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Climate delegates agree draft deal text – BBC News
Delegates at a UN climate conference in Paris have approved a draft text they hope will form the basis of an agreement to curb global carbon emissions. The 48-page document will be discussed by ministers on Monday.
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9 Memorable CrunchWeek Episodes | TechCrunch
9 Memorable CrunchWeek Episodes https://t.co/7pkRtfhSA3 https://t.co/KdUF2KeApV
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Bleck. via /r/pics https://t.co/88SiPXjWjN https://t.co/qT1EodQ3Wb https://t.co/SQpEs9jrVS
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Bleck. via /r/pics https://t.co/88SiPXjWjN https://t.co/qT1EodQ3Wb https://t.co/SQpEs9jrVS
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The Challenges of Mark Zuckerberg’s Hope to Eradicate Poverty – The Atlantic
The Internet erupted this week when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, published a letter to their newborn daughter, pledging to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares (currently worth $45 billion) to charity.
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Australian Gun Reformer After San Bernardino: ‘It’s Time to Call Out the U.S.A.’ – The Atlantic
The deadpan reaction of one BBC presenter to the shooting rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday—“Just another day in the United States in America, another day of gunfire, panic, and fear”—got a lot of attention this week as a window of sorts into t…
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‘Star Wars’ and the Fear of a Black Planet – The Daily Beast
Like most Star Wars geeks, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the December release of The Force Awakens. I’ve been a major Star Wars fan since I was a kid with an R2-D2 trash can in his bedroom, eating C-3PO’s cereal.
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The lore goes like this: George Lucas was struggling with the screenplay for his movie series, Star Wars. He remembered an academic text he’d been assigned to read back in college: Joseph Campbell’s deep exploration of universal mythologies, The Her…
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What The Bearded Lady Taught Us – The Atlantic
The “bearded lady” is a cliché—a staple of a carnival freak show, a sideshow, a Ryan Murphy show. But despite her success as a cultural meme, the original bearded lady elicited little more than a shrug.
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The Life and Legacy of Sandy Berger—In His Own Words – The Atlantic
Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton’s most trusted foreign policy adviser, died on Tuesday, December 2, at the age of 70 after a yearlong battle with cancer.
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30,000 hit the streets in SKorea anti-government rally – Al Jazeera English
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in the South Korean capital on Saturday accusing President Park Geun-Hye of pushing pro-businesses labour laws and attacking personal and political freedoms.
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Belgian Imam Wages Jihad on Foreign Fighters | Al Jazeera America
Confidently delivering a Friday sermon at El Mohsinien Mosque, Sheikh Sulayman Van Ael exhorts his faithful listeners to help young Muslims stake out paths of peace. Yet in the Berchem suburb of Antwerp, Belgium, it is a difficult struggle.
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Girl Online On Tour by Zoe Sugg – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Penny is finally happily reunited with her boyfriend Noah when she is asked to spend his European music tour with him. But remember, this being Penny’s life, something will obviously go wrong.
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Wealthy nations have come under attack from developing countries over proposed financial commitments designed to help them deal with the effects of global warming.
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Which Fish Can Live Out of Water?
Some fish didn’t get the memo. For Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week, Ving Salcedo asked what type of fish can live without water for a small period of time. It turns out quite a few have a fin in both worlds.
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Watch a Comet Fly By the Moon and Venus
Skywatchers are getting an early holiday gift in the form of a brightening comet sweeping across early morning skies. This is comet Catalina, in the latter half of its one-way trip through the inner solar system.
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The New York Times is running an editorial on its front page on Saturday, the first time the paper has done so since 1920, calling for greater regulation on guns in the aftermath of a spate of mass shootings.
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Colombia treasure-laden San Jose galleon ‘is found’ – BBC News
The wreck of a Spanish boat laden with treasure that sank more than 300 years ago near the Colombian city of Cartagena has been found, President Juan Manuel Santos has announced. “Great news! We have found the San Jose galleon,” the president tweete…
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Caning law pushes Aceh’s LGBT further underground – Al Jazeera English
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Safitra knows she is being watched. At a table in Banda Aceh’s city park, she attracts the curious glances of everyone around her. A group of schoolgirls point and whisper and the man who serves coconut water gawps at her, co…
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Australia still hasn’t learned not to make jokes about low-lying islands and climate change, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands has said, referring to foreign minister Julie Bishop’s mocking comments last week about claims that one of the …
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High crimes and media misdemeanours – Al Jazeera English
On November 24, a Russian fighter jet was shot down by Turkish forces. This much we know. But beyond that, the facts are slippery, the coverage compromised and the narratives politically loaded.
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Plastic bag usage down 78% since introduction of 5p charge, says Tesco | Environment | The Guardian
The introduction of the 5p plastic bag charge has prompted shoppers to use almost 80% fewer single-use carriers, Tesco has said. Figures from the supermarket giant show that online shoppers are also opting to cut down on plastic, with the number of …
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San Bernardino victim ‘had argued with shooter about Islam’ | US news | The Guardian
Friends and family have described Nicholas Thalasinos, one of the 14 people slaughtered in San Bernardino, as a devoted father, husband and colleague, a dedicated health inspector, colourful dresser and outspoken conservative.
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December 5, 1933: Prohibition Ends | The Nation
With Utah’s ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on this day in 1933, the prohibition on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States ended.
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Chip Kelly’s cast-offs show the stumbling Eagles what they’re missing | Sport | The Guardian
Philadelphia Eagles fans could be forgiven for looking at Kansas City, Buffalo and Washington and thinking what might have been.
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The 10 most memorable MLS Cup moments | Football | The Guardian
Will there be a moment in Sunday’s MLS Cup between the Columbus Crew and Portland Timbers that will rank as one of the most memorable in game history? As the only journalist to have covered all 19 previous MLS Cups, the Guardian asked me to look bac…
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Floods hit northern Peru – Al Jazeera English
Torrential downpours have struck Peru’s northern San Martin region, leading to widespread flooding. Hundreds of residents have been forced from their homes as several swollen rivers burst their banks.
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The woman involved in the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday passed through two rounds of criminal and national security background checks as she obtained a “fiancé visa” and later a resident green card to live in the United States, f…
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Smooth Visa Process for Woman in Attack Is Focus of Inquiry https://t.co/LUKliRcO90 https://t.co/M9nQzEYTXx
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Speaking to the Guardian’s Jessica Reed in an exclusive interview in 2012, James Deen says that porn does not objectify women and he in turn does not consider himself to be someone who objectifies women. Deen says that people who think women are obj…
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India blames industrialised nations for deadly floods – Al Jazeera English
The heaviest rains in 100 years that spawned devastating floods in India’s south are the result of greenhouse gas emissions pumped by developed nations into the atmosphere, its environment minister said.
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Tragedies to question, tragedies to ignore – Al Jazeera English
In December 2012, my three-year-old was enrolled in preschool, my eight-year-old at a neighbouring elementary school.
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Microsoft Surprises With New Windows 10 Mobile Build | TechCrunch
Microsoft recently released an updated Windows 10 Mobile build, numbered 10586.29. Microsoft’s Gabe Aul calls the new edition of the company’s smartphone operating system a “Cumulative Update” for the preceding build, 10586.
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The New York Times has used its first front-page editorial in nearly a century to call for greater gun regulation in the wake of the California shooting massacre.
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RAF jets in second Syria strikes – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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BBC Sport – Alexis Sanchez: Bennett push ‘could have killed’ forward – Wenger
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger claims Gunners forward Alexis Sanchez could have died after colliding with the camera pit at Norwich last weekend. Sanchez fell into the boards behind the goal after an apparent shove by Ryan Bennett, although the Norwich …
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The soul-nurturing power of a windhover in the hills | Environment | The Guardian
Green paths through heather, low sun picking out tints of its late flowering, led to the ramparts of Foel Drygarn. This easternmost top of Mynydd Preseli is a rewarding objective for short winter days.
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Anger Over Government Flood Response in India | Al Jazeera America
CHENNAI, India — When Arun Rengasamy’s phone rang at 10 a.m. on Dec. 2, he expected a routine call from his mother, Meena Rengasamy, who lives in the southern Indian city of Chennai, more than 800 miles from the bustling metropolis of Mumbai, where …
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Did Morrissey deserve to win the 2015 bad sex award? | Books | The Guardian
When Arctic Monkeys won the Mercury prize in 2006, frontman Alex Turner’s reaction was to say “Somebody call 999!” on the grounds that a worthier winner on the shortlist had been “robbed”.
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Succulents: Sow, Grow, Repeat | Life and style | The Guardian
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My girlfriend asked me if I ever take a piss while in the shower. : Jokes
My girlfriend asked me if I ever take a piss while in the shower. (self.Jokes) My girlfriend asked me if I had ever pissed in the shower.
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Choro Q video games – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Choro Q video games are a series of video games based on Takara’s Choro Q toy cars (also known as Penny Racers in English-speaking markets). The games have been localised for Western release under many different names, including Gadget Racers, P…
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A glorious backheel nutmeg And another one, which is even better Clean air It’s all about the fans Spin Rugby practice How to play on the counter-attack Walking it in The importance of a good coach We’ve all been there
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Ringo Starr’s drum kit sells for $2.1m – BBC News
A drum kit played by Ringo Starr on Beatles hits including Can’t Buy Me Love and I Want to Hold Your Hand has sold at auction for $2.1m (£1.4m).Starr used the Ludwig kit in more than 200 performances after taking possession of it on 12 May, 1963.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week The Paris climate summit, Europe’s refugee crisis, Beatles fans in Mexico – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Eight civilians killed in CAR attack on IDP camp – Al Jazeera English
Armed men in the Central African Republic killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one UN peacekeeper just days after the pope visited the capital.
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How to make… a party dress (for a doll!) | Children’s books | The Guardian
Yo ho ho, it’s party season – so time to whip out your needle and thread and prepare the dolls you know to rock!
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Shock at San Bernardino shooter’s former mosque – BBC News
Hundreds have attended prayers at a mosque where the San Bernardino shooter celebrated his wedding reception. Syed Rizwan Farook attended the Islamic Center of Riverside from 2012 to 2014.
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The best nature books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
After the well-deserved success of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, it’s not surprising that this year’s crop of nature books is packed with examples of the new nature writing. This category encompasses everything from “wild memoirs” to travel books…
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The best sports books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Academic writing, not always unfairly, gets a bad rap. But the best combines the passion of the true enthusiast, a forensic eye for evidence and an ability to tell a compelling story. Those qualities are epitomised by Tony Collins’s The Oval World: …
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The best history books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Historical anniversaries were hard to avoid this year.
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Relief operation under way after Chennai floods – BBC News
A massive relief operation is underway in southern India, to try to get food and medicines to tens of thousands people hit by devastating floods in the city of Chennai.Many residents are living in temporary shelters after their homes were submerged.…
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Heartsong by Kevin Crossley-Holland – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Inspired by Vivaldi’ s Four Seasons this book tells the story of Laura, a mute orphan. She arrives through the baby hatch of an orphanage in Venice, just like all the other orphans who inhabit the place.
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A biotech consortium in China has announced that it intends to open a facility near Beijing with the aim of cloning up to a million cows a year to meet the country’s growing demand for beef. The factory won’t stop at cows. It also plans to clone rac…
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Five big developed countries have voluntarily cancelled emission reduction “credits” achieved by overshooting their first Kyoto Protocol greenhouse targets – the same kind of credits Australia is banking to boast it has already “met and beaten” its …
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Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide actually cools part of Antarctica : environment
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide actually cools part of Antarctica (news.sciencemag.org)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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Inside Venezuela’s tower of neglect – Al Jazeera English
It might reasonably have been labelled the Tower of Goliath in recognition of its scale and the scare stories that abound about life inside. But, instead, it has become known as the Tower of David, in homage to the man who conceived its construction…
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The best children’s books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat by TS Eliot, illustrated by Arthur Robins,
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What happens when a cargo ship meets a railway bridge – BBC News
The ship somehow managed to plough through the closed bridge. It is unclear if there was a mechanical fault on the vessel or if the bridge failed to open when it was supposed to.
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Syrian artists find solace in Istanbul – Al Jazeera English
Istanbul, Turkey – An independent art initiative has been functioning as a hub for Syrian artists in Istanbul who have fled the war in their home country.
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COP21: Progress reported on key issue of loss and damage – BBC News
Negotiators are edging towards a compromise on one of the most divisive issues between countries at the COP21 climate change talks in Paris. The issue has provoked heated arguments and walkouts at previous conferences.
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South Korea protests: Seoul rally against Park Geun-hye – BBC News
Tens of thousands of protesters in South Korea are holding a mass rally against a raft of government policies that they say weaken democracy. About 18,000 police have been deployed in the capital, Seoul.
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My 41 year old husband always wanted to paint but no one supported his dream. 8 months ago we rented him a studio, here’s his progress. (imgur.com)
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TIL that 2015 is 11111011111 in binary, making this year a palindrome year. We won’t have another one of these until 2047. (m.mentalfloss.com)
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I though it was fuck kill marry. Is that just in Australia? I’ll be back in a bit, I have some video tapes to return.
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LPT: you can use @gmail.com and @googlemail.com interchangeably. Perfect for signing up to a website twice without setting up two accounts. (self.LifeProTips) Both email addresses resolve to the same account.
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How Jane Austen’s Emma changed the face of fiction | Books | The Guardian
In January 1814, Jane Austen sat down to write a revolutionary novel. Emma, the book she composed over the next year, was to change the shape of what is possible in fiction.
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The cultural cradle for Lebanon’s Armenians – Al Jazeera English
Beirut, Lebanon – It is Sunday afternoon, and Beirut’s traffic-choked Dora roundabout is bustling with activity. Lebanese and Syrian bus drivers shout out destination names, while Ethiopian women in flowing white scarves make their way home from chu…
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Lebanon: Raid on home of suspected fighter kills three – Al Jazeera English
Investigating Nigeria’s notorious baby farms and the criminals who abuse and exploit women for profit. We follow a Kenyan farmer for more than four years as he captures the human impact of climate change.
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Iraq demands withdrawal of Turkish troops near Mosul – Al Jazeera English
Iraq has called on Turkey to immediately withdrawal Turkish troops operating in the country’s north, saying the deployment was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday.
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Kumaré (2011) – A documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona. At the height of his popularity, the Guru Kumaré must reveal his true identity to his disciples and unveil his greatest teaching of all.…
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Godafoss, Myvatn, Iceland. [OC] [2048×1359] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/nBZ37h6cGD https://t.co/Eh0x5tyrVB https://t.co/xtaBGNrQha
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Godafoss, Myvatn, Iceland. [OC] [2048×1359] : EarthPorn
Godafoss, Myvatn, Iceland. [OC] [2048×1359] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/nBZ37h6cGD https://t.co/Eh0x5tyrVB https://t.co/xtaBGNrQha
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Wooden homes – in pictures | Money | The Guardian
A Scandinavian timber eco idyll with views over the Beauly valley, 18 miles from Inverness. Built in 2009, this Finlodge boasts energy saving heating. Should the three bedrooms and three receptions cramp your style, a stone steading and cottage in t…
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The term “rat king” can mean many different things. If you’re a city-dweller, student of history, or Dennis Duffy, it means the urban legend of a colossal rat swarm all conjoined at the tail.
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Vancouver adds climate change warnings to all fuel pumps : environment
Vancouver adds climate change warnings to all fuel pumps https://t.co/kVW6MburZN https://t.co/WMKNZConpC
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US state backs down from blocking Syrian refugees – Al Jazeera English
The US state of Texas has stopped trying to block Syrian refugees from resettling there after suing the US government over fears new arrivals could pose a security risk.
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Vancouver adds climate change warnings to all fuel pumps (nydn.us)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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End the Gun Epidemic in America https://t.co/KO544u38xU https://t.co/Lt2TIrH9yf
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3D printing: Company will turn your head into chocolate lollipops – BBC News
BBC News video journalist Dougal Shaw tried out the service with Sam Part, who set up Candy Mechanics and chocolatier, William Leigh.
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Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in HaRGB [OC] [3304×2358] https://t.co/Vr5CrUglwr https://t.co/j1LGNM2tNI
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That’s me (i.imgur.com)submitted just now by Jaxpharloading…
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All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been conne…
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Ggoolldd For a few years in college I worked hard to deaden my hearing by attending lots of loud shows put on by Milwaukee bands—there’s a vibrant local music scene there that produces some outstanding live shows—but since I moved to Chicago I’ve ha…
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A ship carrying 25 tonnes of radioactive waste arrived in Australia on Saturday, and was met by activists who warned Australia risked becoming a nuclear dumping ground.
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Hundreds of pages of Chicago police reports released late on Friday by city officials depict a contrasting narrative to squad car video footage in the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer.
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On the road: Audi RS 3 Sportback – car review | Technology | The Guardian
The Audi RS 3 Sportback starts to rev like a thousand wild animals before you’ve engaged the engine, a highly engineered fakery, like piping the synthesised smell of bread through a supermarket.
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I turn 20 today. My family got me this cake.. I’m a guy. : funny
I turn 20 today. My family got me this cake.. I’m a guy. https://t.co/x5MmFS8BWZ https://t.co/3VMrsqZQPJ
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APOD: 2015 December 4 – Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent
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.
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I turn 20 today. My family got me this cake.. I’m a guy. (imgur.com) Well, I mean, you could still get a teen pregnant. Seems a bit premature.
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Please Like Me has always had a manic streak, but “Amoxicillin” is just a little too silly a little too often. It’s a problem that starts with the main plots.
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Day of the triffids: Nobody likes an interloper. But invasive species are more benign than is generally thought—and much harder to eradicate. (economist.com)
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Oil Painting Mill in China : pics
Oil Painting Mill in China via /r/pics https://t.co/pczPOfiGN2 https://t.co/rGWcsEboeZ https://t.co/xhMw9bAnXr
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Kitchen Counter Carson Loaf : Catloaf
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Kitchen Counter Carson Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/WyFcBo8djy https://t.co/qRoaWt5inw https://t.co/Dkjczjnsh6
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A secret history is a tricky thing. The best secret histories, no matter how satirical, have a keen sense of the import of the events; they’re interesting because they change the way we think about those events—and, hopefully, more widely about how …
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[OC] Greek island sky [1280×720] : SkyPorn
[OC] Greek island sky [1280×720] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/1j0SHB8lhG https://t.co/1xf0mQmCbF https://t.co/1jZbSeZkty
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[OC] Greek island sky [1280×720] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/1j0SHB8lhG https://t.co/1xf0mQmCbF https://t.co/1jZbSeZkty
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Moxie loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/YSJyDlc5XI https://t.co/LXoHLJW5df https://t.co/j6JeWhvRqF
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Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far : The Salt : NPR
The coconut has developed a bit of a faddish following in the West. Today, devotees add coconut oil to coffee, dab it on acne and, following Gwyneth Paltrow’s example, swirl it around in their mouths to fight tooth decay. Starbucks has launched a co…
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Emos of the early 2000’s, what are you guys doing now? : AskReddit
Emos of the early 2000’s, what are you guys doing now? (self.AskReddit) At this point they probably have grown and become saviors of the broken, beaten, and damned.
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America Is the Biggest Problem at the Climate Talks | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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Is a B.A. in Environmental Studies worth it? (self.environment) Hello all, I apologize if this is inappropriate for the subreddit and I will happily delete if need be.
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Downed Russian jet is just a mirage over Syria – Al Jazeera English
The Rubik’s Cube of the Syrian war just got more complicated.
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Puffins on Cliff Image – National Geographic Photo of the Day
This spot should be left empty to be filled in by the Photo of the Day logic.
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Critics denounce ‘Muslim’ label on California shooters – Al Jazeera English
The religion of the attackers who went on a shooting rampage in California should not be become the main focus of the investigation, critics say, after the FBI announced the deadly assault was an “act of terrorism”.
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‘The Knick’ Recap: Dear Abby | Rolling Stone
In an instant, it was all gone. The motivation for John Thackery to stay sober, the foundation of his happiness. Abby’s death came like a shot in the dark — stealth, sudden and seemingly random — and for a show built on histrionics and medical mayhe…
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Mother cat with kittens came to meet an old friend. : aww
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An American Werewolf In London and The Fly (King Cronenberg Version) are both ‘80s horror films that use slow-burn practical effects as a means of scaring the audience. But there’s another key component to their terror: romance.
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First painting since childhood! : pics
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First painting since childhood! via /r/pics https://t.co/grOcgWHdoh https://t.co/2eazU87wFe https://t.co/CvgqHSAV6o
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Elon Musk calls for carbon price to halve the transition time to clean energy : environment
Elon Musk calls for carbon price to halve the transition time to clean energy https://t.co/dON7FpnYkJ https://t.co/SzNOWZLSy8
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American Dreams: When Frank Bascombe Had It Best – The Daily Beast
American Dreams: When Frank Bascombe Had It Best https://t.co/pFFJeTsjZr https://t.co/RoHMK4IwcL
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Russian Soldier Blew Up His Wife During Sex – The Daily Beast
Russian Soldier Blew Up His Wife During Sex https://t.co/eZAl5LaBay https://t.co/nJdG1MFjMA
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The Gnarly Allure of Patricia Highsmith – The Daily Beast
The Gnarly Allure of Patricia Highsmith https://t.co/eeq9EcwuvI https://t.co/fvAqNE7pcZ
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The Hardboiled Art of Patrick Modiano – The Daily Beast
The Hardboiled Art of Patrick Modiano https://t.co/3mCNEUXftb https://t.co/dJd36dTNoR
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The Gnarly Allure of Patricia Highsmith – The Daily Beast
Patricia Highsmith disliked food intensely. An anorexic in adolescence, and a slight woman her whole life, one who stocked liquor in her kitchen and nothing else, she found food tedious, frequently disgusting and even disturbing, blaming some of soc…
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The Black Women Leading South Africa’s Wine Revolution – The Daily Beast
It was at the very first Soweto Wine Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2005 when Vivian Kleynhans offered Selena Cuffe a glass of Seven Sisters wine—the strawberry-colored rosé named after Kleynhans’ sister Twena.
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Russian Soldier Blew Up His Wife During Sex – The Daily Beast
MOSCOW — Last week in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a former soldier married to a glamorous member of the Kremlin’s United Russia party reportedly blew both of them up with a grenade after they had sex in the back seat of her car. A crime of pas…
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A Carbon Tax for Steak May Be the Best Way to Get People to Eat Less Meat : environment
Well fuck. I can barely afford an occasional steak. Oh well.
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Power supply restored as Chennai floodwaters recede – BBC News
Power has been restored in many parts of the southern Indian city of Chennai days after severe floods hit the city. A massive relief operation is continuing to get food and medicines to tens of thousands people. Many residents are living in shelters…
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Elon Musk calls for carbon price to halve the transition time to clean energy (theguardian.com)submitted 59 minutes ago by loading…
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A steady stream of natural gas seeping out of a leaking well in Southern California may spew as much greenhouse gas into the air as a half-million cars do in a year. Pipeline operator Sempra Energy says it may take three to four months to plug (bloo…
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Open thread for night owls: First U.S. birth control clinic lasted just 10 days before being raided
At Atlas Obscura, Eric Grundhauser writes—The First Planned Parenthood Only Lasted for 10 Days but Started a Revolution. An excerpt:
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The STEM Skills Gap Is Only As Real As The Purple Unicorn | TechCrunch
TEKsystems recently put out a report showing that approximately 80 percent of all IT professionals believe that a skills gap exists in tech industries today. Backed by claims of mass projected growth in the field that the U.S.
