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Donald Trump and ‘Demagogue’: The History of a Loaded Word – The Atlantic
He’s been compared to Hitler. And also Voldermort. And also Mussolini, and an African dictator, and Sanjaya, and Biff Tannen from Back to the Future, and, mainly for aesthetic purposes, an orangutan. And yet recently a new epithet has emerged to des…
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Kyle LaMere As You Are Project – The Atlantic
It’s 7:04 a.m. and your alarm goes off. Do you snooze? Maybe you roll out of bed and do a few jumping jacks. You check your notifications. Maybe you floss, walk your dog, and down a smoothie. Whatever your ritual, chances are it’s your own.
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Top 10 unlikely friendships in children’s books | Children’s books | The Guardian
Unlikely friendships between humans and animals are staples of both children’s literature and cinema.
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Kyle LaMere As You Are Photography Project – The Atlantic
In Photos: Before the Day Begins What it’s like to wake up as someone else curated by , Photographs by Kyle LaMere 1 / 25 Ryan Beshel, Publicist.
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Latest mass shootings prompt experts to overhaul theories explaining them | US news | The Guardian
Criminal profilers and behavioural analysts struggling to understand the impulses that lead to mass shootings like last week’s carnage in San Bernardino are racing to update their prediction and prevention models as the problem evolves in new, previ…
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It’s that season again. You know, the one when America’s wealthiest citizens flip eagerly through the pages of the December issue of the Robb Report’s annual Ultimate Gift Guide.
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The Geography Of You And Me by Jennifer E. Smith – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When New York’s electricity cuts out, consequences like a broken elevator appear. Lucy and Owen, who are strangers to each other, bond over their family troubles as they learn that in a blackout you have to stay together.
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The New Left is rather old news. Hence the title change for this new version of Roger Scruton’s critique of rampant intellectual socialism, which was originally published in 1985 as simply Thinkers of the New Left.
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The air quality is officially “good”, 400ft above Paris in a balloon at rush hour.
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How to Answer the Awkward, Private Questions Your Family Always Asks
Years ago, I brought a new boyfriend to Christmas dinner. “Is this the same boy as last time?” My uncle asked. That was bad enough, but when I told him no, he followed up with, “Every year, different boy.
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Spain election: Resisting change in a dying Spanish village – BBC News
When Juan Rio Belver, 66, moved to Casaseca 50 years ago, Sunday afternoons meant bands playing in the square and young couples strolling past on their way to parties. But all that has changed in this part in this part of north-western Spain.
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Living on a Literary Calendar | New Republic
I first glimpsed Ending Up in the sunshiny window of a little bookstore in Boston’s Back Bay. It was a new arrival. I was an undergrad, living on a frayed budget, and I rarely bought hardcovers.
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Golden Globe nominations to be revealed – BBC News
The nominations for the 2016 Golden Globe Awards will be revealed later, with dramas Spotlight and The Revenant expected to compete for best film. Leonardo DiCaprio is among those likely to get a best drama actor nomination for his role in The Reven…
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All is fair if love is war. A middle aged couple spark an argument over something small that spirals into their deep-seeded pet peeves and resentments of one another. Originally created for a chocolate company, this light-hearted film was inspired b…
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Serial season 2: Podcast returns and premieres new story | News | Culture | The Independent
Serial was the soundtrack to many of our icy walks last winter, a suitably chilling story about a Baltimore teenager being potentially wrongly-implicated for the murder of his ex-girlfriend.
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Canada’s New Typeface Unifies the Country’s Many Languages | WIRED
Caption: Ray Larabie designed Canada 150, a new typeface to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday. Raymond Larabie
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German court lets off ‘Sharia police’ patrol in Wuppertal – BBC News
A German court has ruled that Islamists who patrolled a city’s streets as “Sharia police” did not break the law and will not be prosecuted.Nine were arrested in September 2014 after patrolling streets in Wuppertal, western Germany. They wore bright …
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Serial’s second season is now available | The Verge
Almost a year after we heard the last episode of Serial season one, the first episode of the podcast’s second season is now online. The episode, titled “Dustwin,” is available to download from SerialPodcast.org and iTunes, and can also be streamed v…
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Kenyan politicians detained as ‘mass grave’ row escalates – BBC News
Six Kenyan politicians have been detained over comments they made about the alleged discovery of mass graves in the north-east. The six, including prominent lawmaker Billow Kerrow, were taken to a police building for questioning.
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Volkswagen blames emissions scandal on a ‘mindset’ that tolerated cheating | The Verge
Volkswagen today presented the preliminary findings of an internal investigation into its sprawling diesel emissions scandal, outlining the systematic factors that fueled the scandal and providing new details on how technical fixes will be implement…
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Israel hails Arrow-3 anti-missile test ‘success’ – BBC News
Israel’s defence ministry says it has successfully tested an advanced ballistic missile defence system. An Arrow-3 missile hit a target above the Earth’s atmosphere that simulated the trajectory of long-range missiles like the Iranian Shahab-3.
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Riders try out British-made electric unicycle – BBC News
Uniwheel is a ‘rideable’ electric transporter which, as the name suggests, has only one wheel. The makers say it can navigate urban environments more comfortably than popular two-wheeled rivals, sometimes nicknamed ‘hoverboards’.
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Tangerine Dream – Underwater Sunlight – YouTube
Tangerine Dream – Underwater Sunlight https://t.co/FDTcAEUOl7
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Assault casts doubt on Afghan security preparedness – Al Jazeera English
The Taliban attack on the Kandahar airbase that left dozens dead has cast new doubt on Afghan security forces’ preparedness and also on the future of the country’s relations with Pakistan.
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Coalition forces capture Yemeni islands from Houthis – Al Jazeera English
Saudi-led forces battling Houthi fighters in Yemen have taken control of the Hanish Islands in the Red Sea, coalition sources say. The group of islands was used by the Houthis to store and smuggle weapons into Yemen, the alliance and local fishermen…
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“Serial” Season Two Is Here – The New Yorker
This morning at 6 A.M., “DUSTWUN,” the first episode of season two of the “Serial” podcast, quietly made its début. It’s the first chapter in a season-long exploration of the case of Bowe Bergdahl, the American former prisoner of war.
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Mozambique’s Gem Wars – Al Jazeera English
US Ambassador Paul Bremer, former administrator of Iraq, discusses whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. The personal journey of a filmmaker caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tasmania’s ancient forests.
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Most Professors Fear, But Don’t Face, Trigger Warnings | FiveThirtyEight
Among critics looking for examples of coddling on campus, no action has been ridiculed more than the “trigger warning,” in which college professors caution their students that the class will discuss a subject that could produce a painful emotional r…
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Cold blast hits the Middle East – Al Jazeera English
The Qatari capital, Doha, which had been enjoying temperatures of 27C, suddenly saw the temperature struggle to reach just 18C. The cool air was brought in by strong winds. They were gusting up to 48kph, which made the weather feel even colder.
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Why humour and a complex character are as important …
Orwell taught us to fear technocratic jargon that doesn’t let us say what we mean. But that is language at its best
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Orwell was wrong: doublethink is as clear as languag…
Everyone remembers Newspeak, the straitjacketed version of English from George Orwell’s novel 1984 (1949). In that dystopia, Newspeak was a language designed by ideological technicians to make politically incorrect thoughts literally inexpressible.
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Convert me! Why proselytisers are good for civilisat…
Recently, I took my wife to see a touring production of The Book of Mormon, the profane, hilarious musical about college-aged missionaries dropped into a violent, HIV-plagued fictional country in darkest Africa.
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Suspect hunt prompts raised Geneva alert – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Sebastian Coe defends IAAF’s Eugene 2021 decision – audio | Sport | The Guardian
Sebastian Coe, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, says the International Association of Athletics Federations’ decision to award the 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene, Oregon, was made in order to take the tournament t…
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The Supreme Court Hears Fisher v. University of Texas—Again – The Atlantic
“If this Court rules that the University of Texas can’t consider race, or if it rules that universities that consider race have to die a death of a thousand cuts for doing so, we know exactly what’s going to happen,” Gregory Garre, the lawyer for th…
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The Necessary Recklessness of Campus Protests – The Atlantic
I remember wanting to leave. One of us wanted to go to the University of Pennsylvania; another friend talked about going to school in Maryland. My friend and I would be at Duke by spring semester.
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US visa crackdown ‘a step too far’ – Al Jazeera English
New York, US – For Hadi Ghaemi, an Iranian-American, moves this week to tighten controls on travel to the United States set a worrying precedent.
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Serial Season 2 Is Finally Here! | Vanity Fair
Last season, Serial chose to cover a largely unknown case but the show wisely decided to take a different tack this year picking up the well-known and divisive story of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl went missing from his Afghanistan base in 2009 and …
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A Free-Speech Debate at Connecticut College – The Atlantic
Last week at Connecticut College, I conversed with Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker about free speech and the student protests roiling college campuses. The event grew out of a back-and-forth in the pages of our respective publications. When available,…
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A people’s tribunal puts Indonesia on trial – Al Jazeera English
The Hague, Netherlands – Martono might not remember what he had for lunch a few days ago, but he can describe in detail the events of November 10, 1965.
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What We’re Following on Thursday, December 10 – The Atlantic
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As If Rocket Launches Aren’t Epic Enough, Now They’re Filmed in 4K | Motherboard
Rocket launches are inherently epic, but NASA has taken it to a whole new level with its ultra high definition footage of last Sunday’s Orbital ATK launch.
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Brazilian state Aims to Eliminate Illegal Deforestation in Five Years : environment
Brazilian state Aims to Eliminate Illegal Deforestation in Five Years (folha.uol.com.br)submitted 44 minutes ago by loading…
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At Least 50 People Were Killed in the Taliban’s 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. The last of 11 Taliban insurgents who attacked Kandahar airport was killed late on Wednesday, more than 24 hours after the sie…
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VW admits emissions scandal was caused by systematic failures | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen has admitted for the first time that the diesel emissions scandal was the result of systematic failures within the company, rather than just the actions of rogue engineers.
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Police found an assortment of drugs on Scott Weiland’s tour bus | Music | The Guardian
An array of different drugs were found on Scott Weiland’s tour bus after the former Stone Temple Pilots singer died, reports Billboard. The magazine was given a copy of the search warrant obtained by police in Bloomington, Minnesota, to enter the to…
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US embassy worker hacked for sex images – BBC News
A former US official has admitted stalking women and extorting sexually explicit material from them after hacking into their emails.Michael Ford, who worked in the American embassy in London, pleaded guilty to nine charges of cyber-stalking, seven o…
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Wahlberg and Ferrell on the challenges of parenthood – BBC News
The actors Will Ferrell and Mark Walhberg share embarrassing parenthood moments with BBC Breakfast’s Charlie Stayt. They star together in new film Daddy’s Home, which will be released over Christmas.
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December 10, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | The Nation
When President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009—just nine months into his presidency—many observers, including in The Nation, wondered whether it were not somewhat premature.
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Madonna performs impromptu Paris gig – BBC News
Madonna has given an impromptu performance in Paris in tribute to the victims of the 13 November attacks. After her Bercy arena concert on Wednesday, she tweeted she was heading to the Place de la Republique, which has become a shrine to those who d…
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Wind energy is a key climate change solution | John Abraham | Environment | The Guardian
When we think about climate change, it’s easy to focus on reducing emissions in order to maintain a healthy global temperature. But any real progress has to be complemented by a significant increase in clean and renewable energy.
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6 Signs the NRA Is Losing Its Stranglehold on Gun Policy | Mother Jones
For gun control advocates, this year’s doom has been compounded by an ample dose of gloom. Even after a series of high-profile mass shootings and a reported death toll from gun violence topping 12,000 last year, Congress remains deadlocked and unlik…
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The MLB prospect chasing a T20 dream: ‘I’m going all in with cricket’ | Sport | The Guardian
As far as cultural adjustments go, it was the traffic jams in Bangalore that grabbed the attention of Boomer Collins.
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The risk of being killed during a police incident is 16 times greater for individuals with untreated mental illness than other civilians, according to a new report by the Treatment Advocacy Center (Tac).
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Only 6.4% of Hollywood films directed by women, finds report | Film | The Guardian
Just 6.4% of Hollywood movies were directed by women in 2013 and 2014, according to a damning new survey, which is likely to heap further pressure on the world’s largest film industry to improve diversity. The survey by the Directors Guild of Americ…
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Analysis: This is how Tunisia saved its ‘Arab spring’ – Al Jazeera English
On Thursday, Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, which was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, is expected to receive the prize in Oslo.
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The delicate question of Iraq’s sovereignty – Al Jazeera English
It reads: “Iraq moves its aircraft carrier Tiswahin off the coast of France, deploys thousands of Atta 2000 missiles, mobilises hundreds of tanks and fighters jets. Obama calls PM Abadi to calm him down. Abadi replies, ‘I don’t even know my father w…
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Ada Lovelace on the Nature of the Imagination and Its Three Core Faculties | Brain Pickings
“It seizes points in common, between subjects having no very apparent connexion, & hence seldom or never brought into juxtaposition.
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Compared with previous UN conferences, there seems to be a far greater sense of optimism at the Paris climate talks. More than 146 countries, representing 86% of global emissions, have submitted their plans to cut them.
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Skip to main content COP 21: UN climate change conference | Paris Thousands defy Paris protest ban to call for climate action – in pictures Despite a state of emergency ban on demonstrations following attacks in the French capital, people from aroun…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un ‘in H-bomb claim’ – BBC News
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appeared to suggest his country possesses a hydrogen bomb, in comments published on state media. The country was “ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb”, KCNA quoted him as saying.
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SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 again on December 19th | The Verge
After a lengthy hiatus from spaceflight, SpaceX will launch its next Falcon 9 rocket again on December 19th. The rocket will carry 11 satellites for the New Jersey-based telecommunications company Orbcomm into lower Earth orbit. It will be the first…
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VW targets ‘winning back trust’ – BBC News
The chairman of carmaker Volkswagen has said the firm’s top priority is winning back trust following the emissions cheating scandal. Speaking at a news conference, Hans Dieter Poetsch said VW would be “relentless in seeking to establish who was resp…
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The Martian is Barack Obama’s favourite film of 2015 | Film | The Guardian
Barack Obama has revealed his favourite film of 2015 is Ridley Scott’s hit sci-fi thriller The Martian. The US president spoke to People magazine about his top culture picks of the year alongside Michelle Obama, who most enjoyed Pixar’s Inside Out.
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The Tab Raises $3M For Its Hyperlocal News Site Written By Unpaid Student Journalists | TechCrunch
The online disruption of journalism continues apace! Today The Tab, a hyperlocal news site aimed at young people and written mainly by “grassroots” (read: unpaid) student journalists, has raised $3 million from Balderton Capital to build out its bus…
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Germany ‘exorcism’ death: Five S Koreans held in Frankfurt – BBC News
German police have arrested five relatives of South Korean woman who died in an apparent exorcism ritual, prosecutors say. The 41-year-old woman was found dead in a Frankfurt hotel room after being gagged and severely beaten.
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Shia LaBeouf takes public calls in Liverpool art gallery – BBC News
Actor Shia LaBeouf is launching his latest performance artwork in Liverpool, asking members of the public to phone him and “touch his soul”. The Hollywood star has set up his own call centre in the city’s Fact gallery, where he and his two artistic …
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Argentina’s Fernandez: ‘I always carry you in my heart’ – BBC News
Argentina’s outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made an emotional farewell speech to supporters in Buenos Aires. Conservative Mauricio Macri, who won a run-off election last month will be sworn in as president.
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Nico Rosberg says he does not know how he managed to turn the tables on Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and end the season with a run of success. Hamilton won the title with three races to go, all of which Rosberg then won.
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Barça’s Game of Thrones, NHL theatrics and a painful touchdown | Sport | The Guardian
2) The Frank Worrell trophy has just got under way in Australia, with the West Indies likely to be on the end of a shellacking. It’s all a far cry from 1979-80 when the Windies claimed their first Test series victory on Australian soil.
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Donald Trump Loses Luster When Words Reach the Middle East https://t.co/Vt8IWuzf1Z https://t.co/kgflqFqiuh
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Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well – In These Times
During the last Democratic debate, the presidential candidates pledged to make defeating ISIS a priority.
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What’s Up With France’s Obsession With Frenchifying Tech Words? | Motherboard
This week Motherboard added a new language site. Editor Sébastien Chavigner launched Motherboard France, presumably at a soirée with lots of champagne and canapés and other chic-sounding French things.
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The Islamic State Is Using Weapons From the US — And More Than 25 Other Countries | VICE News
The Islamic State (IS) has used weapons from more than 25 different countries — including the US — to commit atrocities in Iraq and Syria, according to new research released this week.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — At Lifestyle, an inexpensive home furnishings store tucked inside the Mall of the Emirates here, shoppers on Wednesday examined lamps and picked up picture frames. But they did not see any Trump Home mirrors or lotion d…
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NHL referees suffer head trauma, too – but nobody’s talking about it | Sport | The Guardian
The code. The code. The code. That’s all that mattered in those days. Maybe it’s all that matters still. Hockey has always been a referendum on intrepidness. Who’s a tough guy? Who is not?
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UK trade deficit widens in October – BBC News
The UK’s trade deficit – the difference between the amount it imports and exports – widened considerably in October, according to official figures. The deficit was £4.14bn, up from £1.07bn the previous month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
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Stealthy London Startup Curve Raises $2M From Notable Fintech Backers | TechCrunch
Stealthy London-based fintech startup Curve has closed a $2 million seed round from a rather notable list of early backers.
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The first trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 brings back the crazy | The Verge
Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo are back. After a brief teaser, we now have the first full trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, and it’s as crazy as you’d expect. Megan Fox returns as April O’Neill, and Arrow’s Stephen Amell st…
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Cumbrian village deluged by flood waters for second time in week – video | UK news | The Guardian
Deep water flows through Glenridding on Wednesday night after fresh heavy rainfall. Volunteers in diggers and emergency service teams worked through the night to reinforce defences.
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No deal on EU benefits after Polish talks – David Cameron – BBC News
David Cameron said he had yet to reach agreement with Poland over his call for benefit curbs for EU migrants. Polish prime minster Beata Szydlo said she did not see “eye to eye” with Mr Cameron on the issue but wanted Britain to remain in the EU.
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As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact already being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage by forging ahead with a massive non-violent action at an iconic French site.
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Why Wall Street Loves — And Should Fear — Google’s New Supercomputer | VICE News
Google researchers claim they’re working on a supercomputer that harnesses the power of quantum physics to calculate in one second problems that would take a regular machine 10,000 years to solve.
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Large-spotted nutcracker – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The large-spotted nutcracker or Kashmir nutcracker, (Nucifraga multipunctata) is a passerine bird related to the spotted nutcracker. Until recently, it was considered a subspecies. It is found in the western Himalayas.
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Walmart adds mobile payments to its smartphone app | The Verge
There’s Android Pay, Apple Pay, and now Walmart Pay — a new mobile payment system from the US retailer that lets customers buy their shopping using the Walmart app.
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Paris climate talks: draft deal negotiations continue – live blog | Environment | The Guardian
Good morning from the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, where negotiators from governments around the world have been working into the early hours to iron out their differences on a climate deal.
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Ford tells Trump his role as US president in a film ‘was just a movie’ – BBC News
Harrison Ford has told US Republican leadership contender Donald Trump that his role as the US president in Air Force One was just “a movie”. Speaking to The New York Times recently, Trump praised Ford’s role as a heroic president in the film.
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The UK has given up its leadership role at the UN climate talks in Paris and is “moving backwards” with a string of cuts to green domestic policies, according to Prof Anne Glover, the former chief scientific adviser to the European commission.
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Microsoft close to releasing browser extensions for Edge | The Verge
Microsoft had originally planned to release extensions support for its Edge browser in the recent major Windows 10 update. Those plans hit some delays, and the official release is now expected in early 2016.
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The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Overwhelming and beautiful. Two words are not even able to describe this miraculous book. A book full of mystery. Through out reading this book I had so many questions: Why is he there? Who is the man kidnapping him?
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The most sinister man to grace television screens this season rang me from wintry London, a decidedly chipper lilt in his voice.
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The wine grown in a South African township – BBC News
Judith Xabanisa is one of a handful of women growing grapes in the heart of Nyanga-East, a South African township on the edge of Cape Town. It is part of the Cape Flats, an area notorious for drugs and crime – but Ms Xabanisa hopes to use wine to he…
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People told to stay indoors as Cumbrian village floods for second time | Environment | The Guardian
Police have urged people to stay indoors after a Cumbrian village was flooded for the second time in the space of a few days, as one local MP, the Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, warned that the government must learn lessons that flooding is likely to b…
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South Africa’s rand falls after Finance Minister Nene sacked – BBC News
South Africa’s currency has fallen close to a record low a day after Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was sacked, Reuters news agency reports. President Jacob Zuma said that Mr Nene was being moved to “another strategic position”.
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Suzette Jordan: Three convicted for Kolkata Park Street gang rape – BBC News
A court in Kolkata (Calcutta) has found three men guilty for the 2012 gang rape of an Indian woman who later waived her right to anonymity to encourage other rape survivors to speak out.
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What should I read next? | Children’s books | The Guardian
If you’re like me, you’ll be hoping this Christmas is filled with book-shaped presents. But if you haven’t yet picked your winter wishlist, look no further – our site members have plenty of new reads to fill your Christmas stockings.
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Who represents the Syrian people? – Al Jazeera English
World powers, regional players, the Syrian regime, the splintered opposition and even the gangsters of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are positioning themselves, directly or indirectly, for negotiations over the future of …
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Salman Khan: Bollywood actor cleared in hit-and-run incident – BBC News
The high court in the Indian city of Mumbai has overturned Bollywood star Salman Khan’s conviction for a 2002 hit-and-run case. Khan had said his driver was behind the wheel of his car.
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Virtual reality: The real game-changer – Al Jazeera English
Virtual reality is often regarded as belonging to the realm of the hardcore gamers and tech addicts. But the launch of a lighter and cheaper head-mounted display suggests that technology might just be ready to make the leap into mainstream market.
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As the end-of-year polls roll in, the White House has joined in the act, with the president and first lady naming their favourite tracks of the year.
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Top Thai policeman seeks Australia political asylum – BBC News
The policeman who led an investigation into human trafficking in Thailand has told Australian media he plans to seek political asylum in Australia. Paween Pongsirin was appointed to investigate trafficking networks after the discovery of mass graves…
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Glencore raises debt reduction target – BBC News
Mining giant Glencore has increased its target for debt reduction and cut spending plans in the face of a highly uncertain outlook for commodity prices. It has now raised its debt reduction plan to $13bn from the previous target of $10.2bn.
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The Middle: “Not So Silent Night”The title of this year’s Christmas episode of The Middle was “Not So Silent Night,” and it’s certainly hard to argue with its appropriateness, what with all the yelling that’s going on through a significant chunk of …
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Kandahar airport death toll jumps to 50 after Taliban attack – BBC News
At least 50 people, including 10 soldiers, were killed in the Taliban siege of Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry says. The last of the 11 attackers was killed late on Wednesday, the ministry said in a statement. Of those…
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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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Migrant crisis: Family die trying to reach Turkey – BBC News
Seven children and their mother died when a boat carrying them capsized. The eldest child was nine and the youngest 20 days old.
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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali criticises Donald Trump – BBC News
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has criticised US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering America. Without naming Mr Trump, Mr Ali said that Muslims “have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their ow…
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Philippine police officers fired over 2009 massacre – Al Jazeera English
The Philippines’ police board has dismissed 21 officers for being “co-conspirators” in the country’s worst political massacre six years ago when the son of a politician and his bodyguards shot dead 58 people, including 32 journalists.
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COP21: US joins “high ambition coalition” for climate deal – BBC News
The United States has joined with the EU and a range of other countries at COP21 in an effort to secure a final agreement. The so called “high ambition coalition” now comprises well over 100 countries from the rich and developing world.
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First dengue vaccine cleared for use in Mexico – Al Jazeera English
Mexican health authorities have approved the first vaccine to gain official acceptance for use against the dengue virus, which infects an estimated 390 million people every year, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Rare Philippine eagle chick born in captivity – BBC News
The eaglet, which has yet to be named, is the first of its kind to be born at a conservation centre in the southern Davao province in two years. Thirty four eagles, including the hatchling, are currently being kept in a massive cage at the centre.
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South America’s left: Troubled times – Al Jazeera English
US Ambassador Paul Bremer, former administrator of Iraq, discusses whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. The personal journey of a filmmaker caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tasmania’s ancient forests.
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Colorado Shooting Suspect Declares ‘I’m Guilty’ in Court | “I’m guilty. There’s no trial. I’m a warrior for the babies.” (nytimes.com) Let the fucker plead guilty. Save us the expense of the trial.
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‘South Park’ Finale Embraces the Healing Power of Guns – The Daily Beast
How everything came together in the final episode of a uniquely interconnected season of South Park about all things politically correct. How is it possible that nearly two decades into its run South Park is better than ever?
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In November 1938, exiled in New York, Theodor Adorno wrote to his friend Walter Benjamin concerning some pages the latter had sent from The Arcades Project, his vast prismatic study of 19th-century Paris.
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The Countess has left her pet project to the last minute. Ordering a contractor to seal up The Cortez’s once-secret wing—not just seal it up, but outfit it with a high-security entrance after installing a dozen cameras for remote observation—by tomo…
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Samsung and Baidu are getting into self-driving cars | The Verge
Samsung is creating a new team to work on self-driving car technologies.
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Last year’s Christmas episode of Black-ish gave us the classic Ruby-ism that “black people can’t be racist” while also giving us a tunnel vision Dre who was obsessed with being Santa.
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Why Your Cat Likes to Knock Things Over (According to Science) | Upvoted
You’ve seen it happen—these cold, calculating creatures will—almost methodically—knock things like cups and vases off your table, seemingly just for the hell of it. And it’s not just an isolated issue.
