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Some mornings she struggles to get out of bed. On other days she is plunged back into her grief by the inevitable news of another child killed in a city grappling with one of the deadliest epidemics of gun violence in America.
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Spray the DNA away – an artist’s stand against encro…
The Amish are online, onscreen, and multiplying fast. In their battle with modernity, it’s tough to say who’s winning
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Investment in new financial technologies is exploding globally, and as traditional players look for opportunities they’re increasingly turning their attention to technology companies in emerging markets.
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What to Expect When You Switch Cell Phone Carriers
Everyone loves to complain about their cell phone carrier. Maybe they have terrible customer service, it costs too much, or they can’t get 4G. But rarely do we bother actually changing carriers because it always seems like a massive pain.
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Website lets you view old websites with old browsers / Boing Boing
Oldweb.today lets you view archived snapshots of the web (from the Wayback Machine) in old browsers. It has all of the important ones, from NCSA Mosaic through the Netscapes and Mac IE to the present day. [via JWZ.] You can of course use it to view …
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Restoring power to flood-hit homes and getting transport infrastructure up and running is the government’s priority, says the environment secretary, Liz Truss.
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Venezuela’s Opposition Wins Big, But Maduro’s Still There – The Daily Beast
CÚCUTA, Colombia—Venezuela’s Socialist President Nicholas Maduro appeared on state-run TV early Monday morning to concede his Chavista party’s defeat in Sunday’s crucial mid-term elections.
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Mixed reviews for School of Rock musical – BBC News
Broadway musical School of Rock, written by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has opened to mixed reviews.
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The buildings of the future will keep rearranging th…
One of the great laboratories of the future and its side-effects is science fiction.
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The twofold war against Palestinians – Al Jazeera English
We explore whether the world will finally agree to a meaningful and binding agreement on carbon emissions. Bolivia fights to maintain its traditional use of the coca leaf as drug trafficking threatens national customs.
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Can a Californian therapist teach Rwandans about for…
The meeting hall at Gasabo Prison is a vast space, built to hold hundreds, with brick walls, a metal roof, and a view of green hills through barred windows. But on this May afternoon, the only occupants were 20 génocidaires and a handful of visitors…
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CAIRO — As a tide of Islamist violence washed across Pakistan in recent years, Bahauddin Zakariya University in the southern city of Multan struggled to halt spreading intolerance, with mixed results.
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Venezuela’s Opposition Wins Control of the National Assembly – The Atlantic
Venezuela’s opposition has won a stunning victory in the National Assembly, delivering a blow to the ruling Socialists who have controlled the chamber for almost two decades.
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Obama’s Terrorism Speech: Does the President Take the ISIS Threat Seriously? – The Atlantic
At the core of Barack Obama’s terrorism speech on Sunday night lay a contradiction. He gave the address to convince an increasingly fearful nation that he takes the terrorist threat seriously. But he doesn’t, at least not in the way his political op…
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The key players at the Paris climate summit | Environment | The Guardian
As ministers from countries around the world fly in for the crunch second week of the UN climate talks in Paris there are still significant areas of disagreement, but also optimism at the talks that a deal can be done.
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Watch this Volumetric Display Create Laser Light Holograms | Motherboard
For decades, science fiction writers have incorporated holograms into their narratives, but now we’re finally entering the era of true volumetric displays. Take, for instance, the Holovect device developed by optical physicist Jaime Ruiz-Avila, whic…
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Silicon Valley VCs Talk Europe’s Startup Scene And Big Money In London | TechCrunch
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London, our own Connie Loizos sat down with a cadre of Silicon Valley investors to dig into what is going down on the American side of the pond, and how the group viewed the European startup scene. The group agreed that t…
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Drone footage shows extent of Storm Desmond flood damage – video | Environment | The Guardian
Drone footage over Cumbria shows the extent of flood damage caused by Storm Desmond. More than 2,000 homes and businesses in the county were flooded and at least 60,000 homes left without power.
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It can be hard to find a table these days at the Melao Bakery in Kissimmee, where the quesitos are exquisite and the mofongos taste as good as any you’ll find on the streets of Old San Juan.
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Beijing issues first smog red alert – 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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The Gravity Maze / Boing Boing
I buy an awful lot of toys under the guise of sharing them with my niece and nephew. The truth is, of course, that I’d get them even if I weren’t an uncle.
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Firms target more of central Scotland for fracking : environment
Firms target more of central Scotland for fracking (theferret.scot)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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President Obama’s Pending Executive Action on Guns – The Atlantic
Five days after a gunman murdered nine people attending evening prayer services at a South Carolina church last summer, President Barack Obama reflected on his country’s intensifying record of mass shootings.
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The Americans Who Actually Want to Do Something About Climate Change – The Atlantic
It’s a well-documented paradox that the average American citizen believes climate change is a much bigger deal than the average American legislator does. That was the case in 1997 with Kyoto Protocol, which Congress refused to ratify despite publ…
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Supreme Court to Take Up Case Brought by Dollar General – The Atlantic
On Monday, the Dollar General Corporation—a huge chain-store enterprise with revenues of nearly $19 million and more than 100,000 employees—will ask the Supreme Court to hold that none of America’s Indian tribal courts—not one of the more than 175 o…
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Oil price to remain low in 2016, says Total boss – BBC News
The oil price is unlikely to recover next year, according to the boss of the French energy giant, Total. The price of Brent crude is currently under $43 a barrel, down more than 60% since last summer, while US light crude is trading below $40 a barr…
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Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans | New Republic
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December 7, 1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor | The Nation
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$10 smartphone sucks / Boing Boing
Ron Amadeo has Wal-Mart’s $10 smartphone, the LG Sunrise. It’s shit. And yet… The specs look like something out of 2007: a 3.8-inch 480×320 display, a dual core, 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and a 3MP camera.
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Android App Developer APUS Group Launches $45M Investment Fund For Indian Startups | TechCrunch
APUS Group, a Beijing-based company that makes utility apps for Android smartphones, has launched a $45 million investment fund to invest in Indian startups.
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Fracking firms target sites close to Scottish cities | UK news | The Guardian
Major energy and fracking companies have made new bids to exploit large shale gas reserves close to many of central Scotland’s biggest towns and cities.
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Austria boy finds euro banknotes in Danube in Vienna – BBC News
Police in Austria are investigating how bank notes worth tens of thousands of euros ended up in the River Danube. The notes were found floating down the river in Vienna on Saturday, leading one passer-by to jump in and salvage the money.
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Miss YouTube Video Responses? Vessel Brings Them Back With Launch Of “Threads” | TechCrunch
Vessel, the video subscription service led by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and former Hulu CTO Richard Tom, is expanding in a new direction with the launch of a feature called “Threads,” designed to encourage more social interaction between video cre…
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With the Timbers’ MLS Cup win Caleb Porter showed he is the real thing | Sport | The Guardian
Bruce Arena, Oscar Pareja and Pep Guardiola have a WhatsApp group going, messaging each other all the way through Sunday’s MLS Cup final. The common thread of their chat is Caleb Porter, whom all three have clashed with at one point or another.
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Pleasures Abound in Love’s Last Studio Album | Mother Jones
Love, the groundbreaking LA band led by the mercurial Arthur Lee, produced a couple of bona fide ’60s masterworks in the form of Da Capo, a wild-eyed Stones-meets-chamber pop extravaganza, and Forever Changes, an intimate art-folk gem.
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The Time Donald Trump Tried to Get Mike Tyson Out of Going to Prison for Rape | Mother Jones
In October, GOP front-runner Donald Trump got a surprise endorsement from infamous boxer Mike Tyson. “He should be president of the United States,” Tyson told the Huffington Post.
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Surprise! These 15 Common Grocery Store Items Are Almost Never Recyclable | Mother Jones
The trash from our meals is piling up. For starters, supermarket goods are hitting the shelves in increasingly elaborate packaging—think soup pouches, snack packs, and squeeze tubes.
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Accuser: James Deen Had Help Raping Me – The Daily Beast
Accuser: James Deen Had Help Raping Me https://t.co/o8ylAnEHXL https://t.co/DfwnGruP92
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Paris Jews Defy Terror with Lights, Music and Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Daily Beast
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France elections: Le Pen says political elite ‘crumbling’ – BBC News
The triumphant leader of the far-right National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen, says French voters rejected the “old political class” in regional elections that put her party top. Nearly one-third of voters backed the anti-immigration FN, which won in si…
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This new initiative out of Paris will help fight climate change with trees | Grist
Is it better to send old food to the landfill or down the drain? And how can we tame the food-waste beast in our kitchens? Umbra Fisk cooks up an answer. Take 100 million hectares of deforested land in Africa, add a whole lot of trees, and it’ll be …
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FBI arrest key Silk Road ‘adviser’ in Thailand – BBC News
Canadian Roger Thomas Clark is said to have been a key adviser for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. The US Department of Justice alleged that Mr Clark advised Ulbricht about the best way to run the site and how to evade the police.
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Japanese tech giant Toshiba to face $60m fine – BBC News
Troubled Japanese tech giant Toshiba could face a record fine of 7.37bn yen ($60m; £39m) for its multi-billion dollar accounting scandal.
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Thailand’s village of Samut Chin: Turning the tide – Al Jazeera English
Ban Khun Samut Chin, Thailand – On the surface Ban Khun Samut Chin is an idyllic Thai fishing village. Yet looking towards the horizon confirms that something is seriously awry. Speared into the ocean, a line of equally spaced telegraph poles disapp…
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The need for Arab police reform – Al Jazeera English
On September 12, 2001, I took a flight to Geneva to attend the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Chaos in Cumbria: floods turn lives upside down in Lake District | UK news | The Guardian
Collapsed and dangerous bridges, main roads washed away and deluged railways meant chaos is continuing to turn lives upside down in the Lake District.
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When Quantico reveals its secrets and twists, they don’t evoke feelings of excitement, amusement, or surprise, they evoke feelings of exasperation, and sometimes relief.
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Joe Biden Is Visiting Ukraine — And It Could Get Really Awkward | VICE News
It’s a diplomat’s job to stay all smiles and keep the business of international relations chugging along, no matter how bad things look. But sometimes, even diplomats lose their cool.
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France considers blocking Tor and public Wi-Fi after Paris attacks | The Verge
The French government has drafted proposals that would ban public Wi-Fi and access to the Tor network, Le Monde reports, citing internal documents from the Ministry of Interior.
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Vincent The Cat Gets 3D-Printed Legs | TechCrunch
Vincent the cat was born without rear tibias, a deformation that could have spelt death for the wee kitten if some folks hadn’t found him at a campsite. Instead of giving up on Vincent, Dr.
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UK army deploys in flood-hit northwest – Al Jazeera English
Britain deployed army personnel, rubber dinghies and a military helicopter on Sunday to rescue people trapped by floods that have deluged parts of the country in the wake of Storm Desmond.
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India send South Africa spinning to series loss – Al Jazeera English
Hosts India overcame South Africa’s dogged resistance in the final session to beat the visitors by 337 runs in the final Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium on Monday and complete a 3-0 win in the four-match series.
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Killing whales: Let’s ‘agree to disagree’, says Japan – Al Jazeera English
Japan has done nothing wrong by deploying its whaling fleet for the annual Antarctic hunt and the world must agree to disagree on the issue, its top whaling official said on Monday.
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Paris Jews Defy Terror with Lights, Music and Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Daily Beast
PARIS—Defying rumors that Paris’s public menorah lightings would fall victim to terrorism fears, thousands of the city’s Jews gathered before the Eiffel Tower on Sunday night for a Hanukkah celebration that involved live music, traditional treats, a…
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Accuser: James Deen Had Help Raping Me – The Daily Beast
Last week, porn star Nicki Blue came forward with a shocking story of assault, alleging that accused serial rapist James Deen urinated in her mouth and then sodomized her with a beer bottle. Blue says she was a 21-year-old virgin at the time.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Artificial eclipse
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A Conversation Between Sir Alex Ferguson And Sir Michael Moritz | TechCrunch
And with that they were off.
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Green campaigners should stop talking about the risks from climate change in 2050 and talk about “right now”, the former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has said.
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Postmates Rolls Its Way Into London | TechCrunch
Postmates CEO Lehmann said today that Postmates would launch in London next year today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. The service will launch sometime in the second quarter, Lehmann said. This helps Postmates get ahead of other startups as it st…
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Twitter’s year in review proves you can’t beat a boyband on social media | The Verge
Twitter has published its annual year-end review, highlighting the tweets, hashtags, and emoji that were most popular on the social network in 2015.
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Leader of world chess body steps down over alleged Syria links | Sport | The Guardian
The head of the world chess body, FIDE, has temporarily relieved himself of his functions, after being placed on a US sanctions list for alleged ties to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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Skiing Santas take to the slopes in Maine – BBC News
More than 150 people dressed as Santa have taken to the slopes in Maine to raise money for charity.
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‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ Is a More Intimate First-Person Shooter | Motherboard
The bad guys have the front door covered. They’d prefer it if we didn’t know that, but thanks to a tiny remote controlled camera, we can see that there’s a ton of firepower pointing right at the door bell. We aren’t there, though.
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International intervention in Syria – Al Jazeera English
We explore whether the world will finally agree to a meaningful and binding agreement on carbon emissions. Bolivia fights to maintain its traditional use of the coca leaf as drug trafficking threatens national customs.
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Venezuela opposition celebrates poll victory – Al Jazeera English
Venezuela’s opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, trouncing the ruling party and altering the balance of power after almost 17 years of socialist rule.
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Holly Woodlawn, Lou Reed’s Wild Side inspiration, dies at 69 – BBC News
Holly Woodlawn, the transgender actress who inspired Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side and appeared in Andy Warhol’s 70s films Trash and Women in Revolt, has died of cancer aged 69.
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Now you can get Windows 10 on a $139 Lumia phone | The Verge
Microsoft might have two flagship Lumia handsets running Windows 10, but the software maker hasn’t forgotten about the budget smartphone market. After announcing the Lumia 550 in less than a minute back in October, Microsoft is now making it availab…
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A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect https://t.co/NYKxY732GL https://t.co/L2V9CmQAaw
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Thunderstorms bring rain to the Namibian capital – Al Jazeera English
Thunderstorms have brought much-needed rain to the Namibian capital. The city is currently in the grip of a severe drought, with Windhoek’s dams only about 15 percent full.
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India overcame stubborn resistance from South Africa to win the fourth and final Test in Delhi by 337 runs and seal a 3-0 series victory. Resuming on 72-2 on the final day in pursuit of a notional 481, the tourists were bowled out shortly after tea …
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TransferWise Wants To Take Over The World | TechCrunch
TransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus took the stage at Disrupt London to tell his company’s founding story. TransferWise has had a big year, and it looks like 2016 will be a big one as well.
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‘At least we are treated as humans’: Syrians in Sudan – Al Jazeera English
Khartoum, Sudan – When Mohammed left the Syrian city of Raqqa in early 2011, searching for a job and looking to avoid compulsory military service in his country, Sudan seemed like a natural place to go to.
