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Everwise, A Mentoring Matchmaker, Raises $8 Million | TechCrunch
Everwise, a New York-based company whose online service connects “protégés” with mentors –from new entrepreneurs, to budding sports coaches, to people looking to rise through the ranks of Fortune 500 companies — is taking the wraps off the bigger bu…
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“Spotlight” and Its Revelations – The New Yorker
Since seeing the movie “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe investigation of sexual abuse and coverups in the Catholic Church, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it and the questions it raises—about how far institutions will go to protect the…
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Storm Desmond floods: your photos and stories | Environment | The Guardian
Residents in the north-west of England are attempting to come to terms with recent flooding in the wake of Storm Desmond. With more rain to come later this week, renewed flooding is possibly, according to the Met Office.
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AOL Lays Off Another 100, Two-Thirds In Its Dial-Up/Membership Division | TechCrunch
Six months into its acquisition by Verizon for $4.4 billion, AOL is doing some trimming of its workforce. TechCrunch has learned, and confirmed, that AOL has laid off around 100 employees, as it looks to eliminate overlap with its new owner and dece…
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Greed for petroleum has produced plenty of war. War can be defined narrowly, as conflict between nations, or broadly, as large-scale violence in pursuit of gain. This is why so many see the climate movement as a peace movement –especially after the …
Oil fuels war and terrorists like Isis. The climate movement can bring peace https://t.co/qkw0fI2yVQ https://t.co/rmXxh5eRjU -
Trump derided over US Muslim ban comment – Al Jazeera English
Source: Al Jazeera
Trump derided over US Muslim ban comment https://t.co/KNiAriGTCo https://t.co/Sv2pOyyWh9 -
Beijing’s ‘airpocalypse’: city shuts down amid three-day smog red alert | World news | The Guardian
“Create a paradise,” urges the motto of Beijing’s Baijiazhuang primary school – a message stamped on to its front gate in bright red calligraphy.
Beijing’s ‘airpocalypse’: city shuts down amid three-day smog red alert https://t.co/XK3Jd4XWJB https://t.co/pPkwIKoAo4 -
Picture if you will a nice state primary school, in 1980s south Wales. We had an oak tree. One time a man drove a Sinclair C5 round the playground to show us The Future.
Why we have to create more disabled characters in children’s fiction https://t.co/WKzDxLxR4V https://t.co/r15W2TVXex -
Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book was written by my favourite author Jacqueline Wilson, I have read and enjoyed many of her books. It was set in the early 20th century and the book was about a 14 year old girl called Opal and how her life takes place in the next year.
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Ted Cruz is even less electable than Donald Trump – Vox
The Republican Party establishment has a bad case of Trump-Induced Terror these days, but there’s an even more plausible candidate in the race who’s running on an even more unelectable agenda. May I introduce to you Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s now pu…
Ted Cruz is even less electable than Donald Trump https://t.co/Da91cTT8ty https://t.co/3QSvgWekcX -
Anglo-American to cut 63% of workforce – BBC News
Shares in the mining firm Anglo American plunged by over 8% after it announced a 63% cut in its workforce. The staff reductions will see the workforce shrink from 135,000 to 50,000.
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Many new road and rail ‘‘development corridors’’ planned to crisscross Africa in the name of economic development could destroy the continent’s equatorial forests and savannahs, lead to many people invading protected areas and have only limited chan…
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Top 10 Viral Animal Videos of the Year
Over the past year we’ve shared some great viral videos from around the Internet, including a few that were created by National Geographic staff, explorers, and partners. Many of these videos featured animal behaviors that were relatively unknown an…
Top 10 Viral Animal Videos of the Year https://t.co/clPN714QaL https://t.co/w34NcGyv8t -
Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet’ – BBC News
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says people should go meat-free one or two days a week to protect the climate. Meat-eating was an environmental problem, with farming creating an estimated 28% of global greenhouse gases, the body-bui…
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Europe agrees response to cyber-attacks – BBC News
Technology firms and those running critical services will have to report cyber-breaches, under new rules proposed by MEPs. The rules will also establish minimum standards of cybersecurity for banks, energy and water firms.
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What Would a Real Freelancer’s Union Look Like? | New Republic
It’s boom times in digital media: Profit and investment are up, and new companies are aligning with older media behemoths to increase hiring, especially in the field of content creation.
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Staples’s $6.3 billion Office Depot takeover is in trouble | The Verge
Staples’ $6.3 billion plan to buy rival office supplies chain Office Depot has hit a stumbling block.
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The World-Changing Choice Between Sanders and Clinton On The Climate
We’re close to an international climate agreement that most agree will be both a major step forward and insufficient to avert a catastrophe. Energy will quickly turn to what should be our next steps.
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Ben Carson: could he be the answer to Republicans’ youth problem? | US news | The Guardian
“The younger generation is tired of the typical politician,” says 17-year-old Megan Cox, explaining why she came to see Ben Carson with her mom, aunt and cousin in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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Emmerdale actress Shirley Stelfox dies aged 74 – BBC News
Emmerdale actress Shirley Stelfox has died following a short illness. The 74-year-old was best known for her role as Edna Birch in the ITV soap, which she played for the last 15 years.
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Superbug risk from undercooked meat – BBC News
Superbugs may be passed on to people by eating undercooked meat, a government report has warned. Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria can lurk in the meat we eat because of excessive use of antibiotics for farming, according to the Review on Ant…
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Pollution-hit Delhi to ban drivers on alternate days | World news | The Guardian
Pollution-hit Delhi to ban drivers on alternate days https://t.co/on26GJtOfB https://t.co/JFaOaFTesO
The Delhi government has announced a plan to curb its choking pollution levels, among the worst in the world, by limiting drivers to alternative days beginning next month. -
The Best SNES Emulator for Windows
The Best SNES Emulator for Windows https://t.co/pAQa1eLSB4 https://t.co/sVi09WIzvn
It may be 25 years old, but the Super Nintendo still boasts some of the best video games of all time. If you want to SNES on your Windows machine, we think the best emulator for the job is RetroArch with a bsnes core. RetroArch is a little more comp… -
Deadline Extended For 1st And Future Applications | TechCrunch
Deadline Extended For 1st And Future Applications https://t.co/l5OZQIYI4P https://t.co/bEuZQX1iqG
TechCrunch is teaming up with the NFL and Stanford for an epic pitch-off competition, 1st and Future. The response has been amazing and we’re happy to announce the deadline is extended until this Friday, December 11 at 9pm PT. -
Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform Scores $30 Million Round | TechCrunch
Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform Scores $30 Million Round https://t.co/bu9oA2jmQ2 https://t.co/R3qT0RBDcK
Platfora, a company that helps customers process and make sense of big data, announced a $30 million investment today. -
MapR Tries To Separate From Hadoop Pack With New Streams Product | TechCrunch
MapR Tries To Separate From Hadoop Pack With New Streams Product https://t.co/o1CTgtCDXi https://t.co/mp3yPU65dF
MapR is one of several companies built on the open source Hadoop platform, and as such it has a bit of competition in the space. Today, possibly in an effort to create some separation from its better heeled rivals, it announced a new product called … -
Smith & Wesson gun sales booming despite – or because of – US massacres | Business | The Guardian
Smith & Wesson gun sales booming despite – or because of – US massacres https://t.co/JOvTfUDbJr https://t.co/Cs33PCGCCD
Gun sales at Smith & Wesson are projected to be up a massive 27% year-on-year when the company reports earnings on Tuesday – news that comes days after the sixth deadliest shooting spree in US history. Gun stocks have soared this year. -
Colombian police search for serial killer’s victims – BBC News
Police in the Colombian capital, Bogota, are searching for the victims of self-confessed serial killer Fredy Valencia. They have already found 11 bodies near the shack where the 34-year-old Valencia lived.
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Trump’s hateful rhetoric feeds into age-old west v Islam narrative | World news | The Guardian
Shortly after the seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul in June last year, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed Caliph and leader of Isis issued a message that summed up the world view not just of his own groups but of all Islamic militants in the …
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Ivory price drop in China signals fall in demand, report says | Environment | The Guardian
Illegal ivory value has halved in China according to new research, leading to hopes that the demand which drives poaching in Africa might be on the wane.
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David Miranda in fresh challenge over Heathrow detention | World news | The Guardian
David Miranda in fresh challenge over Heathrow detention https://t.co/LiMIYumVQs https://t.co/rc0RXZ6r5i
David Miranda, the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, has launched a fresh appeal challenging the legality of his detention under counter-terrorism powers for nine hours at Heathrow airport in 2013. -
The star cluster NGC 6604 and its surroundings | ESO
The star cluster NGC 6604 and its surroundings https://t.co/GpY20h5dHL
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‘Hollow words’: why there’ll be a fight over EU’s plans to deal with our waste https://t.co/2UIHx6k5sE https://t.co/XO2Moy9xtZ
Last week, the European commission published its long awaited plan for promoting the circular economy. -
Katy by Jacqueline Wilson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Katy by Jacqueline Wilson – review https://t.co/ytzyFxmlZZ https://t.co/iDCAgMczHm
Before I start my review of Katy, I should mention that I am disabled myself. I am different from the character of Katy in the book, in that I’ve been disabled since birth, (I have Cerebral Palsy, which means I use a wheelchair). So I will review th… -
War of the Worlds gets ‘official’ sequel 119 years on – but what about the unofficial ones? https://t.co/5D4VaVAeKV https://t.co/BI6tsFzU2t
When HG Wells saw off the invading Martians at the end of his 1897 science fiction classic War of the Worlds, he didn’t envisage them making a comeback. But that hasn’t stopped a century’s worth of conjecture about what happened next. -
Trump Slammed Over Ban On Muslims Entering US | Al Jazeera America
One rival for the GOP nomination described Trump as “unhinged” after the businessman’s remarks Monday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) described the policy proposal as “reckless” and “un-American,” while the White House said is play…
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India’s disappearing nomads – Al Jazeera English
Sumdo, India – At sunset, a group of Tibetan nomads gather at a large prayer wheel in the isolated Indian mountain village of Sumdo. Light from the setting sun catches the faces of men, women, and some children, but there are few young families. Whe…
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Design collective wins UK’s Turner Prize – Al Jazeera English
Assemble, a collective of 18 young architects and artists, has won Britain’s most prestigious award for art. Their scheme to regenerate derelict houses in Liverpool has been described as transcending traditional ideas about art.
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Pope Francis opens holy door at Vatican for Jubilee of Mercy – BBC News
Pope Francis has opened the bronze holy door of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time in 15 years. It formally ushers in his Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong celebration.
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Drone footage over Carlisle as Storm Desmond flood waters recede – video | UK news | The Guardian
Drone footage over Carlisle shows the damage left behind by Storm Desmond. A clear-up operation is under way, with power being restored to hundreds of homes as the flood waters recede faster than expected.
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Dilating pupils, wheezes and head-butts: the male bo…
How exactly did consciousness become a problem? And why, after years off the table, is it a hot research subject now?
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What if historians started taking the ‘what if’ seri…
What if Adolf Hitler’s paintings had been acclaimed, rather than met with faint praise, and he had gone into art instead of politics? Have you ever wondered whether John F Kennedy would have such a shining reputation if he had survived his assassina…
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Floods drench the northwest US – Al Jazeera English
Portland, Oregon has had its wettest single day on record, and there is more rain to come. The city recorded 76mm of rain on Monday, breaking the previous record set on November 19, 1996. The December average is 99mm.
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Should we rename institutions that honour dead racis…
Should we rename institutions that honour dead racists? https://t.co/3K18gScGxj https://t.co/LbJjxVxnK7
We all know what Juliet says about a rose: by any other name, it would smell as sweet. But we probably don’t remember why she says this, or what happens next. Juliet is lamenting that a certain young man happens to be called ‘Romeo Montague’, a name… -
I fixed a graffito in the park today : pics
I fixed a graffito in the park today via /r/pics https://t.co/jNj4b1xvr0 https://t.co/XQmVwBUkTb https://t.co/PuOdRZAvjW
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I fixed a graffito in the park today via /r/pics https://t.co/jNj4b1xvr0 https://t.co/XQmVwBUkTb https://t.co/PuOdRZAvjW
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Donald Trump’s Cynically Opportunistic Bigotry – The Atlantic
Donald Trump is betting that his supporters are xenophobic bigots. Those supporters may not realize as much. But after Monday, the conclusion is hard to escape. Every election, Americans rediscover their hatred of political hypocrisy. Candidates dec…
Donald Trump Assumes That a Majority of Republican Voters Are Bigots https://t.co/5Nu7DBGIKT https://t.co/JXQosQqT5m -
The U.S. Senate: Still One of the World’s Whitest Workplaces – The Atlantic
The U.S. Senate is famously known as the world’s most deliberative body, but it has never been its most representative. And that remains true not only of the 100 people elected to serve, but of the hundreds more hired as their top advisers.
The U.S. Senate Is Still One of the World’s Whitest Workplaces https://t.co/yWEMr5RKUt https://t.co/eb9re3B9Gn -
US cinema to reward fan who can endure Star Wars marathon | Film | The Guardian
When Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally opens in multiplexes later this month, more than a year after the film’s debut teaser trailer invited fans to return to a galaxy far, far away, there will inevitably be those who want to see the movie more t…
US cinema to reward fan who can endure Star Wars marathon https://t.co/UEnREck1mj https://t.co/A4mMVxwKDw -
The cities of Pune and Rajkot will host teams in cricket’s Indian Premier League for the next two years. New Rising Pune and Intex Rajkot replace the suspended Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, both of whom were found guilty in an illegal be…
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The US Navy’s largest destroyer ever heads out to sea | The Verge
America’s largest and most futuristic destroyer has headed out to sea for the first time ever. The USS Zumwalt departed from the Bath Iron Works shipyard earlier this week for its first open ocean trials, eight years after construction on the vessel…
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WASHINGTON—Repeatedly emphasizing the benefits of completing her core requirements at a fraction of the cost of a four-year school, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama continued their efforts this week to persuade their 17-year-old …
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Eagles of Death Metal (EODM), the band that were on stage at the Paris Bataclan concert hall when gunmen opened fire and killed 90 people last month, returned to the French capital for an emotional performance with U2 on Monday. “I look around and w…
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Dolphin on Christmas menu for Cornwall’s roadkill chef | UK news | The Guardian
Dolphin on Christmas menu for Cornwall’s roadkill chef https://t.co/RSemzAPnbJ https://t.co/CxPoH8KkA2
A Cornish man famous for eating badgers and other roadkill has added an even more unusual item to his Christmas larder – a dolphin he found washed up on to a beach. -
Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting with Electronic Circuits | Motherboard
Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting with Electronic Circuits https://t.co/ouQI8SJLs5 https://t.co/5cdR4x5prU
Engineers at Columbia University have, for the first time, successfully plugged an electronic circuit into a biological energy-harvesting system constructed only from raw molecular materials. -
Quentin Tarantino denies New York Post’s bogus jail time claims | Film | The Guardian
Quentin Tarantino denies New York Post’s bogus jail time claims https://t.co/oWDWbwKu0B https://t.co/Pw4pTJ0BOl
Quentin Tarantino has denied claims by the New York Post that he lied about time spent in jail to boost his “tough guy” credentials. -
Tiny Arcade Lets The Smallest Of Us Experience Stand Up Arcade Action | TechCrunch
Tiny Arcade Lets The Smallest Of Us Experience Stand Up Arcade Action https://t.co/Petl20ehjj https://t.co/A8LA7IwwsD
Day 3 – My experiment, though a success, has led to a terrible side effect. Now that I am a mere 3 inches tall I am able to perform a number of exciting feats including the exploration of a gopher hole and the systematic cleaning of my home’s heatin… -
As the debate on how best to contain the Islamic State continues to rage in Western capitals, the militants themselves have made one point patently clear: They want the United States and its allies to be dragged into a ground war.
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Militia group demands £36m for return of Dutch art collection – BBC News
A museum in The Netherlands says an ultra-nationalist militia group in Ukraine has asked to be paid 50m euros (£36m) for the return of a collection of paintings, stolen a decade ago.The Westfries Museum says the case may involve art thieves with con…
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This Is How Much Money It Will Cost to Save the World | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Finance is full of big numbers, and for almost every big number, there is another, even bigger number it should be compared to.
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How to Get Rid of Your Landlord and Socialize American Housing, in 3 Easy Steps | The Nation
Let’s get rid of private housing. Plenty of time and effort have lately gone into analyzing a host of related crises—homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and a housing bubble whose burst landed us in the Great Re…
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In 2008, a paper was published in the journal Nature predicting that global surface temperatures would cool slightly in the years 2005–2015 as compared to 1994–2004.
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NRA TV: A Day in the Life of an American Gun Nut – The Daily Beast
Wayne LaPierre stood in front of an artificial backdrop the color of a cartoon midnight sky. He was dressed like a funeral conductor, in a black suit, white shirt and dark purple tie, but he looked like the corpse.
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Why ISIL won’t be defeated – Al Jazeera English
In late August 2006, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt published a book called ‘The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy’, eversince life, says Mearsheimer, has been fundamentally altered.
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December 8, 1980: John Lennon Is Assassinated | The Nation
As walked toward the entryway of the Dakota building on the Upper West Side, John Lennon was killed 35 years ago this evening.
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I Saw Disturbing Racism at Yale After 9/11. Sadly, It Seems Little Has Changed. – In These Times
As I read about the protests by students of color at Yale University this past fall, it triggers memories from my own undergraduate years there as a Muslim Pakistani-American student; I was a sophomore when 9/11 happened.
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The interplay of health and design isn’t new. In 1857, Nurse (and Data Scientist) Florence Nightingale used design principles to illustrate the casualties of soldiers in the Crimean War and changed national policy.
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Microloans Don’t Solve Poverty | FiveThirtyEight
When Benita Chikaluma’s husband died in 1994, her family could easily have fallen into desperate poverty. Chikaluma lives in Malawi, a poor country in southern Africa where women often have little control over their finances.
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Chicago’s “Black Site” Police Scandal Is Primed to Explode Again | Mother Jones
Chicago’s “Black Site” Police Scandal Is Primed to Explode Again https://t.co/AFiX6U68hq https://t.co/T9giUogNUz
Over the past couple of weeks, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been busy doing damage control related to his administration’s botched handling of Laquan McDonald’s killing by police. Last week, the mayor fired his top cop and begrudgingly welcomed an… -
American Electric Power ditches Alec membership | Environment | The Guardian
American Electric Power ditches Alec membership https://t.co/hLaCCJiiEu https://t.co/IFG1o6p0eU
American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electricity utilities in the US, is to ditch its membership of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), a rightwing organisation that has consistently opposed the deployment of renewable ene… -
Kiribati: The island at the edge of the world – Al Jazeera English
Kiribati: The island at the edge of the world https://t.co/npV0TZDLbp https://t.co/EtEDTOWQ1Z
Most coverage of Kiribati evokes a sense of the acute vulnerability of this nation: coconut palms with exposed roots clinging to eroded coastlines, angry waves crashing against sandbag seawalls, the ocean seeping into people’s homes. -
Amnesty: Islamic State fuelled by ‘reckless arms trading’ – BBC News
Amnesty International has blamed “reckless arms trading” for fuelling the so-called Islamic State (IS). In a report released on Tuesday, the human rights group said “decades of free-flowing arms” has enabled IS to seize large amounts of weaponry.
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Pope Francis opens St Peter’s Holy Door to launch jubilee – BBC News
Pope Francis pushed opened the huge bronze Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome to launch the Catholic Church’s extraordinary jubilee year. Tens of thousands attended a Mass in St Peter’s Square for the start of the Pope’s “revolution of tendern…
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WeChat Plans To Invest $3.4M In Early-Stage African Startups | TechCrunch
China’s largest messaging app will invest 50 million rand (about $3.4 million USD) in African startups. WeChat said in a blog post that will work with Cape Town tech strategy firm Batstone to find promising early-stage companies.
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Snapchat Is Experiencing An Extended Outage | TechCrunch
Popular social application Snapchat has been experiencing an extended outage, which has now been confirmed by the company on its official Twitter account. According to a post from Snapchat Support, some users have been experiencing loading issues wh…
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Why Wallapop CEO Agus Gomez Doesn’t Want To Talk About Funraising | TechCrunch
Wallapop, so far, has reportedly raised a ton of money. But despite that, Wallapop CEO Agus Gomez doesn’t want to talk about it because he thinks it’s a distraction. Gomez spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. That’s not all that surpris…
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Alex Depledge is many things – startup founder, mentor to women in tech, an advocate for a free and open market across Europe, and a trailblazer in the U.K tech scene.
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While it is good to see Australia finally shifting towards a more sustainable future, I fear that this emphasis on climate change is only a desperate attempt to sway voters. It wouldn’t be the first time a parties focus dissolved as soon as they are…
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Tools For The Real-Time Meme Makers | TechCrunch
Tools For The Real-Time Meme Makers https://t.co/MnHPxE7BXg https://t.co/XFd5s9fvS7
When the world is watching TV, that’s actually the easiest time to get famous on the Internet. Breaking news. Sports championships. Political debates. Whoever turns this live footage into online videos, GIFs, or memes the fastest can score insane vi… -
Yes. I would like to purchase all the things. : aww
Yes. I would like to purchase all the things. via /r/aww https://t.co/clZxSrYp9E https://t.co/iZInRGgt5h https://t.co/0ZCEPkXUEW
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Yes. I would like to purchase all the things. via /r/aww https://t.co/clZxSrYp9E https://t.co/iZInRGgt5h https://t.co/0ZCEPkXUEW
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WeChat Plans To Invest $3.4M In Early-Stage African Startups | TechCrunch
WeChat Plans To Invest $3.4M In Early-Stage African Startups https://t.co/NXTH5KswPv https://t.co/0DAmeOj888
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Drought takes terrible toll in Ethiopia – Al Jazeera English
Ziway, Ethiopia – More than eight million people in Ethiopia are in need of emergency aid, according to the UN. Parts of the country are experiencing one of the worst droughts in 30 years. Ethiopia has vast water resources but not the irrigation inf…
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There is no EU solution to climate change as long as TTIP exists (independent.co.uk)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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Donald Trump’s Muslim US ban call sparks Republican outcry – BBC News
There has been a storm of condemnation from Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans after the presidential candidate called for a ban on Muslims entering the US. Rival candidate Jeb Bush called Mr Trump “unhinged”.
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North Korea launches ‘war on deforestation’ | World news | The Guardian
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has launched a war on deforestation, the country’s foreign minister said at the Paris climate talks, pledging to “actively engage” in global environment efforts.
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Apple unveils official 25-hour battery case for the iPhone 6 and 6S | The Verge
Apple unveils official 25-hour battery case for the iPhone 6 and 6S https://t.co/scvtSVZftE https://t.co/uvLuqJlI6D
Apple’s iPhones have long been a source of battery anxiety, with third-party battery cases hoping to ease these worries by offering extra juice when you need it. -
Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/NOeO2lDHXQ https://t.co/bnWf1WlQG9 https://t.co/cFZoOcFlSP
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/NOeO2lDHXQ https://t.co/bnWf1WlQG9 https://t.co/cFZoOcFlSP
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Beijing smog that triggered pollution alert – video | World news | The Guardian
Vehicles are ordered off the roads and schools and factories closed after polluting smog triggered Beijing’s first red alert. A red alert means businesses are urged to implement flexible working hours and all large-scale outdoor activities are cance…
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Heavenly visions in earth colours | Environment | The Guardian
Automated lights illuminate the walls, which glow with faded red and brown paintings. The walls are covered with figures – some very faint, some clear, part-Saxon, part-Norman in style – like a large, faded Bayeux tapestry. The closer you look, the …
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Minister says flooding is ‘unprecedented event’ as she defends spending | Environment | The Guardian
Minister says flooding is ‘unprecedented event’ as she defends spending https://t.co/o1HtIryIj0 https://t.co/KfmSMnSgdP
Liz Truss, the environment secretary, has defended the government’s spending on flood protection, as thousands of homes in Cumbria and Lancashire remain without power after devastating extreme weather. -
Making The Case For Drones In Commercial Markets | TechCrunch
Making The Case For Drones In Commercial Markets https://t.co/CtKV8dYoeM https://t.co/mkKMKM9LwC
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, the CEOs of Sky Futures, http://www.verifly.com/ and https://www.airware.com/ took the stage with TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois in an attempt to explain how drones can be used other than taking selfies. -
Disability inclusive books that should be available in English – in pictures https://t.co/hgLUJ4KExC https://t.co/AAHgY75lv3
This gallery showcases some of the wonderful diverse books about loads of different kinds of disabilities being published in other countries. We would love to see them on our bookshelves and hope we’ll be able to do that one day -
Egypt’s gold standard: Tourism – Al Jazeera English
In November, the possibility of two major archaeological discoveries were announced, but they are likely to have very different impacts. In Mexico, a tunnel has been found under the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, in the heart of Mexico City.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Galileo 11 & 12 mission
Next 17 December, Galileo satellites 11 and 12 will be launched on top of the legendary Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Ten years after the launch of GIOVE A, on 28 December 2005, Galileo is now a reality.
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Facebook Kills Creative Labs, Its Internal Incubator, Plus Some Of Its Apps | TechCrunch
Facebook is shuttering its internal R&D division, Creative Labs, launched nearly two years ago as an effort aimed at allowing the large company the ability to act more nimbly – and more like a startup.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt calls for ‘spell-checkers for hate and harassment’ | Technology | The Guardian
Google’s Eric Schmidt has called on the technology industry to put its collective intelligence behind tackling terrorism on the internet, by building “spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment”.
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Apple Releases First Battery Case To Eat Third-Party Accessory Makers’ Lunch | TechCrunch
In a surprise move, Apple just announced an external battery case for the iPhone 6s. Named the iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case, the battery extends the battery life of your iPhone 6s by up to 25 hours. The new accessory is available in black and white …
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Gaza’s crumbling healthcare system – Al Jazeera English
Gaza City – Zinat al-Jundi was in her bed in the maternity ward at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital when chunks of cement and concrete began to fall on to a nearby bed, occupied by a mother who had just given birth.
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Learning to live with Beijing’s smog – Al Jazeera English
Beijing, China – The picture above was taken from the kitchen window of my apartment last Monday. The picture below was taken from the same spot two days later.
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Regulatory capture – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charg…
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Australia has come third last in an annual assessment of 58 nations’ climate policies, with only Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan ranking worse.
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Talks Platforms And Profits | TechCrunch
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson sat down with our own Frederic Lardinois to talk platforms, carriers and money. Lawson, after making a pitch about what Twilio does, detailed the back history of the company.
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Tar sands alarm as US crude exports to Europe rise | Environment | The Guardian
Tar sands alarm as US crude exports to Europe rise https://t.co/ghDvKUp71P https://t.co/nI6HfsPdwg
A surge in US exports of crude oil to Europe this year has been heralded as the beginning of an alarming rise in highly polluting tar sands imports by environmentalists. -
Ghana dismisses judges guilty of bribery charges – BBC News
Twenty judges and magistrates have been sacked in Ghana after they were convicted of bribery. The dismissals followed a thorough investigation into allegations of corruption in the judiciary, Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood said.
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Zhou* didn’t expect Kashgar to give him a cough. Before moving to the ancient city in China’s Xinjiang province a month ago, the 29-year-old Han migrant had steeled himself for ethnic tensions, violence, and culture shock in the country’s far west.
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Paris attacks cost Air France-KLM €50m in lost revenue – BBC News
Air France-KLM has said that the Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed, led to a €50m ($54m; £36m) drop in revenues as trips were cancelled. However, the airline group said it expected the effect to have largely worn off by the end of Decem…
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Playing politics with boots on the ground – Al Jazeera English
The issue of sovereignty is a sensitive one in any country but particularly so in the Middle East.
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James Deen Breaks His Silence: ‘I Am Completely Baffled’ – The Daily Beast
After a lengthy back-and-forth with James Deen’s publicist and lawyer, the embattled porn star agreed to an interview by email with The Daily Beast—and only on the condition that the interview be published in its entirety.
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Anybody who knows me will tell you the same thing: I get what I want. Whether it’s food, being held, my binky, you name it—if I decide I’d like it, you damn well better believe I don’t rest until I get it, one way or another.
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Yemen’s Hadi urges week-long truce for peace talks – Al Jazeera English
Yemen’s president has asked the Saudi-led Arab coalition to begin a seven-day ceasefire beginning on December 15.
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Inequality is now killing middle America | Business | The Guardian
This week, Angus Deaton will receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” Deservedly so.
Inequality is now killing middle America https://t.co/7Hul1yB0SM https://t.co/acwIhoqC0Z -
‘We see Donald Trump as a loser’: Muslims across Asia react | US news | The Guardian
Muslims from Pakistan to Indonesia said they were outraged, while others simply groaned, on hearing presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
‘We see Donald Trump as a loser’: Muslims across Asia react https://t.co/DQ1jo6lr3q https://t.co/i29dSi8pyW -
Beyond Clueless by Linas Alsenas – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Beyond Clueless by Linas Alsenas – review https://t.co/97YgSAyode https://t.co/SeCKlTcLxE
Books like Beyond Clueless usually leave me wary as soon as I read their descriptions – simply because they’re over the top, the characters have the worst blow outs over the smallest things and everything is just over dramatised. -
The True Traveller: A Reader by WH Davies review – on the road with the Welsh poet-tramp https://t.co/dn3UnNVSLV https://t.co/LB5LyAkr0F
The Welsh poet and author WH Davies spent much of his life on the road. -
Images via Wikimedia Commons Flannery O’Connor’s surgical satire has the ability to strip away the pretensions of not only those characters we are already predisposed to dislike, but also those with whom we may sympathize—that is, educated people wi…
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Republican rivals condemn Trump’s call to stop Muslims entering US | US news | The Guardian
The White House, Hillary Clinton, former US vice president Dick Cheney and rivals for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination lined up to criticise Donald Trump after he called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States.
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Watch Disrupt London 2015 Live Right Here | TechCrunch
All the leaves are falling, and the sky is grey. That’s because we’re in London, on a winter’s day.
