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Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
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The Calm, Gentle Rise of Snugglers for Hire – The Atlantic
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The best biography and memoir books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
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Human chain saves drowning man from Chennai floods – video | World news | The Guardian
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The Bad Blood Between Russia and Turkey Is Spreading to Armenia and Azerbaijan | VICE News
Escalating tensions between Russia and Turkey have spread to the Caucuses, a volatile region where both powers have long contested each other’s influence.
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CEO who set $70,000 minimum wage: ex-wife’s abuse accusations ‘baseless’ | Society | The Guardian
Dan Price, the tech entrepreneur who attracted international attention after setting the minimum wage at his company at $70,000, has denied allegation of domestic violence.
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You Will “Regret More Than Once” What You Did, Putin Tells Turkey | VICE News
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a State of the Nation address that Turkey would regret “more than once” shooting down a Russian bomber jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last week, and declared retaliatory sanctions would get much stricter.
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Egypt court orders retrial for Brotherhood leaders – Al Jazeera English
An Egypt court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood’s general guide, Mohamed Badie, and 36 other Brotherhood figures. The defendants were initially sentenced to death sentences or life in jail in a case referred to as the Rabaa Operation …
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McLaren’s MP4-X Formula One concept could be mistaken for a fighter jet | The Verge
McLaren has unveiled a new concept for a Formula One car: the MP4-X. It’s a “vision of the future” that looks deadly, but comes with a strong focus on safety.
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“Improving” Humans with Customized Genes Sparks Argument Among Scientists – Scientific American
“Today we sense we are close to be being able to alter human heredity,” Nobel Laureate and California Institute of Technology virologist David Baltimore said December 1 at the opening of a much-anticipated human gene editing summit taking place in W…
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Two more FIFA officials arrested for corruption – Al Jazeera English
Switzerland’s justice ministry has announced the arrest of two FIFA officials at the request of US authorities in a widening bribery case. Police made the arrests on Thursday at the luxury Baur au Lac hotel in downtown Zurich, the scene of raids in…
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Why are Lebanon’s Palestinians leaving for Europe? – Al Jazeera English
Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp, Lebanon – The once-bustling main street of Lebanon’s most over-populated Palestinian refugee camp is noticeably empty.
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Announcing The Disrupt London Hackathon Judges And API Workshops | TechCrunch
We’re less than a week away from this year’s Disrupt Hackathon, and are delighted to announce the judges and API workshops. I, along with Gemma Cameron, will be your MC and host for the weekend.
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Witch-Killers’ Family: Keep Them in Jail – The Daily Beast
In 1983, a pair of married serial killers held a bizarre jailhouse “press conference” in exchange for their confessions. Michael “Bear” Carson and Suzan Carson declared they were vegetarian Muslim “warriors” in a “holy war against witches” during th…
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America’s gun problem, explained – Vox
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California shooting, misinformation and ‘Bin Ardogan’ – Al Jazeera English
The killing of at least 14 people in a mass shooting in the US state of California has given way to speculation about the attackers’ motives and false claims about their identities.
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McDonald’s faces European tax probe – BBC News
The European Commission has opened an investigation into the tax affairs of US fast food chain McDonald’s. The investigation will focus on McDonald’s tax deals with Luxembourg.
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In Paris, All Eyes Turn to the Climate Negotiators – And they’re already behind schedule. (newrepublic.com)
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Oscar Pistorius Guilty of Murder | Al Jazeera America
Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered the ruling by the five-judge tribunal in Bloemfontein and directed the trial court, the North Gauteng High Court, to impose sentence. He did not specify when that should happen.
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Another day, another ghastly shooting in America. So far this year, the United States has averaged more than one mass shooting a day, according to the ShootingTracker website, counting cases of four or more people shot. And now we have the attack on…
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Obama romance heads for Sundance – BBC News
A romantic drama about Barack Obama’s first date with future wife Michelle is among the titles set to be screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.Southside With You recreates the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future US president wooed his fut…
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Google denies claims it broke child-data promises – BBC News
Google has denied it broke its promises on using children’s personal data. Civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) accused Google of collecting and storing data from children using its products at school.
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Book or kindle, any kind of reading beats colouring-…
I work with words. When I write – articles, essays, reviews – I switch between paper and screen; typing, scribbling, printing, then graffitiing the printout. When I read, I read onscreen and off, according to mood and habit.
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From life hacks to listicles, focusing on ‘productiv…
The aquarium was once the best way to encounter the wonders of sea life. It has become a mere travesty, tacky and cruel
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Can women’s lost libido be fixed with mere drugs? — …
In the drawer of her bedside table, Julie maintains an archive of lust. Here are the naked Polaroids she slipped in between her husband’s business papers, explicit notes once left on mirrors, Anaïs Nin, a riding crop.
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San Bernadino shooting: what we know about the suspects | US news | The Guardian
Police have identified the suspects in Tuesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a couple who fled the scene in a black SUV before being killed in a confrontation with armed officers.
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Evenwel v. Abbott Puts Legislative Districting in Front of the Supreme Court – The Atlantic
Ideally, litigants come to appellate courts with a problem the courts can solve. Sometimes, though, they bring solutions in search of a problem the courts can create. The plaintiffs in Evenwel v. Abbott have gone even further: Their case brings the…
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NATO Unveils Plans to Grow, Drawing Fury and Threats From Russia https://t.co/lrueqB60sO https://t.co/RFNMwK8fRQ
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UK air attack on Islamic State: Syrians give reactions – BBC News
The UK has started bombing targets of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, following a strong vote in favour by Parliament. The strikes focused on six targets in an oil field under IS control in eastern Syria, the BBC understands.
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LONDON — For the first time in six years, NATO on Wednesday invited a new member to join the military alliance, prompting a heated response from Russia and further underscoring escalating tensions between the Cold War adversaries.
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5 Big Developments From the Beginning of the Paris Climate Summit | Mother Jones
On Tuesday, more than 100 heads of state departed from Paris, after kicking off two weeks of international negotiations intended to limit climate change. But even though the biggest names have left the building (actually a converted regional airport…
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Sir Bruce pulls out of Strictly Christmas special – BBC News
Sir Bruce Forsyth has pulled out of hosting the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special for health reasons. The veteran presenter underwent a procedure on an abdominal aortic aneurysm last month.
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December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students At University of California, Berkeley | The Nation
On this day in 1964 the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus of the University of California culminated with the arrest of some 800 student demonstrators. Regular Nation contributor Gene Marine, later the editor of the journal Ramparts, wrote…
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7 Things You Should Know About the Death of Freddie Gray and the Cop on Trial | Mother Jones
State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby shocked the nation in April when she announced that charges would be brought against all six of the officers allegedly involved in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, whose demise in Baltimore police custody sparked…
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Villas, Flat-Screens, and Mercenaries: How the Pentagon Wasted Money in Afghanistan | Mother Jones
A Department of Defense economic development unit in Afghanistan is coming under fire from government watchdogs, who question what they consider to be excessive costs for housing and accommodations in Afghanistan for contractors who were there to cr…
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2 Degrees Will Change the World | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 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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Zuckerberg’s pledge and the bugbear of moral absolutism – Al Jazeera English
The news that Mark Zuckerberg, the cofounder and chief executive of Facebook, and his wife, Dr Priscilla Chan, have pledged to their newborn daughter Max, that they would eventually give away 99 percent of their wealth of Facebook shares, “currently…
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Grand Jury Decision “Very Near” in Police Killing of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice | Mother Jones
The grand jury investigating the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police last fall is “now very near a decision” on whether to recommend criminal charges against the shooter, according to a lawyer for one of the two officers inv…
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BBC’s Alan Yentob resigns – BBC News
RAF Tornado jets based in Cyprus carried out “successful” bombing of oil fields in Syria controlled by Islamic State militants, the MoD says, hours after MPs vote in favour of extending air strikes.
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What No One Is Telling You About Mark Zuckerberg Donating 99% Of His Fortune To “Charity”; “To sum up, his money is not going to a charity, but to his own LLC, which will let him evade tax by moving his private assets into a foundation.” (says.com)s…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spiral Wizard City Tower Library (1)
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A new paper was just published which provides a glimpse into the future of wildfires.
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In pictures: Dry pastures – BBC News
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In pictures: Dry pastures 3 December 2015 Last updated at 10:40 Photographer Felicity McCabe recently travelled to Somaliland to photograph the impact extreme weather conditions are having on people and the landscape. -
Is it OK to run my car’s seat heater this winter? | Grist
Corporate sponsors for COP21 include utility companies and a big bank with billions invested in coal mines and coal plants.
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Preparing For The Technology Revolution Created By Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Artificial Intelligence will soon bring on another technological revolution, where machines may take your job and shake up the economy in the process.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spiral Wizard City Tower Library (5)
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Why LISA Pathfinder?
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Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% clean energy | Environment | The Guardian
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As the world gathers in Paris for the daunting and unaffordable task of switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy, one small country on the other side of the Atlantic is making that transition look childishly simple and affordable. In fact, he… -
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No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » (In)Sense8
Spoilers. Duh. When Caitlin Sweet, Mistress of the Character-Based Narrative, complains that a TV show wallows too much in characterization— worse, that it needs more science— you know a screenwriter somewhere has seriously missed the boat.
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One of the world’s leading atmospheric scientists has told the UN that its present attempt to limit emissions is “half-arsed and half-baked” and risks handing the next generation a climate system that is out of their control.
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‘You owe money’: Alex Pettyfer reveals reason for Channing Tatum feud | Film | The Guardian
Alex Pettyfer has revealed the reason behind falling out with Magic Mike co-star Channing Tatum: paying the rent. The 25-year-old actor, who didn’t return for Magic Mike XXL, spoke to Bret Easton Ellis on his podcast about the feud between him and T…
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Putin: Turkey will regret downing jet ‘more than once’ – Al Jazeera English
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Turkey it will regret “more than once” about its shooting down of a Russian bomber jet near the Syrian-Turkish border.
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Elizabeth Taylor ran Dallas Buyers Club-style HIV drugs ring from her home | Film | The Guardian
Elizabeth Taylor ran a Dallas Buyers Club-style underground network to help procure medication for those with HIV, it’s been revealed in a new interview with a close friend.
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Let’s have a conversation about Camilla. Remember Camilla? She’s a character on Empire played by Naomi Campbell who made recurring appearances in season one.
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British Jets Begin Syria Airstrikes, Targeting Islamic State Oil Fields | VICE News
British Tornado bombers conducted their first air strikes on Syria just hours after parliament approved Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to strike at Islamic State militants in Syria, a government source said on Thursday.
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Israel arrests youths over West Bank arson attack – BBC News
Israeli authorities have arrested several youths in connection with a fatal arson attack on a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank in July. The Shin Bet security agency said the youths were believed to be affiliated with a Jewish terrorist org…
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Spoty contenders, Messi magic and a premature bear toss | Sport | The Guardian
1 ) With the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year shortlist announced on Monday, here’s a look at the candidates for the awards which will be held on 20 December.
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Urban Transport Without the Hot Air: confusing the issue with relevant facts! / Boing Boing
Steven Melia’s Urban Transport Without the Hot Air joins Drugs Without the Hot Air, Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open and Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air as a highly readable, evidence-based look at a contentious and politicised area …
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Watch This Kid Catch a Stingray with His Bare Hands and Birth Its 12 Pups | Motherboard
In this video, it appears that a young Australian boy is making bigger catches than most of us could ever boast about. According to the video description and channel, Miller Wilson is a 12-year-old explorer who frequently ventures into wildlife.
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BBC Sport – Fifa to debate expanding World Cup to 40 teams
Fifa will debate a proposal to expand the World Cup from 32 teams to 40. The change can be approved by Fifa’s executive committee without consent from the 209 member associations, and could come into effect from 2026.
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The earliest known book-length biography of an African woman, a 17th-century text detailing the life of the Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros, has been translated into English for the first time. Walatta Petros was an Ethiopian religious leader who liv…
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After indicating only last episode that Frankie wouldn’t be returning to work with Dr.
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Cambodia jails doctor for mass HIV infections – BBC News
An unlicensed Cambodian doctor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for infecting about 200 people with HIV, some of whom later died. Yem Chrin’s charge had been reduced from murder to manslaughter. He said he was only trying to help the communi…
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Dry Creek, West Virginia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dry Creek is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Dry Creek is located on West Virginia Route 3 16 miles (26 km) west-northwest of Beckley. Dry Creek has a post office with ZIP code 25062.[2] -
Gun Companies Lock Up Billions, Blast Threats | Al Jazeera America
Gun companies lock up billions in sales, boosted by calls for tougher laws https://t.co/L6MkZXO2se https://t.co/kFBuNVvS2X
With more than 300 million firearms owned by U.S. civilians and at least 100 million guns produced by U.S. manufacturers in the last 25 years, the U.S. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. With such a large market, the U.S. -
Police ID Suspects in Calif. Shooting, Seek Motive | Al Jazeera America
A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, they died in a s…
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Troubled San Bernardino in Shock Over Shootings | Al Jazeera America
SAN BERNARDINO, California – Trouble is not new to this city 60 miles east of Los Angeles, which has been bankrupt for three years and has the distinction of being the poorest city of its size in California. But what happened Wednesday at a social s…
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Heyneke Meyer has resigned as the head coach of South Africa. The 48-year-old’s contract was due to expire at the end of the month but he has told the South African Rugby Union that he does not wish to stay on.
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Could hackers break my heart via my pacemaker? – BBC News
The Norwegian security researcher had been drinking orange juice; now she found herself surrounded by broken glass. After passing out, Marie was diagnosed with a heart problem, and had a pacemaker implanted.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – LISA Pathfinder press briefing
Live coverage from a press briefing held at ESOC, the LISA Pathfinder mission control centre, during liftoff on 3 December 2015.
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NI’s curlew joins red list as concerns for its future grow – BBC News
One of Northern Ireland’s best-known birds has been added to a list of those that are giving major concern to conservationists. The curlew, Europe’s largest wading bird, is recognisable by its long down-curved bill and evocative call.
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Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up (ecowatch.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Peter Jackson offers defense for Erdoğan insulter: ‘That’s not Gollum, that’s Sméagol’ | The Verge
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has volunteered evidence for a Turkish court case in which a doctor is accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by comparing him to Gollum.
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Analysis: Mess in Syria could get messier – Al Jazeera English
Back in 2003, in what now seems like the break of the dawn of the new turbulent Middle East, the spectre of the American failure in Iraq was looming large.
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Putin: Turkey ‘will regret’ downing Russian bomber in Syria – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey’s leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.
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How San Bernardino shooters killed 14 people after Christmas party ‘row’ | US news | The Guardian
The shooting continued long enough for a TV cameraman to drive to the scene in time to hear the final gunshots. Alex Vasquez, a cameraman for NBC4, pulled up outside a county building in San Bernardino at about 11am. “People were running,” Vasquez s…
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After a mass shooting, politicians ‘shamed’ for offering prayers – BBC News
Amidst the news of a mass shooting in California, a lively debate erupted on Twitter over the power and utility of offering “prayers” in the wake of such an event.
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Cambodia medic jailed over mass HIV infections – Al Jazeera English
A Cambodian court has convicted an unlicensed medical practitioner of murder and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for spreading HIV among almost 300 villagers.
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Gravitational wave-test spacecraft launched – Al Jazeera English
The European Space Agency latest mission, Lisa Pathfinder, has successfully launched from its spaceport in French Guiana. The spacecraft has an experiment onboard that could revolutionise our understanding of the Universe.
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Japan now has a soap-proof, washable phone for germaphobic bath lovers | The Verge
Waterproof phones are beyond old news in Japan; practically every phone released by a domestic manufacturer has been toilet-droppable for several years. But until now, that waterproofing didn’t protect phones from the kind of rigorous scrubbing need…
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Bill McKibben Condemns Jailing of Ousted Maldives President, A Hero of Climate Movement (democracynow.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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LISA Pathfinder en route to gravitational wave demonstration https://t.co/ZPF0uLJpZH https://t.co/rky6x5d62v
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A new frontier
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MTN sees $5.2bn Nigerian fine reduced by a third – BBC News
Africa’s largest mobile operator, MTN, has succeeded in its bid to reduce a $5.2bn £3.4bn) fine imposed by Nigerian authorities for failing to cut off unregistered users. Nigeria wants mobile phone companies to verify the identity of their customers.
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At the epicenter of three explosive forces in 1950s America—the birth of Bebop, the spread of Buddhism through the counterculture, and Beat revolutionizing of poetry and prose—sat Jack Kerouac, though I don’t picture him ever sitting for very long.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Charlie walks past the chocolate factory every day wondering if he will win a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Will Charlie win the golden ticket? He is so poor, he doesn’t have any money. Charlie is a caring boy and has a tough lif…
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Best crime and thriller books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Books that arrive on a tide of chatter about vast advances, foreign sales and movie rights often don’t provide an internal narrative to match the external one. But, in a welcome plot twist this year, two talked-up debuts justified the hype.
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The best fiction of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
This was the year that fiction made headlines. To Kill a Mockingbird was a world-altering debut followed by 55 years of silence.
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Real Madrid face King’s Cup disqualification – Al Jazeera English
Real Madrid could be thrown out of the King’s Cup for playing an ineligible player in their 3-1 victory over Cadiz after Barcelona routed lower league Villanovense 6-1 to reach the last-16.
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French army officers deny aiding Rwanda genocide – Al Jazeera English
French army officers have denied allegations by rights groups that the country’s peacekeeping force knowingly failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
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Hidden Harm – Al Jazeera English
Alcohol is a big part of the Australian culture across every region and every social class. But for Australian mothers this could be a disaster. The latest research shows there is no safe limit for drinking when pregnant.
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The ethnicity of San Bernardino shooters doesn’t matter – Al Jazeera English
Fourteen killed, and tens more injured. At approximately 11am on Wednesday morning, several gunmen opened fire inside the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The facility which houses patients with disabilities, seemed an unlikely …
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Denmark holds referendum on relationship with EU – BBC News
Danes are going to the polls in a referendum on whether to adopt EU justice and policing laws, in a vote overshadowed by the Paris attacks. The result is expected to be evenly poised between the Yes and No camps.
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Top 10 Welsh myths | Children’s books | The Guardian
Myths and legends, traditional stories passed down the generations from adult to child, told by the fire or round the table as long as people have gathered to eat, drink, sing or pluck a harp, are really a kind of history.
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Police name suspects killed in shootout in San Bernardino – video | US news | The Guardian
The San Bernardino police chief, Jarrod Burguan, confirms the identities of the suspected attackers who killed 14 people and injured 17 others at the Inland Regional Center earlier in the day.
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Ethiopia’s Rastafarian community living in limbo – Al Jazeera English
Rastafarians around the world see Ethiopia as their spiritual home. Many of them believe the country’s last king, Haile Selassie, was a descendent of King Solomon and the messiah. Many of the men travelled thousands of kilometres to live in what the…
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San Bernardino shooting: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik named as suspects – live https://t.co/MtqvrJIsRX https://t.co/W6OoDUtX42
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Joseph Conrad on Art and What Makes a Great Writer, in a Beautiful Tribute to Henry James https://t.co/1CbgN0VIYv https://t.co/8RkRhghZOC
“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind. -
Oscar Pistorius appeals court ruling – BBC News
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South Africa appeals court to make ruling on whether to overturn a manslaughter conviction against Oscar Pistorius. The Paralympic sprinter shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door in February 2013 but said he mistook her for a… -
No murder verdict for Pistorius – BBC News
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Android update will bring new emoji to Nexus phones next week | The Verge
Android is getting new emoji, in an update set to first roll out next week to Nexus phones. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s SVP of Android and Chrome OS, announced the news on Twitter; the emoji will come as part of an updated system image that also br…
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San Bernardino shooting: suspect’s brother-in-law ‘in shock’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The brother-in-law of San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Farook says he is ‘in shock that something like this can happen’.
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Ulua Beach, Maui [1600×1068] : EarthPorn
Ulua Beach, Maui [1600×1068] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/z41aKmqTFa https://t.co/vGCwlwN81K https://t.co/IkCHPC6p3J
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Ulua Beach, Maui [1600×1068] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/z41aKmqTFa https://t.co/vGCwlwN81K https://t.co/IkCHPC6p3J
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[OC] Took a picture of a lady bug riding a snail! : pics
[OC] Took a picture of a lady bug riding a snail! via /r/pics https://t.co/F9vjRYkfhz https://t.co/8cCgt7dBSG https://t.co/KkbybvKaCk
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[OC] Took a picture of a lady bug riding a snail! via /r/pics https://t.co/F9vjRYkfhz https://t.co/8cCgt7dBSG https://t.co/KkbybvKaCk
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There is a good reason why CDC is banned from promoting gun control. Note: they are banned from promoting gun control, not from researching. There’s a difference. In the late 1990s, what CDC was putting out regarding guns wasn’t research.
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Rights group condemns proposed Malaysia security bill – BBC News
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned a national security bill proposed this week by lawmakers in Malaysia, calling it “a tool for repression”. The law would give extensive powers to the authorities to declare places as areas of security risk, and …
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Perfect Loaf! Proud mum moment. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/Z8XDfytahI https://t.co/Wq6S0ym53Z https://t.co/OEFeC2Utuz
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Archaeologist Says the Bible’s King Hezekiah Is Real – The Daily Beast
Israeli archeologists have discovered a mark from a seal of the biblical King Hezekiah—and the discovery is being touted in some circles as proof of the authenticity of the biblical record.
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Number26 Launches Its Bank Of The Future In 6 New Countries | TechCrunch
If you don’t like your current bank, Number26 is here for you. The German startup has been trying to reinvent the average banking experience in Germany and Austria. It is now expanding to six new European countries — France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, …
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“Man At Work” is kind of a tricky episode of Black-ish. You see, the cold open is almost atypically serious, as Dre voiceovers about “taking care of your own” and coming up from nothing.
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Why do these people hate the constitution and the rule of law? That doesn’t seem very patriotic to me. They live by their own definitions of words.
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Chinese Coexist With Coal | Despite China’s pledge to cap and then reduce carbon emissions, coal production continues to grow, creating tough choices for those who work in and live near the mines. (nytimes.com)
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Meacham Bio Gives Bush 41 a Big Wet Kiss – The Daily Beast
Meacham Bio Gives Bush 41 a Big Wet Kiss https://t.co/6aph4Rs72S https://t.co/Q73wAgAaEg
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Arkansas Refuses To List Same-Sex Parents On Birth Certificates Despite Judge’s Ruling : politics
Arkansas Refuses To List Same-Sex Parents On Birth Certificates Despite Judge’s Ruling https://t.co/z1vxz94Ki3 https://t.co/mYHBdJzi3r
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Turbulence predicted as ECB eases monetary policy and Fed tightens | Business | The Guardian
Financial markets are convinced the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, will announce cuts in interest rates and a stepping up of the bond-buying programme known as quantitative easing (QE) after its latest policy meeting in Frankfurt.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Launch replay
Launch replay https://t.co/BpK5EToosJ https://t.co/nFknnvAgB4
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Launch – full replay
Launch – full replay https://t.co/wMbPnuJ2B4 https://t.co/A4jBZtslYP
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: ESA stations track Earth flyby mission
ESA stations track Earth flyby mission https://t.co/Yco09ejF4c https://t.co/8sNnowNWmz
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US police probe motive of California mass shooting – Al Jazeera English
US authorities are investigating the motive of a shooting spree that left 14 people dead and another 17 wounded at a centre for people with learning disabilities in Southern California.
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A Very Murray Christmas’: Bill Murray Had the Best Christmas Party – The Daily Beast
Had enough of Michael Bublé crooning his way through yet another Christmas special? Seen Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer so many times that you’re wondering when, if ever, the damn lightbulb on that nose is going to burn out? Ready to say “good grief…
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Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg “complains a lot”, following a tense season. Relations between the two title rivals have cooled following a number of incidents in which Rosberg claimed Hamilton had driven too aggressively.
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Some after-fight loafing via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/OE8E3R2teD https://t.co/hLNpydiGfa https://t.co/9HMAVgVDhH
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Some after-fight loafing : Catloaf
Some after-fight loafing via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/OE8E3R2teD https://t.co/hLNpydiGfa https://t.co/9HMAVgVDhH
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“The Ten Commandments Killer” opens by repeating last week’s action: Having led Det. John Lowe out of the psychiatric hospital, Wren dodges into the path of an oncoming truck. The driver insists he couldn’t have missed her, and he’s right.
American Horror Story: Hotel commits the most grievous sin of all https://t.co/Nvvl7Wd7lo https://t.co/vG45iMB2m7 -
LISA Pathfinder en route to gravitational wave demonstration / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
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San Bernardino, CA shooting: Police kill two suspects in shootout, say there probably isn’t a third
An SUV with its windows shot out that police suspect was the getaway vehicle from at the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, California is shown in this aerial photo (December 2, 2015).
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BBC Sport – Fifa confirms officials arrested by US
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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IS, Isis, Isil, or Daesh? What should we call the Jihadist group? – BBC News
IS, Isis, Isil, or Daesh? What should we call the Jihadist group? https://t.co/jXitiU75GF https://t.co/x6EOVHuJhr
IS, Isis, Isil, or Daesh? What should we call the Jihadist group? 3 December 2015 Last updated at 06:21 GMT BBC looks at why the jihadist group which controls large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq is sometimes referred to by different names b… -
Facebook Partners With 50 Publishers To Launch Instant Articles In Asia | TechCrunch
Facebook Partners With 50 Publishers To Launch Instant Articles In Asia https://t.co/RFDTQt8dx4 https://t.co/pmQJCMGmF1
Facebook is bringing its Instant Article media format to Asia after more than twenty media from eleven countries in the region — including China, India and Indonesia — went live on the platform. -
Nigeria’s Baby Farmers – Al Jazeera English
It is understandable why a desperate childless couple might do anything to have a baby, but those who exploit their unhappiness for profit are not so easy to forgive.