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American Junior (automobile) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Junior was made by American Motor Vehicle Company of Lafayette, Indiana from 1916 to 1920. Also known simply as the American, it was an ultra-light two-seat vehicle with a one-cylinder engine. It was mainly intended to be sold for child…
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Paytm, which claims to be India’s leading mobile payment platform, has acquired local services startup Near.in for $2 million to strengthen its online-to-offline commerce strategy. Founded in December 2014, Near.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – An artificial eclipse
The Sun experiences both calm and tempestuous periods of activity. At its most active, our star can fling out multiple bursts of particles in a single day in events known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Particles within a CME are ejected at spee…
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What are the best books to read at Christmas? | Children’s books | The Guardian
For me it’s not a book, but the poem ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ by Clement Clarke Moore. I love the sense of excitement and anticipation that it conveys.
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Plan for 10 billion ultra-efficient LEDs lights up Paris climate summit | Environment | The Guardian
Governments including China, India, the US and companies such as Ikea are backing a plan to have 10bn super efficient light bulbs fitted worldwide to tackle the 5% of global emissions caused by lighting. The public-private partnership is expected to…
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Meet the Japanese robots that do what humans can’t | The Verge
Nearly half the jobs in Japan could be performed by robots in a decade or two, according to a recent study by Nomura Research Institute. If that’s the case, then the International Robot Exhibition — IREX for short — is going to be the best place pos…
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Thomas Sankara killing: Burkina Faso’s Diendere charged – BBC News
The leader of September’s short-lived coup in Burkina Faso has been charged with complicity in the 1987 murder of former President Thomas Sankara. Gen Gilbert Diendere is the most senior official to be charged.
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First time standing after being born last night! : aww
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Introducing the Startup Battlefield of Disrupt London 2015 | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 14 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest stage for a €30,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.
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The best graphic books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
If I had to choose one must-buy from among all the fantastic graphic novels that were published in 2015, it would probably be Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics and Graphic Novels, a wondrous compendium featuring…
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Of all the technological innovations happening around me as I grew up in the 1980s and 90s, none excited me more than the DVD director’s commentary.
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Storm Desmond: how has it affected you? | Environment | The Guardian
The army has been deployed after the effects of Storm Desmond left more than 60,000 homes in the north of England without power. Cumbria was the most affected county, with schools and hospitals closed and nearly 50 severe flood warnings remaining in…
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The best architecture books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
A striking aspect of Elain Harwood’s Space, Hope and Brutalism (Yale University Press), a hefty survey of postwar British architecture, is that it isn’t about brutalism precisely, but about this and many other styles of architecture.
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Joan Akien’s The Wolves of Willoughby chase is a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. This classic had me gripped to the book, I literally couldn’t get away! I fell in love with the setting Joan created, ‘a period of time that never happened’.
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A year ago, Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega cheerily responded to racist comments over his black stormtrooper character with a simple message to the haters: “Get used to it.
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Watch Disrupt London Day One LIVE Right Here! | TechCrunch
Disrupt London 2015 is now officially underway, after an incredibly successful Hackathon where FreeMe took home the main prize. Today, the conference kicks off with a chat with Taavet Hinrikus from TransferWise, followed by a conversation between Da…
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Spotify’s ‘Year In Music’ Recaps The Songs You Listened To Most In 2015 | TechCrunch
The end of the year is nigh, which means tech companies left, right and center are issuing their annual recaps.
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Michel Faber sends David Cameron latest novel to protest Syria airstrikes | Books | The Guardian
In what he describes as “a gesture of exasperation and rage” following the government’s decision to take military action in Syria, the novelist Michel Faber has sent a copy of his novel The Book of Strange New Things to David Cameron.
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Head girl gives scathing critique of elite Sydney school – BBC News
The captain of one of Australia’s most prestigious girls’ schools has sparked debate with a speech accusing it of putting profits before students. Sarah Haynes used her year-end speech to accuse Ravenswood School of peddling an unrealistic image of …
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Tajikistan earthquake rocks Central Asia – Al Jazeera English
An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck in Tajikistan, shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and in Pakistan, the US Geological Survey and witnesses said. The epicentre of the quake was 111km southwest of Karakul, the…
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The epitaph on David Phillip Vetter’s gravestone observes correctly that “he never touched the world.” How could he have? From a few seconds after his birth until two weeks before his death at age 12, David lived life entirely in one plastic bubble …
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How Twitter reacted to Obama’s speech on terrorism – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has made a rare Oval Office address after the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 dead. He said the killings were “an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people”.
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Spotify breaks down your personal listening habits with Year in Music feature | The Verge
Spotify has released a new end-of-the-year feature that gives you a personalized look at your year in music.
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Asian shares lose steam despite US jobs report – BBC News
Asian shares lost some steam on Monday despite a positive start, following a solid jobs report from the US on Friday. The US said it added added 211,000 jobs to its economy, which was slightly better than expected.
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Storm Desmond: Cameron to chair emergency meeting – live updates | Environment | The Guardian
Electricity North West said 40,000 homes in its region should have power restored by Monday evening. In a statement it said:
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The Turnbull government is considering legal action in response to Japan’s decision to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean this summer.
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How the Democrats Flubbed San Bernardino – The Daily Beast
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Why ISIS Just Loves Profiling – The Daily Beast
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Photoshopping History Is the Business of Tyrants, Not College Students – The Daily Beast
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Does Standing Lead to Weight Loss? – The Daily Beast
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Vietnam Vet Biker Killed by Police in Hostage Standoff – The Daily Beast
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“It’s so foolish to live (which is always trouble enough) and not to save your soul. It’s so foolish to lose your real pleasures for the supposed pleasures of the chase — or the stock exchange.
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Classmate of Tashfeen Malik: ‘I thought it can’t be her’ – BBC News
Talal Shaheer, a former classmate of Tashfeen Malik, has told the BBC about his “disbelief”. Malik and her husband carried out the San Bernardino mass shooting in which 14 people died.
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Supply ship blasts off for International Space Station – BBC News
A spacecraft carrying much-needed US supplies blasted off toward the International Space Station for the first time in months on Sunday.The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after three days of delays due to poor weathe…
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If you live in the northern hemisphere, the ever darker days may be getting you down. Britain, in particular, has just experienced an “exceptionally dull” November, according to meteorologists at the University of Reading, who saw just 18 hours of s…
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Ice and the Sky: the cold truth about climate change | Environment | The Guardian
Claude Lorius sits on a rocky outcrop and gazes pensively across a vast, white vista. Next to him a penguin patters past, hesitates and plops into the icy water. It is hard to tell who is most at home.
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The Opposition Wins a Landmark Victory in Legislative Elections in Venezuela | VICE News
Venezuela’s opposition has won a majority in the country’s legislature, delivering a major blow to the government of President Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution started 17 years ago by his predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez.
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Curry helps Golden State extend winning run – Al Jazeera English
The Golden State Warriors improved to 22-0 with a 114-98 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, with guard Stephen Curry scoring 11 of his 28 points in the final 2:10 of the third quarter.
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“In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.
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Bastar, Where the Innocent Lose Years in Jail | Al Jazeera America
BASTAR DISTRICT, India — Irpa Narayan limps as he walks the jungles around his village, Bellamnendra — an injury from the seven years he spent in jail for suspected anti-state activity before being acquitted.
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Jimmy Carter declared free of brain cancer – Al Jazeera English
Former US president Jimmy Carter told church parishioners in his native state of Georgia that he is free of cancer. The 91-year-old Nobel peace laureate and global humanitarian recently had a tumour removed from his liver, only to find four melanoma…
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Syria conflict: Coalition strike ‘kills military personnel’ – BBC News
The strike took place in Deir al-Zor province, which is largely held by the Islamic State group, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. If confirmed, it would be the first coalition strike against Syrian government forces.
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Benedict Cumberbatch heads celebrity list writing letters to Father Christmas | Books | The Guardian
“Dear Father Christmas … ” Benedict Cumberbatch’s letter to Saint Nick begins. “It’s not for us to turn around and plead for your help with the environment, the migrant crisis, the NHS, education, food banks, human rights, fundamentalism and wars.
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A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect via NASA https://t.co/LGNLEnep8v https://t.co/t2RbddbM5v https://t.co/OxROjv27NS
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It’s my understanding that Shiite terrorism, when it rarely occurs, is political in principle, while Sunni terrorism, which consists of the vast majority of Islamic terrorists, are based on religious ideology? Shia political stances stems from their…
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My Fellow Liberals: Don’t Support Obama’s Terror Watch List Gun Ban – The Daily Beast
I’m seeing a lot of friends and others who generally hang out near me on the left of the political spectrum express outrage at a recent vote in Congress to reject fixing what at first glance seems like a terrible loophole: People on the terrorist wa…
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San Bernardino shootings: Obama’s call for unity is a tall order – BBC News
On Sunday night, in his television address on the San Bernardino shootings and the “broader threat of terrorism”, President Barack Obama sought to tell Americans what he was doing, what Congress should do and what the nation shouldn’t do.
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Deadly air strike hits Syrian forces – Al Jazeera English
An air strike has killed four Syrian military personnel in Deir al-Zor province, news reports said on Monday. The air raid wounded 13 Syrian military personnel.
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Amazon Partners With Baidu To Launch Its Fire Tablet In China | TechCrunch
Amazon has turned to Baidu, China’s top search company, to power its Amazon Fire tablet in China — the country where Google and its services are not welcome. The device, which first launched in the U.S.
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“Right now, three-quarters of our food comes from 12 plants and five animals,” says Simran Sethi. She is almost incredulous, comparing it to a someone suggesting an investor plough all their money into just one stock.
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Venezuela’s Opposition Wins Control of legislature | Al Jazeera America
Venezuela’s opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide on Sunday, delivering a major setback to the ruling party and altering the balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule.
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The best art books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
The artist, as Antony Gormley says of his fellow sculptor Brancusi, is someone who “tries to remake the world on his own terms in his own studio”. This definition, at once cosmic and domestic, is beautifully exemplified in Piet Mondrian: The Studios…
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Why some German companies are offering refugees apprenticeships – BBC News
One of Germany’s largest companies is offering apprenticeships to young people who arrive in the country as refugees. Siemens is one of a growing number of employers who believe asylum seekers are vital to Germany’s economic future.
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Syria crisis: What is daily life like near Damascus? – BBC News
The United Nations will announce its annual appeal for the world’s major humanitarian crises later today. For another year, a record sum is expected to be requested to help millions of people inside Syria, as well as the millions who have fled to ne…
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Flight services resume in flood-hit Chennai – BBC News
Flight services have resumed in the flood-hit southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) after a week. Operations were halted last week after heavy rains flooded the airport and damaged key equipment.
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The problem with such a big buildup that Once Upon A Time has given us over the past 10 episodes, is that it was going to take a lot for a finale to be worthy.
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For Speech, Obama Selects a Setting He Usually Shuns: The Oval Office https://t.co/q9Al9HlcVm https://t.co/5UNp3kAqlb
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Congo’s near impenetrable ‘jungle of corruption’ – Al Jazeera English
Our long journey to cover the dwindling habitat for great apes in remotest Africa was on the fast track to go-time. After nearly two years of planning, the Lincoln Park Zoo said the trip to the Republic of the Congo was a go. My Al Jazeera managers …
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Vietnam Vet Biker Killed by Police in Hostage Standoff – The Daily Beast
A Vietnam vet and owner of a Wisconsin motorcycle shop was killed Saturday after fleeing a hostage situation, only to be gunned down by police. Now his longtime business partner says officers “shot the wrong guy.”Michael “M.L.” Funk, 60, was at Eagl…
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Does Standing Lead to Weight Loss? – The Daily Beast
Inside the article, it was reported that the benefit of such standing is immense, with the smallest effect size at 32 percent. The analysis apparently found that men who said they stand a quarter of the time were 32 percent less likely to be obese t…
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Photoshopping History Is the Business of Tyrants, Not College Students – The Daily Beast
It is one of William Faulkner’s most quoted lines. “The past is never dead,” he wrote in his novel Requiem for a Nun. “It’s not even past.” In fact, it’s being rewritten all the time for contemporary contexts.
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Did an ‘Islamic Feminist’ Scholar Inspire Tashfeen Malik? – The Daily Beast
Was her baby just a prop, a pawn in a long con?
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America’s First Legal Ayahuasca ‘Church’ – The Daily Beast
Spiritual tourists in pursuit of revelation through ayahuasca, nature’s most potent hallucinogen, needn’t look further than the state of Washington for their next communion. “We have successfully established the first public, legal ayahuasca church …
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The Adoption System’s Lost Children – The Daily Beast
Jaquan doesn’t remember much about the years before foster care.
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Why ISIS Just Loves Profiling – The Daily Beast
LONDON — If early indications are correct, the mass shooting in San Bernardino would be the deadliest ISIS-inspired attack on US soil to date.
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This Week in Fiction: Dana Spiotta on the Inner Lives of Con Artists – The New Yorker
Jelly, the title character in your piece in this week’s issue, “Jelly and Jack,” cold-calls men in the Hollywood entertainment industry and develops telephone relationships with them.
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How the Democrats Flubbed San Bernardino – The Daily Beast
Has there ever been a better example of liberal overreach than the coverage that followed the shooting in San Bernardino? It started in the immediate aftermath of the attack with Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who said: “Yo GOP, kinda hard to t…
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons December 14, 2015 – The New Yorker
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It’s Time to Treat Carbon Dioxide Like the Waste Product It Is (slate.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Barack Obama makes security address after San Bernardino shooting – video | US news | The Guardian
The US president, Barack Obama, assures citizens of the country’s domestic and overseas counter-terrorism strategy in a prime-time address on Sunday night after last week’s shooting deaths of 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
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Apple bumps iTunes Match and Apple Music upload limit to 100,000 songs | The Verge
Apple users are now able to store a lot more music in the cloud. Following a June announcement by internet software and services SVP Eddy Cue, the company has “started rolling out support” for iTunes Match and Apple Music libraries of up to 100,000 …
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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Men More Likely To Take Paternity Leave If Child Is Male – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A recent study on workplace paternity leave programs found that while men are now more likely to take advantage of the time off than they were a decade ago, fathers are 50 percent more likely to take paternity leave for a son than for a daughter. Wh…
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¿Dónde está la Telenovela? · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, December 7. All times are Eastern. Telenovela (NBC, 10 / 10:30 p.m.): For the second week in a row, NBC has decided to a premiere two episodes of a new sitcom in a rather undesirable time slot for, wel…
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With the subtitle “How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality And Shapes The Future,” Ten Billion Tomorrows seeks to analyze the intersections of the sci-fi literary genre and the world in which we live.
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Wigging out: 17 times horrible hairpieces ruined TV shows and movies · Inventory · The A.V. Club
While wigs are sometimes a Hollywood necessity, bad wigs can ruin a whole production. One ratty skunk pelt slapped on the star of your $200 million blockbuster and your movie’s in the toilet, while audiences laugh you all the way to the Razzies.
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Best music of 2015: The ballots · Best of · The A.V. Club
Our list of the 15 best albums of 2015 wasn’t just a one-man decision. It’s a committee call. Each regular music writer and A.V. Club staff member gets a chance to list their top 10 records, with their No. 1 record getting 10 points, their No. 2 get…
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine is crushing November sweeps so far, and it hasn’t even enlisted the help of the cast of The Lion King musical yet.
