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GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber | TechCrunch
While on-demand startups like Uber and BlaBlaCar continue to pack warchests with massive funding rounds as investors bet big that leveraging individual car ownership is the key to powering gigantic transportation/logistics businesses, other startups…
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Orbital ATK’s Private Cygnus Supply Ship Arrives at Space Station
An unmanned Orbital ATK cargo ship filled with tons of vital supplies for the International Space Station arrived at the orbiting lab early Wednesday (Dec. 9) where it was captured by a robotic arm weilded by the station’s astronaut crew.
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VW cuts number of cars hit by CO2 issue to 36,000 – BBC News
Volkswagen has said that far fewer of its cars are affected by inaccurate carbon dioxide emissions and fuel usage measurement than it originally thought. The firm now estimates that about 36,000 of the cars it has produced are affected.
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Review: Coldplay’s ‘Head Full of Dreams’ Is a Whole New Kind of Boring – The Atlantic
There’s a lot to say about Coldplay’s new album. The guest list alone—Beyoncé, Stargate, Gwyneth Paltrow, Noel Gallagher, Khatia Buniatishvili, Barack Obama—is material for fan-fiction about dinner parties.
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Syria conflict: Inside Homs as fighters and families leave city – BBC News
Homs has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war. But on Wednesday, under a ceasefire deal negotiated with the government and backed by the UN, fighters began leaving the city.
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Netflix, iPlayer and others to be available on holiday – BBC News
Online service subscriptions, such as Netflix, BBC iPlayer and Sky’s Now TV, will be portable across the EU under proposals announced on Wednesday. The European Commission also described its plan to overhaul copyright laws, which it said would make …
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Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Solace of the Road is about a girl named Holly from London. She lives in a care home but gets fostered right at the beginning of the book. She’s been in the care home almost all her life so she doesn’t really want to leave.
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Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis review – a smart, exuberant fantasy | Books | The Guardian
A novel about a pack of talking dogs, you say? The very idea will most likely breed thoughts of insufferable whimsy, like those paintings of mutts playing poker, or of more or less effective satire, in the vein of Animal Farm.
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The difficulty of calculating deaths caused by the Volkswagen scandal | News | The Guardian
In September 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency revealed that Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles sold between 2009 and 2015 were emitting up to 40 times the official limit of nitrogen oxides (NOx).
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Dozens Killed as Taliban Attack Kandahar Airport | Al Jazeera America
At least 37 people have been killed and 35 wounded in a Taliban assault on the Kandahar airport compound, Afghan defense officials have said — as a major conference on security in the region got underway in neighboring Pakistan.
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CAR ex-leader slams ‘shameful’ election ban – BBC News
The former president of Central African Republic has called the ban on him from running in the country’s election a “shameful decision”. Gunfire was heard last night after the 30 presidential candidates were announced, reports AFP news agency.
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If “South Park” were a person, it would be old enough to vote, though it probably wouldn’t. That scabrous cartoon has been a one-stop shop for anti-partisan satire and blasphemy on Comedy Central since 1997. Few comedies can stay first-rate for that…
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Britain Really, Really Hates Donald Trump | VICE News
Nothing unites British people more than contempt for a perceived idiot. And that’s exactly what happened overnight on Tuesday, with an outpouring of scorn, then fury, for US presidential candidate Donald Trump following his latest bigoted comments.
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The old cliche is true: prisoners do make license plates. But that’s not all they produce. Across the country, inmates have a hand in building desks, molding dentures, grinding lenses for glasses, stitching flags and upholstering chairs.
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Cases of ADHD surge in US kids | Ars Technica
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children in the US, is becoming even more commonly diagnosed, according to a new analysis of nationwide data. Between 2003 and 2011, prevalence of the…
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At least 31 dead in DR Congo floods – Al Jazeera English
At least 31 people have died after weeks of heavy rain caused severe flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa.
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Amazon’s been profitable lately, but don’t expect it to last – Vox
Wall Street is starting to get excited about a technology idea that’s tantalized the business world for more than a decade now — Amazon, but profitable.
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Hellen Van Meene’s Otherworldly Adolescents – The New Yorker
The adolescent girls in Hellen van Meene’s portraits have always seemed to be under some kind of spell.
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Oil Companies Can Sponsor Academics To Write Contrarian Studies, Investigation Finds – An undercover investigation carried out by Greenpeace UK reveals key academics fueling climate doubt willing to take money from the fossil fuel industry without d…
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Everything You Should Do at the End of the Year to Optimize Your 2015 Taxes
It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, so taxes are probably the last thing you want to think about.
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The Year the Fight Against Inequality Went Mainstream | New Republic
Democrats have been rallying against inequality long before a grumpy socialist ran for president. Barack Obama in 2012 called for a new minimum tax for millionaires and billionaires on his way to defeating an opponent he painted as an out-of-touch p…
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The Tale of the TalkingPainting | New Republic
If art could talk, how would it sound? This is the question in Hannah Rothschild’s delightful new novel, The Improbability of Love. The art she animates is a long-lost masterpiece by the French painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721).
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Trump is a symptom not the disease – Al Jazeera English
On the same day that the depth of Donald Trump’s racist bigotry hit a new low by calling for a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States, another news item emerged that was overshadowed by the circus surroundingTrump: Candice Mi…
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Wisdom the Albatross and Other Shockingly Old Moms
If growing old brings wisdom, the famous albatross of the Midway Atoll is well named. At the staggering age of 64, Wisdom is the world’s oldest known wild bird—and seemingly one of the friskiest.
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French police identify third attacker at Paris concert – Al Jazeera English
A 23-year-old man from the eastern French city of Strasbourg has been identified as the third armed man involved in the attack on Paris’ Bataclan music hall, police sources say.
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The Real Science Inspired By Star Wars
As Star Wars: The Force Awakens—the latest installment in the Star Wars saga—prepares to take us back to a galaxy far, far away, few could be more excited than the hordes of scientists and engineers whom the film series inspired.
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Syria’s ‘Capital of the Revolution’ Returns to Government Control Under a Rare Truce | VICE News
Hundreds of residents and rebels were being bussed out of the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, returning it to full government control, under a rare local ceasefire agreement.
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US Senate considers law forcing Twitter and Facebook to report ‘terrorist activity’ | The Verge
Lawmakers have resurrected legislation that would require tech companies to report online terrorist activity following the mass shooting in San Bernardino last week.
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Rebel Fighters and Residents Are Leaving Homs Under a Rare Truce | VICE News
Hundreds of residents and rebels were being bussed out of the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, returning it to full government control, under a rare local ceasefire agreement.
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The Pope Has Opened the Church’s Jubilee Year — And Put Five People on ‘Medieval’ Trial | VICE News
As it celebrates the holiest Catholic Church year since 2000, the Vatican is also trying Italian journalists, among others, for leaking information that led to two damaging books. Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St.
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Margaret Atwood creates graphic novel superhero, ‘part cat, part bird’ | Books | The Guardian
Part cat, part bird, heavily muscled and wearing nothing but a pair of tight feathery pants, a new superhero is due to make his comics debut next autumn, courtesy of the Booker prize-winning novelist Margaret Atwood.
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Top 10 political quotes from books and beyond | Children’s books | The Guardian
Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about,” said the voice of Maurice. “They’re so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett.
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Children die in Aegean Sea in unabated refuge crisis – Al Jazeera English
At least 11 people including children have died and 13 others remain missing after a boat carrying about 50 refugees sank in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greek authorities say.
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Reducing the US prison population is but a small ste…
This month, the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons is releasing more than 6,000 prisoners early. The Sentencing Commission reduced their sentences retroactively. And the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to lower mandatory minimums.
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Petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from UK signed by 85,000 | US news | The Guardian
A petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from the UK has been signed by more than 85,000 people in less than a day, after the tycoon-turned-presidential candidate called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
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December 9, 1958: The John Birch Society Is Founded | The Nation
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These Countries Are Using a Shocking Amount of Antibiotics on Animals | Mother Jones
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LONDON — A day after Donald J. Trump called for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States, much of the rest of the world looked at the American presidential election on Tuesday with a mix of befuddlement and despair.
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Donald Trump and the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Policy – The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s persistent lead in the GOP presidential-preference polls has been a great source of confusion for the chattering classes.
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What We’re Following on Wednesday, December 9 – The Atlantic
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Ann Coulter, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Anti-Muslim Bigotry – The Atlantic
Many prominent conservatives have, to their credit, responded to Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States with horror. “It is un-Republican. It is unconstitutional. And it is un-American,” declared the head of the New Hamps…
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The Shutdown Fight Neither Party Wants – The Atlantic
One of the biggest remaining items on Congress’s year-end to-do list is to pass a massive bill that tells the federal government what it can—and cannot—spend money on. Predictably, lawmakers are about to run out of time.
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Even before Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslim immigration on Monday, it was a foregone conclusion that Republicans would lose the Muslim American vote on 2016.
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The UK police tackling Colombia’s drug barons – BBC News
British police have been working with drug officers in Colombia since 1989 in a bid to stem the flow of cocaine into the UK. For the first time, the National Crime Agency has provided a glimpse of the work it is doing there.
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Indonesia: Where There’s Smoke – Al Jazeera English
As world leaders meet in Paris to discuss a new climate change agreement, Indonesia has unleashed an emissions catastrophe on a global scale. Toxic haze from fires swept across Southeast Asia, resulting in 21 deaths and the release of more greenhous…
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The Final Bataclan Attacker Has Been Identified as a French 23-Year-Old | VICE News
The final unidentified attacker who stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris with two other men on November 13, has been named as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, a 23-year-old from Strasbourg, eastern France.
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CEO Of Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Step Down After Just One Year | TechCrunch
Citing a ‘corporate’ decision making process that left the company slow to respond to the competition, Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds franchise, has announced that CEO Pekka Rantala is to step down after just one year.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Essential Climate Variables: Aerosols
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Thomas Holzer-Popp at DLR, Germany, explains the importance of aerosols as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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Dark Sand Cascades on Mars. Nope, those are not trees. [2560 x 1920] https://t.co/3KKUi5iuIa https://t.co/5c47OPkHXx
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Welcome to Reddit Environment! https://t.co/hqjablUhO2 https://t.co/NARhth45zr
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Here’s What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions | FiveThirtyEight
Affirmative action in higher education is back in the Supreme Court, with oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin being heard Wednesday.
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Scribd Adds Sheet Music And Sesame Street To Its Subscription E-Book Service | TechCrunch
Scribd continues to expand its selection — it’s adding sheet music for the first time, and also announcing deals to bring in Sesame Street children’s books and expand its selection of textbooks. Scribd already offers unlimited access to a library of…
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This is What It’s Like to Be a Muslim Schoolkid in America Right Now | Mother Jones
Earlier this year, a high school teacher in Richmond, Texas, sent all his students home with a new study guide he had created, with the title, “Islam/Radical Islam (Did You Know).
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Vatican walls lit up to support climate change awareness – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
The Holy See is lending itself to environmentalism with a special public art installation timed to coincide with the final stretch of climate negotiations in Paris.
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Inside the Difficult, Dangerous Work of Tallying the ISIS Death Toll | Mother Jones
The week after ISIS launched its catastrophic November attacks in Paris, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) published its annual “Global Terrorism Index.
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The hotel guests spending the night on the edge of a cliff – BBC News
It’s not the luxury guests would normally expect from their hotel room, but it is unique. Above Peru’s Sacred Valley, three capsules – perched on the side of a cliff – are used for overnight stays for visitors to the city of Cusco.
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Afghanistan’s Ghani urges regional help to defeat terrorism – BBC News
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed “regional and international terror groups” for the violence in his country. Mr Ghani told the Heart of Asia meeting in Islamabad that regional cooperation was needed to end terrorism.
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Oil prices and mining shares recover – for now – BBC News
Oil prices have staged a recovery, while shares in many mining firms rebounded from Tuesday’s steep falls. The benchmark price of Brent crude managed to rise back above $40 a barrel in Asian trade.
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UK ‘second best in world’ for tackling climate change: New ranking, published by green groups, comes as UK attempts to make China and India agree to an ambitious climate change deal in Paris. (telegraph.co.uk)
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Tanzania President John Magufuli helps cleans streets – BBC News
Tanzania’s new President John Magufuli has joined hundreds of residents in the main city Dar es Salaam to take part in a public clean-up operation. Mr Magufuli swept and picked up rubbish from the street as part of the scheme, which he had ordered t…
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Abigail Breslin to star in Dirty Dancing TV remake – BBC News
Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin, who shot to fame in Little Miss Sunshine and currently stars in horror comedy show Scream Queens, will play the lead role of Baby Houseman. The three-hour adaptation will be directed by Wayne Blair, the Austr…
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Cumbria surveys damage after Storm Desmond flooding – video | Environment | The Guardian
Families and business owners begin the huge task of cleaning up after floods caused by Storm Desmond. For some whose houses have been severely damaged, this is not their first experience of such flooding. Sixteen flood alerts remain in place across …
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The Badjao: Nomads of the sea – Al Jazeera English
Malaysia/Indonesia – The Badjao are a sea-dwelling tribe, often known as the “Sea Nomads”, who have been floating off the shores of Southeast Asia for centuries.
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Farmer payment scheme undermined by Whitehall rifts, MPs to be told | UK news | The Guardian
A government programme to deliver £1.8bn of EU payments to farmers has been undermined by rifts between senior civil servants, MPs will hear on Wednesday.
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The National Front’s victory is a defeat for France – Al Jazeera English
“Shocking” is probably the term most used by French analysts, and the European media at large, to comment on the surge of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party after the first round of France’s regional elections.
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Resurgent Russia takes on tenacious Turkey – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s capacity for rapid power projection has been unexpectedly successful, catching many Western observers off guard.
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Eyewitness: Kushiro, Japan | World news | The Guardian
A red-crowned crane – which can grow to 1.6 metres
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Now there’s a pair of Lightning headphones more expensive than the iPhone | The Verge
Rumors of the 3.5mm headphone jack’s demise on the iPhone may be premature, but the expanding use of that phone’s Lightning connector for audio purposes is definitely growing into a trend.
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What Chinese are saying about smog – despite the online censors – BBC News
As Beijing, blanketed with dense smog, has taken on an eerie appearance, social media users are sharing photos and jokes – but not all of them have made it past Chinese censors.
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Seduced and Abandoned By Victoria’s Secret’s Fleshy Fashion Parade – The Daily Beast
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Kate Glitters in Diana’s ‘Heavy’ Tiara – The Daily Beast
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Thailand police investigate US envoy for lese majeste – BBC News
The US ambassador to Thailand is being investigated for royal defamation over a speech he made in November. The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, which hosted Glyn Davies’ talk, confirmed it is assisting authorities in their probe.
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Toys could be used as spying devices, MPs told – BBC News
The security services could remotely take over children’s toys and use them to spy on suspects, MPs have been told. The draft Investigatory Powers Bill would place a legal duty on internet providers to assist in hacking devices.
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Seduced and Abandoned By Victoria’s Secret’s Fleshy Fashion Parade – The Daily Beast
In a world where objectifying women is increasingly frowned upon, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show stands a strutting, pouting exception to the rule—an annual parade of pneumatic babes in lingerie.
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North Korea prepares for harsh winter – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
Skip to main content North Korea North Korea network North Korea prepares for harsh winter – in pictures Rural residents are stockpiling supplies after poor harvest leads to fears for shortages during cold season Wednesday 9 December 2015 05.
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The Right’s Response to the Paris Attacks Is Shameful and Opportunistic – In These Times
In a video that went viral after the Paris attacks, a French reporter interviewed a little boy, around age 4, and his dad outside the concert venue Bataclan, where people were leaving flowers and candles to honor the estimated 89 people killed there…
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Syrian refugee crisis in numbers – Al Jazeera English
Victims of abuse and rape during the South Sudanese civil war tell their stories of broken dreams and a stolen future. We explore whether the world will finally agree to a meaningful and binding agreement on carbon emissions.
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The piano with hammers but no strings – BBC News
Casio’s Celviano works like other digital musical instruments. It uses sensors to determine when a key is pressed and how fast. But sensors under the hammers create a more realistic experience for the player.
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Venezuela’s false dawn? – Al Jazeera English
The electoral blow was obviously too traumatic for the government: the opposition won control of National Assembly by a landslide, delivering a major setback to the long-ruling socialists.
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Kate Glitters in Diana’s ‘Heavy’ Tiara – The Daily Beast
Diana reputedly found the weight of it so heavy that it gave her headaches, but Kate Middleton is clearly made of sterner stuff. She looked more than happy bearing on her head the weight of one of the most famous royal tiaras last night.
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The NBA’s other great team: why the Spurs are happy to fly under the radar | Sport | The Guardian
The Golden State Warriors have become the Beatles of the NBA, drawing massive crowds everywhere they go while a captivated media follows their every move.
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Greek immigration policy: A lesson for Eastern Europe? – Al Jazeera English
Athens, Greece – When Jessica Ben Anosike was 12, her sense of belonging in Greece as a second-generation migrant was shattered. The Nigerian-born student had come out on top of her class in track and field events and was looking forward to represen…
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In Paris this week, world leaders are working to agree a robust climate deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions. They are also grappling with how to tackle the pervasive threat of terror.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Qarman CubeSat in Hertz test chamber
This full-size prototype of part of the first CubeSat designed for atmospheric reentry is dwarfed by the cavernous surroundings of ESA’s Hertz radio-testing chamber.
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Gilson Anjos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilson Anjos is a paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T13 middle distance events. In the 2004 Summer Paralympics Gilson competed in the 800m and 1500m winning a silver in the 800m.
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Trump Wooing Working-Class White Voters | Al Jazeera America
WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. — It was a miserable wintry night, with temperatures dropping fast and sleet covering the roads in rural Waterville Valley. But businessman and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump quickly warmed up the crowd.
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Official: Third Bataclan Attacker Identified | Al Jazeera America
French officials have identified the third attacker at the Bataclan concert hall as a man from the eastern city of Strasbourg who left for Syria with a group of young people in 2013. On Wednesday morning Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed on BFMT…
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Paul Kagame’s third term: Rwanda referendum on 18 December – BBC News
Rwandans will vote in a referendum next week on a constitutional amendment to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term in office, the government has announced. The change would allow Mr Kagame to potentially remain in power until 2034.
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Taliban attack overshadows Afghanistan peace talks – Al Jazeera English
Taliban fighters are holding a number of hostages after storming the Kandahar airport compound in southern Afghanistan, even as a major conference on security gets under way in neighbouring Pakistan. At least 22 military officials have been killed i…
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Major Kurdish factions – Al Jazeera English
In a bid to escape poverty and caste discrimination, some Hindu Dalits are converting to Islam and other faiths. How an Inuit community on the north coast of Greenland is pulling together to save their village and way of life.
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Analysis: Beyond the fragile peace in Aden – Al Jazeera English
Less than two months after his appointment as governor of Aden, Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad and his security guards were killed in a terrorist attack for which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Yemen immediately claimed…
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California man sings his way into traffic police’s good books – video | US news | The Guardian
A motorist films himself as he is pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt in Orange County, California. TJ Bristol, a gospel singer and chaplain of Orange County jail, speaks off-camera to one officer, who asks him to identify himself.
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Germany neo-Nazi trial: Beate Zschaepe breaks her silence – BBC News
An alleged member of a German neo-Nazi cell is making her first statement in her two-and-a-half-year trial. Beate Zschaepe, 40, is accused of being part of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which carried out series of racially motivated murd…
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Heavy rain forecast for flood-ravaged Cumbria | UK news | The Guardian
Heavy rain is forecast to return to Cumbria with up to 12 hours of rainfall and further flooding possible, residents in the county have been warned.
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MLB in Europe? London in the frame as baseball expands its horizons | Sport | The Guardian
In late November, reports circulated that Major League Baseball was deep in negotiations to host a regular season series at London’s Olympic Stadium, sparking great excitement in the small but dedicated enclaves of European baseball.
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Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is about a boy called Jack and his Grandpa. Grandpa is losing his memory and can only remember his time during the second world war. Jack’s parent’s send grandpa to an old folks home called Twighlight Towers and Jack tries to help him esca…
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Geo-engineering no quick fix for climate change – Al Jazeera English
In the 23 years since the world first gave serious recognition to the issue of climate change, at the1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have moved in one direction: up. In 1992, it is estimated, 6.
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The challenges for Italy’s booming solar energy market – BBC News
In Italy, the price of solar power can now compete with other sources of energy. As government incentives expire, solar energy producers have to become more creative to make the most of their clean power.
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QikPod Wants To Solve India’s Logistics Woes With Smart Lockers | TechCrunch
India’s e-commerce market is growing at an incredibly quick pace and expected to be worth $100 billion by 2020. All online sellers, however, face a major hurdle: the country’s underdeveloped logistics infrastructure.
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The family of former NHL player Steve Montador, who died earlier this year, are suing the league over accusations it failed to inform him about the risk of long-term brain damage. The Canadian, who played 10 seasons with six teams, was found dead in…
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Last Tuesday, December 1st, marked the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to relinquish her seat at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, and as some people pointed out, the story many of us were told as children about Parks’ act of civil dis…
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Storm Desmond recovery threatened by more rain – live updates | UK news | The Guardian
Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the aftermath of Storm Desmond as heavy rain returns to Cumbria threatening further flooding and hampering the cleanup operation.
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Plug bullet wounds in 20 seconds with this FDA-approved syringe | The Verge
A sponge-filled syringe designed to close up gaping gunshot wounds in seconds has been approved for use in America’s civilian population.
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Why we need to save the rhino – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Children’s books Author opinion Why we need to save the rhino – in pictures Lauren St John on why losing Africa’s unicorn because of human greed and wickedness would be to lose something irreplaceable Wednesday 9 December 2015 0…
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Fear at the tap: Uranium contaminates water in the West. : environment
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Meet the woman freeing Mauritania’s slaves – Al Jazeera English
When I got off the plane at the Nouakchott International Airport, I had just flown over miles and miles of the Sahara Desert, looking out of the airplane window at so much endless, timeless sand that the dunes seemed, to my mind, like whitecaps on a…
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Robin Thicke and Pharrell appeal Blurred Lines copyright ruling | The Verge
Earlier this year, a California judge ordered Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay $7.3 million to the family of Marvin Gaye, ruling that their 2013 song, “Blurred Lines,” copied parts of Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke, Williams, a…
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Fear at the tap: Uranium contaminates water in the West. (bigstory.ap.org)
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Chinese glacier’s retreat signals trouble for Asian water supply. (nytimes.com)
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South Korean police raid temple to arrest union boss – BBC News
Police are raiding a Buddhist temple in the South Korean capital Seoul, to arrest a trade union leader who has been in hiding there. Monks earlier warned police not to force their way inside saying it would be a breach of their religious rights.
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‘Bitcoin founder’s’ Australia home raided by Sydney police – BBC News
Australian police have raided the Sydney home and office of a man named by technology websites as the creator of the virtual currency Bitcoin. Federal police searched Craig Steven Wright’s properties, but said the raid was about tax, not Bitcoin.
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Winning tech inventions that help people live better | Anna Bawden | Society | The Guardian
When Georgina Coulson’s son was five months old, he had a violent seizure. It took paramedics over an hour to stop him shaking.
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Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian teenager in Bethlehem – Al Jazeera English
Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian teenager during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem. According to residents, Malek Shahin had come to protest against the arrest of two men when he was killed on Tuesday.
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COP21 appears headed for climate deal. But how strong? – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – Three days and counting to the official end of negotiations and the climate talks appear to be ahead of the game. Since Saturday’s release of the newly honed draft text, progress has been made. But significant challenges remain.
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UK growth forecast cut by British Chambers of Commerce – BBC News
The British Chambers of Commerce has cut its UK economic growth forecasts, blaming a weaker-than-expected trade and manufacturing performance. The business lobby group has cut its growth forecast for this year to 2.4% from 2.6%.
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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are preparing a £144m offer for Barcelona and Brazil forward Neymar, 23, next month. (Daily Telegraph)
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Chagas and the Woman who Would Stop It | Al Jazeera America
UNRUNDAITI, Bolivia — Maria Teresa Segundo remembers thinking the deaths were normal. Her grandparents and older neighbors would suddenly see swelling in their knees or wrists. They’d be very tired. And then, one day, they’d be gone.
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It’s no coincidence that as The Muppets has gotten sweeter, it’s also gotten slightly better. It’s not the adult humor that’s been the issue (the jokes about Scooter’s creepy relationship with his mom continue to slay week after week), but the cruel…
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Calais lorry driver on the dangers of life on the road – BBC News
It is being claimed that the migrant crisis is putting the lives of British lorry drivers at risk in Calais – and the government is being accused of not doing enough to protect them.
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Back in July, Ryan Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter that only four characters would make it out of Scream Queens season one alive, with a “huge amount” of the characters being killed off on a week-to-week basis.
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Simon Callow’s multi-part life of Orson Welles has become a labour of love – at times a chiding, regretful, head-in-the-hands kind of love, but predominantly one driven by a profound respect.
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When Palestinian women take up arms – Al Jazeera English
Random stabbing attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians have become a defining feature of the current wave of violence and protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The overwhelming majority of these attacks were carried out by people under th…
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Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and ISIS: When Wicked Worlds Collide – The Daily Beast
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Will we ever get a truly car-free city? | Cities | The Guardian
When Oslo revealed plans to ban all private vehicles from the centre by 2019, it joined a lengthening list of cities seeking to shift the focus away from cars and towards greener, citizen-focused mobility solutions.
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Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and ISIS: When Wicked Worlds Collide – The Daily Beast
For all the headlines and fear they generate, ISIS isn’t anything new. We’ve seen this before—and much closer to home, writes Don Winslow, bestselling author of The Cartel.
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Third Bataclan attacker ‘identified’ – BBC News
The Pentagon warns that Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the US endangers national security and emboldens Islamic State (IS) militants.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in new film on marriage, By the Sea – BBC News
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are acting together in a new film about marriage. By the Sea, which is set in 1970s France, sees them appearing on the same screen for the first time in 10 years.
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Iraq seeks NATO pressure on Turkey in troops row – Al Jazeera English
Iraq has asked NATO to put pressure on Turkey to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq immediately. The request came after Turkey said it would not deploy any more soldiers but refused to pull out those already there.
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US Life Expectancy Flat for Third Year | Al Jazeera America
Life expectancy in the United States has stalled for three straight years, the government announced Wednesday. In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up —- thanks largely to medical advances, public health ca…
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Apple Watch drops to just $249 at Best Buy | The Verge
With weeks to go before Christmas, Best Buy is offering Apple Watches for the cheapest price ever.
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Heathrow expansion: Plane spotters take ‘blind test’ – BBC News
The decision is still pending on whether a new runway will be built at Heathrow or Gatwick to try and meet the UK’s air capacity needs. But many people living near airports fear any expansion would make the noise from landing and take-offs worse.
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Most popular candidate among Asian Americans? Bernie Sanders: Gallup report : politics
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House of Representatives approves bill to ban environmentally damaging microbeads | The Verge
The United States is poised to ban microbeads, minuscule pieces of plastic found in personal care products like face and body washes, toothpastes, and soap, after studies showed they cause significant harm to the environment.
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Georgia executes Brian Keith Terrell for killing his mother’s friend | World news | The Guardian
A Georgia man convicted of forging checks belonging to his mother’s friend and killing the man after he demanded money back has been executed. The execution of Brian Keith Terrell, 47, was carried out at 12.
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Syrian rebels leave Homs under truce – BBC News
The Pentagon warns that Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the US endangers national security and emboldens Islamic State (IS) militants.
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Most popular candidate among Asian Americans? Bernie Sanders: Gallup report (koreatimesus.com) He favors Asian food over Mexican or Soul food.
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“Currently the United States wastes huge amounts of money providing corporate welfare to coal, oil and gas corporations that are destroying our planet,” Sanders said in a Tuesday statement. “It is time for us to invest in technologies that are cutti…
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ISIS Gains a Foothold in Gaza – The Daily Beast
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How Ancient Rome Killed Democracy – The Daily Beast
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Bourdain vs Fieri: Why the Two Feuding Chefs Actually Complete Each Other
“I don’t want to kill you. What would I do without you?… You complete me.”
