaser | The Verge
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is set to debut in just a few more months, so it’s about time we saw some new footage. Airing during Gotham’s fall finale this evening, this brief teaser shows Batman held prisoner in the desert moments before Sup…
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Yellowstone!!! [oc][3600×2400] : EarthPorn
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On the Internet, the word “heartbreaking” is often used as a device to get us to click and gawk at remarkable tales of loss — the bride left at the altar, the long-lost family pet. On The Last Message Received Tumblr, the heartbreak doesn’t really n…
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Not your average soccer mom : pics
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Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head? – GIF on Imgur
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This is the money Charizard. Upvote and you will money tomorrow. – Imgur
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Samsung has a new mobile president | The Verge
JK Shin, co-CEO of Samsung Electronics and mobile division chief, is stepping down from hands-on management of the smartphone business, Reuters reports.
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“None of these words end in a smile,” Ali Pfefferman mutters to no one in particular.
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Alabama Republican: Non-Christian Business Owners Fund Terrorism – The Daily Beast
I guess I should start with the fact that Alan Harper is white. He has a broad, ruddy face, white hair, a corresponding broom-like mustache and wide-set eyes the color of the sea. At 58, he looks like a cross between Wilford Brimley and Tom Selleck.
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Chinese manufacturing activity worsens – BBC News
Factory activity in the world’s second largest economy, China, deteriorated in November as the manufacturing sector continued to shrink. The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell below forecasts to 49.6 in November, down from the previous m…
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The UN’s New Report on Asian Teenagers and HIV Is Just Heart-Breaking
We’re making progress in the fight against HIV around the world, but it’s still very unevenly distributed. And the United Nations’ brand new report on HIV infections among teenagers in Asia is pretty upsetting.
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Tupac Shakur Biopic Recruits New Director | Rolling Stone
Tupac Shakur Biopic Recruits New Director Music video vet Benny Boom promises to “make [2Pac] proud and uphold the legacy” as film approaches critical deadline
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Alan Burns had an “epiphany” about the potential of ocean energy after being pummelled by the surf off Rottnest Island, near Perth. Two decades later and Burns’ company, Carnegie Wave Energy, appears to be finally on the verge of delivering on his d…
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European civilisation in hands of French cheesemakers, says Prince Charles | UK news | The Guardian
Prince Charles has revealed he fears for the very existence of traditional French cheeses as he received a prize in Paris for his long-term commitment to organic farming.
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Could drinking beer save the Great Barrier Reef? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Could drinking beer save the Great Barrier Reef? The unlikely marriage of hedonism and philanthropy seems quintessentially Australian.
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As the world focuses on Paris for the UN climate change conference (COP21) in the hope of making real sustainable change for the future of our planet, Guardian Australia is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Sustainable Business (GSB) in Aus…
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This may come as a disappointment to a certain kind of stereotypical internet user who goes on angry message board rants full of thoroughly tasteless language about the damage that Jar Jar Binks did to their childhood, but George Lucas doesn’t pay a…
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This week, world leaders are meeting in Paris to reach a new climate agreement to keep global temperature rise to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Roch Marc Christian Kabore elected Burkina Faso president – BBC News
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won presidential elections in Burkina Faso, the electoral commission says. It says Mr Kabore, a former prime minister, secured 53.5% of the vote on Sunday.
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The Necessity of Football | New Republic
One of my earliest assignments as an associate producer at NFL Films, the cinematic and mythmaking arm of professional football, was to splice together montages of the best plays, catches, bloopers, and hits from the week’s games, and synchronize th…
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Hillary Clinton emails: latest release reveals love of Homeland | US news | The Guardian
Lampooned for its exaggerated plot twists and, most recently, accused of racism, Homeland has not worn the mantle of must-watch television drama for some time.
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Coldplay and Beyoncé’s “Hymn for the Weekend” Is Here In Full | Vanity Fair
On the heels of Adele’s record-shattering album 25, Coldplay is boldly entering the billboard arena with its own high-profile record A Head Full of Dreams, which first made headlines for its incredible list of featured artists including Beyoncé, Blu…
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Whose Fanciful Whims Inspired the Construction of This Unusual Aquarium?
In a lush field, there’s a most unusual aquarium—occupied by whales and smaller fish, who swim in circles waiting for unknown visitors.
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Couple who ‘once ate discarded food’ put $500,000 in Salvation Army kettle | US news | The Guardian
A Minnesota couple who lived on discarded food when they first got married dropped a $500,000 personal check into one of the Salvation Army’s red kettles at a suburban grocery store over the weekend. “The check did clear and was deposited in the ban…
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What was it like working a Nintendo hotline in the 80s? / Offworld
First up, Melody Meows takes a stop at Haywire to write to/about Tomorrow Corporation’s Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine. Meanwhile, Not Your Mama’s Gamer regular, Bianca Batti, analyzes how mother and father figures are presented in games …
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The Gaming, Eating, and Photography Daily Bag
Most of us don’t need anything too complicated in our bags, but we do need to be prepared for three important things in life: gaming, shooting photos, and eating. Lifehacker reader Cole Ewert’s prepared for all three (and more). The bag is a medium …
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Can an English Teacher Learn to Code? – The New Yorker
In September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a ten-year deadline to offer computer science to every New York City public-school student at every grade level.
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Venezuela arrests three over opposition leader’s killing – BBC News
Venezuela has arrested three people suspected of the murder of a regional opposition leader at a campaign rally last week ahead of parliamentary elections next Sunday. Opposition leaders blamed the shooting of Luis Manuel Diaz on the ruling Socialis…
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LE BOURGET, France — The largest gathering of world leaders in history on Monday began a multinational effort toward forging what many called the planet’s last, best hope to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.
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AppDynamics Raises $158M; Now Valued at $1.9 Billion | TechCrunch
Last month, based on an SEC filing, we told you that seven-year-old, San Francisco-based AppDynamics had raised a fresh $83.4 million in funding as part of a round that was targeting up to $150 million. Turns out the company met that target and then…
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Pill + Lets You Share Sound Quality You Expect From Beats Headphones With Friends | TechCrunch
In time for your Cyber Monday shopping, Beats has released its first portable speaker since Apple acquired the company — the Pill + wireless bluetooth speaker. Right down to the packaging, Apple’s influence on the product’s sophisticated design shin…
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Mapping Climate Change: Ways to Envision What’s Happened Already, and What Is to Come – The Atlantic
Map of biological “biomass carbon sink” areas, where carbon is tied up in living plans. It is one of a large collection of climate-related maps in a new Esri release.
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MRW I’m playing minecraft and can’t remember where I put my diamonds – GIF on Imgur
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Andy Murray says talking to the Lawn Tennis Association about the future of British tennis is a waste of his time. The world number two inspired Great Britain to win the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years with victory over Belgium in Ghent ove…
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Turkey row: Russian tourists told to seek new destinations – BBC News
This week brought the first real snowfall in Moscow, along with the news that yet another winter getaway is off-limits. But Russians have responded with defiance to the ban on holidays to Turkey.
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Turkey Deal Signals EU Desperation Over Refugees | Al Jazeera America
The European Union’s landmark deal with Turkey to bolster Turkish border security may provide the hands-off solution Europe wants to curb the flow of refugees onto its shores.
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The Limited Lessons of Ben Carson’s Foreign Field Trip – The Daily Beast
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson went to Jordan over the holiday weekend to meet with Syrian refugees—he left a completely unchanged man.
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Viewpoint: India’s growth ‘addiction’ and climate change – BBC News
In the lead up to this week’s critical UN conference aimed at agreeing on a new global approach to climate change, India has indicated its intent to build infrastructure and vastly increase industrial manufacturing as a means of giving hundreds of m…
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Colorado Planned Parenthood ‘gunman’ appears in court – BBC News
The gunman who allegedly killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has appeared in court. Robert Lewis Dear has been held on suspicion of first-degree murder since he surrendered to police after the shooting.
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Privacy Advocates Celebrate The End Of The NSA’s Phone Record Collection Program | TechCrunch
The NSA shut down its bulk phone record collection program yesterday, more than two years since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed the program to journalists and prompted a global debate about surveillance technology.
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New York City brings in salt warnings on menus to tackle heart disease | US news | The Guardian
The move makes New York the first US city to use salt labelling in an effort to combat heart disease and stroke. Any menu item containing more than one teaspoon of salt must display the emblem of a salt shaker in a black triangle.
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Taking Stock Of Tech’s Third Quarter | TechCrunch
I trust that you are sated, smiley, and generally recharged by the recent Thanksgiving cycle. Earnings time. You may have thought that you were out of the non-GAAP woods. Not in the least.
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Bid to drill deep inside Earth – BBC News
Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth’s crust for the first time. They want to sample rock from the planet’s mantle – its deep interior.
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Solar Impulse: round-the-world flight to continue after raising €20m | Environment | The Guardian
The Swiss-led team trying to fly a solar-powered plane around the world has raised €20m to continue its journey after being grounded in Hawaii by battery problems and the weather.
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Hacked toymaker leaked gigabytes worth of kids’ headshots and chat logs | Ars Technica
VTech, the hacked maker of electronic toys and apps that leaked the data of 4.
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Bangladesh: Lurching from secularism to sectarian terror? – BBC News
The recent killings of atheist bloggers in Bangladesh have raised concerns about freedom of speech and shrinking space for secularist thoughts. But increasingly, Bangladesh appears to be heading down a new and even more dangerous road.
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Just Cause 3 review: A great game, if you can play it | Ars Technica
Every time I boot up Just Cause 3, there are a few minutes of absolute brilliance. An average in-game journey might begin by catapulting via grappling hook into a perfect backflip before soaring into the atmosphere on an indestructible parachute.
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Robert Durst faces $100m lawsuit from missing wife’s family | US news | The Guardian
Relatives of the missing wife of millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst have filed a $100m lawsuit against him in her presumed death, the second legal action taken against Durst by the family of Kathleen McCormack Durst in recent weeks.
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Keep Extra Socks in Your Sleeping Bag for Toasty Feet While Camping
Make sure you stay warm in your sleeping bag after a long day of hiking by stashing an extra pair of socks in it before you even leave on your camping trip. A little foresight while you pack your gear makes sure your toes will stay toasty all night.
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Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State’s most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capston
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Chicago police officer accused of Laquan McDonald killing released on bond | US news | The Guardian
The Chicago police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager was released on Monday evening after posting bond. Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was shown on local media outlets leaving Cook County jail, had his bond set at $1…
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Ex-Muslims give reasons they left the faith, using a hashtag – BBC News
Ex-Muslims are using a hashtag, #ExMuslimBecause, to tell why they have left the faith. The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain started the tag, saying it wanted to defend people’s right to leave Islam and criticise it without fear or intimidation.
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Cloud storage providers to face investigation by regulators – BBC News
An investigation is to be launched into whether internet users are being charged unfairly when they use cloud storage services. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said some providers may be breaching consumer laws.
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Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train might have sold in eye-watering numbers over the last year, but booksellers at Waterstones have plumped for a sumptuously designed debut picture book about loss as their book of…
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The Fox and the Star – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Although The Fox and the Star looks like a children’s book I wanted the story to be something that reso- nated with adults as well. The page layout and design were heavily influenced by William Blake and William Morris, evoking a sense of illuminate…
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Sen. Barbara Boxer calls on Republicans to disband Planned Parenthood ‘witch hunt’
Dear Mr. Speaker:
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Fairy lights could ‘slow’ wi-fi speeds warns Ofcom – BBC News
Christmas tree lights can slow your wi-fi warns watchdog Ofcom as it releases an app that can check home broadband. The app samples wireless signals to see if data is flowing uninterrupted from routers to phones and tablets.
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Celebrity photographer turns to yoga – BBC News
Photographer Michael O’Neill made his name with iconic portraits of American presidents, star athletes and celebrities. But when spinal surgery left him partially paralysed, and unable to photograph, he turned to the quiet of yoga and meditation for…
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Powerful NY Legislator Convicted in Bribery Case | Al Jazeera America
Sheldon Silver, one of New York’s most powerful politicians for two decades, was convicted on Monday of abusing his office to collect as much as $4 million in illegal bribes and kickbacks.
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Is Cocaine Legend White Boy Rick Serving Life for Busting Crooked Cops? – The Daily Beast
Richard John Wershe Jr. is a political prisoner in America. The political component of his ordeal is local, it’s harsh and it’s vindictive. Wershe, who grew up in Detroit, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a non-violent drug crime c…
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Health campaigners hail New York governor’s $200m Aids fight pledge | US news | The Guardian
Andrew Cuomo has pledged $200m to help make HIV and Aids a thing of the past in New York, the governor announced on Monday, the eve of World Aids Day.
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100 Women 2015: How does the brain cope with Tinder? – BBC News
Apps like Tinder have transformed dating. How well-equipped is the human brain to deal with this cultural shift? The first man Sally met through Tinder seemed promising.
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Emma Watson Reveals Why, at 25, She’s “Prioritizing Just Feeling Awesome” | Vanity Fair
While most humans spend their awkward adolescent years grappling with their own identity, child actors have the harder coming-of-age chore—fumbling around finding their own individuality while immersing themselves fully into a range of fictional cha…
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Porn industry groups cut ties to star James Deen amid sexual assault claims | US news | The Guardian
He has been called the Tom Cruise of porn: a performer who parlayed boy-next-door good looks into unlikely fame and success.
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Can Nigeria replicate China’s economic transformation? – BBC News
China emerged from chaos 35 years ago to become perhaps the largest economy in the world. The BBC’s Martin Patience – who has just moved from Beijing to Lagos – asks if Nigeria can do the same. Swapping Asia’s giant for Africa’s powerhouse can be a …
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Hear Coldplay, Beyonce’s Clubby, Dreamlike ‘Hymn for the Weekend’ | Rolling Stone
Coldplay and Beyoncé’s collaborative, clubby “Hymn for the Weekend” finds the “Drunk in Love” singer weaving her voice around the group’s R&B-inflected arrangement.
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World headed toward ‘suicide’ if no climate agreement: pope : environment
Mother Gaia told him so!
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Australia missing surfers’ van found in Mexico – BBC News
Mexican authorities say a burnt-out van found with charred bodies inside is registered to one of two Australian surfers, missing since 20 November. Sinaloa state Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera told the media the serial number matched that of…
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Soft drink tax war to bubble up in cities across the U.S. | Grist
As major U.N. talks kick off in Paris, the president acknowledged America’s role in causing global warming. An interactive light installation projects images of trees onto the iconic Paris landmark.
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Pope Francis: The world is near ‘suicide’ on climate change; ‘it’s now or never’ : politics
Nobody will care. Frankly, humans as a collective only act when their lifestyles are directly affected. Not may be affected. Not will be affected. Are now, currently, being affected.
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Kathleen McCormack Durst disappeared from her home in Westchester County nearly 34 years ago, on a cold January night only months before she would have graduated from medical school. It was the beginning of an enduring mystery. On Monday, Ms.
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Fox & Friends is the lead paint of news, ‘if you get technical’ edition
Let’s take a break from talking about the clear and present dangers posed to America by radical Christian terrorism to note once again that Fox & Friends is the lead paint of news.
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THE SHAMAN – a mind-bending short by Marco Kalantari on Vimeo
The highly acclaimed, blockbuster-style short film THE SHAMAN premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2015. After that it ran successfully at numerous film festivals around the globe, including Los Angeles, London, San Diego and the Dr…
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Mozilla Wants To Hive Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo | TechCrunch
The Mozilla Foundation looks like it’s about to take another step in its bid to sharpen its focus on its Firefox browser and continue with its fightback to gain more market share against competitors like Google’s Chrome.
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My morning commute came with a dose of nostalgia : pics
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Snapchat, RED and Gates Foundation Raise Money for World AIDS Day | Re/code
Your Snapchat selfie may actually do some good on Tuesday.
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A Special Chatroom In Honor of Annalee Newitz
It’s the last day at Gizmodo for our beloved EIC Annalee Newitz, and this can only mean one thing: GIF party. Annalee’s writing speaks for itself.
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The ever-lovable Peter Hook is now suing his New Order bandmates · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s very little love lost between Peter Hook and his former bandmates in New Order.
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Kiribati population ‘may have to relocate’ – BBC News
Kiribati has been called the conscience of the climate conference in Paris. The island in the Pacific is one of a number of countries most affected by rising sea levels.
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Own 50 of Warner Bros Best Films For Less Than $2.50 Each
Here’s a nice Cyber Monday surprise: 50 critically acclaimed films in one $116 package. I think this might actually be one of the best deals of of the holiday shopping season so far; Amazon’s never sold it for less than $177 before today. [Warner Br…
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Kylie Jenner’s Lip Kit Sells Out, Ruptures Internet | Vanity Fair
With her base of millions of rabid followers (43.6 million and 12.6 million on Instagram and Twitter, respectively, to be precise), it is not altogether surprising that a Kylie Jenner-endorsed product would sell out in a matter of seconds.
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L.A.’s Top Restaurant Charts New Waters In Sustainable Seafood : The Salt : NPR
Providence is considered by many to be the finest restaurant in Los Angeles, a gourmet seafood eatery run by chef Michael Cimarusti. He’s won several James Beard awards and two highly coveted Michelin stars. He is also a fisherman who is piloting a …
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Planned Parenthood shooting: Who are the victims? – BBC News
Three victims in the shooting at a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs have been identified and the alleged gunman has appeared in court. Robert Lewis Dear is accused of killing a police officer, an Iraq war veteran and a mother, who were esc…
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Banish Brutal Bathroom Smells With Your Own Homemade “Poo-Pourri”
Bathroom odors can be traumatizing whether you caused it or not. Products like Poo-Pourri and Just A Drop can help keep the stench at bay, but you can easily make your own smell-be-gone spray at home.
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SlackArchive Gives You Public Chat Archive For Free | TechCrunch
There are many reasons why you could use Slack as your messaging platform of choice for a public or semi-public project. It can be an open source project, a local community project or just an interest-based project.
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Hillary Aide Seeks NFL Concussion Advice – The Daily Beast
After Hillary Clinton suffered a concussion when she fainted and hit her head in late 2012, one of closest aides put together an unusual squad to help manage the messaging fallout, including NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and former Republican Senat…
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Haze Shrouds Eastern China : Image of the Day
As world leaders converged on Paris for a United Nations conference on climate change, residents of Beijing and other cities in eastern China faced the most severe air pollution the nation has seen in 2015.
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Sheldon Silver Convicted in Major Corruption Trial | Vanity Fair
In a stunning turn of events, an Albany jury found Sheldon Silver, who served as the New York state Assembly speaker for more than two decades, guilty on several federal corruption charges.
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The Kobe Bryant outlier: how his career compares to the NBA average | Sport | The Guardian
Kobe Bryant has announced that this will be his last season playing for the LA Lakers. Everyone knows Bryant is an NBA legend – Bryant knows it, NBA commissioner David Silver knows it and basketball stats junkies sure as hell know it.
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US Tightens Visa Waiver Program | Al Jazeera America
The White House announced changes to the U.S. visa waiver program on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travelers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.
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Planned Parenthood shooting suspect appears in court via video link – video | US news | The Guardian
The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was told he faces charges including first-degree murder, during his first court appearance on Monday.
