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Should you buy a smart toy for Christmas? – BBC News
If you were thinking about buying a smart toy for Christmas, the Vtech hack may have led you to think again. For many parents the thought of their children’s personal data being stolen and made available online is the stuff of nightmares.
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How to Ethically Modify the DNA of Humans | Motherboard
For the last three days, some of the world’s leading geneticists and bioethicists have more or less locked themselves in a room in Washington DC with the express purpose of determining whether humans should use genome editing tools on themselves.
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Iraq: Sunnis suffer abuse in areas taken from ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Sunni Muslims are facing forced evictions, abductions, and other serious human rights abuses in areas of Iraq freed from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant control, the United Nations said on Friday.
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The milky way over New Zealand’s shores [2862×3683] https://t.co/aTMC9pWsXl https://t.co/64v4T5dbjm
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Tim Peake to run London marathon from space https://t.co/fsF8iSTovQ https://t.co/Mju73sFXSB
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College football’s playoff format is broken. Here’s how to fix it | Sport | The Guardian
College football’s playoff format is broken. Here’s how to fix it https://t.co/eHAhupFA2F https://t.co/uwmRrMCNdp
As a rule, college football folks don’t like math. Through the supposed Dark Ages of the Bowl Championship Series era, the punditocracy of ex-jocks griped that college football’s national championship was being decided by computers. -
We Tested the Magic Baby Hold–and It (Mostly) Works
We Tested the Magic Baby Hold–and It (Mostly) Works https://t.co/BB6HojKv8a https://t.co/sdDq62UtoO
“Calm your baby in seconds,” says one headline. “Stop it crying EVERY time,” reads another. Is it really as easy as Dr. Robert Hamilton makes it look? I grabbed the nearest infant to put “The Hold” to the test. -
Jon Stewart Made A Senator Really Uncomfortable Over 9/11. And it worked. : politics
Jon Stewart Made A Senator Really Uncomfortable Over 9/11. And it worked. https://t.co/Juul7x0OzS https://t.co/eNO0d9e25A
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The best stocking-filler books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Having dutifully ground through improving literature with your book group, it’s time to kick back, relax, and read something you wouldn’t usually sample but might actually enjoy, such as the Bible or the Radio Times Christmas double issue.
The best stocking-filler books of 2015 https://t.co/Wv8SjOmt4b https://t.co/Q3jYrCQ2aa -
A Lesson from Kyoto’s Failure: Don’t Let Congress Touch A Climate Deal | FiveThirtyEight
In 1997, more than 150 countries came together in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a deal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming. Back then, the negotiations centered around developed countries, like the U.S.
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The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a fantastic YA novel by Patrick Ness.
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New Program Creates 3-D Picture of Deadly Tornado
Scientists now have a way to understand the fierce tornado that killed veteran stormchaser Tim Samaras in 2013 in El Reno, Oklahoma. The May 31 storm was the largest ever recorded, and one of the fastest.
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Melissa and Tom Dann are gently arguing about how much their neighbours earn. While they disagree with each other’s estimates, they both agree that the US Census Bureau has significantly low-balled the wealth of their exclusive community.
Chevy Chase, Maryland: the super-rich town that has it all – except diversity https://t.co/HFDDYl5Fnx https://t.co/h8z7HXs4QR -
Why the NRA is so powerful – Vox
Any good political fight needs a bad guy, and for liberals upset about congressional resistance to gun control legislation, the National Rifle Association is the bad guy of choice. And it’s not a bad choice by any means. The NRA really does carry en…
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Rahm Emanuel’s Next Scandal? Chicago’s Public Housing | New Republic
Laura Donaldson rides a courtesy bus to her church each Sunday for weekly services. When it pulls onto the Dan Ryan Expressway, she sees the swelling encampments under the on-ramp, where some of the more than 125,000 Chicagoans who are currently hom…
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How Krampus, the Christmas ‘Devil,’ Became Cool
If you haven’t heard of Krampus, the demon-like half-goat of Austrian folklore, then you haven’t been paying attention. The scary counterpart to St.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Saturn’s Rings and Ice Moon Glimmer
Wildlife Watch A Judge Overturned South Africa’s Rhino Ban—Or Did He? It looked like a win for those who support trade, but the ruling didn’t disparage the ban.
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Climate change is threatening the seabirds of St Kilda | Environment | The Guardian
The survival of sea birds including puffins and kittiwakes on St Kilda – the island archipelago home to one of the world’s most important seabird populations – is being threatened by climate change, striking new evidence shows.
Climate change is threatening the seabirds of St Kilda https://t.co/kF9TBF3Jo4 https://t.co/Jjo5PneekR -
A Judge Overturned South Africa’s Rhino Ban—Or Did He?
Buying and selling rhino horn in South Africa may be legal again in the near future: Two rhino breeders, with thousands of pounds of stockpiled rhino horn, just won their suit to lift the moratorium on the domestic trade that has been in place since…
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German Lawmakers OK Action Against ISIL in Syria | Al Jazeera America
German lawmakers on Friday approved plans for the country to take on a direct role in the battle against ISIL in Syria, answering France’s appeal for help after the deadly Paris attacks and following a similar move from Britain.
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How to Speak Like a Climate Change Negotiator – Scientific American
Since global climate negotiations began in the 1990s, United Nations delegates have accumulated an idiosyncratic cache of climate diplomacy gobbledygook. Euphemisms have been adopted to mollify specific nations. Acronyms are based on tongue-twisting…
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Jon Stewart Made A Senator Really Uncomfortable Over 9/11. And it worked. (huffingtonpost.com) The world needs more Jon Stewarts.
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Samsung finally agrees to pay Apple $548 million, with a few caveats | The Verge
Almost five years after Apple originally sued Samsung for infringing smartphone patents, it seems like the South Korean manufacturer is ready to pay up.
Samsung finally agrees to pay Apple $548 million, with a few caveats https://t.co/I22MaWx2jg https://t.co/koHe9jSUhl -
‘I want to live on land’: children’s hopes and dream…
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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If governments fail on climate change, extremists wi…
In June, a deadly heat wave hit Karachi, Pakistan, claiming close to 1,300 lives. As bodies piled outside morgues, and cemeteries ran out of space to bury the dead, the head of the sluggish provincial government, former President Asif Ali Zardari, f…
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We could get a stronger climate deal in Paris if rich countries paid what they should | Grist
Don’t blame India for an impasse at the climate talks. Blame the U.S. and other rich countries that need to offer up more climate finance. Don Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards. Not all of his char…
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What does it mean to be a man in the age of austerit…
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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Cairo restaurant firebomb leaves 16 people dead – BBC News
Sixteen people have been killed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after firebombs were thrown into a restaurant, officials say. The attack happened in the Agouza area, in the city centre.
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Not enough being done to get a deal at Paris climate talks, says Cañete | Environment | The Guardian
Are you still as optimistic as you were before the summit started? If you listen to the 150 heads of the state or government that gave their speeches on Monday (30 November), it is obvious that there is a political willingness to reach an agreement …
Not enough being done to get a deal at Paris talks, says EU climate chief https://t.co/yPHVsACa1Y https://t.co/HrIhL8z5CL -
14 Dirty Photos That Show Why Soil Matters
Let’s face it: we treat soil like dirt. And for all our sakes, we shouldn’t. That’s the sweeping conclusion of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources Report, the United Nations’ first worldwide assessment of the Earth’s soils.
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IDC Predicts Sluggish Windows Phone Sales Growth | TechCrunch
According to IDC, sales growth of smartphones running Microsoft’s operating system will remain sluggish for the foreseeable future. New figures from the group, released yesterday, are stark. The group predicts that Microsoft will shift a total of 31.
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Chennai floodwaters recede as rain eases – BBC News
Floodwaters have started receding from parts of the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras), hours after it experienced a respite from rain. More than 7,000 people have been rescued so far, but many are still stranded, reports say.
Chennai floodwaters recede as rain eases https://t.co/bM6NRb8J3d https://t.co/aCjSrn3Ath -
Another Day, Another Hack: Data of Over 656,000 Wetherspoons Pub Customers | Motherboard
Quite literally, every day someone gets hacked. Whether that’s a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to melt into an…
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The Small Town Where ‘X-Files’ Is Real Life | Motherboard
Ever since an alleged UFO hit the town of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, the town has survived by creating a cottage industry supported by alien hunters, conspiracy theorists, and paranormal enthusiasts.
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China box office grows by 48 percent – BBC News
China’s box office takings have gone up by 48 percent this year, with total sales now in excess of 40 billion yuan ($6.3 billion / £4.1 billion).
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Samsung to pay Apple $548m over patent row – BBC News
Samsung has agreed to pay Apple $548m (£362m) as part of a deal to settle a long-running patent dispute. The arrangement was revealed in papers filed to a California court by both companies on Thursday.
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Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree on Maui [1933×2862] : EarthPorn
Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree on Maui [1933×2862] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/2HMuvCJPxW https://t.co/jIPTesObFc https://t.co/3BtqmEoaxd
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Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree on Maui [1933×2862] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/2HMuvCJPxW https://t.co/jIPTesObFc https://t.co/3BtqmEoaxd
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Syrians Linked to Islamic State Traveled to Thailand to ‘Attack Russian Interests’ | VICE News
Ten Syrians linked to Islamic State (IS) entered Thailand in October to attack Russian interests, according to a leaked Thai police memo that cited information from Russian intelligence services.
Syrians Linked to Islamic State Traveled to Thailand to ‘Attack Russian Interests’ https://t.co/SIPGGyBJY9 https://t.co/7UC6O0S7hR -
Faber boss on the new ‘zero-law’ of book publishing: ‘Understand mobile’ | Books | The Guardian
The chief executive of publisher Faber & Faber has challenged the book publishing industry to respond to the rapid increase in smartphone use, particularly by young readers. “Perhaps in the 21st century the zero-law of publishing will be understand …
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Google launches wi-fi network in Kampala, Uganda – BBC News
Google has launched its first wi-fi network in Uganda’s capital Kampala, as part of a project to broaden access to affordable high-speed internet. The company is making the broadband wireless network available to local internet providers, who will t…
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Female Veterans in Congress Praise Pentagon Policy on Women in Combat – The Atlantic
You know who never doubted that women could serve in combat jobs? Women who’ve actually served in combat jobs. Duckworth is one of four women currently in Congress who have served in the military.
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Chris Christie on ISIS, Iran, Syria, and Foreign Policy – The Atlantic
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the semi-resurgent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, came to Washington last week to address members of the Council on Foreign Relations (the organization known, at least to Senator Ted Cruz, a…
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Bugs in ‘Hello Barbie’ Could Have Let Hackers Spy on Children’s Chats | Motherboard
The internet-connected Hello Barbie doll listens to children and responds to them using voice recognition technology.
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Until recently, diamond was the hardest known naturally occurring material. But a new physical process applied to carbon has uncovered a substance that a group of scientists say is even harder.
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The New York Times asked readers a simple question in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.: How often, if ever, do you think about the possibility of a shooting in your daily life? The number of responses was overwhelming.
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Dick Cheney’s Marble Bust Unveiled at the U.S. Capitol – The Atlantic
Dick Cheney Gets Busted https://t.co/SjO9bFYNtM https://t.co/eMZVhocfBv
As Vice President Joe Biden helped introduce Dick Cheney on Thursday, he expressed his gratitude to the assembled crowd. “Thank you for letting me crash your family reunion,” he said. And that’s what it felt like. -
Senate Votes to Repeal Obamacare – The Atlantic
The Senate Finally Votes to Repeal Obamacare https://t.co/5hgdUAdCCc https://t.co/nIrit67mIk
Republicans on Thursday night achieved something of a milestone in their five-year battle against the Affordable Care Act: They finally passed a bill repealing the law through the United States Senate. -
The Importance of Saying ‘No’ to Donald Trump | The Nation
Donald Trump is an unreasonable man. He makes wild claims that he cannot back up. He attacks those who question him.
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December 4, 1975: Hannah Arendt Dies | The Nation
Forty years ago today the philosopher Hannah Arendt passed from the realm of Being. For a few months in the middle of the 1940s, she was a regular contributor to The Nation, the books and arts pages of which were then being edited by her friend the …
December 4, 1975: Hannah Arendt Dies https://t.co/XN2Yne6GfY https://t.co/0ZxXmWjcPD -
Almost Everyone Hates No Child Left Behind. It’s Finally About to Change. | Mother Jones
For nearly a decade, Congress couldn’t agree on how to improve the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), despite its growing unpopularity. However, Congress is finally close to a new, bipartisan overhaul of George W. Bush’s signature 2002 education law.
Almost Everyone Hates No Child Left Behind. It’s Finally About to Change. https://t.co/aUyzLFZB4X https://t.co/bZfJqDeiLW -
Kazakhstan is building a cheaper version of China’s Great Firewall | The Verge
The Kazakhstan government is creating its own version of China’s Great Firewall, The New York Times reports, in an effort to intercept encrypted all web and mobile data that passes through its borders.
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Robert Lewis Dear’s assault on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs the Friday after Thanksgiving highlighted a fact of life that abortion providers and clinic staff have known for decades: Sophisticated and extensive security are necessa…
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Preparing for Failure in Paris | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wait a second, I mixed up my notes.
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America’s “Most Exciting” Playwright Takes on the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Mother Jones
You know her on-screen as Gloria Akalitus in Nurse Jackie, or as Nancy McNally in The West Wing, but these days, Anna Deavere Smith is onstage, solo.
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How Marco Rubio Gave In to Democrats on the Immigration Reform Bill | Mother Jones
In December 2012, four Democratic and four Republicans senators, known as the Gang of Eight, began drafting a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants livi…
How Marco Rubio Gave In to Democrats on the Immigration Reform Bill https://t.co/MeYiIET1gH https://t.co/AiacCJtT0t -
Firebomb Kills 16 in Cairo Nightclub | Al Jazeera America
At least 16 people were killed in a firebomb attack on a nightclub near Cairo, authorities in Egypt said Friday. The ministry said 11 men and five women died in the attack. Three people were injured.
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Watch 400 Rocket Scientists Lose It After Blue Origin’s Rocket Stuck Its Landing | Motherboard
When Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin landed its first reusable rocket on the November 23, a whole army of scientists was in the audience, just watching the thing lose altitude. As you’ll see here, they were positively ecstatic by the time the…
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Driving The Wrong Way Down The Highway At 160 MPH | TechCrunch
Recently opened on the other end of the Bay is the Driver Simulation and Vehicle Systems Lab, or SimLab for short. The contraption is a complex driving simulation that puts the user inside an actual car that is wrapped, externally, by a 220-degree s…
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Man arrested in Cambodia for Australian biker killing – BBC News
The prime suspect in the killing of an Australian biker in Thailand has been arrested in neighbouring Cambodia, authorities say. Antonio Bagnato is believed by Thai police to have killed former Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider.
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German parliament approves Syria military mission – Al Jazeera English
Germany’s parliament has approved Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to join the military mission in Syria aimed at defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Tim Peake to run London marathon from space / Principia / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
Get ready, set, go! As the thousands of runners start the London Marathon in April, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will run the full 42 km distance on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.
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Columbus Crew v Portland Timbers: final represents best of MLS | Football | The Guardian
You don’t have to go back far in time to see a similar final to the one we’ll have this Sunday. Try 2013.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake to run London Marathon – BBC News
Tim Peake is going to run the London Marathon in space. The British astronaut, who is about to blast off to the orbiting platform, will complete 26.2 miles on a treadmill – at the same time as athletes are pounding the streets of the UK capital.
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Q&A: Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad on West vs ISIL – Al Jazeera English
We follow a Kenyan farmer for more than four years as he captures the human impact of climate change. We explore the hip side of Congo-Brazzaville with a style icon, a rap artist, a wrestler, and a radio talk show host.
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Polar Bear Feast: these icons of climate change may survive the Arctic melt https://t.co/yVuoPPy8Nz https://t.co/FLBKmkuza8
The massive male polar bear begins to feed. His long canines rip off chunks of bloody flesh, which he swallows with practised ease. -
UK Labour Party Splits on Syria, But This May Not Mean Electoral Disaster | VICE News
Hours after the UK Parliament voted on Wednesday night to allow the military to begin airstrikes in Syria, four Royal Air Force jets hit seven targets in oilfields under the control of Islamic State in eastern Syria.
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Paris attacks: Cafe Bonne Biere becomes first target to reopen – BBC News
A Paris cafe where five people were killed during the terror attacks last month reopened its doors on Friday – the first of the targets to do so.Three weeks on from the violence, the bullet holes that pockmarked the windows of La Bonne Biere are gon…
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Loretta Lynch announces new indictments of Fifa officials on Thursday in a widening of the US investigation of corruption at football’s governing body.
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Adele tickets: More woes for fans – BBC News
Fans have faced more frustration as they tried to buy tickets for Adele’s first tour in four years. Online customers experienced long queues, and several told the BBC they had entered payment information only to be kicked out and returned to the tic…
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GoPro Further Muddles Its Product Line With Hero4 Session Price Drop | TechCrunch
GoPro now sells four different cameras for $299 or less. This comes as the firm drops the price on the new Hero4 Session to $199 — the price it should have sold for originally. The drop puts the Hero4 Session more in line with its capabilities.
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Israeli checkpoints: ‘We live under colonisation’ – Al Jazeera English
Occupied East Jerusalem – As the daily afternoon traffic spills out across occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli border police stop children with school bags who wait in long lines on pavements, while scores of cars edge bumper-to-bumper behind a concret…
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Firebombs Kill 16 People at Cairo Restaurant | VICE News
Molotov cocktails hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. Three masked men threw the firebombs before fleeing, reported the BBC, apparently after a row between workers and other peop…
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Scott Weiland: The Lost Q&A | Rolling Stone
“I’m sick of talking about heroin and cocaine,” Scott Weiland told Rolling Stone in 2004. “I’m sick of talking about what it’s like to be in the back of a cop car.
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The best music books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
There are bigger books and more concise books, and books edited by people capable of spotting mistakes like references to a rock’n’roll classic called “Linda Lou” (it was “Linda Lu”, as any fule kno).
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Firebombs Kill at 16 People at Cairo Restaurant | VICE News
Molotov cocktails hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. Three masked men threw the firebombs before fleeing, reported the BBC, apparently after a row between workers and other peop…
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China pledges $60bn to develop Africa – BBC News
China has announced $60bn (£39bn) of assistance and loans for Africa to help with the development of the continent. President Xi Jinping said the package would include zero-interest loans as well as scholarships and training for thousands of African…
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NFL weekend predictions: Jets have enough to master the Giants | Sport | The Guardian
Welcome to the final stretch. Five more weeks to determine which teams are going to the NFL playoffs. Five more weeks to determine who will win our Pick Six contest in 2015. Nobody did more to help their cause in week 12 than crosbysleftearmk2 – the…
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This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity | Motherboard
Sir Isaac Newton probably didn’t get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence.
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Fitbit, Apple And Xiaomi Are The World’s Top Wearables Vendors, Says IDC | TechCrunch
Xiaomi is the world’s number three wearables vendor, behind Fitbit and Apple, according to a new report from IDC that looked at shipment volume in the third quarter of 2015.
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Amid Gold Rush, Jaguars Clash With Miners
As gold fever grips Guyana, a small country in South America, people are coming more and more into contact with one of the most secretive of the big cats: The jaguar.
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Peter Ďurica – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Ďurica (born 3 May 1986) is a Slovak footballer, who plays for FC Mönchhof,. The midfielder played professional for the Slovak Corgoň Liga club FK Dukla Banská Bystrica.
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Floodwater levels drop in Chennai – video | World news | The Guardian
Floodwater levels recede in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu after a pause in heavy rainfall, giving rescue teams chance to step up operations to evacuate people stranded across the city of Chennai.
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Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul up for three Writers Guild awards – BBC News
Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul has been nominated for three Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards for its critically acclaimed debut season. The AMC show, which is built around the shady lawyer character Bob Odenkirk played in Breaking Bad, …
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Epson’s PaperLab turns useless trash into fresh sheets of paper | The Verge
Epson’s PaperLab turns useless trash into fresh sheets of paper https://t.co/HMKDIzp68n https://t.co/CWbCDX1a3W
Epson has developed what it says is the first ever in-office paper recycling machine. With that description, the PaperLab does exactly what you’d expect: used paper goes in one end; clean, white, printable sheets come out the other. -
Volkswagen sales fall 20% in the UK – BBC News
Sales of Volkswagen cars fell 20% in the UK last month following the diesel emissions scandal. In November, 12,958 new VWs were registered, down from 16,196 in November 2014, SMMT figures show.
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Burundi facing real possibility of civil war: US envoy – Al Jazeera English
Burundi is on the brink of civil war and will need regional mediation to establish a peace process between the government and opposition to prevent further bloodshed, a US envoy said.
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Japan’s ailing PC makers consider joining together instead of failing apart | The Verge
After a $1.2 billion accounting scandal that led to the departure of its CEO, Toshiba is in the midst of a corporate restructure.
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Ashley Theophane to fight Adrien Broner for WBA light-welterweight title | Sport | The Guardian
Ashley Theophane to fight Adrien Broner for WBA light-welterweight title https://t.co/2CqwpFWdW8 https://t.co/11uXDUwxlM
Britain’s Ashley Theophane looks set to fight Adrien Broner for WBA light-welterweight belt in January in Atlanta. Theophane, who is promoted by Floyd Mayweather, has won his last six fights since losing to Pablo César Cano in 2013. -
Hundreds trapped on rooftops in flood-devastated India – Al Jazeera English
Hundreds trapped on rooftops in flood-devastated India https://t.co/dOYcLChGzR https://t.co/TXJoimWbDl
Rescue operations continued in inundated southern India on Friday after the worst flooding in decades stranded tens of thousands of people. At least 269 people have been killed because of flooding in Tamil Nadu state in recent days with more than 1,… -
The contrails conspiracy is not just garbage, it’s letting aviation off the hook https://t.co/4w1dvlxuNf https://t.co/zk25vUno5y
You spend years trying to get people to take an interest in aircraft emissions. Then at last the issue gets picked up – but in the most perverse way possible. The pollutants spread by planes are a major issue. -
Taylor Swift hits right notes with $50,000 donation to orchestra | Music | The Guardian
Taylor Swift hits right notes with $50,000 donation to orchestra https://t.co/4WwxMwkWZJ https://t.co/yWgXjX2jAT
Taylor Swift has continued her campaign to be named pop’s most generous person with a donation of $50,000 to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. -
Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Dutch mosaic
Dutch mosaic https://t.co/KqbLfC7h0Z https://t.co/EKBhcVmvdL
This image is a mosaic based on Sentinel-1A satellite coverage of the Netherlands in three scans during March 2015. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Germany to the east, and Belgium to the south. -
And that’s how you put on a show! The Wiz Live! may be NBC’s third attempt at staging a live musical, but it’s the first one that worked without any caveats necessary.
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Surge in acute cases of Lyme disease in Britain spurs ministers to act | Society | The Guardian
Surge in acute cases of Lyme disease in Britain spurs ministers to act https://t.co/WLrvWHsf5Y https://t.co/AVWyNlln3e
Britain had a surge of cases this summer of Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that in its most serious form can result in chronic fatigue, pain, confusion, depression-like symptoms and memory loss. -
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Eragon is a sixteen-year-old boy who lives with his uncle and cousin in a small town called Carvahall. One day, while hunting in the Spine, the range of mountains next to the village, something strange happens. Suddenly a big blue stone appears in f…
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – review https://t.co/Af8sJPq8Xc https://t.co/o1wTytQPae -
Watch Björk, Age 11, Read a Christmas Nativity Story on a 1976 Icelandic TV Special | Open Culture
The holidays can be hard, starting in October when the red and green decorations begin muscling in on the Halloween aisle. Most Wonderful Time of the Year, you say? Oh, go stuff a stocking in it, Andy Williams!
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Zuckerberg defends his new philanthropic initiative – BBC News
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has defended the unusual company structure chosen for the eye-catching philanthropic venture launched to celebrate the birth of his daughter. An LLC brings certain tax exemptions but also allows investment for profit.
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This is why sowing doubt about climate change is such an effective strategy (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Botswana Secretly Sell Off Fracking Rights To Half A National Park (iflscience.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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This is why sowing doubt about climate change is such an effective strategy : environment
This is why sowing doubt about climate change is such an effective strategy https://t.co/4IRBSqvlbi https://t.co/FMgO8h7q1P
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Botswana Secretly Sell Off Fracking Rights To Half A National Park : environment
Botswana Secretly Sell Off Fracking Rights To Half A National Park https://t.co/Lkx6zCSstV https://t.co/BnBg6VX91c
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Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots dies aged 48 | Music | The Guardian
Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots dies aged 48 https://t.co/FNetFglVZb https://t.co/8xgiXEeG1o
Scott Weiland, the former frontman of the bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died on tour at the age of 48. Related: Scott Weiland rejoins Velvet Revolver. That’s news to Slash -
Barkha Dutt: India presenter reveals sexual abuse as a child – BBC News
India’s leading female news presenter Barkha Dutt has won praise for revealing that she was sexually abused as a child. Ms Dutt said she had been abused by a “distant older relative” in her book titled “This Unquiet Land”.
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Sony buys Toshiba’s image sensor business for $155 million | The Verge
Sony has announced that it’s buying Toshiba’s image sensor business for 19 billion yen ($155 million).
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‘The Wiz Live!’ Review: A Hot Mess Saved By Brains, Heart, and Courage – The Daily Beast
Well, Toto was good… The Wiz Live! was the third consecutive event musical staged live by NBC in what is now an annual holiday tradition. And as they say, there’s no place like sitting on a couch hate-watching a huge star-studded production of a b…
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Celebrating three decades of amazing innovation from the MIT Media Lab / Boing Boing
This Wired video interview with former director Nicholas Negroponte and current director Joi Ito is a mind-blowing tour through the Media Lab’s storied history: from e-ink to touchscreens to multitouch to in-car GPS to wearables.
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Firebomb kills 18 in Cairo nightclub: report – Al Jazeera English
One of the officials said the attacker was an employee who had been fired from the nightclub in the Agouza area in the centre of the Egyptian capital, Reuters news agency reported. Another five people were wounded in the attack.
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How Goodnight Mister Tom was turned from book to stage play | Children’s books | The Guardian
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When I knew that my book Goodnight Mister Tom was to be adapted as a stage play I wondered how certain scenes might be written. I had already adapted it as a musical years ago with the composer Gary Carpenter and through doing so had become aware of… -
Corporate Lobby Group ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement : environment
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Islamic State conflict: How does it make its money? – BBC News
The self-styled Islamic State raises millions of dollars every single month – which is why oil fields controlled by the fighters have been the main target of UK strikes in Syria so far.
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Vigil held for San Bernardino shooting victims – video | US news | The Guardian
A candlelight vigil is held in a baseball stadium in San Bernardino, California on Thursday night. Several local pastors and city officials were among the speakers. The stadium lights were dimmed as the names, ages and home cities of the victims wer…
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Islamic State agents from Syria ‘in Thailand to target Russians’ – BBC News
Thai police say they were warned by Moscow that 10 Syrians working for the so-called Islamic State (IS) entered Thailand in October to target Russians. A leaked Thai police memo says the information was passed by Russia’s intelligence agency. More t…
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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. German champions Bayern Munich have joined Manchester United in trying to sign 23-year-old Southampton forward Sadio Mane. (Daily Mail)
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Rio 2016 Olympics scrap air conditioning from budget – Al Jazeera English
The 10,500 athletes at next year’s Olympics will feel first-hand the deep budget cuts being made by Rio de Janeiro Games organisers: they won’t have air conditioning in their bedrooms unless someone pays for it. The budget cuts are part of what orga…
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Details emerge of 14 San Bernardino shooting victims – BBC News
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The FBI has been searching the home of the couple in California who killed 14 people in the city of San Bernardino. As they look for clues to the motive of the attackers, more details have been emerging about those who died in the shooting spree. -
Dark film on fossil fuel lobbying to premiere at Paris climate talks | Environment | The Guardian
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A short film by a member of trip hop grounp Massive Attack about the influence of fossil fuel corporations on climate change negotiations will premiere on Friday in Paris where crucial UN talks are continuing. -
WikiLeaks Exposes Environmental Threat of Trade in Services Agreement : environment
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Southern California Pakistanis Shaken | Al Jazeera America
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SAN BERNARDINO, California – Wednesday’s mass shooting that killed 14 people and injured 21 has shaken this community to the core. -
The best politics books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
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Goodbye 2015, and goodbye to big beasts like Ed Balls, Vince Cable and the Alexanders (Douglas and Danny), all ushered off the political stage in an election that saw Scotland turn SNP yellow, Ukip reduced to a single MP and Ed Miliband replaced as … -
Firebomb attack ‘kills 12’ in Cairo – BBC News
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hails a “vote of confidence” in his party after it comfortably wins the Oldham West and Royton by-election.
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Susan Orlean on the Strange Serendipities That Shape Our Lives | Brain Pickings
Adam Phillips wrote in his magnificent meditation on the value of our unlived lives. Every life is a testament to these exemptions, each of us a Venn diagram in which the possible and probable form the slim overlap of our personhood.
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Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland found dead on tour bus – BBC News
Scott Weiland, former frontman of the US rock band Stone Temple Pilots, has died at the age of 48. The singer’s manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed his death on Thursday night.
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Protests erupt as Ecuador lifts presidential term limit – Al Jazeera English
Ecuador’s National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment to lift the country’s presidential term limits, sparking violent demonstrations between protesters and riot police.