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Zoos could become ‘conservation powerhouses’ | Environment | The Guardian
Zoos could become ‘conservation powerhouses’ https://t.co/Sj9vf7owwr https://t.co/KASdfMOAZH
What do the golden lion tamarin, Przewalski’s horse, the Puerto Rican parrot and the kihansi spray toad all have in common? Well, for one thing they’ve all been on the very brink of extinction; for another, they very likely wouldn’t survive today if… -
Uber Gains Government Approval To Operate Legally In Jakarta, Indonesia | TechCrunch
Uber is celebrating a win in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, after it was given approval to operate as a fully legal entity.
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Nigeria’s floating classroom built on a lagoon – BBC News
The BBC’s Martin Patience went to speak to some of the pupils about their aspirations.
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Malaysia’s PM faces party amid debilitating scandals – Al Jazeera English
Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia’s beleaguered prime minister faces a crucial test as his political party’s general assembly kicked off on Tuesday with criticism mounting over corruption allegations and an unexplained $700m payment that landed in his private…
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Police target UK’s young cybercriminals – BBC News
Police target UK’s young cybercriminals https://t.co/HEK3qzVbdD https://t.co/sGTXuMyphZ
Teenagers committing crimes online are being targeted by the National Crime Agency. The campaign aims to warn young people about the dangers of hacking and using online tools for cyber-attacks. -
My dinosaur bone/meteorite ring came! : pics
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Braving the cold to save the Arctic – Al Jazeera English
Braving the cold to save the Arctic https://t.co/HGu0PelIXT https://t.co/0S2U5zMCRn
“There’s nothing like it. To be part of that landscape is such a test. It’s very addictive,” explains Bernice Notenboom when asked how she could possibly fall in love with the North Pole. Then the 53-year-old Dutch explorer reflects: “It’s certainly… -
Testing Indian capital’s dangerous smog levels – BBC News
Testing Indian capital’s dangerous smog levels https://t.co/zh5HmukkUt https://t.co/zNvdru25Oj
Beijing may have declared a red alert but the Indian capital, Delhi, is now the most polluted city on earth. The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt uses an air pollution level monitor to show just how polluted Delhi is. -
James Thurber on Longing, Unrequited Love, and the Power of a Kiss | Brain Pickings
James Thurber on Longing, Unrequited Love, and the Power of a Kiss https://t.co/10FHt5dwIX https://t.co/Sk5sS1Wsqh
“Kissing seems not a great matter, in a way. And yet in one way it speaks the million things which words can’t. -
Why I want more disabled characters in books | Children’s books | The Guardian
Why I want more disabled characters in books https://t.co/BpoNUgeXXG https://t.co/zrVUXcNPPZ
About a year ago, I wrote a piece for this site asking where all the wheelchairs were in children’s fiction. And I’m still wondering – but not just about wheelchairs. -
How we made 2000 AD | Books | The Guardian
I wanted Judge Dredd to open with something insane, funky and very otherwordly. So we stuck a motorway through the top of the Empire State Building and had the Judge speeding up it on his bike. But 2000 AD was actually a kind of retreat for me.
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The best poetry books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Poetry cannot be hurried; it is no respecter of deadlines. Yet the quantity of poems published each year is daunting and asks for speed. Sometimes, I’ll pick up a volume by someone I’ve never heard of, open it at random and be rooted to the spot.
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Didi Kuaidi, the largest car-hailing app in China, announced today that it has added Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to its board as its senior advisor. In a statement, the company said Yang’s experience will help it build its mobile platform, which is …
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Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the aftermath of the floods following record rainfall in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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Statistics that show why cities are key to the future of the planet | Cities | The Guardian
Statistics that show why cities are key to the future of the planet https://t.co/LCsOK5yRfv https://t.co/kqT8j2n8q3
Skip to main content Cities Statistics that show why cities are key to the future of the planet To mark ‘cities and subnationals day’ at the UN Climate Conference, here’s why cities should be at the heart of any conversation about environment, pollu… -
Riyadh talks aim to unite Syrian opposition positions – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia is ready to host a three-day meeting in Riyadh to try to unite the Syrian opposition before potential talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. It will not be the first attempt at this, but this time international peace ef…
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Beijing Partially Shut Down as Smog Blankets City | Al Jazeera America
Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as the alert closed many factories and imposed restrictions to keep half the city’s vehicles off the roads.
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Christian Bale: ‘Money Has to Be Taken Out of Politics’ – The Daily Beast
“You know it’s wrong. That it shouldn’t be happening. That it’s stacked against the everyman. It’s this elitist class that is managing to just fleece the rest of America. Okay: What can be done?” The horror movie of the year isn’t a slasher flick or…
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Saudi Arabia to ‘reopen’ Sri Lankan maid adultery case – BBC News
Saudi Arabia has agreed to reopen the case of a Sri Lankan maid sentenced to death for adultery, Sri Lanka’s deputy foreign minister said. The woman – a 45-year-old mother of two – was convicted in August along with an unmarried Sri Lankan man.
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Oscar Pistorius attends bail hearing – BBC News
Oscar Pistorius attends bail hearing https://t.co/93dyPbIIX6 https://t.co/Ae2dUNHXoV
South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius is appearing in court to apply for bail, after judges changed his manslaughter conviction to murder last week. Pistorius now faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence for murdering his girlfriend in 2013. -
The best science books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Gavin Francis has a remarkable pedigree as a medical writer. He has been a paediatrician, an obstetrician and a doctor in a geriatric ward.
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The best British novel of all time: have international critics found it? | Books | The Guardian
The world has spoken, and the greatest British novel of all time is Middlemarch, though hot on its heels are two novels by Virginia Woolf, who ties with Charles Dickens in having the most entries among the top 100 British novels as seen by the rest …
The best British novel of all time: have international critics found it? https://t.co/vPrxkNqUne https://t.co/imLw9NBSpE -
So after last week’s episode and a LOT of comment and Twitter discussion on whether or not The Mindy Project was massacring the character of Danny Castellano, I went back and rewatched a handful of episodes from season one, some of which I hadn’t se…
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My Exxon Mobil propaganda pamphlet from March, 1997. (self.environment) I posted it in a comment about a week ago and some people seemed to think it was interesting. Today, I actually scanned it so that people can better make it out.
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Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims may be an outlandish policy too far | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims may be an outlandish policy too far https://t.co/HB0h6mSzW1 https://t.co/mGZcCyfkSG
This time, Donald Trump really may have gone too far. His political obituary has been written on a daily basis during his six-month journey from reality television to the front of the Republican field. -
SF’s Top Cop Wants to Arm Force With Tasers | Al Jazeera America
San Francisco’s police chief renewed calls Monday for adding Tasers to his department’s arsenal, saying the electrical “stun guns” could have prevented officers from shooting to death a knife-wielding suspect last week.
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Get ready for The Force Awakens to drop with this K-pop banger about lightsabers | The Verge
The Force Awakens is coming next week, and as a man honestly too invested in Star Wars, I couldn’t be more excited. In preparation, I’ve been reading Star Wars novels, playing Star Wars video games, buying Star Wars comics, and — seriously — wearing…
Get ready for The Force Awakens to drop with this K-pop banger about lightsabers https://t.co/snV9Pi5Q3g https://t.co/W1Kgg4iooU -
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up Goop shop robbed of $173,000 worth of jewellery | US news | The Guardian
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up Goop shop robbed of $173,000 worth of jewellery https://t.co/j1Q7HiKzf6 https://t.co/7SUttmDhOq
Authorities are searching for three men who robbed Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop pop-up shop in New York City of more than $173,000 worth of jewellery and watches. The crime took place on Saturday afternoon while the shop was packed with customers. -
Republicans vow to torpedo Obama’s Paris climate agenda. Can they? : environment
Republicans vow to torpedo Obama’s Paris climate agenda. Can they? (pri.org)
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Does Mona Lisa have a hidden personality? – BBC News
Does Mona Lisa have a hidden personality? https://t.co/qbwFsgGnIS https://t.co/abDJTqGPPW
The Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait in the world – Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. Now with his latest research he claims he has found another portrait of a different woman underneath – claims which are prompting controversy in the art world. -
iZombie finally takes The CW’s hint, becomes a superhero show · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, December 8. All times are Eastern. iZombie (The CW, 9 p.m.
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Trump state co-chair in NH says Muslims in America “no different than the situation during World War II, when we put the Japanese in camps” and it’s “what needs to be done.” (wmur.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Comet Catalina Emerges via NASA…
Comet Catalina Emerges via NASA https://t.co/B7060svx2G https://t.co/rFSzGVFj5j https://t.co/bV0G2kEx1w
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Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ to Scold Congress – The Daily Beast
Up until mid-afternoon on Monday, the guest slot was still “TBD” on The Daily Show’s website. And it’s because host Trevor Noah had something special in store for his audience.
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FBI Searches for Missing Waitress – The Daily Beast
A 21-year-old hostess in upstate New York vanished last month after her shift. Now, as the FBI and state police investigate her disappearance, cops arrested the woman’s former stepfather on an alleged parole violation. Noel Alkaramla was last seen o…
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Do Feminists Have to Hate Israel? – The Daily Beast
Last week, a group considered the largest academic feminist organization in North America, approved a measure to cut all ties with the state of Israel, including the researchers, teachers, and academics who work in its universities, museums, and cul…
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Bianca Del Rio Is Ready for Her Comedy Close-Up – The Daily Beast
Bianca Del Rio’s self-proclaimed “erotic clown” look is on point. Her shimmering red ball gown hugs her with just enough va-va-voom as she struts back and forth across the stage, alternately shocking and delighting the audience as she barks out her …
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Blame Governor Moonbeam for Syed Farook’s Guns – The Daily Beast
To hear Gov.
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Why ISIS Isn’t Going Anywhere – The Daily Beast
Note: This text was prepared for my testimony in front of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 2, 2015.
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Damien Hirst’s Christmas Drugs Nightmare – The Daily Beast
Damien Hirst—he of the cows suspended in formaldehyde and other infamous pieces of art—has a thing for pills. For twenty years Hirst has displayed various seductive pharmaceuticals in glass cabinets on gallery and museum walls.
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Inside David Bowie’s Weirdly Brilliant Off-Broadway Masterpiece – The Daily Beast
When rock gods land on the New York stage, they tend to do so loudly and on Broadway, as with Sting’s stirring opus, The Last Ship. But David Bowie: well, obviously, he’s going to go for something smaller and cooler than the clotted, touristy street…
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SCOTUS to Decide Whose Votes Count in Racially Tinged ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case – The Daily Beast
The principle of “one person, one vote” sounds simple. But this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that reveals how not-simple it really is, and how race lurks in the background of profound legal questions.
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So, Must Citizenship Be ‘Earned’? – The Daily Beast
I got some of my fellow liberals upset at me, I see, with yesterday’s column on Obama’s Sunday night speech, in which I highlighted and defended Obama’s challenge to Muslim Americans to do more to identify and fight radicalism within their community.
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The Year Heroin Went Mainstream – The Daily Beast
Heroin is so passé. Portland-based rock band The Dandy Warhols have been singing this epigram since 1997. But it’s been chanted, albeit in not so catchy a tune, for over a century.
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Syed Rizwan Farook’s Lawyer Bashed Ex-Client on Yelp – The Daily Beast
LOS ANGELES — Not everybody is ready for prime time.
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Hidden portrait ‘found under Mona Lisa’, says French scientist – BBC News
An image of a portrait underneath the Mona Lisa has been found beneath the existing painting using reflective light technology, according to a French scientist. Pascal Cotte said he has spent more than 10 years using the technology to analyse the pa…
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An involving documentary about complicated filmmaker-subject relations, Almost There chronicles a few years in the life of Peter Anton, an artist that directors Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden first discover at a booth at a small-town street festiva…
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The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
From the biggest international news of terrorist shootings, to hard-hitting national coverage of mass shootings, to the noteworthy local stories of police shootings, no publication covered the monumental events that defined 2015 better than America’…
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The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
From the biggest international news of terrorist shootings, to hard-hitting national coverage of mass shootings, to the noteworthy local stories of police shootings, no publication covered the monumental events that defined 2015 better than America’…
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In The New Christmas Canon, The A.V. Club looks beyond Rudolph’s nose and Zuzu’s petals to highlight entertainment from the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s that’s become a seasonal staple—or deserves to. There’s some truth to the stereotype that dudes are apt …
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A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club’s survey of TV at its most distinctive. I still remember the night, more than 15 years ago, when I heard that my father had died.
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Set in 1990, Nathan Silver’s Stinking Heaven—which is already potentially alienating viewers with that title—looks like a no-budget movie that might actually have been made around then, by someone who couldn’t afford even 16mm film stock.
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Laura Stevenson covers Elliott Smith · Holiday Undercover · The A.V. Club
Taken from the 2007 collection of previously unreleased material, New Moon, “Angel In The Snow” is an overlooked gem in Elliott Smith’s catalog. While not a traditional holiday ode, Laura Stevenson saw the inherent beauty in the tender love song, dr…
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“The Boy” in Alê Abreu’s animated fable The Boy And The World is a dinky little guy, with a big round head that contains three wispy hairs and two giant vertical eyes—as though someone had erased his original features and replaced them all with the …
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The least essential albums of 2015 · Best of · The A.V. Club
Each and every year, The A.V. Club scours our inboxes—both real and web-based—in an attempt to find that year’s least essential albums.
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In I Made You A Mixtape, we ask our favorite musicians, actors, writers, directors, or whatevers to strut their musical savvy: We pick a theme, they make us a mix.
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand that people view superheroes as aspirational figures. As a kid I thought of Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman as action heroes like Ethan Hunt or James Bond, not as protagonists with important mora…
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that when you flipped on Monday Night Raw tonight, that we were a few weeks away from a PPV. You’d be forgiven for thinking that WWE was maybe starting to think about its next steps, about how it should start to ignite…
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“We are the noisy majority,” Donald Trump proclaimed on Monday night to a crowd of his supporters who responded with an appropriately noisy cheer.
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Donald Trump wants to ban Muslims from America: the internet reacts | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s announcement that he would ban Muslims from entering America if he becomes president has provoked reactions on the internet ranging from outrage and anger to bafflement and utter disbelief.
Donald Trump wants to ban Muslims from America: the internet reacts https://t.co/WLTWb9baTR https://t.co/EmtTMOrYwC -
Commodities rout deepens as Chinese trade data signal weaker demand | Business | The Guardian
The accelerating rout in commodity prices has piled pressure on energy and resources shares in Asia Pacific amid more signs of slowing demand from China.
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India’s Nexus Venture Partners Announces New $450M Fund | TechCrunch
Nexus Venture Partners — the top-tier Indian VC firm which counts Snapdeal, Etsy-like Craftsvilla and medtech startup Lybrate in its portfolio — has reloaded for more deals after it announced its newest $450 million fund.
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America Is Fine With Mass Shootings—as Long as They’re Not Perpetrated by Muslims : politics
Anyone else getting tired of people talking about “America” as though it’s one guy? No shit. I came to post, “No we’re not”.
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APOD: 2015 December 7 – Comet Catalina Emerges
Explanation: Comet Catalina is ready for its close-up. The giant snowball from the outer Solar System, known formally as C/2013 US10 (Catalina), rounded the Sun last month and is now headed for its closest approach to Earth in January.
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Chennai begins floods clean-up – BBC News
A major clean-up operation is under way in the the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) after a week of devastating floods.Water levels are receding from most parts of Tamil Nadu state, where at least 280 people are now known to have died in flo…
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Julie Bishop says she is not Tanya Plibersek’s subeditor – video | Australia news | The Guardian
The foreign minister and deputy leader of the Liberal party, Julie Bishop, responds to criticism over her comments about the effects of climate change on the Marshall Islands.
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Updated, 6:18 p.m. | Donald J. Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States has drawn swift condemnation from his Republican rivals for the nomination, raising the question of whether the billionaire businessman has finally gone too f…
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Puppy fights are too cute : aww
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Back from the Amazon with tropical birds: archive, 8 December 1960 | Environment | The Guardian
Back from the Amazon with tropical birds https://t.co/qrZ11FJE9m https://t.co/SvSUYUnING
Probably the river Amazon is the last remaining region of the earth where the traveller can really feel that the twentieth century may be only an unpleasant dream. -
Beijing in ‘partial shutdown’ as smog blankets city – Al Jazeera English
Half of Beijing’s private cars have been ordered off the streets and many construction sites and schools closed after the government raised the alert on pollution in the Chinese capital to the highest red level. The World Health Organization’s recom…
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I’m on my third glass of ice water—poured by a terribly attentive waiter—in a cordoned off area at the rear of The Carlyle Restaurant, a moneyed Madison Ave. haunt fit for a Don Draper and Roger Sterling six-martini lunch.
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Chemicals Linked to Lung Disease Have Been Found in More Vaping Liquids | Motherboard
Vapers have more than impending government regulation to worry about. A flavoring chemical linked to serious lung disease can be found in even more e-liquid flavors than previously thought, according to new research from Harvard.
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Most ISIL Weapons Seized from Iraqi Army | Al Jazeera America
Decades of reckless arms trading and the poorly regulated flow of weapons into Iraq have contributed to the accumulation by the Islamic State in Iran and the Levant (ISIL) of a “vast and varied” arsenal which is being used to commit war crimes on a …
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TIME Snubs Bernie Sanders for Person of the Year After He Crushes Readers’ Poll : politics
TIME Snubs Bernie Sanders for Person of the Year After He Crushes Readers’ Poll https://t.co/PGoEiZ3d01 https://t.co/yHDQYYrNIo
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Has Time ever taken the winner of the reader poll and put them on the shortlist? She is stunning, and she is brave. That kind of transphobic and bigoted hate speech is not gonna fly here bro! Im PC, I’ll throw down.
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US P-8 spy plane to be deployed to Singapore – BBC News
The United States has said it will deploy a US P-8 Poseidon spy plane to Singapore for the first time. It is the latest in a series of US military actions seen as a response to China’s increasingly assertive claims over territory in the South China …
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Dallas Cowboys edge Washington on Bailey’s 54-yard field goal | Sport | The Guardian
Dallas Cowboys edge Washington on Bailey’s 54-yard field goal https://t.co/Ff9omZCBb0 https://t.co/wAD3B0tukE
With a wild finish capping an otherwise dull game filled with turnovers, punts and penalties, the Dallas Cowboys beat Washington 19-16 on Dan Bailey’s 54-yard field goal with 9 seconds left Monday night. -
After spending its first week in the shadow of the British series on which it’s based, “Cake Week” gives ABC’s holiday rendition of the format a chance to shape its own identity.
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Insect in Garden in Turkey – National Geographic Photo of the Day
This spot should be left empty to be filled in by the Photo of the Day logic.
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Syrian opposition groups to hold unity talks in Riyadh – Al Jazeera English
A Syrian opposition meeting is due to begin in Saudi Arabia that will discuss ways to overcome their differences before an potential talks with the Bashar al-Assad government.
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My baby boy when I first got him 3 years ago. : cats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Autumn Leafy Loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Yale Teacher Resigns Over Halloween Costume Email | Al Jazeera America
Erika Christakis chose not to continue teaching in the spring semester, the university said on its website.
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Despite Push for Cleaner Cars, Sheer Numbers Could Work Against Climate Benefits | With a billion additional cars coming to the world’s roads in coming decades, reducing the carbon footprint of autos faces an uphill journey. (nytimes.com)
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Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop ridicules her Labor counterpart, Tanya Plibersek, in parliament last week for claiming the island of Eneko has ‘disappeared’ due to rising sea levels when in fact it was a ‘beautiful and accessible beach getaway’.
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First set photo from The Disaster Artist. James and Dave Franco as Tommy and Mark. : movies
First set photo from The Disaster Artist. James and Dave Franco as Tommy and Mark. (imgur.com) They look good, but this is probably a make-up/wardrobe test and not a set photo because they are still casting this thing.
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Well, the Sioux Falls Massacre certainly lived up to its name. After a season full of dropped bodies, the climax of “The Castle” still manages to be shocking in its brutality.
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Thin-Skinned Donald Trump Calls Female Reporter ‘Little Katy, Third-Rate’ – The Daily Beast
Hell hath no fury like Donald Trump accurately portrayed.
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Open thread for night owls: Some of our favorite deniers show up to troll Paris climate talks
No word about whether charlatan Jim Inhofe showed up with a snowball in Paris to punctuate his usual climate-change-is-a-hoax scam.
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‘We’re sinking here’: climate change laps at front door of Torres Strait Islands https://t.co/FBkb8PzJUN https://t.co/dygvMaIeVR
Mebai Warusam sits under his stilt-supported house, facing the Pacific Ocean’s turquoise waters lapping 50 metres from his front gate. At 91, born and raised on the island of Saibai in the Torres Strait, he is an elder visitors and locals turn to fo… -
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The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, holds a press conference on Monday to respond to the suggestion from the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that there should be a ‘total and complete shutdown’ on Mu…
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Sony releases PlayStation Messages app for iOS and Android | The Verge
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Last night I found myself clumsily thumbing a PSN message to a friend explaining that I couldn’t play Destiny right this second because I was on my way to get a haircut, silently cursing the terrible, overwrought, -
Inhabitants of the island of Saibai in Australia’s Torres Strait reflect on how climate change is causing rising sea levels, coastal erosion, extreme weather and destructive king tides.
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Entrepreneurs and investors are missing a big opportunity concerning Hispanics and their health. A recent survey of AngelList counted 89,405 U.S.-based startups. Out of these startups, only 15 target Hispanics and only one, Consejo Sano, focuses on …
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Syria conflict: Rebels to meet in Riyadh – BBC News
Syria’s fragmented opposition is due to meet in Riyadh later in an attempt to unify ahead of possible peace talks. The meeting, bringing together armed and political factions, aims to create a common position from which to negotiate with the governm…
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My mom loves cooking. Today she made a Kitkat Cake! : food
My mom loves cooking. Today she made a Kitkat Cake! (imgur.com) Sorry about the potato photo… I need to buy here a better cellphone…
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Drummer, 3, leads orchestra in the most badass way possible / Boing Boing
Lyonya Shilovsky, a 3-year-old drummer from Russia, leads an orchestra of grown-ups in this cute 2014 video re-making the viral rounds. The young talent from Novosibirsk is performing on the television show Minute of Fame.
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Surface detail on Europa with shattered ice surface and refreezing [1092 x 1428] https://t.co/Ji5ivtiMmx https://t.co/DKIG99pruN
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This is seriously some next-level dog training right here. / Boing Boing
Dogs are amazing, intelligent creatures, and are capable of such complex communication and behavioral intelligence. This video really blows my mind. “Jumpy, Skidboot,” from dog trainer Omar von Muller.
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Watch ‘Late Show’ Recruit Chef Daniel Boulud for Hanukkah Dessert | Rolling Stone
Watch ‘Late Show’ Recruit Chef Daniel Boulud for Hanukkah Dessert Michelin-starred chef shares his recipe for a Jewish jelly doughnut
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Murder convict Oscar Pistorius to appear on bail plea – BBC News
South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius is due in court to apply for bail after judges changed his manslaughter conviction to murder last week. Pistorius now faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence for murdering his girlfriend in 2013.
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The Cowboys’ tablets and printers stopped working, causing technology MADNESS – SBNation.com
Technology can be so helpful — when it works. Just ask the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington football team. On Monday, the Cowboys’ communication service to their Microsoft surface tablets wasn’t working properly.
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The tree has been up for ten minutes. : pics
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What are the best and worst presidential speeches?
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The last time we saw a trailer for Natalie Portman’s Jane Got A Gun, it looked like the movie would be about her as a cowboy lady looking to a cowboy man (Joel Edgerton) for help when some bad cowboy men threaten her family.
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Watch the Eagles of Death Metal Perform Live Again Tonight in Paris | Open Culture
“There’s nothing left but to introduce you to some people whose lives will forever be a part of the life of Paris. These are our brothers. They were robbed of their stage three weeks ago, and we would like to offer them ours tonight.
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Deliberately, with resolve, I placed a hammer on the kitchen counter. I was no longer crying, at least not right then. Finally, I had a plan, and I felt better for it. I’d begin by smashing my hand. The pain, I hoped, would distract me from the thou…
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The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Army is recommending retired general David H. Petraeus not face further punishment for screwing his biographer and leaking top-secret materials to her. The decision on whether to punish Petraeus under milita…
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Putin’s winter fairy tale – BBC News
Vladimir Putin’s position on Syria and Ukraine may have been criticised in the West, but Russia’s president is adored and admired by many at home, as Steve Rosenberg discovers on a visit to Volokolamsk. In Russia, there is something magical about th…
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Eagles of Death Metal take to Paris stage again – BBC News
US rock band Eagles of Death Metal have appeared on stage in Paris, less than a month after deadly attacks during their performance in the French capital. The band performed at the end of a U2 concert at the AccorHotels Arena.
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Donald Trump calls for complete ban on Muslims entering the US – video | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump reads a statement issued by his campaign office on Monday calling for a ‘total and complete shutdown’ on Muslims entering the US.
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Overseeing A Successful Founder-CEO Succession | TechCrunch
Replacing a founder-CEO is no small matter. The founder-CEO is the core around which a startup grows. Replacing that “core” is a highly divisive and hotly debated topic in startup and VC circles.
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Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ is the best classic rock box set of the 2015 Christmas season|Dangerous Minds
When I was a boy, Fleetwood Mac were “the enemy.” I just hated their soft “stadium rock” and you simply could not escape them on radio at the time. I was into David Bowie, the Velvet Underground and the Sex Pistols. None of my musical heroes had lon…
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Norovirus Sickens Scores in Seattle | Al Jazeera America
As many as 200 people have gotten sick in a norovirus outbreak at a downtown Seattle office building, health officials reported Monday.
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Activists Dragged Out of Climate Expo for Protesting Corporate Influence over COP21 Negotiations (democracynow.org)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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Donald Trump pretty much just went Full Nazi / Boing Boing
Donald Trump, a Republican candidate for Führer of the United Fascist States of America, said today there should be a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including Muslim citizens who are currently abroad.
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Farmers urged to cut antibiotic use – BBC News
Farmers need to dramatically cut the amount of antibiotics used in agriculture, because of the threat to human health, a report says. Some infections are becoming almost impossible to treat, because of the excessive use of antibiotics.
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Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban Successfully Distracts Public From Ted Cruz’s Poll Numbers | ThinkProgress
Monday was supposed to be all about Ted Cruz. In the afternoon, the respected polling institute at Monmouth University released a poll that, for the first time, showed the Texas Senator winning the Iowa caucuses.
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How IS threat strengthens authoritarianism in Central Asia – BBC News
There is one serious and not so obvious threat that many countries face when dealing with the so-called Islamic State. The militants’ activity is not limited to attacking Western capitals, bombing planes or shooting peaceful citizens.
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Chicago cops lied about Laquan McDonald’s actions on the night he was executed
Chicago officials have released hundreds of pages of documents surrounding the October 2014 execution of Laquan McDonald.
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The Best TV Shows of 2015 https://t.co/al7vXilDLZ https://t.co/QaEVdWvxG7
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Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Tambor in “Transparent”; Robert A. Durst in “The Jinx”; Keri Russell in “The Americans”; Aziz Ansari in “Master of None”; Tracee Ellis Ross in “black-ish”; and Louis C. K. in “Louie.
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Spain says it has rights to Colombian treasure ship – BBC News
The Spanish government says it has rights to a sunken Spanish galleon discovered in Colombian waters. The foreign minister says he is asking for more information about the galleon, the San Jose, found after decades of searching.
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Read Arnold Schwarzenegger’s delightful response to climate deniers | Grist
The Governator says he doesn’t give a damn if you don’t believe in climate change. Governor orders the state to collect data about cap-and-trade policies’ impact on different communities, in a step toward environmental equity.
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Why Chicago Cop Videos Are Missing Audio – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — There are only two reasons why the dashcam videos showing Laquan McDonald and Ronald Johnson’s death have no audio, an investigation by The Daily Beast has determined.
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Here’s How Marine Le Pen Becomes France’s President – The Daily Beast
PARIS—Last month came the terror of jihadists in the City of Lights, this month came the shock of huge electoral advances by the far-right National Front. Indeed, as the French awoke on Monday morning, “Le Choc” was a banner headline.
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Republican Party leaders and other prominent conservatives on Monday blasted Donald Trump’s plan to enact a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” distancing themselves and the party from the frontrunner and his hateful…
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Schwarzenegger: ‘I don’t give a damn if you believe in climate change’ : politics
Schwarzenegger’s been talking about the need to combat warming for a long time. What an absolute boss. This guy has done everything a man would want in this earthly life.
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What Life Is Like in Beijing During China’s Worst Pollution Crisis Ever
The “airpocalypse” of smog swirling over Chinese cities has reached its most dangerous levels yet. Beijing issued its first-ever red alert today, closing schools and taking cars off the road.
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Neat size comparison video compares the size of spaceships from different movies
Whip ‘em out.
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Why Do These Young Muslims Hate Us? – POLITICO Magazine
In America and Europe, the children of immigrants are turning into radicalized killers. We have to find a way to reach them.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks ‘Joyous’ ‘Star Wars’ Cantina Music | Rolling Stone
J.J. Abrams, the director of the year’s most anticipated film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, recently revealed that he collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the year’s hottest Broadway show Hamilton, on the cantina scene’s music in the upc…
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Scott Weiland’s Family: ‘Don’t Glorify This Tragedy’ | Rolling Stone
Mary Forsberg Weiland is the mother of the late singer Scott Weiland’s teenage children, Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13. She wrote this with their help in the days after his death on Dec 3rd. December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died.
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Bulldog meets a kitten for the first time. : aww
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After opening a can of tuna for lunch : cats
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Today, Donald Trump advocated a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The proposal has its roots in the radical fringe of anti-Muslim activists in America.
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Eagles of Death Metal Make Powerful Comeback at U2’s Paris Concert – The Daily Beast
Less than a month after their Paris concert became the target of a terrorist massacre, Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to the City of Light alongside U2.
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Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to “close up” the internet | The Verge
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested at a rally in South Carolina today that the US consider “closing up” the internet because of radical extremism, or something.