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ABC Family renews The Fosters for a fourth season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
ABC Family, soon to be Freeform, has renewed The Fosters for a fourth season, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
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Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting suspect makes first court appearance | US news | The Guardian
The man accused of a deadly shooting spree inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado made his first court appearance on Monday afternoon, facing charges of first-degree murder for the deaths of three people.
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The Mutant Ravepocalypse In Skrillex’s New Music Video Confuses And Amazes Me
I’m going to be the first person to admit that quite frankly, I have no idea what compelled me to watch Skrillex’s new video for his remix of GTA’s “Red Lips.
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly’s Sad Hill Cemetery is getting new life · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It may not be the Ghostbusters firehouse, the McCallister home, or The Goonies’ place, but Sad Hill Cemetery probably means something to your dad.
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For anyone who has spent a good third of a Transformers: Dark Of The Moon screening trying to dislodge an errant popcorn hull from between his or her teeth and wondered how popcorn-eating ever became a cinematic ritual in the first place, Mental Flo…
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All those toxic chemicals in the ocean? Birds are pooping them back on shore | Grist
An interactive light installation projects images of trees onto the iconic Paris landmark. Hundreds of thousands of people joined 2,300 marches in 175 countries, demanding a strong climate deal from leaders in Paris.
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Newly published FBI request shines light on National Security Letters | The Verge
An ISP has released the first unredacted National Security Letter attachment ever made public, exposing just how much access US law enforcement asks for in its secretive letters.
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Access, Alphabet’s Google Fiber Company Taking On Cable, Broadband | Re/code
Alphabet, Google’s newfangled conglomeration, arrived in August, but we will not see its first financial figures until January, when the company reports two sets of earnings — Google and the “other bets.
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See Anderson East Exorcise Demons With Lively ‘Devil in Me’ | Rolling Stone
Smoky soul singer Anderson East showed off his swampy, barroom gospel on CBS This Morning this past weekend (November 28th), underscoring why he was named one of Rolling Stone Country’s Artists You Need to Know this summer.
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Goodbye To Holga, The Wacky Camera Blast From The Past | TechCrunch
The Holga is a medium format mechanical toy camera that became a fan favorite when it was launched in 1981. Now, thirty-four years later, the company that currently makes the camera has closed up shop and has thrown away all of the tooling.
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Microsoft revamps its navigation headphones for the blind | The Verge
Microsoft is overhauling its headphones for the visually impaired to make traversing urban environments a little bit easier. The device, which provides audio prompts and directional clues provided by a Bluetooth-connected smartphone, now sits over t…
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Afghanistan’s capital faces imminent attack, US embassy warns | World news | The Guardian
The US embassy said it has received “credible reports of an imminent attack” in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A statement on the embassy’s website on Monday urged US citizens to exercise “extreme caution” if moving around in Kabul during the next 48 ho…
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Updated, 4:17 p.m. | Donald J. Trump met privately on Monday with black pastors and religious figures at Trump Tower in Manhattan, trying to confront skepticism about his candidacy and project sensitivity about minority concerns. In an interview aft…
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Find an antidote for your poisoned sister in an alien sea / Offworld
Playing a Porpentine game often feels like stepping into a poem, or sitting downstream in a river as strange images float by like beautiful, twisted debris.
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Comoros’ President Ikililou Dhoinine inadvertently ended up in the middle of a big diplomatic moment on Monday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas were seen shaking hands for the first tim…
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Cultivate Mental Toughness With the Navy SEAL’s “40 Percent Rule”
Developing mental toughness isn’t just about being resilient. It’s also about learning to access your reserve tank when you think you just can’t go any further. We all think we know our limits.
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Chicago, see Michael Fassbender as Macbeth early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Since Shakespeare’s works have been adapted for film more than any other author, it can be difficult to muster up excitement for yet another retelling.
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See Scarlett Johansson Trade the Black Widow for a Barry Manilow Commercial Jingle | Vanity Fair
In 2007, Bono helped launch his (Red) organization—which recruited major companies to fork over some of their mall-going customers’ money to fund the fight against AIDS—within Vanity Fair’s very pages.
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Standing Up for Bernie Sanders – The New Yorker
On a recent fall evening, a crowd of about two hundred filed into the Bell House, a nineteen-twenties former warehouse with a rough brick exterior, in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to raise money for Bernie Sanders’s Presidential campaign, and to laugh.
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Suggesting that he really wants to be behind the camera when Tom “Sure, I’ll hang onto the side of an airplane” Cruise eventually dies, Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to write, direct, and produce another Mission: Impossible movie.
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Four men charged with riot and assault after Black Lives Matter protesters shot in Minneapolis
A week after gunmen shot into a crowd of Minneapolis protesters, Minnesota prosecutors have filed charges against four men.
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While it’s still a while to go before the end of the year, the year-end compilations have begun. It’s uncertain how many of these will make The A.V.
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Trump Remains On Top Of GOP Field As Start Of Primary Voting Nears : NPR
There are now just 10 weeks until voting begins. After Thanksgiving, there are some clear themes emerging in the state of the presidential race.
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As Paris Summit Begins, What Would A Successful Climate Deal Look Like? : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Jennifer Morgan, global director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute. They discuss what success in Paris would be and what has to happen afterward.
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Suspect In Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting Appears In Court : NPR
The suspect in the shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was in court Monday. Robert L. Dear faces multiple counts after the deadly attack that left three people dead and nine wounded.
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Eagles of Death Metal Launch Covers Campaign for Paris Charity | Rolling Stone
Following the terrorist assault on Eagles of Death Metal’s Paris concert earlier this month, the group has called upon artists of all genres to cover its Zipper Down track “I Love You All the Time” with the intention of donating all proceeds to the …
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Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar on Ballon d’Or shortlist – Al Jazeera English
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will go head-to-head once again for the title of world’s best footballer after being shortlisted along with Neymar for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d’Or.
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In the first breach that seems to have hit both adults and children at the same time interactive toy maker VTech has confirmed hackers have accessed private data including names, email addresses, and passwords as well as some mailing addresses and d…
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Haze Shrouds Eastern China : Natural Hazards
As world leaders converged on Paris for a United Nations conference on climate change, residents of Beijing and other cities in eastern China faced the most severe air pollution the nation has seen in 2015.
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Build Better Feedback Loops to Reinforce Good Habits
Behavioral feedback loops run unnoticed in the background of our daily lives, and affect which habits we stick with—both good and bad. Instead of letting feedback loops shape our lives in invisible ways, you can design them to foster better habits.
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Sheldon Silver, New York political powerbroker, convicted of corruption | US news | The Guardian
Former New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the state’s most powerful politicians, was convicted on Monday of charges that he traded favors to earn $5m illegally and then lied about it.
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Leaders from nearly 200 countries have converged in the French capital for two-week-long talks about climate change. Negotiators are looking at voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions past 2020.
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Bernie Sanders expected to resume work after minor hernia surgery | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders has undergone minor surgery for a hernia repair, according to his campaign staff, who were quick to stress he would be back at work within a day.
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Japan Plans Antarctic Whaling | Al Jazeera America
After a judgment by an international court pressured Japan to stop hunting whales in Antarctica for a year, the country is scheduled to send whaling ships there again on Tuesday — resuming its position as the only country whaling in the icy Southern…
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What do you think Lord of the Rings and Hobbit director Peter Jackson does of a Sunday evening? If your answer is polish his Oscars while sticking tabs into a battered copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, you’re not far off.
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Showtime shuts down its own rumor about a Dexter revival · Newswire · The A.V. Club
What hope Showtime giveth of a Dexter revival, it taketh away on Cyber Monday: The pay-cable channel has had to shut down a rumor it (or its social media team) inadvertently started on Twitter about a follow-up to its faltered-at-the-finish-line cri…
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Texas Seeks to Ban Refugee Aid Groups from Using Pro-Refugee Speech – The Daily Beast
Texas has a message for refugee aid organizations: stop providing aid or we’ll sue. Texas governor Greg Abbott announced in November that he would not support the resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state.
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Kelsea Ballerini, Cam Lead CRS New Faces Lineup | Rolling Stone
In what certainly looks like a hopeful sign for country radio, a surprisingly diverse lineup of artists has been announced as performers for the 2016 New Faces of Country Music Show on February 10th.
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17 Things You Learn Hanging Out With Adele | Rolling Stone
When Adele sat for her Rolling Stone cover-story interviews in early October, the world had yet to hear 25. The album and its first single, “Hello,” were weeks away from breaking every available record, from video streams to first-week sales, but Ad…
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Chinese Yuan Added to IMF’s Reserve Currency | Al Jazeera America
The Chinese yuan will join a basket of the world’s leading currencies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Monday. The IMF said that the yuan “met all existing criteria” to be included with the U.S.
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Abortion Providers Raise Security Concerns After Planned Parenthood Shooting : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper about how performing abortions has made her a target for anti-abortion groups. She is an OB-GYN and family planning fellow in Washington, D.C.
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Tonight Is When New York City Needs Batman Most | FiveThirtyEight
Batman’s Gotham City doesn’t exist, but as the setting for one of the most enduring characters in U.S. culture, it feels familiar — especially if you live in New York City.
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When Living on a Boat Beats Paying Urban Rent – The Atlantic
One weekend afternoon about a month after I moved aboard a canal boat in London, there was a rap-rap-rap on the wood-and-metal paneling of my front door. I had left it partly open to let in the breeze, and a woman was peeking in like a tentative cat.
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Why Courts Use Anonymous Juries, Like In Freddie Gray Case : The Two-Way : NPR
The jurors who will be chosen to hear the first case against a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore will be anonymous, at least for now. A judge has ruled that their identities can be shielded from the public.
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Track of the Day: Jimmy Hall & Friends Perform ‘That’s the Truth’ – The Atlantic
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BlackBerry says no to Pakistani backdoor gambit | Ars Technica
In response to a demand for back-door access to its enterprise messaging products, BlackBerry is pulling completely out of the market in Pakistan. The announcement comes as a ban on providing BlackBerry Enterprise Services over mobile networks in Pa…
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A Truck Containing 40,000 Pounds of Burger Meat Has Disappeared | MUNCHIES
Two weeks ago, a truck pulled into the Nicholas Meatpacking plant near near Loganton, Pennsylvania for its scheduled pick-up of 20 tons of ground beef.
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Sen. Ted Cruz: Colorado Springs terrorist might really be a ‘transgendered leftist activist’
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is saddened by murders in Colorado Springs, even though they were committed by a terrorist citing the precise conspiracy theory against Planned Parenthood that Ted Cruz has personally been blasting from the…
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The world’s oldest living tracked bird has returned to US soil to lay an egg at the sprightly age of 64. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was spotted at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge with a mate, following a year’s absence.
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Keep Your Fancy Plates from Breaking by Packing Them on Their Side
If you’re packing away your fancy “special occasion only” dishes or you’re getting ready to move, this packing method will keep your pretty plates from breaking. The common practice for packing plates is stacking them on top of each other.
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Al Sharpton to black clergy: don’t be trumped by The Donald – video | US news | The Guardian
Civil rights activist the Rev Al Sharpton urges members of the black clergy who are privately meeting with US presidential candidate Donald Trump to ask him ‘the tough questions’ about immigration, gun violence and income inequality. ‘Don’t be trump…
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AT&T will raise cost of old unlimited data plans by $5 in February | The Verge
AT&T is planning to raise the cost of its unlimited data plan by $5 to a total of $35 in February. 9to5Mac first reported the coming change, and sources familiar with the company’s plans have confirmed it with The Verge as well.
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Google Snags Former Tesla Autopilot Engineering Manager Robert Rose | TechCrunch
The battle to make elite autonomous vehicles is on, and a major part of that is assembling teams that will carry out your plans. Today, it was reported that Google snagged Tesla’s former Autopilot software engineering manager, Robert Rose.
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Leader In Fighting Global Warming Won’t Be At Paris Conference Because He Is In Jail | ThinkProgress
During his reign as President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed used his presidential hammer to install solar panels on his official roof, taught his cabinet to scuba dive in order to sign a resolution (while underwater) demanding the United Nations …
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In the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead’s half season, the fate of missing fan favorite Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) was finally decided thanks to a well-placed dumpster and a kindly passing Enid. But fans of the comic know that Glenn isn’t exact…
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Ad Exec Bob Lord To Leave AOL | TechCrunch
Bob Lord will soon leave his role as president of AOL. Lord joined AOL two years ago, from his role as CEO of digital agency Razorfish. Armstrong said Lord’s departure date is open ended, but he will likely stay until the end of the year.
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Buster Keaton represents the apotheosis of “the gag” in film · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
While he may not ever trend on Twitter or inspire thousands of Facebook posts with a speech from one of his films, Buster Keaton should be remembered and revered for his excellent and astounding work in film.
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Texas official threatens to sue aid group helping Syrian refugees relocate | US news | The Guardian
A Texas official has written to a humanitarian aid group, threatening to sue if it continued to help Syrians move to the state.
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Nearly nine months after Robert Durst seemingly confessed to multiple murders during the chilling finale of HBO’s mini-series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, the eccentric real-estate heir is being sued for $100 million in litigation …
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The Secret to Conquering Space Without it Killing Us First May Lie in Our Bones | Motherboard
As humanity slowly gears up for an eventual space flight to Mars, one of the toughest questions we’re still trying to answer is how to conquer space without space killing us first. Space travel is notoriously hard on the human body.
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Ending Africa Tour, Pope Calls Fundamentalism ‘Idolatry’ – The Daily Beast
ROME — A few minutes before Pope Francis and his entourage left the Kampala airport in Uganda, he reportedly told the pilot that he’d like to go to the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), but if it was too difficult, the pilot should just fly over an…
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This Week’s TV: Ease on Down the Road—The Wiz Is Coming to Television!
Doctor Who turns everything upside down. The Flash and Arrow cross over to battle Vandal Savage. Minority Report ends. Plus the live-action debut of Red Tornado! And lo, The Wiz! live on television! All this, and much, much more, on This Week’s TV! …
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Americans love campaigns, right? Why else would they let the presidential ones drag on for nearly two years? Thus it must be with great appreciation that readers can welcome back the Carpetbagger, The New York Times’s chronicler of
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Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked : NPR
As diplomats argue in Paris over a new global agreement to fight climate change, their work is driven by scientists’ dire predictions of how unchecked warming would transform our planet decades and centuries from now. But how can researchers be so s…
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Record Breaking Smog In China, India Underlines Climate Summit In Paris : NPR
India and China’s capitals suffer from record breaking smog as the summit to limit greenhouse gas emissions kicks off in Paris Monday.
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Kobe Bryant To End 20-Year NBA Career After This Season : NPR
Kobe Bryant’s 20-year NBA career will come to an end this spring. The longtime Laker announced his coming retirement Sunday with a poem. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Adrian Garcia Marquez, who calls Laker games for Time Warner Cable Deportes, abou…
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Trump Meets Privately With Black Pastors After Confusion Over Endorsement : NPR
Donald Trump met with black pastors Monday in an event that was at first billed as an endorsement. Trump has been criticized for his suggestion that a Black Lives Matter protestor who was roughed up at a Trump event deserved it.
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Freddie Gray Case Reignites Debate Over Use Of Anonymous Juries : NPR
Defense lawyers for one of the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray have asked for an anonymous jury. The practice has been used in mob and corruption cases but it’s controversial.
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IMF Prepares To Add China’s Yuan To List Of Reserve Currencies : NPR
The International Monetary Fund says it is preparing to add China’s currency, the yuan, to its list of reserve currencies. The move could help China’s economy in the long run, but it would also require China to become more transparent about its mone…
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Remembering The Victims Of The Planned Parenthood Shooting In Colorado : NPR
NPR remembers the three people killed in last Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
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ABC Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ : NPR
ABC will air “It’s Your 50th Christmas Charlie Brown” Monday night. On the classic Christmas cartoon’s golden anniversary, NPR explores what makes this ageless special endure.
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Jury Selection Begins For First Officer To Face Trial In Freddie Gray Case : NPR
Jury selection began Monday for the first police officer to go on trial in connection with the death of Freddie Gray last April.
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Ted Cruz Tries To Woo Evangelical Voters In Iowa : NPR
Sen. Ted Cruz is stepping up his game in Iowa by going after the state’s influential evangelical voters.
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Greenbuild Conference Showcases Energy Saving Technology For Buildings : NPR
Every year, the Greenbuild conference showcases technology intended to make buildings more environmentally friendly. We hear a couple of examples from a top 10 list of new building products.
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Obama Calls For Decisive Action Against Climate Change At Paris Summit : NPR
At a summit in Paris, President Obama urged his fellow leaders to take decisive action against climate change. But some countries — like India — face competing interests.
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Paris Continues To Recover As Global Leaders Attend Climate Summit : NPR
The United Nations climate summit opened Monday with more than 130 world leaders expected to attend. Its a huge security challenge for a city still recovering from the November 13th terror attacks.
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NASA Uses Lessons From Space To Design An Efficient Building : All Tech Considered : NPR
There’s a building in Mountain View, Calif., where energy-saving technologies of the future are being tried on for size. Step inside, and the first thing you notice is the building is dead quiet: no noisy air whooshing through louvers.
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One Woman’s $400,000 Student Debt And What We Should Do About It
One of the stories that may have gotten lost during the Thanksgiving weekend is this jaw-dropper: A Missouri woman who has managed to run up more than $410,000 in student debts.
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Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey To Make “Special Announcement” This Week | TechCrunch
It’ll be interesting to see what Luckey has to say and announce, and if I had to guess…it would have something to do with general availability of the Oculus Rift, the flagship virtual reality device that is set to arrive sometime in early January ne…
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Why Hate Speech by Presidential Candidates is Despicable
On Friday, a gunman killed three at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. Later, in explaining his motive to the police, he said “no more baby parts.”
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Google hires the man in charge of Tesla’s Autopilot feature | The Verge
Google has hired Robert Rose, the man who led the development of Tesla’s “Autopilot” project. 9to5Google spotted the news on Rose’s LinkedIn page. Rose spent six months helping Tesla launch its Autopilot and Autosteer features, and he also worked at…
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The Paris Climate Talks Get Off to an Energetic Start | New Republic
The Paris climate talks (COP21), which began today, represent a critical moment for the world, on an issue that normally doesn’t see much progress. But there are a lot of reasons this year’s conference could be different.
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French Authorities Arrest 200 Ahead of Climate Conference – The Atlantic
In the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris earlier this month, France declared a state of emergency and implemented sweeping anti-terrorism measures.
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What M.I.A.’s ‘Borders’ Video Says About Refugees—and Pop Music’s Hypocrisy – The Atlantic
Maya Arulpragasam is a famous rapper, singer, designer, producer, and refugee. When she was 9, her mother and siblings fled violence in Sri Lanka and came to London, and the experience was formative for her art.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—After learning that the gun had been involved in a violent attack that left three dead, National Rifle Association representatives reportedly visited the Colorado Springs Police Department evidence room Monday to check up on the…
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Can Bill Gates’ ‘Breakthrough Energy Coalition’ Become Truly Useful? | ThinkProgress
Led by Bill Gates, billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have announced a new multibillion-dollar “Breakthrough Energy Coalition” at the start of a Paris climate talks. In parallel, 20 countries — including China, India, U.S.
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Japan’s Cute Army – The New Yorker
Surrounded on all sides by ocean, postwar Japan has long been able to rely upon the United States military for strategic protection.