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Now’s the time for theaters to recommit to the glory of 70mm · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
As the official teaser for Quentin Tarantino’s newest film The Hateful Eight concludes, Samuel L. Jackson uncorks one of his beautiful throaty laughs, an ornately mustachioed Kurt Russell cocks his old-timey shotgun, and amid a flurry of snow, the t…
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Reports: Justice Dept. to investigate Chicago cops | Al Jazeera America
The U.S.
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The 15 best albums of 2015 · Best of · The A.V. Club
It might sound cliché at this point, but in 2015, the music industry bounced back. Maybe not all the way back to its mid-’90s peaks of excess, but relatively speaking in today’s terms.
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Watch U2 Perform ‘People Have the Power’ in Paris With Patti Smith | Rolling Stone
U2 were “thinking about some special guests” for their return to Paris less than a month after their concerts in the French capital were postponed by the terror attacks.
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Antonio Brown Goes Crotch-First Into The Goalpost : sports
One of the refs wasn’t holding back at all. Dude was flat-out cracking up. Wow… I can’t believe you would write something like that.
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APOD: 2015 December 6 – A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect
Explanation: This tiny ball provides evidence that the universe will expand forever. Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space.
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Was the Pats’ loss to the Eagles unlucky, an anomaly or the start of a slide? | Sport | The Guardian
Tom Brady had just hit Danny Amendola for an 11-yard touchdown pass. The Patriots were up 14-0 on the hapless Eagles, a team that had given up 45 points in consecutive weeks. It looked like New England were headed for their 11th win of the season.
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STOP IT!, actually that feels OK. : aww
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Took him to the Christmas market, he was not amused. : pics
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Remote camera view of the Atlas V launching Cygnus [2051×2028] [OC] https://t.co/p1s1w1ibhK https://t.co/QkY31mC1KG
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Wildlife braces for winter as the frost begins to bite | Environment | The Guardian
High on the hills above Glen Quoich, winter has arrived. The first snowfall of the year begins to stipple the ground at 400 metres above sea level and lies knee-deep in the lee of the peaks.
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They may not be household names but collectively global food companies Cargill, Tyson and Yara have a bigger climate footprint than the Netherlands, Vietnam or Columbia, according to a new analysis.
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Opposition wins majority in Venezuela legislature – Al Jazeera English
Venezuela’s opposition has won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, delivering a major setback to the ruling socialists. Election officials said Venezuela’s opposition won at least 99 seats in the incoming 167-seat National Assembly. The…
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What a signed banknote tells us about Myanmar’s next leadership – BBC News
The crimson banknote is worth 5,000 kyats ($4; £2.65) but it could turn out to be priceless.
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A Galactic view from the Observation Deck | ESO
This stunning panorama shows the Milky Way galaxy arching above the platform of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal, Chile.
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Australia to spend A$1bn on ‘ideas boom’ – BBC News
Australia’s government has announced a A$1.1b (£530m, $801m) innovation plan to replace the faltering mining boom with an “ideas boom”. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unveiled 24 measures on Monday aimed at creating economic growth.
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Galactic politics | ESA/Hubble
Only rarely does an astronomical object have a political association. However, the spiral galaxy NGC 7252 acquired exactly that when it was given an unusual nickname. In December 1953, the US President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech advocating t…
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WASHINGTON — When the cameras blinked on for Sunday night’s address on the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings and the threat from the Islamic State, President Obama delivered it from the Oval Office, a place for speechmaking that he had largely shunn…
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Obama_speech_iraq_syria_business_as_usual_analysis | Al Jazeera America
While he reassured Americans that the United States would “destroy ISIL,” President Barack Obama in a rare national address from the Oval Office Sunday night steered clear of setting any timetable for victory.
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Wind Turbines at Sunset Image, Greece – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Bernie Sanders urges carbon tax and deeper emissions cuts in climate plan | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders will unveil a sweeping new plan to fight climate change on Monday, calling for a carbon tax and an ambitious 40% cut in carbon emissions by 2030 to speed the transition to a greener economy.
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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Open thread for night owls: Locking up children for being children, thousands each day
In this morning’s weekly address, President-Elect Obama promised to roll out the biggest investment in public infrastructure since the federal highway system of the 1950’s was undertaken.
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 lessons for a creative, happy life – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Bertrand Russell is a 20th-century philosopher for 21st-century living, arguing we can achieve far more by doing far less.
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The most significant shift signalled by Barack Obama is towards a new understanding of the roots of Islamic extremist violence. This is still a work in progress as the inconsistencies in Sunday night’s Oval Office speech made clear. But it could hav…
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Antonio Brown and Ben Roethlisberger maul Colts as Steelers ease to win | Sport | The Guardian
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 364 yards and four touchdowns as the Pittsburgh Steelers overwhelmed the Indianapolis Colts 45-10 on Sunday night. Antonio Brown caught eight passes for 118 yards and two scores and also returned a punt 71 yards for a to…
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Finland history in 9 pictures : pics
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Obama’s Speech on ISIS – The Atlantic
This evening’s speech about terrorism distilled what people like, and don’t, about President Obama’s leadership style. I liked the logic he laid out and the realities he tried to convey.
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System of a Down – Spiders [alternative metal] : Music
Great song. Can’t believe it’s been 16 years.
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French far right sees record gains in regional polls – Al Jazeera English
France’s far-right National Front (FN) saw record gains in the first round of regional polls, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after 130 people were killed in attacks in Paris.
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China Inner Mongolia checkpoint attack suspects ‘held’ – BBC News
Chinese authorities have arrested a number of suspects involved in an attack on a remote checkpoint in Inner Mongolia, state media said. About 100 masked attackers reportedly beat staff and damaged checkpoint buildings on Sunday before escaping.
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Over 90% off the ultimate CompTIA advanced certification bundle in our store / Boing Boing
CompTIA IT certification exams are available in many specialties, leaving you wondering which to take first. We’ve curated a bundle of courses that will prepare you to ace exams in the most in-demand, relevant categories.
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Noam Chomsky on Trump: “We Should Recognize the Other Candidates are Not That Different” : politics
Trump is honestly true to himself, Cruz is dishonestly true to himself while claiming to be true to God. Don’t you see the nuance? Trump doesn’t beat around the bush when he’s endorsing racist policies or promising to violate human rights.
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Mattel to release an official Ava DuVernay Barbie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For all of the criticism the toy line has received over the years, Barbie dolls actually have significantly more potential to be something positive than, say, the average Transformer.
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Venezuela opposition claims victory ahead of results – Al Jazeera English
Leaders of Venezuela’s opposition were celebrating victory ahead of official results in legislative elections that could alter the country’s balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule.
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Obama’s rare Oval Office address to the nation: what he said and what he meant – Vox
President Barack Obama gave a rare address from the Oval Office Sunday evening to calm the country’s collective nerves after the San Bernardino attacks, acknowledging the real threat of terrorism but defending his administration’s ability to combat …
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New Mexico celebrates Holly Holm Day after fighter’s defeat of Ronda Rousey | Sport | The Guardian
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm let the tears flow on Sunday as she thanked hundreds of fans who turned out for a parade in her native Albuquerque. “I see all the signs and the happy faces.
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To-Go Boxes We Left At Restaurants In 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Not much left, but definitely would’ve been a good snack for later. Remembered as soon as we got home.
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“210” · The Affair · TV Review The Affair bounces back by skipping forward · TV Club · The A.V. Club
What makes a good man? What makes a great one? And is it possible to be both at the same time? These are the questions Noah is wrestling with following his descent to rock bottom in the previous episode, and what are retroactively framed as the ques…
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It’s hard to credit those who claim that The Simpsons has run out of stories to tell when it seems that every other modern episode is overstuffed with under-baked plots. (Overstuffed & Under-Baked—The Modern Simpsons Cookbook.
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It makes no sense why The Widow and her clan are not the center of this show. Composed and calculating, but with a through line of empathy, The Widow is a fully realized protagonist and her daughter, Tilda, a wonderful sometimes companion, sometimes…
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Top Newsmakers Of 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The business magnate made headlines this year after announcing that he would be opening a new luxury golf course in Ferry Point, NY.
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Obama: Don’t let ‘cult of death’ divide the US – Al Jazeera English
The US must not let ISIL’s “cult of death” divide the nation and American Muslims need to be enlisted in the effort to eradicate the group instead of being pushed away with hate, President Barack Obama said.
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New HIV Cases in Gay Black Men May Be Leveling | Al Jazeera America
New HIV infections in gay black men may finally be leveling off, health officials reported. Overall, new cases of HIV have been falling in the United States, while the number has been growing in gay and bisexual black men. The AIDS virus is far more…
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Why Increased Efficiency Will Make Us Miserable | TechCrunch
My life just keeps getting easier. These days, I don’t have to run out to the store to replenish my pantry — within an hour, Amazon Now will deliver my groceries.
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High-level India-Pakistan talks held in Bangkok – BBC News
India and Pakistan have held high-level talks, four months after an earlier postponement. Sunday’s meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok, was described as “candid, cordial and constructive”.
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Pesticides as bad for kids’ lungs as cigarette smoke, study says : environment
Pesticides as bad for kids’ lungs as cigarette smoke, study says (latimes.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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I don’t know if it’s really worth the risk : funny
It could be mosquitos though. Lift that shit.
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Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters … Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles (washingtonsblog.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Sony’s PlayStation Now game streaming service offers better value 12-month subscription | The Verge
PlayStation Now, Sony’s service that lets you stream a selection of PS3 games to your PS4, Vita, and other devices, has widely been seen as too expensive since its beta and subsequent launch; individual games can cost a lot to rent, and right now a …
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Obama’s Oval Asks Are DOA In Congress – The Daily Beast
Without presenting new facts or incentives, President Obama is asking Congress for a set of anti-terror tools that they have already rejected—a sure recipe for inaction in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks.
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‘The Leftovers’ Recap Review, Season Two Finale, ‘I Live Here Now’ – The Atlantic
Each week following episodes of season two of The Leftovers, Sophie Gilbert and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss new characters, old visitors, and whether smoking really is the best way to express profound nihilism. Kornhaber: What a twist: The Leftov…
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How HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ Pulled Off a Miracle in Season 2 – The Daily Beast
With its Season 2 finale Sunday night, The Leftovers achieved the unimaginable and turned a once-maddening drama into something truly special. Warning: Spoilers abound. 1.
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Nobody is watching The Leftovers. Like, seriously nobody is watching it. “International Assassin” was beaten in its time slot by an episode of Law And Order: SVU.
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Christmas episodes tend to bring the best out of television. The general spirit of the season coupled with a familiarity with a group of characters inevitably means a host of sweet moments and an overall feeling of togetherness.
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Kevin Garvey had already died twice before the events of The Leftovers’ second-season finale. The first time, he tied a cinderblock to his leg and jumped in a lake—only to have the water drain from a sudden earthquake, leaving him mud-caked and surr…
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Pillars of light stood on Sunday night amidst the Montreal skyline as a young girl’s voice pierced the silence.
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Christian. Conservative. Treehugger. – POLITICO Magazine
In the hyper-partisan world of American climate politics, a small but growing band of conservative evangelicals is determined to save the planet. CHARLESTON, W.Va.
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Republicans condemn Barack Obama’s address as insufficient and weak | US news | The Guardian
Moments after Barack Obama delivered a primetime address aimed at easing Americans’ fears in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack in California, top Republicans condemned the president’s speech as insufficient and lacking a sense of urgency in t…
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Why thousands of people are leaving Nepal – BBC News
When an earthquake hit Nepal in April, 9,000 people were killed and many more lost their homes. Thousands of men are now facing a difficult choice – should they stay to rebuild the country, or travel abroad where they can earn more money? Sabin has …
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Barack Obama’s address on Isis: I know how real the danger is – video | US news | The Guardian
The US president, Barack Obama, tells the nation on Sunday night that the shootings in San Bernardino on Wednesday were ‘an act of terrorism’.
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Why Obama gave an Oval Office address on terrorism without saying anything new – Vox
When President Obama announced that he’d deliver his third-ever primetime Oval Office address on Sunday night, political insiders feverishly speculated about what he might say.
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The Republican presidential candidates Donald J. Trump and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey clashed on Sunday over Mr. Trump’s support for profiling people on the basis of race or religion after the shootings in California by a Muslim couple with t…
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Looked at in one way, Kevin Garvey, the main character of HBO’s wonderful drama The Leftovers, came back from the dead twice in the course of the show’s tremendous, just completed second season. The first time — in the dreamlike episode “Internation…
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Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: The rise of non-binary pronouns – BBC News
In the English language, the word “he” is used to refer to males and “she” to refer to females. But some people identify as neither gender, or both – which is why an increasing number of US universities are making it easier for people to choose to b…
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President Obama’s Challenge to Muslim Americans – The Daily Beast
So did the President reassure a nation on edge? Well, no. But is the nation really on edge? As a member of the media I know I’m supposed to say yes, but is it really true? I wonder.
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“New Normal” is an unfortunate title for a Homeland episode that hammers home the fact that the herky-jerky rhythms and off-pitch characterization that have plagued season five aren’t necessarily going anywhere. The pacing has been all over the plac…
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“MIA” is an episode that has it all: leopards with diamond collars, not-strip-club types with savior complexes, teen Russian sex slaves, lilies as a symbol of blackmail, and rentboys who shit on pillows. That’s a lot.
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With his speech on San Bernardino, Obama is confronting a problem he’s long feared – Vox
President Obama took the unusual step of delivering a prime time Oval Office address on ISIS and terrorism because the San Bernardino shooting was a variety of terrorist attack that has long been seen as a unique nightmare by the president and his s…
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The first Game of Thrones Season 6 trailer hit the internet earlier this week.
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America is sitting on a powder keg
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Obama is right: ISIS really does want US boots on the ground. Here’s how we know. – Vox
In a Sunday televised address on the San Bernardino shooting and terrorism, President Barack Obama restated his opposition to deploying ground troops in Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS. “That’s what groups like ISIL want. They know they can’t defeat us…
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“No one is minimizing what ISIS is doing or the gun violence we’re seeing,” Sanders said, “but it can’t be the only issue we’re talking about it. We’ve got families . . . struggling to keep their heads above water. Somebody’s got to be talking about…
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Shailene Woodley joins HBO’s Big Little Lies with Nicole Kidman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that Shailene Woodley will be joining the cast of Big Little Lies, HBO’s upcoming “darkly comic drama” about three mothers “whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.” The limited series comes from David E.
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Warriors win 26th straight regular season game and close on Heat’s mark | Sport | The Guardian
Steph Curry scored 16 of his 28 points in the third quarter and the Golden State Warriors ran their NBA-record start to 22-0 by beating the Brooklyn Nets 114-98 on Sunday night. Draymond Green added 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama sought on Sunday to calm a jittery American public after the terrorist attack last week in California, delivering a prime-time address designed to highlight the government’s campaign against an evolving threat. Speaking …
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The spectacular peacock spider dance and its strange evolutionary roots – Techly
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Obama Urges Nation to Reject Islamophobia in Wake of Terror Attacks | Vanity Fair
In an address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Barack Obama discussed the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, and implored the American people to reject bigotry in the wake of attacks carried out by Muslims.