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Amy Poehler Loves Amy Schumer’s Nude Pictorial: ‘She’s F-ckin’ Hot as Sh-t’ – The Daily Beast
In Sisters, superstar Amy Poehler and her onscreen/offscreen BFF Tina Fey play sisters who throw one last epic party at their parents’ house to relive their high school glory days.
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Scott Weiland, the provocative and soulful singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. He was 48. The news was first released via a tweet from Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, who said, “Our friend Scott Weiland has died.” (… -
Why No One Is Researching Gun Violence Prevention – The Daily Beast
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Why No One Is Researching Gun Violence Prevention – The Daily Beast
There are fewer than 20 researchers in America studying the cause of firearm violence—which kills five times that many people every day. It’s a byproduct of a 1996 bill passed by Congress, the Dickey Amendment, which eliminated $2.
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Vigils held for California shooting victims – BBC News
Vigils have been held for the 14 people killed in Wednesday’s shooting at a social services centre in California. The FBI has been searching the home of the couple behind the attack, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, for a motive.
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Trump’s Israel comments irk Jewish donors – Al Jazeera English
Presidential candidate Donald Trump isn’t afraid to insult people but on Thursday he found a new group of people to add to his hit-list: Republican Jewish voters.
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Fear of and resistance to Syrian refugees in the US – Al Jazeera English
It did not take long for the atrocities in Paris to prompt exaggerated responses that elevate political grandstanding over sensible responses to the terrorist threat.
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Rilke on the Rewards of Reading and What Books Do for Our Inner Lives | Brain Pickings
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How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself – Digg
This story was co-published with The New York Times. Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong.
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Scott Weiland, Former Stone Temple Pilots Singer, Dead at 48 | Rolling Stone
Scott Weiland, the instantly recognizable, iconic voice behind Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. He was 48. Weiland’s manager confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. The details surrounding the singer’s death will be released Friday.
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Coldplay to Torture Us All at the Super Bowl – The Daily Beast
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Calif. Supreme Court OKs Organic Labeling Lawsuits | Al Jazeera America
Consumers have a right to file lawsuits under California law alleging food products are falsely labeled “organic,” the state Supreme Court ruled. Thursday’s ruling overturned a lower court decision that barred such suits on the grounds that they wer…
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Coldplay to Torture Us All at the Super Bowl – The Daily Beast
The Super Bowl is an annual celebration of Just Guy Things: homoerotic tight pants, dude-on-dude grappling, sports, balls, brews, and chili.
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Texas farmer: ‘We need common sense over climate change’ – BBC News
A drought that has affected the US state of Texas for much of this century has finally come to an end, according to official figures just released.
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Without action, climate scientists have warned that temperatures could rise by nearly 5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
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Religious leaders step up pressure for action on climate change | Global development | The Guardian
Two years ago Yeb Sano, the Filipino government’s lead climate negotiator, broke down in tears in front of the world’s diplomats in Warsaw as typhoon Haiyan ripped through his home city of Tacloban, killing thousands of people. This week he arrived …
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Are we on course to find the solution to Earth’s energy crisis? – podcast | Science | The Guardian
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A city built on fire: India’s coal rush – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
India’s announcement of an ‘international solar alliance’ at the Paris climate talks is belied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans to produce double the amount of coal by 2020.
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Russia’s environment has it rough. For close to a century, successive leaders have attempted to bend nature to their will in the drive for economic growth.
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Two Palestinians gunned down after alleged attack – Al Jazeera English
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We follow a Kenyan farmer for more than four years as he captures the human impact of climate change. We explore the hip side of Congo-Brazzaville with a style icon, a rap artist, a wrestler, and a radio talk show host. -
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What’s the best way to protect forests? That’s a big question at the Paris climate talks (grist.org)
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The perennial cry: we need to talk about climate change. And this week, with world leaders in Paris, we have been. But only up to a point.
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This week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago sacrificed police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in order to save himself, as anger raged about the killing of Laquan McDonald in what read to many as a politically motivated effort to cover up video of that k…
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Pakistan lawyer files for return of Koh-i-Noor diamond – BBC News
A petition demanding the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, one of the British Royal Family’s Crown Jewels, has been filed in a Pakistan court, reports say.The 105-carat diamond fell into British hands in 1849 when the East India Company annexed the …
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American Woman Killed on Her Airport Layover – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — When Tracy Brown arrived in Turkey on her way home to Detroit from Central Asia, she faced a long wait for her connecting flight back to the United States. In the event, she never made the plane.
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Is the Worst Still to Come With Vladimir Putin? – The Daily Beast
Is the West missing the bigger problem with Vladimir Putin? Masha Gessen has been face-to-face with the Russian president. He didn’t come off as particularly smart or as a insightful politician.
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How to Politely Get Through Flu Season – The Daily Beast
Between now and St. Patrick’s Day, I expect to repeat variations on the above phrase roughly 17,000 times. With each beleaguered parent I encounter during cold and flu season, I try to take a tone of sympathy as I forlornly explain that I cannot mak…
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San Bernardino: The Most Twisted Terrorist Plot Yet – The Daily Beast
The San Bernardino mass shooting was neither the biggest nor the most sophisticated terrorist attack on our shores, but it had to be the most disturbing.
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Sexy is not a word you might normally associate with nature documentaries. Neither is edgy.
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Fake War on Christmas Comes to Rome – The Daily Beast
ROME — It’s that time of year again, when folks start dancing around the issue of the reason for the season.
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Can Marco Rubio Even Win a Primary? – The Daily Beast
Everybody I know, I mean everybody, thinks Marco Rubio is the strongest Republican candidate. Yes, there’s a debate about how strong.
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New York’s First Black Millionaire – The Daily Beast
Jeremiah G. Hamilton, a mid-19th century Manhattan millionaire, made his fortune the usual ways people did back then. He speculated in real estate, defrauded insurance companies, and protected his assets by filing for bankruptcy whenever a deal went…
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Berserk Boxer Sent Family Into Hiding – The Daily Beast
Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor’s phone rings and rings before a recording prompts: “You’ve reached Jermain, two-time middleweight champion of the world. About to be three-time middleweight champion of the world again.”
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Marc Maron on Obama, Gun Violence, and the ‘Great American Asshole’ Donald Trump – The Daily Beast
He got President Barack Obama to come to his garage in Highland Park, Los Angeles for an hour-long podcast interview that prompted yet another national discussion on race.
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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Battle Over Syria Regime Change – The Daily Beast
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have a new thing to fight over: Syria’s brutal dictator.
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DiscussionScott Weiland has died. (self.Music) Scott Weiland, of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has passed away.
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The Year We Decided to Live Forever – The Daily Beast
Silicon Valley came up with a lot of things this year, like creating an on demand pot-to-front-door service, and devising a sparkly way of destroying enemies by shipping them glitter—but one thing it’s still working on is figuring out how humans can…
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Congress Moves to Sabotage the Paris Climate Summit – The New Yorker
Don’t trust the United States: as the international climate summit in Paris grinds along, this is the message Republicans in Congress are trying to send the delegates. The logic, such as it is, of the claim is that merely by making it the House G.O.…
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Coldplay ‘excited and honoured’ to headline Super Bowl 50 half-time show – BBC News
Coldplay are to headline the half-time show at Super Bowl 50 – with Chris Martin describing it as the “greatest moment” in the band’s career. The frontman said the band was “excited and honoured and thrilled” to take part in next February’s event.
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Bill Murray saves Christmas in the singular Bill Murray manner · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5. All times are Eastern. A Very Murray Christmas (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.
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The definition of stand-up comedy has broadened in recent years, and it will only continue to do so. When so-called alternative comedy expanded the boundaries of the form, it unshackled many comics from the confines of setups and punchlines and fine…
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The scene opens on a sparse, post-apocalyptic wasteland. The colors are washed out, everything coated in grime and dust, as though lightness and joy has been sapped from the world. Suddenly, a hardy band of survivors enters the frame, fighting for t…
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What non-2015 pop culture did you just discover this year? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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When do we say “enough’s enough” with The Beatles? · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
With the November 2000 release of 1, the 27-song CD collecting all of their U.K. and U.S. chart-topping hits, The Beatles threw an extra coat of laminate on their license to print money. This was a trick more impressive than tumbling through a hogsh…
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Sunn O)))’s latest is an existential mirror covered in hoarfrost. Each of the LP’s three tracks is vast and indifferent, beckoning the mind to project its own imagery onto the aural canvas.
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Macy Gray Blasts Trump, Lax Gun Control on New Holiday Song | Rolling Stone
Macy Gray addresses a number of social and political issues in a lyric video for her new holiday song, “All I Want For Christmas.” In the animated clip, a smiling cartoon Gray strolls through snow.
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The best part was the packers winning with technicaly 0:00 time spent in the lead. Anyone know if this has happened before?
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APOD: 2015 December 3 – Enceladus: Ringside Water World
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: Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus poses above the gas giant’s icy ring…
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Trevor Noah Slams ‘Asshole’ Ted Cruz for Reaction to San Bernardino Shooting – The Daily Beast
On Thursday night, Trevor Noah became the first late-night host to attempt to wring some form of comedy out of this week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
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There’s a Reason Why Dave Seeley’s Gorgeous Space Art Is On So Many Book Covers
You’ve admired Dave Seeley’s art in the past, whether you realize it or not. He’s done cover art for so many space opera and military science fiction books, his gorgeous style is synonymous with cool action. And now there’s a whole book of his thril…
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Glimpse of a watery future | Environment | The Guardian
In November we paid the price for our warm, dry autumn: weeks of incessant rain. I drove up to Helsington church to look down on the flooded Lyth valley, with Morecambe Bay to the south, then the levels below awash and backed by the long, wooded slo…
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Whaling in Japan: Fleet Leaves Port With Mission to Kill 333 Minke Whales : environment
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Asia Pacific shares join global slump as ECB fails to deliver stimulus | Business | The Guardian
Asian shares have joined a slump in global markets after the European Central Bank’s stimulus package fell well short of markets’ high expectations. Traders warned that the ECB’s failure to deliver another big round of monetary easing meant that it …
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Can Chinese migrants integrate in Africa? – BBC News
She may be the only Chinese student on campus, but Lu Cheng has her feet firmly planted in two camps. Most of her friends at her business college in Lusaka are from Zambia.
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Hacker puppets explore the relationship between carbon paper and copyright / Boing Boing
Gus writes, “Remember carbon paper? You’re probably of a certain age if you can recall typing on a sandwich of two sheets of paper with a thin, grimy, black sheet between them to make copies.” Hacker puppet Weena of The Media Show is too young to kn…
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Swirling Vortex on Venus Caught in Action | Space Wallpaper
About this Image While orbiting Venus, the ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, specifically the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer known as VIRTIS, captured the whirling gasses at the south pole.
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The secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership is 2,000 pages’ worth of regulatory favors for various industries, but one that stands out as particularly egregious is the ban on rules requiring source-code disclosure.
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TIL Weird Al would take his dates to see The Naked Gun (in which he had a cameo), while even wearing the same Hawaiian shirt he wore in the film, to see them “flip out” (theparisreview.org)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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Nuclear Reactor Amusement Park Image – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Fire-hit South Australia farmer proposes with hay bales – BBC News
A farmer in South Australia who lost most of his crops to a bushfire last month has used the surviving hay bales to propose to his girlfriend.Ben Kemp’s family farm was caught up in the Pinery fire, which destroyed 82,000 hectares of land in the sta…
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Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address: archive, 4 December 1863 | US news | The Guardian
On the 19th November the formal dedication of the cemetery on the battlefield of Gettysburg took place with appropriate ceremonies. President Lincoln, Secretary Seward, and various state governors took part in the proceedings, and the general attend…
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Computationally derived Sisyphus Lego automata has to push his ball forever and ever / Boing Boing
JK Brickworks’s Sisyphus automata was inspired by Disney Research’s work on the “Computational Design of Mechanical Characters”. There’s a parts-list and build-guide if you want to make your own. The detail is spectacular, down to the frescoes on th…
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Flood threat remains as Chennai rain eases – BBC News
The southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) is experiencing a respite from rains, but forecasts of more showers remain in place. More than 7,000 people have been rescued so far by the army and the National Disaster Response Force, but many are stil…
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Green Bay Packers stun Detroit Lions on hail mary touchdown pass | Sport | The Guardian
Aaron Rodgers threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Richard Rodgers with no time left to give the Green Bay Packers a 27-23 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thursday night.
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Comedy Bang! Bang! is the definition of a show where the synopsis barely scratches the surface of what an episode is actualy going to be like. Take, for example, this week’s episode synopsis: “Kathryn Hahn stops by and swears like a sailor.
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Having taken over, roughly, all of podcasting with their rapid-fire, improv-heavy comedy stylings, the minds behind the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater are branching into the world of subscription online streaming.
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Fossil fuel divestment sit-in at MIT President’s office hits 10,000,000,000-hour mark / Boing Boing
Katherine W was seven when her third-grade teacher issued Chromebooks to her class. Her dad, Jeff, is a serious techie, but the school’s tech choices didn’t sit well with him.
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Lieutenant Mike Madden, one of the first police officers on the scene of the shooting in San Bernardino on Wednesday morning which left 14 people dead and 21 wounded, recounts his experience to the press on Thursday.
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Flipkart, one of India’s top e-commerce retailers, has acquired a minority stake in MapMyIndia, a startup that provides mobile maps, location data, and GPS navigation devices for cars.
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In last week’s “Jake Johnson Wears A Light Blue Button-up Shirt And Brown Shoes,” Comedy Bang! Bang! upends itself, turning the whole world topsy-turvy.
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Kitten found frozen in the snow saved : aww
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The first police officer to arrive at the scene of the San Bernardino mass shooting has provided a shocking account of the immediate aftermath of the attack and the “pure panic” on the faces of the those who survived.
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Congress backs $305B transportation bill | Al Jazeera America
After years of stymied efforts to address the nation’s aging and congested highways and transit systems, Congress found the sweet spot for passage on Thursday — a 5-year, $305 billion bill laden with enough industry favors, parochial projects, safet…
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Mark Zuckerberg explains why he didn’t give his Facebook billions to charity | The Verge
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg made the surprise announcement that he, along with his wife Priscilla Chan, would be donating 99 percent of their Facebook shares — worth around $45 billion — to the causes of “advancing human potential” and “promo…
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Double Fine is crowdfunding a Psychonauts sequel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the world of gaming, there are a handful of titles so highly regarded that some people take it as an affront to the medium if you haven’t played them. Of these titles, the most highly regarded is easily an old 3D platformer for the original Xbox …
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I introduce Bear Butt. The most adorable of kittens. : aww
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The Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood today. I’m sick and tired of pointless posturing. (self.TwoXChromosomes) Today, the United States Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Geoff Keighley: Konami blocked Metal Gear creator from accepting award | Ars Technica
Thursday night’s The Game Awards ceremony included two awards given to Konami for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and one of those was accepted by voice actor Kiefer Sutherland on series creator Hideo Kojima’s behalf.
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The Universe is Dying? Now What?
The Universe is Dying? Now What? https://t.co/Iyt3eBYc7R https://t.co/MrLfywxYK0
Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace, and the YouTube series Space In Your Face. He contributed this… -
Open thread for night owls: Eco-justice groups not impressed with expected Paris climate pact
It Takes Roots organizers protesting in Paris. At Grist, Raven Rakia writes Environmental justice groups are not impressed with expected Paris agreement: It Takes Roots is one of the many delegations in Paris for the climate talks.
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Rocket League is coming to Xbox One in February | The Verge
This year Rocket League showed the world just how amazing soccer with cars can be, and soon Xbox fans will finally be able to see what the fuss is about.
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Konami won’t let Hideo Kojima accept an award for Metal Gear Solid V | The Verge
Since Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been released, Hideo Kojima — the creative mind behind the Metal Gear Solid series — has been mission in action. It was expected that Kojima would make an appearance tonight at The Game Awards, but appa…
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Look, Sisters knows what you’re going to be up to on December 18—either seeing Star Wars, standing in line to see Star Wars, or wondering aloud why people won’t just shut up about goddammned Star Wars already.
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On our way home from the adoption shelter. : aww
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Syria conflict: German MPs to vote on anti-IS military mission – BBC News
Germany’s parliament is due to vote on whether the country should provide military support in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. MPs are expected to back the controversial plan, a BBC correspondent in Berlin reports.
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Watch Thom Yorke, Flea Reunite to Perform ‘Atoms For Peace’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Thom Yorke, Flea Reunite to Perform ‘Atoms For Peace’ Radiohead singer, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist hit French TV show before Pathway to Paris concert
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My cat chillin by the new tree : cats
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Here’s an interesting viewer dilemma: What do you do when a character you’ve wanted to be rid of for a long time dies, but the show they die on so consistently uses tricks to cheat death that you can’t trust they’re actually gone? Do you feel the re…
Stefan and Damon finally deal with their mommy issues on The Vampire Diaries https://t.co/a5jI6NEqa1 https://t.co/PtRRNaGN0f -
Failure is at the foundation of Nathan For You, and it typically comes as a result of Nathan Fielder’s inability to convince his clients to permanently implement his often ingenious but always unfeasible workarounds.
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Did Drake’s Pet DJ Beat His Girlfriend? – The Daily Beast
The managing music editor at Complex Magazine, Lauren Nostro, took to social media to out an ex-boyfriend whom she says abused her physically and emotionally for months, even as he wrote articles for high-profile publications giving dating advice an…
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A VR version of Rock Band is coming to the Oculus Rift | The Verge
Rock Band is coming to virtual reality in 2016.
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Behold, the giant tree near my house. : pics
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San Bernardino Shooting Victim’s Wife ‘Just Had a Feeling’ – The Daily Beast
They had gathered in Building 3, in a conference room that was essentially the central nervous system of the nonprofit Inland Regional Center. There the unarmed San Bernardino civil servants were holding their annual Gym Meeting, cheering each other…
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Everyone Who Has Ever Worked With Ted Cruz Despises Him : politics
He actually takes pride in being abrasive, as if a person’s tally of detractors measures his fearlessness, not his obnoxiousness. I’m pretty sure this is one of the main motivators for having extreme conservative views, you like being a dick.
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Who’s your favorite Star Wars character? : funny
Who’s your favorite Star Wars character? (imgur.com)
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WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin drew a striking contrast between Republicans and Democrats on Thursday and vowed to pursue legislation that would frame a stark choice for voters in 2016. “Our No.
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Oculus Announces RockbandVR | TechCrunch
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We’ve learned what the big announcement from Oculus is, which was shared on stage at The Game Awards in Los Angeles tonight. Just walked the red carpet at @thegameawards with my woman, @nikkimoxxi ! Oculus announcement at ~7PM. New made for VR game. -
Quantum Break still exists, but this new trailer won’t tell you much | The Verge
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Quantum Break is somehow exactly as confusing and intriguing today as it was when it was first announced in 2013. It’s a combination of a game and a TV show, told from the perspective of both the heroes and the villains, and the choices you make in … -
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What It’s Really Like Working With Adele and Beyoncé | Vanity Fair
Sure, we can agree that Adele and Beyoncé are both heavenly goddesses put on this Earth to score our moods, ease our heartbreaks, and provide our ringtones.
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Hillary Clinton: I won’t be silenced on gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
The Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says repeated mass shootings in the US can be reduced with ‘commonsense’ gun reform.
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Psychonauts 2, other brand-new games announced at The Game Awards | Ars Technica
Thursday evening’s broadcast of The Game Awards included celebrities, trophies (real ones—not virtual ones on PlayStation), and music performances, but like in previous years, its most interesting content came in the form of world-premiere trailers …
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San Bernardino shooting: Policeman speaks of carnage at scene – BBC News
One of the first police to respond to Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of “unspeakable” carnage. Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to pass injured p…
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Michael Jackson Estate Sued Over ‘Messages to Michael’ | Rolling Stone
Michael Jackson’s estate is being sued by Sharad Chandra Patel, a producer for the tribute film Messages to Michael, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Psychonauts 2 is in development, and anyone can profit from its success | Polygon
Share Tweet It’s up to fans to push funding over the top, or the idea will go back on the shelf.Double Fine Productions is making a follow-up to its very first game, Psychonauts, the action platformer first released for the original Xbox.
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See the vicious wildlife of Far Cry Primal in this new trailer | The Verge
Back in October Ubisoft surprised many of us with the reveal of a brand new Far Cry game, one that was set in the Stone Age and featured woolly mammoths and sabertooth tigers. At The Game Awards in Los Angeles tonight, the developer provided an even…
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Cult classic Psychonauts is finally getting a sequel | The Verge
A decade later, cult classic Psychonauts is getting a sequel. Double Fine Productions, which made its debut in 2005 with the release of a game about a summer camp for psychic children, announced the news tonight at the Game Awards in Los Angeles.
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Back in 2011, a team of producers (including husband-and-wife filmmaking team Rodion Nahapetov and Natasha Shliapnikoff) announced that they were developing an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s semi-autobiographical novel Dandelion Wine.
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Fargo season three to return to the futuristic world of 21st century Minnesota https://t.co/7m81EkDCst https://t.co/adPNZTjMES
Fargo creator Noah Hawley has revealed some new details about the show’s recently announced third season, telling Entertainment Weekly that FX’s anthology of the violent dealings of the Minnesotta Nice will be returning to a setting some time closer… -
US Senate approves bill to cripple Obamacare and Planned Parenthood | US news | The Guardian
US Senate approves bill to cripple Obamacare and Planned Parenthood https://t.co/o77VMq59Kw https://t.co/gUgqaUDh5q
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Gay Sex-Obsessed Pastor Loves On Trump – The Daily Beast
Pastor James David Manning sat in front of a microphone at his cherry-red desk on Thursday, a cartoon rendering of Harlem serving as the backdrop in his makeshift TV studio.
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Senate OKs Gop Bill Unraveling Health Care Law | Al Jazeera America
Openly welcoming a preordained veto, Republicans drove legislation to Senate passage Thursday aimed at crippling two of their favorite targets: President Barack Obama’s health care law and Planned Parenthood.
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A new Batman game from Telltale is coming 2016 | The Verge
Telltale has a knack for narrative-focused games. The company is known for its excellent Walking Dead series in addition to titles like The Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones. Now the company is setting its sight on the Dark Knight with a series base…
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Christmas tree loaf. : Catloaf
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US judge rejects Honda and Takata bid to end lawsuit – BBC News
A US judge rejects a bid by Takata and Honda to end a class action lawsuit representing millions of owners of cars with potentially faulty airbags.
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Exposed: ExxonMobil Funding Influential Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 31 minutes ago by loading…
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Apple TV Is The Latest Step In The Disintermediation Of Media | TechCrunch
The trend toward direct connections between video content creators and their audiences is well underway, but the new Apple TV could finally push that trend into the living room.
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The world is safer than it’s ever been. Except for this one huge thing | Grist
Don Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards. Not all of his charges stuck. We’re not doing nearly enough, says It Takes Roots, a delegation of communities on the frontlines of climate change.
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Environmental justice groups are not impressed with expected Paris agreement | Grist
Don Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards. Not all of his charges stuck. We’re not doing nearly enough, says It Takes Roots, a delegation of communities on the frontlines of climate change.
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Coal kingpin faces possible prison sentence after mine explosion | Grist
Don Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards. Not all of his charges stuck. We’re not doing nearly enough, says It Takes Roots, a delegation of communities on the frontlines of climate change.
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Day after San Bernardino, Republicans line up to crush gun control efforts | US news | The Guardian
A day after 14 people were killed in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, all four Republican presidential candidates in the US senate – Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio – opposed a measure that would introduce tighter…
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Ecuador legislature lifts presidential re-election limit – BBC News
Ecuador’s National Assembly has approved a constitutional amendment allowing the president and other officials to be re-elected for an indefinite number of terms. The change is part of a package of reforms backed by President Rafael Correa.
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Economist: The Destruction of Two Death Stars Bankrupted the Galactic Empire
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Economist: The Destruction of Two Death Stars Bankrupted the Galactic Empire
It’s common knowledge that Death Stars are wildly expensive weapons of mass destruction. What we didn’t know—until now—is that destroying two of them would bankrupt the Galactic Empire. Apparently Luke and his small band of Rebels didn’t crunch the …
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jwz: Zuckerberg has not donated anything, you gullible, credulous pinheads.
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When a multi-billionaire puts out a press release saying that eventually they will transfer all-but-a-billion-or-so into a “charitable foundation” that they also completely control, that is not a donation, that is just moving your money from one ban… -
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Ben Carson, whose presidential campaign has been stymied with questions about his depth on foreign policy, addressed one of the most influential Republican Jewish organizations on Thursday but probably left few there with much confidence that his kn…
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Giant lizard gives Australian man a fright – then a photo op | World news | The Guardian
A goanna photographed climbing on the side of a home in Thurgoona, NSW, Australia. Photograph: Eric Holland
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Scientists take cautious step toward controversial practice of gene editing
The organizing committee of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing, held this week in Washington, D.C., issued a much-anticipated statement about human gene-editing research — a subject that continues to draw considerable controversy among s…
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Jon Stewart Calls Out Mitch McConnell On Responder Bill : politics
Jon Stewart Calls Out Mitch McConnell On Responder Bill https://t.co/9mhwWhHWDQ https://t.co/cUY5bmbUqA
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No one lays it down as well as Jon Stewart. Damn I miss his show.. Every time some tragic news story unfolds, all I can think is it’d be so much easier to swallow if Jon Stewart broke the news to me.
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T-1000 and Terminator, reunited again 24 years later : pics
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World AIDS Day: The Photo That Changed the Face of HIV/AIDS
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths.
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Names Of San Bernardino Shooting Victims Released : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Matt Guilhem of member station KVCR about the San Bernardino shooting victims. The city has officially released all 14 names.
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These Bouncing Droplets Could Help Resolve a 90-Year Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
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San Bernardino is 353rd shooting this year | Al Jazeera America
The San Bernardino shooting, which killed 14 people and wounded 17 others, came less than a week after a man killed three people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Marion Marechal-Le Pen and France’s far-right charm offensive – BBC News
Marion Marechal-Le Pen has already turned heads by becoming the France’s youngest ever MP. Now the polls suggest the 25-year-old National Front (FN) candidate looks set to win the first round of Sunday’s vote in the south-eastern Provence-Alpes-Cote…
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See One Artist Convert The Walking Dead TV Show Back Into Comic Form
AMC’s The Walking Dead is such a popular show, sometimes it’s easy to forget it’s based on a comic book. Even though the characters we know and love got started on the page, seeing them in that medium is still fun, especially through the eyes of Kir…
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Chennai floods: Edited Modi photo sparks online mockery – BBC News
India’s state-run Press Information Bureau is facing online mockery after tweeting an edited image of PM Narendra Modi surveying deadly Chennai floods. The bureau initially retweeted the prime minister’s photo of himself looking through a plane wind…
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Saudi Arabia carrying out ‘unprecedented wave’ of executions – BBC News
An artist sentenced to death for apostasy. Three young Shia Muslims – arrested when they were minors – faced with beheading. And reports in the Saudi press of the imminent execution of more than 50 people. Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty has…
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Venezuela: Economy on the brink? – BBC News
Venezuelans will be going to the polls on Sunday to elect all 167 members of the National Assembly amid tension caused by the country’s worsening economic decline.
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These Bouncing Droplets Could Help Resolve a 90-Year Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
The drops of silicon oil bobbing in this mesmerizing video above do more than create aesthetically satisfying ripples across a slick surface. They could be indirect evidence of an alternate solution to a nagging question in quantum mechanics — one t…
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Vox Sentences: We know the “who” of San Bernardino, but not the “why” – Vox
Learning about the killers and their victims in San Bernardino; the armed forces end gender segregation; and a coal kingpin goes to prison. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Rebel Without A Pause | New Republic
Late one September night in Atlanta, Killer Mike picked me up from my hotel in a black Chevy Silverado. He’s a heavyset man with a dense beard, a little over six feet tall, thick and stocky and built like an offensive lineman.
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Read the ultimate foot-stamping rant about Millenials / Boing Boing
Behold! Millenials are a fucking joke. There used to be a time where two people could have different opinions and have an intelligent, educational conversation about it. Nowadays, two people have different opinions and all of a sudden it’s World War…
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Ebola outbreak: Stigma and uncertainty stalk survivors – BBC News
“Can I hug you?” community nurse Joyce Jebambula asks with a beaming smile as she welcomes me back to her village in Hill Station, Freetown. “Of course,” I say as I fling my arms around her. It’s a magical moment.
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Vanitee Lands $3.5M To Expand Its Beauty Booking Service Across Asia | TechCrunch
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Vanitee, a six-month-old Singapore-based startup that provides a marketplace to connect beauty practitioners with customers, has raised $3.5 million as it prepares to expand its service across Asia. The round was raised across in two lumps. -
Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/jkisrv0Hyy
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Canada Is Having a Big Green Rebranding — And That Could Help the Oil Sands | VICE News
“We’re very happy to see Prime Minister Trudeau step up on climate change.” https://t.co/Dl2GqGoEqi
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San Bernardino victims include man who followed love to California | US news | The Guardian
Authorities released the names of the 14 fatalities on Thursday a day after a heavily armed couple opened fire on the San Bernardino County public health department’s Christmas lunch, wounding an additional 21 people before they themselves were cut …
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A woman caught littering, streamed live on the internet – BBC News
BBC Trending reports on a city official’s unusual method for tackling illegal dumping in Mexico City. Mexico City has long debated whether residents follow their civic duty.