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Cyber Monday sales on track to top $3bn for the first time ever | Business | The Guardian
Cyber Monday isn’t over yet but it already looks poised to set a record this year, with early indications that online sales have grown 14% and leading retail websites including Target crashing temporarily, seemingly overwhelmed by high customer traf…
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NASA Initiative Puts Space Age Technologies At Entrepreneurs’ Fingertips | TechCrunch
In late December, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin managed to do what most refer to as the ‘Holy Grail of Rocketry’ — successfully send a rocket 62 miles into space and then, in a carefully controlled descent, land it upright just four-and-a-half feet from t…
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Minibian Is a Minimal Version of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi
Raspbian is pretty lightweight as far as operating systems go, but if you’re looking for something even simpler for your Raspberry Pi projects, Minibian is worth a look.
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How to Understand White Male Terrorism | The Nation
Everywhere I look lately, there are signs of white men panicking about their supremacy over American society. A group of white men shot at young Black Lives Matter protesters on consecutive nights in Minneapolis last weekend, injuring five people.
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American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder says he wants to unify the division by fighting new WBA, IBF & WBO champion Tyson Fury. Brit Fury, 27, stunned the sport by beating Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday – ending the Ukrainian’s nine-year un…
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Millennium Falcon or the Starship Enterprise? It’s a question that sci-fi fans have asked each other ever since Star Wars made its big screen debut.
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Disney XD unsurprisingly renews Star Wars Rebels · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Here’s some news that you probably don’t need to bother sitting down for: Disney XD has decided to renew the wildly popular Star Wars Rebels for a third season.
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With Middle-earth now far behind him, it looks like Peter Jackson will finally book a (figurative, of course) trip to Gallifrey. Until recently, the director had been reticent about any plans to direct an episode of Doctor Who, despite some insisten…
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“Carol” Up Close – The New Yorker
It makes a big difference where you sit. I first saw Todd Haynes’s “Carol” from the back of a big hall (at its New York Film Festival première) and was struck by the expressive power of its colors, the sensual flair of its visual compositions.
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General election usually aren’t very accurate this far out from Election Day. True, But they are not trying to predict the future, these are meant to be taken as if election day was today.
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I never would have guessed they were actually friends! – GIF on Imgur
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How tech fails led to Air Force strike on MSF’s Kunduz hospital | Ars Technica
On November 25, General John F.
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This Week, World Summit On Altering Human Genes Explores Ethical Limits – Scientific American
A large and international meeting on the ethics of human-genome editing is poised to begin— and researchers are curious about how perceived differences in attitudes will play out.
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of work by my CUNY colleague Branko Milanovic showing that if you look at income growth by percentile of the whole world population for the past 25 years, you see “twin peaks”: rapid growth near the middle, r…
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As our bracket to find the actual worst person on television nears its conclusion, it’s hardly surprising that the last two competitors left standing are sadists. In one corner is Ramsay Bolton, the bête noire of Game of Thrones, a psychopath who se…
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Justin Trudeau using father Pierre Trudeau’s desk – BBC News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be sharing something important with his late father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: his desk. Mr Trudeau found former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s desk too large and asked for a replacement, sour…
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Syria vote on Wednesday, says PM – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Brad Pitt and George Clooney Are Fighting to Bring You Smart Movies | Vanity Fair
In 2015, it’s impossible to discount Brad Pitt and George Clooney as merely movie stars—they’re also humanitarians who have used their celebrity heft for good, and Oscar-winning producers who have done their best to combat Hollywood’s glut of franch…
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Hands-On With Facebook’s Haphazard Shopping Feed | TechCrunch
Random is the right way to describe Facebook’s attempted invasion of Amazon’s turf. With skimpy product selection, no reviews and limited browsing options, Facebook’s dedicated feed of products is not a great way to shop. At least not yet. But this …
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As Paris Climate Talks Kick Off, Beijing Issues Its Highest Smog Alert Of The Year | ThinkProgress
The capital city of China issued its highest smog warning of the year on Sunday, just a day before world leaders — including Chinese President Xi Jinping — gathered in Paris for the U.N. climate talks.
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Should You Take an App For That? – Scientific American
Mobile health care apps now number in the thousands on the Apple and Google online stores, and many of these are targeted toward mental health. The need is real: in both the U.S. and U.K. lack of mental health services and an ongoing stigma are barr…
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Award-winning Egyptian reporter held on unknown charges – Al Jazeera English
An award-winning Egyptian investigative journalist and socio-political researcher has been arrested after being questioned at Hurghada International Airport, his wife said, adding that the accusations or charges against him have still not been revea…
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The victims of the shooting at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs that left three people dead and nine wounded were preliminarily identified by local authorities on Sunday.
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Swallow Pills More Easily With Special Cups and Techniques
Swallowing pills isn’t always easy: up to 40% of American adults, and plenty of children, have difficulty. Special cups and techniques can help, tricking you into gulping the pill down with your drink.
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Months After Nepal’s Deadly Earthquake, Locals Are Hoping Tourists Wil | Vanity Fair
The 100 students attending the Oscar International College of Film Studies in Kathmandu had a goal: make Nepaliwood a recognizable entity and pull it out of the shadow of neighboring India’s powerhouse Bollywood industry. But at 11:56 A.M.
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This Week’s Night Sky: Geminid Meteor Shower Starts to Sprinkle
Moon and Regulus. Late night Tuesday, December 1, you can use the moon as your guide to find a lion’s heart in the sky. The waning gibbous moon will rise in the east next to the super-bright star Regulus, which marks the heart of Leo, the lion const…
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Watch Skrillex’s Epic, Nightmarish ‘Red Lips’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Skrillex’s Epic, Nightmarish ‘Red Lips’ Video EDM star co-wrote, produced and edited Grant Singer-directed clip for GTA remix
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YouTube Enters The App Store’s Top Grossing Charts, Thanks To YouTube Red Subscriptions | TechCrunch
YouTube’s plans to convert a portion of its user base to a subscription-based, ad-free service known as YouTube Red appears to be gaining traction.
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Borders: A Reading List : Longreads Blog
When I think of borders, several things come to mind: covert darkness, hundreds or thousands of dollars handed to a coyote, desperation.
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Jury selection began on Monday for the first police officer to go on trial in the death of Freddie Gray, which led to widespread protests and rioting.
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A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)’s Changing Names – The Atlantic
What name will be on the Democratic ballot for president in November? It’s not a rhetorical question. It’s not even a question about Bernie Sanders, whose numbers seem to have plateaued. It’s a question about how the Democratic frontrunner identifie…
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Apple Music Is Coming To Sonos On December 15 | TechCrunch
Sonos users, rejoice! The speaker company just announced that an update adding Apple Music is coming on December 15 in beta. All the flagship Apple Music features will be available directly from the Sonos app. As a reminder, Apple first hinted at So…
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The Librarians Proves That a Show Can Be Deep Without Being Dark
I don’t know what to tell you about The Librarians. This week they put John de Lancie as the devil and John Larroquette as Galahad in cocktail party to snipe politely at each other. If you’re not watching for things like that, you are beyond help.
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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Trump blames Black Lives Matter for cancelled black clergy endorsement
The Daily Mail reported this morning that Donald Trump believes Black Lives Matter may have had a hand in a group of African-American pastors pulling their supposed endorsement of him for the U.S. presidency. According to the U.K.
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Black Hole Devours and Destroys | Space Wallpaper
About this Image Astronomers investigating a supermassive black hole found proof that as they consume their cosmic neighbors, black holes also emit winds that blast matter into space the host galaxy could use to create more stars.
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Coalition or Cold War with Russia? | The Nation
The 130 people murdered in Paris on November 13 and the 224 Russians aboard a jetliner on October 31 confront America’s current and would-be policy-makers, Democratic and Republicans alike, with a fateful decision: whether to join Moscow in a milita…
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While all contributions from the 195 countries at the UN’s global climate change summit in Paris will be important, three are critical. China, the United States and India hold the key to large-scale global progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissio…
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Hillary Clinton’s Plan To Create More Than 3 Million Jobs Through Infrastructure | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced on Monday her plan to spend $250 billion over five years to improve the nation’s infrastructure, a plan that could create 3.25 million jobs, according to government projections.
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Some people like it when music is “easy.” They like to put in their white earbuds, turn on some pop anthem, and make doing the dishes or going for a jog into a dance party. Animal Collective is not a band that is very well-suited to that kind of lis…
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The Most Important Number in Climate Change – Scientific American
Just how sensitive is Earth’s climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide? ENERGY BUDGET: How much global warming to expect depends on how Earth’s climate responds to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases trapping heat.
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Smog Chokes Chinese Capital as Climate Talks Begin | Al Jazeera America
The capitals of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog on Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where leaders of both countries are among the participants.
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Paris Is a Snapshot of Our Hot, Violent, Militarized Future | Motherboard
Today, leaders from 190 nations are gathered in Paris, where they will try to ink an agreement to slow the rise of global temperatures. Yesterday, protesters clashed with police, after France banned public demonstrations and 24 activists were preemp…
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“I am running for president because it is time that Wall Street, corporate America, and the billionaire class, understand that they cannot have it all, that they are going to start paying their fair share of taxes.” – Bernie Sanders [10:29] (youtube…
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How anthropology can make autonomous cars safer
Engineering and assembling a rolling cocoon is the easy part of creating an autonomous car, relatively speaking. The hard part is dealing with humans – these machines’ end users, and pedestrian and vehicular obstacles. We are too complex, diverse, a…
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The Asteroid in The Good Dinosaur Travels at Half the Speed of Light | WIRED
Stop right there. Yes, I know this is just a movie. And yes, I know it’s a kids’ movie. But that won’t stop me from looking at this asteroid in The Good Dinosaur. I think the basic idea of this movie is to consider what would happen if the dinosaurs…
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The Panthers Are The Worst Team To Ever Start 11-0 | FiveThirtyEight
In the aftermath of C.J. Anderson’s 48-yard overtime touchdown — which unceremoniously ended the Patriots’ undefeated season — just one NFL team remains perfect: the Carolina Panthers.
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Arsenal 1 The Environment 0 | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
While politicians gather in Paris to save the world from runaway climate change, a Frenchman committed a global-warming faux pas on a runway closer to home.
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The Leftovers Just Made Me Scream “Holy Shit” At My Screen
WHOA. There’s only one episode of The Leftovers to go after “Ten Thirteen,” and man oh man did things just take an unexpected turn. After last week’s Kevin-in-purgatory detour, we’re back in Miracle—where real miracles may or may not happen, but epi…
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Billionaires Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and other high profile entrepreneurs have pledged to spark a “new economic revolution” based around clean energy after launching a new investment drive for renewables.
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Buoyed up by David Almond’s beautiful description (21 November) of his inspiration for writing A Song for Ella Grey, which has just won the Guardian children’s book prize, I went out and bought two copies for my 12-year-old grandchildren.
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We don’t need a thinner iPhone | The Verge
If a report from the Japanese blog Macotakara is to be believed, Apple is planning on getting rid of the headphone jack in the next iPhone.
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Four Men Charged In The Shooting Of Black Lives Matter Protesters | ThinkProgress
Allen Lawrence Scarsella, one of the four men who allegedly gunned down Minneapolis protesters last week, has been charged with five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of rioting while armed.
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England completed their tour of the UAE with a dramatic super-over win against Pakistan that sealed a 3-0 Twenty20 series whitewash. After both sides finished level on 154, Chris Jordan’s yorkers restricted Pakistan to 3-1 in their extra over.
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Climate Change May Soon Force Island Nation Kiribati to Relocate Its Entire Population (slate.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Chicago police officer who fatally shot teen due in court
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Monday set bond at $1.5 million for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times. Officer Jason Van Dyke has been locked up since Nov.
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AMERICAN FORK, Utah — Minivans circled the shop like wagons in a western epic. Employees passed giant cups through a drive-through window. And inside, a woman named Taylor Warner reveled in her bit role in the battle that has overtaken Utah: the sod…
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LOL Is Literally Dead, Long Live LOL — Following: How We Live Online
I’m literally dying at the way Jessica Bennett’s recent piece in the New York Times about hyperbole online nails a particular trend.
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How The Hidden Track Faded From Recorded Music | Atlas Obscura
The music industry’s transition to digital everything has made for great gains in convenience for listeners. But we have also lost things along the way—think of record sleeves, media towers, and Tower Records. And, perhaps most irreplaceably, the hi…
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Jessica Jones Has Given Us Marvel’s Greatest Live Action Villain By Far
Marvel’s live-action adaptations have a fantastic track record. Great action, a willingness to taken even some truly bizarre comic book heroes and turn them into relatable figures, and so on. But there’s one area they usually falter in: their villai…
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CBS is picking up a full season of Supergirl | The Verge
Supergirl is sticking around a little longer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS is picking up seven more episodes of the oft-campy, feminist-friendly superhero show, bringing its first season up to a total of 20 episodes. (Its sixth episode i…
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Effortlessly Cleanse And Monitor The Air In Your Home With Blueair’s Sense+ and Aware | TechCrunch
Air shouldn’t really be something you have to spend too much time thinking about. You breathe it in, then breathe out. All good. Unfortunately sometime air quality sucks and you have to invest in an air purifier, which you then generally have to spe…
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Malcolm Turnbull came to the Paris climate meeting with good intentions but no political room to do much to prove them. His big pledge – to ratify Kyoto 2 – was an almost perfect example of his dilemma.
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Andrew Bird announces 2016 world tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Singer/songwriter/musican Andrew Bird has just announced a new world tour for 2016. The Break It Yourself artist has already sold out all of his “Gezelligheid” shows, a set of intimate performances at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago that becam…
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Hey Reader’s Digest: Your site has been attacking visitors for days | Ars Technica
An active hacking campaign is forcing Reader’s Digest and many other websites to host malicious code that can surreptitiously infect visitors with malware and linger for days or weeks before being cleaned up.
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Every Female Democratic Senator Is Backing Clinton—With One Notable Exception | Mother Jones
Hillary Clinton will make a stop in Washington, DC, on Monday night to show off her resounding support from the Democratic women in the US Senate.
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Putin: Turkey shot down jet to protect ISIL oil supply – Al Jazeera English
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group to Turkey.
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AMARILLO, TX—Expressing frustration with the lack of convenient locations in his area, deranged gunman and anti-abortion fanatic Jared Broussard reported Monday that he could not believe how far he would have to drive to find the nearest Planned Par…
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Batmen suit up in new supercut of the caped crusader · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The call goes out, the signal lights up the sky, and Batman is ready to go. Well, almost. First there’s the putting on of tights, then the cowl and the cape; not to mention that all of those wonderful toys and batarangs have got to go somewhere.
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Continuing a tradition that began way back in 2006 with “A Great Big Sled,” The Killers have released this year’s edition of their annual holiday single, “Dirt Sledding.” The latest tune completes (?) an unofficial Santa Claus trilogy featuring form…
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How Jihadist Groups Like Boko Haram and ISIS Profit From Global Warming – The Daily Beast
PARIS — In the dark early hours of this Monday morning, the presidents of the United States and France stood together with the mayor of Paris on a mostly empty Paris boulevard.
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‘Supergirl’ Scores Full-Season Pickup at CBS – Hollywood Reporter
Supergirl’s flight is far from over. CBS has ordered seven more episodes of the DC Comics adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
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Luxury Williamsburg Apartment Building Turns Out To Be Death-Trap: Gothamist
The fancy building at 120 South Fourth Street has been evacuated after building inspectors found un-permitted and dangerous structural work inside.
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Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack on iPhone 7 With All-in-One Lightning Connector – Mac Rumors
The report, citing a “reliable source,” claims the new same-sized Lightning connector will support Lightning-equipped and Bluetooth headphones, and have a DAC, or digital-to-audio converter, for backwards compatibility with wired headphones using st…
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Midday open thread: ‘Black Friday’ sales survey debunked; why minority millennials can’t get ahead
Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is ‘Tis the War on Christmas season! Recent polls indicate that a large portion of Millennials receive financial help from parents.
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Dita Von Teese Likes to Go Where the Old Folks Hang Out | Vanity Fair
Dita Von Teese, the Meryl Streep of burlesque, met me for lunch at her restaurant of choice, the Russian Tea Room, in Manhattan—and you can’t get more retro than that. The restaurant was founded by members of the Imperial Ballet in 1927, and Ms.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says the Enterprise would destroy the Millennium Falcon | The Verge
In a recent video interview with National Geographic, Neil deGrasse Tyson finally set the record straight for sci-fi fans everywhere.
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NASA’s Awesome Humanoid Robots Just Joined 2 University Teams
Two college robotics programs just got the gift of a lifetime: actual NASA prototypes of humanoid robots. The agency awarded one robot to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one to Northeastern University.
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At the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 world leaders arrived at the end and could not save it from failure. In Paris, 150 leaders came at the beginning and were confident of success.
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Rare 40-Year-Old Star Trek Comics Are Finally Being Released In the U.S.
Before Star Trek came to the BBC in 1969, British sci-fi fans were introduced to the crew of the Starship Enterprise in a series of weird and wonderful comic strips in the pages of TV21—a series of adventures rarely printed since, and never availabl…
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Not Even Kids Are Safe from Data Breaches | Vanity Fair
Like stalled subway cars and autocorrect changing certain words to “ducking,” data breaches have unfortunately become an accepted part of life.
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$1.5M Bond Set for Chicago Cop Who Shot Teen | Al Jazeera America
Officer Jason Van Dyke has been locked up since Nov. 24, when prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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Northern Ireland Abortion Ban May Be Overturned — NYMag
On Monday, a high-court judge ruled that Northern Ireland’s draconian restrictions on abortion violate the human rights of women and girls — a decision that could overturn an abortion law that has been in place for more than 150 years.
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Turkey Won’t Apologize to Russia — NYMag
Russian president Vladimir Putin won’t be getting that apology he wanted from top Turkish officials after they ordered the strike on a Russian jet last week, judging from Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s recent remarks. “No Turkish prime min…
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Diplomacy in the Shadow of Terror | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—On the first of my two flights this weekend, I sat next to a defense contractor from Kentucky. He was on his way to Fairbanks, Alaska, for a project that sounded at once too mundane and too secretive to ask him to explain.
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Clever Illustrations Dub NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity a ‘Red World Car’
Get ready to see the Mars rover Curiosity in a way you’d never expect, through intricate illustrations and delightfully simple language that explains the awesomeness that is NASA’s “Red World Space Car.
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David Cameron makes a passionate appeal to other world leaders, calling on them to do what it takes to agree on a global climate change deal.
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Turkmenistan choir sets Guinness World Record singing in the round – BBC News
Singing a song reportedly composed by the country’s president, a Turkmenistan choir has broken a world record for the most people singing in the round. More than 4,000 people gathered inside a giant tent for the performance of Forward, Only Forward.
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Malcolm Turnbull has pledged Australia will ratify the second stage of the Kyoto Protocol – a move that underlines Australia’s change in attitude towards international climate talks but is unlikely to make any practical difference to reductions in e…
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Speed Up an Old Mac By Disabling These Animations
If you have an older Mac, or your newer one’s just running a bit too slowly for your liking, you can disable some of the cosmetic animations to speed it up a bit. Defaults-Write has a solid collection of different Terminal commands that’ll do just t…
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Horrific drone accident destroys toddler’s eyeball | The Verge
A horrific accident left a British toddler without an eye after a neighbor’s drone crashed into the young child in his backyard. The neighbor, who is described as an experienced drone pilot, was flying in front of his own home, but lost control of t…
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Can you ID these unlabeled subway maps?
