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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Are you a doctor with the right stuff?
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Fits like a glove
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Ted Cruz on the campaign trail in Iowa – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content Ted Cruz Ted Cruz on the campaign trail in Iowa – in pictures Republican candidate Ted Cruz toured towns in the American Heartland of Iowa, visiting general stores, diners and high schools to boost his bid for the presidency Wed…
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Many basketball fans don’t like Kobe Bryant. Whether it’s his on-court shot decisions, his off-the-court 2003 decisions or something in between, the future Hall of Famer has plenty of detractors.
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‘Pampered teenagers’: Ted Cruz condemns Princeton campus protesters | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has condemned the growing wave of campus protests in the US as a product of “pampered teenagers who are scared of an idea that challenges their world view”.
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Ronald Reagan and … Barack Obama? Ted Cruz reveals presidential role models | US news | The Guardian
Ted Cruz idolizes Ronald Reagan. The Republican presidential hopeful has read dozens of biographies of the 40th president and invokes his name at every campaign stop.
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Why is Ted Cruz reenacting a scene from The Princess Bride? – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican candidate and movie geek Ted Cruz gives an Iowa church congregation his best impression of a scene from the cult classic film, The Princess Bride.
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There’s a “100 hour rule” now / Boing Boing
We all know about the 10,000-hour rule, whereby that amount of practice (or thereabouts) is held to be necessary to fully master a given skill. And not long ago I proposed the 5-hour rule, which is what it takes to pretend to be able to do something…
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Ted Cruz: Ferguson effect is ‘absolutely’ real – video | US news | The Guardian
Ted Cruz talks with the Guardian about the ‘vilification’ of police in America and why he says it’s done much more harm then good.
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Migrant crisis: Greece ‘threatened with Schengen suspension’ – BBC News
Greece has been given an EU ultimatum to improve conditions for migrants or risk suspension from the Schengen passport-free zone, reports say. More than 740,000 people have arrived on the shores of Greece this year before moving north across Europe.
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The word for debt in German also means guilt. A friend who used to live in Munich mentioned this to me recently. I took note because I’m newly in debt, quite a lot of it, from buying a house.
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Another Giant Leap – Al Jazeera English
Can emerging economies across Asia and Africa lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the next few decades without condemning the world to environmental destruction?
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A row has broken out at the Paris climate talks as Indian officials accused one of the world’s leading thinktanks of exaggerating the amount of money given to poor countries to help them cope with global warming.
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“Once upon a time…” These words are a gateway into a different world, a magical realm of wicked witches, fairy godmothers, talking animals and handsome princes. Yet this distant world is familiar to all of us.
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By CORAL DAVENPORT and DEC. 1, 2015 EBEYE, Marshall Islands — Linber Anej waded out in low tide to haul concrete chunks and metal scraps to shore and rebuild the makeshift sea wall in front of his home.
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Russia Warns of Retaliation as NATO Expands East | Al Jazeera America
Russia warned of retaliatory measures Wednesday after NATO invited the tiny Balkan state of Montenegro to join the military alliance in its bloc’s first expansion since 2009. The move defies previous warnings from Moscow that enlargement of the U.S.
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How do you create a city for all? The answer lies in West Norwood … | Cities | The Guardian
In February 2014, a pilot project was launched in West Norwood, south London, mobilising 1,000 people to reconfigure their neighbourhood for everyday benefit.
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We’re talking Donald Trump — again — in this week’s 2016 Slack chat, but with a thespian twist. As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): OK, we’re going to do some role-playing today.
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‘Hollywood is late to the party’: industry plan to tackle gender bias emerges | Film | The Guardian
A wide-ranging plan to address gender inequality in Hollywood has emerged in the wake of a little-publicised summit in October attended by considerable numbers of leading film industry figures and activists.
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The Sketchy World of For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges are getting a lot of attention lately, and not the good kind. They’re being sued, government officials are speaking out against them, and reports are uncovering their shady practices.
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Nicholas Lezard’s best paperbacks of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
To get the bad news out of the way first: the scariest paperback of the year was Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction (Bloomsbury). It considers the vast damage being done to the biosphere by human beings, summed up by one scientist thus: “Look …
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I found the plot very interesting because Voldemort is trying to find Harry and Harry is trying to find the horcruxes (bits of Voldemort’s soul!) The main character is Harry Potter, a wizard schoolboy who is trying to defeat Voldemort (the main bad …
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BBC Sport – Gary Neville: Valencia name ex-Man Utd defender head coach
Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville has been appointed as Valencia’s head coach. More to follow.
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Grim-looking abandoned community for sale in South Dakota / Boing Boing
Swett is a beautifully-named town in South Dakota, and all of it is yours for $250,000. The community is completely abandoned, according to Fortune, and comes complete with a bar, a museum, and a haunted house.
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What Americans get wrong: survey reveals biggest misconceptions | US news | The Guardian
Americans think there are almost twice as many atheists in their country than there actually are, according to a new poll. They also overestimate the number of immigrants, but do guess correctly the percentage of women who work.
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Could cat videos be a hit in cinemas? – BBC News
Could cat videos be a hit in cinemas? 2 December 2015 Last updated at 11:08 GMT The popularity of cat videos is being debated at This Way Up conference in Manchester.Some cinema chains think the growing trend of this genre could convert to profits a…
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The world has often been reminded over the past year that we must leave no one behind as we strive to cement our plans for a sustainable future.
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‘Deal reached’ on truce in district in Syria’s Homs – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian government and rebels in a district in Homs, the country’s third largest city, have agreed on a conditional truce, according to activists.
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Lightest Gold Nugget Ever—20 Carats—Sits On A Feather – Scientific American
Even when it seems unbelievable: these are genuine photographs, in which nothing has been faked. E.g. the 20 carats gold foam is lighter than milk foam. A gold aerogel, so light it can sit on a feather, or float on the froth on top of a cappuccino, …
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The Quest to Run a Marathon in Under Two Hours | New Republic
What is the fastest possible marathon time? This debate began in 1991, perhaps improbably, with the publication of a paper in The Journal of Applied Physiology by anesthesiologist Mike Joyner, who estimated the fastest possible time to be exactly 1:…
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Syria conflict: Half of German Tornado jets ‘not airworthy’ – BBC News
Only 29 of Germany’s 66 Tornado jets are airworthy, a defence ministry report has revealed. It comes two days before German MPs are expected to vote in favour of military action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.
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What Happens To You During A Full Night Of Sleep – Digg
Curious about what happens to you at each stage of sleep? Thanks to this infographic, you’ll wonder no more. Just click on the sleeping figure for details on what’s happening while you snooze.
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Starforce Pi puts real arcade controls in your travel bag / Boing Boing
I once built and housed a full-size MAME cabinet, but soon came to resent its enormous presence in my house and got rid of it. Since then, I’ve dreamed of having something with the right controls and no cables, but less…maximalist. The Starforce PI …
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Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence – BBC News
Wikipedia has launched a tool designed to automatically highlight low-quality edits to articles. The Objective Revision Evaluation Service software has been trained by Wikipedia editors to recognise the quality of an edit based on the language and c…
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Reminder: Dan Carlin AMA today at 6pm EST/3pm PST : politics
We would just like to remind you all that Dan Carlin will be with us today to do an AMA. The AMA will take place at: 6pm EST/3pm PST.
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Cove director’s new doc warns of impending ecological catastrophe | Global | The Guardian
In early 2014, a story made headlines around the world. At a factory in Wenxhou, southeast China owned by a Mr Li, whale sharks were being slaughtered in their hundreds, their various constituent parts distributed for food, medicine and cosmetics no…
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U.K. Spy Agency Does Not Require Individual Warrants To Hack | TechCrunch
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Fits like a glove
Roscosmos commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake stand by the Sokol suits they will wear on launch day, 15 December.
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Save the soil to save the Earth: A Q & A with Ronald…
Ronald Amundson is professor of environmental science at the University of California, Berkeley, and dirt is his life’s work. He grew up on a farm in South Dakota and credits a great high‑school teacher for inspiring him to look at the more ‘intelle…
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Should we be aiming to keep global warming to 1.5C, not 2C? : environment
Should we be aiming to keep global warming to 1.5C, not 2C? (theguardian.com) We really wanted to limit it to 0°C but now there is no way we can limit it to even a 2°C global average rise.
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Ted Cruz’s Clever, Tricky Triangulation – The Atlantic
One underappreciated element of Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign—which has recently come in for a great deal of praise by savvy operators on both sides of the aisle and in the press—are his quiet but effective acts of triangulation.
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Kim Jong-un’s aunt sues defectors in South Korea – BBC News
An aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has filed a defamation case against three defectors who “spread false stories” about her. Ko Yong-suk claims the defectors – who fled to South Korea in the 1990s – lied about her having plastic surgery and …
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TV host becomes first public figure in Russia to declare himself HIV-positive | The Verge
A popular Russian TV host announced that he’s HIV-positive on air Tuesday night, according to a report from AFP.
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Congress Eyes Changes to Visa-Waiver Travel Program – The Atlantic
In the days after terrorists killed 130 people in coordinated attacks in Paris, lawmakers in Washington rushed to try and suspend the nation’s Syrian refugee program. Now, they’re turning their attention to the U.S.
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What We’re Following on Wednesday, December 2 – The Atlantic
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China has just become a global financial giant – Al Jazeera English
China has taken another fateful step towards gaining full recognition as a global economic superpower.
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December 2, 2001: Enron Files for Bankruptcy | The Nation
On this day in 2001 Enron declared bankruptcy, after several months of tanking stock prices, investigations into pervasive accounting fraud, and a failed attempt to find a buyer for the company.
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Who’s Behind the Ghost Companies Funding Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC? | Mother Jones
In February, a limited liability company called TH Holdings LLC donated $100,000 to Right to Rise, the super-PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination. That’s not extraordinary; quite a few LLCs have donated to the super-PAC,…
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This Junk-Food-Funded Elementary School Curriculum Is Bonkers | Mother Jones
At elementary schools nationwide, a health curriculum called Energy Balance 101 has taught millions of kids a seemingly simple concept: In order to stay fit, all we need to do is balance the food we eat with exercise.
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At Least 32 Military Members Have Become Mass Shooting Victims in the Past 3 Years | Mother Jones
The latest American war vet to come home and die in a gun rampage was in Colorado Springs.
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These ‘Think Privacy’ Posters Make Perfect Gifts for Cypherpunks and Paranoids | Motherboard
We’ve all seen these classic motivational messages stuck to the walls of peoples’ homes and offices. But today we live under a much different set of anxieties, and counter-surveillance artist Adam Harvey thinks it’s time for an update.
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Members of Congress Have $68 Million of Their Own Cash Riding on This Industry | Mother Jones
When he came to Washington in 2013, Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) disclosed millions of dollars of investments in companies that manufacture medical devices.
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Somaliland’s herders devastated by drought – Al Jazeera English
Vast regions of Somaliland, the autonomous territory that declared independence from Somalia in 1991, but has not been internationally recognised, are enduring one of their harshest droughts in two decades.
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How This Company—and Mike Huckabee—Cashed In by Scaring Conservatives | Mother Jones
Last year, a man named Brian Chambers announced a world-changing advance: An international research organization called the Health Sciences Institute had found an incredible cure for cancer hidden in the Book of Matthew. For just $74, you, too, coul…
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Can Lebanon’s new plan end stigma of HIV/AIDS? – Al Jazeera English
Beirut – As the Lebanese government is expected to launch a new four-year plan to combat HIV/AIDS in the country, activists say more needs to be done to confront the rampant social discrimination against disease carriers in the country.
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UK PM and opposition leader address MPs before Syria vote – BBC News
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn set out the arguments for and against bombing Syria ahead of a vote by MPs on the issue.
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John Kasich’s Quiet Campaign To Cut Abortion Access | FiveThirtyEight
In June 2013, after 30 years in business, the Center for Choice performed its last abortion and closed its doors. The Toledo, Ohio, clinic had long been a target for anti-abortion activists — there was Marjorie Reed, the arsonist who set fire to the…
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I’m embracing single-parenthood by getting the family pictures I always wanted. – Imgur
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Planned Parenthood Videos Sparked Death Threats – The Daily Beast
The Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting was a shock but, sadly, not a surprise.
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There were never more global leaders under one roof than here in Paris at the global climate negotiations on Monday. And they all talked about leadership, about fixing climate change, about not leaving an uninhabitable planet for our children. Many …
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Reunion ends Argentine family’s ‘dirty war’ trauma – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of families in Argentina continue to search for loved ones taken by the military dictatorship in the 1970s. Women accused of being leftists were imprisoned during what came to be known as the “dirty war”.
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Heavy rain floods India’s Chennai – Al Jazeera English
Another bout of torrential rain has brought disruption to the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including India’s fourth largest city, Chennai.
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An ESA-developed water treatment system has been chosen as one of a hundred top climate technologies to mark this week’s COP21 climate change summit in Paris.
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Guinean ex-leader Konate smuggled $64,000 in the US – BBC News
Sekouba Konate, a former Guinean president and serving African Union general, has pleaded guilty to smuggling money into the US. The 51-year-old tried to sneak in more than $64,000 (£42,400) after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia in 2013.
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Lakers star Kobe Bryant talks about his retirement – video | Sport | The Guardian
After two decades, two Olympic gold medals, five championship rings, 17 All-Star selections, an 81-point game that ranks as the second-best in NBA history and more than 32,000 points, Kobe Bryant’s career is officially winding down.
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Farmers can now call on the latest satellite information using the unique TalkingFields service to get the best from their land while cutting the environmental cost.
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Are you a doctor with the right stuff? / Concordia / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
ESA is looking for a medical doctor to live for a year in Antarctica at the French–Italian Concordia research station. Your job is to run experiments in the Antarctic wilderness that help to prepare for future spaceflight beyond Earth orbit.
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Climate change’s smallest victim: the Marshall Islands are disappearing (nytimes.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Arab Playboy Dies of Cocaine Overdose in London’s Dorchester Hotel – The Daily Beast
More scandal in London surrounding the little-loved Arab playboy elite that make London’s super-luxury hotels a temporary base for part of the year.
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Mad Max reboot named best film of year – BBC News
Futuristic sequel Mad Max: Fury Road has been named film of the year by the influential National Board of Review. The New York-based collective of film historians, student and academics also gave Amy, Asif Kapadia’s film about Amy Winehouse, its bes…
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A writer on a European book tour arrives in Germany and finds himself caught in the middle of a clash of opposing dialogues in a city overwhelmed with a huge refugee crisis.
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Bombing Syria? The power of grievability – Al Jazeera English
On July 7, 2005, I had a kind of fantasy, lying in a London hospital bed hours after being two metres from Mohammed Sidique Khan when he exploded his bomb.
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US sanctions on Sudan under the spotlight – Al Jazeera English
Khartoum, Sudan – After an official week-long visit to Sudan to study the effect of sanctions placed on the country, United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has concluded that the measures are harming ordinary people.
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SOHO celebrates 20 years of discoveries / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
Originally planned for a two-year mission, the ESA–NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, is today celebrating two decades of scientific discovery. Launched on 2 December 1995, the satellite enjoys an uninterrupted view of our star from some…
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What does the prisoner phone-recording leak mean for prisoners and their families? / Boing Boing
Lisa Rein writes, “On November 12th, The Intercept published a story about one of its SecureDrop uploads: 70 million records of prisoner phone data.
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Watch a Freelance Journalist Writhe Through a Powerful DMT Trip for Research | Motherboard
In 2006, when freelance journalist Rak Razam smoked his first hit of 5-MeO-DMT, a powerful and similarly hallucinogenic cousin of DMT, he had it documented.
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Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say | Environment | The Guardian
The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 years, with potentially disastrous consequences as global demand for food soars, scientists have warned.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Rover on Katwijk beach
An array of strange, sharp-edged rocks appeared suddenly on a sandy beach near ESA’s technical centre as part of an ambitious test of robotic rover technology. Rovers for Mars and other destinations will operate much too far from Earth for direct te…
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Are NFL kickoff returners becoming obsolete? | Sport | The Guardian
Just before the New York Jets’ season began, Antonio Cromartie, the veteran cornerback who had rejoined the team in March, proposed an interesting personnel move to head coach Todd Bowles.
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2.7M Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit. | The Nation
My small feet thump the concrete as I hurry toward the door. My four older brothers trail closely behind. Upon entering, we disappear into the apartment and excitedly explore every corner. We peek out the window at our new playmates. By morning, the…
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Saturday night at The Distillery, a small bar tucked away in a warren of narrow lanes in Beijing’s city centre. The place is almost empty – a few people sit at the bar sipping cocktails and moaning about pollution.
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Should we be aiming to keep global warming to 1.5C, not 2C? | Environment | The Guardian
2C – it’s become shorthand for a safe, equitable climate deal. But the science and the UN’s position is unequivocal that if the world warms 2C above the pre-industrial age by 2100, many countries will face unbearable devastation.
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How Chennai residents are helping flood affected via social media – BBC News
Residents from the southern Indian city of Chennai are using social media to help those stranded in floods. Hundreds have taken to social media platforms to coordinate search, rescue and food distribution efforts and also reach out to people who nee…
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Botswana sells fracking rights in national park | Environment | The Guardian
The Botswana government has quietly sold the rights to frack for shale gas in one of Africa’s largest protected conservation areas, it has emerged.
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Riverside, Tasmania – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riverside is a residential suburb 4 kilometres north-west of the central business district of Launceston, Tasmania’s second largest city. The West Tamar Highway runs through the suburb, adjoining Riverside to the West Tamar, which includes small tow…
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America’s Got Talent is letting contestants audition online | The Verge
America’s Got Talent has partnered with live-streaming app YouNow to let contestants audition online. According to Variety, the talent show is holding hour-long open castings for its eleventh season over the next nine weeks.
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Rory McIlroy: golf without Tiger Woods ‘doesn’t bear thinking about’ | Sport | The Guardian
Rory McIlroy has said golf without Tiger Woods “doesn’t bear thinking about” after the 14-time major winner admitted he does not know when he will play again.
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Report: Arrivals by sea in Europe near 1m mark – Al Jazeera English
Since January 2015, at least 907,712 refugees and migrants made the journey to Europe, including 878,495 who have arrived by sea, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. That means that almost 97 percent arrived by sea.
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Just last month, Stanford University‘s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts made its collection accessible online, digitizing and uploading over 45,000 of its works of art in forms freely viewable by all.
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Sinead O’Connor: A Life Misunderstood – The Daily Beast
Sinead O’Connor never makes the news the way you imagine she’d want.
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The High Street by Alice Melvin – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
In this book Sally needs a yellow rose, a garden hose, a bunch of grapes, some roller skates and much, much more. But what happens when she can’t find any roses? The main character is Sally. She is a kind person. My favourite character is Sally beca…
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Never Goodnight: a Swedish punk Peanuts / Boing Boing
In 1982, Coco Moodysson was a 12 year old punk in Sweden, along with her best friend and her best friend’s sister. They gave themselves spiky haircuts, started a band called Off to the Alps, wrote a song called “Ecco Shoes” and demanded that the adu…
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Iraq’s Generation Uneducated – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq – It’s almost like you can’t see them, but you know they are there. You see them but you ignore them. They run up to your car and clean your windscreen. They offer to polish your shoes.
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Last Round Of Hackathon Tickets Available, And Announcing The Hackathon Sponsor Prizes | TechCrunch
Nikesh and Gemma, your Hackathon MCs, here again! Wonder what APIs you might build on over Hackathon weekend? Have we got some technologies for you! We’re excited to announce the sponsors prizes for this year’s spectacular TechCrunch Hackathon Londo…
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The politics of climate change – Al Jazeera English
Approximately 150 heads of state have descended on a northern suburb of Paris for the 21st United Nations Conference of the Parties, known as COP 21.
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Bashar Al Assad: ‘IS shrinking since Russian strikes’ – BBC News
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad says Russia’s involvement in his country’s war has led to significant changes, including the “shrinking” of the Islamic State (IS) group. Russia launched air strikes in late September in support of Mr Assad, Moscow’…
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Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population : politics
And this is why the current amount of GDP taxed is unsustainable.
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World’s richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam | Environment | The Guardian
The richest 10% of people produce half of Earth’s climate-harming fossil-fuel emissions, while the poorest half contribute a mere 10%, British charity Oxfam said in a report released Wednesday.
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Birds are drowning themselves and we don’t know why (bbc.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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British terror suspect Jermaine Grant jailed in Kenya – BBC News
MPs will decide later whether to authorise UK air strikes against Islamic State in Syria after what is expected to be a 10-hour debate.
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The seven stages of writing a novel | Children’s books | The Guardian
The seven stages of writing a novel are for the most part the same whether you’re doing it for the first time or the fourth time.
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I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: why computer scientists should care about DRM / Boing Boing
I have an editorial in the current issue of Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, a scholarly journal for computer scientists, in which I describe the way that laws that protect digital locks (like America’s DMCA) compromise the …
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What are you reading with your child this month? December | Children’s books | The Guardian
Become a Guardian children’s books family reviewer and review the best picture books you are reading with your child right now.
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Emma Watson’s Very Bold, Very Flawed #HeForShe Feminism Campaign – The Daily Beast
According to an interview in this month’s issue of Porter magazine, Emma Watson’s celebrated HeForShe gender equality campaign was unsuccessfully censored.
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Syria conflict: Assad says Russia role ‘slowing down IS’ – BBC News
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad says Russia’s involvement in his country’s war has led to significant changes, including the “shrinking” of the Islamic State (IS) group. Russia launched air strikes in late September in support of Mr Assad, Moscow’…
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Wondermark » Archive » First Look: Wondermark 2016 Calendar
The 2016 Wondermark Calendar is now available for pre-order! Further judgment Reserved.
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Crapgadget watch: toys of unimaginable ghastliness / Boing Boing
Funny or Die scoured the Web for ten genuinely awful toys that were discovered in the wild — toys that transcend mere poor quality assurance and enter the realm of non-Euclidean ghastliness that defies all reason.
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Scott Walker Boots 15,000 People Off Food Stamps In Three Months : politics
Meanwhile Walker never got around to that job creation thing he promised. Did he create 15k more jobs? I bet not.
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Hannah Arendt on Time, Space, and Where Our Thinking Ego Resides | Brain Pickings
In Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen remembers the future instead of the past.
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Netsertive Raises $24 Million to Help Affiliates With Marketing | TechCrunch
Netsertive, the marketing intelligence platform, has completed a round of $24 million in Series C funding, led by River Cities Capital Funds.
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Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective / Boing Boing
The Ford Foundation’s Michael Brennan discusses the many studies showing how algorithms can magnify bias — like the prevalence of police background check ads shown against searches for black names. What’s worse is the way that machine learning magn…
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Montenegro invited to join Nato – BBC News
MPs will decide later whether to authorise UK air strikes against Islamic State in Syria after what is expected to be a 10-hour debate.
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I’m 29 years old, and this is still an accurate representation of what happens – GIF on Imgur
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Dog reunited with her owner who just came home from her tour of duty. – GIF on Imgur
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Huge fuel tanker blaze holds up California freeway – BBC News
The blaze caused huge traffic tail-backs south of Los Angeles. The tanker was reportedly carrying 8,700 gallons of fuel when one of its tyres burst.
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Every Ryan Murphy production has a moment (or moments) where it feels like he (and, by extension, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan) is simply playing a trick on his audience.
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Tidal appoints former SoundCloud exec as new CEO, its third in eight months | The Verge
After more than half a year without a permanent leader, Jay Z’s music streaming service Tidal finally has a new CEO.
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What happened when a parent fought for his kid’s privacy at an all-Chromebook school / Boing Boing
Katherine W was seven when her third-grade teacher issued Chromebooks to her class. Her dad, Jeff, is a serious techie, but the school’s tech choices didn’t sit well with him.
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Ever since debuting as a background Frackle (that’s Henson-speak for anonymous monster) on The Great Santa Claus Switch back in 1970, Gonzo has slowly grown into one of the most complex characters in the Muppets’ ranks.
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Where is the world’s most polluted city? | Cities | The Guardian
Every day, hundreds of millions of people step outside into an environment that has become unsafe for human survival. Outdoor air pollution kills 3.3 million people every year, mostly in cities; more than HIV, malaria and influenza combined.
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What It’s Like To Volunteer At Planned Parenthood | Al Jazeera America
Brock Wilbur, a 31-year-old stand-up comedian in Los Angeles, is tall — 6 feet 7 inches, to be exact. His height has been an asset, helping him score work as a bouncer at a nightclub when he lived in Chicago.
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A profile of America’s killingest cops: the police of Kern County, CA / Boing Boing
The predominantly white police of predominantly black and Latino, Tea-Party-governed Kern County, California kill more people per capita than any other force in America.
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UN says ISIL exploiting Libya security vacuum – Al Jazeera English
The UN has given warning that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group is exploting the political instability in Libya to expand its influence there.
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HOWTO pack a suit so it doesn’t wrinkle / Boing Boing
If you have to travel with a suit and don’t fancy ironing it when you arrive, you can use one of two methods (depending on the size of your suitcase) to pack it so that it unpacks ready to wear. For an average size suitcase 1.
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The word “taser” comes from an old racist science fiction novel / Boing Boing
Taser inventor Jack Cover named his gadget after a zapper from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a 1911 YA science fiction novel by Victor Appleton that tells the story of a hero who travels to Africa to get rich by killing elephants for their ivory…
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Words, first spoken, then delivered by script, print and now digital media, remain the principal means by which humans may contemplate, negotiate, mediate, adjudicate and agitate for a different world without constant need of violence.
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In huddles in corners, sitting on the floor in corridors, crowded around smartphones at cafe tables around the sprawling conference centre in Paris where crunch climate change talks are ongoing, a new form of meeting is taking place.
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We need to come up with innovative solutions to look after our planet, and the Paris climate change conference is the place to do it. By innovative we don’t only mean new energy technology and new green financing mechanisms.
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Newly discovered WEB Du Bois science fiction story reveals more Afrofuturist history / Boing Boing
NAACP founder WEB Du Bois wasn’t just a committed, effective activist for the rights of black people in America: he was also a prolific author of early 20th century science fiction and fantasy stories.
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Harrison Ford on ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: ‘I Got Paid’ – The Daily Beast
“It doesn’t get any bigger or better than our first guest,” Jimmy Fallon said Tuesday night before introducing Harrison Ford, the “Academy Award-nominated” actor who is reprising his role as Han Solo in this month’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Humans for scale bottom left. : pics
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Amazon Dominated 36% of Online Black Friday Sales, Says Slice | TechCrunch
Slice Intelligence, which gathers e-commerce data from receipts linked to its Slice package tracking app, tells TechCrunch that Amazon dominated online Black Friday sales, accounting for 35.7% in e-commerce spending on November 27. A distant second,…
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Body of abducted Australian biker found in Thailand – BBC News
The body of an Australian who was formerly a Hell’s Angels gang member has been found in Thailand. Thai police said the body of Wayne Schneider, 37, was found in a grave not far from the beachside town of Pattaya.