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Lyft forms global team with Asian ride-hailing rivals to try and kick Uber’s ass / Boing Boing
U.S.-based startup Lyft today announced an international coalition with GrabTaxi, Ola and Didi Kuaidi, three of Asia’s top ride-hailing companies. The companies can now operate in each others’ home countries, and expand markets with their shared rea…
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Melvin Williams, a former Baltimore drug kingpin who served as the inspiration for the character of Avon Barksdale on The Wire, has died. Williams—who, like many of Simon’s contacts from his time as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, appeared on the …
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Why is India’s Chennai flooded? – BBC News
The severe flooding in Chennai again proves that India’s cities are unprepared for extreme weather events like rains, droughts and cyclonic storms which are becoming more frequent and intense. Many parts of India suffer flooding every year during th…
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How can we store more energy from the sun and the wind? – BBC News
It could be a scene from a science fiction movie. Deep in the Nevada desert, thousands of mirrors arrayed in concentric circles face the sky, lit up by the sun.
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Senate Rejects Background Check Proposal | Al Jazeera America
The background check measure, which was voted down 50-48 and followed the Senate’s defeat of other firearms curbs, underscored that political gridlock over the issue remains formidable in Washington, even amid a rash of highly publicized U.S. shooti…
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Sweeping energy package passes House, completely ignores climate risks. Congress “the greatest ignoramuses of all time,” says leading Dem. (eenews.net)
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Don Blankenship, West Virginia’s “King of Coal,” Is Guilty – The New Yorker
For a generation, Don Blankenship embodied a harsh shibboleth of modern Appalachian politics: running coal is still the best life that impoverished Americans in the hills of West Virginia and Kentucky should expect—and they should be grateful for it.
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Fish moving to poles due to climate change, extinction at equator : environment
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Hanukkah with spirit in Yangon – BBC News
All next week, Jews around the world will light candles to celebrate Hanukkah – and it will be the same in Yangon, Myanmar, where Jewish traditions have been kept alive largely by two men, Sammy Samuels and his late father, Moses (pictured above).
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Dr. Eilish Cleary studying glyphosate when put on leave Chief medical officer of health ‘surprised and upset’ by leave from provincial government (cbc.ca)submitted 49 minutes ago by loading…
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San Bernardino shooting: 14 victims named by police – latest updates | US news | The Guardian
A police officer stands near flowers left near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting rampage in San Bernardino. Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters
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The ‘North Korea ghost boats’ washing up on Japan – BBC News
Mysterious, crew-less “ghost ships” have been washing up on the western shores of Japan. Over the past two months at least 13 wooden boats have turned up, with more than 20 decaying bodies on board.
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Zuckerberg Responds To Critics, Explains How He’s Spending $45B | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a powerful announcement — not only did he reveal the birth of his daughter, Max, but he shared plans to give up 99% of his personal Facebook shares over the course of his lifetime and us…
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Farmers hold the key to climate change action in the United States | Grist
After just a few days, billions of dollars have been committed to clean energy. Countries and companies are making pledges to halt deforestation, while indigenous activists are arguing for different approaches.
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Virgin Galactic Announces New “Cosmic Girl” Mothership That Could Help It Compete With SpaceX
Space cowboy Richard Branson and his company, Virgin Galactic, showed off a 747-400 airplane that could launch rocket payloads from the air straight into orbit. The mothership, a.k.a “Cosmic Girl,” would carry Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rockets t…
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Would you prefer your meat well-traveled or cloned, China? | Grist
After just a few days, billions of dollars have been committed to clean energy. Countries and companies are making pledges to halt deforestation, while indigenous activists are arguing for different approaches.
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Hungry Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/lYrQATLIPf https://t.co/EqiZgAqcH2 https://t.co/bpSjzN8Rdz
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Rahm Emanuel Reverses Course, Welcomes DOJ Probe of Laquan McDonald Killing | Mother Jones
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The Drake Equation and Alien Intelligence Calculations Explained | Inverse
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is not just the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists. Scientists — especially the really smart ones — are part of the search and have even gone so far as to create an equation to measure the likeli…
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Windows Server 2016 moving to per core, not per socket, licensing | Ars Technica
Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per core.
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No, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity / Boing Boing
Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion of his Facebook bucks to charity. Perhaps you read this on the internet. It is not true. “Here’s what happened instead,” explains the New York Times’ Jesse Eisinger. “Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment ve…
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COP21: City mayors discuss green solutions – BBC News
Cities could use water from rivers and the sea to stay cool as the climate heats, city mayors have been told. Carbon emissions from air-conditioning are expected to soar as temperatures climb and people become richer.
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Migratory birds ‘lack world protection’ – BBC News
More than 90% of migratory birds are poorly protected on their marathon journeys around the world, according to research. Many birds are at risk when they stop to feed, rest or breed en route, say scientists.
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‘I’m Zambian with my friends, Chinese at home’ – BBC News
The Chinese presence across Africa is hard to miss, and with billions more dollars in Chinese financial assistance expected to be announced at a major summit in Johannesburg this week, that is only likely to grow.
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Politely Exit an Unwanted Conversation by Giving a Specific Excuse
Whether you’re at a work party, convention, or some other social event, knowing how to slip away from a dull conversation is an invaluable skill. The trick to giving a good excuse is all in the specifics.
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Review: Krampus is coming, with a sack full of Christmas movie clichés | The Verge
There’s something genuinely delightful about taking the cheery commercialized abundance of Christmas, and contrasting it with the darkest, creepiest things imaginable.
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Rahm Emanuel Reverses Course, Welcomes DOJ Probe of Laquan McDonald Killing | Mother Jones
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has reversed his position on a Department of Justice investigation of his police department’s handling of last year’s fatal shooting of a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, by a white officer.
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5 Reasons Gene Editing Is Both Terrific and Terrifying
The idea of tinkering with the genes we pass to our children has long been the stuff of science fiction. But scientists are rapidly solving the technological challenges, and expect such gene editing will soon be feasible.
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Oprah Winfrey Details Long-Awaited Memoir ‘The Life You Want’ | Rolling Stone
Oprah Winfrey will tell all in The Life You Want, her long-awaited memoir set to be published in January 2017 via Flatiron Books.
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Former Massey Energy C.E.O. Guilty in Deadly Coal Mine Blast https://t.co/TaDUe7mq0X https://t.co/H2hpewUhu5
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Senate Votes to End Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood : politics
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Al Franken is writing a memoir about his days on SNL and Capitol Hill · Newswire · The A.V. Club
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A Year Later, the Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Still Stings | Rolling Stone
A year ago Thursday, when a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a police officer named Daniel Pantaleo in her father’s homicide, Erica Garner cried, but wasn’t surprised.
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How Corporations Profit From Black Teens’ Viral Content | The FADER
Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For her handle, Newman chose a nickname made up during an annual visit to her grandm…
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Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Have Amazing Plans for Seeing Sisters in Theaters | Vanity Fair
Dear readers, we have only two weeks until Amy Poehler and Tina Fey reunite on film screens for the first time since 2007, with Sisters, the much-awaited comedy in which the Saturday Night Live alums play, well, sisters.
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Republicans lack the two-thirds House and Senate majorities needed to override a veto. More legislative masturbation while real issues get ignored. How about some funding to study the causes of mass shootings? That might be worth a few minutes of th…
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Donald L.
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Hot Topic launches Doctor Who line for the fashion-forward time traveler · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Most people know Hot Topic as every shopping mall’s best place to buy emo band T-shirts, anime chain wallets, and Nightmare Before Christmas Funko Pop figures, but lately it has also started selling dresses that feature emo band names, anime referen…
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Husband and wife terror team behind San Bernardino massacre had thousands of bullets / Boing Boing
An SUV with its windows shot out that police suspect was the getaway vehicle in San Bernardino, December 2, 2015.
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El Rey to smash puny holiday with another kaiju movie marathon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Providing the ponderous, skyscraper-scaled thrashing—not to mention the warm holiday cheer of a blast of nuclear fire—that The War On Christmas has so long and sorely lacked, the El Rey network has announced the return of its now-annual Kaiju Christ…
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Suspected San Bernardino killers took pains to erase digital footprints | Ars Technica
The married couple police say carried out Wednesday’s shooting rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California, took pains to erase their digital footprints in the hours leading up to the deadly attack, according to a published report.
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As any person who has taken introduction to film studies will tell you, French New Wave directory Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
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Revenge pornography website operator sentenced to 25 months in prison | US news | The Guardian
Hunter Moore, the operator of revenge pornography website IsAnyoneUp.com, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, his defense lawyer, Robert Holley, has said. Moore founded IsAnyoneUp.
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Christmas trees around the world – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony took place in Washington DC on Thursday evening, with the Obama family doing the honours. From the Norwegian spruce in London to the Lego tree in Melbourne, here’s a selection of the best
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Migrant crisis: Greece seeks EU help amid border chaos – BBC News
Greece has asked for EU help in managing its borders, as thousands of migrants remain stuck on its northern frontier with Macedonia. Macedonia has only been letting in Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who are fleeing conflict, sparking angry demonstratio…
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Google wants your blood | The Verge
Google might be joining the needle-free blood test party. The company has filed a patent for a “needle-free blood draw” system that can be used either as a wearable on a person’s wrist or as a hand-held device that takes blood from a fingertip or ot…
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Half a Million People Tell Iran: ‘Free Jason Rezaian’ – The Daily Beast
The brother of imprisoned Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian dropped by Iran’s mission to the United Nations on Thursday and delivered a Change.org petition for his immediate release. The petition was signed by more than 535,000 people in 150 co…
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Parents May Pass Down More Than Just Genes, Study Suggests https://t.co/ZpMlxFxKGk https://t.co/wOKQRg3G5Y
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US attorney general: ‘Fifa’s betrayal of trust is outrageous’ – BBC News
Swiss hotel arrests made in Fifa inquiry https://t.co/iEGflO4Of3 https://t.co/9pXWHBPIBv
Fifa says it “will continue to co-operate fully” after police made arrests at a Swiss hotel used by its officials for a second time this year. Police swooped on the luxury Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich and two people were seen being taken to a garage … -
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Violent Clashes at Greece-Macedonia Border | Al Jazeera America
The 22-year-old man was the first person to die on the land border between the two countries, prompting calls from human rights groups for both sides to protect the safety of migrants and refugees, and promises by Greece to find a quick solution to …
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Cygnus Spaceship’s Return-to-Flight Mission Delayed by Bad Weather
Orbital ATK’s uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 3, 2015.
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Sweet Micky and the Sad Déjà Vu of Haiti’s Presidential Elections – The New Yorker
In the lively and graphic opening montage of the new documentary “Sweet Micky for President,” a behind-the-scenes look at Haiti’s 2010-2011 Presidential election and the rise of the entertainer turned President Michel Martelly, a newsman in stock fi…
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Quickly Find an Artist’s Music-Only YouTube Videos With a Hashtag Search
A normal search on YouTube will bring up an artist or group’s VEVO channel, popular music videos, and even videos that don’t have any music at all. If you’re just looking for some tunes to listen to, a hashtag search will take you right to the good …
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Hot Looks: Mass-Market Face Makeup | Vanity Fair
In another roundup of mass-market products, we turn our attention to affordable makeup that delivers! Know that great makeup doesn’t always have to cost the equivalent of one month’s rent in the city (you think we’re kidding, but you’d be surprised!…
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Donald Trump To GOP Jews: You Can’t Buy Me – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition this morning was a sober-minded and detailed analysis of the security threats Israel faces and the most effective way to eliminate the Islamic State. Haha, just kidding!
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In 2013, an obese man went to Hvidovre Hospital in Denmark to have his stomach stapled. All in all, it was ordinary bariatric surgery — with one big exception.
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Labour Party Splits on Syria, But This May Not Mean Electoral Disaster | VICE News
Hours after the UK Parliament voted on Wednesday night to allow the military to begin airstrikes in Syria, four Royal Air Force jets hit seven targets in oilfields under the control of Islamic State in eastern Syria.
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The Fascinating Reason Why the Coldest Days of the Year Vary So Wildly In the US
Statistically, the coldest days of the year should be a pretty simple thing to map. So why does this map look so splotchy?
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There’s a wonderful new episode out from Food Warriors, the delightful NYC street eats web series starring Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, and directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
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Uber’s $2.1B Series G Could Give The Company A Post-Money Valuation Of Up To $65B | TechCrunch
Uber, the on-demand transportation company that has amassed around $10 billion in funding to date, is raising once more. This time, it is looking to to $2.1 billion, in a Series G round that could value the company has high as $64.
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Woman owns 12 of the best shirts in history, brags with short videos | The Verge
In recent days, you may have seen reports of a new weird internet thing/art form called “Bread Face.” If you haven’t seen the reports, it doesn’t matter because Bread Face is exactly what you are thinking. It’s a person pushing their face into diffe…
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How to make a toothbrush out of tissue paper / Boing Boing
You’re probably familiar with Scratch, the introductory programming language that allows kids (and adults) to create interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch doesn’t require lines of code to write programs. Instead, you build programs by …
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The five stages of Republican candidate reactions after mass shootings | US news | The Guardian
Mass shooting events in America happen at an alarming rate, with roughly one every day. When an attack hits the headlines, like the recent shootings in San Bernardino, California, and Colorado Springs, the prospective Republican candidates for presi…
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Chris Froome insists his “results will stand the test of time” after releasing physiological data in an attempt to answer those who doubt he twice won the Tour de France as a clean rider.
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Into the Badlands Exclusive Sneak Peek: M.K. Is Ready to Kick Sunny’s Ass
Last week on Into the Badlands, M.K. put his foot down with Sunny: He wants Sunny to teach him to fight. (Fight better, that is. The kid’s already pretty lethal.) Sunny agrees, but based on this minute-long exclusive preview of Sunday’s episode, he …
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Zachariæ Isstrøm Glacier, Greenland : Image of the Day
Zachariæ Isstrøm has become the latest Greenland glacier to undergo rapid changes in a warming world. Research published November 2015 in found that Zachariæ Isstrøm broke loose from a stable position in 2012 and entered a phase of accelerated retre…
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Here’s Why Hundreds of Immigrants in Detention Have Gone on Hunger Strike | Mother Jones
After spending months holed up in detention centers, more than 100 undocumented immigrants in California and Alabama launched a hunger strike on the evening before Thanksgiving.
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Jeremy Scott Is Flattered When You Wear Jeremy Scott | Vanity Fair
On Wednesday night in Miami Beach, Jeremy Scott exuded a certain calm uncommon in the city when the annual Art Basel tornado blows into town. Maybe that’s because he hadn’t been there so long.
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Indigenous women are on the front lines of climate change. Where’s the media coverage? | Grist
Countries and companies are making pledges to halt deforestation, while indigenous activists are arguing for different approaches.
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Police and news reports have pieced together some of the sequence of events that led to the shooting at the Inland Regional Center yesterday. The San Bernardino County Health Department had rented out a conference room for a holiday party for its em…
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Upbeat band Coldplay to headline Superbowl 50 halftime show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If Roman numerals are the kind of thing that gets your blood pumping, the news that Super Bowl L would be switched to Super Bowl 50 was likely a crushing blow.
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Man’s hoard of nearly 5,000 guns shows ease of amassing arms in U.S.| Reuters
PAGELAND, South Carolina As sheriff’s investigators threaded past the battered cars, cast-off tires and rusted farm equipment cluttering Brent Nicholson’s front yard, there was no hint of the sinister stockpile hidden behind his windowless front doo…
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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Flashback: See Dolly Parton’s Twinkling ‘Come Again’ in 1978 | Rolling Stone
Since her debut more than 50 years ago, Dolly Parton has become one of the world’s most recognizable entertainers and cemented her reputation as one of popular music’s most successful songwriters.
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‘Nathan for You’ Keeps Small Business Weird – Bloomberg Business
Nathan Fielder, 32, a self-styled consultant and graduate of a “top Canadian business school, with really good grades,” is deeply invested in small businesses. His show, Nathan for You, finishing its third season on Comedy Central, depends on them.
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All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss In December!
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Each December, Artforum asks cult director John Waters to compile a list of his favorite films of the past 12 months, and this year he has responded with an eclectic roundup of both mainstream and indie selections.
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A Second Wave of Indictments for FIFA’s Leadership – The Atlantic
The corruption investigation into international soccer widened on Thursday as U.S. prosecutors unsealed a sprawling, 236-page indictment of 16 high-ranking FIFA officials.
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Keep Produce Fresh and Crisp in the Fridge With a Couple of Sponges
Excess moisture can shorten the life span of your fruits and veggies when you store them in the fridge, but placing a couple of sponges in your produce drawer can help them last a little longer.
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Why Coldplay Headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Inevitable – The Atlantic
It seems like a sign of some sort of existential crisis that Coldplay will play the halftime show of the 50th Super Bowl, but I’m not sure whose crisis it is or what it’s about.
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Researchers Take On ‘Great Problem In Data’ With Study Of Gunshot Wounds : NPR
Twenty years ago — under threat from Congress — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped studying gun violence. That didn’t stop Dr. David Livingston and his colleagues: In a new study, the researchers in Newark, N.J.
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Behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel
“DVD extras” is a phrase that’s rapidly receding in the pop cultural rearview mirror, but YouTube is chock full1 of them for many popular movies and shows. Here are a few behind-the-scenes looks at Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Tom Burgess reportedly following Jarryd Hayne from rugby league to NFL | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne’s struggles to adapt to life in the NFL are well documented but another rugby league star appears to be trying his luck in the US. Tom Burgess, one of the three Burgess brothers at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is reported to have tried o…
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Maddy Myers has an excellent take on the resulting—if small—fandom for Kilgrave following Jessica Jones. “Although I may not fully understand the fandom surrounding Kilgrave, I do understand the general desire to reclaim a bad experience or experime…
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Star Wars: UK duo ready for opening day – BBC News
The British stars of the new Star Wars film have told the BBC they feel “no pressure” over how it will be received. John Boyega and Daisy Ridley spoke to entertainment correspondent Liza Mzimba about working on one of the most anticipated films of a…
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Climate Activism Under Attack: COP21 – Climate Emergency (Dispatch 2) | VICE News
At the COP21 Paris Climate Talks, the prospect of nations reaching an agreement preventing irrevocable climate change is looking bleak, and discontent is growing among the activists on the ground.
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All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss In December!
Some of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 still haven’t come out yet. There’s a whole month of galaxy-shattering tales ahead of us. Including Star Wars! Dean Koontz! And thrilling tales from A.M.
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The Smash Community Is Chaos Right Now
The sudden end to Project M’s development yesterday has turned the Super Smash Bros. community on its head. No one’s quite sure what the next step should be, resulting in a lot of conspiracy theories, yelling, and confusion.
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It’s really hard to buy a gun in Japan. The country also has almost no gun homicides. – Vox
In most places in the United States, buying a gun is really easy: You can walk into a gun store, pass a background check, and then get your gun. In some states, you don’t even need to do that much: You can buy a gun without any check at all from a p…
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Jupiter and the Moon Share Close Encounter Before Dawn Friday: How to See It
Jupiter and the moon will appear to shine extra close together before dawn on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, as shown in this Starry Night sky map.
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The New Republic Eulogizes Hannah Arendt | New Republic
The life and death of a philosopher should have a more than personal significance. When Hannah Arendt died December 4, many people mourned a friend and a teacher, but some also knew that a shattered culture had lost one of its very last and finest v…
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In a move that, if gun-rights advocates are to be believed, will ensure that no one will ever get shot within 50 feet of a TV ever again, Rolling Stone reports that a new home-shopping channel devoted exclusively to the sale of guns and gun accessor…
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What the heck is a catch in the NFL, anyway? An explainer – SBNation.com
The NFL can’t ever seem to decide what a catch is and isn’t. So how are we as fans supposed to know, anyway? Here’s an explainer to help explain the rule book once and for all.
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Life at Jang Bogo : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Day to day life at the base station is varied primarily by timing of our field expeditions. We’ve had some very busy days getting equipment ready, deploying and checking our gear. In between, however, we are essentially operating as we would do at t…
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Virgin presses 747 jumbos into space action – BBC News
Sir Richard Branson is reassigning one of his old Virgin Atlantic 747-400 jumbos to the service of space. The jet will be the launch platform for the satellite rocket being developed by another of the entrepreneur’s companies – Virgin Galactic.
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Fire and ash as Mount Etna erupts for the first time in two years – BBC News
Mount Etna, the volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has erupted in spectacular fashion for the first time in two years. Etna sent a plume of fire and ash into the sky, several kilometres high.
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Fey And Poehler: ‘Sisters’ Who Will Take Down ‘Star Wars’ — Or Laugh Trying : NPR
What film would be crazy enough to schedule its release on the same day as the new Star Wars? Why, it’s Sisters, the new film from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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Hunter Moore Revenge Porn Victim Got a Whopping $145.70 in Restitution | Motherboard
On Wednesday, revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison. He will also be paying a $2,000 fine, and on top of that, a bizarrely specific $145.70 in restitution.
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Bloodiest Christmas Massacres #2: The Killer Who Was Blinded By Hate
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Half pitbull half golden retriever : aww
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In Paris, Who Is In a Position to Save The World? | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—There’s no better place to sit and gloom longingly about the world than in a Parisian café, especially if that café is six miles north of the city in a glass-and-steel warehouse at the climate change conference. These are undeniab…
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Turing’s Martin Shkreli regrets 5,000% price-hike—says it wasn’t high enough | Ars Technica
In a Healthcare summit hosted by Forbes on Thursday, Martin Shkreli, the founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, admitted he made a mistake by raising the price of a decades-old drug by more than 5,000 percent. But it’s not the mistake you might …
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Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Scope of Vermont Healthcare Data Law – Scientific American
Expected ruling could prevent 18 states from collecting healthcare information from certain employee health plan administrators The data includes the type of healthcare services paid for by insurers on medical claims by a patient and how much they p…
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Coldplay set to play Super Bowl 50’s halftime show, surprising no one – Vox
The NFL has officially selected the main halftime entertainment for Super Bowl 50, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the lucky act is … Coldplay.
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‘Justice not yet served’ in Israel’s Dawabsheh case – Al Jazeera English
Justice for a Palestinian toddler and his parents that were killed in an arson attack is still a remote possibillity despite arrests made by Israel, human rights activists have said.
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Many conspiracy theories abound when it comes to Star Wars—some insane, others intriguing, some a bit of both (Darth Jar Jar, anyone?).
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Construction of Giant Telescope in Hawaii Halted Again
Construction of the world’s largest telescope in Hawaii has encountered yet another serious setback.
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This is the most important survey in America, but it keeps getting defunded – Vox
The US Census isn’t just a bureau that counts people. Sure, the census asks where you live and how many people are in your family. But it also asks what type of toilet you use, when you came to the US, and how much money you earn.
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Bloodiest Christmas Massacres #2: The Killer Who Was Blinded By Hate
It was Christmas Eve, 1985. Seattle attorney Charles Goldmark was at home with his wife, Annie, and their two children, 10-year-old Colin and 12-year-old Derek; all were eagerly anticipating the festive holiday dinner to come.
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Why Insomnia Happens and What You Can Do to Get Better Sleep
We’re all familiar with that silly image of the person who resorts to counting sheep when they just can’t seem to fall asleep. But when you’re the one who’s been tossing and turning all night, insomnia is no laughing matter. This post originally app…
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Lollapalooza extends to four days, raises ticket prices in celebration · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Suggesting that the annual music festival will now have even more opportunities to be rained out, next year’s Lollapalooza will extend to four days instead of three.
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Is the US gun culture fuelling mass shootings? – Al Jazeera English
The California gun attack on Thursday that killed 14 people has forced the US President Barack Obama to issue a statement saying that the rate of public mass shootings in the country that has “no parallel” globally.
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L.A. declines to prosecute CHP officer for assault caught on video
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against a former California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer caught on video savagely beating a woman walking along the side of the Santa Monica Freeway in July 2014.
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That shit is strong : trippinthroughtime
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The ugly Islamophobia in the media coverage of the San Bernardino shooting – Vox
Real-time coverage of mass shootings is notoriously bad. But last night’s coverage of the San Bernardino mass shooting went beyond bad: It veered into borderline Islamophobia. As a search for the suspects dragged on for hours, speculation about the …
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The Fraternal Order of Police Want Off-Duty Cops to Be Armed Inside a Stadium Near You | The Nation
After Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, we have reached a point in 2015 where there have been more mass shootings in the Unites States than there have been days in the year. We don’t know as of this writing what pushed the allege…
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Steelhenge: Swiss architecture firm designs Stonehenge using shipping containers|Dangerous Minds
An amusing instance of the new genre of “cargotecture” emerged earlier this year when a Swiss architecture firm called Bureau A re-created the famous neolithic monument of Stonehenge in Geneva, using only blue shipping containers.
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TV binging, exercise skipping linked to poor cognitive function | Ars Technica
Passing on the gym to snuggle on the couch and binge watch whole seasons of your favorite show this weekend may not bode well for your brain.
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Why the FBI Isn’t Calling San Bernardino ‘Terrorism’ – The Atlantic
During a press conference in San Bernardino on Thursday, law-enforcement officials noted that the two dead suspects in Wednesday’s massacre had stockpiled an enormous arsenal: thousands of rounds of ammunition, 12 pipe bombs, and material to build m…
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Naomi Klein, Kshama Sawant, Dave Zirin, and More: ‘The Nation’ Live! in Seattle | The Nation
On Thursday, October 15, The Nation Live!, a live magazine experience created to mark the magazine’s 150th anniversary, played in front of a full house at Town Hall in Seattle.
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Track of the Day: ‘Oops I Did It Again’ (cover) – The Atlantic
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Following the mass shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, in which 14 people were killed, presidential candidates expressed their condolences and spoke out about the killings – but only the Democratic candidates seemed to call for action on gun co…
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Why scientists are calling for caution on a powerful new gene-editing technology – Vox
Earlier this week, hundreds of scientists, bioethicists, and health regulators gathered in Washington, DC, to talk about the powerful new gene-editing system that recently exploded on to the scientific scene.
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Doctors Urge Funding For Gun Violence Research | Al Jazeera America
On Wednesday morning, hours before 14 people were shot dead in San Bernardino, California by a heavily armed couple, several prominent physicians’ groups presented a petition to Congress urging lawmakers to end what it called the “effective ban” on …
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The Escalating Slurs of Donald Trump – The New Yorker
Donald Trump keeps raising the stakes. Back in June, on the day he announced his plans to run for President, he seemed to veer wildly off script as he accused Mexico of sending “rapists” to plague the United States.
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The Death Penalty in Texas and a Conflict of Interest – The New Yorker
Robert L. Roberson III was convicted in 2003, in Anderson County, Texas, of murdering his two-year-old daughter.
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On Eve Of Big Vote, Germany Expected To Join Campaign Against ISIS : NPR
The German parliament votes Friday on whether to send military support for French attacks on ISIS in Syria. The measure, which proposes what could be Germany’s largest mission since Afghanistan, is expected to pass the Bundestag.
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Think Politics Is a Game? This Is How You Gamble on the 2016 US Presidential Election | VICE News
We’re at the point in the US presidential campaign where it can feel like everyone, from your grandmother at the holiday dinner table to the people on your Facebook newsfeed, has a strong opinion about who is going to win next November.
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New breaches revealed in report that says Secret Service is ‘in crisis’ – The Washington Post
A man masquerading as a member of Congress walked into a secure backstage area without being properly screened and spoke with President Obama at an awards dinner last fall. Five days later, a woman walked backstage unchecked at a gala dinner where O…
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Atlanta’s Mayor Highlights Local Effects Of Climate Change At Paris Summit : NPR
Atlanta’s mayor wants to convince businesses that the city is a regional leader on climate change initiatives. But, in a city whose efforts are contradicted by its state, how much can the mayor do?
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1,000 American rabbis sign letter welcoming Syrian refugees. “In 1939, our country could not tell the difference between an actual enemy and the victims of an enemy. In 2015, let us not make the same mistake.” (washingtonpost.com)submitted 3 hours a…
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Poll: Most Americans think attacks on abortion clinics are “domestic terrorism.” : politics
It is whether most Americans believe it or not. Facts don’t change because people are stupid. I am speaking generally here and not in the facts of this case but we need to come together and actually agree on what Terrorism is. IMO too many things ar…
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Removal of coal ash underway at high-risk sites in NC : environment
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Watch NASA’s Cygnus Spacecraft Launch to the Space Station Live Right Here
Watch NASA’s Cygnus Spacecraft Launch to the Space Station Live Right Here https://t.co/E86Hr48laj https://t.co/zDI2HjSWhk
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Plight of the Long-Distance Flyers – Scientific American
The cerulean warbler breeds in the mountains of West Virginia and Tennessee but winters far to the south in places like Venezuela and Columbia. Mining in the U.S. and the growth of coffee and cocoa plantations in South America are stripping away its…
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Hawaii court revokes permit for controversial telescope project | US news | The Guardian
The Hawaii supreme court on Wednesday revoked a permit that would have allowed the controversial construction of one of the world’s largest telescopes on a dormant volcano considered an ideal location on Earth to view the stars. Issuing the permit t…
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Clean Your Foggy Headlights For $1
Amazon is currently listing 3M’s popular headlight restoration kit for $14, but you can save a couple bucks by purchasing it through Amazon’s Subscribe & Save program, another $6 by clipping the digital coupon on the page, and another $5 with a mail…
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The Writers Guild Awards may not be as high-profile as the Oscars or Emmys, but they’re at least as trustworthy and meaningful as those awards are.