Nigeria’s Baby Farmers https://t.co/YT7Yf7QlMx https://t.co/3C3S8Hnnij -
The Pacific Ocean is very warm, especially off the coast of California. It looks like that heat is causing a high pressure that is preventing most storms from coming ashore in California. It appears that there will be no El Nino storm effect coming …
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Chennai: Race to rescue India flood victims – BBC News
A massive rescue operation is under way to reach stranded people in the flood-hit southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras).More than 2,000 people have been rescued by the army, while the navy has decided to deploy a warship carrying divers, boats an…
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Ted Cruz Is Donald Trump With a Harvard Degree – The Daily Beast
Ted Cruz Is Donald Trump With a Harvard Degree https://t.co/jtASaJQmf9 https://t.co/NvEEOnekGb
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As Elections Approach, Venezuela Is a Crime Scene Out of Control – The Daily Beast
As Elections Approach, Venezuela Is a Crime Scene Out of Control https://t.co/RDkwhLa4ej https://t.co/PHSPTakkdW
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Researchers: Let Your Kids Fall Off the Damn Monkey Bars – The Daily Beast
Researchers: Let Your Kids Fall Off the Damn Monkey Bars https://t.co/xfVBjI4jxZ https://t.co/bpYKOrEwfW
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Pentagon Crew Lived Large in $150 Million Afghan Villas – The Daily Beast
Pentagon Crew Lived Large in $150 Million Afghan Villas https://t.co/jYz5nCHRGO https://t.co/kzvpDRVYjK
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Yazidis Get Revenge On ISIS In Sinjar – The Daily Beast
Yazidis Get Revenge On ISIS In Sinjar https://t.co/EEnfq5sOk5 https://t.co/Q8gtaianoz
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Yazidis Get Revenge On ISIS In Sinjar – The Daily Beast
DOHUK, Iraq — On the outskirts of this Kurdish city, visitors came to a small cabin to pay respects to the family of three dead shepherds. Their relatives had fled their homes near the town of Sinjar after it was liberated from the so-called Islamic…
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‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway on the Perfect Season 2 Premiere – The Daily Beast
Earlier this week, Amazon surprised with a little Cyber Monday gift to all of us. It made the Season 2 premiere of its Emmy-winning series Transparent available for streaming, more than a week before the critically minted series was scheduled to deb…
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Pentagon Crew Lived Large in $150 Million Afghan Villas – The Daily Beast
A Pentagon task force established in 2006 to help lure private businesses first to Iraq and then Afghanistan allegedly blew as much as $150 million on lavish villas in Afghanistan for a few lucky members of its staff—instead of lodging them cheaply,…
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Yes, My Abortion Decision Was Pro-Life – The Daily Beast
I am pro-life. Firmly. I believe in minimizing war casualties as moral imperative. I believe that allowing a single one of our citizens to die from an untreated common illness is societal murder. I believe in minimizing the need for abortion with de…
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Rush Limbaugh’s Favorite New White Power Group – The Daily Beast
Just before Thanksgiving, Rush Limbaugh unwittingly gave white supremacists an early Christmas present. It began innocently enough, when Limbaugh opened the phone lines for callers. The first call came from a person who identified himself as Roy fro…
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Researchers: Let Your Kids Fall Off the Damn Monkey Bars – The Daily Beast
Most of us hate starting thoughts and sentences this way, but when you were a kid, you didn’t spend all your time indoors or in front of a screen. Kids today—pardon the phrase—have more mental health issues than ever before, and a lot of that comes …
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As Elections Approach, Venezuela Is a Crime Scene Out of Control – The Daily Beast
CARACAS — It didn’t matter to officer Kevin Valera that his new love, Jenniree, already had a daughter, he had always wanted to have children. So he treated little Ashley like his own and to her he simply was daddy. Then Kevin and Jenniree had a bab…
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Ted Cruz Is Donald Trump With a Harvard Degree – The Daily Beast
When Donald Trump begins his inevitable fade once the presidential primary season kicks into high gear, the smart money is on Ted Cruz to pick up the billionaire blowhard’s supporters. Indeed, polls out of Iowa show the senator effectively neck and …
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Shut Up About San Bernardino, Because There’s Nothing Left to Say – The Daily Beast
The right and the left have both issued verdicts on what not to say after a mass shooting. The right ridicules calls for gun safety measures. The left mocks what it perceives to be hollow nostrums about “thoughts and prayers.” I think they’re both r…
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Don’t Ask Cate Blanchett About The Hollywood Pay Gap – The Daily Beast
In recent weeks, The New York Times delivered an exhaustive magazine cover story tackling every angle of the “pervasive sexism” in Hollywood; Jennifer Lawrence, the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and the most outspoken on the pay gap, covered Dec…
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Chi-Raq · Film Review Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is a fumble worth making · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
Out of all the wildly gifted black movie directors this country produced during the latter part of the last century, Spike Lee is the only one who ended up getting something like the career he was owed, and the only one who’s been able to hold on to…
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Both the best, and the worst, aspects of Xenoblade Chronicles X can be summed up in the game’s most triumphant moment. After roughly 40 hours, your character finally unlocks the ability to fly.
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment. Attempting to apply the kind of slasher “rules” that fascinate horror fans to the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies is pointl…
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More than a quarter of UK birds are fighting for survival | Environment | The Guardian
More than a quarter of the UK’s birds including much-loved species such as the curlew and puffin are now fighting for survival, a new report warns.
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Over the years, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has attracted some of cinema’s heaviest hitters: Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa (whose Throne Of Blood transposes the play to feudal Japan).
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For its first 40 or so minutes, Arabian Nights, Volume 3: The Enchanted One—the final part of Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ ambitious Arabian Nights project—plays like a time-machine accident, warping jewels-and-hookah-smoke Arabian imagery into…
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The movie Victor Frankenstein opens with the line “You know the story.” But do you? Mary Shelley’s novel has been adapted so many times that the real story, the novel published in 1818, feels like it’s become almost as much of a myth as its monster.
The latest adaptation of Frankenstein fails to bring the original creature to life https://t.co/61OHFbyZ1j https://t.co/dGiRocmiLu -
NBC hopes The Wiz Live! is more “must watch” than “hate-watch” · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, December 3. All times are Eastern. The Wiz Live! (NBC, 8 p.m.
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More than any other director currently working, with the possible exception of Terrence Malick, Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino conceives his films musically, working with motifs and movements as much as he does with traditional scenes.
Michael Caine lends his star power to the bewitching curiosities of Youth https://t.co/pG53uU1WmS https://t.co/WoznngoOTA -
How will the rebels go about protecting Force-sensitive children? That’s a pretty potent question, and while “The Future of the Force” doesn’t answer that question long term, it does bring this idea up in a fantastic, tense episode that seems to be …
Ahsoka gets her due in an exciting Rebels that lays down groundwork for the future https://t.co/fzp4fWyE9J https://t.co/YTBBHq06UZ -
Tomas Eldan, the Canadian novelist played by James Franco in Wim Wenders’ lame 3-D melodrama Every Thing Will Be Fine, always looks like he’s ready to zonk out for a nap.
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As an actor, William Petersen’s first love has always been the theater, which may help explain a striking statistic in his career: despite having made his film debut 34 years ago in Michael Mann’s Thief, he’s only accumulated 34 roles in front of th…
William Petersen on Manhattan, Michael Mann, and sailing into the sunset on CSI https://t.co/dys0Z8weNG https://t.co/3yyCr5TPpv -
Dame Maggie Smith’s bitter, deathless rivalry with her Best Exotic Marigold Hotel costar Dame Judi Dench reaches another milestone with The Lady In The Van, where Smith, presumably seething with jealousy over Dench’s opportunity to play an elderly w…
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How the UK’s unique weaponry will be used in Syria – BBC News
How the UK’s unique weaponry will be used in Syria https://t.co/VLsctH7T3l https://t.co/HScGzp0ATy
The UK can provide certain weaponry not used by other partners in the coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria. It is hoped the Brimstone missile will offer particular accuracy for targeted strikes. -
China and South Africa in $6.5bn worth of deals – BBC News
China and South Africa have signed deals and loans valued at $6.5bn (£4.3bn), with the focus on building infrastructure in the African giant. The deals were announced during a four-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to increase trade and inve…
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A Fond Farewell — A Star Says Goodbye | Space Wallpaper
About this Image Planetary nebula PK 329-02.2 in the Norma constellation in the southern sky, also known as Menzel 2, has spent an innumerable number of years as a winding blue cloud.
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‘Empire’ Recap: Spit Happens | Rolling Stone
Last week’s episode of Empire ended with a kiss. This week’s episode ended with a different form of spit-swapping entirely. Perhaps you never thought you’d see Taraji P. Henson hock a loogie in the face of Naomi Campbell. But this is a show that dar…
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Amateur footage shows police storming a social services center on Wednesday morning in response to a shooting that left at least 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California.
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Medlar meddling like the mediaevals | Environment | The Guardian
Medlar meddling like the mediaevals https://t.co/5fkuuNOaeo https://t.co/VGTy5W1j6i
The gales that swept the leaves from the lawns beside the footpath had shaken medlars down from the tree. It seemed a shame to let them go to waste so we filled our pockets. -
North Korea nuclear test site adds tunnel, say researchers – BBC News
Recent satellite images indicate that North Korea is building a new tunnel at its nuclear test site, a respected US think tank has said. These appeared to show work in a new area of the Punggye-ri nuclear zone.
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Pentagon accused of wasting millions on plush staff housing in Afghanistan | US news | The Guardian
The Pentagon lavished nearly $150m of taxpayer money on villas with private security, flat screen TVs and three course meals for “special events” for US government staff in Afghanistan, an official watchdog has found.
Pentagon accused of wasting millions on plush staff housing in Afghanistan https://t.co/36A3rhU0vV https://t.co/hTQHqQotmw -
YouTube reportedly plans to secure rights to new movies and TV shows | The Verge
YouTube is looking to secure the rights to TV shows and movies to stream on its new YouTube Red subscription service, The Wall Street Journal reports, a move that could allow it to build up a catalog of on-demand video to rival competitors Netflix, …
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Open thread for night owls: New study shows that Sanders’ assessment of wealth gap is spot on
Over the past few months, Bernie Sanders has repeatedly declared that the top one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. earners own nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
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ESA stations track Earth flyby mission / Estrack / Operations / Our Activities / ESA
An ESA deep-space ground station will lend a helping ear as Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission visits Earth on Thursday.
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This is accurate as fuck. If my dragon quest 8 didn’t start I’d prob have turned to drugs at a much earlier age.
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If discovery puts it on either Hulu or Netflix I’m all over it. It will be available on iTunes and Amazon starting tomorrow, 12/3. I also hope that it goes on a major streaming site like Netflix soon — that would make an amazing impact
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – LISA Pathfinder launch – Part 1
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‘Dark Universe’: Probing the Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos
A portion of the COSMOS field, short for Cosmic Evolution Survey, contains millions of galaxies. Image released Sept. 9, 2014.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image Michael Sainato is a freelance writer with credits including the Miami Herald…
‘Dark Universe’: Probing the Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos (Q&A) https://t.co/OzrE8mpmNT https://t.co/vr7RTY8miA -
Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman unite in latest Batman v Superman trailer | The Verge
After Monday night’s brief teaser, fans now have the latest trailer for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. And the Holy Trinity itself — Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman — have finally united onscreen.
Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman unite in latest Batman v. Superman trailer https://t.co/S9dyUmKjjJ https://t.co/FXYjiDzZ6l -
APOD: 2015 December 2 – Golden Gate Sunset: Green Flash
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: The setting is San Francisco Bay, the time is sunset, and the br…
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Shiva Statue in Sunlight Image, Kauai, Hawaii – National Geographic Photo of the Day
After spending time meditating at the Kauai Hindu Monastery in Hawaii, Your Shot member Andrew Hara came across this tucked-away statue of Shiva, one of the trinity of Hindu deities. “I …
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New Wave of Arrests in FIFA Corruption Scandal https://t.co/Y3KcD9WOkQ https://t.co/IpDQEO5QHf
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ZURICH — Swiss authorities began a new series of pre-dawn arrests Thursday in the broad investigation, led by United States officials, into corruption in international soccer.
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Bruce Wayne Meets Clark Kent in the Latest Batman v Superman Trailer
During Jimmy Kimmel Live, Warner Bros. premiered the newest trailer of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (still its real, long, name). In its three minutes, we see Bruce tell Clark how he feels about Superman. And it’s not a good opinion.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Official Trailer 2 [HD] : movies
The Holy Trinity of DC. Just amazing. People wanted fun, they got it in the last few seconds.
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Watch: the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer – Vox
Just days after teasing fans with a sneak peek — a trailer for a trailer — Warner Bros. has released the third trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and there’s plenty to unpack.
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As we head into the final stretch of Moonbeam City episodes, curiosity about how the production order was shuffled into the airing order drops away; I haven’t found any information on whether the last three episodes (the middle of which, “The Legend…
Moonbeam City could always get more Rad https://t.co/abUcAlCSuV https://t.co/ijs7qTIKjT -
Peter Jackson to Turkish court: Smeagol and Gollum are not the same · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Peter Jackson has weighed in on the case of a Turkish man, Bilgin Ciftci, who might be sent to jail for allegedly posting pictures of his country’s president that compared him to a character from The Lord Of The Rings.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – LISA Pathfinder liftoff
Liftoff of Vega VV06 carrying LISA Pathfinder on 3 December 2015 from Europe’s Spaceport, French Guiana.
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Christmas loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/ZIWtih4pWh https://t.co/fcohM3l2wk https://t.co/4E4yWtiYGD
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Christmas loaf via /r/Catloaf…
Christmas loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/ZIWtih4pWh https://t.co/fcohM3l2wk https://t.co/4E4yWtiYGD
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Akon is on a mission to light up 600m African homes. Any questions? | World news | The Guardian
He’s best associated with the dancefloors of R&B clubs, after releasing tracks including Lonely, Smack That and Sorry, Blame it on Me. But Akon is also on a lesser-known mission: to bring electricity to 600m African homes.
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San Bernardino shooting: The story of the attack – BBC News
At least 14 people were killed after gunman attacked a community centre in San Bernardino. Two heavily armed suspects were killed in a shootout with police.
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Free usability help for privacy toolmakers / Boing Boing
Simply Secure, a nonprofit I volunteer for, is launching a new series of usability programs for organizations, companies and individuals who are making cryptographic/privacy/security tools. Simply Secure’s mission is to help make privacy tools usabl…
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Kimchi and Arabic coffee in latest Unesco cultural list – BBC News
The traditions of making North Korean kimchi and Arabic coffee are among 20 practices newly recognised by Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency. Other customs that made the cut include classical horsemanship in Austria, folk dances in Peru and Romania an…
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Dear San Bernardino, On Your Day After – The Daily Beast
There will be a time for thoughtful discussion about the ways to prevent the constant carnage that is now modern life in America in the next few days.
Dear San Bernardino, On Your Day After https://t.co/HzLSn3AMkw https://t.co/G0J72M3pRp -
In the 334 days of 2015, America has seen 351 mass shootings (and counting) / Boing Boing
The data from Shooting Tracker tell the tale: America averages more than one mass shooting every single day. 2015 is on track to be the deadliest year in American history, having already beat 2014, and likely to zoom past 2013’s 363 mass shootings.
In the 334 days of 2015, America has seen 351 mass shootings (and counting) https://t.co/0JqJbGAl0S https://t.co/DRkIoceP2G -
Dead at 41, With $13 https://t.co/DZFB7PqEvb https://t.co/46ymFaaZ2v
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The sad thing about this is that neither Cruz nor his supporters will care. This is just an avenue of attack after the PP shooting. He doesn’t care because the claim doesn’t really matter.
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HAINES CITY, Fla. — About an hour after sunset recently, Ryan Hoffman rode his bike, a hot pink Huffy, into oncoming traffic on an unlit stretch of Highway 17-92 here.
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Not even the scapegoats will go to jail for BP’s murder of the Gulf Coast / Boing Boing
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in which BP killed 12 people, millions of marine and land animals, and one ecosystem, two scapegoats were located to fit up for criminal manslaughter charges: the supervisors aboard the platform at the time …
Not even the scapegoats will go to jail for BP’s murder of the Gulf Coast https://t.co/KYxJqGgwh7 https://t.co/lBekrnJUUF -
Stephen Pinker’s list of the 58 most-abused English words and phrases / Boing Boing
In his latest book, The Sense of Style, Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker sets out to create a new English stylebook that celebrates the language’s fluidity while still striving for clarity — an anti-authoritarian, “evidence-based” manifesto for …
Stephen Pinker’s list of the 58 most-abused English words and phrases https://t.co/wWrvkwdqwH https://t.co/TmV4B6uqky -
Ifixit repair kits: everything you need to fix everything / Boing Boing
Ifixit produce open repair guides for everything imaginable, in a variety of languages, and help sustain a global community of independent repairers who divert electronics from e-waste dumps and keep poor and marginalized people connected to their w…
Ifixit repair kits: everything you need to fix everything https://t.co/uXSM37CTYL https://t.co/eudVVoAtWn -
Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/ritr8ujx05 https://t.co/X4fp0CnE7F https://t.co/VdiVkrUcbf
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/ritr8ujx05 https://t.co/X4fp0CnE7F https://t.co/VdiVkrUcbf
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Who Shoots Up a Center for the Disabled? – The Daily Beast
As I write this, in the hours after the San Bernardino shooting, we are still in the middle of the now familiar multifocal splattering of reports that happens after shootings.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Liftoff for LISA Pathfinder
Liftoff for LISA Pathfinder https://t.co/TixZymwq2J https://t.co/kdFzBB4QyA
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General Electric Co. has agreed to pay a $2.25 million penalty in releasing potentially unsafe levels of air pollution from a hazardous waste incinerator in upstate New York and submitting false pollution control records (abcnews.go.com) You can’t e…
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“Other Things You Could Be Doing” is kind of a mess.
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The CW orders another monster show, might need to admit it has a problem · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Moving with a jittery, unhealthy energy, and asking passersby if they can spare “a mummy, some sort of manticore, whatever,” TV network and potential monster show addict The CW has announced that it’s picking up yet another series about things going…
The CW orders another monster show, might need to admit it has a problem https://t.co/FuYiXMRmU7 https://t.co/5UEyYwlXYm -
When Modern Family is really firing on all cylinders, it’s usually working to subvert a few sitcom tropes while also embracing its structure and milking it for as many laughs as possible.
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BBC News – UK launches first Syria air strikes
UK launches first Syria air strikes https://t.co/Dl9yngGgNI https://t.co/75Coc4vxHu
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Watch Dave Grohl, Muppets Band Rock Out to ‘Learn To Fly’ | Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl and Animal may have called it a draw when they battled it out during an epic drum-off on ABC’s The Muppets during Tuesday’s show, but the Foo Fighters frontman kept things rocking beyond the skins. In the clip, Grohl meets up with Dr.
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Watch Dramatic ‘American Crime Story’ O.J. Simpson Trailer | Rolling Stone
FX released the first trailer for its forthcoming limited series, American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. A spin-off of American Horror Story, American Crime Story’s first installment, which made Rolling Stone’s “68 Reasons This Year Will …
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Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say : environment
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say (theguardian.com)submitted 57 minutes ago by loading…
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There is a certain pattern to mass shootings in the United States at this point, and Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino is the 355th one of 2015.
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The San Bernardino police chief, Jarrod Burguan, speaks to reporters on Wednesday evening after a shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and 17 injured.
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UK vote clears decks for strikes against ISIL in Syria – Al Jazeera English
British fighter jets have arrived at a military base in Cyprus just hours after MPs approved 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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The BBC on San Bernardino: “just another day in the United States of America” – Vox
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Footage shot by Gabi Flores, who is reported to be a customer services coordinator at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, and posted online by KPCC radio station.
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Mass shooting in San Bernardino kills 14; two suspects dead
Wednesday saw what’s reported to be America’s most deadly mass shooting since Sandy Hook, this one in San Bernardino, California. Two or three shooters killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center, entering the facility late Wednesday morning loca…
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Hawaii Supreme Court Invalidates Permit for Telescope Construction on Mauna Kea | Motherboard
On Wednesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court invalidated a permit previously granted to an international consort of universities for construction of a new telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea.
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Clinic Attacks ‘Terrorism’: Abortion Rights Groups | Al Jazeera America
A coalition of abortion rights groups, community organizers and women’s health advocates have called on the United States Department of Justice to instruct the FBI to investigate Friday’s shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic as a…
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This is the episodes that promos built. All week, CBS has been endlessly promoting this episode with some frighteningly-edited spots teasing what looked like a fairly significant injury during one of the challenges.
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For many people, working out and alcohol are closely linked. Sports teams and training partners celebrate victories, bemoan defeats or mark the end of training sessions with a beer or three. Beer, in fact, provides a substantial portion of some exer…
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A new writer crosses the rainbow bridge to Thor: Ragnarok · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has hired Stephany Folsom to write the newest draft of the Thor: Ragnarok script.
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“Smoker” · Kingdom · TV Review Jay stoops to conquer on the latest Kingdom · TV Club · The A.V. Club
If you’re a fan of boxing or mixed-martial arts, you’ve probably wondered what kind of person becomes a professional fighter. Not just what it takes to become one (the route to Carnegie Hall comes to mind)—but rather, what inspires or motivates them…
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Venezuelan healthcare in collapse as economy ails – BBC News
Santiago Ortiz is lying, eyes closed, on the bed. He is no picture of repose. Above his jaundiced, swollen belly, his thin chest is pumping fast. His face twists into the pillow. An oxygen mask is strapped tight across his mouth and nose.
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This year’s Sundance lineup indulges in Nick Jonas (and Obama romance) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s Sundance season once again, that special time of year when Hollywood’s best and brightest load up their skis and head to Colorado, for a week of vacationing, networking, and occasionally actually seeing a movie or two.
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Barack Obama comments on the shooting in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday morning that left 14 people dead and 17 injured.
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How do cartels get drugs into the US? – BBC News
A recent report from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that drug overdoses kill more people in the US than car accidents or guns. Some deaths are through prescription drugs, others by cocaine or, increasingly, heroin.
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BBC News – How a whistleblower brought down Chicago police chief
Laquan McDonald’s death seemed like another case of a justified police shooting until a whistleblower picked up the phone. One year later, the city is reeling. On a late fall day in 2014, Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law…
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San Bernardino Residents: The City Had Pretty Awful Gun Violence Before Today | VICE News
The San Bernardino mass shooting, in which at least 14 people were killed and 17 others injured on Wednesday at a facility that served developmentally disabled people, has focused America’s attention on the California city located about 70 miles eas…
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California shooting: ‘We should never think that this is normal’ – BBC News
Barack Obama has reiterated the need for tighter gun laws in the US, after 14 people were killed in a mass shooting at a social services facility in California. Two heavily armed suspects – one male and one female – have been killed by police in a s…
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sVietnam Deported Nine North Koreans to China — and Now They’re Probably Screwed | VICE News
By the time a group of eight North Koreans reached the northeastern Vietnamese border city of Mong Cai on October 22, they had traveled nearly 3,000 perilous miles through China with an 11-month-old infant in tow.
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Police Continue Investigation Into San Bernardino, Calif., Shootings : NPR
Fourteen people are dead and at least 17 wounded after at least two gunmen opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
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San Bernardino and the Abomination of Gun Violence – The Atlantic
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Police Activity Continues Near Site Of San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
Three shooters opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday leaving 14 dead and 17 wounded. Residents described an incredibly troubling day.
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This is a great episode of television. This is a great episode of The League.
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Mount Everest’s Glaciers are Turning Into Lakes: Thousands of Himalayan glaciers could melt by the end of the century (smithsonianmag.com)submitted 21 minutes ago by loading…
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Suspect ID’d in San Bernardino Massacre as Syed Farook – The Daily Beast
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Construction Permits Pulled on the Thirty-Meter Telescope in Hawaii
It’s a clash of gods, science, lava, stars, and the law for the Thirty-Meter Telescope in Hawaii. The would-be new largest telescope on the planet just had its construction permit yanked by the Hawaii Supreme Court.
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Investigation Continues Into Mass Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
Police continue the investigation into the mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 dead and 17 wounded. Three gunmen opened fire on a center that serves people with developmental disabilities.
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Suspect ID’d in San Bernardino Massacre as Syed Farook – The Daily Beast
CORONA, CALIFORNIA — Law enforcement officials have identified Syed Farook as one of the suspected shooters who attacked a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California, according to NBC News.
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“God isn’t fixing this”: The Daily News on why prayers aren’t enough after mass shootings – Vox
The New York Daily News’s Thursday cover story on the shooting in San Bernardino takes a strong stand on a surprising controversy that emerged in the wake of the shooting — politicians’ habit of offering banal “thoughts and prayers” to the victims w…
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The best reply to conservative elected officials offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ in shooting’s wake
SWAT officers enter an area where suspects were believed to be after the shooting at the Inland Regional Center on December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, California. Police continue to search for suspects in the shooting that left at least 14 people de…
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Steve Ballmer thinks Windows phones should run Android apps | The Verge
Last month The Verge reported that Project Astoria, Microsoft’s plan to bring Android apps to its Windows 10 Mobile platform, has been put on hold, but it seems one notable figure from the company’s recent history would disagree with that decision.
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Do Ghost Ships Full of Dead People Belong To Kim Jong-Un? – The Daily Beast
Since 2013, over 175 abandoned ships have been found floating off the coast of Japan, with dozens of unidentified bodies. Most of the ships and the dead are believed to have come from North Korea.
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Following Wednesday afternoon’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left at least 14 people dead, numerous lawmakers tweeted their “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of the gruesome tragedy.
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When Gun Violence Meets Ideology – The New Yorker
San Bernardino is No. 13—the thirteenth mass public shooting in the United States in the past week.
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One of the most senseless environmental crimes of the 20th century: the slaughter of 180,000 whales by the Soviet Union. It was one of the fastest decimations of an animal population in world history—and it had happened almost entirely in secret. (p…
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First thing’s first: The best moment of Arrow this week wasn’t in tonight’s episode, but in last night’s episode of The Flash, in which we were treated to Neal McDonough reaching the absolute apex of his scenery-chewing glory.
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2 Suspects Killed, 1 Person Detained After Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
Two suspects, a man and a woman, died in a gun battle with police in San Bernardino, Calif. Police say they executed a search warrant at a home in the nearby town of Redlands, Calif.
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Revenge Porn King Gets Two Years In Prison | Motherboard
On Wednesday, Hunter Moore was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal district judge in Los Angeles, California, according to courtoom sources. Moore, the former operator of IsAnyoneUp.com, has been referred to as the “king of revenge porn.