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This is Cooper. AKA the Coopercaubra. : cats
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Larry Wilmore Dismantles Donald Trump’s Meeting with Black Pastors – The Daily Beast
When Donald Trump announced this past week that he would be meeting with 100 prominent members of the African-American religious community, they made it abundantly clear that the so-called summit did not amount to an endorsement.
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A roadmap for killing TPP: the next SOPA uprising! / Boing Boing
The Trans Pacific Partnership is the largest “trade deal” in history, negotiated in secret and encompassing many issues unrelated to trade, including rules that make the Internet less secure, easier to censor and spy on, and more subject to corporat…
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An echidna, an animal not often seen taking a dip, has been found swimming in Tasmania not long after fishermen hauled a wombat out of a different lake on the island with a net.
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Where you would expect to see caution and circumspection, instead there is a rush to action. Where you would expect to see determination and resolve, there is only vacillation and delay.
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Here’s a quick summary of the story behind Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce again: Vicki Iovine wrote a series of lifestyle guides for expectant and new mothers. Her first book was called The Girlfriends’ Guide To Pregnancy, and a cottage industry bloo…
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SANLIURFA, Turkey — After the Syrian government stopped paying him, a technician who had spent two decades pumping the country’s oil received an enticing offer: do the same work for the jihadists of the Islamic State — starting at three times the sa…
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And thus it was, in the ninth episode of the FOX series Grandfathered, the Grandfather did some parenting.
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Pakistan hangs four over Peshawar school attack – BBC News
Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children, reports say. The men were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the …
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Wikipedia Russia suspends editor who tried to cut deal with Russian authorities / Boing Boing
A Wikipedia editors has been suspended after he organized a meeting with the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (as well as Rospotrebnadzor, a consumer rights watchdog, and Roskomnadzor, a media watchdog) to set terms under which “the expert opini…
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Colo. Lawmaker Blames Planned Parenthood | Al Jazeera America
Rep. JoAnn Windholz wrote in a Facebook posting Monday that Planned Parenthood is “the real culprit” for violence. She called Planned Parenthood the “true instigator of this violence” because it provides abortions.
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Vtech toy data-breach gets worse: 6.3 million children implicated / Boing Boing
The Hong Kong-based toymaker/crapgadget purveyor didn’t even know it had been breached until journalists from Vice asked why data from its millions of customers and their families were in the hands of a hacker, and then the company tried to downplay…
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Uber Hires Away Another Executive From Google Maps | TechCrunch
Uber has poached a second executive from Google Maps. Manik Gupta announced on LinkedIn today that he is now Uber’s director of products for maps, after leaving a similar position at Google Maps.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Nebulae in Aurigae
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Nebulae in Aurigae
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LinkedIn Launches Revamped Mobile Apps, But Noise Remains A Big Problem | TechCrunch
LinkedIn, the professional social network that we love to hate, is hoping to entice you into using it more on your phone after it introduced revamped versions of its iOS and Android apps.
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Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries / Boing Boing
Scott Smith and his family moved from the USA to the Netherlands and discovered that despite living in the most heavily surveilled moment in human history, neither his old country nor his new one can figure out how to relate to them.
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LinkedIn’s Redesigned App Is Now Available | Re/code
The redesigned mobile app that LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner showed off back in October is now available to users worldwide. LinkedIn has been working on the app for at least six months (probably much longer), and on Tuesday it finally hit Apple’s App S…
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‘The Big Short’ Director Adam McKay: Trump Is a ‘Big Fat Hack’ – The Daily Beast
“Who scares me the most? It’s probably a tie between Trump and Carson,” Anchorman helmer Adam McKay told The Daily Beast on a recent afternoon in Beverly Hills, where his fact-based financial crisis satire The Big Short spawned a discussion of two n…
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Inside Rahm Emanuel’s Vote to Silence Laquan McDonald’s Family – The Daily Beast
The day the Chicago City Council approved a $5 million settlement with the family of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was also the day a linen sheet from Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed was put on display in the chamber.
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Gun Nuts Are a Threat to Democracy: How Open Carry Undermines Open Debate – The Daily Beast
Those were the words of Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president for life at the National Rifle Association and a sputtering rageaholic.
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New York Cracks Down on Female Genital Mutilation – The Daily Beast
Female genital mutilation is illegal under federal law, but hundreds of thousands of girls in the United States remain at risk. Lawmakers in New York, a hotbed for the practice, hope to change that by raising public awareness of a relatively unknown…
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No amount of clapping could have brought last year’s NBC telecast Peter Pan Live! to life. And our heads are still spinning like a maniacal Carrie Underwood on a soundstage hilltop over the previous year’s woefully miscast, similarly snoozy producti…
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‘Eating Bread and Crying on the Floor’: ‘Lonely’ Guy Finds 34K New Year’s Dates – The Daily Beast
It was going to be a sad night in Sam Foran’s dorm on New Year’s Eve. He was going to be on his floor, by himself, eating bread and crying, all alone. That was the plan, at least until last Wednesday, when 34,000 people decided they wanted to join h…
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Karl Rove Yearns for Smoke-Filled Rooms – The Daily Beast
Not since he was murdered by an anarchist 114 years ago has William McKinley found an admirer as ardent as Karl Rove.
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The Student Activists Connecting Israel to Campus Rape – The Daily Beast
No Red Tape launched as an anti-sexual assault activist group at Columbia University in January 2014, dedicated in the “fight to end sexual and domestic violence on college campuses and empower survivors,” according to its Facebook page.
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Donald Trump’s War on People With Disabilities – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump, truth-manipulator-in-chief, has again run afoul of reality – this time when he spoke about his relationship with Americans with disabilities.
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The Stealth Issue That Could Win 2016 – The Daily Beast
There is a stealth political issue in America today, one that could very well determine which party wins the presidency in 2016—and virtually no one in Washington is talking about it. Issues of foreign policy, terrorism, and national security are un…
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For a brief, glorious period, roughly from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, Hollywood execs lost their minds and began funding genuine art movies.
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The sister act · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’m a straight female in my mid 20s. I’ve been dating a wonderful guy for two years—but I recently found something that has put me on edge. Before we met, he was in a relationship with a terrible, alcoholic, and mentally unstable woman.
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What’s Vandal “Macho Man” Savage doing in the Arrow Zone?!? · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, December 2. All times are Eastern. Arrow (The CW, 8 p.m.
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Earlier this fall, Nickelodeon announced plans to bring back some of its most beloved properties, a move that’s coming to fruition sometime in the semi-near future with a Craig Bartlett-penned Hey Arnold! movie.
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12 adaptation all-stars, from Benedict Cumberbatch to Maggie Smith · Inventory · The A.V. Club
While it might seem daunting to most actors to play an established and beloved character, managing audience expectations while trying to turn in your best performance, certain thespians just seem to take to it, for whatever reason.
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Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love” helped define the MTV era · We’re No. 1 · The A.V. Club
In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines an album or single that went to No. 1 on the charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Robert Palmer’s “Addic…
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If Bloodborne deserves to be remembered for anything, it’s the meticulously crafted geography of its first half.
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The comedian Jim Gaffigan shares a two-bedroom apartment in New York City with his wife, Jeannie, and five children. If that sounds like the start of a joke, it’s because his TV Land comedy series, “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” is loosely based on his li…
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Amstel decided that my artwork was her new bed : cats
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“Closure” begins with one of the best scenes of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s third season, a casual dinner date between Phil Coulson and Rosalind Price where they try to bring a modicum of normalcy to their lives by enjoying some greasy fast-food burger…
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Two Guys went Skiing in the Pitch Dark Wearing LED Suits. – GIF on Imgur
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Turkey-Russia: The inevitable clash of the titans – Al Jazeera English
In the aftermath of the Turkish downing of a Russian warplane, the crisis between Turkey and Russia is rapidly escalating.
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Mozilla will let go of Thunderbird / Boing Boing
The Mozilla Foundation stopped active development of the Thunderbird stand-alone email client in 2012, a year before Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass email interception by spy agencies sparked an exodus from webmail platforms.
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Ecological ‘disaster’ after tanker spills oil onto Sakhalin shore : environment
Ecological ‘disaster’ after tanker spills oil onto Sakhalin shore (siberiantimes.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Sleepy hollow under a gothic mask | Environment | The Guardian
Inside, the woods are strangely still. Outside, a storm is roaring. Hollows in the woods can create unique spaces as trees deflect the wind above and create an atmosphere of secluded quiet below. I scramble through the hedge bank to drop down on to …
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Rosa Parks was a radical, lifelong black liberation activist, not a “meek seamstress” / Boing Boing
Jeanne Theoharis, an academic who wrote the biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Nebulae in Aurigae via NASA…
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The head of Southern California Gas Co said it would take at least three more months to plug a massive underground leak of natural gas that has been seeping into the air since mid-October and now accounts for a quarter of the state’s entire methane …
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People with pets are discovering that their private treatment of animals can easily make them the targets of a social media manhunt, and, in some cases, formal police inquiries.
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The Romney Dreamers of the G.O.P. – The New Yorker
When you consider what the nation will face eleven months from now—when it’s time to choose a new President, and there’s no way out—it’s easy to be drawn to improbable alternatives. For Republicans, one such notion is that Mitt Romney might become a…
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APOD: 2015 December 1 – Nebulae in Aurigae
Explanation: Rich in star clusters and nebulae, the ancient constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga) rides high in northern winter night skies.
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Stephen King “The current episode of FARGO may be the best thing on TV in the last three years. Terrifying and hilarious.” (twitter.com) Stop whatever you’re doing and go watch it. I cannot express this enough.
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UK parliament to vote on strikes against ISIL in Syria – Al Jazeera English
The British parliament is set to debate and vote on a motion authorising the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria.
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When your son doesn’t know what real hip hop is!! : videos
When your son doesn’t know what real hip hop is!! (youtu.be) Annnnte Up!
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India pushes rich countries to boost their climate pledges at Paris | Environment | The Guardian
India has emerged as a pivotal player in the climate talks, championing developing country demands that the rich take the lead in cutting emissions and providing more money for poor countries.
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Echidna found swimming 150 metres from shore in Tasmania – video | Australia news | The Guardian
A fisherman films an echidna he spots swimming about 150 metres from the shores of Lake Echo. He later rescued the animal and accompanied it safely back to land. Echidnas are known to swim but not usually for long distances.
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Gorgeous puzzle game Monument Valley is now free on iOS | The Verge
Of all the ways to chill while commuting, Monument Valley is one of the most chill — and now it’s one of the cheapest, too. Ustwo’s Escher-inspired puzzle-adventure has just gone free on iPhone and iPad for the first time, so even more people can ge…
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Paddleboarders at Sunset – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Australia Bureau of Meteorology ‘hacked’ – BBC News
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has been the victim of a major hacking attack, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation has reported. The ABC said “multiple official sources” had confirmed the attack, and that it would cost millions of dollars…
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Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of Haruki Murakami is leaked | Books | The Guardian
Librarians in Japan have ditched their traditional regard for silence to accuse a newspaper of violating the privacy of Haruki Murakami, Japan’s best-known contemporary writer, after it revealed his teenage reading habits.
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Spider Robinson on “Writer’s Tears” Irish whiskey / Boing Boing
[Editor’s note: science fiction novelist Spider Robinson forever influenced my liquor consumption habits with the rhapsodic praises for Bushmill’s 1608 Irish whiskey that feature in so many of his books. I’ve bought rather a large number of bottles …
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The Dresser: The Contraption That Makes Getting Dressed an Adventure | Open Culture
Joseph Herscher — kinetic artist extraordinaire and creator of the great “Page Turner” Rube Goldberg machine — returns with a new contraption: “The Dresser”. Originally, “The Dresser” was a live performance piece that Herscher performed in Charlotte…
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Last week, HitFix television critic Alan Sepinwall published a very interesting article about the rise of serialization in television and how it is hurting the ability of many shows to construct coherently structured, compelling individual episodes.
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A staircase by Leonardo Da Vinci : pics
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This line from a Rage in the Machine song sounds like something funny in Japanese / Boing Boing
The Teddytaur is an actual, $400 product, made from alpaca-wool, sold by high-end toymaker Steiff in its Japanese store. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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Services performed by Planned Parenthood in 2013 and 2014 [OC] : dataisbeautiful
The “other services” is the ball peen hammer fund for smashin’ fetuses. Please don’t crucify me reddit I’m kidding.
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Rush-hour Explosion Hits Istanbul Metro Station | Al Jazeera America
Five people were injured in an explosion on an overpass near an Istanbul metro station during the Tuesday evening rush hour, the district mayor said, halting some train operations and heightening security fears.
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Holiday season off to a winning start : aww
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India’s Chennai hit by fresh rain and deadly flooding – BBC News
Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai have caused serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power. The army has been deployed to rescue thousands of stranded people after two days of heavy rains.
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How to calm a crying baby / Boing Boing
How to calm a crying baby? Just let the little guy watch this video. Dr. Robert Hamilton is based in Santa Monica, California, where he operates what looks like a very happy and friendly pediatric medicine practice.
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In a promotional video filmed shortly before the birth of their first daughter, Max, the Facebook chief and his wife, Priscilla Chan, discuss their decision to donate 99% of their Facebook shares to charity over the course of their lifetimes.
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Hear Amy Lee’s Powerful Cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Going to California’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Amy Lee’s Powerful Cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Going to California’ Evanescence singer’s rendition features faithful guitar, mandolin recorded by manager Jordan Berliant
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Fox forced to clarify that The Revenant doesn’t have a “bear rape” scene · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In one of those classic press statements that every publicist dreads having to deliver, a representative for Fox has clarified that the upcoming revenge thriller The Revenant doesn’t feature a scene in which Leonardo DiCaprio is raped by a bear.
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People in drought-ravaged villages in Papua New Guinea are eating toxic mushrooms and clay to stave off hunger pangs as crops fail, vanishing water sources become contaminated and food, medical and fuel supplies are exhausted.
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What Christmas looks like in a house of 5 poor student paramedics. – Imgur
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I watched the clip. It is honestly very hard to listen to Hillary Clinton talk. She must have used the word “I” fifty times in the short segment I watched. That’s the big problem with Hillary, she’s only after the job for herself not to help anyone …
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Here’s What Happens Inside Jane Fonda’s Exclusive Dance Parties (Aside from Dancing) | Vanity Fair
Should you be invited to one Hollywood dance party, you better hope it is Jane Fonda’s. The actress’s guest lists are so exclusive that, this past June, Fonda allowed Elizabeth Banks and James Corden to audition for admittance on live television.
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The Really Fast Way To Make A Baby Chill The Heck Out – Digg
6 diggs Health Animals A pediatrician shows the proper technique for silencing crying babies. He’s doing God’s work.
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People Are Naming Their Babies After Instagram Filters | Vanity Fair
Every year some survey of baby names is released and we all freak out. Because every boy is named Jayden, or there are too many girls named after the characters in Twilight, etc.
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Holly Holm is tired. This isn’t altogether surprising. Since accomplishing the unthinkable by not only defeating the UFC’s queen bee, Ronda Rousey, but by completely demolishing her, Holm’s life has been turned upside down.
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How Has The Jerry Springer Show Survived 25 Years? | Inverse
Everyone involved in live tapings of The Jerry Springer Show understands what’s expected of them. Guests nonchalantly remove their shoes while Jerry addresses each of them, so they’re more prepared to lunge at their partners once they’ve been introd…
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Historic opportunity to end poverty will be lost if we don’t tackle climate change : environment
Historic opportunity to end poverty will be lost if we don’t tackle climate change (theguardian.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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The Best Space Photos Of The Month – Digg
As we tediously while away our days down here on Earth, satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from November. Previously: October, September, August.
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Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, center, with New York officials, including Senator Chuck Schumer, Gov. George E. Pataki and Senator Hillary Clinton, on a tour of the World Trade Center site a day after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Rudolph W.
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Smithsonian launches crowdsourced rock ‘n’ roll photo archive · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Are you the kind of person who goes to concerts and takes pictures of the band the whole time, watching the show through the screen of your phone or the viewfinder of a camera? Were your parents? If so, all of those times you decided not to watch a …
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Aung San Suu Kyi to meet president and army chief in transition talks – BBC News
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a landslide victory in elections last month, is set to meet President Thein Sein to discuss the handover of power. She will also separately meet Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.
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Run the Jewels Channel NYC Gang Culture in Brutal ‘Rubble Kings’ Video | Rolling Stone
Run the Jewels draw on the brutal history of gang-torn Seventies New York City in the gritty animated clip for their latest track, “Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite).
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New Record Gun Sale Background Checks Black Friday | Al Jazeera America
The FBI processed a record number of firearms background checks on Black Friday, the agency said Tuesday.
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Syria vote: MPs to decide whether to bomb IS targets – BBC News
MPs will decide later whether to back UK airstrikes in Syria directed against militants from so-called Islamic State. UK prime minister David Cameron says IS is a threat to Britain’s security.
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Those rich enough to make it onto Forbes 400 list this year are worth as much as all the cat owners in America, according to a new study.
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Did our ancient ancestors ‘kill the cat’? – BBC News
Our ancient human cousins may have fought off big cats with spears, according to archaeological evidence. The sabre-toothed cat lived alongside early humans, and may have been a fearsome enemy, say scientists.
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Exclusive: Secret U.S. Hostage Held By Taliban Allies – The Daily Beast
A group of Islamist militants aligned with the Taliban has been holding an American man hostage for more than a year, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with his case, which has not been reported previously.
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Obama urges Turkey and Russia to drop row and focus on ‘common enemy’ Isis | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama led calls on Tuesday for Turkey and Russia to end their dispute over the downing of a Russian fighter jet and focus instead on the real enemy – Islamic State jihadis. “I want to be very clear: Turkey is a Nato ally.
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Mark Zuckerberg pledges to give all his Facebook shares to charity · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Apparently attempting to nail the tricky Bill Gates Conversion—that is, the transition from suspicion-tinged tech billionaire into well-regarded public philanthropist—Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he and his family will be givi…
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Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit (henrycountyreport.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Google removes Chrome’s notification center because nobody used it | The Verge
As promised in October, Google has ditched Chrome’s desktop notification center in its latest update, released today.
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New US Law Sets Out Mining Rights in Space | Al Jazeera America
The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, signed by President Barack Obama last week, includes provisions that authorize and promote exploration and recovery of space resources by U.S. citizens, although no one can claim ownership of a celest…
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For several days, Donald Trump has insisted that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey cheered the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. This is not true. But today on Fox News, Eric Bolling not only defended Trump but upped the ante.
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I’ve been confused about this Paris climate conference and how the world should move forward to ameliorate climate change, so I séanced up my hero Alexander Hamilton to see what he thought.
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The Playoff Picture Is Clear, As Long as Alabama and Clemson Win Saturday | FiveThirtyEight
The top five teams were unchanged in Tuesday evening’s college football playoff committee rankings. Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa and Michigan State remain entrenched in the No. 1 to No. 5 spots, and all control their own destiny. So no news ther…
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Hamilton Students Deliver List of 83 ‘Demands’ to College President – The Daily Beast
A group of students at Hamilton College, known only as The Movement, have given new meaning to the expression “everything but the kitchen sink” in a list of demands—‘Demands by Hamilton College,’ no less—sent to the college’s president.
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Iowa Republican: Execute Undocumented Immigrant Felon Border-Crossers – The Daily Beast
An Iowa Republican running for Congress has finally figured out how to deal with undocumented immigrants who commit crimes: Execute them. Like leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, state Sen.
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Chris Brown cancels Australia and New Zealand tour – BBC News
US singer Chris Brown’s tour of Australia and New Zealand has been cancelled, promoters have confirmed. It follows months of speculation over whether Brown would be granted visas because of his domestic violence conviction.
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Syria air strikes: Does Cameron need MPs’ backing? – BBC News
MPs are preparing to vote on whether UK forces should bomb so-called Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria, but what is the legal basis for such an action? The law does not require David Cameron to win a Commons vote before launching military action…
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Quotes Tennyson, Loves Wildlife, and Makes Pretty Pictures for NASA : Earth Matters : Blogs
Earth Observatory has a pretty small staff — seven people — for a daily publication. There are a lot of other folks inside and outside of NASA who help us find and tell stories, but one man stands out from the rest.
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Holy Smoak, what an episode. The season so far has been hampered somewhat by the need to plant the seeds for the Legends Of Tomorrow spinoff, disrupting the larger Zoom/Earth-Two arc just as it should be ramping up.
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EU migration deal with Turkey is fraught with risk – BBC News
Europe’s leaders have been desperate to slow the flow of humanity on to the shores of the EU, and at first glance Turkey appears to be the clear winner in a deal agreed at a summit in Brussels. The EU will pay an “initial” sum of €3bn (£2.
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There is a town in West Africa where it has become traditional for men to leave and seek work in Italy. The women are often left behind for years, or even for decades.
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MRW my friends are really good at hide and seek – GIF on Imgur
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A pediatrician shows how to calm a crying baby – GIF on Imgur
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Making It to Mars in Fact and Fiction | Al Jazeera America
Popular culture has been dreaming of Mars for over a hundred years. Thomas Edison made the movie, “A Trip to Mars,” in 1910. David Bowie sang a ballad asking about “Life on Mars” in 1971.
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How is climate change affecting Los Angeles? – BBC News
California is in the middle of a historic drought, with homes and businesses being asked to take drastic measures to save water. That’s not the only way climate change is impacting people on the West Coast.
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Morrissey Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award | Rolling Stone
Morrissey has earned a spot in a pantheon occupied literary giants such as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and John Updike, winning the Literary Review’s 2016 Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the BBC reports.
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A 1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree shedding its leaves. : pics
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This Timelapse Video of Radio Observatories is Just Breathtaking
With gold-plated space telescopes promising to discover distant worlds and unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe, radio astronomy can sometimes feel a bit passé.
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Brisbane bookseller Christopher Currie, whose first novel The Ottoman Motel was award-nominated several times over, notes in the acknowledgements to his new novel, Clancy of the Undertow, that his publisher acted “not at all surprised when I brought…
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How my ‘guardian angel’ saved me at Pearl Harbor – BBC News
On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise strike on the American naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. Thousands of American servicemen were killed or injured in the attack, which severely damaged the US Pacific Fleet. Four US battleships were su…
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Why a controversial temple site in India is trending again – BBC News
The northern Indian town of Ayodhya has been a flashpoint between Hindus and Muslims in India for years.
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Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course Bundle | Digg Store
The ARDX Arduino Starter Kit pairs a detailed, illustrated guide with all the parts you need to build your own circuits. Perfect for beginners, this kit requires no experience and teaches you to use Arduino to control lights, buzzers, and more.
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KeySmart – Premium Pocket Key Organizers & Key Holders – Made In The USA
> Premium key holders aircraft grade aluminum holds up to 100 keys Play Video to learn more about keysmart Expandable to your needs Play Video to learn more about keysmart Loop ring included to attach larger accessories Play Video to learn more abou…
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L.A. sheriff’s deputies sentenced to federal prison for assaulting jail visitor
Two former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies were sentenced to federal prison on November 30 for their role in the beating of a visitor to the Men’s Central Jail back in 2011.
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The Way Pangolins Climb Trees Is Bizarre – Digg
6 diggs Animals Curious Nature It’s like he’s not even trying.
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Forced sterilisation haunts Peruvian women decades on – BBC News
Sabina Huillca, 46, sells bread on the streets of Lima. Twenty years ago she was growing potatoes and corn and bringing up her children in her native Huayllacocha, a village in the Andes four hours by car from the provincial capital, Cuzco.
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‘Empire’ Is Changing What TV Merchandise Means – Racked
Cookie became a proper noun in 2015. The lead character of Fox’s ferociously successful Empire, which premiered in January of this year, has become shorthand for a take-no-shit boss lady with killer clothes and an intense, if fallible, maternal inst…
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Are your sports shoes worth what you paid for them? – BBC News
Basketball star Stephon Marbury thinks shoe companies and their celebrity endorsers are ripping you off. With trainers – or sneakers as they are called in the US – costing upwards of £100, it’s not hard to see why he feels this way.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/aZuiY7Lu9H Stories via @UN_CTED
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Australia economy picks up pace in third quarter – BBC News
Australia’s economy grew more than expected, picking up pace in the second half of the year. The economy grew 2.5% in the three months to September from a year ago, compared with 1.9% in the previous quarter and above forecasts of 2.4%.
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Yahoo Shares Spike 7% On Report That It Might Sell Off Its Core Business | TechCrunch
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the board of Yahoo is considering selling off its core business in a series of upcoming meetings. So, naturally, shares of the company spiked 7% in extended trading once the news came out.
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Academy releases shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Oscar · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Early last month, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences released its shortlist of animated films that were eligible for being nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
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Chinese tourists spend up big in Australia – $7.7bn in the past year | Travel | The Guardian
Chinese tourist spending in Australia soared to $7.7bn over the past year, rising at more than three times the rate of increase in overall visitor spending. Spending by visitors from China rose 43% in the 12 months to September compared with the pre…
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This Hypnotic Video of a Snake Race Tells Us Something About Physics
In this video, snakes are forced to slither between two boards. The boards are placed successively closer together until the poor snake is wriggling. But this isn’t about annoying a snake—it’s about physics.
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Elizabeth Warren: Government Went Too Easy On Predatory For-Profit College Company. (thinkprogress.org) Please, please, please, PLEASE force these fuckers to forgive even more loans.
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Clouds Underwater – The New Yorker
The cover of Joanna Newsom’s latest album, “Divers,” shows a hazy landscape that evokes, simultaneously, the bottom of the sea and the peak of a mountain. Craggy plants, with flowers in reds and whites, give way to dense clouds and a blue sky shinin…
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The Hirst Corporation | New Republic
Despite being just a short hop across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament, Vauxhall used to be London’s least fashionable borough, an area known only for its outdoor urinals and irredeemably depressed bus station. But this atmosphere is now cha…
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Donald Trump’s Rally in Georgia Was a Total Bust – The Daily Beast
Attending a Donald Trump for president rally used to be fun. Really. I’ve been to four so far.
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The Home Away from Home Office of Airbnb
The art-filled workspace above looks like it could be in anyone’s home, but it’s actually an office workspace. It’s part of Airbnb’s San Francisco headquarters.