Using Neil Freeman’s maps at Fake is the New Real, the Guardian created a quiz: Can you identify the world cities from their ‘naked’ metro maps? As interested as I am in both maps and subways, I did shockingly bad on this quiz. (via @daveg)
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These Are Some of the Most Intriguing Young-Adult Novels Coming Out in 2016
Young-adult fiction is become more mature, as a publishing category. And that means that instead of a host of cookie-cutter books, that are all “dystopias” or whatnot, there’s a huge variety of subjects.
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Is Strange Stuff in Your ‘Recently Watched’ on Netflix? You May Have Been Hacked | Motherboard
If you’ve been seeing strange movies and TV shows show up in your “Recently Watched” on Netflix, someone may have bought access to your account. Luckily, there’s an easy fix. I share a Netflix account with my parents and my sister (they get my Hulu …
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The 6 Weirdest James Bond Adventures (That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)
The James Bond movies and novels aren’t exactly short on weirdness—Bond’s villains tend to hatch crazy schemes that revolve around hypnotizing women to love chickens. But if you want real insanity, you have to reach beyond the movies and books.
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The National Security Letter spy tool has been uncloaked, and it’s bad | Ars Technica
The National Security Letter (NSL) is a potent surveillance tool that allows the government to acquire a wide swath of private information—all without a warrant.
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US scientists urge ban on human genetic modification – Al Jazeera English
Some prominent scientists in the US have called for a moratorium or ban on the genetic modification of children and future generations, after major developments in genetic engineering and synthetic biology, which, they say, could potentially have ir…
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Jennifer Lawrence finally hung up her Katniss quiver and will soon retire her blue Mystique body paint, but when it comes to the third defining aspect of her career, the actress sees no end in sight. In short, Lawrence told David O. Russell, “I’ll d…
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Dee Snider says Trump can take Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a move that will likely be regarded as “huge,” “tremendous,” and “really, really great” by Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Dee Snider has granted permission for the Trump campaign to use Twisted Sister’s “We’re…
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Prince Harry Reveals: “I Wanted To Be The Bad Boy.” – The Daily Beast
Now we know why he’s so naughty. Prince Harry has told a group of South African youngsters in a correctional facility that he always, “wanted to be the bad boy” when he was at school, and joked that he would have preferred to be in a young offender’…
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Winter is coming and with it comes a remembrance of all the people killed throughout the run of HBO’s Game Of Thrones. George R.R.
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Pardon us as we indulge in a moment of self-congratulation, for as The A.V. Club predicted during the last round of Mystery Science Theater 3000 casting news, Patton Oswalt has joined the recently rebooted version of MST3K as the henchman to Felicia…
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HEFER VALLEY, Israel — The new crisp, acidic and mineral white from a high-end Israeli winery was aged for eight months — or, depending on how you look at it, at least 1,800 years.
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Prosecutors Charge 4 Who Fired on Demonstrators | Al Jazeera America
Prosecutors in Minnesota have announced charges against four men who were arrested last week after shots were fired at demonstrators protesting the killing of a black man by police.
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A young actress attempts to lead a normal life after starring in a successful Canadian TV series, but her past fame makes for some awkward and self-conscious first dates. Lauren Collins (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”) showcases her comedic talent …
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How to read the jargon at the Paris climate change talks | Grist
Hundreds of thousands of people joined 2,300 marches in 175 countries, demanding a strong climate deal from leaders in Paris. Advice maven Umbra Fisk adopts a not-so-casual attitude to the question of dry cleaning, one of our most toxic personal hab…
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An Ode To Kobe Bryant, In Two Charts | FiveThirtyEight
O Kobe! My Kobe! On Sunday night, after publishing a retirement poem that no one was waiting for, Bryant went 4 for 20, including a ghastly air ball in crunch time. It was yet another ugly loss for the Los Angeles Lakers and yet another data point s…
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Officials are filing charges today against four men accused of shooting into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis a week ago. Protests have been ongoing outside the precinct building since police shot Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, just a few hu…
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Cleveland plans to make Superman actual man of steel with $3m statue | US news | The Guardian
A Cleveland commission has approved plans to build a giant monument to Superman on the city’s lakefront, complete with a stainless steel statue and “Kryptonite” crystals.
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IMF Adds China’s Yuan to Global Basket of Currencies – The Atlantic
The International Monetary Fund has added the Chinese renminbi to the world’s basket of reserve currencies, an acknowledgment of China’s economic importance.
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Trump says clips of Muslims cheering 9/11 exist because other people have seen them / Boing Boing
On Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Trump to back up his claim that there was news footage of Muslims cheering the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trump says it really happened because his supporters saw the same clips he did when they aired 14 years a…
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Rubio Says Women Can Sue To Close The Wage Gap But Also Doesn’t Want More Lawsuits | ThinkProgress
The most recent data shows that women who work full time throughout the year make just 79 percent of what men doing the same make, and the gap shows up in virtually every job, every single industry, and at every education level. It’s even wider for …
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Climate Scientists Grade the Candidates, and Ted Cruz Flunks | Rolling Stone
Climate Scientists Grade the Candidates, and Ted Cruz Flunks “That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president,” one scientist said of Cruz’s views
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Hundreds Of Thousands March For Climate In Record-Breaking Day Of Action | ThinkProgress
The day before the start of the U.N. climate talks in Paris, some 785,000 people joined climate marches in 175 countries across the globe in what organizers are calling the largest climate marches in history.
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‘The Media Needs to Call a Lie a Lie’ | The Nation
Katrina Vanden Heuvel appeared on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’ to criticize corporate media outlets’ politeness.
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George Lucas Explains Controversial Greedo–Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ Edit | Rolling Stone
Nearly 20 years after the re-released “special edition” of Star Wars altered a pivotal scene in which Han Solo had originally shot bounty hunter Greedo, director George Lucas has explained the edit.
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Anti-abortion incidents as violent as Friday’s shooting which left three people dead at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs are rare – more often, activists choose “disruption” tactics, according to figures from the National Abortion Fed…
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Students Race on Campus | Al Jazeera America
ITHACA, New York – The students who became the faces of a national movement against racism on campus this fall are most often shown as angry, combative, in the heat of the moment, yelling for change.
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The road to hell, it’s said, is paved with good intentions. A case in point is unfolding at the landmark United Nations climate summit in Paris, where president Obama and other world leaders seem eager to define a scientific failure as a political s…
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Racial Tensions Ithaca College | Al Jazeera America
ITHACA, New York – Last month, in the fog and rain, about 1,000 students wove through the center of this liberal arts campus with poster board, bullhorns and hand-drawn signs, lying down on the wet pavement.
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Norwegian hunters line up for licences to shoot wolves | World news | The Guardian
Wolves have emerged as the most sought-after animal for Norwegian hunters this season, with 11,571 people registering for licences to shoot 16 animals – a ratio of 723 hunters per wolf.
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Race Protests on Campus | Al Jazeera America
ITHACA, New York – The racially driven protests at Ithaca College this fall have rocked the upstate New York campus like few other events in the school’s 123-year history. For many student journalists, covering a conflict that has made national head…
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Watch Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Awkward ‘Portlandia’ Sex | Rolling Stone
Portlandia co-stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have taken their friendship to the next level – with the most awkward intimate encounter ever attempted. “We’re having sex! We’re gonna do it!” enthuses Armisen in this hilarious clip promoting …
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BBC Sport – Barcelona complain over ex-Real Madrid pundits’ Neymar comments
Barcelona have complained that two ex-Real Madrid players suggested Neymar deserved to be kicked during commentary of this month’s El Clasico game. Barca claim Manolo Sanchis and Poli Rincon “repeatedly justified the aggression” on Spanish radio.
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Sun Spews Plasma Fireworks in Stunning Videos
The sun is supposed to be entering a quiet period, but it’s still showing signs of the 11-year peak of activity it reached in early 2014, new videos show. On Nov. 11 and Nov.
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Security Drill at Kenyan University Causes Panic | Al Jazeera America
Kenyan security forces launched a mock attack on a Nairobi university on Monday, causing widespread panic that killed one staff member and injured at least two students. Without notice to students at Strathmore University, security forces simulated …
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What if all this climate change talk is just hooey, and we make the world better for no reason?
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Hacker Obtained Childrens’ Headshots and Chatlogs From Toymaker VTech | Motherboard
If storing the personal data of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids wasn’t bad enough, it turns out that hacked toymaker VTech also left thousands of pictures of parents and kids and a year worth of chat logs stored online in a way e…
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GOP Extremism and the Planned Parenthood Attack — NYMag
As we wait to learn more about the background and motivation of Robert Dear, the alleged murderer of three people at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado, anti-choice activists and pols are rushing to distance themselves from the terrible act.
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A few days ago, by a chance combination of factors, I found myself in the privileged situation of driving alone down a country road and listening to “Hello” by Adele. By all foreseeable measures, it was going to be a lovely day.
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What Makes A Videogame House A Videogame Home? | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Oh boy, am I conflicted. Fallout 4’s main plotline requires that I do this thing and as far as things go, it’s a pretty major thing and a major thing that you’d expect someone with the maternal instinct of my character Halle to crack on with straigh…
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Google Granted Patent That Enables Self-Driving Cars To Interact With Pedestrians | TechCrunch
A lot of people are excited to hop into a car one day and read emails and tweets as the car drives itself, and you, to work. It would cut down on the anxiety we all feel during our daily commutes, as well as keep the roads safer.
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Apple’s A9X has a 12-core GPU and is made by TSMC | Ars Technica
Apple makes interesting chips for its mobile devices, but it doesn’t talk about them much aside from extremely high-level relative performance comparisons.
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Congress preps for eventful sprint to the finish line
Buckle up! Congress has saved its most critical work for last and lawmakers will be on a mad dash to complete their work in the time remaining—about 15 days.
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Apple Music will work with Sonos speakers starting December 15th | The Verge
Sonos speakers will soon let you play tunes from yet another streaming service: Apple Music. The company has announced that it’ll launch support for Apple’s music offering — in beta to start — on December 15th.
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Everyone Chill, It’s the First Look at Gotham’s Mr. Freeze
Do you know what killed the dinosaurs? A meteor, probably. But if you said “The ice age!” good news—you’re wrong, but you’ll be happy to know that Bat-villain Mr. Freeze will make his debut on tonight’s fall finale of Gotham.
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Personal Finance Goals Take Time, So Prepare for the Wait
When I first started getting my finances in order, it was kind of an exciting time. I was excited about kicking my debt to the curb; I was excited about saving for fun stuff like travel. Mostly, I was excited about being in control of my money. But …
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After five straight days of protests over the police shooting of of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) and Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy offered their new plan to hold police officers accountable: more body cameras.
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Darlene Love recorded the definitive, weird “Marshmallow World” · 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 kicking off the season with holiday songs we’re not sick of yet.
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Sugar-Free Drinks Might Cause Dental Issues – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new study suggests that the chemical acids in sugar-free drinks like diet soda can cause measurable harm to tooth enamel, an erosion that is just as damaging as the tooth decay caused by regular soda. What do you think?
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Chris Evans’ star power helps energize this meta romantic comedy · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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More Than 30 Trade Unionists Have Been Killed in Honduras Since 2009 | The Nation
Honduras is a country that many Americans tend to encounter mainly in the news and the grocery store. We see headlines about the influx of migrant children at the southern US border fleeing economic and social devastation.
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Ah, the old weekend routine: Sleep in, go to brunch, smash a world record for keg tossing. It’s a bit old hat by now, isn’t it? Not for Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the man who plays The Mountain on Game Of Thrones.
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Fighting fear with the skater girls of NYC — Hopes&Fears
The last Tuesday of every month, the Girls Rider Organization hosts a ladies-only skate night at Homage Skateboard Academy in Gowanus.
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Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In September 2014, Christa Schleper embarked on an unusual hunting expedition in Slovenia.
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LucidCam Hits Its $100K Campaign Goal, Team Partners With Sephora On VR Content | TechCrunch
When we first met the team building the LucidCam, they aimed to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo. They found their 264 backers to get them there. Their goal remains to bring the ability to shoot immersive virtual reality content with a camera that fits i…
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Wink 2015 Holiday gift guide: Gareth Branwyn’s picks / Boing Boing
This $10,000 coffin sofa was created by Etsy goth outfitter Von Erikson: it’s available with purple, red or black upholstery. (via Marxist Barbie)
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Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant to Retire at the End of the Season – The Atlantic
On Sunday night, Kobe Bryant, the NBA great and longtime Los Angeles Laker, announced (via poem) that this season would be his last in professional basketball. Here’s part of the newsworthy stanza from “Dear Basketball,” perhaps the first piece of f…
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Do Millennials Make for Bad Employees? – The Atlantic
Yes, many Millennials are still crashing on their parent’s couches. And there’s data to support the claim that they generally want more perks but less face time, and that they hope to rise quickly but don’t stick around for very long.
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Sylaps Lets You Invite People To A Video Call With A Link | TechCrunch
Meet Sylaps, a voice-over-IP startup that lets you start phone calls without giving out your phone number. Sylaps is all about making it as seamless as possible to start a phone call with people you don’t know.
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On Black Friday, Cards Against Humanity sold the “experience of buying nothing” for $5 a pop. This stunt earned them over $71,000 in sales. As a way of thanking their customers, the staff posted the stuff they bought with the money.
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Ex-PM Kabore takes early lead in Burkina Faso election – Al Jazeera English
Provisional election results have put former prime minister Roch Marc Kabore in a strong position to become the first new Burkina Faso president in decades.
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This Is What Can Happen When A Country Takes Abortion Restrictions Way Too Far | ThinkProgress
Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was nine months pregnant and in excruciating pain. Unsure of what else to do, she grabbed a phone and called 911. “A woman answered and said that she had made the request and help was on its way.
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Here’s What It’s Like to Watch VR Porn on a Tube Site | Motherboard
Earlier today, Motherboard received a press release from a company called VR Innovation announcing an exciting development in the world of adult entertainment, as seen below: As Motherboard’s resident consumer tech editor, I felt it was my duty to t…
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Flashback: Garth Brooks’ ‘No Fences’ Rules at Retail | Rolling Stone
Last week, Adele made Billboard chart history by selling an astounding 3.38 million copies of her 25 LP (at the dizzying rate of 335 copies per minute).
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The Oral History of the ‘Wayne’s World’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Scene | Rolling Stone
When it was originally released in 1975, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was an oddity: A flamboyant, operatic, tempo-shifting epic that felt like several songs fused together. The band’s record company figured the nearly six-minute song was too long fo…
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Chubbiest little loaf. : Catloaf
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HONG KONG — The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved the Chinese renminbi as one of the world’s main central bank reserve currencies, a major acknowledgment of the country’s rising financial and economic heft. The I.M.F.
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When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That’s odd. What’s that got to do with someone like me?”
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Lior Sperandeo, who has previously directed short films called People of Mumbai, People of Nepal, and People of Senegal, returns with a film that resists focusing on a sense of place.
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Turkey ‘shot down plane for IS oil’ – BBC News
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NOSTALGIA MONDAY: Remember the WHITE RANGER debut? – GIF on Imgur
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Woman dies after ‘terror drill’ at Kenya’s Strathmore University – BBC News
One woman has died and at least 31 others have been hospitalised after a security exercise at a university in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Staff member Esther Kidemba died from severe head injuries, the university confirmed in a statement on Twitter.
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A tall smokestack collapsed on an backhoe, and a drone filmed it / Boing Boing
This 115-year-old smokestack in Pell City, Alabama didn’t go down without a fight. The 158-foot chimney survived two attempts to demolish it with explosives. That’s when Tim Phifer was brought in to knock it over with a backhoe.
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Someone Actually Outbadassed Darth Vader in Marvel’s Star Wars Crossover
Marvel’s new Star Wars crossover event, Vader Down, is pretty much all about reminding us that Darth Vader is not a Sith Lord to be trifled with.
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“You Don’t Get What You Deserve. You Get What You Negotiate.”
Ideally, we’d all earn what we deserve and our employers would give us raises according to our skill level, experience, and professional value—we’d never even have to ask. Of course, reality doesn’t usually work out that way.
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Kanye Of The Stone Age mashes up Kanye West, Josh Homme · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It seems like only yesterday that the internet’s collective heart was set all aflutter by Yeezer, a mashup album combining Kanye West and Weezer.
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ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Roscosmos commander Yuri Malenchenko arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today ahead of their launch to the International Space Station.
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Pioneering Muslim feminist writer Fatima Mernissi dies – BBC News
The Moroccan writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi, known for her pioneering work in the field of Islamic feminism, has died. Her work also touched on broader issues of human rights and democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
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In wake of terrorism in Colorado Springs, Carly Fiorina proves herself a psychopath
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is a psychopath.
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Krampus: The Dark Companion of Saint Nick – The Atlantic
While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe’s Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible w…
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Buy Ringo Starr’s copy of the very first pressing of the White Album / Boing Boing
The amazing animated video to The Jezabels’ “Come Alive” features a swirly, timeless impasto style. All smoke and fire and light, every frame’s literally a stark, beautiful painting. It was directed by Darcy Prendergast & Xin Li from Oh Yeah Wow, us…
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Nature Has Lost Its Meaning – The Atlantic
Humans were once a fairly average species of large mammals, living off the land with little effect on it. But in recent millennia, our relationship with the natural world has changed as dramatically as our perception of it.
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Pirelli calendar goes with more jokes and less steam this year | Art and design | The Guardian
The annual calendar produced by Pirelli tyres – which traditionally centres on the artfully-lit nude bodies of female supermodels – was unveiled on Monday, presenting a dramatic shift in subject matter and aesthetic.
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Even by his own unconventional standards, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign appeared to be in disarray on Monday following the collapse of what had been billed as a press conference at which the candidate would receive the endorsement of 100 Afri…
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Parrot admires self in the mirror / Boing Boing
The mechanism shown here is a computer animation, but does something like it exist in the real world? The sliding arc-shaped gear looks like it could come off the glass track pretty easily, but it is a cool way to keep the thumb stationary in the up…
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Brady has never been ‘so pissed off’ after loss but Gronkowski fears ease | Sport | The Guardian
The New England Patriots’ shot at a perfect season has gone and Tom Brady isn’t pleased. The Super Bowl champions lost to a Denver Broncos side led by Peyton Manning’s back-up, Brock Osweiler, in overtime on Sunday night, and Brady said the result h…
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Trial over Freddie Gray death begins – BBC News
Jury selection has begun in first trial over the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man whose death in police custody set off days of protests. Officer William Porter is charged with manslaughter, accused of failing to give medical help to Gray desp…
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Though the lines have blurred around Cyber Monday, as retailers have extended their online discounts and savings both before and after the traditionally large online sales day, Cyber Monday is still on track to break records this year.
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Kenyan athletics officials suspended for corruption – Al Jazeera English
Three leading Kenyan athletics officials have been suspended by the ethics commission of athletics’ governing body, the IAAF, over corruption allegations and the “potential subversion of the anti-doping control process” in the country.