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The horror continues in the latest installment of Dr. Soderbergh’s Tales Of Madness. “Not Well At All” takes its name from a line of Eleanor Gallinger’s as she stands in her kitchen preparing rat poison tea for her guest. A detective has come callin…
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Just awoken from his slumber via /r/aww https://t.co/BVsiXvyb2r https://t.co/7i2QCEXfsC https://t.co/ALGFP1C44T
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The Sexiest Memoir of the Year – The Daily Beast
The Sexiest Memoir of the Year https://t.co/Zk1THaDpeb https://t.co/ZIjpDfhXmC
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How Three Jews Are Changing American Whiskey Drinking – The Daily Beast
How Three Jews Are Changing American Whiskey Drinking https://t.co/0g780B65BC https://t.co/ONpioQWbn1
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Siberian Gender-Bending Warrior Princess – The Daily Beast
Siberian Gender-Bending Warrior Princess https://t.co/7BTqQemvk2 https://t.co/WbRHxAa7Tv
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San Bernardino Was New ‘Hybrid’ Attack, Counterrorism Experts Say – The Daily Beast
As investigators try to understand why a husband and wife in San Bernardino, Calif., launched a bloody shooting rampage this week, they are beginning to question whether the attackers had more than one motive. Two U.S.
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Siberian Gender-Bending Warrior Princess – The Daily Beast
One of the archaeological world’s most famous discoveries was turned on its head this week when DNA testing suggested that a female warrior, buried some 2,500 years ago in the Altai mountains of Siberia, was actually male.
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How Three Jews Are Changing American Whiskey Drinking – The Daily Beast
As a proud Jew and a hearty drinker, I can tell you firsthand we are not often regarded as great producers of intoxicants. But, believe it or not, some of the finest whisky being released in America at the moment is also coming from Jews.
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The Sexiest Memoir of the Year – The Daily Beast
Picture, for a moment, a conceptual map of the early 21st Century. Put all the power gaps—wealth, politics, class, identity—on the latitudes, and all of the geographies—Syria, Palestine, North Africa, France, Wall Street—on the longitudes.
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How Young Brains Get Radicalized – The Daily Beast
As ISIS attacks around the world grow more frequent, an understanding of exactly how the group’s ideology spreads becomes increasingly critical. For those living in ISIS-ruled territories or surrounding areas, there are many factors that make joinin…
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New York’s Capo of Corruption Goes Down – The Daily Beast
New York State is an outstanding example of the politician-to-prison pipeline. The most recent case in point is Sheldon Silver, who “served” in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015.
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Medical Marijuana’s Catch-22 – The Daily Beast
Once a week, 50-year-old Raymundo Marrufo drives 22 miles from Deming, New Mexico to the state’s second largest city, Los Cruces. It’s the medical marijuana dispensary that brings him there, the closest place to his home where he can fill a prescrip…
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My favorite Utah beer via /r/pics https://t.co/Kuv50rD8kX https://t.co/mnihAXaijF https://t.co/BgIhTcmWTd
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, My favorite Utah beer via /r/pics…
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Bill Murray’s Netflix Special, A Very Murray Christmas, in GIFs | Vanity Fair
On Friday, months of anticipation came to an end when Bill Murray unleashed his holiday gift on the universe—A Very Murray Special, now available on Netflix.
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/UVCOVV32gE https://t.co/lX0ROOpeZd https://t.co/zDa4HOaOGC
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San Bernardino shooters’ family ‘in complete shock’ – BBC News
Lawyers representing the family of the two San Bernardino attackers have said relatives are “in complete shock” over the shooting. They said the family had no idea Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were capable of such an attack.
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Venus vanishes behind the Moon
Next Monday, December 7, the planet Venus will do a vanishing act behind the moon. In the course of its monthly journey around Earth, the moon often passes in front of stars, and occasionally planets.
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Low-income high school play debuts to nobody; reddit post goes viral and gets a huge turnout (hlntv.com)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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The Senators Who Voted Against Background Checks Have Received $27 Million From the NRA. : politics
The Senators Who Voted Against Background Checks Have Received $27 Million From the NRA. https://t.co/qe0iXIxSgv https://t.co/DD0eJAYUws
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My view of Etna via /r/pics https://t.co/UKhmt5AuKw https://t.co/Obxoe2rMCw https://t.co/Y1aeWY05WZ
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My view of Etna via /r/pics https://t.co/UKhmt5AuKw https://t.co/Obxoe2rMCw https://t.co/Y1aeWY05WZ
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Wealthiest 12 Americans Own More Than Bottom Half | Al Jazeera America
The wealthiest dozen Americans own more than the bottom half https://t.co/GPHG6yD3vF
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The Senators Who Voted Against Background Checks Have Received $27 Million From the NRA. (news.yahoo.com)
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Scott Weiland, Former Singer of Stone Temple Pilots, Dead at 48 | Billboard
Weiland and his latest band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, were scheduled to tour this month with upcoming dates at Reno, NV on Dec. 18 and City Winery in Napa on Dec. 19. The Bloomington, Minn. Police Department issued a statement at 11:15 p.m.…
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Oscar Pistorius and South Africa’s gun obsession – BBC News
The judgement by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein that convicted Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius of murder sends a message that South Africa does not tolerate the reckless use of guns.
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Syria air strikes: Conflict not like Iraq War – Blair – BBC News
UK action in Syria to target so-called Islamic State (IS) is not like the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair has told the BBC. The former PM said the current action was different from the 2003 war because the West had allies in Arab countries.
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Scott Weiland: ‘This Is My Life, a Cautionary Tale. Maybe Somebody Can Learn from It.’
In 2005, Scott Weiland sat down with Esquire Writer-at-Large Mike Sager for perhaps the most revealing interview of his life. On Thursday night, Weiland was found dead on his tour bus. Here, reprinted in full, is the original story from 10 years ago…
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Divest stocks in gun-makers, New York City mayor tells city’s pension funds | US news | The Guardian
New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, urged the city’s pension funds on Friday to divest their holdings in stocks of gun-makers after this week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
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ESPN is a fucking joke : sports
Isn’t dabbing when you put hash oil in your bong and suck it in or something? Yeah an individual “dose” of hash oil is called a dab and taking a hit of it is called dabbing. You don’t use a regular bowl though, typically some kind of metal plate tha…
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House candidate ends NRA membership after Calif. shooting: “I cannot continue to be a member while the NRA refuses to back closing loopholes that allow the mentally ill, criminals and terrorists to buy guns in this country. Effective immediately, I …
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The Long Lost 1929 Science Fiction Movie That Predicted the Second World War
The Long Lost 1929 Science Fiction Movie That Predicted the Second World War https://t.co/DplnWywrFo https://t.co/lN1dAShVbY
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The Long Lost 1929 Science Fiction Movie That Predicted the Second World War
The science fiction movie High Treason was considered one of the most important films of its time, up there with Metropolis. It was also the first full-length “talkie” made in Britain, although it was released in both silent and “talkie” versions.
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West Wing Week: 12/04/2015 or, “Fromage!” on Vimeo
This week, the President traveled to Paris to speak with world leaders and lead a global effort to confront climate change — as well as partner with the private sector to spur innovative, clean energy growth. And when he got back home, it was time …
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Alameda County District Attorney drops charges against Black Lives Matter protesters
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley has dropped criminal charges against 14 Black Lives Matter protesters who stopped a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train on Black Friday 2014, disrupting transit and stranding thousands of shoppers for …
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Climate Change and Inequality Are Driving War and Catastrophic Conflicts from Syria to Africa (democracynow.org)submitted 6 hours ago by loading…
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Senate Votes to Repeal Obamacare – The Atlantic
‘Promise Kept’: The Senate Finally Votes to Repeal Obamacare https://t.co/pIbhz09gAe
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The Demonic Eruption Of Europe’s Tallest Volcano – Digg
Nature World Mount Etna spat fire on December 3rd and Marco Restivo, a Sicilian photographer, was there to capture it.
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Vive la difference – has France’s National Front changed? – BBC News
The National Front (FN) is attracting a new kind of supporter. Several hundred of them gathered one evening this week in Neptune’s Palace, a conference hall in the city of Toulon on the French Riviera, ahead of national regional elections this month.
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Why an MP wants India to talk about child sex abuse – BBC News
India is home to the largest number of sexually abused children in the world, and on Friday, a top female news presenter revealed how she was sexually abused as a child. But there is general reluctance to talk about the topic.
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Brazil: Governing Workers Party suspends detained senator – BBC News
Brazil’s governing Workers Party has suspended its former leader in the Senate, Delcidio Amaral, who was arrested last week. He was accused of obstructing investigations into a major corruption scandal at the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
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Chief of House Science Panel Picks Battle Over Climate Paper https://t.co/5GtoDfuxh4 https://t.co/5bOtizAXSh
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These Are the Best Pluto Images New Horizons Captured
These Are the Best Pluto Images New Horizons Captured https://t.co/SZ0OxajBLy https://t.co/zV0DZ7QAk4
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Where are the stylish Joan Watson and dapper Sherlock Holmes this week? Taking a belated holiday! Elementary will resume with “The Games Underfoot” on December 10th, with recaps on Friday.
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Where women are killed by their own families – BBC News
Every year an estimated 66,000 women are murdered worldwide. One of the countries with the highest rate of violence against women is Guatemala – so why is it such a dangerous place to be female?
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Win a Dinner With Donald Trump? Not So Fast. – The Daily Beast
A new super PAC is offering one lucky winner a huge opportunity: the chance to dine with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.“The flight, food and stay are on us,” declares Recover America PAC on its website, DinnerWithTrump.
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What are Syrians online saying about UK air strikes? Not a whole lot – BBC News
Britain began bombing targets in Syria this week, and the German parliament voted to send non-combat troops to the region – but neither of those actions became a main topic of conversation among Syrians online.
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These Are the Best Pluto Images New Horizons Captured
NASA has just received the first batch of the sharpest images of Pluto captured during the July flyby—and they’re incredible. Are you ready to go cross-country skiing and ice climbing three billion miles from home? Because Pluto’s terrain is a froze…
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Cookbook features recipes to cure the plague – BBC News
We’ve all heard of super-foods such broccoli, berries and fish oil that are said to be both nourishing and offer protection from disease. But what about viper flesh? In the 17th Century it was one of the key ingredients of a cure for plague, listed …
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In Paris, representatives from nearly 200 countries are discussing how to fight climate change. But in Washington, some congressional leaders continue to wage a battle over climate science itself.
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‘How I was tortured in a Syrian jail’ – BBC News
“Farah” was born in Britain but grew up in Syria. Last year, she was arrested by the Syrian government security forces, who accused her of being an opposition activist. She blames Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the torture that followed, and s…
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Seven surprising numbers from China-Africa trade – BBC News
China has become Africa’s largest trade partner, and has just promised an impressive $60bn (£40bn) in assistance and loans to boost development of the continent. Yet the relationship is not simply about new roads, mines and military power.
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In pictures: International Volunteer Day – BBC News
To mark International Volunteer Day on 5 December the development charity VSO ran a photo competition for its youth volunteering programme, International Citizen Service (ICS) for 18-25 year olds. Here we present a selection of the finalists along w…
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Week in pictures: 28 November – 4 December 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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How the Man Suspected of Being the Silk Road’s Variety Jones Was Caught | Motherboard
Late on Friday, the US Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of the man suspected of being a “senior advisor” to Ross Ulbricht, the convicted creator of drug marketplace Silk Road.
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The New American Dream: My Life As A Minority Startup Owner | TechCrunch
My life can be split into two halves, each fulfilling an American dream. The first half I spent on the American dream that was engrained from birth: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Mexico arrests ‘gang members’ over Australian surfers murders – BBC News
Police in Mexico say they have arrested three men for the murder of two Australian surfers. The three belong to a criminal gang in the north-western state of Sinaloa, police said.
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The photographer who charmed Picasso and Muhammad Ali – BBC News
The British photographer John Stewart is still active at the age of nearly 95. His extraordinary life has seen Japanese PoW camps, encounters with Picasso and Matisse, and a long stint shooting the fashion and business elite of New York.
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Iraq demands Turkish troops withdraw from near Mosul – BBC News
The Iraqi government has demanded that Turkey withdraw troops it sent to an area near the northern city of Mosul. The move was “serious breach of Iraqi sovereignty” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said in a statement.
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Oklahoma Prison Director Resigns Amid Probe | Al Jazeera America
The head of Oklahoma’s prison system, who presided over two botched lethal injections and a third that was called off because the wrong drug was delivered, announced his resignation Friday amid an investigation into what went wrong with the executio…
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Late Night Snark: Tis the Season. To Be Off Your Rocker. Clip of Mike Huckabee explaining why Syrian refugees should be denied entry into the U.S.
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Justice Department announces arrest of ‘key figure’ in Silk Road drug website | The Verge
Roger Thomas Clark, accused of being “a senior advisor” of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, has been arrested in Thailand.
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Obese Dad’s Sperm May Influence Offspring’s Weight – Scientific American
Just below the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden sits a town called Överkalix. It’s home to only about a thousand people.
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The Folks Behind the Sword & Laser Podcast Are Publishing Science Fiction Books Now!
Sword & Laser is a great podcast about science fiction and fantasy from Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt—and now, it’s also a line of science fiction and fantasy books! They’ve just announced their first book, The Life Engineered by J.F.
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Thanos Is Scarier Than Ever In This Exclusive Mondo Poster Reveal
Thanos Is Scarier Than Ever In This Exclusive Mondo Poster Reveal https://t.co/OVhoqtLBS0 https://t.co/5gKa7Ky26A
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Bernie Sanders Calls for Federal Probe of Chicago Police Department : politics
Obviously trying to steal her policies. She didn’t call for Emanuel’s resignation. She defended him.
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“I will not nominate any man or woman to the Supreme Court unless that individual is loud and clear in saying he or she will vote to overturn Citizens’ United and do that as quickly as possible” – Bernie Sanders (nhpr.org)submitted 2 hours ago by lo…
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NGC 634 – A perfect spiral with an explosive secret [2991 x 1828] https://t.co/Mbm0sgewpg https://t.co/ffxCku9173
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Eagles Of Death Metal to play with U2, begin touring again in February · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Less than a month after a terrorist attack that killed 89 people during a performance by rock band Eagles Of Death Metal, the group is reportedly preparing to return to the stage.
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Thanos Is Scarier Than Ever In This Exclusive Mondo Poster Reveal
The collectable poster, music, and toy company Mondo is teaming up with Marvel Comics for an officially licensed gallery show. It’s called Snikt Bamf Thwip: A Celebration Of Marvel Comics, and we’ve got an exclusive reveal along with more art.
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You Can Make A Video Call On A Cell Phone — In ‘Minecraft’ – Digg
17 diggs Gaming So this video is sponsored by Verizon, but whatever — what people are able build in Minecraft is getting absurd. Things start to get crazy at around the 4:30 mark.
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Carrie Fisher Has The Best Response To The Slave Leia Merchandise Controversy
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Make Amazing Historical Costumes With This Collection of Free Patterns
Whether you’re gearing up for the Renaissance fair, Halloween, or you just feel like putting on a play, this massive collection of free costume patterns will help you out. At her blog, CostumingDiary.
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Vox Sentences: San Bernardino was officially a terrorist attack – Vox
Get ready to hear a lot about “self-radicalization”; we shook the box and it sure sounds like we’re getting a rate hike for Christmas; and Chipotle’s E. coli problem spreads. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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In times of smog, some Beijing businesses get creative | Grist
With renewables getting cheaper, the prospect of expensive, guilt-free fossil fuels is losing its appeal. The presidential candidate criticized Obama for supposedly prioritizing climate change over the fight against ISIS.
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Just One Last ‘Smize’: Farewell, America’s Next Top Model – The Daily Beast
Models and model wannabes around the country are giving one last Tyra-approved ‘smize,’ one last perfect booty tooch, in honor of America’s Next Top Model’s final strut down the runway Friday night.
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Creed director Ryan Coogler in talks to direct Black Panther · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fresh off of punching some life into the aging Rocky franchise with his boxing drama Creed, director Ryan Coogler is apparently in talks to helm Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther film.
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4 diggs Cars Advertising Cute We’re not sure this is strictly legal, but they certainly made this girl’s day.
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Frenzied Media Pore Over Home Of San Bernardino Killers During Live Broadcasts : The Two-Way : NPR
NPR’s Nate Rott spoke to the landlord at the shooters’ apartment in nearby Redlands after the scrum began. The landlord says he allowed journalists into the home of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik after it was returned to his control by federal law e…
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Disney Was Somehow Shocked that Michael Jackson Grabbed His Crotch in Captain EO
Captain EO has been a Disney park staple since 1986, the height of Michael Jackson’s post-Thriller fame—but the Francis Ford Coppola-directed, George Lucas-produced short will shut down December 6 to make way for new attractions. A new oral history …
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Week in Fashion: Lupita Nyong’o Glows in a Little Black Dress Full of | Vanity Fair
LUPITA NYONG’O IN ZAC POSENL.E.D. lights on Lupita Nyong’o may have made the Star Wars fanboy inside of us swoon, but think of how our jaws hit the floor when we saw it in full force?© Rex Features.
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San Bernardino suspect’s sister: ‘I could never imagine my brother doing this’ – BBC News
The sister of one of the suspects in the San Bernardino shooting has spoken of her shock at her brother’s alleged actions. Saira Khan told CBS News that she kept asking herself if she could have stopped what happened if she had phoned her brother Sy…
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Letters to the Editor: Hackers, Asteroids, Deep Sea Mining, and Pee | Motherboard
Welcome to the final month of the year. My name is Nicholas Deleon, and I’m the editor of Short Circuit, Motherboard’s budding consumer tech section. I’m also now moonlighting as an adult entertainment industry analyst, but that’s a topic for anothe…
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Throne speech pledges ‘smart and caring’ Canada – BBC News
The annual speech to open the first session of parliament in Canada promised a “smart and caring” nation under the new Liberal government. Governor General David Johnston set out an agenda for the 42nd parliament including tax cuts for the middle cl…
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Chinese firm Hareon Solar is “actively” considering a billion dollar investment in large scale solar projects in Australia, but the stability of government climate policy is its major concern, a senior company executive has told Guardian Australia.
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Marvel May Have Just Scored An Ideal Director For Black Panther
Several months ago, director Ryan Coogler was rumored to be up for Marvel’s Black Panther movie. It didn’t pan out. Now though, after the success of his latest film Creed, it seems like he’s actually going to do it.
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The San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people and wounded 21 more will be investigated as an “act of terrorism,” the FBI announced Friday.
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Carrie Fisher Has The Best Response To The Slave Leia Merchandise Controversy
Recently, the Star Wars fanbase took time off from freaking out about The Force Awakens to freak out over a rumored ban on merchandise depicting Princess Leia’s “Slave” outfit from Return of the Jedi.
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See Leonardo DiCaprio and His Dad Together at the Paris Climate Change Summit | Vanity Fair
Days after starring in the most ridiculous rumor to hit the nascent awards season, Leonardo DiCaprio was far away from Hollywood, attending to a subject much greater: climate change.
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Freddie Gray needed a medic but officer says he did not know | US news | The Guardian
Freddie Gray was listless, lethargic and asking for assistance, but instead of summoning an ambulance, officer William Porter propped him up so Gray could continue his ride in the back of a police van, the officer said in a recorded interview shown …
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Virgin Galactic’s ‘Cosmic Girl’ Is A Satellite Launching Mothership | Video
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Records Fall in 2015 Cyclone Season : Image of the Day
The 2015 hurricane season in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and central Pacific basins ended on November 30, according to the meteorological calendar. It was a year that brought many storms that defied usual expectations and destroyed parts of the r…
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Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ Pits Abstinence Against Violence In Rhyme : NPR
The words “This Is An Emergency” flash on screen in red block letters at the outset of Spike Lee’s satirical call-to-disarm, Chi-Raq, setting up the newscaster who’ll set up the title. Hence Chi-Raq.
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Prisons director who presided over Oklahoma’s botched executions resigns | US news | The Guardian
The head of Oklahoma’s prison system, who presided over two botched lethal injections, announced his resignation on Friday, the second high-ranking official to step down amid an investigation into the executions.
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Shaq Fu 2 is real and there’s a trailer to prove it · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last year we brought you news that former NBA star and retired genie Shaquille O’Neal was putting together a sequel to Shaq Fu, the old game that dared to ask: What if Shaq fought a mummy? (The answer: It’s pretty boring, and then your mom gets mad …
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R.I.P. Robert Loggia, veteran character actor · Newswire · The A.V. Club
R.I.P. Robert Loggia, veteran character actor https://t.co/KY9HicNLnh https://t.co/9oscuGTcmw
Robert Loggia, a well-known character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and TV episodes over the course of his six decades in Hollywood, has died. His widow confirmed to Variety that he died earlier today in Los Angeles, but no other details… -
Adele’s 25 is going to set another record with its second-week sales | The Verge
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The Brother of One of Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Lords Has Been Caught | VICE News
The brother of one of Mexico’s most wanted and elusive drug lords has been captured in the western state of Jalisco without a shot being fired, Mexican authorities announced Friday.
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Proposed social media bill under fire in Nigeria – Al Jazeera English
Web activists, tech professionals and rights groups in Nigeria have joined forces to call for the withdrawal of a draft bill which, they claim, will limit freedom of expression in Africa’s most populous country.
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Nazis Secretly Bred Angora Rabbits at Concentration Camps | Atlas Obscura
The cover of “Angora”, made from woven rabbit wool bore, with the insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS). (Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society)
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The ISIS Oil Trade, from the Ground Up – The New Yorker
On Wednesday, at a press conference in Moscow, Russia’s defense ministry presented several grainy photographs and fleeting video clips taken from the sky and from space.
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A Turkish Court Has To Decide If Gollum Is Good or Evil
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Let’s Remember the Real Scott Weiland, Not the 90s Caricature | Vanity Fair
When they first appeared on MTV with the growling, squealing “Sex Type Thing,” Stone Temple Pilots were seen as interlopers, a group of dudes claiming to be from San Diego (“the next Seattle”!) who were riding the grunge train to middling musical su…
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Get People to Do What You Want With These 11 Clever Psychological Tricks
While it’s it not always important to get what you want, it sure feels good sometimes. This handy cheat sheet explains 11 different ways you can influence others to give yourself a win every once in a while.
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You can buy PS2 games on PlayStation 4 starting tomorrow | The Verge
Last month Sony said that it was working on bringing PS2 games to the PlayStation 4 — and starting tomorrow you’ll be able to start playing them. Eight PS2 classics will launch as downloadable purchases in both Europe and the Americas, ranging in pr…
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Stunning Vintage Photos Show the History of National Parks
Weird & Wild Warty Wonders: Three New Toads Found in Brazil Discovered in a single cloud forest, the newfound critters have an unusual way of reproducing.
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10 Surprising Facts About Yellowstone
Yellowstone, the world’s first—and still most famous—national park, was established in 1872, the year the Brooklyn Bridge opened and President Ulysses S. Grant completed his first term in the White House (then called the Executive Mansion).
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Silk Road Mastermind Variety Jones Has Been Arrested in Thailand, FBI Says | Motherboard
The man suspected of being a “senior adviser” to Ross Ulbricht, the convicted creator of the drug marketplace Silk Road, has been arrested, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
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Which Classic Character Did Not Need a Goddamn Childhood Trauma Added To Their Backstory?
It’s Screenwriting 101. When you’re taking a beloved character, who’s lasted decades or even centuries with a simple, streamlined origin, the first thing you do is add something terrible to his or her childhood.