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Coldplay to Headline 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Show | Rolling Stone
Coldplay and Bruno Mars will perform at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on February 7th in Santa Clara, California at Levi’s Stadium, Wall Street Journal reports. Last year, Katy Perry headlined the halftime show and brought out special guests Missy…
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Why scientists are calling for caution on a powerful new gene-editing technology – Vox
Earlier this week, hundreds of scientists, bioethicists, and health regulators gathered in Washington, DC, to talk about the powerful new gene-editing system that recently exploded on to the scientific scene.
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No, CNN will not be paying Donald Trump $5 million to appear in next presidential debate
In Donald Trump news, CNN says it won’t be paying Donald Trump $5 million to appear in the next CNN-hosted presidential debate just because Donald Trump wants them to. “How about I tell CNN, who doesn’t treat me properly … I’m not gonna do the nex…
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‘If I burn out, I burn out’: meet Taylor Wilson, nuclear boy genius | Science | The Guardian
Taylor Wilson has a Geiger counter watch on his wrist, a sleek, sporty-looking thing that sounds an alert in response to radiation. As we enter his parents’ garage and approach his precious jumble of electrical equipment, it emits an ominous beep.
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Why Publicly Shaming Bigots Won’t Make People Less Racist | ThinkProgress
A Brazilian non-profit is doing what many dream of when it comes to the racist, sexist, homophobic, and plain vulgar comments posted on social media — publicly exposing commentators by placing offensive tweets or Facebook posts on billboards in thei…
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Find your Minnie, Mickey, or Minion on this new Disney-fan dating site · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The internet has made an abundance of, well, everything available to just about everyone, but it can come up suspiciously empty on suitable romantic prospects.
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The Vision’s New Family Life Is Falling To Pieces In The Most Fascinating Way
Last month, I was completely blindsided by the creepy, compelling opening to The Vision.
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MicroSD Card Quality Makes a Massive Difference in Raspberry Pi Performance
When you’re putting together your Raspberry Pi projects, you likely just grab whatever microSD card is on sale without thinking much about it. However, over on Midwestern Mac, they did speed comparison between cards, and found a big difference in pe…
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Jon Snow Stars in Ominous, Flashback-Heavy ‘Game of Thrones’ Teaser | Rolling Stone
Jon Snow Stars in Ominous, Flashback-Heavy ‘Game of Thrones’ Teaser “They have no idea what’s going to happen,” voice teases in Season Six promo
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Why Speculation About the San Bernardino Shooters Is a Dangerous Distraction | The Nation
By all accounts, up until the very moment he opened fire, Syed Farook, one of the two alleged perpetrators of America’s latest gun-slaughter, was what the gun lobby lionizes as a “good guy with a gun.
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Coldplay Will Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show | Vanity Fair
Much like people read Playboy for the articles, people mostly watch the Super Bowl for the halftime show, when some legend of rock or pop takes the stage and blasts everyone’s faces off with blares and waves of sight and sound—a spectacular, affirmi…
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Renault is to return to Formula 1 as a constructor having completed its takeover of the Lotus team. The French car giant had been debating the decision as recently as at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last weekend but has now committed to th…
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The Guns From the San Bernardino Shooting Were Legal Thanks to the NRA | Rolling Stone
There is much we don’t know about the San Bernardino massacre. But we have learned something about the arsenal deployed to kill at least 14 and injure more than 20 others.
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Federal Jury Hands Down Rare Conviction For Coal Executive : NPR
A federal jury has convicted former Massy Energy CEO Don Blankenship for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards at the Upper Big Branch mine, site of a 2010 explosion that killed 29 people. The misdemeanor charge carries a sentence of…
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“I Know You Are But What Am I”: Turkey, Russia and the Islamic State’s Oil | VICE News
In an odd diplomatic version of “I know you are but what am I,” both Russia and Turkey keep accusing each other of buying oil from the Islamic State.
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Scientists Debate How Far To Go In Editing Human Genes : Shots – Health News : NPR
Global warming isn’t the only vexing issue the world wrestled with this week. While delegates gathered in Paris to discuss climate change, the International Summit on Human Gene Editing convened in Washington, D.C.
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People Who Post Inspirational Bullshit on Facebook More Likely to Have Lower Intelligence – Mic
We all have that one Facebook friend from high school who constantly posts profound, inspirational quotes superimposed onto photos of sunsets and forests.
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As Saudi Arabia Battles Its Oil Rivals, Prices Are Expected To Stay Low : Parallels : NPR
As the world’s oil producers gather in Vienna, they are all hurting due to prices that crashed a year ago and are hovering at a little over $40 a barrel. One country, Saudi Arabia, could probably drive up prices if it wanted to cut its production.
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San Bernardino Mayor: ‘Retaliation Is Not The Answer’ : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with R. Carey Davis, the mayor of the city of San Bernardino, Calif., about the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center, where 14 people were killed Wednesday.
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In the entire article there’s not a single mention of where this coal ash is going. I’m really curious to know if we’re just relocating a problem or if we’re actually cleaning up after ourselves.
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Preparation is everything. : aww
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A brief history of the tech industry’s obsession with celebrity hires | The Verge
It’s a tale as old as time: tech brand struggles, tech brand hires a celebrity to help save itself, tech brand and celebrity eventually part ways.
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Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong. Here’s what happened instead: Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment vehicle.
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Raspberry Pi-based computers in classic 8-bit computer cases / Boing Boing
At Tynemouth Software’s Etsy store, you can buy a ready-to-use Raspberry Pi housed within any of number of classic computer cases. The keyboards are properly hooked up, modern outputs are discretely added, and the prices are reasonable. Pictured abo…
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Dealmaster: We’ve got “Cyber Week” savings, like a Dell 5K monitor for $700 off | Ars Technica
Greeting Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the Dealmaster is back! If you missed out on Cyber Monday, it’s apparently “Cyber Week” and the deals just keep on coming. The top item this week is a 5K Dell monitor for $1499.99, which is…
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FanDuel and DraftKings are trying to use math to show they’re not gambling | The Verge
But do all the calculations add up — or even matter? Daily fantasy sports are like poker games. Or horse racing. Fishing, maybe. They could be like football games themselves, or closer to spelling bees. Maybe they’re something entirely different.
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Donald Trump Questions Israel’s Commitment to Peace – The Atlantic
To the eternal chagrin of the Republican establishment, Donald Trump’s flare for the vague, insensitive, or unorthodox remark has still not cost the candidate his frontrunner status.
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In the latest edition of his web series “That’s Odd, Let’s Drink It,” Dogfish Head Brewery founder Sam Calagione links up with his former college roommates and current Hollywood actors Ken Marino (Marry Me) and Joe Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) to…
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Watch NASA’s Cygnus Spacecraft Launch to the Space Station Live Right Here
After a long wait, NASA’s Orbital ATK Cygnus is headed up to the space station today, carting 7,000 pounds of gear along with it. Count down with us and watch the whole thing happen right here. It’s set to blast off at exactly 5:55 p.m.
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Chicago, see Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
There’s no denying that Eddie Redmayne has had a big year: Between the ups (his Best Actor win for The Theory Of Everything), the downs (Jupiter Ascending), and the pending (Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them), the young actor has been everywhe…
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Paris: It’s All About the Money | New Republic
In the end, a successful climate change accord all comes down to money. Financial commitments from richer nations historically responsible for greenhouse gas emissions are important to the outcome of the talks, because they serve as carrots for poor…
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In the wake of yesterday’s latest entry in the horrifying trend of American mass shootings (the 355th of the year), one person took to Twitter to provide some valuable information.
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Go Ahead, Pass Every Student Succeeds Act, But Don’t Celebrate It
On Wednesday afternoon, the House overwhelmingly passed the proposed Every Student Succeeds Act by 359 to 64. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure this month, and the White House has signaled President Obama’s willingness to sign it.
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The next Friday The 13th movie has its writer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Contrary to popular belief, Friday The 13th movies are not written by plugging a predetermined number of horny campers into the Murder-O-Matic™, turning the knob to “Voorhees,” and kicking back with a cold brewski until the machine spits out a finis…
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Senate Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Obama Promises Veto | VICE News
The US Senate voted today in a largely symbolic measure to defund Planned Parenthood, despite a promise from the White House that President Barack Obama will veto the bill.
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Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan top this year’s Most Fascinating People list · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Amy Schumer and Tracy Jordan are twenty percent of the most fascinating people in the world this year, according to Barbara Walters. Or rather, both comedians will be featured on ABC’s Barbara Walters Presents: 10 Most Fascinating People 2015.
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Dick Cheney’s Bust Unveiled At The Capitol, As He’s Lightly Roasted : NPR
There’s a new addition to the statue-lined hallways of the U.S. Capitol — a marble bust in the likeness of Dick Cheney. It’s a tradition — and a perk — afforded vice presidents since the late 1800s.
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Could Hormones in Breast Milk Be Stressing Your Baby Out?
A few years ago, when my oldest daughter was still nursing, I went through a panicky phase. I had committed to a run of public-speaking engagements, and I constantly worried that I would flub them.
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Phytoplankton Blooms off the Falkland Islands : Natural Hazards
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Another must-pass omnibus spending bill, another Mitch McConnell rider to strengthen political parties financially. Last year around this time, the Senate majority leader inserted a provision to dramatically increase the amount of money that individ…
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The Rock Musician Who Plays Guitar With His Feet: Mark Goffeney – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Google is making it easier for more games to come to Chromecast | The Verge
Google wants more mobile game developers to create versions of their apps for TVs, and today the company released a free tool for developers using the Unity game engine to do that without having to design separate software.
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Coldplay to perform at Super Bowl 50 half-time show | Sport | The Guardian
Coldplay will perform at the Super Bowl 50 half-time show. The British rockers will headline the annual mid-game spectacle on 7 Feburary at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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Coldplay is playing the Super Bowl 50 halftime show | The Verge
Calling all dads: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Coldplay will play Super Bowl 50’s halftime show. The game’s scheduled for February 7th.
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Narrow Down Your Email Search on iOS by Tapping the Search Term
Searching through your email in the iOS Mail app seems simple enough, but Macworld points to a slightly hidden feature that helps you narrow down your search. First, type out your search in the search box and press Enter. Then, tap the search term a…
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Coldplay’s new album won’t be on Spotify when it’s released | The Verge
Alongside the big announcement that Coldplay will headline the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show, it’s also being reported that the band’s soon-to-be-released album A Head Full of Dreams won’t be available to stream on Spotify.
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KISS 1975 vs KISS in 2015: Do they owe it to their fans to remain ‘cool’?|Dangerous Minds
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s KISS-related post comes yet another, but I just had to get this off my chest… This morning an article from Culturemap Austin found its way into my newsfeed with the headline: “KISS members shake up Texas with new rock…
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Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Has Gone From Fringe To Mainstream, Report Says | ThinkProgress
Anti-Muslim rhetoric, recently on display as lawmakers discuss the issue of resettling Syrian refugees, began on the fringes of the far-right and has infiltrated mainstream politics, according to a new report released by the National Security Networ…
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Japan Intends To Kill Whales Despite Global Outcry – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Though conservationists worldwide have urged against the hunt, Japan has sent a whaling fleet into the Antarctic to kill 333 minke whales over the next three months for the purposes of “scientific research,” a claim actively disputed by other nation…
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Pay What You Want for Make’s Collection of Arduino and Raspberry Pi Books
There’s all kinds of ways to get started with electronics, but if you’re looking for a collection of books, Humble Book Bundle has several of Make’s electronics books—including its Raspberry Pi and Arduino books—for a pay whatever you want bundle.
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A Trip to Los Glaciares National Park (17 photos) https://t.co/o0O2Bn4a6T https://t.co/7V1gwOoONT
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School Board Approves Controversial Deal In Transgender Student Case : NPR
After months of negotiations, the battle over locker room access for a transgender student in Illinois ended late last night when Township High School District 211 — about 30 miles northwest of Chicago — approved a deal with the Department of Educat…
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A British woman tells me this over coffee in September. Her son has been fighting with the Islamic State (IS) for months, and he contacts her only sporadically.
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The Students’ Perspective On Gun Violence In Schools : NPR
This year alone, there have been more than 60 gun incidents on campuses across the U.S. Youth Radio’s Nila Venkat reports on what it’s like to be a bystander to these violent events.
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Movie Review: ‘The Lady In The Van’ : NPR
The Lady in the Van is the true story of a homeless woman who moved into a playwright’s driveway for three weeks and stayed for 15 years. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says it’s both funny and frail.
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A Day Later, Investigation Into San Bernardino Attacks Deepens : NPR
Ammunition and tools for explosives were found in the car and home of the San Bernardino shooting suspects. A day after the attack, the investigation is widening and the region is struggling to cope.
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Mariama Keita grows peanuts the old-fashioned way: using hoes, pitchforks and, when needed, horses as beasts of burden. She doesn’t have a tractor or any mechanized tools.
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The Hoverboard Mystery: Where Did The Holidays’ Hot Product Come From? : NPR
This holiday season, one item has been gathering popularity: Called “hoverboards,” they’re two-wheeled scooters that look like Segways with no handles. Audrey Quinn of Planet Money reports these hoverboards emerged not so much from an inventor but f…
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White House Gathers Lawmakers And Judges To Solve Steep Court Fees : NPR
For the poor, a court fine — for a minor infraction like a traffic ticket — can be much more difficult to pay than for the rich. The White House brought together a group to talk about solutions.
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What We Know About The San Bernardino Shooters : NPR
Police say that Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were responsible for Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. But authorities are still trying to determine a motive for the attack.
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‘God Isn’t Fixing This’: Politicians’ Reactions To San Bernardino Shooting : NPR
The chances for political action after the latest mass shooting are low. But the reaction was swift, with many on the left criticizing conservatives for turning solely to thoughts and prayers.
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Pentagon Opens All Combat Positions To Women : NPR
The Pentagon will admit women to all its combat positions, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday. The policy change drops the last major barrier to equal service in the military.
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Even As Details Emerge In San Bernardino Shooting, Motive Remains Murky : NPR
NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson tells host Kelly McEvers about the latest that’s known about Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
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San Bernardino Suspect’s Co-Worker: ‘I Assumed Syed Was Our Friend’ : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Patrick Baccari, who shared a cubicle with Syed Rizwan Farook, the suspect in the shooting in San Bernardino shooting, and was in the bathroom when the violence began.
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The art and science of Mead | Al Jazeera America
Mead sometimes known as honey wine or as TechKnow host Phil Torres calls it “hipster honey” may be the granddaddy of all alcoholic beverages. Early Greeks clinked goblets with it, King Midas’s tomb had drinking cups laced with mead, even the Vikings…
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Brands, Platforms, The Live Video Labyrinth And How Everyone Can Win | TechCrunch
With Periscope and Meerkat being two of the breakout stars of this year’s SXSW, and Snapchat serving as the primary engagement tool for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, live video platforms have taken the media, political and business w…
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Game of Thrones’ season 6 teaser sure focuses a lot on a supposedly dead character – Vox
Though all the footage featured in the teaser is old — it’s a greatest hits of Game of Thrones deaths and dramatic moments, with a heavy emphasis on Jon Snow — the dialogue is new and must be from the upcoming season.
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Like Jon Snow We Know Nothing, In The First Teaser For Game of Thrones Season 6
Okay, so, if you’re worried about spoilers, this first teaser for the next season of Game of Thrones doesn’t actually have any new footage in it—but it’s got one hell of an awesomely portentous bit of dialogue over it that has some spoilery connotat…
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This account of serving on a jury during a murder trial is fascinating, from the racial issues of the jury selection to the social dynamics in the jury room during deliberations. There’s a handwritten confession that the defendant claims he didn’t w…
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Why This School District May Stop Sharing Student’s Discipline Records With Colleges | ThinkProgress
One of the largest school districts in New York may ban sharing of student discipline records with the universities and colleges that are considering admitting them, saying the practice disadvantages students of color.
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Ex-Coal CEO Convicted of Conspiracy in Explosion | Al Jazeera America
Former Massey Energy chief Don Blankenship was convicted on Thursday of a misdemeanor conspiracy charge related to a coalmine explosion in West Virginia that killed 29 men. The conviction could carry a sentence of up to one year in prison. A 12-memb…
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Report: Coldplay will play at halftime of Super Bowl 50 | For The Win
On Thursday afternoon the Wall Street Journal reported that Coldplay would be the halftime performer at this year’s Super Bowl. The news was met with a collective, sustained “meh” across the internet.
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Paris diary: for a clean energy future, turn right at the blue giraffe | Environment | The Guardian
At first glance they looked like weird decorations to brighten the cavernous Paris summit site – 140 colourful, semi-transparent animal shapes that line the avenue between the huge buildings. But like everything on Planet-COP they are imbued with cl…
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HBO has released its first teaser trailer for the upcoming sixth season of Game Of Thrones, and like the poster that came out a couple of weeks ago, the emphasis is on two things: Blood, and the return of a beloved character whose fate was left unce…
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‘John Gavanti’: The demented ‘unlistenable’ No Wave Mozart parody opera, 1980|Dangerous Minds
John Gavanti is a No Wave “operetta” conceived of by Sumner Crane of Mars and realized—as sort of a “free jazz” improvisation with Crane calling the shots—by his fellow members of Mars, Mark Cunningham and China Burg (aka Don Burg aka Constance AKA …
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Iraq’s disabled struggle to get treatment – Al Jazeera English
As the world marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities, thousands in Iraq left permanently disabled in the war against ISIL are struggling to get the treatment they need.
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I’m sure this will shoot to front as fast as the think progress link that was so happy to declare the other guy a Christian terrorist. ‘apparently’… like he just shot up 14 innocent people. That is radical.
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Are more air strikes exactly what ISIL wants? – Al Jazeera English
It took British MPs 10 hours to debate and eventually vote in favour of the UK carrying out air strikes in Syria. And less than an hour later, British bombers had joined 10 other nations that have already mounted such operations over Syria (although…
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Why people fall for bullshit, according to a scientist – Vox
Pennycook is the lead author of a new study wonderfully titled “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit.” In it, he and his colleagues asked questions no psychologists have touched on before.
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A 41-Year Old Cover of The Atlantic, “Our Indifference to Violence” – The Atlantic
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Paul Ryan Lays Out Legislative Vision for House – The Atlantic
In Paul Ryan’s view, the Republican Party in the Obama years has been too timid. That may be a tough argument to believe, given that the GOP has resisted Obama’s policies with more fervor than any opposition party in modern memory.
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Vimeo begins rolling out 4K streaming | The Verge
Vimeo is venturing into 4K streaming. The company today announced that it’ll begin supporting Ultra HD streams for a subset of users, with everyone else receiving functionality some time early next year, Variety reports.
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Jon Snow Looms Large in ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Teaser – The Daily Beast
The first teaser trailer for season six of HBO’s Game of Thrones just dropped and the entire first half of the video consists on one long shot of Kit Harrington’s Jon Snow.
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A global dream team of rideshare companies is joining forces to destroy Uber | The Verge
Trying to kill Uber is always in vogue, but it’s getting an extra push lately. French Uber drivers have banded together to launch their own app to compete with the ride-share giant.
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The A.V. Club graphically remembers HBO’s Real Sex · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Twenty-five years ago this week, HBO’s Real Sex debuted, introducing middle America to concepts like pony play, Voyeur Dorm, and sploshing, and irrevocably changing how we look at we look at our neighbors.
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Here’s Why the Left Is Questioning the Chan-Zuckerberg Announcement | The Nation
Reactions to Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge of $45 billion in Facebook stock sound like the inverse of the Borscht Belt joke: in this case, the portions are too large.
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The 13th Friday the 13th Movie is Having A Lot of Bad Luck
Jason Voorhees may have met his match. It’s the number 13. It’s been six years since the twelfth Friday the 13th film came out—and the forthcoming 13th sequel just got hit with another string of setbacks.
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Assessing Mark Zuckerberg’s Non-Charity Charity – The Atlantic
On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced not one, but two big life events. The first was the birth of Max, his daughter. The second was that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are establishing a new organization in the baby’s honor.
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Afghan returnees from Pakistan live in dire conditions – Al Jazeera English
Sher Mohammed finds himself in makeshift camp in Kabul with his six children a year after the 2014 attack on the army-run school in Peshawar. Mohammed, like many other Afghan refugees in Pakistan, was forced to leave the country after living there f…
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GOP worries Trump will tank their chances with women, never mind all that Planned Parenthood stuff
This is cute—the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) thinks Donald Trump might cause their candidates problems with female voters if he wins the GOP nomination. Here’s part of a leaked memo from NRSC executive director Ward Baker:
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Haitian Adoptee Finds Birth Family – The Atlantic
Mariette Williams thought she knew her own story. She was adopted in 1986 from an orphanage in Haiti. Her adopted mother told her that she was small and sick, and she was better off in Canada, her new home.
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Haitian Adoptee Finds Birth Family – The Atlantic
In Photos: Meeting the Mother She Never Knew Mariette Williams was told her biological parents gave her up for adoption. After 30 years of searching, she found out they never consented.
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Finally, a Comic Series As Ridiculous as the 2016 GOP Field | The Nation
Imagine a universe in which a presidential candidate with a checkered past can go from being labeled “Jackass of the Week” to a serious contender after a tragedy turns into a stroke of PR luck. Well, maybe that’s not so hard to imagine.
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N.C. cites Charah Inc. for second environmental violation at planned Duke Energy coal-ash disposal site (bizjournals.com)
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This realtor wants to make money from climate change. Is that so bad? | Grist
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For something who proudly identifies himself as a “venture socialist”, August Capital general partner David Hornik certainly has a lot of faith in the free market.
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Mass shootings are a fraction of gun deaths. Why don’t we pay more attention to the rest? – Vox
After Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, America is once again embroiled in a debate about gun violence. Many Americans and people abroad are wondering, rightly, why this seems to happen so often in the US. Americans are right …
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Is electronic music on the brink of its grunge moment? | The Verge
This year’s most interesting electronic music wasn’t interested in playing nice. It was abrasive in spots and unwieldy in others; it conjured images of complex machinery, foreboding alien landscapes, and tangles of flesh, bone, and gristle.
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Drake’s new OVO ads look like outtakes from a psychological thriller | The Verge
As we all know, Drake was an actor before he was a rapper, and it seems like maybe he’s getting back to his roots. In a series (two so far) of new ads for his OVO merch store, Drake tells a story without ever saying anything.
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Searching for the painted bunting — New York City’s colorful new celebrity | The Verge
Peering through a pair of binoculars, I frantically scan through dense clumps of brown grasses and ferns covering the floor of Prospect Park. Around 20 people crowd around me, all of whom are doing the exact same thing; their heads dart back and for…
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Migrant crisis: Thousands stranded at Greek-Macedonian border – BBC News
There’s tension at the border between Greece and Macedonia, where thousands of migrants are stranded after Macedonian authorities fenced off the border to prevent large numbers of people leaving Greece and heading north.
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Jack White’s record label will release the Hateful Eight soundtrack on vinyl | The Verge
Jack White’s Nashville-based label Third Man Records will release the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s blizzard-shrouded western The Hateful Eight on vinyl.
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Former mining boss found guilty of safety violations – BBC News
Ex-mining executive, Don Blankenship, could face up to a year in jail for failing to meet safety standards. The Massey mine explosion was the worst mining disaster in US history.
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Senate takes initial steps to defund Planned Parenthood – Vox
House Republicans voted Friday to strip tens of millions of federal dollars from enemy No. 1 – Planned Parenthood.
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Game of Thrones Season 6 Will Be All About Jon Snow and Bran | Vanity Fair
The cheeky season 6 poster may have all but given up on the idea that he’s really, truly dead, but Jon Snow is even more prominent in this first tease for the new season of Game of Thrones, which premieres basically forever from now, in April.
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Give Your Car a Brain With This $80 Dongle
No matter how long you’ve been driving, it’s never too late to learn better habits.
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Watch Adele’s ‘Hello’ Sung by Classic Movie Characters | Rolling Stone
Watch Adele’s ‘Hello’ Sung by Classic Movie Characters Luke Skywalker, Ali G, Gonzo are cut together to belt singer’s latest hit
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Former Coal Exec Donald Blankenship Found Guilty in Fatal Mine Blast | Rolling Stone
Donald L. Blankenship, the former C.E.O. of coal giant Massey Energy, was convicted on a federal charge of conspiring to violate mine safety relating to a 2010 explosion that killed 29 people, The New York Times reports.
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Inside Dream Theater’s Wildly Ambitious New Concept LP | Rolling Stone
Even for a group that has blazed new trails consistently, there’s never been anything to compare to The Astonishing, the full-blown rock-opera, jumbo-size concept album that pioneering prog-metal band Dream Theater is set to release on January 29th.
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Who’s Ready For the Next World War? | The Nation
Assume that the hawks get their way—that the United States does whatever it takes militarily to confront and destroy ISIS. Then what? Answering that question requires taking seriously the outcomes of other recent US interventions in the Greater Midd…
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Every Jane Needs One — The California Sunday Magazine
In the dining room of Malcolm Potts’s quaint Berkeley Tudor home, everything seems very proper and very English, from the Old World prints and the Union Jack doormat to the 3 p.m. teatime.
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On Tour with Rick Dyer and his Bigfoot through Texas
A team of Bigfoot believers, a legion of “Haters,” more than one Walmart parking lot, and the showman at the center of it all. I. To Believe or Not to Believe Things got weird, as they so often do, in a Walmart parking lot.
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When should we be alarmed about so much wealth in so few hands? The Great Recession and its anemic recovery only deepened the economic inequality that’s drawn so much attention in its wake.
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Game of Thrones season six trailer: ‘They have no idea what’s going to happen’ | The Verge
Have you spent the last few weeks wondering about Jon Snow’s fate? HBO isn’t coughing up any answers with the first trailer for Game of Thrones’ upcoming sixth season. He’s featured prominently in the short teaser, but the voiceover that accompanies…
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Craig Federighi talks open source Swift and what’s coming in version 3.0 | Ars Technica
When Apple unveiled Swift 2.0 at WWDC back in June, one of the bigger announcements was that the language would be going open source by the end of the year. The time has come—just a few weeks before its self-imposed deadline, Apple has launched Swi…
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Paul Ryan Unveils His Plan for House GOP | Al Jazeera America
New House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday called for tough work requirements for welfare recipients and cuts to safety net programs as he sketched a vision for congressional Republicans for 2017 and beyond.
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State blames EPA for coal ash cleanup delays (NC) : environment
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Cat fighting back efficiently : aww
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Buried in the detail of the Paris Accord could be some innocuous-looking words that will have a powerful impact on whether it ever delivers the greenhouse gas reductions it promises.
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Germany scolds BND spy agency over Saudi criticism – BBC News
The German government has publicly rebuked its own foreign intelligence agency after the BND suggested that Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy was becoming more “impulsive”. The agency was particularly critical of the Saudi defence minister.
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Smuggled delights of The L-Shaped Room | Letters | Books | The Guardian
Lynne Reid Banks (Letters, 30 November) seems to have forgotten that an adult view of what 12-year-olds should or should not read makes absolutely no difference at all: her own compassionate study of love and unmarried pregnancy in a London bedsit, …
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Google ads can now stream app demos | The Verge
Google is starting to use its new ability to stream Android apps as an advertising tool. Now when you bump into an advertisement for an app, that ad may offer you the chance to stream the app, without installing it, for a minute-long demo. Google sh…
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WASHINGTON—Expressing its concern that the fixation had grown “a little out of control,” the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reported Thursday that it was pretty creeped out by how obsessed Americans are with it.
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Can Ben Carson Win Back Evangelicals? – The Atlantic
Ben Carson has something to prove. The retired neurosurgeon has long been a favorite of evangelical voters.
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Prince Harry Visits Kruger, Frustrated and Upset Over Poaching
Prince Harry’s in the news again, but it’s not his widely publicized love life that’s making the Internet rounds. Instead, it’s his visit to southern Africa and the threats to endangered animals that he saw there.
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Adele’s “Hello” from her smash hit album 25 has already been through quite a few permutations. First there was the Steve Aoki remix, and then there was her performance of the track with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots.
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New Rape Allegations Emerge From Canadian Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea | VICE News
The very same day Harvard and Columbia released a report critical of how the largest gold mining company in the world dealt with rampant rape allegations at its Papua New Guinea mine, three men say the mine’s guards forced them at gunpoint to perfor…
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Matter swirls around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, where astronomers have observed magnetic fields (in blue in this illustration) using the Event Horizon Telescope.
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The U.S. Policy Driving Rape Victims Worldwide To Undergo Grisly Abortions – The Huffington Post
When the Islamic militant group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian high school girls in a single day, the story horrified the world. Just after midnight, armed fighters pulled the girls out of their beds in the dorm at the Chibok Government Se…
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Virgin Galactic will use a Boeing 747 to launch satellites into space | The Verge
You may know Virgin Galactic for its promises to send tourists to low Earth orbit. But the space-focused division of Richard Branson’s company has also been laying the groundwork for another source of revenue: launching small satellites into space u…
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Hunter Moore of “IsAnybodyUp” notoriety sentenced to 30 months in prison | Ars Technica
In District Court on Wednesday, Hunter Moore, the notorious operator of a now-deduct revenge porn website called “IsAnybodyUp.com,” was sentenced to 30 months in prison on charges of computer hacking and identity theft.