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Annotated Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be published – BBC News
Adolf Hitler’s political manifesto Mein Kampf with critical notes by scholars is to be published next month – for the first time since the end of WWII. The Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich says it will print up to 4,000 copies with …
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Argentina: Menem sentenced to jail for embezzlement – BBC News
A federal court in Argentina has sentenced former President Carlos Menem to four-and-a-half years in jail for embezzlement. Mr Menem, 85, enjoys immunity as a senator and is unlikely to be arrested.
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Mark Zuckerberg and His Wife Just Had a Baby — and Will Give Away Their Facebook Fortune | VICE News
“For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.” https://t.co/reQ9Mfw4E6
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TIL that every military working dog is always one rank higher than its handler so that mistreatment of the dog is considered assault on an officer of higher rank. (army.mil)
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Bank of China faces daily fine in US – BBC News
The Bank of China will face a daily fine in the US unless it complies with a court request to give details of customers accused of selling fake goods. The bank was held in contempt of court in Manhattan last week for refusing to turn over the record…
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World’s first methane powered tractor created in Italy – BBC News
Engineers in Italy have found a way to harness methane to fuel tractors. The greenhouse gas is produced naturally by animals digesting food or decomposing waste.
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Yahoo may put itself up for sale | The Verge
Yahoo will consider putting itself or its core businesses up for sale, with the possibilities being discussed at a series of board meetings being held later this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Morrissey wins award for worst literary sex scene · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex In Fiction award is a longstanding tradition in the world of poorly described coitus, much anticipated by connoisseurs of improbable orgasms and quasi-criminal overuse of the words “turgid,” “tumescent,” and “sha…
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Hockey’s Puppy Mill · thewalrus.ca
On Easter weekend 2012, fifteen-year-old Sam Berg was spending his Saturday the same way other junior hopefuls across the province were: hunched in front of his computer, obsessively clicking refresh as the Ontario Hockey League draft unfolded with …
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David Cameron calls on Conservative MPs not “to sit on their hands” and side with “terrorist sympathisers” on the eve of a vote on UK airstrikes in Syria.
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The Doctor Invites a Sprout To Dinner (To Be Dinner?) In The BBC’s Bizarre Christmas Ad
The BBC’s new Christmas advert is meant to be a somewhat heart-warming tale of friendship and acceptance over the holidays. Instead, it reads more like The Doctor and Sherlock inviting a sentient sprout-being to get consumed by a variety of British …
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Batman innovator Paul Dini is writing a graphic novel about his personal trauma | The Verge
Paul Dini has left an indelible mark on DC Comics and particularly on Batman. Alongside Bruce Timm, Dini helped turn Batman: The Animated Series into one of the greatest animated series ever made. However, at the height of the series’ popularity, Di…
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Officials admitted that Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri, 37, was a low-level Islamist foot soldier and not an al-Qaida courier and trainer as previously thought, during a Guantanamo hearing.
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Oprah Reveals Why Taylor Swift Brings Her to Tears | Vanity Fair
More than any celebrity in our lifetime, Oprah Winfrey has harnessed her fame and wealth for good, giving back to the less fortunate, and providing women everywhere with a positive role model.
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In January, Rose Marcario, chief executive of sustainable outdoor clothing chain Patagonia wrote an open letter to Australia’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, making clear Patagonia’s (and 17 other businesses’) opposition to the expansion of the Ab…
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Singapore re-arrests alleged match-fixer Dan Tan – BBC News
Singaporean police have rearrested Dan Tan, the man accused by Interpol of being the mastermind behind a global football match-fixing ring. Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, had been held indefinitely without trial since October 2013 but was rele…
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Female Peacock Spiders Underwhelmed By Disco-Dancing Suitors
Earning stage names like Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin, male peacock spiders perform a colorful song and dance nearly unrivaled in the animal kingdom. But a new study shows that their main audience—the females they aim to woo—don’t impress so easily.
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Upcoming musical Waitress tipped to make history for women on Broadway | Stage | The Guardian
The musical Waitress has not yet begun serving its specials onstage yet, but it will make history. Lorin Latarro, hired to choreograph the show, joins a female writer, composer and director. The first time on Broadway that the four top creative spot…
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In the never-ending high-school reunion that is post-Instagram American life, it’s not having the baby that matters, it’s making sure that people you haven’t seen in decades know you had a baby and yes, it is adorable, thanks, my life is going great.
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China’s peacekeeping mission in South Sudan – BBC News
China started deploying hundreds of troops to South Sudan earlier this year to bolster the UN peace mission in the country – the first ever Chinese infantry battalion to be sent on external peacekeeping operations.
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We May Have Just Found W.E.B. Du Bois’ Earliest Science Fiction Story
W.E.B. Du Bois is probably best known as an essayist and the co-founder of the NAACP. But he also wrote a number of works of fiction, including the well-known apocalyptic story “The Comet.” But his newly discovered short story from around 1908 could…
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Kobe Bryant Never Did Catch Up To Michael Jordan | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Dec. 1, 2015), we say farewell to Kobe Bryant, who’s retiring at the end…
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Boston Red Sox agree to record $217m contract with David Price | Sport | The Guardian
The Boston Red Sox have agreed to a record seven-year, $217m (£144m) contract with left-handed pitcher David Price, one of the top starting pitchers available in the free agent market, The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. Price went 18-5 with a 2.
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Hillary Clinton staked a claim to the southern black vote Tuesday, receiving a warm welcome at one of the country’s most important black churches just a day after Donald Trump failed to win public approval from another group of black church leaders.
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Canadian smuggler had 51 turtles in his pants when he tried to cross border | US news | The Guardian
A Canadian college student caught at a border checkpoint with 51 live turtles in his pants has pleaded guilty to six smuggling charges in the US.
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Learn How to Tie the Zip Tie-Like Constrictor Knot With This Video
Knots may seem like an old-fashioned skill to learn, but they can actually be really helpful in a lot of situations. This video will teach you how to tie the constrictor knot, which is essentially the primitive version of the zip tie.
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Former Argentine political prisoner reunited with son – BBC News
A former Argentine political prisoner and her son have met for the first time since she gave birth in the cell of a clandestine detention centre in 1976. Mario Bravo was given for adoption to a non-communist family, a common practice during the mili…
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“The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn”: Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón. “…we are here in the show to try to sell the world a good outcome that is going to kill humans and life as we know it.” (democracynow.org)submitted 6 h…
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Saying one thing and doing the opposite is clearly not a smart political strategy but it seems to be becoming the prime minister’s modus operandi, especially on climate change policy.
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Kobe Bryant’s Retirement Post Had 1 Million Clicks In First Two Hours | TechCrunch
When Kobe Bryant decided to share his intentions to retire after this season, his 20th, the way he did it was…different. Even though he did a press conference later that evening, he chose to share the news via Twitter and Facebook. Both posts linked…
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Superman Has Batman In Chains In The New ‘Batman V Superman’ Teaser – Digg
19 diggs Trailers Movies Henry Cavill’s Superman appears to have Ben Affleck’s Batman in a bit of a pickle in this new clip.
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Fans of indie music and never leaving the house are now in luck: Ghost Ramp—the record label founded by V rockers Wavves—has announced the start of a new subscription service that’ll bring music, clothing, and collectible swag to the fashion conscio…
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Here’s What That Choking Blanket of Smog Over China Looks Like From Space
A thick and dangerous blanket of smog is currently enveloping Beijing and parts of Eastern China, forcing authorities to issue an “orange” alert—the second highest level of a four-tiered pollution scale. Here’s what it looks like from space.
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337 whales dead in Chile in one of history’s biggest beachings | World news | The Guardian
The coast of southern Chile has become a grave for 337 sei whales that were found beached in what scientists say is one of the biggest whale strandings ever recorded.
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Meet the “Harlem Hate Pastor” Who Just Met With Donald Trump | Mother Jones
On Monday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump met with a group of African American pastors in Manhattan, after some confusion over whether all the participants would be endorsing him.
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$1 pill alternative to Turing’s $750 pill gets boost from drug manager | Ars Technica
Prescription drug manager Express Scripts Holding Co. plans to make it easier for patients to get a cheap alternative to Turing pharmaceuticals’ price-boosted drug, Daraprim.
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Sanders can win Iowa and New Hampshire : politics
Very true, he could also lose both. Are we just stating the obvious or…? And people seem to forget that you don’t really win or lose those states.
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How the Past Imagined the Future of Mass Transportation | Inverse
The future of mass transportation is going to be fast, clean, and maybe impossible. Funny, because if you look back through history, thus it has ever been.
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Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks’ Corporate Sponsors (gizmodo.com)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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EFF complaint says Google broke privacy pledge by tracking students | The Verge
The EFF is asking for a federal investigation into whether Google broke a pledge to honor student privacy with its educational tools.
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This Intense Short Film About Virtual Reality Is Already in the Works as a Feature
“Virtual reality, to me, is the only reality.” So begins Uncanny Valley, a short from Argentina’s Federico Heller that’s on the fast track to becoming a feature, thanks to the efforts of Independence Day: Resurgence writer Carter Blanchard.
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Hacker group won’t stop attacking Greek banks until they meet ransom demands | The Verge
Three unnamed Greek banks are the most recent victims of an extortion campaign in which a hacker group is attempting to fully take down their websites.
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Morrissey Likens TSA to ISIS: ‘TSA Stands for Thorough Sexual Assault’ | Rolling Stone
Morrissey Likens TSA to ISIS: ‘TSA Stands for Thorough Sexual Assault’ “If you are traveling through San Francisco International Airport, you must be ready for a full sexual attack by people who claim to have yo
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Google’s monthly self-driving car reports are fun to read through, and gives transparent accounts of what the team is up to, how the cars are performing, and any lessons learned along the way. Last month focused on pedestrians, with Halloween being …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity Windfall – The Daily Beast
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday, Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would gift “substantially all of his shares of Facebook stock,” to “further the mission of advancing human pote…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Pledge 99 Percent of Shares to Charity | Rolling Stone
In an open letter to their newborn daughter Max, Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, pledged to donate 99 percent of their shares in the social media company to a new charitable organizat…
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Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met – The New Yorker
More than sixty years ago, the young Viscountess de Ribes, née Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont, stood on the balcony of a friend’s Venetian palazzo. She was twenty-two, and only a few years out of her convent boarding school.
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Looking For A Podcast? Try ‘Fugitive Waves’ : NPR
Jenna Weiss-Berman, director of audio at Buzzfeed, says Fugitive Waves, produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, offers a gorgeous and complete soundscape.
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A 1948 Norman Timbs Special. : pics
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Sequoia Capital’s Alfred Lin on Why Uber’s Valuation is Twice That of Airbnb | TechCrunch
Today, at the Post-Seed conference in San Francisco, Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Zappos and now Sequoia Capital partner, was asked a variety of on-stage questions about the current market. Among them as whether Lin thinks it’s a good time …
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Who will be Myanmar’s new president? – BBC News
Three weeks after leading her party to a huge win in Myanmar’s general election, Aung San Suu Kyi will on Wednesday hold separate talks with the country’s president and the commander in chief of the army.
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Sydney police raid home linked to Curtis Cheng shooting – BBC News
Police in Sydney, Australia have raided the home of a man previously arrested over the terror-linked killing of police worker Curtis Cheng. Police said the raids on two properties in the western Merrylands suburb were conducted under firearms legisl…
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Ted Cruz buys his rubbers from a vending machine and other fun things the GOP said today | Grist
The summit has just begun, but we can already see themes emerging and battle lines being drawn. On day one of the climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande made some big announcements.
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House Passes Resolutions Against Climate Rules | Al Jazeera America
As President Barack Obama works to hammer out a global climate agreement in Paris, Republicans in Congress are moving to block his plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants.
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Officer who killed Tamir Rice says he believed 12-year-old was in fact 18 | US news | The Guardian
The officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Ohio has delivered his first public account of the killing, over a year after the incident occurred, arguing his actions were justified as he was engaged in an “active shooter situation” and …
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Planned Parenthood Shooter Robert Dear Was a Lonely Religious Extremis | Vanity Fair
So far, no official motive has been established in last week’s mass shooting of a Planned Parenthood clinic, though it’s been widely reported that the gunman, Robert Dear, allegedly said “no more baby parts”—mirroring anti-abortion rhetoric conserva…
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The Incredibly Messed Up Origins of the Word “Taser”
Tasers remain incredibly controversial weapons in the arsenal of law enforcement, given their overuse and the risk of cardiac arrest. But let’s not forget the word “TASER” is a loose acronym for Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle, an incredibly messed…
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Here’s What The Officer Who Shot Tamir Rice Told The Grand Jury | ThinkProgress
More than one year has passed since 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed while holding a toy gun, and prosecutors have yet to decide whether to charge the officer responsible.
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Golden State Warriors Lead NBA With Record 19-0 Start : NPR
Defending NBA champions the Golden State Warriors keep hammering away at the rest of the league. The team’s 19-0 start is an NBA record. And some are wondering not if the Warriors are going to repeat as champs, but when are they going to actually lo…
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Germany Approves Plans To Support International Coalition Fighting ISIS : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with German Ambassador to the United States, Peter Wittig, about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to commit troops to the ongoing fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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Report Calls For Investigation Into CIA’s Post-9/11 Interrogation Program : NPR
Human Rights Watch issued a new report Tuesday examining the legality of the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program. It is expected to challenge the Obama administration’s conclusions that it is impossible to prosecute the CIA officers …
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Japanese Illustrator Shigeru Mizuki Dies At 93 : NPR
One of Japan’s most beloved illustrators has died. Shigeru Mizuki always loved to draw, but it wasn’t until he was in his 40s (after he fought in WWII where he lost his left arm) that he began to publish his most important work.
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Montgomery, Ala., Celebrates 60th Anniversary Of Bus Boycott : NPR
The 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott is Tuesday. The city remembers the day with a reenactment of Dec. 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
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Lebanon Coordinates Prisoner Swap For Soldiers Held By Al-Qaida-Linked Group : NPR
Lebanon coordinated a prisoner swap for soldiers who have been held hostage over a year by an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group.
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Obama faces US government fight over carbon emissions – BBC News
President Obama, speaking at the COP21 summit in Paris, has described climate change as a “generational problem”. He insisted the world could forge a major agreement at the talks.
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In Paris it’s a sea of pillars, decorated for each participating nation.
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Mozilla proposes splitting off Thunderbird email client | The Verge
Mozilla wants to cut ties with the Thunderbird email client for good, according to Mozilla Foundation executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker.
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Medicalizing viruses that attack bacteria | Ars Technica
Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, were on the cusp of becoming medical therapies in the middle of the twentieth century. But before the viruses got a shot in clinics, researchers discovered the wonder drugs that we now know as antibio…
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A week after officials released video footage of a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city’s police chief, saying that Garry McCarthy had lost the trust of the community.
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Did Morrissey Deserve to Win the ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ Award? – The Atlantic
Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award is a colorful circus that’s gleefully publicized on social media each year using the hashtag #badsex.
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Obama Unleashes Hunter-Killers on ISIS – The Daily Beast
The Obama administration is dispatching a targeting force of elite U.S. special operations troops into northern Iraq, after top U.S. defense and intelligence officials warned the ISIS network is growing faster than the coalition that’s fighting it, …
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Sediments Aswirl in Lake Erie : Image of the Day
November can be a stormy month in the Great Lakes region, as it was again in 2015. Toward the middle of the month, a low-pressure system and cold front swept up from the Central Plains and across the lakes.
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SEC Charges Bitcoin Startup CEO With Running a Ponzi Scheme | Motherboard
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday it has charged two bitcoin companies and their founder Josh Garza with defrauding investors.
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Largest police union renews call for NFL to end concealed-carry ban | US news | The Guardian
The United States’ largest police union has written to the National Football League asking the sporting body to reconsider its ban on carrying concealed firearms at its stadiums, in the wake of heightened fears of terrorist attacks.
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New York City To Require Sodium Warnings On Restaurant Menus : NPR
New York City has implemented a new rule requiring chain restaurants to put sodium warnings on their menus. Menu items that contain lots of salt will be marked with an icon of a salt shaker.
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Soften Big Chunks of Hard Brown Sugar in the Oven
If your brown sugar has transformed into massive chunks that are harder than granite, a quick bake in the oven can turn them back into piles of soft, usable grains. If you’re dealing with some really stubborn chunks of brown sugar, Teresa Floyd at F…
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Most US Terror Arrests since 2001 | Al Jazeera America
A 19-year-old newlywed and ex-Mississippi State cheerleader. A Bosnian immigrant and war veteran. The son of a Boston area police officer.
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Parfums de Voyage by L’Objet | Vanity Fair
“Scent is our strongest memory,” muses Elad Yifrach, the mastermind behind L’Objet, the stunning luxury-home-décor collection. Ten years later, Yifrach has created the perfect addition to his collection.
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Turkish court ‘orders Gollum study’ in Erdogan case – BBC News
A Turkish court has asked experts to assess the character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings in the case of a man on trial for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish media report. Bilgin Ciftci is accused of insulting the president for sha…
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Thanks to his work on Batman: The Animated Series, Paul Dini is easily one of the most influential writers in the history of the Caped Crusader.
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Only One Week To Submit Your Application For 1st And Future | TechCrunch
There is just over one week until applications close for 1st and Future, the startup competition that TechCrunch is staging with the NFL and Stanford University on February 6 at Stanford’s CEMEX Auditorium. Get your application in today.
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Why Israel Will Probably Never Have A Tech Giant And Why That’s Not Something To Regret | TechCrunch
For many years, Israelis used to lament that the local tech scene, while considered second only to Silicon Valley and generating many successful startups, has never been able to grow a world tech leader such as Nokia.
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Perion Acquires Digital Ad Company Undertone For $180M | TechCrunch
Israeli marketing company Perion Networks announced today that it has acquired Undertone, a New York City-based digital ad company in a $180 million cash deal. According to the release, $91 million will be paid once the acquisition closes, with the …
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The Outlander Season 2 Teaser Brings Our Heroes to a Decadent France
In a teaser that’s less than a minute long, Outlander shows our heroine ditching the rustic wools of Scotland for the lush silks of France. Also, Claire is super pregnant in one of the scenes.
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Republicans Attempt to Derail the Paris Climate Talks – The Atlantic
Republicans are telegraphing a message to world leaders at the start of the Paris climate talks: President Obama is all alone. To underscore that point, the U.S.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives” — holdings currently worth $45 billion — to charitable purpo…
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Facebook CEO, wife pledge to donate nearly all of their company shares to charity | Ars Technica
In a public post on Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced Tuesday that they will donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during their lives”—an amount currently worth $45 billion—to their new charity, the Chan Zucke…
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SpaceX will try to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground, NASA says | The Verge
When SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket again, the company will attempt to land the vehicle back on solid ground, Florida Today reported.
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Silicon Valley’s Bet on the Future and War on the Present | Vanity Fair
Following the private tech markets has, of late, produced the sort of daily stimulation commensurate with a roiling presidential campaign, late-summer pennant chase, or, perhaps, an Adderall dependency.
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Chris Christie Bets On New Hampshire In GOP Presidential Race : NPR
In a crowded Republican presidential field, Chris Christie has struggled to stand out. But after a string of endorsements in New Hampshire, the New Jersey governor is hoping to break out.
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Explore climate change with these 2 interactive charts. Maybe grab some spiked eggnog, too | 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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‘Unprecedented’: What ISIS Looks Like In America : The Two-Way : NPR
They connect via online services — especially Twitter — and in everyday life. Their ages range from 15 to 47, and their roles range from cheering attacks to plotting violence.
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21 Brilliant Photographs Which Hugely Impressed The Internet In 2015 – Imgur
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Gotta love when stuff like this happens on Wiki. Yayaya I am Lorde! – Imgur
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On Thursday evening, a Cygnus spacecraft will blast off from Cape Canaveral, strapped on top of an Atlas V rocket. The vessel will be delivering food, clothes, and science experiments to astronauts on board the ISS. It’s a routine resupply.
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US ‘terror’ arrests at highest level since 9/11 – Al Jazeera English
This has been a banner year for US law enforcement’s battle against “terrorism”.
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Wyoming Schools Get Poor Report Card For Native American Absenteeism : NPR
Craig Ferris begins his morning with an unscheduled stop in his black suburban. Ferris is best known around here as the basketball coach who’s led Wyoming Indian High School to four state championships. But he also works for the elementary school as…
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French Divided Over State Of Emergency Law In Wake Of Paris Attacks : NPR
France is under a state of emergency until late February, but people are already wondering if it will be extended again. A debate is growing over whether protecting the population means that democratic freedoms must be sacrificed.
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U.S. Authorities Have Arrested 56 ISIS Sympathizers This Year, Report Finds : NPR
The FBI says it is investigating possible ISIS sympathizers in all 50 U.S. states. A new report out Tuesday looks at what is known about ISIS supporters in America, where and who they are.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce Birth and Plan to Give Away Wealth – The Atlantic
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced the birth of their daughter Max on Tuesday in a long and heartfelt note on Facebook.
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Stock-Footage Versions of Popular Indie Films – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Most Americans Want A Global Agreement On Climate | ThinkProgress
As Republican leaders herald Congress’ power to hinder a global climate deal, most Americans say the U.S. should join an international treaty requiring America to reduce emissions, according to a new poll.
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Boston Museum Exhibit Celebrates Legacy Of Black Mountain College : NPR
Black Mountain College was only open for 24 years, but it helped foment the work of several artists, musicians, dancers and filmmakers, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Cy Twombly. Now it’s the subject of the first major museum retrospectiv…
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The Supreme Court Just Handed The Obama Administration A Big Victory On Immigration | ThinkProgress
After a run of extraordinarily bad luck, the Obama administration — and the nearly 5 million immigrants who hope to benefit from new immigration policies blocked by a lower court’s order — finally caught a break in the Supreme Court.
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Lawyers for Tsarnaev Seek New Trial | Al Jazeera America
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge on Tuesday to hold a new trial for their client, citing a Supreme Court decision that a U.S. law stiffening sentences for crimes committed while in possession of a gun was overly bro…
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World Leaders To Debate Role Of Nuclear Power At U.N. Climate Summit : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Matthew Bunn, a nuclear and energy policy analyst and professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, about the role nuclear power will play in the future. As world leaders meet in Paris for the U.N.
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Before Laquan McDonald, a Chicago Police Shooting with No Video – The New Yorker
There was something sadly familiar about the video released last week of a police officer in Chicago shooting a seventeen-year-old, Laquan McDonald, sixteen times.
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Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League – The New Yorker
In May of 2008, the style blogger Michael Williams posted a few dozen scans of an obscure 1965 Japanese photo collection called “Take Ivy” to his Web site, “A Continuous Lean.
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US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that any agreement on climate change must not only help the environment but also allow economies to thrive. Obama admitted that such a deal would be hard, but called on people to remain optimisist that an ag…
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BBC Sport – Manchester City v Hull City
Manchester City playmaker David Silva could make his first start in nearly two months in the League Cup quarter-final against Hull. Manuel Pellegrini brought him on against Southampton and is not due to make any major changes from that side, with ke…
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How is a 74-year-old self-described Democratic socialist from one of the least populous states in the country turning the Democratic primary upside down and proving an adept challenger to one of the most established candidates in modern politics?
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Businesses Awaken To The Opportunities Of Action On Climate Change : NPR
The business community is well represented at the United Nations climate summit under way in Paris — and they will be much more engaged in finding positive solutions than ever before. It’s a far cry from the first large-scale U.N.
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The Syrian Government Is Bombing Hospitals, Clinics And Health Workers : Goats and Soda : NPR
It’s dangerous to practice medicine in Syria. When I called up a physician based in the city of Aleppo, he said he’d have to call me back — there had just been a missile strike.
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Seeing Through the Smoky Pall : Feature Articles
In September and October 2015, tens of thousands of fires sent clouds of toxic gas and particulate matter into the air over Indonesia. Despite the moist climate of tropical Asia, fire is not unusual at this time of year.
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Syria crisis: Putin and Erdogan talk tough over downed jet – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Turkish government of attacking its jet to protect the illegal oil trade with Islamic State .It is the latest barb in an increasingly hostile war of words between the Russian and Turkish leaders since…
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Monday was the deadline to apply for a coveted spot as University of California student. For certain UC hopefuls, that deadline marked the culmination of years of sleep deprivation and SAT prep, writing-center visits, new extracurriculars, and one l…
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Paul George Is Back, And So Are The Pacers | FiveThirtyEight
Scan the NBA standings and you won’t find many surprises.
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Why COP21 Is So Focused on Two Degrees Celsius – The Atlantic
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change.
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The Zuckerbergs gave birth on Tuesday: to a baby girl, and to one of the world’s biggest charities.
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An Insurance Company Finally Acknowledged That HIV-Positive People Have Long Lives | ThinkProgress
Prudential Insurance Company will make history this week by allowing HIV-positive people to register for the insurance company’s traditional life insurance policies — a first in an industry that traditionally leaves people struggling with chronic di…
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Scott Walker Boots 15,000 People Off Food Stamps In Three Months | ThinkProgress
In just three months, 15,000 people in Wisconsin have already lost food stamps thanks to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) decision to enforce full work requirements for the program in Milwaukee despite economic conditions dire enough to trigger a federal rep…
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Kylie Jenner’s wheelchair photo shoot sparks predictable outrage
Given the media-savvy nature of the Jenner and Kardashian families, it will come as a surprise to no one that the controversial magazine cover surfaced the day after Kylie launched her new lipstick kit.
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Colorado Lawmaker Claims Planned Parenthood Is ‘The Real Culprit’ Of Shooting | ThinkProgress
A Republican lawmaker in Colorado responded to the deadly shooting in her state by blaming Planned Parenthood for provoking violence, writing on Facebook that “the true instigator of this violence” is “Planned Parenthood themselves.
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A Sneak Peak at Donald Trump’s Christmas Twitter Tirade | Vanity Fair
From Ronda Rousey to Mark Cuban, no one is safe from Trump’s ire—perhaps, even Santa Claus.
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Microsoft’s HoloLens can stream Halo 5: Guardians from an Xbox One | The Verge
Microsoft is letting HoloLens developers loosen their lips this week by asking them to publish short demonstration clips on Twitter with the hashtag #MadeWithHoloLens.
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DirecTV aims to deliver live 4K broadcasts in early 2016 | The Verge
Lack of content be damned, DirecTV says it’ll be launching live 4K broadcasts early next year. SVP Phil Goswitz revealed the target timeframe at a recent conference in New York. “I think the belief that there are technology challenges is a bit of a …
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Ask The Experts at Wookieepedia Your Geekiest Star Wars Questions!