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Migrant crisis: Macedonian border with Greece reopens – BBC News
The border between Macedonia and Greece has re-opened after being closed for two days. Following angry protests and clashes with police, refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are slowly being allowed through while thousands more are getting stuc…
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A Slice of Serenity at Haven’s Gate | Vanity Fair
If you’re looking for a low-key environment for a cozy day getaway, we have the place: Haven Spa, which moved a few blocks north on Mercer Street, above Houston Street, in N.Y.C.
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Cartoon: Modest climate change goals
The U.N. Climate Conference is going on in Paris, and maybe everyone will agree to modest means-based reductions in carbon emissions at some point in the future. It won’t be enough.
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TICKY TACKY (starring Oscar Isaac) on Vimeo
A wealthy and powerful man is betrayed by those closest to him, and under the guidance of his trusted confidant, devises a fiery requital. With a nod to the proscenium, this darkly comedic chamber piece stars Oscar Isaac, Tim Rock, Erika Rankin, Hel…
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“Bernie Sanders is a true populist and true progressive and from young students seeking a college education to senior citizens seeking fairness in Social Security benefits, he offers an intergenerational populism and progressivism that is good for D…
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Hubble 25 Anniversary – Science
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Cat people of reddit, Fat Louie says hello! : cats
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Best-Ever Pluto Photos Show Breathtaking Views of Dwarf Planet
Get ready to be amazed: NASA today unveiled the best-ever images of Pluto, revealing the dwarf planet’s varied and exotic landscape in amazing detail.
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New Horizons: Sharpest images of Pluto’s surface – BBC News
The New Horizons probe has at last returned some of the super-sharp pictures it took of Pluto during its historic flyby in July. The images released by the US space agency on Friday show details on the surface of the dwarf planet at a resolution bet…
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Majority of Americans want strong leadership on climate change | Grist
Confront all the scary things that you do have control over — and you’ll feel more empowered to take on bigger, scarier societal demons. In a new poll, many say the next president should do more than Obama has.
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On fear, terrorism, and dealing with the smaller things first | Grist
Confront all the scary things that you do have control over — and you’ll feel more empowered to take on bigger, scarier societal demons. In a new poll, many say the next president should do more than Obama has.
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Syed Farook’s Arsenal Is As American as Apple Pie | The Nation
How unusual is it for a gun owner to have two AR-15 assault rifles and 2,500 rounds of rifle ammunition—the “arsenal” police found in the possession of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik? Many in the media say it suggests a level of pla…
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A Turkish Court Has To Decide If Gollum Is Good or Evil
Is Gollum a good guy or a bad guy? It’s a complicated question. At times, the former Hobbit is nothing but pure venom. Other times, he’s kind, sweet and caring. Plus he can change between the two in an instant. Finally, a court of law will tell us i…
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Billy Corgan: Scott Weiland Was a ‘Voice of Our Generation’ | Rolling Stone
Tributes continue to pour in for Scott Weiland after the former Stone Temple Pilots singer passed away at 48 Thursday night.
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When It Comes to Mass Shootings, Motive Doesn’t Really Matter | Rolling Stone
The first news alert reporting a mass shooting usually contains just two pieces of information: a body count that will invariably be revised upwards, and the status of the shooter. If not dead, it is “active” or “at large” or “in custody.” Informati…
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One of Your Favorite Multitools is Cheaper Than Ever
Leatherman’s widely-praised Skeletool Multitool doesn’t have nearly as many tools as some of its brethren, but the upshot is a smaller, lighter frame that you can carry anywhere (except, like, airports). Even if you don’t need one for yourself, this…
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Scott Weiland’s Bus Bedroom Contained Cocaine: Police | Rolling Stone
Scott Weiland’s Bus Bedroom Contained Cocaine: Police Tommy Black, bassist for singer’s backing band the Wildabouts, was arrested for suspected cocaine possession
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Cutting Hair With Swords And Fire – YouTube
Swords, rings, fire… Alberto Olmedo has a unique method of cutting hair in his Madrid shop. Subscribe for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3Nm…Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglishDownload the AJ+… https://twit
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Sharpest Pluto Surface View Released By New Horizons Team | Video
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Every shot from every “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer, logged and charted – Quartz
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will finally open in theaters this month, on Dec. 18, after one of the longest and most expensive marketing campaigns in movie history.
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This is the insanely detailed Force Awakens trailer breakdown you were looking for | The Verge
It is December, now, which means you can literally start counting down the minutes until Star Wars: The Force Awakens makes its debut. (Surely, some fans have been doing this already.
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Reflecting the kind of moral code that could only have come from a band of trigger-happy religious fanatics, The Hollywood Reporter recently shared statistics from a survey of parents conducted by the Classification and Rating Administration—the gro…
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Manually Hack In Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Audio Out Onto the Raspberry Pi Zero
As cool as it is, the Raspberry Pi Zero makes some sacrifices to get so small. Namely, it doesn’t have many outputs. But a few intrepid Raspberry Pi users have figured out ways to hack in a few of the more necessary components. The Raspberry Pi Zero…
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Trump Skewers New Super PAC | Al Jazeera America
Just one problem.
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Head of Homeland Security Committee Is Creating a Crypto Taskforce | Motherboard
The sometimes stormy debate on whether encryption is making cops and feds “go dark”—a term given to the claim that encryption technology makes it impossible for cops to intercept or access data—may be entering a new stage. Rep.
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Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista Screentesting for Guardians of the Galaxy Is Hilarious
Marvel’s Phase 2 box set truly is a trove laden with treasures. Earlier today we got to see Loki live out his fantasies in a deleted scene from Thor: The Dark World—but this time, we turn to the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the fantastic improv skil…
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Yahoo Board, Sticking by Mayer, to Decide on Spinoff Soon | Re/code
According to a boatload of sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s board wrapped up its regular December meeting yesterday without a final decision as to whether it will move forward with its planned spinoff of its huge stake in China’s Alibaba Grou…
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Crescent Moon Points the Way to a Slowly Brightening Mars This Weekend
This weekend, the crescent moon will point curious skywatchers toward Mars, which is currently quite dim in the night sky. But don’t despair — in early 2016, the Red Planet will be in top form. Face east-southeast at around 3:15 a.m. local time on S…
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Surfing Einstein’s Waves: New Mission Launches to Seek Space-Time Ripples
LISA Pathfinder lifted off from Kourou on a Vega rocket at 12:04 a.m. EST (4:04 a.m. UTC) on Dec. 3, and is on its way into low Earth orbit.
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Glo-Glo, Makeup Artist to the Stars, Dishes on Crystal Lips, Pop-Art L | Vanity Fair
Gloria Elias-Foeillet got her start as a makeup artist during the golden age of music videos back in the 90s, working with performers like A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, Destiny’s Child, and the Roots. “It was all helicopters and champagne and poo…
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Mark Zuckerberg says curing disease is a central aim of new philanthropy efforts | The Verge
Amid a flurry of both criticism and congratulation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has posted on his own Facebook page once more to clarify that curing diseases is among the goals he intends to accomplish with his personal fortune of $45 billion.
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Bill Addresses Dangerous Prank of ‘Swatting’ | Al Jazeera America
S.W.A.T. team raids resulting from hoax calls are occurring more than 400 times a year around the country, said U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-Penn, at a press conference Friday in Pennsylvania. The Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015, a bill introduc…
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Justin Theroux Almost Died During His Honeymoon with Jennifer Aniston | Vanity Fair
This past August, after marrying in a super-secret ceremony in Malibu, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux took off for the most lavish honeymoon we had ever heard of—a six-figure affair at the Four Seasons Bora Bora with their closest friends inclu…
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Is China exploiting Africa? – Al Jazeera English
President Xi Jingping is in South Africa reassuring leaders from across the continent with hard cash. The trip will be welcome after the economic downturn forced China to slash investment in Africa by more than 40 percent earlier this year.
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With Few Signs Of Progress, Russia’s Putin Warns Of Long Fight In Syria : Parallels : NPR
Russia seems to be building up its military force in Syria, especially after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along the Turkish-Syrian border late last month. In his State of the Nation speech on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin warned the Russ…
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The Irresistible Beauty Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
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The Deadliest Kisses In All of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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To Push Moments, Twitter Starts Shoving The Notifications Tab To The Side | TechCrunch
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You have one terrible poker face : aww
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Justin Trudeau Promises New Gun Control, a Smaller Canadian Military, and Legal Weed | VICE News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his agenda for the coming months on Friday, with a promise to do everything from taking assault weapons off the street to overhauling how Canadians elect a government.
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Why do we have a sense of humor? — Hopes&Fears
To break down the science of humor seems, in a sense, almost contradictory to the spontaneous nature of humor.
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French Government Issues Poster on How to Survive a Terror Attack | VICE News
Three weeks after Islamist gunmen went on a rampage that left more than 130 people dead in and around Paris, the French government has issued a poster with advice on how to survive a terror attack.
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Where Cuddly Is Made: Inside the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory – Bloomberg Business
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world.
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Why The CDC Tracks Wireless-Only Households And Their Risky Behavior : All Tech Considered : NPR
Nearly half of U.S. homes don’t have a landline and rely on cellphones instead, according to a federal report out this week. The number predictably has been climbing over the years, now surpassing even the households with both a landline and a mobil…
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There’s No Reason To Think Barry Bonds Can Coach Like He Could Hit | FiveThirtyEight
Barry Bonds is back in baseball. The Miami Marlins announced Friday that Bonds will become their hitting coach, joining new manager Don Mattingly’s staff.1 So now we’ll get to obsessively analyze Bonds’ proportions all over again, this time in argua…
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Ancient Tiny Whale Hunted with Pointy Teeth, Oversize Gums – Scientific American
This is University of Otago Professor Ewan Fordyce with a new species of fossil baleen whale he and his colleagues have named Fucaia buelli. The fossil is transitional between ancient toothed whales and the baleen whales of modern seas.
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Icebergs Make Waves off South Georgia Island : Natural Hazards
Icebergs that break off from Antarctica can stay afloat in the Southern Ocean for years. Some become stuck, while others drift in the currents that circle the continent. Where those currents are interrupted by South Georgia Island, some bergs make a…
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MSNBC apologizes for live broadcast from inside San Bernadino shooter’s home / Boing Boing
“We regret that we briefly showed images of photographs and identification cards that should not have been aired without review,” said MSNBC after doing precisely that earlier today in San Bernardino.
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Paul Ryan hands-off as House lurches toward shutdown
House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t want to get into the kind of trouble his predecessor did, so he’s pretty much staying out of the so far unproductive negotiations over a spending bill.
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Japan’s Asteroid-Bound Hayabusa2 Buzzes Earth for a Speed Boost
An artist’s illustration of Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe near Earth. The spacecraft flew by Earth on Dec. 3, 2015 to get a speed boost on the way to visit an asteroid in 2018.Credit: JAXA View full size image A Japanese spacecraft buzzed Earth o…
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A weak agreement remains the greatest danger for the Paris climate talks, with negotiators confident some kind of deal will be reached before next weekend despite little concrete progress and continued trenchant disagreements on most issues.
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In a shocking turn of events—given that it’s being written and directed by Lethal Weapon scribe Shane Black, the man who turned the common household toilet into a figure of looming, bomb-concealing terror—it would appear that the title characters in…
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Wall Street boosted by strong jobs data – BBC News
(Close): Wall Street closed up following a strong US jobs report that showed unemployment remaining at a seven and half year low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 369.96 points or 2.12% finishing at 17,847.63.The broader S&P 500 index rose 42…
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As Adventure Time has evolved, it’s done remarkable work balancing childish visuals and plots with mature themes and metaphors, and “The More You Moe, The Moe You Know” is a strong example of this dynamic.
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Half of Yemen ‘one step away’ from famine: UN – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations food agency has warned that food supplies in Yemen are deteriorating quickly and that the country is at risk of slipping into famine.
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Scientists Urge Caution On Human Gene Editing | Al Jazeera America
An international group of scientists and ethicists said this week that it would be “irresponsible” to use a powerful tool for editing human genes until more is known about the consequences and ethics of passing genetic changes to future generations.
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“F” rating designed to highlight female-led films debuts in the U.K. · Newswire · The A.V. Club
2015 may have been the year of Furiosa, but women continued to experience trouble in the film industry as a whole.
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To Push Moments, Twitter Starts Shoving The Notifications Tab To The Side | TechCrunch
If you’re a Twitter for the web user (or Android) like I am, then you know exactly where all of the tabs are that you need to speedily read tweets, replies and so forth.
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The Deadliest Kisses In All of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The holidays are almost upon us, which means one thing: lots of weird superstitions involving sprigs of vegetation and mandatory kissing. Which is weird. But it could be worse—those kisses could actually kill you. Just check out these kisses of deat…
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The Irresistible Beauty Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
The huge new Wii U JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X seems like it wants about 80 hours of my life. I’ve given it 18 so far, and I’m going to give it some more. I’m not really a JRPG guy, mind you. I love the Fire Emblems, but don’t really care about many…
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Netflix’s uninspired Marco Polo series gets a one-hour special | The Verge
Marco Polo, Netflix’s hackneyed (but bloody) medieval drama, has already been renewed for a second season, but now fans (and detractors) can get even more. A one-hour special titled Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes will hit Netflix on December 26th.
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EU Mulls Sending Own Forces to National Borders | Al Jazeera America
Signaling a possible shift to a more coordinated approach to Europe’s refugee crisis, the European Commission is considering a German request to deploy EU border control officers when a member state cannot guard its national boundaries.
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They should be required to, obviously. If we’re going to have a draft, it should be equitable. I think many feminists would agree. Female veteran here. I agree, wholeheartedly.
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Watch the Second Attempt to Launch Cygnus to the Space Station [LIVE]
After getting rained out yesterday, it’s time to start preparing for the next launch window for the Cygnus spacecraft. If it succeeds, this will be the first launch for the cargo tug since the previous one blew up in October 2014.
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Veterans React To Opening Of Combat Roles To Women : NPR
Men and women at Fort Campbell in Kentucky react to new rules allowing women to serve in combat positions.
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NASA releases the highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto | The Verge
NASA has just released the highest resolution photographs of the surface of Pluto from the New Horizons flyby. The images were taken about 10,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) above the surface of Pluto, just 15 minutes before the spacecraft’s closest a…
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Net neutrality supporters optimistic after court arguments | Ars Technica
Internet providers suing the Federal Communications Commission to overturn net neutrality rules got their day in court today as oral arguments were heard by a three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC.
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Twenty-one more books every teenager should read | Books | The Guardian
Every 16-year-old girl needs to read King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes’s punk coming-of-age memoir, because lurking in every teenage girl’s breasts is the beating, bloody heart of a rebel, waiting to make her own choices.
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What life was like at abortion clinics after the Planned Parenthood shooting – Vox
Last Friday night, alleged gunman Robert Lewis Dear killed three and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the deadliest attack on an abortion clinic ever recorded.
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Track of the Day: Sam Lewis Performs ‘Never Again’ – The Atlantic
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Under a full moon, The Wolf Man transforms into a studio tentpole in 2018 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Lycanthrope aficionados can start making their plans for two springs from now, because Universal has just announced that its newest reimagining of The Wolf Man will skulk its way into theaters in exactly 847 days.
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Pick Between a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino with This Rule of Thumb
There are some cases where picking between the Raspberry Pi and an Arduino are easy (like when Linux is involved), but oftentimes it’s hard to make a choice between the two. Make came up with a simple question to help you decide. Think about what yo…
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Flash of a knuckle crack caught on video | Ars Technica
Only one thing is clear about why knuckles crack, pop, and crunch: there are gas bubbles involved. Whether the noise comes from the birth or burst of those bubbles has been a source of simmering debate for decades, though.
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China pledges $60 billion to African development – Al Jazeera English
China’s president has pledged $60bn to development in Africa, as part of what Chinese and African leaders called “win-win cooperation.
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Don’t judge a film by its production problems—a lesson established years ago by James Cameron’s Titanic and reconfirmed now by another big-budget Leonardo DiCaprio project, The Revenant. Writer/director Alejandro G.
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Pro-Life Attorney: ‘We Need a Nuremberg for Abortion Doctors’ – The Daily Beast
“We need to have an American version of the Nuremberg trials for crimes against humanity,” prominent pro-life attorney Thomas W.
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How Two Environmental Changes Took Down the Most Powerful League in Medieval Europe
Environmental change is big news these days, as is speculation on how that change will re-order, and possibly re-shape, the world powers. It has happened before: one of the great powers of medieval Europe collapsed when the environment changed aroun…
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David Fricke Remembers Scott Weiland’s Resiliency, Bowie Inspiration | Rolling Stone
“You can’t sum up somebody like this,” Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke says of rock legend Scott Weiland, who died on Thursday at age 48. “Because, fact is, they weren’t done.
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Freshly adopted loaf : Catloaf
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Is this half-loaf or full-loaf? : Catloaf
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Thousands Of Migrants Stage Protests Along Closed Greek-Macedonian Border : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Scott Carrier of the website “Home Of The Brave” about how the European Union has decided to allow only refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan into Northern Europe.
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U.S. Military Works To Implement New Rules On Women In Combat : NPR
The Pentagon has declared all military jobs will be open to women — and now it must begin deciding how it will actually implement that directive. How far along are the plans to admit women to tank crews, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Navy SEALs and …
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NBC Raises Its Musical Game With ‘The Wiz Live’ : Monkey See : NPR
When NBC first considered bringing The Wiz Live! to television, the network couldn’t have known how much America would need to see this.
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‘I Was In Denial,’ Colleague Of San Bernardino, Calif., Shooter Says : NPR
Jenny Kosse worked as a receptionist for more than 20 years in the Department of Environmental Health in San Bernardino, Calif. She knows most of the people who were killed or injured by Syed Farook, and she knew Farook, too.
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FBI Investigates San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting As Act Of Terrorism : NPR
NPR has the latest on the investigation into Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI is now investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism.
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Stone Temple Pilots Singer Scott Weiland Dies At 48 : NPR
NPR looks back on the career of Scott Weiland, singer in the bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. Weiland died in his sleep on Thursday at age 48.
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Media Broadcast Live Inside Suspected San Bernardino, Calif., Shooters’ Home : NPR
On Friday, journalists were allowed into Syed Farook’s apartment in Redlands, Calif. A tour of the home was broadcast live, including images of drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards, and photographs.
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Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ Offers Unique Approach To Ending Chicago’s Violence : NPR
NPR’s Bob Mondello reviews Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, a movie satire in rap and verse based on Aristophanes’ ancient Greek satire, Lysistrata.
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San Bernardino Highlights How Police Respond To Active Shooter Situations : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel interviews Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, about how police departments around the country are trained to respond to active shooting situations.
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Growing Puerto Rican Community Transforms Politics In Central Florida : NPR
In recent years, Puerto Ricans have begun changing the political map along the hotly contested Interstate 4 corridor in Florida. These days, about 1,000 new Puerto Rican families a month are moving to Central Florida. And both political parties are …
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U.N. Delegates Confront The Cost Of Stopping Climate Change : NPR
Climate conferences over the past decade have foundered on finance, especially on who’s going to pay for the huge cost of shifting away from fossil fuels.
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Landlord Invites Media Into Home Of Suspected San Bernardino Shooters : NPR
The landlord of the apartment building where the suspected shooters lived invited the media inside. Dozens filed through, setting off a debate on whether potential evidence has been contaminated.
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‘We Use Music To Understand Where We Are’: David Lang On The Music Of ‘Youth’ : NPR
In the new movie Youth, an elderly, retired composer-conductor is called upon to conduct for the first time in years. He’s an Englishman named Fred Ballinger — and the request is from Queen Elizabeth II.
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Week In Politics: San Bernardino, Calif., Shooting, U.S. Policy On Syria : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss politicians’ responses to the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., U…
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From Colorado To California, The Gun Control Debate Has Become Personal : NPR
With two deadly mass shootings in California and Colorado in the past week, this country is again in a fierce debate over gun control. After the massacre in San Bernardino, President Obama encouraged states to take the lead on preventing gun violenc…
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One Man’s Search for Certainty in the Face of Terminal Cancer – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Top FIFA Presidential Candidate: ‘We Can Do So Much More For Women’s Football.’ | ThinkProgress
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, the President of the Jordan Football Association and the leading candidate for the new FIFA President according to oddsmakers, has announced his commitment to improving the gender imbalance within soccer’s govern…
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A Frantic Scramble to Make Headway in Paris | New Republic
We’re halfway toward a strict deadline on climate change, in more ways than one. The world this year officially reached 1 degree Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, halfway to politicians’ agreed-upon goal to limit global warming to 2 degr…
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Take a hint, “clean coal.” The world is so over you | Grist
We’re not doing nearly enough, says It Takes Roots, a delegation of communities on the frontlines of climate change. There’s a much bigger threat to you than terrorism or mass shootings.
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Unchecked climate change risks plunging a further 175 million people into hunger and undernourishment worldwide, undermining progress in reducing food insecurity, a US government report warns.
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LOS ANGELES—Having recently announced his impending retirement after 20 seasons in the NBA, Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant reportedly grew wistful and teary-eyed Friday while reflecting on all the mistakes his teammates made throughou…
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Experiment Finds No Evidence the Universe Is a Hologram (But It Still Might Be) | Motherboard
The world’s first experiment designed to look for evidence that the universe exists as a hologram has found nothing to suggest that is the case.
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Stone Temple Pilots address Scott Weiland’s death · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the wake of Scott Weiland’s death yesterday, his former band Stone Temple Pilots has posted a statement to its Facebook page. While Weiland was currently on tour with his new band The Wildabouts, both he and the band achieved their greatest succe…
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What could possibly go wrong? : pics
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Senate Republicans vote to sentence tens of thousands to death
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See the Beautiful, Poetic Artwork by the Ladies of Disney Animation
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Is Tashfeen Malik a New Kind of Female Terrorist? – The Daily Beast
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Want to Make Buying Guns Hard? Make It As Tough As Getting an Abortion – The Daily Beast
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Two young campers were sleeping in Yosemite Valley this August when a tree branch snapped and fell on their tent, killing them both. “We don’t know what caused the limb to fall,” said the park’s spokeswoman, Jodi Bailey. “It seems like just a freak …
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Reporters Entered the Home of the San Bernardino Shooters, and Things Got Weird | VICE News
Two major cable news networks entered an apartment Friday in which the suspects of the San Bernardino shooting apparently resided and broadcast themselves rummaging through items ranging from personal identification to baby clothes, prompting a floo…
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Justin Trudeau Promises New Gun Control, a Smaller Canadian Military, and Legal Weed | VICE News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his agenda for the coming months on Friday, with a promise to do everything from taking assault weapons off the street to overhauling how Canadians elect a government.
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President for Life? It Will Be Possible in Ecuador in 2021 | VICE News
Ecuador’s national legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that will force President Rafael Correa to sit out the 2017 election but could allow the charismatic leftist to resume his grip on power indefinitely from 2021.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.04.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pmPT/4pmET.
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Inside the Climate Conference’s Indigenous Hut | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—One of the criticisms of the climate summit is that it is held in a rarified theme park totally disconnected from the realities of the world it is supposed to save. And well—yeah, pretty much.