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In Paris, Corporate Sponsors Aim for Image Warming | Al Jazeera America
As politicians move to hammer out a deal at the U.N. climate summit in Paris, environmental groups have accused the conference’s corporate sponsors of being more concerned with the appearance of lessening their impact on the planet than taking concr…
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Macri set to take office in divided Argentina – Al Jazeera English
Mauricio Macri takes over as president of Argentina, promising to harness its vast natural resources and jettison populist policies to revive an economy that has for decades fallen short of its potential.
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Police investigating Japanese PM Shinzo Abe website crash – BBC News
Japanese police are investigating after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s personal website was made inaccessible on Thursday. The tweet came with several anti-whaling campaigns hashtags.
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Not the Paris climate talks: pictures worth a thousand words | Global development | The Guardian
As the Paris talks draw to a close, there has been late flourish of artistic and cultural response to the potentially catastrophic threat of climate change. Some works are shouts of outrage, or attempt simply to make us connect with the reality of g…
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Walmart Will Launch Its Own Mobile Payments Service | TechCrunch
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Borat Surprises Jimmy Kimmel With Brutal Donald Trump Jokes – The Daily Beast
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Zion National Park, Utah [1080×1920][OC] : EarthPorn
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble
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Holding candles aloft and singing This Little Light of Mine with verve, about 500 people held a national vigil for victims of gun violence on Wednesday and spoke of a social movement gathering momentum across America.
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Walmart Will Launch Its Own Mobile Payments Service | TechCrunch
Mega-chain Walmart announced today that it plans to offer mobile payments to its shoppers. Called Walmart Pay, the service will launch next year as a feature in Walmart’s existing smartphone app. The company accounts for about 10 percent of retail s…
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Borat Surprises Jimmy Kimmel With Brutal Donald Trump Jokes – The Daily Beast
Jimmy Kimmel was talking about Hanukkah on Wednesday night when a very special guest walked out on stage: Borat. When Borat discovered the host’s name, he began to awkwardly giggle. “In Kazakhstan, ‘Kimmel’ meaning lady’s vajine and ‘Jimmy’ mean muc…
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Took my cat to meet Santa. No ragrets. : cats
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Family Wants Federal Probe in Sf Police Killing | Al Jazeera America
The cousin of a man shot to death by San Francisco police says the family wants the five officers who fired their guns to be charged in the case and the police chief to resign.
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Fighting fistula: Razia’s brave recovery from pregnancy nightmare – BBC News
In a remote village in central Pakistan a teenage girl is screaming for help in unbearable labour pain. There are no trained midwives or doctors around for miles in Rahim Yar Khan District in southern Punjab. The only help at hand is the neighbourho…
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Egypt’s economic woes – Al Jazeera English
US Ambassador Paul Bremer, former administrator of Iraq, discusses whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. The personal journey of a filmmaker caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tasmania’s ancient forests.
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A decade after Napoleon Dynamite, the husband-and-wife team of Jared and Jerusha Hess—both write, Jared directs—is looking more and more like a one-hit wonder.
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White Supremacists for Donald Trump: ‘The Positions Made Me a Convert’ – The Daily Beast
William Daniel Johnson is a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles. He’s 54 years old with neatly styled silver hair and a kind of authoritatively quiet voice. He also serves as chairman of the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist group he co-found…
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Put their backs against the wall, and most civilized people turn into selfish monsters, willing to cross any threshold to save their own hides.
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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 has become a seasonal staple—or deserves to.
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The explosion in original television production has created new opportunities and challenges for music supervisors, the professionals responsible for finding and clearing the perfect song for every scene.
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At first glance, Adam McKay’s career as a movie director may look like the most single-minded one this side of Dennis Dugan: His first five features were all collaborations with his Saturday Night Live soulmate Will Ferrell.
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The Nathan For You season finale tries to create a national hero · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, December 10. All times are Eastern. Nathan For You (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.): Though it feels like it just started, Nathan For You’s third season is already drawing to a close.
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Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby-Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea—which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick’s non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville’s no…
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Michael Fassbender Tackles Macbeth – The Daily Beast
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Cubans Still Fleeing Castro While They Can – The Daily Beast
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Our favorite ongoing and serial comics of 2015 · Best of · The A.V. Club
2015 was a great year for readers to move away from Marvel and DC for exceptional monthly (or bi-monthly, or quarterly) comics.
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION is back before the Supreme Court today. The court has agreed to hear, for the second time, the case of Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who claims that she was rejected by the University of Texas at Austin because of her race. Ms.
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I’ve been pretty critical of Star Wars Rebels when it leans too hard on the Ghost crew as a family dynamic, as opposed to a team dynamic. For one thing, in order to make the crew fit the family mold, the writers have to force the characters to act p…
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APOD: 2015 December 9 – Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: This dance is to the death.
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Why Do People Keep Uploading This ISIS Magazine? – The Daily Beast
The Islamic State would like to add you to its professional network on LinkedIn.
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Donald Trump’s Economic Appeal to Poor Whites – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump has latched onto a zeitgeist and identity that forms a large part of the fabric of our nation. We’d like to say that this sullied portion of the fabric is the strain of racist and bigoted segregation that we’d hoped America had moved be…
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From FIFA to Sudan, Let’s Make the World Unsafe for Kleptocracy – The Daily Beast
The arrest of two FIFA officials last week in Switzerland was an important milestone for soccer’s governing body.
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Ah, Jelena. The pint-sized power couple of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez is about as on-again, off-again as they come. Their rocky relationship is a classic love story. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl break up multiple times. Girl goes to rehab becaus…
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The Dumbest College Renaming Debate Yet – The Daily Beast
The student-led campaigns at colleges across the country to rename buildings, schools, and monuments named for racist and other now-controversial figures have become one of the year’s most notable campus trends.
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Hackable ‘Hello Barbie’ the Worst Toy of the Year (and Maybe Ever) – The Daily Beast
Every year the Toy Industry Association crowns the best toy of the year—the TOTY. And every year the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) crowns the opposite—the TOADY.
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Could Ted Cruz Kill Iowa’s Ethanol Mandate? – The Daily Beast
With the caucuses closing in fast, something very interesting is happening in Iowa.
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Is Marco Rubio the GOP’s Bill Clinton? – The Daily Beast
In more ordinary political times, Marco Rubio’s position on abortion, opposing any exceptions, not even for rape and incest, would be a career-ender on a national ticket.
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The Most Horrific Cop Rape Case You’ve Never Heard Of – The Daily Beast
Daniel Holtzclaw should be a household name. He should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. His criminal trial should be featured in the A-blocks of national news broadcasts. We should be able recognize him on sight.
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ISIS Is the Con Ed of Syria – The Daily Beast
If you believe Russia, President Erdogan of Turkey is the kingpin of a multibillion-dollar scheme to smuggle 200,000 barrels of ISIS oil every day, disguising it and exporting it to international markets. Last week President Putin described the volu…
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Cubans Still Fleeing Castro While They Can – The Daily Beast
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Cubans are fleeing their island, pushed forward by the fear that easing relations with the United States will, paradoxically, make it harder for them to gain legal status there.
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Michael Fassbender Tackles Macbeth – The Daily Beast
Not a moment too soon. If ever there was a time for Shakespeare’s goriest and most presciently admonitory play to return, this is it. We could use its warning about the obliterating powers of world-eating ambition pushed into our unheeding faces.
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The Real Story of the French Resistance – The Daily Beast
Having been crushed militarily and psychologically by the mighty German blitzkrieg in a mere six-week campaign, it could well be said that by the end of June 1940, the French people were suffering from a severe case of collective post-traumatic stre…
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Racism in the US – the melting pot is boiling – Al Jazeera English
Something’s happening in the United States. We see it in the protests in the streets, we hear it in the speeches of our leaders. We can feel it in our fearful hearts when we watch the news. We are brewing.
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The irony is palpable. I think people kind of forget Chicken Pox can kill.
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Bombs and guns won’t beat us, but our own hysteria will | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian
“He’s won,” I shouted at the television. “Bloody hell, he’s won.” As Donald Trump read out his surrender-to-terrorism message this week, I realised who was now his master: Osama bin Laden. Trump spoke with his eyes down, like a hostage under duress.
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Beloved Interviewer Nardwuar Suffers Stroke | NOISEY : Music
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Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, speaks with the media at COP21, the United Nations climate change conference in Paris on Monday.
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Prim path swallows up the Amazons | Environment | The Guardian
The London to Edinburgh railway line, the HS2 of its day, cut through a slice of countryside at Sandy. Victorian navvies left a trackside vertical cliff, and then, after the work of those excavators, the natural diggers moved in. At least 50 pairs o…
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China torture condemned by UN rights watchdog – BBC News
The United Nations Committee Against Torture also called for a halt to a crackdown on lawyers and activists. It issued its report after questioning a large Chinese government delegation as part of a two-day hearing.
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Goodbye, Moonbeam City! In “The Wedding of Rad (Lie),” the final episode of the season (or perhaps ever? The last-minute switch of its final two episodes to a post-midnight timeslot doesn’t bode well), the series does something it’s been building to…
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The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has described how fear of the deadly power politics in Pyongyang drove him and his wife to defect to the US nearly 20 years ago.
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Charter Schools Are a ‘Gravy Train,’ | Al Jazeera America
The policy framework for U.S. charter schools encourages “privatization and profiteering,” a research institute said in a report released Thursday.
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Ninety Nation Coalition Aims For Ambitious Climate Change Deal – Scientific American
@dbiello Biello is the award-winning senior reporter for environment and energy at Scientific American. He has also written on subjects ranging from astronomy to zoology for both the Web site and magazine.
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North Korea’s all-female pop group perform in China – BBC News
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent his all-female Moranbong pop group to perform in Beijing. To underline the diplomatic nature of the tour, they were waved off at Pyongyang railway station by some of the country’s senior leaders.
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Amazon Prime Now Launches Alcohol Delivery in Manhattan | Re/code
Starting today, Amazon customers in Manhattan can order delivery of beer, wine and spirits in one hour through the company’s Prime Now mobile app, the company just announced. One-hour delivery costs $7.99, while two-hour delivery does not come with …
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Feds Charge Another Minn. Man Conspiring Aid ISIL | Al Jazeera America
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, was charged Wednesday by criminal complaint with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Court documents allege Warsame tried to help other young men from Minnesota’s Somali communit…
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Watch Amy Schumer, Obama, Spike Lee ‘End Gun Violence’ PSA | Rolling Stone
America’s gun violence has been worldwide headline news, most recently with the fatal shootings in San Bernardino last week.
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The CG Doesn’t Stop In The First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Trailer
Love it or hate it, the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was a huge hit and, next summer, the sequel is coming. It’s called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and the first trailer is here.
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“There shouldn’t be any plastic in our water, period”: The microbeads we flush down the drain daily to be phased out (salon.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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conversion chart I painted on a cupboard door…turned out better than I expected! : pics
So if I’m reading this right…you think there will be good luck when Capricorn is in retrograde? Wow, the metric system really would be a lot less complicated, wouldn’t it…
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Dragon’s Blood Tree Image, Yemen – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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GoPro’s drone is called the Karma | The Verge
Rumored since 2014 and confirmed at this year’s Code Conference, the GoPro drone is coming in 2016, and now we know it’ll be called the “Karma.” The company announced the name in a blog post and YouTube video published today.
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Dragon’s Blood Tree Image, Yemen – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Japan is fuelling the trade in illegal ivory and undermining international efforts to protect Africa’s elephants by failing to crack down on illegal registration practices, according to a report released today.
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J.J. Abrams thinks Ava DuVernay should direct a Star Wars movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Genre film producers just won’t leave poor Ava DuVernay alone. Just a few months after the Selma director reportedly turned down the director’s chair for Black Panther, The Force Awakens director J.J.
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Argentina’s Fernandez bids emotional farewell – BBC News
Argentina’s outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made an emotional farewell speech to supporters in Buenos Aires. She urged people to take to the streets if they feel betrayed by the new centre-right government.
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Comedy as a tool is a wonderful thing. It humanizes and bridges—one shared laugh does more to bond people than countless hours spent together ever will.
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If You’re The Worst hadn’t been renewed for a third season, “The Heart Is A Dumb Dumb” would have served perfectly well as a series finale.
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Just want to remind everyone what registering non-Christians looks like : pics
It’s not just non-Christians. Jehovah’s Witnesses were also in the camps. Sequential numbers, they’ve met before apparently.
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When FXX’s half-hour comedy You’re the Worst premiered last summer, it came on the heels of a handful of failed and canceled network rom-sitcoms.
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New Chinese Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer has a ton of new footage | The Verge
Look, we’re only about a week away from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You can hold out.
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Australia ranked third-last in climate change performance of 58 countries : environment
Australia ranked third-last in climate change performance of 58 countries (theguardian.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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I’ll admit to being a bit of a sucker for holiday-themed episodes. That’s especially true when it comes to sitcoms.
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Open thread for night owls: One in five abortion clinics targeted with ‘severe violence’ last year
For providers and their families, the threat of violence by radical extremists is not theoretical. It is prepared for, and always just around the corner.
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Showtime pulls the “no duh” lever, renews Homeland and The Affair · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sticking to its reputation as The Network That Never Cancels Anything—give or take a Happyish here or there—Showtime has done exactly what we all knew it was going to do, and renewed both Homeland and The Affair.
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Nuclear Power Must Make a Comeback for Climate’s Sake : environment
Fukashima fucked up the momentum nuclear was building. Fukushima fucked up the planet. And continues to do so.
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So I just adopted my first cat. Everybody meet Hades! : cats
So I just adopted my first cat. Everybody meet Hades! via /r/cats https://t.co/46xn0DkDQ0 https://t.co/M7Tmc6WOPV https://t.co/UNHjYBY0AP
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So I just adopted my first cat. Everybody meet Hades! via /r/cats https://t.co/46xn0DkDQ0 https://t.co/M7Tmc6WOPV https://t.co/UNHjYBY0AP
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A human brain with no ridges : creepy
The folds in your brain are the thinky thinky parts. Something something eucalyptus leaves on a plate.
A human brain with no ridges https://t.co/3UpMuR4jfL https://t.co/Rfw1SPKXve -
Tavertet, Catalonia, Spain by Albert [1000 x 667] : EarthPorn
Tavertet, Catalonia, Spain by Albert [1000 x 667] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/fOOkqAwk8V https://t.co/nKn4YtpeF7 https://t.co/RfyTMp7db5
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Tavertet, Catalonia, Spain by Albert [1000 x 667] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/fOOkqAwk8V https://t.co/nKn4YtpeF7 https://t.co/RfyTMp7db5
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Three Years After His Brush with Fame, the IKEA Monkey Is Doing Great | VICE | United States
It’s been three whole years since a tiny monkey, resplendent in a shearling coat, was found wandering around an IKEA parking lot in Canada and changed the internet forever.
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‘You’re the Worst’ Star Aya Cash on Tackling Depression in a Rom-Com – The Daily Beast
When You’re the Worst first premiered in the summer of 2014, the FX network promoted the show as a crass, anti-romantic comedy about two people who are consistently mean to each other and everyone else in their lives.
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Tim Peake: spaceflight an ‘inspirational’ moment for UK – BBC News
Astronaut Tim Peake’s mission to the space station will be an “inspirational” moment for the whole of the UK, says Britain’s first spacefarer. Helen Sharman, who travelled to the Mir space station in 1991, told BBC News that everyone could share in …
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Damien Darhk is pretty much the perfect Arrow villain. A lot of that is down to how brilliant Neal McDonough is in the role.
Arrow closes out the year by dropping the damn hammer https://t.co/WQvNawGK4H https://t.co/78smmLaz3f -
It Follows’ Maika Monroe joins the cast of Watergate thriller Felt · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that It Follows’ Maika Monroe is going to sign on to Felt, Concussion director Peter Landesman’s spy thriller about Watergate informant Deep Throat.
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AMC is adapting Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 for TV · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having apparently realized that this whole “horror television” thing is pretty damn good business, AMC has announced that it’s starting development on NOS4A2, an adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel about supernatural powers and the terrible prices they e…
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The Deported https://t.co/0qCH18aqSH https://t.co/jdT7R8ifjj
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Oh hey guys, this is just Margaret and her new coat. via /r/aww https://t.co/y8LRcXa9mW https://t.co/pZ5AkMdc5l https://t.co/2cYwJKrXWz
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Oh hey guys, this is just Margaret and her new coat. : aww
Oh hey guys, this is just Margaret and her new coat. via /r/aww https://t.co/y8LRcXa9mW https://t.co/pZ5AkMdc5l https://t.co/2cYwJKrXWz
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Data Analysis Firm Palantir Technologies Discloses $129M In New Funding | TechCrunch
Palantir Technology, the data analytics firm whose clients include the U.S. government, has raised $129 million in new funding. Based in Palo Alto, the company provides tools for a wide variety of use cases, including cyber security, crisis response…
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There’s nothing like the return of Chekhov’s gun(s) to confirm the feeling that you’ve forgotten about something, and that that something could be a significant threat, although you have no idea what that thing or threat could be.
A deliberate yet unpredictable Kingdom reminds us that no one is safe https://t.co/zl6RcYaADJ https://t.co/FdxBtns9Zz -
CES officially bans hoverboards | The Verge
Surely there’s no better way to check out the future of gadgets in Las Vegas this winter than by riding a hoverboard, 2015’s must-have piece of non-hovering and possibly exploding technology? Well, that may be so, but don’t expect to bring yours to …
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It’s strange that, in this crazily entertaining season of Survivor, this episode is what passes for an average installment. Sure, the vote was a blindside, but it wasn’t an especially interesting one. There weren’t a lot of dramatics. It was just a …
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First Snow in Nova Scotia [6000×4000] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/VCtIED7EOq https://t.co/KoO3WikhZC https://t.co/4IphjZpTZq
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First Snow in Nova Scotia [6000×4000] [OC] : EarthPorn
First Snow in Nova Scotia [6000×4000] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/VCtIED7EOq https://t.co/KoO3WikhZC https://t.co/4IphjZpTZq
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LEGO Mindstorms Cookie Icing Machine – YouTube
A cookie icing machine built using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit. It can ice 3 different designs on a cookie – an angel, a star and a snowflake.Building instructions and more information can be found on my website at: …
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J.J. Abrams: Ava DuVernay ‘Would Kill’ Directing ‘Star Wars’ | Rolling Stone
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Bill Gates thinks the 1% should foot the bill for renewable energy, and he’s offering the first $2B. (upworthy.com) Why isn’t HE running for President??
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California sunrise. [1334 x 750] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/BWiVMZlpoL https://t.co/IynMzy0U4m https://t.co/IcOAIzo3xn
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California sunrise. [1334 x 750] : SkyPorn
California sunrise. [1334 x 750] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/BWiVMZlpoL https://t.co/IynMzy0U4m https://t.co/IcOAIzo3xn
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Protesters Flood Downtown Chicago After Mayor Apologizes for Laquan McDonald Case | VICE News
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under heavy criticism for his handling of the fatal police shooting of a black teen, gave an emotional apology on Wednesday but angry crowds closed city streets to demand his resignation hours later.
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Idris Elba might play Roland Deschain in the Dark Tower adaptation · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Idris Elba is currently the frontrunner to star as the Gunslinger himself, Roland Deschain, in Sony’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books.
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California sunrise. [1334 x 750] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/M9uvSSDGqH https://t.co/TaCu4pR8ur https://t.co/v9saAY2rJd
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California sunrise. [1334 x 750] : SkyPorn
California sunrise. [1334 x 750] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/M9uvSSDGqH https://t.co/TaCu4pR8ur https://t.co/v9saAY2rJd
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To this day it remains one of the most sophisticated and mysterious offensive operations ever launched: Stuxnet, the computer virus specifically engineered to attack Iran’s nuclear reactors. Discovered in 2010 and now widely believed to be a collabo…
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Fugitive S Korean union boss in temple ‘to give himself up’ – BBC News
A South Korean trade union leader who took refuge from police in Jogye Temple in the capital Seoul, has agreed to give himself up, local media said.Han Sang-gyun, head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), is accused of inciting violen…
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New Zealand cuts rates for the fourth time since June this year – BBC News
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has cut its benchmark interest rate for the fourth time since June. The central bank cut rates from 2.75% to 2.5%, saying the country’s economy had “softened” in 2015.
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Fox renews “event series” Wayward Pines for a second, event-filled season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Shocking everybody—including, possibly, its own producers, who already burned through all three of the books it’s based on, not to mention, like, half their cast—Fox has announced that it’s renewing its apocalyptic sci-fi show Wayward Pines for a se…
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Jared Leto Sues TMZ Over ‘Stolen’ Taylor Swift Video | Rolling Stone
Jared Leto may not “give a fuck about” Taylor Swift, but he probably didn’t want anyone to know it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s filed a lawsuit against TMZ and parent company Warner Bros.
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After Making Enemies, Cruz Tries to Make Friends https://t.co/80eglxq3gp https://t.co/jVQ1MYToOu
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Everything Senator Ted Cruz said about climate change in this NPR interview was wrong. : politics
Everything Senator Ted Cruz said about climate change in this NPR interview was wrong. (scienceblogs.com) I heard the interview on the radio this morning, and I think it made me dumber. He says global warming is part of a worlwide liberal agenda to …
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Who serves on Kentucky’s juries?
Judge Olu Stevens took a stand for diversity among Kentucky juries. That’s what a Kentucky state representative wants the legislature to find out. Democratic Rep. Reginald Meeks is sponsoring a bill that would mandate a study of the issue and publis…
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Going Public Isn’t Selling Out, It’s The Best Way To Stay Alive | TechCrunch
When Amazon went public in 1997, its stock opened 62.5 percent above the target price and the company ended its day $54 million richer than it had started it.
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Planned Parenthood Killer: ‘I Am A Warrior For The Babies’ – The Daily Beast
In a bizarre court hearing on Wednesday, Robert Lewis Dear left little doubt as to whether or not his alleged murder of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood killing late last month was connected to abortion.
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World’s first IVF puppies born to surrogate mother dog – BBC News
The world’s first IVF puppies have been born after years of attempts, say scientists in the US. The in-vitro fertilisation advance paves the way for conserving endangered breeds and could help in the fight against human and animal diseases, say rese…
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Even deep-sea fish are eating our garbage now | Grist
The U.N. negotiations aren’t even discussing ways to keep oil, gas, and coal from being extracted, and that’s a huge missed opportunity.
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HARLAN, Iowa — Senator Ted Cruz had been at it for several minutes, offering handshakes and uneasy smiles, when he encountered an apparent holdout in the crowd. Mr. Cruz squatted. He squinted. He had heard something about a toy collection.
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Robert Lewis Dear, who is accused of killing three people and injuring nine others during a shooting spree in a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in November, appears in court on Wednesday and accuses his lawyers of trying to suppress the truth.
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How much do you know about life as a woman in Saudi Arabia? – BBC News
Women in Saudi Arabia go to the polls for the first time on Saturday. It’s a small gain for women’s rights in this staunchly conservative kingdom. Test your knowledge on some of the freedoms and restrictions for Saudi women.
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During stints at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube and Google, Sara Mauskopf has touched many of the products that you use on a daily basis. With that knowledge, having just left her recent post at Postmates*, we now know what Mauskopf is up to next.
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Assad’s UK Syrian exiles demand a voice – BBC News
Theirs are the voices that go unheard, they say: Syrian exiles, many of whom escaped to Britain in the months after the suppression of peaceful protest by President Bashar al-Assad – the spark that led to civil war.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out with a strong statement today “in support of Muslims in our community and around the world.” In a sense, it’s clearly prompted by Donald Trump’s recent call to ban all Muslim immigration into the Uni…
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‘Invincible unity’ (or the lack of it) – BBC News
The year is 1943. The place is Tehran. The leaders of Britain, America and the Soviet Union are meeting to co-ordinate their final push against Hitler. More than 70 years have passed since the Tehran Conference.
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The COP21 Paris Climate Summit has seen some very positive developments in the global effort to combat climate change.
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89% of New Jersey residents live within a mile of at least one “contaminated site.” : environment
I’m not surprised, I do environmental remediation in Northern New Jersey and business is very good. If you go to most gas stations, look for sign that says environmental cleanup in progress. Once you get the hang of seeing them, you’ll start noticin…
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Being unhappy or stressed will not kill, says study – BBC News
Being miserable or stressed will not increase your risk of dying, according to the UK’s Million Women Study. It had been thought that being unhappy was bad for health – particularly for the heart.
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Meet the world’s first litter of IVF puppies – BBC News
US scientists have unveiled the first litter of puppies born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). The seven puppies include five beagles and two beagle-cocker spaniel mixes.
Meet the world’s first litter of IVF puppies https://t.co/1XzyB6LLym https://t.co/Sd3Rd0Aewg -
Bryan Fuller talks diversity and man-eating vaginas in American Gods · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having moved on—like the rest of us someday will, God willing—from the beautiful, flaming wreck that was the now-canceled Hannibal, showrunner Bryan Fuller is well into development on his new Starz show, American Gods.
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Scalia Questions Need for Integration | Al Jazeera America
During Wednesday’s oral argument in the case of Fisher v.
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How the internet is reinventing the Christmas commercial – BBC News
The internet is reinventing the Christmas TV commercial, making it more creative, more ambitious – and arguably more self-regarding. Advertising plays a central role at Christmas, and for over 100 years has extended its reach from posters to radio, …
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This dude was my soulmate for 12 awesome years. : cats
This dude was my soulmate for 12 awesome years. via /r/cats https://t.co/WysLW2Rt0u https://t.co/qsUgVUB2LO https://t.co/v6xvrTKC1N
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This dude was my soulmate for 12 awesome years. via /r/cats https://t.co/WysLW2Rt0u https://t.co/qsUgVUB2LO https://t.co/v6xvrTKC1N
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The Legend of Tarzan Trailer Looks Ridiculous In the Best Possible Way
The Legend of Tarzan Trailer Looks Ridiculous In the Best Possible Way https://t.co/f53edyINv8 https://t.co/ucoGz2UGg9
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Kate Mulgrew Actually Studied Physics To Understand Captain Janeway’s Dialogue
Anybody who’s ever watched Star Trek: Voyager knows there’s a lot of technobabble on that show. Even more than most other Star Treks. And Captain Janeway, the show’s lead, is actually a scientist in her own right. So Kate Mulgrew had to work hard to…
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Muhammad Ali Hits Trump, Defends Islam | ThinkProgress
In a short but stinging statement, Muhammad Ali spoke out against Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims entering the United States, jihadists and the spike in Islamophobia following recent terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad.