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Obama’s Resigned Anger After San Bernardino – The Atlantic
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Obama Calls For Gun Control Measures After San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
President Obama expressed sympathy to the victims’ families of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. He also called for stronger gun background checks and other measures.
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What You Need To Know About The San Bernardino Shooting – Digg
Authorities have reported 14 dead and 17 wounded, and confirmed up to three shooters are at large in a “dark colored SUV.” The bomb squad has been called in as well and detonated a suspicious package in the center. No motive has been determined at t…
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Police find suspects’ car after pursuit in San Bernardino shooting – video | US news | The Guardian
Police pursue suspects in San Bernardino, California, after a shooting at Inland Regional Center which has left at least 14 people dead and 17 injured. There are reports that the attack was carried out by three men who then fled in a dark SUV.
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2 Suspects Dead After Standoff With Police In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
Two suspects were killed in a police standoff after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., police said in a press conference. One person is in police custody.
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Two suspects dead after US mass shooting – BBC News
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Flame Retardant Materials To Be Evaluated On Space Station | Video
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Texas files a lawsuit to block Syrian refugees – The Atlantic
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Texas filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block federal agencies from resettling a family of Syrian refugees in the state later this week, opening the first legal challenge by the states to the Obama administration’s refugee resettlement programs. -
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Britain just voted to bomb ISIS in Syria – Vox
Late on Wednesday, the British House of Commons voted 397 to 223 to approve Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to carry out airstrikes against ISIS targets inside Syria (previously, British bombs had only targeted ISIS in Iraq). Royal Air Force (RA…
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Daran Norris to star in Phil Hartman biopic directed by Jason Priestley · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, Daran Norris has officially signed on to star in Nice Guy Phil, a Phil Hartman biopic. You may remember Norris from such films and TV shows as The Fairly OddParents, Veronica Mars, and The Erotic Adventures Of Hercules.
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“There were times that I did fear for my safety, but I felt trapped,” adult actress Joanna Angel revealed today of her allegedly abusive six-year relationship with fellow porn star James Deen. “I didn’t know what to do. I felt very worn down and bea…
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There’s No Empirical Evidence So Far That Bernie Sanders Is Unelectable : politics
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Ballmer: Microsoft’s cloud revenue numbers are “bullshit” | Ars Technica
Microsoft today held its annual shareholder meeting, leaving one significant Microsoft shareholder—former CEO Steve Ballmer—less than happy with the way the company reports the financial performance both of its nascent hardware business and of its c…
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Is he unelectable in the general election? Probably not. That’s not his problem though. His problem is that it will be very hard to get to that point in the first place by winning the nomination. Not a single primary vote has been cast, and I am alr…
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At Least 14 Dead, 17 Wounded In San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
There continues to be an active, fluid situation in San Bernardino, Calif., hours after gunmen stormed a center for people with disabilities. The police say at least one suspect has been killed.
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SCOTUS Blocks Native Hawaiian Election Vote Count | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked votes from being counted in a unique election that’s considered a major step toward self-governance for Native Hawaiians. The high court granted an injunction requested by a group of Native Hawaiians and n…
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THE Supreme Court has decided four major cases furthering gay rights. Justice Antonin Scalia has written a bitter dissent from each. In Lawrence v.
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Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S. | FiveThirtyEight
The shooting that killed at least 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday is the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. this year but far from the first. It wasn’t even the first to occur on Wednesday.
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Asia shares weighed down by oil price – BBC News
Asian shares were lower on Thursday as falling oil prices weighed on energy stocks in the region. The US dollar also strengthened after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen signalled readiness to raise interest rates.
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Vox Sentences: “Just another day in the United States of America” – Vox
A mass shooting in San Bernardino; Mark Zuckerberg’s giving away $45 billion; and Mein Kampf will be reprinted in Germany for the first time since 1945. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Updated ESPN app won’t make you use WatchESPN to stream live sports | The Verge
ESPN has started consolidating its two largest apps into one piece of software, today updating the iOS 9 and Android versions of its core ESPN app with the ability to watch live sports.
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I Dreamed of a Perfect Database | New Republic
Throughout my working life as a web programmer I have always had access to cheap or free databases. Databases are specialized software for creating, storing, managing, and analyzing data.
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After privacy ruling, Facebook now requires Belgium users to log in to view pages | The Verge
In response to a privacy ruling, Belgian Facebook users must now sign in to see any content. The change means that if you don’t have a Facebook account, you can’t view Belgian Facebook pages — including public profiles like those of local businesses.
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Why Is This Girl Filming Herself Smashing Her Face Into Different Breads? – Digg
Since August, Bread Face has, as its bio states, been “giving the people something they didn’t ask for.
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Police Describe Active Crime Scene After Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
At least 14 dead and 17 wounded after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. Police describe an active crime scene as they pursue the suspects.
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At Least One Suspect Down In Police Standoff In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Reuters reporter Tim Reid for the latest on the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
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The BBC’s Distressingly Accurate Intro To The San Bernardino Shooting | ThinkProgress
The BBC opened its coverage of the ongoing San Bernadino mass shooting Wednesday evening by acknowledging a fairly alarming reality: “Just another day in the United States of America, another day of gunfire, panic, and fear.” Watch it: The quip is p…
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Iran engaged in nuclear weapons design until 2003, says UN watchdog | World news | The Guardian
The UN’s nuclear watchdog IAEA has confirmed suspicions that Iran had a concerted nuclear weapons design programme until 2003 and conducted some sporadic weapons studies after that before ceasing all related activity in 2009.
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Indie island: Cuba’s new wave of film-makers get to work – BBC News
On the eve of the annual Havana Film Festival, a camera crew wrap up a long day’s shoot on the backstreets of the capital. No Hollywood blockbuster, it’s a low-budget music video for a band. Yet there is still something unique, almost revolutionary,…
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Mark Zuckerberg and the Rise of Philanthrocapitalism – The New Yorker
The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, that, during their lifetimes, they will donate to philanthropic causes roughly ninety-nine per cent of their Facebook stock, which is currently valued at close to forty-five billion d…
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Donald Trump Finds His Prophet – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s campaign, an exercise in testing the limits of the American imagination, was inevitably going to find itself advertised beside Survival Shield X-2 super high quality nascent iodine droplets, now 30% off, and a cylindrical vault of Sur…
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Is China a brake on Africa’s progress? – BBC News
China’s economy is slowing down – but are there any other economic casualties? The short answer is: “Yes.” Africa has been adversely affected, although not so much as to snuff out the real improvement over the past two decades.
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Police in standoff with possible San Bernardino shooting suspects
Police are confirming that two suspects “are down,” and that a third person is on the run. There is a massive police presence, along with dogs, tactical forces, and so on, reportedly doing house-to-house searches. Bear in mind, it will be dark in Ca…
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The former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer says the federal government needs to beef up its travel advice for the US to include warnings about guns.
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The unlikely sanitary pad missionary – BBC News
When an Indian man invented a simple machine for poor rural women to make simple sanitary pads, the idea was to provide jobs for some, and hygiene for millions – often for the first time. The story gave one British woman an idea that quickly became …
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UK decision to join Syria bombing is a boost for Barack Obama | UK news | The Guardian
Britain’s decision to join the bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria – confirmed after an all-day debate in parliament on Wednesday is a much-needed boost for Barack Obama, analysts said on Wednesday, and will help to mend fences between t…
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Back in April, at the Nasdaq marketplace in Times Square, a few hundred interested parties gathered for a daylong conference. It was labeled the “Cuba Opportunity Summit: High-Velocity Growth.” Wharton faculty organized the event. CNBC financial rep…
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Nasty Shouting Matches Erupt in Parliament as Britain Votes to Bomb ISIS – The Daily Beast
LONDON — Democratically elected representatives of the British people were tasked Wednesday night with the most difficult choice a politician can face: whether to authorize war.
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Vladimir Putin: Russia’s action man president – BBC News
Vladimir Putin, 59, has dominated Russia this century and is one of the most recognisable figures on the international stage. After a gap of four years, he has been re-elected for a third presidential term of six years, to the delight of allies and …
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Why Kosovo’s opposition MPs are tear-gassing parliament – BBC News
Pristina may host one of the world’s youngest national assemblies – Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence in 2008 – but in recent weeks it has been a global leader in parliamentary dysfunction.
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MH370 search: Australia ‘likely looking in right place’ – BBC News
Australian officials say they are probably searching in the right area for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The plane was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.
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Sundance announces its lineup for drama and documentary films | The Verge
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is a little more than a month away, so the Sundance Institute is right on time in announcing the core contenders for the event.
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A Fantastic Looking Star Wars Art Exhibit Is Set to Open in France
Did you hear? There’s a new Star Wars movie coming out. And one of the ways Lucasfilm and Disney are choosing to spread awareness (along with millions in TV commercials) is officially licensed art exhibits.
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A fat cat and a fat cell : cats
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KNX Newsradio Reporter Describes Scene After San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
Claudia Peschiutta, a reporter with KNX newsradio in Los Angeles, has been talking to people being evacuated from the Inland Regional Center, the site of the mass shooting in San Bernardino Wednesday.
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A moments silence for all Canadian dogs who forgot their favourite toy outside. – GIF on Imgur
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Police In Standoff With Suspects After Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
There are reports that one suspect is dead in a police standoff in San Bernardino. The standoff with suspects occurred after a mass shooting at a social services office earlier Wednesday.
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Eurozone stimulus package looms – BBC News
The European Central Bank is expected to announce further stimulus measures to boost growth in the eurozone’s economy later on Thursday. At its policy meeting, the ECB has the option of stepping up “quantitative easing”, buying financial assets with…
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New Nina Simone Animation Features Interview Never Aired in the U.S. Before | Open Culture
Blank on Blank has worked their magic again, this time animating a 1968 interview with the singer-songwriter and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. As always, Blank on Blank’s visual work is a treat. But what stands out for me here is the audio rec…
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View from Damascus as UK plans air strikes – BBC News
British MPs have voted to authorise UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria. The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has dismissed the significance of Western air strikes against IS targets.
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PSA: Keep Pets Away from Christmas Tree Water
If your pets tend to drink from places other than their water bowl, then you need to do a little extra work when setting up your Christmas tree. Chemicals from the fertilizers used on the tree can transfer to the water in the stand, and you don’t wa…
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Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison | Ars Technica
In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploded and began spewing oil into the US Gulf Coast. In all, this released some 134 million gallons of crude over a span of almost three months. Eleven workers were killed in the nation’s worst offshore oil spi…
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Here’s the full trailer for FX’s American Crime Story · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
FX has shown off a handful of teasers for American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson before now, but they were mostly dedicated to setting the show’s mood or referencing iconic imagery from O.J. Simpson’s murder trial or car chase.
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“A New Hint in the Decade-Long Quest to Explain Mysterious Radio Pulses from Deep Space”
“Hidden within an incredibly massive dataset, we found a very peculiar signal that matched all the known characterizes of a Fast Radio Burst, but with a tantalizing extra element that we simply have never seen before,” said Jeffrey Peterson, a facul…
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Syria vote: Moment MPs backed air strikes – BBC News
MPs have backed the government’s motion to carry out air strikes in Syria. They voted by 397 to 223 to authorise UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria.
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smaller than my water bottle : cats
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Squirrel and its newborn : aww
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Look At This Absurd Lebron James Bounce Pass – Digg
48 diggs vine.co Sports With all the hoopla surrounding Steph Curry and Golden State, here’s a not-so-gentle reminder that Lebron James is still crazy good at basketball.
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Police Pursue Suspects In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
Police in San Bernardino have cornered a vehicle, and there are reports of a shoot out with suspects. Law enforcement say 17 people were wounded in the shooting at a social services center.
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US mass shootings becoming more frequent – and more deadly | US news | The Guardian
The shooting in San Bernardino with 14 victims has added to the growing number of mass shootings in America. The San Bernardino sheriff’s department confirmed 14 people are dead in Wednesday’s shooting.
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Meet Anti-islamic Organizer Jon Ritzheimer | Al Jazeera America
PHOENIX – Jon Ritzheimer is no stranger to anti-Islam controversy. As an ex-Marine who says he served two tours in Iraq, Ritzheimer has embraced his role as a “crusader” against the dangers that he says Islam poses to the American way of life.
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A Lot of People Are Telling Congress to Repeal Its Gag Order on Gun Violence Research | Mother Jones
Even before today’s tragic shooting in San Bernardino, pressure was building in Washington to overturn an NRA-backed amendment that has barred federal research on gun violence for nearly 20 years.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel has shown us a few things about himself by asking for Garry McCarthy’s resignation. First, that he is not invincible to public pressure.
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The splashiest exhibit at Art Basel Miami … is about climate change | Grist
Picture this: A woman stands in a 3,500-gallon Plexiglas tank as it slowly fills with water. Or not so slowly — 12 tons of water are pumped into the tank over the course of a minute.
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San Bernardino police chief: shooters came armed with ‘long guns’ – video | US news | The Guardian
San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan says the shooters that opened fire on a social service agency in southern California on Wednesday came prepared and were armed with ‘long guns’.
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Britain Votes to Join Airstrikes Against ISIL | Al Jazeera America
British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, after Prime Minister David Cameron asserted that bombing the “medieval monste…
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Bernie Sanders uses signatures, not money, to get on Texas ballot. No other presidential candidate has gathered petitions to meet the state’s signature quota! Texas law says that major party candidates can get on the primary election ballot with sig…
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And yet nothing will change. I’m getting sick of this being relevant.
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I’ve done an AMA before in the history subreddit and I had a blast. It was great to be asked back to talk about politics (or whatever I guess, right?). Thanks for having me. For those who don’t know, I do a couple of podcasts…one focusing on the p…
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Prayer vs. Gun Control After a Mass Shooting in San Bernardino, California – The Atlantic
Directly after a mass shooting, in the minutes or hours or days between the first trickle of news and when police find a suspect or make arrests, it is very difficult to know what to do. Some people demand political action, like greater gun control;…
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Signal’s encrypted messaging app comes to the desktop | The Verge
After making its encrypted chat and call app available on both iOS and Android, Open Whisper Systems is bringing Signal to desktops.
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Cows are gassy beasts. And this gas is bad for the planet. Last year, my colleague Josh Harkinson detailed just how dangerous this gas has become in our atmosphere:
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Marisa Berenson is Sublime … Still! | Vanity Fair
Recently, I had the pleasure of finally meeting one of my idols, Marisa Berenson, the ultimate beauty—a model and actress of the 70s who was a muse to countless photographers and fashion designers. Now 68, she still looks as magnificent as ever. Ber…
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Movie of the Week: “The Trial” – The New Yorker
Orson Welles’s 1962 film “The Trial” (which I discuss in this clip), an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel, is his most political film as well as his most visually extravagant work. It was Welles’s cinematic response to McCarthyism, to the persecutio…
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Suspects Remain At Large After Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
San Bernardino’s police chief said based on the information they have now, the shooters appeared to be “on a mission.” The attack left at least 14 dead and 14 wounded.
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Winner: Audience Award for Narrative Short, New Orleans Film Festival Official Selection: 2015 Sundance Film Festival SXSW BAM Cinemafest Maryland Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival Out fest Frameline Newfest And more Featuring Rebecca Henderson (A…
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San Bernardino and the Abomination of Gun Violence – The Atlantic
Three years ago, after that week’s American gun massacre (the one at a movie theater in Colorado), I wrote about our horrific shared understanding that these killings will go on. Similar things happen in other countries, but nowhere else do they kee…
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Obama’s Resigned Anger After San Bernardino – The Atlantic
A presidential statement on a mass shooting might have once seemed like a major moment. Now, it’s just another rote step in a numb ritual of response to mass shootings.
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Open a Claw Padlock Using the “Rapping” Method, No Lock Picking Required
If you’ve lost the key to one of your old padlocks, and you don’t have any way to cut it, you can get it open with just about any weighted object. In this video, youtuber bosnianbill demonstrates the “rapping” technique for opening up padlocks that …
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Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic : Image of the Day
On November 5, 2015, a tailings pond dam failed at an iron mine in southeastern Brazil, sending contaminated water sediment through the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and into tributaries of the Rio Doce (Sweet River).
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Relatives describe hearing from loved ones from inside a social services facility in San Bernardino, California, where police were responding to an active shooting situation on Wednesday afternoon.
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In This Week’s Manhattan, the Most Crucial Bomb Is the One That Doesn’t Go Off
The scheming and manipulation on the Hill intensify, just as the end of the war seems to be in sight, on this week’s episode of Manhattan. Various parties are seeking to insure their future prosperity once they return to civilian life, leading to a …
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Sundance 2016: Obamas’ First Date, Nick Jonas Frat Film Lead Fest | Rolling Stone
A revisionist take on the most notoriously racist movie ever made, a romantic biopic about Barack Obama’s first date with his future First Lady, and two separate stories about the on-air suicide of a local news reporter in 1974 Florida highlight the…
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The Big Problem with the Push for More Troops in Iraq | Vanity Fair
With the Islamic State expanding its terrorist campaign to Beirut and Paris, an eager chorus of Western hawks is pushing for ratcheting up the fight in what ISIS calls its “caliphate,” in Iraq and Syria. In the U.K.
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Republicans offer thoughts and prayers instead of voting to keep guns away from suspected terrorists
We’re hearing an awful lot about thoughts and prayers from Republicans Wednesday afternoon in reaction to yet another mass shooting of American citizens by people who should not be able to get their hands on guns. Enough of that. Enough of empty rhe…
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Fewer Patients Have Been Dying From Hospital Errors Since Obamacare Started: Report says about 87,000 lives have been saved since 2010 (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…[–]GhostalMedia [score hidden] 1 hour ago(0 children)Thanks…
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‘Invisible Thread’ Is More Than A Musical About Uganda : NPR
Ten years ago, Griffin Matthews was singing in a church choir when his pastor found out he was gay and kicked him out. Feeling depressed, he booked a ticket to Uganda for mission work.
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Rap Song About Violence In Mexico Strikes Chord With Listeners : NPR
A previously unknown musician has produced a new rap song about violence in Mexico that has struck a chord with listeners.
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Obama Reacts To Mass Shooting In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
When asked about the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., President Obama said there is a pattern of mass shootings in the U.S. that has “no parallel anywhere else in the world.”
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BrightFunnel Raises $6M To Connect Marketing And Revenue | TechCrunch
BrightFunnel announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The startup offers attribution tools to track the sales impact of customers’ marketing efforts, and it also predicts the future impact of upcoming campaigns.
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The First-Ever Disrupt Event App Is Here, Just In Time For London | TechCrunch
Here at TechCrunch, we want to make Disrupt the best possible experience for our attendees. This includes finding new ways to help attendees discover and stay connected to new people and making it easier for everyone to stay informed.
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UK votes to start bombing Syria / Boing Boing
Within hours or days, the UK plans to begin bombing Syria. After an extensive debate, UK lawmakers have voted 397-223 to join the international military campaign against the Islamic State.
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Advice For Higher-Yielding Agriculture Startups | TechCrunch
With interest and investment in food and agriculture startups reaching record levels, new entrepreneurs are entering this important sector, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives on how best to feed the world.
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Turkey’s Erdogan says Russia IS oil trade claims are ‘slander’ – BBC News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed Russian claims he is benefiting from the oil trade with the Islamic State group as “slander”. Russia has said Turkey is the biggest buyer of oil smuggled from IS-held territory, accusing Mr Erdoga…
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Media Immediately Speculates That San Bernardino Shooting Might Be Linked To ISIS | ThinkProgress
Law enforcement is currently searching for three white males who could be responsible for gunning down 20 people at a disability center in San Bernardino, California, killing at least 14.
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Private Cygnus Spacecraft Launch Thursday May Be Visible from US East Coast
On Dec. 2, 2015, the Atlas V rocket carrying the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft was rolled out to the launch pad, in preparation to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
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Chicago, see Ron Howard’s In The Heart Of The Sea early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
If you’re going to be stranded at sea, you could do far worse than being stranded with Thor.
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Rap Song About Violence In Mexico Elevates Musician’s Rise To Stardom : NPR
A previously unknown musician has produced a new rap song about violence in Mexico that has struck a chord with listeners.
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Answering The Tough Question Of Who Polices The Police : NPR
When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his police superintendent Tuesday, he acknowledged the problem that’s been dogging law enforcement since the days of the first beat cops: How do we ensure that we are effectively policing the police?
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Police Describe ‘Fluid’ Situation At Site Of San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
Police say at least 14 are dead and as many as 14 are injured after a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. There are no suspects in custody, and police describe the situation as fluid.
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Politicians Respond to the San Bernardino Shooting – The Atlantic
As details emerge about the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, American officials, politicians, and presidential candidates weighed in. The tenor of the responses fell largely along partisan lines.
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Why are fossil fuel companies sponsoring the Paris climate talks? | Grist
Activists are fighting to block fossil fuel export terminals — a critical new front in the climate battle.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Reveals The Early Concept Art of His Black Panther Comic
Today is apparently a day large enough to contain not one, but two different reveals for T’Challa, the Black Panther.
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Tagged / if(we) Founder Greg Tseng Tags Out After 11 Years As CEO | TechCrunch
Greg Tseng is stepping down from the CEO role of if(we) after 11 years running its dating social networks Tagged and hi5. He’ll remain board member. In regards to why the change, Tseng tells me “I initiated it and it’s happening the way I want.
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Hawaiian Carissa Moore has been crowned world surfing champion for a third time. Moore clinched the title at the Maui Pro after fellow contender Courtney Conlogue was knocked out in the fourth round.
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Android co-founder Andy Rubin may want to start a new smartphone company | The Verge
Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android before it became a central part of Google, is eyeing a return to the smartphone market. Instead of making smartphone software, however, Rubin is reportedly interested in developing an Android handset, according …
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UK MPs approve air strikes against ISIL in Syria – Al Jazeera English
The British parliament has approved authorisation to use military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, despite sharp objections and a warning of an “ill thought-out rush to war” from the opposition Labour Par…
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The world’s richest 10 percent are responsible for half of carbon emissions | Grist
This week started out pretty good for rich people.
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Syria air strikes: MPs authorise UK action against Islamic State – BBC News
MPs have voted by 397 to 223 to authorise UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron argued in a Commons debate that action against the “medieval monsters” of IS was legal and would “keep our country safe”.
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Entertain Your Cat for Hours With a DIY Automated Cat Toy
If you haven’t had enough time to play with your cat lately, an automated cat toy is a great way to get them moving and keep them entertained. This DIY version is easy to assemble and code.
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‘The Mindy Project’ Is Doing Something Television’s Never Done Before – The Atlantic
In every relationship there will come a time, sooner but much more probably later, when Things Get Real. When the small stuff of new romance—the daily discoveries, the pet names, the in-jokes—gives way to bigger questions.
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Elon Musk, the renowned innovator, believes the widespread introduction of a carbon price could halve the time it takes the world to transition to clean energy and make a huge difference to the impact of climate change.
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In 2015, the longest America has gone without a mass shooting happening somewhere was eight days. The country has gone three or more days without a mass shooting just 14 times so far this year, according to ThinkProgress analysis of the data collect…
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Ennio Morricone’s score for The Hateful Eight will be released on vinyl · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is released on December 18, it will be somewhat of a momentous occasion.
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Duped immune cells may be biggest barrier to universal flu shot | Ars Technica
Ditching annual flu shots for a single stick that can protect year after year may be even harder to do than scientists thought—thanks to our own bamboozled immune systems. Influenza viruses are infamous masters of mutation, changing themselves ever …
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2016 presidential candidates react to San Bernardino mass shooting
Donald Trump: California shooting looks very bad. Good luck to law enforcement and God bless. This is when our police are so appreciated! Ben Carson: My thoughts and prayers are with the shooting victims and their families in San Bernardino.
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Paramount’s Adaptation of The Stars My Destination Finally Gets a Writer
We first heard that Alfred Bester’s intense The Stars My Destination was being made into a movie back in March. And it looks like Paramount and Disruption Entertainment are full-steam ahead, finally figuring out who has the chops to adapt this sucke…
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Before even viewing the above trailer of , Ryan Murphy’s FX interpretation of the O.J. Simpson murder case, do yourself a favor and mark down February 2 on your calendar.
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McConnell Blocks Health Care for 9/11 First Responders : politics
The GOP votes against Veteran Benefits, Social Safety Net Programs, First Responders and then points to the US not taking care of them as a reason why we can’t help other needy people. Its a joke. Fuck this guy.
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World’s Diet is Getting Sweeter Sugary Drinks Rise | Al Jazeera America
The global diet is getting sweeter, with developing countries following the trend in wealthier nations like the United States in their taste for added sugar, particularly when it comes to the rising consumption of soft drinks.
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Iridium Flare: Iridium 7, 51 and an unknown satellite [4288×2848] https://t.co/MOasjHkgeb https://t.co/tFSzvTyNaq
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Erdogan wants his precious : pics
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Facebook Founder’s Philanthropic Aspirations Highlighted In Announcement : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Dale Russakoff, author of the book, The Prize, about what lessons Zuckerberg learned from his $100 million donation to fix Newark, N.J., schools.
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Police Report At Least 14 Dead In San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
Law enforcement officials confirm at least 14 people were killed in a shooting at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif. NPR has the latest on the unfolding situation.
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Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Center Honors First U.S. Soldier : NPR
Israel’s holocaust memorial and research center honors a U.S. soldier for the first time for his role in protecting Jewish prisoners of war in a German camp in World War II.
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British Parliament Debates Approving Airstrikes Against ISIS In Syria : NPR
The British Parliament debated Wednesday whether to give the government permission to carry out airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria.
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NFL door reopens for Jarryd Hayne after 49ers’ punt returner is put on notice | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne might have his punt return job back soon. San Francisco 49ers’ special teams co-ordinator Thomas McGaughey said the man who took over after Hayne was cut, Bruce Ellington, has been put on notice he is at risk of being fired.
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Inland Regional Center: shooting target is community for disabled people | US news | The Guardian
The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where law enforcement officials on Wednesday responded to a shooting with a count of up to 14 fatalities, is a state-operated facility for developmentally disabled people.
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Yesterday, the EFF announced the launch of a campaign called ‘Spying on Students’ to raise awareness about privacy risks for technology used at schools.
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One of the big questions going into Captain America: Civil War (other than just how badly Cap will kick Iron Man’s ass) is what the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s take on Black Panther will look like.