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In wake of mass shooting, Marco Rubio wonders why we’re not talking about ‘bomb control’ instead
It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to refer to anyone in the Republican Party as the smart one. In his pouting would-be analysis of the San Bernardino mass murder, Marco Rubio demonstrates why he will never be that guy. Two things. First, w…
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The Revenant review: A brutal, showy revenge fantasy | The Verge
Back in 2011, trailers for Joe Carnahan’s The Grey had audiences primed to see an over-the-top adventure movie prominently featuring Liam Neeson taking on a pack of vicious wolves with his bare hands. The actual film was a surprise: rather than a gr…
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Why Decision Science Matters | TechCrunch
Nearly everyone is familiar with the DirecTV commercials in which actor Rob Lowe and NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tony Romo appear as unflattering alter-egos of themselves: “peaked in high school” Rob Lowe, “bad comedian” Eli Manning, “artsy cra…
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You Can Now Totally Delete Games from Steam
Last year, Steam finally allowed you to hide games in your Steam library to help decrease clutter. Now, you can finally remove games you don’t like completely. It’s a little convoluted to remove a game, but it is totally possible now.
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The Revenant Is a Harrowing Survival Story That Strains for Meaning | Vanity Fair
Fear the wild. Particularly, the rugged American West, picturesque land of craggy mountains, sweeping vistas, formidable beasts. It’s beautiful, but pretty much all of it will kill you.
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Memo Decries ‘American, White, Male’ Culture at Internet Engineering Task Force | Motherboard
It’s no secret that women aren’t exactly welcomed with open arms in tech spaces. But a recent memo sent around the Internet Engineering Task Force—the open community that develops internet standards—calls out a culture of hostile behaviour and lacki…
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India’s Modi spoofed over doctored photograph – 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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C-3PO Speaks: Man Behind ‘Star Wars’ Droid on ‘The Force Awakens’ | Rolling Stone
If you know someone at the Guinness Book of World Records, do Anthony Daniels a favor and get in touch on his behalf – after playing the same character, C-3PO, in seven movies, plus too many cartoons and video games to count, he’s pretty sure he des…
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Read Stone Temple Pilots’ Poignant Open Letter to Scott Weiland | Rolling Stone
Stone Temple Pilots have issued a statement following the death of their former lead singer Scott Weiland, writing a heartfelt note addressed directly to the vocalist. “Let us start by saying thank you for sharing your life with us.
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Climate Scientist James Hansen Warns World is on Wrong Track to Prevent Runaway Global Warming (democracynow.org)submitted 30 minutes ago by loading…
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ELEVEN TIMES HUMAN A short film commissioned by AKOO. Directed By John Merizalde Cinematography by Kristian Zuñiga Narrated by Michael “Killer Mike” Render Executive Producers: Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jason Geter, Ralph Reynolds, Sabai Burnett and David …
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Uber is on a collision course with New York City again | The Verge
Later this month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to unveil a hotly anticipated report he commissioned about the for-hire vehicle industry — but mostly about Uber, which has been a thorn in his side for the last year.
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PETA: Your Honor, Naruto really did take those monkey selfies | Ars Technica
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals isn’t monkeying around.
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Judd Apatow to produce Kumail Nanjiani’s first movie, Big Sick · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Kumail Nanjiani has come a long way since 2009, when the stand-up, writer, and actor stressed out with us about whether he should just bite the bullet and start his own Wikipedia page.
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The news that US investigators are evaluating evidence that Tashfeen Malik may have either “pledged allegiance to the Islamic State” or expressed support for the group before launching the attacks which killed 14 and wounded 21, in San Bernardino, C…
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A Spoken Word Artist Argues With Himself Over Whether or Not Space Travel Is Worth It
Today’s installment in the Royal Institution’s beautifully designed online Advent calendar, which is themed “A Place Called Space,” features spoken word artist Mark Grist throwing down with a cranky version of himself over whether or not the benefit…
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The Racially-Charged San Francisco Police Shooting You Don’t Know About But Should | Mother Jones
Dozens of people gathered at a candlelit vigil on Thursday night in San Francisco, at the spot where 26-year-old Mario Woods was killed by police the day before.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will examine the bedrock principle of “one person, one vote” in a major case that could yield the Republican Party a critical advantage in future elections. In Evenwel v.
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Wingnut Week In Review: A Tale of Two Shootings
Mass shootings in Colorado and California this week, brought out the worst in wingnuts this week, and reminded us that our biggest terrorist threats still come from right here at home.
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You Can Barely Even See Yellowstone’s Largest Glacier Anymore (gizmodo.com)submitted 24 minutes ago by loading…
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The Enormous, Humongous October Trade Deficit Report
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the October goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $43.9 billion. This is for a single month. This is up $1.4 billion – 3.4 percent – from September’s enormous, humongous $42.5 (revise…
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The UN doesn’t know if hookup apps are spreading HIV, so stop saying it | The Verge
That’s something you might have heard earlier this week, when several outlets reported on a new HIV study from the Asia-Pacific Inter-Agency Task Team on Young Key Populations.
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The FBI said on Friday it had uncovered evidence that has led it to investigate the San Bernardino shooting as an act of terrorism. Officials said the shooters attempted to erase digital fingerprints and deliberately destroyed two cellphones.
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Black Lives Matter Wants to ‘Push’ Democrats | Al Jazeera America
Since the start of the 2016 presidential campaign season, Black Lives Matter protests have been a regular feature of candidate rallies. Although the protesters have targeted contenders from both major parties, Democrats have faced the brunt of the d…
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A shocking statistic about gun deaths in the US – Vox
The share of Americans killed by guns is without parallel in the developed world. The most striking statistic: 87 percent of children killed by guns in 23 of the world’s most developed, wealthiest countries were Americans.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Want to Make Buying Guns Hard? Make It As Tough As Getting an Abortion – The Daily Beast
Hours before shots rang out in San Bernardino, California, leaving 14 dead and 21 injured, Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman introduced a bill with a simple premise: What if the process to buy guns in America was as difficult as the one to get an ab…
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The BBC wants to make movies that adapt to your interests | The Verge
The BBC wants to make videos that change to suit whoever’s watching. It’s exploring the idea through a research project called Visual Perceptive Media, which has set up a way to alter everything from what’s in a video to what a video sounds and look…
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Coral Reefs Provide Cyrstal Ball for Future Change – Scientific American
Christmas Island sits about as close to the middle of the Pacific as you can get. The main island of Kiribati, a small island nation, is 3,300 miles from San Francisco, 3,800 miles from Brisbane and just 140 miles north of the equator.
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See the Beautiful, Poetic Artwork by the Ladies of Disney Animation
Disney is well known for its on-screen Princesses but this weekend, it will celebrate the talented women behind the scenes with a new book and several pieces of art.
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Is Tashfeen Malik a New Kind of Female Terrorist? – The Daily Beast
Hours after Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, mowed down 14 people at a center for the disabled in San Bernardino on Wednesday, the murderous duo were hurtling down a residential street in a police chase that quickly escalated.
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People Are Complaining That Amazon Echo Is Responding to Ads on TV | Motherboard
In June, Amazon made its always-listening personal assistant Echo available to all. It’s a neat little device—basically, Siri in a cylinder—but not without its quirks.
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Senate Republicans vote to sentence tens of thousands to death
What Senate Republicans did, or rather failed to do on restricting gun sales Thursday was arguably surpassed by what they voted to do on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.
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How Gawker Turned Into Groupon | Motherboard
Holidays on the content farm usually means seasonal content primed for maximum shareability, tapping into the comfy universality of the holiday spirit.
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The Richest Photographer in the World
In early 2014, renowned painter and photographer Richard Prince picked up his iPhone and began scrolling through other people’s photos on Instagram.
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Yes, One of the California Shooters Was an Immigrant. No, Don’t Blame Refugees. | Mother Jones
Syrian refugees were already bearing the brunt of American security fears after the Paris attacks.
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Bizarre news feeding frenzy erupts inside San Bernardino terror shooters’ former home / Boing Boing
Just when you thought the surreal San Bernardino mass shooting or is it terrorism or is it a BHO false flag op take our guns couldn’t get any weirder, it gets weirder. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s landlord opened up the suspects’ townhous…
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This Discounted Withings Smart Scale Tracks a Lot More Than Weight
It might seem a little early to be thinking about New Year’s resolutions, but if you’re planning on losing weight once the holiday bacchanal is in the rear view mirror, you should definitely pick up this smart scale.
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Watch Greenpeace activists crash dinner parties between state politicians & ALEC lobbyists, eating dinner on the undisclosed corporate dime (phoenixnewtimes.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Dominion Power is planning to dump untreated Coal Ash wastewater in the James River, this cannot happen! (self.environment) This text is from the Upper James Riverkeeper FB page.
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Sunrise over Missoula, MT. [960×960] : SkyPorn
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Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul decide whether to kill people in the Eye In The Sky trailer https://t.co/FwRrpVGt1V https://t.co/QU5UpdqS14
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PSA: Amazon one-day sale cuts highly rated board game prices in half | Ars Technica
We’re barely a month into our ongoing Ars Cardboard series of board game reviews, but suffice it to say, we love playing board games whenever possible.
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The E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle has spread to nine US states | The Verge
The E. coli outbreak recently linked to Chipotle has spread to Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, bringing the total number of US states affected to nine, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Please Let the Shooter Be on the Other Guy’s Team! | The Nation
Before we knew learned the identity of the shooters who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, before we learned there was more than one shooter, I assumed that the gunman was another white, right-leaning domestic terrorist.
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BBC Sport – Fifa official paid £6.6m for 2010 World Cup votes – FBI
A high-ranking Fifa official has been identified by the FBI as a suspect in a £6.6m bribe paid in return for votes for 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa. A new indictment from the US Department of Justice refers to the official as ‘co-conspirator 17…
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Russia alerts Thailand about potential ‘ISIL attacks’ – Al Jazeera English
Thai police have received a warning from Russia’s state security agency that 10 Syrians linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group could stage attacks in Thailand on targets associated with Russia and others opposed to the armed…
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Jobs Recovery? In Manufacturing, It’s More Like Recession
Friday’s November jobs report said nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 211,000 and unemployment was unchanged at 5 percent. Analysts had expected 200,000 so they are happy; overall hiring seems to be continuing at an OK pace.
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President Hollande Makes Surprise Visit To French Aircraft Carrier Off Syria | VICE News
Less than three weeks after declaring France was “at war” with the Islamic State, President François Hollande has made a surprise visit to the country’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, which is navigating off the coast of Sy…
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Australia passed a new anti-terrorism bill Thursday that would allow the government to strip dual-nationals of citizenship if they’re found to be involved in terrorist activities.
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Giving thanks in the Valley of the Giants : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Ground-based weather radars are a critical component of the OLYMPEX project on the Olympic Peninsula. Situated near the coast, NASA’s NPOL radar records precipitation data over the ocean and toward the mountains.
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Midday open thread: How we spend out time; student reporter billed $8,000 for FOIA requests
We are more afraid than ever of gun violence.
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If you like Shane Black’s 2005 Christmas noir cult classic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, you’re in luck. A decade later, the filmmaker returns to theaters with The Nice Guys, which Black describes as a “spiritual sequel” to Kiss and a “half whimsical private…
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The debate over how to define mass shootings is ridiculous – Vox
On Thursday, Mark Follman claimed in the New York Times that Vox, other news outlets, and the Mass Shooting Tracker are wrong, and there haven’t been 353 mass shootings in 2015.
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In the days after a deranged young man fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was grateful for any thoughts and prayers directed toward his community.
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Rival Scientists Kill Recent Discovery About Invincible Animals – The Atlantic
Last Monday, a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published the first ever genome of a tardigrade—a group of endearing microscopic animals with a reputation for being nigh-invincible.
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Samsung to finally pay Apple $548M as part of endless patent case | Ars Technica
After losing in the appellate phase, Samsung has finally agreed that it will pay Apple a $548 million partial judgement as part of the two companies’ longstanding patent battle.
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San Bernardino shooting: FBI says California shooting an act of terrorism – BBC News
The Los Angeles Assistant Director of the FBI Dave Bowdich told reporters that the organisation had uncovered evidence of “extensive planning” and that the suspects had “attempted to destroy their digital fingerprints”.
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4 Cities That Are Leading The World On Climate Action | ThinkProgress
PARIS, FRANCE — As nearly 200 nations convene in the Paris suburb of Le Bourget with the hope of creating a binding international agreement on climate change, much of the world’s focus is fixed on the national and international responses to the issu…
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Keanu Reeves seeks the truth in the stock trailer for Exposed · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Keanu Reeves plays a cop investigating his corrupt partner’s death in Exposed, and the new trailer for the film is about as routine as the premise suggests.
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Scott Weiland Song? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Scott Weiland Song? Cast your vote in our weekly poll D
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The Stanley Parable designer’s new game is free, and it’s wonderfully weird | The Verge
What exactly is Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist about? I don’t honestly know. Even the writer of the Steam description kind of just gave up after this bit here: “Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the maste…
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San Bernardino shooting: what we know – Vox
The FBI is investigating the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting that killed at least 14 people and wounded at least 21 more as a potential act of terrorism, the agency announced on Friday.
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Chris Christie says “hell no” to American leadership on climate change | 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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At times like these, I remember the words of a friend and colleague from more than 20 years ago. He was covering the Bosnia war, risking his life to do so. Why was he doing it? “Because once the world knows, it will have to act. Once people know, th…
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The Year in Pop, 2015: Mindies, Weeknds, & Woes | Vanity Fair
Hello. It’s me. I was wondering if after all this year you’d like to meet to go over everything . . . that happened in pop music in 2015! See? This is 90 percent less grim than an Adele song already!
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This is sad to hear: According to a message that he personally left on his Facebook page, Jamaican-born producer/dubmeister Lee “Scratch” Perry has (hopefully accidentally) burned his “secret laboratory” in Switzerland to the ground.
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Republican Senators introduce amendment to stop GOP from defunding Planned Parenthood. Three Republican senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski(R-AK) weren’t about to let their party gut Planned Parenthood without a fight.…
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The Most Liked #TBT of 2015 Belongs To . . . | Vanity Fair
Instagram is releasing a whole slew of data as we reach the end of the year, and they have now published a list of the top 15 #TBT photos posted in 2015.
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This past March, Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola wrangled a stellar ensemble for Netflix’s A Very Murray Christmas—a charming throwback to the variety specials of yester Yuletides featuring George Clooney, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, …
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Bye, bye, bananas – The Washington Post
In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in the world that could be exported.
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Curious “inkblot” star outed for trolling the astronomers | Astronomy.com
New images of an intriguing red giant star known as CW Leonis have turned the usual astronomy narrative on its head, with scrutiny focused not only on the stars, but also on the astronomers who study them.
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Hunger-Striking Asylum Seekers Bring Their Case to Clinton’s Front Door | The Nation
Immigration activists brought the current fight over immigrant detention to Hillary Clinton’s doorstep Thursday.
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Why Exactly Did the Vikings Flee Greenland? | Atlas Obscura
Sometime around the 10th century AD the Vikings traveled north to settle in Greenland. They lived there for around 500 years and then exited the region en masse.
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A New Service Called CoinCube Can Help Manage Your BTC | TechCrunch
In the future, all currencies will be crypto. And you’ll need someone to manage all that crypto cash. That’s what CoinCube is trying to do: a way to manage cryptocurrency investments intelligently.
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If there are two things nerdcore rapper Richie Branson loves in equal measure, it’s Star Wars and rap. His debut EP, Cold Republic Episode I: The Empire Likes Rap was inspired by his love for the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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Tripdelta Finds Cheaper Flights Through “Secret” Airport Routes
Flying through the major hubs of the big airlines could be making your trips more expensive than they could be. Tripdelta finds the hidden airports that could save you as much as 90% over the standard route.
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How gun control works in America, compared with 4 other rich countries – Vox
After Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Americans are once again left wondering why these events seem to occur much more often in the US than other developed nations. And it’s not just mass shootings: In general, the US has mu…
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Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah Made ‘The Wiz Live!’ NBC’s Best Live Musical Yet – The Atlantic
In previous years, it’s been unclear whether NBC intended its ratings-busting “live musical events” to be true incarnations of theater or the televisual equivalent of that nightmare you sometimes have where you’re wearing an Alice in Wonderland cost…
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New video emerges of San Francisco police shooting man with knife – video | US news | The Guardian
More video footage has emerged of a fatal shooting by police in San Francisco this week, in which officers fired upon a man brandishing a knife.
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San Bernardino shooting: What did the FBI leave behind? – BBC News
Media organisations have filmed inside a property rented by two people suspected of carrying out Wednesday’s shootings in San Bernardino, California. The landlord allowed news teams inside the apartment in Redlands on Friday, one day after it was ra…
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It’s the climate equivalent of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: the rupture of a natural gas storage site in California that is spewing vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere and is likely to go unchecked for three months.
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US jails Russian ‘Taliban’ fighter for life – Al Jazeera English
A former Soviet army tank officer convicted for his role in a 2009 attack on US and Afghan forces has been sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison.
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The Wiz Live Was Everything We’ve Ever Wanted, Ever
Last night’s big live production of The Wiz on NBC was pretty much flawless—we loved all the performances, including all the classic numbers. Here’s my fav bit—when they go into the Emerald City and everybody is doing a version of Madonna’s “Vogue.”
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‘Chi-Raq’ Scratches At Black America’s Generation Gap In A Time Of Protest | ThinkProgress
Chi-Raq is a very funny movie. Measured on a belly laughs-per-minute scale, this is one of Spike Lee’s most successful pieces of work.
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Chris Christie: “Hell No,” America Shouldn’t Lead on Climate Change | Mother Jones
Most Americans say the United States should be a global leader in the fight against climate change, according to a recent poll conducted by YouGov and our Climate Desk partners at The Huffington Post. Chris Christie is not one of those Americans.
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Packers Beat Lions On Crazy Last-Second Hail Mary – Digg
Trailing 23-21 with time expiring in the fourth quarter, the Green Bay Packers were granted a final play (with no time left on the clock) after a facemask penalty was called on the Detroit Lions.
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A 422-page Christmas gift for the know-it-all gamer in your life | The Verge
I know nothing about Britain’s game development scene in the 1980s. Most Americans don’t, but the blindspot is embarrassing considering I pride myself on having a deep knowledge of video game history. It’s part of my job, after all.
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Watch the first gameplay trailer for the sequel to Shaq-Fu | The Verge
Last year Shaquille O’Neal successfully crowdfunded a sequel to his infamous 16-bit game Shaq-Fu — and now you can finally see it in action.
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David Beckham’s MLS team to build stadium in Miami’s Overtown district | Football | The Guardian
David Beckham’s fledgling MLS club is homeless no longer. The former England captain announced on Friday that his group of investors has acquired a site to build a privately financed stadium in the Overtown district of Miami.
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MSNBC reveals the address of San Bernardino killer’s mother on live TV | The Verge
Two days after a horrific shooting killed 14 people in San Bernardino, a number of television news channels have descended on the home of the suspected killers.
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Dozens of reporters rush into home of San Bernardino shooting suspects | US news | The Guardian
On Thursday the beige two-storey condo on North Center Street was a highly-sensitive major crime scene.
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A PB&J-Inspired Cocktail for the Childish Sophisticate | Vanity Fair
At the Musket Room in New York’s Nolita neighborhood, bar director Chris Barry looked to his son’s favorite meal for inspiration for a cocktail that embodies the spirit of a childhood staple: the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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22-Year-Old Launching Harlem’s First VC Fund | TechCrunch
John Henry, the 22-year-old founder of accelerator program Cofound Harlem, has announced Cofound Ventures, Harlem’s first venture capital fund.
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There is never a good time for a commander-in-chief to learn of a terrorist attack on the homeland, but growing suspicion that the mass shooting in San Bernardino may have links to the Islamic State could hardly have come at a worse time politically…
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An Illinois School’s Odd Plan To Quit Sex Discrimination While Pretending Not To | ThinkProgress
Illinois’ largest school district, District 211 in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, has agreed to accommodate a transgender student’s equal use of sex-segregated locker rooms, but it seems they don’t want anybody to actually think so.
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The Afars: Eritrea’s Forgotten Refugees | The Nation
Thousands of refugees have made their way to eastern Ethiopia across Eritrea’s porous southern borders in recent years. Many traveled by foot through the Danakil Depression, one of the lowest and hottest places on earth. Others slipped across the he…
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Wettest Weather In A Century Kills More Than 250 In India | ThinkProgress
Extreme rainfall in southern India has killed nearly 270 people and displaced about a million more, as flooding causes major problems in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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American Muslims are a strong bulwark against Islamic extremism. Last month, a group of demonstrators gathered in New York to condemn the Islamic State’s interpretation of Islam and the terrorist acts carried out by them. Washington — I am an Americ…
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Politicians Need to Ditch Their Inflammatory Rhetoric – The Daily Beast
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7 Great Books That Show Just How Terrifying an Environmental Apocalypse Could Be
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Near the end of One Direction’s final album Made In The A.M.—in a track titled “History,” no less—the band reaches a note of desperation.
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ISIS in America – The Atlantic
Authorities say ISIS has made it to America.
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My next book: The Indian in the Closet | Letter from Lynne Reid Banks | Books | The Guardian
Oh, please, professor and others (Letters, 3 December)! Where and when did I ever object to fiction for “young people” diverging from a supposed norm of innocence? I take issue with prizes for literature which have the word “children” attached to th…
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The Best Cities for Women in Tech
The tech industry’s gender diversity problem is a problem for all of us. Some cities, however, seem to be doing better than others when it comes to equal pay and job growth for women in tech.
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Pixar’s Inside Out was a rousing success and has since gone on to be shortlisted for best animated feature Oscar.
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Yves Béhar Thinks Tech Can Save Us From Our Screens | Vanity Fair
Yves Béhar, the wiry-haired and well-regarded industrial designer, thinks that there’s too much time spent staring at screens in contemporary life. But rather than take the Luddite path and retreat from the digital onslaught altogether, he thinks mo…
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The laughs in Spike Lee’s corrosive “Chi-Raq” burn like acid. Urgent, surreal, furious, funny and wildly messy, the movie sounds like an invitation to defeat, but it’s an improbable triumph that finds Mr. Lee doing his best work in years.
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Telephone Repairman Follows His Dream: Designing Women’s Shoes
Chris Donovan loved designing women’s shoes, so he quit his job as a telephone repairman and followed his fashion design dreams all the way to Florence. What a great video from AARP, filmed by David Friedman. You can see more of Donovan’s work on hi…
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ISIS’s links to the San Bernardino shooting: what we actually know – Vox
Friday morning, multiple news outlets reported some disturbing news: One of the San Bernardino shooters, 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik, apparently pledged allegiance to ISIS in a Facebook post before the shooting.
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David Cameron’s Britain is not, thank goodness, Vladamir Putin’s Russia.
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Vikings were not spurred to Greenland by warm weather, research shows | World news | The Guardian
The vikings’ arrival and departure from Greenland was not heavily influenced by the so-called medieval warm period, according to new research that casts doubt that the climatic change was a global phenomenon.
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Watch a four-year-old crash a remote-control Volvo dump truck | The Verge
Every kid loves playing with remote-controlled cars. Every kid loves playing with toy dump trucks.
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Passenger Name Record: EU reaches agreement – BBC News
The EU has agreed on a system to share airline passenger details in a bid to improve counter-terrorism efforts. The Passenger Name Record (PNR) system will allow access to passenger information including names, contact details and credit cards.
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Robbie Robertson Talks Native American Heritage, New Children’s Book | Rolling Stone
Robbie Robertson is spending his golden years holed up and writing feverishly. It’s the only way he’s ever been able to work, he said in a phone conversation with Rolling Stone.
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Most Bogus Study Ever Links Viewing Sexual Content to Impaired Memory – The Daily Beast
Last year, the Journal of Religion and Health published an article linking schizophrenia to demonic possession based on the claims of a single faith healer.