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David Foster Learns the Peril of the Real House Husbands – The Daily Beast
Oh! But he tinkled the piano keys at Yolanda’s swanky gatherings so beautifully! He surely took great pride that his wife ran such a surreally perfect fridge—a fridge with visible contents that was its own character, with its own Twitter account!
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Tea Party Turns on ‘Megalomaniac Strongman’ Donald Trump – The Daily Beast
The Tea Party’s infatuation with Trump may be over. Now, “may” is the operative word since rumors of Trump’s demise, as you might have noticed, have been a touch overstated.
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Is Putin Thinking About Changing His Ways? – The Daily Beast
MOSCOW — In Ukraine, Joe Biden was flaming on. “I don’t think the Russian people understand fully what Putin is doing,” the U.S. vice president said on Tuesday. “That’s why he spends so much time hiding at home the presence of troops here in your co…
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The Real Climate-Change Villain Isn’t China. It’s Congress. – The Daily Beast
PARIS — With world leaders continuing to meet in Paris for the COP21 World Climate Summit, attending the so-called “Day of Examining the Data” was like entering an alternate reality in which conventional beliefs surrounding climate change are comple…
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The ADHD Epidemic No One Is Talking About – The Daily Beast
This is what it feels like to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to one sufferer. Melissa Orlov, an author of two books on the subject, writes about this response in an article for Psychology Today.
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What We Need to Get About ISIS’s Appeal – The Daily Beast
The San Bernardino shooting has many of us thinking about what causes homegrown terrorism. The male shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook, was born in America, one of many examples of American and British citizens subscribing to the ideas of the Islamic State.
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How Ancient Rome Killed Democracy – The Daily Beast
Rome holds a special place in the popular imagination. Cast as a culture steeped in myth, with values reminiscent of our own, it is often treated as the forebearer of our own political system, an ancestral democracy that provides a republican link b…
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He Called Her a Slut. She Got Him Fired – The Daily Beast
A man was fired for calling a woman a “slut.” This would be unremarkable in almost all circumstances, except for one small detail: the comment occurred on Facebook from the man’s personal account.Mashable’s Johnny Leiu outlines what happened:The ori…
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Why Elizabeth Warren Keeps Hillary Clinton at Arm’s Length – The Daily Beast
It’s not surprising that Elizabeth Warren is withholding her endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. Warren is a megastar in her own right, and her support carries more weight than the other 13 Democratic women senators who endorsed Clinton la…
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The most famous Muslim on earth visited Ground Zero when the ruins of the World Trade Center were still smoldering. The words were all the more significant because Ali had uttered so few public ones since the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease beca…
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Russians Stick U.S. With $50K Plaza Hotel Bar Bill – The Daily Beast
Three Russian businessmen snared in a far-reaching U.S. money-laundering case racked up over $50,000 in hotel and meal “expenses” during their four-day depositions in New York, The Daily Beast has learned, based on publicly available documents. Thei…
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ISIS Gains a Foothold in Gaza – The Daily Beast
GAZA CITY — The early hours of the morning of Nov. 24 began with a boom. The Israeli Air Force was hitting targets here in the Gaza Strip, shattering the pre-dawn quiet of this besieged coastal enclave. Someone had shot a rocket over the Israeli sep…
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Soon You’ll Get WiFi Through Your Lightbulb – The Daily Beast
Getting the Internet through a light bulb might be better and faster than WiFi. And within the next year, you’ll likely be able to use it. Dr.
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What’s your favorite song of 2015? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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A Christmas Story stayed on the kid side of a coming-of-age book · Page To Screen · The A.V. Club
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
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Hard work · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’m a 24-year-old gay male with few resources and no “marketable” skills. I have made a lot of bad choices and now I struggle to make ends meet in a crappy dead-end job, living paycheck to paycheck in an expensive East Coast city.
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You’re The Worst, South Park, and that’s why we love you · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, December 9. All times are Eastern. South Park (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.) / You’re The Worst (FXX, 10:30 p.m.): As it turns out, your friendly neighborhood What’s On Tonight contributor is pretty inde…
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By 1938, Frank Capra had won two Best Director Oscars, and was one of the few behind-the-camera talents that the public knew by name. And yet his career was in trouble.
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Our favorite books of the year · Best of · The A.V. Club
After a stellar year for the written word, The A.V. Club provides some of our favorite books for your consideration as you buy, borrow, or download your next read.
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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. If you want to hear someone rap about Santa Claus, you h…
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A friend posted this on Facebook today : aww
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Icelandic Legends and Aurora via NASA https://t.co/LTHcKSLWwl https://t.co/kgUM7IWPvg https://t.co/McJcfNq5Ah
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Georgia Man Executed for Killing Mother’s Friend | Al Jazeera America
The State of Georgia on Wednesday executed a man who was convicted of forging checks and killing a close friend of his mother. Brian Terrell, who claimed until his death that he did not commit the murder, was executed at 12:52 a.m. at the state pris…
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The Marsh Pride: end of an era | Environment | The Guardian
On Sunday morning (6 December 2015) news broke of the poisoning of members of the Marsh Pride.
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Beijing Issues First Red Alert For Smog – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The city of Beijing has issued its first smog-related red alert due to consecutive days of heavy air pollutants, urging schools to close down and restricting the number of cars on the roads. What do you think?
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Limiting global warming is a human rights issue, Philippines says : environment
Limiting global warming is a human rights issue, Philippines says (america.aljazeera.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man – The Daily Beast
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Greenpeace Says Fossil Fuel Industry Misleads On Climate Science : environment
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APOD: 2015 December 8 – Icelandic Legends and Aurora
Explanation: Legends collide in this dramatic vista of land, sea, and sky. The land is Iceland, specifically Vík í Mýrdal, a southern village known for its beautiful black sand beaches.
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Fox Pundits Pretend Terrorism Can Never Be Caused By Poverty Or Climate Change : environment
Fox Pundits Pretend Terrorism Can Never Be Caused By Poverty Or Climate Change (crooksandliars.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Gabon seizes 200kg of poached ivory in what could be biggest haul ever (theguardian.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Greenpeace Says Fossil Fuel Industry Misleads On Climate Science (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 39 minutes ago by loading…
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New York investigates sale of ‘speculative’ Bruce Springsteen tickets | US news | The Guardian
The New York attorney general is investigating why so-called “speculative” tickets to a series of upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts were listed for sale on websites owned by eBay and two other companies.
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Japan police arrest Korean suspect in Yasukuni shrine bomb – BBC News
Japanese police have arrested a South Korean man suspected of bombing Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni shrine, local media said. A small blast hit a public toilet on 23 November as the shrine opened for a festival. There were no injuries.
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Gale throws wildlife homes to the ground | Environment | The Guardian
The robin materialises from a point in the ground where the storm disappeared. Out of all the thrashing rain and screaming winds, the bird stands, in the conspicuous, red-breasted, defiance of the season’s greetings card pose and begins to sing.
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may have had its flaws but managed to mostly overcome them by presenting a number of various complications (the A.T.C.U., Lash, missing Inhumans, a goddamn alternate planet), and by gradually doling them out over the …
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Girlfriends’ Guide, like other girlfriends shows (Sex And The City, Living Single, Golden Girls) doesn’t just offer a valuable female perspective. It also shows how female friendships can form a foundation for that perspective. In SATC, even Mr.
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How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man – The Daily Beast
Tom Holland is battle-tested.
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Beatles’ Indian retreat opened to public – BBC News
An abandoned spiritual retreat in the Indian town of Rishikesh where The Beatles learned to meditate has been opened to the public. The Beatles spent time at the 18-acre ashram, meditating and writing songs in 1968. Many of the songs made it onto th…
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Kazakh Wedding Celebration Image, Mongolia – National Geographic Photo of the Day
While on a photo expedition in western Mongolia, Your Shot member Dimitar Karanikolov had the opportunity to photograph a traditional Kazakh wedding celebration taking place in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park.
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Mozzarella, ciabatta, Parma ham … when considering Italy’s culinary landscape, palm oil is unlikely to feature high on the list – if at all.
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Clive Palmer’s embattled Queensland Nickel company has been ordered to stand trial over alleged environmental breaches at its refinery near Townsville. The company was charged with six offences in late 2014 after toxic sludge allegedly leaked from a…
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‘The illusion of security’: No-fly list draws scrutiny from left and right | US news | The Guardian
On the surface, it seems sound logic to prevent weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. Yet there are many on both the left and right of the political spectrum who question the president’s faith in the no-fly list.
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Pepsi announces Crystal Pepsi sweepstakes, delighting dozens · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Thrilling the literally tens of people who have been waiting with baited, husky-lunged breath for its return—and reminding the rest of us that nostalgia is always a potent force, even when the thing we’re all being nostalgic for is gimmicky, weirdly…
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Afghan soldiers kill nine children in Wardak | World news | The Guardian
The children were sitting outside the village mosque, enjoying rays of early morning sunshine, when the shooting broke out. Eight of them were killed on the spot, said village residents. A ninth child died later in a hospital in Kabul, two hours’ dr…
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Venezuela Opposition Wins Supermajority | Al Jazeera America
Venezuela’s opposition won a key two-thirds majority in the National Assembly in legislative voting, according to final results released Tuesday, dramatically strengthening its hand in any bid to wrest power from President Nicolas Maduro after 17 ye…
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Uber Suspends Its Auto-Rickshaw Service In India | TechCrunch
Uber has paused its auto-rickshaw service in Delhi. Called UberAUTO, the feature represented one of the car-hailing app’s attempts to localize to the Indian market. It launched in April and competed with a similar service from Ola.
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Hillary Clinton rebukes Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump over his call to ban Muslims entering the US, accusing him of ‘trafficking in prejudice and paranoia’.
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Australian police raid possible Bitcoin creator’s house | The Verge
A house owned by Craig Wright, the man who Wired and Gizmodo today reported may be the secretive Satoshi Nakamoto character behind Bitcoin’s creation, has been raided by Australian police.
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“Brooklyn” · Manhattan · TV Review Manhattan prepares for fallout · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Manhattan is such a dense show the story tends to crowd out the rest, but get a load of the succinct, wordless opening images of the second to last episode of the season.
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How to measure feeling the spirit | Al Jazeera America
I am sad to say that I have not been lucky enough yet to “feel the spirit” or any sort of physical reaction connected to a belief in a higher power. The closest I have ever gotten is the fully-satiated satisfaction of over-eating at Passover. (“Pass…
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US billionaire Douglas Tompkins dies in kayak accident in Chile – BBC News
The US clothing billionaire Douglas Tompkins has died in a kayaking accident in southern Chile aged 72. The North Face and Esprit founder died of hypothermia after the kayaks he and five others were in capsized in strong waves, authorities said.
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Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident https://t.co/WeWBN2Vtlw https://t.co/aOLa2x69cW
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Video gaming: South Korea’s new national sport? – BBC News
E-sports – professionals competing at computer games – are becoming South Korea’s national pastime. The recent launch of the latest iteration of StarCraft has taken place in Seoul’s fashionable Gangnam district, complete with red carpet.
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Apple’s new SD card adapter brings USB 3.0 speed to the iPad Pro | The Verge
The iPad Pro shipped with a Lightning port capable of USB 3.0 speeds, and now there’s a way to actually make use of that. Apple has announced a new version of its Lightning to SD card adapter — a Camera Reader, in Apple parlance — that offers USB 3.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a note on Facebook on Monday that made a very good point about climate change and renewable energy: It really doesn’t matter what you believe. (thinkprogress.org)
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Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the clothing brands North Face and Esprit, died on Tuesday after a kayaking accident on General Carrera Lake in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. He was 72. His death was confirmed b…
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Fresh Off The Boat presents (heyoo!) us with a perfectly packaged (heyoox2!) Christmas episode. I won’t lie: When it comes to Christmas episodes, I have an icicle sized chip on my shoulder. There are only so many gift-and-Santa-based plot lines to b…
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Open thread for night owls: Paris climate negotiators give a modest boost to indigenous rights
A gathering of indigenous people at the Paris climate talks. In the center, with a blanket around her waist is Casey Camp-Horinek. Speaking at a public forum earlier, she said “I want to acknowledge the pain of the people of France from the tragedy …
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Dear Donald Trump: Only Despots ‘Close Up’ the Internet – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to “close up” the Internet is proof he lacks even a baseline knowledge of how the Internet works. It’s also an idea exclusively used by authoritarians, experts tell The Daily Beast.
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Watch Rachel Dratch Tackle Billy Eichner’s Scientology Obstacle Course | Rolling Stone
Watch Rachel Dratch Tackle Billy Eichner’s Scientology Obstacle Course Comedian flees Xenu, saves kids from Sea Org, climbs ‘Dianetics’ volcano in wild ‘Billy on the Street’ clip
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Syrian Refugees Resettled in Texas, Indiana | Al Jazeera America
Syrian families have been settled in Texas and in Indiana, the groups helping them said Tuesday, defying efforts by the conservative states’ governors to stop their arrival.
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BEIJING — Residents across this city awoke to an environmental state of emergency on Tuesday as poisonous air quality prompted the government to close schools, force motorists off the road and shut down factories.
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Ex-Australia PM Tony Abbott says Islam must reform – BBC News
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said Islam has a “massive problem” and needs to reform. Writing in Australian media, Mr Abbott said “not all cultures are equal” and the West should stop apologising for defending its values.
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In Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm goes on a bit of a rant to John Hammond about the dangerous leaps in technology that made his park possible, highlighting his point by saying, “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that…
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Marco Rubio Misleads on U.S. Spying to Jab Ted Cruz – The Daily Beast
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Mama cat brings her kittens to meet her best friend. : aww
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BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — The carved stone block is about the size of an occasional table. It has held its secrets for two millenniums. Whoever engraved its enigmatic symbols was apparently depicting the ancient Jewish temples.
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The FBI admits its system for tracking police violence is a “travesty” | The Verge
But can it solve the problem? The Washington Post reported today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to replace its inadequate system for tracking police violence by 2017, with an FBI official calling it a “travesty.
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What more could Flash fans want for Christmas than Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, and the Trickster teaming up to take on Scarlet Speedster? (Sure, Mirror Master is still on my wish list, but no need to be greedy. Someday…
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Sam Raimi and Kevin Sorbo re-team for “miracles” drama at NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline is reporting that NBC has picked up a new drama from Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Kevin Sorbo, the team that, once upon a time in the ’90s, helped rule the syndicated TV airwaves with Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
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The thing about being a superhero is that it requires sacrifices. Your loved ones are always in danger, simply by being in your life, and keeping your double life a secret makes things even worse. Your romantic life is always in shambles, because yo…
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Marco Rubio Misleads on U.S. Spying to Jab Ted Cruz – The Daily Beast
Sen. Marco Rubio may have framed himself as an expert in national security — and among the Republican presidential field, he is.
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Bernie Sanders On Trump’s Rhetoric: “That Kind Of Crap Is Not Going To Work”: “‘I look forward to beating Donald Trump,’ Sanders said. ‘I would enjoy that race very much.’” (buzzfeed.com) He isn’t even going to beat Hillary.
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Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of the North Face outdoor company and billionaire conservationist, has died after falling into near-freezing waters during a kayak accident in southern Chile.
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My brother was a lifter, and I’m trying to make his last Christmas amazing. Can you help me? xpost /r/bodybuilding (self.Fitness) The first picture is of Todd the day of his diagnosis and emergency brain surgery.
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US expands North Korea sanctions over arms trade – BBC News
The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea over its alleged weapons proliferation activities. The sanctions target the North Korean army’s Strategic Rocket Force, as well as two banks and three shipping companies allegedly involved in arms trad…
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s winter finale: a disappointing end to a good half-season – Vox
There are spoilers for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. here.
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The Golden State Warriors followed the script perfectly for three quarters Tuesday night. Then things got more interesting.
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Sleigh Bells Proclaim Triumphant Return on Synth Heavy New Track | Rolling Stone
Sleigh Bells Proclaim Triumphant Return on Synth-Heavy New Track Brooklyn duo tease upcoming album with bruising pop anthem, “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty”
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Smith & Wesson triples profits in three months to October – BBC News
One of the world’s most famous gun-makers, Smith & Wesson, has nearly tripled its profits in three months to October compared to a year earlier. The firm said its net income was $14.2m (£9.46m), for the period compared to $5.2m, for the same quarter…
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Jon Stewart and The First Responder Panel 2010 – 2015 : pics
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Christmas Loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Tim Peake: How he gets to space and back – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on 15 December. Since the space shuttle’s retirement, the Russian Soyuz launch system is now the only way for crew members to get to the ISS. The basic design for the Soyuz …
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Crazy Vatican light show illuminates the pope’s climate message | Grist
Early presidential polls — much like this race — are completely meaningless. One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal, delegates and campaigners say.
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The Assault on Climate Science https://t.co/SJk7OLPPFt https://t.co/YVvQAlZtAG
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Went to Build-A-Bear and bought a suit for my cat. : cats
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Woman spends two weeks in jail over mistaken identity
So much attention has focused on the violent encounters between police and unarmed African-American men during the past year that the hashtag #SayHerName was created to illuminate the fates of black women at the hands of law enforcement, as well as …
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The FBI’s New Plan to Track Police Shootings – The Atlantic
There has been no shortage of surprising and disturbing revelations since the nation’s focus landed on police violence, following the August 2014 shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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At the Supreme Court, Equal Representation Is in Danger | New Republic
This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Evenwel v. Abbott, a huge case about a fundamental question that goes to the very heart of our Constitution’s system of representative democracy.
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Bernie Sanders: I’m Sick of Trump’s Anti-Muslim ‘Crap’ – The Daily Beast
For his first late night appearance as a presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) kept things on the serious side with Stephen Colbert, defending his socialist record and making his case for economic fairness.
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State College, Pa. — WITH world leaders gathered in Paris to address climate change, most of the planet seems to have awakened to the reality that the Earth is warming and that we’re responsible.
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Three Challenges For The Hearables Future | TechCrunch
In Spike Jonze’s Her, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his earpiece — or rather, the female voice inside it. The film depicts a society in which artificially intelligent hearing devices serve as human companions.
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In pictures: World Air Games – BBC News
The World Air Games in Dubai sees more than 850 competitors from 55 countries compete in 23 different disciplines, from model aircraft racing to speed skydiving. The World Air Games runs until 12 December.
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India’s Yumist Gobbles Up $2M For Its Meal Delivery Service | TechCrunch
Yumist, an India-based startup aiming to disrupt the daily meal industry, has landed a $2 million investment to increase its presence from three cities to eight.
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Gabon seizes 200kg of poached ivory in what could be biggest haul ever | World news | The Guardian
The central African state of Gabon, home to half of Africa’s endangered forest elephants, has impounded more than 200kg (440lb) of ivory in what may be its largest seizure ever.
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Cee Lo Green Calls 2012 Drug Case ‘Blown Out of Proportion’ | Rolling Stone
Cee Lo Green apologized for a 2012 drug incident that led to his exit from The Voice and a string of controversial tweets about rape, while also calling the case “blown out of proportion” on The Steve Harvey Show, The Wrap reports.
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Could gifting free money boost the economy? – BBC News
Imagine waking up one morning to the sound of a helicopter overhead. You look out and see packages dropping in front of every home on your street. Inside each package is $10,000 (£6,700) in new bills, a gift of freshly-printed money from your govern…
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Meet MØ: The voice behind Spotify’s most-streamed track – BBC News
A household name in Denmark, MØ achieved international fame earlier this year as the vocalist on Major Lazer’s smash hit Lean On. As she prepares to play the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony on 11 December, she tells the BBC about her incredible year.
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The Internet Archive is hosting a telethon! / Boing Boing
On December 19th, the Internet Archive is hosting a telethon for 24 straight hours, an old-fashioned variety show kind of thing with performances and live acts, and you can attend, if you’re in San Francisco! Your tickets and donations go to support…
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US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads : environment
US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads (theguardian.com)submitted 55 minutes ago by loading…
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“I will love him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George” Dog
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A US Entrepreneur Who Spent His Fortune Buying Up Land in Patagonia Has Died | VICE News
A US entrepreneur who bought up huge swathes of land in the southern most parts of South America in the name of conservation has died in a kayaking accident in southern Chile.
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How to stay safe online / Boing Boing
The scale and virulence of internet harassment often lingers in the news, but three women who have faced down the bullies are sharing their guide to staying safe online. The advice is eminently sensible, well thought-out and derives, sadly, from all…
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FBI to launch new system to count people killed by police officers | US news | The Guardian
The FBI plans to overhaul its system for counting the number of deaths caused by police in the US, according to federal officials, and will begin releasing information about deadly encounters involving the use of Tasers and other force, in addition …
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Microsoft updates Windows on phones without carriers screwing it up | Ars Technica
The Lumia 950, and its larger sibling, the Lumia 950XL, have just received a software update, taking them from Windows 10 Mobile build 10586.0 to build 10586.29.
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The meteoric rise in bitcoin has meant that within the space of four years, one Norwegian man’s $27 investment turned into a forgotten $886,000 windfall. Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.
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Netflix is planning to double its original content next year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ensuring that its helplessly binge-addicted victims (and/or customers) never free themselves from its bleary-eyed siren song, Netflix has announced that it’s planning to release 31 original scripted programs next year, almost doubling the number it …
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Making a fortune – just by playing games – BBC News
It’s a common worry among parents – the amount of time children spend playing computer games. But those endless hours in front of a screen have paid off for some who have become celebrity gamers competing for huge prizes.
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In DC power circles, flattery will get you everywhere – BBC News
Compliments are currency, at least in politics and diplomacy. An email archive shows the way writers, employees and others flattered Hillary Clinton – and sheds light on how things are done in Washington. Hillary Clinton certainly does.
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One billion Creative Commons licenses in use / Boing Boing
Jane from CC writes, “Creative Commons, the global nonprofit that makes it easier for creators to share their work under simple copyright terms, announced a major milestone in the release of its 2015 State of the Commons Report today: over 1 billion…
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Undercover investigation reveals prominent academics taking money from fossil fuel industry | Grist
One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal, delegates and campaigners say. After a decade of sharp growth, the rate of global CO2 emission is projected to drop a little bit in 2015.
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The mystery of Bitcoin’s creator may have finally been solved – Vox
One of the biggest mysteries in the technology world is who invented Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency (and payment network) that’s now worth billions of dollars and could — according to supporters, at least — revolutionize the financial industry.
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Exclusive: MH370 Was Crippled by Sudden Electrical Failure – The Daily Beast
The pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were suddenly confronted by a cascading loss of electrical power. In the space of just 56 seconds many of the airplane’s vital systems shut down, placing an urgent demand on the crew to understand and dea…
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Hold on to your straw hats. Farming is about to go low-carbon | Grist
One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal, delegates and campaigners say. After a decade of sharp growth, the rate of global CO2 emission is projected to drop a little bit in 2015.
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Libraries suffer fall in users as Tories slash funding | Books | The Guardian
Visits to Britain’s libraries have fallen by 14% since David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, a survey has found. Library funding has been cut by more than £180m over the same period – a drop of 16%.
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The Weeknd Confronts Madness, Mayhem ‘In the Night’ | Rolling Stone
The Weeknd Confronts Madness, Mayhem ‘In the Night’ Bella Hadid doles out nightclub vengeance in gruesome, disjointed new video
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68% of Trump’s Supporters Would Back Him in Third-Party Run: Poll : politics
You should do it Trump! The GOP is disrespecting you! They’re not being nice to you! You would run the classiest, hugest, biggest, solid gold independent race ever! Our heads would spin it would be so good!!! It would take a REAL man to set the GOP …
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Think Beijing’s air pollution is bad? These 10 cities are worse – : environment
Think Beijing’s air pollution is bad? These 10 cities are worse – (cbc.ca) I don’t think any of that excuses Beijing or several other industrial cities in china with horrific air quality, but the problem is more widespread than is widely known.
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Four Billion Swipes Later, Bumble Comes To Android | TechCrunch
Bumble, the popular mobile dating app where girls have to make the first move, has finally dropped its long-requested Android version. The company has been teasing the release for months and it’s finally here, just a few days after the one-year anni…
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The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel | New Republic
In September of 1950, Hughes Allison, a playwright and writer of pulp fiction, responded to a manuscript sent by a writer who requested that he reply via the Mystery Writers of America.
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Europe may be witness to a new political era – BBC News
The success of Marine Le Pen and the National Front (FN) in France underlines the shifting plates of European politics. She is far right, anti-Europe and anti-immigration, but many of those who voted for her once voted for the Communists and the Soc…
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In-mouth dental CNC mill / Boing Boing
This Russian video shows a high-tech, terrifying in-mouth CNC mill that uses built-in cameras and a machine controlled drill to precisely mill out rotten parts of teeth while you clench the machine’s anchor in your jaw, whimpering around it (usefull…
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Fine Dining’s Exploitative Tipping System Is Dying | New Republic
In the middle of October, Danny Meyer made a momentous announcement: He would eliminate tipping in all 13 of his restaurants by the end of 2016 and raise menu prices in order to boost his employees’ pay.
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Some members of Sigur Rós produced a “horrible” talking-dog movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We don’t know what kind of money you make from being in a band like Sigur Rós, but apparently it’s enough that you can afford to make investments that lie somewhere between “mildly irresponsible” and “hilarious.
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Vox Sentences: France’s kinder, gentler far-right-wing party – Vox
Big wins for France’s far-right party; how different is Trump from the rest of the GOP really?; and Brazil’s president faces impeachment. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Most Popular Food Hacks of 2015
Cooking tips aren’t just for foodies. We all eat every day (unless you’re a robot), and better cooking means healthier food, more delicious meals, and possibly even saving some cash. here were our best food hacks and tips from 2015.
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How Climate Change Deniers Are Trying to Derail the Paris Talks | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 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 …
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Apple’s internet TV service said to be on hold | The Verge
Apple has “pressed the hold button” on its live television service, in the words of CBS president Les Moonves. The broadcasting executive spoke today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference in New York, saying Apple was “looking for a service” but…
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Sarkozy, rhubarb and France’s National Front – BBC News
In the olden days of Nicolas Sarkozy’s French presidency, much fun was to be had irreverently pointing out his tics and verbal idiosyncracies. Now he is mere leader of the opposition, the chance comes less frequently – but Monday night offered up a …
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Picnic in style with this $46,000 Rolls-Royce drinks hamper | The Verge
If you had $46,000 lying around, you can buy a lot of things. A BMW i3. Four field box season tickets to the Red Sox. 15,436 boxes of Double Stuf Oreos from Amazon — that’s 463,080 cookies, enough to last quite a while. But those are all entirely to…
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Beijing residents blanketed by pollution – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
Skip to main content China Beijing residents blanketed by pollution – in pictures Beneath thick hazardous smog Beijing restricted the use of cars, shut schools and halted outdoor construction after issuing its highest-ever red pollution alert, which…
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climate denier gets VERY ANGRY when asked about his funding from the fossil fuel industry (greenpeace.org)submitted 53 minutes ago by loading…
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Doug Tompkins, noted conservationist, has died in Chile in a kayaking accident (chilevision.cl)submitted 39 minutes ago by loading…
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LOS ANGELES – Marilyn Monroe and Freddy Krueger were trying not to look annoyed.
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US House passes spending bill avoiding government shutdown – BBC News
The US House of Representatives has passed a short-term budget bill, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown as the deadline quickly approaches. House speaker Paul Ryan announced the bill, which will allow for more time to determine a long-term bill.
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Germany neo-Nazi trial: Will Zschaepe finally give answers? – BBC News
Beate Zschaepe has been on trial for more than two years. She cuts a contemptuous figure in court. At every hearing the petite 40-year-old enters the room, folds her arms and turns her back on the television cameras.