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The US Justice Department will open an investigation into the Chicago police department after protests over how it handled the case of a black teenager shot by a white police officer, according to several reports.
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Brazil’s slow-motion environmental catastrophe unfolds – “…total extinction of all the biodiversity along this [300 mile] stretch of the river.” (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks in Keene. “A great nation does not stand up and talk about all the millionaires and billionaires it has. A great nation focuses on the most vulnerable of our population,” Sanders said. (sentinelsource.com)
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As rising water levels along the Guangdong coast threaten to create havoc in its economic heartland, China’s leadership is recognizing the country’s increasing vulnerability to climate change. (theglobeandmail.com)
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Barack Obama address to the nation on terrorism: full transcript | US news | The Guardian
Good evening. On Wednesday, 14 Americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays. They were taken from family and friends who loved them deeply. They were white and black, Latino and Asian, immigrants, and American born, moms and…
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Obama: ‘We cannot turn against one another’ – BBC News
President Obama has told the American people not to turn against one another in the aftermath of the shootings in San Bernardino. In a rare Oval Office address, he said that the fight against so-called Islamic State should not be defined as a war be…
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In an address to the nation in which he affirmed that the United States would “destroy” ISIS, President Obama acknowledged a “new phase” of terrorist attacks like the shootings in San Bernardino.
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Obama Just Explained How the US Should Respond to Acts of Terrorism | VICE News
President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to hunt down anyone plotting militant attacks against the United States as he sought to reassure Americans after a deadly California shooting rampage that has raised new questions about US defenses against home…
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Calling ISIS and those it inspires “a cult of death” engaged in a “perverted interpretation of Islam,” President Obama detailed his efforts Sunday night to destroy the terrorist organization and tighten gun control in the wake of the San Bernardino …
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Bomb shakes Tunisia’s fragile democracy – BBC News
Tunis was rocked last month by a suicide bomber who targeted a bus that transports the presidential guard – 12 people died and another 20 were injured. So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Full text: Obama’s Oval Office address on San Bernardino and ISIS – Vox
Sunday night, President Obama gave a primetime address to the nation on the San Bernardino attacks and ISIS (or, as he calls it, ISIL).
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President Obama Delivers an Address to the Nation : politics
Man, Obama’s looking old. He’s had a rough 7 years. They all do.
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Why climate change is increasingly seen as an urgent health issue : environment
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WASHINGTON — In his address to the nation on Sunday night, President Obama will most likely urge Americans to “not give in to fear,” detail measures the country is already taking to combat extremism and ask Congress to explore new ones, Attorney Gen…
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The president of Liberty University, a leading evangelical Christian college in Virginia, urged students to apply for concealed-weapons permits and said that if more people did so, then “we could end those Muslims.”The remarks on Friday came when th…
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President Obama Gives Speech on San Bernardino From Oval Office – The Atlantic
“This was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people,” the president said Sunday of the rampage that claimed 14 lives and wounded 21 others. He spoke from a lectern in the Oval Office, flanked by framed photographs of his wife and daughter…
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Obama Oval Office Speech | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Sunday night as recent attacks in Paris and California have raised concerns that the U.S. and other countries aren’t doing enough to prevent terror attacks.
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Barack Obama resisted pressure for more aggressive military response to the threat of Islamic State-inspired terrorism in a rare address to the nation from the Oval office that sought to reassure Americans following the deadly shooting in San Bernar…
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Eagles stun Patriots as Panthers win again to reach 12-0 | Sport | The Guardian
Najee Goode scored on a blocked punt, Malcolm Jenkins returned an interception 99 yards for another touchdown and the Philadelphia Eagles held on for an improbable 35-28 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday.
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‘Uneasy calm’ in financial markets, warns bank group – BBC News
Financial markets are experiencing an “uneasy calm”, according to the Bank for International Settlements, a central bank association. In the bond market, “a number of anomalies suggest that all is not well,” said Claudio Borio, the head of the monet…
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How Doctor Who Delivered a Righteously Feminist Finale | Vanity Fair
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Doctor Who had finally become great again. And while this season had a few rocky turns since (I don’t think I’ll be rewatching “Sleep No More” again any time soon), the show managed to end its ninth season on a huge…
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Liveblog: President Obama delivers Oval Office address on terrorism, gun violence
Discusses existing infrastructure for fighting terrorism, previous successes including preventing attacks and killing Osama bin Laden. For seven years, he said, he begins every morning with a national security briefing.
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WikiLeaks exposes environmental threat of Trade in Services Agreement : environment
Two-faced! Aagh!
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What’s a Species, Anyways? | New Republic
On November 19, 2013, employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discovered the carcass of a large mammal not far from the North Carolina coast. It lay twisted in a bed of twigs, the victim of an apparent gunshot.
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Police charge man after Tube attack – 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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President Obama gives rare Oval Office address – BBC News
President Obama makes a rare televised speech from the Oval Office. He is expected to talk about the San Bernardino killings and the broader terrorism threat to the US.
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COP21: Alberta’s radical climate change plan – BBC News
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The test of progress: Sanders, Clinton, and the plight of those who have too little
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COP21: Ministers in final push for Paris climate deal – BBC News
Ministers from all over the world gather in Paris on Monday in a final push for a new global climate compact. The politicians will attempt to craft a deal from a draft negotiating text signed off by delegates here on Saturday.
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Rocket carries US supplies to International Space Station – BBC News
A spacecraft carrying much-needed US supplies blasted off toward the International Space Station for the first time in months on Sunday.The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after three days of delays due to poor weathe…
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Why thousands of people are leaving Nepal – BBC News
When an earthquake hit Nepal in April, 9,000 people were killed and many more lost their homes. Thousands of men are now facing a difficult choice – should they stay to rebuild the country, or travel abroad where they can earn more money? Sabin has …
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The test of progress: Sanders, Clinton, and the plight of those who have too little
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inaugural address
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Has the Indian parliament lost its relevance? – BBC News
Many Indians believe that the nation’s parliament, beset by legislative gridlock and routine physical disruption, has lost its relevance. They are right, but only partially. Elections to parliament’s lower house, the Lok Sabha, are still crucial to …
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COP21: Alberta’s radical climate change plan – BBC News
Canada is one of the world’s worst emitters of greenhouse gases but the premier of one province has pledged to drastically reduce its emissions. The Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada contain the third largest reserves of oil in the world.
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COP21: Thailand’s solar revolution sparked by a woman – BBC News
Thailand is modernising fast and hooked on fossil fuels. In the decade to 2010, they grew by almost 70%, the United Nations says. Petroleum, natural gas and coal – the biggest source of heat-trapping CO2 – together still supply 76% of the country’s …
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: December 6 – The Daily Beast
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President Obama Delivers an Address to the Nation – YouTube
Live from the White House.
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Buy Boing Boing merch and bring about the final, heaven-like stage of history / Boing Boing
Each and every item in the Boing Boing Dry Goods store had been blessed by a Discordian Monk, imbuing it with extra entropy. If enough people by these items, our ancestors will look back on 2016 and say, “It was the year when they finally immanentiz…
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Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: The rise of non-binary pronouns – BBC News
In the English language, the word “he” is used to refer to males and “she” to refer to females. But some people identify as neither gender, or both – which is why an increasing number of US universities are making it easier for people to choose to b…
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In pictures: Challenging perceptions of Africa through art – BBC News
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, northern Spain, aims to show how a new generation of Africans are giving the world a fresh perspective on their continent. Making Africa brings together the work of 120 artists and designers.
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After the Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, it’s understandable that there’s a sizable group of people who are openly pessimistic about The Force Awakens.
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This entire interview was fantastic, I’d recommend watching it if NBC posts the whole thing online. Turn it off when Lindsey Graham comes on. It’s refreshing to see a politician stand up for our rights instead of fear monger in the aftermath of a tr…
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Al Gore Declines to Endorse Hillary Clinton for President : politics
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The Tea Party leader taking a stand for solar energy: ‘I will do what’s right’ : environment
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Diminishing returns for Venezuelans may swing election – Al Jazeera English
When I arrived in the Venezuelan capital Caracas last week, I had with me a 100 bolivar note, left over from a visit last year. Back then, it was enough to buy an Arepa – a delicious flatbread sandwich stuffed with meat and cheese, which is a tradit…
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Bono pays tribute to Paris as U2 return for postponed gigs – BBC News
U2 singer Bono has paid tribute to the people of Paris at the band’s concert in the city on Sunday night. The Irish group were playing the first of two shows in the French capital, which were rescheduled after the attacks in the city last month.
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Naomi Klein: Is Exxon Being Held Accountable at the Climate Summit? | The Nation
Even as countries cobble together an agreement to curb climate change in Paris, their actions are still being influenced by some of the world’s worst polluters. Fossil fuel companies have been a surprisingly visible part of this summit.
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Hands On With Woobots, Wooden Robots In Disguise
Last week I wrote about Woobots, the wooden robots that transform into wooden vehicles, currently the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign. This week I play with them. I won’t waste too much time going over the basics—Woobots are a series of t…
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: December 6 – The Daily Beast
Presidential candidates argued Sunday about whether stricter gun control measures could do anything to undermine the mass shootings that have plagued the country over recent weeks. Republican presidential candidates and Sens.
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Watch live: President Obama’s Oval Office address on San Bernardino and ISIS – Vox
Tonight at 8 pm Eastern, President Obama will give a televised speech to the nation about the San Bernardino shootings and the threat from ISIS.
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UK manufacturing suffers slump in demand, says EEF – BBC News
UK manufacturing is encountering a poor end to the year amid “gathering gloom” from the global economy, according to industry body the EEF. It has cut its manufacturing forecasts, expecting a 0.1% fall in 2015, with 0.8% growth next year.
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Call to Earth – A Message from the World’s Astronauts to COP21 – YouTube
The Association of Space Explorers reached out to their fellow astronauts to pass on a simple message of solidarity, hope and collaboration to combat climate change and reach our political leaders during such a crucial time.Featuring:Germany:Astrona…
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Carter: Cancer is gone | www.ajc.com
Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone. Carter said in a statement that his most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones and that he’ll continue his treatment.
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Kate McKinnon Got The Dirty Version Of Alien Abduction On ‘SNL’ – Digg
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Keep a Room Warm and Cozy With This DIY Door Draft Blocker
If you’re starting to wrap presents for the holidays, you might want to hold on to those long cardboard wrapping paper tubes. With a few other household materials you can make an effective draft blocker for under your door.
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Android Wear Presents Timely Competition For Apple Watch | TechCrunch
The wristwatch has been a fashion accessory for almost 450 years, but technology has transformed what was once a mere timepiece into a $30 billion industry.
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Columbus Crew 1-2 Portland Timbers | MLS Cup match report | Football | The Guardian
If it wasn’t a classic MLS Cup, it certainly had the most dramatic start in recent memory. Portland opened the scoring within seconds and added another after just seven minutes, to stun Columbus Crew and take MLS Cup.
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These activists give up food one day a month for the climate fight | 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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Let us explain how Hanukkah is the festival of fossil fuel conservation | Grist
Shalom! Sunday’s sundown marks the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates both the consumption of fried foods and the conservation of fossil fuels.
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The Tea Party leader taking a stand for solar energy: ‘I will do what’s right’ (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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According to the article, Gore declined to endorse anybody because it is still too early to pick a candidate. Which is something of a condemnation from Gore to every individual and organization which has already endorsed a candidate.
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Anti-IS fighter Ashley Dyball returns to Australia – BBC News
Australian police have interviewed a man who arrived home after fighting against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. Ashley Dyball, 23, had been detained in Germany while on a break from fighting with the Kurdish YPG militia group.
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Police Arrest Stabbing Suspect in London A man stabbed several people at a London underground station on Saturday before being arrested by police, who said they were treating the attack as a “terrorist incident.” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on December …
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New York lawmakers urge Congress to renew fund for 9/11 first responders | US news | The Guardian
At a rally featuring speeches by nearly a dozen lawmakers, the loudest message of all was delivered by a 9-year-old boy who didn’t say a word.
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PosterAvatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, but it seems like it had almost no impact at all culturally. (self.movies) Nothing from Avatar stuck, no quotes or themes. Nobody seems to care at all about it.
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Open Channel: What Are You Most Excited For In The Force Awakens?
We’ve got 11 days before Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theaters, and I know that it’s going to be a long 11 days. Thinking about what you’ve seen in the trailers and numerous TV spots, what are you most excited to see on the big screen?
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Copy lots, paste little / Boing Boing
Well, you hardly even need to watch Popular Mechanics’ 10-second video now, do you? In each episode of the Gadgets podcast we recommend technology we love and use.
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Glaciers in the Kunlun Mountains, Northern Tibet : Image of the Day
A long lens and low sun angle allowed an astronaut to take this striking photograph as the International Space Station flew over the remote desert landscape of northern Tibet. Sunlight reflects brilliantly off the ice of several glaciers in one of t…
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Coco the Gorilla has something to say to humans–and Honestly it changed how I view things in general (natureseeyou.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Justice Department will launch investigation into practices of Chicago police – The Washington Post
The Justice Department plans to launch an investigation into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, a wide-ranging review similar to those that scrutinized the police departments in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, according to se…
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The Democratic legislative comeback may require a wave: The harsh math of legislative gerrymandering
Over the last several weeks, we have explored how Democrats have found themselves in a historically bad position as it relates to the balance of power at the critically important state legislative level.
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There’s got to be a better name than ‘The Founders’ for the generation after Millennials | The Verge
We all know about Millennials — the generation born roughly between the early ‘80s and 2000 — but how are we going to grossly oversimplify the next generation? Clearly, we need a name.
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Dazzling Cygnus Spaceship Launch Restarts Orbital ATK Cargo Missions for NASA
With a brilliant afternoon launch, the private spaceflight company Orbital ATK returned its Cygnus cargo ship to flight after a year on hiatus Sunday (Dec. 6), launching vital supplies and NASA gear to the International Space Station.
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Share Files with AirDrop Between an Older Mac and a Newer One with This Setting
AirDrop is one of the simplest ways to share files in OS X, but it doesn’t work well between different versions of OS X. If you have one computer on Mavericks and another on El Capitan, they won’t find each other. OS X Daily shares a simple workarou…
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The Difficult History Behind Woodrow Wilson : NPR
The former president is remembered for progressive views on the state, but his views on race were decidedly regressive. With his legacy at Princeton now disputed, historians Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf weigh Wilson’s complex history.
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In Gaza, Kids With Cancer Have ‘Virtually No Care.’ One Group Hopes To Help : NPR
The ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip has damaged hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities, leaving major gaps in health care. Children with cancer, in particular, struggle to get the proper treatment they need. They often have to travel to …
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SUCCESS! Cygnus Launches in First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion
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Photos: Orbital ATK Cygnus Spaceship’s Return-to-Flight Mission
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In Kew Gardens they leave the Siberian crabs unharvested, and this year the crop has been of a magnificence never surpassed.
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Exploring Hong Kong’s derelict and abandoned history – BBC News
Urban exploration is when photographers enter abandoned and unused buildings – sometimes without permission – to document sites. One group in Hong Kong – HK Urbex- has explored ruined residences, old movie theatres and even an abandoned prison.