Odds are when you have a Star Wars question on the Internet, you end up on Wookieepedia. It’s the Star Wars Wiki that’s run by a team of super fans and contributors from all over the world. It just celebrated its tenth anniversary and they want your…
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I’m Marc Maron, and This Is How I Work
By any measure Marc Maron has had a banner year. The comedian talked with President Obama on his podcast, his television show on IFC completed it’s third season and was renewed for another, and he has a new standup special premiering in just a few d…
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On World Aids Day, Remembering NPR’s Early Reporting On The Disease : NPR
We mark World AIDS Day with a listen to one of NPR’s earliest mentions of the disease from July 7, 1981 by reporter Laurie Garrett.
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Autodesk Launches 3D Cloud Development Platform And A $100 Million Investment Fund | TechCrunch
Autodesk is an old school software company, having launched in 1982 and gone public in 1990, but that doesn’t mean it’s too fixed in its ways to try something new. Today, the company is launching a new Platform as a Service it’s calling Forge.
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PSA: Put an ID Collar on Your Indoor Cat
Over seven million pets go missing in the U.S. every year, and less than 5% of lost cats are reported and returned home. When your indoor kitty gets a little too curious and darts outside, a collar might be the only thing that can help it come home.
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Longtime Nick News anchor Linda Ellerbee is retiring · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Nick News creator Linda Ellerbee has announced that she will retire at the end of December, putting a cap on her 44-year career in journalism.
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Dear Max,Your mother and I don’t yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You’ve already given us a reason to reflect…
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IRS: Don’t worry, we’ve only used our stingray to track 37 phones | Ars Technica
Following revised policies from other federal law enforcement agencies, the Internal Revenue Service now says it will require the use of a warrant when deploying a stingray, also known as a cell-site simulator.
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Chikungunya starts with fevers and aches, like malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. What distinguishes the virus is that is also brings with it debilitating joint pain. The pain usually dwindles over the course of a few weeks, though it can le…
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Making Sense of Robert Dear – The New Yorker
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WASHINGTON — For months, much of the Republican Party’s establishment has been uneasy about the rise of Donald J. Trump, concerned that he was overwhelming the presidential primary contest and encouraging other candidates to mimic his incendiary spe…
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Yes, The Planned Parenthood Shooter Is A ‘Christian Terrorist’ | ThinkProgress
As investigators scramble to make sense of last week’s tragic mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, new details have emerged about the possible motivations of the alleged gunman: namely, that his actions may hav…
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The secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian will fall under sworn public testimony for the first time in the wake of a forced resignation by the city’s police chief amid a scandal over the shooting of a black teenager.
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The Caliph’s Ex Gets Traded to Qaeda – The Daily Beast
Lebanese officials released the ex-wife of the leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State Tuesday in exchange for 16 Lebanese soldiers and a policeman captured by Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra. Qatar brokered the trade and American na…
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Ferguson Mom Murdered By Facebook Pal? – The Daily Beast
A single mom in Ferguson, Missouri was found dead in her home. Now police are investigating whether she was killed by a man she met on Facebook. On Saturday night, a relative discovered the nude body of Sharae Bradford, 25, lying in a pool of blood …
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Announces Firing Of Chicago Police Chief : NPR
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday the firing of the city’s embattled police superintendent. He also said a task force will begin work on a top to bottom review of the city’s police department.
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Zuckerberg to give away 99% of shares – 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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Former world number one Tiger Woods says he has “nothing to look forward to” in his recovery from back surgery. The 39-year-old 14-time major winner has not swung a golf club since operations in September and October.
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Chris Martin on Paris Attacks: ‘I Don’t Want to Give Up Hope’ | Rolling Stone
Coldplay singer Chris Martin said that when he learned of the terrorist attacks on Paris last month – shortly before taking the stage at his own band’s concert in Los Angeles – he struggled with how to address it.
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Chicago, see Adam McKay’s The Big Short early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
One of the more poignant moments to come from a big studio comedy in quite some time, the end credits of Adam McKay’s The Other Guys memorably called out Wall Street greed through a well-designed presentation of statistics and infographics.
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Flashback: Hear Reba’s Poignant ‘John’ Address AIDS Crisis | Rolling Stone
In 1988, the World Health Organization designated December 1st as first World AIDS Day. Just six years later in 1994, AIDS was the leading cause of death for all Americans aged 25 to 44.
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National Board Of Review declares Mad Max: Fury Road totally kickass · Newswire · The A.V. Club
What a lovely day it must be for director George Miller, for, as Variety reports, the normally rather traditional National Board Of Review has declared Miller’s big-budget, post-apocalyptic action movie Mad Max: Fury Road its best film of 2015. (Las…
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John Legend Employs Actual Star Sounds for New Song | Rolling Stone
John Legend has teamed up with the literal cosmos for a new holiday song, “Under the Stars,” which features the unique sonic frequencies of four stars in the universe. The ethereal pulses, rings and beeps of these stars open the track and then seaml…
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New York Banks On A Solar Factory To Ignite Buffalo’s Economy : NPR
How much does $1 billion buy these days? The city of Buffalo is about to find out. New York state is funneling $1 billion in cash and tax incentives into the region.
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Adam McKay says Anchorman 3 might exist in the world of new media · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Anchorman saga may be only two-thirds complete, according to the films’ director/co-writer Adam McKay. While talking to Yahoo! Movies just ahead of the release of his first non-comedy, The Big Short, McKay was asked about what Ron Burgundy’s nex…
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Obama Urges Other Nations To Take Action On Climate Change : NPR
In Paris, President Obama made the case for taking action against climate change and addressed the ongoing fight against ISIS.
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Josh McCown out for season as Browns consider Johnny Manziel’s return | Sport | The Guardian
The Cleveland Browns have more problems at quarterback, after it was confirmed that Josh McCown will miss the rest of the season with a fractured collarbone sustained in Monday night’s last-gasp defeat to Baltimore.
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To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents | The Nation
Paris, France—It’s the first night of COP21. Free food and action planning are the irresistible combination that draw dozens of youth to an art space in late-night Paris. The passion in the room is real. So is the fear as our generation bears the bu…
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A $305 Billion Highway Deal in Congress – The Atlantic
For most of the last 10 years, the Highway Trust Fund has been a government account constantly on the brink of depletion. In the next several days, however, Congress is likely to replenish it for the rest of the decade.
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Kevin Rudd: ‘jury is out’ on Malcolm Turnbull at Paris climate talks | Environment | The Guardian
The Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 contributed to the demise of Kevin Rudd’s first prime ministership. But Rudd, back for the Paris summit of 2015, has insisted Copenhagen wasn’t quite the failure it was made out to be.
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Ryan works to pass $1.1 trillion spending bill that might be DOA anyway
Fresh-faced House Speaker Paul Ryan is about get a baptism-by-fire experience in government funding 101 that he’s hoping doesn’t include a section on shutdowns. Congress needs to pass its $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill by December 11.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Now A Dad, Pledges To Give Away 99% Of His Shares | TechCrunch
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said he would give away 99% of his shares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” His shares are currently worth around $45 billion.
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Uber is offering cheap rental cars to its Denver drivers | The Verge
Uber announced Tuesday a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car to provide vehicles to aspiring drivers who don’t own a car, the latest move in the company’s continuing quest to turn basically every American into a for-hire driver.
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Fifa sponsors including Coca-Cola demand reform overview – BBC News
Five sponsors of football’s world governing body Fifa have written to its executive committee to demand “independent oversight” of reforms. Fifa has been engulfed by allegations of corruption since US authorities indicted 14 officials this summer.
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Beijingers are posting sarcastic messages online about smog | Fusion
Beijing is experiencing the worst air pollution it’s seen this year, the Associated Press reports, at levels that are 25 times higher than what’s considered safe by the World Health Organization.
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Fewer People Are Getting Diabetes, But The Epidemic Isn’t Over : Shots – Health News : NPR
The number of people newly diagnosed with diabetes continues to decline after decades of increases that transformed what was once a disease of the old into a public health crisis that affects even children. That’s not to say the crisis is over; 1.
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The Paris Climate Talks Are ‘Star Wars, A New Hope’ Not ‘Return Of The Jedi’ | ThinkProgress
The buzzword of the moment at the Paris climate talks is “ratchet.” Will the nations of the world agree to ratchet up their carbon pollution reduction commitments every five to 10 years — as will be required if we are to avoid catastrophic global wa…
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All the Ways Birds Are Getting Screwed by Climate Change | Motherboard
Climate change is wreaking havoc on all walks of life—or wings, if you’re a bird. The National Audubon society, in partnership with BirdLife International, released a wide-ranging report this week detailing the effects of climate change on bird popu…
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Paris trial begins for seven IS ‘recruiters’ – BBC News
Seven men have gone on trial in Paris accused of recruiting fighters for the so-called Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria. One of the suspects, Salim Benghalem, is being tried in absentia as he is thought to be in Syria.
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One morning in 2013, the rock musician Dave Navarro and his best friend, Todd Newman, pulled into the visitors’ parking lot at San Quentin State Prison in a stretch limousine.
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Mark Zuckerberg welcomes his daughter to the world with a Facebook note | The Verge
In an announcement just posted to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have announced the birth of their daughter, Max. As part of the announcement, Zuckerberg and Chan also pledged to give 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charity duri…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charity | The Verge
In a surprise announcement today, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares to the cause of human advancement. It represents roughly $45 billion at Facebook’s current valuation, making it …
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara Micheau had come to see life with him as a kind of hell on earth. By January 1993, she had had enough.
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The Main Character In Paul Dini’s New Batman Graphic Novel Is Paul Dini Himself
Legendary writer Paul Dini—known for his work on Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures, Justice League and countless other shows—is returning to DC to pen a whole new graphic novel for the Dark Knight.
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Russia Reportedly Plans To Build A Lunar Base By The 2030s
Decades and decades after they pretended never to be in a “moon race” with the U.S., Russia reportedly plans to land cosmonauts on the moon by the 2030s, according to the news agency TASS.
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I’m pretty bad at keeping up with new cartoonists. I’m stuck in the world of artists who emerged in the 80s and 90s: Daniel Clowes, Mary Fleener, Julie Doucet, Carol Tyler, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Jim Woodring, Roberta Gregory, Peter Bagge,…
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke compares YouTube business model to Nazi art theft | Ars Technica
Radiohead has been among the most prominent rock bands to embrace the Internet as a music distribution platform—particularly with its pay-what-you-want launch of 2007 album In Rainbows.
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What went wrong with The Hobbit movies?
In this video about the making of The Hobbit movies, members of the film crew, including director Peter Jackson, admit that they didn’t really have a good idea of what was going to happen in the movies until they were on the set filming and that the…
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Black Friday Shoppers Spent 5 Hours at the Mall, Says Foursquare | TechCrunch
Black Friday shoppers spent an average of 4.9 hours out at brick-and-mortar shops, according to data from Foursquare. Long lines meant that each shopper only visited 2.8 stores.
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What the British military really contributes in Syria – Al Jazeera English
The US Central Command claims to have destroyed over 16,000 targets in the campaign to degrade and destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria as of mid-November.
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AirBnB’s Releases Its User Data for New York City – The Atlantic
In recent weeks, we’ve learned AirBnB has forged a number of transcontinental love connections and afforded at least one indecisive couple a way to spend a year traipsing between different New York City neighborhoods on a paltry budget of $3,000 a m…
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Contaminanted Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic : Natural Hazards
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Stuff a Raspberry Pi Zero Into an Xbox Controller for On-Demand Emulation Anywhere
The Raspberry Pi Zero is absurdly small. So small, in fact, that DIYer Terence Eden decided to stuff it inside an Xbox controller and make a little emulation machine.
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Transforming your sneakers with an app is an amazing, insane idea | The Verge
Let’s get something out of the way: these shoes on Indiegogo don’t look real yet and may never be real, but they’re a great idea.
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The Sopranos had, undoubtedly, one of TV’s most iconic opening sequences of the early 2000s, with Alabama 3’s bluesy, menacing “Woke Up This Morning” perfectly underscoring a bleak montage of the busy highways, smoke-belching factories, and working …
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Adele admits streaming is ‘probably the future,’ still doesn’t care | The Verge
Adele, like fellow Spotify deserter Thom Yorke, is not a fan of streaming services. This, we know. She’s keeping her massively popular new album 25 off all streaming services (except Pandora), and she’s tried to avoid these services in the past as w…
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Jerry Seinfeld announces year-long residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If anyone who knows Jerry Seinfeld has noticed that he’s been a little light on the witty observations lately, it’s probably because he’s been saving them up for a big residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre.
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Obama’s Biggest Problem in Paris: India or Republicans? | New Republic
World leaders have made their speeches and announcements and are starting to head home from the Paris climate conference. Before he left for Washington, President Barack Obama was optimistic about the chances for success. “I actually think we’re goi…
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Christie Says He’s Not ‘Relying On Any Scientists’ To Inform Climate Change Views | ThinkProgress
Contradicting the claims of thousands of climate scientists, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said on Tuesday that he doesn’t believe global warming is “a crisis.
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CommuniGift Launches With A New Way For Kids To Give To Charity | TechCrunch
With the goal of making every kids’ birthday a dream come true, Los Angeles-based CommuniGift has launched a new business to promote charitable giving just in time for the holidays.
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Global warming v island life – Q&A from the Pacific – BBC News
The BBC’s Matthew Price is on Vanuatu Island in the Pacific and is answering your questions about global warming.
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Two Porn Companies Cut Ties With James Deen, Industry Star And Alleged Rapist | ThinkProgress
What happens when America’s most popular porn star gets accused of rape? James Deen is possibly the most in-demand man in the adult film industry. On Saturday, Stoya, an adult film star who is also Deen’s ex-girlfriend and former scene partner, publ…
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Jonah Hill refuses to sign autographs. Instead, he hands out this business card – Imgur
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Migrants Vulnerable to HIV and Aids, Experts Say | Al Jazeera America
As HIV infection rates steadily decline globally, and with experts stating that the end of AIDS is within reach, special focus must be placed on vulnerable migrant populations to make sure the disease can be fully eradicated, the International Organ…
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The Best Ways to Pack a Suit or Dress So It Won’t Wrinkle
If you need to travel with a suit or dress packed in a suitcase, you will avoid—or at least minimize—wrinkles and creases using these simple tricks. 1. Lay down one half on the bottom of the suitcase, leaving the other half out.
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After Kobe Bryant’s “Dear Basketball,” Other Celebrities’ Poetic Announcements – The New Yorker
Kobe Bryant recently published a poem, “Dear Basketball,” to announce that he will be retiring following the 2015-2016 N.B.A. season, his twentieth in the league.
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COP21: A Potluck Dinner in Paris – The New Yorker
Now that the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is under way in Paris, two main issues arise: Will an agreement to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere be reached? And, if so, will it do any good? The answer to the first question is: al…
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SpaceX May Try Land-Based Rocket Landing This Month, NASA Official Says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX may try to make history with its next launch later this month, returning its rocket to a landing pad rather than an ocean-based platform, a NASA official said today (Dec. 1).
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Anti-police brutality activists in Chicago, Houston demand release of (more) video tapes
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration is accused of hiding another video of cops killing an unarmed black man. Chicago police are being accused of hiding another video tape of the police murder of a young, unarmed African-American male.
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Leonardo DiCaprio has been the first to admit that he went to some extreme lengths while filming The Revenant—the wilderness epic that may finally earn the four-time nominated actor a deserved Oscar.
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A Path for Climate Change, Beyond Paris: “the entire world could operate on 100 percent renewable power by 2050… United States’ mobilization during World War II as an example of what can be done by a determined society.” (nytimes.com)submitted 55 …
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This Amazing Moment Is Why I Love Supergirl So Much Right Now
Supergirl is slowly finding its feet as a show with a quirky spin on superheroics, and there’s still a bit of clunkiness in the mix. But scenes like this one, between Supergirl and James Olsen, are why this show has already earned my undying love. S…
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We’re Watching You: Printed Eyes Reduce Littering and Anti-Social Behavior | Neuroscience News
People are less likely to drop litter if it has printed eyes on it reducing littering by two thirds, researchers have found.
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Rare Freddie Mercury Vocals Anchor Hypnotizing New Charity Single | Rolling Stone
Rare Freddie Mercury vocal tracks recorded during the late singer’s original Barcelona sessions anchor a stirring new song, “Little Freddie Goes to School,” produced by Irish composer Stuart Leathem.
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Stringr Raises $1.5M To Build A Marketplace For News Footage | TechCrunch
News startup Stringr is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in funding.
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Jury Selection Begins for Officer Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death – The Atlantic
Jury selection for the trial of the first of six Baltimore police officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death is underway, and the jurors’ responses to the judge’s questions speak volumes about the context of the case.
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Watch Carrie Underwood’s Enchanted ‘Heartbeat’ Video | Rolling Stone
Opening with a bass-thumping beat that pulses as the camera moves through desolate woods at twilight, the new video for Carrie Underwood’s second single “Heartbeat” lives up to its title.
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British tennis is “a mess” and the Lawn Tennis Association must make changes, says ex-player David Lloyd. He added that “the buck must stop” with LTA chief executive Michael Downey, who he says has done “a poor job”.
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Has the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela failed? – Al Jazeera English
With elections due to be held next Sunday, questions are already being asked about the future of Venezuela and the legacy of former president Hugo Chavez. Two years after he died, his opponents are threatening to end the Bolivarian revolution.
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See the Trailer for the Hank Williams Biopic ‘I Saw the Light’ | Rolling Stone
How can a British actor, best known for his role in The Avengers, be fit to play the legendary father of contemporary country music, Hank Williams? It’s a question that’s been tossed around since the biopic went into development in 2009 with London-…
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UK Set to Vote on Possible Strikes Against ISIL | Al Jazeera America
The United Kingdom’s Parliament will vote Wednesday on whether to join other Western powers in bombing the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.
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New York Adopts First US Menu Salt Warnings | Al Jazeera America
New York on Tuesday became the first U.S. city to adopt salt warnings on restaurant menus for food containing more than the daily recommended limit, in a bid to fight heart disease.
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US Deploying Elite Force in Fight Against ISIL | Al Jazeera America
The United States said on Tuesday it was deploying an elite new force of special operations troops to Iraq to conduct raids, free hostages, capture Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leaders, and carry out “unilateral operations” in neighbo…
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Obama: “[Y]ou travel around Europe and you talk to leaders of governments and the opposition, and they are arguing about a whole bunch of things. One thing they’re not arguing about is whether the science of climate change is real and whether or not…
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Thom Yorke breaks cardinal rule of PR by comparing Google to Nazis · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A collective shudder just ran through every publicist from London to Sydney as Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, in a brazen act of defiance, just violated one of public relations’ most sacred commandments: Whatever You Do, Never Mention The Nazis.
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Mad Max: Fury Road Is the National Board of Review’s Best Picture of the Year
Movie awards season is upon us and the National Board of Review is first out of the gate with a huge, but amazing, surprise. They’ve named Mad Max: Fury Road the best picture of the year.
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The Mozart In The Jungle trailer strikes up season two · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
“Nothing resonates like rhinoceros foreskin” is one of several things we learned from the Mozart In The Jungle season two trailer.
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Pandora cozies up to the music labels as it prepares to take on Spotify | The Verge
In an op-ed column published today, Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews starts off with an anecdote about a “music executive” who visited a college classroom. When he asks who listens to terrestrial radio, most students hands go up. When he asks who listens…
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Use “What If?” Responses to Add Leverage to Salary Negotiations
Negotiating your salary is a tough conversation, but over on Harvard Business Review, they suggest coming up with a “what if” plan to help you solidify a strategy. The idea here is to simply offer up some various examples of how you might improve yo…
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The Australian government approved Adani’s controversial $16bn Carmichael coalmine in Queensland because it was not a “neo-colonialist”power that tried to tell poor countries what to do, environment minister Greg Hunt has told a side event at the Pa…
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Here are all the spaceships and vehicles of Star Wars ordered from smallest to biggest
One of our favorite artists, Scott Park, illustrated the spaceships and vehicles in the original Star Wars trilogy to scale and it’s just so good.
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Lest any Outlander fans be forced to face an extended period of time without a longing gaze at Sam Heughan’s Jamie Fraser, Starz has released a new teaser trailer for its hit show’s second season.
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Here Are the Biggest Burning Questions About the Live-Action Marvel Universe Right Now
The Marvel movie and television universe is just entering a brand new phase—and things just got a lot more interesting. We saw the first Captain America: Civil War trailer, and we also met a new hero in the form of Jessica Jones. These are two build…
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Injuries Reported After an Explosion in Istanbul – The Atlantic
An explosion near a central train station in Istanbul on Tuesday injured at least one person and raised fears in a city already on edge following recent bombings in Turkey. —Vasip Şahin, Istanbul’s governor, said one person was injured in the blast …
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Hacked Toymaker VTech Admits Breach Actually Hit 6.3 Million Children | Motherboard
The data breach that hit the popular toymaker VTech keeps on getting worse.
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Morrissey wins bad sex award for love scenes in debut novel List of the Lost | Books | The Guardian
Singer Morrissey’s reference to a “bulbous salutation” in his debut novel helped him win the bad sex award on Tuesday. Sex scenes in his book List of the Lost swayed the judges, it was announced at a lavish ceremony presented by Nancy Dell’Olio.
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#GearBoggles: The horrifying new face of wearing a VR headset | Ars Technica
For years now, there’s been a lot of digital ink spilled over the risk of looking unintentionally silly while isolated in a virtual reality headset and how that lack of “cool” will affect the use of the resurgent technology (VR Subway Guy notwithsta…
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Why BlackBerry is still betting on the keyboard | The Verge
You’ve probably read about the new BlackBerry Priv phone. And if you mention it to someone who hasn’t, you’re likely to tell him about its most important feature: a slide-out physical keyboard that’s supposed to be pretty good. Then watch.
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Samsung Launches Web Browser For Gear VR | TechCrunch
You’re strapped into a virtual reality delight and you want to Google something. What do you do? Now you can use a web browser built and optimized specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR.
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Feds sue yet another cryptocurrency startup, alleging $19M Ponzi scheme | Ars Technica
On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the founder of a now-shuttered Bitcoin mining company, alleging that it committed $19 million worth of fraud in a Ponzi scheme. Defendants’ Hashlet sales had many of the hallmarks of a Ponzi …
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Like to Cook? Buy This Skillet While It’s On Sale.
The best selling piece of cookware we’ve ever posted is back down to its all-time low price. If you enjoy spending time in the kitchen, you shouldn’t hesitate.
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Mad Max: Fury Road Named Best Film of 2015 By the National Board of Re | Vanity Fair
It may be indicative of what a wide-open Oscar season it is that there is so much room for surprise— not just in the films included, like tiny indie or comedy-drama hybrid , but in the ones left out; there is no mention of expected awards heavy-hitt…
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Adobe to kill off Flash in January’s Creative Cloud update | Ars Technica
Adobe’s embrace of HTML5 has created its first big casualty: Flash. Not the browser plugin—Adobe said in 2012 that it would continue supporting the plugin for the next five to 10 years—but Flash Professional, the main authoring tool used to create F…
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What to Get Your Favorite Billionaire | Vanity Fair
Hermès leather baseball glove, $14,600. (usa.hermes.com)
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Racing Extinction Is Ready to Become the Most-Watched Documentary in History | Vanity Fair
In a 24-hour period on December 2, Racing Extinction may just become the most-watched documentary in history. The film from director Louie Psihoyos and producer Fisher Stevens, who made the Oscar-winner The Cove, debuts Wednesday on the The Discover…
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Midday open thread: Will Trump’s results tell the future of polling? Students fight athletic fees
In 2014, students at 32 schools paid a combined $125.5 million in athletic fees, according to a Washington Post examination of financial records at 52 public universities in the “Power Five,” the five wealthiest conferences in college sports. […]
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Gotham awards: Helen Mirren and Rosie Perez provide gags alongside gongs | Film | The Guardian
Thomas McCarthy’s acclaimed journalistic thriller Spotlight was the toast of Monday night’s Gotham independent film awards in New York, netting best picture and screenplay honors, on top of a jury award for its ensemble cast.
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This Site Lets You Browse the Web Like a Real Human Person From the 90s | Motherboard
Right now I’m looking at Google when it was just another student project at Stanford, streamed from a virtual version of a 90s-era Macintosh 4.0. With Old Web Today, which serves up archived web pages as they would display on old browsers and operat…
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A Video Game Tour Of The New Star Wars Planet Jakku
Star Wars: Battlefront’s Battle of Jakku downloadable content is now live for preorder customers, giving Star Wars fans their first taste of The Force Awakens. As it turns out, it tastes a lot like Tatooine.
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Progress is being made in the use of, from left, wind turbines, solar panels and water treatment to create energy savings. But one energy analyst, Jesse Jenkins, says, “I just don’t see a World War II-style mobilization happening for anything other …
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When Women’s Literary Tastes Are Deemed Less Worthy – The Atlantic
It’s fairly easy to see how well a movie does financially: Box Office Mojo is an open and available breakdown of Hollywood profits by movies that makes for fascinating reading. It’s not as easy for books.
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Gravity Waves Probe To Use Free-Floating Gold-Platinum Cubes | Video
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has accused Democrats of inventing a so-called “condom police” as a means of scaring women into voting for them, spinning a question about access to birth control into a harangue about Hillary Clinton and “…
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Stories of Leonardo DiCaprio’s resilience on the set of The Revenant, the upcoming biopic of the frontiersman Hugh Glass, have buzzed around Hollywood for months as Oscar season approaches. “I was sleeping in animal carcasses,” the actor told Yahoo.
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Tiger Woods on his future in golf: ‘There’s nothing I can look forward to’ | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods admitted on Tuesday that he has “no answer” to when he may return to action. Woods had surgery on his troublesome back in October, and hasn’t played in a tournament since August. He has not swung a club since the surgery and said he didn…
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50 Cent to embrace his inner sitcom star in Fox comedy My Friend 50 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
50 Cent, a rapper whose commitment to prioritizing corporate investment opportunities has led to recent albums that may as well start off, “My name’s 50 Cent and I’m here to say,” is getting into the sitcom game.
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Why is Batman Wearing a Coat in the ‘Batman vs. Superman’ Trailer? – The Atlantic
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Pivotal Living fitness band and smart scale reviewed: $12 a year, well spent | Ars Technica
There are few fitness trackers under $50, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find many good ones in that price range. There are even fewer with subscription plans, but Pivotal Living is incorporating both of these strategies into its devices.