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Our Shared Blame for the Shooting in San Bernardino – The New Yorker
Only in America, as the song says—only in America are there enough mass shootings in a single week to allow pundits and philosophers to make complicated points about the nature of responsibility and guilt that elsewhere might exist only in the realm…
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Ted Cruz Isn’t Crazy – He’s Much Worse | Rolling Stone
In no particular order, Texas senator and Republican presidential aspirant Ted Cruz has: said acts of Christian terrorism stopped centuries ago, forgetting the Ku Klux Klan and the shooting in Colorado last week; claimed he has never met an anti-abo…
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Velvet Revolver on Scott Weiland’s Death: ‘His Artistry Will Live On’ | Rolling Stone
The surviving members of Velvet Revolver have issued a statement regarding the death of their former frontman, Scott Weiland. Guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Dave Kushner jointly used the bass player’s Faceboo…
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Vaginal ultrasound or no boom boom. They could use the same probes.
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Photos of the Week: 11/28-12/4 (35 photos) https://t.co/zYnmyWOa8X https://t.co/GGTGzFZwE4 https://t.co/G7r3QmHA8o
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Mo Bagels first loaf! (And her beams are on) : Catloaf
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Gregynog, a large country house in Wales : pics
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“Repugnant” online discussions are not illegal thoughtcrime, court rules | Ars Technica
Fantasizing online about kidnapping, sexually abusing, and eating women does not amount to unlawful conduct or thoughtcrime, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Chip Kelly Should Probably Fire Himself | FiveThirtyEight
Things look bad for Chip Kelly and his Eagles.
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TalentSky Is Building A Professional Network With A Focus On Verified Skills | TechCrunch
Rick Devine has spent more than a decade as an executive recruiter, and even introduced Steve Jobs to his eventual successor Tim Cook back in 1998.
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Photos of the Week: 11/28-12/4 – The Atlantic
A policeman hauls ass in Oklahoma, record-setting smog in Beijing, a horrific shooting in San Bernardino, a climate conference in Paris, Christmas lights in New York, Pope Francis in Africa, and much more.
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Spider-Man will be in Captain America: Civil War, according to Iron Man | The Verge
Spider-Man’s debut in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War has been rumored / more or less assumed for some time, and now it seems Robert Downey Jr. has all but confirmed it.
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Russia’s ISIS Money Men Exposed – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — In the middle of an angry exchange with Russia, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing a Christian businessman in Syria with Russian nationality of brokering deals between the Damascus government and the jihadists of the so-c…
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Retiring LA Lakers great Kobe Bryant has said he would love to represent the US at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Bryant, 37, regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in history, announced this week he would retire at the end of the NBA season.
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Order Stayed for Arkansas on Lethal Drugs Source | Al Jazeera America
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday granted the state’s request to temporarily put on hold a judge’s order to turn over information about the source of its execution drugs.
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India: Heavy floods kill Chennai hospital patients – Al Jazeera English
Eighteen patients have died in an intensive care unit in the southern Indian city of Chennai after heavy flooding caused disruptions to generators running life-support systems, officials have said.
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What? A War Of The Worlds sequel? Oh, the copyright’s expiring · Newswire · The A.V. Club
H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds is one of the most well-known and highly regarded science-fiction novels of all time, a classic of the genre and a landmark in the development of alien-invasion stories.
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Warty Wonders: Three New Toads Found in Brazil
Marcio Pie was ready to give up. He and his team had left Paraná, Brazil (map), at the crack of dawn for a long, bumpy ride in a beat-up 4×4.
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7 Great Books That Show Just How Terrifying an Environmental Apocalypse Could Be
A world ravaged by climate change is hard to imagine—but this terrible prospect could be in our future, unless we do a better job of imagining it now. So we’re lucky that some of our most talented authors have tackled the challenge of depicting an e…
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The Ultimate Hostess Challenge: Non-Drinkers — The Cut
We non-drinkers are legion, and we come from all walks of life: Mormons, Muslims, pregnant Christians; pregnant heathens, straight-edge punk kids; the sober, the underage, the antibiotic-taking, and the designated driving; the so-far-hung-over that …
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Politicians Need to Ditch Their Inflammatory Rhetoric – The Daily Beast
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
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Environmental sensors inside new phones mean that clever apps can turn everyone into roving weather reporter, and help make everyone more aware of the environment they’re living in. (wired.com)
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The creators of The Good Wife are making a show about a female papal spokesperson | The Verge
Robert King and Michelle King, creators of CBS’s wildly popular show The Good Wife, have sold a series about a female papal spokesperson to Amazon, Deadline reports.
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Bring Sex Back Into Your Relationship With Sensate Focusing
It’s not a very sexy thing to talk about, but sex ruts happen. Maybe something awkward happened to put you and your partner off of sex. Maybe you just got too comfortable with not doing it.
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Scientists shouldn’t edit the human gene pool, expert panel decides | The Verge
Scientists shouldn’t use gene-editing technology to modify human embryos that might result in a person, a group of international experts concluded yesterday in Washington, DC, during the International Summit on Human Gene Editing.
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Paul Ryan Just Accidentally Made a Great Case for Raising the Minimum Wage | The Nation
On Thursday, Paul Ryan gave his first major policy speech as speaker of the House of Representatives. He spoke for nearly half an hour about “the millions of people stuck in neutral… 45 million people living in poverty.”
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More video footage emerges of man’s fatal shooting by San Francisco police | US news | The Guardian
More video footage has emerged of a fatal shooting by police in San Francisco this week that has been questioned by community activists and the city’s public defender.
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MSNBC and CNN Enter San Bernardino Suspects’ Apartment – The Atlantic
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The Arsenal Of The San Bernardino Shooters Was Truly Massive | ThinkProgress
The suspects who allegedly killed 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, California had enough armaments to kill a small town, according to law enforcement sources.
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BBC Sport – Real Madrid thrown out of Spanish Cup for fielding ineligible player
Real Madrid have been expelled from the Copa del Rey for fielding an ineligible player against Cadiz on Wednesday.
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Tag Heuer’s Carrera Connected is a damning critique of smartwatches | The Verge
Are smartwatches just lesser watches? Ask someone you know to name watchmakers and you’ll likely hear a few familiar brands: Rolex, Timex, Swatch, and others.
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San Bernardino shooting: First images from inside suspects’ home – BBC News
The BBC’s David Willis was among a group of reporters given access to the home of the two San Bernardino shooting suspects, with the permission of the landlord. The apartment is in Redlands, California.
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Kickstarter delivers Jack Monroe’s latest cookbook in less than a day | Books | The Guardian
When Jack Monroe decided to use Kickstarter to self-publish a third cookbook, the austerity campaigner turned cooking columnist hoped to raise £8,000 – and has instead raised triple that, in less than 24 hours.
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There’s More To The New Star Wars Villain, Captain Phasma, Than Anyone Realized
We’re officially two weeks out from the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the last thing you probably want are spoilers, minor as they may be. Nevertheless, some new info about Captain Phasma has been revealed. Minor spoilers for The Force…
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An Aggressive France Cracks Down on Mosques – The Atlantic
The news from France may have quieted down, but that doesn’t mean it has been quiet.
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Ash Carter Announces All Jobs in the Military Are Open to Women – The Atlantic
On Thursday, Carter announced that all jobs in the U.S. military will now be open to women. Positions will no longer be closed exclusively because of gender; all members of the military will now be able to serve in any position for which they meet t…
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What was supposed to be a low-key diplomatic meet-and-greet between Austria and Israel has devolved into a spat over Israel’s expansion into East Jerusalem, a neighborhood that Palestinians insist should be the capital of its future state.
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70 Complete Episodes of Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting Now Free Online | Open Culture
Back in October, we helped break the news that you could watch the entire first season of Bob Ross’s beloved TV show, The Joy of Painting, free online.
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The Zika virus is spreading across Latin America. Here’s what we know. – Vox
A rare tropical disease called Zika has made its way to the Americas recently, causing a big outbreak in Brazil and spreading to at least eight other countries. Scientists are still learning about this disease, which has long been thought to be pret…
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What the NRA’s ‘Professor of Killology’ Thinks About The San Bernardino Shooting | ThinkProgress
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a retired Army sergeant who gives training each year to National Rifle Association members on his study of killing, believes that the United States will continue to see violent mass shootings if we try to restrict guns.
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TV Reporters Bumble Their Way Through San Bernardino Shooter’s Apartmenter’s Apartment | Vanity Fair
Viewers of cable news on Friday were treated to an incredibly uncomfortable situation: reporters from MSNBC, CNN, and CBS aired live spots from inside the apartment that belonged to the suspect in the San Bernardino shooting that took place on Wedne…
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Smallville’s Tom Welling to return to TV as a secret agent · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Smallville’s Tom Welling is ready to return to the world of alter egos, although in a somewhat less powerful onscreen capacity—Deadline reports that Welling is set to executive produce and star in the CBS secret-agent drama, Section 13.
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Your favorite A.V. Undercover of 2015 was… · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Screaming Females! For the past three seasons the mighty GWAR pillaged its way to the top, but this year ushers in the reign of New Jersey’s Screaming Females.
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A haunting Nativity lullaby for the cold of winter · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We’re kicking off the season with holiday songs we’re not sick of yet.
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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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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Pillow croissant via /r/Catloaf…
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ESO’s ALMA Observatory Discovers Monstrous Galaxies Cloaked in a Huge Web of Dark Matter https://t.co/KWyHPxoLRl https://t.co/GbYxczPcx4
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Explore – Susan Orlean on the strange serendipities that…
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Susan Orlean on the strange serendipities that shape our lives. https://t.co/d1RwyDnXGg https://t.co/L4Lv8MN5Hm https://t.co/UMirobWENv
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Black loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/rq6xnImQQf https://t.co/Eqhhdn72Jf https://t.co/8nA6jCKT4l
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Who owns guns in America? White men, mostly. – Vox
Part of the problem with the gun debate in America is that gun owners and people who aren’t comfortable with gun ownership are, to a certain extent, just different kinds of people. This isn’t a lament about how there isn’t real debate in America any…
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Smallest wireless carriers beat the big four in customer satisfaction | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA earned the highest score among the four major nationwide carriers in the latest Consumer Reports ranking of cellular service providers.
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Scooter maker Razer is suing to be the only hoverboard supplier in the US | The Verge
Scooter maker Razor wants a monopoly on hoverboards in the US, and it’s willing to go to court to make sure of it. The company has filed a lawsuit against competing device maker Swagway in US District Court in California for patent infringement.
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This is your next jam: ANOHNI, Jeremih, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I can’t believe the musical year’s already starting to wind down.
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The ‘Big Moon’ Illusion May Be All in Your Head
The full moon looks massive as it sets behind the Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert, in this photo release on Jun 7, 2010. Why do observers report that the moon looks larger near the horizon than it does high in the sky? It may be nothi…
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Insert Snarky Subtweet About Twitter Trademarking Subtweet | TechCrunch
If you’re not sure what a subtweet is, then well…I’m not sure I can help you all that much. Basically, when someone talks trash about someone on Twitter without mentioning their name…it’s a subtweet.
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Brain Study Seeks Roots of Suicide – Scientific American
Suicide is a puzzle. Fewer than 10% of people with depression attempt suicide, and about 10% of those who kill themselves were never diagnosed with any mental-health condition.
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Krampus: the demonic Santa Claus you haven’t heard about – Vox
If you’re reading this, then you made it through last night unscathed. Congratulations! You avoided Krampus and made it to St. Nicholas’ Day for another year!
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Flash fiction: The Mission Lands | Books | The Guardian
“There didn’t use to be hills,” she says. “That’s what they said at school. It used to all be just water from where the bay is now. That used to go on for more, where the ground is, and you couldn’t walk anywhere because there was nothing to stand o…
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It’s The Last Day for Crunchies Nominations | TechCrunch
This is it! The last hoorah, do or die time, use it or lose it — your last chance to nominate a winner for the coveted Crunchies Awards. We will celebrate the best and brightest in the global technology world on February 8th, 2016 at the War Memoria…
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Trump and the “Low-Skilled” Labor Myth | New Republic
This is just the latest expression of a widely shared elite-conservative notion that a mix of concerns about labor supply and the rule of law animates anti-immigration sentiment on the right.
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Have there been 353 mass shootings this year — or just 4? – Vox
The shooting in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday was the 353rd mass shooting of 2015, according to the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker that Vox uses for our maps documenting mass shootings. Or it was the 29th, if you use data from USA Tod…
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: November 27th to December 4th
This week we learned how to get a bartender’s attention without being a jerk, set up the ultimate all-in-one retro game emulator, pondered the fleeting nature of time as we get older, and more. Here’s a look back at this week’s most popular posts.
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Climate Change Puts Food Security At Risk, USDA Warns | ThinkProgress
September was the warmest on record for the Imperial Valley, with temperatures climbing over 90 degrees. That meant trouble for farmer Alex Jack.
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Reporters enter San Bernardino terrorists’ apartment, rifle through papers, photos, other evidence
In a scene that can only be described as insane, multiple news sources have entered the San Bernardino terrorist suspects’ house and are rifling through whatever papers and pictures they find there.
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Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll gets bitten by nasty POODLE crypto bug | Ars Technica
A recent review of the Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll from toymaker Mattel uncovered several red flags.
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Twitter is trying to trademark the word ‘subtweet’ | The Verge
Twitter wants to own the subtweet. In a recent filing, the company has sought trademark rights to the word “subtweet.” Used colloquially, the word refers to a tweet that refers to a specific person without using that person’s twitter handle.
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io9 Newsstand’s Attic Is Full of Dead and Dying Aliens
This week’s stories are about things that can’t last: people, relationships, or alien flesh. And they’re about longing for connection: with one’s offspring, with a dead poet, and with… aliens. Again. Nela’s Dad started the thought.
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Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland, Dead at 48, Was a Classic Rock Star for a New Era – The Atlantic
That seems right. Weiland has now joined the club of rock stars whose premature deaths compete with their life story in the public memory, partly because his life story so easily can be seen as predicting his death. Drugs were what “Vasoline” was ab…
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An Uber Driver Allegedly Got High and Ripped Through a Closed Tunnel | Motherboard
According to stats released by the company last year, Uber averages one million rides per day—so it stands to reason that a few of them will go horribly awry.
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Don Blankenship fell from quite a height. Five years ago the former Massey Energy CEO had the West Virginia coal industry in his pocket, along with a fair number of the state’s judges. He’d put the coal miner’s union under his foot and crushed it.
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Long Island Police Department Buys Arsenal Of Assault Rifles Because Of Terrorists | ThinkProgress
Taking the “good guy with a gun” line to heart, the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island, New York is building an arsenal of assault rifles to arm themselves against potential mass shootings or terrorist attacks.
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Elections in Venezuela: Why Maduro Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy – The Atlantic
Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, recently announced that if the opposition were to gain a majority in the National Assembly in elections this Sunday, “We would not give up the revolution and … we would govern with the people in a civil-militar…
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Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online – Mic
Anonymous was running its anti-ISIS game the same way it had been for months: finding jihadists online, hitting their websites with attacks and getting their accounts taken down. Then, in June, the hacktivist group stumbled on something dark, volati…
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Inside the Wild World of Keirin, Japan’s Brake-Free Bicycle Racing | WIRED
Caption: Racers bow toward the spectators stands and judging booth before a race. Jasper Clarke Keirin is the most extreme sport you’ve never heard of.
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Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s searing satire, is the director’s best film since 2002 – Vox
Director Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq is many things. It’s the first film ever produced in part by Amazon Studios (with the studio Roadside Attractions). It’s a wild comedy that never loses sight of its tragic heart.
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Why the revenge porn king got away with a wrist slap | The Verge
Ultimately, Hunter Moore was right. The man who built a name for himself by helping people use the internet to humiliate and ruin the reputations of former lovers, often laughed at predictions that he’d one day pay a big price for his actions.
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Cruise.me Sets Sail To Make Young Folks Like Cruises | TechCrunch
Cruises, for the uninitiated, are trips on a boat where you eat too much, watch an Abba musical, and get the stomach flu. But they can be so much more and that’s why Cruise.me launched: to prove that cruising isn’t just for old folks and masochists.
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Judge: Prenda lawyer must sell condo, liquidate assets to pay $2.5M debt | Ars Technica
A federal judge in Minnesota has ordered one of the men behind the notorious Prenda Law group to liquidate his assets. Paul Hansmeier must now sell his condominium, among other assets, in order to pay back $2.5 million of debts more quickly rather t…
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US might roll back its anti-ISIS propaganda after questions from the tech industry | The Verge
The US State Department has been quietly battling terrorism in an online counter-propaganda war for years now, with arguably limited success.
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Russia passes law to overrule European human rights court – BBC News
Russia has adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The vote in the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, came the same day as the ECHR ruled against Russia’s Federal Security Service over …
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Justin Bieber unseats himself in UK singles chart – BBC News
Justin Bieber has scored his third UK number one single with the song Love Yourself. The track, which was streamed 5.97 million times, knocked his previous chart topper, Sorry, to number two.
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announce 2016 “The River” tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been 35 years since the release of Bruce Springsteen’s The River, and while that union card isn’t as useful as it used to be, still ain’t nobody like to be alone.
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Hear Jeremih’s Surprise-Released ‘Late Nights: The Album’ | Rolling Stone
R&B hit-maker Jeremih has surprise-released his long-delayed third LP, Late Nights: The Album, via Spotify and Apple Music.
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Harvey Weinstein Calls for Oscar Season to Last All Year | Rolling Stone
Harvey Weinstein Calls for Oscar Season to Last All Year “We need to support independent film distribution 12 months a year, not just the last four,” the studio honcho says
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UK Maoist cult leader found guilty of raping followers – Al Jazeera English
A Maoist cult leader has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his female followers and imprisoning his own daughter in a London commune for 30 years. A jury on Friday found 75-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan guilty of four counts of rape and six…
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After users of RushCard, the prepaid debit card started by rap mogul Russel Simmons, were locked out of their account money for weeks in October, scrounging for pennies under the couch, going without meat, and falling behind on bills like rent and c…
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Planned Parenthood: Myth Vs. Fact – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Craig Morgan on ‘Fresh’ New Sound, Leaving a Positive Legacy | Rolling Stone
As is the case with life, chemistry is also important in the recording studio. On a recent afternoon at Nashville’s Sound Stage Studio, it’s obvious Craig Morgan and producer Byron Gallimore share great chemistry as they work on Morgan’s upcoming al…
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Carrie Underwood, Zac Brown Salute Sinatra: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Carrie Underwood, Zac Brown Salute Sinatra: The Ram Report Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood also represent Nashville in new Frank Sinatra TV tribute
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The Alabama Dynasty: Another SEC Title Seems Certain for the Tide | Rolling Stone
Can we just cut to the chase here? I realize there are no certainties in life other than the Great Beyond and the Taxman, and I realize there are sure as hell no certainties in college football – a sport where defeat has long been seized from the ja…
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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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W. Bush never said “radical Islamic terrorism” either and the right wing media and politicians didn’t complain. In fact, the right used to complain that Pres.
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Why Are So Many Fossil Fuel Companies Funding the Paris Climate Conference? | The Nation
While the cardinal rule of politics is don’t bite the hand that feeds you, the funders of the Paris Climate Summit want you to kiss the hand that chokes you.
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Storm Desmond prompts flood warnings for Scotland and northern England | UK news | The Guardian
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Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635 by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Wife in San Bernardino Attack Pledged ISIS Allegiance, Officials Say https://t.co/GWsaBzSBUX https://t.co/nTwuTGoVqm
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How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings https://t.co/bjTKdZXL1T https://t.co/WkGbGTrn0v
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Swayze has the best poker face : pics
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On a plate: the top five spoilt suppers in fiction | Books | The Guardian
Splitting the bechamel sauce, mistaking coffee for drinking chocolate and reducing pasta to a crisp, charred coating on the bottom of the pan – I have spoiled my unfortunate guests’ dinners in countless ways. But in literature, these unimaginative f…
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United Nations ‘concerned’ about Sunni abuse in Iraq – BBC News
The UN says it is “extremely concerned” by reports of attacks by Kurdish forces on Sunni Muslim Arabs living in Iraq. It cited lootings, property destruction, abductions and killings in territory recaptured from the Islamic State (IS) group.
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Wink 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: Cheapies but goodies under $20 / Boing Boing
Already into our first week of December, the holiday month flies by about as fast as the bills spill out of our wallets. But fear not! Wink Books and Wink Fun have some extraordinary gift ideas ($3-$19!) that won’t bust your budget.
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DJ duo Zeds Dead attached heart rate monitors on their fans and analyzed the results / Boing Boing
A truly great DJ, just for a moment, can make a whole room fall in love, because DJ’ing is not about playing a few tunes. It is about generating shared moods; it’s about understanding the feelings of a group of people and directing them to a better …
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Think ISIS is unique? Think again. – Vox
If there’s one thing that almost everyone seems to agree on about ISIS, it’s that it’s a major — even historically unique — threat to global security. John Kerry called the group “a profound and unique threat to the entire world.
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Private Cygnus Spacecraft with NASA Cargo Makes 2nd Launch Try Today
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft built by Orbital ATK stands ready for launch atop its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launchpad in Florida. The mission is set to launch at 5:33 p.m. ET today, Dec. 4.
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What a NRSC Strategy Memo About a Trump Nomination Means for Republicans – The Atlantic
That’s the advice offered in a memo to top officials of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. If nothing else, it suggests that leaders within the Republican Party are accepting the reality that Trump really could sit atop the GOP’s 2016 pre…
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Dippy the arthritic penguin is given new home – BBC News
Dippy, a Humboldt penguin, needs a special access ramp to waddle into the water. The BBC’s Jo Thewlis reports.
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The All New Avengers Team Has Finally Assembled… Sort Of
The first issue of Marvel’s All-New, All-Different Avengers was, a lot of setup. So much setup, that it didn’t even culminate with the formation of the new Avengers team we’ve known about since March.
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News | To Jupiter with JunoCam!
When NASA’s Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, new views of the giant planet’s swirling clouds will be sent back to Earth, courtesy of its color camera, called JunoCam.
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Bloodhound Diary: It’s rocket science – BBC News
A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h).
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Who was that masked man? ORION: The Man Who Would Be King|Dangerous Minds
Ten years ago I was at a garage sale with my husband Steven in our hometown of Nottingham, England. On a stall filled with cheap ornaments and dog-eared paperbacks, standing proudly at the front of a box of faded vinyl records, we found the above al…
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Two days after two shooters reportedly gunned down 14 people in San Bernardino, California, investigators said that the wife of the young couple suspected in the shooting posted a pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant grou…
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 4th – The New Yorker
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Stopping the Child Killers by Anita Zaidi – Project Syndicate
SEATTLE – In far too many places around the world, the biggest child killers are caused by the smallest of organisms – the viruses, bacteria, and single cell parasites that cause diarrhea and pneumonia.
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“A Very Murray Christmas” Proves Netflix Defines How TV Works Now | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Bill Murray’s “A Very Murray Christmas” starts streaming on Netflix today. It’s an hour-long throwback to what a lot of television once was: an old fashioned variety show. The story doesn’t matter much…
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Why Is the Human Vagina So Big? | The Evolution Institute
We are obsessed with penis and testicle size. Yet, we can barely say “vagina” and when we do we’re usually talking about the vulva.
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Leonardo da Disney | New Republic
Artists are commonly supposed to work by inspiration rather than by the conscious use of their intelligence.
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Virtual Reality Gets Real – Scientific American
This generation of VR is cheaper and more accessible than its predecessors. Some of it is even driven by smartphones.