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How the Phony Planned Parenthood Videos Degraded the Abortion Debate | The Nation
Anti-choice zealots murdered abortion care providers long before doctored “undercover” videos misled the media into covering the question of whether Planned Parenthood “sold” baby parts. It doesn’t, and never did.
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Amy Schumer Poses Nude: The Radical Power of Her ‘Beautiful, Gross’ Photo – The Daily Beast
The Trainwreck star posed for an unretouched topless photo for Annie Leibovitz, revealing fat rolls, curves, and a stunning sexual confidence. It’s a gorgeous, powerful photo. “Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, sexy, disgusting, fla…
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Star Wars Goes High Fashion: See Gwendoline Christie in a Captain Phasma-Inspired Gown | Vanity Fair
You can’t miss Gwendoline Christie. At six-foot-three and with a curt electric-blonde bob and plump red lips, she stands out. And that goes double when she’s wearing the gown designed by Giles Deacon, printed with images of Christie’s Star Wars: The…
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The Terrorists Among Us: Forget Syria. The most dangerous religious extremists are migrants from North and South Carolina. (slate.com) From just after 9/11 to August 2015, 48 Americans have been killed by domestic terrorists. That’s 3.42 deaths per …
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Paris climate change talks: David Attenborough praises unprecedented gathering of humanity, but says he is ‘not confident’ about a solution (independent.co.uk)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Modern pentathlon world silver medallist Alexander Kukarin has died at the age of 22 following a suspected a heart attack. The Russian athlete died on Thursday at a Moscow hotel, but the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation only released a statement…
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Dozens of African American pastors gathered behind closed doors with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at his office in New York City on Monday.
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Obama, at Conference, Says U.S. Is Partly to Blame for Climate Change (nytimes.com) GOP: “WHAT? OBUMMER HATES AMERICA!”
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Water World
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Talking climate
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Albert Camus on happiness, despair, and why we travel. https://t.co/VXbaX8tvl7 https://t.co/nbm2mmsNG1 https://t.co/yZZpEr5gB4
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What kind of lizard is? : pics
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Is this thumbs-up thumbs-down mechanism real? / Boing Boing
The mechanism shown here is a computer animation, but does something like it exist in the real world? The sliding arc-shaped gear looks like it could come off the glass track pretty easily, but it is a cool way to keep the thumb stationary in the up…
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Man buried retirement cash, only to have it eaten by worms / Boing Boing
Five years ago, Poor Wu Chen, 67, a fisher in Deyang, China, buried his life savings, about US$5,500. When he recently dug it up, he discovered that the plastic bag had deteriorated and worms and insects had eaten through much of his cash.
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I know this has been on here before but it’s so useful for any art teachers out there – Imgur
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Great breakdown of a factually incorrect picture that has made it’s rounds. – Imgur
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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Adobe releases its first video editor for Android | The Verge
Adobe has been starting to pay more attention to Android, and that continues today with the launch of Premiere Clip, the first video editor it’s brought to Google’s platform.
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The Best Ways to Get a Bartender’s Attention (Without Being a Jerk)
Getting the attention of the bartender at your favorite watering hole can be a daunting task, especially after work or on the busy weekends when everyone’s out for a drink or three.
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Inside (literally) wind turbines meant to work at the South Pole—and Mars | Ars Technica
BARRE, Vermont—It started with Mars. In 1993, NASA gave a Small Business Innovation Research grant to Vermont-based Northern Power Systems (NPS) to build a very southern wind turbine—as in, a turbine that could reliably work at the South Pole.
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Turkey Detains 1,300 Refugees En Route to Greece | Al Jazeera America
Authorities in northwest Turkey on Monday rounded up some 1,300 refugees and migrants allegedly preparing to make their way into Greece, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported.
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Anna Faris launches new podcast, Ken Jennings stops by Savage Love · Podmass · The A.V. Club
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Titling this episode “Revelations” may be overstating matters a bit, but after stalling out over the past couple of episodes, The Man In The High Castle regains some narrative momentum here.
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WhatsApp is blocking links to a competing messenger app | The Verge
This morning, Telegram users on WhatsApp noticed something strange. The chat app was blocking any links to Telegram.me, a rival chat app that grew popular in the wake of earlier WhatsApp outages.
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Review: Erykah Badu’s phone-obsessed mixtape explores intimacy and connection | The Verge
In a year where the word “mixtape” has been stretched like taffy to describe releases of widely varying length and ambition, there’s something refreshing about Erykah Badu’s minor new tape But You Caint Use My Phone.
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A Bitcoin Boomlet | TechCrunch
Bitcoin is currently enjoying what politicos call a boomlet — a small bump that, while perhaps not impressive on a historical scale, is certainly notable. For bitcoin at the moment, this means a price spike that has put the cryptocurrency into its h…
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Charlotte Church performs climate change song at London march – video | Environment | The Guardian
Charlotte Church and her band perform a new song co-written especially for the global climate talks on Monday. Church was at the climate protest march in London on Sunday which saw over 50,000 people protesting for stronger action for world governme…
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Man follows girlfriend through Southeast Asia with videocamera / Boing Boing
JohanKaos and his girlfriend took a trip through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and created an entertaining video. Where is that place where they walked into the mouth of a giant stone head?
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Let the GOP Hunger Games Begin | The Nation
Fact: Too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games to cut the field to size. Each candidate could enter the wilderness with one weapon and one undocumented worker and see who wins.
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Fox News Works Hard to Undermine Obama Ahead of Paris Climate Meetings – The Daily Beast
Fox News sent Geraldo Rivera all the way to Paris this week to cover the latest global climate conference in which President Obama and other world leaders will attempt to reach an agreement to reduce carbon emissions and slow the rate of catastrophi…
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So Donald Trump claimed back in 2011. But his bravado induces renewed skepticism this week. Last Wednesday, Trump announced that he’d hold a press conference on Monday to announce his endorsement by a coalition of about 100 black religious leaders.
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How Billionaires Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg Could Boost Clean Energy
They’re more than a who’s who of Silicon Valley. The new billionaires’ clean energy club includes the world’s biggest tech titans, including leaders in India and China.
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Amazon U.K. orders period fashion drama from Ugly Betty showrunner · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety reports that Amazon U.K. has ordered an eight-part drama series from Ugly Betty showrunner Oliver Goldstick about French fashion after World War II.
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Pope in a reasonably priced car – BBC News
The days of the bullet-proof Popemobile are long gone – the cars Pope Francis travelled in during his visit to Africa are no exception. So what can we deduce from his rides? This fairly ordinary car took the Pope around Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Keny…
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Amazon’s Drone Video Is The Perfect Devious Holiday Ad Campaign | TechCrunch
Amazon showed off a brand new Amazon Prime Air video yesterday. While this is an interesting to see that the project is still alive and moving forward, there’s something even more interesting with this drone concept.
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What You Need to Know About El Niño
This year’s hurricane season is winding down. And as meteorologists predicted, there was above average activity in the eastern and central Pacific and less than usual in the Atlantic. The reason, also as predicted: a strong El Niño.
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Easily open a Masterlock padlock by tapping it with a hammer / Boing Boing
What a gem was released upon the internet today! This video of Bob Ross: A Walk in the Woods, was Season 1 Episode 1 of his long-running “anyone can paint” television HOWTO show. Many more tips on Ian Fleggen’s classic “Professor Shoelace” site.
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UN: Nepal blockade puts millions of children at risk – BBC News
Shortages of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines are putting more than three million infants at risk of death or disease as winter begins in Nepal, the UN children’s fund (Unicef) has warned.
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Amazon is apparently making a video app for the new Apple TV after all | Ars Technica
Over the weekend, Amazon’s tech support team confirmed that Amazon is working on a Prime Video app for the new Apple TV.
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Anti-advertising: the hijacked bus stops of Paris – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
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A US woman who spent 15 years in a Peruvian jail after being found guilty of helping leftwing rebels is finally heading home to New York, nearly two decades after she was charged with treason.
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AMD’s new Crimson drivers accused of burning up video cards | Ars Technica
AMD announced its new Crimson drivers, replacing the Catalyst name and software, with great fanfare earlier this month. The first Crimson drivers are now out, and they appear to have a serious problem. There are widespread reports of cards overheati…
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Newborn girl found buried alive in Los Angeles – video report | US news | The Guardian
A newborn baby girl was found buried under asphalt near the Compton riverbed in Los Angeles on Friday, a day after Thanksgiving. Authorities say whoever abandoned the baby could face charges of attempted murder and child endangerment.
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Bad Medicine: Pfizer’s Offshore Tax Trick Just Latest of Many Scandals
Pfizer doesn’t play pfair. The recent announcement that it would renounce its American identity and become an Irish company — thereby dodging billions of dollars in taxes — is just the latest in a string of shady deals and sleazy behaviors by the ph…
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DENVER—Breathing heavily and leaning against the wall for support as beads of sweat formed on her forehead, local mother Cynthia Applin struggled to lower her heart rate Monday as she came down from the high of having all three of her adult children…
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Sinead O’Connor Targets Family Following Suicide Threat | Rolling Stone
Following her suicide threat this weekend, Sinead O’Connor has written a new Facebook post directed at some of her family members. The singer was reportedly found “safe and sound” Sunday after posting to Facebook that she had overdosed at a hotel in…
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Peter Hook Sues New Order Over Unpaid Royalties | Rolling Stone
Peter Hook is suing his former New Order bandmates for “millions of pounds” in unpaid royalties, as the bassist accused members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris of marginalizing his stake in the band by “clandestinely” forming a new company to cont…
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Jurors Allergic to Sheldon Silver Trial — NYMag
A juror asked to be dismissed from the Sheldon Silver trial again on Monday, leading us to believe that either the position is cursed exactly like the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship at Hogwarts, or it’s otherwise triggering a corruption…
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Toddler loses eyeball after errant drone slices it in half | Ars Technica
A British toddler recently had his right eye sliced in half by a neighbor’s drone, which resulted in the removal of his eyeball. He will eventually be fitted with a prosthetic. According to BBC Watchdog, Oscar Webb was just 16 months old at the time…
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Where would the loner protagonists of grim, post-apocalyptic fiction be without their loyal sidekick dogs? Don Johnson had a pooch named Blood, voiced by Tim McIntire, in A Boy And His Dog. Mel Gibson had “Dog” in Mad Max 2. And Will Smith had Sam i…
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What We’re Following on Monday Afternoon, 11/30 – The Atlantic
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When you finished reading The A.V. Club’s holiday gift guide, we know what you were saying: “That was great, but now I’d really like to see some small children unwrap a subset of these items.” And that was kind of a creepy thing to say, but nonethel…
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Add an Entryway to a Small Room to Make It Feel More Like an Apartment
Whether you’ve moved back in with your parents or you’re renting out a room, living in someone else’s space can make you feel like you don’t have a space of your own. Here’s a simple tip to make your old room feel more like your own apartment: add a…
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Things Are Finally Happening on Once Upon a Time
After weeks of barely any forward motion and endless nesting flashbacks, Once Upon a Time is finally moving forward with an actual plot. Why they couldn’t have told this story in order so it didn’t feel like we were stuck in a time machine hopping a…
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Planned Parenthood Suspect to Appear in Court | Al Jazeera America
The gunman accused of killing three people and wounding nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was due to appear in court by video link from jail on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was expected to face multiple counts of murder and a…
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PSA: It’s the last day to get a Nexus 5X for $299—that’s $80 off | Ars Technica
It’s Cyber Monday, which means there are a ton of deals out there if you’re willing to hunt around. If you know someone who needs to upgrade his or her smartphone, one of our favorites, the Nexus 5X, is on sale at the Google Store for $80 off. That …
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Tamir Rice family lawyers call reports into fatal shooting ‘preposterous’ | US news | The Guardian
The family of Tamir Rice have released two reports into his fatal shooting by Cleveland police, with their lawyers calling the conclusions of previous reviews of the killing “nothing short of preposterous”.
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Where to Draw the Line on Gene-Editing Technology – Scientific American
The biologists have done it again. Not so long ago it was cloning and embryonic stem cells that challenged moral imagination. These days all eyes are on a powerful new technique for engineering or “editing” DNA.
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How to memorize a randomized deck of playing cards / Boing Boing
Q: Why is it so hard to remember the name of someone you’ve just met? A: Because our memories evolved to be associative, and the name of a person doesn’t have much of an association with who they are. Mind Hacks offers a way to help you remember nam…
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This drummer plays with more feeling than any other musician ever / Boing Boing
Red Pill, Blue Pill: if Dr Seuss wrote about Men’s Rights Advocates Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky roast the Red Pill men’s rights movement in a scathing, scintillating, rhyming Dr Seuss parody that features such gems as: “They’re in the friendzone…
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America’s junk news binge epidemic
In the midst of this piece by Matt Taibbi on Republican presidential candidates blaming media bias for their outright falsehoods are two paragraphs which perfectly sum up the state of contemporary news media: It’s our fault.
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Weekend Box Office: Creed welcomed with arms wide open · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The numbers have been crunched, the points have been tallied, and a decision has been made: Creed lost the five-day holiday weekend, coming in third behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 and The Good Dinosaur.
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New Orleans public defenders ask judge to stop assigning them cases, plead for ‘judicial mercy’
Public defenders in New Orleans are looking for a little bit of mercy this holiday season. Many indigent defense offices nationwide suffer from chronic understaffing and underfunding.
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Migrant crisis: Turkey rounds up hundreds ‘bound for Greece’ – BBC News
Turkish authorities have rounded up some 1,300 migrants allegedly bound for Greece, Turkish state media report. Police detained hundreds of migrants near the western town of Ayvacik, a main crossing point to Greece, according to the Anadolu news age…
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Based on a pilot by Regular Show supervising producer Sean Szeles, Long Live The Royals is Cartoon Network’s third miniseries, after Over The Garden Wall and Stakes (the Marceline-focused Adventure Time story), but you’d be hard-pressed to figure ou…
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Lionsgate responds to Gods Of Egypt whitewashing: “Our bad” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gods Of Egypt, the upcoming swords-and-sandals epic that also happens to have giant ridable snakes, looks like it’s going to be absolutely ridiculous.
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Obama’s New Climate Change Message: There’s Hope | New Republic
That might not sound like much, and his short speech at the opening of the summit certainly didn’t include anything that we haven’t heard from him before. In context, though, his address in Paris is remarkable compared to his address to the climate …
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Dating apps fuel ‘hidden epidemic’ of new HIV infection – Al Jazeera English
Social networking technologies and mobile apps that allow young people to meet to engage in risky sexual practices are being cited as a key reason for an increase in HIV infections in the Asia Pacific region, with Bangkok, Jakarta and Hanoi hubs of …
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Editorial Cartoon: ‘Crass Kringle’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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When Will Iran Free Journalist Jason Rezaian? – The Daily Beast
On the 496th day of his brother’s incarceration, Ali Rezaian says WashPo journalist Jason is ‘very depressed’ and ‘mad’ at both the US Government and the Iranians holding him. Jason Rezaian is mad as hell—but, unfortunately, he’s going to have to ta…
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Most people in The U.S. Actually agree with things like same sex marriage, higher taxes on the rich, and a higher minimum wage, but the sjw/pc left alienates them. Look up bill mahers video on it.
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Belfast Court Rules Against Stringent Abortion Law | Al Jazeera America
Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except in extreme cases when a woman’s life is deemed at risk from her pregnancy.
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LISA Pathfinder launch timeline / Operations / Our Activities / ESA
On Wednesday, a Vega rocket will boost LISA Pathfinder into space to pave the way to a future mission for detecting gravitational waves. Once aloft, ESA’s mission control teams will pace the ultra high-tech spacecraft through the critical first days…
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Israel buys most oil smuggled from ISIS territory – report : Liberal
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In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Globes English – Israel buys most oil smuggled from ISIS territory – report
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Two Israeli Minors Found Guilty in Death of 16-Year-Old Palestinian – The Atlantic
The minors, whose names were not released because of their age, were found guilty on Monday of the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was abducted outside a mosque near his home, driven to a forest, and burned alive in July 2014.
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Finding Dark Fiber in a Desert Ghost Town – The Atlantic
Lots of fiber-optic cable in the United States runs along right-of-way routes for highways and railroads because it offers telecoms a straight-shot easement over a really long distance.
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Watch this killer pirate television station from 1986 / Boing Boing
For several months in 1986-87, Network 21 was a pirate television station in the UK that broadcasted coverage of avant-garde art and fringe culture for 30 minutes every Friday evening.
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Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and the Fear of Donald Trump – The Atlantic
Give Donald Trump this: He has taught Americans something about the candidates he’s running against. He has exposed many of them as political cowards.
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Swatch Is Teaming With Visa To Offer Payments From Your Wrist | TechCrunch
Swatch and Visa have announced a partnership to enable NFC financial transactions using the the Swatch Bellamy wristwatch. The watches, which Swatch announced in October, are arguably minimalist and are named in honor of American author Edward Bella…
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Dozens killed in DR Congo rebel attack – Al Jazeera English
At least 25 people have been killed – including seven civilians hacked to death – in an overnight attack by the Ugandan rebels in an eastern town of Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Congolese army.
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The flagship smartphone is dead | The Verge
We used to live in simpler times. Five years ago, there was only one iPhone, one Palm Pre, one Nokia N8, and one Xperia X10. Each mobile company’s flagship phone was readily identifiable.
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How Hot Springs Became a 19th-Century American Tourist Attraction – The Atlantic
It’s easy to imagine the burgeoning business of “wellness” as a product of our time, sold on narcissism and exhaustion from punishing work schedules. In fact, the wellness craze has deep roots.
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Blinkist vs. Wikipedia: What’s the Best Way to Cram-Read? – The Atlantic
Blinkist is an app that aims to solve a problem I thought only I had: It summarizes thick nonfiction books into digestible summaries that take 15 minutes to read, as opposed to days or weeks. It seems to know its audience, since I first saw it adver…
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Naomi Klein on How Canada’s First Nations Can Take on the Oil Industry and Win
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Donald Trump: ‘There’s something nasty coming out of’ Islam
HEILEMANN: “Do you think that Islam is an inherently peaceful religion that’s been perverted by some? Or do you think Islam is an inherently violent religion?” TRUMP: “All I can say is there’s something going on. I don’t know that that question can …
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Let’s Watch President Trump’s Hypothetical Private Moments | Vanity Fair
Donald Trump is not only a presidential candidate, but also a direct challenge to the idea of object permanence: If no one sees Donald Trump, does he exist? In this high-concept edition of Hail to the Trump, VF.com dares to imagine that he does.
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Animated map shows the Civil War’s frontlines in 5 minutes / Boing Boing
Watch the U.S. Civil War unfold a day at a time in this animated map. The creator’s attempted to reasonably represent every single day’s movements in the front lines, resulting in a fascinating view of the conflict.
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Freddie Gray trials begin: a look back at the case – video | US news | The Guardian
William Porter is the first of six officers to stand trial in Baltimore in the case of Freddie Gray, who died in April from a spinal injury after he was taken into police custody. Porter, 26, could face more than 25 years in prison if convicted for …
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Genome Editing: 7 Facts About a Revolutionary Technology – Scientific American
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.
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Rare Australian stick insect eggs flown to Bristol in bid to save species | UK news | The Guardian
Three hundred tiny eggs – carefully packed in sterilised sand – have been flown from Australia to the UK as part of an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest insects.