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A woman who works for California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (they handle prisons and parole and stuff) is under investigation after she was filmed mocking a Muslim man who was praying in a Bay Area park.
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too much cute to handle via /r/aww https://t.co/zgphW95OoH https://t.co/Bc5JGfSWAS https://t.co/469s4qVWOh
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too much cute to handle via /r/aww https://t.co/zgphW95OoH https://t.co/Bc5JGfSWAS https://t.co/469s4qVWOh
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Who Is Seymour Britchky, New York City Restaurant Critic
He continues, “Last year’s glistening new eatery is soon tarnished and no longer merits so much as the space required to be literally bored with it; less frequently, restaurants mature, calling for revised words of praise or of higher praise; and, a…
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Putin opponent Navalny’s anti-corruption “video bomb” – BBC News
A new video by anti-Putin campaigner Alexey Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption (FFC) has been watched more than three million times on YouTube in little more than a week, showing that Russia’s beleaguered opposition can still make an impac…
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Did Hillary Clinton have ‘The Worst Year in Washington?’ Only if The Pundit Narrative requires it
The worst political punditry is forever consistent: It treats the act of electing those who will govern our nation as a sports competition. There is no significance attached to who wins or loses, or word of what the repercussions of that might be.
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Most Popular DIY Projects of 2015
We’re always looking for the best DIY tips at Lifehacker, and this year there was certainly no shortage of them. Here are some of the best DIY tips for when you want to tackle projects all on your own. We’ve walked you through building your own comp…
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The Legend of Tarzan Trailer Looks Ridiculous In the Best Possible Way
The first trailer for David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan has some really great things going for it. Its cast, for one. The fact it’s self-aware of the myth behind Tarzan, two. But then there’s the avalanche of CG insanity which makes us scratch our h…
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Godzilla Vs. King Kong only exists because Legendary’s CEO is a man-child · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sometimes, it’s hard to understand why movie studio executives do what they do. Dumb movies get made, dumber movies get sequels, and then everything gets rebooted every few years and nobody knows why.
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For the Holidays, iZombie Decided to Destroy All Hope
For the Holidays, iZombie Decided to Destroy All Hope https://t.co/YynlFwd5nK https://t.co/Dod0kHEY1z
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/k4crly05GJ Stories via @350
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Robert L. Dear Jr. was charged with 179 counts on Wednesday, including first-degree murder, in connection with the deadly shooting rampage last month at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Bearded, unkempt and cuffed at the legs and arms…
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Can someone ELI5 what Steyn was saying?
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The struggle to stay child-free – BBC News
In most societies, getting married and having children is considered to be the norm – so what happens when people don’t conform? A Magazine story about two women who don’t want children prompted readers to get in touch and share their experiences.
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Vox Sentences: The Supreme Court affirmative-action case that just won’t die – Vox
SCOTUS conservatives go negative on affirmative action; India and Pakistan slightly reduce odds of the world blowing itself up; who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Chile: The lesser known years of Gen Augusto Pinochet’s life – BBC News
Nine years have passed since Chile’s former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, died. Gen Pinochet left an indelible mark on the Latin American country. More than 3,000 people were killed or forcibly “disappeared” under his rule from 1973 to 1990. Man…
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FBI tells tech companies offering encryption to reconsider “their business model” / Boing Boing
Despite absolutely no indication the people responsible for recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernadino used encryption, the FBI is launching an all-out PR war on crypto and communications privacy tools.
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America’s iconic war machine – BBC News
The most feared bomber plane of the 20th Century is still going strong after 60 years in service in the US military – from Vietnam to Afghanistan. And she will keep on flying until 2044. How does this 1950s behemoth survive in the era of drones and …
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Syria conflict: What can Riyadh talks achieve? – BBC News
Saudi Arabia is hosting a three-day conference in Riyadh of dozens of Syrian rebel groups and to try to agree common ground on possible peace talks between the Syrian regime and rebels in January. BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner assesses th…
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Airport straddles Mexican border with passenger bridge straight into US | World news | The Guardian
An airport on the US-Mexico border has become one of only a few in the world spanning two countries with the opening of an aerial pedestrian bridge connecting terminals on both sides.
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For the Holidays, iZombie Decided to Destroy All Hope
For its midseason finale, iZombie decided to destroy the foundations of everyone’s work. And also, somehow, deliver the best Major plot ever. Spoilers for “Cape Town” follow.
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Lamebook – Funny Facebook Statuses, Fails, LOLs and More – The Original » LETITSNOW
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Sponge injection could save the lives of domestic gunshot victims | Ars Technica
As mass shootings continue to make headlines and gun sales surge nationwide, a sponge-injecting device designed to patch life-threatening bullet wounds in war is making a domestic debut.
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Fall in love with the people behind your lettuce with this moving film on farmworkers | Grist
Fall in love with the people behind your lettuce with this moving film on farmworkers https://t.co/mYAQ51FLQM https://t.co/RW3tfYnggU
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Ted Cruz Ditches Terror Hearings for Dollars – The Daily Beast
Ted Cruz’s Wednesday was filled with Manhattan fundraisers and cable news appearances—a typical schedule for a presidential candidate at this stage of the race. But absent from his busy day were two important Senate hearings involving issues that he…
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WTO’s big meat decision could be a troubling sign of things to come | Grist
John Kerry promised $861 million in aid to countries on the frontlines of climate change. The U.N. negotiations aren’t even discussing ways to keep oil, gas, and coal from being extracted, and that’s a huge missed opportunity.
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Got 90 seconds? Video explains the hopeful news out of the Paris climate talks | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Wednesday afternoon at the massive global climate summit in Paris, diplomats unveiled a new draft of the document they hope will…
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Europe reacted to livestock disease by banning pig swill. Here’s why that’s hogwash | Grist
John Kerry promised $861 million in aid to countries on the frontlines of climate change. The U.N. negotiations aren’t even discussing ways to keep oil, gas, and coal from being extracted, and that’s a huge missed opportunity.
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Yes. It created a runaway culture of testing & teaching for tests. I don’t know anyone who appreciated this growing up. I’d be interested in hearing the view point of someone who did support it.
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“Your son died as a martyr” text to a mom reveals third Bataclan attacker / Boing Boing
That mom went to the police. And with this new information, authorities in France investigating the terrorist attacks in Paris now know the identity of the third killer at the Bataclan concert venue. So far, all of the identified Paris attackers wer…
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Tim Cook is bitter that Google is beating Apple in the classroom | The Verge
Tim Cook isn’t very impressed with Chromebooks, and in an interview with BuzzFeed News today, he seemed to brush off the fact that they’re fast becoming more prevalent than Macs and iPads in classrooms.
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Australia has finally won the “fossil of the day” award – bestowed each day by young climate activists at big international climate summits.
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Muhammad Ali responds to Donald Trump’s Muslim ban plan | Sport | The Guardian
Muhammad Ali hit out against Islamic extremists and Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States on Wednesday.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks out against anti-Muslim hate / Boing Boing
Facebook CEO Executive Mark Zuckerberg said today that he supports Muslims in America, and around the world.
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‘Syphilis: L’Hecatombe’ (“The Mass Slaughter of Syphilis”) by Louis Raemaekers, 1922. Dutch soldiers returning home from the front with “The French Pox” caused a massive spike in STD-related deaths in the years following the war. My pal Thomas Negov…
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The Team Behind Coraline and ParaNorman Have Made a Samurai Adventure Movie
You may not know LAIKA by name, but you probably know their movies. They did the spot-motion animated films Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls and their latest film, Kubo And The Two Strings, is about to be unveiled to the world.
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How Many Bots Use the Internet? – The Atlantic
Poor robots. The really good ones just can’t seem to keep up with the growing number of humans and bad robots on the web. That was the main finding of a new report by the security firm Imperva Incapsula, which is set to release its annual survey of …
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William Porter, the first police officer to be tried in the death of Freddie Gray, took the stand in his own defense today in what proved to be a tense afternoon of testimony.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today https://t.co/mYptL0naIw https://t.co/jc4e72ciJc
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Massive Protests Sweep Through in Chicago – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, both before and after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the death of Laquan McDonald and vowed police reform in a speech to the city council, protesters continued their calls for Emanuel’s resignation.
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Price-hiking drug companies put ‘lives in the balance’, US lawmakers hear | US news | The Guardian
Specialty pharmaceutical companies that acquire certain drugs then spike the prices “egregiously” were compared to loan sharks and warned they were putting patients’ “lives in the balance” at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
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British Army signs training deal with Kenya – BBC News
Kenya has signed a deal with the UK, allowing the British Army to continue training thousands of troops in the country every year.
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Mark Zuckerberg speaks in support of Muslims after week of ‘hate’ | Technology | The Guardian
Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out in support of Muslims in the wake of a backlash following the Paris attacks and – in an apparent reference to a call by US presidential candidate Donald Trump to ban them from entering the country – what the Facebook f…
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Tammy Wynette Songwriter Don Chapel Dies | Rolling Stone
Songwriter Don Chapel, who penned songs for Tammy Wynette and George Jones, has died.
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Will Boxer Tyson Fury Pay The Price For His Knockout Homophobia? – The Daily Beast
Will Boxer Tyson Fury Pay The Price For His Knockout Homophobia? https://t.co/1GRuDl22TF https://t.co/A0YgQB41wl
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Muslim-American Soldiers To Trump: STFU – The Daily Beast
Muslim-American Soldiers To Trump: STFU https://t.co/pZ9sg3jtSv https://t.co/H808oJ6ZL7
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Huge Mastiff Is Way Too Chill For Dog Agility Competition – Digg
9 diggs Animals Cute Sports This dog’s name is Zeus, and here he is low-key crushing it at the Rocky Mountain Cluster Dog Show.
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Decorate Cookies Like a Pro with a Mesh Strainer
Homemade cookies make a great gift, and you can make yours look near-professional with just a mesh strainer and powdered sugar. This technique is so easy, even young kids can help decorate the cookies.
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Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke will appeal “Blurred Lines” copyright ruling | Ars Technica
The copyright dispute between “Blurred Lines” song creators Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke, and the family of Marvin Gaye, will continue on to a higher court.
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The crypto explainer you should send to your boss (and the FBI) / Boing Boing
Whenever a clueless authority figure who apparently knows nothing about security (like, apparently, FBI director James Comey) calls for a ban on crypto, here’s the article you should show them.
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Watch this adorable orangutan’s response to a simple yet effective magic trick / Boing Boing
Kai Xu was arrested attempting to cross into Canada from Detroit, Michigan with 51 live turtles down his pants, mostly strapped to his legs. He was apparently smuggling the turtles he had bought to resell outside the US at much higher prices.
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Chipotle’s food safety crisis, explained – Vox
More than 120 people in Boston — most of them students at Boston College — have been sickened after eating at the same Chipotle, according to school officials. This is only the latest phase of a deepening crisis for the fast-casual restaurant chain.
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A Spy Falls, and a Monstrous Choice Is Made, on Manhattan
There’s just 48 hours left until the Trinity Test, and Charlie Isaacs must make a choice: Be a good man, or be a monster, thereby condemning tens of thousands of innocent civilians to a gruesome death. Spies are unveiled, and trusts are betrayed, in…
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Oceans May Be Left Out of Climate Plan, But Here’s What’s at Stake
Out Thierry Perez’s office window, past the crumbling 16th century island prison where Alexandre Dumas set the “Count of Monte Cristo,” roils a Mediterranean Sea that didn’t exist just a few decades ago.
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Muslim-American Soldiers To Trump: STFU – The Daily Beast
Republican presidential frontrunner @realDonaldTrump’s repeated insistence that he “love[s] the Muslims,” and believes that they are “great people,” is consistently undercut by his stated desire to impose fascist policies on millions of Muslims.
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Will Boxer Tyson Fury Pay The Price For His Knockout Homophobia? – The Daily Beast
On Wednesday afternoon, in the passenger seat of a van, boxing’s heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury stopped to answer a BBC reporter’s questions.
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Study: Happiness Doesn’t Help You Live Longer – The Atlantic
With apologies to the hundreds of machines pressing self-help books at this very moment that preach the life-changing benefits of happiness, it is incumbent upon me to say: It will not save you from death. Of course it won’t! Death comes to us all, …
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Q&a: Cara Santa Maria Revisits Her religious Roots | Al Jazeera America
Ever wonder what’s happening in the mind when someone says they’ve had a religious experience? What parts of the brain flicker on or off when people see an image of Jesus? Or what feelings or sensations wash over a churchgoer during a particularly f…
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The Two Types of Film Criticism a Director Receives – The Atlantic
Park Chan-Wook receives an award today from Bollywood actress Richa Chadda
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Suspect in Planned Parenthood Shooting Shouts in Court: ‘I’m Guilty’ – The Atlantic
The alleged gunman in a shooting rampage last month at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado interrupted a court hearing Wednesday several times, shouting that he was “guilty” in the crime. “I’m guilty. There’s no trial.
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The CW will air a MADtv 20th anniversary special in January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Once described by a former star by saying, “Half of it was good, half of it was the worst sketch comedy you’d ever seen,” fitfully enjoyable Saturday Night Live competitor MADtv turned 20 years old this year.
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Cortana now out for Android and iOS, with bonus features for Cyanogen | Ars Technica
Microsoft promised to bring its Cortana digital personal assistant to iOS and Android in May this year, and public beta for Android came out in July, with a private iOS beta following a few months later.
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Spotlight on green news & views: Paris talkers ponder 1.5° target; Sanders unveils climate plan
Politico: Democrats might give Big Oil a big win in Congress by Justin Mikulka: “As today’s Politico headline makes clear, Democrats are poised this week to grant the oil industry its number one wish — lifting the oil export ban.
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The Stories That Held You the Longest in 2015 https://t.co/21BRD76lwD https://t.co/JqFYLTZwP3
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This Former UN Climate Chief Is Concerned Paris Agreement Won’t Go Far Enough | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. After 11 days of intense negotiations, delegates from 196 nations have agreed on a draft text that could result in a post-2020 agreement on climate cha…
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will ‘fight to protect’ Muslim rights | The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg says that Muslims will always be welcome on Facebook, and that Muslim users should expect for Facebook to “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you.
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FBI Director: Silicon Valley’s encryption is a “business model problem” | Ars Technica
Leaders in both major political parties have increasingly been calling on tech companies to give law enforcement encryption backdoors in the wake of recent terror attacks in Paris and California.
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25 Years Ago, Edward Scissorhands Changed Monster Movies Forever
Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, which came out 25 years ago this week, is more than just an updating of Frankenstein. It’s the story of a gentle robot who tries to live among regular people—and when I saw it as a little kid, this movie meant every…
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Two arrests in Sydney counter terror raids – BBC News
Two people have been arrested by counter terrorism officers in Sydney as part of an ongoing investigation. New South Wales Police confirmed the arrests were made as part of Operation Appleby, a joint operation with Australian Federal Police (AFP).
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Verizon is the next Comcast | The Verge
We’re fucked, lol! Recode reported today that Verizon is testing a “sponsored data” scheme, just like AT&T. Sponsored data is a craven attempt to distort the market by creating arbitrary, discriminatory distinctions between speech, and it blatantly …
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Vatican City just hosted a climate change awareness light show | The Verge
Visitors to Vatican City on Tuesday night saw more than the usual light display at St. Peter’s Basilica. For one night, the Basilica was the backdrop of an hour-long light show to highlight climate change.
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Policing Speech on Campus—Literally This Time – The Atlantic
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Colorado shooting suspect says he is guilty in court – BBC News
The man accused of killing three at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has said in court that he is guilty and a “warrior for the babies”. “I am guilty. There will be no trial. I am a warrior for the babies,” he said during a court hearing wher…
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TV is letting women be depressed — but not letting that define them – Vox
Depression is ugly and static, listless until it rears its head and makes its presence known with a sudden, ferocious roar. You can fight it, and sometimes even defeat it. But it’s almost impossible to know when, where, or how it will strike.
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Planned Parenthood shooting suspect’s courtroom outburst: “I’m a warrior for the babies” – Vox
Robert Lewis Dear, the man accused of killing three people and injuring nine others in a shooting spree at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood last month, said in court Wednesday that he is guilty and that he is a “warrior for the babies” and agai…
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The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men | Broadly
The first time I encountered Isabella Stewart Gardner was the way most people do: through her museum. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is located near Fenway Park in Boston, just a short walk from the Museum of Fine Arts.
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The list covers Jan. 1 through Nov. 30, 2015.
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Rand Paul largely correct that French electronic surveillance law is stronger than what U.S. has (politifact.com) He’s correct when he says they haven’t caught a single terrorist with surveillance in the US and it’s time to shut it down.
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Mexico Becomes the First Country to Greenlight a Vaccine for Dengue Fever | VICE News
Mexico has become the first country in the world to approve the use of a newly developed vaccine against the virus that causes dengue fever across large swathes of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Today Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to announce a new crowd-funding campaign that will fund local journalists around the United States to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other transparency lawsuits aimed at uncovering video evi…
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Zuckerberg Says Muslims Will Always Be Welcome On Facebook | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg urged the world not to “succumb to cynicism” despite bigots like Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
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The Idiotsitter tries to earn her keep in this trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The trailer for Comedy Central’s Idiotsitter features most of the types of reckless behavior that would inspire a father (Stephen Root) to hire a sitter for his horrible, adult daughter. There’s lots of drinking, swearing, and inappropriate dancing.
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Momotombo Volcano, Nicaragua : Natural Hazards
For the first time in more than a century, Nicaragua’s Momotombo Volcano awoke with an explosive eruption. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired these images of the area on December 4, 2015.
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In the third in a series of films for Guardian Australia, Olandi Pearson, an elder from the island of Poruma in the Torres Strait, walks the shoreline of his home to show the effects of erosion caused by climate change.
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Phytoplankton in the Northwest Atlantic : Image of the Day
Each spring, the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean host a huge natural bloom of phytoplankton—microscopic, plant-like organisms that are important for carbon cycling and also could influence clouds and climate.
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Hipchat-Maker Atlassian Prices IPO at $21 | TechCrunch
It’s the last big tech IPO of the year. Atlassian has just priced at $21 per share, above the expected range of $19 to $20. Releasing 22 million shares, the company is raising $462 million.
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Steady Square Lets You Weigh Things With Your iPhone 6s (And Play Too)
Apple’s 3D Touch technology may be young, but it’s already got app developers thinking outside of the box. If you want to use your iPhone 6s as a digital scale, Steady Square is for you. Oh, it’s also a game you can play.
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Ozzy Osbourne is pretty sure nobody wants another Black Sabbath album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In September of 2014, Black Sabbath announced that it was planning to record a new album and go on one final tour before officially calling it quits. However, earlier this year, the band decided to skip the album and jump straight to the tour, which…
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The Affair and Homeland Aren’t Over Just Yet | Vanity Fair
Following major story changes during their present seasons, both The Affair and Homeland have been picked up for a third and sixth season respectively by Showtime.
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Malawi Prisoners Score Surprise Grammy Nomination | Rolling Stone
Malawi Prisoners Score Surprise Grammy Nomination The Zomba Prison Project earns nod in the Best World Music Album category for ‘I Have No Everything Here’ album
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Split Enz: This twitchy weirdo cult act was New Zealand’s greatest musical export|Dangerous Minds
Although back home in New Zealand—and Australia—Split Enz are YUGE, and agreed upon by all as THE seminal Kiwi pop act, everywhere else they’d be considered a cult band.
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This $30 Bluetooth Bathroom Scale Syncs With Your Phone
$30 is a solid price for any decent bathroom scale, but this one actually includes Bluetooth to sync with your phone. In fact, it can import the data directly into a bunch of popular fitness tracking apps, including Apple’s built-in HealthKit.
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Planned Parenthood Shooter: ‘I Am Guilty’ | Al Jazeera America
“I am guilty. There will be no trial. I am a warrior for the babies,” Robert Lewis Dear reportedly said in an El Paso county courthouse, according to a reporter with local CBS4 news station.
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Jeb! is sure that Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric and bigotry are part of a plot to get Hillary elected
What else could explain Trump’s apparently permanent spot atop the polls for the 2016 Republican nomination for president (while Jeb! struggles to stay above 4 percent), except for a sinister plot?
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FBI Chief Asks Tech Companies to Stop Offering End-to-End Encryption | Motherboard
After the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, encryption has once again become a political target in Washington.
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I Asked For a Transformer Toy For Christmas. What I Got Instead Was Horrible.
We all have our own stories of getting the wrong toy for a birthday or the holidays. But there’s nothing worse than what happened to author Tobias Buckell. Nothing! So it’s the 80s, I’m a little boy growing up in Grenada, WI and money is tight. Some…
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Concern for China human rights lawyers – BBC News
Thursday is is United Nations Human Rights Day but not everywhere is it celebrated with equal enthusiasm.
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London Mayor Won’t Visit New York Because Donald Trump Might Be There | Vanity Fair
For decades, a succession of mayors have worked to turn New York City from a grim, crime-ridden metropolis into one of the shiniest and tourist-friendly cities in the world (hello, gentrification).
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A Dow-DuPont Merger Would Raise Big Questions – The New Yorker
The news that Dow Chemical and DuPont, two of America’s oldest industrial corporations, are close to agreeing on a merger can hardly be regarded as big surprise. In recent years, both companies have been targeted by Wall Street hedge funds looking t…
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It has been one week since the shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, that claimed 14 lives and wounded 21. The FBI is working to piece together a portrait of the husband and wife who carried out the attack, which they say was inspired by f…
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Reggie Miller Sizes Up Steph Curry – The New Yorker
A recent fivethirtyeight.com piece made a lengthy statistical argument that the Golden State Warriors—the only N.B.A. team in history to win its first twenty-three games—could be even better if they let Stephen Curry, their very human-looking superm…
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Between Us: A Queer Theorist’s Devoted Husband and Enduring Legacy – The New Yorker
During their nearly forty-year marriage, Hal and Eve Sedgwick almost never lived together. Eve, the pioneering queer theorist and author of “Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire” and “The Epistemology of the Closet,” among many…
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US Neo-Nazi Leader Says Donald Trump ‘the Real Deal’ : politics
Well, that’s going to be an interesting meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Hilarity ensues…
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The Stories That Held You the Longest in 2015 https://t.co/QjFXsmX66f https://t.co/sZMBF3HBWL
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Accused Planned Parenthood Shooter Shouts ‘I’m Guilty’ In Court : NPR
Robert Dear, the man accused in the mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood office at Colorado Springs, blurted he was guilty Wednesday in court, one of several outbursts during his arraignment.
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The list covers Jan. 1 through Nov. 30, 2015.
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‘Straw Buyers’ Of Guns Break The Law — And Often Get Away With It : NPR
Authorities are still trying to determine how the San Bernardino shooters got the two assault-style rifles they used in the attack. The guns were registered to Enrique Marquez, long-time friend of shooter Syed Farook. But it’s not clear exactly how …
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CLEVELAND—Following a 37-3 loss that saw his team outperformed in nearly every phase of the game, Cleveland head coach Mike Pettine admitted his growing concern Wednesday that the Cincinnati Bengals may have given the rest of the league the blueprin…
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NBC invites you to take a peacock at Seeso Beta · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When NBC announced Seeso, a new comedy streaming platform, back in October, it made promises of a Parks And Recreation-al nature, among other things.
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Will Affirmative Action Live to Fight Another Day? | New Republic
Could the Supreme Court hear the same affirmative action case three times? Quite possibly. The big news after this morning’s oral argument in Fisher v.
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Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are both writing for the new MST3K · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As the clock ticks down on the Bring Back Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter—still more than a million dollars short of its ultimate, $5.
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Prepare to be mesmerized by this industrial egg-breaking and seperating machine / Boing Boing
The Ovo-Tech Rz-1 breaks eggs like nobody’s business. In this video, you’ll see eggs travel their merry way along a Rube Goldberg contraption that breaks them, then separates the yucky albumin from the precious, delicious, healthy golden yolks. [via]
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Google Drive Adds New Advanced Search Features to Make Finding Files Easier
Searching for your Google Drive files got a whole lot easier today with an update that offers an easier way to open your advanced search options, quicker ways to access files on iOS, and more options to narrow your searches.
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Andy Warhol’s Factory was a world unto itself: a microcosm of junkies, cross-dressers, hustlers, artists, and weirdos with a ubiquitous soundtrack from Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
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Happy Birthday To You copyright case settled – BBC News
The music company Warner/Chappell had claimed the rights to the song but earlier this year a judge ruled that the lyrics could be used without the need to pay royalties. The terms of the agreement have not been revealed.
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New Bill Introduced In Illinois To Recall Mayor Rahm Emanuel | ThinkProgress
Ever since Chicago released the dash camera footage of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, residents have called for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
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Laquan McDonald death: Protests in Chicago after mayor apology – BBC News
Protests have erupted in Chicago after the mayor apologised for the 2014 death of a black teenager shot by a police officer 16 times. Hundreds of people have filled the streets, blocking traffic, chanting “16 shots and a cover-up” and demanding the …
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New Triceratops Cousin Had a Gnarly, Bumpy Skull
The newly discovered dinosaur is named Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis (“ornamental face”) after its facial furrows.
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The Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Just Called Himself a ‘Warrior For the Babies’ | VICE News
Robert Lewis Dear, the man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others last month at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, reportedly admitted his guilt and blurted out, “I am a warrior for the babies,” during a court appearance on W…
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BBC Sport – Olympiakos 0-3 Arsenal
Injury-hit Arsenal have no fresh worries ahead of their must-win Champions League tie at Olympiakos. Chile attacker Alexis Sanchez and Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla are among a host of key Gunners players out.
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It’s true – being handsome is a living hell | Rupert Myers | Opinion | The Guardian
“It’s not easy being a man, you know,” Dylan Moran once said. “I had to get dressed today … and there are other pressures.