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Samsung is launching a Gear VR web browser | The Verge
One of the drawbacks of the Samsung Gear VR is that it’s a bit of a walled garden — outside its social experiences, you’re mostly limited to playing games and watching videos. Tomorrow, though, Samsung is launching a beta version of what it calls “S…
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High-sodium icons begin to appear on New York menus under new law | US news | The Guardian
The new symbol is there on menus in the Times Square Applebee’s – a black shaded triangle around a white salt shaker – next to images of possibly tasty salsa verde nachos and spinach and artichoke dip.
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Island nations urge Turnbull to echo Obama’s climate change leadership | Environment | The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull has been urged to show the same interest in the impact of climate change on low lying island island states as Barack Obama and to return Australia “to its former leadership role in the Pacific.
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Tech billionaires team up for clean energy coalition at Paris climate talks | Grist
Support independent environmental journalism. Help Grist inform, educate, and shine a light on today’s climate crisis and solutions. Ethanol uses up farmland and harms the climate even more than fossil fuels. But it’s business, and somebody’s making…
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Mom: Dashcam Shows Chicago Cop Killed My Unarmed Son – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — The mother of a man shot and killed by Chicago police last year said she has rejected the city’s proposed settlement and wants it to release dashcam footage of the slaying because it shows her son was unarmed when he was killed.
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What rules should we have for genetically editing humans? | Ars Technica
WASHINGTON DC—In the decades since learning how to splice DNA, scientists have anxiously debated the ethics and ramifications of editing the genetic blueprints of humans—from the moral quagmires of eugenics and made-to-order babies to more nuanced u…
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Donald Trump Just Gave the Dumbest Rebuttal to Obama’s Big Paris Speech | New Republic
On Monday, in Paris, President Barack Obama pressed world leaders to adopt an aggressive international agreement to curb climate change. To do so, he said, would be an “act of defiance” against the terrorists who killed 130 people in French capital …
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Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin’s New Comic Tackles Immigration—With a Scifi Twist
When the amazing team behind The Private Eye announces a surprise new comic series, you listen. And listen you should, because Brian K.
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Cuba reinstates controls on doctors travelling abroad – BBC News
Cuba has reinstated restrictions on doctors leaving the island to work in the United States and other countries. Doctors will now have to apply for a special permit before going abroad.
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Read this: What Hackers got right about internet culture · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
By the mid-’90s, pop culture had begun to assimilate concepts of both the internet and hackers. The former was a William Gibsonesque cyberscape of almost-real science fiction, and the latter was imagined as savants armed with mythic abilities to gai…
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Star Wars and Hamilton combine in #Force4Ham · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The internet needs very little prompting to create hashtags that combine beloved hip-hop musical Hamilton with other cherished properties. That’s how the hashtags #ParksAndHam (featuring Parks And Recreation) and #30Ham (featuring 30 Rock) got start…
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Gawker Media is hiring a new editor-in-chief for Lifehacker. If you or an esteemed editor you know have the chops to take the helm, you can read more about the position and apply here.
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Melvins, Napalm Death Plot Spring ‘Savage Imperial Death March’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Melvins, Napalm Death Plot Spring ‘Savage Imperial Death March’ Tour Death-metal group promises “musical madness” on North American trek, which also features Melt Banana and runs from March to May
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Damon Lindelof admits he fucked up Star Trek Into Darkness’ big reveal · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even less surprising than the big reveal midway through the running time of 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness was the collective groan from fans who had figured it out years earlier, when Benicio del Toro was still part of the cast.
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Kenya police blame university for failed ‘terror’ drill – Al Jazeera English
Kenyan police have blamed a Nairobi university for failing to gain the appropriate authorisation from authorities prior to holding a simulated “terror” drill that led to the death of a staff member.
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The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. It seemed too good to be true.
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Behind The Prezi Pixels | TechCrunch
Interactive presentation startup Prezi has been in quiet mode lately, but invited us behind the scenes to discuss its startup roots in Budapest, Hungary and juggling two offices in completely different time zones.
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Hackers Oral History: How Did This Get Made
Hackers + Revolution + Rollerblades = How Did This Get Made? On September 15, 1995, MGM released a stylish, cyberspace thriller called Hackers. Two weeks later—following mixed reviews and poor box office numbers—the film was gone from theaters.
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Today Spotify revealed that the most streamed song of 2015 is Major Lazer’s “Lean On,” featuring MØ and DJ Snake. With 540 million listens, it’s also the most streamed song of all time, a distinction that speaks to the newness of streaming itself.
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Man arrested with 51 turtles in his pants / Boing Boing
Kai Xu was arrested attempting to cross into Canada from Detroit, Michigan with 51 live turtles down his pants, mostly strapped to his legs. He was apparently smuggling the turtles he had bought to resell outside the US at much higher prices. From t…
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Your PS4 Just Became A Tiny Bit More Powerful | TechCrunch
Chances are you haven’t realized it, but your PlayStation 4 got a little bit more powerful. The PlayStation 4 comes with an octa-core CPU. Until now, game developers could leverage 6 of them while the other 2 ran the operating system.
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Behind Robert Dear’s Violence – The New Yorker
A recluse, a drifter, a malcontent who lived in a trailer and once allegedly shot at a neighbor’s dog with a pellet gun, whose former wife reported that he’d locked her out of their home and then pushed her to the ground from a window when she tried…
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Steve Jobs was right. Flash never stood a chance of surviving in the same world as HTML5. And now, nearly five years after Steve Jobs shared his thoughts, Adobe is finally laying the name to rest. Farewell, Flash Professional. Hello, Adobe Animate. …
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We bailed out the banks. Now let’s bail out the planet | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Your editorial rightly highlights the serious problem of finding adequate funding to allow developing countries to tackle and cope with climate change (Last chance salon in Paris: there is no planet B, 30 November).
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A Kardashian Thanksgiving Mystery Has Been Solved | Vanity Fair
Presumably your Thanksgiving-weekend festivities were briefly suspended this weekend when Kylie Jenner posted a shot on her Instagram account from the Kardashian Thanksgiving celebration.
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Defense Secretary Carter announces more U.S. special operations personnel will be sent to Syria
Defense Secretary Ash Carter (L) and Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., testify Tuesday before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on “U.S. Strategy for Syria and Iraq and its Implications for the Region.
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Police Ask NFL To Allow Armed Off-Duty Cops Into Games – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The National Fraternal Order of Police has written a letter to the NFL urging the league to allow off-duty police officers to bring concealed firearms into football stadiums during games in order to help prevent attacks by ISIS or other terrorist gr…
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Watch Julianne Moore Act for Tips on ‘Billy on the Street’ Clip | Rolling Stone
Watch Julianne Moore Act for Tips in ‘Billy on the Street’ Clip Oscar-winning actress acts out famous crying scenes for Times Square tourists in hilarious segment
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Obama: GOP president won’t stop climate pledges (thehill.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
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Dave Grohl, Animal Hit the Skins in Epic ‘Muppets’ Drum Battle | Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl has overcome countless obstacles throughout his storied career — not even a slippery stage in Sweden could keep the Foo Fighter from shredding — but the musician finally met his match on ABC’s The Muppets, where he faced Animal in a feroc…
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The Ideas That Won’t Be Discussed at COP21 – The Atlantic
On Monday, world leaders gathered in Paris for the start of COP21, a 12-day United Nations conference on how to limit climate change.
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If ISIS Had a Bomb That Could Put the East Coast Underwater… | Mother Jones
This story was originally published by the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the first of my two flights this weekend, I sat next to a defense contractor from Kentucky.
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Indonesia Finds Technical Failures Led to AirAsia Flight 8501 Crash – The Atlantic
Indonesian investigators have determined what brought down the AirAsia passenger plane that crashed into the Java Sea nearly nearly a year ago, killing all 162 people on board.
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Hangouts for iOS Improves Notification Support, Adds Quick Replies
iOS: Today Google updated the Hangouts app with a couple of useful features that finally adds in proper support for iOS 9. The big update here is the addition of quick replies from notifications. Now, you can reply directly from the notification its…
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The Language Behind the Paris Climate Talks | Al Jazeera America
PARIS — In an effort to empower the world’s smallest and poorest countries, United Nations climate negotiations approve new treaties by consensus. That means a single voice can block a deal.
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If The Anti-Abortion Movement Doesn’t Condone Violence, How Do Republicans Explain These Remarks? – Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently appeared with a pastor who once said a murdered abortion doctor got what he deserved. (huffingtonpost.com) Sucks …
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The Conservatives’ Guide To Justifying Discrimination Against LGBT People | ThinkProgress
The Heritage Foundation’s anti-LGBT scholar-in-residence Ryan T. Anderson is back with a lengthy report justifying discrimination against LGBT people.
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Obama: At least some of the Paris climate deal must be legally binding | Grist
The summit has just begun, but we can already see themes emerging and battle lines being drawn. On day one of the climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande made some big announcements.
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Saved Japanese Probe Gets Final Chance to Orbit Venus
In December 2010, Japan’s Venus Climate Orbiter spacecraft “Akatsuki” (aka Planet-C), after five and a half months traveling through space, failed to enter orbit around Venus due to a faulty thruster nozzle.
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Diabetes rates in US appear to be falling but racial disparities remain | Society | The Guardian
Diabetes rates appear finally to be falling in the United States, according to the latest official figures. That will come as a massive relief to health experts after an exponential climb in the numbers from 1991 to the peak in 2009, from 573,000 ne…
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The historian David Potter had a great letter published in the Financial Times, correcting the really bad history of the Dutch president, who suggested that migrants brought about the fall of Rome. (Bad history is all the rage these days.) Potter:
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Trump’s response to Obama’s climate speech is just as looney as you thought | Grist
The summit has just begun, but we can already see themes emerging and battle lines being drawn. On day one of the climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande made some big announcements.
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LeBron James says NBA will be ‘pretty weird’ without Kobe Bryant | Sport | The Guardian
An NBA without Kobe Bryant? LeBron James admits it will be “pretty weird” when the Lakers star retires from basketball – and says he feels “truly sad” that he never faced his big-league rival in the NBA finals.
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Africa’s business tycoons highly corrupt, Transparency says – BBC News
Business executives are the most corrupt in Africa, after police officers, a new survey indicates. This is the first time its annual survey ranked businessmen as highly corrupt, Transparency International said.
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Goals Of The Paris Climate Talks – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Over 150 world leaders are meeting in Paris this week to address the global effects of climate change in the hopes that a unified international effort can avert grave future consequences for the planet.
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CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel ousted Chicago’s police superintendent on Tuesday, after the city’s police department came under fire over an officer shooting a teenager 16 times, and for resisting, for more than a year, to release of a video of the fa…
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Shyp Now Ships Your Goods Straight From eBay | TechCrunch
Just in time for the high holy season of giving and getting packages from far away, on-demand shipping startup Shyp is taking advantage of one of the biggest online outfits in need of delivery for those packages – eBay.
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Yesterday’s Cyber Monday sales event was already poised to break records with a forecasted $3 billion in sales, making it the largest online sales day in history.
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Turbulent Magnetic ‘Perfect Storm’ Triggers Hypernovas
Screenshot of the turbulent conditions inside a core-collapse supernova simulation carried out by the Blue Waters supercomputer.Credit: Robert R.
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Andrew Cuomo sets goal to wipe out Aids in New York state by 2020 | US news | The Guardian
New York governor Andrew Cuomo made a passionate call on Tuesday morning for the “final push” to end HIV and Aids as he marked World Aids Day in the city that has endured more than three decades as the “epicenter of the disease”.
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Check out the hot women in the 2016 Pirelli Tire Calendar / Boing Boing
For 50 years, the Pirelli Calendar has featured mostly naked models captured by famed photographers in exotic locales. Not this year. Annie Leibovitz was behind the lens and, according to Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera, the new calendar “…
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Drake is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s now December, so we should be bracing ourselves for the deluge of year-end lists along with winter. Spotify has already deployed most of its arsenal, sharing its most-streamed songs and artists, with former Canadian TV teen and current rap supe…
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Using a tilt-shift effect, St. Tesla created miniature versions of galaxies, nebula, and supernovas. So cute!
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In pilot program, Uber is setting drivers up with rental cars | Ars Technica
Uber is partnering with Enterprise to rent cars to potential Uber drivers for $210 a month in a pilot program that’s launching this week in Denver, Colorado.
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To those who think of the Star Wars franchise—particularly the original trilogy—as a boys club where women not named “Princess Leia” are utterly marginalized: prepare to have your expectations upheld.
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Tom Hiddleston has been Hank Williams-ing it up all over town lately.
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Get the Classic, Ad-Free Windows 7 Games Back on Windows 10
Do you miss the classic games that came with Windows 7? The ones that didn’t require paying $10 a year to remove ads (unlike the Windows 10 modern versions)? Good news: You can install ad-free Windows 7 games like Solitaire and Minesweeper on Window…
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Humility, Accountability And Creative Thinking Can Fix IT Security | TechCrunch
The state of cybersecurity has reached full-blown systemic failure. The narrative goes something like this: Companies are spending massive amounts of money on technologies that don’t seem to be living up to their marketing messages.
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Joel and the Bots wish you all “A Patrick Swayze Christmas” · 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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Puerto Rico Avoids a Second Default | Al Jazeera America
Puerto Rico avoided a default on debt maturing on Tuesday but warned that its deteriorating liquidity meant that future defaults loom. There had been speculation that the U.S.
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Straight from Bollywood comes 5 hours of gonzo gangster action · 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. Gangs Of Wasseypur opens with…
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Will Kylie Jenner’s Ass Break The Internet, Or Will The Internet Yawn? – The Daily Beast
Nothing can ‘break the internet,’ of course. The phrase—as voiced by a desire of Paper magazine when it ran pictures of Kim Kardashian with her bum out last year—is a piece of aspirational grandstanding, and like many such phrases, any original powe…
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Zoella and the YouTubers: they let us write pointless books! | Books | The Guardian
YouTube does not have seams, because it is a video-streaming site, not a garment. But if it did have seams, it would be bursting at them with perfectly coiffed self-made celebrities who understand the importance of a good ring-light. Related: Take t…
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California’s Salton Sea is Fading | Al Jazeera America
The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland body of water, is disappearing and leaving a large, toxic dustbowl in its place that could cause a public health crisis. Already, nearby communities are experiencing alarming rates of asthma, and children …
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The attack that broke the Dark Web—and how Tor plans to fix it | Fusion
There were only a few developers Mathewson trusted enough to work on it. They were spread thin but got enough trusted Tor directory authorities online to block-list the relays and servers involved in the attack.
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US announces ‘expeditionary force’ to target Isis in Iraq and Syria | US news | The Guardian
A permanent new US “expeditionary force” will target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, operating independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time, defense secretary Ash Carter has revealed, in a significant escalation of t…
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Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out | The Nation
Greensboro, NC—The casseroles, pies and trays of less traditional Thanksgiving fare—yellow rice and peas and steaming black beans—covered three tables at the back of the assembly hall at First Presbyterian Church here last Monday night for a welcomi…
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Google adds a nice little bookmark feature for mobile image search | The Verge
Incremental improvements in software are great when they solve small problems that you’ve experienced in the real world. Google has provided one of those little solutions today by announcing that you can now bookmark images when searching for them i…
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Waterstones history and romantic fiction | Letters | Books | The Guardian
It’s very good news that the Waterstones shops are recapturing Tim Waterstone’s original vision for them, but to characterise bookselling in the pre-Waterstone age as a “dull old place” is a little harsh (Letters, 26 November).
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Inside Pistorius’ former prison cell – BBC News
A South African appeals court will announce on Thursday whether it will change athlete Oscar Pistorius’ manslaughter conviction to murder.The Paralympic sprinter shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door in February 2013 but sai…
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Microsoft Tries To Declare A Christmas Truce With Apple | TechCrunch
Microsoft has put out a TV commercial for the holidays. In it, some things happen…mostly singing. There are employees, kids and other things going on in a New York City Setting. Apple’s back yard on 5th Ave, to be specific.
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I review Robert Reich’s new book in the New York Review of Books. Things have changed a lot since 1991.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by famed “dot” artist Yayoi Kusama / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. You must have some trepidation when you set out to illustrate a story as iconic as Alice in Wonderland.
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Definitive Proof that Julianne Moore Is the World‘s Greatest Actress | Vanity Fair
How good an actress is Julianne Moore? So good that she can cry on command, in the middle of Times Square, while confronting a tourist who clearly has no idea who she is.
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See Nina Simone Talk Martin Luther King, Black Pride in Rare Interview | Rolling Stone
Nina Simone discussed black rights and the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. in July 1968, a few months after his assassination, in an interview for Italian radio. PBS recently rediscovered the chat and animated it as part of its Blank on Blank series.
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Integrated Space Plan: Crowdsourcing the Future
Here’s a way to take part in shaping humankind’s up and going trajectory into space.
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The Tupac biopic has a new director, again · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, music video and commercial director Benny Boom is in negotiations to direct the long-gestating Tupac Shakur biopic.
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Kevin Bacon wants to teach you how to be an actor · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Sure, MasterClass can give aspiring actors access to intimate lessons by Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, who draws upon his decades of experience in the theater and on film as he imparts the very soul of his craft.
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How to Vet Nonprofits Before You Give – ProPublica
Charity solicitations are as much a part of the holiday season as decorations. If you give, it’s a good idea to know what the nonprofit organization does with your money. Here’s one way: use ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, a tool for researching th…
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Syria conflict: MSF denounces hospital barrel bomb attack – BBC News
Medecins Sans Frontieres has condemned an “atrocious” barrel bomb attack on a hospital in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday that killed seven people. The medical charity said the attack in Zafaraneh was a “double tap” – an initial strike follow…
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The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the lates…
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Animated interview with Nina Simone about fashion, shock, and her daughter / Boing Boing
The high priestess of soul in an interview with Lilian Terry from July 1968. Animated by Patrick Smith. (Blank on Blank)
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: European Service Module
European Service Module https://t.co/K4B1u57TRW https://t.co/B0xCobI0Yv
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Interacting galaxies Arp 87 [2302 x 1176]
Interacting galaxies Arp 87 [2302 x 1176] https://t.co/VLiMPPAy7P https://t.co/79CHKG3Hwe
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A photorealistic rendering of the far side of the Moon [OC] [2400×2400] https://t.co/CWeeJuUvG0 https://t.co/sgkZepcBGi
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Andromeda Galaxy from my backyard with my DSLR [5202×3456][OC] https://t.co/GMQoIul1Jf https://t.co/rkQrL6pjL8
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More Galileo satellites broadcasting navigation signals https://t.co/revyWteRRT https://t.co/bTVqnwqAWq
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The Catalyst That Triggered the Evolution of Complex Life on Earth https://t.co/DKS73fpsiU https://t.co/uOUZmDj8p9
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Cassini Probes Saturn’s Magnetic Bubble –“Captures Water from Plumes of Enceladus” https://t.co/yRX26FET0N https://t.co/pToiHSmB2B
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Meet The Disrupt London 2015 Speakers And Judges | TechCrunch
Disrupt London is almost here, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak at what will surely be the best Disrupt Europe yet.
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Philippines president talks climate justice in Paris | Grist
Support independent environmental journalism. Help Grist inform, educate, and shine a light on today’s climate crisis and solutions. Ethanol uses up farmland and harms the climate even more than fossil fuels. But it’s business, and somebody’s making…
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Can Twitter Help you Beat the Stock Market? | New Republic
Every day, hundreds of millions of messages are posted on Twitter. Researchers often see this avalanche of data as a gold mine, allowing them to measure in real time the attention, views and feelings of a huge sample of the population.
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io9 Book Club Reminder: Meet December 8 to Discuss Cecelia Holland’s Dragon Heart!
This month, the io9 Book Club is reading Dragon Heart by Cecelia Holland. We’ll meet on Dec. 8 to discuss it. Join us!
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Black Friday fist fight supercut / Boing Boing
Black Friday shoppers were treated to a spectacle of violent struggles over the possession of flat screen TVs, tablet computers, toaster ovens, and other highly prized items.
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Air Force Funds 3D-Printing Study for Rocket Engines
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force awarded the Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering a $545,000 contract to study additive manufacturing techniques to make cooling chambers for liquid rocket engines, according to a Nov.
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Rahm Emanuel Fires Chicago Police Chief After Officer Indicted on Murd | Vanity Fair
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Tuesday that he had asked the city’s police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, to resign, and created a task force to look into the police department’s practices and fragile relations with the city’s African-Amer…
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Get 50 Classic Children’s eBooks for Free from Billion eBook Gift
Reading is fundamental. Not only is that true, it’s the name of the nonprofit that is giving away 50 free ebooks to all families, starting today in honor of #GivingTuesday. The books are digitally mastered in HD and available in both English and Spa…
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As lawmakers hammer out a bill over the next two weeks to fund the federal government and keep it from shutting down, efforts to address the country’s long history of racial segregation may wind up in the crosshairs.
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The Inside Story on Wearable Electronics – Scientific American
Göran Gustafsson looks at people and thinks of cars—the ageing models that rolled off assembly lines a few decades ago.
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Feds Catch and Release Teens Busted for Trying to Join ISIS – The Daily Beast
In October 2014 three Colorado girls skipped school and made their way to the airport. With passports and $2,000 between them, they boarded a flight bound for Frankfurt.
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Minneapolis protests: Four charged in ‘racially motivated’ shooting – BBC News
Four men have been charged in a shooting at an encampment outside a Minneapolis police station that left five protesters wounded. Police said the attackers – three white men and one Asian man – were racially motivated. The victims were black.
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If You’ve Named Your Baby After An Instagram Filter, You’re Not Alone | TechCrunch
Some of the names are what you’d expect. I encounter many a Jackson-baby and Mia-baby these days. However, Time points out that some names are trending. Specifically, names of Instagram filters. You know. The thing that you put on your crappy photos…
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Reusable Rockets: Space Travel’s ‘Holy Grail’ Almost Here
Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket is seen after its successful landing during an unmanned test flight to suborbital space on Nov. 23, 2015.Credit: Blue Origin View full size image The Holy Grail of rocketry looks more and more achievable. La…
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We’re just now getting our first look at the BBC’s upcoming three-hour Luther TV movie (or two-part Christmas special, for those on the other side of the pond).
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Crack nuts with Bowie, Lemmy, Ozzy, and Joey Ramone! / Boing Boing
Samurai White handcrafts custom rock and roll nutcrackers! “All nutcrackers are 8″ tall, painted with acrylics and/or enamel, clearcoated and may have custom kanekalon hair (unless they are bald; their head will be sculpted out of wood pulp),” she s…
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Filmmaking teacher makes a mini documentary about a cigar connoisseur / Boing Boing
The Cigar Connoisseur from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. Philip Bloom is a filmmaker who teaches 3-day documentary making workshops. He went to a cigar shop in New York and shot this short profile of one of the customers, who turned out to be interesting a…
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Ever since he retired in May of this year, there’s been a large David Letterman-shaped hole in our hearts and TV screens. Sure, Stephen Colbert’s taken over the job, to impressive results.
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What Happened to the White Working Class? | The Nation
The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the lates…
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Stephen Fisk, Alaskan mayor, found dead in home – BBC News
The newly elected mayor of Juneau in Alaska has been found dead in his home and police are investigating the cause. Stephen “Greg” Fisk was found by his son on Monday, just weeks after taking office. Results of an autopsy are expected within days.
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Damon Lindelof Admits Keeping Khan’s Identity a Secret In Into Darkness Was a Bad Idea
Star Trek Into Darkness had plenty of unfortunate flaws, but if there’s one thing that it’s still mocked for, it’s how the production team approached keeping the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain away from moviegoers.
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Carl’s Jr. gets schwifty new spokesmen, Rick And Morty · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Carl’s Jr. has had no qualms about pushing its meaty monstrosities onto the gorgeous woman-loving public with a string of ads featuring beautiful women pretending to dine on its wares.
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Weather Cut Number of Refugees Reaching Europe | Al Jazeera America
An estimated 140,000 refugees and migrants reached Europe by sea in November — a big drop from October, although the number of people crossing remains very high and could reach 1 million for the year, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
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For several days, Donald Trump has been claiming that “thousands” of Muslims were cheering the fall of the Twin Towers in New Jersey on 9/11. This claim is false and has been disproven by multiple fact checkers.
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Labor Abuses Still ‘rampant’ in Qatar | Al Jazeera America
Labor abuse remains “rampant” in Qatar despite some reforms introduced since the Gulf Arab state won the right to organize the World Cup five years ago, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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Chicago Police Chief Sacked Over Teen’s Death | Al Jazeera America
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired the city’s police chief and announced the creation of a police accountability task force as he reacted to a public outcry over the shooting of a black teenager by a white officer. Emanuel said he formally asked C…
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UNCANNY VALLEY (2015) on Vimeo
In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away. 3DAR’s latest short film explores the frightenin…
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Leonard Cohen Reads The Great World War I Poem, “In Flanders Fields” | Open Culture
Courtesy of Legion Magazine, you can hear Canada’s iconic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen reading “In Flanders Fields” by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. The clip was recently recorded to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poem. World War I in…
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Sainsbury’s hands Derbyshire town £1m to tackle food waste | Business | The Guardian
Swadlincote, a market town in South Derbyshire, has won £1m from Sainsbury’s to invest in finding ways to halve household food waste.
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Remembering Rosa Parks – The Atlantic
Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955
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Juneau Mayor Stephen ‘Greg’ Fisk Found Dead – The Atlantic
On Monday evening, Stephen “Greg” Fisk was found dead at his home in Juneau. Weeks earlier, the 70-year-old fisherman had unseated Merrill Sanford to become the mayor of Alaska’s capital city.
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Outlander: Your Favorite Time-Traveling Lovers Are Back in the First Season 2 Trailer | Vanity Fair
Book readers maybe already knew what to expect from Outlander Season 2, but for those who only got to know Claire and Jamie Fraser through the Starz TV show finally have a glimpse of what’s coming for the British time traveling nurse and her kilted …
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The Quest to Make CRISPR Even More Precise – The Atlantic
More than ever, we can view the genomes of humans and other organisms as drafts—not final and canonical texts, but rough copies to be tweaked and refined.
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Colombia refuses to extradite Farc rebel to US for first time | World news | The Guardian
Colombia has for the first time declined to extradite to the United States a Marxist Farc rebel accused of drug trafficking, as peace negotiations approach a March deadline.
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Chicago mayor on firing of police chief: ‘It’s time for fresh eyes’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Tuesday that he had fired the city’s police chief after a public outcry over the handling of the case of a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer.
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Chevy’s all-electric 2017 Bolt spied ahead of January debut | The Verge
Autoblog appears to have scored a few spy photos of the upcoming Chevy Bolt, GM’s first high-range electric car — a vehicle that promises over 200 miles on a charge for around $30,000.