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Cygnus Spacecraft Launches with Christmas Presents for ISS Astronauts | Motherboard
Following a fiery explosion last year, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft returned to flight Sunday evening on a mission bound for the International Space Station.
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Why do trolls go after feminists? – BBC News
After a man was sacked from his job for sending an abusive message, a feminist blogger found herself on the receiving end of a wave of abuse. So why do many hard core internet trolls target women, and feminists in particular?
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Can Physics Prove If We’re Being Lied to About the Downed Russian Jet? | Motherboard
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How Tech Billionaires Are Bypassing Charities To Target Their Philanthropy : NPR
You may hear the words “impact investing” this week. It’s fast becoming the way a new generation of wealthy are choosing to invest in society. Chronicle of Philanthropy editor Stacy Palmer explains.
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At 60, Wayne Horvitz Is Protecting — And Expanding — His Musical Language : NPR
Wayne Horvitz is one of those musicians who does almost everything — from leading a small group of improvisers to conducting a big band, and from composing for symphony orchestra to running a nightclub.
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In A Largely Quiet Life, Tashfeen Malik Showed Some Signs Of Extremism : NPR
Family once described Tashfeen Malik as a “modern girl.” Last week she and her husband killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif. Authorities are investigating the killing as an act of terrorism. NPR’s Lynn Neary speaks with Brian Bennett, who wrote…
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Jimmy Carter Announces That His Cancer Is Gone : NPR
The former president paused during his regular Sunday School class to relay some good news: His melanoma is gone. Carter’s been undergoing radiation and drug treatment to battle the disease.
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Beyond Taylor Swift: Predicting The 2016 Grammys : NPR
When the Grammy Awards’ 2016 nominees are announced Monday morning, you’ll no doubt hear some familiar names.
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Aristophanes In Chicago: Spike Lee’s Ancient Inspiration, On Film : NPR
Lee’s new film, Chiraq, draws on an ancient idea to deal with the present-day crisis of gun violence in Chicago. Natalie Moore of member station WBEZ explains how.
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Restrictions In Travel Leave Cuban Migrants Stranded On The Way : NPR
Thousands of Cuban migrants are stuck at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border. Nicaragua, a close ally of Cuba, won’t let the migrants enter into its country to continue north to the United States.
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Obama To Deliver Speech On Terrorism And San Bernardino Attacks : NPR
President Obama will address the nation Sunday night on the threat of terrorism in the wake of the attacks in California and Paris. It will be a rare prime-time speech from the Oval Office.
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In an unexpected move, Bill Murray joins Wes Anderson’s next film · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Today in news that apparently we didn’t know about already, Bill Murray has joined the cast of Wes Anderson’s next film.
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Iraq threatens Turkey with UN action over troop deployment – BBC News
Iraq has threatened to go to the UN if Turkey does not withdraw soldiers it sent to areas near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul within 48 hours. Baghdad said the deployment was done without consultation and was a violation of national sovereignty.
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France’s far-right taps into voters’ disquiet – BBC News
The message from the first round of France’s regional elections is simple and unequivocal – once again the far-right has come out on top. For the third time in a year-and-a-half, Marine Le Pen can legitimately say that her Front National (FN) is the…
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Police officers responding to a report of a robbery in Miami Beach on Saturday fatally shot a shirtless man during a standoff that was captured on cellphone video. The police said the man was a suspect in a holdup at a Bank of America branch that oc…
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SUCCESS! Cygnus Launches in First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion
The Cygnus has its wings again! After four attempts, the cargo tug is finally on its way to the International Space Station. The commercial spacecraft will deliver equipment and supplies to astronauts when it arrives at the station on December 9th.
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Atlas V – Cygnus CRS Orb-4 – YouTube
Atlas V – Cygnus CRS Orb-4This is the fourth of eight flights by Orbital ATK under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
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Income and Wealth Inequality: Crash Course Economics – YouTube
Inequality is a big, big subject. There’s racial inequality, gender inequality, and lots and lots of other kinds of inequality. This is Econ, so we’re going to talk about wealth inequality and income inequality. There’s no question that economic ine…
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This 3D drawing is bad ass. : pics
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Penis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops https://t.co/WFgx8POstd https://t.co/jWiCDfN4aX
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Storm Desmond flooding: David Cameron urged to fund repairs | UK news | The Guardian
David Cameron is to chair a meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee on Monday to assess the response to the floods in north-west England. Emergency services iremain stretched as they call on extra resources to cope with floods caused b…
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Obama’s statements on the war against Isis: a timeline | US news | The Guardian
In what will be only the third Oval Office address of his presidency, Barack Obama is expected to lay out his latest thinking – and the country’s latest strategy – for taking on the Islamic State militant group.
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BBC Sport – Fifa: FBI probing Sepp Blatter role in $100m bribery scandal
The FBI is investigating the role played by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in a $100m (£66.2m) bribes scandal, a BBC investigation has discovered.
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NFL round-up: Jets win battle of New York as Panthers clinch NFC South | Sport | The Guardian
Suddenly the Seattle Seahawks are thundering toward the playoffs and they may just be the team no one wants to face in the season’s final weeks. In what could be a first-round playoff matchup, the Seahawks trampled NFC North leader Minnesota 38-7.
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Here’s Eight Clips From Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film The Hateful Eight is coming out at the end of December, but they’ve just released a bunch of clips of the movie. This movie is looking awesome. Here, we get to see Samuel L.
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Quentin Tarantino on Police Boycotts: ‘I’m Not Worried’ | Rolling Stone
Less than three weeks remain before the arrival of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, a film that police unions across the country have threatened to boycott following the director’s comments and presence at a police brutality rally in October.
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How Adele’s Goofy Sense of Humor Helped Her Shatter Yet Another Record | Vanity Fair
Adele certainly didn’t need to break another record in order to impress us this year, but that’s exactly what she did. Thanks to her willingness to indulge her goofier side, Adele has landed the most-watched YouTube video in BBC’s history with her v…
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Hi Reddit! We have started an open source initiative to fight deforestation! The problem of deforestation is too serious to leave in the hands of slow moving corporations and politicians.
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Commercial space station resupply launch success—Cygnus blasts off | Ars Technica
HOUSTON—After days of delay, Orbital ATK’s CRS Orb-4 (for “commercial resupply services”) launched successfully from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this afternoon.
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Blast Off! Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Returns To Flight | Video
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Turkey fury as Russian seen brandishing rocket launcher – BBC News
Turkey has expressed outrage at images showing a Russian serviceman apparently holding a rocket launcher as his ship passed through Turkish waters. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the incident a “provocation”.
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Idomeni: Dashed dreams on Macedonian border – Al Jazeera English
Idomeni, Greece – Guns, masks, batons, shields and newly-built barbwire fence stand between refugees and Macedonia.
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Environmental campaigners say Storm Desmond is a sign of things to come | Environment | The Guardian
Six years after an unnamed storm wreaked havoc across Cumbria, Storm Desmond struck the county with fearsome impact once again.
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Ron Swanson dies and goes to heaven | The Verge
Nick Offerman may be best known as the spouse of very funny person Megan Mullally, but he’s also one of the world’s preeminent spokespeople for earthy masculinity — and now, Lagavulin whiskey.
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Tashfeen Malik May Have Radicalized Husband | Al Jazeera America
Investigators are looking at the possibility of whether Tashfeen Malik radicalized her American-born husband and was the driving force in the San Bernardino massacre plot, two officials said Sunday.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Catloaf doodles via /r/Catloaf…
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When rocks fall, so can the temperature. But it’s no quick fix | Science | The Guardian
Climate change hit the headlines again last week during the Paris climate summit. The speed at which we have burned fossil fuels and increased the proportion of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere is staggering. But we are far from the first to w…
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Here’s The Reason We Don’t Know the Name of Kim and Kanye’s Newborn Son Yet | Vanity Fair
Friday night Kim Kardashian used—what else?—a selfie to announce the birth of her second child with husband Kanye West. And while we know that mother, father, and baby boy are happy and healthy, there’s one mystery driving the public to distraction.
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Japanese Spacecraft Gets 2nd Chance at Venus Today
A robotic Japanese spacecraft gets a second and final chance to orbit Venus today (Dec. 6), exactly five years after the first attempt went awry. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Akatsuki probe was supposed to begin circling Venus on …
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Will Cygnus Finally Fly Today? Watch LIVE!
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Once upon a time in America, soufflés fell flat and pasta lacked oomph. Drab kitchens had pots, pans and knives from a department store. Who knew Calphalon from Le Creuset? Or Wüsthof from Sabatier? Garlic presses, slicers, timers, thermometers? It …
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France’s Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Party Set to Win Big in Pivotal Election | VICE News
France’s far-right National Front party appeared to be on track to score huge gains in regional elections on Sunday, potentially redrawing the political landscape of the euro zone’s second-biggest economy as it gears up for the next presidential ele…
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How to talk to progressives about climate change
I see it everyday. Conservatives, in good faith or bad, engaging a liberal or a science-minded independent on climate change. There is almost always a stain of mysterious revealed wisdom.
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US-led strikes ‘kill dozens’ of ISIL fighters in Syria – Al Jazeera English
At least 32 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have been killed in apparent US-led coalition raids, as Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad slammed Britain’s decision to join the fight.
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Will Cygnus Finally Fly Today? Watch LIVE!
It’s proving hard for the Cygnus spacecraft to get off the ground for its return-to-flight mission! After getting rained out Thursday and shoved around by gusts of wind Friday and Saturday, this is the fourth attempt for the cargo craft to deliver s…
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Storm Desmond: Lancaster’s small businesses face ‘zombie apocalypse’ | World news | The Guardian
Warned to expect at least two more days without electricity following the weekend’s floods, Lancaster’s hardy residents faced the darkness with sunny stoicism.
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A breakthrough in Libya? – Al Jazeera English
The Tripoli-based General National Congress and the United Nation-recognised House of Representatives in Tobruk have agreed to hold elections within two years. They have also agreed to form a 10-member committee to help choose a government of nation…
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The Best Cheap Alcohol to Serve at Parties
Booze will definitely liven up a party, but it can also be expensive. If you don’t want to cheap out on your guests, but you still want to save some cash, here’s a list of the most affordable, but still quality, booze to serve at (or bring to) a par…
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Jimmy Carter announces he is cancer-free : politics
Wow – amazing someone of his advanced age could beat it – good for him. Are we not allowed to call old people old anymore?
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OVER THE GREAT PLAINS — Glance down from the ageless expanse of blue sky into the cockpit of the Air Force’s largest bomber, and the panorama is decidedly more dated — banks of steam gauges quiver above aluminum levers built during th
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U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained – The Daily Beast
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Carter Says Most Recent Brain Scan Is Cancer-free | Al Jazeera America
Jimmy Carter said Sunday that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors.
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‘Mario Kart’ Meets eSports in Disney’s ‘Clash of the Karts’ | Motherboard
Here’s the thing about Mario Kart 8: It’s a great video game. It’s easy to learn and sort of hard to master. Most importantly, it’s one of the best games to play with friends because it’s such a low-commitment and high-dopamine activity.
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Watch a Giggling Ryan Gosling Struggle to Get Through This *SNL* Sketch | Vanity Fair
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Ryan Gosling would charm his was through this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Whether it was making fun of his own faux Brooklyn accent or his childhood background as a Mouseketeer, the charismatic…
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Ethan Hawke to do space stuff in Luc Besson’s Valerian · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Ethan Hawke has joined the cast of Luc Besson’s Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (a title that demands to be said in full), a big sci-fi action epic that we still don’t know a whole lot about.
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Jewish settlers storm al-Aqsa compound: witnesses – Al Jazeera English
A group of far right Jewish settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, despite a heavy security forces presence, witnesses said.
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Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks : environment
Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks (theguardian.com)submitted 54 minutes ago by loading…
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U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained – The Daily Beast
A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House, predicts that the self-proclaimed Islamic State will spread worldwide and grow in numbers, unless it suffers a significant loss of territory on the battlefield in Iraq and Syri…
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Big cats do curly paws too : cats
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Oh peanut butter…oh shit oh shit…oh peanut butter : funny
TIL. Peanut butter gives mice super speed. This is information I can use…
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Buckets On!
So, I have a confession to make: this project isn’t done yet, and I don’t have final, full kit pictures yet. I’ll explain in a bit, but I do have pictures of something else: the helmet.
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Nuclear is not the answer to the climate crisis | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Contrary to the article by James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira and Tom Wigley (Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change, 3 December), many scientists around the world remain sceptical that nuclear is the answer, or ev…
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“Girly Edition” is at its best—well, it’s non-Mojo best, at any rate—when it most closely fits into the long Simpsons tradition of skewering the media.
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Ben Jennings on the San Bernardino shootings – cartoon | Comment is free | The Guardian
Illustration: Ben Jennings
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MLS Cup: Columbus Crew v Portland Timbers – live! | Football | The Guardian
It’s finally here. Nine months after the season started, we’re ready for the championship game. Columbus take on Portland for the MLS Cup, and it promises to be a belter. Maybe it’s not the final some people wanted. Maybe these two sides lack star n…
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Supreme Court Takes Up Race in College Admissions | Al Jazeera America
The U.S.
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The Business Case For Augmented Reality | TechCrunch
When we think of augmented reality, we think of the interaction of superimposed graphics, audio, GPS data and other sensory enhancements converging within a real-world environment displayed in real time.
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Get McKinty – he’s up there with Elmore | Letters | Books | The Guardian
I am sorry to see that your roundup of the year’s best thrillers (Review, 5 December) makes no mention of Adrian McKinty, whose intelligent, razor sharp thrillers star a deeply flawed Royal Ulster Constabulary inspector, Sean Duffy. Taut, lean prose…
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Bay area wild life demands freedom, continues to resist human oppression / Boing Boing
Having failed to wrest control of the San Francisco bay area by reducing technology reliant humans access to electrical power, wild life freedom fighters have resorted to direct attacks on individuals and their canine sympathizers.
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Migrant crisis: German charity gives gifts to refugees – BBC News
Refugees in Mulheim, west Germany, received boxes of presents made by volunteers at a local charity. Locals donated sweets, crayons and drawing pads to the Welcome to Mulheim refugee initiative that was set up by Reinhard Jehles.
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Muslims raise funds for families of California victims – Al Jazeera English
A collective of Muslim groups in the US have raised almost $30,000 over the last two days for the families of victims of the shooting spree at a social service centre that left 14 dead and 17 wounded in San Bernardino, California.
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Colts Owner: Why I Paid $2.2 Million for Ringo Starr’s Drum Kit | Rolling Stone
Jim Irsay is calling from Pittsburgh, where his Indianapolis Colts will face the Steelers on Sunday, and regretfully not New York’s Theater at Madison Square Garden, where an all-star gathering to celebrate John Lennon’s 75th birthday is about to ta…
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The Feds Are Now Investigating the Case of the ‘Clock Kid’ Ahmed Mohamed | VICE News
The case of Ahmed Mohammed, the so-called “clock kid” who was arrested at school because one of his teachers thought his homemade clock resembled a bomb, has taken another twist: The feds are now investigating.