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Hot Beauty Gifts: As Seen in the Holiday Issue | Vanity Fair
Happy holidays to you and all your loved ones! And what better way to show those you care about just how much with a little chic beauty treat? From intoxicating fragrances to lipsticks to great-smelling candles—with some makeup, to boot—here are som…
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Erdogan: Turkish troops in Iraq on PM Abadi’s request – Al Jazeera English
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkish troops were in Iraq on the request of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi since 2014 as the row between the two countries deepens. “Turkish soldiers are in Basheeqa camp at the request of Haida…
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I’m Dan Shapiro, CEO of Glowforge, and This Is How I Work
The Glowforge printer is unique: it’s not a 3D printer in the traditional sense, but rather a laser cutter that can cut and etch a variety of material.
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National vigil for all victims of gun violence: share your photos | US news | The Guardian
Wednesday marks the third annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence, kicking off a days-long campaign to honor all victims and survivors of gun violence across the US.
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When Will Labor Laws Catch Up With the Gig Economy? – The Atlantic
If asked to define the variously named sharing/gig/on-demand economy, anyone would struggle. Despite the fact that Uber and Airbnb have become household names, most companies that are considered part of this new tech-driven, non-ownership economy do…
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Man accused in Planned Parenthood shooting: ‘I’m a warrior for the babies’ | US news | The Guardian
The man accused of killing three people in a shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood blurted out in court on Wednesday, “I’m a warrior for the babies,” and, “I’m guilty. There’s no trial.”
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The Killer Is Revealed and the Terror of Scream Queens Is Finally, Finally Over
In a double-episode finale, Scream Queens’ jigsaw plot finally came together in a semi-coherent manner. The Red Devils were all revealed, and most of the guilty parties were punished.
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Hear Kellie Pickler’s Melancholy ‘My Christmas Caroline’ | Rolling Stone
The Christmas holiday season is often seen as a joyful, celebratory occasion to be spent with loved ones. But it also has a unique ability to generate melancholy for some people, particularly when home is far away or no longer resembles what it was.
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The missing generation | Spectrum – Autism Research News
Last year, Scott Hartman moved into his own apartment for the first time. He quickly learned to balance his budget, squirreling away money to buy a Blu-ray player or Xbox games. He started taking long walks to his favorite fast food joints: Hardee’s…
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$15 Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers Upheld | Al Jazeera America
A New York state oversight board on Wednesday upheld the decision by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration to gradually raise the hourly minimum wage for many fast-food workers to $15.
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Millions of teenagers in high schools nationwide are using a smartphone app to anonymously share their deepest anxieties, secret crushes, vulgar assessments of their classmates and even violent threats, all without adults being able to look in.
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Why Spotify Shouldn’t Put Taylor Swift Behind the Paywall | Inverse
Spotify has steadfastly maintained its commitment to two offerings: Free and Premium. But that’s led artists like Adele and Taylor Swift to keep their incredibly popular music off the service because they don’t want it accessed for free.
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Following Christian Leave: The Strange Life of a Teen Celebrity | Rolling Stone
One frigid morning last November, Christian Akridge emerged from his hotel bathroom in Secaucus, New Jersey, with the promise of big news. “Don’t go in there,” he warned, flinging the bathroom door closed behind him. “There’s normal poop, and then t…
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Accused Planned Parenthood Shooter Admits Guilt By Screaming “I Am Guilty” in Court
According to a CBS reporter on the scene, Robert Dear—the man accused of killing at least three people and wounding nine others during an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood—would very much like the public to know he’s straight-up guilty.
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Muslims in America explain how they feel in five words – BBC News
Following Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, we asked American Muslims to explain in five words how they feel at the moment. The responses we received ranged from profound, comedic and poignant.
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Suspected Planned Parenthood shooter: ‘I am a warrior for the babies’
Any doubt about whether the suspected Planned Parenthood shooter just accidentally opened fire in a Planned Parenthood can be put to rest. First Robert L. Dear muttered something about “baby parts.” Then he asked for directions to Planned Parenthood…
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Planned Parenthood Shooter Admits Guilt: ‘I Am A Warrior For The Babies’ | ThinkProgress
The man who was arrested for killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic last month appears to have admitted his guilt, calling himself a “warrior for the babies” and saying that there should be no trial. Robert Lewis Dear was scheduled to b…
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California prison photographs from the 1980s|Dangerous Minds
In 2013 Paris Photo LA purchased a collection of photographs taken in California prisons between 1977 and 1993 for $45,000, a price that startled a good number of observers.
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US and NATO Double Down on Cold War versus Russia | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold war.
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The many, misbegotten made-for-TV movies of Marvel Comics · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
These days, Marvel has its TV game down pat, with offerings like Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones. But it wasn’t always that way.
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YouTube’s year in review makes 2015 look like a huge dance party | The Verge
Depending on the platform you’re on, 2015 might looks incredibly different. Facebook paints a stark picture of hardship and triumph over adversity.
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A new expansion pack for The Sims 4 was released this week, and in addition to the usual fun of telling virtual people that they’re not allowed to use the bathroom and removing the ladders from their swimming pools, it also brings along something fo…
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Kiva Turns to Another Economy in Need of Investment: America’s – The Atlantic
Budding small-business owners have always turned to family and friends for loans. This system has its perks: Money from friends and family can mean fast, interest-free cash, and the social ties mean borrowers might be more incentivized to pay back t…
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Win the HBO comedy special Amy Schumer: Live At The Apollo on DVD · Contest · The A.V. Club
We don’t need to tell you that “2015 was a big year for Amy Schumer” because everyone (including Barbara Walters) has already said it.
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Long ribbon of damp damaging air | News | The Guardian
When disasters happen we look for an explanation. This week’s extreme rainfall in the north-west of the UK will be no exception. Honister, in Cumbria, had a record-breaking 341mm of rainfall within 24 hours, breaking the previous record of 316mm set…
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Australia has warned against stripping the Paris climate agreement of ambition in order to get some kind of deal as negotiators met to consider yet another draft agreement.
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Do Republicans have a right to be outraged by Trump? – Al Jazeera English
Washington, United States – Most of the media coverage of the US presidential campaign has been swallowed by Donald Trump over the past 24 hours, after he called for a complete ban on all Muslims entering the US.
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Julianne Moore and Amy Schumer joined activists and shooting survivors to rally for gun control on Wednesday, ahead of nationwide vigils to remember the victims of more than 1,000 mass shootings in three years.
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Much Of The World Perplexed That Climate Debate Continues In U.S. : politics
Much Of The World Perplexed That Climate Debate Continues In U.S. (npr.org) I’d hazard a guess that much of the world is perplexed about a great many things that are going on in this country right now.
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Total lunar eclipse long exposure [5163×3442; OC] : SkyPorn
Total lunar eclipse long exposure [5163×3442; OC] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/DPp1v1NlZv https://t.co/HvxK7FxNMk https://t.co/x8RJmDMOhE
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Total lunar eclipse long exposure [5163×3442; OC] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/DPp1v1NlZv https://t.co/HvxK7FxNMk https://t.co/x8RJmDMOhE
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Vast majority of GOP voters embrace Trump’s pathetic plan to ban Muslims
Vast majority of GOP voters embrace Trump’s pathetic plan to ban Muslims https://t.co/wWXGppM5PE https://t.co/Oml1Ace8Xc
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Warm loaves are happy loaves : Catloaf
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WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court justices seemed unpersuaded on Wednesday that an affirmative action plan at the University of Texas was constitutional. But the member of the Supreme Court who almost certainly holds the crucial vote, Jus…
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FBI Director Provides New Details On San Bernardino Shooters : NPR
The San Bernardino shooting and law enforcement efforts to prevent another attack dominated FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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Is Marissa Mayer About To Be Pushed Off Of The Glass Cliff? | ThinkProgress
When Marissa Mayer was snapped up from an executive role at Google to become Yahoo’s seventh CEO in less than five years, she was explicitly brought on to turn around the internet giant that has been struggling for the last decade.
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Oceans May Be Left Out of Climate Plan, But Here’s What’s at Stake
Out Thierry Perez’s office window, past the crumbling 16th century island prison where Alexandre Dumas set the “Count of Monte Cristo,” roils a Mediterranean Sea that didn’t exist just a few decades ago.
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Flipagram’s Stories Are Sticky And You Can Now Create 60-Second Flips | TechCrunch
In case you’ve forgotten about Flipagram, we told you about them back in July when they raised $70 million and said they had 30 million users. The company started out as an app to create quick slide shows to share on services like Facebook and Insta…
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Hannah Arendt wrote in her brilliant inquiry into time, space, and our thinking ego.
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Pushbullet Can Now Retrieve Files Remotely From Your Other Devices
Android/Windows: Pushbullet is already a great way to bridge the gap between your devices, but now it’s getting easier. In the newest version, you can remotely browse your computer’s files and retrieve them without being at your computer.
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Gun-Rights Activists to Stage “Fake Mass Shooting” at University of Texas | Vanity Fair
Mass shootings have become a grisly routine in America, with each new event settling into the now-familiar pattern of “active shooter” alerts, helicopter shots of students running out of classrooms, and the media scrum as reporters rush to interview…
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ISIS’s Capital Still Hasn’t Been Cut Off – The Daily Beast
The distance from the Syrian city of Raqqa to the Iraq’s Mosul is about 230 miles as the crow flies, and closer to 280 miles if one drives between the two “capitals” controlled by the self-declared Islamic State.
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Donald Trump Unites Israel and Hamas – The Daily Beast
Thanks to Donald Trump, we may now have the first agreement between Israel and Hamas since their short-lived August 2014 ceasefire.
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The Two Most Powerful Words That You Can Say To Yourself While Writing
“I’m bored.” These two words are the hardest thing to admit, when you’re writing your deathless novel, or screenplay, or short story. You’re supposed to be creating a work of timeless brilliance. How can you be bored? But admitting that you’re bored…
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Obama calls for US to reject bigotry in speech marking end of slavery | Law | The Guardian
Barack Obama marked the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery by urging the United States to confront the continued bigotry and fear in its midst. Speaking at a ceremony on Capitol Hill, he echoed Dr Martin Luther King Jr, celebrating the “l…
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Hulu’s The Way is now The Path, and is coming your way in March · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hulu’s about-a-cult show, The Path, has moved one step closer to ensnaring humanity—the scripted drama now has a spring 2016 premiere date. The Path stars Aaron Paul as a cult member who just so happens to be married to another cult member (Michelle…
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Vultures Also Dead From Kenya Lion Poisoning
This week, three lions died in southwestern Kenya after eating a poison-laced cow carcass, Wildlife Watch reported. Those lions, and five others also poisoned, come from Masai Mara National Reserve’s Marsh Pride, which starred in the popular BBC ser…
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COP21: What is in the latest draft text on climate change? – BBC News
The new draft has significantly reduced the options on many of the key questions after days of negotiations. Rebecca Morelle describes what’s in the latest text.
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Track of the Day: ‘May the Fource Be With You’ – The Atlantic
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By and large, the US is a giving nation, ranking second overall in the 2015’s World Giving Index. The majority of American households, 95.4%, donate to charities, and each contributes an annual average of $2,974. But not all US states give equally.
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48 Hours Left, Paris Draft Is Looking Better, Not Great | New Republic
It’s crunch time for a climate agreement, and negotiators in Paris are preparing to work through the night to hammer out remaining differences before the conference officially ends on Friday.
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Margaret Atwood is writing a graphic novel for Dark Horse Comics · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Multitudinous-award-winning author Margaret Atwood has presumably reached the point in her career where it’s time to take a break from producing conventionally respected literature and start working on a graphic novel trilogy about a superhero whose…
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Free music-streaming app Aurous shuts down following RIAA lawsuit | The Verge
Only two months after launching, free music-streaming app Aurous has folded. The news comes from a tweet on the site’s corresponding Twitter account.
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The big-screen adaptation of Deadpool—which will be the eighth installment in Fox’s X-Men franchise—is a little more than two months away from being released. As with all comic-book movies, there will be a lot of non-comic-book fans in the audience.
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A collection of old film footage of NYC, taken between 1896 and 1905, along with maps and descriptions of the locations.
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Time got it right: Angela Merkel, not Donald Trump, should be Person of the Year – Vox
Time magazine’s choice of Angela Merkel as 2015’s Person of the Year has provoked a good deal of consternation from people who thought it ought to have been Donald Trump, with none more agitated than Donald Trump himself: Even some of Trump’s detrac…
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2016 Golden Globes Nominations Predictions | Vanity Fair
When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces their nominees for 2016’s Golden Globe Awards, there will be some of the usual suspects—the films, like Carol and Spotlight, that have long been expected awards contenders—as well as some monkey…
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Arrests in Albania over massive opposition protests – Al Jazeera English
Police in Albania’s capital Tirana have arrested at least five people who took part in one of the country’s largest opposition protests in recent years. The protesters called for the resignation of the government, fresh elections and an end to “mafi…
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Trump on Muslim ban: I’m the least bigoted person you’ve ever met – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump tells ABC’s Barbara Walters that he is no bigot, despite earlier in the week calling for a blanket ban on Muslims entering America.
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Angela Merkel named as Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”. She was praised for her leadership during Europe’s debt and migrant crises as well as Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.
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High-tech crash prevention features may soon count toward official safety ratings | The Verge
As I’ve gotten older, my (imagined) invincibility shield has worn off somewhat, and I’ve become much more interested in safety when shopping for a car.
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The Assault Weapons Ban the NRA Couldn’t Stop | Rolling Stone
The Assault Weapons Ban the NRA Couldn’t Stop The Supreme Court has declined to take up one of the toughest gun-control laws in the country — a major blow to the NRA
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Inside Philadelphia’s Filthy Schools | Al Jazeera America
PHILADELPHIA — Public schools are usually considered to be safe places for our children. But what if the school buildings, where many kids spend hours of their day, are damaging their health?
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How The North Face Founder Went From High School Dropout to Millionaire Conservationist
Doug Tompkins, a high school dropout who made a fortune founding the clothing lines The North Face and Esprit and then used his wealth to conserve millions of acres in Patagonia, died yesterday in Chile. He was 72.
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On Becoming a Muslim American – The Daily Beast
It was 1991. I was 21 when I first boarded the Staten Island Ferry, sailed past the Statue of Liberty, and set foot in Lower Manhattan.
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YouTube is making it easier to find viral videos | The Verge
YouTube is making it easier to find videos that are bubbling to the internet’s surface with a new “Trending” tab, one that’s visible on the service’s homepage and accessible through iOS and Android devices.
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Vast majority of GOP voters embrace Trump’s pathetic plan to ban Muslims
I’m just gonna keep yelling—Republicans love it. Nearly two-thirds of GOP primary voters reaffirmed that they have no regard for the constitutional freedoms that we have spent more than two centuries defending since our nation’s founding, according …
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Verizon to Start Testing Sponsored Data in Coming Days | Re/code
Verizon plans in the next few days to start testing so-called sponsored data, the equivalent of toll-free calling for the Internet age. Sponsored data, as the name implies, allows consumers to access certain content without having to eat into their …
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Arctic winter temperature rose 3 degrees since 1990 : environment
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How checking into a hotel led to eight days in jail
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The San Bernardino Shooters Were Discussing an Attack a Year Before They Even Met | VICE News
The couple who massacred 14 people at a California holiday party were discussing martyrdom online a year before they met in person and married, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday. “They were actually radicalized before they started…
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YouNow, a live-streaming social network, is making stars.
Zach Clayton, 15, is the most famous person on a social network most people have never heard of.
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MIT created an electronic bandage that heals wounds faster
At some point in the future, your bandage might do a lot more than just cover up your wound. Researchers at MIT have developed a malleable hydrogel that they can embed with sensors and apply to injury sites.
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The New Education Law Passes, With A Power Shift Back To The States : NPR Ed : NPR
Today, the Senate voted 85-12 to pass the long-awaited rewrite of the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law. President Obama says he’ll sign it tomorrow.
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Yahoo Takes Reverse Spin To Boost Investment Image : NPR
It sounds like a dance move — the reverse spin. But it’s actually a financial engineering maneuver Yahoo is using to make the company more attractive to investors.
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Music Review: ‘Perfectamundo,’ Billy Gibbons : NPR
Billy Gibbons, the front man for legendary group ZZ Top, has released his first solo record, and it goes back to some of his earliest influences. Meredith Ochs reviews Perfectamundo.
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Iowa Chemist Turns Inedible Hedge Balls Into Valuable Cash Crop : NPR
Osage oranges, also known as hedge balls or monkey brains, fall from hedge shrubs that line many Iowa farms. They’ve been a problem because cattle can easily choke on them.
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First Officer On Trial In Freddie Gray Case Takes Stand : NPR
The first of six Baltimore police officers on trial for the death of Freddie Gray took the stand Wednesday in his own defense. William Porter, who’s been on the force just two years, is charged with manslaughter.
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Investigators Say San Bernardino Shooters Were Radicalized Years Before Attack : NPR
Investigators continue to discover new details about the two people behind the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. Authorities say both were radicalized for years even before they met and married.
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Deadline Nears For Negotiators To Reach Deal On Climate Change : NPR
At the U.N. climate summit in Paris, negotiators have 48 hours until their deadline to reach a deal on global warning. NPR has the latest from the summit.
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Supreme Court Revisits Affirmative Action In Higher Education : NPR
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard the case against the affirmative action system at the University of Texas before, but past decisions have not seemed to settle the matter. Lower courts keep sending the knotty problem back to the justices, who heard …
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Environmentalists Sound Alarm On Proposed Drilling Near Florida Everglades : NPR
The National Park Service is weighing a Texas company’s proposal to do seismic oil testing in the Big Cypress National Preserve. But some worry it will open the door for fracking in the Everglades.
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Republicans Reject Proposals To Bar People On No-Fly List From Buying Guns : NPR
Republicans in Congress have rejected proposals to bar Americans on the terror “no-fly” list from buying guns. But Texas Sen. John Cornyn plans to introduce a new bill that might create a new opportunity for action in the wake of the San Bernardino,…
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How ‘Black-ish’ Writers Use Universal Storylines To Approach Race : NPR
ABC will air the final episode of its hit comedy Black-ish Wednesday night before the season ends for holiday break. Although the show focuses on the upper-middle class Johnson family, its storylines cross race, ethnicity, gender, geography and age.
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At Least 46 Dead After Taliban Attack Airport In Southern Afghanistan : NPR
At least 46 people are dead after the Taliban attacked an airport in southern Afghanistan, which coincided with a big regional conference in Pakistan.
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Chicago Mayor Apologizes For Police Killing Of Black Teenager : NPR
Chicago’s Mayor said he was “sorry” Wednesday for the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. In a special speech to the full Chicago City Council, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he takes full responsibility for the fatal shooting of the 17-year-old last April…
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In ‘Drawing Blood,’ A Life Of Art And Action : NPR
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? For Molly Crabapple, art is a tool for action.
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World Reacts To Donald Trump’s Call To Ban Muslims Traveling To U.S. : NPR
Bloomberg’s Zainab Fattah in Dubai, and Joerg Lau, foreign editor for Die Zeit in Berlin, put the reaction to Donald Trump’s comments on Muslims into context.
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Chipotle Stocks Plummet After Another Food Scare – The Atlantic
Last month, when commenting on Chipotle’s third food contamination scandal in as many months, one retail analyst told Reuters not to expect a lengthy downturn for the fast-casual chain.
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Google Drive Makes It Easier To Find The Files You’re Looking For | TechCrunch
This is something I’ve personally been waiting for for a long time. Google Drive is making it easier to find your files by letting you choose the filetype first. Regardless of what device your files came from, you can search for a file type on Andro…
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Thanks to a century or so of propaganda from Thomas Edison and his lackeys, many people aren’t very familiar with Nikola Tesla or the various scientific discoveries he made. Luckily, Christopher Nolan’s 2005 film, The Prestige, can teach us everythi…
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Australia has signed a Paris declaration calling for new clear rules for international carbon trading in a signal the Coalition’s six-year carbon pricing policy veto could be softening as it prepares to review its climate policy in 2017.
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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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Hit Rewind – Smashd – Tech | Culture | Hustle
Two words circle the music conversation, like buzzards we can’t be rid of soon enough: Curation and discovery. They are classic concepts. Radio DJs were “curators” long before the term was coined; friends have been helping each other “discover” musi…
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Could a Titanic Sea Wall Save This Quickly Sinking City?
Standing on the banks of Jakarta Bay, Victor Coenen sees a row of flimsy houses with corrugated sheet metal roofs that rest on the city’s seawall. A girl wearing flip flops and a pink bow walks on the wall, only a couple feet off the ground.
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How checking into a hotel led to eight days in jail
A transgender woman went to jail for eight days just for checking into a hotel, and now you can hear the 911 call that started it all.
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US police killings are a public health concern, say Harvard researchers | US news | The Guardian
Killings by police are a public health concern and should be reported to government health authorities, Harvard researchers have said.
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Instantly Sign PDFs Directly In the iPhone Mail App
We’ve talked about signing documents from your phone before, but one of the lesser celebrated features of iOS 9 was integrating this directly into the Mail app. iOS 9 brought along “markup” to Mail, which allows you to draw on images and add notes.
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Most Americans Aren’t Middle Class Anymore | FiveThirtyEight
Presidential hopefuls from both parties have been saying throughout the primary campaign that the American middle class is in trouble. Bernie Sanders says it is in the midst of “a 40-year decline.” Jeb Bush says it is “shrinking.” Ted Cruz says it i…
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Milestone-Based Vesting For Startup Founders | TechCrunch
Scott Kupor, CEO and a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently published an article on Fortune.
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The guy is a showman, and he knows crowds. He says things that he knows are applause lines. He’s not a maniac just rambling, he’s smart and knows where the audience wants to go and goes there and says what they want to hear the loudest.
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Jaden Smith Deems This 2015 Romance the Best Movie Ever, Excluding Twilight | Vanity Fair
Jaden Smith is either the most brilliantly avant-garde celebrity offspring this Earth has ever known, or else a very stylish nutcase.
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Arctic winter temperature rose 3 degrees since 1990 (rbth.com)submitted 26 minutes ago by loading…
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Yahoo to Keep Alibaba Stake but Spin Off Core Businesses https://t.co/KWud9dYfk6 https://t.co/wA6IMZpxJ9
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The Iraqi Army Is Poised to Score a Major Victory Against the Islamic State | VICE News
The Iraqi army may be on the cusp of one of its most significant military victories over the Islamic State. For the past 18 months, the Islamic State has been in control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi — located just 70 miles from Baghdad — after it rou…
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Protesters call for Emanuel to step down – Chicago Tribune
Long before Mayor Rahm Emanuel tackled police accountability in an unusual speech before the City Council on Wednesday, demonstrators made it clear there was nothing the embattled mayor could say to calm the situation.
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Kenya Maasai accused after third ‘poisoned’ lion dies – BBC News
The cub, known as Alan, had been recovering from a suspected episode of poisoning. But he was then hurt in a clash with a buffalo herd and a vet was “forced to make the difficult decision to euthanize” him, a wildlife trust said.
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Why The ACLU Is Challenging An ‘Anti-Racist’ Abortion Ban For Actually Being Racist | ThinkProgress
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will take Arizona lawmakers to federal court this week to fight an anti-abortion law that uses false cultural stereotypes to frame a ban on abortion as a “civil rights issue.
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Obama: ‘We must push back against bigotry’ – BBC News
Barack Obama has urged the American public not to repeat the mistakes of the past, in a speech marking 150 years since the abolition of slavery,He said scars left by the country’s “original sin” still existed in modern America.
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Watch a Paper-Puppet Short About the Life and Work of Mary Leakey
We’ve featured videos from Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shatttuck’s Animated Life series for the New York Times before. The subject this time is paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, with a particular focus on her discovery of the Laetoli footprints, which …
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Thai police investigate claim that US ambassador ‘defamed the monarchy’ | World news | The Guardian
Thai police have said they are investigating comments made by the US ambassador about a law that bans criticism of the monarchy, but don’t expect to bring charges because he has diplomatic immunity.
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Boxy Brings Inbox by Gmail to the Mac Desktop
Mac: Inbox by Gmail is a bit polarizing, but if you count yourself amongst its fans, then you might want to check out Boxy. Boxy is a Mac client for Inbox that ports the web app over as a desktop app. Boxy looks and works a lot like Inbox already do…
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President Obama’s favorite song of 2015 is “How Much A Dollar Cost” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Don’t let his dad jeans fool you—President Barack Obama is a hip fellow with good taste in music. Why, his Spotify vacation playlist includes Florence + The Machine, Nappy Roots, and, uh, Justin Timberlake.
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US Muslims celebrated on social media to repel racism – Al Jazeera English
US Ambassador Paul Bremer, former administrator of Iraq, discusses whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. The personal journey of a filmmaker caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tasmania’s ancient forests.
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Over the course of Fargo’s second season on FX, central characters Ed and Peggy Blomquist have seen their lives dramatically interrupted. They began this cycle of episodes as, respectively, a butcher and a hairdresser.
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Flickr’s new Gear VR app lets you gaze at thousands of 360-degree photos | The Verge
The Gear VR is taking early (and small) steps toward becoming an actual app platform rather than just a showcase for games and immersive video.
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US district judge James Gwin’s ruling on Tuesday concluded that the nine officers produced no evidence to support their claims, Cleveland.com reported.
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Infant death rate in US drops to ‘historic low’, CDC reports | US news | The Guardian
Infant mortality in the United States dropped to a “historic low” in 2014, according to a new report, which said that the rate was “generally considered a good indicator of the overall health of a population”. The mortality rate dropped 2.3% to 582.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company. Instead, the company will spin off all its other assets, including its stake in Yahoo Japan, into a new …
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“A cancer that has no immediate cure” was not the most soothing metaphor President Obama could have chosen, but it was the most honest. He has no idea how to prevent another terrorist attack like the one in San Bernardino — and neither does anyone e…
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2015 | HD | 02’29” | B/W | stereo | Pencil on Paper | USA A tiny bug tries to figure out what he wants to be.