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BBC Sport – Southampton 1-6 Liverpool
Southampton are missing captain Jose Fonte after he injured his knee against Manchester City on Saturday. His replacement in that match, Steven Caulker, is set to deputise, while Saints manager Ronald Koeman has no other injury concerns.
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BBC Sport – League Cup semi-final draw: Manchester City to play Everton
Manchester City will play Everton in the League Cup semi-finals, while Liverpool will play Stoke. The first of the two-legged ties will be played over 5 and 6 January.
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At least three opened fire at a facility for individuals with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino this afternoon, killing 14 people and injuring 14 others. Police have shut down local government buildings and are searching for the perpetrat…
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Janet Yellen’s Confidence in the U.S. Economy – The Atlantic
It’s two weeks before the Federal Reserve’s December meeting, at which interest rates have a good chance of being raised for the first time in nearly a decade.
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After the San Bernardino Shooting, Three Approaches to Gun Violence – The New Yorker
A short while ago, news came of yet another mass shooting—this one in San Bernardino, California, at an office complex called the Inland Regional Center.
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This Is The Beginning Of The End Of The Fossil Fuel Industry : environment
This Is The Beginning Of The End Of The Fossil Fuel Industry (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 6 hours ago by loading…[–]Caligrown710 0 points1 point2 points 35 minutes ago(0 children)yeahhhh this is not true.
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Twitter is trying to solve the Apple TV login problem | The Verge
Digits — Twitter’s password replacement tool — now works with Apple’s tvOS operating system, and it could help solve one of the biggest problems with the Apple TV: the arduous process of logging into apps.
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U.S. To Send 100 More Troops To Iraq In Fight Against Islamic State : Parallels : NPR
The Pentagon says it will increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq by 100, in an effort to create a special operations targeting force that will seek out and kill ISIS leaders, rescue hostages and gather intelligence.
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How Obama Hopes To Achieve U.S. Climate Goals : NPR
For more than 20 years, world leaders have been trying to craft a solution to global warming, without a lot of success. During that time, the U.S. government has been like the big-ticket movie star who’s been offered the lead role, but won’t commit.
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Photojournalist Pays It Forward After Earning Thousands In Copyright Fees : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to photojournalist Yunghi Kim who has taken copyright fees from her photographs and created small grants for other photographers.
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Massive natural gas leak in Southern California may take months to plug | Ars Technica
Outside of a San Fernando Valley neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles, Southern California Gas Company sprung a leak in one of its natural gas wells on October 23.
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Seven Strategies for Regaining Your Focus in a Hectic Workplace
We talk a lot about time management, but for all our efforts to set aside time to tackle important projects, we miss overlooking one key thing: being able to focus on actually completing them instead of constantly switching tasks. This post original…
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New Kepler Mission Cranking Out Exoplanet Finds
Artist’s impression of WD 1145+017 (white dwarf star, at left) and a planet shedding nearby (center). This is one planetary find by the K2 mission.Credit: Mark A. Garlick/markgarlick.
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Climate Change Impacting Migration Patterns | Al Jazeera America
Climate change is already contributing to an increase in migration around the world, a report released Wednesday shows, as events ranging from rising seas to droughts make parts of places like coastal Bangladesh and Pacific Island nations uninhabita…
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Making of Mork and Mindy
For one year, Mork and Mindy was arguably the most successful science fiction TV show ever made. The comedy about an alien and his human best friend turned Robin Williams into a global sensation.
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Dog is a little confused while riding down escalator. – GIF on Imgur
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When I try to get fit, but reality hits hard. – GIF on Imgur
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Donald Trump is owning the media | The Verge
Donald Trump wants to share “facts” about 9/11 the media isn’t ready to acknowledge, so today he printed some articles from the web and shared them on Periscope. Normally we might think that printing out websites and streaming them on a smartphone i…
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Elizabeth Taylor Reportedly Ran an AIDS Pharmaceuticals Ring from Her Bel Air Mansion | Vanity Fair
In the early 1980s, AIDS was literally a laughing matter for the Reagan administration, as evidenced by chilling audio of White House press conferences unearthed in the new short film When AIDS Was Funny.
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Drop Dead Laughing at This Gloriously Gory Short Horror Comedy
In horror-comedy short Invaders, a pair of bickering robbers (played by Jordan Woods-Robinson and Ricky Wayne of The Walking Dead) cycle through a series of disguises before deciding to barge a stately home wielding axes and wearing Pilgrim masks. B…
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Don’t Panic! Your Instagram (Probably) Wasn’t Just Hacked | TechCrunch
About two hours ago, I got a flurry of text messages from my family. You too?
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Just In Time For Post-Thanksgiving Regret, Here’s a $195 Exercise Bike
Still need to work off Thanksgiving dinner? This 4.4 star rated stationary bike is only $195 today, shipped to your front door. Granted, it’s about as basic as exercise bikes get.
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Waimea Bay at Sunset [OC] [1600×900] : EarthPorn
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Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned ‘On The Road’ : NPR
At 81, Gloria Steinem is still going strong. The noted feminist has been on tour promoting a new book, My Life On The Road, which she insists is not a memoir.
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For Saudi Women, ‘Baby Steps Into This World Of Democracy’ : Parallels : NPR
It’s election season in Saudi Arabia, and for the first time, women can vote and campaign for seats on local municipal councils. More than 900 women have put themselves forward as candidates. The ballot is next week, in a small and limited step towa…
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Search Underway For Suspects In San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting : NPR
Law enforcement officials in San Bernardino, Calif., report there are fatalities — but have not confirmed numbers — in a shooting at a social services center. There are no suspects in custody.
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San Bernardino shooting: Police press conference starting soon
Local police in San Bernardino, California, are about to hold a press conference regarding the mass shooting that took place earlier this afternoon. Multiple victims have been reported dead. We will bring you updates as we learn more. You can find o…
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Ever wonder where Boba Fett’s Slave I ship stands in regards to size compared to other ships? If the answer is no, then you’re just weird and/or lying.
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Impeachment Proceedings Opened In Brazil | Al Jazeera America
Brazilian opposition efforts to unseat President Dilma Rousseff advanced on Wednesday when the speaker of lower house of Congress opened impeachment proceedings against her, a move that threatens to mire the government in political wrangling as the …
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A Day in the Life of a Central Park Carriage Driver – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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San Bernardino shooting: ‘Pray for us. I am locked in an office’ – video | US news | The Guardian
A father describes hearing from his daughter as she hid in an office of a California care center, while at at least one gunman was on the loose near the building.
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Mass Shooting Erupts in San Bernardino at Center for the Disabled | Vanity Fair
Up to 20 people have reportedly been shot at a facility for the disabled in San Bernardino, California, and police are currently on the hunt for three shooters who fired upon the facility, fled in a black S.U.V., and left a suspicious device on the …
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Preparing for Failure in Paris | New Republic
PARIS, France—A group of radicals gathered on the periphery of the Paris climate talks Wednesday to issue a manifesto. “A transformation of the world’s entire economic system is essential,” their missive began in typically grandiose fashion. “Our ec…
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Aziz Ansari and the Cat Museum, today on Daily VICE’s @Go90!|Dangerous Minds
Adele, Taylor Swift and Rihanna may rule the roost in the music world, but where is their equivalent in the boy’s club of the art world? And we all know that cats power the Internet, here’s the scoop (geddit?) on The Cat Museum!
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Aerial footage of California shooting scene – BBC News
Police have attended a shooting at a social services facility for disabled people in California. Fire officials in San Bernardino said they were responding to a “20 victim shooting incident” and they were working to clear the scene.
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Rahm Emanuel refuses to resign despite pressure over Laquan McDonald case | US news | The Guardian
Pressure continues to mount on Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel over the handling of the case of a black teenager shot 16 times by the city’s police, one day after the mayor fired police superintendent Gary McCarthy.
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Airbnb Says It Offers An ‘Economic Lifeline’ For Struggling Americans. Not So Fast. | ThinkProgress
In an effort to be more transparent, Airbnb made good on its promise last month to publish data on its hosts and lodging rental listings.
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Keep Your Stand Mixer from Making a Mess With a Kitchen Towel
Stand mixers are terrific appliances to have in your kitchen. Depending on what you’re mixing, though, they have the potential to make a serious mess. A simple trick with a kitchen towel can save you a lot of cleaning.
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Even among right-wing radio hosts, Alex Jones is a standout. Where Rush Limbaugh offers a torrent of conservative views that largely align with Republican policy preferences, Jones labels 9/11 an “inside job.
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Your Complete Guide to the Comic Book Heroes in Legends of Tomorrow
Legends of Tomorrow is hitting in a big way—we saw the awesome trailer last week, and the current Arrow /Flash crossover is setting up this spin-off to those two shows. While some of the characters have appeared on TV already, some of the Legends ar…
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Donald Trump and Alex Jones meet to praise each other, exchange chemtrail recipes
To all those who said it couldn’t be done: It could be done. Donald Trump out-dumbed himself. He dug himself a brand new six-foot hole of What The Hell, then jumped down and slathered himself in a buttery rich sauce of You’re Just Trolling Us Now, A…
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Dave Chappelle is very serious about no cell phones at his shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even after they became movie stars, the Marx Brothers would tour the vaudeville circuit, testing out new material and refining it before a live audience before immortalizing it on film.
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Taliban denies leader was injured in a gunfight – Al Jazeera English
Members of the Afghan Taliban dismissed claims that their leader was injured in a gunfight during a gathering of several Taliban figures in Pakistan as “propaganda” aimed at dividing the group.
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There was a mass shooting on Wednesday afternoon in San Bernardino, California at Inland Regional Services, a center for people with developmental disabilities. Details are still sparse hours after the attack, with at least one suspect still at-larg…
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Is this poll conducted every day? For the sake of reddit, and specifically /r/politics, yes. Every fucking day
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San Bernardino shooting: Trapped daughter texts her father – BBC News
Fire officials have said they are responding to a “20 victim shooting incident”.
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Hillary Clinton Volunteer Shares Her Path To The Campaign : NPR
Why would would someone quit a solid well-paying job with benefits to volunteer for free for a presidential campaign? As part of our ongoing series Snapshots 2016, NPR catches up with a volunteer who did just that to find out why.
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As Trump Solidifies Lead, GOP Establishment Struggles To Redefine Message : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Mark McKinnon, former President George W. Bush’s chief media strategist and co-founder of No Labels, about the Republicans’ need for a coherent party message.
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Opening Statements Begin In Trial Of Police Officer Charged In Freddie Gray Case : NPR
A jury of eight women and four men were seated Wednesday in the first trial for one of six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore last April.
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IAEA Report Reveals Iran Once Had Nuclear Weapons Program : NPR
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran concludes that it once had a nuclear weapons program. NPR explores the implications of the findings for the current nuclear deal with Iran.
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Police Respond To Reports Of Active Shooter In San Bernardino, Calif. : NPR
Law enforcement in San Bernardino, Calif., is responding to reports of an active shooter at a social services center. Local police have described multiple victims on Twitter.
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It’s 11 at night in a busy commercial section of Chennai, a city of nearly 5 million in Southern India. All around me people are sleeping in the open air. Men are curled up in the back of rickshaw wagons. Entire families camp out in shelters made of…
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The Presidential Candidates Are Responding To The San Bernardino Shooting | ThinkProgress
Both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have responded to the mass shooting Wednesday at a San Bernardino, California center that serves people with developmental disabilities.
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Volvo S90 revealed: Sweden declares automotive war on the Germans | The Verge
Volvo is looking to revamp its entire lineup by 2019. First was the XC90 SUV, released earlier this year. It’s drawing high praise and helped Volvo almost double its US sales from last November to this November. Next up on the redesign list is the S…
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Illinois inmates increasingly sued by state to recoup incarceration costs | US news | The Guardian
A growing number of former prison inmates in Illinois are being sued by the state to force them to pay a lump sum towards the cost of their incarceration, sometimes seeking many tens of thousands of dollars.
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When the Focus on ‘Grit’ in the Classroom Overlooks Student Trauma – The Atlantic
The first time I heard a preschooler explaining a classmate’s disruptive behavior, I was surprised at how adult her 4-year-old voice sounded. Her classmate “doesn’t know how to sit still and listen,” she said to me, while I sat at the snack table wi…
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Doctors groups join Democrats to end ban on gun violence research funding | US news | The Guardian
Doctors’ groups joined Democrats on Wednesday in calling on the US Congress to lift the ban on the use of federal funds for gun violence research.
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Greg Hunt says Australia is acting as a “broker” between competing country blocs on one of the most contentious issues in the Paris climate talks but has also clarified remarks that had the potential to damage the delicate negotiations.
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Is sugar killing us? – Al Jazeera English
People around the world are eating more and more sugar and sweetners. Health experts warn they’re contributing to a growing health crisis and suffering from heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
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The 2016 Pirelli Calendar Breaks Tradition and Stereotypes | Vanity Fair
The Pirelli Calendar—an annual limited edition “art item” released by the Italian tire company—looks a little different this year. Usually filled with photographs of nude or barely clothed models, this year’s edition, shot by V.F.
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Fox to play with people’s minds in hypnotism-based game show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Game show contestants have historically come up against mostly physical obstacles, like supermarket aisles and Aggro Crags, in their pursuit of easy, taxed-at-a-later-date money.
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Just saw a ghost, loaf. : Catloaf
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58 commonly misused words and phrases
From Steven Pinker’s book, The Sense of Style, here are some of the most common words and phrases that trip people up. Bemused means bewildered and does not mean amused.
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Radio Shack starts “wild ‘n out,” hires actor/rapper Nick Cannon as CCO | Ars Technica
If you’ve seen actor, rapper, America’s Got Talent host, and TeenNick chairman Nick Cannon in the news lately, you might have assumed it was due to his performance in an upcoming Spike Lee joint about violence in Chicago’s south side.
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Box, an enterprise collaboration and file management shop, reported its fiscal third quarter financial results today. The company lost $0.31 per share, using adjusted metrics, on revenue of $78.7 million. Analysts had expected a $0.31 per-share loss…
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Rousseff impeachment proceeding open – 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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Six State Leaders Argue Transgender Students Deserve No Accommodations In Schools | ThinkProgress
Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen in Virginia, is continuing his fight to simply access the boys’ bathroom at Gloucester High School along with his male classmates.
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In Paris, All Eyes Turn to the Climate Negotiators | New Republic
The Paris talks are falling behind schedule already, and it’s only day three. Negotiators have a lot to do in very little time: They need to cut down a text of over 50 pages and resolve every minor and major word choice by December 11.
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Set Up a Raspberry Pi Zero in “Headless Mode” When You Don’t Have Access to a Monitor
Setting up a normal sized Raspberry Pi in headless mode (where you don’t need a monitor or keyboard attached) is super easy because you have access to an ethernet port. The Raspberry Pi Zero doesn’t have an ethernet port, so you’ll have to take a di…
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Still looking for Trump’s THOUSANDS of 9-11 cheering Jersey Muslims, but his racism easy to find
Hey look, if I’m wrong about something, I want to apologize. O’REILLY (HOST): Are you aware that the liberal media and the Democratic Party in general are trying to paint you as a racist? Are you aware of that?
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wouldn’t just replicate Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall down the entire length of the southern border of the United States. He’d hire Trump to handle the project personally.
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Why Can’t Scientists Research Gun Violence To Come Up With Ideas For Preventing It? | ThinkProgress
Mass shootings, gang violence, domestic abuse, suicide, accidents — gun violence in the United States comes in many forms. And often. In the past week, the country has seen already two mass shootings. Every day, 89 people die because of gun-related …
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$350 Oculus Rift dev kits going for as much as $1,200 on eBay | Ars Technica
From the minute you buy most gadgets, you can expect their market value to go down as time and technology quickly make them obsolete. That hasn’t been the case with Oculus’ second Rift development kit (DK2).
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San Bernardino shooting: police secure scene and treat wounded – video | US news | The Guardian
At least one person opened fire at or near a state social services agency in the southern California city of San Bernardino on Wednesday and as many as 20 people were wounded, authorities said.
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Say “I Do” to this supercut of weddings from films · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to witness a very special union between films and the internet, joining together clips in one supercut that shows many different wedding scenes from a plethora of movies.
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One of the world’s greatest innovators, Elon Musk, says the key to tackling climate change and driving clean energy innovation is a carbon price very similar to the one Australia abolished.
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Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Black Panther In Captain America: Civil War
Next May, we’re getting more than just an epic showdown between Captain America and Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War. We’re being introduced to a key new character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther, and there’s some new info out …
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a brain disease that is most commonly associated with professional athletes, particularly NFL players. But new research performed on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus suggests that amateur athletes are at risk of…
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LA shooting: Police ‘working to secure scene’ – BBC News
Police are attending a shooting at a social services facility for disabled people in California. Fire officials in San Bernardino said they were responding to a “20 victim shooting incident”.
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Castro’s Cuba Revisited | New Republic
Five months is a long time in the life of a revolution. On my return to Cuba for 10 days over New Year’s, I could see that great changes had taken place since last summer.
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Death by Flaming Water Ski, and Other Misfortunes – The New Yorker
On a foggy Saturday morning in September, 1972, Hans Kretschmer went surfing off Big Sur. About a hundred feet out, something bumped him. He thought that it might be one of his friends, or a seal, but when he looked over his shoulder he saw a huge h…
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Escape from “Riverdance” – The New Yorker
As the Irish step-dancing phenom Michael Flatley bids farewell to the stage in one final show, dancing amid “white stallions, great belches of flame, and what look to be projections of H-bomb tests” (in the words of Joan Acocella), a much quieter, m…
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Food Growing on Roadsides Can Be Safe to Eat
Cities have plenty of forageable food available, from plants that grow as weeds to fruit trees and bushes that were either abandoned, or were planted just for looks. But is this food too polluted to eat? Probably not, according to two teams of scien…
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Is sugar killing us? – Al Jazeera English
People around the world are eating more and more sugar and sweetners. Health experts warn they’re contributing to a growing health crisis and suffering from heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
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Vigilante Sheriff Violated First Amendment in Attacking Sex Ads Site Backpage | Motherboard
On June 29, 2015, Tom Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, which contains the city of Chicago, sent an open letter to Visa, Mastercard, and other payment processors.
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Doubts for 2016 US Grand Prix as race is listed as ‘subject to agreement’ | Sport | The Guardian
The future of the struggling US Grand Prix was thrown into further doubt on Wednesday when the 2016 Formula One calendar listed the race as “subject to agreement” with the promoter.
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Over the years, TV shows have experimented with multi-camera and single-camera setups that offer different perspectives on whatever is happening. A new Fox show is going to just cut out the middleman, though, and strap a camera directly to one of it…
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9-Year-Old Reporter Talks Mars Trips with NASA Chief (Video)
A 9-year-old aspiring reporter saw his big dream come true recently when he interviewed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
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The Real-Life Indiana Jones | FiveThirtyEight
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Midday open thread: Gun background checks hit record on Black Sunday; Sandy Berger dead at 70
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Ah, election season! Donald Trump lands prestigious spot on MAD magazine’s annual “dumbest” feature.
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The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock – The New Yorker
In the new documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” opening today at Film Forum—about the immediate impact and enduring influence of François Truffaut’s 1966 book of the same title, a collection of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock—the director Kent Jones h…
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PARIS — For reasons that may never be known, maybe just by chance, the Nov. 13 assaults here, which killed 130 people, skipped over the shops, outdoor cafes and theaters along Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud.
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Emergency crews responded Wednesday to reports of a 20-victim shooting incident in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, the city’s fire department reported.
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Big Data Still Requires Humans To Make Meaningful Connections | TechCrunch
Big data is a big deal, make no mistake about it, but it’s probably not as big a deal as it’s going to be eventually when we really figure out how to make good use of it.
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Here’s why Monsanto and Big Food are finally speaking up about climate change | Grist
Activists are fighting to block fossil fuel export terminals — a critical new front in the climate battle.
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Wunderlist for iPhone Improves Its Interface, Adds in Support for iPhone 6s Features
The first thing you’ll notice after updating is a refined interface. The home view now shows you more lists by reducing the profile picture in the top. When you tap on a list, you can easily see the details.
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iZombie Shares the Unexpected Benefits of Stalking
I’m not saying being a stalker or a crazy jealous girlfriend is a good thing in real life, but, story-wise, it’s good for Liv to be a bit suspicious of Major as last night’s iZombie episode “The Hurt Stalker” proved.
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Taylor Swift Is Flying 125 People to Australia for Vacation | Vanity Fair
As if there were any doubt that Taylor Swift is the next Oprah Winfrey—as the media empress seemed to suggest earlier this week—Swift announced on Wednesday that she will be taking more than a hundred friends on a vacation down under.
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Conceptualizing The Black Panther – The Atlantic
Black Panther concept art
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Town that has no cell phone service loses its primary Internet provider | Ars Technica
In Stewart, British Columbia, there is no cell phone service, and aside from satellite, the town had just one option for anything resembling modern Internet access.
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City Will No Longer Jail People Who Are Too Poor To Pay Their Fines | ThinkProgress
Alexandra Underwood won’t have to worry about being thrown in jail just because she doesn’t have money.
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Exclusive: Dean Martin Will Return to Vegas, In Hologram Form | Vanity Fair
Next year, entertainment audiences will be transported back to the Rat Pack era thanks to an upcoming Dean Martin hologram, which will debut in Las Vegas with a full stage show, VF.com can exclusively report.
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Donald Trump to Prominent Conspiracy Theorist: “Your Reputation Is Ama | Vanity Fair
The presidential election of 2016 has come to this, everyone: on Wednesday, Donald Trump, actual presidential front-runner, did a free-ranging interview with Alex Jones, a radio host and conspiracy theorist who believes that the moon landing was fak…
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Songza Is Shutting Down, But Its Best Features are Already in Google Play Music | Motherboard
Over a year and a half after being acquired by Google, music streaming service Songza is shutting down on January 31. Starting today, Songza users will be greeted with a prompt encouraging them to transition to Google Play Music.
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ISIL Video Allegedly Shows Killing of Russian Spy | Al Jazeera America
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a man the armed group alleges was a Russian spy that its fighters captured last year, the SITE monitoring group reported.
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When that heated blanket turns on : cats
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The difference 18 years makes : pics
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Bill Murray has been a public figure for about four decades now, first reaching millions of American living rooms through his appearances on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s before branching out into movies in the 1980s with films such as Caddy…
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Princesses, Slaves, and Explosives: The Scandalous Origin of Vaccines
The history of inoculation may sound a little dry, but it’s really an epic tale of human trafficking, semi-illicit experimentation, and high explosives. It’s a globe-hopping story that stars harem girls, noblewomen, prisoners, princesses, slaves, an…
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San Bernardino shooting: reports of as many as 20 wounded – live coverage | US news | The Guardian
Police are responding to an “active shooter” in San Bernardino, California, reporting “one to three possible suspects” and “multiple victims”.
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Songza Folded Into Google Play Music, Will Shut Down January 31st | TechCrunch
Google acquired music startup Songza in June of 2014, and the team has been working on folding all of its features into Google Play. That work will now become evident in the service, while Songza will be shut down on January 31st, 2016.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Box Set Is a Thing of Pure Beauty
A sane person would say the best part of Marvel completing a series of movies is getting to see those movies. That person would be half right. The other great part is they get to release a big Blu-ray box set collecting all types of information abou…
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In German-speaking Alpine lands, as Americans are increasingly aware, St.
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Philip Larkin’s grave left forlorn on 30th anniversary of his death | Letters | Books | The Guardian
As I write, on 2 December, it is the 30th anniversary of Philip Larkin’s death, and a memorial is being unveiled at Westminster Abbey. Hull, its city council and university (where he was librarian) make much of him as preparations are made to celebr…
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Man doubles down on winning lottery ticket – and collects another $10m | US news | The Guardian
A California man had a double stroke of fortune last week when he won $1,000 on a lottery scratcher ticket, then bought another ticket with his prize money and added several more zeros to his winnings.
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Mind-Boggling View! NASA Mission Launches On Up Aerospace Rocket | Video
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UN: Iran worked on developing nuclear weapons – BBC News
Iran took limited steps towards developing a nuclear bomb in the past, the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said. But the report from the IAEA said the efforts did not go beyond planning and testing of basic components.
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According to Lynne Reid Banks (Letters, 30 November), David Almond’s A Song for Ella Grey should not have won the Guardian children’s book prize because “In the first five pages there is lesbian love, swearing, drinking, and enough other indications…
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The first Baltimore officer facing criminal charges for the death of Freddie Gray in the back of a police van is “on trial for what he did, and more important what he didn’t do”, prosecutor Michael Schatzow said in his opening statement Wednesday.
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Who could quibble with the decision by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to celebrate the birth of their daughter by donating almost all of their private fortune – $45bn – to a new philanthropic foundation? Quite a lot of …
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ExxonMobil Accuses Columbia Of Journalistic Misconduct In Light Of Climate Reports | ThinkProgress
Earlier this year, a stream of investigative pieces, released first by the nonprofit website InsideClimate News and later the Los Angeles Times, called into question ExxonMobil’s role in deliberately misleading the public about the dangers of climat…
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A Texas nonprofit is defying an order from the state’s governor to stop assisting Syrian refugees by announcing plans to resettle two families in Dallas who are fleeing the Syrian Civil war.
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Songza will shut down in January, but lives on inside Google Play Music | The Verge
Seventeen months after bring acquired by Google, Songza will today begin notifying users that the end is near. With all of its functionality now baked into Google Play Music, the free, ad-supported music service no longer has much reason to exist an…
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Ricky Gervais can’t understand why everyone thinks he’s a shock comedian · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ricky Gervais recently took a break from Twitter flame wars about atheism in order address the “strange myth” that he leans heavily on antagonism in his act.
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No place for park life in Cameron’s ‘big society’ | Letters | Society | The Guardian
Even if one were to accept David Cameron’s belief that the shrinking of local government could mean the so-called “big society” of voluntary effort would step into the gap, the increasing privatisation or removal from direct council control of local…
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When Clarissa Explains It All premiered back in 1991, the only real way for fans to express their love for the show to the show was to write a letter. No one knew Nickelodeon’s phone number, and Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were all mere glimmer…
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BREAKING: Active Shooter In San Bernadino, 20 Reported Victims | ThinkProgress
Police in San Bernadino, California say they are looking for one to three possible suspects in an active shooting that has so far claimed 20 victims, according to multiple news sources. The shooting reportedly took place at the Inland Regional Cente…
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So Much For Conservative Terror Scare Talk
You might have heard a few things about terror and ISIS and refugees in the last few weeks. There has been a lot of scare talk and propaganda about how refugees are going to swarm in and shoot all of us.