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“Bernie is doing what Bernie always does — he’s out there talking from the heart, raising the issues that he’s raised for decades now,” Warren said. “That’s just who he is.” (boston.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Italy Just Broke up a Multi-Million-Dollar Olive Oil Scheme | MUNCHIES
Shit just got real in the slippery and cutthroat world of Italian olive oil. Italy, the EU’s second-largest producer of olive oil, announced just yesterday that authorities have shut down an unprecedented Puglia-based olive oil scam.
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Meal Plan Costs Tick Upward as Students Pay for More Than Food https://t.co/1t3gTH8gZn https://t.co/ccKJq9ANSW
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China suspends reporters over Xi ‘resigns’ typo – Al Jazeera English
Four Chinese state news agency staff have been suspended for a typo suggesting President Xi Jinping had resigned.
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#YouAintNoMuslimBruv: the voice of defiant unity | Remona Aly | Comment is free | The Guardian
After the knife attack on three people at Leytonstone underground station in east London on Saturday, a bystander shouted “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv” at the alleged perpetrator. As footage of the incident emerged, this phrase quickly became a hashta…
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Saturday Night Live’s best sketch: Kate McKinnon cracks everybody up – Vox
This weekend, Saturday Night Live welcomed Ryan Gosling as its guest host in what was actually one of the better (if not the best) episodes of the season.
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Libyan Rivals Sign Proposal to End Conflict | Al Jazeera America
Lawmakers from Libya’s two rival parliaments have signed a declaration of principles aimed at ending the North African country’s civil conflict. Two groups from the Libyan parliament and the rival General National Congress signed the proposal late o…
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Former army chief ‘accepts’ Suu Kyi as Myanmar’s leader – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar’s former military chief General Than Shwe has accepted Aung San Suu Kyi as “the leader” of the south-east Asian country, his grandson has said.
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I can’t stand Elmo, just can’t deal with this damn Muppet anymore. He’s cute, he’s shrill, and he has made Sesame Street worse. I write this knowing that many people love Elmo, but Sesame Street’s most-marketed character is an over-exposed drag.
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Journey To The Planet Eternia In This Week’s Sunday Matinee
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The FCC defended net neutrality from internet providers in court on Friday | The Verge
On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was back in court to defend net neutrality from cable, telecom, and wireless trade groups that are seeking to see the regulations overturned.
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Ted Cruz, the perfect candidate for the coming Christian caliphate
Ted Cruz is so much more than a Tea Party Republican who believes that the best way to balance the budget is to get rid of the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
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Coalition of business leaders challenges 2C climate change target | Environment | The Guardian
A group of high-profile business leaders has challenged governments – meeting in a crunch week for the climate – to set strong targets and not slam the door on limiting warming to 1.5C.
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The Texas Desert Still Holds the Remains of a Partially-Built Supercollider | Motherboard
As a new video from Atlas Obscura tells us, the Higgs-Boson particle could have been discovered 10 years before CERN’s Large Hadron Collider proved its existence in 2012—and it could have been done in Texas.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Before his 35-mile commute through Appalachian hills to classes here at the University of Tennessee, Michael Miceli eats a gigantic breakfast. It is his way of getting through the day without spending money on a campus lunch. Food…
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Trademarked: Trump makes money off the name ‘Central Park’ : politics
It’s about time. Who allowed this to go on for so long? Oh, BTW. It says 14 comments; I see only 2.
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San Bernardino shooting: What do we know about Tashfeen Malik? – BBC News
Details are emerging about the pair that shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California. Syed Rizwan Farook was involved in a dispute at a workplace party shortly before he and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, launched their deadly assault.
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Flood-hit homeowners face higher insurance bills after Storm Desmond | Environment | The Guardian
Homeowners in the flood-stricken areas of Cumbria could see their already high insurance bills increase further following Storm Desmond.
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Journey To The Planet Eternia In This Week’s Sunday Matinee
For this weekend’s Sunday Matinee, we’re going back to 1987 for Masters of the Universe. This live action adaptation of the Mattel franchise was a critical box office failure, but for b-movie campiness? You can’t get much better.
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Check Out These Awesome Sherlock Victorian Posters
Illustrator and designer Sean Coleman has been getting ready for the Sherlock victorian special, the Abomitable Bride, and he’s created two posters to celebrate. These are pretty excellent, and they would serve as fantastic posters for the show on t…
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Verizon Wireless has announced that it’s turning on Wi-Fi calling for devices starting next week, beginning with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.
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Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a penis transplant.
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The army has been deployed to help flood-hit communities in the north of England after Storm Desmond left at least 60,000 homes without power and many lacking clean water, as whole communities were cut off.
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How nerve cells end up in the right place | Ars Technica
The human nervous system is a complex network of cells, all working together. The intense specialization of this network starts during development, when cells must talk to each other to carefully coordinate wiring up neural circuitry. The wiring rel…
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Thousands of refugees rescued off Libyan coast – Al Jazeera English
Sunday’s announcement came after the United Nations recorded the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe drop to more than a third last month due to bad weather.
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BBC Sport – Newcastle United 2-0 Liverpool
Mike Williamson is Newcastle’s latest injury absentee, having suffered a hamstring problem just days after his recall from a loan at Wolves. Cheick Tiote has failed to recover from a groin strain in time for Sunday.
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Each Team’s Chances Of Winning The College Football Playoff | FiveThirtyEight
The college football playoff committee has returned its verdict: No. 1 Clemson, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 4 Oklahoma. Here’s what those final seedings mean for each team’s championship odds, according to FiveThirtyEight’s model:
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GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson would prefer to shut out transgender service members in the military, suggesting that he liked the idea of the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy that prevented gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.
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What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?| Technology | The Guardian
The US woke up on Friday to the news that Donald Trump was a full 20 percentage points ahead of Ted Cruz, his nearest rival, for the Republican nomination, and a good 16 percentage points higher than America’s top political analysts thought he would…
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Relatives, Friends Say Jimmy Carter’s Cancer Is ‘Gone’ – The Atlantic
Jimmy Carter is reportedly cancer-free. The former president made the announcement at a Sunday School class he was teaching in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported.
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U2 pay tribute to Paris in new song – BBC News
Rock band U2 have written a song in tribute to Paris after the recent attacks that left 130 people dead. The group were due to play in the French capital in the days after the attacks, but the gigs were cancelled.
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Venezuela heads to polls in crunch legislative election – Al Jazeera English
People in Venezuela are voting in key parliamentary elections, with the country’s economic troubles putting heavy pressure on the socialist government led by President Nicolas Maduro.
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THERE’S an adage you hear most any time you mention con artists: You can’t cheat an honest man. It’s a comforting defense against vulnerability, but is it actually true? No, as it turns out; honesty has precious little to do with it.
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Obama Expected to Call for Gun Control in Speech About Terrorism and San Bernardino | VICE News
The White House says President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday night, and he is expected to call on Congress to enact new gun control measures in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 people…
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The Superdrug Fueling ISIS And The Nazis – YouTube
Were The Nazis Addicted To Meth? http://testu.be/1Q64RvrSubscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHmlDue to the chaotic situation of war, many countries gave soldiers’ amphetamines to cope. So what is the history behind these drugs in war?Learn More:The tiny …
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A Shipwreck With Treasure Worth Up to $17 Billion Was Discovered Near Colombia | Motherboard
Get your plundering gear together, because the colonial galleon San Jose, known to many as “the holy grail of shipwrecks,” has been discovered off Colombia’s Baru peninsula at a depth of 1,000 feet.
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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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Amazon Fire TV Game Controller (second-gen) review: It can listen, it can talk | Ars Technica
We’ve been smitten with the second-gen Amazon Fire TV streaming-media box ever since its October launch.
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How does medicine describe the worst smells humans can make? | The Verge
We’re skin bags filled with blood and all sorts of other nonsenseIf you talk about a lump on your breast, people get twitchy; they always assume it’s potentially cancerous.
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Surveillance must increase after terror attacks, say 2016 candidates | US news | The Guardian
Presidential candidates from both parties came together at the weekend to call for beefed-up government surveillance programs in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
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Spice-Filled Sandworm Bread Is Totally What’s For Dinner Tonight
This is pretty awesome: a huge fan of Dune, Chris-Rachael Oseland went and made a bread shaped like one of the novel’s iconic sand worms, and provided the recipe!
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Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks | Environment | The Guardian
French authorities are enforcing “unprecedented restrictions on civil society” at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said.
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Top-seeded Clemson will play No4 Oklahoma at the Orange Bowl and No2 Alabama gets No3 Michigan State at the Cotton Bowl in the New Year’s Eve semi-finals of the College Football Playoff.
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Netanyahu Rejects Kerry Warning Binational State | Al Jazeera America
Israel’s prime minister insists his country is not heading toward becoming a binational state, rejecting a warning to that effect by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Swizz Beatz Got DMX to Play a Concert at Art Basel Miami Beach | Vanity Fair
Credit Swizz Beatz for landing the most left-field headliner at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach nightlife attention contest. The hip hop producer, born Kasseem Dean, has been building his presence on the contemporary art scene for a while now.
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How A Woman Joins ISIS – The Daily Beast
Colleagues of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook are alleging that it was his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who was the spark for radicalization. CNN reported Friday, citing a U.S. official, that Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdad…
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Ground combat positions may be open to women but ‘the fight is not done’ | US news | The Guardian
Former American servicewomen who had to quit the military because the jobs they wanted were not available to them based on their gender, expressed cautious enthusiasm this week following the news by Defense Secretary Ash Carter that all positions wi…
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Half of £24bn nuclear reactor investment will go to overseas suppliers | Business | The Guardian
More than half of the £24bn expected to be spent on the first British nuclear reactors for two decades could go abroad to foreign suppliers, a leading UK academic and government adviser has warned.
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ELI5: If Netflix offers unlimited movies each month, why does Audible cost more and only offer one audiobook each month? (self.explainlikeimfive) I’m a big fan of streaming services.
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Are algorithms racist — and can we fix that? | Public Radio International
Some believers in big data have claimed that, in big data sets, “the numbers speak for themselves.” Or in other words, the more data available to them, the closer machines can get to achieving objectivity in their decision-making.
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CREDIT: Natasha Geiling/ThinkProgress PARIS, FRANCE — The sound of drums and chanting rang across the Bassin de la Villette — Paris’ largest artifical lake — on Sunday as representatives from indigenous tribes stretching from the Arctic to the Amazo…
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We are more afraid than ever of gun violence, but the truth is the murder rate is at a 50-year low
My mother watches cable news a lot. And she’s on social media—especially Facebook—a lot. When we spoke Wednesday, she asked me if I’d heard. “About what?” I asked. “San Bernardino,” she replied.
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Jimmy Carter tells churchgoers he is cancer-free | US news | The Guardian
Jimmy Carter, the former US president, told worshippers at the Baptist church in Georgia where he teaches Bible study on Sunday that he was cancer-free, in an announcement later celebrated by his grandson on Twitter. Carter, 91, announced in August …
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What is the evolutionary background behind Temperature Dependent Sex Determination? : askscience
I understand that this phenomenon allows for groups of a single sex to be produced depending on the ambient temperature. But I’m still confused as to how this trait evolved in the first place and why it is restricted to mostly reptiles.
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BBC – Earth – One amazing substance allowed life to thrive on land
Mud. Muck. Dirt. Although we have plenty of words for it, we rarely give soil a second thought. But without soil, we would certainly be dead.
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One geek’s reluctant journey toward loving space
It’s not just abstract biology that interests me, if there is such a thing. Life—that’s what interests me. And out there in the cold dark of the universe, there are planets, billions upon billions of them.
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After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi | Motherboard
After the recent Paris terror attacks, the French government is proposing to forbid and block the use of the Tor anonymity network, according to an internal document from the Ministry of Interior seen by French newspaper Le Monde.
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‘Rollercoaster Tycoon’ Sadist Creates 210 Day-Long Hell Coaster | Motherboard
It’s easy to be a sadist in games like Rollercoaster Tycoon, designing coasters intended to hurtle your tiny ride-goers into certain destruction. It’s akin to waiting for your Sims to go swimming and deleting the pool ladder.
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Hours After San Bernardino Shooting, Muslim Community Condemned Attack : politics
I’d expect nothing less, but they still tried to make themselves the victim. The attorney of the killers family tried their hardest to say they had nothing to do with ISIS too, even though the wife pledged her allegiance on FB.
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Burkina Faso coup leader charged over Sankara murder – Al Jazeera English
Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged a general who led a failed coup in September with complicity in the 1987 assassination of President Thomas Sankara, senior security sources have told the Reuters news agency.
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To go along with the new experience, 10,000 customized Cardboard viewers are being handed out to fans at Gillette Stadium. This is yet another Cardboard giveaway meant to bring virtual reality front and center to the types of folks who could eventua…
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Rubio: People On The No-Fly List Should Still Be Able To Buy Guns | ThinkProgress
Marco Rubio said Sunday that people on the U.S. government’s No-Fly list should still be able to purchase guns, because the list is full of “everyday Americans” who are on the list by accident.
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San Bernardino attack: Obama to give rare Oval Office address – BBC News
President Barack Obama is to deliver a rare Oval Office speech later on Sunday on the San Bernardino shootings. The US leader will discuss the broader threat of terrorism, how it has evolved and how it will be defeated, the White House said.
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Verizon rolling out Wi-Fi calling to Samsung devices this week, iPhones next year | The Verge
Verizon is turning on Wi-Fi calling for devices on its network next week, starting with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Additional devices — including iPhones — will be updated to support the service “early next year.
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Since 2001, people have been declaring their religion as ‘Jedi’ on official census campaigns. The upside to this is that it’s been encouraging more people to take part in official census campaigns. Barnes and Noble takes a look.
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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon – digested read | Books | The Guardian
This day may have been the day, the very day when my identity was born. I was three years old and I was lined up with my sisters to say goodnight to my Mommy and Daddy. As they kissed Mommy and Daddy politely, it was as if a light had come on and fi…
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Matt Sorum Remembers ‘Real Deal’ Scott Weiland | Rolling Stone
Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum reminisced about Scott Weiland and his time with the singer in a new interview recorded just days after Weiland’s death at the age of 48.
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Florida ‘DUI expert’ charged with DUI : nottheonion
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San Bernardino shooting: Victim’s sister expresses grief – BBC News
Tamishia Clayborn, whose sister Sierra was killed in the San Bernardino shooting, says every time she got to see her sister was “precious”. Sierra Clayborn was one of 14 people who were killed at a staff Christmas party when Tashfeen Malik and Syed …
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LESBOS, Greece — For three weeks American politicians have been fulminating about the peril posed by Syrian refugees, even though in the last dozen years no refugee in America has killed a single person in a terror attack.
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Leap of faith [Just Cause 3] : gaming
Wait a second, did you cancel your wingsuit without deploying your parachute?! How?! Really wanted to see him fall through both windows, it looks like it could be possible.
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The winding, telephonic odyssey of Joybubbles, the original phone phreak
Rachael Morrison read the New York Times obituary. She’d never heard of Joybubbles or phone phreakers, but she was fascinated by the life limned in little less than 800 words.
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Jimmy Carter: ‘Cancer is gone’ – BBC News
Thousands of homes are left without power and the Army called in to help after Storm Desmond causes severe flooding across parts of northern England and Scotland.