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Inside the NSA’s hunt for hackers
BALTIMORE—When America’s premier federal security recruiters go fishing for new technical talent, they have plenty of lures to dangle. There’s the patriotic mission; the promise of a government salary; the thrill of working under the hood on the cou…
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Put This Coal Kingpin in the Stocks
Disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship didn’t get what he deserves in his recent federal trial. But he richly deserves what he got.
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GOP in panic mode: Will Mitt Romney try to save the day, or must RNC steal nomination from Trump?
“It would be devastating to our attempts to grow our majority and would cost us seats,” said [Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), the NRCC’s deputy chairman] in an interview. Trump “would cost us seats. There are people that couldn’t win if he was our nomi…
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What It’s Like to Live on Mars – Scientific American Blog Network
I am part of a team simulating life on Mars. Our home for an entire year is a 36-foot-diameter habitat at the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation site on the Marslike slopes of Mauna Loa. We will be here until next August. The only people…
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At the Climate Conference, the Rich Are Working to Stay Rich | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—A couple days ago, I walked past the U.S. booth here at the climate conference.
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The New Power Rangers Comics Feature Really Stylish Teens
Outside of their iconic ranger suits, Power Rangers’ the fashion of the series’ teen heroes can probably best be described as “Achingly 90s.” But that’s not going to be case in Boom studio’s new Power Rangers comic: these are teenagers with attitude…
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A Superconductor Levitating on a Möbius Strip | Open Culture
We’ve seen some pretty creative things done on a Möbius strip — like watching a Bach canon get played forwards, then back. But how about this? Above, watch Andy Marmery show a superconductor levitating on a Möbius strip made with over 2,000 magnets.
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What to Do If You’ve Slept in Your Contacts
You’re not supposed to sleep in your contacts, but we know most of you have done it anyway (hopefully not on purpose). If you wake up with your contacts still in, don’t rush to take them out.
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Poll: Two-thirds of Republicans support Trump’s plan to keep out Muslims – Vox
Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Politics released the first poll about Donald Trump’s horrific proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The topline finding is pretty shocking: 65 percent of likely Republican…
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Lindsey Graham Asks Head of FBI How to Buy a Gun on the Internet | Motherboard
As you might expect, Wednesday’s FBI oversight hearing hosted by the Senate Judiciary Committee focused primarily on the recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California and Paris.
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US offers helicopters and advisers to Iraq ‘to finish’ Ramadi fight – BBC News
The US is willing to do more to assist the Iraqi army in its fight to retake the city of Ramadi from the so-called Islamic State (IS), US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said. Mr Carter told a Senate panel that military advisers and helicopters cou…
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WASHINGTON — A little-noticed health care provision that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida slipped into a giant spending law last year has tangled up the Obama administration, sent tremors through health insurance markets and rattled c
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Cop-Outs and Denial: COP21 – Climate Emergency (Dispatch 4) | VICE News
As international ministers arrive in Paris for the final week of the COP21 conference to reach an agreement intended to define the future of human existence on the planet, the climate justice movement is stepping up its critique of the UN climate ta…
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I am standing in a room full of complete strangers. There are around 30 of them and they are all male. The next warm-up exercise we will undertake together consists of belting out the words “Many men, many men, many men men men” to the tune of Rossi…
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A Eulogy For Dead Standalone Apps | TechCrunch
Mobile isn’t easy. Suddenly “more” wasn’t the answer. A website could do everything and it’d work just fine. An app had to do just enough. Session lengths started to be counted not in hours or even minutes, but in seconds.
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In Tobacco Fields, Teens Face Grave Dangers | Al Jazeera America
Many teenagers who work long hours on tobacco farms in the United States are getting sick, reporting symptoms like vomiting, dizziness and a loss of appetite, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday. The New York–based group c…
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Uber Tests A Standalone Food Delivery App | TechCrunch
Uber is taking the next step to push its well-funded brand into the prepared food delivery space — launching the UberEATS service as a standalone app today, in Toronto.
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The recapture was a significant achievement in the battle to wrest neighborhoods in and around Ramadi from the Islamic State’s grasp. But it took “a frustratingly long time” to get to this point, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday.
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Why Join ISIS? How Fighters Respond When You Ask Them – The Atlantic
President Obama on Sunday night said that it was “clear” that Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, the two alleged assailants in the San Bernardino mass shooting, had “gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted i…
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Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is raising $827 million | The Verge
Secretive Florida-based startup Magic Leap is in the process of expanding its war chest to the tune of $827 million in additional funding, according to documents filed in Delaware today and obtained by private market researcher VC Experts.
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Donald Trump’s polling lead means little at this stage, past data shows | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has decisively led nationwide Republican primary polls largely uninterrupted since mid-July. He is the clear frontrunner and a growing number of commentators view him as a favourite to clinch the Republican nomination.
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Success! Japanese Spacecraft Arrives at Venus 5 Years After 1st Try
Venus as captured by the Akatsuki spacecraft’s Ultraviolet Imager instrument on Dec. 6, 2015, from a distance of about 44,700 miles (72,000 kilometers).Credit: JAXA View full size image A Japanese Venus probe took advantage of its long-awaited secon…
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Sprint’s companies are stealing T-Mobile’s idea to mess with net neutrality | The Verge
Boost Mobile, a subsidiary of Sprint, has just announced an unlimited data promotion that will let its customers stream music from a small list of partners: Pandora, iHeartRadio, Slacker Radio, 8tracks, and Samsung Milk Music.
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What does Donald Trump stand for? – Al Jazeera English
The potential United States Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is remaining defiant about his statement calling for all Muslims to be banned from entering the US. The White House says he has disqualified himself from becoming president.
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Neil Woodford sells Rolls-Royce stake – BBC News
The well-known investor Neil Woodford has sold his stake in the engineering firm Rolls-Royce, saying he has lost his confidence in the business model. In a blog, Mr Woodford said that November’s disappointing trading statement had prompted the move.
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Paris, France—Entering the closing 48 hours of the global climate negotiations, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that “we will not leave the most vulnerable nations among us to quite literally weather the storm alone.
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Banning things isn’t the way to confront the far-right | Suzanne Moore | Opinion | The Guardian
I would like a ban on banning things for a while. Or at least a rest. How many petitions a day is one meant to sign calling for someone or something to be banned? It is, I imagine, a full-time job.
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100 years ago, Americans talked about Catholics the way they talk about Muslims today – Vox
About a century ago, millions of Americans feared that members of a religious group were amassing an arsenal of weapons for a secret, preplanned takeover of the United States. The feared religious group was not Muslims.
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The government is planning a big tourism campaign to run at the same time as the new series screens around the world. Biologist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg made the remarks to Guardian Australia as Tourism Australia “clarified” the purpose of its $1.5m in fu…
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Fans of Lev Grossman’s bestselling Magicians trilogy won’t have to wait until next year to get a good look at what Syfy is doing with their beloved fantasy tomes.
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Nearly 200 governments honing in on a deal to fight climate change have set lofty aspirations for protecting vulnerable countries from rising seas, but delegates said there were still gaps in the latest draft of an agreement.
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Pentagon Insiders: ISIS War Plan is ‘Not Working’ – The Daily Beast
The Obama administration’s strategy against the self-proclaimed Islamic State is facing increasing skepticism, not only on Capitol Hill, but also in the halls of the Pentagon. From Iraq to Washington, there are quiet murmurs within from those in uni…
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Cheetahs migrated from North America to Africa 100,000 years ago | World news | The Guardian
Cheetahs, widely known as fleet-footed inhabitants of the African savannahs, started a rather slower journey around 100,000 years ago when they migrated from North America, according to new research.
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But I think he casts it a bit too narrowly.
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The bright spots on Ceres are made of salt, researchers say | The Verge
We’ve been wondering about those bright, white spots on the dwarf planet Ceres ever since the Dawn spacecraft arrived there in March. Speculation was all over the map: many people’s gut reaction said water ice, others fantasized about ice volcanoes …
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Some e-cigarettes contain chemicals that cause “popcorn lung” – Vox
Ever since e-cigarettes came onto the market in 2004, researchers have wondered and debated whether these devices might contain chemicals that lead to lung diseases or cancer.
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Baltimore officer testifies he thought Gray case was not hurt – BBC News
A Baltimore police officer facing trial over a death in custody has testified he did not think the man was hurt until he arrived lifeless at the station.William Porter, charged with manslaughter, said he did not call for a medic for Freddie Gray bec…
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It was always heading in this direction. After the Kardashian-blocking app and the Star Wars spoiler-blocking app, it was inevitable that someone would figure out a way to filter out mentions of Donald Trump from the online experience.
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The SAG awards nominees include Mad Men and a blacklisted man · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As The A.V. Club continues to roll out its picks for best of, well, everything, it should be noted that there are other institutions out there getting ready to deploy their superlatives, some of which even do so in a fancy ceremony with group selfie…
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The NFL Coach Family Tree – WSJ.com
Marty Schottenheimer Worked under : 4 Worked Over : 12 2nd-degree Connections : 19 No coach has more first-degree connections than Marty Schottenheimer. (And this doesn’t even include his time as a head coach in the short-lived United Football Leagu…
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A Supreme Court Justice Just Said Most Black Scientists Come From ‘Lesser Schools’ | VICE News
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an affirmative action case with potential nationwide implications on Wednesday, and Justice Antonin Scalia kicked up a shitstorm by suggesting that affirmative action works against black students by helping …
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Midday open thread: Anti-Muslim incidents on the rise; Vermont utility to offer free Tesla Powerwall
TIME said this about their choice: “Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow.
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Why Can’t Anyone Agree On The Definition Of ‘Domestic Terrorism’? | ThinkProgress
After last month’s attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado left three people dead and nine more wounded, information about the suspect’s anti-abortion ideology quickly emerged.
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Swarm Now Lets You Spend Those Coins On Upgraded Stickers | TechCrunch
Remember when Swarm launched coins? While the reward for checking in was entertaining, the coins had no real use other than providing a measurement by which to rank you on the weekly leaderboard. Today, however, that changes.
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Copyright case over “Happy Birthday” is over, trial canceled | Ars Technica
With less than a week to go before a trial, a class-action lawsuit over the copyright status of “Happy Birthday” has been resolved. Details of the settlement, including what kind of uses will be allowed going forward, are not clear.
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When a Chief Justice Declared That Women Make Better Secretaries – The Atlantic
In September 1966, a Florida woman named Ida Phillips drove to a missile plant in Orlando to apply for a job on the assembly line. It paid more than double what she was making as a waitress, and she had seven kids to support.
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Japan at Venus: Photos from the Akatsuki Spacecraft’s Mission
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What We Can Learn from the Frantic Media Response to San Bernardino | Vanity Fair
You had to witness it from the very start to comprehend the fervor of it: televised reports of a mass shooting at a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California, by two “figures” in “black combat gear and masks,” which had ultimately left 1…
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Gun Rights Group Plans Mock Mass Shooting On College Campus | ThinkProgress
After a spate of mass shootings that killed more than a dozen people, a pro-gun group that advocates for the right to openly carry firearms is planning to stage a mock mass shooting at the University of Texas campus on Saturday.
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The First Test Tube Puppies Have Been Born | Motherboard
Earlier this summer, a pregnant beagle gave birth to seven adorable puppies—three females and four males. Five of the puppies were sired by another Beagle, but the two remaining puppies were sired by a Cocker Spaniel. And the mother? Another dog ent…
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After just one day, a petition calling on British Parliamentarians to ban Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom has nearly 300,000 signatories. That’s almost triple the number needed for Parliament to consider the matter for debate.
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J.J. Abrams Told Us the Origin Story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars is something that’s so special to so many people, that the mere idea of actually creating something new and fresh in that universe would be daunting. And yet, that’s what J.J. Abrams did with The Force Awakens.
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Peek Inside New York City’s Merriest Holiday Windows | Vanity Fair
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Meet the 20-Somethings Who Have Been Tracking the Paris Climate Talks in a Google Doc | VICE News
As diplomats meeting just outside of Paris try to hammer out a global plan to tackle climate change, two youth delegates from New Zealand have taken it upon themselves to help keep the world informed about the negotiations.
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The UN and human rights groups have called for Jordan to allow 12,000 stranded Syrian refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war to enter the country, amid deteriorating conditions along the border between the two states.
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Why treat gene editing differently in two types of human cells? – h+ Mediah+ Media
At the conclusion of the recent International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC, its organizing committee released a much-anticipated statement recommending how human genetic engineering should be regulated.
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Super Bowl 100: Can we improve concussion problem in future? – NFL – SI.com
If football is going to exist in 50 years, we are going to need to solve the problem of brain trauma. Five high school players have died this year from head injuries.
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What are the most visited tourist attractions in cities around the world? — Hopes&Fears
With more holidays approaching, families won’t all celebrate at home, like a Norman Rockwell painting. Hordes are hopping onto planes, trains and buses to play tourist all over the world, using breaks from daily obligations to relax on a beach or ch…
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How to Make 3D Printed Stuff Without Owning a 3D Printer
3D printing is really friggin’ cool, but promises that we’d all have one in our homes by now have turned out to be less than true. Fortunately, you don’t need one of your own to bring your imaginary creations to life.
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Augmented Reality Company Magic Leap Raising $827 Million | TechCrunch
According to a report by Forbes, the under-the-radar but much discussed startup is raising a $827 million C round of funding. This brings Magic Leap’s funding to around $1.4 billion.
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Why we need a new operating system for work / Boing Boing
Marina Gorbis, executive director at Institute for the Future where I’m a researcher, is in Washington DC at a U.S. Department of Labor Symposium where they’re talking about the on-demand economy and digital platforms for work.
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These Are Apple’s Top 25 Favorite iOS Apps Of The Year | TechCrunch
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Fisher v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s big affirmative action case, explained – Vox
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case Wednesday that could gut race-based affirmative action at American universities — a case it’s now hearing for the second time. The Court first heard Fisher v.
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Kellogg Is Finally Tackling Its Biggest Business Risk—Climate Change | New Republic
Kellogg is finally addressing its soggy record on tackling climate change. The cereal giant on Tuesday announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 65 percent by 2050, and to help its suppliers slash theirs 50 percent.
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Koch Brothers Get Each Other Same Election For Christmas – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WICHITA, KS—Chuckling and shaking their heads as they described their annual family gift exchange to reporters, Koch Industries executives Charles and David Koch confirmed Wednesday they had unwittingly gotten each other the same election for Christ…
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Mexico approves first vaccine against dengue virus | World news | The Guardian
Mexican health authorities have approved the first vaccine to gain official acceptance for use against the dengue virus, which infects about 100 million people every year, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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The Screen Actors Guild nominated 38 people for its top prize. Only 6 were women. – Vox
Nominations for the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced early on Wednesday, December 9.
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Martin Freeman over on Fargo isn’t the only Season 1 character to make a triumphant return to an FX show. Sarah Paulson will reprise her Season 1 American Horror Story role during this season’s finale. That’s right, Paulson will be playing two chara…
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Jeb Bush is not going to be the Republican nominee, so it’s somewhat unfortunate that the invaluable Tax Policy Center chose to make his proposals the subject of its first analysis of candidate tax plans.
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Scared, dead, relieved: How the Ashley Madison hack changed its victims’ lives | Fusion
Over the past few months, Mark has gotten fairly intimate with the feeling of paranoia. On August 18, his name appeared among millions of others outed as members of the adultery dating website Ashley Madison. Four months later, his wife still has no…
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California attack suspects ‘radicalised before dating’ – Al Jazeera English
The husband and wife, who killed 14 people in an attack on a party in San Bernardino, California, were radicalised before they started dating online, according to FBI Director James Comey. We believe they [attackers] were inspired by foreign terror …
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How the White House Pastry Chef Built a 500 Lb. Gingerbread House – Bon Appétit
This year, the epic White House holiday decorations, overseen by First Lady Michelle Obama, include a 475 lb. dark-chocolate covered gingerbread house that’s been in the works since January—that’s right, 11 months.
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Ask How the Company Supports Your Top Values at the End of the Interview
“Do you have any questions?” is the job interview question that’s always asked. If you want to make sure the job is the perfect fit for you, ask this one question about your core values.
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High school basketball player hits full-court shot to win game – video | Sport | The Guardian
A high school basketball player from Austin, Minnesota, sank a miraculous full-court shot – at the buzzer – to win the game. The Austin Packers were down 55-53 against the Northfield Raiders when junior forward Oman Oman launched the shot with just …
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Inside the mind of an intrepid record collector / Boing Boing
Josh Rosenthal is the cratedigger and DIY musicologist behind such fantastic collections as the Grammy-nominated “He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes,” “Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard : Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music : 1923…
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Ted Cruz Attacks Climate Science As Paris Climate Talks Unfold – The Atlantic
Ted Cruz doesn’t believe in man-made climate change or the science behind it. So while diplomats in Paris attempt to negotiate an international deal to fight global warming, Cruz is in Washington railing against mainstream climate science and “parti…
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Get the essential data mastery bundle for 94% off in our store / Boing Boing
From the fundamentals – like learning the MySQL language- to utilizing today’s top technologies like MongoDB, this bundle is the best thing you can do for your career. Big data is an extremely hot topic, and understanding it from front to back will …
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Poisoned lions and the fight for land around the Maasai Mara – 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. The lions, from the famous Marsh pride, were featured on BBC wildlife programme Big Cat Diary.
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Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric: that “crap” won’t work in the US – Vox
Bernie Sanders is not having any of Donald Trump’s racist political posturing. That sort of political scapegoating has earned Trump a whole host of unflattering comparisons to nativist politicians of bygone eras. He’s been compared to the notoriousl…
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The Only Question Clinton and Sanders Need to Answer | New Republic
Every day this week, Hillary Clinton has put out a plan of action for some aspect of domestic policy.
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The number of black students on US college campuses could “plummet”, the supreme court was warned on Wednesday, as it gave a sympathetic hearing to a white student who claims she was deprived of a place at the University of Texas due to her race.
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White fossil was ‘Moby Dick’ of the ancient sea – BBC News
In Hollywood’s version of the events that inspired the classic novel Moby Dick, a giant sperm whale terrorises the crew of a whaling ship and eventually destroys the vessel.
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How Paul Ryan Aids and Abets Donald Trump | The Nation
Paul Ryan is supposed to be the responsible adult in a room full of immature and belligerent Republicans.
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The moral character of cryptographic work / Boing Boing
Phillip Rogaway, an eminent computer scientist and cryptographer at UC Davis, has made a stir in information security circles with a long, thoughtful paper called The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work.
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Timeline: Donald Trump has been getting called racist since 1973 – Vox
Five months into his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has started using race to attack his opponents: emphasizing the allegedly violent past and “pathological temper” of Ben Carson and saying that Marco Rubio “supports amnesty” because he’s Hispa…
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Why is Islamophobia worse now than just after 9/11? A researcher explains. – Vox
Donald Trump is running the most anti-Muslim presidential campaign in American history. First he called for shutting down mosques. Then for registering Muslims in a national database.
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How does the Every Student Succeeds Act reverse the course of K-12 education in the United States? The headlines say it all: It “Restores Local Education Control.” It “continues a long federal retreat from American classrooms.” It “shifts power to s…
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How Donald Trump Destroyed the Political Campaign Ad – The Daily Beast
Less than two months before the first votes are cast in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the 2016 race has already shattered any number of political axioms.
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Anger over threat of VAT hike on renewable energy | Business | The Guardian
The government has shocked the renewable energy industry by proposing a massive hike in VAT on solar panels and wind turbines from next summer.
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian accused of knife attack – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, West Bank – Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian youth in Hebron following an alleged attack on an Israeli settler and soldier in the city’s historic centre.
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India and Pakistan agree to resume high-level peace talks – BBC News
India and Pakistan have agreed to resume high-level peace talks which stalled in 2012. The agreement was announced at a regional conference in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
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Why Does McDonald’s Hate the Minnesota Vikings? | Rolling Stone
McDonald’s might want to reconsider its marketing strategy in Minnesota. Because right now, not even all the anytime breakfast in the world can assuage vexed Vikings fans.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Titan [940×940]
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Teens Jailed For Wearing Saggy Pants – The Daily Beast
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We Finally Have the Full Story on Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots
Water ice from a subterranean ocean? Giant salt deposits from an alien mining operation? Since March, dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots have mystified scientists, dazzled space nerds, and sparked all manner of wild speculation.
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On a chilly day in Toronto, Michael Mesure, executive director of a local bird conservation group, leads me up several flights of stairs in City Hall. We walk down a hallway and there stands a large, white chest—a freezer—with a lid straining to clo…
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IBM Suggests Women Are Mostly Interested In Hacking Hairdryers, Gets Blowback | ThinkProgress
Software giant IBM apologized this week after inadvertently insulting women engineers in what was supposed to be a campaign to recruit more women. The company aired a commercial in early October starring a woman inventor hacking a hair dryer.
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Flickr Comes To Gear VR With 360 Degree Photo Viewing Experience | TechCrunch
Flickr’s 15 billion photos are there for our consumption at any time, but beyond seeing static photos there hasn’t been much of an experience upgrade over the years for diving into the world around you. Today, Yahoo has announced a new Flickr experi…
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Senate Science Committee hearing challenges “dogma” of climate science | Ars Technica
While the eyes of the world are on Paris, where nations are hammering out an agreement to do something about the reality of climate change, the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness once again held a hearing on Tuesday to debate…
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In the Heart of the Sea reimagines Moby Dick as a dull prestige drama | The Verge
Say what you want about 2015’s prestige-movie season, at least the movies haven’t lacked individual identities. November and December usually feature a parade of miserabilist historical dramas, shot with tasteful reserve and some guaranteed uplift a…
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Pebble launches beta test for Timeline software on older watches | The Verge
When Pebble launched its new line of smartwatches earlier this year, it also completely redesigned its software interface to make it easier to see what’s coming up and what just happened in your life.
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Most shocking true crimes of 2015 and other holiday delights in the tabloids / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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Unpregnant: The silent, secret grief of miscarriage – The Globe and Mail
When she miscarried in her mid-30s, Alexandra Kimball felt profoundly alone: abandoned by a feminist movement that didn’t recognize her loss, accused by conventional wisdom of waiting too long to conceive, and deprived by society of the rituals that…
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We Still Might Get A Live-Action Star Wars TV Series
When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, the company prematurely ended plans for two major projects—Star Wars: Underworld, a live-action TV show, and the video game Star Wars 1313, both of which would’ve followed the seedy underworld of Coruscant.
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Uber’s first spinoff app is a food delivery service in Toronto | The Verge
Uber is getting serious about the food delivery business. According to Wired, the ride-hailing company is launching a stand-alone version of its UberEats feature, in which Uber drivers deliver food from trendy restaurants. But the app is only availa…
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Are Australia’s gun laws the solution for the US? – BBC News
Those were the words of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard before he radically changed Australia’s gun laws and – many believe – rid the country of gun violence on a large scale.
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Paul McCartney wrote a simply rotten “Christmastime” · 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. For two guys who wrote a lot of great music, John Lennon and Paul McCartney could churn out some awful concoctions separately.
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The drug war divides friendly border towns in an elegiac documentary · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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Google Play Music’s Family Plan Is Finally Rolling Out
Google announced a family subscription plan for Google Play Music a few months ago, but the option to sign up is just starting to roll out. Soon you’ll be able to share Play Music (and YouTube Red) with five other people. The plan costs $14.
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Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong In “Slower” Colleges | Mother Jones
During oral arguments in a pivotal affirmative action case on Wednesday morning, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia raised the suggestion that African American students might belong at less rigorous schools than their white peers and that perhaps …
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This man stared at the Mona Lisa for 10 years and then it told him its secrets | The Verge
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is irrefutably the most famous painting in existence, and with fame often comes controversy, suspicion, conspiracy. That’s why French scientist Pascal Cotte has been staring at the Mona Lisa for 10 years, trying to dig…
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“Smells Like Adele,” the latest mashup from DJ Cummerbund, starts off feeling like a pretty straight ahead combination of Adele’s colossal megahit “Hello” and the now classic rock radio-eligible “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The combination works admir…
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FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data | US news | The Guardian
FBI director James Comey called on tech companies to create backdoor access to their users’ data on Wednesday, arguing it was necessary to tackle everything from terrorism to child kidnapping.
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The occult meets cult TV with these damn fine ‘Twin Peaks’ tarot cards!|Dangerous Minds
Well what do we have here? Benjamin Mackey, an artist over at Society 6 had the good sense to create a line of Tarot card-style mini-art pieces based on the 1990 cult television series, Twin Peaks.
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U.S. pledges more money to help clear the way for a climate deal in Paris | Grist
John Kerry promised $861 million in aid to countries on the frontlines of climate change. The U.N. negotiations aren’t even discussing ways to keep oil, gas, and coal from being extracted, and that’s a huge missed opportunity.
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Orangutan finds magic trick hilarious – video | World news | The Guardian
An orangutan at an animal sanctuary watches a member of the public perform a magic trick. The man shows the ape that he is placing something into a cup, and after a nifty sleight of hand, he then reveals the cup has nothing in it.
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Flooding: ‘Up here in the north-east, we’re just forgotten about’ | UK news | The Guardian
“There’s been so much on the TV about Cumbria and the north-west – but what about us?” asked Andy Feeley as he helped his brother Ian clear his ruined house in the pretty town of Corbridge, Northumberland.
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The Fascinating History of the NYC Fire Station That Starred in Ghostbusters
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! But where ya gonna call them? At their iconic firehouse headquarters, of course. In the film, the spook chasers’ firehouse is as much of an iconic piece of the action as the Ecto-1 car or their homemade proton packs.
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Are Food Deserts to Blame for America’s Poor Eating Habits? Cont’d – The Atlantic
Marc Ambinder’s May 2010 cover story
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Here’s the teaser trailer for the Spielberg-directed adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG. Hmm. (via the slick new trailer town)
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Teens Jailed For Wearing Saggy Pants – The Daily Beast
Two Tennessee high-schoolers were thrown in jail for wearing saggy pants to school, according to local reports.