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COP21: Cardinal says birth control may offer climate ‘solution’ – BBC News
One of the Catholic Church’s most senior prelates has said that birth control could “offer a solution” to the impacts of climate change. Cardinal Peter Turkson, the Pope’s leading adviser on climate issues, told the BBC that the Church had never bee…
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How Did Little Leicester City Rise To The Top Of The Premier League? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Dec. 8, 2015), we ask whether the Carolina Panthers’ perfect start has b…
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Wired and Gizmodo both claim to have possibly found the creator of Bitcoin | Ars Technica
Both Wired and Gizmodo have claimed to have discovered the identity of “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the anonymous creator of Bitcoin.
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San Bernardino Terrorists’ Visa Story Doesn’t Add Up – The Daily Beast
When Tafsheen Malik, of the two San Bernardino shooters, entered the United States in July 2014, she did so using a temporary visa meant for people who are engaged to be married to U.S. citizens.
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Planned Parenthood rallies after shooting and Republican attack “No woman, no American, should fear violence or intimidation when seeking health care, or assisting others in obtaining treatment.” — President Barack Obama (coloradoindependent.com)sub…
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Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along | New Republic
If you’ve been following Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and his effect on the Republican primary closely, you were perhaps beset Monday by a strange sense of speechlessness—one born less of ineffability than of tedium. Trump’s plan to prohibi…
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Here’s the Secret to How Snakes Slither
Scientists have found a surprising explanation for snakes’ effortless slithering: A mind-bogglingly thin coat of fatty lubricant embedded on the snakes’ scales.
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The hunt for Osama Bin Laden – BBC News
Following the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, the US demanded that the Taliban government in Afghanistan extradite Osama Bin Laden and expel Al Qaeda from the country. The Taliban refused and as a result, US forces invaded A…
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Comet’s Death-Dive Into Sun Captured By Spacecraft | Video
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Senators revive bill requiring tech sector to report online terror activity | Ars Technica
One of the shooters in last week’s deadly attack pledged her allegiance to ISIS on Facebook shortly before she and her husband went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people in a San Bernardino County government building.
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COP21: Guatemala gives recycled bicycles a new life – BBC News
What’s the point of a bicycle that doesn’t go anywhere? In one part of Guatemala, old bikes are being recycled into nifty pedal-powered machines. For almost 20 years, the charity Maya Pedal has been converting bicycle parts donated from abroad into …
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Fattier Meats Require More Salt to Taste Properly Seasoned
While it’s fair to say that most things should be salted to taste, this in-depth experiment suggests that fattier meats require a lot more salt to avoid being bland.
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By an overwhelming bipartisan majority, the House of Representatives passed legislation intended to strengthen the visa waiver program in the aftermath of attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
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Venezuela election: Opposition ‘supermajority’ confirmed – BBC News
Venezuelan electoral authorities have confirmed that the opposition has won a key two-thirds majority in parliament. The National Electoral Council said final results from Sunday’s poll gave the opposition 112 seats out of 167.
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Prince is finally cool with people watching his cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ | The Verge
Prince has what you could charitably deem an “up-and-down” relationship with the internet. When he’s feeling chipper about our online world, he decides to grace Twitter with his presence and crack open Vevo accounts for new music videos.
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Google is done selling the Nexus 6 | The Verge
Google has said a quiet goodbye to the Nexus 6: as of today, you’re no longer able to buy it from the Play Store. The decision appears to mark the end of the road for the 6-inch handset now that both the Nexus 5X and its successor, the Nexus 6P, are…
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Lessons from past droughts could shape future of Namibia – BBC News
Some of the driest, hottest and dustiest parts of the world are set to experience even tougher conditions in the decades ahead, according to the latest forecasts of climate change. One of the countries thought to be most vulnerable is Namibia which …
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Alistair Darling joins Morgan Stanley – BBC News
Morgan Stanley has said former Chancellor Alistair Darling will join the bank’s board of directors. Mr Darling, who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010, will take up the role in January.
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Hot Looks: Beauty Tools | Vanity Fair
We’ve given you plenty of hair and makeup recommendations. But what good are those if you don’t have the proper tools? Here is a roundup of amazing ones to help you with your beauty routine—from hair to face and body.
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Beijing smog: Red alert as people told to stay inside – BBC News
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That moment when climate change becomes deep, urgent, and personal | Grist
Early presidential polls — much like this race — are completely meaningless. One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal, delegates and campaigners say.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Will Play a Nazi-Fighting Illusionist in The War Magician
You thought every war story had already been told? Apparently not. In the new thriller The War Magician, Benedict Cumberbatch will play Jasper Maskelyne, a real-life British magician who used his talents to help the allies during World War II.
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US House votes to restrict visa-free travel after Paris attacks – BBC News
The House of Representatives has voted to tighten visa-free travel to the US following the Paris attacks. The measures would bar people who travelled to Iraq and Syria after March 2011 from the visa waiver programme.
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December Patch Tuesday avalanche of patches includes leaked Xbox certificate | Ars Technica
Today, Microsoft issued three new security advisories and a dozen new patches in the company’s monthly round of security updates.
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Undercover Greenpeace activists buy off corrupt academics in a climate science sting / Boing Boing
The environmental activism group Greenpeace today disclosed that it led an undercover investigation to expose how easy it is for big oil, gas, or coal companies to pay academics at leading U.S.
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Philadelphia mayor: Trump ‘has no idea what he’s talking about’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter called Donald Trump an ‘asshole’ on Tuesday, after the Republican presidential frontrunner’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US.
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Sofia Boutella will play The Mummy in Universal’s reboot | The Verge
Universal’s classic monster universe is ready to start expanding, and it looks like The Mummy will be its latest installment.TheWrap reports that Kingsman: The Secret Service star Sofia Boutella has just been cast to play the titular monster in the …
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Joel Hodgson plots live telethon to close out #BringBackMST3K · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We’ve got telethon sign; with just four days left in his campaign to get Mystery Science Theater 3000 back on the (internet) air, creator and former satellite captive Joel Hodgson has announced a live broadcast to help push #BringBackMST3K over its …
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This Australian businessman either created Bitcoin or a massive hoax | The Verge
There’s a new candidate for the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin.
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World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been stripped of his IBF title less than two weeks after winning it. The Briton, 27, had to agree to fight the IBF’s mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov but will instead face Wladimir Klitschko in a re-m…
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Chicago, meet your new favorite “Fun Time Gals” this Thursday for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Chicago is heaven for comedy lovers, offering high-quality stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy from established and soon-to-be-established stars every night of the week.
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Domestic violence case against Aroldis Chapman closed but trade on hold | Sport | The Guardian
Police say there was “insufficient evidence” to charge Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman in a domestic disturbance incident between the pitcher and his girlfriend at his South Florida home, and they’ve closed the investigation.
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Watch This Navy Admiral Destory Ted Cruz’s Climate Myths | Mother Jones
Ted Cruz is certain that global warming stopped 18 years ago. He said that repeatedly during a Senate hearing he chaired Tuesday afternoon devoted to examining what he described as “the science behind claims of global warming.
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This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
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With Chicago Police Investigation, Advocates Ask, What Took So Long? : NPR
Editor’s note: This report contains graphic descriptions of torture. The Chicago Police Department is the latest force in the national spotlight for a controversial shooting of a young black man, but the issues raised by recently released videos sho…
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Secrets of Vampire Stars Revealed in Hubble Telescope Data
This artist’s illustration depicts the birth of a blue straggler star as it siphons off material from a companion red giant star.Credit: NASA/ESA, A.
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Cartoon: Fear-based campaigning
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Google’s Authenticator security app comes to Android smartwatches | The Verge
There’s a new version of Google Autheticator for Android that includes a Android Wear version of the app. The updated Authenticator lets users skip taking out their phones to retrieve their second-factor code, Google wrote in a blog post.
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Another day in America, another pig’s head left outside a Muslim community center / Boing Boing
Islam’s holy book, the Quran, forbids Muslims from eating pork. The pig’s head showed up outside the Al-Alsqa Islamic Center early this morning.
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Changing your Facebook profile picture is doing more good than you might think – Vox
Following a set of terrorist attacks on Paris that killed 129 people in November, one thing was clear to pretty much any American with a Facebook account: their friends stood with France.
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Historic Rainfall Floods Southeast India : Image of the Day
On December 1–2, 2015, the Indian city of Chennai received more rainfall in 24 hours than it had seen on any day since 1901. The deluge followed a month of persistent monsoon rains that were already well above normal for the Indian State of Tamil Na…
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Russia releases submarine missile footage – BBC News
The Russian Defence Ministry has released footage claiming to show one of its submarines firing missiles at targets in Syria for the first time.
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Volkswagen will debut an electric concept car at CES next month | The Verge
Volkswagen would probably like to generate some buzz around… well, something that doesn’t involve diesel or cheating or scandals or emissions tests right now.
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Mega-Apple update day brings ugprades to OS X, iOS, WatchOS, and tvOS | Ars Technica
Apple today released updates for the operating systems that power iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. iOS 9.2, OS X El Capitan 10.11.2, WatchOS 2.1, and tvOS 9.1 are all available on their respective devices.
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Lessons from a US town with majority Muslim city council – BBC News
As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defends his comments about banning all Muslims from entering the US, many cities in America are adjusting to changing demographics. Hamtramck, Michigan is one of them.
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Global Restrictions on Farm Antibiotics Needed to Fight Superbugs, Report Says | Motherboard
There’s no denying the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals and the development of antibiotic resistance, according to a new report commissioned by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and fighting back will require a global effort.
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This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
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3D Video Games Can Improve Your Memory | Motherboard
“Brain training” and other means of cognition boosting still feel a bit like snake oil, and the Federal Trade Commission would tend to agree. But what if a way to boost your short-term memory was right in your game console this entire time?
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House Passes Bill to Tighten Visa Waiver Program | Al Jazeera America
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation tightening controls on travel to the U.S. and requiring visas for anyone who’s been in Iraq or Syria in the previous five years. An overwhelming bipartisan majority approved the bill, whic…
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Cuba Gooding Jr. on Playing O.J. Simpson: ‘Not My Job’ To Say If He Was Guilty – The Daily Beast
The cast and creative team of FX’s People vs. O.J. Simpson talk recreating the Trial of the Century, Simpson’s guilt, and the trial’s surprising cultural relevance today. O.J. Simpson is about to cause a media circus.
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Pixel C Reviews Show Android for Tablets Is Still a Work in Progress | Motherboard
In 2011, Google released Honeycomb, a version of Android that the company marketed as being designed specifically for tablets.
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Pick Up This Discounted Airfloss Today, And Never Buy Floss Again
Sick of being floss-shamed by your dentist, but don’t actually want to floss? This Philips Sonicare Airfloss electric flosser uses pressurized air and tiny drops of water or mouthwash to obliterate food scraps and plaque between your teeth.
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Break Out of Your Social Shell by Piggybacking on a More Sociable Friend
If you’re making an effort to be more comfortable in social situations, latching on to a social butterfly buddy can help ease you into more social exposure. Getting better at meeting people is tough, especially when you’re trying your hardest to see…
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House Votes Overwhelmingly to Tighten Visa Restrictions for US Visitors | VICE News
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to tighten restrictions on travel to the United States by citizens of the 38 nations who are allowed to enter the country without obtaining a visa.
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Hamilton is coming to Chicago, will soon be even more inescapable · Newswire · The A.V. Club
People love Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton, to the extent that it’s rapidly approaching 2010-2012 levels of Community fandom.
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HTC Vive Finally Gets A Release Date: April 2016 | TechCrunch
In an email to Vive developers and a blog post that is now down due to traffic, HTC finally clarified when they’d be launching their long awaited virtual reality headset, Vive.
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Making Beats in Fiji – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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In the second of a series of films for Guardian Australia, two health workers who live in the Torres Strait Islands explain the impact of climate change on the local people and the trauma and uncertainty of king tides and annual flooding.
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This Is the Space Weather New Horizons Had to Fly Through to Get To Pluto—And It’s Very Strange
New Horizons returned some amazingly detailed shots and data of Pluto over the course of its mission—but just what did it have to fly through to get there? So, so much. NASA put together this visualization of what the spacecraft encountered between …
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Mission: Impossible 6 Hangs on to the Best Part of Rogue Nation | Vanity Fair
Mission: Impossible already broke with franchise tradition when it was announced that Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie would return for the sixth installment.
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Anti-Trump Ad Fueled by Pro-bush Millionaires | Al Jazeera America
Hours after presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday called for the “complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, a super PAC supporting fellow candidate Jeb Bush had harsh words for the billionaire businessman who’s dominating Rep…
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HTC Vive VR headset delayed until April | The Verge
After originally promising to ship units before the end of 2015, HTC has now announced that its Vive VR headset won’t be available to consumers until April of next year.
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Cartoon: Fear-based campaigning
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Large Hydropower Is a False Solution to Climate Change : environment
… methane from reservoirs accounts for more than 4% of all human-caused climate change – comparable to the climate impact of the aviation sector. In some cases, hydropower projects are producing higher emissions than coal-fired power plants genera…
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The United States women’s national soccer team took one look at the artificial turf field that was to be the playing surface for Sunday night’s friendly against Trinidad and Tobago and said, enough. Finally, enough.
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Human Rights Groups Criticize U.S. Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia : Parallels : NPR
The State Department has approved a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, which includes as many as 13,000 precision guided weapons or smart bombs. The sale comes as Human Rights Watch charges that Saudi airstrikes in Yemen “have indiscriminately…
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Counterterrorism Experts Face Challenges Recognizing ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorists : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish interviews John Horgan, a professor at Georgia State University’s Global Studies Institute, who studies how ISIS inspires “lone wolf” supporters.
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Climate negotiators in Paris are wrangling over “country commitments,” “caps” and “cuts” in greenhouse gases. Some environmentalists, however, argue that the most important “c” word is missing: consumption.
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Let’s face it. It’s December 8 already. Those who haven’t gotten a good head start on watching all the classic Christmas movies and TV episodes by now should either start binge-watching—forsaking work, school, and social interaction in the process—o…
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By contemporary Hollywood metrics, Warner Bros. has had a disappointing year. Of course, by contemporary Hollywood metrics, Avengers: Age Of Ultron was a disappointment because it “only” made half a billion dollars domestically, but still.
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Ted Cruz vows to ‘carpet bomb’ ISIS until he finds out ‘if sand can glow in the dark’
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Golestan Forest, Iran [1920×1280] : EarthPorn
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Donald Trump’s Muslim ban ‘endangers US security’ – BBC News
Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines US national security by boosting the Islamic State (IS) group, the Pentagon has warned. The leading Republican presidential candidate has said Muslims should be banned from entering the US, in the wake …
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HTC officially delays Vive virtual reality system launch to April 2016 | Ars Technica
Earlier this year, Valve and HTC insisted that at least a few eager virtual-reality fans would be able to get their hands on the fruits of their partnership, the HTC Vive, by the end of 2015.
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US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads | US news | The Guardian
The US is set to ban personal care products that contain microbeads after the House of Representatives approved a bill that would phase out the environmentally-harmful items. The bill, which had been backed by a bipartisan committee, will now go to …
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Pig’s head thrown at Philadelphia mosque – video | US news | The Guardian
Surveillance video at a Philadelphia mosque appears to show a pig’s head being thrown from a car window at the building on Sunday evening. Marwan Kreidie, a caretaker at the mosque, told police he found the head near the door of the Al-Aqsa Islamic …
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BBC Sport – VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Manchester United
Manchester United will be without striker Wayne Rooney and midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin for their crucial Champions League game at Wolfsburg. Rooney, 30, remains out with the ankle injury that forced him to miss Saturday’s 0-0 draw with West Ham.
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Study: Many People Moved By Falsely Profound Statements – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new study investigates the common traits among those who are most moved by pseudo-profound but ultimately meaningless statements, finding that this failure to detect nonsense could “cause one to confuse vagueness for profundity.
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Utterly repellant and malignant: world reacts to Trump’s anti-Muslim tirade | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s call for a sweeping ban on Muslims entering the United States prompted howls of protest around the world from national leaders to ordinary citizens – even provoking calls for him to be banned from Britain.
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Kyle Mooney pulls a Stefan Urquelle in this new cut-for-time SNL sketch · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett are the (most recent) kings of the 12:55pm SNL sketch. The sad part about those sketches, though, is that they don’t always make the show. Sometimes they’re cut for time, or because the run-through audience doesn’t laugh…
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Last night, Donald Trump demanded a ban on all Muslim immigration into the United States. Today, the backlash came, and from all over: the British and French prime ministers, Paul Ryan, Dick Cheney, and even J.K. Rowling all slammed the real estate …
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Kickstarter Is Funding Investigative Journalism (About a Failed Kickstarter) | Motherboard
Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company’s most high-profile failed campaigns to date: the Zano mini-drone, which raised over $3.5 million and was Europe’s most funded project ever.
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Chicago, see Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Sisters early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
If the potential to be underwhelmed by The Force Awakens has left you feeling anxious, then why not spend the holidays in theaters with something you can count on? SNL alum, two-time Golden Globes hosts, and best friends Tina Fey and Amy Poehler alw…
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Z-Grade Masterpiece The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Is Now Available On Blu-ray
The world is a scary place sometimes, but we can all take solace in the fact that the forces of good have come together and made this happen: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has just been released on Blu-ray, with all manner of special features befittin…
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Benedict Cumberbatch to play The War Magician in World War II drama · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star in the World War II drama The War Magician as the war magician of the title, Variety reports. And what, pray tell, is a war magician? Well, a war magician is a literal stage magician who uses their talent for maki…
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Looking for a fossil-free investment fund? Check the fine print | Grist
One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal, delegates and campaigners say. After a decade of sharp growth, the rate of global CO2 emission is projected to drop a little bit in 2015.
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Better Management Through Belles Lettres | Merve Emre
At six o’clock on a Wednesday evening last spring, dozens of students at Columbia Business School jostled into William C. Warren Hall to learn how the study of literature might prepare them for executive success.
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FDA Approves Device That Can Plug Gunshot Wounds in 15 Seconds
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the use of the XSTAT 30—an innovative sponge-filled gunshot wound dressing device—for use in the general population. Approved last year for battlefield use, the device can plug a gunshot wound in jus…
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Three-Dimensional Video Games Could Make Your Memory Better | Popular Science
Three-dimensional video games could make your memory better right there (the hippocampus). Video games and science have a sordid past. They make you smarter, dumber, fat, skinny, relaxed, aggressive, and now, new research adds improved memory to tha…
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Ted Cruz vows to ‘carpet bomb’ ISIS until he finds out ‘if sand can glow in the dark’
It’s getting increasingly difficult for anyone to argue that the current Republican field is anything but a collection of maniacs pandering to a collection of lunatics.
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US conducts ‘serious review’ of alleged Iran ballistic missile test | World news | The Guardian
The United States is reviewing and seeking to confirm reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of UN security council resolutions, US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has said.
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UberHop is Uber’s latest idea for killing mass transit | The Verge
For months, Uber has denied that it has any interest in becoming a private alternative to public transportation. Its latest announcement, though, certainly suggests otherwise.
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Coldplay’s new album will be available on Spotify this Friday, even for free users | The Verge
Coldplay’s new album A Head Full of Dreams will be available on Spotify at the end of this week. The Wall Street Journal and Billboard have both reported on the album’s impending availability, a major shift from the stance the band expressed last we…
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When is the next Republican debate? – Vox
Already entering presidential debate withdrawal? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that the next Republican debate is not at all far away — it’s on . It will take place in Milwaukee, and will be aired on the Fox Business Network.
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Smith & Wesson gun sales soar after spate of mass shootings in US | US news | The Guardian
Firearms giant Smith & Wesson saw gun sales rise 15.2% to $124.9 million in the past three months as a spate of mass shootings put tougher gun controls back on the US political agenda. The gun company announced sales were up 32.
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John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said governments trying to reach a climate agreement in Paris face a tough fight in the 72 hours remaining to reach a deal.
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Tories criticised over delayed defences in Storm Desmond flood zone | UK news | The Guardian
The government’s spending on flood defences has come under criticism after it emerged that a prevention scheme for the Cumbrian town of Kendal, which was submerged by up to 5ft (1.5 metres) of water after the weekend’s storm, was repeatedly postpone…
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Trump Wins Even If ‘Time’ Magazine Doesn’t Name Him Its ‘Person of the Year’ | The Nation
Time magazine will announce its Person of the Year on NBC’s Today Show on Wednesday, and this year what’s often called a tired publicity stunt for Time Inc. may really matter. Donald Trump would seem destined for the POTY title, but even if he doesn…
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The Next TV Musical Is Actually a Pretty Good Idea | Vanity Fair
NBC’s The Wiz Live! was a surprisingly successful, not-at-all embarrassing effort, one that even got our resident recapper Michelle Collins to stop worrying and love the live TV musical.
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Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Part-Cat, Part-Owl, Part-Human Superhero Comic
This is perhaps one of the silliest, yet most exciting strings of words I’ve ever had to contemplate: Dark Horse have announced that iconic Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood is writing her first ever graphic novel.
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The stunning gains made by France’s far-right National Front party in the first round of voting in regional elections on Sunday were clearly bolstered by fears arising from the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, and from months of relentless news o…
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Is America Ready for Farm-to-Table Guinea Pig? – Modern Farmer
This past June, the New York City police were called to handle a case of “squirrel torture.” When they arrived at the supposed crime scene, they found an immigrant from Ecuador roasting fresh guinea pig over a charcoal fire.
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Congress Still Limits Health Research On Gun Violence : Shots – Health News : NPR
Mass shootings and police shootings have spurred calls for authorities to take action to reduce the violence. But policymakers may be stymied by the dearth of public health research into both gun violence and deaths that involve the police.
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Veggies Under Glass: Greenhouses Could Bring Us Better Winter Produce : The Salt : NPR
In America, our food options are remarkably unaffected by the changing seasons. We just keep eating salad greens and tomatoes without regard to the onset of winter. In most of the country, there’s little chance that the greens we eat in the late fal…
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When the INS tried to deport John Lennon, the FBI pitched in to help / Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “While patiently noting that their anonymous tipsters thought Lennon was not a ‘true revolutionist’ because he used drugs, the FBI worked with INS over several years to bolster a case to deport the Beatles’ musical geni…
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Study: Jeb Bush’s tax plan is 4 times as expensive as his brother’s tax cuts – Vox
The Tax Policy Center — one of the only nonpartisan economic think tanks respected on both sides of the aisle in Washington — has mostly been quiet during the Republican presidential primary season.
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PSA: Latest Humble Bundle lets you play 19 Neo-Geo games in your browser | Ars Technica
Though we’re big fans of getting cheap games via the Humble Bundle service (and giving to charity in the process), it’s easy to lose track of its zillions of sales and promotions.
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See Photos of Endangered Animals Projected Onto The Vatican
Pandas, fish, and leopards covered the storied walls of the Vatican for three hours on Tuesday, in an effort by humanitarian groups to bring attention to the ongoing Paris Climate Talks, and to recognize Pope Francis for his recent encyclical on env…
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Donald Trump Isn’t Your Average Demagogue | New Republic
America has been lucky with its demagogues, who until recently have self-destructed or run into ruin before they could do a maximum amount of damage.
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See Maddie and Tae’s Feisty ‘Shut Up and Fish’ Video | Rolling Stone
Fresh from reeling in a CMA award for their “Girl in a Country Song” video, duo Maddie and Tae inject more salty humor into their latest clip for “Shut Up and Fish.
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Pusha T, The-Dream Tout Money Over Celebrity on ‘M.F.T.R.’ | Rolling Stone
Pusha T douses the fameballs in a savage, self-assured new Darkest Before Dawn offering, “M.F.T.R.” (“More Famous Than Rich”), which premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show. Boi-1da produced the track, which also boasts a silky hook from singer/…
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The Most Surprising Celebrity Breakups of 2015 | Vanity Fair
Ben Affleck and Jennifer GarnerThis one nearly caused the tabloid industry to implode, and fueled what seemed like half of Us Weekly’s covers this summer. By Joe Stevens/Retna Ltd./Corbis.
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Speaking in front of representatives of indigenous communities from across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised “nothing less than a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and First Nations Peoples.
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The Number of Foreign Fighters Who Travelled to Syria and Iraq Doubled Since Last Year | VICE News
As many as 31,000 people from at least 86 countries have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State and other extremist groups since 2011, according to researchers.
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Take A Stroll Down Memory Lane As We Revisit The First Annual Crunchies Awards Show | TechCrunch
It’s hard to believe the 9th Annual Crunchies will be happening soon. It seems like only yesterday we all gathered in Herbst Theater and celebrated the first Crunchies Awards; little did we know it was the just the first of many successful Crunchies…
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As fans pause to remember John Lennon on the 35th anniversary of his death, there is one clip that summarizes his life and career with incredible efficiency. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, famously co-hosted the daytime chatfest The Mike Douglas Sho…
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Chelsea Handler does a lot of stuff in Chelsea Does. At least that’s the impression left by this brand-new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming four-part documentary series: She has an awkward conversation with a creepy-looking, self-delusional robot head.
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Industrial designers predict the future of transportation in 100 years | Technology | The Guardian
Overpopulation in cities makes public transportation the main way to get around in 2115. Cars are banned from urban communities and streets have been repurposed for a new kind of public vehicle, which doesn’t have a set route and instead picks up pe…
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aCommerce Lands Strategic Investment To Expand In Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
The investment was not disclosed, but aCommerce said it is an eight-figure sum that will be used to expand its reach in Southeast Asia and pursue new business opportunities.
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As any loyal Billy On The Street viewer knows, the show’s obstacle courses are always pretty big to-dos.
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Some e-cigarette flavors contain chemical linked to ‘popcorn lung’ disease | The Verge
Some flavored electronic cigarettes may contain a chemical flavoring linked with a severe lung disease.
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BBC Sport – Man City 4-2 Borussia Monchengladbach
Captain Vincent Kompany will miss Manchester City’s final Champions League group game – against Borussia Monchengladbach – with a calf injury. The 29-year-old has been sidelined with the problem since early November.
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The US Army’s Doomed Plan for a Rocket-Propelled Bowling Ball | Motherboard
This story originally appeared on War Is Boring. On April 13, 1972, a North Vietnamese armored assault—unprecedented in scale at this point in the war—smashed into South Vietnamese troops in the city of An Loc.
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You Might Have to Start Paying Spotify to Hear Some New Releases, Report Says | Motherboard
It wasn’t long ago that Spotify was fighting tooth and nail to defend its practice of making its library of tunes available to both paid and free users against the unstoppable, immutable force that is Taylor Swift.
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Hannibal Buress, Kate Upton, and a bunch of other people just signed on for The Disaster Artist, and now this highly anticipated adaptation of the book about how The Room got made has swallowed another famous person into its black hole of weird acti…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger tells climate change deniers “I don’t give a fuck if we agree about climate change.” and compares them to “the last investor in Blockbuster as Netflix emerged.” (businessinsider.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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“Millennial” is not synonymous with “young person.” Millennials will always be members of the generation but won’t always be young.
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What is norovirus and why is it in Chipotle? | Fusion
Over the weekend, more than 80 Boston College students became ill after eating at a Chipotle, a restaurant that finds itself weathering a major public relations and health scare. Initially those falling sick in Boston were assumed to be connected to…
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Legislative Redistricting : NPR
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case testing whether state legislative districts should count all persons or only eligible voters when district lines are being drawn.
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The Sticking Point: U.N. Climate Delegates To Debate Financial Measures : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Rachel Kyte, special envoy for climate change for the World Bank, who explains the push-pull between rich and poor countries over financing measures to stop climate change.
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NPR’s Book Concierge Returns With More Than 260 Recommended Titles : NPR
Petra Mayer, an editor at NPR Books, joins host Audie Cornish to talk about the latest edition the Book Concierge. It’s a filterable list of great reads, recommended by NPR staff and book critics.
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Bernie Sanders Meets With African-American Leaders In Baltimore : NPR
Bernie Sanders met with African-American civic and religious leaders in Baltimore and toured the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested Tuesday. Sanders has been reaching out to African-Americans since he faced harsh criticism from Black Lives…
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Trump Statements On Muslim Immigration Recall Past Episodes Of U.S. Exclusion : NPR
In light of Donald Trump’s statements on Muslim immigration, NPR recalls other national figures who advocated excluding ethnic, religious or political groups from entering or operating freely in the U.S.