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Patent troll claims HTTPS websites infringe crypto patent, sues everybody | Ars Technica
A Texas company is suing some of the biggest names in tech and retail, claiming their HTTPS websites infringe an encryption patent titled “Auto-Escrowable and Auto-Certifiable Cryptosystems.
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How to Run Outdoors in the Winter
Running in the cold isn’t as tough as it looks. With the right gear, your fingers and ears can stay toasty while you jog through a winter wonderland. I fell in love with winter running while I was training for a spring marathon.
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Speedy Ortiz Channels David Lynch in the “My Dead Girl” Video | Vanity Fair
David Lynch fans are a very dedicated group, and the members of the indie rock band Speedy Ortiz are now among them.
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Indian cricket board faces fine after ‘poor’ Test pitch – Al Jazeera English
Indian cricket board faces a fine of up to $15,000 after the pitch used for the spin-dominated third Test between India and South Africa in Nagpur was rated as “poor” by match referee Jeff Crowe, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said.
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Fedora 23 review: Skip if you want stability, stay to try Linux’s bleeding edge | Ars Technica
Two releases ago, Fedora 21 introduced its namesake project’s “Fedora Next” plan. The goal was simple—bring the massive, sprawling entity that is Fedora into some neatly organized categories that would clearly define the project’s aims.
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US to deploy special forces in Iraq – Al Jazeera English
United States Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said the US will deploy “specialised” troops to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group.
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Reflective pond creates an illusion : pics
Reflective pond creates an illusion via /r/pics https://t.co/sNv0hfjRnH https://t.co/0VLIszOY1K https://t.co/ydBs1FH2Lj
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Reflective pond creates an illusion via /r/pics https://t.co/sNv0hfjRnH https://t.co/0VLIszOY1K https://t.co/ydBs1FH2Lj
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/14CzTt7u6h https://t.co/rBxYLNPi31 https://t.co/qpNa5g8VfT
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Donald Trump Is Not a Liar He’s something worse: a bullshit artist. : politics
Donald Trump Is Not a Liar He’s something worse: a bullshit artist. (newrepublic.com) Stand up philosopher!
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Meat is not the problem. Stop subsidizing fossil fuels and feed grains. Stop encouraging energy and grain intensive methods of raising meat. Limit the land available to livestock by setting aside more land for game reserves and parks. Then let the f…
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The lingering effects of NYC’s racist city planning — Hopes&Fears
Cover Photo: Aerial view of traffic on the Robert F. Kennedy (Triboro) Bridge at 125th Street and 2nd Avenue in New York, November 21, 2015. New York City was famously shaped by the powerful urban planner Robert Moses who, along with being a visiona…
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Recently I realized that after a year of research at Sikundur, I haven’t properly introduced the real stars of our site – the orangutans themselves! Spending all-day following these amazing animals from nest to nest; recording their behavior, watchi…
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The government is going too easy on a controversial for-profit college company that’s been accused of misrepresenting its educational benefits, giving inaccurate information about accreditation, using dodgy recruitment practices, and misrepresenting…
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State driving laws on US map / Boing Boing
It is legal to drive while texting in Montana and Arizona. It is legal to drive while drinking alcohol in Mississippi. It is illegal to drive with a dog in your lap in New Jersey and Hawaii.
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Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks | FiveThirtyEight
About two weeks ago, we published our Reddit Ngram interactive — a tool that lets you search for any term to see how frequently it has been used in Reddit comments since late 2007.
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Volkswagen sees massive US sales drop in November | The Verge
Volkswagen’s diesel scandal problems are hitting the company’s bottom line — hard. It’s not just the massive fines and expensive repairs that we know are coming: people really like Volkswagen’s diesel cars.
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AT&T urges unlimited data customers to give up plans, raises price by $5 | Ars Technica
AT&T is trying to nudge customers on grandfathered unlimited data plans to switch to ones with limited data. But the company’s latest move isn’t all that punitive: AT&T is raising the price, but for the first time in seven years, and by only $5 a mo…
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The Firing of Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy – The Atlantic
It took 14 months for Chicago authorities to release the videotape of an officer killing Laquan McDonald. But now that the footage is public, events have begun to move much faster. Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy overni…
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Anatomical Theater (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) / Boing Boing
Andrei Sen-Senkov’s Anatomical Theater is a fascinating, bizarre look into the day to day observations of a gynecologist and well known Russian contemporary poet. It also has amazing cover art by Sveta Dorosheva.
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This weird bug is dropping a skull emoji into Gmail accounts | The Verge
When people around the world logged into their Gmail accounts yesterday, some got a bit of a creepy surprise: an emoji skull and crossbones anchored in the right-hand corner of their screen. When users hovered over the skull, they saw ominous words …
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Volkswagen sees 25% US sales drop compared with 2014 after scandal | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen’s emissions scandal has devastated US sales. On Tuesday, the company announced a 25% drop in November compared with last year. The total number of units sold last month was 23,882, down from 31,725 in November 2014.
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People did cheer 9/11, says ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani – BBC News
The former mayor of New York City has said there were people in the area celebrating when the World Trade Center towers fell on 11 September 2001. But he said claims by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that thousands of people were inv…
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Police Union Asks NFL To Overturn Gun Ban In Stadiums To Help Fight Terrorism | ThinkProgress
The National Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union, has written a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell requesting that he reconsider the league’s ban on concealed carry in its stadiums.
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Molly Crabapple: ‘We’re just trying to use our art to consume the world’ | Books | The Guardian
Drawing, Molly Crabapple writes in her new memoir, Drawing Blood, is “exposure, confrontation, or reckoning. Every line a weapon.” Not every artist would agree, but Crabapple is not “every artist”.
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Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash | The Verge
Adobe is finally ready to say goodbye to Flash. In an announcement last night, Adobe said that it will now “encourage content creators to build with new web standards,” such as HTML5, rather than Flash.
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Google will show live orchestra, opera, and theater performances in 360 degrees | The Verge
Now you can watch your next opera from the comfort of your couch. The Google Cultural Institute today announced that it is partnering with 60 global performing arts institutes to bring live, 360-degree performances to desktop and mobile users worldw…
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The Paris Climate Talks Are About to Get Tense | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—It feels like the whole world has come together at the Paris climate talks, and I don’t mean that strictly in a good way.
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Thailand printers refuse to print New York Times cover story – BBC News
The New York Times’ printer in Thailand has refused to print one of its articles, leaving a blank space on its cover page. The article, titled “Thai spirits sagging with the economy”, discussed the country’s flagging economy and touched on royal suc…
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Watch Gwen Stefani Perform a Raw Version of Her Breakup Song “Used to Love You” | Vanity Fair
The celebrity judges on The Voice regularly perform their music (and other people’s music) in between the stages of the reality show’s competition.
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Motorola’s fitness-focused Moto 360 Sport will be available in January | The Verge
Motorola today announced that its Moto 360 Sport smartwatch will be available for purchase starting on January 7th in the US. It will be available in the UK and France a couple of weeks earlier, starting on December 18th.
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Why ‘Creed’ Is the Greatest Underdog Movie Since ‘Rocky’ | Rolling Stone
If you want to understand why Donald Trump will never be President, watch the Rocky movies. Rocky Balboa is the greatest loser that cinema has ever known.
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Why J.J. Abrams Turned To a Broadway Superstar For One Star Wars: The Force Awakens Scene
When you think “Star Wars” and music, you think of John Williams. That’s a given. And Williams wrote the score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is out in just over two weeks. But he didn’t write all the music in the movie. Co-writer and direc…
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The A to Z of Being Young and HIV-Positive in 2015 | VICE | United States
This World AIDS Day, VICE is exploring the state of HIV around the globe. Watch our special report, “Countdown to Zero,” tonight on HBO at 9 PM, and to get involved visit red.org and shop (RED). Today is World AIDS Day.
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Adobe Puts Another Nail In Flash’s Coffin | TechCrunch
Flash is dying of a slow, painful death. Adobe, the company behind Flash, just made clear once again that Flash isn’t the future by renaming one of its apps. Adobe Flash Professional is now called Adobe Animate CC. Flash Professional is an applicati…
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The Huffington Post Editorial Staff Moves Forward With Union Plans | TechCrunch
The editorial team at the Huffington Post has officially asked management to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East as its union. According to a Writers Guild announcement, “an overwhelming majority” of the 350-person HuffPost editorial staff …
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Paris in Brackets: A Guide to the UN’s Draft Climate Agreement – The Atlantic
“I’m aware that a good many perfectly intelligent people can’t stand parenthetical comments while a story’s purportedly being told,” J.D. Salinger once taunted his readers, as he proceeded to tell a story littered with parenthetical comments.
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Why Measles Outbreaks Are a Measure of Vaccine Coverage for Other Diseases – The Atlantic
This year was supposed to mark the point when measles—one of the most infectious diseases on the planet—was finally under control.
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Microsoft Integrates Cortana Into Its Power BI Business Intelligence Service | TechCrunch
When Microsoft has a technology it likes, it loves to bring it to all of its platforms and services. Right now, its Cortana personal assistant is clearly one of these technologies. Microsoft today announced that Cortana is coming to more desktops in…
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COP21: the best climate metaphors from Paris | Environment | The Guardian
World leaders gathered in Paris on Monday for the crucial UN summit on climate change to negotiate a treaty to limit global warming to 2C, the widely accepted temperature threshold to avert catastrophic disasters.
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Google Turns Image Search Into Pinterest With New “Collections” Feature | TechCrunch
Watch out, Pinterest, you’ve got new competition. Google has now rolled out a new feature on its search engine that offers users an easy way to save to save images they find to collections they can reference at a later time.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Fired Over Handling Of Laquan McDonald Shooting | ThinkProgress
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) fired Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Tuesday, after days of protesting over the city’s handling of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. McCarthy was “shell-shocked” by the decision, the Chicago Sun-Tim…
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Tiger Global Closes $2.5 Billion More To Continue Its Startup Investment Spree | TechCrunch
November looks to be an auspicious month for power investor Tiger Global. The New York-based hedge fund raised $2.
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Kingfisher swoops on solar power to reduce reliance on National Grid | Business | The Guardian
Kingfisher, the owner of B&Q and Screwfix, is to put solar panels on its distribution centres and some stores as part of a £50m investment to cut its reliance on the National Grid.
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The US Is Preparing to Ramp Up Its Ground War in Syria | Mother Jones
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Tuesday that the US is willing to add more soldiers to its small but controversial deployment of special operations troops in Syria—and allow soldiers stationed across the border in Iraq to conduct raids into …
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Anne de Courcy: ‘I read the letters and diaries with a sense of disbelief’ | Books | The Guardian
For the biographer, unfettered access to a subject’s personal, private diary is a glimpse into the naked human heart – and Margot Asquith’s heart was more naked than most.
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Migrant crisis: Stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border – BBC News
Macedonia has become the latest country to restrict the flow of migrants entering the country, erecting a fence on its border with Greece. Only people from three ‘war-torn’ countries, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are being allowed to pass. Several t…
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Stockbroker sues makers of Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street for defamation | Film | The Guardian
A banker who claims he was defamed by the makers of The Wolf of Wall Street has won the right to proceed with a $50m lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, according to the New York Daily News.
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Chicago police chief fired over death of teenager – BBC News
Chicago’s police chief has been fired following the outcry over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a police officer. The city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, told reporters he had dismissed Superintendent Garry McCarthy because of an erosion in public…
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How to Do Art Basel Miami Beach, Lenny Kravitz-Style | Vanity Fair
Lenny Kravitz has always been fascinated by cameras. He gravitated toward photographers during his career as an artist, saw how they lit and shot and worked in the darkroom. But when he finally got a Leica of his own, to take his own photos, he came…
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Huge Trove of Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Scotland
Hundreds of tracks discovered along Scotland’s coast show that huge, long-necked dinosaurs once trod there. The footprints form the largest dinosaur site ever found in Scotland. They also show that sauropods, which included the largest dinosaurs of …
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Over the last few years, Mitch Glazer, the screenwriter and producer, has watched with awe and bewilderment what has happened to Bill Murray. Mr.
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What We’re Following on Tuesday Afternoon, 12/1 – The Atlantic
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The Cuban government has announced that it is reimposing a hated travel permit requirement on many doctors, requiring them to get permission to leave the country in an attempt to counter a brain drain that it blames on the United States.
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How To File A Patent – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In the United States, anyone who believes they have invented something truly unique is welcome to fill out a patent application to protect it, but it’s often a complicated and laborious process.
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The Man Who Will Save Math | New Republic
Imagine aliens have abducted you. They’re kind enough creatures, however: Theirs is the slow-motion torture of trying to make you understand them.
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Chicago police chief fired after Laquan McDonald shooting revelations | US news | The Guardian
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired the city’s police chief after a public outcry over the handling of the case of a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer.
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: “Tomorrow When We See the Sun” by A. Merc Rustad
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Tomorrow When We See the Sun” by A. Merc Rustad. You can read the story below or you can l…
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Rob Schneider showed his DIY spirit—and impatience with studio rigmarole—when he announced he’d be funding, directing, writing, and starring in a new sitcom. That project, Real Rob, was picked up by Netflix earlier this fall, and will have its strea…
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Chrome’s Data Saver Mode on Android Now Loads Pages Even Faster by Blocking Images
Android: Google has updated its Data Saver mode in Chrome to remove most images when loading a page over a slow connection. This keeps image-heavy sites from eating up all your data and speeds up your web browsing. The company says the update saves …
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It’s a gruesome cycle that has become all too familiar. On Friday, a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado left three people dead and nine more wounded.
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Sylvester Stallone and Fox are developing a Rambo TV series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Five years ago, Sylvester Stallone said that after four films spanning 26 years, he was done with one of his most famous characters, the veiny, dangerously muscular John Rambo.
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‘Meteorologist-in-chief’: Republicans mock Obama’s Paris climate speech | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidates have poured scorn on Barack Obama for his comments at the Paris climate talks, with Mike Huckabee mocking him as the “meteorologist-in-chief” and Ted Cruz claiming Obama thinks “having an SUV in your driveway” is m…
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The Power of Moral Mondays | The Nation
The Republican presidential race has devolved into a disgraceful display of bigotry and bullying.
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Sri Lanka to Launch Special War Crimes Probe | Al Jazeera America
Sri Lanka will launch a special war crimes court early next year to investigate major atrocities during the bloody finale to its decades-long ethnic war, a top official said Tuesday.
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Huffington Post Staffers Ask Management to Recognize Their Union | Vanity Fair
It was just about time for another digital newsroom to join the swelling tide of unionization efforts. Tuesday’s announcement from the staff of the Huffington Post came right on schedule.
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Paleontologists Discover Rare Footprints of Massive Dinosaurs in Scotland | Motherboard
Hundreds of footprints from massive long-necked dinosaurs have been discovered near Duntulm Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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There Are So Many Species Named After David Attenborough | Motherboard
Few can boast of having a plant, fossil, or a pygmy locust named after them. But Sir David Attenborough—Britain’s well-loved wildlife documentary presenter—has been taxonomically honoured at least nine times already.
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This Startup Wants WiFi to Be the New Burglar Alarm | Motherboard
Our world is awash with wireless signals emanating from all of our devices. We can’t see these radio waves, but we use their spectrum every day when we make a call, or check Facebook over WiFi.
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The WWE Network Is No Longer Ignoring Old School Wrestling Fans | Motherboard
Christmas has come early for old school professional wrestling fans. WWE on Monday night added episodes of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and Mid-South Wrestling to its streaming network, called the WWE Network.
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Drug Pump Maker Denies Security Patch to Researcher Who Found Vulnerabilities | Motherboard
Hospira, a medical device manufacturer with a history of Food and Drug Administration warnings about the security of its drug pumps, has refused to issue a software update containing a security patch for its LifeCare PCA5 Infusion Pump System to sec…
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Two Palestinians Shot Dead in Stabbing Attempts | Al Jazeera America
Two Palestinians were shot dead Tuesday after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier and a pedestrian in separate attacks near Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy has been fired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the mayor confirmed Tuesday. McCarthy was called into City Hall on Monday and when he left City Hall he still had a job.
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Woman faces 10 years in prison for giving water to pigs on a scorching summer day / Boing Boing
Anita Krajnc, of Toronto, was charged with criminal mischief when she gave drinking water to pigs being transported to a slaughterhouse on a hot day. Veldjesgraaf responds: “You know what? These are not humans, you dumb frickin’ broad.”
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U.S. to Send Special Forces to Iraq to Aid in Fight Against ISIS – The Atlantic
The United States will send special-operations troops to Iraq to aid in the fight against the Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.
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Puerto Rico’s governor tells US Senate the island cannot repay debts | World news | The Guardian
Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro García Padilla told the US Senate on Tuesday that the troubled Caribbean island has “no cash left” and can no longer repay its $72bn debts.
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The final issue of Marvel’s Secret Wars event has been delayed to January 6th. Secret Wars was meant to end in early October, ahead of Marvel’s universal reboot.
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WhatsApp Is Blocking Links To Rival App Telegram On Android | TechCrunch
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp appears to have started deliberately blocking links to rival messaging app Telegram so users can’t share clickable Telegram-associated URLs in their chats. The URLs just appear as unlinked text. Mobile messagi…
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England urged to urgently improve stalled recycling rates | Environment | The Guardian
England must urgently improve its recycling rates if it is to reach European Union targets by 2020, according to one of Britain’s biggest waste companies.
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Storehouse Arrives On Android | TechCrunch
At long last, Storehouse is giving Android users some love. The photo narrative app, which was founded as an iPad-only experience in 2013, began shifting to develop an even more mobile platform when it added support for the iPhone early last year.
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The first robot in cinema / Boing Boing
Harry Houdini thought he was a superstar, but there was one medium he was unable to conquer: movies. He made a number of silent films, yet only The Grim Game is even tolerable.
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Drake and Rihanna were the king and queen of Spotify streams this year | The Verge
Spotify just released its annual year in review, and the results are not too surprising: the most-streamed artist of the year was the Earth planet’s preeminent golden boy Drake, with around 1.8 billion total streams.
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Food Delivery Startup Good Eggs Has A New CEO | TechCrunch
Good Eggs, an online service that allows you to order food from local farms, has brought on a new CEO — Bentley Hall, who previously held senior roles at Plum Organics, Clif Bar and Johnson & Johnson. The company’s existing CEO Rob Spiro (pictured a…
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Jurassic footprints found on Skye – BBC News
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have discovered a trackway of more than 100 dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye. The 170-million-year-old tracks were created by sauropods, some of the largest animals ever to have walked on Earth.
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These wireless headphones combine luxury with convenience | The Verge
Wireless headphones are great: they’re convenient, freeing, and often sound fantastic. They really make you feel like you’re living in the future, pumping tunes into your ears with no wires getting in the way. But most wireless headphones are utilit…
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Xenoblade Chronicles X review: The reward is sweeter for the struggle | Ars Technica
After about 25 to 30 hours of solid work, Xenoblade Chronicles X finally becomes a video game. Before that point, the game exists not to be enjoyed but to rhythmically clobber you into a biomass able to be sculpted into someone capable of playing th…
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It seems odd to hold a climate change conference at a time of year when everyone has just looked out their window and notched the thermostat up by 2C. Change seems such a mild word for what’s going on.
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Angry Birds? Seagulls Implicated in Baby-Whale Deaths – Scientific American
Hundreds of baby whales died off the coast of Argentina between 2003 and 2014, and seagulls may have played a role in their deaths, a new study suggests.
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Scary X28 Solar Flare Revisited For Solar Probe’s 20th Anniversary | Video
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A look inside America’s oldest hat factory
The Bollman Hat Company has been making hats in their Pennsylvania factory since 1868. If you’re curious, the company has several other videos about how they produce their hats.
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Helen Mirren Stole the Gotham Awards With One Bawdy, Perfect Joke | Vanity Fair
Bel Powley looked as surprised as anyone else to be onstage at the Gotham Awards on Monday night.
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Question Mark and the Mysterians “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” (1967) / Boing Boing
Ringo Starr’s personal copy of The White Album, the first pressing of the album, numbered 0000001, is up for auction with proceeds going to charity. The current high bid is $55,000.
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Anti-Amazon campaigners drove a van through central London yesterday that was emblazoned with a crowdfunded, fake Amazon advert attacking the online retailer’s alleged tax avoidance.
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Simple silicone garlic peeler / Boing Boing
I am amazed at how well this simple, silly tube of silicone works. Simply crack the outer layers of skin on a clove of garlic, pop it into the cylinder of silicone and roll. The skin comes right off. My hands don’t smell of garlic.
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Are we now at a point where the information coming from Trump and his campaign is so unreliable that the media need to be skeptical of even the most basic claims? (washingtonpost.com)
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Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben-Tzur Talk Indian-Music Odyssey | Rolling Stone
Ever since Rolling Stone Brian Jones stumbled through Morocco in a hash haze, only to come upon the Master Musicians of Jajouka in a small village in 1968, there’s been an interconnectedness between Western rock stars and Eastern mysticism.
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“Enter Mr. Sanders, an almost painfully earnest politician seemingly burdened with the ambition and moral certitude of Joan of Arc. Liberal millennials are flocking to him, their Cool Socialist Grandpa.” (nytimes.com) Such condescension.
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Seabirds Are Dumping Pollution-Laden Poop Back on Land: Chemicals we’ve poured into the ocean are coming back to sting us thanks to seabirds defecating in their onshore colonies (smithsonianmag.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Won’t happen. No sitting president will ever prosecute a former president because it sets a precedent and payback is a bitch. Hell, they pardoned Nixon!
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Cracking Your Knuckles: Here’s Why Your Knuckles Crack
The human body has always been something of a two-legged calliope—a sound effects machine capable of an almost unlimited range of noises. Some are pretty easy to understand—the whistle, the sneeze, the, well, you can figure out the others.
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The Roots of Pro-Lifers’ Dangerous Rhetoric | New Republic
Last Friday, 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear allegedly opened fire on a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs, wounding nine and killing three.
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Sylvester Stallone is developing a Rambo TV series | The Verge
Coming right on the heels of Creed’s successful debut last week, Sylvester Stallone is poised to bring another classic franchise to television.
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Antiquities Chief: Syria Needs Global Help to Save Heritage
On a chilly afternoon in the British capital, Maamoun Abdulkarim, a 48-year-old Syrian archaeologist, sits in a small conference room and outlines his vision for liberating what’s left of one of the world’s greatest archaeological sites from the gri…
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Security of UK net firms under scrutiny – BBC News
The security of the UK’s biggest internet service providers needs “major improvement”, according to one expert. Security consultant Paul Moore examined the publicly available information of the UK’s six biggest ISPs.
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It is one of the world’s less lovely lotteries. Just under 12,000 people – the vast majority men – have registered for the chance to kill 16 wolves in the Norwegian hunting season, ostensibly to protect the nation’s livestock.
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Rosa Parks: 60th anniversary of a historic day in Alabama – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content Civil rights movement Rosa Parks: 60th anniversary of a historic day in Alabama – in pictures Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger on 1 December 1955 was one of the most important symbols of the…
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VV06 launch postponed / Press Releases / For Media / ESA
During the final step of VV06 launch campaign, a technical issue on the Vega launch vehicle required additional analysis. The launch initially scheduled for December 2, 2015 is postponed.
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See What Climate Change Means for the World’s Poor
Climate change has been linked to increased frequency and intensity of destructive weather events, such as floods and hurricanes. But the effects of a warming planet on crops may pose an even greater danger, especially for the world’s poor, accordin…
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In September 1992, two Israeli widows went to the home of their lawyer. When the women arrived, the lawyer told them that he had received some photographs during his recent trip to Munich but that he did not think they should view them.
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Artificial intelligence called in to tackle LHC data deluge : Nature News & Comment
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Figuring Out a New Life After 12 Concussions | Al Jazeera America
This is part one of the two-part “Life After Concussions in College Sports” series. Part II will be posted in the coming weeks. In March 2016, check out Timothy Bella’s “Life After Concussions in College Sports” panel at South By Southwest. STORRS, …
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Safer way to do gene editing – BBC News
Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate – vital if it is to be used in humans to cure inherited diseases or inborn errors.
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle LHC Data Deluge – Scientific American
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world’s most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle physicists and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers take off.
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Another Popular App Leaves The Mac App Store | TechCrunch
Apple has a Mac App Store problem. Popular vector-based design app Sketch is leaving the App Store in order to move back to a direct-selling model. The developer announced the move on its official blog this morning.
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Chrome for Android can now save more data by blocking website images | The Verge
Google created the Data Saver mode in Chrome to reduce the amount of data that gets used up when you’re browsing the web.
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In Contrast With U.S., Anti-Abortion Violence Is Almost Unheard Of In Europe | ThinkProgress
Robert Lewis Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last week is the latest incident in a string of anti-abortion violence in the United States.
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Volkswagen US sales fall by 25% in November – BBC News
German carmaker Volkswagen has seen its US sales decline sharply as a result of the continuing emissions scandal. November sales were down by 24.7% from the previous year.
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Paris climate summit: Survey reveals ‘greenwash’ of corporate sponsors | Environment | The Guardian
A survey of 10 sponsors of the Paris climate summit has found that most do not publish data on their CO2 emissions, half don’t track their lifetime carbon footprint, and only one is reducing its emissions in line with the EU’s targets.
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John Kerry on Climate Change: The Fight of Our Time | Rolling Stone
On a rainy day in mid-November, Secretary of State John Kerry stood on the bridge of the USS San Antonio, a state-of-the-art ship designed to deliver up to 800 Marines ashore via helicopters and landing craft.
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Next week, Chief Justice John Roberts will have the chance to achieve one of his longtime dreams — ending affirmative action in university admissions — if he can only obtain the votes of his four fellow conservatives.
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David Letterman Donating ‘Late Show’ Memorabilia to Alma Mater | Rolling Stone
David Letterman Donating ‘Late Show’ Memorabilia to Alma Mater Ball State University to house props, sets and Emmys accumulated during comedian’s storied career
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It seems “hate speech” is whatever this blogger disagrees with. You seem to be suggesting that this can be dismissed because it is merely a blog. The blogger is Robert Reich. From the site:
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LE BOURGET, France — Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, President Obama has not missed many opportunities to convey what a warm rapport he has forged with the Indian leader. There was the admiring essay about Mr. Modi that Mr.
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A Stanza-By-Stanza Poetic Critique Of Kobe Bryant’s ‘Dear Basketball’ – Vocativ
An all-time baller has now proven himself a bard. To announce his retirement after two illustrious decades of professional basketball, Kobe Bryant published a poem entitled ‘Dear Basketball’ on The Players’ Tribune.
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I once read a book by Larry King called How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere. Slavoj Zizek might well consider writing a book of his own called How to Make Intellectual Pronouncements About Anything, Anytime, Anywhere.