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This Philip K. Dick Tribute Is a Work of Mind-Fucking Greatness In Its Own Right
Philip K. Dick has had a huge influence on science fiction literature—but it’s pretty rare that you read a new book that manages to channel Dick’s paranoid, reality-warping mojo. So Black Hole by Bucky Sinister is a delight for all kinds of reasons.…
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Japan’s economy avoids a technical recession – BBC News
Japan’s economy avoided a technical recession in the three months to September, according to revised official numbers released on Tuesday. Preliminary numbers released last month showed the economy had contracted an annualised 0.8% during the period.
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The crowd on board the USS Yorktown for a Donald Trump rally on Monday night were clear in response to his highly contentious call for the US to be shutdown to incoming Muslims – virtually without exception they said: Bring it on.
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Venezuelans Wonder How the Opposition Will Handle Victory and the Government Defeat | VICE News
Venezuela’s capital Caracas began the week with a kind of collective hangover — a political one — following Sunday’s landmark victory by the opposition in legislative elections that has dramatically changed the balance of power in the country.
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Individuals’ Blood Glucose Levels After Meals May Be Predictable – Scientific American
Cynthia Graber is a print and radio journalist who covers science, technology, agriculture, and any other stories in the U.S. or abroad that catch her fancy. She’s won a number of national awards for her radio documentaries, including the AAAS Kavli…
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Donald Trump on Obama’s mention of Muslim sports heroes: ‘What sport is he talking about?’
In our astonishment at how malevolent Donald Trump is, it sometimes feels like we’ve been neglecting just how amazingly stupid he is as well. C’mon now, you have to give props for thickheadedness like that.
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Is Drake’s Label to Blame for Grammys “Hotline Bling” Snub? | Vanity Fair
This morning, Drake collected five Grammy nominations for tracks like “Energy” and “Back to Back” but, surprisingly, not for the single with a chokehold on the zeitgeist: “Hotline Bling.
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How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief – BBC News
When war or natural disaster causes havoc around the world and millions of people are displaced or rendered homeless, communications and power infrastructures are often damaged or non-existent. Yet people are desperate to let their loved ones know t…
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The U.S. is a low-tax country. That’s right. The U.S. is a low-tax country, at least compared with about 30 other mostly developed economies. (blogs.wsj.com)
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WASHINGTON — On a recent Saturday afternoon, Paul D. Ryan texted Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma. Mr. Ryan, the new House speaker, was attending a University of Oklahoma football game and wondered where the Sooner-adoring Mr. Cole might be sitti…
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New evidence on Mexico disappeared students – BBC News
Independent investigators in Mexico say they have evidence that contradicts official versions of how 43 students disappeared last year in Guerrero state. They said satellite pictures showed no signs of a fire at a rubbish dump where their bodies wer…
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Foreign Fighters in ISIL Territory Have Doubled | Al Jazeera America
The number of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq has more then doubled since the United States launched its military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014, further evidence that rolling back ISIL’s territorial…
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COP21: What is carbon capture? – BBC News
Negotiators from 196 countries are trying to reach a deal at the climate change conference in Paris to curb global warming. One way of preventing carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere is carbon capture and storage.
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DIY AT-AT Cable Organizer & Card Case | Digg Store
Just in time for the holidays and the next chapter in the Star Wars saga, this super-cute, super-cool multi-tasking box is constructed like the film’s four-legged All-Terrain walker. It makes for the ultimate gift or your ultimate desk organizer, br…
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Congress: Bowe Bergdahl Swap Was FUBAR – The Daily Beast
Congress: Bowe Bergdahl Swap Was FUBAR https://t.co/ypGWabsLLQ https://t.co/lbFr4qJxT1
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Trump Only Loves Rich Muslims Who Give Him Money – The Daily Beast
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Police officer pepper spraying a little kid : pics
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Road Tripping Through Eurasia – The New Yorker
Between 2005 and 2009, the Swiss artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs embarked on a series of road trips across the United States and kept a photographic log of their travels.
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Congress: Bowe Bergdahl Swap Was FUBAR – The Daily Beast
A new congressional report is critical of the Obama administration’s decision to trade five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. And the report ascribes a political motivation to the prisoner swap, according to two s…
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Trump Only Loves Rich Muslims Who Give Him Money – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump clearly has issues with Muslims. The latest example is his vow to ban all Muslim immigration to the United States, declaring he wants a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representativ…
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Most Popular How-To Guides of 2015
Step-by-step guides are our bread and butter here at Lifehacker, and you seem to enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy writing them. Here are the best how-to guides of the year. Jailbreaking is a process that changes little by little with each iOS …
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Should Writing Be an Art or a Career? | New Republic
There’s a very funny photograph taken by Brassaï of Pablo Picasso posing in his Paris studio.
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What do Sydney’s Young Henry’s brewery, Shoalhaven Heads’ Bowling and Recreation Club, and Bendigo library have in common? They’re all hosts to some of Australia’s first solar power projects funded and run by local people in community energy groups.
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10 Brilliant Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories That You Probably Haven’t Read Yet
Nigerian author Wole Talabi has posted his list of the 10 best African science fiction and fantasy stories of 2015. They include Afro-cyberpunk, a reimagined fairy tale, magical realism, and far-future SF. Definitely worth checking out! [via Metafil…
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Vox Sentences: Obama: Don’t hate on Muslims. Trump: Ban Muslims. – Vox
Venezuelans are sick of chavismo; President Obama tries to appeal to Americans’ better angels, plan backfires; and a tiny Department of Justice squad takes on the Chicago police department. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Cancel All Your Weekend Plans; Netflix to Double Its Original Programming in 2016 | Vanity Fair
If you thought keeping up with the Netflix Original Series this year was daunting, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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BBC News – Lighting up the night sky
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10 Brilliant Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories That You Probably Haven’t Read Yet
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Hannibal Buress and Kate Upton will also be in The Disaster Artist · Newswire · The A.V. Club
James Franco’s adaptation of The Disaster Artist has now added even more names to its story of the making of a film so “purposefully terrible” that many people don’t understand how “smart” and “clever” it is. (Or so we’ve been told.
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This isnt right, i need to fix this : aww
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Watch the trailer for the second season of Powers, PlayStation’s only original show | The Verge
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The first trailer for the second season of Powers — the PlayStation original show based on a Marvel comic — has arrived, showing what happens to a city when it’s overrun by superheroes. -
Geneva Conventions laws of war need fixing – BBC News
In 1949, following the horrors of World War Two, 196 countries signed the Geneva Conventions. No other international treaty has received such broad support.
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Netflix accounts for more than a third of prime-time internet traffic in North America – Quartz
Just in case Netflix hadn’t completely established itself as a juggernaut, here’s more evidence of its all-consuming hold on consumers: The video-streaming company nets roughly 35% of aggregate peak-period internet traffic in North America, accordin…
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When Will We Finally Get To See Person of Interest Season 5?
When Will We Finally Get To See Person of Interest Season 5? https://t.co/JXVHDQ8gWS https://t.co/j4tWzM3Vne
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When Will We Finally Get To See Person of Interest Season 5?
Person of Interest is one of the best science fiction TV shows of the past decade—or of all time, really. So we’ve been waiting anxiously to see the fifth season, especially since we heard so much about it at New York Comic-Con. But we’re going to h…
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Blues on Wheels – The Morning News
Post office at the Alamo, 1972, Charles O’Rear, courtesy the U.S. National Archives.
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Donald Trump says we should be ‘profiling’ Muslim-Americans
In the last few weeks America has seen two horrific mass murders. I’ll give you a guess which one the collective Republican Party has decided to give a damn about.
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Tour the Royal Navy’s largest ever warship – BBC News
One of a pair of new aircraft carriers that are being assembled in Rosyth, near Edinburgh, is just one year from being completed. The Queen Elizabeth will be the largest ship that the Royal Navy has ever built, when it is finished in December 2016.
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Ted Cruz Tells Fabricated Story About A Girl Threatened With Jail For Saying ‘Jesus’. (thinkprogress.org) And that girl’s name? Albert Einstein!
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Youth in India’s Manipur box their way out of obscurity – BBC News
India’s north-eastern state of Manipur has long been home to several insurgent groups which have clashed with the government forces for decades. The longstanding insurgency has hampered the growth of the state on many levels, including sports.
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Maggie Kirkpatrick: Australia actor cleared of abusing girl – BBC News
Australian actor Maggie Kirkpatrick, star of TV drama Prisoner, has been cleared of sexually abusing a girl. In August, a Melbourne court had ruled she had abused the 14-year-girl at her Melbourne home in 1984.
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LeBron James signs lifetime deal with Nike – BBC News
American basketball star LeBron James has signed a lifetime deal with the world’s biggest sporting goods firm, Nike. Mr James, who turns 31 later this month, has been with Nike since 2003 when he signed a $90m (£59.7m) contract with the firm.
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Donald Trump has a base: 76% of Republicans think Islam is un-American – Vox
Donald Trump’s Monday evening call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States — including US citizens — was condemned by virtually everybody in American public life, right and left. But Trump thrives on elites calling him out for being a big…
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Most Republicans Have Negative Views Of Muslims — And Toward A Religious Test | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump on Monday called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in response to the recent attack in San Bernardino, California, which investigators believe was inspired by the terrorist group known as Islamic …
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Deepening Anti-Islamic Mood In Texas Rivals Post-Sept. 11 Climate : NPR
An anti-Muslim climate seems especially potent in the Dallas area. Take Irving, Texas, for instance. The city of 230,000 borders Dallas on the northwest. More than one-third of its citizens are foreign-born.
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Warming speeds ‘world’s slowest moving landslides’ – BBC News
Rising global temperatures are helping to speed up slow moving landslides across Alaska. Researchers told BBC News that the geological features, known as frozen debris lobes, are now threatening a major highway.
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Viewpoint: Why is Islamic State group so violent? – BBC News
The filming of people being beheaded, drowned or burnt alive in Syria and Iraq; the bombing of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt; the mass killing of Christians in Libya and concert-goers in France: Why do Islamic State militants commit acts of such …
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The Good Dinosaur is looking like Pixar’s first box-office failure | The Verge
In the volatile world of Hollywood box office performance, no studio has been more of a sure bet than Pixar — up until The Good Dinosaur, that is.
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Yahoo May Unveil Restructuring of Media Unit, Make Spinoff Decision | Re/code
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has been preparing to make big changes to its media unit, restructuring and consolidating it, including making cuts and shuttering some efforts.
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COP21: What happens if climate conference fails? – BBC News
Negotiators from 196 countries are trying to reach a deal at the climate change conference in Paris to curb global warming. BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath asks what happens if the conference fails to reach an agreement.
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A rifle’s journey from Belgium to Gaza – BBC News
Three years ago, arms experts spotted a single advanced Belgian rifle in the hands of militants in Gaza. But how had a group listed by the EU and the US as a terrorist organisation obtained the weapon? Arms expert Nic Jenzen-Jones and the BBC’s Thom…
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Happy 100th Birthday to Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera!
In the Golden Age of science fiction, male authors far outnumbered their female counterparts. C.L. Moore was a notable break from the largely male-dominated field, but she wasn’t the only one to put fantastic tales to paper. Another notable author o…
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Image Shows How Dolphins See People : Discovery News
In a scientific first, researchers have just reproduced what a dolphin saw as it encountered a male diver. This “what the dolphin saw” image of the submerged man reveals that dolphin echolocation results in fairly detailed images.
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Jeff Bezos (And Probably Others) Would Like To Send Donald Trump To Space | TechCrunch
Trump, Trump, Trump. I know, you’re probably tired of hearing about him but he just won’t go away…and it’s not even really full-on election season yet. The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes …
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“Saint West”: the latest venture from Kardashian-West Enterprises – Vox
And on that day … a star was born. But what child is this, whose name is West, on Kimye’s lap is sleeping? Whom bloggers greet with traffic sweet, while Seacrest’s watch are keeping?
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After flagging sales, Keurig goes private with $13.9 billion from JAB Holding | Ars Technica
In the finance world today, everyone is abuzz with the news of a giant buyout—JAB Holding company, which manages the money of one of Germany’s wealthiest families, agreed to buy struggling coffee maker Keurig Green Mountain for $13.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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Spain election: Voters in Murcia demand shake-up in classroom – BBC News
When Antonio Angel Lopez Sanchez was at school in the small town of Bullas, in south-eastern Spain, he dreamt of becoming a doctor. But the dream faded and, at the age of 15, he left school to become a carpenter. Not an unusual step in the country w…
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How frequent are US Islamist attacks? – BBC News
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Antibiotic use in food fuels humans’ resistance to vital drugs – report | Society | The Guardian
The use of antibiotics in agriculture is fuelling drug resistance and must be cut back or even banned where they are important for humans, a report commissioned by David Cameron has warned.
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Smog envelopes Beijing: before and after pictures as city goes on red alert | Cities | The Guardian
With pollution reaching 40 times the safe level, China’s capital has issued its first red warning, closing down schools and factories until Thursday. These images show Beijing under a layer of smog – and what it looked like on a clear day
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Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S. : politics
Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S. (cnn.com) Guys we were right all along. He was a Clinton plant put in place to implode the Republicans.
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Owners of heavily polluting diesel generators stand to make “sky-high” profits under a government energy regime that has slashed subsidies for wind and solar, a report warns.
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What people actually mean when they label an attack “terrorism” – Vox
In President Obama’s Oval Office speech Sunday night, he discussed a few examples of domestic terrorism in the United States. He included last week’s San Bernardino shooting, the Fort Hood shooting, and the shootings at military recruitment centers …
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How frequent are US Islamist attacks? – BBC News
This week US President Barack Obama called the shooting in San Bernardino, California, an act of terrorism. Some reports say the two perpetrators were influenced by the so-called Islamic State. So how common are terror attacks in the US?
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Global Citizens Tribunal to Put Monsanto on Trial – Global food, farming & environmental justice groups are joining forces to put biotech crop giant Monsanto on trial for ecocide & crimes against nature & humanity at the International People’s Court…
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Adding to the initial, Nick Jonas-heavy lineup of films it announced last week, earlier today the Sundance Film Festival released a list of feature and documentary films that will have their world premieres in Park City next month.
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Netflix’s Iron Fist series hires former Dexter showrunner Scott Buck · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With all of the hype that surrounded Daredevil and Jessica Jones—not to mention how much people are looking forward to Luke Cage on the strength of star Mike Colter’s appearance in the latter show—it’s easy to forget that Marvel and Netflix still ha…
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Jeff Bezos just offered to shoot Donald Trump into space | The Verge
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Vulnerabilities in industrial gas detectors require little skill to exploit | Ars Technica
Gas detectors used in factories and other industrial settings to identify toxic conditions contain several vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely sabotage the devices, according to an industry advisory published late last week.
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Donald Trump’s call to halt Muslim immigration is getting exactly the reaction he wanted – Vox
After Donald Trump proposed to ban all Muslims from entering the US on Monday afternoon, there was a bipartisan chorus of outraged condemnations. Which is exactly what Trump wanted.
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No One Gives Christmas Presents Like The Last Man On Earth
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No One Gives Christmas Presents Like The Last Man On Earth
Armed with a billion dollar spending limit, the characters on The Last Man on Earth spent the latest episode conducting a little “Secret Santa.” That just so happened to be the title of the episode, too, and things went from awesome, to awkward, to …
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President Obama Delivers Rare Address On Terrorism From The Oval Office – Digg
2 diggs News On Sunday, President Obama delivered a rare address from the oval office, discussing the San Bernardino shooting, gun control and ISIS.
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How Three Americans Prevented the Paris Train Attack | GQ
It was my first time in Europe. Anthony [Sadler] was about to go back to college, and mI was stationed min the Azores, so we figured it was the best time to get the trip done. Anthony and I met up in Rome, and then we went up to Venice, Munich, Berl…
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Alphabet Gets A “V” By Renaming Google Life Sciences To “Verily” | TechCrunch
As Alphabet continues to rejigger their company structure, one of the teams left under the Alphabet umbrella has gotten itself a new moniker, according to Stat News. More to come.
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John Coltrane Live: A Playlist – The New Yorker
Recently, I wrote about the new three-disk reissue of the John Coltrane Quartet’s “A Love Supreme,” the highlight of which is a recording of the group’s live performance of the suite.
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Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban Shouldn’t Be A Surprise – The New Yorker
On Monday afternoon, the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, called for the United States to bar all Muslims, including American citizens who are Muslim and currently abroad, from entering the country until leaders can “figure out what is going o…
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Donald Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric resonates with many Republicans – Vox
Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from entering the country is certainly more repugnant in just about every way — constitutionally, morally, and politically — than anything any other Republican presidential candidate has called for since the terror…
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Which Rapper Is So Invested in Downton Abbey That He’s Sent Passionate | Vanity Fair
Downton Abbey has claimed royals, Hollywood players, politicians, and plebes as fans. But there is one demographic that has not yet been conquered in Julian Fellowes’s siege of the soapy period drama: rappers.
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Storm Desmond: Are flood defences fit for purpose? – BBC News
After hundreds of millions of pounds were spent on flood defences, many people affected by the floods are asking how their homes could have been inundated yet again.
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Puppy from Russia for French police – BBC News
Russia has presented France with a puppy as a symbolic replacement for a police dog killed in the aftermath of the Paris attacks last month. The death of the dog, called Diesel, during a police raid in Saint-Denis, sparked international sympathy.
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BMW’s i8 Spyder concept will soon become reality | The Verge
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The BMW i8 is jaw-dropping piece of design. It also has some sweet tech under the hood, thanks to a tiny 1.5-liter gasoline engine mated to a plug-in hybrid power pack. We like it quite a lot. There’s just one thing that BMW can do to make it look p… -
Why Wealth And Income Inequality Just Keep Getting Worse And Worse – Digg
12 diggs Economics Explainer The old adage that “the world isn’t fair” is true, especially when it comes to economics, but does it have to be that way? MORE: Inflation for dummies
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Activists plaster Paris with posters of climate villains | Grist
An estimated 200 million people might be displaced by climate change by 2050. So far, there’s no plan to help them.
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Let Alec Baldwin tell you why he is an optimistic climate warrior | Grist
An estimated 200 million people might be displaced by climate change by 2050. So far, there’s no plan to help them.
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A brief chat with XKCD’s Randall Munroe—the Thing Explainer explainer | Ars Technica
HOUSTON—I’d guess that the majority of Ars readers are familiar with XKCD, the stick-figure Web comic drawn by former NASA contractor and engineer (and now Hugo award winner) Randall Munroe.
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Environmental justice scores a win in California carbon policy | Grist
An estimated 200 million people might be displaced by climate change by 2050. So far, there’s no plan to help them.
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Canadian Madrassa Says Its School Didn’t Radicalize One of the San Bernardino Shoote | VICE News
An Ontario madrasa is publicly rejecting that its organization promotes violence or extremism after Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed that one of the San Bernardino attackers studied at their Pakistani campus.
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Trump Wants to Block Muslims Entering US | Al Jazeera America
The proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of Islam who want to come to the U.S. The idea also raised immediate questions about whether it could pass muster under constitutional prot…
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Flashback: See Roger Miller Sing With the Muppets | Rolling Stone
This year’s just-announced Grammy nominations include a handful of country artists in some of the top multi-genre categories, including Chris Stapleton, who’s up for Album of the Year.
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Trump calls for total ban on Muslims entering the U.S. : politics
Trump calls for total ban on Muslims entering the U.S. (usatoday.com) How are you going to enforce this? Make immigrants eat pork upon entry?
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A series of predictions for LeBron James’ lifetime Nike deal | The Verge
Renowned comedic actor LeBron James has signed a lifetime deal with Nike this afternoon, an agreement that’s being described as the largest commitment to a single athlete ever.
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AT&T plans to offer gigabit internet service in 38 more metropolitan areas | The Verge
AT&T is expanding its gigabit internet service, GigaPower, to “parts of” 38 additional metropolitan areas, the company announced today. Whenever those installations conclude, it’ll bring the total list of cities with GigaPower to around 56.
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Trump campaign: ‘Nothing wrong’ with banning Muslims from entering US | US news | The Guardian
The Trump campaign unashamedly backed his “ban all Muslims” policy, calling it a “reasonable precaution”.
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The Activist Trying to End a ‘Culture of Violence’ in Baltimore – The Atlantic
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In a statement released Monday afternoon, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.
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The sequel to Marvel’s Civil War series is on its way | The Verge
The Marvel universe is getting split in two all over again. ComicBook.com reports that Civil War II, the followup to the controversial 2006 event series, will debut next spring. Marvel made the announcement via the latest Diamond Retailer calendar, …
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Prosecutor Anita Alvarez Won’t Press Charges in Police Shooting of Ronald Johnson – The Atlantic
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It’s another week in Chicago with prosecutors releasing a video of police shooting a black man in the back. But unlike the killing of Laquan McDonald, the death of Ronald Johnson won’t result in any charges, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said Monda… -
LeBron James Weds Nike For Life – The Atlantic
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Florida Man Robs the Poor For His Country Club – The Daily Beast
Imagine a federally financed economic development project that clears away slums, helps local businesses, makes jobs for low-income people, or helps the businesses that sell to them.
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Russians Are Joining ISIS in Droves – The Daily Beast
Across the globe, the number of foreign fighters traveling to Iraq and Syria continues to climb, but Russia and Central Asia have experienced the most dramatic change over the past year, with some estimates suggesting a 300 percent increase.
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Global greenhouse gas emissions may fall this year | The Verge
The rate at which greenhouse gases are getting pumped into the world’s atmosphere seems to be slowing down, according to new figures presented this week at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
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New Yorkers can now get scanned previews of their junk mail before it’s delivered | The Verge
New York City-area residents can now sign up for “Informed Delivery,” which will send them a free digitized preview of their day’s mail before it arrives.
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France PM Valls calls for united anti-National Front vote – BBC News
France’s prime minister has urged voters to back the main opposition to stop the far-right National Front (FN) winning regional elections. The anti-immigration party did well in Sunday’s first round of the elections.
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In The Librarians, a Classic Figure From Literature Goes Digital
This could just be me, but there was something missing from this week’s Librarians. It just didn’t seem as tightly packed and plotted as usual. The time between the team getting the assignment and figuring it all out stretched out too long. Spoilers…
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The former treasurer Joe Hockey has been formally named as Australia’s next ambassador to the United States, ending months of speculation about his likely appointment. The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, confirmed the appointment in a media …
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Pop-Up Has Been Robbed, and the Thieves Are Still at Large | Vanity Fair
Well, this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill gossip item. Per People, who has its information straight from the N.Y.P.D., Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop pop-up shop, located in New York’s Columbus Circle area, has been robbed.
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A Clearer View of Fire : Image of the Day
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For nearly 15 years, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites have scanned Earth’s surface daily for fires. When the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP began operat… -
Fox News Suspends Two Analysts over Profane Obama Insults | Vanity Fair
On Monday, Fox had to suspend not one, but two of their political commentators for using potty language on live television, both within hours of each other. (Was there something weird in the air at the News Corps building on Monday? Maybe a gas leak…
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Watch U2 Welcome Eagles of Death Metal Onstage in Paris | Rolling Stone
Watch U2 Welcome Eagles of Death Metal Onstage in Paris “They were robbed of their stage, so we would like to offer them ours,” Bono says before “People Have the Power” and “I Love You All the Time”
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Make a Better To-Do List by Focusing on What Would Make Today Great
Daily to-do lists are an effective way to get things done, especially when you know how to prioritize your tasks. How you decide to prioritize your tasks, however, can have an effect on how you feel at the end of the day.
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Bono Musical, Frank Zappa Doc Added to Sundance 2016 Lineup | Rolling Stone
Bono Musical, Frank Zappa Doc Added to Sundance 2016 Lineup New movies from Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, and a Soderbergh-produced TV show round out fest premierses
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A Look at the Weirdest, Most Surprising and Unknown Grammy Nominations | Rolling Stone
The nominees for the 58th Grammy Awards have been revealed, and while the Big Four categories lacked any major surprises, this year’s full crop of nominations did have some unexpected hopefuls in unfamiliar categories.
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Supreme Court Declines Case on Assault-Weapons Ban – The Atlantic
The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear thousands of cases each year, so in one sense, Monday’s announcement that it wouldn’t take up Friedman v. Highland Park wasn’t much of a surprise.
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U.S. Men’s Soccer, But Not Women’s, Gets To Play All Its Games On Grass | FiveThirtyEight
The U.S. men’s national soccer team (USMNT) has played on perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass and Latitude 36 Bermuda grass, but it hasn’t played a game on artificial turf in the U.S. in the past two years.1 Compare that with the U.S.
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Toward the beginning of Spike Lee’s new film, “Chi-Raq,” a gun battle erupts in a hip-hop club. It’s the latest salvo in an ongoing war between two fictional Chicago gangs: the Spartans, clad in purple, and the Trojans, in orange.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Catloaf gaming? via /r/Catloaf…
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Are Republicans and Democrats finally uniting against Donald Trump’s racist facism? | The Verge
Donald J. Trump, a leading Republican candidate for president, released a truly incredible press release today that called for “a total and complete shutdown” to all Muslim immigration into the United States. The release was first tweeted Trump PAC …
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Push for Gun Curbs Tied to No-Fly List Puts Republicans on the Spot https://t.co/SjPoh8C47z https://t.co/VfIb3azzEG
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The President Seemed to Be Talking to Some Other Country Last Night – One that is wiser, more rational, and would not buy the snake oil being peddled by Donald Trump. (esquire.com) I was refreshing to hear an adult discuss terrorism. Obama’s thought…
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Leia was “the beginning of girl power”—but Carrie Fisher says Rey’s even better | Ars Technica
LOS ANGELES—The release of Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens is less than two weeks away, and while we still don’t know a lot about the plot, we do know who the new and old characters are in this seventh film in the series.
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WASHINGTON — The bloody attack in San Bernardino, Calif., last week revived fears about threats from groups such as the Islamic State in America and also fused two fraught policy debates central to the presidential contest: gun control and how far t…
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Drone nearly collides with helicopter, operator gets caught | Ars Technica
On Saturday night around 9pm, above the northern California city of Martinez, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was flying a helicopter over Highway 4, searching for a stolen car.
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Russian Military Satellite Suffers Launch Failure, Will Crash Soon
An advanced Russian military satellite was doomed by a setback during launch Saturday (Dec. 5) and could come crashing back to Earth in the next day or so, according to media reports.
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ACT! Congress about to gut privacy protection from CISA “cybersecurity” bill / Boing Boing
CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, encourages companies to spy on their customers and hand the data to the government, in secret, with full immunity (including immunity for launching cyberattacks at users).
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We are all witnesses: LeBron James signs historic lifetime deal with Nike | Sport | The Guardian
LeBron James is Nike for life. The sneaker giant has signed the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar to a lifetime deal that’s been described as the largest single-athlete guarantee in the company’s 44-year history.
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Donald Trump calls for halt on Muslims entering the US – Al Jazeera English
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday called for a “total and complete” block on Muslims entering the United States.
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This Week’s TV: Mark Hamill Leads The Greatest Villain Team-Up In TV History!
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BBC Sport – Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace
Everton midfielder James McCarthy faces a late fitness test on the hip injury that ruled him out of the midweek Capital Cup win at Middlesbrough. Leighton Baines made his comeback from ankle surgery in midweek but is unlikely to start as the Toffees…
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Alphabet introduces Verily, a new name for its Google Life Sciences division | The Verge
In a new video, Google has announced a new name for its Life Sciences division, recently placed under the Alphabet umbrella. The division will now be known as “Verily.” As part of the rebranding of the division, a new website, verily.com, also appea…
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Paris attacks: Russia donates puppy to France – BBC News
Russia has donated a German Shepherd puppy to France after a police dog was killed in an anti-terror raid following November’s attacks in Paris. Diesel died during a raid on a flat in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
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COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger says leaders ‘must act now on climate change’ – BBC News
World leaders should focus on ways to use new technology to deal with climate change, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said. Speaking to the BBC’s Roger Harrabin at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, the Hollywood star urged poli…
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This Week’s TV: Mark Hamill Leads The Greatest Villain Team-Up In TV History!
Plus Robot Chicken is back with more weird superheroes! There are midseason finales of all your favorite shows.
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Trump: No Muslim Immigration to U.S. : politics
Trump: No Muslim Immigration to U.S. (thedailybeast.com) Yup. 10-15 points probably.
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Revel in Derek Blasberg’s Party-Fueled Art Basel Miami Beach Photo Dia | Vanity Fair
The Miami outpost of the Art Basel fair began in 2002 as a tropical venue where art lovers could congregate during the cold winter months. Since then, nothing has changed and so much has changed.
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What’s behind the success of France’s far-right party? – Al Jazeera English
France’s far-right National Front party is re-shaping the political landscape after a significant breakthrough in the opening round of regional elections.
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Climate Change Deniers Try to Derail the Paris Talks | New Republic
Climate Change Deniers Try to Derail the Paris Talks https://t.co/kA2WUqHcVp https://t.co/oJxE5Kpfj2
LE BOURGET, France—Monday began what’s supposed to be the final week of the climate talks, the one where top-level negotiators hammer out an accord to stop the deadly march of global warming. -
Avoid Bottle-Necking Your Party Guests by Spreading Food and Drink Around
When you’re hosting a party in a smaller home, a traffic jam near all the goodies is all too common. You can easily fix that by spreading your food and drink around. If you’ve taken on the mantel of gracious host, there’s no need to stress about you…
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Donald Trump Just Called for a ‘Complete Shutdown’ on Muslims Entering the US | VICE News
Donald Trump, the current frontrunner in the US Republican presidential primary race, called for a “total and complete shutdown” of all Muslims coming to the US.
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Syrian Refugee Families Will Still Come to Texas, Despite Effort to Stop Them | VICE News
Two Syrian refugee families are due to arrive in Texas on Monday despite efforts by the state to bar their resettlement with a lawsuit filed last Wednesday in federal court.