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Redlands, Calif., Residents Cope With Link To San Bernardino Shooters : NPR
Redlands, Calif., is a tight knit, affluent city with a small town charm that has been deeply shaken by last week’s shooting in nearby San Bernardino. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik built their arsenal and planned last week’s attack from a home base…
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Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Creates Challenges For The Media : NPR
NPR examines whether Donald Trump’s statements on Muslim immigration will mark a decisive shift in the media’s treatment of the presidential candidate.
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Republicans Denounce Donald Trump’s Call To Ban Muslim Immigrants : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Rick Wilson, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Matt Moore, a chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, about Donald Trump’s controversial proposal.
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Muslim Americans React To Donald Trump’s Controversial Statements : NPR
Muslim Americans say they’re upset over Donald Trump’s call to keep Muslims from entering the country.
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No Child Left Behind: An Obituary : NPR Ed : NPR
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote as soon as tomorrow on replacing the nation’s big education law, known since 2001 as No Child Left Behind. And President Obama is expected to sign the new version, ending an era marked by bitter fights between the…
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Illinois Budget Crisis Reveals Cost Of State Fair Butter Sculptures : NPR
A budget crisis in Illinois has revealed the cost of the state fair’s butter sculptures. Courtney Crowder, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, talks about all that butter sculpture money.
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Taiwan’s ‘Strawberry Generation’ Reaches Out To The Young And Trendy : Parallels : NPR
Taiwan’s millennials are known as the “strawberry generation,” and it’s not a compliment. In their own eyes, the millennials are helping to turn the capital city Taipei into something hipper, a place that embraces creativity and innovation.
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U.S., Cuba Begin Negotiating Billions Of Dollars In Financial Claims : NPR
The U.S. and Cuba begin talks on one of the thorniest issues between them: financial claims dating back to the Cuban revolution.
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If You Build Affordable Housing For Teachers, Will They Come? : NPR Ed : NPR
If you pull into Hertford County High School in northeastern North Carolina, pass the bus circle and the soccer fields, and continue to a patch of woods, you find three, cheerful, two-story apartment buildings.
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Drug Cocktails Fuel Massachusetts’ Overdose Crisis : Shots – Health News : NPR
In a brick plaza next to the Chelsea, Massachusetts city hall, Anthony, a bald but still-youthful man in grey sweats, tells me he spent the previous night in the hospital for what he says was his twelfth overdose.
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Voting Rights Threatened Again Before the Supreme Court | The Nation
On Tuesday morning the Supreme Court heard Evenwel v. Abbott, the most important voting rights case since the Court’s conservative majority gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 2013.
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Firefox OS smartphones are dead | Ars Technica
Mozilla is ending its plan to build an OS for smartphones. Today at Mozilla’s “Mozlando” developer event, the company announced that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. TechCrunch has a statement from Ari Jaaksi, Mozilla’s S…
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Industrial designers predict the future of transportation in 50 years | Technology | The Guardian
Utilizing existing train, subway and street car infrastructure, Maglev
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Yahoo Is Reportedly Not Going To Spin Off Stake In Alibaba | TechCrunch
Yahoo is reportedly not going to spin off Alibaba, according to sources cited by CNBC. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo’s board was debating whether or not to spin off its 15% stake in Alibaba, sell off Alibaba’s Inter…
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Donald Trump’s Worst Idea Isn’t Even Original | Mother Jones
On Monday, Donald Trump unveiled a plan to block Muslims from entering the United States. On Tuesday, he suggested he might have been okay with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Almost immediately, critics looked for historic…
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Kick Off Your Daily Journaling Habit With This Simple Template
Journaling every day is a habit that comes with a lot of great benefits, like dealing with emotions, focusing on goals, and developing creativity. If you don’t know where to start, this simple template can help you get the ball rolling.
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Donald Trump to GOP establishment: Just try me – Vox
For months, the Republican establishment has faced a difficult dilemma in dealing with poll leader Donald Trump.
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The world’s CO2 emissions fell in 2015. But don’t celebrate just yet. – Vox
See that dip at the end? A new study in Nature Climate Change reports that worldwide carbon-dioxide emissions likely dropped slightly in 2015, the first time that’s ever happened without the help of a global economic crisis. That’s definitely notewo…
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How Republican Presidential Candidates Are Shoring Up Their Anti-LGBT Credentials | ThinkProgress
Over the past few weeks, several Republican presidential candidates have served up attacks on LGBT people, recommitting themselves to persecution by rolling back gains for equality and enshrining the right to discriminate into law.
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Universal’s Mummy Reboot May Have Found Its Mummy
Looks like those recent rumors about Universal looking to gender-swap some of the stars of their Universal Monsters reboots might have been true! New reports suggest that rising Kingsman: The Secret Service star Sofia Boutella has signed on to terro…
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Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.
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Most violence in the world is motivated by personal morality – Quartz
What motivates someone to be violent? This is a question many people are asking in the wake of the recent mass shootings in California. Most explanations tend to revolve around the core assumption that violence is wrong.
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Whether Up Is Down or Down Is Up , There’s Never a Need to Reduce Emissions at The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page (nymag.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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The White House spokesman said on Tuesday that Republican candidate Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the US disqualified him from becoming president and called on Republicans to reject him immediately.
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Get Ready To Appreciate The Fantasy Art of Frank Frazetta on a Whole New Level! [NSFW]
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Neighbor Shot Guns and Studied Islam With Syed Rizwan Farook, Friend Says – The Daily Beast
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The Exotic Pet Trade | Al Jazeera America
In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught in an undercover sting operation. His crime? Snatching three Fiji Island banded iguanas (Brachylophus fasciatus) from a nature preserve and attempting to sell them to an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi…
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It has been hard to pass a highway or a tollbooth in New Jersey over the past three years without a billboard declaring “Rutgers Is Big.
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Getting a Linux box corralled into a DDoS botnet is easier than many think | Ars Technica
Getting a Linux server hacked and made part of a botnet is easier than some people may think. As two unrelated blog posts published in the past week demonstrate, running a vulnerable piece of software is often all that’s required.
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A terror expert clearly and calmly explains the risk of “lone wolf” ISIS attacks in the US – Vox
Since the San Bernardino shootings, it’s become increasingly clear that the shooters — Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik — had been radicalized by jihadist propaganda, and Malik reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Faceb…
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Atlantic Readers Debate Campus PC with Haidt and Lukianoff – The Atlantic
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Abigail Breslin to have the time of her life in Dirty Dancing TV musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The third time was the charm for NBC when The Wiz Live! not only turned out to be not terrible, but was in fact an enjoyable update of the ’70s original.
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For a special friend. . . / Boing Boing
To a beautiful friend Please do not break this Send it to a minimum of 3 people… But Not before you read below… There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won’t anymore… And who always will.
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The 2015 kottke.org Holiday Gift Guide
For the past few years, I’ve featured the season’s best gift guides from other sites and pulled out a few things from each that I think you might be interested in. Let’s get right to it. As usual, my #1 gift guide suggestion is: make like Zuck and g…
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Why Dunkin’ Donuts Is Betting Big On Women’s Hockey | ThinkProgress
The National Women’s Hockey League, the first paid professional hockey league for women in North America, reached another monumental milestone on Tuesday when they announced Dunkin’ Donuts as the league’s first corporate sponsor.
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Send Us Things to Open on Our Unboxing Series ‘I Will Open Anything’ | Motherboard
We believe it’s imperative—or at the very least kind of fun—to not only notify the world of the existence of bitcoin-for-horse-poop services or a startups that literally sell boxes of rocks (or boxes of roxes), but to try these services out for ours…
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Will El Niño Mean Disaster for Guatemala? | Al Jazeera America
FLOR DEL CAFÉ, Guatemala – In their tiny mud shack in the mountains of Guatemala, corn farmer Mauro Cante and his wife, Clara, prepare tortillas for their children. Corn tortillas are the mainstay of their diet; the family eats them for breakfast, l…
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Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland died on December 3, and some of his old bandmates released a statement in the days that followed in which they paid tribute to the man and commented on how much they’d miss him.
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See Kate Middleton in a Tiara for the Fourth Time Ever | Vanity Fair
No, you are not having some kind of Duchess of Cambridge-fueled fever dream (though it’d be understandable if you were, since we have one every day around three P.M.): Kate Middleton did wear a tiara quite recently—on October 20, 2015, in fact.
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Clevelands Raises Smoking Age to 21 – The Atlantic
For as long as the uniform drinking age in the United States has been 21—1984, by most accounts— it has been easy to rail against the dynamic where one can be adult enough to go to war, but not to have a drink.
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Duran Duran, Chic Announce 2016 North American Tour | Rolling Stone
Duran Duran, Chic Announce 2016 North American Tour Bands recently played a string of West Coast dates together in October
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Now Here’s Some Good News: Global Warming Emissions Could Actually Be in Decline | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. As world leaders in Paris scramble to reach a climate agreement aimed to mitigate the consequences of untamed greenhouse gas emissions, they have been …
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Canadian Islamic School Says It Doesn’t Know If Its Students Joined the Islamic State | VICE News
A Canadian Islamic school says it has no idea whether new allegations that four of its students joined the Islamic State (IS) are true.
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Coffee spill: Thousands of coffee cans wash up in Indialantic
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Saudi Arabia accused of trying to wreck Paris climate deal – One of the world’s largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal and making implausible objections, say delegates and campaigners (theguardian.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loadin…
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Terrifying New Poll Shows the Appeal of Trump’s Islamophobia | Rolling Stone
The 2016 presidential race took its ugliest turn yet Monday when GOP frontrunner Donald Trump called for a “total complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – a proposal that earned him raucous cheers from the Republican crowd at a ral…
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Sunrise over Iowa [1477×831] : SkyPorn
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Before it even launched in early 2013, more than 1 million people signed up to try Mailbox. A month later, at the height of the app’s popularity, Dropbox bought it for a reported $100 million.
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Jury acquits white police officer who broke black suspect’s jaw with kick | US news | The Guardian
Jurors deliberated for about 16 hours over three days in the case of Dover police officer Thomas Webster IV for charges of felony assault and misdemeanor assault. Webster testified he didn’t intend to kick Lateef Dickerson in the head in August 2013…
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Russia hits targets in Syria from ‘Mediterranean submarine’ – BBC News
Russia says it has for the first time hit targets in Syria with missiles launched from a submarine. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Kalibr cruise missiles from the Rostov-on-Don submarine were fired at so-called Islamic State (IS) militants, at …
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The Big List of What’s Wrong with the TPP / Boing Boing
The Trans Pacific Partnership: it’s thousands of pages’ worth of dense bureaucratic language setting out the give-and-take of years’ worth of secret negotiations. Figuring out what it means for you is a transcendentally difficult process.
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Chicago police release video of officers Tasering prisoner – video | US news | The Guardian
Chicago police released video footage late Monday of officers repeatedly shocking a man in a jail cell with a Taser. The 2012 footage shows Philip Coleman lying on a cot before six officers crowd into his cell.
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What happened to Apple design? | The Verge
Apple today announced its very own battery cases for the iPhone 6 and 6S.
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Si rien n’est fait, avertissent les climatologues, les températures pourraient augmenter de presque 5°C d’ici 2100 par rapport au niveau de l’époque préindustrielle.
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Uber’s Testing A New Mass Transit Alternative | TechCrunch
Uber is gearing up to pilot a new ride-sharing service in Seattle called uberHOP, in an attempt to get “more butts into the backseats of fewer cars,” according to an Uber blog post from today.
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Build a Simple, Photo Snapping Alarm System with an Arduino
Alarm systems are complicated affairs. However, if you’re just looking to catch a sandwich thief at work or a cat spilling over all you water bottles, then Make shows you how to build an alarm system with an Arduino and a USB camera.
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Emerging Markets at the Crossroads – BBC News
The emerging market countries are at a crossroads, facing the possibility of new era of slower economic growth. That is the warning in a new report from economics at the World Bank.
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Get Ready To Appreciate The Fantasy Art of Frank Frazetta on a Whole New Level! [NSFW]
Chances are you’ve admired the bold, dramatic paintings of Frank Frazetta. But you haven’t seen the best of his art. A huge collection of his sketches, drawings and watercolor paintings is going up for sale—and you could gain a new appreciation for …
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Neighbor Shot Guns and Studied Islam With Syed Rizwan Farook, Friend Says – The Daily Beast
LOS ANGELES — When authorities named the two shooters who struck San Bernardino last week, Enrique Marquez immediately called his close friend to share his shock.
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Transparent’s First Trans Director on Telling His Story Through Maura | Vanity Fair
Jill Soloway wanted to shake things up on the set of Transparent, because it had always been important for her that trans directors be able tell their own stories, and she wanted to make her hit show reflect that. “Directing is a great privilege.
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Why Supergirl Star Melissa Benoist Is the “Annie Hall of Superheroes” | Vanity Fair
Melissa Benoist was four years old when her aunt put her in a church play she was directing.
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Study: 1 in 5 Americans Use the Internet ‘Almost Constantly’
A great majority of Americans go online every day, and 21 percent use the Internet “almost constantly,” according to a survey by Pew Research Center.
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1 in 5 Americans Use Internet ‘Almost Constantly’: Pew Study – NBC News
A great majority of Americans go online every day, and 21 percent use the Internet “almost constantly,” according to a survey by Pew Research Center.
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There’s One Issue that Could Make or Break a Climate Deal | New Republic
There may be a climate agreement as soon as Thursday, as the French government has insisted on seeing a deal adopted in time for the summit’s end on Friday.
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A linguist explains the “YouTube voice” / Boing Boing
YouTube stars employ a watered-down, carnival-barker style of annunciation to keep viewers interested, says Julie Beck of The Atlantic, who asked to Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University, to explain what’s going on.
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Economists: Climate change is going to cost a lot more than previously thought | More than three-quarters of them said they believed the U.S. should commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions regardless of the actions taken by other countries (wash…
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2015: The Year in Photos, January-April (40 photos) https://t.co/0Tw4lMq3na https://t.co/UKPdJ6ZM9l
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What If Ted Cruz Wins Iowa? | FiveThirtyEight
In this week’s 2016 Slack chat, we unpack the potential paths leading out of Iowa, depending on who wins there. As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited.
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UK ‘scores well’ on climate, for now – BBC News
Denmark, the UK and Sweden have topped the international rankings in an index of countries combating climate change. The annual table is compiled by green groups Germanwatch and Climate Action Network.
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Syria conflict: Number of foreign fighters ‘doubled in 16 months’ – BBC News
The number of foreign fighters in Syria has gone up from 12,000 to at least 27,000 since June 2014, according to a new report by a security consultancy. The report from the Soufan Group says Arab countries supply the greatest number of recruits.
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Violent Land Invasions on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast — ‘Just Like the Spaniards’ | VICE News
As the June sun rose over Angloamérica — a tiny village of wooden shacks on the Grande de Matagalpa river on Nicaragua’s southern Atlantic Coast — Pablo Francisco Moncado grabbed his gun. For several weeks, Moncado had woken up each morning expectin…
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Rick Springfield, singer, songwriter, and actor is apparently also a big ol’ geek. In addition to vintage rockets and robots, the former Dr. Noah Drake also has quite a collection of vintage Star Wars toys, according to Rolling Stone.
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Shit just got real. Popcorn at the ready! White House doesn’t have the decision to disqualify a candidate. Looks like they just want to publicly address the GOP in hopes that they are embarrassed enough to do so.
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How has racism changed over time? – Al Jazeera English
The latest remarks by United States Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump have caused condemnation inside and outside the US. Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
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Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media https://t.co/UhPgcAiURy https://t.co/ft3Wg5eqRl
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Is Apple’s Smart Battery Case so goofy because it was designed around Mophie’s patents? | The Verge
It’s fair to say that Apple’s new iPhone Smart Battery Case is not the most attractive product the company has ever released.
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Spotify might make some music available only to paid users | The Verge
Spotify has roughly 80 million active monthly users, 20 million of whom pay and 60 million of whom enjoy the music for free and listen to ads. The company has always maintained that all of its users would have access to the same catalog of music.
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Army decides to stop putting soldiers’ Social Security numbers on their dog tags / Boing Boing
In a major policy change that sounds like a Very Good Idea, the U.S. Army announced today that dog tags will no longer include the Social Security numbers of the soldier wearing them. SSNs have been part of this identification system for over 40 yea…
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Adding to Your Facebook Baby-Photo Overload | Vanity Fair
Mark Zuckerberg is finally realizing his potential as the oversharing, overjoyed dad we always knew he would be. The 31-year-old Facebook founder posted a photo of him beaming at his newborn baby girl Maxima “Max” Chan Zuckerberg to his Facebook pag…
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Bodyboarding champion saves pro surfer from drowning off Hawaii coast | US news | The Guardian
A South Africa bodyboarding champion has been praised for saving the life of a professional surfer who almost drowned after a wipeout off the coast of Hawaii.
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Video shows Chicago police officers using Taser repeatedly on man in jail | US news | The Guardian
Chicago police released video footage of officers repeatedly shocking a man in a jail cell with a Taser, the third controversial video depicting use of force by Chicago police released in recent weeks.
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Protect the Right Places For Biodiversity – Scientific American
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Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science | Environment | The Guardian
An undercover sting by Greenpeace has revealed that two prominent climate sceptics were available for hire by the hour to write reports casting doubt on the dangers posed by global warming.
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The Internet Is Everywhere – The Atlantic
Throughout Donald Barthelme’s short story “See The Moon?” the narrator keeps saying that fragments are the only forms he trusts.
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Beijing Landmarks Obscured by Smog During Pollution ‘Red Alert’ – The Atlantic
If you look hard enough through the thick haze that regularly engulfs Beijing, you can probably make out the faint outline of such iconic structures as the China Central Television (CCTV) tower, the Bird’s Nest stadium, and Tiananmen Square.
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The first Hyperloop test track will be built in Las Vegas | The Verge
Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one of the two startups working to make Elon Musk’s dream of frictionless, supersonic travel a reality, acquired 50 acres of land near Las Vegas to build the first test track for its propulsion system, the company announ…
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Vatican animal projections light up St Peter’s Basilica – BBC News
The Vatican has thrown its weight behind an environmental cause, to coincide with the final days of the climate negotiations in Paris. It allowed St. Peter’s Basilica to be turned into a huge backdrop for an art show about nature, with images of var…
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Trump: London so radicalised, police fear for their lives – audio | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump says parts of London are so ‘radicalised’, seemingly in reference to Islamist extremism, that police officers are ‘afraid for their own lives’.
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Gunfire erupts in CAR after poll candidates announced – Al Jazeera English
Gunfire has erupted in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui, where protesters erected barricades after an announcement that ex-president Francois Bozize was barred from running for election.
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Chicago police release new video of 2012 officer-involved death
Philip Coleman, 38, died at Roseland Community Hospital three years ago after he was taken into police custody and put in a cell. Newly released surveillance video shows officers crowding around Coleman before one of them uses a Taser stun gun on hi…
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All the Feels: A Scientific Ranking of Emoji Sentiment | Motherboard
What’s in an emoji? A by any other pictogram would be as sweet. Yet we still struggle sometimes to suss out exactly what an emoji is meant to convey.
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Every Company in the Hyperloop Game Will Have Test Tracks Next Year | Motherboard
Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one of two commercial companies racing to build Elon Musk’s futuristic hyperloop transportation system, announced on Tuesday that it purchased land for a kilometre-long test track to be built in Nevada next year.
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The Long Haul: One Year of Solitude on America’s Highways
I woke up driving an eighteen-wheeler 60 miles per hour through a field east of Amarillo, Texas. My partner was screaming as he bounced around in the back; he had just woken up, too. Everything in the truck rattled and shook. Baggage rained down on …
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Why Algae Could Be the Greatest—and Trickiest—Fuel Source of All
From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle.
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Gun Deaths Map: How Many People Have Been Shot Near You?
In relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities have this year joined the bloodstained ranks of American mass shooting locations.
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It took five years of deadline extensions and an extra $10 million in prize money, but two private organizations have paid for launches in 2017 that they hope will make them the first private groups to land a robot on the moon.
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This Beautiful Zootopia Concept Art Explains How All Animals Live Together In One City
Disney Animation has been on a roll recently and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop anytime soon. Their next film, Zootopia, hits theaters March 4 and it features a world just like ours, except it’s totally populated by animals. But animals are…
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CleanMyDrive 2 Automatically Cleans Out Junk on OS X Hard Drives, Gets Redesigned with New Look
We were fans of CleanMyDrive when it was initially released, because it made managing multiple external drives a lot easier. Now, with a recent update, the app’s even better.
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Dealmaster: Get a Jackery 12,000mAh battery pack for just $22 | Ars Technica
Hello Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a ton of great deals today—and one in particular that could sell out quickly. For today only, you can get a Jackery Giant+ 12,000mAh portable battery pack for only $22 and change.
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Watch a musician play Bach’s “Air on the G String” on actual g-string underwear / Boing Boing
Crafty and eccentric YouTube musician Andrew Huang enjoys performing classical compositions on weird objects. This one is pretty genius: Bach’s “Air on the G String” – played with actual g-strings underwear. More of his work at andrewhuang.com.
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Spike TV orders its first scripted series in 9 years, Red Mars, to series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Marking its first original scripted series in nine years, Spike TV has given a straight-to-series order to Red Mars, a show based on the award-winning “Mars Trilogy” by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wrap reports.
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The Year in Literary Backlash | New Republic
This year wasn’t short on the best kind of book: the type that polarizes opinion. While hype is nice for authors and their publishers, the widely-praised and easily-accepted book is a less enticing prospect for the public than the book critics have …
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A coalition of more than 100 countries, formed in secrecy six months ago, has emerged at key UN talks in Paris to push for a legally binding global and ambitious deal on climate change.
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Saving Groundwater May Solve California’s Drought Problem – The Atlantic
Four winters ago, something odd was visible in the vineyards on Don Cameron’s land: water, up to a foot-and-a-half of it, drenching the grapevines and turning a normally picturesque field into an unsightly bog.
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Were the San Bernardino Attackers Radicalized Online? – The Atlantic
Nearly a week after the attacks in San Bernardino, the picture of the attackers and what drove them remains murky.
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Will the FTC Stop the Biggest Office-Supply Merger? – The Atlantic
On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission moved to block a planned merger between the office-supply giants Staples and Office Depot. The FTC’s complaint charges that the proposed $6.
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Joshua Foer, winner of the 2006 USA Memory Championship and author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, shows us how to memorize anything using a “memory palace” technique with the first 100 digits of pi as an…
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Fuller House to offer winkingly ironic explanation for missing Tanner kid · Newswire · The A.V. Club
By now, we all know that the forthcoming family reunion on Netflix’s Fuller House will be short its shortest member. For despite the best efforts of the best Tanner, Katsopolis, and Gladstone men, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen just couldn’t be persuade…
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Did Google rip off the Last Week Tonight theme for a new commercial? · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Just a few weeks after Tom Scharpling accused Google of ripping off one of his songs for one of its commercials, Dave Hill has done the same thing.
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Save 20% on Music, Apps, Movies, and iCloud With This Discounted iTunes Card
If you ever pay for iOS apps, movies, music, or iCloud storage with your credit card, you’re throwing money down the drain. Instead, stock up on iTunes gift cards at a 20% discount, and grab some to give as gifts while you’re at it. [$100 iTunes Gif…
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As Sinatra Sees It | New Republic
Henry A. Wallace, Esq. I am writing this on December 7. There are only 14 more shopping days, just two more frantic Saturdays, till Christmas. I happened to be on Fifth Avenue this morning, in one of the big department stores, as who wasn’t? But I l…
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Sheer Mag’s Kyle Seely Roughs Up Classic Rock | Rolling Stone
WHO: Sheer Mag guitarist Kyle Seely acknowledges that “everyone thinks I was born and raised on nothing but Seventies rock,” and it isn’t hard to understand why.
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American Electric Power quits Alec as it helps states move to clean power : environment
American Electric Power quits Alec as it helps states move to clean power (theguardian.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Amazing Double Exposure of a Wolf : pics
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This Thursday at 12pm EST Neha Shastry will join On The Line to take your questions on the Navajo nation’s contaminated water crisis. Decades of uranium mining have contaminated the majority of water sources on Navajo Nation land.
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SAN FRANCISCO — In the hours after 14 people were killed in San Bernardino, Calif., a familiar voice celebrated the attacks on Twitter: “California, we have already arrived with our soldiers. Decide how to be your end, with knife or bomb.”
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Dogs Have A Conscience Too | Neuroscience News
That man’s best friend has a conscience is what every owner would be willing to bet, without even thinking about it for a moment. This means that dogs have self-consciousness. But the problem in science is that ideas and assumptions must be demonstr…
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If this year has proven anything for film-maker Quentin Tarantino, it’s that the 52-year-old hasn’t mellowed with age.
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Trumpism would be the perfect ideology for a third party – Vox
The past few months have revealed what a successful third party might look like in American politics. Not the milquetoast, deficit-cutting third party of elder statesmen’s dreams but something very different.
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How Star Wars fans felt about “The Phantom Menace” after seeing it for the first time / Boing Boing
Love these Heavy Metal Parking Lot style man-on-the-street supercuts from late 20th century local TV news. Literally can’t get enough of them. This compilation shows how much fans loved Star Wars Phantom Menace. In a matter of days, Star Wars Episod…
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Steve Bell on Donald Trump – cartoon | Comment is free | The Guardian
Illustration: Steve Bell 2015
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The family sat sombrely beside the casket watching six white-gloved pallbearers fold the Stars and Stripes in a silent, ritualistic mime. A chaplain spoke a prayer, a bugler sounded Taps and a firing party shot three times into the soft morning ligh…
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Midday open thread: 1.1 million gun deaths since John Lennon slaying 35 years ago
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the diagnosis rate of HIVA dropped 19 percent from 2005 to 2014. Among heterosexuals, new HIV diagnoses fell by 35 percent; among people who inject drugs, 63 percent; among women, 40 percent.
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Donald Trump says ‘I. Don’t. Care’: tell the world why #WeDoCare | US news | The Guardian
People across the world are horrified: Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the White House, announced a “policy” to ban all Muslims from entering the United States if he is elected next year. And then the candidate doubled down on his…
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Drax Drunkenly Explains His Tattoos in This New Guardians of the Galaxy Deleted Scene
Tucked away in the recently released Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Blu-ray megaset are a few never-before-seen deleted scenes, including this one, where a drunken Drax the Destroyer discusses the origins of his tattoos with a couple of DT halluc…
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Malaria Deaths Drop Below Half a Million as Africa Makes Progress – Scientific American
LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people killed by malaria dropped below half a million in the past year, reflecting vast progress against the mosquito-borne disease in some of the previously hardest-hit areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
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How do you solve a problem like the Donald? Primaries. – Vox
Donald Trump’s most recent policy pronouncement — the banning of US immigrants based on religion — appears to have pushed the Republican Party from partial to full panic mode. Trump’s candidacy does not seem to be flaming out as expected.
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French diplomacy is fighting 23 years of entrenched positions in international climate talks as backroom negotiations continue with the aim of pushing through a draft agreement by Wednesday.
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Johnny Manziel comes back in from the cold to start for Browns | Sport | The Guardian
The Johnny Manziel saga continues. After he was benched last month for lying to coaches about the extent of his partying in an Austin nightclub, Manziel is back – and he’ll start for the Browns against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
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Maximum-security prisoners receive Grammy nomination – Al Jazeera English
They are housed in a crammed, dilapidating maximum-security prison, and their album was recorded with the most basic of equipment. Yet, come February, this unlikely collective might be at the top of the music world. Most of the participants are serv…
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What no one wants to admit about fighting ISIS: the US has only bad choices – Vox
ISIS really is different. Its ultimate and obsessed-over goal, to bring on the apocalypse, makes the group impossible to reason with.