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So Much For Conservative Deficit Scare Talk
Republicans in Congress and the corporate-funded conservative echo chamber (redundant) are temporarily pausing from scaring people with “deficit” propaganda and are instead working on an end-of-the-year backroom deal to give out several hundred bill…
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Serial Entrepreneur Max Levchin On Leaving A Legacy | TechCrunch
Max Levchin is a serial entrepreneur with a long list of credits to his name, including being co-founder of PayPal & Mayfield company Slide (acquired by Google), chairman of Yelp, board member of Yahoo, and is currently involved in two exciting comp…
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Google Will Shut Down Songza App, Songza.com To Fold Into Google Play Music | TechCrunch
The music wars are afoot, Google is consolidating its weaponry. Beginning today, Songza users will be notified that the Songza website and mobile apps are being fully folded into Google Play Music as of January 31, 2016.
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Entrepreneurial Experience Separates Top VCs From Other Investors | TechCrunch
A good VC is hard to find. Researchers studying the sector have noted that most venture capital funds “fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors.
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Report: 20 casualties in California shooting incident – Al Jazeera English
Local US authorities have said they are responding to an incident involving an “active” shooter in southern California – with 20 victims reported at the scene.
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Jason Rezaian is in ‘immediate danger’ in Iran, Washington Post reports | Media | The Guardian
The Washington Post has reported that its journalist detained in Iran is in “immediate danger” as his health deteriorates and mistreatment of him intensifies.
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This Just In: Casualties Reported in San Bernardino shooting – The Atlantic
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Active Shooter Reported in San Bernardino – The Atlantic
Updated on December 2 at 3:02 p.m. ACTIVE SHOOTER:Area of Orange Show Rd/ Waterman Ave near Park Center, & surrounding area remains VERY ACTIVE. AVOID! pic.twitter.com/5vG0aYW6IL
Updated on December 2 at 5:18 p.m. Chief Jarrod Burguan says there are at least 14 people dead and 14 injured. He said there were up to three gunmen involved, and there are reports they fled in a black SUV.
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MTV’s Name for the Next Generation after Millennials Is ‘The Founders’ – The Atlantic
With civilization in flames and popular culture disrupted beyond recognition, the world is looking to a new generation to rebuild it. Enter “The Founders.
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Dear Slack, Please Add OTR | Motherboard
Slack, the messaging app for teams used by NASA, newsrooms around the world, a slew of advocacy groups, and more, should give users an option to use end-to-end Off The Record (OTR) encryption. We live in a world full of surveillance programs that in…
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Ukraine’s Crazy Polio Outbreak – The Daily Beast
Ukraine is back in the news, but this time it is not for deepening tensions with Russia or for the latest on its newly deposed heavyweight boxing champ, Wladimir Klitschko.
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Mass shooting reported in southern California city of San Bernardino | US news | The Guardian
California police have warned of an active shooter in the city of San Bernardino, saying they are responding to an incident with at least one gunman and “multiple victims”.
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Stop Rebranding Months as Causes – The Atlantic
In his 1996 book Infinite Jest, the late American writer David Foster Wallace imagined a near future in which corporations could sponsor the calendar. Instead of counting up from the birth of Christ, the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A…
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Snowden’s Favorite Chat App Is Coming to Your Computer | Motherboard
In countless interviews giving advice on how to avoid surveillance, NSA leaker Edward Snowden has repeatedly namechecked one chat app: Signal. The free and open source encryption app, which was previously known as Redphone and TextSecure on Android,…
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Register Your Child for a Free Hour of Code Workshop at Apple
If you happen to be near an Apple Store with your kid next Thursday, December 10th, why not stop by to get your kid a free one-hour introduction to computer programming? Registration is open today. The hands-on lesson will be based on Code.
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Multiple victims feared in San Bernardino shooting | Al Jazeera America
Police in San Bernardino, Calif. are responding to reports of an active shooter situation at a social services facility resulting in multiple casualties. The city’s fire department tweeted that it was responding to reports of 20 victims in the attac…
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Britain Debates Whether to Strike ISIS in Syria – The Atlantic
The Obama administration likes to boast that it has assembled a formidable coalition of some 65 nations to battle ISIS, but that coalition shrivels when you examine what the United States and its allies are actually doing on the ground and in the ai…
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Authorities Respond to “20 Victim Shooting” Incident in San Bernardino: Fire Dept. (ktla.com) Update: Some early sources claiming police say at least 40 victims. CNN reporting 21 shot and possibly 2 shooters.
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An Orphaned Planet Got Kicked Out Of Its Own Solar System
About 300 light-years away, a giant planet has been evicted from its starry neighborhood. The world is now about 650 times farther from its star than Earth is from the sun, scientists announced Tuesday at the Extreme Solar Systems III meeting in Haw…
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The Dreams of an Astronaut – with Helen Sharman on Vimeo
What do astronauts dream of? In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space; in this animation she shares a dream she has about returning to space, and talks about what it’s like to gaze down on the earth from above. This is the first insta…
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In San Bernadino, CA, some 20 people are reportedly involved in a mass shooting. The San Bernardino Fire Department said on Twitter victims were in the 1300 block of Waterman Avenue.
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Life360 wins $684k in legal fees for beating back “exceptionally weak” patent case | Ars Technica
Family networking service Life360 won a patent trial earlier this year against a Florida company called Advanced Ground Information Systems (AGIS) that sued it for patent infringement. Now it has won a significant chunk of its legal fees for fightin…
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Dave Chappelle Has Phone-Free Zone For His Shows Through Partnership With Tech Startup | TechCrunch
Comedian Dave Chappelle seems to be fed up with people recording his shows and sharing his material on the Internet.
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Listen to DJ Earworm’s mashup of 2015’s 50 biggest hits | The Verge
Do you like early Christmas presents? What about the prospect of overdosing on exquisite melody and mercenary hookcraft? If you answered “yes” to both questions, you’re probably already familiar with DJ Earworm’s annual “United State of Pop” mashup.
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Mass shooting reported in San Bernardino, California
It’s a day ending with Y in America, and there are reports of yet another mass shooting. As always, the early details are vague and many of them will prove to be wrong, but the current report is that there are 20 victims.
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Exclusive: Dolph Lundgren drops in for Sanjay And Craig’s holiday special · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sanjay And Craig has hosted a lot of notable guests among its voice-acting cast, from Chris Hardwick to Toby Huss to Adam DeVine. It’s latest get, though, is its weirdest yet.
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The Best Star Wars Books Are the X-Wing Novels. Fight Me.
The original Star Wars Expanded Universe novels are a mixed bunch, to say the least. There’s some good, some bad, and some mediocre. And while Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn saga usually gets the most attention, I am here to say that the best books are actua…
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‘France likely to close more than 100 mosques’ – Al Jazeera English
France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in the coming months as part of a nationwide police operation under the state of emergency which allows places of worship that promote radical views to be shut down, one of the country’s chief Imams has sa…
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Vanity Fair Audio Holiday Issue 2015 | Vanity Fair
Chris Hemsworth is a state-of-the-art Hollywood hero, but in Lili Anolik’s Holiday Issue cover story for Vanity Fair, she discovers Hemsworth’s un-movie-starrish side may be his real superpower.
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We’ve known for some time that Radar Pictures and director John Stockwell (In The Blood) were giving the reboot to the fulcrum of dorm discussion that is 1989’s Kickboxer.
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California shooting: Victims reported – BBC News
David Cameron tells MPs air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria aim to “keep the British people safe” but Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn says his case “doesn’t stack up”.
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Trump Says He Predicted Osama Bin Laden. He Didn’t. | Mother Jones
On Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, appeared on the Internet-based talk show of Alex Jones, a so-called 9/11 truther who promulgates a wide variety of wild conspiracy theories.
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The fervor continues to grow for Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the premiere date approaches, and now Funny Or Die has a peek behind the scenes of the famed franchise. In the clip below, Tom Servo and Crow T.
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Disney has auditioned more than 2,500 actors for its young Han Solo movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It turns out that, for Disney, buying Lucasfilm for $4 billion and creating a new chapter in the Star Wars saga was the easy part. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is now getting down to the arduous task of casting a young Han Solo for it…
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Veteran’s receive the GI Bill only after voluntarily joining the armed forces, and serving their enlistment under honorable conditions. This is dramatically different than simply offering free in-state tuition to all students.
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RCMP: Warrantless Access to Data Would ‘Certainly Assist’ New Cyber Crime Unit | Motherboard
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will soon have a new cyber crime unit at their disposal, and according to Canada’s top police force, they need new tools to fight online crime.
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Authorities Respond to “20 Victim Shooting” Incident in San Bernardino: Fire Dept. | KTLA
San Bernardino Fire Department units were responding to a report of a “20-victim shooting” on Wednesday, authorities said. The incident was reported in the 1300 block of South Waterman Avenue, the Fire Department tweeted shortly before 11:15 a.m. Sa…
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Cygnus Spacecraft Hauling Science to Space Station on Return-to-Flight Mission
Orbital ATK’s uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ahead of a planned Dec. 3, 2015 liftoff.
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Fox News talking head on Trump’s anti-Muslim claims: Thousands or a handful, ‘who cares?’
If the smarmy morning show Fox & Friends is the lead paint of news—and it is—then Fox News’ The Five probably ought to be considered something akin to a war crime.
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Scream Queens Is Almost Over, But There’s Still Time for One More Killing Spree
Next week, Scream Queens will air its final two episodes back-to-back and we will finally learn if all the shrieking and flailing and feather-covered outfits and anorexia jokes have led to a satisfying conclusion that makes any sense whatsoever. On …
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America Has an Overeducation Problem | New Republic
Since the cost of going to college is an important concern for a large segment of voters, the 2016 presidential candidates are all advocating policies aimed at making a college education more affordable.
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Why Cracking Down On Mosques Won’t Stop Attacks | ThinkProgress
French authorities shut down three mosques on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent future acts like the Nov. 13 attack on Paris that killed 130 people. Despite the nation’s efforts, analysts say that closing mosques won’t stop radicalization or violen…
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U.S. Officials Admit a Mistaken Identity Case at Guantanamo Bay – The Atlantic
On Tuesday evening, U.S. officials released a document highlighting the 13-year detention of Mustafa Abd-al-Qawi Abd-al-Aziz al-Shamiri, a Yemeni man captured in Afghanistan in 2002. In it, they admitted they believed al-Shamiri was someone else.
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Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Just Trolling Us Now? | Vanity Fair
As you may have noticed, we’ve been spending some time lately wondering just what, in fact, is going on with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Well, O.K., “wondering” might be a bit of a soft term for what’s been going on here.
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Will a Weaker Euro Lure American Travelers to Europe? – The Atlantic
After more than a decade of relative strength, it looks like the Euro is heading towards parity with the dollar. Today, one Euro is worth few fractions of a cent less than $1.06. The last time they were almost equal was in 2002, three years after th…
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Mother arrested after taking her daughter and friends to throw eggs at homes and cars / Boing Boing
A 44-year-old Utah woman has been charged with the class A misdemeanor of causing a catastrophe. Police said the woman, 44, drove her daughter and other kids around Ogden, South Ogden, Riverdale, and Washington Terrace to throw eggs at cars and hous…
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Mum was too tired to pose for the family portrait : cats
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Check out this new promo video for the Paris climate talks | Grist
Activists are fighting to block fossil fuel export terminals — a critical new front in the climate battle.
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How Radioactivity Can Benefit Your Health [Video] – Scientific American
Radiation is notoriously harmful to the human body. And yet in certain applications it can be a lifesaver.
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I’ve been playing guitar off and on for most of my life, and I’d be the first to admit that I’m not the most spectacular musician. I do it for joy and don’t sweat my musical limitations too much. This is a good thing; otherwise I might find myself s…
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Facebook founder and young billionaire Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that over his lifetime he will donate 99 percent of his corporate stock shares — currently worth about $45 billion — to an initiative dedicated to “advancing human potential …
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Bankrolling the Paris Climate Talks | New Republic
You might not expect fossil fuel companies to pay for a conference designed to shrink their industry. But in Paris, that’s precisely what’s happening.
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Nick Cannon is RadioShack’s new ‘chief creative officer,’ for some reason | The Verge
Who needs Chi-Raq when you can revitalize the ‘Shack? Contemporary Renaissance man Nick Cannon is adding another line to his already-crowded résumé by joining beleaguered electronics chain RadioShack as the company’s chief creative officer.
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Christmas songs don’t have to be novelty songs · 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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A surprisingly thoughtful film about a custody battle for a severed leg · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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Impression of biblical king’s seal found in Jerusalem – BBC News
Israeli archaeologists say they have found a 2,700-year-old piece of clay inscribed with a biblical king’s seal. It is thought the oval bulla, which is 13mm (0.5in) wide, was once attached to a papyrus document signed by Hezekiah, one of the kings o…
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In Christmases past, 2014 Nicholl Fellowship-winning screenwriting duo Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles have used their talents to create animated Christmas cards. They first year, they tried to turn their card into a holiday blockbuster.
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Crackle to give us more of The Art Of More with a second season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you’re suffering from luxury-withdrawal symptoms—which include licking the pages of a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog —after having made your way through all of Crackle’s The Art Of More, you’ll be happy to learn that the show has just been renewed f…
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Hear DJ Earworm’s ‘United State of Pop 2015’ Mash-Up | Rolling Stone
Hear DJ Earworm’s ‘United State of Pop 2015’ Mash-Up Fifty of the year’s biggest singles are sampled, from “Hello” and “Hotline Bling” to “Bitch Better Have My Money” and “Bad Blood”
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This Week, Top Geneticists Want to Decide If GMO Humans Are OK | Motherboard
The world’s top geneticists met in Washington, DC Tuesday to discuss the future of human genome editing at a summit that is among the most important ever held on the topic.
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Midna in her first (sort of) box : Catloaf
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Sanders slams republican budget. “The last thing we need is a budget reconciliation bill that throws 17 million Americans off of health insurance and denies nearly 3 million women the health care they need by defunding Planned Parenthood,” Sanders s…
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German supermarket wins most emotionally manipulative Christmas ad | The Verge
Does the holiday spirit lower your emotional barriers? If so, German supermarket Edeka has prepared an assault on your heartstrings.
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Incredibly strong El Niño still developing, bringing surge of winter warmth | Ars Technica
After setting a record for a single-week period in mid-November, El Niño has continued to produce record warm temperature anomalies in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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The Tor project is soliciting donations in its first fundraising drive / Boing Boing
The nonprofit foundation that oversees development on Tor, the anonymity and privacy tool, has launched its first ever major cash fundraiser, seeking support for its crucial work. We’ve done some amazing things in recent years. The Tor network is mu…
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Rupert Murdoch slams liberals for giving America an ‘identity crisis’ | Media | The Guardian
International media mogul Rupert Murdoch has issued a rallying cry for the US to return to a culture of strong leadership and the strident assertion of “the American personality” on the world stage, while slamming what he termed the liberal “comfort…
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DJ Earworm Shows How Mellow 2016 Pop Really Was – The Atlantic
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Volcanic Ghost Villages in Indonesia – The Atlantic
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung sprang to life over the past few years, erupting and releasing destructive pyroclastic flows following 400 years of dormancy. Numerous villages that had been established on its slopes now sit completely empty—declared too …
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World’s Cities Join Growing Push to Divest From Fossil Fuels
An increasing number of cities across the globe, including Norway’s capital Oslo, are pledging to divest from fossil fuels. Some are going even further by cutting their use of oil, coal, or natural gas.
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Refugee boats to Greece persist despite winter’s chill – Al Jazeera English
Skala Skamnias, Greece – Dozens of aid workers and volunteers wait on the shore, many of them with binoculars pressed against their faces, as a small dot in the distance gradually takes the form of a dinghy carrying more than 30 Afghani refugees.
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A historic rise in US interest rates later this month is almost certain, Janet Yellen signalled on Wednesday.
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Science Bridges Life and Death in This Stunning Astronaut Art
Australian artist Jeremy Geddes is incomprehensibly talented. His paintings are the type you’d see in an art gallery and know you can never afford. Even the print versions are like that. But this week, he’s releasing his latest piece so anyone can b…
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DHS to Silicon Valley: Tell us how to secure this “Internet of Things” | Ars Technica
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that its Silicon Valley Office (SVO)—the agency’s liaison point with the technology industry—will hold an event on December 10 to kick off a recruiting drive for startups and “non-traditional small b…
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Raising money for the Public Domain Legal Defense Fund / Boing Boing
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, “Like many of my fellow nonprofit executives, the holidays are a mixed bag for me. Public Resource has enough money in the bank to get us through January. Like other nonprofits, Public Resource gets almost all ou…
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Trial continues for officers in Freddie Gray death case – BBC News
Opening statements are being read at the first trial in the case of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man whose death in police custody set off days of unrest. William Porter is the first of six officers to be tried, and eight women and four men were chosen…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three’ | Books | The Guardian
For almost three decades Isabel Allende enjoyed a blessing that often eluded the characters in her books: a sense of home and enduring love. She found sanctuary in a picturesque niche of California and in the arms of an adoring American husband, Wil…
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Will the UN Climate Talks End in a Treaty? Obama Signals a Compromise – The Atlantic
If the UN climate negotiations in Paris are successful this month, it will be because they have overcome a problem. It’s no exaggeration to call this problem fundamental to what’s happening in Paris—because it goes to heart of why everyone is there …
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Despite the existence of a good deal of research about terrorism, there’s a gap between the common understanding of what leads terrorists to kill and what many experts believe to be true. Terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are widely seen as be…
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Mork and Mindy Was One of the Most Unlikely Miracles in the History of Television
Groundbreaking sitcom Mork and Mindy was always doomed to fail. This weird comedy about an alien and his human pal reached a U.S. audience of 60 million viewers every week, and launched Robin Williams’ career. And then, it tanked.
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Alabama cops planted drugs and weapons on innocent minorities, and the DA covered it up
Police officers in Dothan, Alabama, planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years, according to documents recently unveiled by the Alabama Justice Center.
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I cross-stitched Neptune [OC][1600×1418] : spaceporn
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Volcanic Ghost Villages in Indonesia (14 photos) https://t.co/XnxDF9lqtv https://t.co/cG3gGn8Q9F https://t.co/vqjjORLBBB
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Those eyes via /r/aww https://t.co/fJHm6whCxk https://t.co/1YpEXmbPMN https://t.co/mYdHFjFY8j
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Departing Australia. Arriving in China. : pics
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Swimming with Whale Sharks Is Staggering, Scary—and Totally Safe
Dive into the Gulf of Mexico alongside whale sharks, the largest fish in the world. They only look like they’ll swallow you whole. “There’s one coming right at us,” says our guide, Kaiulani Creamer Shorey. She’s pointing at a shark fin about 40 feet…
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The continuing strength of Donald J. Trump’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination has dumbfounded his own party, the media, political scientists, donors and pollsters.
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Not-So-Fun Facts About Income Inequality
There are a lot of not-so-fun facts in the latest Institute for Policy Studies “Billionaire Bonanza” report on the absurd, widening gap between the people in the Forbes 400 and the rest of us. For example, the top 20 wealthiest individuals in the U.…
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Dinner Lab, a supper club and culinary events business that has expanded to 75,000 members across 31 states over the past three years, is today putting its recent infusion of new capital to use: the company is acquiring a competitor known as Dishcra…
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Eurozone inflation data raises prospect of fresh ECB stimulus | Business | The Guardian
Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank chairman, is widely expected to unleash a fresh round of economy-boosting measures on Thursday, after news that inflation in the eurozone remained at just 0.1% in November. City analysts had expected the infla…
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Samurai Jack will return to Cartoon Network in 2016 | The Verge
After over 10 years on ice, Samurai Jack is heading back to Cartoon Network next year.
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Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling talk about their new anthology TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK / Boing Boing
Johannes writes, “Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce us to places and people that shaped and inspired his art and politics.
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The Next Fight for Racial Justice: Police Union Reform | New Republic
The collective bargaining agreement between the City of Chicago and Lodge No. 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is not an exciting document. Many of its 158 densely worded pages are devoted to topics like insurance subrogation and access to t…
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Free talk on surveillance, copyright and DRM tomorrow in Berlin: “PINEAPPLE!” / Boing Boing
I’m in Berlin to speak at OEB, a conference on technology and education. It costs a hefty sum to attend the whole event, but my talk tomorrow at 1200h, “No Matter who’s Winning the War on General Purpose Computing, You’re Losing ” is free.
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FXX renews You’re The Worst for a third season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Uncork the champagne, because Sunday Funday has come early: FXX has renewed You’re The Worst for a third season, according to a press release.
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Ukrainian billionaire cancels trip home after threat of arrest | World news | The Guardian
A controversial Ukrainian oligarch had his attempts to return to Kiev for the first time in nearly two years stymied on Wednesday, after the interior minister threatened to have him arrested at the airport by a group of far-right fighters.
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In 2015, You Can Still Get Arrested for Spitting if You’re HIV-Positive | The Nation
In an essay published yesterday for World AIDS Day, the director of the Centers for Disease Control painted a bleak picture of the US’s effort to fight the epidemic.
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Learn Git, an Essential Tool for Programmers, with Codecademy’s New Course
Codecademy just launched a new course that will teach you how to use the version control application Git. In the free two-hour course, you’ll learn how to create and manage a project with Git.
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Well, where the hell do we go from there? In the final episode of its first season, Casual mostly fires on all cylinders—that is, until it totally misfires. It would have been nice to bid a temporary farewell to a freshman show by glowing about its …
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Why You Shouldn’t Drink Water After Eating Spicy Foods
Hot peppers can make you feel like your mouth is on fire. The American Chemical Society explains the science behind that burn and why drinking water is one of the worse things you can do to ease that pain.
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The Daily Show quietly pulls scheduled Chris Brown interview · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you’re the kind of person who keeps their eyes peeled for provocative talk show guests, you might have read that singer Chris Brown was scheduled to appear Tuesday night on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.
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New Maps Explain How Student Debt Is Weighing On Low-Income Graduates | ThinkProgress
A new interactive map shows how student loan debt is holding down low-income graduates who are struggling to pay their bills. The map was launched by Generation Progress and Higher Ed, Not Debt, which worked with the Washington Center for Equitable …
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Opening Statements Begin In Freddie Gray Trial | Al Jazeera America
An officer facing charges over the death of Freddie Gray “criminally neglected” his duty to keep the young black man safe after he sustained a spinal injury in police custody, a court heard Wednesday.
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Samurai Jack to return to Cartoon Network next year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The network isn’t offering much in the way of details, except to say that series creator Genndy Tartakovsky is involved and will “[continue] the epic story with a new season.” That season, according to TVLine, will run during the usually anime-heavy…
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“I find it unacceptable that many of my Republican colleagues are more worried about campaign contributions they’re getting from the Koch brothers and others in the fossil fuel industry than they are about preserving the planet for our children and …
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Censored by /r/news as “not news”: As NY State Probes Exxon, Oil Giant Targets the Journalists Who Exposed Climate Change Cover-Up (democracynow.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Rahm Emanuel: Chicago Police Force Needs Change | Al Jazeera America
Chicago’s 12,000-member police force, one of the largest in the country and one of the most prone to using lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday.
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Molly is a bit socially awkward, despite her good looks : aww
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Rolling hills of Oregon. [5990×3808][OC] : EarthPorn
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The whirling disc of NGC 4526 [3120 x 2715] https://t.co/UoolVruryK https://t.co/BGxWuv88f0
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Great Orion Nebula from my backyard with my DSLR [3801×2532][OC] https://t.co/NoXoEyvmk8 https://t.co/hrZYlsN4fU
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Alien Planet Observed Violently Ejected from Its Solar System https://t.co/7ifrfdLvMG https://t.co/X0EfCU6TID
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Keystone is dead, but oil and coal projects in Pacific Northwest could be 5 times worse | Grist
Activists are fighting to block fossil fuel export terminals — a critical new front in the climate battle. Rep. Chris Gibson is rounding up fellow Republicans to support a climate resolution — and hoping for a meaningful agreement out of Paris.
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Photos of watchful eyes discourage litterbugs / Boing Boing
Researchers at Newcastle University handed out two different leaflets to pedestrians on a university campus. One leaflet had a photo of watching eyes. The other did not. They observed that “4.7% of people dropped the leaflet with eyes compared to 15…
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When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meets Friday in Vienna, the cartel will be celebrating a victory of sorts, one that has cost its members dearly.
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Time’s Divide, a new CHRONOS files book by Rysa Walker / Boing Boing
Ryaa Walker’s CHRONOS files are some of my favorite time travel novels! I have been eagerly awaiting Time’s Divide, a new installment in her fantastic series!
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Don’t Let Men Attack Pumpkin Spice Literature | New Republic
In the literary world, men get taken more seriously—as authors, even as characters. This is admittedly not among the world’s two greatest problems, but it’s irritating all the same.
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New York church beating death: mother pleads guilty to assaulting teen sons | US news | The Guardian
The mother of two teenagers beaten during a church counseling session pleaded guilty to assault Wednesday in the group attack that killed one son and injured the other. Deborah Leonard admitted taking part in the all-night beatings at the Word of Li…
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Check out the first full trailer for Girls’ fifth season | The Verge
Lena Dunham’s Girls has run long enough to fulfill a major part of its promise. It’s created a web of connections and relationships just as weird and tangled as anything in real life.
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Read the Entirety of Harrow County #1, One of 2015’s Best Horror Comics, Here for Free!
In October, we told you that Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Harrow County was essential spooky reading for Halloween.
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Tamir Rice death: Cleveland policeman defends shooting boy – BBC News
The policeman who shot and killed a 12-year-old waving a pellet gun has said he thought the gun was real. Timothy Loehmann told investigators he and his partner repeatedly shouted “show me your hands” before fatally shooting Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
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Jeb! Bush says Trump won’t be president because ‘He’s not a serious person’
Pshaw, says fifth-place Republican presidential candidate Jeb! Bush. Leading Republican Donald Trump is going nowhere because:
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RadioShack Becomes Latest Nearly Dead Company to Hire a Celebrity | Motherboard
In a press release issued Wednesday, RadioShack announced its new Chief Creative Officer: Nick Cannon.