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The App Around the Corner | New Republic
Here’s a very incomplete list of the things that have closed in my old New York City neighborhood in the last 10 years: the pizza place, the laundromat, the Chinese food place (Mamma Buddha), the other Chinese food place (Baby Buddha), the pastry sh…
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PS4 developers can now access more of the system’s CPU power | Ars Technica
In terms of raw power, console hardware doesn’t really change over time; the PS4 you buy today will essentially have the same pixel-pushing components as one you buy in 2020.
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Say Kids is a new online service aimed at millennial parents, offering a membership model for buying young children’s clothing. The company was founded by husband-and-wife team Carl Ng and Jennifer Hong.
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Israel buys most oil smuggled from ISIS territory – report (globes.co.il)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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The Atlantic’s November Reading List: Science, Technology, and Health – The Atlantic
This fall, my colleagues and I have been keeping a running list of the science, technology, and health stories from other publications that are too good to miss. I’m always drawn to stellar reporting and gorgeous writing, but these must-reads aren’t…
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I’m Heading Out to the Black. Farewell, io9 and Gizmodo!
Today is my last day at io9 and Gizmodo. It’s been a long, astounding road, to say the least. I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
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Astronauts Are Getting a ‘Holographic Instruction Manual’ | Motherboard
Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon get a boost from augmented reality. This week, NASA is sending a pair of HoloLens devices, which allows the user to place digital objects in the world around them, to the ISS as part of the nex…
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TV dogs have gotten more realistic.
Look around at the pets that populate the current TV landscape, and you’ll see some pretty average hounds. There’s Mrs. Voorhees’ purse dog in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, tasked with little more than looking cute.
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Brussels security delays St Nicholas – BBC News
Schoolchildren in Brussels will have to wait a few days more before catching sight of Saint Nicholas, the traditional bearer of Christmas gifts in much of continental Europe. Heightened security has delayed his arrival in the Belgian capital from Mo…
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Smart Driving App Dash Expands Into The Trucking And Analytics Business | TechCrunch
Dash, an driving app we’ve previously described as a “Fitbit for cars”, has announced it is expanding beyond consumer-facing products with Dash XL and Dash IQ, two new products designed for enterprise customers.
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Amazon Video Might Be Coming To The Apple TV After All | TechCrunch
After announcing that Amazon would stop selling the Apple TV, it looks like the company might be working on a tvOS app for Apple’s new device after all. Dan Bostonweeks got an email from Amazon saying that the engineering team is currently working o…
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National Geographic – 404 Page Not Found – Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888
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Will Congress Finally Drop Its Crusade Against Planned Parenthood? | ThinkProgress
As lawmakers head back to Capitol Hill on Monday, they’re coming under some pressure to change their harsh rhetoric about Planned Parenthood in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at one of the organization’s clinics on Friday.
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In anticipation of the Paris climate change summit, activists in New York looked to build ground support for global action on the environment over the weekend, with many sounding warnings that the deadline for meaningful change is fast approaching.
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Eerie skyscraper moans in the wind / Boing Boing
Every time the wind picks up in Manchester, England, Beetham Tower automatically generates another Architectural Moancore Drone epic. I hereby confer upon the building our inaugural award for excellence in this genre.
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Tyson Fury’s world title victory over Wladimir Klitschko is the greatest since Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston in 1964, says trainer Peter Fury. The 27-year-old outpointed Klitschko in Dusseldorf to become the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion of…
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Kacey Musgraves Announces New U.S. Tour Dates | Rolling Stone
Kacey Musgraves will ring in the New Year by adding several dates to her headlining tour, the Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue. The next leg of the wildly successful trek kicks off January 21st in Dallas and wraps up in Kansas City…
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PopeBars: Users Write Lyrics for Image of Pope Francis with Microphone | Vanity Fair
It’s a new kind of holy verse: social-media users inspired by an image of Pope Francis holding a microphone and rocking a stern expression are writing lyrics for the would-be emcee.
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COP21: ‘If we don’t look after Vanuatu there will be no future’ – BBC News
Only a few months after Vanuatu was hit hard by tropical cyclone Pam parts of country are suffering from drought. Climate scientists think that extreme weather events like these will become more common as climate change continues.
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Shell advert: ‘Renewables are unreliable, like women’ : environment
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The Fatal Nature of Garbage Dumps. : environment
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Shell advert: ‘Renewables are unreliable, like women’ – Energydesk
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Russia will reduce harmful emissions by 70% compared to 1990 – Putin : environment
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WASHINGTON — AS a Briton who, like millions of my compatriots, opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, I did not expect to ever find much to admire about President George W. Bush. But as a Muslim who has come to work in America, I have re…
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Track Satellites in Space With This Dizzying Map – CityLab
Floating in space among the stars and planets are more than 2,250 satellites and “space junk” traveling at up to 18,000 miles an hour. Some are large enough to be seen with the naked eye—though you’d have to first figure out which ones are within yo…
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Autumn is that romantic, melancholy and harmonious season that all photographers rush to capture from its arrival. And no wonder, the light, the colours and the energy displayed by the autumn, are ideal fuel for encouraging the creativity of any vis…
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Why Do Former Goldman Sachs Bankers Keep Landing Top Slots at the Federal Reserve? : Liberal
Why Do Former Goldman Sachs Bankers Keep Landing Top Slots at the Federal Reserve? (thenation.com)
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The Terrorists Among Us – Forget Syria. The most dangerous religious extremists are migrants from North and South Carolina. (slate.com)
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During the last year, three vacancies opened up to head regional Federal Reserve banks. They all went to Goldman Sachs alumni. (thenation.com) This. This more than anything, in my view, is responsible for the rise and persistent popularity of Trump …
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Coal CEO Thanks Lamar Smith, Asks Him to Expand Probe of Climate Scientists |Smith has led a series of attacks on the scientific consensus around global warming, including hearings at which Smith and other GOP lawmakers berated officials involved in…
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Welp, I’ve been saying for a while that Rubio was the only viable candidate the GOP had. Guess that theory’s out the window. He’s been lowkey crazy for a while now. Trump/Cruz/Carson have just been hogging the spotlight.
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I am a little hare (i bet nobody will guess) : aww
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‘These Men Are Ours’: India’s Reckoning With a Horrific Rape – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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To say that most political discussions on social media lack nuance seems tantamount to pointing out that most pornography lacks romance.
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Bizarre Ancient Sea Creature Was Well-Armed for Feeding – Scientific American
Tribrachidium, a bizarre sea creature that lived some 550 million years ago, is unlike any modern organism. New research suggests it fed on particles suspended in the water. Tribrachidium was a denizen of the shallow seas about 550 million years ago…
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India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is poised to launch an international solar alliance of around 120 countries with the French president Francoise Hollande at the Paris climate summit on Monday.
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The Big Short Will Make You Furious About 2008 — Vulture
“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely.
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Contrary to popular belief, fans’ intense love for the Ghostbusters brand comes not from the films, the Saturday morning cartoon, or even the toys. Instead, it would appear that it’s Ecto Cooler—not busting, as previously implied—that makes nostalgi…
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Chain restaurants in NYC to start putting warnings on extremely salty food this week | The Verge
Starting Tuesday, chain restaurants in New York City will have to watch their salt.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 11 – Essential Climate Variables: Sea ice
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Stein Sandven of NERSC, Norway, explains the importance of sea ice as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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To Scale: The Solar System Drawn in the Nevada Desert – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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The A.V. Club nominates Santa to lead its Holiday Gift Guide · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Today is the Monday after Thanksgiving, also known as Cyborg Monday, when we endeavor to meld our gift-giving consciousness with that of the machines. To mark the holiday, The A.V. Club has assembled a 2015 Gift Guide for your computerized reading a…
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CBS gives Supergirl a full-season order · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Look up in the sky—it’s not a bird, or a plane…it’s the back-end of a full season for Supergirl! According to TVLine, CBS has just ordered seven more episodes of the freshman series, which is also the network’s much-discussed first foray into the …
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In the anything-goes wasteland that comprises the vast array of web series in the world, separating the wheat from the poorly produced chaff is more difficult than ever.
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Formula E Is Launching a Racing Series for Self-Driving Cars
Racing has long been held as the ultimate crucible, the place where tomorrow’s automotive advances are discovered and honed. Does that hold true for the autonomous cars of the future? Formula E wants to find out, with a new racing series specificall…
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Two-Thirds of Americans Want U.S. to Join Climate Change Pact : environment
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Obama calls the climate fight an “act of definance” against terrorism | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In his speech (video above), the president also offered a rebuke to the terrorists behind the Nov. 13 attacks in the French capital…
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President Obama On Climate: ‘There Is Such A Thing As Being Too Late’ | ThinkProgress
President Obama kicked off the Paris climate talks on Monday with a focus on future generations, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., and calling on world leaders to take strong action at the conference, which runs through December 11. “For I believe, i…
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How ‘Creed’ Saves Rocky From Himself | The Nation
I had two gnawing fears when “The Latest Rocky Film” (otherwise known as Creed) hit the theaters. These anxieties were rooted in knowing only the basic premise: Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa trains the late Apollo Creed’s troubled son, Adonis “D…
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Amazon will stream the first episode of Transparent’s second season tonight | The Verge
Coming off a critically acclaimed and award-winning first season, Amazon’s Transparent is nearing a return. Prime subscribers will be able to stream every episode of season two beginning on December 11th.
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Crimea power blackout: Russia accuses Ukraine of sabotage – BBC News
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has accused Ukraine of “sabotage” after damage to key electricity pylons deprived Crimea of power. He said Ukraine was “seeking objectives that are practically terrorist”.
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The worldwide effort to disarm Metal Gear Solid V’s nuclear weapons | Ars Technica
The Metal Gear Solid series has always carried a strong undertone about the threat of nuclear proliferation.
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Target.com Latest To Crash From Increased Online Traffic | TechCrunch
A number of sites have buckled under the pressure of increased traffic as more Americans turned to online shopping over the Black Friday weekend than those who visited brick-and-mortar stores, according to new data from the National Retail Federatio…
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Typists of the world, unite! A new book looks inside the ‘typosphere’ | Books | The Guardian
At the Miami Book Fair earlier this month, Richard Polt arrived equipped with both a PowerPoint presentation and a Groma Kolibri, his vintage “laptop typewriter” made in East Germany in 1956.
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Katie Holmes’s Thanksgiving Instagram Video Proves She’s Just Like Us | Vanity Fair
Most of life is a desperate search for meaning, for a defining sense of who we are.
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Stop Trying So Hard to Be Happy
Everything we do in life is, at the end of the day, in pursuit of happiness. But trying too hard to be happy could actually keep you from experiencing real satisfaction.
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Turkey Won’t Apologize for Downed Russian Plane – The Atlantic
Turkey is defending its decision last week to shoot down a Russian warplane that was carrying out airstrikes against Syrian rebels, calling it “a defensive action” and ruling out an apology.
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Which Democrat Will Pass the Working Families Test? | The Nation
Every candidate for president says she or he supports working families. But whom will the Working Families support?
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CUNY Faculty Authorizes a Strike Vote | The Nation
The Professional Staff Congress—the labor union that represents more than 25,000 faculty and staff across the City University of New York’s 24 campuses—has had a busy November.
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 30th – The New Yorker
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This Samsung 4K TV Comes With a Big Discount and $150 in Extras
Here’s a pretty nifty Cyber Monday TV deal, if you didn’t buy one on Black Friday. $600 gets you a 48” Samsung 4K set (its Black Friday price), plus a sound bar, an amplified HDTV antenna, a Belkin surge protector, and a pair of HDMI cables for free.
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The final numbers are in, and they confirm expectations: Adele is a phenomenon. Billboard reports that the singer’s new album, “25” (XL/Columbia), sold a record-shattering 3.38 million copies in the United States through its first week, according to…
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Caption: One of Jacob’s J-Corders. Josh Valcarcel/WIRED Reel-to-reel tape decks have always been highly prized by audiophiles. It isn’t just the superior dynamic range, excellent signal-to-noise ratio, and all those glorious switches and buttons.
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WATCH: We Read the Worst Sex Writing of the Year | Maxim
Writing a good sex scene is hard to do. It can be difficult to strike a balance between realism and eroticism; even otherwise critically acclaimed authors have been guilty of writing laughable, cringe-worthy bits about their characters doing it.
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Sponsor shout-out: ShanaLogic’s Sugar Skull Cameo Necklace / Boing Boing
A special holiday thank you to our long time sponsor Shanalogic! Shanalogic is a curated shop of handmade and independently produced gifts, many of which we own and love! Check out this fantastic Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Cameo Necklace!
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The Tyranny of the Beauty Routine | New Republic
If you’re a woman with any sort of prominence in any kind of chic profession, it’s only a matter of time until you’ll be asked to open up about your beauty routine.
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Earlier today I had a call with Rahul Parekh, co-founder and CEO of EatFirst, the London and Berlin-based online restaurant. We discussed how the startup came about, what exactly an online restaurant is, and being incubated by e-commerce behemoth an…
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Why We Live in a Cloud of Microbes – Scientific American
Pets and people shed clouds of microbes as unique and personal as their fingerprints, but the clouds can change over time.
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Diversity In Tech Needs Less Buzz And More Action | TechCrunch
Diversity in tech is a hot issue today, as it should be.
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The future of the UK’s premier non-fiction prize is assured – for another five years at least – as the Samuel Johnson prize announces a new sponsor. The new era brings a new name, with the retitling of the prize in honour of the investment firm that…
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The Walking Dead Just Reminded Everyone Why It’s the #1 Drama on TV
I don’t think last night’s mid-season finale was the best episode of The Walking Dead, but if I had to give someone a single episode to show them why TWD is such a mega-hit, I would give them “Start to Finish.” It was a perfect mix of hope, despair,…
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Over 20 Years of Climate Talks: Interactive Timeline – Scientific American
What’s it take to make an international climate accord? Sift heaping handfuls of patience. Whip the voices of opposition until stiff peaks form. Let rise for two weeks every year in a cavernous convention center someplace; it should smell warm, swea…
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Winston Churchill’s World | New Republic
“If he is no good,” Churchill added, “he must be poleaxed. And, taking him at his word, the British poleaxed Churchill in 1945. But since, in a time of flux, Churchill above all free men is sure of what is best, he remains the accepted leader of the…
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Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon | Ars Technica
There are few fields like theoretical astrophysics, where public perception so radically departs from reality. Society generally considers its practitioners—scientists like Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne—to be among the most brilliant people in the …
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ESO: The Earth’s Global Virtual Telescope –“Zeroing In on the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole”
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) continues to expand its power and capabilities by linking with other millimetre-wavelength telescopes in Europe and North America in a series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observa…
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Shia pilgrims killed in Baghdad suicide blast – Al Jazeera English
A suicide bombing in Iraq’s capital Baghdad has struck a group of Shia Muslims taking part in an annual religious pilgrimage, killing at least six people and injuring 17 others, Al Jazeera has learned.
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The “real” Silent Hill is sick of tourists / Boing Boing
Centralia, PA, has a tourist problem thanks to its long-burning underground coal fire and ghost town status.
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President Isaiah Kiplagat and two other Kenya Athletics officials have been provisionally suspended for 180 days by the ethics commission of the IAAF.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Hungary and ESA
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Very few things disturb her sleep : aww
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Meet our youngest, Pepita, a Sri-Lankan street cat : aww
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Hamburg Votes Against Hosting 2024 Olympics | Al Jazeera America
Hamburg’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics collapsed on Sunday after the majority of the city’s residents voted against the multi-billion euro project in a referendum, killing off the candidacy and leaving officials in shock.
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I’ll see your silly Uber rules and raise you Vegas taxi rules. – Imgur
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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OPM Just Figured Out How Much Data it Owns – The Atlantic
When the government announced this summer that more than 4 million federal employees had their personal information stolen—likely by Chinese hackers—lawmakers and victims were outraged.
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Kylie Jenner Admits She Like Caitlyn Better Than Bruce | Vanity Fair
“You still have a little Bruce in you. I thought Caitlyn would be a little kinder,” Kim Kardashian told Caitlyn Jenner during a tense exchange filmed for the docu-series I Am Cait earlier this year.
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of November 30, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Sudden Death Of Aunt Creates Rupture In Family Gossip Pipeline Go To Article Nation Demands More Movies Where Guy Reveals He Was Wearing Bulletproof Vest Go To Article Grin Slowly Spreads Across Mom’s Face As Meal Revealed To Contain Healthy Ingredi…
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R.I.P. Black Friday As We Know It | Vanity Fair
Black Friday, traditionally the equivalent of Christmas morning for retailers, was more like the nightmare before this year.
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Prepare for Slow Stock Market Growth in 2016
You don’t want to panic when the stock market is in a slump. Remember this going into 2016, because analysts say it’s going to be a slow year. Based on the forecasts we’ve received so far, even the most bullish strategists expect that 2016 will be a…
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Fleeting Wonders: A Cheese Heist in Canada | Atlas Obscura
Would you ever steal cheese? (Photo: Pixabay/Public Domain) Thirty thousand pounds of cheese hijacked? That’s not gouda.
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Your guide to the Paris COP21 climate change talks.
On Monday, more than 140 world leaders will gather in Paris to kick off tense two-week treaty negotiations over the fate of a planet in crisis. If this were about any topic other than climate change, it might even make the news.
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The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber Were a Mid-Century Engineering Masterpiece
Designed and built in the early 1940’s, the supremely advanced B-29 Superfortress first flew over 70 years ago in September of 1944.
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Donald Trump’s dangerously circular logic “Facts are fungible. The tweet from someone he has never met (and never will meet) about something he/she allegedly “saw” on 9/11 carries the same weight as actual information gathered by reporters hewing to…
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Hillary Clinton: America Must Lead at Paris Climate Talks; The climate change deniers, defeatists and obstructionists should know that their cynical efforts will fail (time.com)submitted 40 minutes ago by loading…
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Ted Cruz Calls Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’ : Liberal
Ted Cruz Calls Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’ (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 42 minutes ago by loading…
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White supremacists are a bigger threat to the US than radical Islam
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Animal Collective is releasing new album Painting With on February 19th | The Verge
Baltimore’s foremost musical mad scientists are back. Animal Collective announced new album Painting With this morning, the band’s first LP since 2012’s Centipede Hz; it’ll be released on February 19th, 2016 through Domino. “FloriDada” is the album’…
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I’ve had a horrible feeling lately that the world is sliding down its final slope, with the brakes off: filthy seas, burned and ruined forests, vanishing species, flattened cities, millions of displaced people, desperate refugees and endless, murder…
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Kelli Anderson is at it again. Her pop-up book, This Book is a Planetarium, is due out this spring, but in the meantime, she’s made a book that turns into an actual camera. And you can buy it or make your own. Here’s how the camera works:
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Making Employees Work On Thanksgiving Doesn’t Pay Off For Retailers | ThinkProgress
Eleven brands opened their doors on Thanksgiving Day this year, requiring millions of employees to report to work on the national holiday. Many businesses believe that opening on Thanksgiving will boost overall holiday sales by getting shoppers in a…
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BlackBerry leaves Pakistan following government backdoor demands | The Verge
BlackBerry is pulling out of Pakistan entirely next year, saying it won’t sell devices or services there because the government has demanded access to BlackBerry Enterprise Service emails and BBM chats.