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The Trump effect is real – Vox
My esteemed colleague Lee Drutman marshals political science wisdom and a good dose of calm to argue that even supposing Donald Trump is able to get elected president of the United States, he is overwhelmingly likely to find himself the captive of t…
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George Saunders Explains How to Tell a Good Story – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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America’s world champion women’s soccer team is treated worse than our mediocre men’s team – Vox
The world champion US women’s national soccer team has had to put up with a lot. For their stunning 5-2 World Cup victory over Japan in July, they were paid 17 times less than the German men’s team, who won the 2014 World Cup ($2 million versus $35 …
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How to Pack for a Weekend Trip
Last weekend I went to Hudson, NY, to enjoy some really good food. I took my good old Condor 3-day assault pack and followed this advice on how to pack for a weekend trip.
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This is an article from Turning Points, a magazine that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. Turning Point: Uber becomes one of the world’s most valuable start-ups.
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These Pink Dolphins Are Dying off the Coast of Hong Kong | VICE News
Prospects for the survival of Hong Kong’s pink dolphins aren’t looking too rosy.
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The Hyperloop Will Begin Testing In Nevada In 2016 | Popular Science
The startup company Hyperloop Technologies — which takes its name from Elon Musk’s proposed invention but has no direct connection to him — announced today that it will build a test track for the ultra-fast transportation service in North Las Vegas,…
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FA/HOCKEY FIGHT/FUCK II THE MOVIE on Vimeo
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The man who taught your cab driver how to navigate NYC — Hopes&Fears
In Jackson Heights, Queens, AJ Gogia runs his cab driving school like a strict headmaster. His charisma has landed him in the year’s most acclaimed documentary and brought offers for a reality TV show, which he rejected.
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Explore the history of invention through cool-looking patent models / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. What many Americans may not be aware of is that, from the introduction of the U.S. Patent system, in 1790, up until 1880, every submitted patent document required a model of the invention to accompany it.
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Chatuchak– an Illegal Wildlife Marketplace | Al Jazeera America
Chatuchak in Bangkok is one of the largest open flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 venders selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and accessories, endangere…
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‘Democracy as Usual in Venezuela’ | The Nation
“Democracy as Usual in Venezuela,” The New York Times editorialized in December 1983, “Some events deserve notice because they are unremarkable, the democratic succession in Venezuela for example.
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Miami is sinking beneath the sea – but not without a fight : environment
Miami is sinking beneath the sea – but not without a fight (newrepublic.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Fish shaped sushi (nigiri) : pics
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Jon Stewart returns to “Daily Show” to advocate for 9/11 first responders – CBS News : politics
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Donald Trump, Under Fire, Defends Call to Block Muslims https://t.co/d66TETbZNa https://t.co/V93RzOgzgw
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The Climate Talks Are All About Money | New Republic
That’s a cheap trick of course. Most things are about money, except money, which is about power.
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Here’s What Virtual Reality Means For Kids Stuck In The Hospital | TechCrunch
There’s not much that I can say to set this video up other than it’s just one of the incredible possibilities that virtual reality brings. UploadVR spotted it first. C.S.
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Rock Against Drugs PSAs were strangely trippy in the 1980s · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Drugs and rock ’n’ roll have a long and storied history and have accomplished a great deal together. Among their most famous collaborations is the entire 1970s.
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WASHINGTON—Finishing off the judicial pragmatist with his signature Flying Hammer Of Precedent, John Roberts reportedly dove from atop the Supreme Court bench Tuesday and delivered a final knockout blow to Stephen Breyer to retain the title of Chief…
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Oil producers prepare for prices to halve to $20 a barrel | Business | The Guardian
The world’s leading oil producers are preparing for the possibility of oil prices halving to $20 a barrel after a second day of financial market turmoil saw a fresh slide in crude, the lowest iron ore prices in a decade, and losses on global stock m…
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Mozilla has killed the Firefox phone | The Verge
Could Firefox OS come back as an Internet of Things platform? Today, Mozilla revealed that it will no longer develop or sell Firefox OS smartphones and devices, ending a two and a half year effort to break into the low-end smartphone world.
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At Paris Climate Talks, Young Activists Share What Dystopia Feels Like | Motherboard
The climate talks in Paris have been called a circus, and to be fair, Sustain-a-Claus did just walk by in his red velvet suit. Earlier in the day I watched a couple dressed as penguins stroll the halls of this convention center on the edge of Paris,…
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Prince posts his cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” without a trace of irony · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Way back in 2008, Prince performed a version of Radiohead’s “Creep” during his headlining set at Coachella.
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When Will Superheroes Dress Like Us? – Racked
Chances are you didn’t know who Jessica Jones was four months ago, but you do now. The wise-cracking protagonist of the eponymous hit Netflix show, based on the Marvel Comics character, is fall’s newest icon.
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Magaret Atwood is working on her first graphic novel series | The Verge
It’s called Angel Catbird. You cannot make this stuff up. Comics are going to be so weird in 2016. Dark Horse Comics has just announced that The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood is writing her first graphic novel series titled Angel Catbird. P…
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Video Shows Seattle Cops Gunning Down Driver After ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Crime Spree | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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A Former Canadian Soldier Who Is Now Fighting the Islamic State Calls Out Justin Trudeau | VICE News
In the wake of one Canadian veteran’s death fighting against the Islamic State (IS), another former soldier with the same rebel group is calling out Justin Trudeau’s government for lack of action — and urging others like him to go rogue and join the…
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Care That You’re Horrified About His Comments on Muslims | VICE News
Donald Trump has many talents. But perhaps his greatest skill, which has become increasingly clear in recent hours, is the unique ability to unite the deeply divided left and right wings of the American political landscape together in their outrage …
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Art Crime Detectives Expose the Ugly Truths of the Art World | The Creators Project
Every day across the world, an art crime is taking place, from Harmony Korine’s 2014 Blue Checker painting being swiped from an office lobby, to ISIS’ looting of historical antiquities in Palmyra.
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Let These Inuit Men Show You How To Build An Igloo Like A Boss – Digg
4 diggs How-To Curious World Winter is here and your house is full of beer cans and pizza boxes. Take the chance to start anew and learn how to build an igloo from two Inuit experts in this classic short film.
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Jon Stewart is slowly transforming into Jonathan Goldsmith – the most interesting man in the world – by way of Anderson Cooper. Edit: Here, look, I made a comparison chart.
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As denunciations rained down on him from Washington and around the world, Donald J. Trump on Tuesday defended his call to block all Muslims from entering the United States, casting it as a temporary move in response to Islamic State terrorism and in…
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Republicans question whether party ‘can survive Donald Trump’ | US news | The Guardian
Will Donald Trump’s proposal for a “total and complete shutdown on Muslims entering the United States” have a lasting impact on the Republican party’s brand?
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Chipotle says Boston Collage illnesses not E. coli – BBC News
Chipotle has blamed a norovirus for making 80 Boston College students who ate at the Mexican restaurant sick. The restaurant chain has been battling to save its reputation and share price amid a growing E. coli outbreak.
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Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Part-Cat, Part-Owl, Part-Human Superhero Comic
This is perhaps one of the silliest, yet most exciting strings of words I’ve ever had to contemplate: Dark Horse have announced that iconic Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood is writing her first ever graphic novel.
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The BBC is getting ready to air a documentary, Secrets of the Mona Lisa, which will delve into the research of French scientist Pascal Cotte. Using an innovative imaging technique, Cotte has managed to probe the paint layers beneath the surface of d…
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A spectre is haunting the modern world – the spectre of President Donald Trump. It should be said immediately that a Trump presidency is very far from certain. Mr Trump possesses a gold-plated private hotline to the Republican, mainly white, grassro…
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France Considers Restricting Internet Access After Paris Attacks | ThinkProgress
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump suggested Monday that America should close its borders to all Muslims and “close up” the internet to prevent Islamic extremism. “We’re losing a lot of people because of the internet.
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Video Shows Seattle Cops Gunning Down Driver After ‘Grand Theft Auto’-Style Crime Spree | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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Think of Questions, Not Answers when Brainstorming
It’s easy to think that when you’re brainstorming, you should come up with a list of possible solutions. Over on 99u, they suggest the opposite approach: think of new questions. Instead of thinking about what needs to get solved, think about what qu…
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How ISIL seized most of its weapons from Iraq military – Al Jazeera English
An Amnesty International report has detailed how the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group obtained the bulk of their vast arms supply from the Iraqi army.
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Ars talks with David Braben on the challenges of making games for real VR | Ars Technica
Ninety frames per second. That’s the new target for consumer VR gear: you need hardware capable of rendering two HD images with all the trimmings at a steady 90fps, or the whole thing starts to shake and judder and make you sick.
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Curlytoes Asway: refreshingly honest and weird modern Christmas carol / Boing Boing
Dan Ashwood writes, “I wrote and animated a new holy days carol to memorize and perform at neighbors and homeowners. Take a look!”
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Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been murdered? | Dangerous Minds
John Lennon was just 40 years old when he shot 35 years ago by Mark David Chapman in the archway of The Dakota building on the Upper West Side of New York City on December 8th, 1980.
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Lionsgate to keep making Hunger Games movies in perpetuity · Newswire · The A.V. Club
One might think that after stretching Suzanne Collins’ bestselling young-adult trilogy into a lucrative cinematic tetralogy, Lionsgate would be satisfied that it had squeezed every bit of narrative (and money) from the pages of The Hunger Games.
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When you see photos of Jupiter, they’re almost always the of same view: the north pole at the top, the gaseous bands perfectly horizontal, and the Red Spot somewhere in the mix. But @robdubbin reminds us that there are other ways of looking at Jupit…
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Donald Trump’s Muslim ban proposal throws Republican party into chaos | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was disowned by his own party’s top leadership on Tuesday and faced calls to drop his White House bid as the world reacted with outrage to his plan for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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There is a pervading aspect of loneliness to our current age of personal media. It seems designed to close us off from the world while simultaneously opening us up to a wealth of new and amazing things.
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The Pros And Cons Of Political Correctness – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A key issue currently driving a wedge between political parties in the U.S. is the question of so-called political correctness, or the avoidance of language and actions that could be construed as exclusive, oppressive, or marginalizing of minority g…
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Frank Sinatra’s smarmy voice makes Christmas all about him · 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. I don’t like Frank Sinatra. I find him smug, and that smugness always comes across in his too-perfect voice.
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A Teenager Takes Charge of Her Psychic Powers In This Eerie Short
We don’t know who she is, or what’s happened to her in the past, but the mute young protagonist of short science fiction film Strawberries has a very special talent—and she’s had just about enough of the mysterious man who’s been ordering her how to…
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Ignore the fratty marketing and enjoy the sports spoofery of Balls Out · 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. It’s understandable that not …
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There’s a long list of issues standing between Congress and a funded government
The deadline of funding government by this Friday is almost certainly blown, with a short-term funding bill likely.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Supreme Court heard two redistricting cases on Wednesday. Prior to this morning, the first, Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, appeared unlikely to prove explosive, while the second, Evenwel v.
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Afghan Taliban Launches Attack on Kandahar Airport | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. Taliban forces attacked the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday and were engaged in fighting with secur…
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Investigation Finds Close Relationship Between Academics And Fossil Fuel Companies | ThinkProgress
PARIS, FRANCE — A series of emails published in conjunction with a Greenpeace UK Energy Desk undercover investigation reveal a willingness by prominent academics to accept funding from fossil fuel companies in exchange for producing scientific studi…
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We’re Hiring A Reporter | FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight is looking for an experienced reporter to join our team. We’re still open as to what that writer will cover, but we’re interested in expanding in three areas in particular.
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Ted Cruz, Defender Of Religious Liberty, ‘Commends’ Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Plan | ThinkProgress
This past summer, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted that he would “never hesitate to defend religious liberty — both at home and abroad.” On Tuesday, Cruz declined to condemn Donald Trump’s latest plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
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A Few Other Times Countries Banned Religious or Ethnic Groups | Vanity Fair
Civilization is pockmarked with examples of governments kicking religious people out of their countries, from Spain expelling Jews and Muslims during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, to England forcibly removing the French-Catholic Acadians from…
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Forgotten victims of Storm Desmond | Letters | UK news | The Guardian
The devastating floods in parts of northern England have resulted in a massive collaborative effort to save the lives and property of those affected (‘We never thought that this could happen again’, 7 December).
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Once Again, California Leads the Way | The Nation
At the Paris Climate Change Conference, the world’s nations are pledging their first real steps toward addressing catastrophic climate change.
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SHOWTIME Boxing Steps Into The Virtual Reality Ring | TechCrunch
For the first time ever, a boxing match has been released in its entirety in virtual reality, as SHOWTIME captured the shocking first round TKO from Saturday night’s main event between WBA Middleweight World Champion Daniel Jacobs’ and previously un…
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After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, some people’s minds flew to the materialistic element of the atrocity — the guns that were used in the killing.
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The U.S. Will Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground—Until After the Paris Climate Talks | New Republic
It’s hard to lead the charge against the global consumption of fossil fuels while making money off the sale of them. Perhaps in recognition of this conundrum, the U.S.
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Are You Impulsive? Blame Your Genes | Neuroscience News
‘Delay discounting’ is the tendency, given the choice, to take a smaller reward that is available immediately, instead of a larger reward that will be delivered in the future.
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The 2016 Olympics have prompted widespread violations of children’s rights and other civil liberties, according to a new dossier of alleged abuses compiled by academics and nongovernmental organisations.
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The Simpsons House| Atlas Obscura
Building a life-size version of an iconic cartoon home seemed like a terrific promotional idea back in 1997, but years later, the Simpson’s House in Henderson, Nevada looks like just another pre-fab subdivision two-story, save for all of the fake an…
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Pocket Now Lets You Follow People and Read What They’re Recommending
Pocket’s recommended feed just got a little more personal. You can now follow friends and interesting public figures to see what they’re recommending in the read-it-later service, and share your own recommendations as well.
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Avoid The Diva Mentality For Successful Technology Adoption | TechCrunch
We crave new technology. We loathe new technology. We need change. We fear change.
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Spike TV orders 10-episode series for Red Mars written by Babylon 5 creator | Ars Technica
According to sources speaking to Variety, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars has been green-lighted for a 10-episode TV adaptation on Spike TV. Each episode will be an hour long, and J.
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Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch
Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices a…
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To hear Pixar’s Sanjay Patel tell the story, he never wanted to make a short animated feature about his relationship with his father.
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Apple TV update released to let Siri control Apple Music | The Verge
The first big update for the Apple TV has arrived, adding in the ability to control Apple Music through Siri. Siri’s inability to control Apple’s music service was a strange absence when the device first launched in October, but Apple made it clear …
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President Barack Obama has been a vocal critic of the unraveling of campaign finance regulations by conservatives in government.
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Ivory Coast anger at French warrant for Guillaume Soro – BBC News
Ivory Coast’s government has protested to France after a French judge issued an arrest warrant for the speaker of its parliament, Guillaume Soro. The warrant stems from a case brought against him in 2013 by ex-Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo’s son.
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It’s hard to lead the charge against the global consumption of fossil fuels while making money off the sale of them. Perhaps in recognition of this conundrum, the U.S.
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Wildlife decline threatens UK’s biodiversity, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
A decline in wildlife is threatening core functions of the ecosystem vital for human well-being, researchers behind an unprecedented study of biodiversity in the UK have warned.
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On Tuesday afternoon, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will lead what is sure to be a sober and informative hearing on climate change, titled, “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth…
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Did the World’s Largest Protests Leave a Legacy? | The Nation
In 1819, when British troops fired fired on protesters demanding the right to vote and against famine in Manchester, poet Percy Bysse Shelley responded with stanza after stanza excoriating the courts, the cavalry and the king, but he reserved the cl…
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The Ties That Bind Jihadists – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thomas Hegghammer has spent the past 14 years studying jihadist groups.
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Apple Watch 2 and iPhone 6C may be unveiled at March event | The Verge
Apple plans its events like clockwork, so maybe this one’s not much of a surprise: the company is planning a March 2016 event, where it would likely show off the new version of the Apple Watch, 9to5Mac reports. Apple could also use this event to unv…
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iOS 9.2 released with improvements to Apple Music, News, and iBooks | The Verge
Apple just released iOS 9.2, a relatively minor iOS update that adds Arabic language support to Siri, fixes various bugs, and improves several built-in apps.
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Boeing 747s abandoned at international airport raise existential question | The Verge
Once I left my laptop at airport security. It’s a sore subject, to be honest. How does somebody leave something so big and important behind? I tell myself that airports are stressful. Surely, I think, someone has left something even bigger and more …
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Comcast CEO didn’t know what Wi-Fi was until Steve Jobs told him about it | The Verge
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts dropped a telling anecdote this morning at the Business Insider Ignition conference in New York, informing the crowd that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once gave him the great idea to put Wi-Fi in cable boxes.
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Saudi Arabia Reopens Case of Woman on Death Row | Al Jazeera America
He told parliament that an appeals court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, has decided to hear the case again after pleas by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry.
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Carly Rae Jepsen re-recorded one of her songs in The Sims’ made-up language | The Verge
Nawa tay zonday! Nawa tay zonday! All of the glowing reviews in the world couldn’t keep Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album E•MO•TION from plummeting off the charts after its August release.
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Man to Be Executed for Killing His Mother’s Friend | Al Jazeera America
Brian Keith Terrell, 47, is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the June 1992 killing of John Watson in Covington, about 35 miles east of Atlanta.
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Meet Boeing’s newest airliner, the 737 MAX | The Verge
Boeing just unveiled its first real, live, fully painted 737 MAX in Renton, Washington, the company’s latest jetliner. The aircraft is getting ready for its first flight in early 2016, before first customer deliveries happen in the third quarter of …
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The littlest turtle via /r/pics https://t.co/X1jnGJHDvN https://t.co/mhHi8RTwN6 https://t.co/sDFNGMeaKW
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, The littlest turtle via /r/pics…
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2015: The Year in Photos, January-April – The Atlantic
2015: The Year in Photos, January-April (40 photos) https://t.co/18bL1pswCi https://t.co/GkaWUkF2Fz https://t.co/g5FndjbqpS
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to take a look back at some of the most memorable events and images of 2015. -
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Talking climate
Talking climate https://t.co/GA6FrnBkHp https://t.co/ZPNjeyH7xy
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Blue Straggler Stars –“Hubble Space Telescope Solves a Mystery” https://t.co/wnsDdIgOWn https://t.co/LEFhagBCNb
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Orion Nebula from my backyard in the city [4542×2801][OC] https://t.co/e16Jdb5Ceh https://t.co/YHMIqw5S5t
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The Mountain Goats will kick off a “low-key” tour in February · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Mountain Goats have just announced their plans for a low-key tour of stripped-down performances in smaller venues, bringing us all one step closer to our dreams of having John Darnielle perform just for us.
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Greenpeace investigation exposes climate denier academics for sale (opendemocracy.net)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Amazon Ups Its Content Game With ‘Expert Articles’ | TechCrunch
Amazon has been developing an expanded content platform, helping consumers learn more about select products on its site with recommendations and write-ups from a number of experts.
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Chicago And Los Angeles Are Next Up For Google Fiber | TechCrunch
You know the drill. Once a city has spoken with Google about bringing Fiber into their hood, there’s a process for the city to go through. A lengthy one. Checklists. The whole nine yards. Two new cities are exploring Fiber with Google and they are C…
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Brent crude and iron ore prices tumble – BBC News
Global markets suffered a rout in commodities as Brent crude fell below $40 a barrel for the first time in almost seven years and iron ore hit a 10-year low. The slide in iron ore to less than $40 a tonne sent mining shares sinking.
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Early look at 2015 greenhouse gas emissions is good news if true | Ars Technica
We recently covered an analysis of global emissions of greenhouse gases in 2014 showing an encouraging slowdown in the growth of those emissions.
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How anti-Muslim are Americans? Data points to extent of Islamophobia | US news | The Guardian
Who exactly was Donald Trump appealing to when he called on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”? Quite a few people, according to a YouGov poll conducted earlier this year which found that 55% of surveyed…
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Apple released iOS 9.2 today with a variety of minor tweaks and bug fixes, including the pesky bug that prevented your iPhone alarms from going off after an update. Read Apple’s release notes here.
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Dinosaurs Evolved In A Startlingly Short Time – Scientific American
Dinosaurs took less than 5 million years to evolve from their reptile predecessors, the early dinosauromorphs, a new study finds. The finding revamps the time line between the dinosaurs and early dinosauromorphs.
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Get a Better Haircut by Saying You Have an Important Event Next Week
Knowing barbershop lingo could help you get the haircut you want, but if you want to motivate your haircutter or stylist, you could mention an important interview or other event you have coming up. It’s probably best to use this trick when trying ou…
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Donald Trump: ‘Hate speech is now out and proud in the mainstream’ | Comment is free | The Guardian
Those who have been asking if it was necessary to take Donald Trump’s candidacy seriously finally have their answer.
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The Bernie Sanders campaign clashed head-on with an election cycle dominated by Donald Trump and the politics of terrorism on Tuesday, as the Vermont senator insisted that candidates needed to focus on the “third world” conditions of American cities…
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The Origin Story of Marie Kondo’s Decluttering Empire – The New Yorker
“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Marie Kondo’s mega-selling how-to of minimalism—a tidy blend of confessional autobiography, life philosophy, decluttering strategies, and clothes-folding tips—arrived in America in late 2014.
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Paris attacks ‘ringleader’ Abdelhamid Abaaoud evaded Athens police – BBC News
Greek police tried to capture the suspected ringleader of the Paris terror attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, in January but the operation failed. Abaaoud had been directing the Belgian cell by phone from Athens.
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Quick Hit: British War Veterans Toss Medals In Protest | VICE News
A group of war vets threw their medals at the gates of Downing Street days after the country opted to join the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Syria against the Islamic State.
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US Citizen Defects from al Shabaab as Group Contends with Competing Islamic State | VICE News
Somali officials are holding an American citizen and an American resident who have been fighting alongside the radical Islamist group al Shabaab after the men reportedly defected from the rebel fighters and surrendered to authorities.
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Anthony Daniels on 4 Decades of Life As C-3PO — Vulture
“There was no way I was going to just do the voice. C-3PO is an integration — look at the light on that tree!” Anthony Daniels, the only actor who’s appeared in every Star Wars movie, tromps briskly through London’s Regent’s Park on an unseasonably …
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When did a plain story become a perpetual narrative? It used to be that after something happened, our leaders, or would-be leaders, would simply debate whatever occurred. It was not always elegant or polite. But the exercise was at least direct.
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Tumblr Has Become a Giant Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally | Observer
It’s no secret that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a hit with young people—a notion confirmed today when Tumblr released data on the most popular politicians on the site in 2015.
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Study confirms that ending your texts with a period is terrible – The Washington Post
Ending your texts with a period is truly monstrous. We all know this. Grammar be darned, it just doesn’t look friendly. Now a study has confirmed it.
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What will you hide in your $11 book safe? / Boing Boing
If a burglar got their hands on this book safe ($11 on Amazon) disguised as a dictionary, they would have no trouble breaking it open on the spot. More likely, they’d just take it home and open it there.
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Storm Desmond damage across Cumbria estimated at £500m | UK news | The Guardian
Storm Desmond has caused an estimated £500m of damage across Cumbria – almost double the cost of the floods that hit parts of the county six years ago. Experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which made the calculation, also warned that the bill co…
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The 9 guidelines for the design of London Tube stations
Transport for London recently released a document called the London Underground Station Design Idiom, a guide to the design aesthetic of Tube stations.
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Learn epic tricks with the Penguin Magic starter kit, 59% off in the Boing Boing Store / Boing Boing
Penguin Magic is a great way to get into magic tricks, and master the art in no time. In this Boing Boing Store deal, you get access to hours of in-depth, downloadable videos that you can watch and re-watch until you’re pulling off tricks Houdini st…
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If you found a group of tiny blue communists living in mushrooms in your backyard, you would call an exterminator. In Belgium, they made them stars–the Smurfs have been featured in comics, cartoons and movies for over 50 years.
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Hunger Games Prequels Would Return to the Diabolical Arenas | Vanity Fair
It should come as no surprise that Lionsgate would want to hold on to the lucrative Hunger Games franchise as long as they can. Sure, there’s no more book material left to mine, but that’s never stopped Hollywood before.
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“Ancient Grains” Are Trendier Than Wheat, But No Healthier
“Ancient grains” have been officially mainstream since January of this year, when they got their own Cheerios version. The likes of quinoa, spelt, and teff are turning up more and more, always with a hint that they’re healthier than boring old wheat…
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WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people want,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”
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Is Donald Trump ever going to go ‘too far’? – Al Jazeera English
Washington, United States – Many times during the Republican presidential campaign, commentators have been provoked to say “This time he’s gone too far”. They did when he criticised Mexicans, then war veterans, women and fellow Republicans.
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HAVING served for almost seven years as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, I reacted to Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s latest book, “Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency,” with surprise and dismay, and some alarm. The …
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A rainy night in Tokyo via /r/pics https://t.co/0TzjwIgLJq https://t.co/O6eDQr6oIK https://t.co/dJeRALnuun
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A rainy night in Tokyo via /r/pics https://t.co/0TzjwIgLJq https://t.co/O6eDQr6oIK https://t.co/dJeRALnuun
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Meet the woman in charge of the FBI’s most controversial high-tech tools – The Washington Post
In the aftermath of Wednesday’s shooting rampage in San Bernardino, FBI teams recovered computer hard drives, flash drives and crushed cellphones left by the attackers. They flew the evidence to technical sleuths at a special facility in Quantico.
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Advert Seeks Owner of Jumbo Jets Left at Kuala Lumpur Airport – Bloomberg Business
There are a few unusually large items lying at the lost and found counter of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. placed an advertisement Monday in the nation’s best-selling English daily asking for the “untraceable” o…
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Soft PowerHow pop star Zayn Malik is rebuilding the modern Muslim man in an age of Islamophobia.“Have you seen Zayn?” My friend, Sara, messaged me a few months ago. It was the summer and I’d been on Tumblr, my newsfeed virtually a photographic explo…
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Engrossing Portraits of Parasites and the Creatures They Zombify | WIRED
Caption: A male sheep crab (Loxorhynchus grandis) is infected and feminized by a parasitic barnacle (Heterosaccus californicus). The parasite makes it stop developing fighting claws, and its abdomen widens to provide a “womb” that the barnacle fills…
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Twitter Is Monkeying Around With The Order Of Tweets In Your Timeline | TechCrunch
I’ve been told by insiders at Twitter that “nothing is sacred” when it comes to making Twitter “easier to use” and ready to onboard the next few hundred million users that Twitter needs to be a powerhouse in media.
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Concrete Park: apocalyptic, afrofuturistic graphic novel of greatness / Boing Boing
I learned about Concrete Park from Calvin Reid, the pioneering comics critic/reviewer who chaired a panel with Scott McCloud and me at the Miami Book Fair last month; Calvin called it the best new afrofuturistic comic he’d read, and I rushed out to …
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Rule one of diplomacy is, walk your talk: otherwise people stop listening. In Paris last week David Cameron called for “action today”, not excuses tomorrow, on climate change.
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Wait, is Amazon Prime offering a la carte cable service? · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A common complaint about cable isn’t the lack of channels; it’s the lack of things to watch. To get the three channels they actually want, consumers also have to accept 497 channels they’re never going to watch.
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Cher Has Figured Out How To Fix The Planet | Mother Jones
As anyone who follows her incomparable, emoji-drenched Twitter rants will know, Cher isn’t afraid to speak her mind. For example, the unapologetic diva blasted President Barack Obama for not doing enough to ease fears about ISIS in his Sunday night …
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The hopeful news about CO2 emissions and climate change | Grist
Governor orders the state to collect data about cap-and-trade policies’ impact on different communities, in a step toward environmental equity. The Academy Award nominee talks to Grist about climate justice and the United Nations’ Equator Prize.
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Pixel C review—New hardware ignores an Android tablet’s core problem: software | Ars Technica
Google is back with yet another Android tablet. The latest hardware effort, the Pixel C, comes from an odd place inside Google: the Pixel team.
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Pushy patients downvote doctors for giving antibiotics responsibly | Ars Technica
Antibiotics can kick many ailments, but they don’t fight everything—like anything caused by a virus, such as the flu, and most colds.