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Clinton condemns Liberty University head’s call to ‘end those Muslims’ | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday delivered a sharp rebuke to the president of a prominent Christian university who two days earlier encouraged students to acquire concealed carry gun permits to “end those Muslims”.
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Alien trading cards, Topps, 1979 : movies
Do you know when these came out, in relationship to the original release of the movie?
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Islamic State Claims Car Bomb Attack That Killed Governor of Aden in Yemen | VICE News
The governor of Aden was killed in a car bomb attack on Sunday claimed by Islamic State (IS) in Yemen’s southern port city, where President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has returned to oversee a war against the Iran-allied Houthis group.
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Jaden Smith, Performance Artist, Played a Show at Art Basel Miami Beach | Vanity Fair
“Totally,” said Jaden Smith on Saturday afternoon at a mansion on a private island in Biscayne Bay. The 17-year-old actor-musician was standing atop a white leather bench at a party during Art Basel Miami Beach hosted by Galore and Complex magazines.
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Can Poems About Network Optimization Get Poetry a New Audience? | Motherboard
You might not know Raph Koster by name, but if you play massively multiplayer online (MMO) games like World of Warcraft, you should be familiar with his work.
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French Election to Be Boon for Far Right | Al Jazeera America
French voters are casting ballots Sunday for regional leaders in an unusually tense security climate, expected to favor conservative and far right candidates and strike a new blow against the governing Socialists. The Paris attacks on Nov.
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The Post’s View Donald Trump is a poison pill for the Republican Party : politics
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Knife-Wielding Man Injures Two People in ‘Terrorist Incident’ in London Tube – The Atlantic
At about 7 p.m. local time, police responded to reports of a stabbing attack at Leytonstone. Video footage of the scene posted to social media shows people running away as the man threatens them. The man reportedly shouted “this is for Syria.”
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Trump won’t have the necessary number of delegates going into the GOP Convention to guarantee his nomination. The inevitable floor fight will become a bloodbath for both the GOP and Trump, no matter who eventually wins the nomination. Trump is an ab…
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Storm Desmond: flooding leaves people and pets stranded – video | Environment | The Guardian
Residents in northern England woke up to wide-spread flooding on Sunday morning after Storm Desmond wreaked chaos with strong winds and heavy rain overnight.
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Bernie Sanders tells New Hampshire he will not be distracted from domestic problems by ISIS. (buzzfeed.com) This link is staying blue.
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Steph Curry’s 44 points help Warriors break yet another record | Sport | The Guardian
Steph Curry made nine three-pointers and scored 44 points, leading the undefeated Golden State Warriors to a 112-109 victory over the Raptors on Saturday. Curry was 14 for 24 from the field and nine for 15 from beyond the arc as Golden State pushed …
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Podcast: Creator Of ‘The Leftovers’ Talks Religion, Earthquakes, And Donald Trump | ThinkProgress
Warning: The following contains spoilers of HBO’s television series The Leftovers. Visions, prophets, miracles, and dramatic unexplainable events. Charismatic leaders attracting disciples. Sacrificial rituals.
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7 surprising things everyone should know about Hanukkah – Vox
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah — which was probably the first Jewish holiday you heard of, whether you’re Jewish or not.
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House evacuations as Storm Desmond batters Britain – Al Jazeera English
Authorities in the UK have helped evacuated people from their homes as violent winds and torrential rain caused chaos across parts of the country.
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Sunday’s Best Deals: Little Giant Ladders, B2G1 Video Games, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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Ethan Hawke Has Joined Luc Besson’s Science Fiction Film Valerian
This is intriguing news: Ethan Hawke has joined Luc Besson’s next film, an adaptation of the 1967 graphic novel Valerian.
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Donald John Trump is exactly the candidate the GOP deserves
Loud. Brash. Rude. Pig Ignorant. Neo-Fascist. Billionaire Skinflint. Racist as a mack truck with Confederate mud flaps.
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Emeka Ezelugha was excited to open a computer training center. He could teach his countrymen some skills and earn a living. But soon after the center opened in a rough, two-story concrete building in Lagos, a blaze broke out in the main classroom.
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Tashfeen Malik, the woman accused by law enforcement officials of killing 14 people and injuring 21 others in a California conference center alongside her husband Wednesday, remains largely a mystery to both investigators and her rela
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FBI Raids Home of Neighbor Suspected of Buying Guns for San Bernardino Shooters | VICE News
The FBI conducted a raid early Saturday morning that reportedly targeted the home of the man suspected of providing some of the weapons used by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik in the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead and…
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Let’s rank all of the guest stars in A Very Murray Christmas | The Verge
Bill Murray’s holiday special A Very Murray Christmas made its Netflix debut on Friday, and it’s every bit the old-fashioned variety show suggested by its trailers.
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American Gun Culture is Literally Killing Us: A Reading List : Longreads Blog
I looked up from my notebook into the face of an tipsy, friendly woman, glammed up for her night out. We were in the narrow aisle of our local pizza joint. She’d shared a quick snack with her friend, and my sandwich and soda were half-finished.
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“Unsexy Plumbing,” Integrated Data And The Future Of The Healthcare System | TechCrunch
Healthcare, like so many other sectors of the economy, is being transformed by technology.
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Home Theater Software Showdown: Kodi vs Plex
Who needs Netflix? With home theater apps like Plex and Kodi, you can roll your own sweet-looking library with all the TV shows and movies you like, with none of the junk. But which software should you use? Here’s how the two biggest solutions stack…
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How to pick which board game to play, in one handy flowchart – Vox
It is December. It is cold, and everything is terrible. It is a time to stay indoors as much as possible, drink hot toddies, watch The Great British Baking Show, and, of course, play board games.
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Sunday’s Best Deals: Little Giant Ladders, B2G1 Video Games, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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ISIL Claims Car Bombing that Kills Yemen Governor | Al Jazeera America
A huge explosion killed the governor of Yemen’s southern Aden province and six of his bodyguards Sunday, security officials said. The attack was later claimed by a local affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Gov.
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Ryan Gosling on ‘SNL’: 3 Sketches You Have to See | Rolling Stone
December tends to bring out the best in Saturday Night Live: The cast has started to gel, the writers have a sense of what makes this iteration of the show work, and the show always mines good comedy from the holiday season. And yet, this Ryan Gosli…
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Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tom Morello Star in Lennon Birthday Tribute | Rolling Stone
“Rock & roll is here to stay!” Yoko Ono asserted on the stage of the Theater at Madison Square Garden Saturday night, telling the audience that’s what her late husband would have said in response to “Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert.
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Dr. Robert Zubrin answers the “why we should be going to Mars” question in the most eloquent way. [starts at 49m16s] (youtube.com)
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Trump Advocates For Tracking Muslims: ‘I Think There Can Be Profiling’ | ThinkProgress
In the wake of the deadly act of terrorism in San Bernardino, California, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thinks that the country should track and racially profile Muslims and their families.
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Removing the gag: how one man took on the FBI for nearly 12 years and won : politics
Removing the gag: how one man took on the FBI for nearly 12 years and won (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Hybrid Animals : mildlyinteresting
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Harvard Law Newspaper Editor says “No” to Students Asking Him to Censor Conservative Op-eds https://t.co/PG8e5cLggB https://t.co/xcix8Q8YXR
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Dozens of Isis fighters killed in US-led Syria airstrikes, monitors say | World news | The Guardian
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Trump factor fuels debate about value of ‘horse race’ polls in election cycle https://t.co/oWNZyLjGXM https://t.co/ZonacjSEDk
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98 year old couple recreates 70 year of wedding photo : pics
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Your puppy printer seems to be running out of ink : aww
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After a mass shooting: A survivor’s life | The Washington Post
ROSEBURG, Ore. — She approached her daughter just as the doctors and psychologists had suggested: calmly, deliberately, stepping on the carpet so the floorboards didn’t squeak, picking her way around the wheelchair, the walker, the sagging balloons …
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Smashing the Church Patriarchy One Mitre at a Time – The Atlantic
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USWNT friendly cancelled over pitch safety after injury to Megan Rapinoe | Football | The Guardian
US Soccer has cancelled Sunday’s friendly between USA and Trinidad & Tobago in Hawaii over concerns about the playing surface.
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How being left-handed changes your perception of the world – Vox
The illustrations below are called Fribbles. They’re generated by a computer, and psychologists can use them in Rorschach-like tests: How participants rate them says more about the participants than about the drawings.
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Storm Desmond: Homes flooded and thousands left without power – BBC News
Flood waters have reached their peak as Storm Desmond continues to cause severe disruption across northern England and parts of Scotland. Hundreds of homes have been flooded and more than 1,000 people evacuated in Cumbria and the Scottish Borders.
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Libya’s rival parliament reach tentative agreement – BBC News
Libya’s two rival parliaments have reached an initial agreement aimed at resolving the political crisis that has plagued the country for years. The deal, agreed at talks in Tunis, is intended to lead to a single government and elections within two y…
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MLS Cup Features Two Teams Led By Players Who Were Refugees | ThinkProgress
When the Portland Timbers face off against the Columbus Crew SC in Sunday’s MLS Cup, the teams will be led by an unlikely duo: former refugees. Underlying Sunday’s championship game, to be held in Columbus, is the fight from dozens of governors and …
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BBC Sport – Gareth Bale: Real Madrid are a ‘united’ club
Real Madrid are a “united” club despite a difficult few weeks on and off the pitch, says Wales forward Gareth Bale. Rafael Benitez’s side lost heavily to Barcelona last month before being expelled from the Copa del Rey for fielding an ineligible pla…
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1000 Rabbis Sign Letter In Support of Welcoming Refugees : politics
Way to go HIAS.
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Jerry Brown calls other states’ gun laws ‘gigantic back door’ for terrorists : politics
Jerry Brown calls other states’ gun laws ‘gigantic back door’ for terrorists (sacbee.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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If all jobs paid the same and had the same hours, what would you want to be? : AskReddit
If all jobs paid the same and had the same hours, what would you want to be? (self.AskReddit) I’d still be a teacher, I love my job.
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Why the World Is Now Set on (at Least) 2 Degrees of Warming – An agreement to aim for less has been taken off the table in Paris. (theatlantic.com)
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Sanders Proposes ‘People before Polluters’ Climate Plan (berniesanders.com)submitted 38 minutes ago by loading…
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A black hole is the most compact object in the universe. The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A* (Sagittarius A-star) shown above, weighs about 4 million times as much as our Sun, yet its event horizon spans only 8 million miles – smaller than th…
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes the place of her younger sister Prim in the malignant Hunger Games and has come extremely close many times before to dying, but this time, it’s closer than she’s ever come before.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Turns A Cult Classic Into An Action RPG | TechCrunch
After announcing it at E3 2015, Square Enix unveiled the first gameplay trailer for one of its most anticipated games, Final Fantasy VII. And it looks like it’s more than just a remake with better graphics. As you can see in the trailer below, the n…
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Army trucks used as ambulances after flooding cuts power in Lancaster | Environment | The Guardian
Army trucks have been stationed at a hospital in Lancaster to act as ambulances after flooding cut the city off from the power grid and blocked all but one access route.
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Thar she blows! Cinema’s most spectacular whale hunts | Film | The Guardian
From Pinocchio to Free Willy, from Whale Rider to Blackfish, cinema has frequently dallied with what the whale might, or might not, mean. In 1943, Walt Disney even turned Nazi Germany into a fearsome animated whale about to swallow plucky Britain.
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The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas | Vanity Fair
The whole thing began over a puddle in a driveway. The two men are next-door neighbors in Lyford Cay, a gated community on New Providence, an island in the Bahamas, and for years it had been a peaceful adjacency.
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The Verge Review of Animals: The reindeer | The Verge
The first thing you need to know about reindeer is that, like a spy or a pro wrestler, they go by different names depending on where they are.
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This Video Features Ten Simple Tips to Improve Your Kitchen Skills
If you have five minutes, you can learn a lot about how to get things done in the kitchen, thanks to this video from Brothers Green Eats.
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One of the Best Comedies of the Year Is a Free, 15-Minute Video Game | Motherboard
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is an improbable game with an improbable name. The stated premise is that you’re a master thief on a tour across Europe, slipping quiet in the night into museums and mansion…
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Marvel made the Hulk interesting again. He’s an Asian-American man. – Vox
I’ve never been a big fan of the Incredible Hulk. I didn’t quite understand the character’s forced romantic pairing with Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and I think the Hulk film starring Edward Norton is one of the worst movies Marvel has e…
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Does fracking cause earthquakes? – Al Jazeera English
Fracking has revolutionised the US energy market, with oil and gas extraction lowering household gas prices, reducing energy costs, while helping make the country energy self-sufficient.
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#YouAintNoMuslimBruv: How Twitter responded to Leytonstone attack – BBC News
Twitter users are posting messages including the hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv to show their contempt for a man who allegedly stabbed three people at a London Tube station.
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-Successfully- Married people of reddit, what were some ‘red flags’ you have ignored but had no impact on your relationship? (self.AskReddit)submitted 1 hour ago by [–]techinept [score hidden] 44 minutes ago(5 children)Collecting literally 1000’s of…
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She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) – YouTube
13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) https://t.co/kY8oRgoM1o
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Letchworth state park, New York [1440×2560]OC : EarthPorn
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Pissed Off Russian Truckers Are Threatening to Cause a Traffic Nightmare in Moscow | VICE News
As soon as the Platon system, a new set of road fees for large vehicles, went into effect across Russia on November 15, the snails began appearing around Khimki, a city northwest of Moscow.
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Watch Leon Bridges Bare His Soul for ‘SNL’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Leon Bridges Bare His Soul for ‘SNL’ Retro-soul singer brings his “Smooth Sailin’” and “River” to Studio 8H
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Star Wars planetary drinking glasses / Boing Boing
Thinkgeek has extended its solar system drinking glasses with a new link of six 10oz Star Wars glasses that symbolize six of the Lucas mythos’s most important celestial bodies: Alderaan, Dagobah, Hoth, Tatooine, Endor, and the Death Star (natch).
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Mathematics has a liberal bias. It should be outlawed in schools.
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Greg Hochmuth was one of the first software engineers hired at Instagram. He worked on a team in 2012 that developed the first Android app for the slick photo-sharing service. In its first 24 hours, the app was downloaded more than one million times…
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Close Encounter – SNL – YouTube
Three people (Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Ryan Gosling) share very different stories about their alien abduction.Subscribe to the SNL channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/24RRTvDownload the SNL App for free: … http://goo
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A touching video of what it’s like to rejoin the world after 44 years in prison – Vox
After 44 years in prison, Otis Johnson was released at the age of 69 in August 2014 — rejoining a world that now seems almost alien to him.
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In Iceland, tax-authorities collect “parish fees” from all residents and remit them to churches based on the stated religious affinities of those residents. If you’re an atheist, your fees are collected and go into a general fund shared by all churc…
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China Inner Mongolia checkpoint attacked by mob – BBC News
One-hundred masked attackers beat staff and destroyed buildings before escaping, according to the China News Agency. No motive has been given and police are searching for those involved.