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Quick Hit: Beijing on High Alert Over Toxic Smog | VICE News
Chinese officials issue the first-ever ‘red alert’ as record high levels of smog cover Beijing. With pollution levels reaching 40 times what’s considered safe by the World Health Organization, schools have been urged to close and outdoor constructio…
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One Shipwrecked Spanish Galleon — Two Countries and One Company After the Gold | VICE News
Colombia has announced the discovery of what could be the world’s largest sunken treasure somewhere off its Caribbean coast, but it faces competition for keeping the caskets of gold believed to be strewn around the wreckage.
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BBC Sport – Man Utd must prove Champions League credentials – Van Gaal
Manchester United must prove they merit a place in the Champions League last 16 by beating Wolfsburg in their crucial group tie, says boss Louis van Gaal. The Red Devils will qualify with a win in Tuesday’s final Group B game, or if PSV Eindhoven lo…
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Trump New Low: Ban All Muslim Immigration to U.S. – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump said Monday as president he would halt all Muslim immigration to the United States.
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Viral Failure: How the Internet Killed Late-Night Comedy :: Monthly :: Features :: Paste
In the year 2000, YouTube was a collection of VHS tapes in our basement. Facebook was hanging out with my older brother and watching those tapes which, in our case, mostly held episodes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Twitter consisted of retellin…
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‘We’ll be the first they kill’: the Tunisian rappers taking on Isis | Music | The Guardian
Dya Hammadi went to school with the man who kidnapped him. It happened in broad daylight, on the terrace of a cafe in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the Arab spring revolution kicked off five years ago.
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Brock Osweiler to remain Broncos starter as Manning waits on sidelines | Sport | The Guardian
Peyton Manning will suit up and throw outdoors this week as he begins his comeback from a torn plantar fascia in his left foot, although it’s unlikely he’ll participate in practice. Brock Osweiler, who’s 3-0, will start when the Denver Broncos (10-2…
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Looks Like The Iron Fist TV Show Is Really Happening!
Everyone’s been wondering if Netflix is really going to make a TV show based on Iron Fist, the comic about a blond guy who goes to Asia and becomes a martial-arts master.
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Trump Calls For Total Ban On Muslim Immigration To The U.S. | ThinkProgress
On Sunday night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked, “Where is there widespread evidence that we have a problem in America with discrimination against Muslims?” The Trump campaign confirmed that their proposed ban would apply to tourists as well as refug…
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There is only one actor who has appeared in every single Star Wars film to date: 69-year-old Anthony Daniels, who has been portraying the fussy gold-plated protocol droid C-3PO since 1977.
Read This: A chat with Anthony Daniels, the man in the shiny C-3PO suit https://t.co/PkO3f8nIpc https://t.co/jlrOpqvcMz -
Donald Trump Calls for Banning Muslim Immigrants – The Atlantic
Donald Trump is now calling for an end to all Muslim immigration into the United States.
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Pacific Overtures on Broadway | The Nation
Allegiance, the new Broadway musical about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, begins and ends with a paean to forgiveness. The opening and closing lines and song refer to a stand off of more than 50 years between a brother and…
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At School And At Home, How Much Does The Internet Know About Kids? : All Tech Considered : NPR
Children’s personal information isn’t supposed to be an online commodity. But whether kids are using Google apps at school or Internet-connected toys at home, they’re generating a stream of data about themselves.
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What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit to Make Mutant Bacteria? | Motherboard
The revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9 has the potential to eradicate disease or invite a new wave of eugenics, depending on who you ask. Now, through an Indiegogo campaign, anyone can purchase their own kit to try the science themsel…
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Make America Great Again! | Donald J Trump for President
Jeb Bush Pays a Price for Failing to Register https://t.co/iTLJ3Jiho7 https://t.co/0fcjUiqT0B https://t.co/glOAweSJY4
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Jeb Bush Pays a Price for Failing to Register JebBush.com | Mother Jones
Jeb Bush Pays a Price for Failing to Register https://t.co/iTLJ3Jiho7 https://t.co/0fcjUiqT0B https://t.co/glOAweSJY4
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(Not) All Men — Matter — Medium
Any woman can spot an anonymous misogynist. A man might flick his tongue as we pass on the sidewalk, or sprawl all over a seat on the bus when we’re carrying three bags. He might jerk off in front of us or be that online dating match who sends an un…
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The Selfie: A Window into our Sexist Souls
Essena O’Neill decided to abandon her Instagram account—and her lucrative 580,000 followers—after she felt disgusted about accepting money from brands to pass off photo shoots as scenes from her life. The 18-year-old Instagram celebrity had made tho…
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Donald Trump proposes “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – Vox
Donald Trump — who has spent his months atop the Republican polls slowly replacing the anti-immigrant rhetoric in his campaign with anti-Muslim rhetoric — is now officially calling to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
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Bernie Sanders climate plan calls for end to nuclear energy.
On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced a sweeping plan to combat climate change that would greatly build upon the significant but insufficient efforts of President Barack Obama and, at first glance, is very close to a …
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Jeb Bush’s website now redirects to Donald Trump / Boing Boing
The 2016 GOP candidates have had a slew of embarrassing domain name losses, but the sudden redirect of JebBush.com to DonaldJTrump.com today is pretty epic. The domain was reportedly being offered for $250,000, and the Bush campaign failed to or cho…
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Exclusive: Ava DuVernay Meets Her Barbie | Vanity Fair
Exclusive: Ava DuVernay Meets Her Barbie https://t.co/XANhx4XVhT https://t.co/krLvkcxw7w
The pages of the Barbie collection Web site are filled with tall blondes and brunettes in impossible proportions, resplendent in red satin or pink tulle. -
Former Cincinnati Chief Recalls Challenges Of Police Reform : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Tom Streicher, former police chief of Cincinnati, a city that experienced slow police reform but has now driven down crime and arrests.
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An Unlikely Alliance Forms on Yet Another Awesome Episode of Ash vs Evil Dead
The deliciously blood-filled fight scenes in “The Killer of Killers” might be the series’ best yet—though it’s hard to declare anything the best on a show that has so much going for it.
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Donald Trump calls to ban all Muslims from entering US | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump, the leading contender to become the Republican party’s nominee for US presidential candidate, has called for a “total and complete shutdown” of the country’s borders to Muslims in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
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San Bernardino shooters ‘radicalized’ long before the rampage, FBI says | US news | The Guardian
The husband and wife who shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last week were both radicalized “for quite some time” and spent time at shooting ranges, the FBI said on Monday.
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The Paris agreement won’t do anything to protect climate refugees | 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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US regulators moved to block the proposed combination of Staples and Office Depot on Monday because the deal would reduce competition in the office supplies market. The companies say they plan to fight to preserve the deal.
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Donald Trump urges US ban on Muslim arrivals – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a “total and complete” halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings. He said that polling showed a “hatred” by Muslims toward Americans that could put t…
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Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslim immigration
Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (New York, NY) December 7th, 2015, — Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out wh…
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Eagles of Death Metal on Paris stage – 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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Four Common Job Search Mistakes You Might Be Making
You often know when you’ve just made a big mistake in your job application. You forget to attach your resume. You send the wrong version. You address your cover letter to Mr. Chris Allen—then realize there’s a strong chance Chris is a woman.
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Airbnb Officially Confirms $1.5 Billion Funding Round in SEC Filing | Re/code
Home rental service and unofficial sharing economy mascot Airbnb has made its $1.5 billion funding round official in an SEC document today. The Wall Street Journal first reported news of the equity offering back in June, writing that it set the comp…
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ISIS’s online propaganda machine, in one chart – Vox
During his Sunday evening address about the San Bernardino attacks, President Obama confirmed many Americans’ fears about the shooters: They were ISIS supporters, who had been attracted to kill in the group’s name without any central direction.
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Star Trek Beyond trailer to debut before The Force Awakens · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Prompting an uneasy nerd truce of the type that would be explained in an opening crawl, or by dumbing down complicated sci-fi terms into into an easy analogy, The Hollywood Reporter says that the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond will premiere alon…
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Famed Lions Poisoned in Kenya Wildlife Reserve
First, it was Cecil the lion. Now, there’s news that more famous lions have been killed—this time with poison rather than a gun. The victims come from the Marsh Pride, a family of lions living in the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya.
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FBI: San Bernardino shooters had been radicalized for ‘some time’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The couple who carried out an attack on a San Bernardino County employee party last week that killed 14 people had been radicalized ‘for some time’ but there was no evidence so far of an international plot, an FBI official said on Monday.
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Bhutan film director Tshering Wangyel dies at 43 – BBC News
One of Bhutan’s leading film directors, Tshering Wangyel, has died in hospital at the age of 43. The Bhutan Film Association said Tshering Wangyel had been shooting his latest movie when he was taken to hospital last month with pneumonia.
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US confirms death of Libyan IS head Abu Nabil – BBC News
Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt Jeff Davis said Abu Nabil died after an F-15 jet targeted a compound in the eastern city of Derna on 13 November. Iraqi national Nabil was also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi.
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See Rick Springfield’s Massive ‘Star Wars’ Toy Collection | Rolling Stone
See Rick Springfield’s Massive ‘Star Wars’ Toy Collection ‘Jessie’s Girl’ singer shows us his impressive action-figure treasures in this exclusive Rolling Stone video
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900 Arguments That Will Decide the Fate of the World | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Paris climate talks are not really happening in Paris. By train, the commune of Le Bourget is about 45 minutes from the Eiffel Tower, the S…
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This Week’s Night Sky: A Comet, Meteors, and Clusters at Play
Worlds Align. Early risers on Tuesday, December 8, can look for the thin, crescent moon in the low eastern sky before dawn to pin down a beautiful lineup up of bright, star-like objects—most of which are planets.
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AT&T bringing gigabit fiber to LA and dozens of other metro areas | Ars Technica
AT&T today launched its gigabit fiber Internet service in parts of Los Angeles and West Palm Beach and announced another 36 metro areas that will get the service at later dates. AT&T’s “GigaPower” service is available in 20 metro areas as of now, th…
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Secretary Moniz Emphasizes ‘Innovation Agenda’ To Stop Climate Change : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz about the U.N. climate summit in Paris.
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Turmoil in the Weird Karaoke Market
In September of 2011, somewhere around 4 AM at the Astra Cafe in Pesaro, Italy, things started to get weird for Leonardo Polverelli. His eyes were flickering open and closed. He heard noises that weren’t there. He was hallucinating.
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Paris Climate Talks: Only Four More Days for a Plan to Save the World | VICE News
Government ministers arrived in Paris for the climate summit today as negotiations entered their second week.
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Is it just me, or does NGC1333 look a lot like a Christmas tree? [581 x 950] https://t.co/lsZZDVXOH7 https://t.co/W3ysUDO0Jt
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Photos Emerge of the First Sunken Seaplanes of the Pearl Harbor Attacks | Motherboard
It’s been 74 years since Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and we’re just now getting a good look at the wreckages of the attack’s first few casualties on the ocean floor.
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Airbnb Confirms Its Massive $1.5 Billion Raise | TechCrunch
Back in June, the WSJ reported that Airbnb had raised a massive $1.5 billion round of funding. Today, the company confirmed those reports by way of SEC filing. The total offering and sold amount is $1,499,937,904.00 for those keeping score.
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Syria air strikes ‘kill 26 civilians’ – BBC News
Syrian activists say at least 26 civilians, including children, have been killed in the north-east of the country by air strikes possibly carried out by the US-led coalition.
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Witness Lied About Seeing Man With Firearm Before He Was Gunned Down By Police | ThinkProgress
On Monday afternoon, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced Officer George Hernandez will not be charged for shooting Ronald Johnson in the back as he fled.
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Pluto Probe Snaps Record-Breaking Photos of Frigid, Faraway Object
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured the closest images of a small object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit, mission team members say.
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During a town hall event in South Carolina on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made the bold claim that he will defend religious liberty because “what kind of country are we living in where…we’re threatening teenage girls with goin…
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Small, Surprising Dip In World’s Carbon Emissions Traced To China : NPR
So far, the international climate meeting in Paris has primarily been about words, as diplomats wrestle with the precise language of a treaty.
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The Disrupt London 2015 Battlefield Finalists Are Jukedeck, Lystable, MAX, And Yoobic | TechCrunch
Disrupt London Day One was a smashing success, and included speaking appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, former Arsenal footballer and sports broadcaster Thierry Henry (yep, there was plenty of football on our stage), Postmates’…
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Sacramento — WE’VE known since 1964 that cigarette smoking is harmful to your health. We’ve known for more than 40 years that alcohol damages the developing brain of a child. We’ve known since the mid-70s that asbestos causes cancer and other seriou…
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Both the assailants in the deadly attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
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San Bernardino Shooting: Couple Were Radicalized For ‘Quite Some Time,’ FBI Says – The Atlantic
Both Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were radicalized for quite some time before the couple killed 14 people and wounded 21 others at a civic-services center in San Bernardino, California, the FBI said.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Announce the Birth of Saint West – The Atlantic
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Track of the Day: ‘Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News’ – The Atlantic
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Save a Bottle of Spoiled Wine With a Penny or Silver Spoon
Did that opened bottle wine spoil a little quicker than you expected? With this chemistry trick you can undo the nasty smell and taste so you can finish off that nice red. This video from the Reactions YouTube channel explains a simple way to try an…
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How Star Wars Helped Create President Reagan
1. Star Wars starts out in the Wild West, the rough-hewn old frontier, and then it races upwards, soaring and expanding its scope, until at last it becomes World War II.
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LeBron James signs lifetime deal with Nike
Nike has signed Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James to a lifetime deal in what one source familiar with the negotiations said is the largest single athlete guarantee in company history. A company spokesperson would not say how much Nike paid.
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Alan Taylor at In Focus has shared his list of the Top 25 News Photos of 2015. As I have in past years, I’ll share more lists of the year’s best photos as they come in.
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This isn’t our first trip down this road.
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Bernie Sanders Wins Readers’ Poll for TIME Person of the Year : politics
When is the last time the readers poll was the same as their pick? Proving once again that Sanders has the most internet points.
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Gun Deaths Have Plummeted in the US — But That Doesn’t Mean There’s Less Gun Violence | VICE News
Last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino brought the total number of Americans killed by guns so far this year to 12,225, which is actually a significant drop from when gun violence was at its height in the 1990s.
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Among Established Artists, Several Newbies Score Grammy Nominations : NPR
Nominees for the 58th Grammy Awards were announced Monday morning. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd got the most nominations, while some new artists were in the mix.
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U.S. To Launch Alert System For Terror Threats : NPR
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says that in the coming days his department will unveil a new way to let the public know about terrorist threats. It’s an acknowledgement, he says, of the evolving threat environment.
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As Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty, Number Of Executions Plummets : NPR
The Supreme Court keeps upholding the death penalty, but legal challenges and practical hurdles have made actual executions as rare as deaths by lightning.
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Video Released Of Chicago Police Officer Fatally Shooting Ronald Johnson : NPR
A second dash-cam video of a fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer has been released. The Cook County state’s attorney announced Monday that the officer in this case will not face criminal charges.
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Justice Department Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Chicago Police Department : NPR
The Justice Department announced Monday it is launching a “pattern or practice” investigation into the Chicago Police Department.
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County Employees In San Bernardino, Calif., Return To Work After Mass Shooting : NPR
County workers returned to their offices Monday, five days after the mass killings in San Bernardino, Calif., during an office party. The FBI says it is investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism.
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Charles E. Williams, Founder Of Cookware Giant Williams-Sonoma, Dies : NPR
Almost 60 years ago, Charles E. Williams opened a small store specializing in high-quality cookware, with the hopes of making French cooking more accessible to Americans. Today, Williams-Sonoma is an international name. He died Saturday at the age o…
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Obama Urges Congress To Authorize Use Of Military Force Against ISIS : NPR
In his address to the nation on Sunday, President Obama asked Congress to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State. The ongoing U.S.
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Prisons Experiment With Programs To Help Incarcerated Veterans : NPR
Prisons are experimenting with ways to help veterans who have committed crimes and are serving time. At one state prison in Washington state, veterans are organized in a cell block like a military unit, complete with unit insignia and flag ceremonie…
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White House Pushes Back Against Criticism Of ISIS Strategy : NPR
In his Oval Office address, President Obama sought to calm a nation on edge because of terror. Did it work? And how is it reverberating on the 2016 campaign trail?
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London Subway Stabbing Sparks Support For Muslim Community : NPR
A man accused of a stabbing a stranger in a possible terror attack has appeared in court in London. The attack on the city’s subway system has sparked a campaign of support for Muslims in the United Kingdom.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Says Music Empowers In ‘School Of Rock’ : NPR
Two members of the British House of Lords have written a show about a scruffy American rocker who can’t pay his rent and turns a bunch of school kids into a rock and roll band. Sound familiar? That’s the story of School of Rock, the 2003 film that m…
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Defying Stereotypes, Number Of Incarcerated Veterans In U.S. Drops : The Two-Way : NPR
The number of military veterans in the country’s jails and prisons continues to drop, a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows.
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The Star Wars cantina song like you’ve never heard it before · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Danish musical act and recycling enthusiasts The Bottle Boys are so excited about the upcoming release of The Force Awakens that they decided to use their unique skill set to re-imagine the cantina scene from the original Star Wars.
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FBI Says San Bernardino, Calif., Shooters Were Radicalized : NPR
Investigators are looking at the San Bernardino shooters’ communications and overseas connections as they try to learn more about what prompted the deadly terrorist attack there last week.
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Secret Service agent gets 71 months in prison for stealing from Silk Road dealers | The Verge
Secret Service agent gets 71 months in prison for stealing from Silk Road dealers https://t.co/fkkVS1hchP https://t.co/nQKNxnA5cm
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Trump Calls For Moratorium On Muslims Entering United States | The Daily Caller
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday called for a moratorium on allowing Muslims to enter the United States. (New York, NY) December 7th, 2015, — Donald J.
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The best way to check your internet speed is dropping Adobe Flash | The Verge
Ookla’s Speedtest tool is the fastest and easiest way to check your internet speed, and it’s about to get even better when it stops relying on Adobe’s all-but-dead Flash platform and moves entirely to HTLM5.
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Uber-sponsored survey finds working for Uber is awesome | The Verge
Two-thirds of Uber drivers are rookies in the for-hire vehicle business. Almost 20 percent are women. And roughly half of the 400,000 drivers based in the US drive fewer than 10 hours per week on average.
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Oil price falls to lowest level since 2009 – BBC News
The price of oil fell to its lowest level since 2009 as global production continues to remain high. The price of West Texas crude sank to $37.65 (£24.99) a barrel, a drop of 5.8%, while Brent Crude fell 5.3% to $40.73 a barrel.
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Florida newspaper fighting judge’s order to unpublish online news | Ars Technica
The Palm Beach Post is fighting a Florida judge’s order that it remove from its news site transcripts of recorded calls of a jailhouse snitch to protect the inmate’s “right to privacy.
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For the first time, archeologists have been able to map and image the sunken fleet of seaplanes destroyed in a prelude to the Pearl Harbor attack exactly 74 years ago.
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US to deploy Poseidon spy plane amid South China Sea territory tensions | US news | The Guardian
The United States has agreed with Singapore on a first deployment of the US P8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore this month, in a fresh response to China over its pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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David Bowie introduces classic Christmas cartoon, ‘The Snowman’|Dangerous Minds
The Snowman is an Academy Award-nominated animated short based on the wordless 1978 children’s book of the same name by beloved British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs.
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You’re The Worst was renewed for a third season last week, continuing a trend of FX Networks nurturing creatively celebrated shows that also happen to get poor ratings.
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After 15 years, we finally got a little more Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon today as Netflix uploads the trailer for Yuen Woo-ping’s sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning wuxia classic. And it looks absolutely gorgeous, with spectacular photography and s…
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New Dating Site Caters To Disney Fans – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new dating website called Mouse Mingle seeks to connect people via a mutual love of Walt Disney films, pairing users according to their favorite Disney songs, characters, and park attractions. What do you think?
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Katey Sagal to play another admirable TV mom on Brooklyn Nine-Nine · Newswire · The A.V. Club
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In what’s got to be a nice change of pace for her, Katey Sagal has signed on to play a lawman’s mother on Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. According to TVLine, Sagal has just been cast as Karen Peralta, mother of Jake (Andy Samberg). -
Saint Is Already A More Popular Baby Name Than North | FiveThirtyEight
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Kim and Kanye went for popularity this time, at least compared with the name they chose for their daughter, North, who was born in 2013. According to the Social Security Administration’s database of baby names, 32 boys born last year were named Sain… -
When the oil companies themselves are admitting it then I think the Republicans can too.
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The US May Have Just Attacked the Assad Regime for the First Time | VICE News
The Syrian government is accusing the United States and its allies of striking a military camp on Sunday in what would be the first US attack on soldiers loyal to Bashar al-Assad.
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When I was 13, in the early 1990s, I dug through my parents’ cache of vinyl records from the ’60s and ’70s. We still had a phonograph, so I played some of them, concentrating on the Beatles. Their bigger hits were inescapably familiar, but a number …
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How long does it take to lose a skill? — Hopes&Fears
At some point in everyone’s life, they return to a craft or ability they had once mastered only to discover that now…not so much.
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Countries cleared a major hurdle this weekend by pulling together a draft agreement that sets the groundwork for resumed negotiations in week two of the Paris conference. A more streamlined version of the text is now in the hands of ministers from s…
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Alien-Hunting SETI Telescopes Boogie in Spectacular ‘Dishdance’ Video
A stunning new time-lapse video shows off the tireless movement of radio astronomy facilities used to search for aliens across the universe.
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How Star Wars Helped Create President Reagan
1. Star Wars starts out in the Wild West, the rough-hewn old frontier, and then it races upwards, soaring and expanding its scope, until at last it becomes World War II.
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Install Kodi on iOS, No Jailbreak Required
We’ve seen a couple apps get around Apple’s restrictions by going with manual installs with the help of the new version of Xcode, which no longer requires a paid developer account.
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President Obama’s Terrorism Problem | Mother Jones
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On Sunday night, President Barack Obama gave a speech on terrorism that the New York Times cast as an effort “to calm jittery Americans after the terrorist attack last week” in San Bernardino, California. -
‘No evidence’ Afghan Taliban leader Mansour is dead – BBC News
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says there is “no evidence” Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is dead, after reports of an internal gunfight. Mr Ghani was speaking after the Taliban released an audio tape said to be from Mullah Mansour in which he …
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Families of Police Victims Need to Go on Offense | New Republic
We got to watch another young black man die in a hail of police gunfire last week. But unlike the similar case of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, we didn’t have to wait a year to see the footage because the videographers were citizens, not cops.
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How Our 2015-16 NBA Predictions Work | FiveThirtyEight
During last season’s NBA playoffs, we introduced our NBA Elo ratings, using them to find the best NBA teams of all time, visualize the complete history of the NBA and take a close look at how good the Warriors really were.
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2015-16 NBA Predictions | FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight’s NBA forecast combines an Elo-based model with our CARMELO player projections to calculate each team’s “CARM-Elo” rating and its chances of advancing to the playoffs (and beyond). See more: CARMELO projections | Complete NBA history
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France moves at ‘breakneck speed’ to get Paris deal done by end of week | Environment | The Guardian
The French hosts of the Paris climate change conference are moving “at breakneck speed” to reach a deal by the end of this week, incorporating targets on global emissions and financial help for developing countries.
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Use Carousel’s Impending Demise to Explore Your Online Photo Storage Options | Motherboard
Dropbox said today that it will shut down Carousel, its photo management app, in March. If you’re a carousel user (like me) you don’t need to worry about your photos disappearing—they’ll be tucked away inside your Dropbox account and accessible from…
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Virtuality Reality And The Future Of Music | TechCrunch
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to strap on a headset and spend a day immersed in the life of almost anyone on earth.
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Primal Scream Announce New Album ‘Chaosmosis’ | Rolling Stone
Primal Scream Announce New Album ‘Chaosmosis’ Band also reveals string of 2016 tour, festival dates
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The Atlanta Hawks Have Never Heard a Taylor Swift Song | Rolling Stone
The Atlanta Hawks Have Never Heard a Taylor Swift Song Well, that’s not entirely true – Tim Hardaway Jr.
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David Bowie introduces the classic Christmas cartoon, ‘The Snowman’|Dangerous Minds
The Snowman is an Academy Award-nominated animated short based on the wordless 1978 children’s book of the same name by beloved British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs.
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I Went Down the Rabbit Hole of a Fake Climate Change-Themed Real Estate Firm | Motherboard
A dystopian startup called Higher Tides mysteriously surfaced last week, claiming to sell undervalued real estate that would increase in value as climate change causes cities from New York to Miami to eventually slip beneath the rising sea. Predicta…
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Netflix to double its original programming in 2016
On Monday, Netflix head of content Ted Sarandos announced that the company will double the number of original shows it produces in 2016. Next year, Netflix will deliver 31 original series compared to 16 in 2015.
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Springer Nature to release 100,000 titles as DRM-free bundles / Boing Boing
Peter from Shelfie writes, “In a press release on Digital Book World, Springer Nature has announced a partnership with Vancouver start-up Shelfie (BitLit) to offer digital bundles on over 100,000 titles from their catalog.
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Why a Wild Pig Befriended a Herd of Cows
This is some pig: A wild boar is a celebrity in Germany after joining a small herd of cows on a farm near Hamburg. Farmer Dirk Reese has watched the bristly interloper—which he calls Banana—integrate into the herd over the last couple of months, acc…
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Kevin Wong, writer and father of a 13-month-old son, hates Elmo. Is it because the character speaks in a shrill baby voice, constantly refers to himself in the third person, and has his fuzzy red Muppet face plastered on innumerable products? Well, …
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The NFC East Could Produce A 6-10 Playoff Team | FiveThirtyEight
If there’s one thing that can unite a diverse group of NFL fans, it’s ridiculing awful divisions. I think it’s a kind of defense mechanism: We know divisions are at root arbitrary and buck at the notion of a sub-.
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Gwendoline Christie Didn’t Know That Captain Phasma Was Originally A Man
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We’ve heard for ages that Captain Phasma, the Star Wars villain played by Gwendoline Christie, was originally written as a man. We now know that’s true. Lawrence Kasdan told Vulture making Phasma a woman was a last-minute decision—but they never tol… -
Could Donald Trump Be America’s Marine Le Pen? – The New Yorker
On Saturday, Donald Trump took his rabble-rousing Presidential campaign to Davenport, Iowa, and, naturally enough, he addressed the attack that took place in San Bernardino on Wednesday, and the fact that the two perpetrators appear to have been ins…
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Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson Announces a New Terrorism Warning System – The Atlantic
On Monday, after President Obama’s Oval Office address about last week’s ISIS-inspired attack in San Bernardino, California, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced he would change the national terrorism-warning system.
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Hot Looks: Cool Nails and Hot Lips Part Two | Vanity Fair
We’re big fans of bright lips and deeply hued nails, as you could tell from our first roundup. Here is Part Two of all the nail and lip products we love for fall! 2) Deborah Lippmann New Fall ’15 collection: It’s all about girl power for Deborah Lip…
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All the Web Series Coming Soon, to a Computer Near You – The New Yorker
A bunch of Tisch grads are trying to make it in the big, bad world of acting in New York City. Will they wait tables forever? Also, they go on dates, and sometimes the dates are awkward. Will they be single forever? How are they not all famous actor…
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A Chat With the Teen Whose Football Jersey Appeared in Justin Bieber’s ‘Sorry’ Video
Like every married 30-year-old woman in America, I have of late become obsessed by the video for Justin Bieber’s “Sorry.” It has everything a good music video should: a catchy beat, amazing dancers decked out in the best ‘90s gear, and the conspicuo…
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JebBush.com is redirecting to DonaldJTrump.com | The Verge
The 2016 domain wars aren’t slowing down. Multiple GOP presidential candidates have already had popular domain names scooped out from under them, and it looks the Jeb Bush campaign is the latest to fall prey to squatters, as JebBush.com now redirect…
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US fighter flees al-Shabab after ISIL allegiance row – Al Jazeera English
A middle-aged American citizen who had been fighting for al-Shabab in Somalia has fled the group after angering its leadership with a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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At least 26 Syrian civilians killed in suspected US-led airstrike | World news | The Guardian
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At least 26 Syrian civilians have been killed in an airstrike suspected to have been launched by the US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State, piling pressure on the alliance after allegations another bombing raid left regime soldiers de… -
Danish cyclists play God, use sensors to turn traffic lights green | Grist
Sanders’ plan proposes a carbon tax, deeper emissions cuts, and investment in clean energy. 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.
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Rogue Secret Service agent who stole from Silk Road sentenced to nearly 6 years | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges was sentenced Monday to 71 months in prison after he stole money from Silk Road dealers while investigating the site. “This, to me, is an extremely serious crime consisting of the betrayal of p…
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Reveal Surprising Name of Newborn Son | Vanity Fair
For 48 full hours, the world has been sitting on proverbial pins and needles, waiting for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to name their first son—male heir to his family’s tabloid-cover monopoly, younger brother to North West, and future recipient of …
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Veterans like Bernie Sanders: “If you think it’s too expensive to take care of veterans, don’t send them to war.” (medium.com)submitted 42 minutes ago by loading…
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Obama Touts More Stringent No-Fly List | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama’s official response to the San Bernardino shooting, delivered in a Sunday evening address from the Oval Office, focused mostly on the question of how to defeat Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Can Muslim Americans Stop ISIS? – The Daily Beast
President Obama’s national address Sunday night on defeating ISIS evoked a mix of reactions. Some praised the President for laying out specifics in the war versus ISIS.