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Can Extinct Giant Tortoises Be Brought Back to Life?
An 80-foot cable dangled beneath a helicopter as it emerged from the mists and flew to an anchored ship, where it gently deposited its living cargo. A century-old giant tortoise lumbered out of a tangle of green netting and stretched its mustard-yel…
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Obama’s Top Science Advisor: Most Experts Say 1.5 Is Unattainable – The Atlantic
The world’s highest-ranking diplomats are meeting in Paris this week to complete the final version of a new UN agreement on climate change. They are working on a 48-page draft resolution, prepared during the first week of the talks by lower-ranking …
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An ESPN commentator lashed out at the ‘liberal media’ on Tuesday for advancing an anti-football agenda, casting the ongoing public discussion over concussions in America’s national sport as a partisan issue.
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The Met blasts Donald Trump for ‘London police in fear’ claim | US news | The Guardian
London’s Metropolitan police has said Donald Trump “could not be more wrong” when he claimed parts of London are so radicalised that officers feared for their lives.
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GOP Leaders Denounce Trump, but Won’t Reject Him – The Atlantic
The Gordian Knot that Donald Trump has tied around the Republican Party tightened considerably when the presidential frontrunner issued his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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The Atlantic’s Case for the Singular, Gender-Neutral ‘They’—in 1879 – The Atlantic
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Ted Cruz-chaired hearing to feature witness who said CO2 is as demonized as Jews were under Hitler
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will be holding a hearing today of the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness. The star witness is slick climate-change charlatan William Happer.
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This is my cat, ion, looking positively handsome. : cats
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The Tragedy of Witch Hunts in Rural Cambodia | VICE | United States
When 83-year-old traditional healer Hem Ty attended a funeral of a 17-year-old girl in the central province of Kompong Thom, he left followed by rumors that he’d cast spells on the village locals. They even began to suspect he was responsible for th…
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Who Abandoned These 3 Boeing 747s? – The Drive
The lost and found at Kuala Lumpur International Airport is a particularly intriguing place. Mostly because it contains three giant Boeing 747 cargo jets.
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Illegal Horse Butchers Are Running Wild Across Florida | VICE | United States
Sometime between the evening of November 21 and the pre-dawn hours of November 22, thieves quietly whisked away Thunder, the largest horse grazing the pasture of a ranch in Homestead, a mostly agricultural city roughly 40 miles southwest of Miami.
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Google’s OnHub router is now a Slinky (and other fun design hacks) | The Verge
The router, it is evolving. What was once a maligned, terribly ugly but critical piece of home networking infrastructure is getting faster, more efficient, more attractive.
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Review: Google’s High-End Pixel C Tablet | TechCrunch
Until now, the Pixel brand was all about Chrome OS laptops. But in September, the company surprised us all when it announced its Surface competitor, the 10.2-inch Pixel C Android tablet with its optional Bluetooth keyboard.
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Mossberg: Google should build hardware — but not like this | The Verge
Last month, I wrote an essay entitled “It’s time for Google to make its own hardware”.
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Google Pixel C review: Too clever by half | The Verge
Google is the latest company to try to rethink how we interact with computers, designing and manufacturing a tablet and keyboard combination itself for the very first time instead of leaning on a partner to do it.
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Storm Desmond: cuts delayed Kendal flood defence plan several times | UK news | The Guardian
The £4m project to protect 440 properties from flooding from the river Kent, which runs through the heart of the town, was in line for funding in 2011. But the Conservative-led government sharply cut flood defence spending that year.
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‘The Voice’ and ‘American Idol’: Song Sung Blue | Rolling Stone
Farewell, American Idol. Not so long ago, the Fox singing competition ruled the airwaves as the mightiest empire on TV, the indestructible show-biz juggernaut that would anoint the pop mega-stars of the future and bury every challenger in its path. …
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State and federal wildlife officials are set to strip grizzly bears of their protection from hunting around Yellowstone national park, with a plan that would remove one of the species’ last populations from the endangered species list.
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FBI admits it uses stingrays, zero-day exploits | Ars Technica
The head of the FBI’s science and technology division has admitted what no other agency official has acknowledged before—the FBI sometimes exploits zero-day vulnerabilities to catch bad guys.
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Sharon Jones Pleads ‘Please Come Home for Christmas’ on ‘Conan’ | Rolling Stone
Sharon Jones Pleads ‘Please Come Home for Christmas’ on ‘Conan’ Singer and the Dap-Kings dish out holiday blues with version of Charles Brown’s 1960 cut
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The lead singer of Train has a message for astronaut Tim Peake | The Verge
Next week, three astronauts are scheduled to blast off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. They’ll eventually arrive at the International Space Station, where they will live and work for the next six months.
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Kellie Strøm’s Worse Things Happen At Sea / Boing Boing
If you love, or fear the ocean, Worse Things Happen At Sea is the book art for you! This doubled sided panorama illustrates man locked in battle with the terrors of the deep.
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Selena Gomez and Niall Horan May Really Be Dating After All | Vanity Fair
Wait. What on Earth is going on? Last week we entertained the possibility that Selena Gomez, tiny teen actress turned still relatively tiny grown-up singer, was dating beautiful blond leprechaun Niall Horan, of the British sex factory One Direction.
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How Empire’s Set Director Fakes All Those Masterpieces on the Wall | Vanity Fair
Over the course of its one and a half seasons, Fox’s prime-time soap opera Empire has been many things: a ratings windfall, social-media catnip, and power-dressing object lesson. It’s also been the best art gallery on TV.
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Why Do We Pretend ISIS Is Crazy? | The Nation
Oh, no! Not another American war against evil! This time, it’s the Islamic State (IS). After the attacks in Paris, Barack Obama, spokesman-in-chief for the United States of America, called that crew “the face of evil.” Shades of George W. Bush. The …
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Odesza on the Future of EDM, Why Music Should Be Free | Rolling Stone
In 2012, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight were just two twentysomething undergrads, helplessly barreling toward graduation day with a mix of anxiety and reluctance.
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If You Support Donald Trump, You Are Unpatriotic | Rolling Stone
The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom – one of three accomplishments listed on Thomas Jefferson’s epitaph – reads in part, “no man shall…suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.” In his autobiography, Jefferson made it clear …
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Feminist Frequency launches practical guide to defend against online harassment | The Verge
In the year since Gamergate unleashed an avalanche of gendered hate and abuse on the internet, attention on online harassment has died down somewhat.
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The teenager behind the drone gun now has a drone-mounted flamethrower | The Verge
But can it baste? A Connecticut teenager named Austin Haughwout created a global stir a few months back when he posted a video of a homemade drone firing a handgun he had attached to the aircraft.
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Zombie-Themed Nativity Scene Causes a Stir in Ohio https://t.co/IxLvMuAxsK https://t.co/lpEf2miJi7
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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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Tiny chip that powers itself from radio waves – BBC News
Dutch scientists have developed a tiny sensor powered by the radio waves it uses to communicate information. Such sensors could help advance the nascent Internet of Things industry, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology said.
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Why Running Makes You Poop | Be Well Philly
Awhile ago, I was on the phone with a friend who shall remain nameless when they told me a story that involved a long run, a serious bathroom emergency, no bathroom in sight, and an ending that left them with some of their dignity missing. Gross? Ma…
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John Goodman to voice a CGI alien in Luc Besson’s Valerian · Newswire · The A.V. Club
John Goodman has played many different characters in his career. He’s been a sitcom dad, a volatile Vietnam war veteran whose favorite five words are the stuff of legend, Denzel Washington’s personal coke-kick dude, a furry blue monster, and a famou…
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For the second year in a row, a Cincinnati couple has constructed a zombie-themed Nativity scene against the objections of local zoning officials and religious groups.
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More countries reject OECD study on climate aid | Environment | The Guardian
China, Brazil and South Africa have joined India in rejecting a key OECD study stating that rich countries have already mobilised nearly two-thirds of the $100bn (£67bn) pledged to secure a new climate deal.
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io9 Book Club Is In Session: Let’s Talk About Cecelia Holland’s Dragon Heart!
Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. This month, we’ve read Dragon Heart by Cecelia Holland.. Jump into comments to get started talking about it!
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Why Paul George is the man to finally stop the Golden State Warriors | Sport | The Guardian
The grimaces plastered across the face of his colleagues said it all. In the fourth quarter of a meaningless USA exhibition game, Paul George’s right leg landed awkwardly on the hoops stanchion, buckling, contorting and eventually snapping in an unn…
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Here’s Why We Should All Praise Allah for American Muslims | The Nation
Instead of fearing them—or menacing them with AR-15s outside their mosques—we should be thankful that American Muslims are as successful and well integrated into our society as they are.
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Google Fiber talking to Chicago and LA about gigabit deployments | Ars Technica
Chicago and Los Angeles are in the running for Google Fiber deployments, with officials in both cities talking to Google about whether network construction is feasible. Google Fiber is available in just three metro areas: Kansas City in Missouri and…
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The new world of packaging design: green, communicative, tailored / Boing Boing
A new book, Material Innovation: Packaging Design, written by a material science consultant and a design consultant, explores the ways that packaging is being changed by innovations in retail, materials, design, and marketing.
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Tiny chip that powers itself from radio waves – BBC News
Dutch scientists have developed a tiny sensor powered by the radio waves it uses to communicate information. Such sensors could help advance the nascent Internet of Things industry, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology said.
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Denmark’s Antipiratgruppen was formed in the early 2000s to fight the Internet over copyright infringement, with members including the MPA and umbrella groups representing record labels, publishers and other media companies. They hired Johan Schlüte…
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Piecing Together Donald Trump’s Nonsensical Plan To Ban Muslims | ThinkProgress
After Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his proposal Monday to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, reporters and pundits were quick to criticize the plan, saying it would undermine national security and that it’s …
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Equipment check-in and Drygalski adventure : Notes from the Field : Blogs
The Nansen Ice Shelf, where we have installed our GPS, is notoriously windy.
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Can Hillary Clinton Keep Corporations From Ducking Taxes? | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will lay out a new plan aimed at tamping down on the rising number of American corporations moving their headquarters overseas to lower their tax burdens.
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Russia rejects Turkey criticism over ‘missile launcher’ – BBC News
Russia has rejected Turkey’s criticism after a sailor on a Russian naval ship allegedly brandished a missile launcher as the vessel passed through Istanbul. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “the protection of a ship is the legal rig…
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Scott Weiland: Ex-wife pens emotional open letter – BBC News
The ex-wife of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland has written an open letter asking fans not to glorify the tragedy of his death. The singer – who was found dead on his tour bus last week – had battled addiction for many years.
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Can California Help the Paris Climate Talks Succeed? | Mother Jones
California is no stranger to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. It has the second-highest carbon footprint of any US state (after Texas).
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Florida burglary suspect eaten by alligator after fleeing police | US news | The Guardian
A 22-year-old man suspected of burglarizing homes in Florida was killed and partially eaten by an 11ft (3.4m) alligator after he waded into a lake, apparently to avoid detection by law enforcement officers pursuing him, police said on Tuesday.
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It’s Time To Take The Warriors’ Chances Of Going 73-9 Seriously | FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight’s 2015-16 NBA predictions post dropped on Monday and included, right up at the top, a detail remarkable enough to elicit a double-take from any NBA fan still fogging a mirror: the Warriors’ projected record.
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Business as usual for Trump partners in Dubai, Istanbul – Al Jazeera English
Dubai’s luxury property developer has said that it is business as usual regarding a partnership with the Trump Organization, which is run by the Republican presidential front-runner who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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Learn Survival Skills from the 340-Page Tokyo Disaster Preparedness Guide
This massive, informative guide on survival basics from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will teach you how to turn pants into a backpack, how to make an emergency lantern with a plastic bottle, and much more.
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Of Course These Excellent New Spaceballs Posters Spoof a Set of Star Wars Posters
When one generation thinks of Star Wars, they think of the original films. Another generation grew up with The Phantom Menace. But sandwiched in between, there are people who learned about Star Wars because of Mel Brooks’ 1987 comedy Spaceballs.
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Rubio vs. Cruz: Gaming the Big Battle of the GOP Primary | New Republic
When Iowans sat down to watch television over Thanksgiving weekend, they glimpsed the usual ads for Black Friday sales, car dealerships, and conservative talk shows. Interspersed between these, however, were some of the first political attack ads of…
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Ethiopia drought ‘leaves 10 millions without food’ – BBC News
Ethiopia’s government has increased to 10.1 million the estimated number of people who desperately need food aid because of a drought. More than half of them are children, Save the Children says.
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Oscars 2016: The Critics Awards Haven’t Picked a Favorite – The Atlantic
Every year, a handful of smaller, impressive films are released well before awards season, rolling out slowly across the country, and finding mild success at the box office.
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Justin Trudeau makes appeal to First Nations chiefs – BBC News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in an appeal to First Nations chiefs. The public inquiry will be “top priority” of the Liberal government, the newly elected leader said.
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Donald Trump: Free speech v hate speech – BBC News
The First Amendment right to freedom of speech under the US constitution permits Donald Trump to make claims and proposals that others might deem unacceptable incitement.
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‘The flood water was rising – I grabbed our Carlisle United season tickets’ | UK news | The Guardian
Some flood victims rescued family photographs. Others saved their pets. But when Angela Watson saw the flood water outside her house rising rapidly, there was only one item worth salvaging first – her precious Carlisle United season tickets.
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The Future of Commercial Space Travel According to Jeff Greason: Interview
XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx space plane under construction in late 2014 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. One of XCOR’s founders, Jeff Greason, talked with Space.com about the status of the spaceflight industry.
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Dig these awesome ‘gay pulp’ paperback covers from the 1970s | Dangerous Minds
I stumbled upon these fantastic covers of “gay pulp” paperbacks from the 1970s the other day and immediately became entranced with them. I saw a few of them at the blog Knee-Deep in the Flooded Victory and immediately knew I had to find out more.
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J.K. Rowling Thinks Donald Trump Is Worse Than Voldemort | Vanity Fair
At a campaign rally Monday night, Donald Trump went a bridge too far for many when he proposed to temporarily ban all Muslims from traveling to the United States.
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‘Relaxed’ Royal Court theatre to allow babies to attend – BBC News
Infants under 12 months will be admitted free of charge after a campaign to boost the rights of parents in the creative sector was launched. The Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone has announced her support for Parents in Performing Art…
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Study Finds Unions Improve Teacher Quality, Lead To Lower Dropout Rates
For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education.
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Where the Streets Have No Names · thewalrus.ca
Photography by Matt Marek Mapping a polynya—an oasis in the sea ice for eider ducks—with the Google Street View camera. The hut at the Hudson’s Bay Company post was dim and cluttered with harpoons, fishing nets, sled-dog harnesses, and sealskin boot…
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Why Does Evolution Want Infidelity to Hurt So Much? | VICE | United States
At a superficial level, sexual jealousy is arguably one of the most counterproductive emotions we have evolved to experience. Think of all the hours we humans waste pining over stolen partners or unrequited love, not to mention the devastation cause…
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Google Fiber Bringing Fiber Broadband Internet to Chicago, Los Angeles | Re/code
Get ready for the fiber fight. Yesterday, AT&T unveiled a list of 38 new cities where it pledged to bring high-speed Internet. Missing from that list are most of the markets claimed by Google Fiber, the competing broadband service that has nudged th…
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Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 https://t.co/zax7B0616n https://t.co/w2deNKBFAf https://t.co/4BJ0ve0Lqr
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The Paris Attacks Cost Air France $55 Million in Lost Revenue | VICE News
The November 13 terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people are taking a toll on the French economy by hurting tourism to the country — and the biggest French airline is feeling the pain.
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FOXTROTT – Shaky Hands [Official Music Video] on Vimeo
A Taller Us, Foxtrott’s debut album is a musical interpretation of life’s monolithic challenges. Together we elaborated on that metaphor for the “Shaky Hands” video. Alongside VFX artist Martha Aguilar we created a vertical climb through various sta…
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WhatsApp Is How Facebook Will Dominate the World | WIRED
Here in North America, mobile Internet traffic is dominated by YouTube and Facebook. So says Sandvine, a company with an unusually good view of the world’s Internet activity. YouTube accounts for nearly 20 percent of all mobile traffic, and Facebook…
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Mastering the Art of Stoned Cooking | New Republic
Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis is an ambitious attempt to bring together the weed brownie set and the dinner party set, medical mary jane proponents and recreational smokers, the anxious and the epicurious—all through the magic of …
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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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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a Maryland man may proceed with his lawsuit alleging that the state’s congressional redistricting plan was unconstitutionally gerrymandered. (washingtonpost.com) Maryland was gerrymandered in Democrat…
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And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 Is… Jukedeck | TechCrunch
It’s been a tough fight, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, we hand-picked the 15 greatest companies from Europe and beyond so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield.
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France’s Singular Unicorn BlaBlaCar’s Secret To Scaling Fast Globally | TechCrunch
BlaBlaCar pulled in $200 million and spread its ride-sharing platform to 20 countries this year. It now claims 25 million members worldwide.
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Trump’s Supporters and the Split Within the Republican Party – The Atlantic
“I’m against the anchor babies, and I’m against the Muslims.” That’s something a Donald Trump supporter named Kathy Parker told me at a Donald Trump rally I reported from recently. It’s an attitude that helps explain Trump’s call on Monday to ban al…
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NIH Could See a Significant Funding Boost From Congress – The Atlantic
For the National Institutes of Health and its supporters, 2015 could turn out to be a pretty good year.
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Free energy for sale: Steorn’s impossible Orbo hits the market / Boing Boing
Last week a small company in Dublin called Steorn started taking orders for their USB phone charger. It’s on the large side, and is only good for two or three smartphone charges per day, or one tablet charge.
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Facebook Pages Can Tell You How Quickly Their Owners Respond | TechCrunch
Facebook is rolling out a number of new features for Pages designed to make it easier for businesses to communicate with customers.
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Texas theater to test Star Wars fan devotion with a marathon screening · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens is nearly upon us, as evidenced by the glut of television spots, merchandising, and junk-food-cross promotions. Even independent auteur George Lucas was permitted to attend a preview screening.
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What Can We Call Blockchain To Help People Understand It? | TechCrunch
Understanding blockchain technology is not for the average person. This is level 10,000 on the nerd scale. Which makes for a sizable challenge if you’re a startup trying to build a business based on a technology most people will struggle to comprehe…
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After months of focusing on the Secret Wars events, Marvel draws its attention back to the far more diverse cast of characters that have been earning press and critical praise for the past few years.
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Taliban fighters ‘attack Kandahar airport’ – BBC News
Fighting has been reported at the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. It is not clear whether the clashes have resulted in casualties. Militant violence has increased across Afghanistan since the departure of most US and Nato forces las…
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Donald Trump’s Bottomless Bottom | The Nation
As Donald Trump made his fascist impulses explicit Tuesday afternoon, calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, I sat in a cocoon of righteous reflection at a Ford Foundation convening on “Rights Now: Reimagining Justice for the 21st …
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The Canadian government has a hard time hanging on to its things. In the last year, Ottawa lost $253,947,916 through fraud, tax evasion, damage, smuggling, accident, or general screw-up. Of that amount, it managed to only recoup less than $37 millio…
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 8th – The New Yorker
Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day.
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How a bike messenger gears up for cycling in winter — Hopes&Fears
Caro Ruiz shares her tips for staying warm and dry in harsh winter weather while cruising through NYC on two wheels. CONTINENTAL CYCLING CAP: “I usually wear this hat under my helmet so it looks professional.
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Apple Maps, once a laughingstock, now dominates iPhones | BetaBoston
NEW YORK — Apple Maps quickly became the butt of jokes when it debuted in 2012. It overlooked many towns and businesses and misplaced famous landmarks. It marked New York’s Madison Square Garden arena as park space because of the word “Garden.
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Brush Up On Your Starships With This Cool CG Size Comparison – Digg
Movies Data Viz Gaming Space With the new “Star Wars” film approaching, this is the perfect time to brush up on your starships. This video recreates ships from various games and movies and places them side by side to compare their sizes. In this cas…
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Soviet Scenesters Used X-Rays to Record Their Rock and Roll | Atlas Obscura
X-rays, rock n’ roll, and rebellion. (Image: Dmitry Rozhkov/Wikipedia)
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Burn! Amazon CEO Suggests Sending Donald Trump Into Space
After the billionaire presidential candidate tweeted that Amazon loses money, Bezos struck back on Twitter. Oh, yes, Jeff Bezos did. Suggest sending billionaire Republican presidential candidate and full-time publicity hound Donald Trump into space,…
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The agony and ecstasy of the modern, high-tech car | The Verge
Not long ago, I got a ride in a friend’s 2001 model year Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG. The AMG version of the mighty S-Class luxury sedan was a baller’s ride back in the day, a power broker’s chariot appropriate for negotiating hostile takeovers from the r…
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State of Britain’s wildlife ‘increasingly fragile’ – BBC News
Britain’s wildlife is in an increasingly fragile state, with animals carrying out vital jobs for farmers being lost more rapidly than others, say scientists. Animals that pollinate crops or fight pests are at risk of disappearing, putting food produ…
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See the Heroines of Star Wars In All Their Animated Glory
There are many, many things to be excited about when it comes to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but its new characters are right at the top of the list. Most specifically Rey, the film’s heroine, and Captain Phasma, the universe’s first live action f…
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Two governments and a salvage company are fighting over a $17 billion shipwreck | The Verge
More than 300 years after sinking off the coast of Colombia, the “holy grail of shipwrecks” has been discovered. With somewhere between $1 billion and $17 billion-worth of booty onboard, three separate entities are laying claim to the San José’s tre…
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Syrian refugee families have arrived in Texas and Indiana, defying efforts by the governors of those conservative US states to stop their arrival.
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Sport picture of the day: practice makes perfect for Paige Spiranac | Sport | The Guardian
Paige Spiranac of the United States in action during her practice round at The Emirates Golf Club in Dubai. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images
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Working Families Party Endorses Sanders for Democratic Nomination | The Nation
The Working Families Party, a national alliance of state-based progressive political organizations that works with labor, environmental and community groups to advance an economic and social justice agenda, has endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sander…
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Google’s super-fast Fiber internet could come to Los Angeles and Chicago | The Verge
Google is looking into bringing its gigabit Google Fiber internet service to Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Instagram brings 3D Touch features to Android | The Verge
Apple’s 3D Touch feature is now (kind of) available on Android.
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Welcome to Reddit Environment! https://t.co/NKmNdP1JV0 https://t.co/VAtR1CrXbo
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Not random: Shooting suspect specifically asked for directions to Planned Parenthood
Not random: Shooting suspect specifically asked for directions to Planned Parenthood https://t.co/3uxnx9iBrO https://t.co/ZlEmmfVdnn
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Fear and Loathing at the Museum of Feelings | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
Can a corporate marketing stunt fulfill the raised expectations of a “museum”? As I step into the Museum of Feelings, all I feel is dread.
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Yale Lecturer Whose Email to Students Ignited Debate Over Racial Issues Resigns | VICE News
The Yale lecturer whose email to students regarding Halloween costumes set off a long-simmering controversy regarding minority students and political correctness on the elite Ivy League campus, is now resigning her teaching post.
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Kuala Lumpur airport seeks owner of ‘abandoned’ jets – BBC News
Officials at Malaysia’s main airport have taken out a newspaper advert seeking the owner of three Boeing 747 jets they say have been left unclaimed. The notice said if the owners “fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days…, we reserve the right …
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Omate Comes Back To Life With The Rise | TechCrunch
Hello from the other side. Omate, which made news a few years ago with a standalone smartwatch that aimed to give Android a run for its money, is back with the Rise, a “standalone smartwatch” that runs Android 5.1 and needs no phone.
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A French Scientist Claims Another Woman Is Featured Underneath ‘Mona Lisa’ – The Atlantic
There’s no rest for the world’s most famous painting. Songs, books, films, and pizza joints have all been named after the Mona Lisa while conspiracies eternally stir over her real identity, the meaning of her enigmatic smile, the position of her fin…
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Maasai lions: Two charged with Kenya poisoning – BBC News
Two Maasai herdsmen have been charged after allegedly poisoning a famous pride of lions in Narok, south-west Kenya, a wildlife official said. Simindei Naururi and Kulangash Toposat reportedly doused a cow carcass with poison at the Maasai Mara Game …
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The Exact Moment When Doctor Who Taught Me to Never Trust Television Again
Change is a fundamental aspect of TV. Actors, writers, directors, shows themselves, they all come and go, and Doctor Who is certainly no exception (it’s arguably defined by it).
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The climate change talks going on in Paris are too dominated by men, to the detriment of effective action on saving people from the ravages of global warming, the UN’s special envoy on climate change has said.
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Four-day marathon public reading of War and Peace begins in Russia | Books | The Guardian
A marathon four-day Russian public reading of Leo Tolstoy’s vast classic novel War and Peace kicked off on Tuesday morning, with more than 1,300 people in more than 30 cities preparing to make their contributions to the record-breaking project.
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Watch Channing Tatum Say Hateful Things to a Kitten | Vanity Fair
He may not appear prominently in any of the trailers, but Channing Tatum is, in fact, in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight.
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China Has Had Enough of Its Illegal Internet Cafés | Motherboard
A young girl in a purple dress and hat, both seemingly cribbed from the set of a budget Alice in Wonderland production, stumbles past a Beijing meeting room in skyscraper heels.
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How does Trump do it? Understanding the psychology of a demagogue’s rally | US news | The Guardian
The thing that is hard to appreciate about Donald Trump before you personally enter a room with him – in this case, the hangar deck of a wartime aircraft carrier – is that his first weapon is humor.
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Florida mayor bars Donald Trump from city in wake of Muslim comments : politics
The mayor would fit in well on Reddit. I wonder what his handle is. It is earned karma for a man who wants to ban an entire demographic.
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Not random: Shooting suspect specifically asked for directions to Planned Parenthood
But are we sure Robert Dear was intentionally targeting Planned Parenthood when he (allegedly) went to a Planned Parenthood office and killed three people and wounded nine more? Yeah, we’re pretty sure: The man accused of killing three people at a …
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Top Climate Expert: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk. (democracynow.org)
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Adyen CEO Expects The Tech Pendulum To Swing Toward Europe | TechCrunch
It may not surprise anyone, but Adyen’s European chief executive Pieter van der Does thinks that European startups and tech are ready for a comeback. And though Europe won’t reach absolute parity with the U.S.
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Paris Climate Talks: Which Countries Have the Best Energy Policies? – The Atlantic
There’s nothing like a round of international climate talks to get a person thinking about buying a boat and a cockroach recipe book. After all, setting targets for reducing carbon emissions amounts to writing a number on a whiteboard and smiling ho…
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“Donald Trump Isn’t the Problem: It’s time we face the fact that he’s just channeling the bigotry of the Republican Party’s base.” (slate.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Greenland glaciers retreating at record pace (naturetrib.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Codie Is A Fast, Rolling Robot Toy That Teaches Kids Progamming Concepts | TechCrunch
A robotics company that teaches kids how to code, Codie Labs, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London this afternoon to show off their fast, rolling and programmable robot, Codie, which is controlled via a mobile application for iOS or Android.
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The Vatican’s Scared Holy Jubilee – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — Shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday, a group of police carrying flashlights stepped over a row of lumpy sleeping bags lining a sidewalk where Catholic pilgrims had camped out all night. These faithful had been allowed to get a jump on the l…
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Three days after Storm Desmond hit north-west England, Glenridding by Ullswater was finally accessible from the outside world. Inside the village, a popular location for ramblers tackling Helvellyn along Striding Edge, residents seemed a little daze…
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Molecule clears Alzheimer’s plaques in mice – BBC News
A molecule can clear Alzheimer’s plaques from the brains of mice and improve learning and memory, Korean scientists have found in early tests.Exactly how it gets rid of the abnormal build-up is not understood.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Essential Climate Variables: Soil moisture
Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Wolfgang Wagner of the Technical University of Vienna, explains the importance of soil moisture as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world.