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Alabama’s Controversial Voter ID Law Challenged In Court | The Nation
Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, launched when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a segregated bus. Ten years before her historic act of civil disobedience, Parks tried to register to vote.
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The Man Who Brought Down Pablo Escobar – The Daily Beast
In April 1990, at the height of his fight against Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel, Colonel Hugo Martinez was standing in the middle of his family’s apartment, which had just been bombed, when he heard a sudden knock at the door.
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Is Burundi on the verge of return to ethnic conflict? – BBC News
From the hills at Kiriri, to the east of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, there is a clear view of Lake Tanganyika. The Itombwe Mountains across the water in the Democratic Republic of Congo are harder to see as low hanging clouds always get in the way.…
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This IPA Is the Most Bitter Beer in the World | MUNCHIES
Dogfish Head Brewery says they have made “the hoppiest beer ever documented through scientific analysis.
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Watch the Robots from ‘Mystery Science Theater’ Try Out for ‘Star Wars’ | Motherboard
Tom Servo and Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000 are two washed out robots looking for a job. That is to say, they’re looking to bring MST3K back through Kickstarter, and they’re willing to do anything, even audition for a blockbuster they’d usu…
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Pakistan Hangs 4 Over Peshawar School Attack | Al Jazeera America
Pakistan on Wednesday executed four men linked to a Taliban massacre in which more than 130 schoolchildren were killed in an attack on an army-run school last year.
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Twitter Fabric SDK Comes To The Apple TV | TechCrunch
One week after Facebook announced its SDK for tvOS, Twitter is also announcing its plans for Apple’s new platform. Developers will be able to integrate Digits into their apps and use Crashlytics. As a reminder, Digits is part of Twitter’s Fabric too…
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Throughout the duration of the Paris climate talks, we’re bringing you dispatches of the best climate work and data points from around the Web.
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Soundcloud’s copyright bot took down a conceptual “remix” of John Cage’s silent 4’33 / Boing Boing
This isn’t the first time that a remix of the silent track’s been targeted for copyright enforcement, but it never gets old. CAN YOU COPYRIGHT SILENCE? DJ DETWEILER VERSUS SOUNDCLOUD [Electronic Beats]
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Here’s how to do GMO labeling so everyone wins | Grist
Rep. Chris Gibson is rounding up fellow Republicans to support a climate resolution — and hoping for a meaningful agreement out of Paris.
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Sharing of television news clips hangs in the fair-use balance | Ars Technica
Fox News is winning more than just the news network ratings wars. It’s also winning the battle against copyright’s fair use doctrine.
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Mysterious ‘Fast Radio Burst’ Source Detected | Video
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Ben Carson fades and Hillary Clinton rises in latest presidential poll | US news | The Guardian
Support for Ben Carson’s bid to be the Republican presidential nominee has faded, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
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The corruption in this story is so vile it’s hard to know where to begin.
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The fifth episode of a series is a little early for a reboot, but in many ways The Man In The High Castle feels like it’s starting over.
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How to Troubleshoot Windows 10 with Reliability Monitor
Troubleshooting problems in Windows can be kind of a pain, but the built-in Reliability Monitor gives you a leg up by presenting your computer’s reliability and problem history in one easy view.
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Over the weekend Jeb Bush, the US presidential hopeful, told CBS News that if it came to it he would support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, “because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
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Cosmic filaments exposed near huge cluster / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe. Galaxies tend to congregate, forming groups and …
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Seen as sullen, hoody-wearing students, with addictions to social media (and Nandos), YAs have been diagnosed with a political apathy to shame our predecessors.
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Why You Should Vote for Bernie Sanders in the WFP’s Open Primary | The Nation
Polls are open in the Working Families Party’s first-ever presidential endorsement vote. The WFP was founded in 1998 by activists, progressive unions, and community organizations in New York who wanted to fight the rightward, anti-labor shift of the…
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An Accountability Moment for Chicago | The Nation
The mayor, a political careerist who long ago mastered the art of pointing the finger of blame at others, has already fired the police superintendent amid a national outcry over the long-suppressed video of a white police officer shooting an African…
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Ringo Starr Talks White Album Auction | Rolling Stone
In a Beverly Hills back room filled with the personal possessions of a lifetime of fame as a Beatle and solo artist, Ringo Starr happily posed for pictures with guests on Tuesday.
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Kisilu: The Climate Diaries – Al Jazeera English
Climate change is affecting all regions of the globe, but some places are more vulnerable than others. Parts of East Africa are already seeing the effects of climate instability, with those dependent on farming for their livelihood among some of the…
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Watch Harrison Ford Recreate ‘Star Wars’ Injury With Han Solo Doll | Rolling Stone
Watch Harrison Ford Recreate ‘Star Wars’ Injury With Han Solo Doll “They closed the fucking door on me!” Ford yells, faking bitterness toward ‘Force Awakens’ director J.J.
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When President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced he was setting up an air base in the middle of Syria to take on the Islamic State and bolster President Bashar al-Assad, more than a few analysts and politicians praised his forceful,
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SHCHYOLKINO, Crimea — When residents in this typical Soviet factory town voted enthusiastically to secede from Ukraine and to become Russians, they thought the chaos and corruption that made daily life a struggle were a thing of the past.
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A Detailed Explanation Of The Sith Lord Jar Jar Binks Theory – Digg
25 diggs Movies Curious Explainer He’s a master of the drunken master style of Kung Fu, force pushes objects and mind controls people constantly, pushes Annakin to the dark side, and helps the Galactic Senate give up on Democracy. Honestly, this the…
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HERE are some things abortion opponents have said about Robert L. Dear Jr., the shooter accused of killing three and wounding nine at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last Friday. He was just a lunatic.
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Samurai Jack returns to Adult Swim in 2016. : videos
Samurai Jack returns to Adult Swim in 2016. (youtube.com) Awwwwwwww yiiiiisssss. Mutha fuckin breadcrumbs.
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Baby Zeusifer strived to be a cat model : cats
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Watch out, kid : trippinthroughtime
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when the scruff of your kneck is wrenched back… Yeah. – GIF on Imgur
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Fast Radio Bursts Mystify Experts — for Now – Scientific American
This artist’s impression of a fast radio burst (FRB) reaching Earth illustrates the telltale smearing of radio waves that indicates the FRB’s long journey through deep space. The colors represent different radio wavelengths, with longer (red) wavele…
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AT&T says it shelved a “bunch” of ideas because of net neutrality rules | Ars Technica
AT&T Senior VP Bob Quinn says his company has avoided offering some new services because of worries about violating net neutrality rules.
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NASA Astronauts Testify Before House Space Committee – The Atlantic
To testify before Congress, you don’t actually have to be in the room. That’s the case for NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, who have occasionally beamed into congressional hearings via satellite.
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Bruce Campbell “Leaks” a Script for the Ash Vs. Walking Dead Crossover We’ve Always Wanted
Just a fun little reminder that every show’s supernatural problems would be easily fixed just by having Ash show up. Read the full tweet below. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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If your kids don’t want to drop bombs on Syria, they may be terrorists / Boing Boing
The “child safeguarding” office of the London Borough of Camden sent parents a brochure listing warning-signs for “radicalisation” (code for “incipient terrorist recruit”).
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Kristen Stewart Is Back in the Oscar Race | Vanity Fair
Kristen Stewart is an underdog this awards season.
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Chicago police review agency also under scrutiny in the wake of police superintendent’s firing
The story continues to unfold in Chicago following the release of police video that showed Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting and killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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This Week In College Football: All The Wild Scenarios That Could End The Season | FiveThirtyEight
College football starts in September with 128 teams and billions of different paths to the playoff. Nearly all of that multiverse has been closed off — on Saturday, it’ll be sealed for good.
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Jack is Back | Samurai Jack | Adult Swim : television
On Adult Swim no less?? Yes please.
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Trailer for “Traceroute,” Johannes Grenzfurthner’s nerd voyage / Boing Boing
Johannes writes, “Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce us to places and people that shaped and inspired his art and politics.
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Worthy, Deadly, and Selfish: What Makes a War Reporter – The Daily Beast
Before her most recent trip to Iraq—for a 60 Minutes feature on the pitched battle for territory between Shia militias and Sunni Islamic State fighters—CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan had a sobering conversation with her 5-year-old d…
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Bankrolling the Paris Climate Talks | Mother Jones
You might not expect fossil fuel companies to pay for a conference designed to shrink their industry. But in Paris, that’s precisely what’s happening.
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The Dark Matter Debate –“A Totally New Exotic Form of Matter?” (Today’s Most Popular)
We owe a lot to dark matter – it is the thing keeping galaxies, stars, our solar system, and our bodies intact.
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Rush Hour Shift – A strategic twist on the classic get-the-car-unstuck logic game / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. Rush Hour Shift is an entertaining twist on the classic get-the-car-unstuck logic game. Instead of a single player working through pre-designed puzzles, now there are two players working against each other in a constantl…
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Suri Cruise Is More Charitable than You Are | Vanity Fair
As we race toward the big show of decadence and consumerism that is Christmas, it’s important to take an occasional break to remember that there are other people, less fortunate people, out there somewhere, people who are in need of our help and res…
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Iranian-American man hanged in Iran for alleged crime in California | World news | The Guardian
An Iranian-American man has been executed in Iran for a crime he allegedly committed in California seven years ago – even though there is no judicial treaty between Iran and the US, making it impossible for Iranian authorities to have gathered infor…
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TheAtlantic.com Continues Unprecedented Growth with Third Consecutive Record Month – The Atlantic
Washington, D.C. (December 2, 2015)—TheAtlantic.com broke previous audience records in November with 31.5 million unique visitors, marking the third consecutive month of record traffic.
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What We’re Following Wednesday Afternoon, 12/2 – The Atlantic
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Who Will Play a Young Han Solo? Maybe It’s You! | Vanity Fair
Who is worthy of playing a young Han Solo? Nobody knows—which is why casting for the upcoming Solo-focused spin-off movie has become the most fun game of musical chairs in Hollywood.
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Holy Christ, Samurai Jack Is Returning to TV!
Oh my god. Oh my god. Genndy Tartakovsky’s iconic cartoon series Samurai Jack, which blended scifi and Japanese swordsman awesomeness, came to an end over a decade ago now.
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Gay Talese’s Advice to Young Writers: “Get Off Your Ass” | Vanity Fair
Near midnight on Monday Gay Talese was tucked into a corner booth in the downstairs bar at the 21 Club, sipping a Bombay martini with a twist, with a specimen from his much-admired hat collection sitting politely beside him.
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Remember where that mouth just was? : trippinthroughtime
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Is your kitty a convict? – The Kitty Convict Project
Our only requirement is that if you do, you have to send us ridiculous pictures.
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Pi-TopCEED Is A $99 Desktop Computer For Makers | TechCrunch
After the sweating toil of transforming a hardware prototype into an actual shipping product, the makers of a $299 kit laptop called Pi-Top are crowdfunding their next project.
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Attention world – the leading presidential candidate for one of the USA’s top political parties wants to murder innocent civilians to terrorize the “terrorists”. Take a seat, you might become dizzy when the full effect of that hits.
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How Republican ‘Thought Police’ Enforce Climate-Science Denial : politics
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman Did he say that before or after he beat his wife?
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Huey looking adorable. via /r/cats https://t.co/kt0XwsZbyg https://t.co/d51IdYUE8r https://t.co/leoIoV3iLg
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Nebulae in Aurigae by Miilo Astro | We Heart It
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Man faces two years in prison for saying Turkey’s president looks like Gollum / Boing Boing
A Turkish doctor is on trial for sharing a meme with side-by-side photos of the president of Turkey and Gollum. He is accused on insulting the president. The court has assembled a team of experts to determine whether or not the president resembles G…
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Donald Trump Is Beating Ben Carson in the Republican Outsider Primary Again – The Atlantic
A new Quinnipiac poll Wednesday morning has more bad news for Ben Carson. The doctor is down to third place, at 16 percent. In the last Q poll, at the beginning of November, he was in second, just one point behind Donald Trump. Now he trails Trump b…
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The Formlabs Form 2 Brings The 3D-Printing Magic (Again) | TechCrunch
Home 3D printing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past half decade. While some of the fluff and excitement has gone out of the technology, it is still the closest thing to magic we have in our world.
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At Microsoft’s annual shareholding conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cited diversity progress in relation to the executive team and board of directors. In the last year, Microsoft nominated two women to the board of directors.
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Beware Your Bias Against Cheap Things
You might be a deal hunter, but chances are, you still have a bias against cheap things, just like the rest of us do. We have a tendency to value items according to their price tag, even when the price tag isn’t related to value.
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Spike Lee and cast condemn Chicago mayor at Chi-Raq premiere | US news | The Guardian
Spike Lee and the stars of his new film Chi-Raq denounced Rahm Emanuel at the movie’s premiere on Tuesday, hours after the Chicago mayor fired his police chief over a video showing a teen shot 16 times by an officer.
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Zuckerberg giveaway: Is Facebook founder the most generous of all time? – BBC News
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares to good causes. But are they the most generous of all time? BBC News explains, in 70 seconds.
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Star Wars Google Cardboard headsets are adorable, but only for Verizon subscribers | The Verge
Google Cardboard is kind of a cute concept on its own, and many companies have harnessed it as a promotional tool. But the Star Wars-themed headsets that go with Disney’s new mini-VR experience are the single most adorable headsets I have ever seen.
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House Democrats reject first spending offer from Republicans
House Speaker Paul Ryan is probably going to need some Democratic votes to pass an omnibus budget bill by the December 11 deadline, or face shutdown. So far, he doesn’t have those votes because Republicans have insisted on keeping too many poison pi…
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Burt Reynolds’ thoroughly engrossing, thoroughly ridiculous new memoir, But Enough About Me. Men have three ages in Hollywood: Hunk, old hunk, and old hunk writing a tell-all about his hunk days. Guess which one is the most entertaining? Lady Gaga a…
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6 reasons why ‘The Phantom Menace’ is better than you think
Anticipation is high for the release of Star Wars The Force Awakens, and not just because it’s a new Star Wars film. The Force Awakens bears the responsibility of kicking off a new era of the franchise.
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The Untold Story And Enduring Legacy of Cat Facts – Vocativ
The Cat Facts text prank, the greatest thing to happen to text messaging since the invention of emojis, is in the midst of a revival. This week, #FakeCatFacts started trending on Twitter.
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Lisa Pathfinder set to test space ‘ripples’ technology – BBC News
Europe is about to launch the Lisa Pathfinder satellite, an exquisite space physics experiment. It will test the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves – the warping of space-time produced by cataclysmic events in the cosmos.
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Grass-Fed Beef and Global Warming | Al Jazeera America
I’ve been a die-hard carnivore most of my life. The sight of my grandfather throwing thick New York strips onto his small grill is one of my fondest memories.
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Dick Costolo Joins The Patreon Board | TechCrunch
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has joined the Patreon Board of Directors, a move that aims to bring operational skills to the funding site. Patreon allows creators – podcasters, artists, gamers, etc. – to get paid for what they create. It currently…
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Archaeologists in Jerusalem Unveil Biblical-Era Seal From King Hezekiah – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, archaeologists in Jerusalem announced the discovery of a rare biblical-era seal. The mark of the seal is said to belong to King Hezekiah, who ruled in the Levant in the 8th-century BC and got a glowing review in the Book of Kings. Heze…
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What it’s like to be chemically castrated / Boing Boing
A Massachusetts woman learned that her 62-year-old husband had been having sex with prostitutes for the past eight years. The man decided he was a sex addict and sought treatment from a psychiatrist, Dr. Renee Sorrentino.
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Two gators hold epic wrestling match on Florida golf course – video | World news | The Guardian
The quiet world of weekend golf was awesomely disturbed on Saturday, as two alligators – one measuring a whopping 12 feet – duked it out on the fourth hole of the Myakka Pines golf course in Florida.
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10 Great Family Board Games To Get The Kids (And You) Off Of The iPad | TechCrunch
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Rep. Lamar Smith Backs Off NOAA Subpoenas… A Little | ThinkProgress
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, is trying a new approach in his attempt to wrest information out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal science agency that in…
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Uber wants to integrate with all your apps | The Verge
Is Uber really short for ubiquitous? These days, an Uber button in an app can be seen as a sign of technological sophistication. For developers, integrating Uber in an app speaks volumes about the type of customer you’re trying to attract: young, ed…
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Mid-East sceptical on UK role in Syria war – BBC News
As civil wars get longer, they become more complex and more intractable. And after nearly five years of fighting, the Syrian conflict has long since passed the point where an outside power can embark on a course of action and be confident that it wi…
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The New Flash/Arrow Crossover Is a Crisis of Infinite Fun
Oh, was last night’s Agents of SHIELD some kind of tour de force? Did it have you on the edge of your seat? Was it a game changer? I hope so, because as good as it was, there’s absolutely no damn way it was as fun as last night’s The Flash, the firs…
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Farewell, Sandy Berger, the Clinton Man Who Stopped Armageddon – The Daily Beast
It was early in the morning of July 4, 1999 and President Bill Clinton was convening his national-security team in the Oval Office. Pakistan and India were at war and Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, was across Pennsylvania Avenue at Bl…
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Briefly noted: This fall, Harvard has been rolling out videos from the 2015 edition of Computer Science 50 (CS50), the university’s introductory coding course designed for majors and non-majors alike.
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Cops Could Undermine Dark Web Markets by Leaving Fake Reviews | Motherboard
Although law enforcement has had some success in shutting down dark web marketplaces, the sites continue to be fairly resilient, with new sites popping up when others are taken down.
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A Peruvian farmer is suing an energy giant over climate change : environment
A Peruvian farmer is suing an energy giant over climate change (theverge.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Single Austin pipe leaked 105 million gallons of potable water this year : environment
Single Austin pipe leaked 105 million gallons of potable water this year (kxan.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Up to Half a Million Syrian Refugees to Head to EU | Al Jazeera America
European Union and Turkish leaders may announce a behind-the-scenes agreement later this week to resettle 400,000 to 500,000 Syrian refugees from Turkey to the EU, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON — As student protests over racial injustice are exploding at campuses across the nation, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a major case that could put an end to racial preferences in college admissions.
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Like many expecting parents, Atara and Jeff Douglas are registering for baby stuff: bedding, bath toys, infant swings.
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Apple Puts iOS 9 Adoption At 70% Based On App Store Usage Numbers | TechCrunch
It’s been two and half months since Apple released iOS 9, and the company just shared some adoption numbers on its website. According to Apple, 70 percent of iOS devices accessing the App Store are running iOS 9. This adoption rate is higher than la…
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SSDs aren’t as cheap as hard drives yet, but they’re getting there | Ars Technica
CPUs, GPUs, chipsets, motherboards, RAM, Wi-Fi, and all the other components you think of when you think about a PC have all been getting continuously faster over the last five years, but so far this decade nothing has offered the performance boost …
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Uber’s API Now Lets Other Apps Add A “Ride Request Button”, Earn $5 Per Signup | TechCrunch
Uber latest growth strategy is to colonize the mobile app landscape with its new Ride Request Button. Launching today, iOS and Android app developers can easily plug in a few lines of code to add a Ride Request Button to their apps that deep-links i…
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Johnny Manziel remains grounded after Browns pick Austin Davis to start | Sport | The Guardian
Johnny Manziel’s spell on the bench will continue for the time being after the Cleveland Browns coach picked Austin Davis to start at quarterback against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
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Atheer Acquires OnTheGo For Its Enterprise AR Platform | TechCrunch
Atheer, a company that builds augmented reality glasses and software for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Portland’s OnTheGo Platforms (OTG). OTG has long specialized in building a gesture recognition system that can work on any …
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The Star Wars marketing blitz is on, with everything from trailers hitting the internet to cans of food donning the likeness of characters at the supermarket. People are flat out excited to see this new installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, on …
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Fugitive is in the doghouse after cops catch her hiding in a doghouse / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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Alien Planet Observed Violently Ejected from Its Solar System
Images from the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) in the Chilean Andes and the Hubble Space Telescope show that the star has a lopsided comet belt indicative of a very disturbed solar system, and hinting that the planet interactions that roiled the comets …
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Sorry, Ted Cruz: Women Don’t Want Your ‘Rubbers’ | The Nation
Senator Ted Cruz seems a little overexcited about his latest surge in the surreal Republican primary campaign. He’s now running second in Iowa, just behind Donald Trump, and he’s tied with Ben Carson for third in the latest Quinnipiac poll.
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Facebook bows to Belgian privacy ruling over cookies – BBC News
Facebook has said that it will respond to a privacy ruling in Belgium by requiring users to log in to view pages on the site. The original ruling, made by the Belgian Privacy Commissioner (BPC) in November, relates to Facebook cookies that track the…
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Jar Jar is a Sith Lord and other alternative Star Wars theories
With the new Star Wars movie only a couple weeks away, fans and Star Wars scholars have gone into hyperdrive1 spinning alternate theories about what the series of movies are all about. The most popular such theory attempts to rehabilitate the worst …
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Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles : environment
Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles (nytimes.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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But he has a feeling! Policy needs to be based on individuals’ feelings, not those pesky objective facts!
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How Obama’s opaque administration makes it harder to cover climate change : environment
How Obama’s opaque administration makes it harder to cover climate change (thebulletin.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Record Downpours Flood South India | Al Jazeera America
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has seen its heaviest rainfall in over a century, driving thousands from their homes, shutting auto factories and paralyzing the airport in the state capital Chennai.
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How to Make a Lightsaber Hum – The Atlantic
The lightsaber is an intimate weapon. Its neon glow may be visible from afar, but the lightsaber is designed for face-to-face combat. It is personal, precise, and deliberate—emitting no haphazard pew-pew-pewing, but instead a reassuring, almost medi…
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Spike Lee Leads Anti-Gun Protest After ‘Chi-Raq’ Premiere | Rolling Stone
Following Tuesday night’s New York premiere of Spike Lee’s Chicago gun violence film Chi-Raq —held hours after embattled Windy City mayor Rahm Emanuel fired police chief Garry McCarthy for his department’s role in the 2014 shooting death of unarmed …
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Jessica Shortall: How America fails new parents — and their babies | TED Talk | TED.com
We need women to work, and we need working women to have babies. So why is America one of the only countries in the world which offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In this incisive talk, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case …
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Bernie Sanders’s ‘College for All’ Plan Is Fair, Smart and Achievable | The Nation
It is hardly news that higher education has become increasingly difficult to access for more than three decades in this country. The proximate causes also are well known: escalating costs, stagnant incomes, and a shift away from federal grants to ma…
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Reporters who have searched for, and failed to find, any trace of the video Donald J. Trump claims to have seen on Sept.
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Russia: Turkey’s President Benefit From ISIL Oil | Al Jazeera America
Sharply raising the stakes in Moscow’s spat with Ankara, Russia’s top military brass on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of personally profiting from oil trade with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISI…
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Can ‘Cute Aggression’ Inspire Actual Violence? | Atlas Obscura
Is this kitten so cute that it could inspire someone to murder it? (Image: kitty.green66/Flickr) Look at that little face! Don’t you just want to smash it?
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Sheri’s Ranch: A Look Inside a Nevada Brothel (PHOTOS)
Lamar Odom’s recent wagon-fall at Love Ranch South in Crystal, NV cast a renewed spotlight on the state’s legal sex trade. Yet the unsalacious truth remains: thousands of customers bump and grind their way through Nevada annually and without inciden…
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It’s the year of police chief firings and the latest official to fall is Chicago superintendent Garry McCarthy, who was summarily dismissed on Tuesday following the withholding and eventual release of dashcam footage of a police shooting that contra…
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Deadly floods bring Chennai to standstill – BBC News
Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) have caused serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power. At least 188 people are now known to have died in floods in Tamil Nadu state since last…
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Oklahoma police give lost donkey Squishy a ride in patrol car | US news | The Guardian
A suburban Oklahoma City police officer picked up an unusual subject found wandering along a rural road.
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After Giving Birth, These Women Were Placed in Handcuffs, Leg Irons and Waist Chains | The Nation
Crystal Degnitz’s daughter and Stephanie Reis’s son are three days apart. Both were born in August 2014 at the Westchester Medical Center, where their mothers shared a room. They’ve been in each other’s lives ever since.
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Amazon updates its Fire tablet to make it better for night readers | The Verge
If you’ve had trouble reading on your Fire tablet at night, Amazon may have a solution to your problem.
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During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Donald Trump is asked by a young boy what his life will be like should the media mogul become president.
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The Grinder is no more. Because he’s dead. You don’t even want to know what happens after that alligator roll. Last week, I talked about how The Grinder had a turned this intangible corner, from a show with potential to one that was actively rising …
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DALLAS—In an effort to comfort the recovering quarterback after a broken collarbone sidelined him for the season, Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy reportedly assured Tony Romo Wednesday that he has seen plenty of ex-girlfriends come back from…
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Win a collection of TV comedy classics on DVD, courtesy of Time Life · Contest · The A.V. Club
With the traditional fall TV season coming to an end, the networks like to fill the December abyss with “can’t-miss” events for the family that usually amount to nothing more than half-baked live musicals and pointless pageantry.
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Modesto man wins $10M lottery minutes after winning $1K
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A Modesto man’s lucky hunch paid off when he won a $1,000 lottery prize and immediately bought more tickets — winning $10 million with one of them. California lottery officials say Rodney Meadows was out running errands Nov.
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Why Need for Speed Is the Fast and Furious Game We Never Got – The Drive
Don’t let EA tell you otherwise, but Need for Speed is Fast and Furious in game form, plain and simple. The Fast and Furious franchise dropped a branded game a while back via publisher Activision to the satisfaction of precisely no one.
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Nothing more than a mere coincidence. /s It’s baffling that Americans think politicians can receive money from industries that they’re responsible for regulating and not be influenced by it. A barista gave me a free latte once and I’d probably fight…
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Obama Calls Carbon Price Better than Regulations – Scientific American
Steven Chu was meeting with the president for his “exit interview” when the outgoing Energy secretary told his boss that the best way to attack climate change is with a carbon tax. That marked a shift in thinking for the physicist who shared the Nob…
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World’s Richest 10 PC Responsible for Half of CO2 | Al Jazeera America
The world’s richest 10 percent of people are responsible for producing about half of all carbon emissions, and the average carbon footprint of the richest 1 percent is about 175 times that of the poorest 10 percent, according to a report released We…
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Someone made a playable XCOM game in Microsoft Excel | The Verge
Never underestimate the power of spreadsheets. While trying to learn Visual Basic for work, Reddit user crruzi created a top-down version of XCOM playable in Microsoft Excel.