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Allison Bond is a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine. She holds a master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University and a bachelors of science degree in journalism from Northwes…
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Why You Should Still Attend Team Practices When You’re Injured
When you’re injured, it’s still possible to stay involved with your team from the sidelines. In this video, Brandi Chastain, who you might remember scoring the winning point in the Women’s World Cup in 1999, explains how she helped her team when she…
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Bernie Sanders Takes on Fossil Fuel Industry in New Climate Change Action Plan | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. The senator’s plan looks to speed up the retirement of America’s coal power plants, as well as shrink reliance on oil, and nuclear energy and transitio…
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Snag a $50 AMC Gift Card For $40, Just In Time For Star Wars
Let’s face it; you’re going to go see The Force Awakens at least twice in theaters, probably more. So you might as well buy this discounted AMC gift card up front, and have more cash leftover for popcorn. [$50 AMC Gift Card, $40]
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How to write a book that holds your reader’s attention / Boing Boing
User experience design is a holistic field that touches on every aspect of the experience the user has with your product, all the way down to opening the box. As a book editor, I’ve found it useful to apply the principles of UX to crafting books tha…
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It’s a Full-On Superhero War in the First Trailer for Powers Season 2
Yes, Powers is coming back! It might have slightly fallen off the face of the earth after its much-vaunted debut on the Playstation Network earlier this year.
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When The Buyer Of Your Used Car Threatens To Sue You
From time to time I get calls from people who think they are about to get sued. It’s usually because they sold someone a used car and something went wrong. Here’s why they have little to worry about. Suppose you decide it’s time to sell your older, …
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How our survival mechanisms are killing us – The Washington Post
Here’s a thought that has occurred to a lot of weight-conscious people: If fatty, salty foods are so bad for us, why do we crave them? Shouldn’t our bodies, evolving over many millennia, naturally want to eat foods that are good for us?
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Good news, Hollywood! Netflix is becoming less interested in buying the movies you make. Also, bad news, Hollywood! Netflix is becoming less interested in buying the movies you make.
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Cameron adrift in the worst flooding of our lifetimes … again | Politics | The Guardian
Always check the small print. When the Environment Agency described the 2005 floods as “the worst in a lifetime”, the government would have done well to make sure just whose lifetime it was referring to: a human or a ferret. These things, like ferre…
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Quentin Tarantino wants to ‘go further’ with his anti-police violence protests | Film | The Guardian
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It’s commonplace for Quentin Tarantino to court controversy every time he releases a film, for his trademark gruesome violence and frequent use of the N-word in his scripts. -
US killed al-Shabaab senior leader in Somalia airstrike, Pentagon says | World news | The Guardian
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The Pentagon said on Monday the US killed a senior leader of the al-Shabaab extremist group last week, in an airstrike in Somalia. The spokesman also said the US had confirmed that a 13 November airstrike killed a senior Islamic State leader in Liby… -
Join Our Skype Group Chat About Climate Change | VICE News
On Wednesday, December 9th at 7pm ET, join the VICE News for a Skype group chat about Climate Change. To join the conversation, add VICE News on Skype and ask us how to take part. Ninety-seven percent of qualified scientists say that the earth is ge…
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The First Penis Transplant in the United States Will Be Given to a Wounded Veteran | VICE News
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Ralph Peters calls President Obama a “total pussy” on TV / Boing Boing
Retired US Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News commentator Ralph Peters’s comment on live TV after President Obama’s Oval Office address yesterday about ISIS: “We’re angry. We’re pissed off. We’re furious. We want to see you react. We want you to d…
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The Definitive Guide to Weed + Fast Food Pairings
When I got word that Weedmaps was interested in doing a marijuana and food pairing, I pictured sitting in a very posh restaurant shoving steaks in my mouth while taking dabs and blowing it in rich old ladies faces.
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Crossovers between Marvel movies and TV shows are complicated as hell · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As we gradually learn more information about the upcoming Avengers: Infinity Wars—the two-part Marvel film event that is essentially the culmination of every single Marvel Studios movie up until now—one thing becomes clear: This shit is complicated …
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The Best Trolls of 2015 | NOISEY
Trolling is an art form. You’ve got to know who you’re trolling, what their weaknesses are, and when—if ever—you should tip your hand. Some people spend years honing their trolling skills, where others are simply born with it. A troll can be rewardi…
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Iran swine flu outbreak kills 33 – BBC News
An outbreak of swine flu in two south-eastern provinces of Iran has killed at least 33 people over the last three weeks, state media report. Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Ali-Akbar Sayyari told the official IRNA news agency 28 had died in Kerman pro…
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Paul Kirchner is back with ‘the bus 2’|Dangerous Minds
Earlier this year I had the good fortune to stumble upon the high-quality and criminally under-appreciated underground cartoons of Paul Kirchner, who had made his name in the 1970s and 1980s in primarily two ways.
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Estonian President Ilves engaged to Latvia cyber chief – BBC News
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is engaged to Latvian cyber security chief Ieva Kupce, the presidential office in Tallinn has confirmed. Mr Ilves’s PR adviser Toomas Sildam told Estonia’s ERR public broadcaster that they had taken the “perso…
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BARAMCHA, AFGHANISTAN—Shaking his head at all the new recruitment and indoctrination methods used by his younger counterparts nowadays, al-Qaeda member Khalid Al-Muthanna, 42, wistfully recalled to reporters Monday a time when radicalization was per…
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It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has had a good 10 seasons on FX and FXX, but it turns out that there are only so many stories you can tell about a gang of unrepentant assholes, the bar they own, the varyingly terrible people they encounter in thei…
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Laquan McDonald and the Politics of Black Athletes | The Nation
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Great Stocking Stuffer: 15,000mAh USB Battery Pack for $13
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Earth in Full View by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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California shooters had target practice – 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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Pearl Harbor, Seven Years Later – The Atlantic
The magazine of the USS Shaw exploding in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
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Could Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” Win Album of the Year at the Grammys? – The Atlantic
“You got robbed. I wanted you to win. You should have. It’s weird and it sucks that I robbed you.” So texted Macklemore to Kendrick Lamar when the former beat out the latter for the Best Rap Album award at the Grammys in 2014.
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Scientist 3D prints hypothetical bigfoot skeleton / Boing Boing
The printing started after Dr. Meldrum agreed to make an appearance on the History Channel, talking about Bigfoot.
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Instead of hello, say heaven-o! / Boing Boing
In 1988, Leonso Canales of Kingsville, Texas, began his righteous, decades-long campaign to replace the greeting “hello” with “heaven-o.” He even took out newspapers and even convinced the Kleberg County commissioners to make “heaven-o” the official…
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What the Hell Just Happened in France? | Mother Jones
The refugee crisis in Europe has fueled right-wing political gains on the continent for months, even in tolerant Germany and famously liberal Sweden.
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Avoid Fights With your Partner Using the “Eye Contact Only” Rule
It’s easy for a conversation to turn into a fight when you’re distracted or multitasking. Body language and eye contact are a huge part of communication, and when you’re not able to fully use them on the conversation at hand, it can often lead to a …
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What to Do About Disloyal Corporations
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move its corporate headquarters from New York to Ireland. That way it will pay less tax. Ireland’s tax rate is less than half that of United …
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Netflix is doubling its number of original scripted shows next year | The Verge
If you’re a fan of scripted Netflix shows like Jessica Jones and Master of None, rejoice: the streaming service is doubling down on its commitment to original programming.
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Important Report Says TPP “Skews Benefits To Economic Elites”
The congressionally created Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy (LAC) has just released a scathing report that urges President Obama “in the strongest possible terms” to send the Trans-Pacific Partnership “back to the ne…
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A New Analysis Questions How Much Foreign DNA Tardigrades Actually Have | Motherboard
Tardigrades, the teensy “water bears” that can survive outer space, are the weirdest creatures—but some scientists are suggesting they’re maybe not quite as genomically unusual as a recent study suggests.
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Midday open thread. Doctor: Carter ‘in best possible place’; Utah vote-by-mail tests boost turnout
Today’s comics by Tom Tomorrow is Here we are again: We are more afraid than ever of gun violence.
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On Into the Badlands, the Story’s Getting as Good as the Fight Scenes
In between shifting alliances, and friendships that endure in the face of actual death—a.k.a. M.K.’s face—Into the Badlands finally drums up some emotional intensity that matches its milestone-setting, on-screen martial arts in the best episode of t…
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Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use – Sandvine | Re/code
You use your Internet connection to do all kinds of things. But you use it for one thing much more than anything else: To stream video and music. If you’re reading this site (or if you work at a giant TV and broadband provider), the odds are you kno…
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Winter freeze-ups and phew-what-a-scorcher summers may traditionally have made more dramatic headlines for newspapers, but in Britain the real threat from climate change today comes from flooding.
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One person has been found dead and 45,000 properties are without electricity following the flooding that has hit north-west England.
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ELEVEN TIMES HUMAN A short film commissioned by AKOO. Directed By John Merizalde Cinematography by Kristian Zuñiga Narrated by Michael “Killer Mike” Render Executive Producers: Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jason Geter, Ralph Reynolds, Sabai Burnett and David …
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John Travolta’s working-class hitman Vincent Vega had all sorts of difficulties in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction back in 1994. He had his pristine 1964 Malibu keyed, probably by Bruce Willis.
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Take a Virtual Tour of Machu Picchu, One of the New 7 Wonders of the World | Open Culture
Briefly noted: Google will now let you pay a virtual visit to one of my favorite places on the planet — Machu Picchu, the great Inca ruins located in the Andes in Peru. There’s nothing like visiting Machu Picchu in person. But if you can’t get there…
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Vermont utility says it will be the first to install Tesla powerwalls in the US | Ars Technica
Customers of Green Mountain Power (GMP) in Vermont will be the first in the US to have Tesla Powerwall stationary batteries installed in their homes, according to the utility.
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Blocking Muslim refugees fuels ‘terrorism’: UN official – Al Jazeera English
Countries rejecting Syrian refugees because they are Muslims are fuelling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other armed groups, the top UN refugee official has said.
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Kill Bill 3 rumors awaken suddenly, begin preparing death list · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that we can safely assume that rumored, Britney Spears-starring Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! remake has driven off into the desert never to be seen again, the possibility of another chapter in the Kill Bill saga is probably the most enduring of…
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Sylvester Stallone won’t be out for Rambo: New Blood after all · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although hopes were recently raised that he’d reprise the role of John Rambo, Sylvester Stallone is reportedly done playing rogue commando. That sad news comes courtesy of Deadline, which reports that the actor will not star in the Rambo series that…
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Seven years after their dubious lending practices helped push the United States economy to the brink of disaster, the nation’s largest banks are closing in on a long-sought goal: to unseat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage fi
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After Bataclan, Music Industry Preps for Enhanced Security | Rolling Stone
After terrorists stormed the Eagles of Death Metal show at the Bataclan in Paris on November 13th, opening fire and killing 89 attendees, touring artists all over the world called their agents and managers in a panic.
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Why has Jar Jar Binks been banished from the Star Wars universe? | Film | The Guardian
Name: Jar Jar Binks. Age: Born in the year 52 BBY.
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How Obama’s No-Fly List Gun-Control Push Made Hypocrites of Both Parties – The Atlantic
It’s a familiar story of the post-September 11 era: Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a partisan fight over the “no-fly” list created after the attacks. One party insists that the nation must take common-sense measures to protect citizens and…
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Ooni of Ife: New Yoruba king crowned in Nigeria – BBC News
The new king Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi is now one of the most influential among the Yoruba people, Nigeria’s second biggest ethnic group, of about 35 million in West Africa. Tens of thousands celebrated in the city of Ife, AFP reports.
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Google enables Safe Browsing by default on Chrome for Android | The Verge
Google has taken steps today to ensure Chrome users accessing the web on Android are better protected by turning on Safe Browsing by default.
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A cover of Radiohead’s Creep by Prince
Prince covered Radiohead’s Creep at the Coachella music festival in 2008. The video got yanked due to copyright infringement but it’s back up. For the moment anyway and perhaps forever…Prince’s Twitter account linked to it. (via @anildash (who els…
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How a midget shouting shalom and a pissing wolf can help your memory / Boing Boing
Our friend Joshua Foer, memory champion and author of the fantastic book “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” shows how he stores incredible amounts of useful (and useless) information in the memory palace in h…
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Philip Larkin is far from forgotten in Hull | Letters | Books | The Guardian
What a pity that Mike Godwin (Letters, 3 December) spent the 30th anniversary of Philip Larkin’s death on a lonely pilgrimage to Larkin’s grave in Cottingham.
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Carrie Fisher Has The Best Response To The Slave Leia Merchandise Controversy
Recently, the Star Wars fanbase took time off from freaking out about The Force Awakens to freak out over a rumored ban on merchandise depicting Princess Leia’s “Slave” outfit from Return of the Jedi.
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Now That It’s Easy to Encrypt Our Chats, Encrypting Metadata Comes Next | Motherboard
There are lots of apps that make it easy to encrypt your phone calls and chats. But your metadata—the data about who you’re talking to, when, and more—is more difficult to obscure.
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My baguette got burned : Catloaf
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Top 25 News Photos of 2015 (25 photos)
Top 25 News Photos of 2015 (25 photos) https://t.co/KsAmTGXso4 https://t.co/3NKAmUo4dZ
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Million-Dollar Blocks | Al Jazeera America
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Widline Augustine still talks about that day as if she were in high school. She met Andre in her third-period gym class and quickly fell in young love.
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Questions raised by flooding in Cumbria | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
David Cameron claims “The government is doing everything it can to help those who have seen their homes flooded – and to try and prevent further damage” (my italics).
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The 2-Degree Warming Limit Is Arbitrary And Beside The Point | FiveThirtyEight
On Saturday at the Paris climate talks, negotiators released a draft agreement that outlines, in broad strokes, a plan for curbing climate change.
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Britain’s flood defences after Storm Desmond: are they fit for purpose? | UK news | The Guardian
Flood defences such as those used in Cumbria were built to withstand flooding “of a certain magnitude”, according to the Environment Agency – but they can be overcome in extreme storms, or if they have been poorly maintained.
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Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft is finally in orbit around Venus | The Verge
If all went well, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft is now in orbit around Venus — five years later than its engineers originally planned. However, it will be a few days before the Japanese mission officials can confirm their back-up maneuver actually wor…
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China’s Coal Cuts Are Driving A Plateau In Global Carbon Emissions | ThinkProgress
Today’s stunning news from Paris: Global CO2 emissions growth has halted in the last two years, while GDP growth continues. In fact, 2015 is headed toward the first drop in CO2 emissions during a period of economic growth.
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The Chicago police shooting of Ronald Johnson: video footage released – Vox
Shortly after the US Department of Justice announced an investigation into the Chicago Police Department, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said on Monday that she would not file charges in the Chicago police shooting of 25-year-old Ronald …
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A video countdown of the best films of 2015
One of the things I look forward to at the end of each year is David Ehrlich’s video compilation of his favorite films of the year. 2015’s installment does not disappoint.
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San Bernardino Inspired British Beheader – The Daily Beast
LONDON — A bungling British jihadi who allegedly tried to behead a passenger at a busy London train station over the weekend had material about the San Bernardino shooting and ISIS-related flags and images on his phone.
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What if Donald Trump becomes president? – Vox
A President Donald Trump still remains an unlikely scenario. But it’s now December, and he’s still atop the Republican polls. What if he somehow becomes president?
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Kickstarter projects have ‘acceptable’ 9 percent failure rate, study finds | The Verge
If you’ve ever wondered how many Kickstarter projects fail to make good on their promises, the company finally has a number: 9 percent.
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Download Software and Updates for Gaming Consoles Before Gifting Them
An Xbox or a Playstation is a pretty sweet gift, and if you’re planning on giving one for Christmas, chances are, the recipient will want to open it up and play right away. To make this doable, download any necessary software and updates before wrap…
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Russians told to shun ‘stereotype’ beach holidays abroad – BBC News
Russia’s tourism chief has criticised fellow Russians for flocking to foreign resorts for beach holidays – but admitted that he sold two holiday homes in the Seychelles this year. Russians cannot buy package holidays to Egypt or Turkey now, because …
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Ancient 90-Mile-Wide Object Spotted In Outer Solar System | Video + Orbit Animation
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The case for abolishing traditional peer review – Vox
In the early 1980s, there was growing concern about the quality of peer review at scientific journals. So two researchers at Cornell and the University of North Dakota decided to run a little experiment to test the process.
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David Cameron attacked for delaying Heathrow expansion decision | Environment | The Guardian
David Cameron has been accused of letting down British exporters and ducking and diving for political convenience by planning to delay a final decision this week on whether to press ahead with the expansion of Heathrow airport.
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We should mock IBM’s terrible hair dryer hacking campaign, not women’s technology | The Verge
IBM urging women to #HackAHairDryer in order to get into tech has to be one of the worst PR efforts in recent memory.
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Russia warns NATO against reinforcing Turkish defences – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s envoy to NATO has warned the alliance against reinforcing Turkey’s air defences after the Turkish army downed a Russian military jet sparking a major and ongoing diplomatic row.
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The Chicago officer who fatally shot Ronald Johnson III as he ran from police will not be charged, prosecutors announced on Monday before the public release of video of the shooting.
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Even some big corporations are pushing for climate action at the Paris talks | Grist
Take 100 million hectares of deforested land in Africa, add a whole lot of trees, and it’ll be good for local people as well as the climate. The Fast for the Climate movement has spread around the world and now has 10,000 participants a month.
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The no-fly list that could become the no-gun list, explained – Vox
The Obama administration puts it bluntly: If the federal government doesn’t allow you to board an airplane, it shouldn’t allow you to buy a gun.
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Dashcam footage shows police fatally shooting Chicago man – video | US news | The Guardian
Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez announces that charges will not be filed against officer George Hernandez in the 2014 shooting death of Ronald Johnson III, as police dashcam footage of the shooting is released to media.
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Choose the best urinal in the men’s room — with math! – Vox
Men, we’ve all been there. A row of glistening white urinals appear before you. They’re all empty, thank goodness. You choose the cleanest one. That’s when you hear the door. Another person is walking into the bathroom. Don’t choose the stall next t…
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Orson Welles, Musician – The New Yorker
Orson Welles showed glimmerings of genius from an early age, but at first his talent seemed to be for music. His mother, Beatrice Ives Welles, was a skilled pianist who had studied with the Polish-born pianist-composer Leopold Godowsky.
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Our Insatiable Need for Streaming Video Will Turn Our ISPs Against Us | Motherboard
All of our YouTube party playlists and Netlix-and-chill date nights are starting to add up: streaming video now accounts for 70 percent of broadband usage, according to data newly released by broadband services company Sandvine.
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#GOPdildo: shooping dildos into GOP gun-totin’ photos / Boing Boing
Matt “Metafilter” Haughey’s got a new election-season pass-time: he’s taking photos that GOP politicians post of themselves holding guns and replacing the BFGs with massive sex-toys, exposing a deep and comic truth.
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Unsettled: Syrian Refugees In America | VICE News
Following the deadly attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, 31 US state officials declared that they would deny entry to Syrian refugees, citing security concerns.
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Want To Become An Astronaut? Applications Open In a Week | Atlas Obscura
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. (Photo: SDASM Archives/flickr)
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The Leftovers Capped Its Stunning Season With a Baffling Yet Satisfying End
The Leftovers ended way more satisfyingly than it began—there were no Clan of the Cave Bear vibes in “I Live Here Now.” The finale allowed itself a few maudlin moments, but also had some very cruel ones.
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The GOP Battle Over Identity Politics Has Already Been Won | New Republic
It would be easy to dismiss Lindsey Graham as a sore loser even before the contest has been decided. In the Republican presidential campaign, his support has hovered between the negligible and the nonexistent.
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By 2080, Corn Won’t Be America’s Top Crop Anymore
America has a huge, sprawling, incredibly productive agricultural system, the slow-grown product of our history as a farming nation. But that system has already begun changing—and what we’re growing on those farms is going to change dramatically too.
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Head of Chicago’s cop review agency resigns
Scott Ando, a 30-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), resigned late Sunday night from his position at the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), a civilian group that investigates police shootings and officer misconduct in Chicago.
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Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, and Alabama Shakes lead the 2016 Grammy noms · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The nominees for the 2016 Grammy Awards were announced Monday morning, and Kendrick Lamar leads the musical pack with 11 nominations, including nods for Song Of The Year and Album Of The Year.
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Video counts down top 25 films of 2015 · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The impending end of the year means an onslaught of end of the year lists where critics and others must opine and rank their favorite media in order to award one entry the best of the year. The A.V.
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Confidence Is High for a Climate Deal in Paris [Video] – Scientific American
Le Bourget, Paris — Momentum continues to build here for a landmark agreement to combat climate change. More than 170 countries have already submitted plans for climate steps they will take, which pave the way for a deal.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt wants ‘spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment’ | The Verge
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman and former CEO, says that work needs to be done toward stopping the spread of hate and harassment online.
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Labour MP attacks £115m fall in flood defence spending – video | UK news | The Guardian
In the wake of Storm Desmond, Labour’s Kerry McCarthy, who says she has spoken to MPs in flood-stricken areas of northern England, highlights a £115m fall in spending on risk management and flood defences this year. She also accused the government o…
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Gone Home is coming to Xbox One and PS4 in January | The Verge
The console version of breakout adventure game hit Gone Home is still alive. When a publishing deal with Majesco fell through, developer Fullbright canceled the console port of the popular PC game back in March.
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Coffee maker Keurig sells to Douwe Egberts owner for $13.9bn – BBC News
Keurig Green Mountain, which makes K-cups single-serve coffee pods, said it has accepted a $13.9bn (£9.2bn) bid. The German investment firm, JAB Holding will pay a 78% premium to Friday’s closing price to buy the company.
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Yemen conflict: UN peace talks to start on 15 December – BBC News
The Yemeni government and the Houthi rebel movement have agreed to attend peace talks next week, the UN says. The UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said the talks would start on 15 December in Switzerland.
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Hyundai teases Ioniq, its upcoming Prius competitor | The Verge
Hyundai today teased a new car that will compete head on with the Toyota Prius. It’s called the Ioniq — and it even looks a bit like the Prius, as least as much of it as we can see in the teaser image above. It will come in three flavors — hybrid, p…
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This novelty Christmas song only gets worse with age · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our very own holiday HateSongs. The first time I heard “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,” I thought it was the best Christmas song ever—which makes sense, as…
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The Bizarre World of Puppeteering With 3D Models – The Atlantic
In the three decades that Tom Hanks has been a leading man in Hollywood, his appearance has changed dramatically.
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Facebook shuts down its experimental Creative Labs division | The Verge
Since it was founded two years ago, Creative Labs has been one of the most interesting parts of Facebook. Built as a startup within the company, it built a series of experimental social apps designed to test new interfaces and interaction patterns.
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A talented indie director taps into the spirit of Jonathan Demme · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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The new US highway bill is stuck in the past | The Verge
The new five-year, $305 billion highway bill signed by President Barack Obama last Friday is really, really long — just over 1,300 pages — and filled with terribly dry, boring government jargon. For example: “the Secretary provides to the State…
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Hillary Clinton asks ‘great disruptors’ of Silicon Valley to ‘disrupt ISIS’ | The Verge
Speaking last night at Washington-based think tank the Brookings Institution, Hillary Clinton suggested that Silicon Valley and the government should work hand in hand to “disrupt” ISIS as the terrorist organization wages an online propaganda campai…
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Oh No, Civil War II Really Is Happening
A few months ago, Marvel started teasing a sequel to its 2006 comic book event Civil War.
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Concussion expert says children shouldn’t play football until they turn 18 | Sport | The Guardian
The forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who first discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy in American football players said children should not be allowed to play high-impact contact sports until they are 18 years old, likening in risks of…
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‘Khan Is Gone’: New Details Emerge About the US Blogger Killed in a CIA Drone Strike | VICE News
In October 2009, the Charlotte, North Carolina–based blogger traveled to a store with two other men — one who was wearing camouflage, one who was wearing a prayer cap — and purchased a white ACER laptop and a travel adapter. He declined a salesman’s…
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Secretary Kerry: Paris Is Where We Begin To Save The Planet | ThinkProgress
PARIS, FRANCE — On Monday, the stage at the Earth to Paris forum held at Le Petit Palais in central Paris was host to a number of high-profile guests, from Alec Baldwin to Jane Goodall.
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The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that Canada and Mexico can slap more than $1bn in tariffs on US goods in retaliation for meat labeling rules it says discriminated against Mexican and Canadian livestock.
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A new poll shows a new leader in the GOP Iowa race — and it’s not Trump or Carson – Vox
Since July, every single poll of the GOP race in Iowa has shown one of two leaders: Donald Trump or Ben Carson. Every single poll until today, that is.
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Ask an Expert: All About Managing Your Holiday Spending
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—and also the most expensive. Between traveling, end of the year parties, and buying presents for your loved ones, the holiday season can really take its toll on your wallet. How are you managing your seasonal…
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Orson Welles’s Forgotten Christmas Classic | New Republic
Orson Welles’s 1955 picture Mr. Arkadin, which turns 60 this year, rarely makes lists of classic Christmas movies. Sometimes called Confidential Report (the title it went by in England), Mr. Arkadin isn’t typically regarded as holiday fare, and isn’…
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Watch Blue Jean Committee’s Sun-Soaked ‘Catalina Breeze’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Blue Jean Committee’s Sun-Soaked ‘Catalina Breeze’ Video Bill Hader and Fred Armisen’s faux soft-rock group from ‘Documentary Now!’ unearth vintage clip
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Talks about sexism in soccer are usually focused on the sport’s international governing body, FIFA, but this time, U.S. Soccer is being taken to task. On Sunday, the U.S.
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With gun control off-limits, politicians want tech sector to fight terror | Ars Technica
Last week, a San Bernardino couple armed with two .223-caliber assault rifles and two 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistols killed 14 people. And the very next day, the Senate voted against a measure that would have barred gun sales to people on federa…
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HBO just released a video patting itself on the back for all the great film and television it featured in 2015—as well as the second season of True Detective—and promoting some of the content it will present in the coming year.
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R.I.P. Holly Woodlawn, Warhol superstar and Lou Reed’s muse · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Holly Woodlawn, a pioneering trans entertainer who rose to fame in Andy Warhol’s 1970 film Trash, has died. She had reportedly been battling cancer for some time, and was in hospice care at the time of her death.
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Al Jazeera cameraman dies in Syria’s Homs – Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera cameraman Zakaria Ibrahim has died six days after he was injured by shrapnel while covering a Syrian army bombardment in the province of Homs.
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How Caitlyn Jenner Helped ‘Transparent’ Become a Family Show | Rolling Stone
Jeffrey Tambor didn’t know how to ask for breasts. As he was preparing for a scene for the TV series Transparent — in which his transgender character Maura Pfefferman is asked by a doctor whether she wants surgery — he realized his character didn’t …
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Money Challenges are a Simple Way to Get Started With Personal Finance
Money challenges seem to be popular at the end of the year, probably because we’re all nursing our holiday spending hangovers. These challenges might be gimmicky, but they’re still a great first step for getting started with personal finance.
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Tyson Fury responds as petition grows for removal from Sports Personality list – BBC News
Boxer Tyson Fury has spoken out on his views about women and gay people, as a petition calling for his removal from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year shortlist reaches 80,000 names.
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Top ISIL leader in Libya killed by US strike: Pentagon – Al Jazeera English
The US has announced it has killed two senior leaders of two separate armed groups in Africa during recent air strikes. The Pentagon confirmed on Monday the death of Abu Nabil, the leader of the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Lib…
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Thom Yorke Asks for Hope, Slams Oil Execs in Father Christmas Letter | Rolling Stone
Thom Yorke’s holiday wish list is simple: “Love and understanding and peace, perhaps some heavy snow” and a pair of blue reading glasses.
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Could Daredevil or Jessica Jones Show Up In Avengers: Infinity War?
Could Daredevil or Jessica Jones Show Up In Avengers: Infinity War? https://t.co/R4rXKBi4WC https://t.co/qahL814wDK
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A Little Bombing, a Lot of Surveillance: What Britain Brings to the Syria Air War | VICE News
On December 3, just a few hours after a vote from the British parliament, the Royal Air Force flew its first airstrike on Islamic State targets inside Syria.
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The Politics of Crowdfunding a Hobby—or a Honeymoon – The Atlantic
It was not that long ago that people were squeamish about asking each other for money. Bringing up the subject of personal finances at all used to be considered tawdry and low-class, since the wealth of the rich was visibly obvious.
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Google Calendar Gets Reminders | TechCrunch
Gmail has had a “to-do” feature for the longest time but it was pretty useless, as it was a simple stand-alone one-off feature that probably graduated from Labs at one point. It was never integrated and luckily the team is fixing that today.
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BREAKING: No Charges Against Chicago Officer Who Shot Ronald Johnson In The Back | ThinkProgress
On Monday, State Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that Officer George Hernandez will not be charged for the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ronald Johnson. The decision was made the same day video of the fatal shooting was released, which shows that H…
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Solo: Hope Larson’s webcomic of rock-n-roll, romance, and desperation / Boing Boing
On Saturday, I stopped in at the incredible Comc Arts LA indie comics fest and came away with a staggering double-load of amazing funnybooks, and the standout from that wonderful haul is Hope Larson’s “Solo.
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Venezuela election: Opposition ‘wins two-thirds majority’ – BBC News
The leader of Venezuela’s opposition has claimed it has won a critical two-thirds majority in Sunday’s election. Henrique Capriles said the alliance won at least 112 seats in Congress.
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Fun video teaches you how to memorize the first 100 digits of Pi / Boing Boing
Our friend, filmmaker Joe Sabia, made this video with Joshua Foer, the ex-US memory champ, on how to memorize the first 100 digits of Pi.
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It’s as if it had come to remind us of what’s at stake. While the climate negotiations in Paris trudge their dreary road, Storm Desmond takes a great boot to our backsides. Yet still we fail to make the connection. The news records the spectacle and…
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Could Daredevil or Jessica Jones Show Up In Avengers: Infinity War?
Life is good for Marvel fans these days. Just when you thought things couldn’t get better than the ever expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Netflix shows are kicking ass, plus you have network shows too. It’s all been a great mix. But…
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Watch Ryan Gosling Break Down the Housing Market Collapse Using Jenga | Vanity Fair
Many have tried and few have succeeded in fully explaining to those of us unfamiliar with the notion of bonds, premiums, and default rates what, exactly, happened during the housing crisis of 2008.