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Predicting Putin’s next move – Al Jazeera English
As world leaders gather in Paris this week to discuss climate change, many were wondering if a possible meeting between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would take place. According to Putin’s spok…
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Peter Jackson just dropped a video “announcement” on his Facebook page to confirm something we first heard rumblings about three years ago: The director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies will be bringing his skills to an upcoming episode…
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Baroness on Crash Recovery, James Hetfield Call, New ‘Purple’ LP | Rolling Stone
“We’re always trying to achieve some new goal convincingly,” says Baroness frontman and guitarist John Baizley. “Once we’ve done that, once we’ve passed the mile marker that we have never reached before, we set the bar a little further down the road…
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Bono to Auction Off Bike Ride for (RED) Campaign | Rolling Stone
One year after Bono was seriously injured from a bike accident in New York City’s Central Park, the U2 frontman is auctioning off a bike ride to a donor as part of a campaign for his organization (RED), which raises money to battle AIDS.
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Animal Collective Talk Escaping Reverb on 10th Album | Rolling Stone
Psychedelic avant-poppers Animal Collective have released “FloriDada,” the first taste of their 10th studio album, Painting With, due Feburary 19, 2016.
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‘Skins Win to Take NFC East Lead, and We All Lose | Rolling Stone
Of all the big games in all the NFL cities in Week 12, the New York Giants at the Washington Redskins – well, it wasn’t one of them. And yet… “The stars have aligned for the New York Giants,” began the game preview on the blog Big Blue View. “The do…
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Into the Badlands: I’ve Never Seen Fight Scenes This Great on TV
The story is pretty all over the place, but AMC’s martial arts drama Into the Badlands’ fight scenes are unlike any combat action that’s appeared on American television in years. Maybe ever.
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LANSING, MI—Saying the extra travel made the get-togethers that much more stressful, local woman Laura Holmes, 51, told reporters Monday she was fed up with having to go back and forth between her divorced parents’ nursing homes during the holidays.
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On the Charts: Adele’s ’25’ Caps Record Week With Number One | Rolling Stone
On the Charts: Adele’s ’25’ Caps Record Week With Number One Singer’s previous two LPs, ’19’ and ’21,’ also land back in Top 20
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What To Do With Your Old Computer – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Consider whether the outdated machine can be refurbished, or repurposed as a simple word processor, nightlight, or doorstop. Place it on your desk each night as a decoy computer to outwit thieves and international spies. Tuck the laptop under your d…
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More Companies Cut the Holiday Party – Bloomberg Business
The economy is recovering, companies are spending more on benefits, employee satisfaction and retention are being monitored. And the holiday party is declining. Could it be that people don’t like it?
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How Rikers Inmates And Columbia Students Built A Twitter Bot–With No Internet
In a new class, inmates learn to code behind bars. Not long ago, a team from Columbia University set out to build an automated Twitter bot in a place with no Internet access—part of a 12-hour class for people with no prior programming experience.
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World Leaders Open Paris Climate Change Talks – Scientific American
LE BOURGET, France—The biggest political moment in climate change history has arrived. Four years of planning, debating and hyping U.N.
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Judge: no proof Yelp manipulates reviews / Boing Boing
Now you can Yelp freely, secure in the knowledge that there are no shenanigans going on at the restaurant review site—or, at least, none that can be proven. So sayeth the judge.
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‘The Walking Dead’ Recap, Season Six Episode Eight, ‘Start to Finish’ – The Atlantic
Every week for the sixth season of AMC’s post-apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead, Lenika Cruz and David Sims will discuss the latest threat—human, zombie, or otherwise—to the show’s increasingly hardened band of survivors. David Sims: Let me be as s…
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Vad kan världen lära av Växjö, självutnämnd som Europas grönaste stad? | Environment | The Guardian
Bara några minuter efter att jag har träffat kommunstyrelsens ordförande i staden som har utnämnt sig själv till Europas grönaste stad, står det klart varifrån han får mycket av sin inspiration.
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Artisan Craft: ALR Dyeing Creates a Formula for Sustainability | Vanity Fair
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Kobe Bryant announces he will retire at end of season – video | Sport | The Guardian
After five NBA championships, 17 All-Star selections and one MVP during a 20-year career, Kobe Bryant has announced he will retire at the end of the 2015-16 season. In a first-person poem, the 37-year-old wrote that he will always love the sport tha…
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David Attenborough hopeful on Paris climate deal – video | Environment | The Guardian
Sir David Attenborough expresses optimism as Paris climate talks get under way on Monday. The veteran British naturalist and broadcaster, known for his BBC nature documentaries, says that a vital part of any deal must focus on ensuring that renewabl…
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Syrian Filmmakers Portray the Quiet Evil of ISIS | Vanity Fair
It’s hard these days to get a glimpse into the daily life of Syrians, living either in the Assad regime or in ISIS-controlled territory.
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In the past, news of another Gremlins movie has followed a leap-year schedule, with director Joe Dante popping up to dismiss or support the rumors about every four years or so.
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Mauna Kea’s Last Telescope | Motherboard
Snowcapped on its summit, fiery in its volcanic core, and flanked by basalt detritus and grassy plains, Mauna Kea is both serene and provocative; a finite object that evokes a sense of the infinite.
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Before Shooting, Cruz Touted Endorsement From Activist Who Called For Execution Of Abortion Doctors (thinkprogress.org)submitted 54 minutes ago by loading…
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White supremacists are a bigger threat to the US than radical Islam : politics
When have they not been? About four score and four years.
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New York, New York, a helluva town. The rents are up, but the crime rate is down. The food is better than ever, and the cultural scene is vibrant. Truly, it’s a golden age for the town I recently moved to — if you can afford the housing. But more an…
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The Lucky Peach Guide to Miso | Lucky Peach
This story comes from “Lucky Peach #2: The Sweet Spot.“ For more great stuff like this, subscribe to the magazine. Miso is fermented soybean paste—but let’s be more specific.
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Bugatti is back in 2016 with the 1500hp Chiron | Ars Technica
One of the biggest thrillers being written in the car industry right now is what Volkswagen does to recover from its cheating diesel scandal. Estimates of the cost to VW Group vary widely, but most agree $10 billion is probably on the low end.
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Charlotte Church performs new song about climate change | Environment | The Guardian
On Sunday, Charlotte Church and her band were at the climate protest march in London at which over 50,000 people protested for stronger action for world governments to counter global warming. Globally, over 700,000 people joined protests in 175 coun…
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Ted Cruz Defends Conservative Criticisms of Planned Parenthood After Shooting at Clinic : politics
Speaking to reporters in Newton, Iowa, Mr. Cruz said “we don’t fully know the motivations of this deranged individual” in the shooting, which killed three people and wounded nine. And yet, if the shooter was a Muslim, that’s all some people would ne…
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Jury Selection Begins in Freddie Gray Case | Al Jazeera America
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Baltimore police officer charged over the death of a black man from an injury suffered while in police custody — an event that triggered rioting and protests and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality.
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Government researchers will reveal their findings of the health effects of contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune during a public meeting in Florida later this week. (fayobserver.com)
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Thousands march over climate change in Brisbane and across New Zealand | Heat proves no obstacle to the reported 15,000 demonstrators in Auckland, or the 5,000 in Brisbane, following a 40,0000-strong Melbourne event on Friday (theguardian.com)submit…
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Oil spill from grounded Russian tanker contaminates 3,500 meters of coastline near the port city of Nevelsk on Sakhalin Island (tass.ru)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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LUXOR, Egypt — For weeks, a group of explorers have scanned the walls of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, using radar and infrared devices, in the hopes that science might confirm one Egyptologist’s theory: that hidden behind a
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WASHINGTON — Even as the authorities say they remain uncertain what precisely led a gunman to attack a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs on Friday, a comment attributed to the suspect by a senior law enforcement offic
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Dundas Point. Ontario, in autumn (OC) [1024×550] : EarthPorn
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This random word generator is absolutely honery / Boing Boing
Burgundy.io generates new words, but no banal syllable-musher is this. It uses a recurrent neural network to find uncannily English-sounding terms. The results are quite periper, with a burledish sense of humor, and the best of them take on a lavent…
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Time to Finally Get Real in Paris | New Republic
Paris, city of romance, doesn’t seem so romantic these days. Theterrorist attacks that struck the city in mid-November were a horrificreminder—as if one were necessary—of a creeping, inchoate threat whose strikes can’t be easily predicted, let alone…
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Mobile rewards platform maker Perk.com, which makes apps that reward you for watching TV, unlocking your phone, online shopping, surfing the web and more, announced this morning its plans to acquire the mobile app development platform Corona Labs fo…
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COP 21: Climate issues dividing rich and poor nations – BBC News
When you have 195 countries negotiating at the climate change conference in Paris, some key issues remain contentious. Some of the world’s poorest countries say they fear being “left behind” in the push for a new treaty.
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Avoid These Holiday Plants If You Have Pets
If you have pets you need to be careful which plants you use to deck the halls in your home. Here are some commonly used plants that can be harmful to your furry companions.
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of your comments and photos from last week – it’s all about short books and short stories this week, perfect to squeeze in before longer holiday reads. The latest was The Singing Bowl by Alistair Carr, a…
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Cartoon: ‘Tis the War on Christmas season!
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Every Breath by Ellie Marney – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
James Mycroft is a troubled genius who has an obsession with forensic science. His neighbour and best friend Rachel Watts just wishes she could go back to the countryside but she finds herself being dragged into Mycroft’s dark and exciting world whe…
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How You Can Get Behind the Wheel of a Real Race Car in a Real Race
Road racing has always been an exclusive sport. It’s just too expensive unless you fully commit yourself, and even then you need sponsors.
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How To Decode Any Whisk(e)y Label | VinePair
Ideally you want to get into a whiskey bottle, not spend all your time reading it like a cereal box. But to ensure you actually like what you buy, it’s probably a good idea to know how to decode a label.
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Meet Judd Apatow’s Next Comedy Sensation | GQ
We asked Mr. Apatow whom he planned to make funny next. Here are a few of the projects he’s developing over at Apatow Production HQ BY NOW, we all know that Judd Apatow is the godfather of the contemporary R-rated comedy.
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Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions Or Skylanders: Which Toy-Based Game Is Right For You?
First Skylanders, then Disney Infinity and now LEGO—the video game sections of major retailers everywhere are slowly being taken over by toys. Which plastic portal of power should you be plugging into your game console? Let’s see if we can help.
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Pups eating a watermelon : gifs
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Where Do The Best Founders Come From? | TechCrunch
You tell us! Who would you work for around the clock to help build his or her vision? We are searching far and wide for the best founder of 2015, and we want to know who you think should get the coveted Monkey.
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NASA Administrator Interviewed By 9-Year-Old | Video
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South African Gumtree ‘baby sale’ mother pleads guilty – BBC News
A 20-year-old woman in South Africa has pleaded guilty to trying sell her child for 5,000 rand ($380; £250) on advertising website Gumtree. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says that Zama Madlala faced charges including human trafficking and…
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The life and times of Strider Wolf
He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine’s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love — and just enough of that. Yet somehow Strider is climbing. How high? How far?
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The historian John Hope Franklin, who died in 2009, would have turned one hundred this year.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – LISA Pathfinder ready for launch
Final preparations are under way at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, for the launch of LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s technology demonstrator that will pave the way for detecting gravitational waves from space. Liftoff is planned at 04:15 GMT (0…
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Prince Harry Says That He Is the “Cooler Brother” | Vanity Fair
Prince Harry has always had a reputation for—as many a younger sibling does—going about things his own way, let’s say.
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The Krampus has been BORN: Behold this one-of-a-kind Krampus nativity set!|Dangerous Minds
Krampus nativity set As I am a ghoul to my very core (as are many of our Dangerous Minds readers), I was pretty excited to stumble on this (as far as I can tell) one-of-a-kind Krampus nativity set. Yes.
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Welcome To The World’s Largest Digital Art Biennial
The Wrong offers the most natural environment for showcasing net art: your browser. Will it help digital work sell? When the inaugural digital art biennial The Wrong launched in 2013, it was the first of its kind.
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My dogs also ate the face off the exact same toy. : aww
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This is what he does when he wants treats : gifs
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Eiffel Tower turns green as Paris Climate Summit kicks off | Grist
An interactive light installation projects images of trees onto the iconic Paris landmark. Hundreds of thousands of people joined 2,300 marches in 175 countries, demanding a strong climate deal from leaders in Paris.
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Mark Twain Said It | New Republic
This seems to us a good week to reprint two famous documents by Mark Twain. They are often quoted, but not often enough, as events of the past few days in Ethiopia demonstrate.
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More Non-Asians Are Taking an Interest in America’s Saturday Chinese Schools – The Atlantic
From the mid- to late nineties, I endured Saturday morning Chinese school the way many of my fellow children of immigrants did: with a healthy a mix of indifference and resentment.
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Return of Commercial Supersonic Travel? NASA Focus Group Study | Video
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Steven Gerrard has trained with Liverpool for the first time since leaving his boyhood club to join LA Galaxy.
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Why Did Marvel Say No to a Doctor Strange Movie From Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro?
It’s pretty cool that Marvel’s sorcerer supreme is making his way to the movies. You know what might have been cooler? A weird and wonderful look at the mystical side of Marvel comics from two icons of modern fantasy: Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del T…
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Mass panic as Kenyan university stages ‘terror’ drill – Al Jazeera English
A security drill at a Nairobi university has caused mass panic among staff and students after security forces used what many thought was live ammunition to stage a pretend attack on the school.
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Make Mushroom “Jerky” For an Umami-Packed Snack Anyone Can Enjoy
One doesn’t usually think of jerky as a vegetarian-friendly option, but this mushroom “jerky” from Food 52 is a savory snack that anyone can enjoy. (Except those allergic to mushrooms, obviously.)
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How Neon Indian Uses a Kinect to Sync Their Live Show Visuals with the Band | Motherboard
Though a lot of tall white 20-somethings were bumping up against me at Neon Indian’s show at Webster Hall in October (the first leg of his album release tour), there was something entrancing about seeing Alan Palomo, the lead singer, and his digital…
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Meet the Iranians turned away by Macedonia – Al Jazeera English
Joined by his wife’s brother, the couple left Tehran two weeks ago. “Iranians are not hungry,” Sina says. “We are not going to Europe for money. We want freedom, and we have political and religious problems from the Iranian government.”
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Vintage Japanese Young Person’s Guide to Sex|Dangerous Minds
You may have read last week about the young man who ‘fessed up to having spent his “entire life” masturbating the wrong way—an unfortunate experience that left him unable to have sex without severe and debilitating pain.
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Comedy’s Best Power Couple Has Made It Official | Vanity Fair
It’s been a tough year all around for celebrity breakups, so let’s try and end the year on a high note: one of the best power couples in comedy has finally made it official. With an emoji.
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Watch Amy Winehouse Walk Red Carpet, Gush Over Beyonce | Rolling Stone
Watch Amy Winehouse Walk Red Carpet, Gush Over Beyonce in Cut ‘Amy’ Scene Clip documents singer’s arrival at 2004 Brit Awards
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‘Grow Heathrow’ community resists airport expansion – Al Jazeera English
London’s Heathrow Airport is one of several sites considered in recent years to address a purported need to raise the UK’s airport capacity. BAA, the airport’s owners, developed three plans during this time to build a third runway at Heathrow.
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Keith Urban Gets the Hall of Fame Treatment: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Keith Urban Gets the Hall of Fame Treatment: The Ram Report Recently opened exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame showcases the musical mind of the singer-guitarist
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My Morning Jacket Pay Tribute to Eagles of Death Metal, Paris Victims | Rolling Stone
My Morning Jacket Pay Tribute to Eagles of Death Metal, Paris Victims Jim James and company cover “I Love You All the Time” at Beacon Theatre concert
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Algeria: The curse of falling oil prices – Al Jazeera English
Algeria’s economy is struggling with low oil prices taking a heavy toll on its finances. Hydrocarbons such as oil and natural gas account for 60 percent of Algeria’s budget and make up 97 percent of its exports.
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How Easy is it for Minimum-Wage Workers to Get a Raise? | JSTOR Daily
Activists in New York won a major victory earlier this month, as New York became the first state to set a $15 minimum wage. The victory comes after months of protests across the country, including in Los Angeles and across the state of Washington.
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Ever since he got into the presidential race nearly six months ago, Donald Trump has had an epic battle on his hands. No, not with his rival Republican candidates, who until recently have been reluctant to criticize him, but with the truth. As in ac…
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Peter Singer’s Extremely Altruistic Heirs | New Republic
How much money, time, and effort should you be giving to relieve dire poverty? And how should you allocate these precious goods? If we ask these questions more than we once did, there are several reasons why.
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Microsoft Launches PowerApps, Makes Building Business Apps Easier | TechCrunch
Microsoft today launched PowerApps, a new Office-like service that makes it easy for virtually any employee in a company to build basic mobile and web-based business apps — and for IT departments to enable them to do so. The new service is now offic…
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Which books can help me understand what it’s like to be bombed? | Children’s books | The Guardian
With all the media coverage of whether to drop bombs on Syria, I wondered what it feels like to be a child living in a place that is being bombed. Are there any books that describe it well? Bombing of the kind that is being discussed at the moment i…
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Will The New Hampshire Union Leader’s Endorsement Help Chris Christie? | FiveThirtyEight
Chris Christie’s campaign has been showing signs of life in New Hampshire of late. He could already point to his rising net favorability rating among Granite State Republicans, and over the weekend he added the New Hampshire Union Leader’s endorseme…
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We have a couple of advantages when it comes to dealing with climate change. For one thing, the parameters of the problem are remarkably clear: We can see the Arctic melting, the ocean acidifying, the mercury steadily rising. Droughts and floods rei…
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A moving cover for the New Yorker
Chris Ware, in collaboration with John Kuramoto, Ira Glass, and Nico Muhly, made a moving cover for the latest issue of the New Yorker, both in the sense that it is actually in motion and that the story it tells is touching and makes an impression.
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You’ll need a Nintendo Famicom to listen to this new chiptune album | The Verge
Chiptune music attempts to make new sounds using old hardware, mashing Game Boys with Garage Band to create tracks that feel ripped out of the 8-bit era. Typically, though, you still listen to these songs using modern gadgets: but that’s not the cas…
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Dealmaster: Cyber Monday brings bigger savings than Black Friday | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Thanks to our partners at TechBargains, we have a ton of Cyber Monday deals to share.
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Hang Jewelry or Other Light Items on a Clothespin Board
A scrap piece of wood, some clothespins, and some glue are all you need to display and quickly access jewelry or other light items. This simple project idea from Instructables user MotherDaughterProjects pretty much speaks for itself.
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We Could Be Getting TWO Live-Action Versions of the Teen Titans Soon!
Tom Holland talks about what makes Spider-Man unique in the Marvel movieverse. Glean some hints from The Force Awakens’ soundtrack. The Arrow producers tease a dark moment for Oliver. Plus, a new glimpse at Agent Carter, clips from Supergirl, and ne…
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How ‘Jones’ Became One of World’s Most Common Last Names | Atlas Obscura
The Black Mountains, part of the Breacon Beacons National Park, in Wales, the Jones capital of the world. (Photo: Nick/flickr) In 2006, 1,224 Joneses descended on the city of Cardiff in Wales with just one mission: to be themselves.