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Republican politicians treat gun violence and terrorism — or at least terrorism they believe is connected to Islamist radicalism — very, very differently. The murder of at least 14 people in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday has illustrated t…
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Uber Is Raising Another Couple Billion, At A $62.5 Billion Valuation | TechCrunch
Rideshare platform Uber is looking to raise $2.1 billion. Uber is the most valuable technology company on paper, at a current $50 billion valuation. The additional funding would bring those figures up to $62.5 billion in value. Compare that to Uber’…
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“No exceptions”: Women can now serve in all military combat roles – Vox
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter made the historic announcement on Thursday that all military combat roles will be open to women, including the most elite and grueling units like the Navy SEALs and the Marine Corps infantry.
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American Horror Story’s Ten Commandments Killer Is Finally Out in the Open
Of course, most viewers guessed weeks ago who’s been killing sinners and posing the crime scenes with Hannibal-like attention to detail.
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Novelists Are Working Hard To Create Apps That Are Deliberately User-Unfriendly
A decade ago, cutting-edge writers/publishers were crafting books that were physically works of art, in response to the rise of ebooks. Now, those same people are making apps.
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Latest indictment in Fifa corruption scandal names 16 new officials | Football | The Guardian
The US department of justice unsealed a 92-count indictment in federal court in Brooklyn against 16 new defendants as part of its broadening Fifa corruption investigation.
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Military to Open All Jobs to Women in the Military | Al Jazeera America
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday that he is lifting barriers to women in all military occupations, without exception.
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State blames EPA for coal ash cleanup delays (NC) (wnct.com)submitted 23 minutes ago by loading…
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India to ban old trucks and buses to curb pollution – BBC News
India will ban trucks and buses more than 15 years old to curb record pollution levels, the government says. India’s capital, Delhi, is experiencing hazardous levels of pollution due to diesel emissions, construction dirt and the burning of crop stu…
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Open-World Games Are Changing the Way We Play | WIRED
Open worlds are changing how we play videogames. I’ve long thought this was a bad thing, but this year I’m beginning to change my mind. Bethesda’s widely hailed Fallout 4 is one of the latest examples of an open-world game, a sprawling epic that can…
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Nicaragua’s Momotombo Volcano Erupts for the First Time in a Century | VICE News
Nicaragua’s Momotombo volcano has erupted for the first time in more than a century, spewing bright red lava into the night sky accompanied by large quantities of ash.
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An Unstoppable Fungus Disease Is Wiping Out the World’s Banana Plants | Inverse
Banana lore has long held that the bright yellow variety of the fruit — the world’s fourth-most valuable food product after rice, wheat, and milk — is a mere shadow of the banana our grandparents would’ve enjoyed.
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dogs sniff for illegally trafficked wildlife | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is severly underfunded and under staffed. In fact, Los Angeles, one of the busiest ports of entry into the United States has just eight full time inspectors. These dedicated inspectors are stationed along the U.S.
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Former Massey executive found guilty of conspiracy in W. Virginia mine blast : environment
Former Massey executive found guilty of conspiracy in W. Virginia mine blast (reuters.com)
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Invoking Holocaust, 1,000 rabbis deliver letter asking Congress to welcome refugees and “not make the same mistake”: “That moment was a stain on the history of our country – a tragic decision made in a political climate of deep fear, suspicion, and …
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, El hopaness rom tic. via /r/pics…
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My favorite photo from the New Orleans aquarium. : pics
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What Makes a Killer a Terrorist? We Asked the Nation’s Top News Outlets | Mother Jones
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Baby playing with puppies via /r/aww https://t.co/dC1Zg1l4fe https://t.co/9D6j6Clei0 https://t.co/HNZEK5JLRr
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Baby playing with puppies : aww
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2015 Has Been The Most Expensive Year Ever For Oil Train Spills In The U.S. | ThinkProgress
Recipe for disaster: Put a flammable substance under pressure into a metal container, then rumble it at 50 miles an hour down a metal rail, across hundreds or even thousands of miles, through towns and cities and over bodies of water. Repeat, as nec…
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Altering the DNA of humans – should we allow gene editing? – BBC News
Should scientists be allowed to do research which alters the DNA of human embryos? It is a question being discussed by hundreds of scientists from 20 countries in Washington, at a conference on what is known as gene editing.
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Uber reportedly raising even more cash for an eye-popping $62.5 billion valuation | The Verge
Bloomberg is reporting that Uber is seeking $2.1 billion in financing that would value the ride-hailing company at a whopping $62.5 billion. This would cement Uber’s status as the most valuable technology startup in the world, as it seeks a Facebook…
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Peter Jackson: Turkey ‘Gollum’ tweet is Smeagol – BBC News
Peter Jackson has waded into a court case in Turkey, which accuses a doctor of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by comparing him to Gollum. In a statement, the Lord of the Rings director said photos shared by Bilgin Ciftci actually showed th…
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Activists decry mosque closures in France – Al Jazeera English
Closing mosques in France that authorities say foster extremism will not prevent people from becoming ‘radicalised’ and could heighten a sense of alienation among the Muslim minority, rights groups and activists have said.
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The Real Reason We Can’t Have Gun Control | The Nation
I hate to pick on Carly Fiorina, since she’s dropping in GOP presidential polls, but she’s the most avid purveyor of falsehoods in the 2016 Republican field next to Donald Trump. She spewed some whoppers Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.
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Syria, the Rise of ISIS and the Perils of Regime Change | The Nation
The terror attacks in Paris on November 13 have, at least for the moment, concentrated the minds of senior administration officials on how to address the myriad challenges posed by ISIS, which is perceived to be a growing threat to US national secur…
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Joey McIntyre to also play a fictionalized version of himself on TV · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Joey McIntyre’s made a second career of playing versions of himself on TV: He was a member of a close-knit Irish working-class family in CBS’ The McCarthys, and as part of Rock This Boat: New Kids On The Block, he plays a middle-aged boy-band member…
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Police say 12 pipe bombs found at San Bernardino suspects’ home – video | US news | The Guardian
San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan says the two suspects in yesterday’s mass shooting were carrying more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition and had 12 pipe bombs, along with additional bomb making material, back at their home in Redlands.
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Science and Nature Get a Retro-Modern Make Over In This New Art Show
Lofty ideas to be sure. But when you look at Dart’s work, it fits perfectly.
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The Best Days to Shop in December, Based on What You Want to Buy
December in general is a good time to buy a bunch of things, including electronics, tools, and pools. But getting even more specific, there are certain days in this holiday shopping season that are better for particular items.
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Kim Dotcom Just Went from Broke to $80K a Month Thanks to a Hong Kong Judge | Motherboard
With Dotcom running low on cash and his ability to pay his legal fees in doubt, Hong Kong’s High Court granted him access to some of his money there, according to the South China Morning Post.
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California Could Vote on Gun Control Just Months After San Bernardino Shooting – The Atlantic
In the wake of mass violence, some Americans look to tighten gun laws because that’s something tangible, if politically difficult, that they can do—whether or not those new rules would have prevented a specific incident.
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There will be no Indiana Jones but Harrison Ford, Spielberg confirms · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even as the Lucasfilm casting department busies itself trying to find just the right young actor to reembody Han Solo in a potential string of Star Wars Anthology films, Steven Spielberg is echoing the sentiments of producer Frank Marshall and insis…
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Dude loses last two digits of girl’s number. Tries every combo to find her. It’s funny. Want more? Try this— vimeo.com/AlexanderEngel/BeardtownUSA http://www.AlexanderEngel.com
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Hackers Held Data on 5,000 Canadians Hostage and the Government Didn’t Tell Anyone | VICE News
Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process.
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This video has a chilling start, but it makes a great point about the 2nd Amendment – Vox
The Second Amendment is more than 220 years old. When it was written, the world did not have machine guns, assault rifles, or tanks, instead relying on clunky muskets that were a pain to reload.
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Danes ‘vote No’ on EU rules – exit poll – BBC News
David Cameron says the mission against Islamic State militants could take some time, as RAF Tornado jets “successfully” bomb an oilfield in Syria.
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Let’s Encrypt enters public beta: free HTTPS certificates for everyone! / Boing Boing
Let’s Encrypt is a joint project from EFF, Mozilla and others that allows anyone to create a free HTTPS certificate in minutes, this being a critical piece of infrastructure, necessary for making connections between a web-server and a browser secure…
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AT&T isn’t getting rid of its DirecTV and U-verse brands anytime soon | The Verge
At some point (long) in the future, AT&T will retire the DirecTV and U-verse names.
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The Story of Skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Lyft, Didi, Ola And GrabTaxi Partner In Global Tech, Service Alliance To Rival Uber | TechCrunch
As Uber ramps up its business globally with yet more money, four of its regional rivals are getting closer to each other in a bid for more scale and service continuity. Lyft in the U.S.
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Movie Review: Tom Hooper’s ‘The Danish Girl’ Is a Worthy but Predictable Biopic – The Atlantic
The first 20 minutes of The Danish Girl are a breezy romance between two beautiful newlyweds—the artists Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander). He paints landscapes, she does portraits, and they seem very happy with their lives …
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The Official ScratchJr Book: help your young kids learn to code / Boing Boing
You’re probably familiar with Scratch, the introductory programming language that allows kids (and adults) to create interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch doesn’t require lines of code to write programs. Instead, you build programs by …
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San Bernardino Police Share Details About Shooting, Suspects | Vanity Fair
More details are being released about a shooting in San Bernardino, California, that left 16 people dead, including two suspects.
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So What Happens If Alabama And/Or Clemson Lose? | FiveThirtyEight
That’s the big question going into this Sunday’s College Football Playoff selection. Our staff college football fans sat down to talk through the scenarios on Slack. The transcript below has been lightly edited.
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Former CEO found guilty of conspiracy in West Virginia mine explosion | US news | The Guardian
Don Blankenship, the “outlaw” former coal executive and enemy of environmentalists, has been found guilty of a conspiracy over events that lead to a deadly mine explosionin West Virginia.
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U.S. Military Opens All Combat Jobs to Women – The Atlantic
Women will now be eligible for all combat jobs in every branch of the armed forces—more than a century after they were first officially allowed to serve in the U.S. military as nurses.
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Youth’s Rachel Weisz on Telling Off Michael Caine While Covered in Head-to-Toe Mud | Vanity Fair
Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel may be the aging stars of Youth, Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous drama set deep in the Swiss Alps.
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DJ Khaled asks you to never give up, never surrender | The Verge
When you’ve had a bad day and you’re feeling down and life feels like it’s just too much, remember DJ Khaled’s social media presence is a thing that exists.
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Inside After-School Program, OURBridge, for Refugee Children in North Carolina – The Atlantic
CHARLOTTE—The first thing I noticed about Sil Ganzo was her warm smile. It stayed put as the 33-year-old showed several journalists, myself included, around the center where she runs an after-school program, OurBRIDGE, for new arrivals to America.
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The Deficiencies of Tech’s ‘Pipeline’ Metaphor – The Atlantic
Tech industry leaders are constantly talking about the so-called “pipeline problem.
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9/11 Responders Crash Mitch McConnell’s Office : politics
I mean we can’t even help 9/11 first responders?! This should be a no brainer. Give them what they need/deserve, its been YEARS already. “But McConnell balked.
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Read This: The real Force Awakens money is in the merchandise · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Probably the craftiest and most profitable move George Lucas ever made in his life was retaining the merchandising rights to his original Star Wars films when he signed a contract with 20th Century Fox. He can buy plenty of beard trimmers and plaid …
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Meet Wonder Woman In The New ‘Batman V Superman’ Trailer – Digg
12 diggs Trailers Movies Clark Kent isn’t pleased about the Caped Crusader policing Gotham, while Bruce Wayne isn’t too happy with the Man of Steel. And then there’s Lex Luthor, Wonder Woman and Doomsday just dropping in for the party.
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The Global Christmas Tree Trade Starts With Helicopter Harvesting | Atlas Obscura
Getting a Christmas tree from a farm in Oregon to a hotel in Dubai might seem like a hassle, but these days, with the help of helicopters, health inspections, and refrigeration, it’s a breeze. Oregon is the number one producer of Christmas trees in …
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Skriware Wants To Make An Easy-To-Use 3D Printer For All | TechCrunch
First I encourage you to watch the video below. By mixing a vague misunderstanding of the English language with a guy who sounds like the guy who voices trailers for action films, you’ve created one of the finest examples of the Kickstarter video oe…
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In Illinois, the prison authorities use a combination of mandatory financial disclosures and intelligence gleaned from opening prisoners’ mail and sue anyone who might have any money for rent on their cells and the cost of their prison food.
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What Would It Take To Flip States In The 2016 Election? | FiveThirtyEight
Change the settings below to see how shifts in party preference and turnout by different demographic groups would affect the 2016 presidential election. Read more »
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Hacker dumps United Arab Emirates Invest Bank’s customer data / Boing Boing
A hacker broke into the United Arab Emirates’s Invest Bank., stole its customer data and started dribbling it out over Twitter, one account at a time, demanding $3 million to stop. The bank didn’t pay for it, so the hacker dumped the bank’s financia…
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McLaren’s 675LT Spider is an extremely hardcore convertible supercar | The Verge
As we discovered for ourselves, the McLaren 675LT is one of the most perfectly balanced track-focused supercars on the road today. The problem is that they’re only making 500 of them, and it’s really, really hard to add that base layer of tan when y…
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Why Minneapolis was voted the most bike-friendly city in America – Vox
When we think about bicycle-friendly cities, we usually think of Northern Europe — Copenhagen, Helsinki, Amsterdam — and happy people two-wheeling around on cobblestone streets.
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How Demographics Will Shape The 2016 Election | FiveThirtyEight
Republicans contend that the 2016 election will be about Americans’ desire for change after eight years of a Democratic president.
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Watch this young man’s captivating card trickery / Boing Boing
The incredible Zach Mueller up to his old (and new) tricks again! See more at Mueller’s cardistry company site Fontaine Cards.
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CourseBuffet Organizes Online Courses into a DIY Degree in Computer Science or Management
CourseBuffet not only highlights free courses from top universities, it groups some of them into degree paths, so you can get a college BA-equivalent education from these free online courses. Currently two degree paths are available: Computer scienc…
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See a Whole New Side of Uzo Aduba in The Wiz Live! | Vanity Fair
What’s the best way to fill the shoes of Lena Horne? Wearing a blond curly wig, a big gold dress, and having a lot of guts isn’t a bad way to do it.
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What Triggered the Big Bang? It’s Complicated (Op-Ed) What really happened at the start of the Big Bang? Read More »
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‘Degree of planning’ behind San Bernardino shooting – police – BBC News
A shooting at a social services centre in California on Wednesday had “a degree of planning” behind it, San Bernardino police have said.
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What Makes a Killer a Terrorist? We Asked the Nation’s Top News Outlets | Mother Jones
Wait. Police officials say they don’t know if this is a terrorist incident? How is this NOT a terrorist incident? 14 are dead! #SanBernadino
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A US version of the Great British Bake Off was aired this week to a lukewarm reception from critics, none of whom could identify quite what went wrong. The tent was there, in a field in Georgia.
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Dick Cheney’s US Capitol bust revealed as George W Bush and Joe Biden watch | US news | The Guardian
There were jokes and praise as former President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reunited at the Capitol to unveil a bust of Cheney. They appeared at a ceremony Thursday at the Capitol that was attended by congressional GOP leaders and V…
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Activists prepare for failure at the Paris climate summit and offer their own plan | Grist
Countries and companies are making pledges to halt deforestation, while indigenous activists are arguing for different approaches.
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Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy | The Nation
Climate change is the greatest existential threat facing our planet, and the only way to rise to a challenge of this magnitude is to end our reliance on fossil fuels. But what should a post-carbon economy actually look like?
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Cage The Elephant might be a bit insecure. At least, that’s the vibe a casual observer might get from the title of the group’s new record, Tell Me I’m Pretty. The band is absolutely sure of itself, though, and that comes across in its new single, “T…
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On a recent episode of WTF With Marc Maron, Marc Maron observed that his fans might be upset that things are going unusually well for the comedian. He interviewed both Keith Richards and Lorne Michaels this year on his podcast, both of whom he had b…
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Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras | Motherboard
Your Android smartphone is now a VR camera. Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company’s Cardboard VR viewer.
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People who were out and about at various Chicago night spots on a night in September happened upon something surreal. They watched a throng of men and women, wearing frizzy wigs and identical oxford shirts, flood the neighborhood’s bars, drinking a …
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Moonlight in Italy (oc) (1024×486) : SkyPorn
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Couture in Orbit: from spacewalk to catwalk https://t.co/9lXaWUmdQe https://t.co/QBIJWo2yr6
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ULA Atlas V Rocket With Cygnus Spacecraft at the Launch Pad https://t.co/IGJQ9AMclk https://t.co/ZYbCxORr65
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Enceladus: Ringside Water World [APOD] [1017×713] https://t.co/yRLOe8iu6A https://t.co/tAiNE5kDwO
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The Atlas V rocket at sunset before the launch of Cygnus. [OC] [4448X2445] https://t.co/KGW4JhOsG2 https://t.co/C0RYn7NE9U
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Blankenship guilty of conspiracy, not guilty on other two counts (mine safety/ coal) : environment
Blankenship guilty of conspiracy, not guilty on other two counts (mine safety/ coal) https://t.co/3FpSsuNkZF https://t.co/BwWzJXYy3L
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A Trip to Los Glaciares National Park – The Atlantic
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With the United Nations holding its climate change conference in Paris, Getty Images photographer Mario Tama traveled to Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park, to capture images of the beautiful region, and of climate change in action. -
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What We Know So Far About the Suspects in The San Bernardino Shooting | VICE News
At about 11am Wednesday, two people armed with assault rifles opened fire on an office holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 21. The attackers died in a shootout with police hours later.
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Turkish Delight, or lokum, is a popular dessert sweet throughout Europe, especially in Greece, the Balkans, and of course Turkey.
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The Codfish Pirates of Saint Malo | JSTOR Daily
From windsurfing on the waves to sunbathing on the beach to swimming in the frigid English Channel, it’s easy to get caught up in the outdoor activities the French town of Saint Malo has to offer.
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This Episode of Arrow is the Craziest F***ing Thing I’ve Ever Seen
“Legends of Yesterday” is the second part of the Arrow/Flash crossover, or a way of transmitting the effects of LSD through a television screen, or both. This is the nuttiest bit of entertainment I’ve seen in a while, but my god does it entertain.
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With Topick, Join Communities Around Your Favorite Topics | TechCrunch
Meet Topick, a newly launched startup that wants to create a sort of social network for your favorite topics. After selecting your interests, Topick offers an unfiltered feed of people sharing the same passions as you.
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is primarily known as for three highly regarded novels: Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and, most recently, Americanah.
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Bizarre “gangbanger skin” rugs / Boing Boing
“Years ago I was watching TV at the house of an ex-girlfriend,” he told The Creators Project. “We were watching an animation shortcut where a funny monster had in the floor of its house a green and red dotted hippopotamus rug.
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The Life & Times of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome: A Documentary | Open Culture
In the early 20th century, the visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller started looking for ways to improve human shelter by: Applying modern technological know-how to shelter construction. Making shelter more comfortable and efficient.
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All Gene Editing Research Should Proceed Cautiously, Scientists Conclude – Scientific American
Tweaking the human genome with current and future gene-editing tools could lead to sophisticated treatments and prevention strategies for disease.
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Former coal baron Don Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to violate coal mine safety standards Thursday.
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San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan revealed at a press conference Thursday that the two shooters behind the previous day’s mass shooting had enough armaments with them to kill a small town.
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Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship Is Found Guilty of 1 of 3 Counts – The Atlantic
In October, the federal trial of Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, started at the U.S. District Court in Charleston, Virginia. Blankenship faced criminal charges for covering up safety violations that led to the worst U.S. mining dis…
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Janet Yellen hints of Fed rate hike during congressional hearing | Business | The Guardian
Janet Yellen has strongly indicated to Congress that Federal Reserve policymakers are likely to vote to raise US interest rates in two weeks – barring any major shocks to the global economy.
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‘There Are No Exceptions’: Military Will Open All Combat Roles To Women | ThinkProgress
The United States’ military will open all combat roles to women, Pentagon Chief Ash Carter announced in a press conference on Thursday. The various arms of the military submitted their recommendations about the possibility of opening all combat jobs…
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Authorities Say Country Still An Active Shooter Situation – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—Cautioning citizens to be on high alert and remain indoors until the area was determined to be safe, authorities confirmed Thursday that the United States is still an active shooter situation.
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Pentagon Opens All Combat Jobs to Women | Mother Jones
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Thursday that the military will open all of its combat jobs, including those in special operations, to women for the first time.
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Why the 2016 Election Will Be One of the Pivotal Moments of Our Time | Rolling Stone
More than 150 years ago, in 1858, as the national crisis over slavery heightened, Abraham Lincoln famously remarked that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” and that the “crisis” would be “reached and passed” only when the house divided w…
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Lucius Prep New Album, ‘Good Grief,’ Celebrate With Ebullient Single | Rolling Stone
Lucius Prep New Album, ‘Good Grief,’ Celebrate With Ebullient Single Indie-pop group hitches a ride with revolving door of oddballs in silly “Born Again Teen” video
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At Home With Dalton Castle, Wrestling’s Most Flamboyant Star | Rolling Stone
On an otherwise uneventful Wednesday evening in Albany, New York, the man known to Ring of Honor fans as Dalton Castle is at home with his wife, constructing some kind of fortress out of Popsicle sticks while we chat over the phone.
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Television Shopping Network for Guns to Launch Next Year | Rolling Stone
On Gun TV, viewers will be able to purchase guns, ammunition, concealed-carry holsters, clothing and other accessories. The channel will launch with six hours of programming set to air from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET, seven nights a week with the hopes of …
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Here’s the GOP congressman who’s trying to kick-start a new climate movement | “If conservation is not conservative, then words have no meaning at all.” (grist.org)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Blankenship guilty of conspiracy, not guilty on other two counts (mine safety/ coal) (wvgazettemail.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Want To Know Why Politicians Only Offer ‘Prayers’ On Gun Violence? Follow The Money. : politics
Want To Know Why Politicians Only Offer ‘Prayers’ On Gun Violence? Follow The Money. https://t.co/wVCKGttEEZ https://t.co/QcQ5NRjuuX
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How Stress Can Change Your Genetics
Every year the paleontologist Alan Cooper meets up with a band of miners in the Yukon. As the miners go about their work, spraying massive jets of water at frozen mud and silt to excavate gold, they also expose animal remains from the Pleistocene, b…
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Saudi Arabia Walks a Fine Line in Giving More Rights to Women | VICE News
The fight for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia has long been complicated by the royal family’s quest to modernize the country and grow its economy without alienating its most conservative Muslim hardliners — a tension that has become more pronounced a…
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My struggle to get health insurance was more irritating than my full-body rash – LA Times
A few weeks ago, with very little warning, my skin burst into a mysterious full-body rash. Also, I quit my job. My two new conditions — persistent, inexplicable hives and unemployment — did not seem to be related, but they fit together like a hand i…
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Santa Might Have To Check eBay And Craigslist To Get You A Samsung Gear VR | TechCrunch
Samsung’s entry into consumer virtual reality, the Gear VR consumer edition, seems to be a pretty hot item for the holidays. We reported that both Amazon and Best Buy show that the item is out of stock, sending people to Samsung’s site to order one.
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Want To Know Why Politicians Only Offer ‘Prayers’ On Gun Violence? Follow The Money. (huffingtonpost.com) Mass gun deaths = More gun sales. They don’t want the killings to stop. The fear lines their pockets with money.
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Pistorius’ legal team to decide Paralympian’s future – Al Jazeera English
Oscar Pistorius’ legal team has 10 working days to lodge an appeal after a court ruling found the South African Paralympian guilty of murdering his girlfriend.
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Police Tear Down Protest Camp in Minneapolis | Al Jazeera America
Police on Thursday tore down an encampment outside a Minneapolis precinct where demonstrators had gathered for more than two weeks to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police.
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For years, TV has treated immigrants as punchlines. These shows are fighting back. – Vox
On television, immigrants have played chaotic second fiddles to baffled white Americans for decades. It doesn’t matter that the United States was built on the backs of immigrants; historically, the immigrant characters we’ve seen onscreen have rarel…
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Watch Dave Grohl’s drum battle with The Muppets’ Animal / Boing Boing
Funny or Die scoured the Web for ten genuinely awful toys that were discovered in the wild — toys that transcend mere poor quality assurance and enter the realm of non-Euclidean ghastliness that defies all reason. Can you dig it? I knew that you cou…
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The UN climate negotiations in Paris descended into recriminations on Thursday as China and two groups of developing countriesaccused the US and others of undermining trust and trying to evade responsibly to cut emissions.
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Creativity Thrives When You Resist the Urge to Give Up
Giving up on something isn’t always a bad thing, but there’s something to be said for pushing yourself even when you’re ready to throw in the towel. For one, it can make you more creative. In a series of experiments, researchers Brian J.
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Special Ops to Iraq and Syria: What Obama Really Meant by ‘No Boots on the Ground’ – The Atlantic
Wednesday, while being interviewed by Norah O’Donnell of CBS News, President Barack Obama made a revealing statement about the careful manner in which U.S. military interventions are made. O’Donnell asked Obama if he was going back on his word by au…
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NASA Announces Awards for ‘Tipping Point’ Technologies
WASHINGTON — NASA awarded contracts and unfunded agreements Nov. 19 for 22 projects to advance space technologies that the agency believes are on the verge of significant advancement. NASA awarded nine projects to advance technologies in four satell…
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UK airstrikes ‘all noise of bombing and propaganda’ – Syria minister – BBC News
British warplanes have carried out their first airstrikes over Syria, after British MPs backed UK military action against so-called Islamic State (IS). RAF Tornados conducted air strikes on six targets in Syria, according to the Ministry of Defence.
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‘Reeva Steenkamp can rest’ after Oscar Pistorius murder conviction – BBC News
Reeva Steenkamp’s father Barry has said he is relieved after a South African judge found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder. Mr Steenkamp told ANN7 TV that it was time for everybody to get on with their lives.
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Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect | Ars Technica
Sixteen cities and towns in New Jersey have asked the state to investigate Verizon, claiming that the telecommunications company “has, through neglect, abandoned and retired its copper landline infrastructure in most of South Jersey.
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Conor McGregor believes ‘personal issues’ led to Ronda Rousey’s fall | Sport | The Guardian
Conor McGregor said on Wednesday that he believes “personal issues” contributed to Ronda Rousey’s shock defeat to Holly Holm in Melbourne last month.
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Pantone Goes Buck Wild, Names Not One but Two Colors of the Year | Vanity Fair
It’s December now, which means: cowl-neck sweaters, inane “the holidays are just so busy!” elevator chatter with co-workers, and . . . yes, Pantone’s dictum informing us of the color of the year.
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The no-action, prayer-only crowd tries to make ‘prayer shaming’ a thing
When 14 people were killed and 17 wounded in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, elected Republican after elected Republican offered up prayers and thoughts … and nothing else.
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Tron 3 writer to keep sci-fi-ing it up with The Stars My Destination · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Some folks expressed surprise back in March when we reported that Paramount would be acquiring the filming rights to The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester’s classic science fiction novel that has long been considered “unfilmable.
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“Christmas Wrapping” charms even the surliest of holiday hearts · 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. Just after Thanksgiving this year, I was home in Cleveland, a little drunk at a bar, and …
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A talky cannibal comedy gives character actors a star vehicle · 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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Canada Is Having a Big Green Rebranding — And That Could Help the Oil Sands | VICE News
Every day in Muskeg River, Alberta, dump trucks the size of small buildings lumber back and forth from an open pit mine, carrying tens of thousands of pounds of slick black sand — the raw material for what US President Barack Obama called Canada’s “…
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News | NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of Faintest Galaxy from Early Universe
Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago.
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Graphic novel about the series of events that led to India’s communist uprising / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. I began reading Amar Bari, Tomar Bari, Naxalbari whilst waiting for my connecting flight at Bengaluru airport and was inclined to continue reading it as turbulence took over the plane at 27,000 feet an hour l…
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Wiivv Raises $3 Milllion To Bring 3D-Printed IInsoles To The Maasses | TechCrunch
As we approach the inevitable melding of man and machine, we’re going to need a lot more consonants and vowels. That’s why Wiivv is on the case.
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Microsoft released a new tool today designed to give Outlook users an easier way to schedule meetings.
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‘Star Wars’ Strikes Back: Inside the Biggest Movie of the Year | Rolling Stone
It is a bleak time for the Republic. It is a period of great struggle for the entire planet, and not only is the dark side winning, it’s no longer clear any other side even exists. Seriously, you guys – Earth is messed up. Just ask a polar bear, or …
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Hear the deep, soulful 70s sounds of Black Jazz Records / Boing Boing
Continuing my learning journey through the history of avant-garde and spiritual jazz, I now have jazz DJ/musicologist Gilles Peterson’s sublime mix “Black Jazz Radio” on repeat.
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Apple open sources Swift, posts the language to GitHub | Ars Technica
When Apple unveiled Swift 2.0 at WWDC back in June, one of the bigger announcements was that the language would be going open source by the end of the year. The time has come—just a few weeks before its self-imposed deadline, Apple has launched Swi…
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The Excellent Horror Comic Harrow County is Heading To Television
Harrow County is one of our absolute favorite comics of 2015—not just a fascinatingly creepy horror story, but a great story filled with amazing, haunting art.
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US federal prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against two BP employees connected to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, making it highly unlikely that anyone will ever serve prison time over the far-reaching calamity.