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Congress Has a Plan to Achieve 100 Percent Clean and Renewable Energy by 2050 | The Nation
World leaders from over 190 countries are meeting right now in Paris to develop global plans to reduce carbon emissions and overcome the threat of climate change. With 2015 shaping up to be the hottest year ever recorded, these talks are more urgent…
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Apologizes for Laquan McDonald’s Death – The Atlantic
First, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to bury the video of Laquan McDonald’s shooting. Then he stalled, successfully pushing it past the April election where he won a second term. Then he tried some more to bury it. When he lost that battle and th…
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Microsoft’s Cortana Is Now Available for iPhone, But Siri Is More Capable | Motherboard
Microsoft has made good on its promise to bring Cortana, its digital assistant software, to the iPhone.
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Obama’s Favorite Song of 2015: Kendrick Lamar’s ‘How Much a Dollar Cost’ – The Daily Beast
Kendrick Lamar’s earth-shattering 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly may have earned him 11 Grammy nominations, but here’s another accolade of which the rapper can boast: President Obama named one of Lamar’s songs as his favorite of 2015.
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Venus From the International Space Station | NASA
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CDC Gives U.S. an F for Sex Ed – The Daily Beast
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These Protesters Want Mexican Police Prosecuted for Being Generally Terrible | VICE News
On November 20, 2014 Hugo Bautista and his girlfriend Tania Damian joined a massive protest against the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Wendy Davis: Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas – POLITICO Magazine
I am a lifelong Democrat. I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA. And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state. It is a position that haunts me.
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Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria | Motherboard
Anatoli Brouchkov is a soft-spoken guy with silver hair, and when he lets out a reserved chuckle, his eyes light up like he was belly laughing. If you met him on the street, you’d never guess that he once injected himself with a 3.
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Bald eagle dislikes Donald Trump / Boing Boing
Auralnaut’s “Darth Trump” used “100% all natural Trump sound bites” to make this excellent short film. #DonaldTrump advocates closing up the Internet 2 stop the process of thought/free speech. So Communist China-like. pic.twitter.
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Turkish-russian War of Words Beyond Downed Plane | Al Jazeera America
Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet last month near the Turkish-Syrian border has led to a widening war of words between the erstwhile friendly countries, and added yet another dangerous wrinkle to the unresolved Syrian civil war.
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Bernie Sanders On Climate Change: ‘We Are On A Suicidal Course’ https://t.co/ram5jDtdlG https://t.co/TuTqpdkNt6
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There was very little suspense animating the crowd gathered to hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that could potentially end affirmative action in public university admissions. Only a smattering of protesters rallied outsid…
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New Google Apps Feature Helps Businesses Keep Sensitive Information Out Of Emails | TechCrunch
Google is launching a new privacy tool for Google Apps Unlimited users today.
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Browns coach Mike Pettine acknowledged on Wednesday that the team did not appreciate the extent of Johnny Manziel’s off-field problems when they signed him – but said “the repercussions would be harsh” if Manziel errs again.
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During oral arguments on a case that may eliminate race conscious affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia said that “most of the black scientists in this country do not come from the most advanced schools” and added that black students do better …
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Explanation for Ceres’ mystery bright spots – BBC News
It has been the big Solar System mystery of 2015 – what are the bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter? Scientists think they now have some answers.
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Three jailed over France ‘train attack bluff’ – BBC News
Three men in France have been jailed for faking a terror threat on a train to steal passengers’ phones – only five days after the Paris attacks. The group was travelling between Beziers and Perpignan in the southern Pyrenees region when they command…
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President Obama Reveals His Favorite 2015 Film | Vanity Fair
Just as the SAG nominations were rolling in on Wednesday morning, President Obama offered up his own two cents in the awards-season arena, naming his favorite film of 2015.
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CDC Gives U.S. an F for Sex Ed – The Daily Beast
There’s no nice way to put this: Sex education in the United States sucks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data today showing that fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16 sex …
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House Votes To Ban Tiny Plastic Microbeads That Are Polluting Waterways | ThinkProgress
Dangerous microbeads found in cosmetics and hygiene products like toothpaste and body wash could soon be a thing of the past in the United States. The House of Representatives voted this week to ban these tiny plastics, leaving it now up to the Sena…
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Trapped Between Murder and Repression: Life as an Atheist Blogger in Bangladesh | VICE News
Asif Mohiuddin was leaving his office in a northern suburb of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka when a group of knife-wielding men set upon him and stabbed him nine times.
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On Wednesday afternoon at the massive global climate summit in Paris, diplomats unveiled a new draft [PDF] of the document they hope will save the world from global warming.
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Here’s How Much of Alaska’s Permafrost Could Melt – Scientific American
Up to a quarter of the permafrost that lies just under the ground surface in Alaska could thaw by the end of the century, releasing long-trapped carbon that could make its way into the atmosphere and exacerbate global warming, a new study finds.
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First Look at the New Tarzan Movie, Starring Alexander Skarsgård’s Abs
The first images and poster from July’s big budget Tarzan film The Legend of Tarzan are here and while they’re trying to sell a new era of the classic character, it’s hard to not just stare at Alexander Skarsgård’s abs. I mean, come on.
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Hello Tokyo! is jam-packed with Tokyo-inspired images, ideas and fun craft projects / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Born in Australia, Ebony Bizys made the move to Tokyo five years ago and hasn’t looked back since.
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One quarter of Alaska permafrost could melt by 2100 – US Geological Survey | US news | The Guardian
Up to a quarter of the permafrost that lies underneath the surface of Alaska could melt by the end of the century, spewing long-held carbon into the atmosphere and helping accelerate climate change, US government scientists have predicted.
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San Bernardino shooters both radicalized before they began dating – video | US news | The Guardian
FBI director James Comey testified at a Senate committee hearing that the San Bernardino shooters were radicalized before they met online and spoke of jihad to each other as early as late 2013.
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Improve the Apple remote with a purple rubber band / Boing Boing
Emptystate.es celebrates “Empty States,” those moments in a user’s app experience where there’s no data to display yet, or an error has occurred.
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How to Apply George Kennan’s Cold War ‘Containment’ Strategy to ISIS – The Atlantic
The West can defeat the Islamic State in the territory it now controls. But it would take a massive ground invasion, and the results would be temporary at best.
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Good news: The kickstarter-funded “Geek Girl” comic anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is getting worldwide distribution through Dark Horse.
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2015: The Year in Photos, May-August – The Atlantic
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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The decision by the scandal-hit IAAF to award the 2021 World Athletics Championships to the American city of Eugene is being investigated by French prosecutors, the BBC has learned. Eugene, closely linked to sportswear giant Nike, was given the even…
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Chris Young Sings ‘Comin’ Over’ on ‘Ellen,’ Reschedules Shows | Rolling Stone
Chris Young Sings ‘Comin’ Over’ on ‘Ellen,’ Reschedules Shows Performance of Number One hit followed a bout with strep throat
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Amazon will release all of the Mad Dogs in January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in February, Amazon Studios picked up an adaptation of a U.K. series about four men-of-a-certain-age friends who get caught up in a murder mystery while on vacation in Belize.
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Bernie Sanders On Climate Change: ‘We Are On A Suicidal Course’ : politics
Not really, Carbon Emissions are going down globally, Scientists are broadly positive about the changes and nuclear is making a comeback while coal and dirty energy is getting less of the global share. Sanders is just fear mongering.
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Enrique Marquez, Buyer of Guns Used in San Bernardino Attack, Is Studied https://t.co/I5RKLWOdpA https://t.co/lXbkDnDi8Z
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The Media Is Locked in a Disgusting Human Centipede with Donald Trump
In my year-plus working for Village Voice, the New York-based alternative weekly, there were painfully slow news days, or days when the news cycle wasn’t directly tied to the city.
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In the Battle of Ears Vs. Eyes, Who Wins?
Two well-documented sensory biases enter. One entirely new sensory bias leaves. This is what happens when researchers pit your eyes against your ears to see which one you’ll believe. Sit a test subject down in front of a row of five speakers and pla…
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Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton is the second-most-covered candidate, at 113 minutes. Two other things stand out: First, Vice President Joe Biden, who flirted with a run but ultimately stayed out of the Democratic race, got far more coverage (56…
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Can anyone truly explain that thing called the soul patch? It’s a patch of hair below the lip — and its origins only make its story more tragic: The soul patch’s story is, at heart, one of a great cultural shift in the 20th century.
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News | New Clues to Ceres’ Bright Spots and Origins
Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. They include highly anticipated insights about mysterious bright features found all over the dwarf planet’s surface.
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Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books will be perfect for television | Books | The Guardian
The quest to find television’s science fiction answer to Game of Thrones might have finally come to end: Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic Mars trilogy is arrives on screens in 2017, reports Variety.
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Microsoft open sources Live Writer, beloved but abandoned blogging tool | Ars Technica
Another day, another “Microsoft open sources something” story. At the weekend it was the Chakra JavaScript engine. This time, it’s Live Writer, the blogging tool that provides offline, WYSIWYG editing of blog posts, and can publish directly to WordP…
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Major department store chain in Middle East drops Trump Home products | World news | The Guardian
US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim comments cost him business in the Middle East on Wednesday, with a major chain of department stores halting sales of his glitzy “Trump Home” line of lamps, mirrors and jewellery boxes.
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Nobody ever claimed that the Italians were prone to stinting on style, and you can see ample evidence of the country’s flair for both in Rome’s retail mecca for discount clothing and a recent documentary celebrating the store’s unique status and pop…
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Everybody Makes Their Choices In a Stone Crazy Agents of SHIELD Episode
Last night was the midseason finale of Agents of SHIELD, and it put a pretty definitive capstone on the “alien planet” storyline as well as the ATCU storyline. Most importantly, it gave a few of our main characters some defining choices, which turne…
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Mexico to get world’s first dengue fever vaccine – BBC News
Mexico has approved the use of the world’s first vaccine against dengue fever, the health ministry announced. The deadliest form of the mosquito-borne disease kills 22,000 people per year, according to the World Health Organisation.
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South African rapper Flabba murdered by girlfriend – BBC News
The former girlfriend of South African rapper Nkululeko Habedi, known as Flabba, has been found guilty of his murder. Prosecutors said Sindisiwe Manqele was jealous of seeing him talking to an ex-lover and stabbed him through the chest after a heate…
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Woman behind petition to ban Trump from UK ‘shocked’ by support | UK news | The Guardian
Suzanne Kelly, a campaigner from Aberdeen whose petition to ban Donald Trump from the UK on the grounds of hate-speech has acted as a lightning rod for public disgust at the US presidential candidate’s Islamophobia, has said she is “as shocked as an…
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Mystery Solved? Ceres’ Bright Spots Likely Made of Salt
The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres may be composed of the same basic stuff that makes a foot bath feel so good, a new study reports.
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What Are Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Bright Spots? Data Animation
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Migrant crisis: Greece removes 2,300 from Macedonia border – BBC News
Greek police have transferred some 2,300 foreign migrants stranded for weeks at a border crossing with Macedonia to the capital, Athens. Some will be housed in temporary camps at two former Olympic stadiums.
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Many Americans Are Online Almost Constantly – The Atlantic
What does it mean to “go online,” anymore? A huge number of people are there, wherever there is, pretty much all the time.
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Virgin Galactic’s ‘Cosmic Girl’ Jet Will Launch Satellites
Virgin Galactic will launch small satellites to space beneath the belly of a Boeing 747 jet nicknamed “Cosmic Girl,” company representatives have announced. Cosmic Girl is no stranger to the Virgin family, coming to Virgin Galactic from its sister c…
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While Kelly Clarkson’s Game of Thrones–themed family Christmas card may not earn full marks for accuracy (there’s no plaid in Westeros!), we have to give her credit for really going for it.
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Treasure on Sunken Spanish Galleon Could Be Biggest Ever
An early 18th-century Spanish ship that could contain treasures of gold, silver, and jewels is becoming an object of contention as Colombia, Spain, and a U.S.-based salvage company try to sort out who owns the ship’s immense wealth.
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An important reminder: Republican presidential candidates don’t just hate Muslims
While the vile bigotry against Muslims by the Republican Party’s contenders for the 2016 presidential nomination has been front and center of late, a gentle reminder: they’re still hating on equality and civil rights for the LGBT community too.
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So read one post on a message board for the Berkeley Parents Network—an online forum for people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — As federal officials scour the backgrounds of the couple who went on a terrorist rampage here last week, they are looking carefully at Enrique Marquez, a childhood friend and relation by marriage of the husband, Syed Rizwan Faroo…
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Nothing’s Gonna Stop Him Now: Why The GOP Can’t Derail Donald Trump : politics
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We Finally Have the Full Story on Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots
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Insider El Salvador’s Jails (Excerpt from ‘Gangs of El Salvador’) | VICE News
El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest homicide rate in the world. By the end of September 2015, there had been around 5,000 murders this year, in a country with a population of just over six million.
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Canada Is Talking Tough on Climate But Don’t Expect the Oil Sands to Shut Down | VICE News
Canada made a big commitment at the COP21 that should spell disaster for the oil sands. Last week, the country’s environment and climate change minister endorsed a 1.
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The Absurdly Complete History of Animals Parachuting From the Sky | Atlas Obscura
Dog mascot – complete with uniform and wings – of VS-1, D7, Naval Air Station in Florida, 1943. (Photo: National Museum of the US Navy/flickr) Sometimes, to save a beaver, you have to throw it out of a plane.
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How American Jews Ruined Hanukkah – The Atlantic
As far as holidays go, Hanukkah sucks. Contrary to the popular public-school-kid myth, eight days of presents doesn’t mean the holiday is super-Christmas; it means the presents are lamer, a proliferation of crap. Dreidl is a terrible game that requi…
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Ceres is Cloudy, with a Chance of Cryovolcanoes – Scientific American
Even a dwarf planet can harbor big surprises. Ever since it was discovered floating between Mars and Jupiter 1801, Ceres has perplexed astronomers and defied easy categorization.
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This is the worst smell in the world / Boing Boing
Liquid ASS is described as smelling like a fine combination of “butt crack, kind of a sewer smell with a hint of dead animal.” It is arguably the worst smell in the world. High school prankster Allen Wittman invented it man years ago from ingredient…
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Veterans To Receive First Penis Transplants In U.S. – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following the success of such surgeries in South Africa, the first penis transplants will soon be performed in the U.S. on veterans who have sustained genital injuries while on tours of duty, fully replacing their damaged organs with those of deceas…
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Race Matters in College Admissions, Now More Than Ever | New Republic
In a number of recent incidents across the country, black students have expressed how they continue to experience hostility because of their skin color. These students have spoken of their feelings of isolation and disempowerment.
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The teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1982 book, The BFG, nicely taps into that childhood sweet spot between fear and wonder, as young orphan Sophie talks about the approach of the “witching hour,” a time of strange oc…
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By the end of “Truth,” we’re more than two-thirds of the way through this first season of The Man In The High Castle, and there’s never been less of a sense of urgency.
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We Finally Have the Full Story on Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots
Water ice from a subterranean ocean? Giant salt deposits from an alien mining operation? Since March, dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots have mystified scientists, dazzled space nerds, and sparked all manner of wild speculation.
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Stephen Colbert’s Tolkien nerdery put in service of justice · Newswire · The A.V. Club
On last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert put his extreme J.R.R. Tolkien geekery to good use, coming to the defense of a Turkish man who’s in hot water for comparing his country’s president to Gollum from Lord Of The Rings.
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Can The Seahawks Get Back To The Super Bowl? | FiveThirtyEight
The Seattle Seahawks came into 2015 as championship favorites, having put up one of the best two-year runs in NFL history, with a bid for back-to-back titles undone by one of the most shocking twist endings in Super Bowl history. But things went dow…
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FTC settles data breach lawsuit with hotel chain after fight over agency’s powers | The Verge
The FTC has settled a lawsuit with the hotel company Wyndham over a series of data breaches that turned into a major test of the agency’s regulatory power.
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At a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Mark Steyn, a conservative writer and pundit, dismissed the threat of climate change and said that related concerns about national security were “ridiculous.
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NBC’s comedy streaming service SeeSo is launching January 7th | The Verge
Get ready to add another small monthly fee to your media subscription pile: NBC’s stand-alone comedy streaming service SeeSo is opening for business on January 7th. The network’s bid for the hearts of comedy nerds everywhere costs $3.
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FDA approves genetically modified chicken — but not as food | The Verge
Yesterday, the US government approved a genetically modified chicken. Its purpose? To make a drug in its eggs. The drug in question is called Kanuma, reports Nature.
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How Elizabeth Warren Convinced Obama’s Treasury To Aid Fraud Victims : politics
Elizabeth Warren…and three other Democrats. In an Aug. 11 letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Warren and three other lawmakers — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.
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Personally, the media just needs to shut the fuck up about Trump. Ignore him. Stop debating every stupid pile of garbage that comes out of his mouth. Stop giving him free publicity.
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It’s Not Just Trump – “He’s exploiting a market for anti-Muslim bigotry that conservatives have nurtured for more than a decade.” (theatlantic.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Cruz Threatens to Nuke ISIS Targets : politics
He also said we’re going to carpet bomb them, because apparently it’s 1968. About time someone had the balls to say it. We need to level the Middle East.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Titan [940×940] via /r/spaceporn…
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Gun deaths map: How many people have died or been injured in shootings around you?
In relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities has this year joined the ranks of American mass shooting locations.
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MARSHALL, Liberia — It was around 3 in the afternoon when Sherdrick Koffa spotted, in neatly written script, the name on the body bag that he was preparing to set ablaze. It was the name of a classmate. The two grew up together, had played together …
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SantaCon hits New York City’s subway. (Photo: Jason Eppink/flickr) A sea of red and white coats rancorously swarm down thousands of streets. Hundreds of people, dressed as Santa Claus, scream and sing as they drink heavily, form impromptu dance part…
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Who was third Bataclan attacker Foued Mohamed-Aggad? – BBC News
Police in France say they have identified another of the men who killed 130 people in attacks in Paris last month. Reports in French media have named him as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23. He was one of three gunmen who attacked the Bataclan concert venue,…
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The Best, Longest Acronym From the UN Paris Climate Talks – The Atlantic
The United Nations climate-change negotiations do not hide from acronym. No, they sprint toward it, arms stretched, yelling “Take me!” Spend some time reading technical press coverage and you’re sure to encounter IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on…
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Counting police killings in the US: landmark stories that led to change | US news | The Guardian
Since the issue of killings by police officers was thrust on to the national agenda by the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, the US government has been heavily criticised for its deficient systems for counting such incidents.
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Americans Are Worried About Terrorism, And That Could Help The GOP | FiveThirtyEight
The terrorist attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino, California, have reshaped the 2016 presidential campaign: Terrorism is now a top concern.1 All else being equal, that could help the Republican nominee if it continues through November.
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FBI Says San Bernardino Shooters Discussed Jihad Two Years Ago – The Atlantic
The husband and wife who opened fire at a holiday office party in San Bernardino, California, last week had discussed “jihad and martyrdom” as early as 2013, the FBI’s director said Wednesday.
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Senate Votes to Replace ‘No Child Left Behind’ – The Atlantic
Arne Duncan can go home now. The education secretary will return to Chicago next week and leave government at the end of the month, having served longer than all but one of President Obama’s original Cabinet secretaries. (Only Tom Vilsack at the Dep…
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The Batman Comic Is Teasing Big Changes to Its New Status Quo
The last few months have seen some huge changes for Batman. First of all, he’s not even Bruce Wayne—he’s a heavily armored Jim Gordon. Bruce can’t remember being Batman, and arguably doesn’t want to be him again.
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No, drinking soy milk doesn’t cause man boobs – Vox
Welcome to Dear Julia, a weekly column where readers can submit everyday health questions.
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Third Lion Dies from Poisoning in Kenya
The poison attack on lions in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve has claimed a third victim: Alan, a young male lion in the famous Marsh Pride. Saturday’s attack had already claimed the lives of two lions.
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Douglas Tompkins, the Founder of North Face and Esprit, Dies at 72 – The Atlantic
For those with antennae particularly attuned to schadenfreude, the headlines announcing the death of an eccentric-seeming billionaire in a kayaking accident in Chile might present a story that’s impossible to resist.
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Harrison Ford Says Han Solo’s Lines in The Force Awakens Trailers Aren’t What They Seem
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Is it possible to “unsee” something? — Hopes&Fears
Trauma has been known to do strange things to the mind. Whether walking in your parents having sex as a child, or something we can’t as easily laugh off as adults, there are just some things we wish we could un-see.
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Lions Are Being Poisoned in Kenya — And It’s All Because of Land Disputes | VICE News
Around half a dozen lions belonging to the Marsh Pride on the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya became sick on Monday after eating cow carcasses that had been laced with poison — that latest incident in an escalating conflict between herdsman and…
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Blocking the Sun Is No Plan B for Global Warming – Scientific American
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On Saturday, Storm Desmond unleashed upon Kendal some of the worst floods in living memory, as the river Kent burst its banks and water gushed through the streets. By the next morning, the appalling scale of the damage was clear.
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Donald Trump’s troll army may be targeting other Republican politicians | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump isn’t just trolling fellow Republican presidential candidates anymore, he might now be trolling incumbent Republican senators too. The website, http://www.kellyayotte.
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A poetic look at New York’s Penn Station in the 1950s – in pictures | Culture | The Guardian
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WASHINGTON — When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to learn more, he found a virtual community awaiting.
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Encryption and Other Tricks Are Making Malvertising Harder to Hunt | Motherboard
Malvertising—the practice of using adverts to automatically deliver malware en masse—continues to hit some of the biggest sites on the web.
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I painted some Archer shoes : pics
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Everybody knows: FBI won’t confirm or deny buying cyberweapons from Hacking Team / Boing Boing
Back in July, a hacker dumped the emails and other files from Hacking Team, Italy’s notorious cyber-arms dealer. Coincidentally, Vice had recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI, asking if they were buying cyberweapons from …
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Great, weird, and bad examples of Empty States in apps / Boing Boing
Emptystate.es celebrates “Empty States,” those moments in a user’s app experience where there’s no data to display yet, or an error has occurred.
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How to Recognize the Signs of Burnout Before You’re Burned Out
Once you recognize you’re burned out, you can pull yourself back from the ledge, but it’d be best to never get there in the first place. Luckily, the signs are usually right in front of you: you just don’t want to see them, or you’re too busy actual…
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The Big Climate Agreement Won’t Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground | Mother Jones
This story was first published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Sunday, a handful of kayaks gathered on the Bassin de la Villete canal in northeastern Paris, in front of a footbridge hung with banners.
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This Exclusive Boy and the World Clip Looks Like a Trippy Side-Scrolling Video Game
No, you didn’t drop acid and start playing Super Mario Bros. That’s just the unique, beautiful aesthetic of Boy and the World, a new animated film which hits theaters on December 11.
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How Climate Change Will Transform Work | The Nation
The term “green economy” danced around the corridors at the Paris climate talks, evoking visions of electric cars and “clean tech.” But “decarbonization” is a messier story in the Global South.
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Kingsman actress could soon get wrapped up in The Mummy reboot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Universal Pictures certainly has a lot of unusual plans for its reboot of The Mummy: It will reportedly be more “epic action-adventure” than traditional horror film, it might task Tom Cruise with acting in Brendan Fraser’s long shadow, and it could …
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When Planting Trees Hurts the Environment | The Nation
When María Muñoz wasn’t taking care of her 4,000-acre cattle ranch in southeastern Uruguay, she liked to sit on the couch and look out at the high sierra landscape. “You could see hills: Hills and hills and more hills,” her eldest son, Pancho, remem…
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Donald Trump: ‘I will never leave this race’ despite criticism – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will never leave the 2016 race despite increasing calls for him to step aside. The White House said Mr Trump was “disqualified” after he said the US should stop allowing Muslims from enterin…
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‘Daily Show’ Deems Trump ‘White ISIS’ – The Daily Beast
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah needed a little help last night when it came time for him to comment on Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
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How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation | Books | The Guardian
The unwillingness of English-speaking readers to engage with fiction in translation has come in for its fair share of criticism over the years, not least from the director of the Edinburgh book festival, Nick Barley, who described the UK’s parochial…
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Harrison Ford Says Han Solo’s Lines in The Force Awakens Trailers Aren’t What They Seem
When Han Solo declared “Chewie, we’re home” in the second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it brought tears to even most hardened fans. And in another trailer, he thrilled us by declaring, “It’s true, all of it.
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Boris Yeltsin Quietly Challenges Putin – The New Yorker
Russians have long been obsessed with privilege, and with motor vehicles as its symbol. So it stands to reason that the first three major exhibits in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, which opened in Yekaterinburg, in late November, are two pas…
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‘Alien megastructure’ continues to not be aliens in latest study – The Washington Post
Breaking: That thing that scientists suggested could maybe possibly be aliens (but that they said probably wasn’t aliens) continues to not be aliens, as expected. Star KIC 8462852 caused quite a kerfuffle when scientists noted its unusual flicker.
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ESO: Zooming In On a Curious Cosmic Collision https://t.co/N54fWNBDqw https://t.co/HqZkDu0gcc
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A Charlie Brown Christmas can quote the Bible but not feel like it’s preaching – Vox
A Charlie Brown Christmas can quote the Bible but not feel like it’s preaching https://t.co/nMETJxHny0 https://t.co/kWEzjWQ7z9
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Israel’s Netanyahu to Meet With Donald Trump – The Atlantic
A Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Is on the Cards https://t.co/livAoP5Yrm https://t.co/5tkyyuAxRT
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Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump’s Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’ : politics
Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump’s Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’ https://t.co/Dmr6jRKd6i https://t.co/ySEmS7eOZO
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Anthony W. Batts, Baltimore’s police chief, was fired in July when rioting broke out after video footage emerged of the police arresting an African-American man who later died of an injury sustained in police custody. Garry F.
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Filtered extremism: how ISIS supporters use Instagram | The Verge
Last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called ISIS the “most effective recruiter in the world,” and pushed tech companies to help curtail the group’s ability to woo recruits through online videos and social media.