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Single Moms in Poverty – The Atlantic
Pity the married working mom, who barely has time to do the dishes or go for a run at night, much less spend a nice evening playing Boggle with her husband and kids. But if married working parents are struggling with time management these days, imag…
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The idea of a drill-wielding hacker who runs a deep-web empire selling drugs to teens seems like a fantasy embodying the worst of digital technology. It’s also, in the spirit of CSI: Cyber, completely ridiculous.
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Abortion Clinics Employ The Most Extreme Security Tactics In The Medical Industry | ThinkProgress
When Robert Dear broke into the Colorado Spring Planned Parenthood on Friday afternoon, he didn’t make it past a locked door leading to the clinic’s center. Practitioners and patients on the other side had access to bulletproof vests.
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Amid tough competition, Samsung’s mobile division gets a new president | Ars Technica
Samsung’s mobile division is getting a new leader, as long-time division head JK Shin will be replaced by Koh Dong Jin.
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Not to worry, the world’s richest philanthropists are on the case. As the United Nations climate talks kicked off in Paris amid worries that governments aren’t committing to serious emissions reductions, Bill Gates stole the spotlight with a bold pr…
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The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO2, By Our Math. | New Republic
The 2015 Paris talks (formally known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties t…
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The GOP Can’t Depend On Minority Candidates To Win Minority Votes | FiveThirtyEight
Ben Carson, the sole black candidate running for president in either major party, is aiming to double the GOP’s share of the black vote if he makes it to the general election. Marco Rubio is Latino, and his campaign has said he can substantially boo…
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Walmart Blackmails City Over Minimum Wage Increase | ThinkProgress
The city of Desert Hot Springs, California is considering a minimum wage increase to boost residents’ incomes and therefore help attract more retailers. But the proposal has drawn the protests of the country’s largest retailer, Walmart.
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Kristen Marhaver: How we’re growing baby coral to save the reefs | TED Talk | TED.com
Kristen Marhaver studies coral, tiny creatures the size of a poppyseed that, over hundreds of slow years, can create beautiful, life-sustaining ocean structures hundreds of miles long. As she admits, it’s easy to get sad about the state of coral ree…
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‘American Isis Twitter scene’ reveals social media’s power to radicalise | World news | The Guardian
Islamic State sympathisers in America prefer Twitter to any other social media platform and use avatars of black flags, green birds and lions – including the Detroit Lions NFL team – in their online propaganda, a study has shown.
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Deadly explosion hits Istanbul metro station – Al Jazeera English
An unknown explosion at a metro station in Istanbul has killed at least one person and injured a number of others, local media reported.
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Despite what can generously be described as an aggressive marketing push, we still have lots of questions about Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, from wondering why C-3PO appears to have part of Iron Man’s armor, to questioning the design of…
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Ted Cruz blows the dog whistle, claims that most violent criminals are Democrats
Ahh, Ted Cruz.
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Krampus hits the American mainstream|Dangerous Minds
With a major motion picture release and several significant organized events coming up across the United States this weekend, 2015 may be the year Krampus, the Christmas devil, breaks through to the American mainstream.
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A Flawed Android App for Billboards Made Real-Life Ad-Blocking Possible | Motherboard
In the age of the internet of things, where all kinds of old-fashioned devices and technologies are now connecting to the net, everything can be hacked, including cars, cities, parking garages, and wind turbines.
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Shortly after making a public radio apology to the superhumanly powerful man that just tried to have her killed, Trish Walker delivers a line that concisely summarizes one of the major themes of Jessica Jones: “Men and power, it’s seriously a diseas…
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Obama On Climate Change: ‘I Actually Think We’re Gonna Solve This Thing’ – Obama left Paris Tuesday with a hopeful message for the climate talks. (thinkprogress.org)
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Cruz and Trump appear to be having a contest about who can get the most horseshit out of their mouths. More nonsense from Cruz in which he doesn’t tell anybody what his ideas are with plans behind them and instead falls back on distractions that far…
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Spotify is the world’s top streaming music service in terms of active users, downloads and revenue, according to a new music-focused report out this morning from App Annie.
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Police investigate mystery penguin death at Dortmund zoo – BBC News
Police in the German city of Dortmund are investigating the death of one penguin and the disappearance of two others from the local zoo. On Monday morning zookeepers found one Humboldt penguin lying dead in its cage and two others missing, police sp…
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You can now reply to Hangout messages on your Apple Watch | The Verge
Google Hangouts has become much more useful on the Apple Watch, thanks to an update to its iOS app.
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Renaldo and the Loaf are an extremely obscure English musical duo comprised of a pathologist (David Janssen or “Ted the Loaf”) and an architect (Brian Poole or “Renaldo Malpractice”). They met in school and made experimental music starting in the la…
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The Catalyst That Triggered the Evolution of Complex Life on Earth
The catalyst that allowed the evolution of complex life in Earth’s oceans has been identified. Up to 800 million years ago, the Earth’s oceans were deprived of oxygen.
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Translation Tuesday: Okinawa, Mon Amour by Betina González | Books | The Guardian
In Japan everything always happened in reverse: wolves did not eat people, kamikazes were not afraid of death, grumpy people smiled, and Cinderella was a stoker’s son named Mamichigane.
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Just Cause 3 suffering bugs, glitches, and FPS drops on consoles and PCs | Ars Technica
Usually it’s just PC players that get stiffed when it comes to launch day bugs—the disastrous Arkham Knight port being a prime example—but Just Cause 3 is reportedly causing problems on PC and console.
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PeopleSpark Wants To Breathe New Life Into The Dreaded Performance Review | TechCrunch
It’s well known that most startups fail, so when the company you founded reaches scale and begins to grow into a big name, founders tend to strap in and get ready for the fruits of their labor. That’s not always the case though.
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Review: Racing Extinction is a captivating look at our climate crisis, but is it enough? | The Verge
It’s pretty clear by now that Earth has a problem. Greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels have steadily risen in the world’s atmosphere since the industrial revolution, trapping heat and leading to a global increase in average temp…
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Gwendoline Christie in a Star Wars Dress Holding a Blaster Is an Early Christmas Gift to Us All
Look. It’s officially December. That means a) Christmas is just 24 days away, and b), Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a mere 17 days away.
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How to Break Your Netflix Binge-Watching Habit
Vegging out in front of the TV can be a fun activity for a lazy Sunday, but while you’re binge-watching every episode of Jessica Jones, your weekend is passing you by.
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors for Genome Editing – Scientific American
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is to be deployed in the clinic to treat genetic diseases.
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You’d be hard-pressed to find two more relevant pieces of pop culture in 2015 than the smash Broadway hit Hamilton and the highly-anticipated new Star Wars sequel: The Force Awakens. As if those two entities weren’t powerful enough on their own, J.J.
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Hillary Clinton pledges broadband for all Americans in $275 billion infrastructure plan | The Verge
As her State Department emails continue to trickle out, former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has unveiled a five-year, $275 billion infrastructure plan, hinging on a main goal: to expand faster broadband connection…
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Blast reported at Istanbul metro – BBC News
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon tells MPs the UK is already a target for Islamic State extremists as the Cabinet endorses Wednesday’s vote on air strikes.
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Obama On Climate Change: ‘I Actually Think We’re Gonna Solve This Thing’ | ThinkProgress
President Obama sent a hopeful message to the U.N. climate talks Tuesday before he left Paris. Speaking to the press, Obama said that coming to an agreement in Paris won’t be easy — “getting 200 nations to agree on anything is hard” — but that he wa…
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McLaren’s perfect supercar: tearing up the track in the 666-horsepower 675LT | The Verge
The McLaren 675LT I’m driving today costs a tick less than $400,000. The sticker says $396,820, which leaves $3,180 on the table. Just enough left over for several consultations with a top-notch chiropractor. Owners will need those medical visits.
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Russia S-400 Syria missile deployment sends robust signal – BBC News
The shooting down of a Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish fighters has prompted Moscow to reinforce its contingent in Syria.
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Highest-Ranking US Intelligence Officer Openly Admits ISIS Wouldn’t Exist if Not for ‘Dumb’ US War (thefreethoughtproject.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…[–]mrojek [score hidden] 1 hour ago(0 children)”Benghazi.” – T.
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Because of of course if we don’t have planned parenthood noone will be shooting up the place! It’s hard to argue that.
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What would a truly ambitious plan to tackle climate change look like? (nytimes.com)
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If being anti-abortion means you “inspired” the Planned Parenthood shooter, then being pro-gay marriage means you inspired the FRC shooter. Corkins was certainly not treated like this guy.
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Watch all the exoplanets orbit their stars simultaneously / Boing Boing
The Kepler telescope has found 685 systems with 1705 exoplanets, and you can watch them whirr around together in this mesmerizing animation by astrocubs. The data is from the NASA Exoplanet Archive. I made the visualization in Python: source code av…
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Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race | The Nation
When a group of Princeton students occupied the university president’s office earlier this month, and demanded, among other things, that the university remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from two campus buildings, they sparked a powerful debate about hist…
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TOM THE DANCING BUG – War on Christian Terrorism / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH war is declared on Christian Terrorism. Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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Bernie Sanders Spells Out His Immigration Plan | The Nation
Last Tuesday Bernie Sanders announced a sweeping proposal for a “humane” immigration agenda, including a plan to temporarily shield as many as nine million undocumented immigrants from deportation.
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COP21: Coal plans would derail 2 degree warming target – BBC News
Attempts to keep global warming to 2 degrees will be wildly off course if all planned coal fire plants are built. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis presented here at the UN climate conference near Paris.
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New York’s former mayor Rudy Giuliani has warned Donald Trump that “it’s going to make him look really bad” if evidence does not turn up to support his claims that Muslim Americans celebrated the terror attacks of .
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Microsoft and Apple hug it out for the holidays | The Verge
Microsoft has been spreading the spirit of the season in New York City this week. As part of Microsoft’s holiday TV commercial, the software maker decided to “deliver a special message to some old friends.
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The rugby league season may be over for most of us but a few dozen players are facing the biggest games of their lives next week in that unlikely league heartland: Florida.
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Thunderbird “a tax” on Firefox development, and Mozilla wants to drop it | Ars Technica
You might know Mozilla primarily for its Firefox browser, but for many years the company has also developed an e-mail client called Thunderbird.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Studio Ghibli, Gone Girl, and More
Some of your Studio Ghibli favorites are just $13 each today. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here to learn more. We want your feed…
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Aung San Suu Kyi to hold talks with Myanmar’s rulers – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to hold high-level talks with the country’s civilian and military rulers, amid speculations that she could manoeuvre to become president despite the current constitutional restrictions. The date of…
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Longreads Best of 2015: Here Are All of Our No. 1 Story Picks from This Year : Longreads Blog
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2015. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email. If you like these, you can sign up to receive our free weekly email every Friday.
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Paris climate talks: behind the scenes – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content COP 21: UN climate change conference | Paris Paris climate talks: behind the scenes – in pictures How day one of COP21 unfolded as world leaders gathered in Le Bourget to begin to negotiate a treaty to limit global warming
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 1st – The New Yorker
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New Johnny Cash Live Album Grows Legacy: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
New Johnny Cash Live Album Grows Legacy: The Ram Report ‘Man in Black: Live in Denmark 1971’ features many Cash hits, along with guest appearances by June Carter and Carl Perkin
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‘WWE Raw’: Sheamus 5:15 Says This Show Just Whipped Your Ass | Rolling Stone
WWE Raw was its usual three hours and change last night, but somehow, this show felt twice as long. Which is pretty impressive, considering they still didn’t find time to feature Kevin Owens.
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Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard on Jamming With Prince, Sir Paul | Rolling Stone
The past year has been very good to Brittany Howard. In April, she topped the charts with Alabama Shakes’ second album, Sound & Color; five months later, her side project, Thunderbitch, released a debut LP that sounds like a rowdy late-night party i…
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HIV/AIDS: Fewer deaths, but infections still rising – 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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Chicago Mayor ‘Buying Time’ with Police Task Force | Al Jazeera America
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office said on Tuesday that he planned to create a Task Force on Police Accountability after a public outcry over the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer.
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The Duplass brothers are writing a book about the “awkwardness of life” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having already dramatized it to great effect on the big and small screens, Jay and Mark Duplass are now putting together a book of essays on the “messiness and awkwardness of life.
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Cassini Probes Saturn’s Magnetic Bubble –“Captures Water from Plumes of Enceladus”
Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn’s magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.
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How Hillary Clinton Is Making Aging Parents a 2016 Issue | New Republic
Serious illness in America carries a kind of moral virtue—one that ennobles the victim of a medical tragedy—but we still view the frailty of old age as a pitiable curse.
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US ‘to deploy extra forces’ to Iraq – 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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COP21: France to spend billions on African renewable energy projects | Environment | The Guardian
France plans to spend billions of euros in renewable energy and other environmental projects in its former west African colonies and across Africa over the next five years, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday.
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Barack Obama: parts of Paris climate deal must carry legal force | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama declared on Tuesday that some components to a global climate change agreement must carry legal force, easing one obstacle to a successful outcome at negotiations in Paris.
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DirecTV will broadcast live 4K content by “early next year” | Ars Technica
Even if 4K TVs were popular Black Friday and Cyber Monday steals, there continues to be a lack of 4K content to watch on them.
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“First World” Problems are Still Worth Solving
When an issue, problem, or annoyance isn’t life or death, we tend to brush it off as a “First World” problem. This suggests the problem isn’t worth solving, and, as School of Life explains in this video, that’s counterproductive.
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GOP lawmakers now have newer, shinier reasons to shut down the government than Planned Parenthood
Now that the GOP’s full-fledged months-long attack on Planned Parenthood is being linked to the slaughter of innocent people in Colorado Springs, Republicans have found better wars to wage in service of a government shutdown this December.
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Microsoft has yet to ship its first HoloLens holographic imaging device, but it is moving swiftly on to the next generation of development nonetheless. TechCrunch has confirmed that Microsoft has dismissed 60 people in Israel who work on the HoloLen…
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The Elf on the Shelf is a surveillance-normalizing little creep / Boing Boing
Important reminder, happy mutants! The Elf on the Shelf, the cherubic, round-eyed toy with a faux-traditional backstory, is yet another manifestation of the surveillance state.
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Saudi Arabia Plans World’s Tallest Building | Vanity Fair
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On Gotham, Gordon’s a Villain, Bruce Wayne Is Jesus, and Everything Else Is Also Insane
If you were at all worried that Gotham would somehow have run out of complete and total insanity prior to its fall finale, “Worse Than a Crime” must have been quite a comfort to you.
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Gates Joins Big Wigs in Paris to Push Clean Energy Initiative – Scientific American
At U.N. climate change summit, philanthropist touts informal club of 28 private investors who will pump money into R&D
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Africa: The region where AIDS infections are dropping – Al Jazeera English
The African continent is the only region to have recorded a consistent drop in new HIV infections since 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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Smog chokes cities in China – video | World news | The Guardian
Factories in Beijing have been ordered to shut and children allowed to stay away from school as choking smog exceeds safe levels. Footage filmed by a high-rise resident in Xi’an city shows tower blocks floating in the polluted mist.
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Campus Racial-Justice Protests Unfolding Across America: An Overview and Timeline – The Atlantic
The country’s college campuses have seen a surge in student activism amid escalating tensions over their hostile racial climates.
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When certain massive stars use up all of their fuel and collapse onto their cores, explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than the average supernova occur. Exactly how this happens is not well understood.
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Steph Curry does it again as Golden State stretch NBA win streak to 19 | Sport | The Guardian
Stephen Curry was held in relative check for most of Monday night. The reigning MVP and NBA’s leading scorer had 16 points through three quarters as Draymond Green and other teammates did the heavy lifting. Then came the fourth quarter.
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Ted Cruz: Republicans are not the ‘condom police’ – video | US news | The Guardian
US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz attacks Hillary Clinton during a town hall meeting in Iowa on Monday night, accusing her of tricking voters into thinking Republicans are the ‘condom police’, who want to take away women’s right to contr…
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Cookies Wants To Become The Venmo Of Europe | TechCrunch
Many have tried, but no European company has become as successful as Venmo so far. Venmo is a great way to pay back your friends in a few taps without having to pay any fee. But its main issue is that it only works in the U.S. Stealth startup Cookie…
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Another Hillary Clinton E-mail Dump Reveals Even More Benghazi-Related | Vanity Fair
According to several thousand advertising campaigns, we’re now in the “giving season,” and the State Department just gave a fun gift to Hillary Clinton’s enemies and observers: several new e-mail chains from the private computer server she kept in h…
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of December 1, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Four will be killed, 12 injured, and nearly 50 molested this week after your unconscious escapes.
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Dita Von Teese Reveals What She Loves About Lingerie—While Wearing It | Vanity Fair
Dita Von Teese is famous for her glamorous vintage look, but it’s possible to cop her style without having to put your hair in pin curls or choose a fiery shade of lipstick.
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Grindr Convinced Me to Take an HIV Test | Motherboard
I slept with a number of men over the last seven years—including some I maybe shouldn’t have. But I’d never had an HIV test.
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$5 Computer Sells Out In One Day – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Educational nonprofit Raspberry Pi has released a computer motherboard called the Zero that retails for just five dollars, selling out of the product in a single day and giving away an additional 10,000 free units with each copy of their print magaz…
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McFarlane and Larsen team up for an exhilarating Spawn bloodbath · Comics Panel · The A.V. Club
Image Comics co-founders Erik Larsen and Todd McFarlane made names for themselves drawing bombastic superhero action for Marvel Comics, and their new collaboration on Spawn takes full advantage of those specific skills.
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The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming – Even if the more than 180 countries’ voluntary pledges are implemented, global temperatures would still rise to 2.7 to 3.5 C above the pre-indust…
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The Life and Death of Skysurfing | Atlas Obscura
Troy Hartman surfs the skies as his cameraman flies by his side. (Photo: Troy Hartman) The sport of skysurfing lived a short life.
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U.S. and China Work Together for Climate Solution, So Far – Scientific American
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting held on the sidelines of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.
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Kenya police warning after university ‘terror drill’ death – BBC News
Kenya’s police chief has warned universities not to carry out security drills without his approval following the death of a woman on Monday. Esther Kidemba died after apparently jumping from a building during a drill at the private Strathmore Univer…
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This video shows the evolution of the design of the bicycle, from the (contested) first French bike in the 1790s to the more-or-less modern bike of the 1890s. (via @daveg)
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The Nextbit Robin cloud phone is taking shape | The Verge
December in the tech world is typically as drab as the weather in the Northern Hemisphere. But the seasonal listlessness opens up room for smaller companies to make some noise and Nextbit is taking full advantage by going on a European tour this wee…
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EPA Urges Nation To Develop New Air Source – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—Citing the hazardous levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants accumulating in the atmosphere, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency urged the nation this week to develop a new air source.
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Second day of installation : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Our second day of installing equipment was on November 21. After a cloudy day off, we had perfect sunny weather. We began by installing our two tilt meters at Comein Glacier, which flows into the Nansen Ice Shelf through a small inlet just north of …
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World Class Wreckin’ Cru, Dr. Dre’s First LP / Boing Boing
Dr. Dre got his first 10,000 hrs practice with the World Class Wreckin’ Cru before his career with NWA and beyond. Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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In South Korea, a Dictator’s Daughter Cracks Down on Labor | The Nation
Following in the footsteps of her dictator father, South Korea’s President, Park Geun-hye, is cracking down on labor and citizens groups opposed to the increasingly authoritarian policies of her ruling “New Frontier” party known as Saenuri.
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Android Phone Maker OnePlus Launches ‘Sandstone’ iPhone Case Just In Time For Xmas | TechCrunch
It’s been a busy year for OnePlus. The Chinese company unveiled its much-anticipated OnePlus 2 this summer and followed that up with the OnePlus X in October. Now, the Shenzhen-based Android phone maker is closing the year with one final small — but…
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Chrome’s Browser On Android Can Now Save Up To 70% Of Your Data | TechCrunch
For some time, Google has been developing technology to reduce data consumption on mobile devices. Last January, the company officially introduced an optional data compression feature into its Chrome mobile browser, allowing users to reduce their da…
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Thom Yorke thinks Google and YouTube are engaging in Nazi-like art theft | The Verge
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke fired his latest broadside at one of the biggest digital media titans in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, saying that YouTube and Google have “seized control” of art in a maneuver right out of the WWII…
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After accepting an endorsement from an activist who has called for the “execution” of abortion providers, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on Monday that he has never met an anti-abortion activist who has advocated for violence.
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Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Stormbreaker is the very first novel in the Alex Rider series, a collection of books that left the imagination of my ten year old wannabe-spy self reeling for hours.
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Start with an “X” With Your Lipstick for That Perfect Lip Shape
If you want to define your top lip with the perfect “cupid’s bow,” start by drawing an “X” as a guideline. This trick will help you get the shape you want with just one extra step at the start.
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Though we might not like to admit it, we tend to live our lives inside our own little bubbles, oblivious to others’ pain and sorrow.
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How To Prevent Procrastination On Your Laptop – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
First, dull your senses to all external stimuli by spending 56 straight hours in a European nightclub. Reach out individually to each of the contacts in your phone, email, and social media accounts, explaining that you won’t be available for the nex…
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The Danger in Comparing the HIV-Prevention Pill to Condoms – The Atlantic
On Monday, August 3, I tested positive for HIV. That night, I sat on the sofa in my friend’s high-rise apartment in downtown Miami, peering down at the grainy, sodium-vapor-lit sprawl. I related the story of an older friend who’d tried to console me…
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Nepal’s ethnic Madhesis denounce ‘ruling class racism’ – Al Jazeera English
The leader of Nepal’s ethnic Madhesi community, which is waging mass protests against the country’s new constitution, has accused mainstream political parties of racism. “The Nepali ruling class discriminates against Madhesi people, who comprise [ne…
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Talk Infinitely Looping Concept LP | Rolling Stone
The surprisingly down-to-earth psych-rockers in King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have somehow crammed themselves into Brooklyn’s cluttered Daptone Studios.
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AirAsia crash caused by ‘broken’ part and crew response – Al Jazeera English
A faulty component and the crew’s inadequate response caused the AirAsia A320 to crash into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 people on board, according to an Indonesian report.
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Are there 70,000 Syrian ‘moderates’ ready to back UK? – BBC News
In advocating a case for extending UK air strikes into Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron outlined a strategy of targeting so-called Islamic State (IS), paralleled with a diplomatic track in which the main opposition groupings sat down with the Syr…
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Cartoon: America reacts to the Planned Parenthood attack
Just in case somebody wildly misinterprets this cartoon, I do not in fact support issuing tracking collars to white males (though they might come in handy with one’s husband at the grocery store), nor do I blame all of Christianity for the shootings…
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‘Huge Error’: Former US Military Chief Admits Iraq Invasion Spawned ISIS – The U.S. is poised to repeat all the same mistakes in Syria that it made in Iraq after 9/11, says former head of Defense Intelligence Agency (commondreams.org)submitted 1 hou…
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Republicans’ new, twisted climate logic “Obama’s Clean Power Plan, McConnell essentially argues, will not work because Republicans will undermine it and spoil the sort of int’l progress it is meant to encourage. The fundamental problem is not the Cl…
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Revamp of No Child Left Behind | Al Jazeera America
Congress is expected, within the next few weeks, to approve a rewrite of No Child Left Behind, the federal education law that has roiled public school districts across the country since it was passed nearly 14 years ago.
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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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Four Kosovans arrested over ‘Pope threats’ – BBC News
Four Kosovans have been arrested in Italy and Kosovo, suspected of being part of a jihadist cell and accused of making threats against the Pope, judicial officials say. Three were arrested in Italy and one in Kosovo.
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The Judges For The Disrupt London 2015 Startup Battlefield Next Week | 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. TechCrunch is excited to announce the judges of the next round of Startup Battlefi…
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The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up – WSJ
THERE’S A FUTURE we’ve seen in science fiction for so long it almost seems like the past: people whisked from one place to another inside tube trains that crisscross the landscape. But imagine you could board one and travel from Los Angeles to San F…
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Donald Trump Is Not a Liar | New Republic
Falsehoods fly out of Donald Trump’s mouth with such unstoppable frequency that it’s tempting to describe him as a liar.
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China’s vacuum-cleaner artist turning Beijing’s smog into bricks | World news | The Guardian
His idol is Subcomandante Marcos, the masked Mexican rebel; his weapon of choice a 1,000-watt vacuum cleaner. Meet Nut Brother, the Chinese activist-artist attempting to vanquish toxic smog by sucking it up through a black plastic nozzle..
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ExxonMobil is hurling ethics accusations against a team of Columbia University journalists whose reporting helped stoke calls for probes into whether the company deliberately misled the public about climate change. (politico.com) Exxon Mobil taking …
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James Dean in the bathroom “multitasking” Here’s another installment of a series of posts I’ve become “known” for doing here on Dangerous Minds that features photos of famous folks hanging out and doing mundane things like we all do.
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Suprise! The Planned Parenthood Shooter Is Not Transgender | ThinkProgress
Conservatives have been bristling for several days with the possibility that Robert Lewis Dear, the alleged Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter, may be transgender because his voter registration identified him as female. Even Ted Cruz floate…
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Monsanto pledges to be carbon neutral by 2021 : environment
Monsanto pledges to be carbon neutral by 2021 (cnbc.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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El Niños, climate change and increasing conflict linked to prolonged droughts and extreme weather are leaving the world unable to cope with the food needs of millions of people, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The UN agency, which last ye…
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Robert Durst, real estate scion, subject of HBO docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, and known corpse dismemberer, is currently in prison. Durst, 72, is in a cell in New Orleans, were he has been since March, on a gun charge.
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Japanese whaling fleet set to search and kill 333 whales for research (ibtimes.com.au)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Days After Colorado Springs Shooting, Congress Is Eager To Defund Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
Members of Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week, following a holiday break during which a gunman shot multiple people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. And they’re just as doggedly focused on Planned Parenthood as ever.
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HRW Calls for Prosecution of Torturers | Al Jazeera America
Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. government to hold to account those who created, authorized, implemented or conspired to commit the torture inflicted by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks, in a 153-page report released Tuesday, “No More Excuses: A…
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U.S. Diplomats Reportedly Spent $330,000 on Warren Buffett’s Chocolate | Vanity Fair
’Tis the gift to be simple. ’Tis the gift to be free, as the song goes. For American diplomats around the world, ’tis Warren Buffett’s See’s Candies that’s the gift that keeps on giving. U.S.
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6 big takeaways from the opening of the Paris climate conference | Grist
The summit has just begun, but we can already see themes emerging and battle lines being drawn. On day one of the climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President François Hollande made some big announcements.