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Conservatives Are Out of Touch with the World | New Republic
The climate change conference in Paris is the closest the world has ever come to reaching an agreement that covers 90 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, but conservatives in the United States are focused on other matters. For example, President Ba…
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Meet Yuna: the first Asian American girl to be the center of a doll line / Boing Boing
Our friends at Bigshot Toyworks are kickstarting a new line of dolls called Dream BIG Friends. I saw the prototypes at DCon in Pasadena a couple of weeks and they are beautiful.
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Watch an Intense, Exclusive Clip of Michael Fassbender in Macbeth | Vanity Fair
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest play, which has made it an obvious candidate for film adaptations for decades: even audiences afraid of a long soliloquy can be lured in by the sight of murder.
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December is a time for beloved yuletide traditions: trimming the tree, hanging the stockings, drinking various nogs, and spending long, lingering hours watching reindeer via a live webcam setup. If that last part seems a little tricky to arrange, An…
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In His Fantasies—And In This Thor: The Dark World Deleted Scene—Loki Is Thor
As part of the marketing for the Phase 2 Box Set, Marvel released a deleted scene from Thor: The Dark World included in the set. In it, an imprisoned Loki uses his illusions to make him King of Asgard. Which means, basically, he makes himself Thor. …
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Why the US Air Force Pulled Its Predator Drones from a Secret Base in Africa | Motherboard
This story originally appeared on War Is Boring. After five years of steady operations, the United States no longer has any MQ-1 Predator drones based in Djibouti.
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San Bernardino shooting: Attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS, officials say : politics
Does the female terrorist gets her 72 virgins as well? I’m sure she will find many ISIS virgins up there. Many too choose from and more to come. HOLIDAY PARTY GET IT RIGHT. YOU CANT SAY CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA ANYMORE. ITS OFFENSIVE
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WASHINGTON — The woman who helped carry out the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook posting, according to federal law enforcement officials.
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In the continuing debate over how to stop mass killings in the United States, Australia has become a familiar touchstone. President Obama has cited the country’s gun laws as a model for the United States, calling Australia a nation “like ours.
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Inside an Exotic Zoo—In a Florida Jail | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
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Follow us on Twitter where we’ll announce the next topic for On The Line. VICE News correspondent Danny Gold joined On The Line to take your questions on the liberation of Sinjar, and the fight against the Islamic State.
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Twitter Suspends George Zimmerman’s Account After Posting Revenge Porn | ThinkProgress
Florida resident George Zimmerman, who was acquitted for the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, is no longer welcome on Twitter.
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White Obama, Black Putin. : pics
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Ryan Seacrest: The Mogul Next Door https://t.co/f2exmdK15B https://t.co/Wvnlkv6i3q
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Results of the Actual Worst Character on Television Bracket – The Atlantic
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Stanford to MBAs: Don’t Start-Up Until You Graduate – The Atlantic
Ten years ago, students at elite business schools were obsessed with getting jobs at Wall Street’s top firms. But that dynamic started to shift as, post-recession, the reputation of Wall Street soured and the appeal of Silicon Valley took off.
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Why Game of Thrones’ Ramsay Bolton Is the Worst Character on Television – The Atlantic
Earlier this year, when we started pondering the question of who in contemporary television is more dastardly, more unlikeable, and more flat-out terrible than anyone else, we had a handful of contenders in mind.
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Earlier this year a young employee at a celebrity magazine explained to me a problem. The magazine was doing reasonably well, as was its website. But both were publishing photos taken from Instagram with increasing frequency. This was fine: the phot…
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Nominations For The 9th Annual Crunchies End Today, Get Them In Now | TechCrunch
We’re just a few months away from the 9th Annual Crunchies, and your window to nominate your favorite tech startups, entrepreneurs and investors is closing today.
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Germany warns UK on rules for EU migrants – BBC News
A top German politician has warned that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for a four-year delay before EU migrants can claim certain UK welfare benefits is “highly problematic”.
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Jonathan Franzen on Freedom – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
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Crucifixion: Nathalie Handal on being Palestinian, writing and enduring love | Books | The Guardian
I sit by the window and wait for her to finish her story. She has the posture of a ballerina. Her honey-colored eyes against her hot magenta headscarf offer a striking contrast. We are on a bus at the Bethlehem checkpoint en route to Jerusalem.
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Mike Huckabee’s solution to American gun violence: An ‘absolute moratorium’ on refugees
It’s uncanny how an American gunman shooting up a Planned Parenthood while raving about “baby parts” has no lessons for anyone anywhere, but an American gunman shooting up an office party in San Bernardino means America shouldn’t be taking in any wa…
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Airbnb’s worst problems are confirmed by its own data | The Verge
Earlier this week, Airbnb released a massive dataset about its business in New York City.
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Changing Face of Obama’s Air War on ISIS in Syria | Al Jazeera America
Friday’s decision by Germany, following those by France and the United Kingdom, to join the air campaign against ISIL in Syria collectively mark the most significant sharing of a burden born principally by the United States since the strikes began.
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Matthew Price answers climate questions live from Texas, US – BBC News
Matthew Price is in Texas, the US state with the largest proven oil reserves – and the most carbon emissions. Many of the state’s law-makers are unconvinced that human activity is causing climate change. But the climate is changing in the Lone Star …
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San Bernardino shooting: Police news conference – BBC News
Police in San Bernardino, California, hold a news conference on their investigation into the mass shooting. US media has reported that the female suspect in Wednesday’s attack had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group on F…
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Slumbering Volcano Erupts for First Time in a Century
A quiet giant sleeps no more. This week, the Momotomo volcano in Nicaragua is erupting for the first time since 1905, spitting lava and a huge plume of ash and smoke over nearby Lake Managua. Schools have been closed in the area as a safety measure.
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Wife in San Bernardino attack ‘pledged support to ISIL’ – Al Jazeera English
The female attacker in the San Bernardino shootings pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and its leader, on Facebook and deleted the post before the attacks, US media reports said.
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Scientists Uncover Strange Secret Life of a Jungle Butterfly
While wandering around the Amazon jungle during a rainstorm, entomologist Aaron Pomerantz observed a most unusual little drama: On a rain-splattered tree trunk, cryptic caterpillars were feasting on peculiar yellow bulbs, accompanied by ants that wo…
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Review: Coldplay’s new album is better than your dad-rock jokes | The Verge
Coldplay has been one of the most popular bands in the world for 15 years, an observation that seems banal until you realize almost none of their contemporaries can make that claim.
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David Bowie Keyboardist Jason Lindner on Making of ‘Blackstar’ | Rolling Stone
David Bowie may not be doing any press to promote his upcoming album, ★, (pronounced Blackstar), but that doesn’t mean his collaborators are remaining silent.
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Inside Bill Murray’s Brilliant ‘Rat Pack’ Holiday Special | Rolling Stone
I’m the king of Christmas!” Bill Murray declares early on in A Very Murray Christmas, his one-of-a-kind Netflix holiday special — and by the end of an hour of music, comedy, and celebrity pals, the comedian has indeed earned that crown as our 21st-c…
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CA Massacre Shooter ‘pledged Allegiance’ to ISIL | Al Jazeera America
The wife who accompanied her husband in a savage gun rampage that left 14 people dead at a holiday party in California apparently pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), U.S. government officials said Frida…
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Here at Open Culture, we can’t get enough of the Chelsea Hotel, which means we can’t get enough of the Chelsea Hotel in a certain era, at the height of a certain cultural moment in New York history.
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“Is he ever not working?” Kevin Systrom, the 31-year-old chief executive officer and co-founder of Instagram, recently asked about his good friend Ryan Seacrest. The question, to be clear, was rhetorical. But it was a good one.
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You’re Probably Not Rich Enough to Opt Out of the Internet | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Last month at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, a group of technologists explored the ethics of developing web services in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Krampus Greeting Cards, Stickers, Books, Playing Cards, and more from Last Gasp / Boing Boing
Boing Boing is honored to have Last Gasp as a sponsor. In European folklore, the Krampus is St. Nikolaus’s dark servant—a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long, slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps!
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Volvo took a real dump truck, hooked it up to a remote control, handed it to a 4-year-old girl, and she proceeds to DEMOLISH a closed course with it. Man, I really needed this video today. Wonderful. (via @joeljohnson)
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What is Christmas? A religious holiday? A commercial ritual? A time of warmth, and togetherness, and generosity, and love? A time of sadness, and loneliness, and regret? Is it magic? Is it mythic? Is it madness? It is, at this point, all of those th…
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The Journey of a Plastic Bottle After You Drop it Into a Recycle Bin – The Atlantic
Most of us do not think much about recycling. We might clean bottles and jars, crush cartons and break down boxes. We might sort these items into their designated bins or bags, but once we lose sight of the recyclables, the rest of the process is an…
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‘Two new suspects’ in Paris attacks – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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San Bernardino shooter’s sister: I don’t know if I’d forgive him – video | US news | The Guardian
The sister of the male suspect in the San Bernardino mass shooting says she isn’t sure if she’ll ever be able to forgive her brother. Speaking in an interview, Saira Khan, sister of Syed Farook, said ‘I want to say I’m sorry. Deeply saddened. It’s a…
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Watching This U-2 Plane Get Taken Apart and Reassembled Is Maddening | Motherboard
Every 4,700 flight-hours, U-2 spy planes need maintenance. And to do that, technicians have to disassemble the entire plane, piece by piece, and inspect a huge number of components. Forty-thousand rivets and 1,800 revised parts later, the plane’s re…
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San Bernardino Shooting: An ISIS Link? – The Atlantic
Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San Bernardino, California, multiple news organizations are repor…
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Bootleg of the Week: David Bowie Live in Atlantic City 5/29/04 | Rolling Stone
When David Bowie launched his Reality Tour in the fall of 2003 it didn’t get a ton of attention. After all, he’d been on the road pretty steadily over the last three decades and his recent albums, despite being absolutely incredible, didn’t generate…
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Five deadly ISIL suicide blasts target Iraqi forces – Al Jazeera English
At least 25 Iraqi soldiers and militia fighters have been killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in two suicide attacks near Iraq’s northern city of Ramadi, military sources told Al Jazeera.
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See Ringo Starr, David Lynch Discuss Beatle’s Career, Meditation | Rolling Stone
Ringo Starr and David Lynch recently got together to discuss the former Beatle’s career, as the filmmaker readied the release of an album capturing songs from the tribute concert his foundation held in Starr’s honor last year.
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It Is Time to Do Battle… With Your GIFs!
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Venezuela’s President Says He Will ‘Never Allow’ the Opposition to Win Sunday’s Vote | VICE News
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has said he will get “out on the streets” if the political opposition wins key elections this Sunday that could break the ruling party’s 16-year control of the national legislature.
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I called back everyone who texted me for a week — Hopes&Fears
Most young people regard a phone call as an emergency measure; a call to action, immediately. We ignore the worth of phone calls’ potentially good qualities like efficiency or sincerity. Unexpected phone calls in particular are intercepted with pani…
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SEATTLE — Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of dots that reflect laser beams.
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Microsoft’s next Build conference starts on March 30th in San Francisco | The Verge
Microsoft held one of its biggest Build developer conferences in San Francisco earlier this year, and now the software maker is ready to return to California.
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The Associated Press reports today that GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump asked a man who was once involved in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme to be a senior business adviser to the Trump real-estate empire. His name is Felix Sater. You …
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It Is Time to Do Battle… With Your GIFs!
It’s Friday, it’s been a long week, and now it’s time to let out all your stress and frustration with a friendly fight club—I mean GIF party. Here’s one I made earlier from the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer.
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Beyond Hollywood: share your real-life Boston photos and stories | US news | The Guardian
Recent Boston based films Spotlight and Black Mass both depict it as a grey, chippy and tough city. This is nothing new as past movies like The Departed, Good Will Hunting and The Town all portray the same level of grittiness and desperation.
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Nuclear Power Must Make a Comeback for Climate’s Sake – Scientific American
Scientists have now turned their attention to what would be needed after 2030 to meet a 2 C goal: an energy system transformation that emits less carbon. For this, all technology options need to be on the table, including nuclear, the scientists sai…
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Video of 5 San Francisco police officers shooting a Black man dead goes viral / Boing Boing
In a now-viral police killing video captured in San Francisco, a 26-year-old man stands up against a wall as a group of police officers aim their guns at him. Mario Woods, 26, was then shot to death, execution-style. Mr.
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‘I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,’ said President Barack Obama after a mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in June. That was before Oregon, before Colorado Springs and before San Bernardino.
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Today, the concept of putting your music on cassette tapes seems quaint, but in 1985, cassettes were the primary medium of exchange for those creating original material in the experimental music underground.
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Thai Printer of Int’l NY Times Blocks Stories | Al Jazeera America
The New York Times decried limits on media freedom in Thailand on Friday after its local printer refused to publish articles about the Southeast Asian country for a third time.
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We Must Keep Fighting For More and Better Infrastructure Investment
President Obama finally had on his desk Friday a $305 billion, five-year surface transportation bill – a rare legislative accomplishment in an era where gridlock and obstruction on any government action that would create jobs and grow the economy is…
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How to Satisfy the World’s Surging Appetite for Meat – WSJ
The chickens squawking in a cinder-block barn near the heart of the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., don’t know it, but they play an important part in the plans of the agriculture industry. The challenge: How to feed the 2.
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Tea Making Robot Teforia Brews Up $5.1 Million In Seed Funding | TechCrunch
Teforia, the startup that promises its machine makes the perfect cup of tea every time has pulled in $5.1 million in a deal to help it take on the brewed beverage technology space. The company launched a rather successful pre-order campaign for what…
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Climate Change Will Cause the Next Refugee Crisis | New Republic
The Paris climate summit has come too late for Ioane Teitiota from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, who made history when his case for asylum in New Zealand was rejected in September. His claim for protection was based on the effects of climat…
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San Bernardino shooter pledged allegiance to Isis, reports say | US news | The Guardian
One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, two US government sources told Reuters on Friday.
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Why outlet stores aren’t as good a deal as you think – Vox
Reporting for Racked, Chavie Lieber spoke to some shoppers who didn’t mind that the clothing at outlet stores was lower quality because they cared more about the design and the brand. But as Lieber, noted:
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This Just In: Female Shooter Pledged Allegiance to ISIS, CNN and NBC Report – The Atlantic
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How Terrorist Sympathizers Exploit America’s Gun Laws | ThinkProgress
Federal investigators now believe that at least one of the perpetrators behind the San Bernardino attack may have pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Why Tech Companies Are So Secretive About Self-Driving Cars – The Atlantic
Self-driving cars occupy the cultural space once dominated by flying cars. Both are a kind of shorthand for “the future.” But while flying cars have become a symbol of a technological promise left unrealized, driverless cars are widely believed to b…
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Cover Story: Eric Drooker’s “Shopping Days” – The New Yorker
“What would it look like if I took America’s obsession with firearms to its logical extreme?” says the artist Eric Drooker about his New Yorker cover for the issue dated December 14, 2015.
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Watch Björk’s ‘Mouth Mantra’ video, shot inside Björk’s mouth | The Verge
After exploring Iceland’s rocky shorelines and craggy, lava-spattered mountains in her last two music videos, Björk’s turned her gaze inward — inside her own mouth, to be specific.
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The young Muslim writers awards: celebrating a more diverse creative voice | Culture | The Guardian
Fourteen-year-old Shebana Khan, from Walthamstow, north London, writes poetry in her spare time as a way to express herself. She might be softly spoken, but she certainly doesn’t hold back. When she recites her poetry, she speaks quickly and rhythmi…
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Brooklyn’s Newest Open Mike – The New Yorker
Attention, performers of all sorts in New York City! Announcing a new mixed open-mike in the heart of Brooklyn! Musicians, comedians, and other artists, of all varieties, are invited to perform! The new open-mike “night” will take place every Tuesda…
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The Best Free Add-ins for Microsoft Office
Ever wish Word had an encyclopedia you could tap, or Excel could generate some dummy numbers? Office add-ins provide this kind of added functionality to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office apps.
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What Gap Years Teach Us About the Real World – The Atlantic
Manila, the city where I grew up, boasts a metropolitan area larger than Beijing and as developed as Singapore by United Nations standards. But there’s a visible gap in this vibrant, cosmopolitan city between the wealthy few and the masses strugglin…
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India bowled South Africa out for 121 on day two to take firm control of the fourth and final Test in Delhi. Left-arm spinner Ravi Jadeja took 5-30 as the Proteas, who have passed 200 only once in six innings during the series, again failed with the…
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Future historians — if there are any future historians — will almost surely say that the most important thing happening in the world during December 2015 was the climate talks in Paris. True, nothing agreed to in Paris will be enough, by itself, to …
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Talking climate
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The Voyager Probe Gets a Stylized Tribute
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Why Do We Have “Sister Cities”?
In 2012, the towns of Dull, Scotland, and Boring, Oregon, chose to become family. In their union as “sister cities”, Dull and Boring joined thousands of pairs of towns and cities that have developed cultural and economic partnerships with a foreign …
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Motus Wearable Sensors Bring Biomechanics Out Of The Lab And Into The Ball Park | TechCrunch
Baseball has always been a sport driven by numbers, and with modern Sabermetrics, it’s even more so. Motus has developed a system using biomechanics to measure stress on a pitcher’s elbow or a change in batter’s swing.
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California shooter ‘pledged allegiance to IS’ – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Facebook rolls out live streaming video service – BBC News
Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature on its social network which allows users to stream live video. Live streaming via mobile phones has become one of the big technology trends of the year, with Twitter-owned Periscope and Meerkat proving po…
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WASHINGTON—Triumphantly displaying the fruits of his diplomatic talks with 150 fellow world leaders at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris, President Obama returned to the U.S. this week with a couple energy-efficient light bulbs.
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Donald Trump opens ‘yuge’ lead over GOP field in CNN/ORC national poll https://t.co/R16tdRUosF https://t.co/yu6USxPys6
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A User’s Guide to Disrupt London 2015 | TechCrunch
Hard to believe that Disrupt London is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsors who promise to make your experience at the conference better and better.
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Step Inside Gaming Company Razer’s Largest Concept Store | TechCrunch
If you’re big on gaming, then you’re sure to know Razer, the high-end hardware company that makes gaming laptops, Xbox peripherals, sound bars and other such products for gamers. Did you know that the California-based firm has concept stores in Asia…
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Nicki Minaj’s brother has been charged with raping a 12 year old girl in Long Island / Boing Boing
Jelani Maraj with his sister Nicki Minaj, at his recent wedding. Photo via Ms. Minaj’s Instagram. The brother of pop entertainer Nicki Minaj has been charged with raping a child, reports local Long Island/NYC paper Newsday.
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“Strangler in the Night” single by serial killer Albert DeSalvo (aka “The Boston Strangler”) During the early 60s my old home town of Boston was terrorized by an ultra-violent serial killer dubbed “The Boston Strangler.
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The Next Delivery Battlefield | TechCrunch
With e-commerce booming and the holidays rapidly approaching, retail and tech giants alike are asking Santa for new ways to delight customers and increase sales. In the U.S., nearly half of all holiday shopping will be done online, according to the …
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Japan Orbiter Seeks Second Shot at Venus – Scientific American
Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft, whose name means ‘dawn’, gets a second chance to rise on December 7. Exactly five years after it failed to slip into orbit around Venus, Akatsuki will fire its engines and try again.
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Porsche to make electric sportscar in €700m project – BBC News
Porsche has given the green light to build an all-electric car aimed at challenging Tesla’s dominance of the battery-powered sportscar market. The German firm said it would create more than 1,000 jobs via a €700m (£500m) investment in new facilities…
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In the not-so-distant future you will read of a scientific breakthrough in an area your daughter was excited about in school.
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Congressional Candidate Renounces NRA Membership, Citing San Bernardino Massacre | ThinkProgress
Former Nevada Assembly Speaker and candidate for Congress John Oceguera wrote to the National Rifle Association this week asking them to remove his name from their membership list.
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Nigeria’s $500m typing error over MTN fine – BBC News
Nigeria’s telecom regulator says it made a $500m (£330m) typing error when announcing a reduction in a massive fine imposed on Africa’s largest mobile operator, MTN. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) initially said the $5.2bn fine had bee…
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ESO’s ALMA Observatory Discovers Monstrous Galaxies Cloaked in a Huge Web of Dark Matter
We are living in a relatively quiet period in the history of the Universe.
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Americans are safer than they have been in decades – Vox
The past two weeks have been filled with horrifying news. A gunman in Oregon walked into a community college and killed nine people before killing himself. Fights in Arizona and Texas colleges apparently escalated into deadly encounters, with gunmen…
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The Voyager Probe Gets a Stylized Tribute
Artist Dave Murray decided to use the Voyager program as his inspiration for one piece included in the Toronto-based Nuvango gallery show “Objectify.” The result is one of the most advanced pieces of technology of its time, rendered in relatively si…
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Ultimate James Bond Collection, Mad Max, and More
23 films, plus digital copies, plus space for Spectre. There’s no better gift for a fan of 007 (you) than this beautiful, minimalist, complete set. [The Ultimate James Bond Collection, $115]
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6 Things You Should Know About Venezuela’s Big Elections | Mother Jones
On Sunday, Venezuelans will head to the polls for legislative elections that could upend the country’s political calculus for the first time since socialist firebrand Hugo Chávez swept to power 17 years ago. Here’s what you need to know heading into…
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Planets cross-stitched / Boing Boing
Break into the tech industry as a project manager with this comprehensive training on all things project management. With 68 courses on Project Management, 22 on Quality Management, and 17 on Agile and Scrum methods, this bundle allows you to pursue…
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Back in 1992, when I was still in short pants and an egg cream cost a nickel, William S. Burroughs put in a guest appearance on Ministry’s then brand new single about heroin addiction. There he intoned: “SMASH THE CONTROL IMAGES. SMASH THE CONTROL M…
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Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band Set ‘The River’ Tour for 2016 | Rolling Stone
Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band Set ‘The River’ Tour for 2016 Celebration of 1980 album ignites 24-date trek kicking off next month in Pittsburgh
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Another poll, another GOP panic over Donald Trump
Remember how last summer Donald Trump was a distraction? A flash in the pan? Sure to implode? That distraction just topped another poll. And by “topped” I mean obliterated all the others: Three candidates cluster behind Trump in the mid-teens, inclu…
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Inside the Celebrity Hologram Trend | Rolling Stone
Alki David has seen the future, and it looks a lot like the past. David, 47, is the owner of Hologram USA, which wants to corner the market for “live” performances by 3D images of dead superstars.
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Watch Out, Climate Change Deniers — The Canadian Government Could Be Coming for You | VICE News
Environmental advocacy organization Ecojustice filed the complaint to the Competition Bureau asking the Canadian agency to investigate groups paying for billboards and websites that claim global warming isn’t happening, and that humans aren’t drivin…
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Journey Into Bjork’s Throat for ‘Mouth Mantra’ Video | Rolling Stone
Björk takes fans on an unsettlingly personal trip to her own mouth in the new video for Vulnicura’s frantic “Mouth Mantra.
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Republicans’ Climate Change Denial Denial: “We may be doomed. And if we are, you know who will be responsible: the Republican Party,” writes Paul Krugman. (nytimes.com)
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How an Alabama Scrap Dealer Became the Owner of NASA’s Lunar Rover Prototype | Motherboard
Earlier this fall, we brought you the curious story of a long-lost lunar rover prototype tested by NASA in the 1960s.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Have a Christmas. via /r/pics…
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Michael Fassbender Plays Macbeth, in a Gorgeous Movie About the Horror of Surviving War
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BBC Sport – Fifa vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout suspended
Fifa has suspended vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout for 90 days. The pair were arrested in Switzerland on Thursday at the request of the US authorities, on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes.