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Here’s Why Jane Fonda Could Win an Oscar For a Single Scene | Vanity Fair
It’s been nearly three decades since Jane Fonda was nominated for an Academy Award, but she’s back in the awards race with a vengeance this year, earning raves and serious buzz for a role in Youth that’s only slightly bigger than a cameo.
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Here mapping team plans to use real-time driver data for autonomous cars | The Verge
The former mapping division of Nokia, Here, announced today plans to expand its global mapping efforts, including specific improvements to next-generation maps readable by self-driving cars.
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Congress Will Create a Commission on Encryption, Tech, and Terrorism | Motherboard
The debate over encryption, and whether the rise of crypto technologies is hindering cops and feds in their fight against crime and terrorism, will finally get its high-profile public stage. On Monday, Rep.
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26 House Democrats who voted to block Syrian refugees might turn on the bill and that’s a good thing
The ill-conceived bill that would effectively block Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. has now hit another speed bump on top of the fact that key Senate lawmakers are questioning its efficacy.
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When puppies meet cat via /r/aww https://t.co/dmbExc6aWP https://t.co/1Hv1VIY7KG https://t.co/jkDq1LctB3
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, When puppies meet cat via /r/aww…
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When less is more: Is flying getting better or worse for the environment? | The Economist
THE winter holidays are around the corner, and that means a spike in air travel.
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Backed Raises $1.5M To Tackle Credit By Letting Sponsors Vouch For Thin-File Borrowers | TechCrunch
New lending companies are now a dime a dozen in the U.S. with a startup launching seemingly every week to tackle some problem associated with the industry.
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Stanford Uses Virtual Reality To Make Its Heisman Pitch For Christian McCaffrey | TechCrunch
Whether you’re a sports fan or not, it’s hard not getting excited around bowl season in College Football. More exciting than that is watching all of the teams push their own candidates for the Heisman Trophy, given out to this year’s best NCAA Footb…
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How Startups Should Use Behavioral Economics | TechCrunch
Imagine you’re a professor. You have assignments that you release at the start of the semester but they don’t need to be turned in until the end. How should you design your curriculum?
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Chip Zdarsky Dishes on the Action Figure Fantasies of His Wonderfully Bizarre Comic Kaptara
Earlier this year, we called Kaptara a sci-fi comic to watch out for, but it’s already so much more than that.
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“Nemesis” malware hijacks PC’s boot process to gain stealth, persistence | Ars Technica
Malware targeting banks, payment card processors, and other financial services has found an effective way to remain largely undetected as it plucks sensitive card data out of computer memory.
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The American Empire Is No Match for Mega-droughts and Superstorms | The Nation
For six centuries or more, history was, above all, the story of the great game of empires. From the time the first wooden ships mounted with cannons left Europe’s shores, they began to compete for global power and control.
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Dell XPS 13 review: The best Windows laptop just got better | The Verge
I’ve been searching for the perfect Windows laptop ever since Windows 8 was released, three years ago. For much of that time, I reluctantly opted for the MacBook Air simply because there weren’t better, Windows-native options.
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Citigroup staff given a dressing down over unsuitable office attire | Business | The Guardian
Investment bankers around the world tend to have a pretty good idea of what to wear and what not to wear at work.
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Why Donald Trump Wants to Render Muslim Athletes Invisible | The Nation
In his speech on the threat of terrorism delivered to the nation on Sunday night, President Obama cautioned people to not conflate ISIS-inspired attacks with the religion of Islam.
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Winnipeg weirdness abounds in a pair of great short films · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
With the abundance of film festivals, not to mention sites like Vimeo and YouTube, short films are becoming even more popular for young filmmakers who wish to get their movies out there.
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Ministers are back in Paris for the final stretch of COP 21 negotiations. A draft is in hand, peppered with the brackets that indicate areas of disagreement. France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, is busy constructing coalitions. The process of …
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How Fallout 4 took over my life — and gave me a new one – Vox
Two days, nine hours, and 17 minutes — that’s how long I’ve spent playing Fallout 4, the post-apocalyptic role-playing video game, since its release on November 10. I know this because the game keeps track and tells me every time I start it up.
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Hillary Clinton proposes several new taxes ‘to rein in Wall Street’ | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton previewed a slew of ideas “to rein in Wall Street” on Monday, including fines for executives whose companies break the law and an “exit tax” on companies moving abroad.
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The Art of Escape : Longreads Blog
Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a new essay from Ryan Bradley and Kill Screen, the videogame arts and culture magazine. Kill Screen is currently wrapping up a Kickstarter campaign to reinvent their print magazine, so donate here. No one wore strip…
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‘It’s Viral!’ The Movement to Overturn Citizens United Swamps the Internet | The Nation
Getting money out of politics is one of the most important steps to saving our democracy. Can comedy help get people’s attention?
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Negotiate With ISIS – The Atlantic
The natural human reaction to mass murders by ISIS or their purported sympathizers in Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino is grief, anger, and a demand to redouble efforts to “degrade and destroy” the organization.
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The best email app for the iPhone | The Verge
Shot on location at WeWork. Also available on YouTube. The email app we recommend for the iPhone is, believe it or not, made by Microsoft. The company acquired Acompli late last year and turned the powerful email app into the mobile version of its l…
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The best email app for Android | The Verge
Shot on location at WeWork. Also available on YouTube. While Outlook is also pretty good on Android, it can’t beat how quick and simple Google’s native Gmail client is. It’s everything a native app should be.
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America’s first penis transplants will help injured veterans | The Verge
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University will perform the US’s first penis transplant in 2016, according to The New York Times. And when they do, they will be helping a soldier who was injured by a bomb blast in Afghanistan.
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Is This Congressman’s ‘Oversight’ An Effort To Hobble Climate Science? : environment
Is This Congressman’s ‘Oversight’ An Effort To Hobble Climate Science? (npr.org) Do you even have to ask?
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Today, the NY Times is running an editorial by Dr. Bennet Omalu called . Olalu was the first to publish research on CTE in football players.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Second Amendment challenge to an Illinois ordinance that banned semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. As is their custom, the justices gave no reason for turning down t…
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‘Most electable’? Ben Carson was one of those, once upon a time
‘Most electable’? Ben Carson was one of those, once upon a time https://t.co/BQUC6ZoD4z https://t.co/ebXQ5t4ysk
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Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world’s greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the m…
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ExxonMobil Warns of ‘Catastrophic’ 7°F to 12°F Global Warming Without Government Action : politics
Weren’t they a huge part of the funding of climate change denial? Will this government action bring them profit? I hope not.. Well, one benefit of curbing greenhouse gases is to cap and utilize CO2 in flooding operations to extract more oil in some …
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American Muslim Youth Leader and activist against ISIS wrongfully detained on flight: ” I’m not your enemy, I’m your biggest ally” (time.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]an3st [score hidden] 51 minutes ago(1 child)Interesting…
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SocialFlow Raises $7.5 Million To Help Media Companies With Social | TechCrunch
New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a ro…
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67 Photos From Inside Disney’s Secret Star Wars Press Event | TechCrunch
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Go Chat With Miss Piggy On Facebook Messenger | TechCrunch
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, I’d love to have a Facebook Messenger chat with Miss Piggy from The Muppets” now is your time to strike. Well, it’s not Miss Piggy really…it’s AI pretending to be Miss Piggy. Sad, I know.
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Despite months of controversy and recent cries for a boycott among prominent local entertainers, Chi-Raq is reportedly doing strong business in Chicago. Spike Lee’s ambitious satire about gun violence in The Windy City made $1.
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There’s something especially unsettling about a Nazi in a green cardigan.
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Sling CEO: Comcast data caps so low they hurt competing video providers | Ars Technica
Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch accused Comcast of setting its data caps just low enough to prevent customers from replacing cable TV with online video streaming. I think one of the areas we’re quite focused on is what’s happening in Washington, DC around …
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Even Kate Winslet Couldn’t Resist a Pun at the British Independent Film Awards | Vanity Fair
It was a night full of sardonic remarks. “Thank you for giving it not to me but to my fucking father!” said Domhnall Gleeson while accepting the supporting-actor prize on behalf of his father, Brendan Gleeson, for his role in Suffragette. (Domhnall …
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The 10 Best Movies of 2015 | Vanity Fair
From space yarns to music epics to lesbian romances to dystopian adventures, these were my favorite movies of the year. Because it’s hard to stop at 10, I’ve added a few honorable mentions at the bottom.
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Sanders Releases Climate Plan, Calling For An End To Fossil Fuels | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released his policy platform on energy and climate Monday morning, calling for a revenue-neutral carbon tax, a path to 100 percent renewable energy, and an end to fossil fuel lobbying and tax breaks.
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‘Most electable’? Ben Carson was one of those, once upon a time
Fact is, unknown candidates poll better than known ones, as they are a candidate Rorschach test, allowing voters to project their hopes and dreams. But candidates are human and have opinions and life histories, and few stand up to the glare of the s…
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How the Emotionally Satisfying Leftovers Finale Learned from the Mistakes of Lost | Vanity Fair
During his six years on Lost, Damon Lindelof was the king of one of the biggest TV phenomenon in recent memory.
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Britain is stuck in a vicious cycle of violence that will only get worse as long as communities are polarized and Muslims demonized by an unsophisticated government and media narrative, say experts on extremism, on a national day of action against t…
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What it’s really like to workfor Parks and Rec — Hopes&Fears
In the latest installment of our anonymous interview series, we spoke with four government workers who help keep our public green spacesin check. Employee A applied for a camp counselor position in New Jersey, and has returned to the job every year …
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America’s New Female Combatants Are Getting Custom Gear | WIRED
The last thing any soldier wants is to get caught in an IED blast. The next last thing any soldier wants is to get caught in an IED blast wearing armor that doesn’t fit right—making her vulnerable to shockwaves, intense heat, and shrapnel.
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U.S. Will Launch New ‘National Alert System’ For Terrorist Threats : The Two-Way : NPR
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he will soon announce a new national alert system aimed at better informing the public given the “new phase” of the global terrorist threat the U.S. is facing.
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The end of the Chavez era? Venezuela’s ruling party is losing its grip on power. – Vox
Sunday night, the near unthinkable happened in Venezuela’s elections: The socialist government lost control of a major part of government for the first time in 17 years. According to the New York Times, the opposition coalition won at least 99 seats…
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A telling — and disturbing — anecdote about conservative media from a House Republican – Vox
Ryan Lizza’s long dive into the internal dynamics of the House Republican caucus features an extremely telling anecdote from Devin Nunes, a Republican congressman from California.
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Director of Keanu Reeves thriller ‘takes name off movie’ | Film | The Guardian
According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Gee Malik Linton, director of Exposed, will be credited as Declan Dale when the film comes out in January. Page Six report “sources” that claim Linton “disagreed with Reeves and studio Lionsgate Premiere ov…
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Congressional negotiators make no progress as spending deadline looms this Friday
Congressional negotiators make no progress as spending deadline looms this Friday https://t.co/kFssFSjMrP https://t.co/xojUkM6fqR
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EnergyElephant Wants To Help Every Business Save Money On Their Energy Bill | TechCrunch
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs.
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Once Upon a Time Is a Show About True Love Where True Love Is, Objectively, the Worst
You know how in most Disney versions of fairy tales, true love is the cure to all ills? Once Upon a Time is the opposite of that because true love makes everyone on this show—whether they’re involved in it or not—miserable. Spoilers for “Swan Song” …
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The real bubble boy’s impact on medicine / Boing Boing
David Vetter (1971-1984) suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a disease that required him to live inside a sterile environment, a plastic “bubble.” Eventually, he tested a special suit developed by NASA so that he could venture out…
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The Best Live Streaming App for iPhone
Sharing great moments (or just snippets of your life) with friends or loved ones has never been easier, and a new class of live streaming app makes it possible for them to join you in real time. Of those apps, we think Periscope is the best today, a…
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Labour attacks £115m fall in flood management spending | Environment | The Guardian
Ministers have been accused of failing flood-stricken communities in the north-west of England, after Labour highlighted a £115m fall in spending on risk management and defences this year.
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Podmass’ 2015 superlatives, including awards for Obama and Charles Manson · Podmass · The A.V. Club
Last year, podcasting saw a welcome increase in popularity, with notable newcomers both in podcasts and podcasting networks.
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Kenyans mock ‘visiting’ president over jet-setting – Al Jazeera English
Bolivia fights to maintain its traditional use of the coca leaf as drug trafficking threatens national customs. Investigating Nigeria’s notorious baby farms and the criminals who abuse and exploit women for profit.
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Get this ultra thin RFID protected wallet for just $35 / Boing Boing
While large wallets can cause awkward pocket bulges, slim versions that only fit 2-3 cards can be pretty useless. Meet Hover: a thin wallet that both looks good and works like a dream.
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Paris climate talks: biggest polluters back tougher warming target | Environment | The Guardian
The world’s biggest climate polluters rallied around a stronger target for limiting warming on Monday, saying they were open to the 1.5C goal endorsed by the most vulnerable countries.
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After the actions of a boy dressed as Robin result in two deaths, Gotham City has declared war on the youth movement inspired by Batman’s sidekick. Being a Robin is now illegal in Gotham, and anyone displaying Robin paraphernalia is also breaking th…
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Canada has a reputation for being rather dull, frankly. But like a lot of nice, seemingly completely normal neighbors, it’s actually into some weird shit behind closed doors.
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It’s been a few months since our last column from Cameron Esposito, so you could say there’s a side-mullet-shaped hole in the hearts of The A.V. Club.
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Surprise! The Grammy Award Nominations Don’t Totally Suck This Year – The Daily Beast
Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd lead this year’s list of Grammy contenders that, for once, isn’t sending us into a rage fit. Here’s a look at the snubs and surprises. Can you BELIEVEEEEE Adele got snubbed at the Grammy Awards?!?!?!
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Two days after the River Derwent breached flood defences the residents of Derwentside Gardens in Cockermouth were finally allowed back into their homes on Monday. The floodwaters had receded, leaving a dirty layer of mud and silt across lovingly lai…
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Way back in July 1997, Fox had an incredible and audacious promotional idea: To build a full-sized, livable replica of 742 Evergreen Terrace, the Day-Glo domicile from its animated megahit, The Simpsons, and then give it away to one lucky viewer in …
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London is a forest – who knew? | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
I strolled through a wood last week and didn’t even realise it. According to a UN definition, London can be classified as a forest, its 8.4 million trees – almost one for every person – adorning and detoxifying this great city.
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The Lovely Chinese Watchtowers Built with Proceeds from the California Gold Rush | Atlas Obscura
Kaiping Diaolou, fortified towers in Guangdong, China. (Photo: Kevin Poh/flickr) Three hours out of the Chinese mega-city of Guangzhou, through the sugarcane and banana plantations and deep into the rice paddies, strange things start to rise from t…
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Utopia for the Ostracized | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Isam Bala contracted leprosy, also called Hansen’s disease, more than 40 years ago when he was just twelve. Isam and his wife, Na Law, were forced to leave their village on the China-Myanmar border when they were still teenagers.
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Emotech Is Building Olly, A Robot Assistant With Personality | TechCrunch
A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction.
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Circa news app being resurrected with focus on original reporting and video | The Verge
Can video and original reporting make Circa 2.0 viable? Circa is getting a second chance. The Sinclair Broadcast Group, typically more associated with TV stations than mobile software, has acquired the news app and said it plans to relaunch Circa so…
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Qwertycards Is A Wallet-Sized Card That Generate Secure Passwords | TechCrunch
Do you still use one generic password to login across multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds of accounts for different sites across the internet.
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Body-painted models disappear into the Wonders of the World / Boing Boing
Trina Merry (previously) has created “Lost in Wonder,” a series of trompe l’oeil photos in which painted models are posed against many of the world’s great wonders, vanishing into the background. Many photographers say they ‘take’ a picture.
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Inside The ‘Secret Meeting’ To Solve Gender Inequality In Hollywood | ThinkProgress
On October 14, 44 Hollywood insiders met at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. This co-ed group of leaders came from studios and networks, from agencies and guilds; their ranks included CEOs, producers, directors, screenwriters, showrunners.
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Failed Russian Spy Satellite Will Fall Back To Earth | Video
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InBody Band review: Activity tracking meets body fat measurement—but should it? | Ars Technica
InBody, a South Korean company that makes comprehensive body composition machines, is now bringing the core of that technology to your wrist with the InBody Band.
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Dropbox Shutting Down Mailbox and Carousel
Dropbox is shutting down their mobile email client, Mailbox, on February 26. The influential client utilized swipes and gestures to organize emails and was first acquired by Dropbox in 2013. Carousel, Dropbox’s photo organization app, will also be d…
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There’s A Foreclosure Epidemic In Baltimore, And The Deck Is Stacked Against Renters | ThinkProgress
Sharon Bell, her husband, and her three teenage children couldn’t even safely walk up the steps to their Baltimore apartment because the staircase was in disrepair. “The last step as you climb up, you had to take a giant step over,” she said. There …
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The Trailer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny Is Literally Full of Beauty
I have no idea if it’s the insanely long period of time between the original movie and the long-awaited cinematic sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but this trailer looks great. But who knows if that’s any guarantee that it will be?
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Last spring, we went to Venice to celebrate my wife’s birthday and took a boat to the Biennale, which was pretty disappointing, with one notable exception: ‘The Key in the Hand,’ Chiharu Shiota’s installation at the Japan pavilion, which took our br…
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Congressional negotiators make no progress as spending deadline looms this Friday
Congress has until Friday to pass an omnibus spending bill to keep the government open (and they’re not in session today, of course).
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PARIS, FRANCE — Andrew de Basse, CEO of solar project developer Conergy, had some choice words for members of the United States Congress at the Earth To Paris summit held Monday in conjunction with the United Nations negotiations.
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Marco Rubio Is Right About The Terrorist Watch List | ThinkProgress
The main gun control legislation to reach a Senate vote in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, targeted a specific group of people: those who have been labeled as potential terrorists by the federal government.
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NASA: Probing Strange New Worlds Beyond Pluto https://t.co/juL33uU6US https://t.co/qhvRoL4olp
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Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions : environment
Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions https://t.co/AlMps5J3Mb https://t.co/szEgFvFlSQ
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Wide-field image showing the region of WR 25 and Tr16-244 [3857 x 8630] https://t.co/vsjLm71Mhw https://t.co/7IWTSt7yHs
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The United States Postal Service will now email you your mail – Quartz
The US Postal Service is testing a “notification” service that emails customers images of the envelopes of their letter-size mail. The service, called Informed Delivery, will send out an email to customers each morning with that day’s mailbox conten…
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The Camera That Sees Around Corners in Nearly Real Time
Using a staccato burst of laser fire, this ingenious camera peers around a distant corner, tracking the position, movement, and rough shape of any solid object that human eyes cannot even see.
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Bounty Is An App That Connects Smartphone Users With Nearby Gigs | TechCrunch
An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash.
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What We’re Following on Monday Afternoon, 12/7 – The Atlantic
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You Can Now Add Reminders to Google Calendar
Android/iOS: We all love to-dos, but sometimes it makes the most sense to keep them in your calendar instead of a separate app. Now, you can finally do just that with Google Calendar. Reminders work exactly as you’d expect.
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The Chennai floods are a devastating preview of unnatural disasters to come (slate.com)submitted 34 minutes ago by loading…
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Photoshopping a Painful Memory Out of an Old Family Portrait – The Atlantic
Decades after the fact, I would learn that when I was 11 years old, my mother had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Specifically, she had an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor on the nerve connecting her brain and her inner ear.
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Google Turns On Safe Browsing In Chrome For Android | TechCrunch
Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware.
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Turkey says will send no more troops to Iraq – Al Jazeera English
Turkey has said it will halt further transfers of troops to northern Iraq after Baghdad threatened to appeal to the United Nations to force it to withdraw its soldiers.
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Former President Jimmy Carter Says His Latest Scan Shows No Sign of Cancer – Scientific American
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message on Sunday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson – his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.
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U.S. Top Scientist: World Must Act Now to Reverse Climate Change
As global leaders open their final week of negotiations, the White House’s top scientist spoke with National Geographic to offer his thoughts on why it’s urgent for countries to tackle the climate crisis now—and why he’s optimistic about the future …
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US attorney general: Homan Square findings are ‘extremely important’ | US news | The Guardian
The attorney general, Loretta Lynch, has described allegations of unlawful detention at Chicago’s Homan Square police facility as “extremely important”, in the first official acknowledgement by the US Justice Department that the off-the-books interr…
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The Caruma Aims To Be A Fitbit For Cars | TechCrunch
Computer vision technologist Chris Carson has built a portable device that turns any regular vehicle into a connected car. The Caruma, which Carson calls a Fitbit for driving, tracks mileage, driver performance, trip history and GPS location informa…
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Marcel Marceau mimes the progression of human life, from birth to death, in 4 minutes / Boing Boing
In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed two mimes in Central Park. Turned out that one of them was Robin Williams. CompTIA IT certification exams are available in many specialties, leaving you wondering which to take first.
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New Star Wars spots give us our first glimpse of Lupita Nyong’o’s character | The Verge
Another day, another tiny serving of new footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s hard to imagine that two weeks from now we’ll be living in a world where we aren’t obsessively scouring every trailer, teaser, and TV spot for previously unseen…
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Armed and Stupid: Fox News viewer threatens man over his beard|Dangerous Minds
If you’ve got a beard, you’d best tread carefully around riled-up Fox News viewers.
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Atlantic Readers Debate Campus PC with Haidt and Lukianoff – The Atlantic
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Sacred Knowledge: how psychedelics shaped an academic’s life | Books | The Guardian
In 1963, then-psychology grad student William A Richards was studying in Germany when he volunteered to take part in an experiment with psychedelics. The result was transformative. He saw an “exquisitely beautiful, multidimensional network of intric…
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San Bernardino shooter’s ‘hardline’ Islam not an outlier in native Pakistan | US news | The Guardian
Anyone looking for clues for why Tashfeen Malik turned from a young mother into an Islamic State-supporting mass killer capable of slaughtering 14 people with her husband will struggle to find anything in the picture that has so far emerged of the 2…
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How a Jellyfish-Obsessed Engineer Upended Our Understanding of Swimming – The Atlantic
The lion’s mane jellyfish is the world’s largest jellyfish and, as John Dabiri from Stanford University can attest, its tentacles pack a very painful sting.
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US supreme court rejects challenge to Chicago suburb’s assault weapons ban | US news | The Guardian
The US supreme court on Monday rejected an appeal from gun owners who challenged a Chicago suburb’s ban on assault weapons.
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Google adds Reminders feature to Calendar apps | The Verge
Google Calendar now lets you add reminders and keep track of the things you still need to do. Reminders have existed across a few Google apps already — Inbox, Now, and Keep — but they’re now receiving full integration inside of Calendar.
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Defence industry’s stock rises as state budgets bid to meet terror threat | Business | The Guardian
The yellow flare from an RAF Tornado jet lit up Akrotiri base in Cyprus as it hurtled down the runway and roared into the night sky.
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LeBron James swears he really drives a Kia | The Verge
LeBron James, one of the biggest sports celebrities in the world, a man who is worth many hundreds of millions of dollars, could own pretty much anything he wants. And actually, he does: he has a television that appears to be larger than most arena …
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Dressed in combat gear, a married couple allegedly carried out the bloodiest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 last Wednesday at a social services center in San Bernardino, California.
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A man described by police as a Santería priest raided a cemetery and took the remains of five people for use in religious ceremonies, authorities said.
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Jane Goodall Just Called Out Republicans on Climate Change (motherjones.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions (phys.org)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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Chicago police inquiry to focus on use of deadly force – video | US news | The Guardian
The US Department of Justice will investigate the Chicago police department following protests over its handling of last year’s case of a black teenager shot dead by a white police officer, US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Monday.
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A Galactic View from the Observation Deck by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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A Galactic View from the Observation Deck https://t.co/nyxNSnzhgQ https://t.co/Yg8GIyHLKq https://t.co/yHOxBjvCy9
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Pair of fluffs via /r/aww https://t.co/YdsUSKGDRJ https://t.co/2YfjKeI2nI https://t.co/nlko6FZhLq
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Top 25 News Photos of 2015 (25 photos) https://t.co/USNPvWcl8U https://t.co/1oCobOtlg3 https://t.co/FwT2Z8JAf5
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Top 25 News Photos of 2015 – The Atlantic
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The past year has been a series of tumultuous news stories, from the massive migration crisis and the war and terror those migrants are fleeing, to historic images of faraway Pluto, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting same-sex marriage, and wides… -
Here’s How The Force Awakens’ Resistance Differs From the Rebellion
Here’s How The Force Awakens’ Resistance Differs From the Rebellion https://t.co/JUbCJZQ5iz https://t.co/gMc2lqA57B
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The Glamorous Airline Lounges In The Sky From The 1970s | VinePair
If you’ve ever seen a photo gallery of “what flying was like back in the 1950s/60s/70s” your initial reaction is either awe (if you weren’t jetting around the country back then) or incredulity, since you were jetting around the country back then and…
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Israeli Military Court Sentences Palestinian Lawmaker to 15 Months in Jail | VICE News
Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Monday by an Israeli military court in the West Bank, making her the sixth member of the Palestinian Legislative Council currently in Israeli detention.
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What Is ‘Star Wars’? — Ratter — “Heyday in Tabloids”
“What Is” is a weekly series that explores early media descriptions of an object, genre, or concept. See the archives here. In less than two weeks, the latest film in the Star Wars series opens in theaters everywhere.
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The Theory of Everything | Outside Online
The short version of the Outside take on the world: live bravely. The longer version is… well, it’s a bit complicated. Around the office, we have frequent heated debates on topics that touch on our core tenants of adventure, exploration, travel, hea…
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There’s One Piece of Democracy That Fat Cats Can’t Buy | Mother Jones
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Derren Brown sends creepy life-size Victorian dolls into the London Underground / Boing Boing
The two creepy head-characters rode the Northern Line, pushed an empty pram down the platforms, and sat down to play trains at Hamley’s toy-store, as a publicity stunt for Mind Gap, a new theme park ride designed by stage conjurer/hypnotist Derren B…
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Yoobic Wants To Ensure Product Marketing Is Done Right On The Sales Floor | TechCrunch
The serial entrepreneurs behind Yoobic have kept it all in the family over the course of three startup companies. The three brothers, Fabrice, Avi, and Gilles Haiat, began their entrepreneurial journey with a maintenance service management business.
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There’s One Piece of Democracy That Fat Cats Can’t Buy | Mother Jones
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There’s One Piece of Democracy That Fat Cats Can’t Buy | Mother Jones
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Dollar General Takes Its Case Against Indigenous Sovereignty to the Supreme Court | The Nation
When Lisa Brunner got the news that Congress had passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, she was attending a meeting on her reservation, the White Earth Objibwe Nation in Minnesota. “I had to go outside and do a victory…
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Make: the simplest electric car toy, a homopolar motor / Boing Boing
Put round magnets on either end of a AA battery and set it down on a sheet of tinfoil and watch it spin! It’s a homopolar motor, a simple electric motor that relies on the Lorentz effect to set it in motion.
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David Ehrlich’s Year-in-Cinema Montage Returns for 2015 – The Atlantic
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Here’s How The Force Awakens’ Resistance Differs From the Rebellion
The Rebellion is no more. The Empire is no more.
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US al-Shabab militant held in Somalia – BBC News
An American member of Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has been arrested in Somalia, an official has told the BBC. He said the man had been stopped while he was trying to escape from al-Shabab after some his friends were killed in an interna…
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Is This the End of the Latin American Left? | The Nation
In defeat, legitimacy is bestowed. Since 1998, the political coalition assembled by Hugo Chávez has won over a dozen national elections—including a referendum to recall Chávez—by large margins.
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With 1.5 Degrees Celsius Target, Climate Justice Movement Poised to Score Surprise Win | The Nation
Paris—Here at the Paris climate summit, the big news is that the final agreement governments hope to sign by week’s end may urge limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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How Utah Nearly Doubled Voter Turnout With One Change : politics
But Utah officials may have found an easy way to significantly boost their voter turnout rates: voting by mail.
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Day-Care Costs Can Drive a Family Into Poverty Before a Child Reaches Kindergarten | The Nation
The cost of daycare can drive a family into poverty before a child reaches kindergarten, but it’s also likely to impoverish her teacher first. While preschool programs are expanding nationwide, somehow, they cost parents everything while paying teac…
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My cat loves my new heating pad : cats
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Beijing Issues Highest Possible Alert Over Poisonous Smog for the First Time Ever | VICE News
The pollution in Beijing has gotten so bad that on Monday the city’s government issued its first “red alert” about the poor air quality and warned that the city would be shrouded in heavy smog until Thursday.
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Thomas Piketty seminar on Crooked Timber / Boing Boing
The Crooked Timber folks have assembled a distinguished panel to discuss Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century, a must-read economics book (don’t be scared by its brick-like appearance!).
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There’s One Piece of Democracy That Fat Cats Can’t Buy | Mother Jones
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Dropbox, the file hosting and cloud storage company with 400 million users, has been struggling to hold up its $10 billion valuation in the face of scrutiny from investors and observers, and now it looks like the other shoe is dropping as the compan…
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Dropbox is shutting down its Mailbox and Carousel apps | The Verge
Dropbox is doing away with Mailbox, the email app it acquired in March 2013, and Carousel, the company’s attempt at a standalone photo management app. The company says that it’s making this decision now to focus more directly on the primary Dropbox …
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These are all the new Android emoji coming today | The Verge
Following last week’s tease, Google is today rolling out an update for its Nexus line of phones and tablets that adds a bunch of new and redesigned emoji.
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The art of secret societies: beehives, goats, and the all-seeing eye / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. My own initiation into Freemasonry was one of the highlights of my adult life. The marvelous rituals and the delightful imparting of “secrets” are sublime, but they are threaded with a hint of anachronistic c…
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Android 6.0.1 adds a ton of new emoji, and we’ve got the full list | Ars Technica
A small update to Android 6.0—Android 6.0.1—is officially out and (should be) available on the Nexus system image page. 6.0.
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MAKE: a tiki-mug menorah / Boing Boing
Polyhai’s tutorial for creating a tiki-mug menorah is all the sholem aloha you need for eight nights of candlelit grog-swilling.