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Star Wars: ‘No pressure’ for UK duo John Boyega and Daisy Ridley – BBC News
The British stars of the new Star Wars film have told the BBC they feel “no pressure” over how it will be received. Boyega and Ridley spoke to entertainment correspondent Liza Mzimba about working on one of the most anticipated films of a generation.
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Blythe Danner Finally Understands “Conscious Uncoupling,” Unlike the R | Vanity Fair
We live in a polarized nation, one at war with itself, where you are either this or that, friend or foe, patriot or traitor.
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Chi-Raq Wades Into A Decades-Long Battle Over Depicting Black Violence In Film | ThinkProgress
Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s highly-anticipated film, depicts gun violence that simultaneously shapes and disrupts everyday life in the South Side of Chicago. Flying bullets and the grief they cause are equally ingrained in the social fabric of the neighbor…
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Consumers should know whether fish genetically altered : environment
Consumers should know how many fish are dying.
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The Horror in San Bernardino https://t.co/BHvym8t6OT https://t.co/7TFuLfWshk
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Snug as a bug in a rug via /r/cats https://t.co/dF1fgjKOtr https://t.co/VVWuUbTY7B https://t.co/ZRDCNWq8XF
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Snug as a bug in a rug via /r/cats https://t.co/dF1fgjKOtr https://t.co/VVWuUbTY7B https://t.co/ZRDCNWq8XF
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So, what would you say you do around here? : Catloaf
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Lori Berenson Heading Home to the U.S. From Peru https://t.co/UetMsdKCFT https://t.co/qUdDS6KD6Q
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A Beaten-Down Obama is Vague on Shooting – The Daily Beast
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This Is the Shit: Sewage Could Help Restore Depleted Farmland | VICE News
The world is losing farmland at a rapid rate to erosion and chemical depletion. Pollution and erosion have flushed away much of what makes our soil fertile, resulting in a loss of up to a third of the world’s arable land in the past 40 years, Britis…
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In Photos: Thousands of Camels Descend on Indian Desert for Annual Fair | VICE News
Thousands of camels filled the Thar desert in India’s western state of Rajasthan last month for the annual seven-day camel and livestock fair.
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Joanna Angel Reveals Her Allegedly Abusive Relationship With James Deen – BuzzFeed News
Joanna Angel went on The Jason Ellis Show on Sirius XM on Wednesday to describe her years-long relationship with James Deen, the porn star who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. She and Deen were together from 2005 through 2011.
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Video Shows San Francisco Police Gunning Down Knife-Wielding Man | VICE News
Five San Francisco police officers surrounded then fatally shot on Wednesday a knife-wielding man who did not appear to pose a direct threat to them, in an incident that was captured on eyewitness videos and later confirmed by the San Francisco Poli…
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Wolf population reaches new high at Yellowstone park | Environment | The Guardian
The number of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has continued to grow amid a push to remove the gray wolves from federal protection.
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Let Guardian art critic Jason Farago guide you through the splendor of Art Basel Miami Beach, considered the most important art fair in America, with 267 galleries and a focus on work from Latin America
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Japanese Spacecraft Snaps Earth Fly-By Pics | Video
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Explosives at California shooters’ home – BBC News
David Cameron says the mission against Islamic State militants could take some time, as RAF Tornado jets “successfully” bomb oil fields in Syria.
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Facebook Starts Opening Live Video Broadcasting To All, Launches Photo+Video Collages | TechCrunch
After letting just celebrities and journalists on its Periscope competitor for a few months, Facebook today began testing its Live streaming video broadcasting feature with average users on iOS in the U.S.
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Google’s new Cardboard app turns your panoramic photos into 3D experiences | The Verge
Google just released a new app for Cardboard that stitches together 3D panoramas so users can create and view their own virtual reality experiences. Cardboard Camera, currently available only for Android, essentially turns your smartphone into an am…
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Donald Trump just gave an anti-Semitic speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition – Vox
Midday on Thursday, Donald Trump gave a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition. These are three real things that he said: The nicest thing that you can say about these comments is that they play on ancient stereotypes of Jews as money-grubbing me…
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Meet the 15-year-old creator of “The Last Message Received” Tumblr / Boing Boing
Emily Trunko, 15, lives in Copley, Ohio. She is the creator of The Last Message Received, a Tumblr that posts screenshots of final text messages from people. She receives the messages anonymously. Some of the messages are from people who died shortl…
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“We’re PG police and we shoot people,” said a police officer now convicted of assault / Boing Boing
Officer Jenchesky Santiago, of the Prince George’s County, Maryland, police force was convicted of first-degree assault and misconduct in office. Santiago threatened a man, while holding a gun to his head, apparently to impress his friends.
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British Library uses MoD maps to chart its 2016 exhibition lineup | Books | The Guardian
Recently declassified British Ministry of Defence (MoD) maps with imaginary Cold War battles will go on public display for the first time in a major exhibition next year.
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We Don’t Talk About HIV Enough Anymore, and a Lot Has Changed
If you grew up in the 1990s, you practically absorbed a degree in AIDS studies just by existing—or at least that’s what it felt like. The years since then have brought better tests and treatments, and we now know more about the virus, but that infor…
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Facebook begins testing live video streaming for all users | The Verge
Also: collages! Four months after introducing live video streaming for celebrities and other high-profile users, Facebook is now rolling the feature out to everyone inside its flagship app.
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‘Exploding’ hoverboard scare sparks mass confiscation in the UK | The Verge
Must-have toy for the holiday season, or fire hazard?
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Battlefield Vet Staffly Snags $1.25 Million Seed Round | TechCrunch
Staffly, an online retail staffing company that appeared in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in September, announced that it has received $1.25 million in seed round funding today.
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Las oficinas de la Secretaría del Cambio Climático de la ONU en Bonn gozan de unas preciosas vistas sobre un tramo del Rin, hacia praderas y espléndidos edificios nuevos y antiguos.
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Barack Obama urged states to play their part in passing tougher gun control laws in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, despite uncertainty over the motives behind the attack that killed 14 people and left 17 injured.
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A Beaten-Down Obama is Vague on Shooting – The Daily Beast
That was a very cautious statement Thursday morning from Barack Obama. It was striking how apolitical it was. True, he talked a bit about gun control, enough to boil the blood of the absolutists.
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Is there such a thing as too much Fargo analysis? · Polite Fight · The A.V. Club
On this week’s Polite Fight, Gus asks John how far critical viewers can or should push their analyses of a show’s smallest details—like two quick jump cuts that caught Gus’ eye in Monday night’s episode of Fargo. The short answer, by our hosts’ reck…
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Al Ewing has been steadily building his profile at Marvel Comics over the last few years with exceptional runs on Mighty Avengers and Loki: Agent Of Asgard, and the publisher has given the writer a big push with the “All-New, All-Different Marvel” r…
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Drake and Blink-182 collide in “Hotline Blink” · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In all likelihood, mashup producer Dr. Brixx probably just decided to combine Blink-182’s turn-of-the-millennium hit “Adam’s Song” and “Hotline Bling” because “bling” and “blink” are assonants, but it he may have stumbled on to something.
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LIMA, Peru — Putting an end to a two-decade-long journey through radical politics, rebellion and punishment, Lori Berenson prepared to fly home to the United States on Wednesday night, after years of prison and parole for aiding lef
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How to Fight Economic Inequality With Smartphones | New Republic
But this is where the similarities end. Republican candidates tout tax reform and smaller government as the best way to help these citizens.
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Syria humanitarian crisis ‘deteriorating as winter sets in’ – BBC News
The catastrophic humanitarian situation in Syria is deteriorating day by day as winter approaches, the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned. Hundreds of thousands of people are trying to survive with almost no shelter, food or medical…
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What We’re Following Thursday Afternoon, 12/3 – The Atlantic
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Loading-screen boredom may be behind us thanks to expiring patent | Ars Technica
Back in 1995, Namco threw in a playable, miniature version of the arcade classic Galaxian to keep players amused during the lengthy loading times for PlayStation launch title Ridge Racer.
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Miike Snow on Writing Pop That’s Not ‘Bad For Your Health’ | Rolling Stone
The members of Swedish electropop trio Miike Snow know their way around a hit song.
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Uganda to deport US citizen charged in counterfeit money scheme | World news | The Guardian
An American who has been on trial in Kampala for counterfeiting currency notes worth $180,400 will be deported to the US where he faces criminal charges, a Ugandan court ordered Thursday. Ryan Andrew Gustafson pleaded with magistrate Flavia Nabakooz…
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See Carrie Underwood Sing Wham! in Corden’s Carpool Karaoke | Rolling Stone
Carrie Underwood rode shotgun with James Corden as the CBS Late, Late Show host drove the streets of Los Angeles and the two played a lively round of Carpool Karaoke with some of Underwood’s biggest hits.
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Donald Trump seems to have brushed up on all of his Jewish stereotypes before speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
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US Envoy Says Burundi on the Brink of Civil War | Al Jazeera America
Burundi is on the brink of civil war and will need regional mediation to establish a peace process between the government and opposition to avert a new conflict, a U.S. envoy said Thursday. Many fear clashes there could lead to violence like the 199…
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Sia on Reclaiming Adele, Rihanna’s Unwanted Hits | Rolling Stone
Sia Furler’s forthcoming album, This Is Acting (due January 29th), has a novel concept: It’s full of songs rejected by A-list artists.
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Cambodia Medic Jailed For Spreading HIV | Al Jazeera America
Authorities detected an epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, on Dec. 9 when they started testing a community in Battambang province. They found more than 270 cases, the court heard, with victims ages ranging from tod…
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Star Wars Rebels Just Gave Us A Glimpse At “The Future Of The Force”
Star Wars Rebels Just Gave Us A Glimpse At “The Future Of The Force” https://t.co/ZuS9sS0T6K https://t.co/GdpIo5hUw0
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Rescue Kittens Swaddled In Tiny Socks To Keep Them Safe via /r/aww https://t.co/h054nQBnqY https://t.co/RSoz404Zoi https://t.co/3EknKuvmXn
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How a 5-Ounce Bird Stores 10,000 Maps in its Head – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich
It weighs only four or five ounces, its brain practically nothing, and yet, oh my God, what this little bird can do. It’s astonishing. Around now, as we begin December, the Clark’s nutcracker has, conservatively, 5,000 (and up to 20,000) treasure ma…
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America’s gun violence shifted Wednesday to San Bernardino, Calif., where at least 14 people were killed and at least 17 wounded.
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.@TheNiceBot Delivers Random Niceness On Twitter | TechCrunch
It’s a tough world out there. I’ve been writing on the Internet for 3 years now, and I’ve had my fair share of aggressive comments, weird emails and personal attacks. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job. But sometimes I could use a little bit of nicen…
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Saint Fred Rogers, the patron saint of neighborliness
Jonathan Merritt writes about Fred Rogers, ordained Presbyterian minister and beloved children’s TV show host who used his faith and TV to help millions of children. Fred Rogers was an ordained minister, but he was no televangelist, and he never tri…
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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:30pm ET! | The Verge
This week on The Vergecast, Dieter Bohn is joined by a rotating panel of guests, as well as Nicola Fumo in the hypeseat. Elmo Keep, the author of our massive feature on Transhumanism, will be on to discuss presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan with V…
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After Scott Walker Erased Living Wage Law, Low-Wage Workers Vow To Fight On | ThinkProgress
Last year, 100 low-wage workers in Wisconsin decided to sue their governor, Scott Walker (R), over their pay.
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Don’t Believe These Myths About Mass Shootings | New Republic
America has experienced yet another mass shooting. As a criminologist, I have reviewed recent research in hopes of debunking some of the common misconceptions I hear creeping into discussions that spring up whenever a mass shooting occurs.
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The World’s Richest People Also Emit The Most Carbon | ThinkProgress
It’s long been known which countries emit the most carbon dioxide, and thus contribute the most to climate change. But what about the carbon emissions of individual people in those countries?
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Why Yahoo is under siege, in one chart – Vox
Internet giant/business basket case Yahoo is embroiled in a new round of controversy, with activist investors at Starboard Value demanding big changes and the board debating proposals to essentially liquidate the company.
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Guns killed more Americans in the past 50 years than every US war ever – Vox
Since the Vietnam War, about 67,000 Americans have died in combat. In that same time frame, about 1.5 million have died in the US after being shot by a gun.
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Sex, Spies and Berlusconis: Vatileaks II Trial Unleashes a Sleazy New Sideshow – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — Be careful what you wish for. If the Vatican had hoped to teach reporters a lesson in restraint by putting two journalists on trial for printing leaked documents, it was sorely mistaken.
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Obama: mass shootings like San Bernardino are ‘too easy’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Speaking from the Oval Office a day after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Barack Obama says there is still no confirmed motives for the rampage, that left 14 dead and 17 injured.
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Contaminated Food Sickens 1 in 10 People Worldwide Each Year – Scientific American
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells.
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Politicians’ Hollow ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Are Outraging Religious People, Too | ThinkProgress
In the wake of Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, California that left at least 14 people dead and 17 others wounded, it was hardly surprising that the carnage triggered yet another national debate over whether to pass stricter gu…
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians – Al Jazeera English
Israeli security forces have shot and killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. In the first incident around noontime on Thursday, one Palestinian was shot and killed near the Hizme checkpoint in the occ…
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Texas Sues to Block Syrian Refugees | Mother Jones
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission sued the federal government and the International Rescue Committee, a human rights group that helps resettle refugees in the United States, over the IRC’s plans to relocate a family of six Syrians to Da…
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Authors side with Apple in e-book price-fixing Supreme Court appeal | Ars Technica
Apple picked up a major ally in its battle against the Justice Department’s e-book price-fixing case against the gadget maker.
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8 From The Archive Vintage Pictures of Nat Geo Photographers in the Field Photographers develop film in the sea, capture shots while hanging off of a ship, and take underwater pictures of coral reefs.
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Star Wars Rebels Just Gave Us A Glimpse At “The Future Of The Force”
The Inquisitors were finally back on the latest episode of Star Wars Rebels, and they had a whole new mission: They were on the hunt for Force-sensitive babies, and it was up to the Rebels to stop them.
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20 People Now Own as Much Wealth as Half of All Americans | The Nation
The four hundred richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 61 percent of the population, a report released on Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) reveals.
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Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb | The Nation
“If a man beats his head against the wall,” the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci once wrote, “it’s his head that breaks and not the wall.” In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, the British political class has been suffering terrible headaches.
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Secret trade talks in Geneva could outlaw subsidies for renewable energy, undermining climate discussions in Paris that aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions, anti-poverty campaigners have warned.
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Nintendo’s New President Promises the NX Console Won’t Be Another Wii U | Motherboard
In an interview with Time magazine, recently appointed Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima talked about his company’s plans to stay relevant in an era of smartphones and first-person shooters, as well as Nintendo’s mysterious new gaming console, co…
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According to the Internet, Aleister Crowley Was George W. Bush’s Grandfather
It’s one of the most tantalizing rumors on the internet. Aleister Crowley, one of the most famous masters of the occult ever, was secretly the father of Barbara Bush—and thus, also the grandfather of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush. Is it true? Do we ca…
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I like Bernie, but he was never not cooked. Cooked he entered, and cooked he remains, in the grand tradition of Clean Gene McCarthy. These polls are meaningless because no one is actively running against him. He’s getting a free pass because he is s…
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When you feel like a boss : trippinthroughtime
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, When you feel like a boss via…
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JK Rowling, David Nicholls among sponsors crowdfunding book on UK race and immigration https://t.co/NoZB5QpS5O https://t.co/s3h5UNk0Gi
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Praise from on high : trippinthroughtime
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Three cats on one lap. Oh my. : cats
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US Military Will Open All Combat Jobs to Women | VICE News
Women will soon be allowed to serve in all combat roles in the United States military, the Department of Defense is expected to announce today. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to make the announcement this afternoon, the Associated Press re…
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A Canadian Beer Baron’s Murder — And the Son Who Swears He Didn’t Do It | VICE News
The only son of a Canadian beer magnate choked down tears before a packed court in Saint John, New Brunswick on Wednesday. It was the second day Dennis Oland testified in his own defense.
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Canned designs: Berlin’s paths not taken – The Long and Short
Our weekly newsletter features updates on all the latest articles from The Long + Short, and a roundup of the best stories of innovation from around the web, too. Sign up below.
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Pentagon chief to announce how women’s roles in the military will expand – The Washington Post
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Thursday that he is opening all jobs in in combat units to women, a landmark decision that ends a three-year period of research with a number of firsts for female service members and bitter debate at times abo…
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FIFA VPs Arrested as Bribery Suspects | Al Jazeera America
FIFA vice presidents Juan Angel Napout and Alfredo Hawit were arrested Thursday as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s widening bribery case that has rocked soccer’s scandal-hit governing body.
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Fellow films himself stealing Porsche before crashing it and getting stuck inside / Boing Boing
“Hey babe do you like the Porsche I am driving right now? Uh, you like that Porsche? Keys… obviously I’m the driver. Look…” Jamie Lee Sharp, 25, filmed himself stealing a Porsche “Boxer” in Gloucester.
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45 minutes of Nick Offernan sipping whiskey in silence by a yule log / Boing Boing
This little gadget truly works double duty. It charges any device on-the-go using an ultra-fast USB that juices batteries at two-times normal speed. Then, using its smartphone app, Zus acts as a honing device for finding your car where you last left…
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Dave Chappelle partners with phone-sock startup Yondr to stop recordings | Ars Technica
Dave Chappelle is in the midst of a 13-night run at Thalia Hall in Chicago. The comedian has naturally sold out all shows, and he wants to make sure that only those lucky people with a ticket get to see his best material.
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In historic shift, U.S. military to open all combat jobs to women / Boing Boing
The Associated Press quotes a senior defense official as reporting today that U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will soon announce a historic change: The military will open all combat jobs to women.
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Republicans seek Sheldon Adelson’s favor at conservative Jewish forum | US news | The Guardian
All 14 Republican candidates ignored Iowa and New Hampshire on Thursday for another key early beauty contest: the Sheldon Adelson primary.
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How Many Holiday Gifts Do You Give Your Children?
It’s tough sticking to a gift budget when your kids have a huge wish list and you feel like spoiling them. How many gifts are too many or too few or just right?
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Revenge porn website operator Hunter Moore sentenced to 30 months in prison | The Verge
Hunter Moore, operator of the now-defunct revenge porn website Is Anyone Up, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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Astronaut’s ‘Mousetronaut’ Stories Among Kids’ Books Bound for Space Station
An astronaut’s two children’s books about a mouse who goes to space are now actually going to space, where the author’s twin brother may take a turn reading them on video for kids on Earth.
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‘We Don’t Know Why They Did It,’ Obama Says of San Bernardino Shooting – The Atlantic
President Obama was here just two months ago. At the start of October, the president delivered a statement from the White House about a shooting at an Oregon community college that had claimed nine lives.
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How Tattoos Are Entering the World of Fine Art – The Atlantic
The tattoo is no longer quite the symbol of rebellion and subculture it once was. Roughly one in five Americans has one, and that rate is much higher for Millennials than their Boomer counterparts.
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Angry French Uber drivers have created their own Uber | The Verge
For months, it seemed as if taxi unions and regulations would pose the biggest threat to Uber’s expansion in France. Widespread protests crippled major cities earlier this year, and a recent court ruling forced Uber to shutter its UberPop low-cost s…
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Defense Secretary will tell US military to open all combat jobs to women | US news | The Guardian
Defense Secretary Ash Carter will order the US military to open all combat jobs to women, and is giving the armed services until 1 January to submit plans to make the historic change, the Associated Press has learnt. Carter’s announcement is expecte…
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Is Yahoo approaching its final yodel? The tech company is reportedly in talks to spin off its core business, as well as whether to finally divest its remaining stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, the latter fabulously lucrative, the former …
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The San Bernardino shooting is America’s 1,044th mass shooting in 1,066 days – Vox
On Wednesday, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, killed at least 14 people and wounded at least 18 more in a mass shooting and subsequent shootout with police in San Bernardino, California.
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This is how you make tea if you are a true Star Wars fan | The Verge
I don’t have to tell you that there is a new Star Wars film coming out in two weeks, nor do I have to tell you that Disney is taking every conceivable opportunity to sell Star Wars-branded merchandise in conjunction with this release.
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Ctrl-Walt-Delete: Clippy is watching you | The Verge
Walt delves into his past as a national security reporter, weighing in on the modern encryption debate. What is the balance between privacy and national security? We’d also like to bid a fond welcome our newest podcast subscriber: the FBI.
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Burt Reynolds and Sally Field Probably Won’t Have That Reunion You’re | Vanity Fair
In a revealing interview in the November issue of Vanity Fair, Burt Reynolds admitted that among his many regrets is breaking things off with Sally Field, whom he called “the love of my life.
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World number three Neil Robertson scored three centuries as he routed Stephen Maguire 6-1 to secure his place in the UK Championship quarter-finals. The 2013 winner added two fifty-plus breaks as he won six frames in a row to crush the world number …
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How Would President Donald Trump Deal with Vladimir Putin? | Vanity Fair
Throughout the Republican primary race, several critics have asked whether Donald Trump has the wits to deal with America’s No. 1 frenemy, Vladimir Putin.
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Poseable Star Wars paper craft Stormtrooper / Boing Boing
No simpleminded origami project, when your kid is done folding this cardboard they’ll have an Imperial trooper at their beck and call. My daughter has a blast making hers. Instructions are simple, and almost unnecessary.
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Lenovo Yoga 900 review | The Verge
There are plenty of convertible or hybrid laptops out there now, ones that twist and flip and detach and flatten themselves into tablets. For Lenovo, this form factor has been an especially clever marketing ploy, bringing consumer recognition to a c…
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Why Syphilis Rates Are Rising in the U.S. – The Atlantic
Today, syphilis can seem like a historical relic, more likely to appear in period movies than in one’s next-door neighbor. But after more than a decade of increases in syphilis cases, the United States is looking at its highest rate in recent memory.
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The 10 Best Pickup Lines for Art Basel Miami Beach | Vanity Fair
How to find love—or erm, companionship—when the art world flocks South.
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Will the TPP Increase Trade? That’s the Wrong Question
Here’s the thing. If you close a factory in the U.S., lay off all of the workers, devastate the surrounding community, and move the production to a low-wage country like Vietnam, bring the same goods back to the U.S.
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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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What is the deal with this useless vending machine notice? / Boing Boing
If the sticker is missing, so is the phone number to report that the sticker is missing. Someone working for the state of Florida is a closet Situationist.
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Why Do Eggs Cost What They Do? | Lucky Peach
This story comes from Lucky Peach #17: The Breakfast Issue. For more great stuff like this, subscribe to the magazine!
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The Unstoppable Iron Men of Chennai | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Bodybuilding ranks on the bottom rung of the sports ladder in India, a country where cricket is considered religion, and cricketers are practically demigods. Yet Chennai, a 4.3-million-person metropolis in southern India, has been a breeding ground …
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Fake LinkedIn profiles used by hackers – BBC News
Its investigation uncovered dozens of fake accounts on the social network, across a variety of industries. Posing as recruiters, the fake accounts allow hackers to map the networks of business professionals and gain the trust of those in them.
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What’s the “best” form of capital punishment? — Hopes&Fears
The death penalty is such an ingrained part of the U.S. justice system, and such a persistent source of controversy, that it’s easy to forget that it was once, briefly, banned nationwide. Today, 31 states authorize the use of capital punishment.
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The EPA Raised the Renewable Fuels Standard. Here’s Why That Makes No Sense. | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced how many gallons of transportation fuels will have to come from renewable sources in t…
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News | LISA Pathfinder Carries Advanced NASA Thruster Tech
The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is on its way to space, having successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana (Dec. 3 local time/Dec. 2 PST).
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Google Launches Cardboard Camera, A Free App To Create 3D Virtual Reality Photos | TechCrunch
Got one of Google’s Cardboard VR headsets and an Android phone handy? Google has something new for you to play with this morning.
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The funny story of a boy who turns bright green, by the writer of the Olympic opening ceremony, is one of three contenders for the Blue Peter book award.
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Yahoo Messenger Is Now A Mobile Messenger Like The 18 You’re Already Using | TechCrunch
Yahoo Messenger might be the best messaging app no one will use. The company just released a completely revamped version of its messaging platform, focused on mobile, group messaging and image sharing.
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For black Americans with diabetes, tooth loss is a major problem | The Verge
Black people with diabetes in the US have a higher risk of tooth loss compared with white and Mexican Americans with the same condition, according to a CDC report published today. This is bad news, since oral health can be used as a way of tracking …
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San Bernardino shooting: Police statement – BBC News
Police news conference from San Bernadino after the mass shooting which left 14 people dead at a social services centre on Wednesday.
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The international praise shows no sign of abating. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech on Monday at the United Nations climate conference in Paris – declaring that “Canada is back” – was received with a standing ovation.
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Before dawn on Thursday, Swiss authorities began a fresh series of arrests in the FIFA corruption scandal that has rocked soccer’s international governing body this year.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Earth from Space
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New Discovery: “The Missing Matter of the Universe’s Cosmic Web” https://t.co/c4TlufIuQu https://t.co/Ps1dUeOaE0
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My favorite picture of my one and only. Meet Ahri! : cats
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Global climate: it’s complicated. Any long-term solution will require profound changes in how we generate energy. At the same time, there are everyday things that you can do to reduce your personal contribution to a warming planet.
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The Republican establishment, that lumbering beast, still can’t decide on how and whether and when to go after Donald J. Trump.
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The Unique Language of Newfoundland | Hakai Magazine
It’s nearing the spring equinox, and Ryan Snoddon, meteorologist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Newfoundland and Labrador, calls for a change in the weather. “Let’s hope this is Sheila,” he says in an early morning webcast. He’s refere…
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Missing Chihuahua reunited with owners after five years – BBC News
Charlie, now 15, disappeared in 2010 during a holiday with his Austrian owners in Aschbach, north Germany, reports say. Charlie was found overweight and with rotting teeth – but is now happily recovering with his family.
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All US combat roles open to women – BBC News
David Cameron says the mission against Islamic State militants could take “some time”, as RAF Tornado jets “successfully” bomb oil fields in Syria.
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Bhutan has ‘most ambitious pledge’ at the Paris climate summit | Environment | The Guardian
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has made the world’s most far-reaching climate promise to the Paris climate summit, according to new analysis from a respected climate change thinktank.
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Obama on San Bernardino: We need to make it harder for people to “get access to weapons” – Vox
In a brief Oval Office statement on the San Bernardino shooting Thursday morning, President Barack Obama said the suspected killers’ motives were still unknown — but that all Americans, including “our legislators,” had “a part to play” in reducing v…
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Newest ransomware pilfers passwords before encrypting gigabytes of data | Ars Technica
A new wave of crypto ransomware is hitting Windows users courtesy of poorly secured websites. Those sites are infected with Angler, the off-the-shelf, hack-by-numbers exploit kit that saves professional criminals the hassle of developing their own a…
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Quentin Tarantino has announced the latest project that he will talk about and then possibly never make. (See: Kill Bill: Volume 3.
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France is trying to spur development of an ultra-cheap electric car | The Verge
At the UN’s Climate Change Conference currently being held outside Paris, Ségolène Royal, France’s minister of ecology, sustainable development, and energy, put an interesting challenge on the table: come up with a plan to sell an electric car for €…
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You won’t need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2 starting this Friday | The Verge
If you’ve been interested in getting a OnePlus 2 but didn’t have an invite, your wait is coming to an end. As part of its second anniversary celebration, OnePlus is permanently making its $329 flagship phone available invite-free on at midnight on D…
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Sen. Chris Murphy wants his Senate colleagues to “get off their ass” on gun violence – Vox
After Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, a number of politicians offered their “thoughts and prayers” to the victims and their families.
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Superman Saves A Soyuz, Villian Revealed In New ‘Dawn of Justice’ Trailer
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Yellen says US economy can handle rate increase – BBC News
US Federal Reserve chairwomen Janet Yellen has told Congress that the economy is reaching a point where it can handle an interest rate rise. She said that raising interest rates would show “how far our economy has come in recovering from the effects…
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John Forrester | Books | The Guardian
The historian and philosopher John Forrester, who has died aged 66 after suffering from cancer, advanced the study of psychoanalysis, its history, key figures, clinical practice and social significance, both in Britain and farther afield.
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It’s Actually Refreshing To Read a Teenage Spider-Man Story Again
When Spidey was announced, I was admittedly rather critical. As an avid Spider-Man fan, I always want the character to grow, to be pushed into new territory. Going back to his roots felt like wasted navel gazing.
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Watch Nick Offerman Drink Whiskey, Sit Silently by Fire for 45 Minutes | Rolling Stone
Watch Nick Offerman Drink Whiskey, Sit Silently by Fire for 45 Minutes ‘Parks and Recreation’ star bolsters stoic legend in epic non-performance for Lagavulin distillery
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BBC Sport – Gary Neville: New Valencia boss ‘must prove doubters wrong’
Valencia boss Gary Neville accepts he must prove his managerial credentials to those who believe the Spanish club have made a risky appointment. Neville, 40, has been appointed until the end of the season, despite having no previous managerial exper…
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France wants Facebook and Twitter to launch an ‘offensive’ against ISIS propaganda | The Verge
The French government is once again calling on major web companies to help combat jihadist propaganda online, following a string of deadly attacks last month that left 129 dead and more than 300 injured.
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Silicon Valley V.C. Firm Can’t Find Any Women | Vanity Fair
Here’s some news for all the many smart, driven, capable young women interested in working in technology: apparently, you don’t exist.