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Chennai floods: ‘We are lucky to be alive’ – BBC News
It’s the first time in two days that Loganathan Mari is entering the ground floor of his modest two-room house in Chennai’s Jafferkhanpet area.
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BBC reprimanded over ‘serious’ lapses in Radio 4 show mocking climate science | Media | The Guardian
The BBC has been reprimanded for a “serious” breach of rules on impartiality and accuracy over a Radio 4 show that featured climate sceptics mocking the science behind global warming. The episode of What’s the Point of…
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ITV apologises for Sir Lenry Henry gaffe – BBC News
ITV has apologised for showing a news item about Sir Lenny Henry receiving a knighthood that briefly featured footage of TV cook Ainsley Harriott. The gaffe was picked up by a number of viewers, among them Sanjeev Bhaskar, who suggested the broadcas…
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New York Tabloid Doubles Down on Its War on Guns | Vanity Fair
On Friday morning, the New York Daily News essentially confirmed they were on an anti-gun crusade, publishing the above image on the front page of the paper.
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures Mountain hare, Siberian ibexes and tiger butterflies are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Everyone is now calling for a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department
Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Chicago Police Department. Alvarez, one of the worst prosecutors in recent memory, joins presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton, Illi…
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An Inside Look at a Facebook Data Center – The Atlantic
We are running late to the Facebook Data Center. I keep checking my watch, as if the seconds might start moving backwards if I stare hard enough. This is not a particularly safe way to drive. I am, apparently, more concerned with being late than I a…
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The Wiz Live! Was Actually Good, and People Actually Watched | Vanity Fair
You might have noticed that Twitter was a little kinder than usual last night.
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Harry Styles Got a New Tattoo on Television Last Night | Vanity Fair
Consummate showmen that they are, the boys of One Direction, an angelic quartet (former quintet) of handsome British (and Irish) lads, will do just about anything to entertain us. And when they commit to a bit, they really commit to it.
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TelePromptor Turns Any Device Into a Teleprompter Screen
Even if it’s not your job to read the evening news, a teleprompter can come in handy. Maybe you’re practicing a speech you haven’t memorized. Maybe you’re shooting an online video. Maybe you just want to time your presentation.
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A Deadly Haunting Has Terrifying Results for Three Strangers
Intruders isn’t just one short, it’s three. All interwoven as the results of a deadly haunting, but each one could stand alone. In Intruders, Santiago Menghini effectively uses a bunch of horror techniques to create different kinds of dread. “5:45” …
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Hackers Access Children’s Names, Photos In VTech Breach – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Toy manufacturer VTech is the latest target of a massive data breach in which hackers have obtained personal information via children’s tablet devices, gaining access to over 4 million adults’ and children’s names, photos, and chat logs. What do you…
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Future of Sleep: Call for Pitches for Our January Theme Week | Motherboard
“You’ll sleep when you’re dead.
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VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. The Pacific Ocean warm spell that’s driving global temperatures to another expected high is projected to keep whipping up ill winds for much of the wor…
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Donald Trump opens ‘yuge’ lead over GOP field in CNN/ORC national poll : politics
And we’re still 11 months away from the General. Tell me reddit, which candidate (assuming a Hillary vs. Trump general) has the most potential to improve how the general public views them within that time frame? I cant wait to see once he gets the n…
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Saudi Arabia’s Depraved Justice | New Republic
In the coming days, a Sri Lankan woman is to be led to an outdoor pit in Saudi Arabia. Her arms and hands will be tightly bound, her body buried up to her breasts. Saudi men will then surround her and begin to hurl rocks at her head to kill her slow…
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Donald Trump Won’t Win Just Because More Voters Are Paying Attention | FiveThirtyEight
Us: Trump is very unlikely to win the nomination. Them: He’s likely to win. Just look at the polls.
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How to skin a cat / Boing Boing
The New York Times’ alarming headline “How to skin a cat” turns out to be a short, intriguing item about being a taxidermist in the 21st century Put any creature you want preserved in the freezer within two hours of its death; rigor mortis sets in a…
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What is life like in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, Syria? – BBC News
One of the key arguments that the British government made in favour of airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria is the need to stem the refugee flow.
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NASA: Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes “Reveal the Oldest Object in the Observable 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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TUSCALOOSA, AL—Speaking at a press conference Friday ahead of this weekend’s SEC Championship Game, Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban officially announced plans to wear a polo shirt featuring the University of Alabama logo during his team’s upcomin…
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NEW YORK—Hailing the phenomenon as a genuine economic miracle, droves of investors and financial professionals continued flocking to the Charging Bull statue in Lower Manhattan this week to see the tears reportedly flowing from its eyes.
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MEDFORD, OR—Overcome with humiliation after being stopped on his way out of the office and informed his backpack was wide open, local billing specialist Dennis Lee, 30, reportedly stood stock-still Friday as coworker Mike Faziola zipped the bag up f…
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Black Friday Sees Record Gun Sales – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The FBI reports that they performed a record number of background checks for gun sales on Black Friday, conducting roughly two per second, or 185,345 individual checks, breaking the previous record from December 2012 following the Sandy Hook massacr…
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The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd – The New Yorker
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Revenge porn site operator jailed for 30 months / Boing Boing
Hunter Moore, the loathsome operator of defunct revenge porn site IsAnybodyUp.com, will be spending more time indoors. He was sent down for 30 months at his sentencing on charges of identity theft and computer misuse, to which he pleaded guilty earl…
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A little while ago I went rug shopping. Four rugs were laid out on the floor and among them was one with a pink motif that was dazzlingly beautiful. It was complex and sophisticated. If you had asked me at that moment which rug I wanted, I would hav…
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Princess Charlotte Dress Designer Is “Completely Overwhelmed” by Demand | Vanity Fair
It’s hard to imagine a more enviable position for a children’s dress designer than having your frock featured in an official portrait of a royal baby.
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Witnesses began delivering testimony this week in what is the start of a months-long set of trials on the criminal culpability of six Baltimore officers for the death of Freddie Gray, who incurred fatal injuries while in police custody.
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Last week I wrote about what in our macroeconomic models has and hasn’t worked since 2008. As I said, demand-side events have been very much what people using IS-LM would have predicted (and did). But on the supply side, not so much.
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Delegates from 195 countries at climate change talks in Paris are under pressure to produce a working text of a deal by Friday, exposing sticking points and fault lines nearly halfway through the UN negotiations.
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Four Palestinians killed after attacks on Israelis in West Bank – BBC News
Four Palestinians have been killed after attacking Israeli soldiers in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israel says. Two of the attacks were stabbings, while the third saw troops hit by a car. In all, four Israelis were hurt.
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The cell’s ‘coal plant’: Fermentation – BBC News
Fast-growing bacteria, cancer cells, and even stem cells prefer to use fermentation to extract energy from sugar molecules, even in the presence of oxygen.
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The Palestinians Fleeing Syria Are Among the Most Vulnerable Refugees | The Nation
After the horrific bombings in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian jetliner over the Sinai, as many as 31 US governors said Syrian refugees were unwelcome.
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Fear and loathing in West Egg – the best Great Gatsby quotes ever | Children’s books | The Guardian
A sparkling era of decadence, deceit, and despair – F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby painted a fascinating picture of 1920s America from the perspective of those searching in search of the American Dream, set in the fictional town of West Egg i…
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Make Your Amtrak Trip Easier with Their Free Red Cap Service
If you’re traveling on Amtrak and have got a lot of luggage, make use of their free bag service for an easier trip. You’ll be able to board early and won’t have to worry about hauling heavy bags to the storage area.
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Martin Shkreli just reminded us why we need Martin Shkreli – Vox
Martin Shkreli thinks he made a mistake: He didn’t hike the price of his drug enough. And that willingness to say something so awful, so off-putting, is just one reason why he’s so darn useful to have around.
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A Royal Night Out Imagines Queen Elizabeth Flying the Palace Coop | Vanity Fair
There is a long tradition of films—ranging from Roman Holiday to The Prince and Me—about royals going incognito as “normal” civilians as they attempt to break free from their sheltered existences and get a taste of “the real world.” A Royal Night Ou…
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The Complete Philosophy Files by Stephen Law – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Have you ever pondered questions such as Could a machine think? or Does God exist? If so, then this is the book for you! Each chapter in this book discusses a different philosophical question.
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Michael Fassbender Plays Macbeth, in a Gorgeous Movie About the Horror of Surviving War
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most thrilling—and oft-quoted—plays, and it’s been turned into some really insane movies over the years. It’s a classic story of a good man who gets tempted with a promise of greatness.
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Geddy Lee on 40 years of Rush · Set List · The A.V. Club
In Set List, we talk to veteran musicians about some of their most famous songs, learning about their lives and careers, and maybe hearing a good backstage anecdote or two in the process. The artist: Geddy Lee is best known as the bassist and vocali…
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Oprah already has The Life You Want, will now write a memoir about it · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that entertainment powerhouse (and enumerator of her favorite things) Oprah Winfrey has just signed an eight-figure deal with Macmillan’s Flatiron Books for her memoir.
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Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, Phil Whitehead’s eight-minute video essay “Actors Playing Actors Acting” showcases those special moments in film and television when thespians are called upon to portray other thespians and mus…
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Cartoon: The blood never dries
I apologize for politicizing a mass shooting tragedy before the blood has even dried, but sadly, the blood never dries.
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Trump and co: pleasing the invisible hand that guides Republican fortunes | US news | The Guardian
Standing beneath four white Doric columns that parodied the White House, Donald Trump surveyed an auditorium full of wealthy Jewish Americans. He couldn’t resist. “You’re not going to support me even though I’m the best thing that could ever happen …
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Why ‘Nudges’ Hardly Help – The Atlantic
Can anyone be gently pushed toward a more secure retirement? Or a healthier diet? That’s the hope of a growing number of policymakers, economists, and psychologists. They aim to “nudge” people into spending and eating less, while saving and exercisi…
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Mississippi and Tennessee Are Fighting Each Other for Groundwater – The Atlantic
Memphis, Tennessee, the northern terminus and urban hub of the Mississippi Delta, was a foul place in the mid-19th century. Yellow fever swept the city three times in the 1870s, killing 8,000 residents and scaring away thousands more.
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Study: Quick Thinking Makes People Seem Charismatic – The Atlantic
The rapid-fire back and forth of a witty repartee is an exhilarating thing. When the conversation is ping-ponging between you and someone else—be it on a date, or in a business meeting, or at happy hour—chances are you’ll find yourself drawn to that…
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November Jobs Report Points to U.S. Economy’s Health – The Atlantic
The November jobs report is out, and it’s meeting what were moderately high expectations. The figures from the Labor Department show that the unemployment rate remained at 5 percent and the economy added 211,000 jobs in November.
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For too many people around the world, climate change is, without any exaggeration, at their front door. It won’t be long before more Americans – in Florida and across the south-east, for instance – will have to live with and confront these risks eve…
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New trailers: Game of Thrones, Batman v. Superman, Girls, and more | The Verge
Did you watch anything over Thanksgiving? I went to see Spotlight, which was just as good as reviews have been saying — it makes the process of journalism look remarkably thrilling. But now it’s time to look ahead again.
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Anonymous Hacked the Data of More Than 1,000 Climate Change Officials | Mother Jones
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hackers have leaked the private login details of nearly 1,415 officials at the UN climate talks in Paris in an apparent act of prot…
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You can now permanently delete games from your Steam library | The Verge
You are embarrassed by that game in your Steam library. Don’t feel ashamed. I won’t say its name. Nobody needs to know. You’ve tried hiding that game in a folder, but a folder isn’t enough. You want it gone forever. You feel guilty.
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Will Join Us At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
We’re only a few days away from Disrupt London. For the first time at any Disrupt, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson will join us to talk about what it’s like building a developer-centric communications startup that now has a valuation over a billion dollars.
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Judge ruling could expose who sells execution drugs to Arkansas / Boing Boing
An Arkansas judge has struck a law from the books that allowed the state to keep secret where it gets execution drugs from. The change means pharmaceutical companies who sold life-ending drugs to executioners without the public’s knowledge may soon …
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Essential Climate Variables: Glaciers
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Frank Paul of the University of Zürich, Switzerland, explains the importance of glaciers as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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Stop Torturing Yourself With Inkjet: This Brother Laser Printer is Just $40
If you missed out on Black Friday’s Brother monchrome laser printer deals, you can pick up a barebones (but still excellent) 2300D for $40 today from Amazon. This model doesn’t have a scanner or built-in networking, but it can still spit out 27 page…
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Norway newspaper publishes Father Christmas’ obituary’ – BBC News
The fictional death announcement was for “Dear Father Christmas, born 12 December 1788”, said to have died on 3 December in Nordkapp, Norway’s northernmost point. The funeral was to be held on 28 December at the “North Pole Chapel”.
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Stat check: No, women couldn’t just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed – Vox
The “defund Planned Parenthood” movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else. Other Republicans make a similar claim. A spokesperson for Sen.
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Judy Garland doing ‘blackface’ two years before ‘Wizard of Oz’|Dangerous Minds
No, this is not Judy Garland auditioning for the part of “Crazy Eyes” in the original 1938 Orange is the New Black. It’s amazing that this was not considered unusual in 1938.
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‘Punk Can Take It’: Julien Temple shoots the U.K. Subs, 1979|Dangerous Minds
Fresh from making his cinematic debut with The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, director Julien Temple wrote and directed this short promotional film Punk Can Take It for punk band the U.K. Subs.
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See Aubrie Sellers’ Moody ‘Light of Day’ Video | Rolling Stone
“Sure gets dark before the light of day,” sings Aubrie Sellers in her new track, “Light of Day,” that slinks in like a cowgirl who’s traded her boots and denim for leather and lace but explodes into fuzzed-out, twangy bliss.
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Are ‘cuddlers for hire’ a sign that city life makes us lonely? | Cities | The Guardian
The best city stories we’ve spotted around the web this week take a look at the rise of “companionship businesses” serving lonely city dwellers, discover an apartment building in Berlin where homes have been turned into storage units, hear stories o…
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2015’s Most-Liked Instagram Posts by Pop Stars | Rolling Stone
Over the course of the last year, musicians have made Instagram their space to tease new projects, show off their stunning awards show outfits and give their fans a glimpse into their lives and sometimes the lives of their famous friends as well.
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The Real Obstacle to Becoming a VC Is Financial, Not Gender, Inequality | TechCrunch
Start you own venture firm. That’s the advice that one of the industry’s first women VCs, Kathryn Gould, gave to other women, and it came to mind yesterday as I watched an interview given to journalist Emily Chang this week by longtime Sequoia Capit…
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SeamlessDocs Raises $5 Million Series A To Bring Government Forms Online | TechCrunch
The startup originally launched as Bizodo out of the ERA Accelerator and has since re-branded and re-focused on bringing governments into the now-paperless world we live in.
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Skywatching Mars: 2016 Is A Great Time! | Video
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As the US economy grows only the unexpected can halt an interest rate rise | Business | The Guardian
Plenty could happen between now and 16 December when the Federal Reserve has to decide whether to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006. Stuff happens. As Harold Wilson once famously said, a week is a long time in politics.
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New music for you: Wolf People perform their song “Hesperus” at Pickathon’s Pumphouse – Vox
On the first Friday of every month, I’m bringing you a new episode in the first season of the Pickathon Pumphouse Series. Each episode is a live performance filmed in the tiny little Pumphouse studio, on the grounds of the Pickathon music festival i…
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Tailback tales: The world’s longest traffic jams – BBC News
After Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge was closed, 11-mile (17.7km) tailbacks were reported approaching the Kincardine Bridge, the alternative route across the Forth from Fife to Edinburgh. But how does it compare to some other recent traffic jams from …
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Fan lists himself as a band’s family member on Wikipedia to sneak backstage | The Verge
A music fan in Melbourne managed to sneak his way backstage at a gig this week by editing a band’s Wikipedia page on his phone. David Spargo was attending a show by Australian duo Peking Duk when he had a “lightbulb-above-the-head kind of moment.
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Porsche’s Tesla-fighting Mission E concept car gets green light for prodution | The Verge
The Porsche Mission E, arguably one of the most interesting and beautiful concept cars to debut in 2015, was a huge hit at the Frankfurt auto show a few months ago — but the company hadn’t committed to actually building the thing.
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Senate Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, let terror suspects buy guns
In another stunning display of wasted time on Thursday night, Mitch McConnell’s Republican Senate voted 52-47 to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Identify Your Values to Create Healthy Habits That Last
From learning how to cook homemade meals to guzzling daily kale-salmon smoothies, any good, new habits require a fair amount of energy and time. But if they don’t connect with what you believe in, then you’ll fail to create the habits that matter, p…
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Reagan & Bush Sane Climate Change Memos Show How Far the GOP Has Fallen : environment
Reagan & Bush Sane Climate Change Memos Show How Far the GOP Has Fallen (slate.com)submitted 41 minutes ago by loading…
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“Bernie Sanders’ proposal to reinstate federal parole, if enacted, would be huge. If parole were to be reinstated, most federal prisoners would be eligible, according to a Congressional Research Service report.” (salon.com)submitted 53 minutes ago b…
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As it is the first Friday of the month, this thread is for meta discussion of /r/politics as a subreddit. We welcome questions about the subreddit and moderation policies, suggestions for improvements, and other comments you might have about the sub.
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America Has A Gun Problem And Other Uncomfortable Facts – Digg
Normally, What We Learned This Week is a digest of the week’s most curiously important facts. This week, it is not. This week the only thing we learned is that America has a gun problem. If you would like to share your thoughts on America’s gun prob…
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Congress Passes a $305 Billion Infrastructure Bill – The Atlantic
Congress scored the first of what could be a series of bipartisan year-end victories late Thursday night with the final passage of a $305 billion measure to fund roads, bridges, and rail lines.
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Star Clusters, Planets, And Geminid Meteors Rain in Dec. 2015 Skywatching | Video
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For The Good Of Tech | TechCrunch
We love tech, and we especially love tech for good. Come join us for the Oscars of the tech world, the Crunchies Awards, on February 8, 2016. There are only two days left until the nominations for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards close, and we want t…
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Why more education won’t end poverty, in one chart – Vox
The United States has made great strides over the past few decades in increasing the educational attainment of its populations. Millennials are the best-educated generation in American history and the baby boomers were themselves much better-educate…
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Giraffe’s long lost cousin found? – BBC News
Well-preserved fossils of the extinct three-horn ruminant Xenokeryx amidalae found in central Spain suggest it is a close relation to modern giraffes.
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As one of the adult entertainment industry’s top male performers stands accused of rape and sexual assault, the industry must now reevaluate how performers give and receive consent. On November 28, Stoya publicly accused her porn star ex-boyfriend, …
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Meet “Cosmic Girl,” the plane that would launch rockets into space | Ars Technica
Clad in designer jeans, black leather jacket, and white shirt open at the collar, a characteristically ebullient Sir Richard Branson bounded onto the stage inside an airy hangar at the San Antonio airport on Thursday.
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‘Police worried about stampede’ at Macedonia border – BBC News
The border between Greece and Macedonian reopened on Friday morning after it had been closed for two days. More than 1,000 migrants – notably from Iran, Pakistan, Somalia and Morocco – are still not being allowed to proceed.
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The Economy: The New Normal Isn’t
The November jobs report – 211,000 jobs with the headline unemployment rate staying at 5 percent – met “expectations.
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Prep For Holiday Family Time With Dozens of Board Game Discounts, Today Only
There have been several ad hoc board game discounts over the last several days, but Amazon just rolled double sixes with this massive Gold Box deal. Inside, you’ll find dozens of popular board games to pass the time with your family over the holiday…
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New Charts Show The Downward Spiral Of Chinese Coal Use | ThinkProgress
It appears increasingly likely China has peaked in coal. “Chinese coal consumption enters downward spiral,” is a key conclusion of a major new analysis of Beijing’s energy and climate policies from the Center for American Progress (CAP).
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This Scientist Uncovered Problems With Pesticides. Then, the Government Started to Make His Life Miserable. (motherjones.com) Key part for most people’s interest.
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Apple Makes A Beeline For Carrier Billing In Emerging Markets, Starting With Russia | TechCrunch
When Apple quietly turned on carrier billing in iTunes in Germany last month, we said emerging markets could be the company’s biggest opportunity and target for the facility, which lets consumers charge things like app payments and music purchases t…
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The Dream World Of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Based On USGS Surveys | FiveThirtyEight
Believe it or not, Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” — which centers around the friendship between a human and an Apatosaurus — takes place in an alternate reality. The landscapes, though, are being praised for their hyperrealism.
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Ellen Degeneres Invests And Launches Dance Off In Music Contest App Chosen | TechCrunch
Having all your content on TV is a bit like having all your money in oil: it’s still popular, but the next thing is coming and you better diversify.
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How scientists rank drugs from most to least dangerous — and why the rankings are flawed – Vox
There’s a very common drug-policy talking point that’s meant to convey the absurdity of the war on drugs: alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, even though alcohol is legal and marijuana is not.
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What’s the best way to protect forests? That’s a big question at the Paris climate talks – Vox
Originally published on Grist. PARIS, France — Outside the UN Climate Conference site on the outskirts of Paris, in a parking lot surrounded by hybrid buses, stands a pair of 33-foot trees one could mistake for an art installation.
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California ballot initiative aims to make it harder to acquire ammunition | US news | The Guardian
In the shadow of the San Bernardino massacre where two assailants armed with more than 1,600 rounds of bullets killed fourteen people and wounded 21, California advocates have a plan brewing to regulate the sale of ammunition.
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Snow of the Andes: Bolivia’s coca dilemma – Al Jazeera English
Bolivia is the third largest coca and cocaine producer in the world. They painted us as they wanted. Terrorists, Narco guerrillas, Talibans, Bin Ladens. Now we are the men who put ourselves forward to change our country.
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Government reports gain of 211,000 jobs. Official unemployment rate remains at 5%
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated Friday that 211,000 seasonally adjusted new jobs were added to the economy in November. Of those, 197,000 were in private sector and 14,000 in the public-sector.
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Avoid Holiday Overspending by Taking Fewer Shopping Trips
It’s easy to overspend around the holidays. You’re in spending mode anyway, all the advertising and holiday hoopla gets to you, and you think, “Eh, what’s a couple of bucks? It’s the holidays!” One simple way to avoid this? Make fewer shopping trips.
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Researchers Want a Robotic Space Cleaner to Digest Debris and Turn it into Fuel | Motherboard
Space junk poses a massive threat to all the satellites and spacecrafts currently orbiting space. Proposals to eliminate debris include everything from using electricity’s power to slow down its movements to modelling possibilities of clearing it wi…
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If the FCC Loses in Court Today, It Could Be the End of Net Neutrality | Motherboard
It’s crunch time for net neutrality. The US government’s landmark net neutrality policy faces a crucial test Friday when advocates and opponents of the new rules face off in federal court.
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The First Set Pictures From Luke Cage Reveal A Brand New Marvel Hero!
Plus tons more details on Civil War—including who’s in and who’s out. Batman v Superman toys give us a fleeting new look at Aquaman. A familiar Star Wars face is going to Rebels.
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US November employment Could Cement Rate Hike | Al Jazeera America
U.S. job growth likely remained solid in November in a show of the economy’s resilience, which could pave the way for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month for the first time in nearly a decade. The unemployment rate is expected to …
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Spain election: New faces as campaigning kicks off – BBC News
On the face of it, it is an election that will change the face of Spanish politics. As campaigning officially gets under way for the general election on 20 December, there are new political figures on the block.