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Watch the first trailer for Netflix’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny | The Verge
The first trailer for Netflix’s followup to the Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is here, giving us our first real glimpse at how the streaming company plans to take on the Wuxia classic.
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Climate Change Brews Perfect Storm of Food Woes – Scientific American
Climate change is on track to cause a lot of problems for the world’s farmers, and the worst hit will be those who are the least able to recover.
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Designing a Bioreceptive Building – The Atlantic
For most architects, moss and lichen growing up the side of a structure is a bad sign.
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An Africa-wide mega-scale initiative backed by all African heads of state should see the continent greatly increase its renewable energy over the next 15 years.
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Last week, we debuted the first half of “FML,” the third episode of excellent new web series The Benefits of Gusbandry. Today, we present the conclusion of this stirring tale of tawdry sexual encounters and standing in a nearly three-hour line to ge…
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Spotify’s Year in Review shows just how little we pay artists for their music | The Verge
On the surface, Spotify’s new interactive “Year in Music” feature is a pretty fun way to look back at your 2015 listening habits. Your most-streamed artist might remind you of those weird couple of months you spent staring at the ceiling listening t…
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Dick Costolo Post-Twitter Podcast Interview With Kara Swisher | Re/code
What’s next for former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who stepped down in July? In an interview with Kara Swisher on the latest episode of “Re/code Decode,” Costolo said he’s already got the wheels turning on a new company that will bring software into a…
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Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions will fall in 2015, researchers have said, in what would mark the first time they have declined while the economy has grown substantially. Emissions have fallen in previous years but only because of financial crashe…
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Cool car built from a battery and two magnets
If you take two circular magnets and slap them on the ends of a AA battery, the resulting axel will drive on a road of aluminum foil. This is called a homopolar motor and it’s one of the simplest machines you can build.
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SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin. Over five million people lost their homes. Nearly nine million lost their jobs. Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out. Under President Obama, our economy has com…
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Movebubble Makes Renting Suck Less | TechCrunch
If you’ve lived in a big city where renting (versus owning) is a popular option for residents, then you likely know the endless struggle of trying to find a place to live.
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Sponsor shout-out: ShanaLogic’s halfling door locket necklace / Boing Boing
A special holiday thank you to our long time sponsor Shanalogic! Shanalogic is a curated shop of handmade and independently produced gifts, many of which we own and love! Check out this fantastic Halfling Door Locket Necklace!
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COP21: Carbon emissions ‘to stall or even decline’ this year – BBC News
Global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to stall and even decline slightly this year, new data suggests. Researchers say it is the first time this has happened while the global economy has continued to grow.
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Why Is France’s Far Right Flourishing? | Al Jazeera America
Sunday’s electoral surge by France’s far-right National Front may have come hard on the heels of the , but its roots lie in a deeper economic and social crisis that the mainstream parties of the left and right have been unable to solve.
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My BLACK Pretty Cat Ummmah : aww
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Jedidah Isler: The untapped genius that could change science for the better | TED Talk | TED.com
The untapped genius that could change science for the better https://t.co/DXqXUYgXKY https://t.co/kEGX85faOd
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Penis transplants being planned for wounded veterans | Ars Technica
A group of doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are gearing up to offer military men injured in war the country’s first penis transplants.
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Need Music For A Video? Jukedeck’s AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks | TechCrunch
Everyone can shoot video but few can record or afford a legal soundtrack. Until now. With Jukedeck’s new artificial intelligence music composition technology, creators can get a cheap, royalty free soundtrack custom-made for their video. Jukedeck us…
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Girls Who Code Makes Its Way Into A Mobile Game | TechCrunch
The coder, named Gabriela, will be the first tech-related character featured in “High School Story,” a game that over 30% of high school girls in the U.S. have played, according to Pixelberry. The storyline is inspired by a real-life Girls Who Code …
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‘The higher the hair, the closer to God’: Glorious BIG hair from the 1960s|Dangerous Minds
I was going to make this post about big, teased-up hair and how they should bring it back. Then I remembered how many times in the near past people have tried to bring big hair back. Most of the time, IMO, very poorly.
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This DIY Claw Machine Fulfills All Of Your Childhood Dreams | TechCrunch
As any child will tell you there are a few things you want to try every time you see them. When you’re young you want to ride on any coin-operated animal or train you see on the street. A few years later and candy machines are the target.
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Man finds 3 ounces of weed hidden inside drink can purchased at Walmart / Boing Boing
Keanu Netzler of Salt Lake City, Utah said his girlfriend bought him a can of Arizona Iced Tea from the local Wal-Mart. At home, he tried to open the can, but had difficulty. He cut the can open and found a cement sleeve inside stuffed with three ou…
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U.S. Department of Justice will investigate Chicago Police Department
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the Chicago Police Department.
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BALTIMORE—According to a study published Monday by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the majority of the nearly 9,000 accidental heroin overdoses that occur in the U.S. each year could easily be prevented if the victim were to take less heroi…
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Beijing Issues Its First-Ever ‘Red Alert’ Over Smog – The Atlantic
As delegations from governments around the world gather in Paris to push for a deal to battle climate change, the capital of the world’s biggest polluter has issued a “red alert” over severe smog.
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Justice Department Opens Investigation Into Chicago Police – The Atlantic
The Justice Department will investigate the Chicago Police Department’s use of force, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday.
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Marcel Marceau Mimes the Progression of Human Life, From Birth to Death, in 4 Minutes | Open Culture
The solitary practitioner Dustin Hoffman wordlessly toppled in the 1982 film Tootsie? Or Marcel Marceau?
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Britain’s institutions, its law, media, and schools need to be overhauled to reflect that the country is no longer the Christian nation it once was, according to a major new report.
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Jedidah Isler: The untapped genius that could change science for the better | TED Talk | TED.com
Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline. In this personal talk, she sh…
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Man faces fines of $500 a day for front yard zombie nativity scene / Boing Boing
For the last two years, Jasen Dixon of Sycamore Township, Ohio has displayed a front yard nativity scene with zombified versions of Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the three magi.
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A first look at The Revenant, with a stop in Chi-Raq · Film Club · The A.V. Club
One day, two long and ambitious movies. Back at Farmhouse Tavern, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk about why they admire Spike Lee’s pointed Chi-Raq, even while acknowledging that little about this modernized take on Lysistrata actually works.
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FairFleet Connects Drone Pilots With Construction Firms And Marketers | TechCrunch
The commercial drone market is starting to gain traction. There are some obvious markets for drone usage, including real estate marketing, media and inspections.
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Jon Glaser on what makes him laugh, from Looney Tunes to Key & Peele · Interview · The A.V. Club
An actor and comedian that has popped up in everything from Girls to Trainwreck to Parks And Recreation this year, Jon Glaser has a knack for being a bit off-kilter. If he’s producing or creating something, it’s probably a little weird, and the worl…
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With YayPay, Invoice Collection Becomes Easier, Faster, Better | TechCrunch
Meet YayPay, a London-based startup launching today on stage at Disrupt London in our Startup Battlefield competition. YayPay lets you automatically collect payments from your customers. And it works like magic.
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The Common Germ-Avoiding Tricks That Aren’t Doing You Any Favors
Have you ever held your breath when someone coughed? Or tried to flush the toilet with your foot? Some of these tricks might help if you do them the right way, but they’re often unnecessary and based mostly in paranoia. Here’s the truth about avoidi…
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American Childhood, as Seen Through Early Kids’ Magazines – The Atlantic
The Rothman Winter Garden at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is a six-story atrium supported by four snow white vaults that sprout from the floor and flower into in a glass and steel umbrella that shelters students from weather th…
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Age of the Farmer, a Film by Spencer Macdonald – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Why North America’s Youth Must Rescue Farming” Presented by
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During his Oval Office address on Sunday night, President Obama sought to reassure Americans that his administration’s expanding campaign against the Islamic State will succeed in reducing threats of terrorism, and he warned against the wholesale vi…
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Because the dogs water tastes SO much better! : cats
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Harvard Business School: Talented assholes are more trouble than they’re worth / Boing Boing
In Toxic Workers , a new Harvard Business School working paper, Michael Housman and Dylan Minor look at the paradox of “superstar” workers who outperform their colleagues by 2:1 or more, but who are “toxic” — awful to work with and be around.
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Holly Woodlawn, Transgender Star of 1970s Underground Films, Dies at 69 https://t.co/MSWlgEEeSu https://t.co/Vmx1CaQDBS
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This Is What a $1.5 Million Ghostbusters Board Game Looks Like
The Ghostbusters board game Kickstarter achieved phenomenal success, racking up $1.5 million in pledges in February. Now that the game has been released, it’s time to bust some ghosts!
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The New Digital Stars Of Higher Education | TechCrunch
Peripheral characters have a funny way of changing our perspective. Once bit players, they invert our understanding of the plot, turn heroes into villains and reframe the issues.
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Metro Africa Xpress Looks To Bring On-Demand Local Delivery To Urban Africa | TechCrunch
Adetayo Bamiduro had to convince his co-founder Chinedu Azodoh that starting an e-commerce site wasn’t necessarily the best idea — at least, not yet.
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Rocket Internet’s Oliver Samwer Talks Cloning, Uber And New Frontiers | TechCrunch
What’s it like to be the billionaire co-founder of a sprawling digital business empire that wasn’t born in Silicon Valley? Oliver Samwer, co-founder of Rocket Internet, gave a glimpse during an on stage interview with TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher, here…
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Can Christmas Tree Lights Really Play Havoc with Your Wi-Fi? – Scientific American
Ofcom, the UK’s independent telephony regulator, has just released a Wi-Fi checker app for your smart phone. At the same time, it warned in its press release that your Christmas tree fairy lights could affect the quality of your Wi-Fi connection.
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Multi-generational cruelty: America’s prisons shutting down kids’ visitations / Boing Boing
The history of American prison visitations are a mix of racism (“black men, denied sex, will riot in jail”) and compassion — especially the late 1960s’ ground-breaking, multi-day family visitation programs that allowed prisoners to play and live wi…
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Beijing issues first ever red alert for severe air pollution | The Verge
On Monday, the Chinese city of Beijing issued its first “red alert” for air pollution, meaning officials have forecasted more than three consecutive days of severe smog for the area, the Associated Press reports.
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Amber Heard to fight Australia on charges of dog smuggling · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Today in “Reasons Why The Australia Tag Exists”: The Wrap reports that Amber Heard will plead not guilty to violating the dog importing laws of the land Down Under, which will henceforth probably be known as the “Way To Bring Us All Down Under.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Cowboy Bebop, Attack on Titan, and More
Even if you aren’t usually into anime, it’s worth giving Cowboy Bebop a try for an all-time low $22. And if you have seen it, the Blu-ray’s worth it for the extras alone. [Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series, $22]
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Bernie Sanders Calls for a Carbon Tax | Mother Jones
Bernie Sanders will unveil a sweeping new plan to fight climate change on Monday, calling for a carbon tax and an ambitious 40 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2030 to speed the transition to a greener economy.
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Twitter now displays full photos instead of cropping them | The Verge
Twitter is starting to put an even bigger emphasis on photos within your feed. After a change today, Twitter’s web feed will now display full images, rather than cropping them into an awkwardly sized rectangle.
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Go crazy and watch the first three seconds from Game of Thrones season six | The Verge
Sure, that first Game of Thrones season six teaser all but answered a rather large question from last season’s finale, but it lacked any new footage. (The staff is divided on whether that’s an updated close-up shot of Bran, but we’re siding with no.
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Star Wars star John Boyega talks diversity and dueling Adam Driver | The Verge
I’m talking to John Boyega, the 23-year-old star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in a dimly lit conference room somewhere in Los Angeles. It’s part of a massive global media junket that’s so secretive, journalists are prohibited from geotagging pho…
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Here’s How VFX Were Used to Create Jessica Jones’ Casually Super World
Jessica Jones is notable for mostly treating powers as the everyday things they actually would be for the people who have to live with them. That doesn’t mean it was any easier for the VFX team to create them.
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NASA’s New Horizons probe has sent back the first of the sharpest images of Pluto it took during its July flyby of the planet.1 These latest images form a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide on a world 3 billion miles away.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge by gun rights activists to an ordinance enacted by a Chicago suburb that bans assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.
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US Attorney General Announces Justice Department Probe Into Chicago Police | VICE News
Less than a week after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked his top cop to step down, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced on Monday that her department has launched an investigation into the city’s entire police department.
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The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. An examination of cases raises questions about whether the agency is stopping threats or staging them (propublica.org) Fine, legalize them and they’ll be just another business. They’ll fund as much terror…
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“Democratic presidential Bernie Sanders rolled out an expansive climate plan Monday that aims to cut U.S. carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and create 10 million clean energy jobs.” (nbcnews.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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An Even Better Look at Doctor Who’s New Sonic Screwdriver
An Even Better Look at Doctor Who’s New Sonic Screwdriver https://t.co/ljiLIPWUAu https://t.co/CM7TdID7SU
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SevenHugs Smart Remotes Controls Devices By Just Pointing | TechCrunch
Point and control. That’s the basis of the SevenHugs Smart Remote. Instead of selecting, say, a connected light bulb on a menu in the remote, a user simply points the remote at the light to control it.
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Twitter Improves Photo-Sharing With Bigger Images, Better Layouts | TechCrunch
Twitter is today revamping the way photos posted to its service will look, with a greater focus on a more media-heavy experience that now features uncropped photos and improved multi-photo displays.
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NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from low-Earth orbit | Ars Technica
NASA has flown the International Space Station for the last 15 years, and during that time it has offered private industry a pretty sweet deal. The space agency pays transportation costs to and from the station for experiments and provides astronaut…
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Black Lives Matter Takes on Police-Union Contracts – The Atlantic
Now Campaign Zero has announced a similarly impressive effort to clarify its call for “fair police union contracts.” Its activists researched union-negotiated labor agreements in many jurisdictions and flagged the most damaging provisions. Their eff…
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Holly Woodlawn, a transgender actress who achieved underground stardom with her affecting performance as a starry-eyed down-and-outer in the 1970 film “Trash,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 69. The cause was complictions of cancer, her mana…
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Looks like IBM needs to reengineer what it thinks about women. A tweet went out on IBM’s official Twitter feed asking women in tech to, I kid you not, “Join the #HackAHairDryer experiment.” Not hack computer software, math problems or something of s…
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Save the Same Amount You Splurge to Curb Impulse Buying
Spending temptations are everywhere, and it’s easier than we think to give into them. If you’re looking to put an end to your impulsive spending, try this trick: every time you give into a splurge, put that same amount in a savings account.
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What It Was Like to See Pearl Harbor Attacked – The Atlantic
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NASA: Probing Strange New Worlds Beyond Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object – demonstrating its ability to observe numerous such bodies over the next several years if NASA approves an extended mission into the Kuiper Belt.
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The Psychology of the Picky Eater – The Atlantic
As a child, I earned myself something of a reputation for spoiling family holiday get-togethers.
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President Obama calls on Congress to just do something on terrorism, gun violence
President Obama delivered just his third Oval Office address to the nation Sunday evening, exhorting Americans to “not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear” in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
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Watch Out for Employers Who Use Company Stock to Match Your 401(k)
You should definitely take advantage of 401(k) matching if your employer offers it, but if they match your contributions with stock instead of cash, your retirement is tied to the success of your company when it doesn’t have to be.
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An Even Better Look at Doctor Who’s New Sonic Screwdriver
Last week, the BBC gave us a fleeting glimpse at the Doctor’s latest version of his favorite toy: the Sonic Screwdriver. But now that the device has made its grand debut during the show’s season finale, we’ve got an even better look at it in its shi…
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According to the economist Kevin O’Rourke, who has been doing a running comparison between the Great Depression that began in 1929 and the Great Recession that began almost eight years ago, the world has just passed a sad landmark.
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The mission statement of the person or persons behind Bread Face is “giving the people something they didn’t ask for.” So they started an Instagram in which a woman smushes her face into various types of bread. Mission accomplished!
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The Easiest Way to Save the World : environment
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Check out our slate of Daily Kos-endorsed candidates https://t.co/8fMZmZBhzz https://t.co/d2u0O3nBaz
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Mainframe Combines The Best Of Slack And Email | TechCrunch
History has shown that you can’t topple email. The legacy technology invented in the early days of the net is too entrenched to be abandoned. But newer startups have found a way to at least move some communication outside of email, such as with team…
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The Canadian Air Force Is Looking to Buy Weaponized Drones | VICE News
Canada is looking at buying its own weaponized drones, and internal documents tout the benefits of a controversial model used by the US Air Force.
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PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS—Regarding the overall cohesive visual effect with satisfaction, local man Thomas Lonergan told reporters Thursday how nicely his family’s Halloween decorations were blending in with their Christmas lights.
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Russia loses ‘super-satellite’ after launch – Al Jazeera English
Moscow, Russia – Russian space officials have reportedly admitted that a sophisticated satellite designed to detect submerged submarines will explode in atmosphere within days following a faulty launch.
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Why Mariah Carey’s Christmas hit will be around forever · The New Christmas Canon · The A.V. Club
In The New Christmas Canon, The A.V. Club looks beyond Rudolph’s nose and Zuzu’s petals to highlight entertainment from the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s that has become a seasonal staple—or deserves to. Mariah Carey had a banner year in 1994.
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COP21: ‘All of the major economies need to do more’ – Al Jazeera English
Despite being called the biggest threat facing humanity, for years, countries, particularly rich ones, have done nothing to fundamentally tackle climate change.
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With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or want to determine conclusively when the most wonderful time of the year is.
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Of the television shows to return for anticipated second seasons in 2015 after auspicious, ballyhooed freshman years, some of them maintain higher profiles than Amazon’s Transparent, but none had a higher bar to clear in year two.
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Editorial Cartoon: ‘Targeted Audience’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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‘Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground: A Declaration for the Health of Mother Earth’. Indigenous leaders from around the world, along with allies, are demanding real climate solutions, including bottom-up initiatives originating in their traditional know…
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The Leftovers finale: Showrunner Damon Lindelof unpacks an amazing season of TV – Vox
“Showrunner Damon Lindelof unpacks an amazing season of TV [The Leftovers].” https://t.co/qDAlvKjC6A
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Revel in All the Amazing New Seconds of New Game of Thrones Footage
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Poll: Majority Says Trump is Hurting GOP Brand : politics
Poll: Majority Says Trump is Hurting GOP Brand https://t.co/Ptioim7KMZ https://t.co/dtalxShEKX
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Clinton Offers New ‘Exit Tax’ on US-Foreign Company Mergers : politics
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I Saw Airbnb’s NYC Data for 30 Minutes, This is What I Learned
As part of Airbnb’s charm offensive in NYC, the company has pledged to release data about hosting in the city. Of course, Airbnb’s definition of a data ‘release’ is a little different from mine. To their credit, Airbnb got back to me and offered to …
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Kenya’s Mandera residents find mystery graves near Somali border – BBC News
People living in north-east Kenya say they have discovered at least 20 bodies buried in shallow graves. The identity of the bodies is not clear, but one of the bodies is suspected to be that of a woman who was reported missing a week ago.
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Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Have you ever read a book that managed to creep you out so much that you ended up getting this uncomfortable metallic tinge in your throat every time you think of it? Well, probably not – but that’s what Black Ice does to me.
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I’m sure she didn’t label as such Who would? no need for dot, dot dot. What about what amounts to a “death tax” on a corporation that reincorporates offshore? Tax it on its wealth (which it accumulated here), maybe 30%. That would stop corporations …
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Many GOP anti-Trumpers believe Trump is doing this whole thing to help Hillary. It’s a Trojan Horse. I mean, I don’t believe that but it would it completely shock me? No. Would I immediately think Trump is the baddest mother fucker in history if it …
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Vevo Buys Showyou To Take On YouTube In Subscription Content | TechCrunch
Vevo, the world’s largest music video platform, has today announced its first acquisition: Showyou, a subscription-based video streaming platform that helps users find video content that might appeal to them.
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Bernie Sanders’ plan to tackle global warming, explained – Vox
On Monday, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign unveiled a big new climate platform — his grand vision for how he’d like to tackle global warming. And there are two main components here: Much of the coverage so far has focused on the first part, th…
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On a grey and grim December day, what better way to harness the spirit of the wartime slogan “Keep calm and carry on” than to regard the California massacre not as an act of global jihad, but as just another pair of US mass murderers, with a grudge …
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The Physical Origin of Universal Computing – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). “Yeah, you can also use it to do other things. For instance, it folds up to make a pretty good bicycle. And it folds out to make a first-rate airplane. Oh, and when submerged it works as a submarine. …
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Lightroom is now entirely free on mobile | The Verge
Adobe’s Lightroom is now entirely free to use on mobile. The Android app is dropping its requirement for a Creative Cloud subscription today, following the iOS version going free in October.
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Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Takes Aim at the 1 Percent | New Republic
Bernie Sanders rolled out a 16-page climate change plan on Monday that combines many of his long-held environmental positions, like dropping fossil fuel subsidies and banning offshore drilling, with a couple of new ideas.
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Elegant Gifts for Girlfriends, B.F.F.s, and Consummate Hostesses | Vanity Fair
FISH HOUSEThis little guy is the envy of all his friends. Umbra FishHotel aquarium, $35; amazon.
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How Olivia Wilde Went From “Lowly Coffee Girl” to Superstar | Vanity Fair
On Friday night in Beverly Hills, Vanity Fair teamed up with Ralph Lauren to keep the doors open late at their Rodeo Drive flagship, to benefit the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
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EU referendum: ‘No consensus’ over welfare reforms, Donald Tusk says – BBC News
There are “substantial political differences” over the PM’s demands for welfare curbs for EU migrants, the European Council president says. Donald Tusk said there was “presently no consensus” within the EU about the PM’s desire to restrict in-work p…
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The latest attempt by Saudi Arabia to kill off the threat from US shale oil has sent oil prices slumping to their lowest level since the depths of the global recession almost seven years ago.
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Vatican leaks scandal: Pope’s advisers to be called as witnesses – BBC News
A Vatican judge trying five people over the leaking of secret documents has agreed to let some of Pope Francis’s senior advisers be defence witnesses.Officials who could be called include his Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin.
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Mozilla retires Firefox’s sponsored tiles, hunts for new revenue streams | Ars Technica
Way back in 2014, Firefox rolled out an unpopular feature to its nightly builds: sponsored tiles on its “new tab” page. The feature, which was opt-in by default, showed ads that were based on your browsing history.
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Grammy nominees 2015: Kendrick Lamar leads the way – Vox
The 58th annual Grammy Awards announced their nominations in 83 categories on December 7, 2015. They were led by hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, who pulled in 11 nominations. Taylor Swift and The Weeknd each received seven.
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Native Rights Are On The Chopping Block At The Supreme Court | ThinkProgress
The Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday that could significantly damage the little power that the Native American community has to address crimes committed by someone who is not a tribal member.
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Don’t Forget, There’s Another Government Shutdown Scheduled for Friday | Vanity Fair
Amid all the talk about terrorism, mass shootings, a second war in Iraq, religious extremists, abortion, refugees, Chinese competition, income inequality, police brutality, and climate change, it’s easy to forget that America faces yet another gover…
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US Justice Department investigate Chicago police – BBC News
The US Department of Justice is planning to launch a wide-ranging investigation into the Chicago Police Department, according to several US media reports. The announcement – expected this week – follows weeks of protests over the police killing of a…
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Veyo Care Matches Senior Citizens With Caregivers | TechCrunch
Veyo Care aims to a solve a problem facing an aging global population, by helping seniors find the appropriate caregivers.
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Vtech breach: Passwords ‘not securely stored’ – BBC News
Toy giant Vtech has been accused of not securely storing customer passwords in its database, security experts say – with one calling it “unforgivable”. Hackers accessed more than six million children’s account details last month.
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READ: Kim Stanley Robinson’s first standalone story in 25 years! / Boing Boing
Robinson’s “Oral Argument” is a fascinating courtroom drama about patents, biotech, and photosynthetic tattooed humans that turns on the Bilski Supreme Court decision about the patentability of business methods.
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Downing Street has said David Cameron will give a “clear direction” on Heathrow expansion before the end of the year, but refused to repeat the prime minister’s promise that there will be a final decision in 2015.
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Here’s a list of the pairs that are brought closer together in the teaser for season two of Togetherness: Michelle and Tina, Brett and Alex, and Michelle’s boobs.
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In his Sunday night speech, President Obama splits the difference – Vox
President Obama’s short Oval Office speech on Sunday night had many political purposes. But as the speech began, it seemed clear that the first goal was to strike a delicate balance: to say something acknowledging “radical Islam” while simultaneousl…
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Odorite Introduces New Three-Tier Urinal Cake – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Revel in All the Amazing New Seconds of New Game of Thrones Footage
In HBO’s year-end “Look how awesome we were in 2015, we’ll also be awesome in 2016,” there are about four seconds of footage from season six of Game of Thrones. You can either skip to 2:15 in the video above, or see it in gif form below. Your choice.
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Spaghetti Squash Pomodoro Is a Super Easy Weeknight Meal
In addition to being delicious, the perfect weeknight meal should require little prep work or clean up, and this super easy spaghetti squash recipe from Tasting Table fits the bill.
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Trump Says Political Correctness Helped Enable California Attack : politics
Thats the narrative on Fox right now too. It stems from one of the neighbors saying that another neighbor didn’t report them because she thought it would be racial profiling. Wonder if anything would have done even if they were reported.
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Warning that the “clock is ticking toward climate catastrophe”, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged governments on Monday to agree a strong deal to limit global warming and transform the economy to greener energy. (trust.org)
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Republicans will tell you this is because of the obvious bias of the site, not because he is competing with Carson on a “what’s the craziest shit we can say?” contest. There is some obvious bias on politifact.
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Bernie Sanders Unveils Climate Plan – “Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet,” the plan states. But it hasn’t been solved because “a small subsection of the one percent are hell-bent on doing everything in their power to blo…
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French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor / Boing Boing
A leaked memo from the Ministry sets out new bills it would like to see introduced into the French Parliament as early as next month, setting out an ambitious plan to block privacy tools, something only technically possible by recreating China’s Gre…
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Lystable Helps Companies Manage Their Freelancers, Vendors And More | TechCrunch
“Supplier management” probably doesn’t sound like the most exciting problem for a startup to solve, but Lystable could actually be doing something crucial for its customers.
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Hillary Clinton targets corporate inversion with new ‘exit tax’ plan | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton will on Wednesday unveil a proposal for a new “exit tax” aimed at cracking down on corporate inversions, a practice that permits US companies to merge with corporations overseas to lower their tax bill.
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It turns out that the dust in your house carries telltale clues about who lives there—the relative numbers of men and women, and also the presence or absence of dogs and cats.
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CDC finds alarming increase in HIV diagnoses among gay Latino men | The Verge
Last year, over 39,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in the US. That’s a tremendous number, but for health officials it’s also encouraging; it means that the US has experienced a 19 percent decline in the annual rate of HIV diagnoses over the cours…
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US Justice Department to announce inquiry into Chicago police department | US news | The Guardian
The Justice Department will open a far-reaching investigation into the Chicago police department, attorney general Loretta Lynch was scheduled to announce on Monday, in response to questions about how police handled the case of a black 17-year-old s…
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Hamwells e-Shower Connects Your Shower To The Internet Of Things (And Bathing) | TechCrunch
In the near future, all of our shower accoutrements will be connected. In fact, everything from your soap to the loofah will talk to your e-Shower head if Hamwells has anything to say about it.
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Indigenous groups from across the world staged a paddle down the Seine river in Paris on Sunday, calling on governments to ensure Indigenous rights are included in the United Nations climate pact currently being negotiated in France.
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At the Dubai Sevens last weekend, USA beat New Zealand twice. They finished third after losing contentiously to England but the salient fact remained: no Eagles side had ever beaten an All Blacks team in any form of the game.
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The Paris climate talks have opened with a promise to the world: to secure a historic agreement between nations to bring the runaway train of global warming to a halt. The world’s forests play a key role in fulfilling this promise.
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Morning Digest: The Democrat who wants to save a GOP gerrymander may finally get her just desserts
● FL-05: Unless Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown can pull off a longshot legal victory and convince a federal court to preserve her current gerrymandered seat, she’s going to be running for re-election in a district full of Tallahassee voters who don’t…
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of December 7, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Middle-Aged Woman So Tired Of Going Back And Forth Between Divorced Parents’ Nursing Homes Go To Article Sweating, Trembling Mom Still Coming Down From High Of Having Kids Under One Roof Go To Article Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has T…
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The Postal Service Will Now E-mail Your Mail | Vanity Fair
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor your own laziness will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering your mail.
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THE HEAVENS—Saying He was fed up with providing His divine assistance in such cases, the Lord Our God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, proclaimed Monday He would no longer bestow transcendent near-death experiences upon people who crash their snowmobil…
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WHITEWATER, WI—Saying they hoped to keep the two-bit commencement under an hour in length, administrators at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater announced Monday that they were quickly slapping together a rinky-dink ceremony for anyone graduating…
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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that the Islamic State had become “the most effective recruiter in the world” and that the only solution was to engage American technology companies in blocking or taking down militant websites, videos and…
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VAN HORNE, Iowa — For months, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida ran an above-the-fray presidential race, high-mindedly dismissing his Republican rivals’ attacks and promising a campaign his family could be proud of long after 2016. No more. In intervie…
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Trump turns to general election mode : politics
Trump is going to start to drift left. Right after Iowa I am going to guess he will start adding some specifics to his health care plan. When you have 20+ pt lead over everyone in your party you kinda have to start looking on the bigger picture.
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Amid Paris Frenzy, Sanders Goes Even Bigger on Climate Change | plan calls for a ban on fossil fuel lobbyists working in the White House, restates Sanders’s call to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision (nationaljournal.com)sub…
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Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won’t the GOP? : politics
Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won’t the GOP? (washingtonpost.com) Which in the end isn’t much better than denialism or the ones who think the Rapture is due any minute so why bother giving a shit about the planet.