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Look at Saturn’s magnificent moon Titan! / Boing Boing
NASA just released this beautiful composite infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft captured the image last month during its flyby about 6,200 miles above the moon’s surface. From NASA: The view looks toward terrain that is most…
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Top New York Times stories for 2015 ranked by time readers spent looking at them / Boing Boing
Here are the New York Times’ 50 most interesting stories, measured by the total combined time readers have spent looking at them. I haven’t read most of these, so I’m going to bookmark this page. It’s a mix of ambitious investigative projects, big b…
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Digital Wizard hoodie uses LEDs, speakers & accelerometers to “cast spells” / Boing Boing
The $120 Digital Wizard hoodie started out as a 2012 April Fool’s prank, but as with other Thinkgeek April Fools products, it proved so popular that they went ahead and made it.
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Virtually there: the hard reality of the Gear VR | The Verge
How long will it take for headsets to become more than a novelty? Releasing the Gear VR headset the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday in the US was one of the smartest decisions Oculus and Samsung ever made.
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Heavy metal heroes Christmas cards!|Dangerous Minds
If you haven’t sent out your holiday cards yet, might I suggest these nifty metal hero Christmas cards instead? Confuse the Hell out of your relatives with ‘em. Each order contains all three cards with colored envelopes. The watermarks will not appe…
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The FBI’s announcement that it will drastically change its program for recording the number of people killed by the police in the US is a milestone in the 16-month debate about why the American government has failed so badly to monitor this issue of…
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Donald Trump, radicalised London salutes your honesty | Zoe Williams | Opinion | The Guardian
“We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.” It is nice that Donald Trump calls us all a big “we”; you can wait for years for some sol…
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RIAA lawsuit kills Popcorn Time-like free music streaming site | Ars Technica
A music piracy site for the truly lazy that debuted two months ago agreed Wednesday to shut down and to forfeit its domain to the Recording Industry Association of America, which brought a lawsuit that is now being settled.
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Trump attended fundraiser for Irish party accused of supporting terrorism | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump attended a Sinn Féin fundraising dinner in New York just months before the party’s allies in the Provisional IRA ended its ceasefire with a massive terror attack in London’s Canary Wharf district.
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Fun interactive guide to 10 years of music / Boing Boing
From Coachella 2008. When fans over the years previously posted this video from Coachella 2008, Prince sent DMCA takedown notices. But when Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was asked about the matter, he responded: “Really? He’s blocked it? Well, tell him to …
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European Commission resurrects an unkillable stupid: the link tax / Boing Boing
Meghan writes, “You’ve probably never been kept awake at night worrying about a European Commission communication. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be.
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Encyclopedias Are Time Capsules – The Atlantic
Long before Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica there was Pliny the Elder: a first-century Roman soldier, a statesman, and a voracious scholar. His assistants read to him while he ate dinner, while he bathed, and while he sunbathed. All the while, …
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Why the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Insists That Its Models Are Athletes – The Atlantic
“It feels like we’re training for the Olympics,” a model confided during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show on Tuesday evening. She was not being ironic.
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What We’re Following on Wednesday Afternoon, 12/9 – The Atlantic
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Turkey PM accuses Russia of wanting ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Syria – BBC News
Turkey’s prime minister has accused Russia of attempting “ethnic cleansing” with its air strikes in northern Syria. Ahmet Davutoglu said Russia’s campaign had targeted Turkmen and Sunni communities around the Latakia region.
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On Christmas Eve 2005, Jeff Schaffer kept sneaking away from dinner with his wife Jackie—telling her that he was getting sick from the food—just so that he could find out the score to his fantasy football championship game.
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Mysterious famous Japanese actress dies / Boing Boing
Setsuko Hara. It’s unlikely you’ve heard her name or seen any of her numerous films, yet she was the muse of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers: Japan’s Yasujiro Ozu.
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Attack floods Internet root servers with 5 million queries a second | Ars Technica
Early last week, one of the most vital organs of the Internet anatomy came under an unusual attack.
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Being a Girl: A Brief Personal History of Violence : Longreads Blog
When I am fourteen my classmate’s mother is killed by her boyfriend. He stabs her to death. In the newspaper they call it a crime of passion. When she comes back to school, she doesn’t talk about it.
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Ozzy Osbourne: People ‘Aren’t Interested’ in New Black Sabbath Album | Rolling Stone
Ozzy Osbourne: People ‘Aren’t Interested’ in New Black Sabbath Album “We want to end it on a high note,” metal icon says of canceling second comeback LP
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How To Duck Social Obligations With Class
The holiday season is fully upon us. This means that by now you’ll have likely been bombarded with invites to seasonal parties and themed dinners and social get togethers.
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CODE2040 Snags $1.2 Million To Double The Size Of Its Diversity In Tech Programs | TechCrunch
The Knight Foundation is supporting non-profit organization CODE2040 with $1.2 million, the foundation announced on its blog this morning.
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Google’s best logo has no Google in it | The Verge
Google Ventures, the fund started in 2009 to invest in emerging technologies and companies, has introduced a new logo this week and, well, it’s the sharpest and best-looking logo in Google’s history.
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Massachusetts Could Force State Prisoners To Pay Room And Board | ThinkProgress
It takes a lot of money and resources for prisons and jails to run as smoothly as possible. Administrators have to cover the costs of food, beds, healthcare, inmate programming, employee salaries and benefits, security, and maintenance.
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This week we’re barely putting up with Obama on Running Wild · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
The surprisingly fun, deliciously campy Krampus. It’s the Christmas horror-comedy you didn’t know you wanted! The return of Top Chef. So far, season 13 is entertaining enough to almost excuse use of the word “cheftestants.” Almost.
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Why This Socialist Feminist Is for Hillary | The Nation
At first glance, you’d likely guess that I would proudly don a “Feel the Bern” t-shirt and make a generous donation to the democratic socialist firing up the Democratic Party.
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Introducing the 2015 Carnegie Medal Recipients | Vanity Fair
You hear a lot these days about the coming “new golden age” in American philanthropy. Members of Gen X and Gen Y—some of them billionaires by their own efforts, the rest of them about to inherit $40 trillion from baby-boom parents—are said to be loo…
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Not even I would eat a dolphin | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
There’s been no end of speculation about the palaeolithic diet, and most of it is nonsense. There’s a simpler description of what our ancient ancestors were likely to have eaten than the precise diets on which various mountebanks insist: whatever th…
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Cumbria floods stir bad memories for Somerset residents still on edge | Environment | The Guardian
“I really do feel for those poor people in Cumbria,” said Margaret Lock, a 72-year-old carer. “They are in for a very difficult time. For me, the worst wasn’t leaving. It was the coming back that was most traumatic, seeing the mess and realising the…
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We join together to tell Donald Trump: #WeDoCare | Opinion | The Guardian
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 anti-Muslim comments.
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This E-Reader App Gives You Instant Access to Your Public Library’s Collection | Motherboard
One of Android’s most popular apps has finally become available for iPhone users.
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The best YouTube videos of 2015
This video is 20 minutes of the best YouTube footage from 2015 of extreme sports, marriage proposals, cute kids, funny animals, fast cars, groovy dancing, dronies, and more slow-motion GoPro footage than you could ever want to see in one lifetime.
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When Donald Trump Was Palling Around With Terror Suspects – The Daily Beast
When Donald Trump Was Palling Around With Terror Suspects https://t.co/M2kPfpy72t https://t.co/Uax4ip4DWV
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The Quiet, Meditative Joy of Playing a Board Game By Yourself | Inverse
A pet theory to explain the surge in rolling dice and shuffling cards might go something like this: Casual video games have made it culturally acceptable — culturally milquetoast, even — to be a gamer. Likewise, designing cardboard or keyboard games…
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NASA paps: Prometheus as never seen before — RT News
Cassini got as close as 37,000 kilometers to the pockmarked moon – although that sounds exceptionally far, it’s considered to be a close fly-by. The image shows the anti-Saturn side of Prometheus, north facing upwards.
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An oral history of ‘The League’
Editor’s note: This article contains mature content. In 2009, a relatively unknown network launched a show starring six relatively unknown actors.
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Four Nest Alums Are Opening A Retail Store To Sell Trendy Tech Gadgets | TechCrunch
In an attempt to modernize the retail experience for sellers, four Nest alums are launching b8ta, a software-driven brick-and-mortar store in Palo Alto, to sell Internet of Things gadgets and products on Friday.
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Amazon names best-selling book of 2015 – CNN.com
Lee’s controversial “Watchman,” an early draft of what became “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was No. 3. However, it was the best-selling print book, while Hawkins’ tome led Kindle downloads. Veteran best-selling authors also had their places in the top 20.
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Are Muslims Exaggerating Islamophobia in the US? | Al Jazeera America
Join us on Periscope at noon EST to talk to Ali Gharib, reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, about whether Muslims are exaggerating Islamophobia in the United States.
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Google Begins Rolling Out Google Play Music Family Plan, $14.99 For Up To 6 People | TechCrunch
Back in September, Google announced that Google Play Music, the search giant’s Apple Music and Spotify competitor, was to get a family plan “later this year”. Well, that later now. The new plan lets up to 6 people listen to unlimited, ad free music …
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San Bernardino attacks: Couple radicalised before online dating – BBC News
The couple behind the San Bernardino attack that killed 14 people were radicalised before they started dating, the director of the FBI has said. James Comey said Tashfeen Malik and husband Syed Farook spoke of jihad and martyrdom during conversation…
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Google Play Music launches $14.99 family plan for up to six people | The Verge
Google’s finally rolling out the six-person, $14.99 family plan for Google Play Music that it announced over two months ago. In a blog post, the company announced it’ll start taking signups via Android “in the coming days.
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Watch Prince’s burning cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” / Boing Boing
From Coachella 2008. When fans over the years previously posted this video from Coachella 2008, Prince sent DMCA takedown notices. But when Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was asked about the matter, he responded: “Really? He’s blocked it? Well, tell him to …
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The politics of prejudice: how passports rubber-stamp our indifference to refugees / Boing Boing
When Hunter Oatman-Stanford began working on an article about Neil Kaplan’s collection of old passports, we had no idea his story would be so timely.
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What’s the greatest thing since sliced bread? Sliced chocolate. / Boing Boing
Japanese ingenuity, particularly when it comes to creating delicious snacks and about five million ways to eat chocolate, never fails to amaze me. Yet I am amazed anew by this latest release from the Bourbon chocolate company (which does, in fact, h…
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Take Advantage of “Motivation Waves” to Build Better Habits
It’s the time of year for New Year’s resolutions, and for a lot of people, that means trying to develop better habits. One way to set yourself up for success is to take advantage of your “motivation waves.”
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Cats as Walking Dead characters, drawn by Doogie Horner / Boing Boing
Illustrator Doogie Horner has a new book out called Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren’t Aware Of. He says its a c”ollection of illustrated short stories about 100 impossible cat characters.
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Chicago mayor says ‘sorry’ for police misconduct in Laquan McDonald case | US news | The Guardian
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized on Wednesday for police misconduct and the fatal shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald, telling the city council, “I take responsibility for what happened because it happened on my watch.
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Watch Bill Nye Weigh In on ‘Star Wars’ vs. ‘Star Trek’ Debate | Rolling Stone
Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Even with all the strife in the world today, it still goes without saying that this is obviously the greatest and most pressing conflict of our time (and one exacerbated to infinity by J.J. Abrams’ defection from one space f…
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Kickstarter hires reporter to probe startup that raised $3.4M, then collapsed | Ars Technica
In a first, Kickstarter has hired a journalist to look into how its largest-funded European project ever suddenly imploded. Ars visited the company’s headquarters in western Wales in April 2015, months before they were supposed to be shipped, but di…
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The Ninth Doctor Is Getting His Own Ongoing Comic Series!
Hooray! Titan Comics are adding another Doctor to their ever-expanding roster of ongoing Doctor Who comic books. After a pretty smashing miniseries, the Ninth Doctor is back for good with a whole host of new comic adventures in time and space.
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US seeks larger contribution from anti-ISIL allies – Al Jazeera English
US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter has called on coalition allies against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to send special operations forces to bolster fight against the armed group.
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When Donald Trump Was Palling Around With Terror Suspects – The Daily Beast
DUBLIN — Donald Trump really hates terrorists. He’s so tough on terror that he’s proposing “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.”—remarks that have been met with worldwide condemnation.
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David Feherty’s Charmed Life: Golf’s Iconoclast Comes Clean | Rolling Stone
Next year, golf is returning to the Olympics for the first time in more than a century – and a Vandyke-bearded bipolar alcoholic who sometimes covers PGA tournaments while dressed like a pirate will be doing the play-by-play.
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Sarah Silverman, Idris Elba, and the Other Most Surprising 2016 SAG Nominations | Vanity Fair
On Wednesday morning, the 2016 SAG Award nominations—our first indicator of the upcoming Oscar nominations—were announced.
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Thailand’s Remote Lifesavers – Al Jazeera English
Nearly half of the world’s population lives in rural areas, but only a quarter of the world’s doctors serve them. Mosquitos don’t respect ID cards. They bite everyone. If we refused to treat the poor or stateless people, the diseases would spread.
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Hollywood’s Baby-Boomers Are Being Shut Out of Soho House | Vanity Fair
When Hollywood baby-boomers have a problem, it’s everyone’s problem. And so today we turn to Los Angeles, where a pressing issue is frustrating America’s actual greatest generation.
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Too many US schools are failing sex ed | The Verge
In most of the US, fewer than half of US high schools teach all the sex ed topics the CDC recommends, according to an agency report. Only 20 percent of middle schools do.
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It’s Too Late to Turn Off Trump | Rolling Stone
Some people in the news business are having second thoughts this week about their campaign strategy. They’re wondering if they created a monster in Donald Trump.
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This is what Mario looks like as an 8-bit Mercedes-Benz | The Verge
Have you ever wondered what Mario would be like if the hero was a car? In the latest collaboration between Nintendo and Mercedes-Benz — the first let you drive a Benz in Mario Kart 8 — you’ll finally be able to find out.
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Here’s What It’s Like to Be Named Apple’s App of the Year | Motherboard
Wednesday morning, Apple announced the winner of 2015’s App of the Year: Periscope, the Twitter-owned app that allows you to livestream footage straight from your phone’s camera. Periscope was acquired by Twitter in January 2015 and formally launche…
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Google is stepping up its war on adware | The Verge
Scammy programs and browser extensions are a persistent problem on the web, but web companies are starting to take them seriously as a threat to the web. In a post today, Google surveyed the past year’s efforts to fight unwanted software, and came a…
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John Kerry Says He Would Explain Solution to Climate Change as a Market Issue – “I think there are millions of jobs to be created in this,” he said, referring to people “who would build and service and profit from this transformation.” (nytimes.com)…
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Cruz spearheads anti-science push : politics
It is a pathetic commentary on the Congress of the United States when a science denier is permitted to chair a Congressional committee on science.
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A ship on water. via /r/pics https://t.co/jIJfW6g7BM https://t.co/ZasZAlps9n https://t.co/AEa78qrG1T
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A ship on water. via /r/pics https://t.co/jIJfW6g7BM https://t.co/ZasZAlps9n https://t.co/AEa78qrG1T
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Jon Stewart Returns to Shame Congress about the Zadroga Act : politics
Jon Stewart Returns to Shame Congress about the Zadroga Act https://t.co/lIJMMu6NvH https://t.co/cHhjTrdeVx
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The io9 Guide to The X-Files https://t.co/WwA0Lt0SuA https://t.co/K5V4ApWuJ5
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Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Comments Are Starting to Hurt His Middle Eastern Interests | VICE News
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has dominated the Republican primary race with his penchant for provocative and often incendiary comments, with seemingly little regard of the ramifications.
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The book on stoicism that’s taking the NFL by storm – NFL – SI.com
At the center of perhaps the most unlikely Venn Diagram ever drawn, an even more unlikely group of humans overlap.
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Asshole of the year buys ridiculously expensive Wu-Tang album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When the news broke that someone had finally purchased the Wu-Tang Clan’s fabled Once Upon A Time In Shaolin album for a few million dollars, thereby making it the most expensive album ever sold, that individual’s identity remained shrouded in myste…
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Shoppers panic as hoverboard explodes at Washington mall kiosk | US news | The Guardian
Instead of running to store shelves to snap up one of the most-hyped Christmas gifts of the year, shoppers were sent running at a Washington mall when a hoverboard exploded.
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Awesome behind-the-scenes images from ‘Apocalypse Now’|Dangerous Minds
Brutal, intense, fascinating, whimsical and yes, even beautiful photographs from behind-the-scenes of Apocalypse Now. As you can tell right off the bat with these images, filming was “Hell on earth.” Dennis Hopper once said of the film, “I felt like…
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Watch Groundbreaking Comic Artist Mœbius Draw His Characters in Real Time | Open Culture
Jean Giraud, better known as Mœbius, may have passed away in 2012, but he gave his many fans glimpses into his unparalleled artistic imagination right up until the end.
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Relax with Koalas to the Max / Boing Boing
Today’s internet bubble wrap is Koalas to the Max. Mouseover or tap colored circles to make them subdivide into four more colored circles, and keep going until the koala is visible. Then start over! It was made by Vadim Ogievetsky for Annie Albagli.
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Taliban kills scores in ongoing Kandahar airport attack – Al Jazeera English
At least 70 people have been killed by Taliban fighters in an ongoing siege at Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport, officials told Al Jazeera.
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What can animals read from human faces? / Boing Boing
A smile can speak a thousand words but those words may remain in the wilderness if the recipient doesn’t speak human. Of course animals have many ways in which to interpret our emotions and intentions.
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Comic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak. It’s the first time the convention will ever be held in Japan, and it’s planned for December 2016.
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Dear SAG Awards, Why Wouldn’t You Nominate Jennifer Lawrence? | Vanity Fair
The people who have been closely following this awards season will be the first to tell you that the nominations from the Screen Actors Guild this year are pretty wild.
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Walmart’s Chinese imports cost more than 400,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs, study says
Imports from China have cost the United States a lot of jobs—3.2 million of them between 2001 and 2013. And Walmart accounted for around 415,000 of those lost jobs, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute estimates. That’s 13.
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The news that Wu-Tang Clan had recorded an album of which there would only be one copy, sold for millions of dollars at auction, with the stipulation that it couldn’t be resold, has inspired debate for more than a year.
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Is Uber Making NYC Rush-Hour Traffic Worse? | FiveThirtyEight
Uber has been taking passengers from taxis, one by one, on the busiest streets of Manhattan, as we wrote in October.
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Librarians and privacy advocates ally to condemn cybersecurity bill | World news | The Guardian
America’s librarians have joined with a host of civil liberties groups to condemn a cybersecurity bill now passing through Congress they claim will be both “unhelpful” and “dangerous to Americans’ civil liberties”.
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See Dolly Parton Sing Moving ‘Coat’ on ‘The Voice’ | Rolling Stone
Dolly Parton offered information but no advice to the remaining contestants on NBC’s The Voice as she visited the TV singing competition on Tuesday, December 8th.
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Screen Actors Guild Awards: Dame Helen Mirren and Idris Elba lead British charge. – BBC News
Dame Helen Mirren and Idris Elba have both scored three nominations at the 2016 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards. Dame Helen is nominated for her roles in The Woman in Gold and Trumbo, while Elba is nominated for Beasts of No Nation and BBC drama Lu…
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Redistricting and gerrymandering must be outlawed. It is legal voter suppression at it’s best. I live in s.e. Pa. ….. where it is not done. And while we’re at it, get rid of the electoral college.
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Watch Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro Honor Scott Weiland With STP Cover | Rolling Stone
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor honored the late Scott Weiland on Monday at Hollywood club the Roxy, joining Royal Machines – a band featuring Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro – for a bruising rendition of Stone Temple Pilots staple “Sex Type …
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U.S. solar industry battles ‘white privilege’ image problem| Reuters
LOS ANGELES Solar power companies have an image problem – and they are beginning to do something about it.
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WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago.
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago, before the United States gave the woman ap… -
In an exclusive interview, Ronda Rousey says she’s down but not out after losing to Holly Holm
Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. he isn’t ready to talk yet. The stitches in her lip are still dissolving. The side of her face was kicked so hard, a few of her teeth still feel unstable.
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Syria rebels leave Homs following rare ceasefire deal – Al Jazeera English
Hundreds of Syrians, including rebel fighters, have left the last rebel-held area of Homs as part of a rare local ceasefire deal negotiated between the opposition and the government.
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Supercut of local TV stations running the same pre-packaged shopping news / Boing Boing
God here. I thought I would take the time to personally explain my absence in the Aurora shootings. While I was at it, I thought I would also explain my absence during every murder, massacre and crime that has ever taken place in World history, and …
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You don’t need to be in Paris this week to get in on the climate change conversation. Watching modern explorers attempt to get to the North Pole while ice caps melt around them might be enough to get even the staunchest of global warming apologists …
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Places with more executions should in theory have more murders. They don’t. – Vox
In 2013, the Death Penalty Information Center found that just 2 percent of America’s counties carried out more than half of all executions in the US between 1976 and 2013.
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The New York Daily News did not hold back with its latest Donald Trump cover – Vox
The New York Daily News is not holding back in its latest cover about Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the US.
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Activists arrested in Louvre oil protests | Environment | The Guardian
Ten activists have been arrested inside the Louvre in Paris after protesting against oil sponsorship of the museum. The group, clad in black, walked barefoot through an “oil spill” created by molasses poured on the museum’s marble floor.
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New Poll Shows Majority of Chicagoans Want Rahm Gone: Amid mounting scandals and widespread condemnation over Emanuel’s handling of recent incidents of police brutality, calls for his ouster have grown (commondreams.org)submitted 2 hours ago by load…
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Cortana, Microsoft’s Digital Assistant, Is Now Available to All on iOS and Android
Cortana has been in beta since August, but if you couldn’t get into the beta—or just wanted to wait until it was a bit more stable—now’s your chance.
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Here’s why Donald Trump’s December poll numbers matter: the Republican frontrunner at this time usually wins the nomination. (time.com) Tell me a story about the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary.
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Bob Dole really, really doesn’t like Ted Cruz : politics
Bob Dole really, really doesn’t like Ted Cruz (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Fantastic clip. He got one of the republicans blocking this to sign on at least.
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Can you blame the UK after he wasted the time of their Supreme Court by being a colossal dick concerning his Scottish golf course? He’s still being a dick about it: He was giving Americans a bad name abroad long before the campaign.
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One Year After the Senate Torture Report, No One’s Read it – and It Might Be Destroyed : politics
Maybe everyone realizes good men have to do bad things to bad men to protect other good men. Sometimes. We didn’t even do that. We did stupid things to the wrong people.
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On The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously)
On The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously) https://t.co/jH52pRZKvI https://t.co/mZdVjGCmS8
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You may have heard that The X-Files is coming back in January. If you were a fan when the show was originally on in the ‘90s—or caught it later in syndication or streaming—this is potentially great news. If you missed the whole phenomenon, we’re her…
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“The more bits you use, the more you pay”: Comcast CEO justifies data caps | Ars Technica
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts defended his company’s much-criticized data caps yesterday, saying that consumers should pay for Internet access based on how much data they use, just like they do with gas or electricity.
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Portico prize winner Benjamin Myers: ‘Why bother chasing the big publishers?’ | Books | The Guardian
Benjamin Myers, who has beaten Alan Garner to win the £10,000 Portico prize for literature for his novel Beastings, has spoken of how he was “turned down by every major publisher in London” before landing a book deal.
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There’s a startling moment in Speedy, Harold Lloyd’s final silent feature (released this week as part of the Criterion collection), that occurs so quickly one can’t be sure it actually happened without going back and freezing the frame to confirm.
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Philadelphia — DONALD J. TRUMP’S reprehensible call to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the United States tracks an exam question I’ve been giving my immigration law students since Sept. 11.
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Footage appears to show poisoned lion in Maasai case – BBC News
Two Maasai farmers been accused of poisoning a famous pride of lions in Narok, south-west Kenya. Eight lions are being treated for poisoning. Two others were killed but at least one was not from the pride.
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Modoc Sucker Recovers, Leaves Endangered Species List – Scientific American Blog Network
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced this week that the Modoc sucker (Catostomus microps), a rare fish from California and Oregon, has recovered and will now leave the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This is actually th…
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WASHINGTON — When Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Young Muslim Writers awards: Malala honoured | Children’s books | The Guardian
Malala Yousafzai has been given a special recognition award for “championing children’s rights to education” at the Young Muslim Writers award ceremony.
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Take a look back at the most talked-about topics of the year. The moments we shared in 2015 affected us all. They shocked, moved and inspired us to take action. They connected us.
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Should the Internet know how sad I am?
Welcome to HTTP’s and Q’s, where we’ll be answering your most pressing Internet etiquette questions—Internet-iquette, if you will. Have a Web-based moral dilemma that plagues you each time you unlock your home screen? Send your problem to Marisa at …
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How Two Broke Guys From Georgia Started The Most Interesting Winery In California | VinePair
This article and the Game Changer series is brought to you by Coravin, the first and only tool in the world to let you share, compare, and explore wines without pulling the cork.
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The bleak world of Peanuts, one of the 20th century’s greatest works of art, explained – Vox
The last time you saw Snoopy or Charlie Brown, it was probably on a greeting card, or a mug, or in a commercial for MetLife Insurance. This is how you know them now: smiling and happy and spouting some sort of bland platitude — the better to sell yo…
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The Dangerous Holiday-Suicide Myth That Won’t End – The Atlantic
A common type of Internet story this time of year, other than the ones about how to bake holiday cookies and how to avoid gaining weight from said holiday cookies, is the one about how to handle holiday stress.
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Watch the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of The BFG | The Verge
Steven Spielberg has been working on a live-action adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG since 2014, and Disney’s offered up the first glimpse at the fruit of his labor by releasing a trailer this morning.
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US Government Approves Transgenic Chicken – Scientific American
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a chicken that has been genetically engineered to produce a drug in its eggs. The drug, Kanuma (sebelipase alfa), is a recombinant human enzyme marketed by Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
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The Next Frontier For Wearables: Bendable Batteries, Healthy Tattoos And More | TechCrunch
When mass-appeal wearable devices arrived on the scene in 2009 in the form of Fitbit, skeptics wondered whether consumers would feel the need to track their steps and calories.