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Eagles of Death Metal in emotional Bataclan return – BBC News
Eagles of Death Metal have made an emotional return to the Bataclan theatre following the Paris terror attacks last month. The US rock band visited the concert venue to lay flowers in memory of the 90 concert-goers who were killed.
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Why George Takei loves America, even after he was held in a US internment camp – Vox
George Takei was once one of the thousands of Japanese Americans put in a US internment camp during World War II. Today, he says he loves his country. Takei, who’s best known for his role in Star Trek, told the story of his transformation at a TED e…
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Affirmative-action policies, which have provided a leg up in admissions to black and Latino students at selective colleges for almost 50 years, are in deep trouble. On Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Fisher v.
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More Inclusive Language Among Astronauts – The Atlantic
In the summer of 1962, the House Committee on Science and Astronautics held a hearing to debate the role of women in the nation’s space program.
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A Day in the Life of a Department-Store Elf – The Atlantic
It’s 22 days before Christmas, and the Bloomingdale’s department store on 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan is already decked in its holiday finest. Speakers pump carols out onto the sidewalk, crowded with pedestrians stopped to gawk at …
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Report: Animal antibiotics pose human health risk – Al Jazeera English
The misuse and over-use of antibiotics on farm animals is increasing the problem of antimicrobial resistance, or superbugs, in humans, a report prepared for the UK government has warned.
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Translation Tuesday: On the River Boży Stok by Wioletta Greg | Books | The Guardian
“In the beginning there was vast darkness./ Gardens of house mites blossomed within./ A river of light flew through these gardens./ Monsters of hay shifted.// In the beginning there was dense silence/ like inside poppy heads.
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Sex, Politics and Religion: The making of Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ | Dangerous Minds
The great film director Ken Russell once remarked that if he had been born in Italy and called, say, “Russellini” then critics would have thrown bouquets at his feet.
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“I said you’re crazy because you said your illness before you said your name. That’s like one of my dad’s clients.” She pointed a reprimanding finger at me. “DO NOT DEFINE YOURSELF BY YOUR ILLNESS.” Liz to Ollie, Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah…
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Retro Report looks back on the story of the boy in the plastic bubble. The epitaph on David Phillip Vetter’s gravestone observes correctly that “he never touched the world.
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How to Stop Apologizing for Everything You Do
For many of us, the word “sorry” has become something we reactively utter, regardless of whether we’ve done anything wrong. This seemingly harmless habit can actually lower your self-esteem, justify other people’s poor actions, and turn you into a c…
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The coupling of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage is pulled directly from the Alias comic, but their dynamic is dramatically different on the TV series.
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This Supercut of All the Non-Leia Female Dialogue in the Original Star Wars Trilogy Will Astound You
But not in a good way. Look, I’m not trying to throw shade on the original trilogy.
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The Blacklist makes NBC’s early-renewal list · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC is showing its commitment to drama in 2016-2017 with early renewals of Law & Order: SVU, Blindspot, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. And now, according to Deadline, the network has also picked up The Blacklist for a fourth season.
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Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. Right up until his death in October 2010, Solomon Burke was a man who believed in miracles.
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JK Rowling on Donald Trump: ‘Voldemort was nowhere as bad’ | Books | The Guardian
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has rejected the comparison of US presidential candidate Donald Trump to the villain in her seven-part book series, saying on Twitter that “Voldemort was nowhere near as bad”. How horrible. Vold… https://t.co/hFO0XmOpPH
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IS: Iraqi forces recapture key Ramadi district – BBC News
Iraqi government forces have reportedly recaptured a key district in the city of Ramadi, which is controlled by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). The Counter-Terrorism Force said it had cleared the south-western area of Tamim on Tuesday after a…
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Canada Takes the Side of Poor Countries at Climate Talks | VICE News
Canada has allied itself with developing countries on key issues at the climate negotiations in Paris, pitting it against other rich countries like the United States on both indigenous rights and tougher global warming targets.
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While Stephen Colbert was one of the first late night hosts to publicly address November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, his Late Show on CBS was on hiatus last week, which means Monday night was his first opportunity to comment on the San Bernardino …
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Hang up your hose and ditch your doublet – there’s a new way to experience Shakespeare’s era. An online project is asking volunteers to tease apart the spidery scrawl of manuscripts to reveal new insights into daily life as it was more than 400 year…
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Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris on Tuesday, saying much can be achieved in the green transition by local governments who need to march on ‘like a Terminator’.
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Sponsor shout-out: SparkFun Electronics / Boing Boing
Boing Boing is thrilled to welcome SparkFun as a sponsor this holiday season! Check out their fantastic gift guide! Back in 2003, the world was still celebrating its unexpected triumph over Y2K, and SparkFun was but a twinkle in Nathan Seidle’s eye.
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Paul Ryan denounces Trump’s plan to ban Muslims… then says he’ll support Trump if he’s the nominee
Oh, Paul, how bold! Oh, Paul, how typical!
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Let’s Watch the Media Grapple With Donald Trump’s Proposed Muslim Ban | Vanity Fair
Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban all Muslims from traveling to the United States was met with shock and horror from decent folks everywhere and with a standing ovation at a campaign rally on Monday night.
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Updated, 10:42 a.m. | Impatience with Donald J. Trump’s unusual style of interviewing — calling in by phone and talking over the anchors asking him questions — earned him an on-air rebuke on Tuesday from Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” prog…
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It’s become a standard response to mass shootings in America: If only more “good” Americans were armed, the “bad guys” wouldn’t have a chance to kill. Ted Cruz said it on Monday, arguing in a radio interview that “you don’t stop the bad guys by taki…
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Chicago Police Commander Goes to Trial for Shoving Gun Down Man’s Throat | VICE News
A day after the US Justice Department announced a federal probe into the Chicago Police Department, and as protests continue over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen, one of the force’s commanders faced trial Tuesday for allegedly sho…
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Why Trump’s Call For Keeping Muslims Out Undermines National Security | ThinkProgress
In what might be his most incendiary statement to date, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump put out a press release Monday calling for the U.S. to bar entry to Muslims, including American Muslims, from entering the United States until fur…
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Now Would Be A Good Time To Discuss The Ferguson Effect – The Atlantic
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Your Comprehensive Guide To Islamophobia In The 2016 Presidential Election | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidates — and numerous conservative leaders — are distancing themselves from Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
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Tashfeen Malik, one of the two shooters in the deadly San Bernardino, California attacks, has brought national attention to a little-known visa process that allows people to enter the country to get married. Malik entered the U.S.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Just Made A Really Good Point About Climate Change | ThinkProgress
Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a note on Facebook on Monday that made a very good point about climate change and renewable energy: It really doesn’t matter what you believe.
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30,000 people march in Chile to save a river : environment
30,000 people march in Chile to save a river (riosdelmaipo.cl)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Hubble image of Arp 142 [3368 x 4426] : spaceporn
Hubble image of Arp 142 [3368 x 4426] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/rMJleqTrJA https://t.co/VPXXWkyCy6 https://t.co/SWmnrmXnbv
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Hubble image of Arp 142 [3368 x 4426] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/rMJleqTrJA https://t.co/VPXXWkyCy6 https://t.co/SWmnrmXnbv
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Fast-Growing Online Auction Site Catawiki On How It’s Spending Its $82 Million | TechCrunch
Catawiki may not yet be a household name outside of Europe, but the Accel-backed online auction house is one of the region’s fastest growing startups.
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Snowdin: the elf who leaked the naughty list / Boing Boing
Alisha writes, “Ever wonder what happens to the intel Santa Claus collects when deciding if you’ve been good or bad? Who has access to all your secrets? All that data? Santa has become too powerful, so a young elf decides to risk his life by leaking…
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COP21: Hopes rise as EU forms alliance to push for deal – BBC News
The European Union has formed an alliance with 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in a final push for agreement at COP21. The new alliance has agreed a common position on some of the most divisive aspects of the proposed deal.
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Internet routers: what you need to know, and which one’s best for you | The Verge
When I joined The Verge, many of my peers from the video games press congratulated me on a lifetime of writing about internet routers. I laughed at their silly joke. How much, I thought, is there to really say about an internet router?
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Rare Merger of Neutron Stars –“The Origin of Heavy Elements in the Universe”
Several years ago it was discovered that the early Solar system contained a significant amount of plutonium-244. Considering its short-lived cycle, plutonium-244 that existed over four billion years ago when Earth formed has long since decayed but i…
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Xenoblade Chronicles X is the huge, wondrous sci-fi world of your dreams | The Verge
Have you ever looked at a Roger Dean painting and just dreamed? Imagine what the view would be like from atop one of those impossible floating islands, or how it would feel to walk across a stone bridge that leads you toward a rock formation twisted…
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Penis transplant plans for wounded US veterans – BBC News
Surgeons are set to carry out the first penis transplant in the United States, in a bid to help wounded war veterans. The 12-hour operation will involve stitching key nerves and blood vessels to restore urinary – and ultimately – sexual function.
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Jeff VanderMeer sends us the latest Storybundle, which has “the DEBUT of Ann VanderMeer’s BESTIARY, which features original fiction from China Mieville, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others–not available elsewhere.”
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The Google Lunar X Prize team that wants to mine the Moon now has a ride to space | The Verge
A second team in the Google Lunar X Prize competition has secured a rocket to take its lunar lander into space.
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Saudi Arabia accused of trying to wreck the Paris climate deal | Environment | The Guardian
Saudi Arabia stood accused on Tuesday of trying to wreck the Paris climate summit in order to protect its future as one of the world’s largest oil producers.
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Trump wants Bill Gates to help “close that Internet” from terrorists | Ars Technica
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he wants to talk to Bill Gates about “closing that Internet up in some way” in order to prevent Islamic terrorist group ISIS from recruiting kids.
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SALISBURY, MD—Repeating identical comments he had made in June, July, August, September, and twice in November, increasingly nervous local man Aaron Howe responded to Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
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Trump: Muslim ban ‘no different than FDR’ polices in WWII – BBC News
Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared on US breakfast television and compared his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US to policies implemented during World War Two.
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of December 8, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Running away from your problems will fail this week, as will climbing out of your problems’ reach and playing dead in hopes that your problems go away. The stars indicate that you’ve really done it this time. I mean, just look around, for God’s sake.
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Ava DuVernay’s Barbie is the gift we need | The Verge
Ava DuVernay, outspoken director of the Academy Award-nominated Selma, is at the forefront of a new generation of filmmakers not just earning but demanding accolades for their work and the work of other women and people of color. She “serves the sto…
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The US Is Assessing Claims That Coalition Airstrikes Killed 26 Civilians in Syria | VICE News
An airstrike suspected to have been carried out by the US or its allies has killed at least 26 Syrian civilians, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, prompting American officials to launch a “credibility assessment” of the reports.
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Fossil fuels kill more people every year than wars, murders, and traffic accidents combined (qz.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Kudos to this man. He represents true American values. We need more people like him in charge of this country; people who have the courage to stand up for what is right. And nothing says standing up for what’s right like shit posting on Twitter.
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It Is Time for Responsible Republicans to Say They Won’t Back a Trump-led GOP | The Nation
The Republican Party will either be the Party of Lincoln or the Party of Trump. But it cannot be both.
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In policy discourse, zombies and cockroaches are somewhat different. Zombie ideas are claims that should have been killed by evidence, but just keep shambling along, like the notion that vast numbers of Canadians, frustrated by socialized medicine, …
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Taliban attacks Kandahar airport and US-NATO base – Al Jazeera English
Several Taliban fighters have stormed into Kandahar airport, where they are engaged in an ongoing firefight, an Afghan police official told Al Jazeera.
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As the Paristalks enter their final week, there is increased focus on the impact of climate change in the world’s poorest nations.
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Combat Uneven Baking With a Pizza Stone
A common complaint with gas ovens, especially older ones, is that they bake food unevenly. A pizza stone can help remedy this. To get a better idea of your oven’s finicky baking behavior, you can find its hot and cool spots using shredded coconut, t…
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Is This Our First Fleeting Glimpse At What Benedict Cumberbatch Will Look Like In Doctor Strange?
Well… the answer’s maybe. As part of an ongoing roll-out teasing the special features in the Marvel Phase 2 box set, last night the company revealed a preview clip discussing the upcoming Doctor Strange movie.
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The Creativity Bias against Women – Scientific American
More than ever, creativity has become a hot commodity in the workplace. Businesses compete ferociously for new ideas, and Silicon Valley — with its extreme focus on innovation — is the current bright spot of the US economy.
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Did Jon Stewart Just Give Us a Taste of What He’ll Be Doing for HBO? | Vanity Fair
Many mourned when Jon Stewart left The Daily Show earlier this year and while he’s popped up here and there since, there are plenty who would like regular doses of him on their screens again. Thanks to a deal Stewart signed with HBO, that may soon b…
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Come back, Canucks: Florida laments lack of Canadian tourists this winter | US news | The Guardian
Kerry-Ann Stoddart has noticed a new trend when it comes to renting out her investment vacation property in central Florida: fewer Canadians are calling to inquire and the ones that do are more likely to haggle over cost.
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Bizarre Responses to a Plea for Reason https://t.co/r5xF4jR023 https://t.co/Z2wFsfWjYU
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Supergirl’s Darkest Moment Only Helps Her To Shed More Light
Supergirl’s Darkest Moment Only Helps Her To Shed More Light https://t.co/qq1tB6Q8Tk https://t.co/77FR5kyBXs
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Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution – The Daily Beast
Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution https://t.co/LceVz2nDNT https://t.co/MNmdiTiywZ
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Cartoon: The never-ending death spiral
Check out our slate of Daily Kos-endorsed candidates https://t.co/2RZclYxusg https://t.co/wYW3q9OU78
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Kind Bars to FDA: What Is “Healthy”? – The Atlantic
You’ve probably never bought almonds that said “healthy” on the package. If you did, they were probably illegal almonds.
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Kevin O’Rourke weighs in on the big showing of Marine Le Pen and friends in the French elections; like me, he argues that it has a lot to do with Europe’s economic failures. Let me add, however, that it’s not just a matter of times being bad.
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Can Ethical ‘White-Hat’ Hacking Compete With Cybercrime? – The Atlantic
The cybersecurity expert Chris Rock is an unconventional killer.
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Ronda Rousey: ‘I need to come back. I need to beat this chick’ | Sport | The Guardian
Ronda Rousey, who lost her UFC crown in a stunning loss to Holly Holm last month, has admitted she was embarrassed by her performance in Melbourne – and is desperate to return to the ring and win back her title.
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Where’s the official Republican Party response to Trump’s Muslim ban plan?
It was Monday afternoon when Donald Trump released his big plan for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” In this 24-hour news environment, if you haven’t responded within a few hours, we know you’re struggling for w…
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The Global Response To Donald Trump’s Comments About Muslims – The Atlantic
Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Trump compared his plan to the Japanese internment camps used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. But Trump rejected the idea that he was advocating the internment of Muslim Americans: “No…
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Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap (Trailer) | VICE News
At the start of 2015, Mexican national Horacio Hernandez Herrera, allegedly third in command of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, at the center of a 12 million peso ($255,000) drug bust.
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How a Famed New Age Retreat Center Helped End the Cold War | Atlas Obscura
Early one morning, in September 1982, hundreds of young Russians were waiting in a Moscow TV studio for an image of Southern California to appear on a giant screen.
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How Microsoft Created a Revolution in Soviet Computing | Atlas Obscura
The Cyrillic alphabet, dot matrix-style. (Photo: Albo003/shutterstock.com) In 1990, as computers started to become a common sight in homes around the United States, a particular problem developed.
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How Obama’s Gun-Control Push Inverted the Politics of the No-Fly List: Democrats, once critics of Bush-era terror policies, have decided they’re a useful tool, while Republicans have rediscovered the importance of due process. (theatlantic.com)
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Reported fiction. Charleston, South Carolina. June 17, 2015. There were two churches, one white and one black, with a parking lot and a playground between them. He parked in the parking lot and wondered which of the churches it belonged to.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet’ (bbc.com)submitted 42 minutes ago by loading…
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President Obama’s address to the nation Sunday was intended to reassure anxious Americans that the United States will defeat the Islamic State, known as ISIS or ISIL, “by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless, and by drawing upon every as…
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Meet Gandalf via /r/aww https://t.co/fj8HaoRJbW https://t.co/INDZLb9ARJ https://t.co/DDpFmXSkbO
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Meet Gandalf via /r/aww https://t.co/fj8HaoRJbW https://t.co/INDZLb9ARJ https://t.co/DDpFmXSkbO
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One-Fifth of Americans: We’re Online “Almost Constantly” | TechCrunch
Feel like you’re pretty much never offline anymore? You have plenty of company, according to the Pew Research Center. According to a new survey of 2001 Americans ages 18 years and older, roughly 21 percent of U.S. adults now report that they go onli…
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Mozilla Launches Content Blocker For Safari On iOS 9 | TechCrunch
Here is a bit of a surprise announcement: Firefox-maker Mozilla today announced the launch of Focus by Firefox, a content blocker for Safari on iOS 9 that’s based on the Disconnect blocklist.
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Jon Stewart visits The Daily Show to call out Congress (again) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jon Stewart came out of his all-too-brief retirement last month to sign a a four-year production deal with HBO, where his “unique prism” will be presumably be used to cast a humorous light on the many ways in which the world is going to hell in the …
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Reckless by Cornelia Funke – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When I picked up Reckless, I didn’t really know what to expect. I loved Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart trilogy and now she’s started a new series called Reckless.
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Close All the Mosques! | The Nation
Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky!
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Andrea Levy’s The Long Song for December’s reading group | Books | The Guardian
This month’s Reading group choice is The Long Song by Andrea Levy. It’s a fine book to come out of the hat, a novel that is popular with critics and readers alike, and it received numerous nominations from Reading group contributors.
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Create a Portable Gift Wrapping Kit for Easy Storage During and After the Holidays
One trip to the hardware store for a tall trash bin, some hooks, and some accessories, and you have an all-in-one kit that keeps everything organized whether you’re using it to wrap gifts or stashing it in the closet for next year.
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Supergirl’s Darkest Moment Only Helps Her To Shed More Light
Supergirl continues to find ways to tell compelling stories about people in costumes with other-worldly powers, without needing to turn dark, “gritty” and misanthropic. This flies in the face of everything we know about superheroes in the 21st centu…
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Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution – The Daily Beast
Press releases aren’t casual comments, open to misinterpretation. They are deliberate statements. And Donald Trump, celebrity demagogue, has officially crossed into unconstitutional territory. There it is, in chilling black and white: “Donald J.
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The StarCraft II trilogy follows a similar trajectory to that of The Lord Of The Rings films.
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Cartoon: The never-ending death spiral
Australia illustrates what a country has to do to solve this problem. The U.S. is doing pretty much the exact opposite.
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It’s the 2015 A.V. Club Reader Poll · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As is now tradition, The A.V. Club once again turns its attention to you, the loyal reader, as we announce the 2015 readers’ poll. We know what we like, but sometimes we forget that there’s a whole world of people out there with opinions of their ow…
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In the Annapurna region in Nepal a man has made an extraordinary vision come true. He has brought internet access to places that even today can only be reached after several days travel on foot. By now he has managed to connect over 60.000 people to…
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Why aren’t we looking into the Saudi role in San Bernardino attack? : politics
Why aren’t we looking into the Saudi role in San Bernardino attack? (cbc.ca)
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Ted Cruz is even less electable than Donald Trump: “Cruz is calling for a 19 percent federal sales tax that would apply to all purchases of goods and services made in the United States. This is possibly the single least voter-friendly idea one could…
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Talkdesk Call Center Software “Growing Like Crazy” | TechCrunch
Talkdesk co-founder Cristina Fonseca spoke at Disrupt London on Tuesday. In an interview with TechCrunch’s Matt Lynley, Fonseca explained how the Portugal-based startup has been able to help businesses improve their customer service experience.
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Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon urge climate policy rethink | Environment | The Guardian
The leaders of the UK’s two main opposition parties say they hope the Paris climate summit will encourage prime minister David Cameron to reconsider green policies.
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Britain’s flood defences: five key questions answered | Environment | The Guardian
What are Britain’s flood defences? In England and Wales the Environment Agency is responsible for managing the two kinds of flood defences: hard and soft.
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Who’s Most Responsible for Climate Change? | New Republic
Ethics is a particularly relevant if underreported topic of conversation at the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris.
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Only kid on remote island to get hundreds of Christmas cards from Redditors | Ars Technica
10-year-old Aron Anderson might just be the UK’s loneliest schoolboy. He lives on Out Skerries, an archipelago in the eastern Shetland Isles, two hundred miles north of mainland Scotland and in the middle of absolutely bloody nowhere.
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Missing Wipeout? Play this amazing new Wii U racer | The Verge
Futuristic racing games don’t have much hope for the future. With the closure of Studio Liverpool, Sony has abandoned the Wipeout series, all but ensuring 2012’s Wipeout 2048 on the Vita is the last Wipeout you’ll ever play.
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Twitter Is Testing Timelines That Aren’t in Chronological Order | Motherboard
Are you a loyal Twitter user? Brace yourself, because your favorite social media platform might get turned on its head: Twitter is experimenting with a new way of sorting your timeline that breaks with the reverse-chronological format it has used si…
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Mozilla launches Focus, a new ad-blocker for iOS | The Verge
There’s a new ad-blocker coming to the app store. Today, Mozilla is launching Focus, a new program taking advantage of iOS 9’s content-blocking API.
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Does The Hateful Eight’s 70mm roadshow really impact the future of film? | The Verge
Quentin Tarantino asked a bunch of newly trained projectionists to screen a 350-pound film on over 100 salvaged projectors. What could go wrong?
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Gifts for the Ultimate Man Cave | Vanity Fair
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Chipotle Is Spiraling from Reported E. Coli Outbreaks | Vanity Fair
Chipotle is like a spiraling pop star. For years, fans couldn’t satiate their appetite for the newcomer. It became a craze over which to bond and a point of pride, with die-hards proclaiming they knew about it way before it was a thing.
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Amazon lets Prime users add Showtime, Starz, and more to their subscription | The Verge
Amazon just announced the Streaming Partners Program, a subscription program that lets Prime users add distinct video services to their existing Prime package. Nearly 20 services will be available to Prime users for an additional fee, including Show…
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There’s A New Surge Of Unaccompanied Children Crossing The Southern Border | ThinkProgress
Federal officials will open two shelters in response to a resurgent flow of unaccompanied children through the southern U.S. border.
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Virtual Reality for All, Finally [Video] – Scientific American
You can be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the latest round of promises that virtual reality has finally arrived for the masses.
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In the climate talks “blue zone”, in the Parisian district of Le Bourget, are the governments, their advisers and lawyers, big business and the financiers. Facebook has a stall, along with UN agencies and scientific bodies.
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LL Cool J’s First LP, Radio / Boing Boing
The first full length album from Def Jam Records in 1985 with special vocal appearance by Russell “Rush” Simmons. Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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Herdsmen arrested for poisoning lions in Kenya’s Maasai Mara | World news | The Guardian
Two Maasai herdsmen have been arrested for allegedly poisoning lions in the Masaai Mara game reserve after the lions killed two of their cows, according to a Narok county wildlife official. Moses Kuyioni said on Tuesday that a fourth suspect is stil…
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New EU cybersecurity rules neutered by future backdoors, weakened crypto | Ars Technica
The European Union has drawn up a set of rules governing the security of the region’s digital infrastructure.
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Apple’s $99 Smart Battery Case adds 25 hours of talk time to iPhones | Ars Technica
If you need to invest in a battery pack to help your iPhone survive the whole day, now you’ll have an Apple-made option to choose from. Apple unveiled its first official battery pack for the iPhone 6 and 6S, dubbed the Smart Battery Case, by putting…
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What Won’t Donald Trump Propose With Respect to Muslim Americans? – The Atlantic
Can you imagine a modern-day presidential candidate suggesting a national database of every African American living in the United States today? Or that every gay person around the country be required to carry special identification cards with them a…
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Fallout 4’s Satirical Take on the 1950s – The Atlantic
Fallout 4 takes players back. Back to the beginning. Back before the bombs fell, and before the world of the Fallout series took on its mutated, feral, apocalyptic form. But what did that world look like?
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How Taxpayers Keep the NFL Rich – The Atlantic
Over three marvelous spring days in 2015, the National Football League threw itself a party otherwise known as the annual draft. The NFL took over Chicago’s storied lakefront Grant Park, where, in November 2008 Barack Obama had addressed a vast thro…
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Kendal Cares: how Cumbrian town helps people left homeless by Storm Desmond | UK news | The Guardian
After Storm Desmond left 1,397 people in Kendal homeless, the busiest place in the Cumbrian market town was a help centre set up to aid those whose homes were devastated over the weekend.
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Six children drown as refugee boat sinks off Turkey – Al Jazeera English
At least six Afghan children, including a baby, have died after an inflatable boat carrying refugees sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, Turkish media have said.
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Make This Digestive Tonic to Relieve the Pain of Holiday Overeating
Eating is as big a part of the holidays as tinsel and twinkly lights, and it’s not your fault if you overdo it a bit here or there. This tasty tonic from Bon Appetit will help you digest all of those carbs and sweets, and get you ready for your next…
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Another year of I’m a Celebrity is over and I find myself feeling increasingly sorry for the participants. I really do. It’s hard for them. A flood of unrecognisable know-nothings thrown in to face the heat of the jungle. Barely fed and packed in li…
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Mercedes are taking legal action against an engineer who allegedly took confidential information as he prepared to join Formula 1 rivals Ferrari. Benjamin Hoyle, who works for engine manufacturers Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, is allege…
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My little blue-eyed daydreamer. : cats
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Loneliest Tree(OC) [5000×3000]
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Chicago’s “Black Site” Police Scandal Is Primed to Explode Again: Homan Square detention facility is reportedly like something out of “Homeland.” (motherjones.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…[–]beanx [score hidden] 17 minutes ago(2 children)b…
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Donald Trump warns there will be “many more World Trade Centers” if his temporary ban on Muslim immigration is not put in place. (cnn.com) Looks like we have a new ISIS spokes man. Has Trump been radicalized too?
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Texas Fracking Zone Emits 90% More Methane Than EPA Estimated | twice as much as estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and 5.5 times the number from a separate global database. (insideclimatenews.org)
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Future negative emissions technologies won’t be enough, aggressive emission reduction needed now. (exeter.ac.uk)
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Leading climate sceptic who will testify at Ted Cruz senate hearing today agrees to write pro-fossil fuel paper secretly funded by oil company (energydesk.greenpeace.org)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Blippar Demonstrates New Real-Time Augmented Reality App | TechCrunch
Ambarish Mitra just revealed Blippar’s next-generation app at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. By just pointing the app at everyday objects, the app identifies and categories nearly everything in the frame. The app launches in two weeks in an effort …
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The Best Art Books of 2015 | Brain Pickings
I think of my annual best-of reading lists as Old Year’s resolutions in reverse — unlike traditional resolutions, which frame our aspirational priorities for the new year, these reflect on the books that emerged as most worth prioritizing over the s…
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As the UN climate meetings in Paris come to an end this week, diplomats from around the world are under pressure to reach an agreement that would reflect the plans they presented to cut their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions.
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When Will Saint West Make His Debut? | Vanity Fair
Monday saw perhaps the most eagerly anticipated celebrity baby-name reveal since . . . well, since North West’s name was revealed in 2013.
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There’s a ‘Hipster Santa’ in Portland, Oregon | Dangerous Minds
Perhaps one of the dumbest culture-related things I’ve spotted so far this week—it’s ONLY Tuesday, tho—is the “Hipster Santa” as seen in a Portland, Oregon shopping mall.
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More guns mean more gun murders. Here’s how we know. – Vox
After the San Bernardino shooting and the intense debate over guns that has followed, some conservative commentators are pushing back on the evidence that more guns mean more gun deaths, citing their own data and charts. But they’re making a grave s…
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Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric ‘harming US refugee programme’ – video | World news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims entering the US is putting the refugee resettlement programme at risk, according to the United Nations refugee agency’s Melissa Fleming, speaking in Geneva on Tuesday. Photograph: …
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Launch positions
ESA astronaut Tim Peake testing his Sokol pressure suit and Soyuz spacecraft seat in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 December.