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It’s great to see. They’re the ones that are going to have to change Islam for the better. People are never happy. I mean do a quick google search, Muslims have been condemning since 9/11 and people forget that Muslims have been the USA long before …
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This is Awkward … Biodegradable Plastic is Making Us Produce MORE Trash. Here’s What to Do Instead (onegreenplanet.org)
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Add USB Charging Ports To Your Wall Outlets For $17 Each
These days, you probably charge as many things over USB as you do over standard AC outlets, so it only makes sense to add some semi-permanent USB ports to your home. Today on Amazon, you can get highly-rated duplex receptacles with a pair of USB por…
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The Final Fantasy VII remake will be a ‘multi-part series’ | The Verge
Over the weekend, Square Enix revealed the latest trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake, a much-anticipated reimagining of the beloved 1997 role-playing game. But there’s one thing the developer failed to mention: the remake will be more than a singl…
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Space Piloting on a Tablet? NASA Studying Feasibility | Video
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How the Allies fooled the Nazis using a person who never existed / Boing Boing
In 1942, Germany discovered a dead British officer floating off the coast of Spain, carrying important secret documents about the upcoming invasion of Europe.
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Special FX horror makeup god Tom Savini profiled in new documentary|Dangerous Minds
Special makeup effects artist Tom Savini was one of the early “rock stars” of horror make-up alongside notable names such as Dick Smith, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, and Stan Winston.
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New Discovery Solves One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Construction
New findings from a team of British archaeologists shed light on how some of Stonehenge’s monoliths were extracted and transported.
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One-third of eurozone bonds losing money – BBC News
By the end of November, the stock of eurozone government bonds that carried negative yields had risen to more than €1.9 trillion (£1.36tn; $2.05tn). The bond prices are so high that investors will not get their money back on maturity, and the intere…
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The energetically loopy Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter gives creator and star Jon Glaser another outlet to ply his signature comedic obnoxiousness.
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It’s a Through-The-Looking-Glass world. The Washington Post reports Sunday that ExxonMobil has a far saner view of global warming than the national Republican party.
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Harrison Ford May Have Let Slip A Major Spoiler About The Force Awakens
The cast and crew of Doctor Who discuss plans for the next companion. Get a glimpse of Black Panther in action in Civil War. Supergirl casts another DC villain. Plus, looks at the midseason finales for Agents of SHIELD and Arrow, and new images from…
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Developers Flex Their Apple TV Muscle, But Is It Enough to Win Over Consumers? | Motherboard
The Apple TV launched in late October on the backs of two major features: Siri voice control and an App Store.
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If the real world isn’t censored – why should fiction be? | Children’s books | The Guardian
Last week author Lynne Reid Banks had this letter published in the Guardian, where she criticised the choice of David Almond winning The Guardian children’s fiction prize 2015 with A Song for Ella Grey. Here’s an extract of the letter:
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Dick Conant, the Missing Boater – The New Yorker
On November 29, 2014, I received a phone call from an officer of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission named John Beardsley.
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Snap Adds Widgets to Your Notification Shade That You Can Use Anywhere
Android: Widgets are still one of the most useful parts of Android, but who has the time to go alll the way to their home screen to see them? Snap puts them in your notification shade, so they’re always accessible.
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Joy is joyless, and easily David O. Russell’s worst film | The Verge
When people describe a narrative as a “Cinderella story,” they usually mean it’s about a character, probably a woman, who emerges from humble or troubled beginnings into a much happier life. David O. Russell’s new Joy, about the life of entrepreneur…
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Corporations are Acting in Self-Interest at the Paris Climate Talks | New Republic
Midway into the two-week Paris climate conference, the official activity is, unsurprisingly, uninspiring. Dozens of countries have made promises, but pledges don’t add up to anything approaching what scientists say is necessary.
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Mutations that change your heart and your brain | Ars Technica
Thirteen percent of newborns with congenital heart disease (CHD) also have congenital abnormalities that don’t affect the heart. This is twice the rate at which they appear in newborns without heart problems.
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How Facebook Learns While You Forget – Scientific American Blog Network
In the not-so-distant past, Timehop made social media nostalgia mainstream. It was one of the first popular social media features to give us a deliberate glimpse into our personal past by digging up photos from our online libraries.
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Grammy Awards 2016: Kendrick Lamar dominates the nominations | The Verge
Kendrick Lamar has a stranglehold on music’s biggest night.
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Marijuana Madness: Hopped-Up Weed May Pose Risks for Users – Scientific American
On the street it’s called skunk for its intense, pungent odor. But the smell isn’t the only thing that’s strong about this type of marijuana.
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Star Wars May Be More Sober Now, But Carrie Fisher Still Makes It Fun | Vanity Fair
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already brought many great things to the world—BB-8! This photo!—but best of all may be the return of Carrie Fisher, a.k.a. the salty, hilarious best friend you wish you had in real life.
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Behold the evil glory of the Baphomet, Krampus and Cthulhu tree toppers!|Dangerous Minds
The good folks over at Middle of Beyond have a pretty sweet collection of anti-Christmas decorations—but nothing says “fuck jolly old St. Nick” quite like a glass Baphomet or Cthulhu tree topper. Ah, being on the the naughty list really is the best.
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The new Democratic gun agenda: “dangerous people” shouldn’t have guns – Vox
After two shooters killed 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, last week, a lot of people noticed a striking difference in the reactions of presidential candidates. To a man (or woman), Republican candidates sent “thoughts and…
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Ebola-free Sierra Leone cleared to host football – Al Jazeera English
Sierra Leone has been cleared to host international football matches again after being declared free of the Ebola virus, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said.
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Cameron to visit regions hit by Storm Desmond | UK news | The Guardian
David Cameron is to visit flood-stricken areas in the north-west amid criticism of the defences that failed to keep water out of people’s homes and businesses.
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Storm Desmond: body found in river in Kendal | UK news | The Guardian
The environment agency is to review its response to floods after Storm Desmond left at least 60,000 homes in the north of England without power, with many lacking clean water. High streets were turned into waterways as strong winds and heavy rained …
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Keith Urban on Country’s Evolving Sound: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Keith Urban on Country’s Evolving Sound: The Ram Report “There are artists coming into the genre now who grew up with Eminem as well as George Strait,” he says
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Grammys: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, the Weeknd Lead Nominations | Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd were among the artists nominated for the Grammys’ biggest awards as all three artists earned Album of the Year noms.
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Austria: Linz scraps gay pedestrian crossing lights – BBC News
The Austrian city of Linz has scrapped its gay-themed pedestrian crossing lights, which were adopted earlier this year with the aim of promoting tolerance.
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Pharma Watch: The Promise of Alzheimer’s Drugs Revived – Scientific American
With millions of baby boomers fast approaching old age, Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses are set to spike—and the hunt is on to find medications that can slow or halt the progression of this most common form of dementia.
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China pollution: Colourful anti-smog protest in Beijing – BBC News
Schools in Beijing are to close and outdoor construction to stop after the Chinese capital issued its first “red alert” over smog levels. Concerns over pollution are growing in China, and one performance artist has come up with a unique way to highl…
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The New England Patriots, Gronkless and Directionless | Rolling Stone
There is no such thing as normal anymore in New England: Everything is peculiar and beautifully twisted, and quarterbacks catch passes, and obscure backups are thrust into key roles and a team that was once a profane inevitability now feels like a s…
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Monty Python – The Meaning Of Life (1983) : Monty Python : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://t.co/3fUwmKq8LZ
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X Marks the Spot That Makes Online Ads So Maddening https://t.co/BIaQ42Crok https://t.co/cNcOpCSWUo
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Tech Breakthroughs Are Giving Animals the Power to Speak | WIRED
IMAGINE YOU’RE A DIABETIC and you use a service dog trained to alert you if it senses your blood sugar is falling. These dogs are incredibly useful, because diabetics can lapse into “hypoglycemia unawareness,” where they don’t notice their own oncom…
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Minecraft And Plenty Of Minecraft DLC Arrives On Wii U December 17
Mojang’s block-building sensation finally makes it to Nintendo’s Wii U next week, bundled with 6 popular texture packs with an additional 16 more available for purchase at launch. Skyrim on Wii U, anyone? It’s about damn time, really.
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Surprise! These 15 Common Grocery Store Items Are Almost Never Recyclable – So think twice before chucking them in the blue bin. (motherjones.com)
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One third of all Americans think climate change is not a serious problem … : environment
One third of all Americans think climate change is not a serious problem … (forbes.com)
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BBC Sport – Chelsea would be foolish to sack Jose Mourinho – Sir Alex Ferguson
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich would be “foolish” to sack manager Jose Mourinho, says former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. The reigning champions are 14th in the Premier League having lost eight of their 15 matches this season.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A Galactic View from the Observation Deck
A Galactic View from the Observation Deck https://t.co/Djn8ti2IQM https://t.co/1EDXTCc6qN
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Galactic Politics – Galaxy NGC 7252 in Aquarius https://t.co/Dlz8zWmjJe https://t.co/A6gnawCwAn
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/E4ovSP2hWB https://t.co/lnbUzlhVqv https://t.co/DoM5WwiK7b
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/E4ovSP2hWB https://t.co/lnbUzlhVqv https://t.co/DoM5WwiK7b
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The GOP Establishment May Need Religious Voters To Stop Donald Trump | FiveThirtyEight
That’s what I imagine Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee, repeating to himself as he tries to falls asleep every night.
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Grammys 2016 Nominations: Taylor Swift Leads the Way | Vanity Fair
Taylor Swift’s 1989 was released in October of 2014, but—due to the Grammy eligibility rules—this is its year to shine at the Grammys (even though first single “Shake It Off” was nominated as part of last year’s proceedings).
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Japanese Probe Makes 2nd Try to Orbit Venus, But Did It Succeed?
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki probe fired its small attitude-control thrusters for 20 minutes Sunday evening in a second and final attempt to enter Venus orbit. Akatsuki’s first try — which came exactly five years earlier, on Dec.
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Syrian Refugees to Arrive in Texas – The Atlantic
Twelve Syrian refugees, including six children, will arrive Monday in Dallas and Houston despite Texas saying it does not want them. An additional nine Syrian refugees will arrive Thursday in Houston.
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Victor Hugo’s appeal for the poor goes up for sale | Books | The Guardian
A signed note from Victor Hugo, in which the author implores the recipient to “kindly give 100 francs to the poor of your country” (“prière de donner cent francs aux pauvres de votre pays”) has been put up for sale.
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France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi | Ars Technica
According to leaked documents from the Ministry of Interior the French government is considering two new pieces of legislation: a ban on free and shared Wi-Fi connections during a state of emergency, and measures to block Tor being used inside Franc…
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UN seeks record $20bn for humanitarian aid in 2016 – BBC News
The UN and its partners have launched an appeal for $20.1bn (£13.3bn) to fund humanitarian operations in 2016. UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien said suffering in the world had reached levels not seen in a generation, with 87 million people needing urgen…
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How the DEA invented “narco-terrorism” – Vox
Three months after 9/11, George W. Bush said drug trafficking funded terrorist networks. Two months after that, the White House bought two Super Bowl ads saying the same for $1.9 million dollars each.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Essential Climate Variables: Sea level
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Anny Cazenave of LEGOS, France, explains the importance of sea level as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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The far-right position that could doom Marco Rubio in the general election – Vox
In a Republican presidential field where Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson are topping the polls, Marco Rubio seems like the reasonable, electable choice that the establishment should love. That may well be true.
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The Combat Jobs Women Can Now Fight For, Cont’d – The Atlantic
1st Lt. Shaye Haver
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Marine Le Pen’s victory is a bigger threat than ISIL – Al Jazeera English
For the first time, the extreme-right National Front (FN) party has claimed victory in a national election in France.
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Chemsex and the Case for Preventative HIV Drugs in the UK | Motherboard
Humans have always found new ways to get high and get laid. Last month, an op-ed in the British Medical Journal warned that “chemsex”—mixing strong drugs such as ketamine, GHB, and crystal meth with sex (often in groups)—is on the rise.
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Ads pop up and play automatically, daring readers to shut them down with feats of fine motor control. The ads commandeer the screen. They expand and contract. They cover the text and refuse to budge.
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Grammy Nominations 2016: Taylor Swift leads the pack | EW.com
The Recording Academy announced the 58th annual Grammy nominees on Monday, honoring artists like Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, and Kendrick Lamar for their work in the past year.
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Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital https://t.co/u9D9enk3eX https://t.co/VdbpHVOJYN
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Measure Your Water Usage For Leaks to Keep Your Bill Low
Ready for another utility bill annoyance? Your water bill might be higher than it needs to be. Even if you think nothing in your house is leaking, do a periodic check to make sure your bill isn’t unnecessarily inflated.
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Taylor Swift leads Grammy nominations – BBC News
Taylor Swift has emerged as the front-runner for next year’s Grammy Awards, with nominations for the prestigious album and song of the year categories. The pop singer has nominations in three of the four main categories, one year after releasing her…
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The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens talk about a new generation of Star Wars women | The Verge
Carrie Fisher is not shy about Princess Leia’s groundbreaking place in Star Wars — and movie — history.
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Venrock’s Bryan Roberts On What To Expect In 2016 | TechCrunch
Bryan Roberts has seen plenty of market swings in his 18 years as a venture capitalist with Venrock, the venture firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family and has historically invested in early-stage technology and — Roberts’s s…
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Every Swedish teenager is about to get a brilliant crash course in feminism – Vox
Every 16-year-old in Sweden is about to learn why Chimamanda Adichie thinks they should be a feminist. The talk has made waves the world over. Audio from it was even sampled in Beyoncé’s empowerment anthem “***Flawless,” to the point that it is cred…
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Good news: the “Jeb Can Fix It” campaign finally lives up to its name by fixing something. Bad news: it’s just an intern WD-40’ing a squeaky door hinge. Tuesday Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders meets with African-American civic and religious lea…
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Teaching a Robot to Think Like a Baby – The Atlantic
Babies are such little copycats. They learn by watching other humans. This is how small, dependent people turn into larger, independent people. The thing is, babies aren’t just imitators.
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Minecraft is finally coming to the Nintendo Wii U | The Verge
Minecraft is already available on just about every platform around, from smartphones to PC to consoles, but there’s always been one notable absence: Nintendo hardware. That’s about to change, though, as Nintendo has announced that the sandbox game i…
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Investigating Why So Many Black Preschoolers Get Suspended and Expelled – The Atlantic
Tunette Powell travels across the country counseling families and mentoring youth. An award-winning motivational speaker and author, her professional work in the education field ranges from training nonprofit leaders to consulting for colleges and u…
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Obama’s Troubling Dog Whistle on Encryption – The Atlantic
In President Obama’s prime-time address from the Oval Office—just his third in seven years—he struck a reassuring tone, reiterating his commitment to battling the Islamic State and calling for tolerance toward Muslim communities at home.
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Syria Accuses US of Killing Regime Troops | Al Jazeera America
The Syrian government said Monday that the U.S.–led coalition was responsible for airstrikes that killed three Syrian soldiers and wounded 13 others in the country’s east. The U.S. military, however, denied any involvement.
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The Linguistic Tricks of YouTube Stars – The Atlantic
Hey guys! What’s up? It’s Julie. And today I want to talk about YouTube voice.
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Since October 1 at least 88 Palestinians and 19 Israelis have been killed in an uptick in violence that has seen renewed clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and a spate of vehicle, stabbing, …
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Why ‘The Sims’ Must Die | Motherboard
The developers of life simulation series The Sims know that you like to kill and torture your Sims, and they think it’s hilarious.
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What it’s like to be black at Princeton – Vox
The question always stumps me. The simple answer would be to outline the many opportunities for networking, education, and enrichment I’ve received before and after I graduated in 2009. However, a truer answer would be a flat, “It’s complicated.”
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Google’s investment arm has quietly bought the internet
Google Ventures will close the year with $2.4bn of investment under management in many of the companies we all use every single day.
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Recycling: Matching high-tech materials science with economics that work | Ars Technica
BROOKLYN, New York—A conveyor belt is keeping material flying past at speeds that require both concentration and rapid eye movement if you wanted to track a single item.
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San Bernardino attack drawn into Republican calls to halt refugee intake | US news | The Guardian
Steven Davis was in his car when he heard the news about the mass shooting in San Bernardino and the suspects on the loose in his neighbourhood. His first thought was for his wife’s safety. His second: “I wish I had a gun.”
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Is athletics losing its fight against doping? – Al Jazeera English
The doping scandal that has engulfed Russian athletics has thrust the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into the global spotlight like never before. There are questions about its power, independence and effectiveness – even about the future of the age…
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Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Yeah, I’m kind of stretching the concept of a digit here, but former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is cancer free.
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From Flipping Burgers To A $2.25B Fintech Startup | TechCrunch
Klarna co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski took the stage at Disrupt London today to discuss his payment startup and the wider financial tech ecosystem in Europe and in the U.S. Klarna isn’t a household name outside of Europe yet.
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How Utah Nearly Doubled Voter Turnout With One Change | ThinkProgress
When comparing states by their voter turnout, Utah consistently ranks as one of the worst. In 2014, for example, just 29.6 percent of eligible voters in the Beehive State cast a ballot, a record low for the state.
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This Week Is The Superbowl For America’s Leading White Rights Activist | ThinkProgress
You probably haven’t heard of Edward Blum, but if you are white, and you hate going to school with (or voting with, or serving in Congress with) black people or Latinos, then Blum is your personal hero.
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Affirmative action has been around since the 1960s, beginning when President John F.
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Sun Could Unleash Devastating ‘Superflare’
The sun is capable of firing off an incredibly powerful superflare that could wreak havoc on Earth’s technology-dependent society, a new study suggests.
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No one could ever accuse the cast of Telenovela of not trying hard enough. Mugging this extreme is usually reserved for the Muppets. And yet, there’s an essential good heartedness at the center of the show, a sense of sweat and hard work to create s…
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The Paris Climate Talks Are Sponsored In Part By The Fossil Fuel Industry | ThinkProgress
PARIS, FRANCE — Engie, formally known as GDF Suez, is a massive energy company — according to the Brand Finance Brandirectory, it is the most valuable utilities company in the world, bringing in more than $80 billion in annual revenue.
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Hear and Reply to Your Last Five Messages With a Google Now Command
Google’s voice commands are excellent at making texting easier. Recently, Google made this even better, adding an answering machine-style command that allows you to read your last five messages.
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Of the rare and extraordinary times in U.S. history when the U.S. government actively funded and promoted the arts on a national scale, two periods in particular stand out.
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Men Talk Consent — Matter — Medium
Too often these days, conversations around consent are shut down before they can even start. Violence against women is on the rise? Ban men. An ostensible feminist is actually an alleged assaulter? Blame male feminism.
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Keurig to Be Bought by JAB-Led Investor Group for $13.9 Billion – Bloomberg Business
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world.
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⇒ DIY Wood and Aluminum Note Pad – YouTube
If you enjoyed my video, please consider toSHARE SHARE SHARE to give me the force to make more!Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1JiDwCfKeep on making my shop more efficient with some easy ideas that I hope you guys will like!This time I tackled the shop not…
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In Alien Solar Systems, Twin Planets Could Share Life
This artist’s illustration shows the close proximity of two Saturn-size alien planets in the Kepler-9 solar system. Scientists now say that two close exoplanets could potentially share life between them.
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Take this test to see how partisan you are – Vox
One perpetual problem in the social sciences is figuring out what people really think.
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The NBA’s highlight-making machine goes live today | The Verge
The internet is taking sports highlights to new heights. Take Steph Curry, arguably the NBA’s best shooter of this or any generation.
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Armenia fraud claims mar referendum on constitution – BBC News
Serious irregularities tainted a referendum on Armenian constitutional reform, opposition MPs and independent European observers say. Sunday’s vote showed majority approval for boosting the prime minister’s role and making the president’s job largel…
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The Leftovers finale: Showrunner Damon Lindelof unpacks an amazing season of TV – Vox
In a tremendous second season, HBO’s The Leftovers shot for the moon. It sent a man into the afterlife (seemingly). It watched as a former cult member ran over current cult members with her car. It put a man of God through tests that would have dest…
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Does Clinton Really Oppose TPP? There Is A Test For That
Many people have come to believe politicians say what they need to say to win, and then turn on them. If Hillary Clinton wants to win the Democratic nomination and inspire people to vote for her in the general election, she must find ways to overcom…
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“Political identity is fair game for hatred”: how Republicans and Democrats discriminate – Vox
In 1960, Americans were asked whether they would be pleased, displeased, or unmoved if their son or daughter married a member of the other political party. Respondents reacted with a shrug.
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Venezuela: What will change after the opposition win? – BBC News
An opposition coalition has won an overwhelming victory in Venezuela’s legislative election. For the first time in 16 years, it will control Congress. What changes are likely to be brought about by this result? Venezuela has a presidential political…
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Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital (theguardian.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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Russia pledges not to stand in the way of Paris climate deal | Environment | The Guardian
Russia pledges not to stand in the way of Paris climate deal https://t.co/UcsEFWMaAg
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COP21: US energy secretary ‘wants binding climate processes’ – BBC News
COP21: US energy secretary ‘wants binding climate processes’ https://t.co/t9sJFdZLkd https://t.co/Ar2IUkCxqV
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By turns withering and mocking, Republican presidential candidates blasted President Obama’s address on terrorism on Sunday night, saying that he was incapable of defeating the Islamic State, misguided in his focus on new gun control laws and showin…
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The Most Expensive Meat in the World Can Be Aged Indefinitely | Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities
Normally, it would be unthinkable to consume meat that’s over a few days old, but thanks to French butcher Alexandre Polmard it is actually possible to enjoy ‘vintage’ meats from cows that were butchered decades ago!
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Relax with the 5 Minute Meditation site / Boing Boing
5minutemeditation is a minimalist, one-shot guided meditation routine on the web. The clean layout and total silence beat the clutter and chaos of youtube, and you can set breathing rate and color scheme to suit your personal level of vibrating news…
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William Shu Wants You To Order From Deliveroo Twice A Day | TechCrunch
Shortly after raising $100 million, Deliveroo co-founder and CEO William Shu and Accel Partners’ Fred Destin took the stage at Disrupt London to discuss the company’s ambitious plans. Deliveroo operates its own fleet of delivery persons and partners…
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Google Ventures Rethinks Its International Investment Strategy | TechCrunch
Although Google’s investment arm, Google Ventures, only opened its London office in July 2014 — setting aside an initial $100 million to invest in startups “across Europe” — it’s now abandoning the idea of running separate funds, according to CEO Bi…
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: LCV wrong to endorse Clinton; reminding us the war on ISIS is illegal
But there is a more profound worry. U.S. and international experience suggests that once a recovery is mature, the odds that it will end within two years are about half and that it will end in less than three years are over two-thirds.
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Migrant crisis: Germany heads for 1m asylum-seekers in 2015 – BBC News
Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015. The number of migrants arriving has not slowed despite the winter cold, with a record high of 206,101 in Nove…
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The Kenu Car Kit Keeps Your Phone (and a Friend’s) Mounted And Powered Anywhere You Go
The Kenu Airframe is one of our favorite smartphone car mounts, but the team behind it just unveiled a new car kit that includes an Airframe+, capable of securing large phones like the Nexus 6P, and their new DualTrip fast phone charger, which can c…
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Israeli court jails Palestinian MP for 15 months – Al Jazeera English
Khalida Jarrar – a senior member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a well-known political figure and activist – was sentenced on Sunday at the Ofer military court near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West B…
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The difficulty of being Muslim in France – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – Kamel Fertass and his friends are sitting outside their local McDonalds. It is in the middle of a roundabout in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. “You want to hear my song?” he asks, holding out his phone.
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Obama Speech Heavily Criticized By People with No Better Ideas – The New Yorker
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Moments after its conclusion on Sunday night, President Obama’s speech about combating ISIS came under heavy criticism from people with zero better ideas.
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COP21: US energy secretary ‘wants binding climate processes’ – BBC News
Ministers from all over the world are in Paris, making a final push for a new global climate pact. The politicians will attempt to craft a deal from a draft negotiating text signed off by delegates on Saturday.
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What Does Evangelical Mean? – The Atlantic
The religious historian George Marsden once quipped that in the 1950s and 1960s an evangelical Christian was “anyone who likes Billy Graham.” But when Billy Graham was asked to define the term in the late 1980s, he replied, “Actually, that’s a quest…
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Software Eats Software Development As Andreessen Invests $10M In App Outsourcer Gigster | TechCrunch
Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built. That’s why Andreessen Horowitz has led a new $10 million Series A for Gigster just 18 wee…
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There’re some massive changes afoot in the fashion industry. New brands are being built online first, and gathering a dedicated following through e-commerce, before taking their retail chops to their customers in brick and mortar stores.
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First Click: Bill Murray, Ron Swanson, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
Let me guess, you spent an hour with Bill Murray and his cast of misfit friends Friday night? Then you probably spent the rest of the weekend wondering if you loved or loathed the new Netflix Christmas special? Yeah, us too, at least when we weren’t…
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Without Government, the Marketplace Will Not Solve Climate Change – Scientific American
Will Nations ever come together to keep climate out of the severe danger zone? The question looms like a cloud over United Nations negotiations in Paris this month—the 21st such attempt to forge an international agreement to curb greenhouse gas emis…
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Al Jazeera English launches on Snapchat – Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English has launched an account on Snapchat, a move the channel hopes will better connect its journalists with the audience.
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Knotable Hits iOS So You Can Share Notes Even On A Boat | TechCrunch
Sharing notes across the Internet is a surprisingly tough thing to pull off. The big guys like Google can do it but there are very few streamlined collaboration systems available that work with multiple platforms and with multiple users. Knotable is…
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Sara’s story: Loved and then killed in ISIL’s capital – Al Jazeera English
Sara, who lived with her husband and three children in ISIL’s de facto capital of Raqqa, in Syria, rejected the advances of Abu al-Muthna al-Iraqi, an ISIL member from Iraq. Her decision set off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to her de…
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Star Wars mashed with Biggie Smalls has a force all its own | The Verge
We already know that the new cantina music in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is written in part by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but what if another rapper had got involved, say, the Notorious B.I.G.
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The Guantanamo 22 – Al Jazeera English
But many have fled China in recent years to escape persecution from Chinese authorities who have banned some of their cultural and religious traditions. In October 2001, a group of Uighurs seeking refuge in Afghanistan and Pakistan, faced a new and …
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Surprise India-Pakistan talks spark optimism – Al Jazeera English
South Asia analysts expressed optimism on Monday after talks were secretly held between arch rivals India and Pakistan in the Thai capital – a move that signalled a long-awaited thaw in frigid relations.
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That 30s Show https://t.co/IXaKLB0VKz https://t.co/DlQjKIOrNH
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Time-lapse video of storms / Boing Boing
The weather on Sol-d is simply too strange and unpredictable, pretty as it sometimes may be. We recommend colonizing Sol-e instead. Cold but serviceable.
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Russia pledges not to stand in the way of Paris climate deal | Environment | The Guardian
Russia has pledged not to stand in the way of a deal at the Paris climate change conference, removing another obstacle to a potential agreement, the Guardian has learned.
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From Victim to Villain: A New Way To Report on Wildlife Crime
Too often, stories about the exploitation of wildlife have focused on the innocent animals, while ignoring the villains behind the crimes. Here at Wildlife Watch, our goal is to give voice to vulnerable wildlife. But it’s also to put a face on the p…
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what mattered was not the current growth of the economy but cumulative growth or, more to the point, the depth of the cumulative recession. One year of contraction was not enough to significantly boost extremism, in other words, but a depression tha…
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European Fashion Startups See High Growth Potential In The Global Online Sales Market | TechCrunch
Europe is known for its high-end fashion culture and technology seems to be making it easier for the world to discover and access those much sought-after items from this section of the world.
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The prime minister and cabinet members have come under fire for flying to the Paris climate change talks, rather than taking the more environmentally friendly Eurostar.
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Are these new children’s Christmas books future classics? | Children’s books | The Guardian
I love Christmas books but I’m getting a bit bored of all my old ones. Can you recommend some fabulous new ones?
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A package of measures to improve innovation in the economy, unveiled by Malcolm Turnbull, has had an airing on the world stage with foreign minister Julie Bishop citing it at the Paris climate talks as evidence of Australia’s belief that “technologi…
Julie Bishop says Australia will reward ‘innovation’ to tackle climate change https://t.co/Lqs0TjMfJC https://t.co/NDWtZ9JsXD -
Mysterious New Humpback Whale Song Detected
The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it.
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The World’s Ship Pilots Putter Around in Tiny Scale Models
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats …” —Rat in The Wind in The Willows GRENOBLE, France—At just more than 41 feet long, with miniature anchors that really work an…
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What is Man? What is living? The broad hall foundbetween narrow walls.What is acknowledging? Finding the one rootunder the branches’ tangle.
Poem of the week: What is Man? by Waldo Williams, translated by Rowan Williams https://t.co/oBh9BHXhSu https://t.co/eiozT7Y6zz -
Low-income Americans Are Still Struggling to Get Broadband Access | Motherboard
More people are getting online than ever, fueling an ever-burgeoning digital economy, but America’s poor are being left behind. According to a new study from the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program, only 46.
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A Tale of Two Habitable Planets – Scientific American
Imagine two nearby exoplanets orbiting the same sun, each with its own indigenous civilisation. They’re going through history either as companionable neighbours or deadly rivals. This is a familiar situation in science fiction, but could it ever hap…
A Tale of Two Habitable Planets https://t.co/sJ1K4APZAF https://t.co/BuI378UUqa -
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I have read all the David Walliams novels and this is one of my favourites! It’s so hilarious and at the same time heartwarming. It has you gripped to the page all the time. I love the funny descriptions of characters he creates.
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Climate talks shift from binding targets to ‘name and shame’ (wrbl.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Everwise, A Mentoring Matchmaker, Raises $8 Million | TechCrunch Everwise, a New York-based company whose online service connects “protégés” with mentors –from new entrepreneurs, to budding sports coaches, to people looking to rise through the ranks of Fortune 500 companies — is taking the wraps off the bigger bu… tags: Pocket connie…
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