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Why It’s Surprisingly Hard to Preserve a Star Wars Stormtrooper Suit | Vanity Fair
Growing up a towheaded boy in suburban Missouri, there were two types of kids in my neighborhood: Star Wars fans and not–Star Wars fans. I was one of the latter.
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See Chris Stapleton’s Growling ‘Nobody to Blame’ at CMT ‘Artists’ Gala | Rolling Stone
CMT’s Artists of the Year event is a bit like an intimate awards show, minus all the pesky anticipation and stress of not knowing who’s going win.
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2015: The Year in Mass Shootings | Rolling Stone
Mass shootings have happened almost every day in America this year — often more than once a day.
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New York Daily News Cover After San Bernardino: ‘GOD ISN’T FIXING THIS’ : politics
Did you know that at the Oregon massacre, there was a guy with a CCP and a gun on campus who, might have been able to shoot the shooter?
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Obama: California Shootings May be Terror Related | Al Jazeera America
On Wednesday, a heavily armed couple dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet being held for one of the gunman’s co-workers before themselves being hunted down and killed by police. The gunmen have been identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 2…
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Israel Arrests Suspects in Duma Arson Attack | Al Jazeera America
Israel has arrested several people in connection with an arson attack in July that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents in the West Bank village of Duma — a result of an investigation criticized by both Palestinians and a U.N. official for i…
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At first cyber meeting, China claims OPM hack is “criminal case” | Ars Technica
An official Chinese report claims US and Chinese representatives “yielded positive outcomes” at the first meeting of a bilateral cyber security coordination group.
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China’s ‘Airpocalypse’ Prompts Official Pledge to Cut Pollution | VICE News
The big Paris climate summit opened Monday with the capitals of two of the world’s leading carbon emitters shrouded in choking smog. In Beijing, the capital of the world’s most populous country and its No.
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Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Makes New Hampshire Pivotal Ground for Hillary Clinton : politics
Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Makes New Hampshire Pivotal Ground for Hillary Clinton (nytimes.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…[–]loki8481 [score hidden] 1 hour ago(0 children)I wouldn’t say it’s “pivotal” for Clinton nearly as much as Iowa and Sout…
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Congress Wants to Protect Your Emails From Warrantless Searches – The Atlantic
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Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world | TED Talk | TED.com
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How Isaac Asimov Went from Star Trek Critic to Star Trek Fan & Advisor | Open Culture
When we think of a science fiction, most of us doubtless think of a Star Trek. Since the original series made its television debut almost a half-century ago, the speculative future it created has come to stand, in many minds, as the very model of th…
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Benedict Cumberbatch up for Whatsonstage award – BBC News
The blockbuster production of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is the most nominated play at the WhatsOnStage awards. The sell-out Barbican show has nine nominations, including best actor for the Sherlock star.
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Here Are The Demands From Students Protesting Racism At 51 Colleges | FiveThirtyEight
College students have for weeks led protests over race relations on campuses across the country after well-publicized confrontations at the University of Missouri and Yale University.
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How the IPCC Can Help Shape the Climate Past 2030 – Scientific American
Governments will need authoritative scientific analysis if they hope to boost their future climate change targets, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said. In an interview with ClimateWire, Chairman Hoesung Lee said the pledge…
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Here’s the real reason we don’t have gun reform (it’s not campaign contributions) – Vox
If you’ve been on Twitter in the past 24 hours or so, you’ve probably seen one of the many tweets from ThinkProgress editor Igor Volsky, who has been listing the National Rifle Association’s campaign contributions to members of Congress, often along…
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The federal Refugee Act of 1980 gives President Obama broad discretion over America’s refugee policy — discretion that cannot be overridden by a state government.
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Fake LinkedIn profiles used by hackers – BBC News
Its investigation uncovered dozens of fake accounts on the social network, across a variety of industries. Posing as recruiters, the fake accounts allow hackers to map the networks of business professionals and gain the trust of those in them.
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Apple’s new programming language Swift is now open source | The Verge
Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that’s meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it’s going open source. Apple is opening up the language, Swift, through a new…
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Gun-makers’ stocks surge after San Bernardino shooting | Business | The Guardian
Stocks of two major gun-makers surged on Thursday morning, the day after a shooting in San Bernardino, California, left 14 people dead. More than an hour after the stock markets opened, Smith & Wesson stocks were up by 2.62%. Stocks of Sturm, Ruger …
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Justin Trudeau’s taxpayer-funded nannies attract conservative critics | World news | The Guardian
Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has been criticized by opposition parties for using taxpayer money to pay for two nannies who help to care for his three young children.
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Like the swallows habitually returning to Mission San Juan Capistrano, the annual “United State Of Pop” mashup from San Francisco’s Jordan “DJ Earworm” Roseman has become a beloved annual tradition in some circles.
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The trailer for Mojave reunites Inside Llewyn Davis’ Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund for a game of cat and mouse that takes them from the titular desert to the cultural wasteland (just kidding) of Los Angeles.
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Your Mom Has Some Thoughts on This Year’s Holiday Releases – The New Yorker
I know you’re very busy at work and I’m sure that’s why you haven’t returned my call, so I am sending you this e-mail because it seems “lower key” than calling again. I always get a little sentimental this time of year, even though our family doesn’…
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A shattered window, a makeshift bomb, and then a fire in California. A car set ablaze in New Orleans. A fire in Washington state. A hatchet attack in New Hampshire.
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Why Big Brands Are Invading Podcasts | Motherboard
TWiT, Relay.fm, Watch Out for Fireballs… IBM? An estimated 46 million Americans listen to podcasts each month, according to Edison Research, with shows covering topics as varied as the latest Apple rumors, how best to confront the Islamic State, a…
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How to Set Up an All-In-One Retro Game Emulator with RetroArch
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Saul Tigh is good at his job. He’s a drunk and a bastard and, at times, the sourest sack of shit in the galaxy, but as Executive Officer, he enforces the old man’s orders and keeps the crew in line. That’s necessary, and he should be commended for i…
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The state of internet connectivity in the world in 9 charts – Quartz
This we know: The next billion people who are coming online will do so from cheap, mobile phones. While the cost of phone service is falling globally, fixed broadband—typically more reliable and faster than cellular connections—is actually becoming …
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2014 was the beginning of the end. It was both a miserable year both for me personally, and for my team that season, the Chicago Bears. I was cut after training camp — my first time ever being released from a team.
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How Sylvester Stallone Almost Made ‘The Godfather: Part III’ | Mental Floss
To hear Sylvester Stallone tell it, failing to get a job as an extra in 1972’s The Godfather may have been the best thing to ever happen to him.
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School district backtracks on locker room access for transgender student | US news | The Guardian
The first US school district to face civil rights penalties for refusing to grant full locker room access to a transgender student has accepted a compromise with the US Education Department, an eleventh-hour move to avoid an unprecedented legal batt…
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YouTube wants to compete with Netflix, seeks movie and TV show deals | Ars Technica
Not content with being the world’s biggest video platform, YouTube now wants to be Netflix. A report from the Wall Street Journal says that YouTube is looking to bolster its new premium service, YouTube Red, with TV shows and movies.
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Only two hours away from Ferguson, Missouri, a series of events quickly enflamed the University of Missouri in Columbia this fall.
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Can ‘The Great Holiday Baking Show’ Equal #GBBO Fever? – The Atlantic
The best television shows usually have titles that express their concepts in the simplest of ways. Friends, arguably the most popular and culturally influential sitcom of all time, is indeed a show about six friends. ER is a drama set in and around …
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‘Everyone else was running, but they didn’t seem to be in a hurry’ – BBC News
Police in California are continuing investigations into a mass shooting on Wednesday in which 14 people were killed. Two suspects, who were killed in an exchange of fire with police, have been named as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27.
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Lunar Mission One is crowdsourcing a trip to the moon | Ars Technica
Is there a business case that would support a private, unmanned mission to the moon? The people at Lunar Mission One certainly think so. If they’re right, an unmanned lander will touch down on a crater rim near the Moon’s south pole in 2024.
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Struggling authors applying for emergency funds in record numbers | Books | The Guardian
This year saw the highest number of applications since the society began keeping records in 1999. According to the society’s chief executive, Nicola Solomon, the writers applying for help are increasingly well-known.
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The Real Problem With Politicians’ Post-Massacre Prayers | New Republic
Today’s copy of the New York Daily News reads: “God Isn’t Fixing This: as latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes.
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Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world | TED Talk | TED.com
How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who’s been blind since the age of fourteen, is working on answering these questions. In a c…
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Why “thoughts and prayers” led to a tweetstorm putting politicians’ NRA donations on blast – Vox
After the San Bernardino, California, shooting on Wednesday, many politicians offered their thoughts and prayers on social media, continuing a long tradition of reactions to all-too-typical mass shootings in America. But ThinkProgress editor Igor Vo…
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Paul Bremer wants US troops back in Iraq to fight ISIL – Al Jazeera English
The American diplomat, named by President George W. Bush to lead the occupation in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, has called on President Barack Obama to redeploy 10,000 US troops, to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
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The EU circular economy package that has been in the works for a year was finally launched yesterday.
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How to Lead a Nation That Will Be Swallowed by the Sea | Motherboard
This story appears in the December issue of VICE magazine. The far-flung nation of Kiribati (pronounced Kee-ree-bas) spans a cluster of 33 atolls in the central Pacific Ocean.
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Google Brings Its App Streaming Technology To Mobile Ads | TechCrunch
Last month, Google introduced a new way for web searchers to find the information they want – even when that content was locked inside a mobile application.
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The On-Demand, Sharing And Gig Economies Never Existed, So Stop Pretending They Did | TechCrunch
Words are impactful. They may not break your bones, as the saying goes, but they do guide the way we all think, debate, decide and act.
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The Quiet Symbolism of the Hairbrush – The Atlantic
The next time you wander through your local drugstore, take a good look at the hairbrushes—the quantity, the type, the things they claim to do.
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Can Soldiers Trust Guns That Tell Them Where to Shoot? | Motherboard
The weapons that will be used to fight tomorrow’s wars will need to address a very old problem: friendly fire. Researchers think complex algorithms can help by telling soldiers where to shoot, and where not to.
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Christmas decorations at the hospital : pics
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How Philadelphia Will Solve the Sewage Nightmare Under Its Feet
I’m standing in the Wingohocking Creek Sewer, the largest in Philadelphia’s sewer system. Picture a drain pipe that’s big enough to drive a bus through. In one direction is the darkness of the sewer, with several feet of raw sewage running through …
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Lady Gaga: Billboard Woman of the Year Interview | Billboard
Lady Gaga is sitting in her “sanctuary” — the sprawling, olive tree-dotted backyard of her Malibu home — when a silent, tie-clad man arrives with cocktails on a tray. “Thank you,” she says, with the sort of silver-screen elegance that it’s surpris…
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Half-Life Coins – Scientific American
Did you know that radioactive material decays randomly? Learn how flipping coins can help you figure out how long radioactive material stays dangerous–in this fun (and perfectly safe) activity! Introduction One way of creating energy is with nuclea…
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Adventures of an Anti-Hero | New Republic
In addition to her function as aesthetic conscience of the Western world, France has always been a pioneer in moral matters.
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A top ratings agency thinks big banks may not get bailouts next time around – Vox
The bond rating giant Standard & Poor’s delivered a dose of bad news for America’s largest banks and good news for the Obama administration’s Wall Street reforms on Thursday morning, slightly downgrading its rating of eight major banks because they …
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My home on Marigny Street reflects New Orleans’ repeated resurrections | US news | The Guardian
The omnipresent “resurrection fern” abounds here in New Orleans, but solely on live oaks. They dwindle to nothing and are barely visible in dry times. Then after one touch of nourishing rain, life explodes and the oaks find themselves covered with t…
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Hawaiian Court Revokes Permit for Planned Mega-Telescope – Scientific American
Hawaii’s supreme court has ruled that the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of the mountain Mauna Kea is invalid. The December 2 decision is a major blow to the international consortium backing the US$1.
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MTV asks the next generation of young whippersnappers to name itself · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The problem with kids these days is that they keep getting older and becoming, well, not kids, which makes it difficult to know just whose poor decisions we should be clutching our pearls over.
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With Jessica Jones and Supergirl debuting in the same TV season, it was inevitable that the two shows would be compared.
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What Braffened? case file #50: Wish I Was Here · My World Of Flops · The A.V. Club
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following. Over the last decade, Zach Braff’s reputatio…
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Writer-director-producer William Riead started working on his biopic of Mother Teresa in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, believing that the best way to recover from an act of unfathomable hate was to spend his time telling the story of so…
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Mars Rover Prototype Practices on Earth for Stressful Moments (Video)
A prototype of Europe’s first Mars rover practiced for some of the most stressful moments after arriving on the planet – getting the rover off its landing platform shortly after it arrives on the Martian surface.
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Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik: Everything We Know About The Suspected Shooters | ThinkProgress
This is a breaking news story. This post will be frequently updated as new information becomes available. The two people police suspect are responsible for Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, California are dead — but information a…
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What no politician wants to admit about gun control – Vox
President Obama is clearly fed up.
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Just Cause 3 devs say PC patch will take “a little bit of time” | Ars Technica
An inordinate amount of our recent Just Cause 3 review had to focus on the significant technical problems in the PC build of the game rather than the physics-based mayhem the title is designed for.
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Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris | The Nation
On this week’s episode, Naomi Klein reports from the streets of Paris that the French government has enlisted the Shock Doctrine to block street protests at the Paris Climate Summit.
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This Has Become Normal | ThinkProgress
This Year, There Have Been More Mass Shootings Than Days https://t.co/k4oHJlUUiI
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When Being a Teenage Parent Makes Biological Sense
Robin Marvel was never supposed to succeed. By the time she was a teenager she’d watched her mother be violently beaten by her father and a number of boyfriends, been sexually assaulted herself, moved haphazardly around the country, become an alcoho…
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Apple’s Swift Programming Language Is Now Open Source | TechCrunch
Swift, Apple’s programming language aimed at OS X and iOS developers, has gone open source under the Apache License. This means all of the source code including the code for a new package manager will be available to edit and compile and programs ca…
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This electric scooter is the ultimate hipster dad chariot | The Verge
As a native New Yorker and a parent of two kids, I’ve tried out pretty much every way imaginable to navigate the Big Apple. My car is certainly my most powerful tool, but there are lots of trips when it’s also my worst option.
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Uber has a colorful new way to prevent awkward car mixups | The Verge
Have you ever suffered the embarrassment of jumping into a complete stranger’s car, thinking it was the Uber driver you just hailed? Well, these people have. That awkward moment when you try to get into some random persons car because you think they…
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz claimed on Thursday that President Obama should recognize the threat of “radical Islamic terrorism” because Christians haven’t committed terrorist attacks for centuries.
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Tiger Woods: I tell my children ‘Daddy made some mistakes’ | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods says he has a “fantastic” relationship with his ex-wife and he has taken steps to explain to his two children what happened to their marriage.
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Apple might release a new 4-inch iPhone with Apple Pay early next year | The Verge
Apple is believed to be working on a new 4-inch iPhone, which it could release early next year. Details about the possible phone have been coming from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who’s had a great track record of predicting Apple’s plans in the past.
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The first shot of Transparent season 2 perfectly sets up a brilliant season of TV – Vox
The second season is maybe the most important season of any TV show, as New York magazine’s Matt Zoller Seitz recently pointed out.
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A day with Portland’s tifo creators: ‘We do it for the players’ | Football | The Guardian
Anyone who even casually follows MLS has probably seen one of the tifo displays in Portland: elaborate, colorful banners that show support for the Timbers, and take occasional jabs at rival teams. They appear for about one minute and then they’re go…
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Holiday Lights Could Disrupt Wi-Fi Connection – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
According to a British communications agency, the wiring in holiday light displays can interfere with a home’s radio frequencies and disrupt its Wi-Fi connection, a phenomenon also caused by microwaves and baby monitors. What do you think?
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Gnawa music: From slavery to prominence – Al Jazeera English
Simply put, Gnawa is the music of formerly enslaved black Africans who integrated into the Moroccan cultural and social landscape, and founded a model to preserve the traditions and folkloric music of their ancestors.
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Slayer Announce First North American Leg of ‘Repentless’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Slayer Announce First North American Leg of ‘Repentless’ Tour Thrash metal icons recruit Testament and Carcass for winter jaunt
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50 Years of ‘Rubber Soul’: How the Beatles Invented the Future of Pop | Rolling Stone
Happy 50th birthday to Rubber Soul, the album where the Beatles became the Beatles. It was the most out-there music they’d ever made, but also their warmest, friendliest and most emotionally direct.
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Taliban Leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour Wounded in Shootout | VICE News
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been seriously wounded in Pakistan in a shootout between senior members of the Islamist movement, Taliban sources said, but the group’s main spokesman dismissed their report as “baseless.
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How Jailing Women for Abortion in El Salvador Hurts Their Children | VICE News
Teodora Vásquez was nine months pregnant when she lost her baby. The poor rural woman from El Salvador had run to the emergency health services for help but instead found herself accused of murdering her unborn child and then sentenced to 30 years i…
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New Discovery: “The Missing Matter of the Universe’s Cosmic Web”
Matter known as ordinary, which makes up everything we know, corresponds to only 5% of the Universe. Approximately half of this percentage still eluded detection.
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myFICO’s Financial Aid Guide Details Every Option for Paying for College
College can be expensive. Even a small amount of financial aid can help, but there are so many different options out there, it can be overwhelming. myFICO simplifies all of your options with their online guide.
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Crowdsourced Ransomware Developer Hasn’t ‘Made a Single Cent’ | Motherboard
Ransomware is booming. New, devilish variants of malware that hold your files hostage continue to be revealed, and the scene appears to be one of the most vibrant areas of cybercrime at the moment.
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Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett have made a career out of laughing at bad movies. From their days on Mystery Science Theater 3000 to their current project, RiffTrax, the trio, along with a team of co-conspirators, have been talking…
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The Indian military is struggling to evacuate thousands of residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest rains in more than a century.
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Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty of Murder – The Atlantic
Olympian Oscar Pistorius has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend after a South African court overturned an earlier manslaughter conviction, saying the lower court had misinterpreted the law.
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Deadly Driverless Cars – The Atlantic
In the 1950s, encountering a driverless car was not what it is today. The self-driving vehicles that engineers are now building promise to save hundreds of thousands of lives per decade in the United States. But last century, a car without a driver …
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Space Tourism Is Already Here | Motherboard
It’s easy to book a ticket to almost anywhere on Earth with a click of a mouse these days, but some travel companies have their sights set further afield: space. Currently, the reality of holidaying in orbit still seems pretty far-out—unless you’ve …
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Watch the Legend of Zelda’s new female Link in action | The Verge
Last month Nintendo revealed a brand new addition to the Legend of Zelda universe: Linkle, a female version of series hero Link, who wields a pair of crossbows and some sweet pigtails.
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Sparta Science on How to Jump – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Google is making a huge clean energy investment to power its data centers | The Verge
With an announcement today of six new solar and wind project deals, Google says it’s massively increasing the amount of renewable power flowing to its data centers, the Associated Press reports.
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14 people are dead, but hey, Donald Trump thinks his poll numbers might get a boost
But enough about the 14 people killed and 17 people wounded in Wednesday’s San Bernardino mass shootings. What effect will it have on Donald Trump’s poll numbers? As you might expect, random bozos on Twitter have theories:
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Air and Sea CO2 Emitters Could Weaken Climate Deal | Al Jazeera America
PARIS — Activists call them the elephants in the room. Together, the international aviation and shipping industries make up more than 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Left unchecked, that number could climb to 10 to 32 percent by 2050.
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Owner Of Mine That Spilled Toxic Waste Into A Colorado River Compares The EPA To Rapists (thinkprogress.org)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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World’s richest 10 percent responsible for half of all CO2, report says : environment
World’s richest 10 percent responsible for half of all CO2, report says (america.aljazeera.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison: Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline (arstechnica.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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The Original Star Wars Is a Great Movie Because It Asks More Questions Than It Answers
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Humanoid Robot R5: Valkyrie ‘Dances’ In NASA Music Video
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3D Design App uMake Raises $5M To Take On AutoDesk And Others | TechCrunch
The 3D market has seen an explosion of interest on the back of new hardware to create and experience it, from 3D cameras and VR headgear through to 3D printers; and a raft of popular content that has taken advantage of this.
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The Oregon school shooting is evidence that the US response to gun violence ‘has become routine’, Barack Obama says.
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Syria air strikes: David Cameron warns of long campaign – BBC News
The mission to target so-called Islamic State militants in Syria could take “some time” and will require persistence, PM David Cameron has said. RAF Tornados carried out their first air strikes in Syria, “successfully” targeting IS-controlled oil fi…
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Everyone knows space is a punishing void. We’ve named our whole science fiction endeavor after the practice of trying to make it livable. But what if—instead of trying to recreate what’s natural on Earth—we modified ourselves instead? Call it homeos…
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In the wake of Friday’s shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood that left three dead and nine injured, abortion rights groups have renewed their calls for the Department of Justice to investigate attacks on abortion providers and clinics…
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Donate Your Old Comics To Soldiers Overseas and Help a Good Cause!
It’s a giving time of year, and what better gift to give to people than awesome comic books? A new charity drive from one of the co-hosts of DC’s All Access web series is looking to give soldiers operating overseas during the holidays the gift of so…
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The Original Star Wars Is a Great Movie Because It Asks More Questions Than It Answers
The Star Wars prequels were all about answering questions. Questions like, how did Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader? What were the Clone Wars? The problem is, that’s exactly the opposite of what made the original film so great. Welcome back to ou…
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On a cold, rainy day in the winter of 1955, a young freelance photographer named Dennis Stock took a few pictures around New York City of actor James Dean, who’d just finished shooting East Of Eden and was about to start Rebel Without A Cause.
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Denver, see Pan’s Labyrinth tonight as part of our Fantastique series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Howdy! Senior writer Jason Heller here. Just wanted to let you know that Fantastique, The A.V. Club’s monthly fantasy film series, continues tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Denver with Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Research group orchestrated by Coca-Cola has disbanded amid criticism | Ars Technica
Following news that Coca-Cola’s chief scientist is stepping down, the controversial academic research group set up and funded by the beverage maker has now disbanded.
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Silk Road’s Crooked DEA Agent Tried to Invest in My Bitcoin Startup | Motherboard
On November 7, 2013, about a month after the arrest of Ross Ulbricht for running the notorious darknet marketplace Silk Road, I received an email from Carl Mark Force IV, a federal agent who had worked on the case.
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Stephen Curry Is The Revolution | FiveThirtyEight
Before this year’s NBA season started, I had a conversation with a Golden State Warriors fan. He was excited about his team and was keen to explain its success: It was perfectly balanced, with perfect chemistry, role players, coaching and management.
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The Radical Courage of Silent Movie Stuntwomen | New Republic
Helen Gibson’s strong, handsome face and dark hair gave her the look of someone who would try anything. In 1915, while in her early twenties, she was doubling for the star of the hit serial The Hazards of Helen.
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The Latest: Guns Used in California Shooting Bought Legally : politics
Can we go back to addressing everyday gun violence now? Like how most of the gun deaths are suicides? Or how most of our gun homicides are gang/poverty/drug war related? Or the liberal freakout a day ago? Or the liberal freakout before they realised…
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Here’s the GOP congressman who’s trying to kick-start a new climate movement | “If conservation is not conservative, then words have no meaning at all.” (grist.org)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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To Defeat ISIS, Trump Openly Suggests Committing War Crimes : politics
Trump openly suggests behaving in the same manner as Fascists did in the last centaury behaved. Nazis would round up innocent villagers and execute them for the acts committed by resistance fighters. Trump suggests the USA do the same thing. Oh look…
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Where am I supposed to sleep? : cats
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2015massshootings – GunsAreCool
2015massshootings – GunsAreCool https://t.co/qbP36SPr6N
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Is being compared to Gollum the ultimate insult… or precious praise? | Books | The Guardian
Would you mind being compared to Gollum, the slimy, bulged-eyed backstabber from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasy novels? Think carefully about the answer: a Turkish doctor could be facing two years in jail on the basis of how …
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Placemeter’s New Sensor Helps Business Owners Measure Traffic In Front Of Their Stores | TechCrunch
Placemeter, the “urban intelligence platform” that launched earlier this year, wants to help businesses measure how many people walk past — and into — their stores. The company is officially launching its first sensor today. Until now, the company w…
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This very imaginative story is about Dixie and Percy going camping. I expected that they would go to a camping site full of caravans.
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Watch Orbital’s first launch since last year’s rocket explosion at 5:55PM ET | The Verge
Today, Orbital ATK is getting back into launching spacecraft again, after being grounded for more than a year. The private spaceflight company will be sending up its Cygnus cargo capsule — filled with 7,000 pounds of food, water, and supplies — to t…
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Remember This Number When Buying a Dining Room Rug
Your dining room rug should be large enough to fit your table and chairs, but also offer enough buffer room behind the chairs so you’ll never snag chairs or trip. If you’re on the hunt for a new rug, remember the magic measurement: 36 inches of clea…
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How congressional Republicans are using fear of a government shutdown to help big banks – Vox
The federal government runs out of money on December 11. That’s prompted a fair deal of fretting about a government shutdown, perhaps over Planned Parenthood spending. But if you care about holding Wall Street accountable, the bigger story isn’t whe…
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Deep Forger is an art bot inspired by famous painters / Boing Boing
@deepForger is a Twitterbot that creates paintings in the distinctive style of famous artists.
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This is the best paragraph I’ve ever read on gun control and mass shootings – Vox
When there are mass shootings in America, whether it was the murder of nine churchgoers in Charleston this June, or the murder of 10 people on Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, my mind inevitably turns to the 2007 shooting at Virginia …
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South Africa hippo ‘kills three’ near Zimbabwe border – BBC News
A hippopotamus has killed three adults and critically injured a child in South Africa, a private emergency response service says.The incident happened late on Wednesday night in a town close to the border-crossing with Zimbabwe.
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The Welfare State: A Terrible Name for an Essential System – The Atlantic
At a time when Bernie Sanders is inspiring crowds with a version of socialism, the concept of “the welfare state” may be so retro that it is due for a similar revival.
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U.S. gets serious about radical Christians
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Yemen conflict: MSF clinic hit in Saudi-led air strike – BBC News
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says one of its clinics in Yemen has been hit in a Saudi-led coalition air strike. The medical charity said it told the coalition the location of the facility in the city of Taiz before Wednesday’s attack, which injure…
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Migrant crisis: Hungary challenges EU quota plan in court – BBC News
Hungary says it has filed a court challenge against a European Union plan to distribute migrants among the bloc’s member states. EU interior ministers approved the plan for mandatory quotas to distribute 120,000 asylum seekers in September, despite …
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So what was so bad about Walker? Was Perry that god-awful slow? And though Bobby Jindal Could see his polls dwindle, Just why did he give up and go? Yes, once I disdained all these guys Whose leaving has left me bereft. So one wonders how I long for…
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Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do? | The Nation
I’m in love with a staunch Republican, while I am very liberal. We’re living in Texas (frustrated sigh). I’m afraid our sometimes heated debates may ruin any chance for us. I hold back a lot…. I’ll state my bias up front: When in doubt, I err on the…
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Happy Birthday, ‘National Review’! Too Bad You Haven’t Grown Any Wiser With Age. | The Nation
Jeff Jacoby is a right-wing columnist whose opinions regularly appear in The Boston Globe.
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An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope | The Nation
Blood-soaked and beautiful, Alban Berg’s Lulu may rank among the greatest and most disturbing operas of the 20th century.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CA—In the hours following a violent rampage in southern California in which two attackers killed 14 individuals and seriously injured 17 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs rep…
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San Bernardino Shooter Identified, but Many Questions Remain | Vanity Fair
In the hours after a mass shooting that left 14 dead and dozens injured—the deadliest mass shooting since the 2012 Newtown massacre—investigators identified Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen and employee of the San Bernardino County’s public-health depart…
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Australian comedian perfectly sums up why other countries think US gun laws are crazy – Vox
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, the shooter was a 20-year-old male, and was kil…
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Patent trolls rush to file nasty lawsuits before rule change / Boing Boing
To beat a Dec. 1 change in rules that limit their shenanigans, patent trolls filed more than 200 cases in a single day.
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Nintendo’s next console will be a big departure from the Wii and Wii U | The Verge
Nintendo still isn’t talking about its next big console, codenamed NX, in detail until next year. But new company president Tatsumi Kimishima, who took over for the late Satoru Iwata in September, has revealed that the device won’t just be a new tak…
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Police Determine Juneau Mayor Stephen Fisk Died of Natural Causes – The Atlantic
On Wednesday evening, police determined that Stephen “Greg” Fisk, who had recently been elected the mayor of Juneau and whose sudden death prompted serious speculation, had died of natural causes.
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The Health Effects of Loneliness – The Atlantic
Every Monday during the summer, some of the residents of Lyme, New Hampshire, gather up fruits and vegetables from their gardens to donate to Veggie Cares, a program that distributes local food to people living alone.
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Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope Faces Major Setback – The Atlantic
Astronomers in Hawaii say there’s nowhere else on the planet where a colossal telescope could peer into space with the clarity and depth of what’s possible from atop Mauna Kea, a massive volcano on the Big Island.
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Put Doritos in a Pepper Grinder for the Ultimate Salty Snack Topping
I’m always saving empty spice and salt grinders for a vague “future use.” Well, I finally know what that use is: I’m going to fill them with Doritos and grind delicious Dorito essence all over my food.