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This Is the Hottest White Dwarf in Our Galaxy
This is a photo of nearby white dwarf Sirius B. No, not the big star at center — the little faint one just to the bottom-left.Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STSCI), AND M.
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Gun sales hit new record on Black Friday – at roughly two a second | Business | The Guardian
The FBI processed a record number of firearms background checks on Black Friday – the same day that Robert Lewis Dear allegedly killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado.
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Every Male Actor Ever Is Trying to Get Cast as the Young Han Solo
The Hollywood Reporter says about 2,500 male actors between the ages of 18-32 have either auditioned in person or put themselves on tape for the chance to play Solo in the 2018 Star Wars Story, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. It’s being hera…
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EU puts recycling on the agenda at Paris climate talks | Environment | The Guardian
Europe has put recycling on the agenda of the Paris climate talks with a raft of new waste targets to cut emissions, with its environment commissioner calling on other countries to follow the EU’s lead.
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Report: China hacked Australia’s weather service | Ars Technica
According to a government official quoted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, China is responsible for a breach at the Bureau of Meteorology, which may have allowed attackers to gain access to sensitive national security data.
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MARION, IA—Gathering around the strange object and speculating about its possible significance, scores of Iowa residents were reportedly left mystified Wednesday morning after a single sign bearing the cryptic word “Kasich” inexplicably appeared on …
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McLaren 675LT: a selection of awesome high-res wallpapers from our drive | The Verge
Jason Harper had a chance recently to spend a full day at the track with McLaren’s superlative 675LT, an ultra-limited modification of the 650S that takes everything up a notch or two.
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Watch Lego Sisyphus push a boulder, reflect on the fact that it’s only Wednesday | The Verge
Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks has created a kinetic sculpture of Sisyphus, the Greek mythological character punished to repeatedly push a boulder up a hill for eternity. As if to lighten the load, Allmen created his representation with Legos.
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Bitcoin scam charges made against companies in US – BBC News
Two US Bitcoin mining firms have been charged with running a scheme that duped more than 10,000 investors. GAW Miners and ZenMiner are accused of selling shares worth $20m (£13.3m) in mining hardware called Hashlets.
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Two More James Deen Accusers Tell All: ‘There Was So Much Blood’ – The Daily Beast
One well-known adult actress discovered, quite by accident, how to provoke James Deen with a single word. And it’s a day she’ll never forget.
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The Rocket Wars of Vrontados: A Century-Long Conflict in the Greek Islands – The Atlantic
As Easter Sunday nears, a palpable tension descends upon the Greek island of Chios. For over a century, members of the island’s two rival churches have annually taken up arms against one another as part of a conflict with uncertain origins.
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Amazon Is Developing Augmented Reality Without the Dorky Headgear | Motherboard
Virtual reality has been all over the news for years now, but judging by the patents they’ve been quietly filing, Amazon thinks the real future lies in augmented reality.
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Two months before the Iowa caucuses, Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are showing no signs of losing steam. On the Republican side, Mr. Trump has benefited from recent stumbles by Mr.
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Can Zoltan Istvan beat Hillary, Trump, and Death itself?
Zoltan Istvan is very worried about the superintelligent machines. He says the war over artificial intelligence will be worse than the Cold War nuclear arms race — much worse. It will be far more deadly, and whoever wins will control the world, eter…
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The cover-up that began 13 months ago when a Chicago police officer executed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on a busy street might well have included highly ranked officials who ordered subordinates to conceal information.
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Christie’s to Auction Omega Watches Flown in Space and to the Moon
An Omega Speedmaster flown to the moon on Apollo 17 and kept by astronaut Ron Evans as a memento will be sold on Dec. 15 as a part of Christie’s Omega Speedmaster 50 auction.Credit: collectSPACE.
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New York Public Housing Plans To Publicly Shame And Ban Tenants Suspected Of Crimes | ThinkProgress
As New York City tries to chip away at its homelessness crisis, a plan is underway to make it more difficult for people accused of committing crimes to find affordable homes.
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Canada PM under fire for nannies and child care – BBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed he was using public money to pay for nannies to look after his children. During Mr Trudeau’s campaign, he criticised the Conservative Party’s approach to child care be…
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Starbucks Launches A Delivery Service In Partnership With Postmates | TechCrunch
Making good on an announcement from earlier this year, Starbucks and Postmates have now teamed up to launch a pilot program that will see the on-demand delivery service powering deliveries for the Seattle-headquartered coffee chain.
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Hollywood execs held a secret meeting to discuss gender inequality | The Verge
Dozens of big names in the entertainment industry held a secret meeting in October to devise a plan to begin fixing the gender imbalance in Hollywood, Deadline reports.
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A Time for Fateful Decisions | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War.
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The Attention Economy And The War Over Measurement | TechCrunch
Content that gets delivered digitally should be measured digitally.
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The Futility of Robert Dear’s Attack on Planned Parenthood – The Atlantic
During the Second Intifada in Israel in 2000, one way Palestinian militants lashed out against Israelis was by blowing themselves up on public buses. Tourism to Israel slowed to a trickle during this tense time, so two economists wondered whether th…
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How to Protect Yourself from “Malvertising” on the Web
In the never-ending battle against security threats on the internet, there’s a new enemy spreading rapidly: Malvertising, or malware downloaded to your computer when you view an ad, even if you use an ad blocker.
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China’s Space Prowess Could Challenge Decades of US Dominance: Report
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) recently released its 2015 annual report to Congress, and it includes an intriguing look at the China’s space and counterspace programs.
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Agents of SHIELD Is the Crazy Epic That Every Other Show Wishes It Could Be
We’re living in a freaking golden age of superhero television shows right now, especially if you count things like Netflix. But even with such a wealth of amazing stuff hitting our screens lately, Agents of SHIELD feels pretty unique. And last night…
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Atlassian isn’t just preparing to IPO, it’s also launching an update to its Git-based Bitbucket service today that will make it easier for developers to ship their code to some of the most popular cloud services.
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A Glimpse At Tomorrow’s Electromagnetic Spectrum Weapons – Defense One
In conflict zones from Europe to the Middle East, the electromagnetic spectrum has assumed a central place on the modern battlefield. In eastern Ukraine, Russian-backed forces have used sophisticated jamming and interception tactics to undermine com…
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Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Infection From Hair Tie On Wrist
Audree Kopp noticed a growing bump on her wrist when she was moving into a new home three weeks ago. Kopp’s family doctor gave her antibiotics, but the bump continued to grow. She decided to go to the emergency room.
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Right-Wing Rhetoric Draws Blood
A Thanksgiving holiday marred by shootings should remind us that our biggest terrorist threat comes not from Syrian refugees fleeing extremist violence, but from homegrown right-wing extremists.
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Asana Poaches Diversity Manager From Facebook | TechCrunch
Asana just announced that it’s hired Sonja Gittens-Ottley, formerly of Facebook, to serve as the productivity startup’s first-ever head of diversity and inclusion.
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Boko Haram crisis: Cameroon troops ‘free 900 hostages’ – BBC News
Troops have freed 900 hostages captured by the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Cameroon’s defence minister has announced. Joseph Beti Assomo said his forces had also killed around 100 Boko Haram members at the end of November.
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SpaceX May Try Land-Based Rocket Landing This Month, NASA Official Says – Scientific American
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, for their third official Commercial Resupply (CRS) mission to the orbiting lab on April 18, 2014.
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Do you ever look at someone and wonder what’s going on inside their head? – GIF on Imgur
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The interviews, speeches and tweets of outspoken tycoon-turned-presidential-candidate Donald Trump have been transformed into what publisher HarperCollins is calling a “treasury of spoken poetry”.
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Why did President Obama Just Commit $30 Million for Climate Risk Insurance? | ThinkProgress
This week at the U.N. climate conference in Paris, President Obama announced that the United States would be contributing $30 million to climate risk insurance initiatives in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and Africa.
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The scene: a theater in Glasgow. Rows of fold-down seats tier up from a stage where a young woman looking like a DJ stands behind a console. The venue is best known for its pantomimes, musical productions and interviews with respected authors, but t…
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Russia: Turkish President benefits from ISIL oil deals – Al Jazeera English
Russia has upped its dispute with Turkey further by claiming to have evidence that proves President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group…
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Afghan Taliban leader Mansour ‘wounded in gunfight’ – BBC News
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been wounded in a gunfight at a meeting of militants in the Pakistani city of Quetta, reports say. The Taliban’s spokesman denied that the firefight took place.
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What Can You Actually Do With Your Fancy Gene-Editing Technology? – The Atlantic
“The unthinkable has become conceivable,” said David Baltimore from the California Institute of Technology, at a historic summit on human gene editing currently taking place in Washington DC.
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The Unofficial Facebook Advanced Search Engine | TechCrunch
Facebook doesn’t have an easy-to-use advanced search engine, so one guy built his own. “Search Is Back” lets you use familiar drop-down menus to find people by city, relationship status, school, first name, and more. Plus you can search for photos, …
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Global soil loss increases threat to food production : environment
Global soil loss increases threat to food production (briefmedia.news)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Guantanamo Bay prisoner victim of mistaken identity, says US – BBC News
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner locked up for 13 years has been found to be a victim of mistaken identity, originally thought to be a member of al-Qaeda.US officials said in a new report that Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri was a low-level Islamic fighter rath…
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California Man Wins Two Big Lottery Prizes Back-to-Back | Vanity Fair
Some people have all the luck. Other people have all the luck, back-to-back. Rodney Meadows, a Modesto, California, man, falls into the latter category, after he scored a $10 million lottery prize just moments after he scratched off a $1,000 one.
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Amy Schumer Has a Very Specific Sexual Fantasy Involving Tom Brady | Rolling Stone
Tom Brady may not be undefeated anymore, but that won’t stop Amy Schumer from fantasizing about him.
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New York City is swapping its gas-guzzling government sedans for clean electric ones | The Verge
New York City announced Tuesday it plans to replace a portion of its city-owned fleet of fossil-fuel sedans with plug-in electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt by 2025. The plan is to swap out 2,000 vehicles, or almost a quarter of th…
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Monty Python, Mad Max, and More
Amazon can’t deliver this Monty Python and the Holy Grail Blu-ray by drone (yet), but hopefully, they’ll tie it between a couple of swallows and send it straight to your front door. [Monty Python and the Holy Grail 40th Anniversary Edition, $10]
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50 Cent to Play Himself in Comedy Series ‘My Friend 50’ | Rolling Stone
50 Cent to Play Himself in Comedy Series ‘My Friend 50’ Potential Fox show will follow “unstable twentysomething” attempting to break in rapper-actor’s entourage
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‘Kylie Jenner, wow, being in a wheelchair is so fun and fashionable!’ – BBC News
Reality TV star Kylie Jenner has angered some disabled people, by posing in a gold wheelchair for a fashion shoot. The image was one of several showing the able-bodied television personality – famous for the series Keeping up with the Kardashians – …
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Chris Stapleton Talks ‘Wonderfully Strange’ Number One LP | Rolling Stone
When Chris Stapleton’s debut album, Traveller, hit Number One on the charts in November, no one was more surprised than Stapleton himself. “It’s wonderfully strange — not something I ever expected,” says the 37-year-old country singer.
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The Untold Story of Bernie Sanders’ 1987 Folk Album | Rolling Stone
The year was 1987. President Reagan was embroiled in the Iran-Contra scandal, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were tangling at Wrestlemania III, and a young(ish) Bernie Sanders was launching his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
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Tales of an Eritrean fighter-photographer – Al Jazeera English
Vanessa Berhe’s mother tried hard to teach her daughter about the rich culture and history of her ancestral home.
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How Humans Evolved to Become Moral Animals – The Atlantic
Nearly 150 years ago, Charles Darwin proposed that morality was a byproduct of evolution, a human trait that arose as natural selection shaped man into a highly social species—and the capacity for morality, he argued, lay in small, subtle difference…
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Border Characters | The Nation
Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World (And Other Stories; Paper $13.95) is a deceptively small book—barely a hundred pages, with generous margins—and its prose is baked dry and hard, picked clean like a body left out in the desert.
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Prince Harry talks to rangers in Kruger national park – video | UK news | The Guardian
Prince Harry visits Kruger national park in South Africa and talks to rangers about rhino poaching. He is shown a recently slaughtered female rhino and her calf. The 31-year-old has released videos from his three-month trip to the country, where he …
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United Airlines Is Giving Its 6,000 Customer Service Reps The iPhone 6 Plus | TechCrunch
Apple has advanced its relationship with United after the airline announced plans to outfit its 6,000 or so customer service reps with the iPhone 6 Plus. United has long been a flagship customer of Apple’s.
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Steven Spielberg: Harrison Ford will never be replaced as Indiana Jones | Film | The Guardian
Steven Spielberg has denied rumours that Indiana Jones might be played by someone other than Harrison Ford in the future. In an interview with Screen International, the Oscar-winning director has said that no other actor would be able to take on the…
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Mass shooting in US revives debate on mental illness – Al Jazeera English
US House Speaker Paul Ryan has stressed the need to reform the country’s mental health care system in light of the shooting attack at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado that killed three people and injured nine others.
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Schedule Catch-Up Days for Next Year Right Now
We all have a “catch-up” list. This is a list of tasks we need to accomplish, but we just don’t have time for: get an oil change, sign up for a retirement account, sell your old tech…the list never seems to end.
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State Of The Union address pushes back Agent Carter season premiere · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Joining the list of this week’s bad PR moves, the White House has decided to move up the date of the State Of The Union, prompting ABC to push back the season two premiere of Marvel’s Agent Carter.
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The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) neon movie poster Using the art of “one point perspective” (an approach to art that began as early as the 15th century in Europe that utilizes a “vanishing point” on the horizon point of the image) two Italian twi…
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Jenny Odell mined San Francisco’s trash for treasures | Fusion
This summer, I was an artist in residence at a dump. That might sound strange. Why would an artist spend three and a half months among objects so unwanted, unappealing, and unloved that they had been thrown away? But I am not the first.
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The U.S. and Europe Are Mostly to Blame for the Climate Conundrum: The future emissions of China and India are of huge global concern, but richer countries are responsible for most of the carbon dioxide humans have added to the atmosphere (technolog…
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Order a copy of Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib, 300 pages of political cartoons, comics journalism and essays out this month.
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UK Parliament Debates Over Striking ISIL in Syria | Al Jazeera America
An intense debate in the British Parliament was playing out Wednesday ahead of a vote over whether the United Kingdom will authorize airstrikes against ISIL targets in Syria.
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There was dancing in front of Chicago Police headquarters on 35th and Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday evening. People were celebrating, in part, because Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired earlier that day.
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An Ancient Nessie? Long-Neck Dinos Once Prowled Scottish Lagoon – Scientific American
Hundreds of dinosaur footprints and handprints dating to 170 million years ago adorn the shore on the Isle of Skye, making it the largest dinosaur site ever discovered in Scotland, a new study finds.
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Yahoo considers sale of Internet business, but it isn’t worth much | Ars Technica
Web pioneer Yahoo may sell its core business, as the company’s latest turnaround efforts continue to stall, The Wall Street Journal reported last night.
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Wladimir Klitschko takes up his option for a rematch with new world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the latest version.
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Gun TV: home shopping channel aims to sell weapons to viewers | US news | The Guardian
A new home shopping channel will launch in the US early in 2016. It will be called, simply, Gun TV. TV home shopping is synonymous with flashy jewellery, home décor and bargain accessories you never knew you needed. But Gun TV’s specialty will be ex…
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A Peruvian farmer is suing an energy giant over climate change | The Verge
In a legal challenge well timed to coincide with the Paris climate talks, the guide, Saul Luciano Lliuya, filed a lawsuit last Tuesday against German energy giant RWE for its contribution to climate change.
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to give away 99% of shares – BBC News
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announce the birth of their daughter Max. Mr Zuckerberg made the announcement in a letter to Max on his Facebook…
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Poetry Trust closure puts Aldeburgh poetry festival in doubt | Books | The Guardian
The future of the long-running Aldeburgh poetry festival is in doubt after the Poetry Trust announced overnight that, because of funding shortfalls, all of its staff were leaving and its offices were closing.
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Watching Cops Can Be Harmful to Your Health | New Republic
When the video of four cops beating Rodney King nearly to death swept the country in 1991, it marked the first time many Americans had seen police brutality up close.
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CHICAGO—After remarking upon the frigid temperatures and blustery conditions during his walk into work this morning, Michael Halloran, an adjunct professor of communications and media studies, expressed hope Wednesday that one of his students would …
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IKEA Designs Refugee Shelters – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The IKEA Foundation has announced its plan to aid Syrian refugees by unveiling a line of ready-to-assemble temporary shelters that feature steel frames and locking doors, with reps saying the product is a small step toward “allowing displaced people…
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Black Friday Sets New Record in Gun Sales, Background Checks, Despair | Vanity Fair
While Black Friday sales sank throughout the U.S. last week, there’s at least one bright spot for the American economy: guns! Lots of guns! So many guns, in fact, that firearms retailers processed the highest number of background checks in a single …
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The Football Player’s Brain That Sparked the NFL’s Concussion Crisis – The Atlantic
Mike Webster’s death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games—220 of them—than any other player in Steelers history.
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Sandra Bullock Has Adopted Her Second Child | Vanity Fair
In 2010, shortly after winning an Oscar for best actress for The Blind Side and separating from husband Jesse James, a surprise People magazine exclusive revealed that Sandra Bullock had adopted a three-and-a-half-month-old boy, Louis Bardo, born in…
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The best drink books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
If you mention the word wine to most people, it will probably conjure up images of merriment: wining and dining, wine, women and song. Wine o’clock. For some reason that sense of fun rarely translates into books on wine. They tend to be as dry as ch…
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Steve Coleman Works the Connections | The Nation
In a time of fear-peddling talk of walls to keep peoples separated, the composer Steve Coleman reminds us of the beauty in cultural commingling.
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Flattened for a Price | The Nation
After the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War and the erosion of the city-state in ancient Greece, Diogenes of Sinope was asked what city he considered to be his home.
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The best food books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
You wait years for a decent chicken cookbook to come along, then two arrive at once: Catherine Phipps’s Chicken (Ebury) and Diana Henry’s A Bird in the Hand (Octopus). Eggs are next, apparently, with four egg cookbooks slated for 2016. Both the chic…
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Uncanny Valley is a super stylish short film about how VR will destroy us | The Verge
It’s a sad fact that despite the huge wave of virtual reality hype we’re currently in, our generation doesn’t have its Strange Days or Lawnmower Man or any other stylish blockbuster about the dangers of VR.
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Fetal abduction: brutal attacks against expectant mothers on the rise in US | US news | The Guardian
Ashleigh Wade liked to refer to herself on Facebook as her boyfriend’s “pregnant girlfriend”. The couple posted sonogram images, boasting of their forthcoming baby girl, and had set up a registry for friends to buy them baby gifts.
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During its next flight SpaceX wants to try returning booster to land | Ars Technica
SpaceX’s ambitions are nothing if not oversized. Not content with just trying to come back from the June failure of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX will also try to return that booster to land for the first time later this month.
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Plastic injection molding is fascinating?
Yes, yes, it is fascinating. At least when Bill Hammack, aka Engineer Guy, explains how it all works. Don’t miss the bit at the end for how quietly ingenious Lego’s injection molding process is. (via digg)
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Fran Lebowitz Knows What to Do with All Those Empty Oligarch Apartment | Vanity Fair
From the late-night circuit and an HBO documentary to her essays and speaking engagements, Fran Lebowitz has never shied away from a controversial topic. And in this new video, she takes on New York’s much-discussed homelessness problem and immigrat…
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Juneau residents ‘stunned’ after Alaska capital’s mayor found dead in home | US news | The Guardian
The mayor of Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, wanted to make his community one of the greatest small cities in the country. Seventy-year-old Greg Fisk had defeated an incumbent by a wide margin in Juneau’s municipal election just two months ago.
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An update rolling out now to owners of Amazon Fire tablets promises more features aimed at allowing parents to better monitor and manage their children’s screen time, as well as a new “Blue Shade” nighttime reading mode that will allow you to comfor…
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Russia: Young artists swap paintings for food – BBC News
Fifteen young artists in Russia have held an auction where they exchanged paintings for food. One picture went for 180kg (400lb) of buckwheat, while another fetched 50kg of sugar at the event held in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
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Block Off Time for “Deep Work” to Make Headway on Your Biggest Projects
Setting aside time to focus on projects that require intense concentration can be tough if your day is filled with meetings, emails, and shoulder tapping from colleagues. Scheduling blocks of time to dedicate to this “deep work” can help you make mo…
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High in the Andes, A Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City
For a woman intent on moving an entire city, fifty-six-year old Congresswoman Gloria Ramos Prudencio, barely five feet tall, looks unassuming. Her city is Cerro de Pasco, population 70,000. Perched on the treeless Peruvian altiplano at 14,200 feet, …
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Horrid Henry’s Revenge by Francesca Simon – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Horrid Henry is very naughty on his family’s computer and lots of horrid things happen. I find the plot interesting. Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter are the worst brothers together. In my opinion, Horrid Henry is my favourite. I like him because he i…
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So apparently phonetically speaking the line from Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” “And now you do what they told ya” sounds an awful lot like “Break the chicken nuggets, daddy” in Japanese.
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An Exclusive, Creepy Look at the Next Edition of Cautionary Fables and Fairytales!
We’ve written about Kel McDonald’s Cautionary Fables and Fairytales (the comics anthology that retells mythic tales from around the world) before, but now McDonald and a crack new team of artists are back with a whole new edition inspired by Asian f…
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Whales Die From Bizarre Cause: Fish Stuck in Blowhole
A fish-versus-whale battle seems like no contest. But two whales learned otherwise when common soles became lodged either in or just below their blowholes, slowly suffocating them to death.
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Hollywood Über Alles: Jello Biafra’s acting demo reel|Dangerous Minds
In addition to having been the frontperson of one of the greatest American punk bands, Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra is known as a spoken word performer, record label executive, activist, and prankster. He’s also sometimes an actor—his first major rol…
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Catalan independence: Spain court blocks bill – BBC News
Spain’s Constitutional Court has revoked Catalonia’s parliamentary motion that set in motion a process of unilaterally breaking away from the rest of the country. Catalonia’s parliament passed the resolution in November, aiming to establish a republ…
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Members of Congress Have $68 Million of Their Own Cash Riding on This Industry. A classic conflict of interest? No, it’s legal. (motherjones.com) In 2012 Congress singed the STOCK act .
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“Ridiculously, earth-shatteringly stupid”: “Daily Show” unloads on GOP’s anti-science, climate-denying brigade – As serious world leaders discuss climate change in Paris, Trevor Noah focuses on our planet-threatening naysayers (salon.com)submitted 3…
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This Week On Bullish: Online.edu | TechCrunch
Hello friends, and welcome to Bullish. This week we take a look at online education, a large and diverse space that extends learning to those who might find it inaccessible and locks in some students with high debt loads and limited career prospects.
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One of the overwhelming lessons of the post-2008 crisis has been that fiscal multipliers are large when monetary policy can’t offset the effects of spending cuts — which is what basic macroeconomics told us should be true, and is.
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Days After Being Attacked, Planned Parenthood Opens A New Health Clinic | ThinkProgress
Less than a week after a gunman opened fire in one of its clinics in Colorado, Planned Parenthood opened a new health center in California — a move that the organization’s leaders say will hopefully help communicate that they’re not going anywhere.
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France’s top diplomat Laurent Fabius, presiding over 195-nation talks for a UN climate pact, urged negotiators on Wednesday to pick up the pace so as to finish the job by 11 December.
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Terrorism Science: 5 Insights into Jihad in Europe – Scientific American
Strasbourg, France – January 11, 2015: People hold placards reading ‘Je suis Charlie’ during a unity rally in Strasbourg, France, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks on January 7, 2015.
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Cameroon frees hundreds of Boko Haram hostages – Al Jazeera English
Cameroon’s army, with backing from a regional anti-Boko Haram task force, have killed at least 100 fighters from the Nigerian armed group and freed 900 people it had held hostage, the army and defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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Chinese Media Says Criminals Hacked OPM, Not Government Spies | Motherboard
Just when people were starting to forget about the catastrophic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack—which saw the details of at least 32 million spies and federal employees land in the laps of suspected Chinese government hackers—someone comes…
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Bono Sings With Miley Cyrus at Stirring World AIDS Day Show | Rolling Stone
Bono Sings With Miley Cyrus at Stirring World AIDS Day Show Trevor Noah, Joe Biden, Sting and more also appear at Carnegie Hall in support of ONE and (RED)
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How ‘Racing Extinction’ Could Save the World | Rolling Stone
Ten years ago, filmmaker Louie Psihoyos was researching ocean degradation when he crossed paths with activist Ric O’Barry, the man responsible for training TV’s most famous cetacean, Flipper.
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Watch Bono Hype (RED) Campaign, Joke About Bike Injury on ‘Kimmel’ | Rolling Stone
With its special Tuesday episode, Jimmy Kimmel Live! helped launch (RED) Shopathon, which is raising money for the battle against AIDS by offering celebrity experiences to winning donors through the Omaze platform.
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Kid Cudi cancels tour, releases a new song · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Citing production troubles and personal issues, Kid Cudi has canceled his “Especial” tour. The news comes less than a month after the Cleveland-born rapper announced the 16-city tour, which would have included stops in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, an…
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Chris Brown Australia Tour Canceled Due to Rihanna Assault | Rolling Stone
Chris Brown’s upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand has officially been canceled after immigration authorities in Australia declined to grant the singer a visa. The promoters of Brown’s five-day tour confirmed the cancellation in a statement th…
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Kip Moore Extends Wild Ones Tour into 2016 | Rolling Stone
If 2015 follows his usual pattern, Kip Moore will close out the year with a trip to some tropical destination for some worry-free surfing, where he can recharge his batteries following a busy season that included the release of his acclaimed album W…
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Planned Parenthood Leader Speaks After Tragedy: ‘We Will Rebuild’ | Rolling Stone
Vicki Cowart’s Friday started like many of ours: She spent the morning taking advantage of the pre-holiday quiet to clear some work off her to-do list.