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Revols Announces In-Ear Headphones That Mold To The Contours Of Your Disgusting Body | TechCrunch
As if it weren’t bad enough that all of us contain a skeleton, Revols is remind us that we also have ears. This Montreal-based custom headphone company has created a very unique custom earbud system that allows you to create soft, sound-isolated hea…
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The Boxes That Can Steal Your Social Media and Dropbox Passwords for the Cops | Motherboard
Just when you thought that surveillance technology couldn’t get any more invasive, along comes a device that can steal your social media passwords, grab your emails, siphon your Dropbox contents, and build a detailed profile of your digital life, if…
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Sony is cutting the price on two PS4 bundles for the holidays | The Verge
If you missed out on all of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, you still have a chance to get a PlayStation 4 for a good deal. Sony has announced that two PS4 bundles — one packed with Star Wars Battlefront, the other with Uncharted: The Natha…
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Eggnog Makes The Tastiest Three-Ingredient French Toast Ever
French toast is a perfect breakfast for cozy winter mornings, and using eggnog instead of the usual milk makes it feel that much more decadent and festive. Just use the ‘nog as you would milk, adding your normal amount of eggs, and fry as usual.
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FBI national security letter details revealed by court – BBC News
A court ruling has shed light on the content of the thousands of secretive FBI national security letters sent to internet companies every year.The court papers show the letters can demand the browsing and online purchase histories and IP and email a…
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Le sommet climatique de Paris en un coup d’œil | Environment | The Guardian
Trouver un nouvel accord mondial sur la réduction des émissions de dioxyde de carbone après 2020 et sur le financement de l’aide accordée aux pays pauvres dans le cadre de la lutte contre le changement climatique. Au Bourget, dans la banlieue nord-e…
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The Doctor Who Christmas Special Gets a Name—And a New Sonic Screwdriver!
This year, Doctor Who fans will have the shortest ever wait between the end of a season and the show’s now-traditional Christmas special—which is bringing Alex Kingston’s adventurer River Song back as a wildly divisive present under the tree.
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The Cure: Intense TV performance from the legendary 1982 ‘Pornography’ tour|Dangerous Minds
In a 2013 post about The Cure, I wrote that I was in attendance at one of the 1984 Hammersmith Odeon shows recorded for their live Concert album, and that I felt like this was the perfect time to have seen the group, with a high watermark setlist th…
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It’s been an interesting 2015 for Rihanna.
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The universe’s oldest light hasn’t made a pit stop for 13.82 billion years—beginning its journey just 380,000 years after the big bang.
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He’s not wrong. Well… He is about almost everything, but not this. What was said in that sermon? 1 Corinthians 13 is arguably one of the least offensive written works in history. You’d have to go out of your way to make that offensive.
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The False Promise of Meritocracy – The Atlantic
Americans are, compared with populations of other countries, particularly enthusiastic about the idea of meritocracy, a system that rewards merit (ability + effort) with success.
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Why wouldn’t Reader’s Digest remove malware from its website? / Boing Boing
For nigh on a week, the internet hollered at Reader’s Digest to remove malware from its website, to no apparent response. The attack consists of a malicious script injected within compromised WordPress sites that launches another URL whose final pur…
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French PM Valls warns of National Front ‘trickery’ – BBC News
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned voters not to fall for the “trickery” of National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen, ahead of key regional elections on Sunday. Opinion polls suggest a surge in support for the far-right FN after the migra…
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Submarines and Sea Monkeys – Guest Blog – Scientific American Blog Network
Every night a mysterious layer rises from the murky depths of the ocean, as though the seafloor has suddenly become detached and is floating to the surface. This cloud-like specter is ubiquitous, and so dense that during World War II it confounded t…
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Twitter turns Pope Francis into a rapper with #PopeBars – BBC News
A photo of Pope Francis has gone viral on social media after he was captured in a classic rapper pose during a visit to the Central African Republic (CAR). The now famous photo was taken during a speech in the capital, Bangui, and has been tweeted m…
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Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urge judge to grant new trial | US news | The Guardian
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new trial.
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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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How to spruce up your old cat with one simple trick – GIF on Imgur
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Canadian economy pulls out of recession – BBC News
Canada’s economy emerged from recession in the third quarter after exports picked up, official figures show. Gross domestic product (GDP) rose at an annualised rate of 2.3% compared with the year before.
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Russia: Old foe or new ally? – 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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What’s it like to run a real-life escape room? · Expert Witness · The A.V. Club
In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to insiders about the entertainment business to shed light on how the pop-culture sausage gets made.
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Who rules Pakistan? – 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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Exclusive: Nickelodeon stars celebrate with a new Ho Ho Holiday Special · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Holiday specials are a time-honored yearly tradition, and this year Nickelodeon is taking full advantage of our love for tradition with its Ho Ho Holiday Special.
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What happened after one man compared Saudi Arabia to Islamic State – BBC News
Thousands are tweeting the challenging message “Sue Me Saudi” to compare the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia to that under Islamic State.
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Putin seeks propaganda points with Turkey oil smear – BBC News
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has suggested that the decision by Turkey to shoot down a Russian military aircraft a week ago was “dictated by the desire to protect the oil supply lines to Turkish territory”.
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Why Are There So Many Data Centers in Iowa? – The Atlantic
The variables that determine where to locate a data center form a carefully calibrated form of real-estate alchemy.
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When Harrison Ford shot Jim Morrison|Dangerous Minds
1968: Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter (working on houses, building sets) when he was asked by photographer and former UCLA student Paul Ferrara if he would like help out on a documentary about The Doors.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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As world leaders gather in Paris to discuss the global response to climate change, we assess the impact of the widespread forest fires in Indonesia.
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U.S. Sees ‘Unprecedented’ Spike In Islamophobia After Paris Attacks | ThinkProgress
The United States has seen an “unprecedented” spike in Islamophobia since the tragic terrorist attacks struck Paris, France on November 13, with Muslims all over the country falling victim to shootings, personal assaults, harassment, protests, and a…
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How to gift TV, movies, music, and more in the streaming age | The Verge
We’re living in a golden age of media. There are more distribution channels for books, music, TV series, and films than at any time in history, and more new media coming out on those channels than ever before.
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Could Iron Man and Captain America Have Roles To Play In Spider-Man?
JJ Abrams talks keeping Star Wars secret. Anna Paquin wants to return to the X-Men movies. Arrow teases trials for Oliver and Felicity’s relationship. Supergirl gets more episodes.
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Meet the only micro HD-camera drone in the world that can fly upside down / Boing Boing
The Micro Drone 2.0+ is truly in a league of its own, offering a new perspective on aerial photography, and a world of technological capabilities that make flying ridiculously fun. Simply throw it in the air at any angle and its self-correcting algo…
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Living in a Quantum World – Scientific American
According to standard physics textbooks, quantum mechanics is the theory of the microscopic world. It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets.
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This Simulated Injury Spurts Blood for Science | Motherboard
What you see in this video is not CGI for an upcoming slasher film. It’s a simulated injury created to train future trauma surgeons.
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Ambitious Project Probes Mysterious Cosmic Expansion – Scientific American
Nearly 100 years ago Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding: almost all galaxies are speeding away from our own Milky Way, and faraway galaxies are receding faster.
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Quantum Weirdness Is All in Your Mind – Scientific American
Flawlessly accounting for the behavior of matter on scales from the subatomic to the astronomical, quantum mechanics is the most successful theory in all the physical sciences. It is also the weirdest.
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Fiery Holes in Space and Time – Scientific American
Falling into a black hole was never going to be fun. As soon as physicists realized that black holes exist, we knew that getting too close to one spelled certain death.
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Can Time Travelers Reach the Past through Wormholes? – Scientific American
The famous writer H. G. Wells published his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895, just a few years before Queen Victoria’s six-decade reign over the U.K. ended. An even more durable dynasty was also drawing to a close: the 200-year-old Newtonian e…
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Espresso Machines Brew A Microbiome Of Their Own – Scientific American
What’s the liveliest part of your kitchen, in terms of harboring bacteria? Is it the cutting board? The dish sponge? Or maybe… your coffeemaker? Because even though caffeine has antibacterial effects, it turns out espresso machines can harbor a whol…
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Giant Bubbles Soar over the Milky Way – Scientific American
On a clear night, away from city lights, you might see a beautiful structure arched across the sky: our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Since ancient times, humans have marveled at the dark dust clouds silhouetted against the milky background.
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Quantum Gravity in Flatland – Scientific American
From its earliest days as a science, physics has searched for unity in nature. Isaac Newton showed that the same force responsible for the fall of an apple also holds the planets in their orbits.
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Does the Multiverse Really Exist? – Scientific American
In the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. There is not one universe—there is a multiverse.
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The Quasar with Two Black Hearts – Scientific American
Markarian 231 won’t win any galactic beauty contests. Seen through the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s a bit lopsided and dull. But boy, what a personality.
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New Ideas in the Search for Dark Matter – Scientific American
The beautiful spinning pinwheel of the Andromeda galaxy, our celestial neighbor, poses a mystery. The breakneck speed of its rotation cannot be explained by applying the known laws of physics to the disk’s visible matter.
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An atom, molecule or Bacterium placed at the focal point of the world’s most powerful x-ray laser doesn’t stand a chance.
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The Physical Limits to Genius – Scientific American
It is humbling to think that a honeybee, with its milligram-size brain, can perform tasks such as navigating mazes and landscapes on a par with mammals. A honeybee may be limited by having comparatively few neurons, but it surely seems to squeeze ev…
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South Pole Experiment Traps Neutrinos from Beyond the Galaxy – Scientific American
One of the most ambitious and extreme experiments on Earth opened at the South Pole in 2010. IceCube, a giant particle detector buried in the polar ice, captures elusive, high-energy species of neutrinos—fundamental particles that fly straight throu…
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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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Secret National Security Letters demanded your browsing history / Boing Boing
Thousands of National Security Letters are sent annually, don’t need a judge’s signoff, and it’s illegal to tell anyone you got one. What do they demand? Web browsing history, the IP addresses of everyone corresponded with, all online purchases, and…
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Wildlife on your doorstep: December | Community | The Guardian
December is upon us, and while the cold and dark winter months embrace the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere is preparing for summer heatwaves. So what sort of wildlife will we all discover on our doorsteps? We’d like to see your photos o…
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Molly Crabapple’s memoir DRAWING BLOOD: preview and a giveaway / Boing Boing
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Protest in Egypt after death of man in police custody – Al Jazeera English
Residents of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor have staged a rally to protest the death of a man in police custody, the latest in a string of killings by security forces, the state-owned Ahram newspaper reported.
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Environmental Protection Agency sets new renewable fuel standards for 2016 | Ars Technica
For the first time since 2013, the US Environmental Protection Agency has issued renewable fuel standards for the nation, upping the amount of ethanol in our gasoline supply. In 2016, renewable fuels—mostly corn ethanol—must make up 10.10 percent of…
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So the IMF has included the renminbi in the SDR, adding a world of hurt to newspaper reports; now everyone will have to deal with China’s awkward currency nomenclature.
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Mastering Your Money Happens One Step at a Time, So Don’t Get Discouraged
When you’re drowning in debt, managing your personal finances probably seems downright impossible. You read all these headlines about investing and financial independence and you just want to give up, because you’re so far from that.
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The dark alliance of global philanthropy and capitalism – Al Jazeera English
It is no secret that there are ironies in philanthropy. People become wealthy on the backs of the poor, or by plundering the earth, and then give away a fraction of their wealth for charitable works.
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A prominent Texas lawyer was not allowed to board a Virgin America flight home from New York on Monday because of an encounter with a crew member at La Guardia Airport in Queens, he and the airline said.The lawyer, Robert B.
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Syrian opposition accepts Saudi invite to peace talks – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has accepted an invitation to join talks with other opposition groups in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Al Jazeera has learnt.
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Working at Planned Parenthood: every day, someone threatened to kill me | US news | The Guardian
If Bryn Greenwood had called the police every time someone threatened to kill her, she doesn’t see how the Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked at the time could have kept its doors open.
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Bill Gates and the Quest for Sustainable Energy, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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At the height of the Cold War, Soviet satellites reported that the United States had launched a nuclear missile toward Moscow, and one officer had only minutes to decide whether to initiate a counterstrike.
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The County: the story of America’s deadliest police | US news | The Guardian
Seventy-five years after Kern County’s leaders banned The Grapes of Wrath from their schools and libraries, complaining that John Steinbeck’s new book portrayed their policemen as “divested of sympathy or human decency or understanding”, officer Aar…
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Unloved city rivers around the world – your pictures and stories | Cities | The Guardian
LA’s river is not your average city river, and is iconic for very different reasons to the picturesque Seine of Paris, or historic Thames of London.
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Happy December! It’s the first of the month, and time for America’s favorite post-Thanksgiving radio game show, “Can I Still Eat This?” We might also take a look at some of the news, or whatever. I don’t know. I’m not sure that gravy was still good.…
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All Hail Lumio! If you want a stylish lamp that turns on in a cool way, that you can carry around in your backpack and disguises itself as a book when not in use, then look no further.
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And the most dangerous team in the NFL at the moment are … the Chiefs? | Sport | The Guardian
All they do is win. And dance. And play dominating defense in support of an effective offense that is led by a quarterback who is a former No1 overall pick. But since they don’t play in a big market, the football world is only beginning to pay atten…
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A Song for Ella Grey is a children’s book – and a great one | Books | The Guardian
Alice in Wonderland, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, was for a long time banned from classrooms in New Hampshire for references to sexual fantasies and masturbation.
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The Little-Known Recording Trick That Makes Singers Sound Perfect | Motherboard
Put on a Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey or Michael Jackson song and listen to the vocals. You may think the track was recorded by the artist singing the song through a few times and the producer choosing the best take to use on the record. But that’s …
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Anti-abortion Groups Target IUD Use | Al Jazeera America
The next battle will be at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to consider a new religious challenge to contraceptives coverage under President Obama’s healthcare law.
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Space Flowers! Zinnias Set to Bloom on International Space Station
The International Space Station is about to get a little homier, thanks to a flower garden that should bloom in early 2016. On Monday, Nov. 16, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated an experiment to test whether flowering plants can grow in space.
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‘Heart’ of Orion Spacecraft to Undergo Stress Tests
The structural test article of the European service module for Orion is being assembled at Airbus Defence and Space. Airbus is building the module, which will supply the spacecraft’s power, in-space propulsion and air and water for the crew, on beha…
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Using Pigeons to Diagnosis Cancer – Scientific American
The pigeons’ training environment included a food pellet dispenser, a touch-sensitive screen which projected the medical image, as well as blue and yellow choice buttons on either side of the image. Pecks to those buttons and to the screen were auto…
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Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong – Scientific American
At some point in the history of all scientific theories, only a minority of scientists—or even just one—supported them, before evidence accumulated to the point of general acceptance.
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New York City Food Carts, Seventeen-Hundreds to Present Day – The New Yorker
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Over the holiday weekend, the man who’s done more to expose the financial crimes of the rich and powerful than almost anyone else in the 21st century was sentenced to five years in a Swiss prison.
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Science Says Facebook Is Ruining Your Life | ThinkProgress
Facebook is the world’s leading social media platform, which probably means it’s also one of the main reasons you hate your life.
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How Jessica Alba Built a Billion-Dollar Business Empire | Vanity Fair
Jessica Alba’s parking spot at the Honest Company, the four-year-old consumer-products start-up in Santa Monica, California, that wowed the tech community with a $1.7 billion valuation this summer, has a bright-green sign bearing her name.
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Sixty years ago, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Her courageous action galvanized a yearlong community boycott and helped usher in a new chapter of the Black freedom struggle.
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How The Clinton and Sanders Infrastructure Plans Measure Up
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has announced a plan for infrastructure investment. How does her plan stack up against that of her chief competitor, Bernie Sanders? Also, how will Clinton and Sanders pay for their plans? On that qu…
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World AIDS Day AMAWorld AIDS Day AMA: We’re Drs. Marina Klein and Jean-Pierre Routy and we’re here on World AIDS Day to discuss the pathology and epidemiology of HIV infection. (self.science)
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Left, the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal performing at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, shortly before it was attacked on Nov. 13. Right, treating a victim outside the hall. PARIS — The gunfire had still not subsided, and those who coul…
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How “Super Smellers” and Artificial Noses Are Sniffing out Disease | GOOD
Last month, a 65-year-old retired Scottish nurse named Joy Milne created a media frenzy when she was seemingly able to diagnose Parkinson’s disease with her sense of smell even earlier than scientists could diagnose it with regular medical technolog…
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On a wet Sunday in June at the Glastonbury Festival, more than 100,000 people spontaneously burst into a rendition of ‘‘Happy Birthday.
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Amazing Micrographs Show What Cells Really Look Like | WIRED
Caption: Lily Pollen GrainsThis enhanced light micrograph shows orange pollen grains within the stamen of a lily plant. All plants can sexually reproduce, and the process is called alternation of generations (which sounds like slang for a 1970s drug…
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Covering Transgender Health Care Is Good Economics for Insurance Companies – The Atlantic
Earlier this month, the largest insurer in Maryland, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, extended its coverage for transgender patients, removing language from its policies that said CareFirst would not pay for “treatment leading to or in connection wit…
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Shami Chakrabarti warned yesterday that our leaders in the “misjudged misnamed ‘War on Terror’” have fallen into a “language trap that both dignifies the enemy and undermines our own democratic doctrine”.
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That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes – The Atlantic
The events that led teams of helicopter-borne vets to pelt the Swiss countryside with vaccine-impregnated chicken heads began in 1939. Two things were then sweeping through Poland: the Nazis, and an epidemic of rabies carried by red foxes.
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers – The Atlantic
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages. The competition is fierce, secretive, and elite. It pits Apple against Google against Tesla against Uber: all titans of Silicon Valley, i…
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AppDynamics Update Helps Track Business Transaction From User To Server | TechCrunch
In a week when a major retail website went down under the pressure of Cyber Monday, AppDynamics, a company that helps monitor apps and websites in order to prevent those types of outages (or at least understand why they happened and recover as quick…
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US urges Turkey and Russia to end row over downed plane – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has urged Turkey and Russia to reduce tensions, a week after Turkish jets shot down a Russian warplane. After talks with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Paris, Mr Obama reaffirmed US support for “Turkey’s right to defend i…
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Fat-Shaming Doesn’t Motivate People to Lose Weight – The Atlantic
They come every year around this time, as reliably as the chilling of the air and the preponderance of red coffee cups: the public-relations pitches, bedecked in exclamation points and cheer, offering expert tips on how to fight the holiday weight, …
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Obama Wants Turkey and Russia to Defuse Tensions Over the Downed Plane – The Atlantic
President Obama is urging the leader of Turkey to work with Russia to lower tensions heightened by Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane last week.
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Camp Warmer and Dryer with this DIY Semi-Bivy
Anyone who’s been camping in wet weather knows how unpleasant it can be to wake up in a puddle. This DIY semi-bivy provides a completely waterproof layer between you and the ground. A bivy (short for bivouac sack) is a lightweight, fully enclosed sh…
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Amera Is A Wireless Security Device Designed To Detect Motion And More | TechCrunch
Assuming the human eye could see them, what would the wireless signals that we are surrounded by in our homes, businesses and cities look like? Nothing like the streams of ascii characters depicted in The Matrix, sadly. The reality is more like a sp…
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Giant brands like Apple and Samsung dominate the technology we use in our day-to-day lives. Apple, for example, recently reported its most profitable year, while Samsung is the brand of choice for singer Rihanna as she launches her latest album, Ant…
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Welcome to the App Graveyard | New Republic
When a web service shuts down, there is a predictable pattern that follows: a surge of social media outrage, a wave of lament from its core users, and, finally, a crop of post mortems analyzing what went wrong.
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The Amazon Echo was the best-selling $100+ item on Amazon.com during Black Friday | The Verge
Amazon’s Black Friday sales have a not-so-surprising winner: Amazon. Of course, a retailer is always going to benefit from a holiday devoted to shopping, but in this case, the tech giant is also celebrating the success of its own products.
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Planned Parenthood rhetoric, climate change and more
Globally, according to UN estimates, climate change is forcing about 20 million people a year out of their homes, and by 2050 that figure could be 150 million.
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Q&A: Can the AIDS epidemic be eradicated by 2030? – Al Jazeera English
In a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of World AIDS Day on December 1, the global health body claimed the world was poised to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
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Stunning Images Win Conservation Photo Contest
The founders of Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook launch a new group to tackle climate change. Their ideas include delivery drones, advanced nuclear reactors, and solar paint.
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The US Says Asteroid Mining Is Legal for Americans. What About Everyone Else? | Motherboard
Who owns asteroids in outer space? What about if you go up and take a chunk out of one, who owns that bit? According to a newly signed law, you own whatever asteroid resources you manage to obtain—but it only applies if you’re a US citizen.
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It seemed like a powerful counterpoint to the perception of Donald Trump as intolerant: A hundred black ministers and religious leaders would endorse him at his offices in Manhattan, vouching for his sensitivity and broad-mindedness.
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Bloomberg Carbon Clock: Measuring Carbon Dioxide that Causes Global Warming
In the 800,000 years before industrialization, the CO2 level hovered around 280 ppm. But the 20th century saw a sharp increase that continues today. The CO2 level is now around 400 ppm. The danger zone? 450 ppm, which we may hit by 2040.
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Why Is “Survivor” Still on Television? – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Exactly four months and thirty-one days into what was, at that time, still being called “The New Millennium,” CBS aired the first-ever episode of Survivor. Bill Clinton was still in office, the NASDAQ Composite Index had just peaked at 5,048, and th…
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Welcome to the Age of Shadowless Skyscrapers — NYMag
Whenever a new tower starts muscling its way toward the sky, it drains a bit more light from the streets and parks below, so walking along a sidewalk can sometimes feel like pacing the bottom of a deep well.
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Best way to cook an egg for people who don’t like theirs runny. – GIF on Imgur
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Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual | Open Culture
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrut…
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Amazon Puts Out Limp Holiday Metrics | TechCrunch
The crowning glory of Amazon’s just dropped post-Thanksgiving press missive — trumpeting apparently accelerating holiday sales — is the surname of Amazon’s SVP of devices. Which, much like the ‘information’ contained therein, is distinctly Limp.
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First Click: IBM’s Watson is too elementary | The Verge
What do you think of when you hear the letters I B M. Maybe you think Big Blue, the arch nemesis of Steve Jobs at the dawn of the PC revolution. Or maybe you think pads, as in ThinkPads, before the company sold its hardware business to Lenovo.
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Beijing smog: The difference a month makes – BBC News
China’s capital continues to be enveloped in a thick smog that has forced school closures and sparked warnings to some citizens to stay inside. China’s ministry of environmental protection said the smog was due to “unfavourable” weather.
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Judith Kerr’s Mog’s Christmas Calamity – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
You may have seen on TV (in Sainbury’s Christmas advert) that Mog is back! It’s happened 13 years after lovely Mog was killed off in Judith Kerr’s sad book Goodbye Mog.
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China: Nanjing announces fines for dirty vehicles – BBC News
The authorities in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, say that drivers of dirty vehicles will be fined in future because they affect the appearance of the city, the official regional newspaper Nanjing Daily reports.
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Porn World Cuts Ties with James Deen and Stands with Stoya – The Daily Beast
In heated online battles of he-said, she-said, it’s difficult to take sides. But when the allegation is rape, people tend to side with the victim—especially when more than one victim comes forward.
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Hackers Oral History: How Did This Get Made
How Did This Get Made is a companion to the podcast How Did This Get Made with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael. This regular feature is written by Blake J.
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Spotlight wins big at Gotham awards, but surprise victors in acting categories | Film | The Guardian
The film awards season got under way on 30 November, with the first batch of gongs5 coming at the Gotham independent film awards in New York.
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THERE’S been a cover-up in Chicago. The city’s leaders have now brought charges against a police officer, Jason Van Dyke, for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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A glimpse of Australia’s Manus Island refugee prison – Al Jazeera English
Manus Island, Papa New Guinea – “We have lost hope,” said Aziz. These words were told to me by refugees in phone conversations I could have had from anywhere.
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Customized Human Genes: New Promises and Perils – Scientific American
This week, at an international summit in Washington D.C., scientists debated the use of easy new ways to alter human DNA, which could cure diseases but also literally change humanity. Scientific American reports from the front lines of the debate
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Residential Real Estate Platform Nestio Lands A $8M Series A Round | TechCrunch
Nestio, the NY-based leasing and marketing platform for residential landlords, announced today that is has raised $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by Trinity Ventures, and had participation from previous investors including Freestyle Capit…
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Clean Sticky Playing Cards with Cornstarch
After using them for a while, playing cards can get a bit sticky. Instead of dealing with the frustration or just tossing them, clean those cards up with a bit of cornstarch. Cornstarch is great stuff.
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Deep Learning Is the A.I. Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For – Scientific American
Google, Facebook and other corporate giants are taking major strides in building technology that can learn on its own. Their efforts rely heavily on something known as deep learning.
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UK plan to strike ISIL in Syria divides MPs – Al Jazeera English
British members of parliament are set to vote on whether to allow the country’s air force to target the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, a move that has exposed divisions within parliament and within the opposition Labour Part…
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UNICEF sounds Nepal warning as harsh winter looms – Al Jazeera English
Kathmandu, Nepal – Crippling shortages of daily commodities and life-saving medicines have left millions of children at risk of death and disease as the harsh winter looms in the Himalayan country, according to UNICEF, the UN agency for children.
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Remembering Moneem Gharsalli: ‘He died for Tunisia’ – Al Jazeera English
Like others in the country, Moneem’s family is left with only loss. “We were always scared for him,” Jamila says, her voice catching. Her grief is deep.
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How VTech’s App Failed Miserably to Protect the Data of Kids and Parents | Motherboard
Sometimes technology companies don’t even bother to protect users’ data, while others give it a shot, but fail miserably. VTech, a Hong-Kong based company that makes internet connected toys, falls into the latter.
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COP21: Residents on Vanuatu ‘must be relocated’ – BBC News
With climate change topping the agenda in Paris, community leaders on the Pacific island of Vanuatu are calling for residents to be relocated further inland to avoid storm surges and rising sea levels.
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Amnesty: Qatar ‘shamed’ by inaction over migrant workers – BBC News
Amnesty International says Qatar has done “almost nothing effective to end chronic labour exploitation” since it was chosen five years ago to host the football World Cup in 2022. It says the abuses shame the Gulf state and football’s governing body,…
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As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic negotiations. Gender equality is central to effective climate action.
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