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Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan Are ‘Most Fascinating People’ | Rolling Stone
Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan Are Among 2015’s ‘Most Fascinating People’ Barbara Walters names actors, dancer, designer, presidential hopeful for “10 Most Fascinating People 2015” TV special
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The Major Reveals From the Batman v Superman Trailer
So that happened. After years of intense secrecy around Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the latest trailer went from 0 to 100 in terms of spoilers. Not only did the trailer show the reveal of Wonder Woman, but it even introduced the film’s big b…
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Flashback: See Glen Campbell and Cher’s Funky Duet on Holiday Staple | Rolling Stone
‘Tis the season for star-studded Christmas specials — and going down the YouTube rabbit hole to get lost in the holiday variety shows of the Sixties and Seventies. Like this one from Glen Campbell’s Goodtime Hour: a deliciously cheesy duet between C…
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Charles Kelley Brings Polished Tunes, Covers to New York Gig | Rolling Stone
December 1st marked the third tour stop for Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, headlining New York’s Gramercy Theatre for one of his first appearances as a solo artist.
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Think You Have The Best Mobile App? | TechCrunch
Make sure you submit your nomination for the best mobile app of 2015 now! With only one day left until nominations close for the Crunchies Award Show, we want to hear from you.
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A Polish game studio is reconstructing Chernobyl in virtual reality | The Verge
The Farm 51 is a Polish game studio that’s mostly focused on over-the-top shooters like Necrovision and Painkiller: Hell & Damnation. But next year, it’s releasing what promises to be a fairly unique project: a genuinely interactive virtual reality …
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Watch Ryan Gosling and Aidy Bryant Flirt, Stammer, and Charm | Vanity Fair
The Saturday Night Live promos, featuring the host engaging in some manner with one of the cast members—generally released a few days before Saturday’s airing—have at this point essentially become their own comedic entity in and of themselves.
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Study suggests Type 2 diabetes “can be cured” by weight loss / Boing Boing
A study conducted at the University of Newcastle in England found that “For people with Type 2 diabetes, losing weight allows them to drain excess fat out of the pancreas and allows function to return to normal,” writes Professor Roy Taylor, quoted …
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San Bernardino Shooting: A Portrait of a Suspect – The Atlantic
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, began their Wednesday by leaving their 6-month-old daughter with his mother.
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What Happens to the Right of Public Assembly in the Absence of Public Space? | The Nation
There is no shortage of egos in New York. One of them has a huge desire to be president.
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If you’ve caught drone fever, but don’t have $1,000 to spend on a DJI Phantom, Amazon will sell you a basic camera-equipped quadcopter today for just $39. It should go without saying that this isn’t a professional tool by any means.
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Stansted airport owner urges government to increase flight limit | Business | The Guardian
The owner of Stansted has called on the government to raise the flight cap at the Essex airport, warning that otherwise passenger demand in the south east will not be met until the completion of a new London runway, potentially a decade away.
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A Drill to Help You Learn “Keep Your Shoulders Down” When You Exercise
“Keep your shoulders down” is often cued in the strength training world because doing so keeps your body and shoulders in a structurally sound position to put up big weights during movements like rows, bench presses, or even push-ups.
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Macy Gray’s Addictive Anti-Trump Christmas Anthem – The Daily Beast
The Christmas single. Anyone who’s witnessed Bill Nighy’s crotchety rock star creation Billy Mack give his all to trounce a manicured boy band in Love Actually knows full well the importance of landing a chart-topping Xmas anthem across the pond.
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The History of Telecommuting Began Before the Personal Computer – The Atlantic
According to the latest Census numbers, 4.5 percent of Americans, or about 6.5 million people, are working from home most of the time. That’s up from 3.2 percent in 2000, and roughly double the proportion in 1980.
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This VR Tour of Chernobyl Will Go Where Tourists Can’t | Motherboard
The name Chernobyl has become synonymous with urban ruin and the decline of the Soviet Union. The site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been abandoned for nearly three decades.
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The fear-mongering political ads are coming “Fear is powerful, whether it has any rational basis or not, and Republicans know that the more afraid voters are, the more likely they are to gravitate toward the party whose candidates spend their time p…
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Ted Cruz to Hold Hearing on Whether Global Warming Science Is ‘Data or Dogma’ – The witnesses set to appear at the Republican presidential candidate’s Senate hearing are all climate change skeptics. (bloomberg.com)
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BlueStacks now lets you run multiple Android apps on Windows at the same time | The Verge
While Google has been slowly working on bringing Android apps to Chrome OS, another company has had those apps up and running on the desktop for several years now.
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ExxonMobil, Koch Family have powered climate change denial for decades. | Of course, a major reason the world has delayed meaningful action for 21 years has been a single political party in a single country: the GOP. (slate.com)
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To Tell of Bodies Changed | The Nation
outside our window a cypress of model proportions. Its patience seems to widen the nights we sleep in Rome. Warm flags draw a tortoise, it scrapes too near. Our friends hurry over when they hear, exclaiming over its mute resolute distinctness and he…
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What forms of gun control work best? Congress bans federal agencies from finding out. – Vox
The federal government is willfully ignorant about guns. When you don’t know enough about something, your reaction is probably to research it — on Google, on Wikipedia, at the library.
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Rocky Without Reaganism | The Nation
A greater quantity of cinema than mere commerce required has made its way into Creed, a movie that resists its self-imposed destiny for a long time before settling down to being the black Rocky VII.
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Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder – BBC News
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. Pistorious killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting four times through a loc…
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This one-sentence explanation of ISIS is brilliant – Vox
The story of ISIS’s rise is long, complicated, and almost impossible to explain simply. But this tweet, from the brilliant Lebanese writer Karl Sharro, does the near impossible — it provides a really smart explanation of ISIS’s rise that’s only a se…
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United Airlines equips its airport staff with iPhones for on-the-go assistance | The Verge
If you’ve ever been to a big Apple store before, you’ll be familiar with the idea of staff using iPads and iPhones to take your order; walking the floor rather than staying behind terminals.
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8 bits, 8 players, 8 projectors, and one Nintendo Entertainment System | Ars Technica
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Voting Rights and the Second Redemption | The Nation
The United States prides itself on being the world’s oldest democracy. We claim the right to interfere in the affairs of other countries, pressuring them—sometimes by military force—to become just as democratic as we are.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Moving ahead with Sentinel-2
The green light has been given for all users to have open access to all of the data from ESA’s Sentinel-2A satellite, launched in June for the Copernicus programme. This video celebrates Sentinel-2A’s life, from its birth to what it has become today…
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Tantalizing Hints About a Major Battle In Star Wars: The Force Awakens
And likewise, set reports from Civil War tease a big scuffle. The Flash casts another comic book villain. You’re going to have to wait a teeny bit longer for Agent Carter’s return. Plus, pictures from Doctor Who’s Christmas special, iZombie gets all…
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Family book reviews – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Could a crocodile play basketball? Can a cat drive a police car? Does counting to 100 really put you to sleep? Our family reviewers answer these and other questions in our monthly roundup of your favourite reads
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Gravitational Wave-test Spacecraft Launched | Al Jazeera America
The European Space Agency has launched a pathfinder probe from French Guiana tasked with carrying out an experiment aimed to detect gravitational waves — ripples in space and across time predicted, but never proven, by physicist Albert Einstein 100 …
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Russia halts Turkey gas project talks amid Syria row – BBC News
Russia has suspended talks with Turkey on a major gas pipeline project in the Black Sea, in a further escalation after Turkey downed a Russian warplane.
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Putin: Turkey Will Regret Downing Russian Jet | Al Jazeera America
President Vladimir Putin said Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian warplane last month was a war crime and that the Kremlin would punish Ankara with additional sanctions, signaling that fallout from the incident would be long-lasting and serious.
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Why is Amazon using a racist bully to promote Prime Air? | The Verge
Last weekend, Amazon released an ad for its Prime Air drone delivery system, which shows a compelling demonstration of a pair of shoes being delivered to a home by some sort of helicopter-airplane hybrid.
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What’s the best way to protect forests? That’s a big question at the Paris climate talks | Grist
Countries and companies are making pledges to protect forests, while indigenous activists are arguing for different approaches. Heated car seats are one of life’s little luxuries — but are they energy efficient? And does it even matter? Advice mave…
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Letters From the December 21-28, 2015, Issue | The Nation
I agree with Katha Pollitt regarding the overall point of her column “Dangerous Words” [Nov. 23/30]. But I don’t think Germaine Greer and other feminists should be let off the hook for the harm they’ve done to trans people over the years.
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Video Shows San Francisco Police Surrounding And Gunning Down Man | ThinkProgress
In the video, a semi-circle of police officers surround a man backed up against the wall of a building. When he starts to walk away from them, a volley of shots ring out.
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A major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster | The Verge
In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web. Called HTTP/2, the new protocol is designed to make web traffic faster and more efficient. In the months since it was formally approved, the challenge has been getting the r…
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Wayfindr Is Building An Open Standard For Indoor Navigation By Beacon | TechCrunch
We last covered the ustwo–RLSB joint venture back in August 2014 when the team discussed their concept and demoed a prototype working. Since then they’ve been testing the kit in real world stations, including in London Underground’s Pimlico station …
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Find your car where you left it and charge your phone twice as fast with Zus / Boing Boing
This little gadget truly works double duty. It charges any device on-the-go using an ultra-fast USB that juices batteries at two-times normal speed. Then, using its smartphone app, Zus acts as a honing device for finding your car where you last left…
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Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups | The Verge
When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012, one of her first tasks was to modernize the company’s suite of mobile apps. The company brought hundreds of engineers into its then-tiny mobile division, and then lavished attention on its most-used ap…
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Cloudflare Turns on HTTP/2 For All Of Its Users | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, the specs for HTTP/2 — the successor to the HTTP protocol that powers the web — were finalized. But as with any technology that aims to replace such a fundamental part of the Internet, it takes a while before people adopt it.
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Pollination Isn’t Just for the Bees – Scientific American
The widespread death of honeybees has some farmers fretting: if honeybees disappear, who will pollinate their crops? “Almost any kind of insect you can think of.” Margie Mayfield, an ecologist at The University of Queensland in Australia.
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The sexual assault allegations against porn star James Deen, explained – Vox
James Deen is a phenomenon. He’s an 11-year veteran of the adult film industry, having sex with women in such films as Ass Eaters Unanimous 3 and Frat House Fuckfest 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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Food in books: the marzipan in The Miniaturist | Books | The Guardian
At the sight of them, she is taken by the desire for something sweet. “Do you have any marzipan?” “No. Sugar is – not something we take much of. It makes people’s souls grow sick.”
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The Orangutans of Sikundur, Part 2: The Males – Expeditions – Scientific American Blog Network
James Askew is a PhD candidate in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Southern California Jane Goodall Research Center. His research is focused on orangutan behavior, specifically the “long call” and its role in social and repr…
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Remaking an Urban Police Force – Scientific American
Just a few years ago Camden was caught in a cycle of perpetual violence. So New Jersey’s seventh-largest city (current population: 77,332) took a radical step: in 2011 it fired 163 officers, approximately half of its police force.
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World governments have been urged to tackle air pollution in poorer countries by greening cities, reducing traffic and adopting better diets, and told that this will also rein in climate change, which global health specialists estimate will cause at…
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Putin v Erdogan: May the best man win – Al Jazeera English
The showdown between Russia and Turkey has pitted Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the main contenders for Arab and Muslim hearts and minds – depending on which camp one supports in the many conflicts affecting the Arab world.
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On the shores of Lesbos: Boats, dinghies and life vests – Al Jazeera English
Skala Skamnias, Greece – The northern coastline of Lesbos is peppered with abandoned boats, deflated dinghies, life vests and inflatable tubes.
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Kafka-inspired cockroach backpack|Dangerous Minds
A Dangerous Minds reader submitted these images of a Kafka-inspired cockroach backpack without any information. First, I was instantly intrigued. Second, I had to know where to get one! Sadly, I don’t know its provenance.
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Let’s face it. Ozzy Osbourne, the former and now again lead vocalist of Black Sabbath, leader of the Blizzard of Oz, author and one of reality television’s first stars, is a survivor. For over forty years, Osbourne has battled drug and alcohol addic…
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Epson unveils world’s first in-office paper recycling system | Ars Technica
Printer giant Epson has developed an in-office paper recycling machine. Called the PaperLab, you put waste paper in, and then new, bright white printer paper comes out.
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Japanese man supposedly captures ‘fabled Ghost Child’ on video|Dangerous Minds
I live for stupid stuff like this: A Japanese man “allegedly” captured a “Ghost Child” (aka a zashiki-warashi) on video.
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Hackers have leaked the private log-in details of nearly 1,415 officials at the UN climate talks in Paris in an apparent act of protest against arrests of activists in the city.
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Empire Winter Finale Recap: Can They Kill Anika Off Already? | Vanity Fair
In short, I basically cussed out everyone involved with the show. First of all, FOX got read to filth by me for announcing that Empire is not going to return until March 2016.
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Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison: Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline. (arstechnica.com)
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Kazakhstan Announces Plan to Spy on Encrypted Internet Traffic | Motherboard
In what appears to be a bold attack on net freedom, the government of Kazakhstan will reportedly attempt to spy on all encrypted internet traffic going in or out of the country by introducing a “national internet safety certificate” in January 2016.
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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s top appeals court ruled on Thursday that Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic star known as the Blade Runner, was guilty of murder in the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, overturning a lower court’s conviction o…
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The Electric Car Industry Is Going to Make You Love Them | VICE News
How many people are ready to kick the century-old gasoline habit? American car buyers are signing for more electric cars than ever, and more manufacturers are entering the market.
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Dell Could Be Shopping Some Assets To Help Relieve EMC Deal Debt Load | TechCrunch
Since Dell announced its intention to buy EMC for $67 billion in October, there has been a lot of speculation about how the company was going to pay off the massive $40 billion debt it used to finance the deal.
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While Amazon expands Prime Now restaurant ordering and delivery to more cities, a startup has picked up funding to go head to head with it and the many others in the crowded food-on-demand category.
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microSD card speed makes all the difference for Raspberry Pi / Boing Boing
Paying a little more for a premium microSD card is “one of the highest-impact upgrades you can perform to increase Raspberry Pi performance,” writes Jeff Geerling. It’s a few dollars’ difference—and similar results will surely hold for many wee hand…
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Texas has filed a lawsuit aiming to block Syrian refugees from settling in the Dallas area , in the latest salvo of an escalating row between the state, an aid group and the federal government.
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To Defeat ISIS, Trump Openly Suggests Committing War Crimes | ThinkProgress
Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States should kill the family members of ISIS terrorists in order to defeat the jihadist group, a tactic that would likely be considered a war crime.
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Could anarchy be the future for Greece? – Al Jazeera English
On a warm evening in August this year, in the quiet residential neighbourhood of Kesariani, in the Greek capital, Athens, several hundred young people gathered in front of a stage as a band fine-tuned their instruments.
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Humans have long sought to understand catastrophes that are sudden and senseless. Faced with ships sailing through tsunami-stricken streets or buildings collapsing in earthquakes, we might take some small bitter comfort from scientific explanations.
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“This is a political choice we make” – Vox
“This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America,” President Obama said. “We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction.” The occasion for Obama’s speec…
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Why we should politicize mass shootings – Vox
When President Barack Obama stepped in front of the cameras to once again address the nation after yet another mass shooting, he knew how his critics would respond to his calls for gun control. “Somebody, somewhere will comment and say, ‘Obama polit…
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Morning Digest: America’s most reviled sheriff might finally get the boot next year
● Maricopa County, AZ: Republican Joe Arpaio has spent his two-plus decades as Maricopa County sheriff cultivating his reputation as the most notorious law enforcement official in America.
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Amazon Tree Census Makes Clear Just How Many Species are in Trouble – Over 1/2 of the Amazon’s trees could qualify as threatened species. Scientists offer up a more detailed picture of what is at stake if the logging & clear-cutting of forests conti…
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BBC – Travel – One of most bizarre rituals of the ancient world
The Anga people live in Papua New Guinea’s Aseki District, a fringe highland region so detached from the modern world that even the regular passing of mist is considered an omen from the spirits.
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Message to Janet Yellen: Focus The Fed On Full Employment
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is scheduled today to go before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, where she is expected to declare that the recovery from the Great Recession is nearly complete, and that it is time to raise interest rates again.
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Paris attacks: Belgium detains two more suspects – BBC News
Two more men have been arrested in Belgium in connection with the 13 November Paris terror attacks. One was held on Sunday at an airport in Brussels trying to leave for Morocco, prosecutors said. Another was held the same day in Brussels’ Molenbeek …
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Johnny Manziel’s problem isn’t partying: it’s saying he doesn’t want to | Sport | The Guardian
Johnny Manziel is a liar.
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Ridley Scott’s revenge? / Boing Boing
Did Ridley Scott plan the most brutally delicious revenge against JPL or am I just making this stuff up? Every year JPL has an open house in May or June, where the public is invited to tour their facilities.
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Really rich people aren’t actually that good at buying their way into political office – Vox
Bruce Rauner is the first Republican governor of Illinois in more than a decade — but his victory didn’t come cheap. As Nick Confessore details in the New York Times, Rauner, a wealthy financier, spent $27.
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There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else…
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Robots Could Take Over Nearly 50 Percent of Jobs in Japan in the Next 20 Years | Motherboard
In fast-aging Japan, researchers have calculated that up to 49 percent of jobs could be done by robots within the next ten to 20 years. In the new report published by NRI on Wednesday, the researchers examined 601 jobs in collaboration with research…
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Yes, The Planned Parenthood Shooter Is A ‘Christian Terrorist’ : politics
Yes, The Planned Parenthood Shooter Is A ‘Christian Terrorist’ (thinkprogress.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Redfin Launches Automated Home Price Estimates | TechCrunch
Redfin.com today launched the latest iteration of its home-price estimate tool. Until today, you had to play real estate agent and pick your own comparables and Redfin would then use these to compute a reasonable estimate for the price of the house …
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More than one a day. That is how often, on average, shootings that left four or more people wounded or dead occurred in the United States this year, according to compilations of episodes derived from news reports.
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BBC – Earth – Why do some countries still hunt whales?
The “hacktivist” group Anonymous recently took down many Icelandic government websites, in protest at the country’s practice of whaling. “Whales do not have a voice. We will be a voice for them. It’s time to speak out about this impending extinction…
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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Girls season 5 trailer: everyone drifts apart, as they should have years ago – Vox
The new trailer for the fifth season of HBO’s Girls promises a wedding and Japan, but the most compelling reason it gives for tuning in is the possibility that the show might finally address something that’s bothered fans and critics for years.
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Financial bubbles are much harder to spot than people realize – Vox
The spectacular bubble in the stock market 15 years ago and the one in the housing market five years ago mean that bubbles and possible bubbles are on people’s minds these days.
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Bioprinting AMAScience AMA Series: We 3D-print self-assembling blood vessels and create human biological systems on a chip. Ask Us Anything! (self.science)
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Why Are Democrats Silent On Rahm Emanuel? | The Nation
The murder case against Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is pretty straightforward, and contained almost wholly in the seven-minute dashcam video where he’s seen firing 16 shots at seventeen-year-old LaQuan McDonald despite anything resembling …
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Photos of the bright-orange colored Animas River in southwestern Colorado made international headlines in August after three million gallons of toxic mining sludge poured into it. Contractors working for the U.S.
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New Rights Granted To Saudi Women Seen As ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ | ThinkProgress
Women in Saudi Arabia still can’t drive, but if a local newspaper is to be believed, a big step forward for divorced and widowed is forthcoming.
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Nightmarish bone-and-metal sculptures of imaginary animals|Dangerous Minds
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Fishers of the Yakama Nation – The New Yorker
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Mark Hamill ‘lost 50lbs’ for Star Wars role | Film | The Guardian
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How American Sikhs became collateral damage in the war on terror | Fusion
Technically, what happened to Inderjit Singh Mukker was a case of mistaken identity. The 17-year-old who leaned into his car and punched him until he was unconscious thought Mukker’s thick black beard and turban were signs that he was a “terrorist” …
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In Photos: Mass Shooting in San Bernardino | VICE News
A man and woman armed with assault rifles opened fire Wednesday morning during a holiday party for employees of the San Bernardino public health department in California, killing 14 people and injuring 17 before being killed in a shootout with polic…
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The Original Natural Born Killers – Issue 31: Stress – Nautilus
In May of 1924, the city of Chicago was shocked by a brutal murder. Two precocious University of Chicago graduate students, Richard Leopold, 18, and Nathan Loeb, 19, lured, abducted, and murdered Loeb’s 14-year-old cousin Bobby Franks by clubbing an…
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Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change | Environment | The Guardian
All four of us have dedicated our scientific careers to understand the processes and impacts of climate change, variously studying ocean systems, tropical cyclones, ice sheets and ecosystems as well as impacts on human societies.
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General relativity: 100 years of the most beautiful theory ever created | Ars Technica
It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.
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New move to boost lending by EU banks – BBC News
The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut its rate on bank overnight deposits from -0.2% to -0.3%. At the same time, it left its key interest rate unchanged at 0.05%, holding it at a record low.
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Millions of pilgrims throng Iraq’s Karbala – Al Jazeera English
Millions of Shia Muslims, beating their heads and chests in mourning, have packed the Iraqi city of Karbala for the culmination of one of the world’s largest religious events.
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A ‘witch-hunt’ for Poland’s barely visible refugees – Al Jazeera English
Wroclaw, Poland – On a late Tuesday afternoon in mid-November, George Mamlouk, a refugee from Syria, walked down a busy shopping street to the largest mall in Poznan when three young men approached him. They hurled verbal abuse at Mamlouk and threat…
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Once I told Annabelle, over the phone, that I loved her,I sprinted downstairs to play Billy Joel on our spinet,which I did, beaming or grinning, until dinnertime. on schooldays, because I had no way to turn it off.My name was Psyche. She was melanch…
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23-Year-Old’s Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches With $14M To Fight Adobe | TechCrunch
“Which version of this design are we on? Did you make the suggested edits? Why is it taking so long to export?” Today, interface design collaboration tool Figma arrives to eliminate these questions with its browser-based alternative to Adobe’s deskt…
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A taxpayer-funded program designed to promote free market principles in Afghanistan spent $150 million on luxury accommodations and private security guards when much cheaper options existed.
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Poster poems: ice | Books | The Guardian
The first frost of winter is one of the clearest markers of change in the annual cycle of life. Nothing quite signals nature’s hibernation, the temporary cessation of growth, like a crisp layer of ice settling on the earth, whitening the grass and f…
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Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. When Greg Spriggs was 11 years old, his father, a Navy man stationed on Midway Island, took him out one night to watch a nuclear bomb explode in space.
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Ford announces voice-activated Siri support for 5 million cars | The Verge
If you own a Ford vehicle and an iPhone, congratulations: your car is getting an upgrade.
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Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts – Vox
America’s unique gun violence problem, in 17 maps and charts https://t.co/lYHCJUEYFb
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Google Makes Largest Ever Renewable Energy Purchase for Data Centers : environment
Google Makes Largest Ever Renewable Energy Purchase for Data Centers https://t.co/wAE43FILck https://t.co/l2HjBokU2e
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Steve Martin Writes a Hymn for Hymn-Less Atheists | Open Culture
To understand the two sides of Steve Martin’s performing talents, check out his one and only hit single, 1978’s King Tut. On the A-side was the novelty funk hit about the Egyptian boy king.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Gun violence, again
On Wednesday morning, a group of doctors in white coats arrived on Capitol Hill to deliver a petition to Congress.
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Congress still slow to address gun control despite series of mass shootings | US news | The Guardian
A mass shooting in California on Wednesday at a care center for people with disabilities left at least 14 people dead and more than 14 wounded, the deadliest in America since the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Oscar Pistorius verdict changed to murder – BBC News
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. He killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting her four times through a locked …
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Low fossil fuel prices hindering climate change fight, says IMF | Business | The Guardian
The International Monetary Fund has issued a warning before a meeting of the Opec oil cartel that permanently low fossil fuels are choking off investment in renewable sources of energy and hindering the fight against climate change.
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DARPA Scraps Plan To Launch Small Sats from F-15 Fighter Jet
DARPA has scrapped plans to launch small satellites from a modified F-15 fighter jet after two tests of a new rocket fuel ended in explosions this year. Boeing is the prime contractor on the program.Credit: DARPA View full size image WASHINGTON – Th…
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Men and Women Alter a Home’s Bacteria Differently – Scientific American
Men shed more bacteria into their surroundings than women do, studies have shown. Now scientists have found that men and women have different effects on the variety of bacteria inside a home, too.
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Belize ban offshore oil exploration and development in marine parks of Belize Barrier Reef System (newsmaritime.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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Google Makes Largest Ever Renewable Energy Purchase for Data Centers (recode.net)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Surprising dad with a puppy : aww
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Obama understands why young people join ISIS. But that doesn’t mean he can stop it. – Vox
In an interview this Tuesday on French television, President Obama talked, unsurprisingly, about ISIS. But what he said was surprisingly interesting — and proved the president understands the sources of ISIS’s strength a lot better than many of his …
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Even if you’re unsure of who or what Trey Parker and Matt Stone are targeting at the beginning of a South Park episode, it usually becomes clear by the end. Not so with “Truth And Advertising.
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Create Your Own Travel Size Spice Packs with Drinking Straws
Keep a collection of your favorite spices on you at all times with these airtight DIY spice packs. Maybe you like to carry around spices to enliven boring meals or maybe you just like to be prepared for any chance to cook when traveling or camping.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — On Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, left their 6-month-old daughter with Mr. Farook’s mother, telling her they were going out for a doctor’s appointment, a relative said.
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Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close – Al Jazeera English
It is somewhat of a paradox that a strong El Nino, which we are now experiencing, tends to quell hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin. An El Nino, causes a warming of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. These warmer waters are the source ar…
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Cygnus Cargo Ship Makes Return-to-Flight Launch for NASA Today: Watch It Live
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Orbital ATK’s unmanned Cygnus spacecraft is set to embark upon its return-to-flight mission tonight (Dec. 3), carrying more than 7,700 lbs.
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The Light that Gets Lost by Natasha Carthew – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I recently read Concentr8 by William Sutcliffe (which is also an amazing book) but I wasn’t entirely sure why I’d requested that from the Guardian children’s books team.
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Why Time Feels Like It’s Flying By (and How To Slow It Down)
Our parents warned us about it, but it’s hard to understand until you experience it first hand: as you get older, time seems to fly. It catches you off guard, probably because it’s such a powerful and bizarre concept.
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China Arrested Suspected OPM Hackers Three Months Ago | Motherboard
In a surprise twist, the Washington Post reports that the Chinese government has arrested the suspected hackers behind the massive Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach.
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Surprising Things You Never Knew About Your Cat
Despite ruling the Internet, cats remain mysterious creatures. Gary Weitzman, a veterinarian and head of the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, is used to answering cat questions. He got them all the time as the host of a call-in radio show about pe…
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“The New Normal Is Happy Sorrow” | New Republic
When I was ten, my mother married a Baltimore County Police officer. While off duty, he kept his service pistol in a locked box in their bedroom closet; after each shift, he’d sit on the edge of their bed and unload it. I never watched him do it.
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How Leonardo DiCaprio Will Finally Win That Oscar | Vanity Fair
“Why hasn’t Leo won an Oscar?” is a question that’s haunted us for many awards seasons now, but the wondering may finally be over: The Revenant, a grisly but gorgeous outdoor adventure, is his best chance yet at winning that elusive prize.
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NOAA Weather Satellite Breaks Up in Orbit
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An illustration of the family of NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites that includes NOAA 16, which suffered an apparent breakup Nov. 25.Credit: NOAA View full size image LONDON — A U.S. -
Not just anyone could lead the Warriors to 20-0. Luke Walton was made for coaching https://t.co/wDLSelxRc5 https://t.co/B9mvJg5xnX
In the autumn of 2011, back when David Stern locked the doors on his NBA players in a fit of labor pique, University of Memphis basketball coach Josh Pastner offered a job to an old friend. He wanted Luke Walton to be his assistant. -
With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple Fronts | TechCrunch
With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple Fronts https://t.co/D3OlAFLhKR https://t.co/9vVZn8xtoQ
Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social network giant in the light of the recent EJC strikedown of the Safe Harbor transatlantic data-sharing agree… -
First Click: Why own a car when you can share one instead? | The Verge
First Click: Why own a car when you can share one instead? https://t.co/cYZmPUgu4g https://t.co/6osqQbrTUW
“Personal-vehicle ownership isn’t going away. Some people will own and cherish cars. But those people and their cars will be considered classics. Rates of ownership will decline, an artifact of an era of hyperproserity and reckless glut. -
L is for London by Paul Thurlby – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
L is for London by Paul Thurlby – in pictures https://t.co/nd40cGLGjf https://t.co/u370S8R7bC
PARKS are the lungs of London. There are eight Royal Parks in central London, covering over 5000 acres. Photograph: L is for London by Paul Thurlby Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close -
Virtual reality is getting more animated short films | The Verge
Virtual reality is getting more animated short films https://t.co/S2r3xgfUQB https://t.co/wGdtyWrffm
Virtual reality video is still finding its footing, but some of the most high-profile work has been Pixar-style animated efforts — particularly Oculus Story Studio’s short film Henry.
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Should you buy a smart toy for Christmas? – BBC News If you were thinking about buying a smart toy for Christmas, the Vtech hack may have led you to think again. For many parents the thought of their children’s personal data being stolen and made available online is the…
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