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Chris Janson on Breakout Year and Blake Shelton Tour: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
A year ago this week, Janson was in Las Vegas doing precisely that, playing a string of nightly shows to a sometimes sparse crowd of National Finals Rodeo fans outside of a casino on the Strip.
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Where’s Me a Dog? Here’s You a Dog: The South’s Most Unusual Regionalism | Atlas Obscura
Here’s you a dog! (Photo: A_Peach/Flickr) Regions of America have their own grammar, just like they have their own vocabulary.
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25 Great Pop Music Publicity Photos From The 1980s – Flashbak
Can you remember the bands and solo pop music acts in the publicity stills below? Better yet, can you hum one of their hits? Kate Pierson Press Photo B-52’s, Warner Bros. Records/USA (1980)
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The wealthiest dozen Americans own more than the bottom half : politics
That shower of sweet, liquid gold…. Oh wait…
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Schools are more than brick-and-mortar buildings children attend during the day to learn; for many families, they’re community centers, too.
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Police in Kern County, California, Kill Residents at the Highest Rate in the U.S. – The Atlantic
Last month, almost 200 people gathered on a street in Bakersfield, California, to protest the police killing of James De La Rosa, who was not carrying a weapon when tased and shot by four police officers. Cops shooting a man dead didn’t surprise loc…
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Ted Cruz Has Marco Rubio’s Number | New Republic
After the conservative movement defeated immigration reform in Congress two years ago, transforming the issue from one of great promise for Marco Rubio to an enduring liability, the Florida senator realized he had a problem with the right.
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Russia Accuses Turkish President of Profiting From Oil Trade With ISIS – The Atlantic
The tensions between Russia and Turkey show no sign of abating, with Anatoly Antonov, the Russian defense minister, repeating the allegation that Turkey trades oil with the Islamic State—and taking it one step further: accusing President Recep Tayyi…
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The South Downs national park authority has pleaded with Google to reinstate it on the internet giant’s mapping service, after Britain’s newest national park disappeared from Google Maps for the fourth time.
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Hollywood, California Über Alles: Jello Biafra’s acting demo reel|Dangerous Minds
In addition to having been the frontperson of one of the greatest American punk bands, Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra is known as a spoken word performer, record label executive, activist, and prankster. He’s also sometimes an actor—his first major rol…
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The Real Roots of the Rising Right | New Republic
Rank-and-file Democrats have had a fairly bad run politically since the 2008 elections. They lost the House of Representatives in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. They’ve lost more than 900 state legislative seats, 30 state legislative chambers, and ele…
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Valbuena sex-tape: Benzema says scandal a ‘misunderstanding’ – BBC News
French footballer Karim Benzema has said allegations he was part of a sex tape blackmail plot are “all a huge misunderstanding”, reports say. Mr Benzema is due to speak on TV later about the scandal involving his France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena.
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This DIY Bourbon Concoction Will Soothe Your Scratchy Throat
‘Tis the season for colds and coughs, but it’s also the season of hot toddies, and the latter has been known to help ease the pain of the former.
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Save Up to 20% on Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions, Today Only
If you’re a creative professional, or would like to become one, Adobe’s taking up to 20% off their Creative Cloud subscription plans today, granting you access to one or all of their industry standard applications.
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Donald Trump’s terrorism solution: ‘Take out their families’
How hard on terrorists would a President Donald Trump be? Kid-killing hard: “But we’re fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families,” Trump said.
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You’re evaluating candidates for an open job in your company, and you come across one who makes a big impression. He’s clearly brilliant — maybe smarter than any of the others. He’s a whirlwind of energy. And man oh man can he give a presentation.
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The Louvre comes to Abu Dhabi | Kanishk Tharoor | News | The Guardian
When they are finally completed, both the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will be almost entirely surrounded by water.
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The great Facebook giveaway – how will it work? – BBC News
So Facebook founder, Mark Zuckberg is funding what should turn out to be one of the world’s most well-endowed charitable organisations, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with the aim of “advancing human potential and promoting equality for all childre…
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The ancient art of “moving the goalposts” has always played a central role in public communication around climate change and sustainability. The first rule of climate obfuscation is not to be too blatant, as out-and-out greenwash tends to be challen…
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Al-Qaeda seizes key Yemeni towns from pro-Hadi forces – Al Jazeera English
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters have consolidated their grip on territory in southern Yemen after capturing the towns of Zinjibar and Ja’ar from pro-government forces. The AQAP fighters launched an offensive on the towns at dawn on…
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‘The Martian’ DVD and Blu-ray is Coming Soon | Teaser Trailer
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World’s richest 10 percent produce 50% of CO2 : environment
World’s richest 10 percent produce 50% of CO2 (ibnlive.com)submitted 59 minutes ago by loading…
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Orbital ATK to launch first resupply mission since 2014 rocket explosion | The Verge
This week, Orbital ATK is scheduled to launch its first spacecraft since its rocket exploded on the launch pad last October. On Thursday the private company plans to send up more than 7,000 pounds of food, water, and supplies for the crew members of…
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New Report Finds That Problems With Adopted Children Multiply Over Time – The Atlantic
There is something temptingly tidy about the idea of adoption: a family with extra love and resources meets a child in desperate need of both. The happy ending almost writes itself.
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Skip to main content Children’s books My Little Book of Big Freedoms by Chris Riddell and Amnesty – in pictures Children’s laureate Chris Riddell has created a beautiful book for Amnesty about human rights – the rules that belong to all of us and lo…
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A Human Thrashed Three AI Bots at Starcraft | Motherboard
Those afraid of the robot apocalypse can rest easy, if this year’s 6th annual AIIDE StarCraft AI competition is anything to go by. The bots can’t yet beat us at a video game.
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Eritrea conscription still indefinite, says Amnesty – BBC News
Conscription in Eritrea continues to be indefinite despite the government saying last year it would be limited to 18 months, Amnesty International says. The compulsory service, which often lasts decades, is the main reason cited by those who flee th…
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Can Fake Rhino Horn Stop the Poaching of an Endangered Species?
Fake rhino horn cell phone cases coming to a store near you? It may sound strange, but that’s what one San Francisco-based startup has in mind—and it thinks such products can save the animals.
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COP21: Vanuatu voices from disappearing islands – BBC News
Vanuatu is on the front line in the climate change debate, with rising sea levels putting the very future of the low-lying archipelago in jeopardy.
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Amy, Going Clear and He Named Me Malala top 2016 Oscars documentary shortlist | Film | The Guardian
A clutch of the year’s leading documentaries have emerged as Oscar frontrunners after Ampas (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) revealed its 15-strong shortlist for the best documentary award.
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[ Pictured in the image above, Carlton Ott, Clark Rice, Steve Hamm, Steve Parrish, David Jay, Michael Magrino, Dewayne Herring, Andy Hughes, Gary Coleman, and Scott Smith ] HUNDREDS OF CASES PROSECUTED WITH PLANTED EVIDENCE, MANY WRONGLY CONVICTED…
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Social ScienceAccording to a new Harvard Business School paper, toxic workers are so damaging to the bottom line that avoiding them or rooting them out delivers twice the value to a company that hiring a superstar performer does. (news.harvard.edu)
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What Is A ‘Space Shuttle’? — Ratter — “Heyday in Tabloids”
“What Is” is a weekly series that explores early media descriptions of an object, genre, or concept. See the archives here.
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Baghdad, Arizona: Where Iraqi Pilots Learn to Fight ISIS
Over four days in early September, Iraqi fighter pilots carried out fifteen air strikes against Islamic State targets in Salah ad Din and Kirkuk provinces, just north of Baghdad. The story didn’t get much play.
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Teaching AI to Play Atari Will Help Robots Make Sense of Our World | WIRED
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, and Breakout. And they’re getting pretty good.
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Patent trolls filed hundreds of lawsuits to beat Dec. 1 deadline | Ars Technica
New patent lawsuits hit an all-time high in November, with many plaintiffs likely hoping to avoid new pleading rules that came into effect yesterday. A whopping 790 lawsuits were filed last month, with at least 212 filed on a single day: Monday, Nov…
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Review: Chi-Raq is Spike Lee’s larger-than-life love letter to Chicago | The Verge
When Spike Lee came to Chicago in April 2015 to discuss plans for his film Chi-Raq, Mayor Rahm Emanuel requested a meeting where he and other Chicago politicians expressed their strong disapproval of the film’s title.
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Mossberg: An encryption backdoor is a bad idea | The Verge
Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.
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The SOHO Satellite Has Been Staring at the Sun for 20 Years | Motherboard
This space observatory missed the memo that you’re not supposed to look directly at the Sun.
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HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive | Ars Technica
Western Digital’s HGST division has released the world’s first helium-filled 10TB hard drive for everyday use—assuming you have about £600 burning a hole in your pocket, anyway.
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Polling update: Trump surges as Carson tanks, Democratic race static
“Donald Trump’s support is shallow (only 1/3rd of Republicans), but strong and steady, and he’s maxed out. Ben Carson will crater and Ted Cruz will pick up his support. Marco Rubio will consolidate the establishment support but trail in the low teen…
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More Hints About The Reason Why Captain America Turns Against Iron Man In Civil War!
Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford talk returning to Star Wars. New Game of Thrones details tease a new leader for the Night’s Watch. Steven Moffat teases the Doctor Who season finale. Plus, descriptions of X-Men Apocalypse’s incoming teaser, and a new c…
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Harnessing the Chaos of the Cosmic Microwave Background for Better Encryption | Motherboard
Producing good random numbers is a real pain in the ass. For one thing, they’re never really all that random and will eventually always, after many iterations, reveal some stamp of their source via recurring patterns, probabilistic distributions, an…
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Republicans deserve some blame for the Planned Parenthood shooting “The organization’s activities have been so mischaracterized, and the practice of providing fetal tissue so overblown and so manipulated by lawmakers and politicians, that blame for …
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How Ted Cruz’s Reckless New Terrorism Bill Would Actually Make Us Less Safe | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to consider a measure that, under the guise of revoking the citizenship of terrorists, would in fact harm national security by interfering with and exposing terrorism investigations. The first …
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The editor of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel A Little Life has taken to the pages of the New York Review of Books to defend his author from a review that claimed the novel “duped” its readers “into confusing anguish and ecstasy, pleasure and p…
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Democrats urge Paul Ryan to call time on Planned Parenthood inquiry | US news | The Guardian
Democrats have raised the pressure on Republicans to disband a special inquiry into Planned Parenthood as officials at the organization assert a link between Friday’s deadly shooting at Colorado Springs health clinic and incendiary investigations by…
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Winter moments: share your photographs and videos | Environment | The Guardian
You recently shared the fantastic colours of Autumn from around the world with us. With December signalling the start of Winter, we’d like you to share your photographs of the season wherever you are in the world.
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Gitmo Prisoner Is Victim of Mistaken Identity | Al Jazeera America
Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamini has been held at the U.S. base as an enemy combatant without charge for over 13 years after his capture in Afghanistan.
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So-called “Super coral” in Western Australia’s north is more resistant to fluctuations in temperature, providing researchers with hope they may recover faster from bleaching events linked to global warming. (abc.net.au)
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Paris climate talks: Indian officials accuse OECD of exaggerating climate aid – Economic ministry paper says OECD claims about the amount of money mobilised to help developing nations adapt to climate change are ‘deeply flawed’ (theguardian.com)subm…
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Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into Indian Ocean floor to try to get below Earth’s crust for 1st time – There have been attempts to drill before, but none successful. They’ll sample rock from mantle – its deep interior & check ass…
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Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside thei– – GIF on Imgur
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When you see a dumb-ass comment and want to respond tactfully. – GIF on Imgur
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CoreOS Steps Up Security For Its Tectonic Container Management Service | TechCrunch
As containers become more popular as a way to develop and deploy software, it’s quickly becoming clear that ensuring the security of container deployments isn’t always easy.
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3 Ways to Be a Better Gift Giver – Scientific American
One of the best gifts I ever received was from my long-distance friend Kelly. When my second daughter arrived and life was thrown into that special brand of chaos that only parents with a toddler plus a newborn can know, a huge box arrived at the do…
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Pay what you want for the ultimate learn to code bundle / Boing Boing
Beat the average price to take home the complete learn to code bundle, covering all major programming languages and frameworks. Plus part of what you pay will go to Project HOPE, promoting wellness and saving lives around the globe. It’s the gift th…
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After Safe Harbor ruling, legal moves to stop Facebook from sending data to US | Ars Technica
The Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has sent complaints to the data protection agencies in three EU countries—Ireland, Germany, and Belgium—asking them to suspend the flow of personal data from Facebook’s operations in Ireland to the US.
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Race Colors New Residents’ Views of Local Businesses – Scientific American
A lot of formerly low-income neighborhoods are becoming gentrified. The people moving in bring money—and racial biases. Which contribute to them viewing their new surroundings differently depending on the race of those who traditionally live there.
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The House Just Voted To Overrule America’s Biggest Action On Climate Change | ThinkProgress
The House passed two joint resolutions Tuesday to kill the Clean Power Plan, the Obama Administration’s rule to restrict carbon emissions from the electricity sector. The resolutions passed 242-180 and 235-188 and will now head to the White House.
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New diabetes cases finally on the decline | Ars Technica
After more than a quarter of a century of rising diabetes rates, the number of new cases seems to be on a downward trend. From 1980 to 2009, the annual number of new diabetes cases more than tripled in the US, going from 493,000 to 1.7 million diagn…
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Ah, the awkward musician cameo on a network sitcom. It was only a matter of time before Fresh Off The Boat went there.
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Nomi Noël: get your holiday jollies with ’Santa Klaus Nomi’|Dangerous Minds
As ridiculous single-serving Twitter accounts go, “Santa Klaus Nomi” is worth a look.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Essential climate variables: Land cover
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Sophie Bontemps of UC Louvain, Belgium, explains the importance of land cover as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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Violent crimes don’t seem to be politically driven. If you want to play the blame game, further dividing the people, to solve nothing then by all means go ahead. Liberals selling babies body parts. Conservatives defending police brutality.
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Google ‘stores children’s data’ – civil liberties group – BBC News
Google collects schoolchildren’s personal data, including internet searches, a civil liberties group says. In a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said the alleged practice broke both Google …
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Adele’s “Hello”: The Marching Band Cover Version | Vanity Fair
Is Adele’s “Hello” really the song you imagine pumping up the crowd during halftime at a football game? Not really, unless that entire crowd is wearing fur coats and elaborate eyeliner, and has a bone to pick with all of their exes.
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U.K. Debates Air Strikes Against ISIS in Syria – The Atlantic
Britain’s House of Commons has begun a 10-hour debate that will end in a vote on whether the U.K. should expand its air strikes against the Islamic State from Iraq to Syria. How is the vote likely to proceed?
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – The Sun today
The Sun as seen through SOHO’s extreme-ultraviolet imaging telescope at 01:06 GMT today, on the 20th anniversary of the satellite’s launch. The instrument images the Sun’s atmosphere at different wavelengths, showing solar material at different temp…
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The Air In Your Office Is Making You Bad At Your Job
Everyone knows that too much carbon dioxide is bad. It warms our planet, raises sea levels, and generally wreaks havoc on our environment (why leaders all over the world have gathered in Paris this week to talk about carbon emissions).
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Deodorize Your Dishwasher with Leftover Citrus Peels
You can do all kinds of cool things with citrus peels other than tossing them. Next time you peel an orange, lemon, or grapefruit, toss those peels in your dishwasher.
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Is Big Oil the New Big Tobacco? – Bloomberg Business
There’s Joe Camel, retired tobacco spokes-animal, suave as ever in a tuxedo, cigarette dangling from his smiling snout. In his hand, a pack of smokes with a twist — an Exxon Mobil Corp. logo on the wrapper. “Big Oil: The New Big Tobacco,” reads the…
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Ho Ho Ho!!! The EZ Bake God’s Law Oven! Spread out the Supreme Court decision you disagree with—like, say, Roe v. Wade or Obergefell v.
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The deadly contest between Isis and al-Qaeda – FT.com
Dabiq makes for chilling reading. Isis’ slick-looking magazine celebrates the killing of innocent people and offers sordid advice to jihadis. But reading Dabiq can also prove useful, giving rare insight into the warped mindset of the world’s chief t…
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Syria conflict: Russia accuses Erdogan of trading oil with IS – BBC News
Russia’s defence ministry has accused the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being directly involved in the trade of petroleum with the Islamic State group.
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Dead or Alive publisher denies game is too sexist for Western audiences | Ars Technica
Last week, publisher Koei Tecmo made a surprisingly frank admission on Facebook that the upcoming Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 wouldn’t be released in the EU or US because it was worried about how Western audiences would react to the way the game depicts …
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Genetically Engineered Fish and the Strangeness of American Salmon – The New Yorker
Sometime in the next few years, an entirely new fish will appear on American plates. After several decades of biotech research and a final upstream push past the U.S.
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MUNCIE, Ind. — Six months into retirement, David Letterman stepped onstage here at Ball State University looking much the way he did as host of “Late Show”: suit and tie, loafers and white socks.
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CAR ‘not safe enough’ for free and fair election – Al Jazeera English
The Central African Republic (CAR) will not be safe enough to host a free and fair election at the end of this month, a leading African think tank has said.
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Teachers banning simple words like “said” is a bad idea.
My fourth-grade English teacher employed a list of words he called “D.N.U.’s,” for “do not use.” It was about a dozen words long and included get, nice, very, and thing. If he saw one in our papers he would flag it and make a tutting sound, although…
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Avoid Being Hacked: Lessons From Recent Data Breaches – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Tech Talker by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies.
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Tofu and tifos: how Portland became America’s most divisive soccer club | Football | The Guardian
It’s just as well the Portland Timbers have North American soccer’s most fervent and unwavering support behind them, because there’s certainly no shortage of haters.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. New York City became the first city in the country to mandate that chain restaurants label dishes that contain more than one teaspoon of salt, the recom…
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How Solar and Wind Got So Cheap, So Fast – The Atlantic
That’s not because the UN climate negotiations currently underway in Paris look like they might succeed, or because the United States is finally getting serious about a clean energy policy.
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Coloring Books for Men: Another Product That’s Become Gendered for No Reason – The Atlantic
When I wrote last month about the soothing properties of adult coloring books, I apparently missed something. As is the case with many other innocuous, popular products that for some reason needed to become gendered—pop, Kleenex, soap—there is a sep…
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China says it will cut power sector emissions 60% by 2020 | Environment | The Guardian
China will reduce emissions of major pollutants in the power sector by 60% by 2020, the cabinet announced on Wednesday, after world leaders met in Paris to address climate change.
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Save Food in DIY Paper Freezer Packs
Instead of saving snacks or sandwiches in boring Ziploc bags, why not make your own sealed freezer paper packs instead? Instructables user AndrewL5 shows us how easy these little packs are to make.
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Europe Is Trying to Rid Itself of the Eritrean Refugee Crisis | The Nation
Aster’s one-story house in southern Eritrea was painted white and teal. Five front windows overlooked a lawn, where her four daughters could play and donkeys grazed. Her father obtained permission from the government to build in 2002; they began bui…
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Open Letter: Let’s Get Arrested to Save Democracy From the Billionaire Class | The Nation
We write at a critical moment for our country. And we write to ask you to do something difficult and uncommon: to join us in Washington, DC, next April to take a dignified, determined stand for democracy that may result in your arrest.
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What’s At Stake In Venezuela’s Upcoming Elections | ThinkProgress
CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Rallies and marches are filling the streets and graffiti is covering the capital city’s walls as a deeply divided Venezuela approaches this year’s key legislative elections.
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This Workaround Lets 2.6 Million Cubans Surf the Web | Motherboard
More and more Cubans are getting access to the internet, thanks to government Wi-Fi hotspots and a loosening of trade restrictions with the US. However, many locals still don’t have access to the web or can’t afford it.
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Prince Harry’s African Photo Album – The Daily Beast
Prince Harry has released a selection of his own personal photographs and videos that were taken during his summer visit to Southern Africa, where he worked on frontline conservation projects.
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Conservationists Are Learning How To Use a Pretty Face – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
This August, German photographer Kerstin Langenberger posted a photo to Facebook of a frail polar bear, evidently starved, adrift among the disappearing ice. In the photo’s caption, she blamed global warming for the bear’s malnutrition and for the d…
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By Brad Wieners | Dec. 1, 2015 Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and craftsmen behind them.
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Hundreds of giant dinosaur footprints found in Scottish lagoon | New Scientist
Nessie may be a mythical creature, but Scotland was once home to enormous dinosaurs that waded in shallow waters.
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Why Did Tennessee Give Back Money It Asked The Government For? | ThinkProgress
In September, the federal Department of Labor announced that it had awarded $1.55 million in grant money to help states and cities research the need and design for potential paid family leave programs.
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Lying face down with his arms stretched across a sedated elephant, Prince Harry is pictured on a recent trip to Africa where he worked on frontline conservation projects.
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Top 10 novels about unfaithful wives | Books | The Guardian
Some years ago, at a performance of Puccini’s opera Tosca, I remembered a book I had read on the opera by a US historian that established just how inaccurate and partisan was its portrayal of the political realities of the time.
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Boxing hares and bird selfies: readers’ November wildlife pictures | Environment | The Guardian
We asked you to share your November pictures of the wildlife around the world. Here’s a selection of our favourites
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Ted Cruz listed as only climate policy ‘hero’ by Koch brothers-backed group | US news | The Guardian
A conservative group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and their wealthy allies boasts a scorecard on its website that rates the presidential candidates based on their opposition to policies meant to tackle climate change, such as EPA regulati…
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GCHQ admits for the first time to ‘persistent’ hacking in the UK and abroad | The Verge
The UK’s digital spy agency, GCHQ, has admitted for the first time in court that it hacks computers, smartphones, and networks in the UK and abroad.
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Obama Makes The Green Jobs Connection In Paris. Is India Listening?
President Barack Obama had returned home from his trip to Paris, where he helped kick off the United Nations climate summit. He had a consistent theme, familiar to those who follow Obama’s rhetoric closely: Embracing clean energy also creates clean …
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As Climate Talks Continue In Paris, Republican Opposition Mounts At Home | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, as his time in Paris drew to a close, President Obama offered some words of hope to a crowd of press gathered at the United Nations’ climate change conference. “Climate change is a massive problem. It’s a generational program.
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Kelly Osbourne visits the Shiteau Marmont / Boing Boing
L.A.’s infamous Chateau Marmont was the brainchild of famed attorney Fred Horowitz, who built it after returning from a vacation in Europe, where he’d been photographing the gothic castles and chateaus along the Loire Valley River in France.
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Hitler’s Plan to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—at the Same Time | Mental Floss
The opening of Operation Long Jump takes readers inside a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill, held at the British Embassy in Tehran in 1943. The purpose of the summit: how to rid the world of Adolf Hitler.
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Immanuel Kant’s Life & Philosophy Introduced in a Short Monty Python-Style Animation | Open Culture
Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is perhaps best known for his systematic philosophical ethics, conceived of as a post-religious framework for secular morality.
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Abadi: US Troops Not Needed to Defeat ISIL | Al Jazeera America
Iraq’s prime minister has defended his country’s security forces, saying they’re capable of defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) without the help of foreign combat troops. Haider al-Abadi’s statement late Tuesday came hours afte…
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Morrissey’s debut novel officially contains the worst literary sex scene of 2015 / Boing Boing
Morrissey is this year’s winner of the Bad Sex in Writing award.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The irrelevance of the Beltway media exposed by Trump
Does Donald Trump lead the race for the Republican presidential nomination? Or does he lead it by a “yuuuuuge” margin? Bloomberg recently released a poll that gave Trump 24 percent to Ben Carson’s 20 percent.
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Kenyan women ‘ignored’ in local media – BBC News
Men are 10 times more likely than women to be used as a source for a news story Kenyan media, according to the country’s media council. The study launched on Wednesday by the government-sponsored watchdog also found men were central to 72% of print …
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Bill Nye Tells You What Need to Know About Climate Change
In the new video above, Bill Nye the Science Guy explains why climate change is much more than a buzzword. “It’s a real and serious issue,” he says. In fact, the world’s leaders are debating what to do about it this week in Paris.
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Why Scientists Are Making Kill Switches for GMOs – Scientific American
Untold numbers of genetically modified Escherichia coli bacteria live in vats around the world, churning out useful things such as medical insulin, plastic polymers and food additives.
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On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend in 2014, an 82-year-old man named Frank Stack hobbled out of his house in Elmhurst, Ill.
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Snow Leopards Face New Threat from Climate Change—People
Just as the last of the blushing light drained from the sky in western Mongolia, the “ghost of the mountain” struck at the foot of sacred Jargalan mountain where the rocky snow line gives way to a dry and treeless expanse of steppe. It was Tenger, a…
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Remove Tree Sap from Your Hands with Coconut Oil and Salt
Getting tree sap off your hands can be a challenge, but a simple exfoliating rub made from oil and salt will do the trick nicely.
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Weird Alien Planets Star in ‘Extreme Solar Systems’ Conference
The Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The island of Hawaii is currently hosting the Extreme Solar Systems III meeting.
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First Click: How has your usage of technology changed in 2015? | The Verge
It’s December which for many is a time of reflection. The arrival of the twelfth month in the Gregorian calendar is always a sign of something old about to be renewed.
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VTech Hacker Explains Why He Hacked the Toy Company | Motherboard
As the Hong Kong-based toymaker VTech reels from a massive hack that exposed the personal data of millions of parents and children, including their names, home addresses, and even pictures and chat logs, something has remained shrouded in mystery: W…
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Bluecore Marketing Automation Tool Secures $21M In Series B Funding | TechCrunch
Bluecore, the data marketing platform for ecommerce brands, has today announced the close of a $21 million Series B round led by Georgian Partners, with participation from existing investors like FirstMark Capital and Felicis Ventures.
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Advanced Machine Learning Company Osaro Captures $3.3 Million | TechCrunch
Osaro, a new, San Francisco-based startup that’s developing advanced machine learning known as deep reinforcement learning, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to take its technology to market.
Love Everyone Often 12/03/2015
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