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Kobe Bryant, the master of control, rewrites his own ending | Sport | The Guardian
Kobe Bryant was always the smartest man on the floor so it figures the player who couldn’t stand losing would find a way to win in retirement. With his body old and tired and broken there was no way for a graceful end on the basketball court. His ju…
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The Internet Isn’t Available in Most Languages – The Atlantic
Tweet, tuít, or giolc? These were the three iterations of a Gaelic version of the word “tweet” that Twitter’s Irish translators debated in 2012.
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What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? Let an Algorithm Tell You | Motherboard
Sure, you might be able to tell whether a city is a city by just looking at it. But can you train a machine to be even better than humans at recognizing them?
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Ted Cruz was the first Republican candidate to address the Planned Parenthood shooting, tweeting that he was “[p]raying for the loved ones of those killed, those injured and first responders who bravely got the situation under control in Colorado Sp…
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Queer Activist Launches DIY Gender Hormone Biohacking Project | Motherboard
In the US, as in much of the world, trans people are often unable to access the healthcare they need. For many people transitioning, finding a doctor willing or able to help, let alone a clinic that offers hormonal treatment, can be costly and diffi…
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Two-Thirds of Americans Want U.S. to Join Climate Change Pact : Liberal
Two-Thirds of Americans Want U.S. to Join Climate Change Pact (nytimes.com)
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Bernie Sanders makes it clear: He’s playing this game to win : politics
I’ve decided that there is no way i can support a Hillary Clinton candidacy. For me, it’s now Bernie or nothing. I used to care somewhat about the future supreme court, but I’m old enough that whatever they do, it won’t affect me very much for very …
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Is fusion energy possible, I mean what will happen if we run out of coal and oil? : environment
Is fusion energy possible, I mean what will happen if we run out of coal and oil? https://t.co/BYvJDsZ50x No text found via /r/environment
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People Catalog Every Object They Touch in 24 Hours | WIRED
Caption: Mol, 37. Special FX Artist in Buenos Aires. Most interesting items: fat suit, silicone mask and polystyrene head, and prop of female torso “ripped by beast.” Paula Zuccotti
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How Dogs Make Friends for Their Humans – The Atlantic
Thirty years ago, Paul Knott broke his neck in a car accident, landing him in a wheelchair and ending his career as a firefighter with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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1965: The White House first acknowledges the risks of climate change, just a few weeks after Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes president.
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Stopping the Stowaways | Hakai Magazine
When a ship leaves port and its cargo is running light, the crew takes water into holding tanks in the ship’s hull. The water in these tanks, known as ballast tanks, weighs the ship down and makes it more stable.
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It may soon be easier for shoppers to find beauty products without toxic chemicals. The Environmental Working Group nonprofit launched a new label this month called EWG Verified, which certifies personal care products as free from chemicals of conce…
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Massive Survey Creates Amazon Tree Census – Scientific American
Some 12 percent of the forests of the Amazon have been lost in recorded history. Another 9 to 28 percent will be gone by 2050. But we have not known which species of trees are taking the biggest hits. In part because it’s so difficult to do the fiel…
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How Viagra Works – Scientific American
The famous blue pill acts on an enzyme that can block erections
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Accused Planned Parenthood Shooter to Appear in Court – The Atlantic
The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday will make a court appearance on Monday in connection with the shooting in which nine other people were wounded. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was arrested …
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10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in December | Rolling Stone
Streaming services are a crucial addition to modern civilization, but only in December do they become a truly indispensible survival tool.
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The secret bribes of big tobacco – BBC News
Panorama found British American Tobacco illegally paid politicians and civil servants in countries in East Africa. The payments were revealed when a whistleblower shared hundreds of secret documents.
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DR Congo raid by Ugandan Islamist rebel group ‘kills 38’ – BBC News
At least 38 people have died in a town in the east of the Democratic Republic Congo after a rebel attack, a local civil society group says. Fifteen civilians and one UN peacekeeper are among the dead.
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Kobe Bryant Rages Against the Dying of the Light in Retirement Poem | Rolling Stone
Kobe Bryant has never been a man to know his limitations, and so it was entirely appropriate for him to publicly acknowledge his own mortality in one of the oldest, most respected and least understood art forms, the poem.
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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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Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Bros reviewed: Stuck between two worlds | Ars Technica
Let’s be honest: Mario and Luigi are idiots. If there’s a problem to be solved, they’ll solve it in the most convoluted way imaginable. Frankly, it’s something of a miracle they achieve anything at all.
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This video shows the history of Hungarian space activities and Hungary’s long standing cooperation with ESA covering areas from Science, to Earth Observation, Human Spaceflight, Telecom and Navigation.
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BBC Sport – Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi & Neymar on Ballon d’Or shortlist
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar are the three players on the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or world footballer of the year award. It is the eighth consecutive year that Real Madrid’s Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Messi have been on the shortlist.
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Panic in Patriots Nation? Brock Beats Brady and Gronk Goes Down | Rolling Stone
He tumbled to the grass like he had done one too many shots of Jägermeister while parading around shirtless in a blizzard as a Hell Week stunt, and regardless of how you feel about the writhing ball of pissed-off reptilian fury that is the 2015 New …
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Along with mashups, shreds, goofy gifs, LEGO and crazy things Christians do, the isolated vocal meme has pretty much worn out its welcome at the unabashedly hip Dangerous Minds. Even the word “meme” is dead. So we’re busy moving on to the next big t…
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Report: VW execs knew about fuel economy, emissions cheating a year ago | Ars Technica
Volkswagen’s outgoing CEO, Martin Winterkorn, knew about the company’s emissions and fuel economy cheating a full year before they became public knowledge, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports.
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The lost ‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High’ TV series that was actually totally awesome|Dangerous Minds
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is one of those special films that manages to capture the zeitgeist—at least from an American youth culture perspective—of an entire decade.
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What’s Being Discussed at the Paris Climate Talks? – The Atlantic
Officials from nearly 200 countries have begun a two-week meeting in Paris to reach a new deal on reducing carbon emissions. The meeting is the 21st Conference of the Parties, and the talks are being dubbed COP21. Nations have met every year since 1…
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“Two-thirds of Americans want U.S. to join climate change pact” : politics
This is odd, to me. I mean, the US is 17% below our 2005 emissions level already, and have issued statements indicating our agreement to continue to reduce our over all GHG emissions. Our current President has committed to reducing our emissions lev…
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Why flying home for the holidays might be greener than driving. (Hint: For now, take the bus.) (motherjones.com)
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Algorithms make better hiring decisions than humans – Quartz
Managers might like to believe that they have better hiring judgment than a computer, but a recent working paper (paywall) from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests otherwise.
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CEO Paychecks Rarely on the Line When It Comes to Being Green – Bloomberg Business
There’s a provision in Jean-Pascal Tricoire’s compensation deal that sets him apart from most chief executive officers: the more Schneider Electric SE cuts carbon emissions, the bigger his paycheck. About 12 percent of Tricoire’s 5.
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The Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Neymar will battle Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronalo to be named as the Ballon d’Or 2015 winner.
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World leaders pose for photo at climate change summit in Paris – video | Environment | The Guardian
World leaders including David Cameron and Barack Obama pose for a family photo on Monday, the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 at Le Bourget, Paris.
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Authors Nikesh Shukla and Jon McGregor have launched separate, scathing attacks on UK publishing for its failure to take diversity seriously, with Shukla asking “where are the brown people?” and McGregor slamming the eliteness of an industry which “…
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It’s official: the next Bugatti hypercar is the Chrion, and it’ll be revealed in March | The Verge
It’s no secret that the replacement for Bugatti’s legendary Veyron would be called the Chiron — except that apparently it was a secret, because Bugatti just officially announced the name this morning.
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The 20 best deals of Cyber Monday 2015 | The Verge
Cyber Monday is here. Shopping is going to be a lot easier now that you’re away from family and sitting in front of a computer — the only tricky part is sorting through all the madness.
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COP21: world leaders at Paris climate talks – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content COP 21: UN climate change conference | Paris COP21: world leaders at Paris climate talks – in pictures From Barack Obama to Vladamir Putin and Xi Jinping, presidents and prime ministers from over 150 countries have arrived for t…
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Revert to the Old Volume Slider in Windows 10
The new volume slider in Windows 10 is pretty, but if you’re hankering for the old look or that handy link to the full Mixer, you can get the old one back with just a bit of Registry hacking.
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Once again it’s illegal to copy music to the cloud in the UK : Music
articleOnce again it’s illegal to copy music to the cloud in the UK (lotsol.com)submitted 56 minutes ago by loading…
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Superstars of the First Galaxies – Scientific American
About 13.8 billion years ago, just 400,000 years or so after the big bang, the universe abruptly went dark. Before that time, the entire visible universe was a hot, seething, roiling plasma—a dense cloud of protons, neutrons and electrons.
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How to Slow Climate Change. With a Fake Volcano – Bloomberg Business
There’s a cheap, quick, dirty, and controversial way to combat global warming that isn’t on the agenda of the United Nations climate summit in Paris, which runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. It involves replicating the planet-cooling effect of a volcanic…
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From the party of intellectual responsibility… The Egyptian pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph for storing grain. (Ben Carson)
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Iraqi army warns of imminent assault on IS-held Ramadi – BBC News
The Iraqi army has urged people living in the centre of the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi to leave before an operation to retake it is launched. The call, which was also broadcast on state television, told them to use an exit secured by the army…
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Hope For The Climate Lives In Paris
President Barack Obama and leaders from nearly every country are in Paris today to begin international climate talks that are widely expected to produce an agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tremontaine: Lessons from sharing my famous, award-winning fantasy world / Boing Boing
For the past thirty years, I’ve been writing about a city I made up, with aristocrats living on the Hill, and a raffish criminal underworld in Riverside.
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Obama: Paris talks a turning point for climate threat – video | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama says on Monday in Paris that the growing threat of climate change could define this century.
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India’s economic growth picks up to 7.4% – BBC News
India’s economy grew at an annual rate of 7.4% between July and September, official figures show, picking up from the 7% rate of growth in the previous quarter. Higher domestic demand and manufacturing activity fuelled the pace, taking the rate of g…
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The official sherpas and their political masters preparing for the global climate change talks in Paris which start today, have their already complicated task beset further by concerns over security, following the appalling attacks in Paris on Frida…
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The best goals of the week: Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi and Oliver Norburn | Football | The Guardian
Now THAT’s how you seal a Western Conference Championship, Lucas Melano. #DALvPOR https://t.co/AeuYWJIP3a
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Paris climate summit in numbers | Environment | The Guardian
World leaders are gathering in a Paris suburb on Monday to negotiate the text of a treaty that aims to prevent global warming of catastrophic proportions. The UN climate change talks are the most significant on the issue since Copenhagen in 2009.
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Five million customers affected by Vtech database hack – BBC News
Electronic toy and educational material seller Vtech has confirmed that about five million customers were affected in the data theft reported on Friday. They are from all over the world, including the US, UK, France and China.
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Peter Jackson is trolling Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings fans at the same time | The Verge
This was an interesting weekend… Peter Jackson certainly knows how to wind up his fans.
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Graduates Of For-Profit Colleges Say They Were Scammed. Now They’re Fighting Back. | ThinkProgress
Ami Schneider wears her degree from the Art Institute of Schaumberg in a frame tied around her neck emblazoned with one word written in red paint — “worthless.
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Friday afternoon, one week after elected officials all over the country tried to block Syrian refugees from entering their states in an apparent effort to fight terrorism, a white man in Colorado committed what appears to be an act of terrorism in a…
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French civil liberties and the ‘spirit of sacrifice’ – Al Jazeera English
On November 14, the day after the attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead and as some of the suspected attackers remained at large, President Francois Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency, approving warrantless searches and the seali…
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Why Do Former Goldman Sachs Bankers Keep Landing Top Slots at the Federal Reserve? | The Nation
It’s little secret that the halls of government are filled with graduates of Goldman Sachs, the controversial Wall Street investment bank.
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Three times a month, Mohammad al-Kirayfawai hands $300 to fighters from the Islamic State for the privilege of driving his refrigerated truck full of ice cream and other perishables from Jordan to a part of Iraq where the militants are firmly in cha…
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Get Rid of Household Odors with an Onion
We’ve talked about other ways to get rid of household smells, but who would have guessed you could add fresh onion to your odor-fighting arsenal? Whether it’s a musty basement, a newly painted room, or just a smelly pair of shoes, you can use fresh …
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Significant Digits For Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. With New England’s loss to Denver 30-24 in overtime Sunday, the Carolina Panthers are the NFL’s only remaining undefeated team following (most of) Week …
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Before DRM, There Were Mesopotamian Boundary Stones | Motherboard
These are kudurrus, ancient Mesopotamian boundary stones that were placed on the ground to demarcate the boundaries of land grants. A kudurru is inscribed with gods and kings, along with cuneiform that outlines legal rights, tax obligations, and mag…
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TechCrunch Disrupt London Is Next Week — Here Are Our Battlefield Judges | TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt London is next week! (December 7th-8th, Agenda, Tickets). The conference will see our now traditional set-up of a single stage and a Startup Alley. We like to keep things simple!
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My first novel The Next Together uses the concept of reincarnation (and time travel!) to explore whether people intrinsically change just by being born in different time periods. The insurmountable barriers of time and space don’t stop my characters…
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Jeremy Clarkson unveils new Amazon delivery drone – BBC News
Amazon’s drone delivery project Prime Air has unveiled a new prototype in a video featuring former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson. According to the video, the drone could fly for up to 15 miles (24km) and deliver a parcel within 30 minutes of the ord…
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It was December 2009. I remember sitting on a plane on my way to Copenhagen. I wondered if this would be the historic moment when the world came to its senses. There was hope in the air. Indeed, I was greeted by stickers on the subway that renamed D…
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Comment from the December 7, 2015, Issue – The New Yorker
In “Unsafe Climates,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes about this week’s summit, where world leaders must confront the destabilizing consequences of global warming. You can read previous Comments published in the magazine, as well as our online Daily Commen…
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Ban On Tuna Labeled Dolphin-Safe Shows How TPP Will Crush Consumer Rights: … dolphin-safe labeling of tuna managed to reduce annual deaths of the mammals from over 100,000 to only 3,000 but the World Trade Organization just effectively nullified t…
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Man-booker winner Marlon James: ‘Writers of colour pander to the white woman’ | Books | The Guardian
The 2015 Man Booker prize winner Marlon James has slammed the publishing world, saying authors of colour too often “pander to white women” to sell books, and that he could have been published more often if he had written “middle-style prose and priv…
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Check out these amazing photos from the world’s biggest day of climate action ever | Grist
Hundreds of thousands of people joined 2,300 marches in 175 countries over the weekend, demanding a strong climate deal from leaders in Paris. Advice maven Umbra Fisk adopts a not-so-casual attitude to the question of dry cleaning, one of our most t…
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Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Dear Due In Court
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Russian pilot’s body flown home from Turkey – BBC News
The body of the Russian pilot killed after his plane was downed by Turkey on the Syrian border is being flown home. Lt Col Oleg Peshkov’s coffin left Ankara’s Esenboga International Airport airport after a military ceremony.
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We might as well get the self-writing joke about a 65-hour John Cage playlist out of the way up front: that’s a whole lot of silence! But of course, such a joke about the work of John Cage inevitably ends up as a joke about how little so many of us …
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COP21: Obama on risk of ‘submerged countries, abandoned cities’ – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has outlined a vision of the world that includes “submerged countries, abandoned cities and fields that no longer grow”, if efforts to halt global warming are not stepped up.
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Highlights from Pope Francis’ first visit to Africa – BBC News
Watch key moments from Pope Francis’ tour of African countries.
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This Graphic Guides You to the Perfect 3D Printer for Your Needs
3D printing has come a long way in a few short years, and if you’re interested in getting started with one, you have tons of options to choose from. This graphc from 3D Hubs can help you choose one, based on thousands of hours of tests and tons of r…
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MLS Cup: It’s Portland v Columbus but do the playoffs need to change? | Sport | The Guardian
If this year’s MLS playoffs were weighted in favour of the higher seeds – as they are meant to be – they did a good job of hiding that advantage.
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Thanksgiving storms batter the US – Al Jazeera English
The US weather provided little to be grateful for this Thanksgiving with rain, snow and freezing rain affecting many parts of the country. At least 14 people have lost their lives as a result of the precarious conditions.
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Lakers’ star Bryant to retire at the end of season – Al Jazeera English
Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant, one of the best basketball players ever, will retire after the current NBA season.
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First Click: Amazon drones, Clarkson drones, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
Congratulations, you did it. You survived an event so sinister it’s been branded as “Black Friday.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Paris climate talks—will they or won’t they? Anti-abortion violence
Words matter. When we dehumanize people – when we call them demons, monsters, and murderers – we make it easier for others to do them harm. Let’s not pretend that we don’t know that.[…]
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Philosopher Jürgen Renn Explains Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity | Motherboard
The project of German philosopher Jürgen Renn is understanding the evolution of scientific knowledge, generally speaking.
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Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Dear Due In Court : Liberal
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Behind Tomorrow’s Telescopes: A Bitter Rivalry from Yesterday – Scientific American
For 15 years three competing groups of astronomers have chased a single dream: to build the grandest telescope on earth.
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Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki dies – BBC News
The award-winning Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, whose work depicted the horrors of war, has died aged 93. Mr Mizuki, a household name in Japan, died of multiple organ failure on Monday, according to a statement from his production company.
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Countries most vulnerable to climate change have seized the political initiative at the start of the UN climate talks in Paris by challenging the US, China and Europe to raise their ambitions and set a long-term temperature goal of 1.5C rather than …
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International climate talks have progressed in recent years at what the UN secretary general has called a “snail’s pace”. The sheer complexity of reaching an ambitious international agreement has stymied the negotiations.
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Barack Obama has told crucial UN climate talks in Paris that the negotiations represent an act of defiance after the barbaric attacks in the city two weeks ago in which 130 people were killed.
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Sea Turtles Might Be Threatened, But So Are Their Hunters
We all know that people kill majestic animals to hack off their tusks and horns. Here at Wildlife Watch, we spotlight these well-known crimes. But we also expose lesser known wildlife crimes. Take the egg poaching of olive ridley sea turtles.
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8 Mods that Fix the Most Annoying ‘Fallout 4’ Issues | Motherboard
Fallout 4 is quickly becoming one of my favorite games of 2015, but even I have to admit: there’s a lot of things about it that sort of suck. Like all open-world Bethesda games, it’s a big playground full of stuff to do, but a lot of the details nee…
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What You Need to Know About the Paris Climate Talks
World leaders begin assembling in Paris today to try to do what they haven’t been able to for two decades: steer the world away from climate disaster. Here is what you need to know to understand two of the most important weeks in our planet’s future.
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Japanese whaling fleet to set sail for Antarctic – Fleet to leave on Tuesday to carry out ‘lethal research’ despite UN court ruling that the hunts are a cover for commercial whaling and have no scientific merit (theguardian.com)submitted 24 minutes …
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What Putin is really after – Al Jazeera English The shooting down of the Russian bomber by Turkish F-16s last week has taken the relationship between Moscow and Ankara to its lowest point in the past two decades. All signs indicate that the two countries are not going to back…
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