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Kimmel’s Lie Witness News Tests Believability of Kim, Kanye Baby Names | Rolling Stone
Kimmel’s Lie Witness News Tests Believability of Kim, Kanye Baby Names Crack team discovers people not phased by “Kia Sorento West,” “Fievel Goes West”
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars Is Coming to TV, But You’ll Never Guess Where
This is unexpected. There’s finally going to be a live-action adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s beloved Mars trilogy of novels. It’s going to be on Spike TV, best known for reality shows like Bar Rescue and Ink Masters (and infinite Cops reruns).…
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Can Putin Win Over Europe by Bombing Syria? – The Atlantic
In Syria, some of Europe’s leading powers find themselves allied with Vladimir Putin in the military campaign against ISIS; in Ukraine, the Europeans have combined forces with the Americans to contain the Russian president’s imperialistic advances.
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Zombie nativity scene draws ire and donations in Ohio – BBC News
An Ohio couple is defying orders to remove a zombie-themed nativity scene from their front garden. For a second year in a row, Jasen and Amanda Dixon constructed the scene, which features a spoof version of Silent Night including a demonic baby Jesu…
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Inside Country’s Grammy Surprises: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Inside Country’s Grammy Surprises: The Ram Report All-genre nominations for Chris Stapleton, Little Big Town and Sam Hunt boost the format’s visibility
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Albania protesters scuffle with police in Tirana – BBC News
Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have scuffled with police during an anti-government protest in the capital Tirana. Demonstrators threw stones and eggs at a government building, demanding the resignation of PM Edi Rama’s government.
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Jon Stewart Makes ‘Daily Show’ Return for 9/11 First Responders | Rolling Stone
Jon Stewart Makes Surprise ‘Daily Show’ Return for 9/11 First Responders Former host shames politicians into renewing the Zadroga Act, which would provide permanent health care to 9/11 first responders
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ladies and gents, I give you the harpy eagle : pics
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This morning IBM announced it was acquiring Clearleap, a company that gives it enterprise-grade video content management services in the cloud, and which adds another layer to its burgeoning cloud strategy. IBM would not disclose the purchase price.
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Looking to target the growing number of cord-cutters who are opting out of costly pay-TV all-in subscriptions, Amazon is adding another swathe of video content to its Prime, its members-only video, music and free delivery subscription service.
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System Shock 3 is coming | The Verge
It seems almost too good to be true, but the System Shock series is apparently getting another installment. Last night, a teaser page showed up in the Twitter feed of OtherSide Entertainment, a small studio led by Paul Neurath — co-founder of System…
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Climate Change and Millennials: The Future is in Our Hands – Scientific American Blog Network
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Qualcomm just got hit with antitrust charges in Europe | The Verge
Earlier this year, European regulators filed antitrust charges against Google, but it wasn’t the only American tech company being scrutinized by officials: the European Commission has now filed charges against chip maker Qualcomm.
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US Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit
Mum’s the word: The U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane has winged its way past the 200 day mark, carrying out a classified agenda for the American military.
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Terry Gilliam’s dark Christmas animation from 1968 | Dangerous Minds
Terry Gilliam’s Christmas card of 2011, as posted to his Facebook page. Terry Gilliam moved to London in 1967 after having paid his dues on a cutting-edge satirical magazine in the United States called Help! that was run by former MAD honcho Harvey …
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What Really Happens When You Get Shot | WIRED
Staff Sergeant Nick Lavery wasn’t only the most physically imposing Green Beret on our team, he was the most physically imposing soldier any of us had ever seen.
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The Boy Who Moved Christmas| Maclean’s Magazine
Past their bedtime, two boys press their feet into sneakers and leave the house to say what they expect to be their final words to their seven-year-old brother. In the living room, Christmas has been happening for months, the tree long bedazzled and…
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The Most Exclusive Spin Class Is in Your Living Room
Peloton wants to take on SoulCycle with virtual spinning. It’s 9:30 on a Thursday morning in July, and Candace Ryan is getting ready for her second workout of the day. Already dressed in spandex from a 6 a.m.
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Last month, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber signed a document agreeing to take measures against racial inequality on campus, most notably the possibility of removing the name of Woodrow Wilson, a noted racist, from campus bui…
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Donald Trump’s message to Muslims: ‘We want you to turn in the bad ones’ | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his plan to temporarily halt all Muslim entry to the United States on Tuesday, a proposal roundly condemned by fellow Republicans and met with shocked horror by American Muslim leaders.
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The best city improvements in 2015: share your stories of good news | Cities | The Guardian
There’s no doubt that cities around the world are facing serious social, economic and environmental issues – from inequality and gentrification to air pollution and flooding.
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Why You Should Plan an Occasional Break From Dieting (And How to Do It)
When your weight loss seems to be stalling or you’re starting to feel burnt out, try taking a break from watching your diet. It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be just what your body—and mind—needs to see progress again. Here’s how it works.
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Plenty of creative types held down jobs outside of their interests before they made it big; Bob Pollard of Guided By Voices was a high school teacher, Eddie Murphy sold women’s shoes, and the late Phil Hartman was a graphic designer.
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Artists Make DeepDream Dream Deeper With Secret ‘DeepUI’ Tool | Motherboard
It was 1968 when Phillip K. Dick posited the question, “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” While we still can’t answer that with unequivocal certainty, we took one step closer this July as Google unveiled its DeepDream project.
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Someone Will Eventually Use CRISPR to Try to Make a Dragon or Unicorn | Motherboard
The world’s top geneticists decided to spend the vast majority of last week discussing how to keep new genetic editing tools from ultimately destroying the human race. A noble goal, sure.
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The Truth Behind That Crazy Batman v Superman Scene
Plus the movie confirms another superhero cameo. Find out if The Force Awakens will have a post-credits scene! The Russo brothers hint at Spider-Man’s costume in Civil War. Game of Thrones set reports reveal a confrontation for Melisandre. Plus, a s…
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What It’s Like To Step Inside The World of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians
Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy has won legions of fans, in large part thanks to its vividly described world. And now, Syfy is bringing that world to life, and we’ve been there.
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Super Spiral Galaxies Amaze Astronomers – Scientific American
They’re big, they’re bright, they’re beautiful—and they shouldn’t even exist, at least to our current astronomical knowledge: gargantuan spiral galaxies that make our giant Milky Way seem downright modest.
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Paris attacks: Bataclan band visit scene of massacre – BBC News
US rock band Eagles of Death Metal have visited the Paris concert venue where many of the 130 people who died in the 13 November terror attacks were killed. Gunmen stormed the Bataclan as the band performed. The band escaped but their merchandising …
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Greenland’s dark snow – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
From rapid ice melts to calving glaciers and a snow terrain poked by dark patches, Daniel Betrá’s stunning images show how rising temperatures and global pollution are literally leaving their dark imprints on Greenland’s pristine landscape.
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Need An Easy Gift Idea? Your Favorite Travel Mug is Cheaper Than Ever Today.
Today only, Amazon’s selling your undisputed favorite travel mug, the Contigo Autoseal West Loop, for just $12-$13, depending on the size. Our deal researcher, Corey, said it best:
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Can the Syria meeting in Saudi Arabia bring unity? – Al Jazeera English
That position is shared by Russia, while Iran is also not happy about the meeting in Riyadh.
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Astronaut To Run Marathon From Space – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
British astronaut Tim Peake, scheduled to depart for the International Space Station on December 15, plans to run the London Marathon next April while aboard the spacecraft by strapping into a treadmill that simulates normal gravity by applying down…
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Turd-related Christmas traditions of the Catalans | Dangerous Minds
Each December 8th, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, families in the Catalonian region of Spain bring out Tió de Nadal or Caga Tió (which means “shitting log”). The log is painted with a smiling face and stands on two tiny stick legs.
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Good climate news: Global emissions dropped in 2015.
If you’re a fan of living on a planet with a stable climate, this is the ultimate good news: The period of rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions may be over.
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World responds to Trump’s proposed muslim ban / 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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Meet the Artist Behind the Animorphs Covers That Destroyed Your Mind as a Kid | VICE | United States
To attend Loscon is to travel from the present to a simpler time, before the ascension of the all-swallowing marketplace-slash-cosplay-orgy that is Comicon.
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Custom Suit Maker Indochino Hires Shop.ca’s Drew Green As Its New CEO | TechCrunch
There’s a new boss at Indochino — Drew Green, who was previously founding CEO at online retailer Shop.ca.
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Trump Supporters Upset He Only Wants to Ban One Religion – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The billionaire Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States has sparked deep disappointment among his supporters, many of whom had hoped he was planning to ban a sizable number of other relig…
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The County: sexual assault and the price of silence | US news | The Guardian
They promised Karen Frye she would not be sexually assaulted again. The wire she was wearing and the secret video camera planted inside a hollowed-out Bible in her jail cell would be enough to catch her abuser before he could touch her, the officers…
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Apple Stores Start Selling Devialet’s $1,990 “Phantom” Implosion Speaker | TechCrunch
The Devialet Phantom speaker is so pretty and powerful that today the top 14 Apple Stores in U.S. stores will begin selling it. The 750 watt, 99 dB Phantom will sell for $1990, while the 3000 watt, 105 db Phantom Silver will be $2390.
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Exeter Chiefs and England centre Henry Slade has been ruled out for about four months after having surgery on a broken leg and suffering ankle damage. It means Slade is likely to miss the Six Nations, which starts in February.
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Get the most functional adult in your life an official Adult Award / Boing Boing
Sad Puppies, Rabid Puppies lose big at the Hugos UPDATED Cixin Liu’s “Three Body Problem” is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexi…
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Why a new ranking says the University of Colorado Denver is the best college in the US – Vox
Many groups are now trying to rank colleges based on how much their students earn later in life — and how much they earn relative to what you’d expect. And every time, the answer is different.
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Beware Credit Card “Skip a Payment” Holiday Offers
Around this time of year, some credit card companies and banks give customers the option to skip their December payments. It sounds like a sweet deal, but as you can probably guess, there are quite a few drawbacks, which is why experts warn against …
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‘I don’t care’ about opposition to my ban-the-Muslims plan, says Trump. Because Franklin Roosevelt.
Donald Trump’s brand new, in no way historically resonant idea to exclude all Muslims from the United States has drawn as much criticism as anything he’s said during his presidential campaign.
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Wetherspoons Hacker Speaks: ‘I Did It Simply Because I Could’ | Motherboard
Last week, Wetherspoons, a popular UK pub chain, announced that one of its websites had been breached. The hacker got away with the names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers of potentially 656,723 customers, as well as the partial pa…
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DR Congo floods kill ’20 people in Kinshasa’ – BBC News
An estimated 20 people have died in floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over the last 10 days, the authorities say.
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The first penis transplants in the U.S. will soon help heal wounded veterans – The Washington Post
Johns Hopkins University will soon perform the first penis transplants in the United States — and wounded soldiers will be the first patients. The New York Times reports that the first surgery could occur in just a few months.
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Arctic Invasion | Hakai Magazine
There’s an Arctic invasion underway. Not a military invasion (hopefully), but a biological one.
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To Disco, With Love — Cuepoint — Medium
In 2001, I went to an exhibit of record album art at a gallery in New York. The walls were papered from floor to ceiling with covers of every description.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: click on the embedded player above go to NetrootsRadio.
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System Shock 3 in development at Otherside Entertainment | Ars Technica
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We need to reject the false narratives around anorexia.
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Apple’s new $99 iPhone battery case doesn’t measure up | The Verge
What makes a smartphone battery case “smart”? It’s a question Apple is trying to answer with its brand new Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6 and 6S.
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Stonehenge may be a “used monument” originally erected in Wales / Boing Boing
One of the wonders of the world was in fact second-hand, a used monument originally built in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and only later moved to Salisbury.
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Game on: Second competitor in Google Lunar XPRIZE gets a ride to space | Ars Technica
Time is running out for the 16 teams entered into the Google Lunar XPRIZE, which requires entrants to land a small spacecraft on the surface of The Moon by the end of 2017. But now, eight years after the prize was announced, the competitors are begi…
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Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Russia chose to be strong over worthy’ | Books | The Guardian
The 2015 Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich has said that Russia “missed the chance” it had in the 1990s to become a country “where people can live decently”, choosing instead to become “a strong country”.
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Cruising in Manhattan in the Schulich Delta, a solar-powered race car | Ars Technica
A car doesn’t have to be something like a McLaren P1 to push our buttons. One of the most exciting rides we had in 2015 was also the least-powerful: the Schulich Delta, a solar-powered racer designed and built by a team of students at the University…
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The Fate of Daily Fantasy is All About These Bros
This story is part of ESPN The Magazine’s Ideas of the Year Issue – a look at the people, moves and moments that changed sports in 2015, on newsstands Dec. 11. Subscribe today! SITTING ACROSS FROM Dave and Rob Gomes in their mother’s Italian restaur…
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The iHome Kineta K1 – an inventive bluetooth speaker / Boing Boing
I think we’re all pretty spoiled these days when it comes to bluetooth streaming technology. I can remember waiting in line for one of the first portable, wireless speakers and being disappointed when I finally got it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Everyone responsible in climate change fight – video | Film | The Guardian
‘Every city, every state, every province and every neighborhood’ remains responsible for its greenhouse gas emissions, says Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday in France.
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Thirty-five years ago today, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was gunned down by some moron. I was 16 and getting ready for school when I heard the news that day (oh boy), and it’s hard to fathom that I’m now more than ten years older than he was—…
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Six Million Dollar actor Martin E Brooks dies – BBC News
Actor Martin E Brooks, who starred in The Six Million Dollar Man, has died at the age of 90. Brooks played scientist Dr Rudy Wells in the 1970s TV series, as well as roles in The Bionic Woman and Dallas.
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Ukraine restores some electricity to Crimea after damage – BBC News
Ukraine says it has restored part of the electricity supply to Crimea, more than two weeks after power lines to the territory were blown up. One of the damaged lines has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid – but three are still down.
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Russia in marathon reading of Tolstoy’s War and Peace on web – BBC News
Russian film stars, a cosmonaut and French actress Fanny Ardant are among 1,300 people reading Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace live on the internet – a 60-hour marathon spread over four days. The event was organised by Russian state broadcasters an…
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We Talked to Two Sex Workers Who Actually Use the ‘Uber for Escorts’ | Motherboard
“Sex work” or “prostitution.” Reprehensible or normal. Victimized or emancipated. Forbid or decriminalize. No matter your stance in the prostitution debate, the fact is that people all over the world trade sex for money every day.
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Shahadat Hossain: Bangladesh cricketer granted bail – BBC News
Bangladesh cricketer Shahadat Hossain was granted bail on Tuesday after being held for allegedly beating an 11-year-old maid, a lawyer said. Hossain handed himself into police on 5 October and has been in custody since.
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Vintage Images of Canine Cosmonauts from the USSR | Atlas Obscura
A postcard from 1960 showing Belka and Strelka in their rocket by the photomontage artist Sveshnikov. The flags read ‘Happy New Year’, on the wing of the rocket ‘USSR’, inside the cockpits ‘Strelka’, and ‘Belka’.
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On Tuesday, Nov. 10, six days after Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, I was shown into his office on the third floor of the Parliament building in Ottawa.
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There will be blood | MinnPost
Every year, roughly 40,000 people die in Minnesota. For some, it’s weeks or months before anyone finds them. Meet the crew who comes in to clean up the mess. Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions that may be unsuitable for some rea…
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Russia and radicalisation: Homegrown problem – FT.com
Every time Albina’s mobile phone buzzes, she winces. “It could be my sister, from Syria,” says the young woman, sitting in the kitchen of the small apartment she shares with her mother in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.
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Top your tree with Baphomet, Cthulhu or Krampus / Boing Boing
Ron Amadeo has Walmart’s $10 smartphone, the LG Sunrise. It’s shit. And yet… The specs look like something out of 2007: a 3.8-inch 480×320 display, a dual core, 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and a 3MP camera.
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Last night, Dallas defeated Washington in a game that started with 58 minutes of boring and ended with a two-minute display of great and terrible footba…
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How Republicans And Polls Enable Donald Trump | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump’s probably unconstitutional1 proposal to ban Muslims — even American citizens traveling abroad — from entering the United States was soon denounced by … exactly who you might expect to denounce it. The three remaining Democratic candida…
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Tweets Reveal a Twitter User’s Income Bracket – Scientific American
Like sex, money is a topic that most people avoid discussing publicly. Yet we regularly leave digital traces of our economic standing—even when expressing ourselves within Twitter’s 140-character limit. In an analysis of roughly 10.
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Keurig sold to private equity firm in wake of disastrous DRM scheme / Boing Boing
Keurig had the bright idea of trying to make it impossible to brew coffee with its machines unless the pods were officially-approved by them. The result was a well-deserved failure in the marketplace, but now the company is being “bailed out” by the…
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A Yale lecturer who came under attack for challenging students to stand up for their right to decide what Halloween costumes to wear, even to the point of being offensive, has resigned from teaching at the college, the university said Monday.
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The Bodies of Six Drowned Children Have Been Found Off Turkey | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. At least six children died and eight other people were rescued on Tuesday after a boat carrying migrants bound for Greece capsized off Turkey’s weste…
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Meet Tayna, the Faintest Ancient Galaxy Ever Found
Researchers using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have caught sight of the faintest object ever seen from the early universe, dating back to just 400 million years after the Big Bang. This Hubble image specifies the location of that early, y…
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Mars on Earth: Canadian Arctic Serves as Red Planet Training Ground
Would-be Mars explorers can get a taste of what Red Planet life would be like with a trip to the Canadian Arctic.
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Why Portland is beaming with pride: ‘The Timbers are part of who we are’ | Football | The Guardian
By the time Justin Zoradi showed up at Portland international airport, hundreds of people were already there. Word broke out on social media that the Timbers would be returning to the city with the MLS Cup soon, and everyone had the same idea.
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WATCH, SHARE & MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Please share this film on your social networks with the hashtag #LOVEisbeingEXECUTED. Add the name of your favorite human rights organization in honor of #HumanRightsDay to your post or tweet. At the end of December…
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I’m a black activist. Here’s what people get wrong about Black Lives Matter. – Vox
I learned much of what I know about the civil rights movement at Morehouse College. An extraordinary campus, on a hill in Atlanta, Morehouse was where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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These charts show Democrats’ extraordinary state election losses under Obama – Vox
With the rather large exception of the White House, these are dark days for the Democratic Party. The 2014 election left the party with 188 seats in the House of Representatives, its lowest count since the Truman administration.
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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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Michigan study funded by Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban could lead to a rethinking of HGH
Mark Cuban, billionaire multi-tasker, grinds out the last few minutes of an hour-long workout on a stair-climber. Sweat gleams on his arms and drips steadily from his forehead onto the front of the machine, which faces an exposed brick wall in the D…
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PlayStation VR expo round-up: Impressive Rez Infinite leads killer line-up | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—We were hoping to see more of Sony’s most anticipated games at this past weekend’s PlayStation Experience expo at the giant Moscone Center, but previously announced titles like The Last Guardian, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Gran Turismo Sp…
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What It’s Like to Parent While Homeless – The Atlantic
BALTIMORE—On a typical morning, the first to wake is 6-month-old Nathaniel. He doesn’t always sleep through the night, so by the time his mother, Cierra Thomas, sits up in the twin bed she shares with her husband, Tony Gardner, she’s already dreadin…
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Oscar Pistorius Gets Bail As He Awaits Sentencing in Murder Case – The Atlantic
Olympian Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail as he awaits sentencing in his murder conviction for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, two years ago. Last week, a South African court overturned Pistorius’s earlier manslaughter conviction in th…
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Who’s the Question Mark on Your Gift List This Year? – The Atlantic
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Kazakhstan’s New Encryption Law Could Be a Preview of U.S. Policy – The Atlantic
Think of all the little things you did on the Internet today. You checked your email. Maybe you shopped for a flight home for the holidays. Perhaps you checked your bank balance to survey the Black Friday damage.
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Cara Delevingne’s ‘The Future Is Female’ T-Shirt Looks A Little Too Familiar | ThinkProgress
Sounds great, right? Catchy as a pop song, declarative to boot. Read it as a mission statement, read it as aspiration, read it as defiance.
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In one of the largest seed investments in the firm’s history, Sequoia Capital is committing to a $13 million round for Lemonade, a company that’s looking to bring the idea of peer-to-peer personal insurance to the U.S.
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‘America’s Next Top Model’ Wraps After 22 Seasons of Bigotry | The Nation
America’s Next Top Model wrapped its finale Friday after 12 years and 22 seasons (or “cycles,” as the series preferred), and Entertainment Weekly wants us to “pay our respects” to a show that gave us some of the “most iconic” moments in reality TV h…
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Google Released Phone and Contacts Apps to the Play Store
Android: Google’s released the stock phone and contacts apps to the Play Store, breaking them away from Android, which means we’ll start to see more regular updates with sweet new features. To get things started, Google’s added a couple new niceties…
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When it comes to climate change and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidates, a lot has changed in the last five months.
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Learning and Brain Activity Boosted by Dose of Small Compound – Scientific American
We learn from experience: It sounds like a trite sentiment posted by a friend on Facebook, but neuroscientists would agree.
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Average age of cyber crime suspects in the UK falls to 17 | The Verge
The average age of individuals suspected of committing computer crime in the UK has dropped to just 17, says the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
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Prince’s Insane Cover Of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ Is Back Online, And It’s Making Us Cry – Digg
26 diggs Music In 2008, Prince covered “Creep” at Coachella and it was legendary and amazing, but he took down all trace of it from the Internet because of copyright issues. Well, now it’s back. Click play, and cry.
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The Giants can still make the playoffs – and keep Tom Coughlin in a job | Sport | The Guardian
New York Giants’ fans showed up that December day at the Meadowlands in a festive mood, but the game eventually went sour, then haywire, so some of them launched a chant that rang throughout the big stadium next to the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Dairy lovers around the world were introduced to an alarming fact a few years ago. Greek yoghurt, a $2bn-a-year industry, had a dark side. Some headlines even declared it was “destroying our planet”.
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Margaret Atwood and Ian Rankin are among high-profile writers who have urged China to release Nobel laureate and poet Liu Xiaobo on the seventh anniversary of his arrest for “inciting subversion of state power”.
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We’ve long been able to read books online. More recently, the internet has also become a favored distribution system for movies, and certainly we’ve all heard more than enough about the effects of downloading and streaming on the music industry.
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What Clinton Gets Right, And Wrong, About Wall Street Reform
Hillary Clinton’s op-ed in The New York Times Monday on how she would handle Wall Street and financial reform as president appears so far to have landed with a thud.
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Video News Startup NowThis Raises $16.2M Led By Axel Springer | TechCrunch
NowThis just announced that it has raised $16.2 million in Series D funding. The round was led by German media company Axel Springer — which, in addition to previously investing in the startup’s $6 million Series C, recently bought Business Insider …
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Donald Trump seeks to ban Muslims from United States
For starters, Trump has already suggested the government may need to shutter U.S. mosques and create a mandatory registry to track Muslims in the United States. While many of his rivals took issue with those remarks, they don’t sound all that differ…
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Despite Push for Cleaner Cars, Sheer Numbers Could Work Against Climate Benefits : environment
Those billion Indians looking forward to having a fridge wipes out anything Westerners can do. You could shut down all of the UK and it will mean squat diddly.
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Beijing Issues Red Alert Over Air Pollution for the First Time https://t.co/9YAQ48FdRt https://t.co/BFPAlJdTHR
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Cheney: Trump Muslim ban ‘goes against everything we stand for’ : politics
Cheney: Trump Muslim ban ‘goes against everything we stand for’ https://t.co/DDxwYbUmn5 https://t.co/ASZJQGw4TP
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Beaten, Robbed, Set Upon by Dogs: Welcome to Europe | VICE News
Afghani Khalid Ahmadi recounted in precise detail the moment he says Bulgarian police ambushed him and others in a forest at night, beating them and stealing their money and mobile phones.
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The Shabu Trap (Trailer) | VICE News
At the start of 2015, Mexican national Horacio Hernandez Herrera, allegedly third in command of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, at the center of a 12 million peso ($255,000) drug bust.
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Muslim men’s jailing in Myanmar ‘tainted with torture’ – Al Jazeera English
A dozen Muslim men from Myanmar have been convicted for their alleged links to a previously unknown armed group and sentenced to five years in prison, following a trial which human rights groups say was tainted by allegations of torture.
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Turkish PM seeks to calm row with Iraq over troops – Al Jazeera English
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s prime minister, wants to visit Baghdad as soon as possible to try to calm a row over Turkish troops deployed to train their Iraqi counterparts in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
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First Click: Blocking Star Wars spoilers | The Verge
I’ve had enough — I’m now filtering all Star Wars-related mentions from the internet in the hope of blocking spoilers. With just 10 days to go until the premiere of Episode VII, the hype surrounding The Force Awakens has reached a deafening crescend…
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The Assad ultimatum – Al Jazeera English
The expansion of ISIL’s campaigns outside the Middle East and the military response to that threat has dominated coverage of Syria in recent months, but behind that lies the best shot at a diplomatic solution since the crisis began.
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The clown is no longer funny; the joke is now a sinister threat. Donald Trump has long been treated as a laughable absurdity, the generator of the occasional Twitter storm, a “only in America” caricature who simply could not be taken seriously.
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Pepperidge Farm thinks it owns the concept of oval, chocolate-filled cookies – Vox
When you go grocery shopping, you can often save money by buying cheaper, generic alternatives to popular name-brand foods. One name-brand manufacturer, the cookie company Pepperidge Farm, thinks that Trader Joe’s has taken this practice too far.
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Here Come the Public-School Consultants – The Atlantic
“This school would be more of a safety,” Joyce Szuflita explained to the parents. She gestured at the colored paper handouts fanned out between them, and then pointed at another zoned school on a different sheet.
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Image Your Task From An Outside Persective to Give Yourself New Ideas
When you’re experienced in something, the last thing you want is an outsider chiming in to tell you how to do your job. If you’re trying to come up with a new idea, though, thinking like that outsider might help.
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Developing countries should not be treated as a single bloc at the climate change talks in Paris, as their interests are often starkly divergent, the former president of Mexico has said.
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For Kevin Barry, the Human Voice Is the Future of Fiction – The Atlantic
By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more.
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Yea, when Dick fucking Cheney is the voice of reason, we might want to call it a day. Oh my god, I would love it if Trump shoot back at this. It would be god-tier.
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Water Walker Wanders Worldwide – Scientific American
Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. What doesn’t gotta happen is what an Alsatian man named Rémy Bricka likes to do—walk on water. In March [2000] Bricka began what he hoped would be a walk, on buoyant ski-length footgear, across the Pacific Ocean. Be…
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Silk Road: US agent jailed over bitcoin theft – BBC News
A former US Secret Service agent has been jailed for six years for stealing electronic currency while investigating the Silk Road online marketplace, according to the Associated Press (AP).Shaun Bridges took $820,000 (£546,000) in bitcoin after acce…
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Paris Climate Talks Headed Toward Global Deal, But Is It Enough? – Scientific American
Le Bourget, Paris—The nations of the world have been talking about climate change for 23 year. All that time they have been adding inexorably to the carbon dioxide piling up in the atmosphere and doing little to slow it.
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Migrant crisis: Children drown in Turkey dinghy tragedy – BBC News
Six children, including a baby, died when a dinghy carrying Afghan migrants capsized off Turkey, reports say. The Turkish coast guard rescued eight others from the Aegean Sea near the western city of Izmir.
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BEIJING — Officials in Beijing declared on Monday that the thick smog blanketing the city was bad enough to require a red alert, the first time they had raised the alarm to its highest level since an emergency air-pollution response system was annou…
Love Everyone Often 12/09/2015
GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber | TechCrunch While on-demand startups like Uber and BlaBlaCar continue to pack warchests with massive funding rounds as investors bet big that leveraging individual car ownership is the key to powering gigantic transportation/logistics businesses, other startups… tags: Pocket natasha…
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