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Kasich was asked in New Hampshire on Wednesday to give a few reasons why Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a bad president. Kasich demurred and instead criticized the negative nature of campaigning. He said he’s not interested in trashing people to …
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Uruguay is now generating 95% of its electricity from renewable energy (qz.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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Chris Christie: “Hell No,” America Shouldn’t Lead on Climate Change : environment
This guy doesn’t give a fuck about anything unless it affects his supply of donuts.
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Syria conflict: Raqqa air strikes ‘kill 32 IS militants’ – BBC News
Air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria have killed at least 32 members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group and wounded 40 more, an activist group says. The strikes on Sunday hit IS bases in the north, east and south-east of the city…
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Netflix’s A Very Murray Christmas is a decent holiday distraction, but that’s about it – Vox
If you’re a fan of Bill Murray’s brand of befuddled enthusiasm, the new Netflix special A Very Murray Christmas will delight you to no end. If you’re at all ambivalent … well, you’ll probably be pretty bored.
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Forestry sales notch up Scottish record | Business | The Guardian
Forestry sales have reached a record £151m in Scotland, smashing the previous record by 50%. There has been a smooth rise in the market since 2010 with a dip in 2014 caused by the uncertainty from the referendum on Scottish independence.
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Pharma-hedge-douche: I should’ve charged more for AIDS/cancer drug / Boing Boing
Martin Shkreli, the most hated man on the Internet, regrets that he jacked up the price of the off-patent drug Daraprim, taken mainly by people with AIDS and cancer, by a mere 5,000%.
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Talking about our abortions is part of our fight for reproductive justice
I’ve also read the push-back and shocked outcry that has erupted around this latest salvo in the reproductive rights battle.
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Leytonstone Tube station ‘terror attack’: Police appeal for footage – BBC News
Police investigating a stabbing at a Tube station – which is being treated as a “terrorist incident” – have urged witnesses who filmed the attack to share the footage with detectives. The knifeman reportedly shouted “this is for Syria”.
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UK regulator gets Grinch-y, warns Christmas lights can slow down your Wi-Fi | Ars Technica
Those fancy fairy lights you’ve lovingly draped over the Christmas tree might look pretty, but they could be causing slower Wi-Fi speeds, UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has warned.
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Watch the Spectacular Inferno of America’s First Satellite Attempt | Motherboard
When Sputnik was launched into orbit on October 4, 1957, people around the world understandably flipped out. Even today, Sputnik is remembered less as a scientific experiment than as a cultural sea change, and the spectacular cold open of the Space …
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Good news: Bananas aren’t going extinct. Bad news: They are in trouble | Grist
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PsBattle: Two People Looking At Nice View : photoshopbattles
He’ll be there with you always, and forever. Meh I’ve seen better..
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She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) – YouTube
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesShe Lives (In a Time of Her Own) · 13th Floor ElevatorsEaster Everywhere℗ 1967 International ArtistsReleased on: 2012-10-01Auto-generated by YouTube.
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Ringo Starr possessions fetch $9.2m at auction – BBC News
An auction of more than 1,300 clothes, instruments, pieces of jewellery and other items owned by Ringo Starr has raised a total of $9.2m (£6.1m). The highlight of the sale was a drum kit played by Starr on many Beatles hits, which fetched $2.1m (£1.…
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Here’s a better alternative to GMO labeling – Vox
Originally published on Grist. The New York Times editorial board came out in favor of labeling genetically modified food Tuesday. This actually matters: It might give new momentum to the push for mandatory labels, which has stalled.
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The Strange Path of Iterating Grace, Silicon Valley’s Most Vicious Satire | WIRED
In late June, 140 prominent figures in tech media discovered a small package in the mail.
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Canon should make a digital mirrorless version of its famous AE-1 camera | The Verge
In the last few years we’ve seen a distinct trend in photography: the rise of mirrorless cameras. With fewer moving parts, these cameras are smaller, lighter, and less imposing than their DSLR cousins. They’re also quieter and offer faster performan…
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Murdoch Eavesdrops On Your Chats To Give Recommendations | TechCrunch
Murdoch wants to give you what you didn’t ask for, yet. Instant messaging is overshadowing social media, and that’s creating new opportunities for data mining and delivering useful content.
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San Bernardino survivor’s tale of grief, mourning and hope | US news | The Guardian
Salihin Kondoker was hundreds of miles away in San Francisco on a business trip when two assailants began spraying a conference room full of San Bernardino County public health workers with a barrage of bullets last Wednesday.
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The New York ‘Daily News’ Takes on the NRA | The Nation
It was significant, indeed, that The New York Times chose for the first time in 95 years to publish a front-page editorial Saturday, and that the paper’s editors used that editorial to address the “national disgrace that civilians can legally purcha…
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Dropping more bombs on ISIL will not save Syria – Al Jazeera English
Last week, the British Parliament voted to extend air strikes against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) into Syria. The debate over whether British bombers should operate in Syria has been ferocious.
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German Vice Chancellor Gabriel:’Saudi Arabia must stop financing Wahabi Mosques throughout the world. They are a breeding ground of Terrorism. In Germany many extremists considered dangerous persons emerge from these communities. I say to them that …
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The gods have spoken (i.imgur.com)submitted just now by dcl4678loading…
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Reduced breathing capacity in kids linked to early pesticide exposure : science
HealthReduced breathing capacity in kids linked to early pesticide exposure (news.berkeley.edu)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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America Is the Biggest Problem at the Climate Talks – Wealthy countries caused the climate crisis. Now they’re trying to avoid paying to fix it. (motherjones.com)
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Pope Francis on Sunday urged nations to act with “courage”, the day before U.N. talks aimed at saving mankind from the dire impacts of global warming enter their crunch phase. (naharnet.com)
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Doctor Who Season 9 made the show good again – Vox
Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here”Hell Bent,” the season finale of the ninth season of BBC America’s Doctor Who reboot.
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The Contraband deck / Boing Boing
I’ve been collecting playing cards since I was a kid and after amassing enough to choke Godzilla, I have a thing or two to say about the ones that stand out to me. When I used to open a pack of cards, the first one I was drawn to was the Ace of Spa…
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From Katy Perry to Kim Kardashian, How the French Revolution Crept Into Advertising – The Atlantic
It’s been widely lambasted as one of the most “bizarre” ads in recent history. Kim Kardashian, dressed as Audrey Hepburn, rides a bicycle with a basket full of Hype energy drinks. The bike topples. Cans of Hype roll.
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SMSNav.me Sends You Local Directions Without A Data Connection | TechCrunch
James Hitchcock and Moti Ferentz, along with the rest of their team, were visiting London for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015’s hackathon — but they didn’t quite have access to the data they needed in order to find their way around with apps like Goo…
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Why the World Is Now Set on (at Least) Two Degrees of Warming – The Atlantic
In Paris this week, a diplomatic dust-up revealed the problems that accompany any discussion of climate change—an issue where we know that bad things will happen not only long before they occur, but also long after we can prevent them.
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Immediate.ly Maps Real-Time Restaurant Availability | TechCrunch
Are you ever hungry and wonder which nearby restaurants have available tables right now? Immediate.ly, conceived at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London Hackathon, aims to fix that problem.
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FreeMe Wins The Disrupt London 2015 Hackathon Grand Prize | TechCrunch
It’s been a long night at the Copper Box Arena in London. The arena hosted the handball competition of the Summer Olympics two years ago. But this weekend has been all about a different kind of competition — the Disrupt London Hackathon.
FreeMe Wins The Disrupt London 2015 Hackathon Grand Prize https://t.co/1FDq866ZZj https://t.co/mzA5sKseFN -
On a scorching day in May 2010, thousands of Latinos and immigration activists marched through the streets of downtown Phoenix in a mighty protest against SB1070, the so-called “show me your papers” law.
‘No human being is illegal’: linguists argue against mislabeling of immigrants https://t.co/tlKjKx1m83 https://t.co/QUQkMHcBwf -
Perhaps the close of every year feels this borderline apocalyptic, and we simply lose perspective each time, but 2015 seems like it has to be the darkest year in my living memory.
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December Book Reviews Roundup – Scientific American
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Russia’s coal war with Ukraine leaves civilians cold – Al Jazeera English
Kiev, Ukraine – Flurries of snow have started to fall on Kiev, announcing the start of winter for the residents of the Ukrainian capital.
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Kate McKinnon cracking everyone up on SNL this week : television
Kate McKinnon has some of the best line delivery I’ve seen on SNL and she’s super consistent. She’s easily the best part of the show right now Pete Davidson kills it whenever he gets a chance.
Kate McKinnon cracking everyone up on SNL this week https://t.co/GgRw8XaQ5i https://t.co/aQG9el4ooK -
Trippy Dreamcast Classic ‘Rez’ Is Coming To Virtual Reality | Motherboard
Now here’s a video game that makes sense to bring to virtual reality: Rez, Sega’s trippy, electronic music rail shooter that originally came out for the Dreamcast in 2001.
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The Simply Astounding Rate Icebergs Are Melting Thanks To Global Warming : environment
The Simply Astounding Rate Icebergs Are Melting Thanks To Global Warming (thinkprogress.org)submitted 57 minutes ago by loading…
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Milk coma. Look at that tum tum! : aww
Milk coma. Look at that tum tum! via /r/aww https://t.co/ZbxuYQ3p7a https://t.co/gLjQYV0NyN https://t.co/6F6gLGvltp
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Milk coma. Look at that tum tum! via /r/aww https://t.co/ZbxuYQ3p7a https://t.co/gLjQYV0NyN https://t.co/6F6gLGvltp
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Debbie Dooley is a firebrand Republican and an outspoken founding member of the Tea Party. But in a fast-intensifying battle over the future of solar power in Florida, she is not on the side you might expect.
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Meet the Tea Party Patriot who champions solar energy – video | US news | The Guardian
Debbie Dooley is an original founder of the Tea Party Patriots who also happens to be an environmentalist. In her quest to bring a new solar initiative into law in Florida, Dooley tries to convince conservatives that confronting the energy monopolie…
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Removing the gag: how one man took on the FBI for nearly 12 years and won | Law | The Guardian
On a snowy afternoon in February 2004, an FBI agent came to Nick Merrill’s door, bearing a letter that would change his life. At the time, Merrill was running a small internet service provider called Calyx, with offices just below Canal Street on Ma…
Removing the gag: how one man took on the FBI for nearly 12 years and won https://t.co/q5OhSvuc67 https://t.co/3SIfisrQUA -
Human Code Project Hack Aims To Demystify Code | TechCrunch
Meet Roslyn Scott and Dalton Scott, a mother and son team who just demoed a neat idea for making code more accessible, here at the Disrupt London 2015 hackathon.
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Star Wars: Harrison Ford talks Han Solo – BBC News
The original Star Wars trilogy helped make Harrison Ford one of cinema’s biggest stars.
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Mummo Dumps Your Parent’s Tech Problems In Someone Else’s Lap | TechCrunch
How many times has your mom or dad called with an obvious-to-you question about their phone, or printer, or in the case of my mother, the Apple TV?
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Fate of Syria’s Assad a ‘red line’, Iran official says – Al Jazeera English
The future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can only be determined by the Syrian people, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding his fate was a “red line” for Tehran.
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Safe Haven Is A TC Disrupt London Hack To Connect Refugees With Aid Organizations | TechCrunch
While governments around the world struggle to address the needs of the 4 million refugees who have fled Syria since the start of that country’s civil war in 2011, hackers across Europe are marshaling their own resources to help.
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06 Neil Young – A Man Needs A Maid (Live at the BBC 1971) – YouTube
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Ramble On – Led Zeppelin – YouTube
Led Zeppelin – Ramble On https://t.co/9B6aC2EkZS
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WhatsBot Brings A Virtual Assistant To WhatsApp | TechCrunch
WhatsBot Brings A Virtual Assistant To WhatsApp https://t.co/aSDSjwfcrZ https://t.co/elxTLqiOl2
A team at the TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 hackathon has created what they say is one of the first personal assistants for the WhatsApp messaging platform. -
Tag Heuer Is Ramping Up Smartwatch Production From 1,200 To 2,000 Pieces Per Week | TechCrunch
Tag Heuer Is Ramping Up Smartwatch Production From 1,200 To 2,000 Pieces Per Week https://t.co/fJpEykjWl1 https://t.co/I20Hm9aleo
Tag Heuer’s chairman Jean-Claude Biver announced that the company is ramping up weekly production of their Carrera Connected Smart Watch from 1,200 to 2,000 pieces. The watch costs $1,500 and features a nice steel case and Android Wear. -
He just learned about Christmas presents. via /r/aww https://t.co/yOOWFZkgRy https://t.co/8KgN9TV0Iz https://t.co/UNoDl7JeSx
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He just learned about Christmas presents. : aww
He just learned about Christmas presents. via /r/aww https://t.co/yOOWFZkgRy https://t.co/8KgN9TV0Iz https://t.co/UNoDl7JeSx
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MedicSMS Helps Diagnose Medical Emergencies Via SMS In Developing Countries | TechCrunch
People in developing countries may not have the luxury of access to many modern technologies. They do, however, have affordable access to smartphones increasingly. According to a recent mobility report from Ericsson, there are 2.6 billion smartphone…
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Gunocracy
On this slide, we have the Second Amendment. The one that starts with the words “A well regulated Militia, being necessary…” Now, let us slip it under our Supreme-Court-O-Scope and peer deeply into it’s tiny 27 word structure.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Gunocracy https://t.co/2XaZaa4Ogo https://t.co/WozDbb84D3 -
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Leytonstone stabbing: ‘I heard screaming and shouting’ – BBC News
Salim Patel, who works in the kiosk at Leytonstone Station, said he heard screaming and shouting as events unfolded.
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Hunting tigers and flies: China’s media crackdown – Al Jazeera English
The media have deep connections and are controlled by officials and interest groups, so it’s not difficult to understand why we have problems such as ‘paid reporting’, ‘paid self-censorship’ and ‘paid badmouthing’ – it’s all about money. The system …
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India require eight wickets on the final day to seal a 3-0 Test series win after South Africa closed on 72-2 in pursuit of a remote 481 in Delhi. Ajinkya Rahane became the fifth Indian to score centuries in both innings of a Test match as they decla…
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Climate Talks Split Into Groups to Tackle Thorny Issues : environment
Climate Talks Split Into Groups to Tackle Thorny Issues https://t.co/T6FZbQAFNc https://t.co/Z4mhYzf0gZ
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Uneasy calm in markets about expected US rate increase, say central bankers https://t.co/3IeVNMKEXx https://t.co/52G67j1J1V
An uneasy calm prevails in financial markets over the first increase in US interest rates in almost a decade, which is widely expected later this month, according to a leading group of central bankers. -
Historical Commemoration and the Age of Marble – The Atlantic
The Crumbling Monuments of the Age of Marble https://t.co/HHfLeKBl4m https://t.co/mOzhIOzYH0
For the past two weeks, the opinion pages have been consumed with the demands of students at Princeton University that Woodrow Wilson’s name be removed from the university’s school of public and international affairs and one of its residential colle…
Love Everyone Often 12/07/2015
Chicago mourns young shooting victims as 2016 candidates address gun control | US news | The Guardian Some mornings she struggles to get out of bed. On other days she is plunged back into her grief by the inevitable news of another child killed in a city grappling with one…
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