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Scott Weiland, the American musician whose mercurial vocal style was a signature of the rock band he helped start, Stone Temple Pilots, and later Velvet Revolver, died on Thursday in Minnesota. He was 48. His manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed the dea…
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On Wednesday, a Washington Post article announced that “The San Bernardino shooting is the second mass shooting today and the 355th this year.” Vox, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, this newspaper and others reported similar statistics.
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Gamasutra: Rich Geldreich’s Blog – Opinion: Video Game Programmer Culture Must Change
I’ve been in the video game industry for nearly 20 years, and I’ve been programming for 30. I’m at the point in my career where I think I have enough experience to start publicly commenting on the state of our industry, because there is still much w…
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How fixing America’s mental health system might catch future mass shooters – Vox
This week, two shooters opened fire on a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding at least 21. Not much is known about the shooters yet, other than the fact that all four of their weapons were legally pur…
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Save 98% on the eduCBA Project Management and Quality Management Bundle / Boing Boing
Break into the tech industry as a project manager with this comprehensive training on all things project management. With 68 courses on Project Management, 22 on Quality Management, and 17 on Agile and Scrum methods, this bundle allows you to pursue…
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Half Lost by Sally Green – exclusive first chapter | Children’s books | The Guardian
Nathan Byrn is running again. The Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed. Scattered and demoralized, constantly pursued by the Council’s Hunters, only a bold new strategy can save the rebels from total defeat.
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New Law Paves the Way for Asteroid Mining–But Will It Work? – Scientific American
A newly passed bill sets the stage for the future of the private spaceflight industry, and could have big implications for asteroid mining By | This new bill enables private space exploration companies to own the resources they obtain from space obj…
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Nokia Closes Its $2.8B Sale Of Here To The Audi, BMW And Daimler Car Consortium | TechCrunch
One of the bigger makers of maps and location services used in mobile phones and connected cars has now been taken over by a consortium of car makers. Today Nokia completed its sale of Here to Audi AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG for €2.55 billion ($2.…
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Alleged john, prostitute busted by drone, face criminal charges | Ars Technica
An Oklahoma man has received the distinction of being the first “john” in the state to be criminally prosecuted and arrested after being caught in the act by a drone. Local police records show Douglas Blansett, 75, was arrested and released on Thurs…
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BBC News – Crew-less ‘ghost ships’ found adrift off Japan
Mysterious, crew-less “ghost ships” have been washing up on the western shores of Japan. The latest grim discovery was off Japan’s Sado island.
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Mitt Romney promised he’d cut unemployment to 6% in one term. It’s already down to 5%. – Vox
Back in the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney ran hard against the weak Obama economy and promised much better things if he got to take charge in 2013. Specifically, he promised an unemployment rate below six percent by the end of his first term:
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At 3% in the polls, Jeb Bush in free-fall : politics
Adios, Jeb. You would have been a good candidate 15 years ago, but your brother ruined the brand.
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The term “glacial pace” takes on real and literal meaning with climate change. The disappearance of our glaciers may have hastened dramatically, but our efforts to stop them doing so have moved at a truly glacial pace. This has to change, right now.
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Make ‘Dune’ Spice-Filled Sandworm Bread for the holidays!|Dangerous Minds
This is one of the best holiday bread/cake recipes I’ve ever seen! A spiced-filled Dune sandworm! Now, I haven’t made this sucker yet—so I don’t know what it tastes like—but I fully intend to test my culinary skills this weekend and try this worm, o…
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Intel Skylake CPUs bent and broken by some third-party coolers | Ars Technica
Certain third-party CPU coolers could damage Skylake CPUs and motherboards thanks to Skylake’s thinner construction, according to a report by German tech website Games Hardware.
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It’s become a catch-22 of our times: the global food system is both a villain and a victim of climate change. Agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and yet floods, drought, and the planet’s increasing climatic…
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The County: where deputies dole out rough justice | US news | The Guardian
After they broke his ribs, fractured his spine and stained his body with bruises, the sheriff’s deputies of Kern County told Scotty Byrket that he was free to go.
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San Bernardino shooting: US divided over whether attack was terrorism | US news | The Guardian
Even before the facts of the San Bernardino mass shooting are in, a familiar argument is dividing Americans along political, religious and racial lines: was this terrorism? The right-wing news site Breitbart.
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Far Cry Primal: Same old, same old | Ars Technica
We’ve had a Micronesian archipelago, the African savannah, Pacific islands, fictional Himalayan peaks, and even an ’80s action movie. Now we’re going 12,000 years back in time to the Stone Age. Far Cry goes Primal, said a marketing whiz somewhere, s…
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US economy adds 211,000 jobs in November – BBC News
US jobs growth remained solid in November as the economy added 211,000 jobs, slightly above expectations. The data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also showed the jobless rate held at its seven-and-a-half year low of 5%.
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Balakrishnan: Cult leader guilty of sex assaults – BBC News
Tom Symonds reports.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
Components of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also known as the Pandora Cluster: galaxies (white), hot gas (red) and dark matter (blue). Galaxy clusters are the most massive cosmic structures held together by gravity, consisting of galaxies, hot gas …
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Morning Digest: Democrats search for a contender to capitalize on a post-Vitter world
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Why today’s jobs report is a big deal for the economy – Vox
Employers added 211,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate held steady at five percent according to data released by the US Department of Labor Friday morning. Consensus expectations had been for 190,000 new jobs, so the report was a bit bet…
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The Victims of the San Bernardino Shooting – The Atlantic
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Morning Digest: Democrats search for a contender to capitalize on a post-Vitter world
● LA-Sen: On Thursday, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ruled out a Senate run for David Vitter’s open seat. It will be very difficult for Team Blue to win a federal race in a state as conservative as Louisiana anytime soon, though local Democrats h…
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Syria air strikes: Three questions on the UK’s involvement – BBC News
The UK government has voted to begin air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria. Millions of Syrians have already fled the country to escape the violence.
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Stone Temple Pilots Frontman Scott Weiland Dead at 48 | Vanity Fair
Scott Weiland, the former frontman of Stone Temple Pilots and, more recently, of Velvet Revolver, died in his sleep on Thursday. He was 48. According to a post on his Facebook page Weiland and his band The Wildabouts were on their tour bus during a …
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Why mass shootings don’t convince gun owners to support gun control – Vox
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Hi guys. This is my first post here so I’d like to tell you about a product I have created and selling here in Latvia.
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Is Technology Making Us Sluttier? | Motherboard
Over the summer, Vanity Fair ran a feature naming hook-up app Tinder as a catalyst for the “dating apocalypse.” Not long after, noted fearmongers AIDS Healthcare Foundation began running ads implying that use of Tinder leads to an uptick in STIs.
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Paul Krugman Slams the Absurd Delusion of the Republican War on Science – They’re even in denial about being in denial. (alternet.org)
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Ghost Boats Mystery Grips Japan | Al Jazeera America
Ghost boats with headless skeletons and rotting corpses on board have been washing up on Japan’s shores in recent weeks, mystifying authorities and prompting concern over the extent of North Korea’s food shortage.
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One is not like the other : cats
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Going to the park is serious business : aww
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10 Viral Sensations on Life After Internet Fame — Following: How We Live Online
Living, breathing memes, long after the clicks have subsided. Internet fame comes on like an earthquake, with little warning. In a matter of hours, a video can go viral and be viewed 50 million times. Then it (usually) recedes into a very long, thin…
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The Mother Sauces of Spain | Lucky Peach
The French mother sauces—béchamel, velouté, hollandaise, and so on—are well established and documented, like algebra or the periodic table or the character traits of zodiac signs. Spanish sauces are more fragmented and fluid, often more technique th…
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US economy adds 211,000 jobs as interest rate hike nears | Business | The Guardian
The US economy added 211,000 jobs in November, slightly better than expectations, with the unemployment rate remaining steady at 5%, the US Department of Labor announced on Friday.
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Economy Added 211,000 Jobs In November; Unemployment Rate Unchanged At 5 Percent | ThinkProgress
The economy added 211,000 jobs in November while the unemployment rate stayed the same at 5 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 200,000 jobs to be added.
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After years in the NBA doldrums, the Eastern Conference is fighting back | Sport | The Guardian
Just over one month into the NBA season and the league is facing a conundrum. The conference imbalance between the East and the West is simply out of control; if the playoffs started today, two Western Conference teams with records under .
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How To Save or Share Your iPhone Voicemail Messages in iOS 9
In previous versions of iOS, saving or sharing a voicemail was a difficult task, but iOS 9 makes it easy by adding sharing tools. I don’t know how long I just went about listening to voicemails on my iPhone before I realized iOS 9 had added a share …
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Week one at the Paris climate talks – quiz | Environment | The Guardian
1According to a new analysis, which country has the most ambitious pledge at COP21?BhutanChinaGermanyMorocco2”Many of my people do know the Earth as a planet among stars, they only know their world is made up of islands and surrounding seas.
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Twenty years ago, I left my tenured professorship of marine biology for Hollywood. I had a single goal — the cure for being boring (especially for scientists, some of whom need it bad). I found it in a narrative template I crafted and labeled as “Th…
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Indigenous Elders Send Stern Message to UN Paris Delegates: Preventing 2°C Is Not Nearly Enough – “World leaders in Paris must lead us away from the commodification of Mother Earth,” the elders write. (alternet.org)
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Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse (theguardian.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse : environment
Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse https://t.co/AMlmabsnvW https://t.co/y9CQJ8OwQ3
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20 champions of climate change : environment
20 champions of climate change (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Enjoying the sun in his own personal chair. : cats
Enjoying the sun in his own personal chair. via /r/cats https://t.co/Yb51SuNxyc https://t.co/FxfEGuxWWJ https://t.co/mfgjvD3HPH
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Enjoying the sun in his own personal chair. via /r/cats https://t.co/Yb51SuNxyc https://t.co/FxfEGuxWWJ https://t.co/mfgjvD3HPH
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This nickel could save your life / Boing Boing
If there’s one thing I just love, it’s tiny objects that do amazing things. Oh…and I also love great big objects that do amazing things.
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A Dr. Seuss addiction / Boing Boing
On June 30, 2001, a woman brought a strange sculpture onto the Antiques Roadshow for appraisal called The Kangaroo Bird. She paid $60.00 for it and wasn’t she excited to find out it was an original Dr. Seuss sculpture valued at $25,000?!
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NBC’s The Wiz was one of the best, most inventive television events of the year – Vox
The Wiz: Live could have been a trainwreck. Instead, it was one of the best live television productions in years. Prior to The Wiz, NBC’s track record with live musicals was spotty.
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Delhi imposes car restrictions to curb rising pollution – Al Jazeera English
Private vehicles in Delhi will only be allowed on the roads on alternate days starting from January, authorities have said, amid growing pressure to address choking levels of pollution in the city.
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Paul Krugman: “We may be doomed, and if we are, the Republican Party will be responsible” – “If there are any future historians,” there’s only one event happening in December 2015 that they’ll remember (salon.com)submitted 17 minutes ago by loading.…
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Bats in New Zealand Set Up “Time Shares” – Scientific American
When day draws to a close in New Zealand, the forests echo with screeches. There the male lesser short-tailed bat sings up to 100,000 songs a night—more than any other animal—to woo a mate. He serenades from a special singing roost used solely for t…
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American Radicalism Can’t Be Confined Within US Borders | The Nation
In characteristically well-reasoned and pointed argument, Eric Foner recently chided presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for invoking European examples in making the case for “democratic socialism.
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This week’s Nature cover story: Save our soils (nature.com)submitted 59 minutes ago by loading…
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“Can a podium stop a bullet?”: teaching in the age of mass shootings – Vox
I started writing this after the shooting at Umpqua Community College. But I could have written it after Columbine. Or Virginia Tech or Sandy Hook, or any other small town made synonymous with the ghastly gun murders of innocent students, teachers, …
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Bill Murray’s Little Christmas Miracle – The New Yorker
In the first moments of “A Very Murray Christmas”—which begins streaming on Netflix today, just in time to accompany your tree trimming—Bill Murray stands at a window in a hotel room, his back to the camera, staring out at the falling snow.
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CNN/ORC Poll: Trump alone at the top again : politics
Bush is at 3%. That is a new low. Wow. The thing that is killing Bush is that Trump actually does better with self-described ‘moderate’ Republicans who should be Bush’s base. It is hard to believe, but this poll is consistent with other polls showin…
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In Paris, Who Is In a Position to Save The World? – It’s a question that threatens to upend the climate conference. (newrepublic.com)
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Struck down at an office holiday party, almost all the victims of the mass shooting Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., were friends and colleagues.
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Where They Shared Their Working Hours, and Their Dying Moments https://t.co/bQGBbBfGae https://t.co/luLSFLWLJJ
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WikiLeaks Exposes Environmental Threat of Trade in Services Agreement https://t.co/lFViaf3mmi https://t.co/DXOsPE23ss
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This week’s Nature cover story: Save our soils : environment
WikiLeaks Exposes Environmental Threat of Trade in Services Agreement https://t.co/BZWu6Fu6l3 https://t.co/EZldcm1VO5
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UCLA Bruins upset top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats at Pauley Pavilion | Sport | The Guardian
UCLA Bruins upset top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats at Pauley Pavilion https://t.co/GaaQyGwMFH https://t.co/mPN0wjUbvv
Down 15 points in the second half, coach John Calipari told his Kentucky Wildcats they were going to find out who loves to fight and make winning plays. The answer was no one. -
Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! https://t.co/VLjAuXhJO9 https://t.co/DrmkGT072k
OK, we have a lot to do today. Please, everyone settle your differences peaceably. I don’t have time to preempt the show for any more breaking news about spectacular violence. Listen LIVE right here at 9:00 AM ET! -
Do Facebook and Twitter Make You Depressed?
Is Facebook Luring You Into Being Depressed? https://t.co/buBmwtOTYv https://t.co/WtXUdb4TUa
In his free time, Sven Laumer serves as a referee for Bavaria’s highest amateur football league. A few years ago, he noticed several footballers had quit Facebook, making it hard to organize events on the platform. -
Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Making Guns As Difficult To Get As Abortions | ThinkProgress
Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Making Guns As Difficult To Get As Abortions https://t.co/thpgp8vn6g https://t.co/IKv2Xd1IDO
Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman (D) has a creative idea for tackling the high rates of gun violence in her state: regulate gun purchases as tightly as abortion services. According to St. -
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I Went to India and Saw the Future of Climate-Smart Farming – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Earlier this fall, I traveled to central Gujarat and northern Punjab, in India, to meet with rural farmers who were trying new techniques to combat climate change.
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There’s Too Much Television | Vanity Fair
Are we approaching maximum eyeball overload? This August, John Landgraf, C.E.O.
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Every 16-year-old in Sweden to receive copy of We Should All Be Feminists | Books | The Guardian
Less than a month after it was revealed that the UK is planning to drop feminism from the politics A-level, every 16-year-old in Sweden is being given a copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s call to arms, We Should All Be Feminists.
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Tell Us Your Best DIY Success Story
We’ve asked you in the past about your worst DIY disaster. Now, we’d like to hear about your best DIY project. We’re all about DIY around here and we’ve all had our shares of projects that went horribly wrong and wonderfully right.
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Win laptops, game consoles, and collectibles in the 2015 Ars Charity Drive | Ars Technica
We’re once again coming up on the season of giving, and here at Ars, we’d like to give some stuff to you while you give to some deserving charities. That’s right—it’s the 2015 edition of our annual Charity Drive.
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WikiLeaks Exposes Environmental Threat of Trade in Services Agreement https://t.co/zgZkJACXkj https://t.co/79HLcjYt0i
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In Photos: First Parisian Cafe Reopens After Terror Attacks | VICE News
One sugar lump, then another one. This man loves his coffee sweet. And he usually likes to drink it in peace. However this will not be possible this morning.
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Europe’s Migrant Crisis Necessitates Alternative Psychotherapies – Scientific American
Existing treatments for victims of single-event trauma are insufficient for migrants with mental health problems, experts say A Syrian refugee woman waits at the registration office at the UNHCR Headquarters in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.
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The Cinderella Story Behind The ‘Tangerine’ Oscar Campaign | ThinkProgress
“See? You already got it wrong. The film is not about people in sex work. The film is about friendship. The people just happen to be sex workers. It’s just like a real life story, you know?”
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Small Countries Fight For Their Lives In Paris, But Have Little Control | ThinkProgress
Rising seas, melting icecaps, bigger storms. Scientists and world leaders know we need to stop global warming before it hits 2°C, which is why so many are gathered now in Paris for the United Nations climate talks.
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Watch real cars on separate racetracks compete in the same virtual world | The Verge
Castrol is doing a surprising amount of work blending the real world and virtual reality. (Although, any amount of effort in this field from a motor oil company would be surprising.
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A Very Murray Christmas is now streaming on Netflix | The Verge
After more than a year of development and depressing teasers, Bill Murray’s Christmas special, A Very Murray Christmas, is finally available for streaming on Netflix.
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Poor countries at climate talks in Paris have railed against an attempt to water down assistance promised to help them overcome the climate crisis they did not cause. Rich countries are committed to provide $100bn (£66bn) to developing countries by …
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Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time | New Scientist
A woman born incapable of feeling pain has been hurt for the first time – thanks to a drug normally prescribed for opioid overdoses. She was burned with a laser, and quite liked the experience. The breakthrough may lead to powerful new ways to treat…
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Oil tankers take a long time to turn around. The skyscraper-length ships carry so much weight and momentum that turning one 180 degrees takes at least 40 minutes even in calm seas.
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Japanese Probe Snaps Amazing Views of Earth and Moon in Flyby (Video)
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 spacecraft captured a series of Earth photos during a speed-boosting flyby of the planet Thursday (Dec. 3), exactly one year after blasting off on a mission to send home pieces of a near-…
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Nigeria storm over social media bill – BBC News
Nigerians have been reacting angrily on social media to a draft bill being discussed in the Senate which aims to “prohibit frivolous petitions”. Tweeters have been using #NoToSocialMediaBill to campaign against the proposal.
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Dubai to put solar on every roof by 2030 : environment
If they got it right, this could be huge! Well, they have a lot of Sun…
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2015 Has Been The Most Expensive Year Ever For Oil Train Spills In The U.S. : environment
2015 Has Been The Most Expensive Year Ever For Oil Train Spills In The U.S. (thinkprogress.org)submitted 32 minutes ago by loading…
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Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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Jeremih’s long-awaited Late Nights: The Album is now available to stream | The Verge
Chicago rapper Jeremih has finally released his first full-length project in three years, the long-awaited Late Nights: The Album.
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Hope and uncertainty in Venezuela ahead of vote – Al Jazeera English
On Sunday, as Venezuelans vote in parliamentary elections, there is a real chance that, for the first time in 16 years, chavismo – the political ideology espoused by the late President Hugo Chavez and continued by his successor, President Nicolas Ma…
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Dying for Mount Sinjar: Remembering a Yazidi fighter – Al Jazeera English
Duhok Khanke camp, Iraq – As news of the invading Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces arrived in Tel Zark, Saeed Hibo told his family that they should leave and take refuge at the nearby Mount Sinjar to the north.
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This Scientist Uncovered Problems With Pesticides. – Then, the Govt Started to Make His Life Miserable. (motherjones.com)
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Smog-stricken Beijing brightens up – Al Jazeera English
Blue skies have returned to Beijing after the wind picked up, bringing in cold-and-dry air from the Russian steppe. Beijing’s air quality worsened towards the end of November, culminating in an air quality reading of 611 parts per million.
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Take a look at the live performance above of a Johann Sebastian Bach chaconne.
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What happened to President Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence? | US news | The Guardian
America was rocked on Wednesday by news of the worst mass shooting event since the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in December 2012. But, as Barack Obama said after the shooting at Umpqua community college in Oregon, the nation has fallen i…
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Cult leader guilty of sex assaults – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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To reverse the gun violence epidemic — and it’s important that we use the word “epidemic” — we need to do the same thing we’d do for any infectious disease outbreak.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Gun violence and political cowardice
While the nation suffered through the shock of another bloody massacre, on Thursday every Senate Republican except Mark Kirk of Illinois voted against legislation to prevent people on the F.B.I.’s consolidated terrorist watchlist from purchasing gun…
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Wookie books: the sci-fi books that inspired George Lucas’s Star Wars | Books | The Guardian
It’s remarkable how many science-fiction fans hate Star Wars. To those who like their SF grounded in science, Star Wars is reprehensible “skiffy” in the pejorative sense, a flight of fantasy cloaked in science-fiction’s clothes.
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Green bonds have been described as a game changer in the fight against global warming.
Innovative finance has a major role to play in tackling climate change https://t.co/GtGqFOmaac https://t.co/jWdDKE0F8q -
First Click: Wearables are booming but is anyone still wearing them? | The Verge
Wearable shipments are up an impressive 197.6 percent worldwide in Q3 of 2015 compared to the same three months last year, according to IDC analysts. 21 million units shipped in all, up from 7.1 million in Q3 of 2014.
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The Weeds: dietary fat and climate change – Vox
This week, I’m joined by special guest stars Julia Belluz and Brad Plumer to talk about the science of eating fat, the global climate change conference ongoing in Paris, and new research published in the British medical journal Lancet on the public …
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Add Depth to Just About Any Dish with Fish Sauce
Fish sauce is usually associated with specific forms of Asian cooking, but it can add real depth to many dishes without making them taste fishy. I originally came across this tip reading Edward Lee’s fantastic cookbook, Smoke and Pickles.
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Germany’s parliament voted on Friday morning to join international military action against the Islamic State in Syria.
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Cooling Panels Pull Heat from Buildings, Beam It into Space – Scientific American
Air-conditioning accounts for nearly 15 percent of building energy use in the U.S. today. The number of days with record heat could soar in the coming decades. These two facts present a difficult problem: In a warming world, how can we cool our home…
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Reverb.com’s Marketplace For Musicians Tunes Up With $25 Million | TechCrunch
It’s been a long strange trip for serial entrepreneur David Kalt on the road to raising $25 million for his two-year-old music gear marketplace, Reverb.com.
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Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, is to head a new global taskforce aimed at highlighting the financial exposure of companies to the risk of climate change.
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War of the Worlds sequel sets 2017 publication date – BBC News
Written by Stephen Baxter, The Massacre of Mankind will see the Martians from Wells’s story invading Earth once more, having learned from the mistakes they made first time around. Gollancz will publish the sequel in hardback and eBook on 19 January …
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Delhi pollution: City to allow vehicles based on number plates – BBC News
The local government in the Indian capital has said that private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will only be allowed to operate on alternate days to curb pollution. The scheme will be implemented from 1 January, officials said.
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When is a mass shooting more than a mass shooting? – Al Jazeera English
Not everyone hears it, but the countdown is definitely there. The beginning is very precise – someone is shooting, a bomb goes off, ammunition drops from an aircraft, a sniper is somewhere. The news hits the airwaves, and we begin to wait.
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Gym designers have rid locker rooms of the gnarly shower curtains, trading them in for sexy glass escape pods. They have made bathroom stalls ever more private. Comfy couch corners, Wi-Fi and lockers with built-in locks have gone from swank options …
Love Everyone Often 12/05/2015
Climate delegates agree draft deal text – BBC News Delegates at a UN climate conference in Paris have approved a draft text they hope will form the basis of an agreement to curb global carbon emissions. The 48-page document will be discussed by ministers on Monday. tags: Pocket bbc news…
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