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Cameron government rejected flood risk warnings from climate advisers | Environment | The Guardian
The UK government was warned by its official climate change advisers in October that it needed to take action on the increasing number of homes at high risk of flooding but rejected the advice.
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2016 SAG Award Nominations: The Most Surprising Snubs | Vanity Fair
With all of the surprising films and actors that were included in this morning’s SAG Awards nomination announcement—hello, Sarah Silverman and Trumbo!—that meant less room for what, until this morning, had been perceived as some awards season heavy-…
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Juice mission: Deal signed to build Jupiter probe – BBC News
Airbus and the European Space Agency have signed the contract that will lead to the construction of a satellite to go to study Jupiter and its icy moons. Known as Juice, the mission is due to leave Earth in 2022 and arrive at the giant planet 7.5 ye…
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Price-Gouging Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Buys Wu-Tang Clan’s Single-Cop | Vanity Fair
There was a swarming hive of big wigs and big fans buzzing about when the Wu-Tang Clan announced in March of 2014 that they would release just one copy of their newest album, Once upon a Time in Shaolin, to be sold to the highest bidder.
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Facebook’s Year in Review looks back on human tragedy and solidarity | The Verge
Coming just days after Twitter’s own retrospective, Facebook has just published its annual year-end review, surfacing the biggest stories, events, and trends of that past year.
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Trump threatens independent run / Boing Boing
In the wake of heavy criticism from his party over remarks about Muslims, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump warned them he would be more than happy to run as an independent candidate.
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Yahoo wants to spin-off Yahoo, become a holding company for Alibaba shares | Ars Technica
One of Yahoo’s best decisions was investing in a large chunk of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba before it went public last year. Alibaba broke records with its initial public offering, and now Yahoo’s 15 percent stake in the company is worth $31 …
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Marriott removing desks from its hotel rooms “because Millennials” / Boing Boing
Yahoo sport columnist Dan Wetzel checked into a Marriott, something he does a lot, and was bewildered to discover that his room didn’t have a desk.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and More
Today only, Breaking Bad, the best show ever created, is cheaper than ever on Blu-ray. Once you’ve gotten your fix, its surprisingly great spinoff, Better Call Saul, is also on sale.
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The American presidency is incredibly powerful – Vox
Over at Polyarchy, Vox’s other independent blog, Lee Drutman has a clever and systematically thought-out piece on the possible outcomes of a Trump presidency.
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On The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously)
How do you follow last week’s epic, ridiculous, wonderfully fun Flash/Arrow crossover? You don’t even try to match it.
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Friend to foe: Trump’s ugly descent into anti-Muslim rhetoric – video | US news | The Guardian
It started in September when Donald Trump failed to correct a bigoted man on America’s ‘Muslim problem’. And in the four months following, the Republican presidential frontrunner steadily descended into ugly rhetoric against the religious group.
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Tim Schafer on the return of a cult classic: ‘Soon all games will be Psychonauts’ | The Verge
Psychonauts is back. Ten years after the original was released, the cult classic game is making its return in the form of both a crowdfunded sequel and a virtual reality spinoff for Sony’s upcoming PlayStation VR headset.
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Otter nonsense via /r/aww https://t.co/QuOG1p2L1S https://t.co/0zLym83TKb https://t.co/HlMsI7mYwO
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Time Changes Everything : pics
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Run a Crazy Scientology Obstacle Course – The Daily Beast
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Coping With The Age Of Automation: Relax, Retrain, And Redistribute
We need a plan for how to adapt the workforce after we give all the jobs to robots. Maybe it’s more simple than it seems. With new artificially intelligent machines appearing every day (like, say, this scary security robot) a lot of people are conce…
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Croatian picks up award, loses pants – POLITICO
An embarrassing moment for head of a human rights group. While claiming to ‘cherish women’ and to be the ‘least racist person,’ Trump has offered up some shocking comments.
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Google Claims to Have Proved That Its Quantum Computer Actually Works
A team of researchers from Google’s artificial intelligence labs has published results which it claims demonstrate that its controversial D-Wave quantum computer really works. Google bought one of D-Wave’s quantum computers back in 2013.
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‘Hamilton’ Musical Is Doing a National Tour — Here’s What We Know About Cities and Tickets – Mic
The New York Times has called it “bold, rousing, sexy, tear-jerking and historically respectful”; the Wall Street Journal named it “the best and most important Broadway musical of the past decade”; its soundtrack just received a Grammy nomination.
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ESO: Zooming In On a Curious Cosmic Collision
NGC 5291, the hazy, golden oval dominating the center of this image, is an elliptical galaxy located nearly 200 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur).
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Uriel Valentin is the talented Argentinian-based doll maker and artist behind a massive line of plush, hand-painted dolls that are about to send you running for your credit card.
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Monopoly simulation suggests you buy orange streets / Boing Boing
Koaning.io used Markov chains, a kind of stochastic modeling more famously used to generate pseudo-meaningful written text, to show that the board game Monopoly is heavily imbalanced by the “go to jail” mechanic.
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Keep a Sleep Diary to Get a Better Night’s Sleep
There’s nothing as restorative as a full night’s sleep, so when you’re not getting that, it can be the most aggravating problem to solve. To help figure it out, get a journal and keep a sleep diary.
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China’s top Internet censor: “There’s no Internet censorship in China” / Boing Boing
Lu Wei is chief of China’s State Internet Information Office, a man they call “the gatekeeper of the Chinese internet.” According to him, the world’s most notorious and ambitious system of Internet censorship is actually just “management.
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High Court Weighs Meaning of One Person, One Vote | Al Jazeera America
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could radically change the way states draw electoral districts for city, county and state elections. In Evenwel v.
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As overall student debt has ballooned to $1.3 trillion, and poses a significant financial burden on young people, there may be a new trend on the horizon: Employers including loan repayment in their benefits packages to help attract younger workers.
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How Rob Gronkowski’s Dad Raised America’s First Family of Jocks | Vanity Fair
Gordy [Gronkowski] used his own experiences–both positive and negative–as a guide for his sons’ individual athletic development.
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No one is coming out of the Trump and Fury scandals well – not even us | M | US news | The Guardian
Has Trump gone too far? Regardless, public is obsessed on radical Muslim dangers, Complete refugee pause to fix vetting makes sense. Unlike Murdoch, however, Trump is too stupid to be seriously frightening. He isn’t going to be president.
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Australian Authorities Raid Home of Suspected Bitcoin Creator | Vanity Fair
For years, people wondered what brilliant basement nerd had created bitcoin, the virtual, untraceable cryptocurrency currently worth around $419 per coin, and controversially financing illegal activity such as the drug trade, terrorism, and whatever…
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The First Teaser for The BFG Will Give You Those Old Spielberg Tingles | Vanity Fair
Roald Dahl’s beloved book, The BFG, is getting the full Steven Spielberg treatment and if you thought the director of recent stolid films like Bridge of Spies and Lincoln was done giving you those E.T. feelings, think again.
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Run A Crazy Scientology Obstacle Course – The Daily Beast
Billy Eichner gave comedian Rachel Dratch the real Hollywood treatment on his Billy on the Street show, sending her running on an obstacle course fraught with perils plucked from the pages of Dianetics and the fantastical realm of weirdness surround…
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UK parliament to debate ban on Trump entering country – Al Jazeera English
British MPs will have to consider debating a petition to block United States Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from entering the country. By Wednesday afternoon, the “Block Donald J Trump from UK entry” petition had been signed by m…
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SAG Award Nominations 2016: The Complete List | Vanity Fair
The Screen Actors Guild announced its nominees for the 2016 SAG Awards on Wednesday morning, honoring the best performances in film and television from 2015.
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The presidential candidate obsessed with “deals” is quickly losing them. On Wednesday, following Donald Trump’s call for a total ban on Muslim immigration, the popular home decor chain Lifestyle announced they are pulling all Trump products out of i…
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Paris attacks profile: Foued Mohamed-Aggad – BBC News
French police have identified the third suicide bomber who attacked the Bataclan last month in Paris. Ninety of the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks died in the massacre at the concert hall.
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Southern Cross [960 x 1,428] by Carlos Fairbairn : spaceporn
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Southern Cross [960 x 1,428] by Carlos Fairbairn via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/7Cmikn42Nz https://t.co/Sh2ARKtC1x https://t.co/GRGy8oOPuO
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Pokéconservative: The Twitter bot that turned the 2016 election into a Pokémon battle
Politics is just a game, Nora Reed realized. And not just any game—Pokémon. U.S. politics is Pokémon incarnate. That’s when she had her latest big idea. Reed spent the last month playing a lot of Pokémon X, the 2013 iteration of Nintendo’s long-runn…
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Here’s Where Gun Laws Stand In Your State : NPR
The word “doomed” has become a common adjective to describe gun-control efforts. Mass shootings like those at Sandy Hook or Fort Hood looked like they might provide the political fuel to tighten laws, but gun-control advocates have found their effor…
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Quantum Time Travel –“Can We Receive Messages from the Future?”
Around ten years ago researcher Dave Bacon, now at Google, showed that a time-travelling quantum computer could quickly solve a group of problems, known as NP-complete, which mathematicians have lumped together as being hard.
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PSA: Xbox One, PS4 bundles back down to $299 for holidays | Ars Technica
Were you too busy enjoying the pleasures of friends and family to get the lowest-ever official prices on Xbox One and PS4 bundles over Black Friday weekend? Good news, procrastinators: Microsoft and Sony are giving you a second chance at those low p…
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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From the minute the multiplex curtains pulled back on his first feature, director Quentin Tarantino has ignited the interest, and occasional ire, of critics for his films’ strong language and frequent violence. The New York Times called his first fi…
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CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Service Secures $7 Million Investment | TechCrunch
Disasters can take many forms from weather events to database corruptions. CloudEndure, a cloud-based disaster recovery service, announced a $7 million investment today led by Indian consulting firm Infosys and previous investor Magma Venture Partne…
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The Collar That Can Stop a Bird-Killing Cat – The Atlantic
Here’s an alarming but little-known figure—stray cats and pet cats allowed outdoors kill 3.6 million birds every day on average in the United States, for a total of at least 1.3 billion birds per year. That’s most likely a sizable chunk out of the U…
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Will the Paris climate deal spell out the end of the fossil fuel era? | Environment | The Guardian
We are reaching le pointy end of the Paris climate change negotiations and a freshly prepared draft for a new global deal has just been released.
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Fran Lebowitz Knows the One Thing Republicans Are Better at Than Democ | Vanity Fair
From the late-night circuit and an HBO documentary to her essays and speaking engagements, Fran Lebowitz has never shied away from a controversial topic. And in this new video, she takes on tax inequality, dying, and getting rich.
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It’s the Parkers! A complete review of the 2015 MLS season | Football | The Guardian
Sebastian Giovinco. Any player who finally tipped Toronto into a playoff spot was always going to be celebrated, but the fact that he sealed the deal by doing this should tell you everything about the season enjoyed by the Italian:
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Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
A professor of linguistics, Anna’s father had ensured that by the time his daughter was seven years old, she was fluent in at least seven different languages.
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Hear Lush Yoko Ono Remix by Portugal. The Man | Rolling Stone
Yoko Ono’s upcoming record, Yes, I’m a Witch Too — on which a star-studded cast of collaborators refigure the avant-garde artist’s works — features an ornately textured remix of her 2001 song “Soul Got Out of the Box” by Portugal. The Man.
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First Footage From Spielberg’s The BFG Gives Us the Barest Glimpse of the Big Giant
We also see our protagonist, Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), be afraid of him. Which is all well and god, but “BFG” stands for “Big Friendly Giant,” so we know the hand reaching to grab Sophie probably isn’t going to do her harm.
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Watch Joanna Newsom Perform Hypnotic ‘Leaving the City’ on ‘Colbert’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Joanna Newsom Perform Hypnotic ‘Leaving the City’ on ‘Colbert’ Singer-harpist released acclaimed fourth LP, ‘Divers,’ in October
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7 Ingenious Ways Nordic Startups are Fighting Climate Change (xpost r/Europe) (hybe.com)submitted 36 minutes ago by loading…
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Travel ready loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/Cw3NUGGYM6 https://t.co/HS95Qfgr20 https://t.co/hEReqe3v0x
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Travel ready loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Check out our slate of Daily Kos-endorsed candidates https://t.co/aVmzyUb2hh https://t.co/oV1Gz80SEA
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Up to a quarter of the permafrost that lies just under the ground surface in Alaska could thaw by the end of the century, releasing long-trapped carbon that could make its way into the atmosphere and exacerbate global warming, a new study finds. (cl…
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Donald Trump’s tweet on Tuesday dangling the idea of an independent run for president sent a clear warning to the Republican establishment: Attack at your own peril. (cnn.com)
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Washington’s prized razor-clam and commercial crab seasons remain shut down as state shellfish officials continue to find domoic acid, a neurotoxin, present in crab and clam tissues. (seattletimes.com)
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Google, NASA: Our quantum computer is 100 million times faster than normal PC | Ars Technica
Two years ago Google and NASA went halfsies on a D-Wave quantum computer, mostly to find out whether there are actually any performance gains to be had when using quantum annealing instead of a conventional computer.
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Djay Pro is the first app to really shine on the iPad Pro | The Verge
I’ve never wanted to be a DJ. But every time I open up Djay for iOS, an app that lets you quickly mix together songs, I get this feeling that it could be a lot of fun.
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Microsoft’s Cortana assistant now available on iOS and Android | The Verge
After months of testing and feedback, Microsoft is bringing its Cortana digital assistant to iOS and Android today. It’s the latest part of the company’s Windows 10 push, combined with an increased focus on cross-platform services and apps.
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Give Back Box Ships Your Unwanted Items to Goodwill for Free
The end of the year is a perfect time to donate stuff you don’t want, but finding the time to drop it off makes it tough.
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Grindcore made its first splash outside its insular bubble with Napalm Death’s 1987 debut, Scum, which includes the one-and-a-fraction-second song “You Suffer,” a favorite of iconic BBC DJ John Peel.
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Rovio’s CEO steps down after just over a year on the job | The Verge
Last August Pekka Rantala took over the role of Rovio CEO from co-founder Mikael Hed, but just over a year later he’s already stepping down. He’s to be replaced by Kati Levoranta, form chief legal officer for the Angry Birds maker.
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Order a copy of Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib, 300 pages of political cartoons, comics journalism and essays.
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A Siri remote app for Apple TV is coming next year | The Verge
Siri is one of the most important new features of the new Apple TV, giving you robust and polished voice control over the set-top box. However, it’s right now completely disconnected from the iPhone, where it was first born. That’s changing next yea…
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Watch a Tiny Beyoncé Blow the Roof off a Song from The Wiz | Vanity Fair
If you’re patient enough to make it through the introduction and a bit of wobbly sound issues, you can see something truly magical in this resurfaced video of Beyoncé singing her seven-year-old heart out to “Home” from The Wiz. No, the future Mrs.
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Kate Middleton Has—Try to Remain Calm—Cut Her Hair | Vanity Fair
It is not often that the Duchess of Cambridge mixes things up, aesthetically. She has her preferred designers; her go-to pumps; her trademark Breton-top-and-jeans combination for casual outings—and her signature blowout.
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In one of the most well known stories from the Old Testament book of 1 Kings, King Solomon is faced with a dilemma: Two women come to see him, and tell him they live in the same house and both recently gave birth.
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There’s something fishy about that viral image of what dolphins ‘see’ – The Washington Post
You may have seen the image above because, well, it has been everywhere. And it seems really cool: The folks behind it claim that it shows what a dolphin sees, using echolocation, when a human diver is standing in front of it.
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Fight continues to keep coal ash out of Lee and Chatham counties (NC) (wncn.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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The U.S. Is About To Get A Lot More Fracking, Thanks To Congress : environment
The U.S. Is About To Get A Lot More Fracking, Thanks To Congress (thinkprogress.org)
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Yahoo Scraps Plan To Spin Off Alibaba Stake, But Will Split Into Two | TechCrunch
Yahoo has today confirmed rumors it is scrapping a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba. Its shares are up in pre-market trading on the news. The Yahoo board had been reported to be considering its options on this front th…
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Behold: The Cockroach Internet of Shit and Gut Bacteria | Motherboard
Cockroaches are scientific wonders of horrible-ness. A cockroach, the result of a lineage spanning some 320 million years, is a well-oiled machine of pestilence, and some large part of this has to do with how it interacts with fellow cockroaches.
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Paris talks: US pledges to double aid to climate-hit countries | Environment | The Guardian
The US has promised to double to $861m aid to countries on the frontline of climate change in the final push to reach an agreement to avoid dangerous global warming at crucial UN talks in Paris.
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This Week On Bullish: Building An Empire On YouTube | TechCrunch
Hello and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This is our first international episode, taped at Disrupt London 2015 in the Copper Box Arena. This week we dug into YouTube, the video platform, and how people use the product for far more…
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The Truth About Fetal Tissue Research – Scientific American
Every month, Lishan Su receives a small test tube on ice from a company in California. In it is a piece of liver from a human fetus aborted at between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy.
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Stolen-card crime sites use “cop detection” algorithms to flag purchases / Boing Boing
Cops covertly buy stolen cards from underground sites to figure out where they came from, and so these sites implement security measures that try to figure out whether a purchaser is an undercover cop, and refuse to sell to them if they trip a posit…
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Carlisle rescuers search chest-deep flood waters – headcam video | Environment | The Guardian
Footage recorded by Kinder mountain rescue on Sunday shows how the team carefully makes its way around residential streets in Carlisle that have been flooded as a result of Storm Desmond.
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If the American Business Act on Climate Pledge contains companies “voicing support for a strong Paris outcome” and “demonstrating a commitment to climate action,” as the White House describes the participants, then few of the largest private electri…
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Syrian opposition seeks transitional set-up minus Assad – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian opposition groups meeting in Saudi Arabia want to agree on a transitional government in the country that does not include current President Bashar al-Assad, according to Syrian National Coalition (SNC) official Monzer Makhous.
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UK National Crime Agency: if your kids like computers, they’re probably criminals / Boing Boing
Warning signs that your kid is involved in cybercrime: “Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?” * Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?
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Infuse Melted Butter with Spices for Tastier Baked Goods
There’s nothing wrong with traditional sugar cookies, but if you’re looking for a way to set yourself apart at the cookie swap, consider incorporating some spice-infused browned butter.
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Striking Capitol Workers Take Their Fight To Ted Cruz | ThinkProgress
The people who work at the U.S. Capitol and Senate went on strike on Tuesday to protest their latest contract.
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10cc’s pedigree was perfect. A pop star lead singer of The Mindbenders, Eric Stewart who had reached global success with “A Groovy Kind of Love.
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Is The Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator Finally Over? – The Atlantic
On Tuesday, Wired and Gizmodo both named a man they said could be one of the people behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the virtual currency Bitcoin. On Wednesday, Australian Federal Police raided the home of a Sydney-based technology…
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Everything Is Delightful in the First Clip From Agent Carter Season 2
We’ve got a little while longer to wait for Agent Carter‘s return, thanks to President Obama’s State of the Union address. But we can hold on a little while longer thanks to this delightful snippet featuring Jarvis and Peggy being their usual adorab…
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Spotify may release new albums to paying subscribers only | Ars Technica
Spotify may soon allow musicians to reserve their albums for paying subscribers only, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
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How ESPN College Football Gets Made
Before the hits and tackles and meltdowns, before the disputed call that will haunt the state of North Carolina, before a cacophony of harried barking fills the cramped, sweaty truck where ESPN decides what you see on TV, there is just a beige hote…
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New EU copyright rules would give travelers cross-border Netflix access | Ars Technica
The European Commission’s new “modern, more European” copyright framework, unveiled today, has ruled out a tax on hyperlinks. But it could still lead to the introduction of a Europe-wide ancillary copyright that would require people to pay a licensi…
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US immigration law: so f’ed up that Trump’s no-Muslim plan would be constitutional / Boing Boing
For more than a century, the US judiciary has been handing down rulings that affirm that non-US citizens, including those seeking entry into the USA, have no rights under the US Constitution — rulings that also grant the President the power to excl…
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Transparent is radically selfish, and that’s why it matters | The Verge
Transparent’s second season is at its best when its ostensible heroine is being torn down by her friends, mentors, and contemporaries. “We don’t all have your family. We don’t all have your money.
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Volkswagen says its false CO2 emissions numbers weren’t as bad as it thought | The Verge
It’s not easy keeping track of Volkswagen’s problems right now.
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CO2 Pollution Holds Steady as China’s Economy Cools – Scientific American
Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are set to plateau or perhaps decline slightly in 2015, according to work published yesterday in Nature Climate Change. Experts at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom f…
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Gulf summit to discuss oil prices, Yemen and Syria – Al Jazeera English
Gulf leaders have met for an annual summit in the face of plunging oil revenues, the war in Yemen and pressure for peace in Syria.
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Hackers Threaten Security Researchers: ‘We’ll Analyze Your Brain with a Bullet’ | Motherboard
Typically, security researchers can do their job in relative comfort. Analysing malware or tracing the servers of hackers can be done from pretty much anywhere, remotely over the internet. But sometimes that work can get much more personal.
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Pharmaceutical kingpin Martin Shkreli bought the $2 million Wu-Tang album | The Verge
Back in March of 2014, rap’s kung-fu-loving storytellers Wu-Tang Clan announced they’d only be making a single copy of their next album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which would be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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How 3G Will Change Palestine | Motherboard
At least twice a week, Ahmed Zaytoun drives from his Ramallah apartment to the Palestinian village of Hizma to visit family. To get there, he has to pass through the Qalandiya checkpoint, one of the biggest military checkpoints in the West Bank, whi…
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TIME’s Person of the Year 2015 is German Chancellor Angela Merkel : politics
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Trump UK ban petition passes 100,000 – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Is this the one we are going with? I hate having to make the same comment in multiple threads… Well deserved.
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Crowdfunding ORG’s campaign to fight the UK government’s mass surveillance / Boing Boing
For two successive Parliaments, the UK Tory party has been trying to pass the most extensive mass-spying bill in the western world. It’s called the Snoopers Charter, and after the Paris attacks, it came back with a vengeance.
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The United States hopes Qatar will cooperate with the World Cup bidding investigation, the attorney general Loretta Lynch said, insisting that the Gulf nation being a key ally in the fight against Islamic State militants was irrelevant in any consid…
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Time magazine named German chancellor Angel Merkel its Person of the Year on Wednesday. It is a prestigious award, one which has been won by Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II and Adolf Hitler. (You don’t necessarily have to be nice to win the award.)
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COP21: ‘Fireworks’ expected as new climate text published – BBC News
This new version, 29 pages long, marks the first time the French presidency of the meeting has pulled together an outline of a deal. The new draft has significantly reduced the options on many of the key questions after days of negotiations.
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Winter looms in the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp – BBC News
Around 6,000 migrants from places like Syria, Iran, and Pakistan are now living in the Calais migrant camp known as “The Jungle” – and many are becoming more desperate to leave with the onset of winter. The BBC’s Sima Kotecha reports from Calais.
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Carlisle united: community rallies round flood-hit football club | Football | The Guardian
Bride-to-be Sophie Watters was inconsolable when she saw pictures of Carlisle United’s submerged stadium on television – and not only because she’s a huge fan of the club. Watters, 28, and her fiancé Richard Cakans, 38, were due to have their weddin…
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Why the words “loss and damage” are causing such a fuss at the Paris climate talks – Vox
Originally published on Grist. PARIS — There’s a big sticking point in the negotiations over a global climate deal, and it centers on this little phrase: “loss and damage.
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A New Toy May Have Just Revealed the Fate of a Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character
Plus J.J. Abrams reveals why Leia didn’t choose to become a Jedi before the movie. Anthony Russo teases the levity Spider-Man brings to Civil War. Plus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks being faithful to the comic book roots of his Walking Dead villain. Sp…
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Donald Trump’s war on Muslims, explained – Vox
Donald Trump wants to ban Muslims from immigrating to or visiting the US. He wants to close down some American mosques and monitor the rest. He’s flirted with the idea of requiring all American Muslims to register in a database.
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Profile: Douglas Tompkins, billionaire-turned-conservationist – BBC News
Douglas Tompkins made a fortune selling high-end jackets and adventure gear as the founder of North Face, but he spent his final years railing against the very corporate world that made him a billionaire.
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“You know how you make America great again?” Senator Lindsey Graham said on CNN Tuesday morning. “Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”Fine by me.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Talking climate
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In late 2013, student frustration at the University of Michigan over the decline in the school’s black student population boiled over, when activists launched the “Being Black at the University of Michigan” (BBUM) campaign.
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£352bn investors’ coalition launched to push for clean energy | Environment | The Guardian
A new £352bn coalition of investors including large insurer Aviva and major public and private funds in the UK, Norway and France has been launched to put pressure on the world’s biggest corporations to clean up their electricity sources.
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Living in Beijing’s smog: ‘It’s extremely uncomfortable’ – video | World news | The Guardian
Beijing’s authorities have issued an air pollution red alert. People have complained of dry throats, bleeding noses and respiratory problems. Almost half of the Chinese city’s 5m cars have been banned from the roads, schools and nurseries have been …
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Slash Raises $1.3 Million For An iOS Keyboard And Mobile Search Engine | TechCrunch
A company capitalizing on the growth of mobile messaging, and in particular the reach of Apple’s iMessage, Slash, has now raised $1.3 million for its development of a search engine that’s tucked inside of your keyboard.
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Have a Very Merry N.R.A. Christmas! / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the N.R.A.’s Wayne La Pierre plays Santa Claus, and everybody gets a gun, naught OR nice! Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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Focus On What You Get, Not What You Give Up, With Your Healthy Choices
Think of all the times you say “no” when you choose what you think is best for your health. All the “shouldn’t” or “can’t have’s” can get tiresome. Instead of fixating on “no,” focus on when you can say “yes.”
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Peer Pressure Has a Positive Side – Scientific American
Parents of teenagers often view their children’s friends with something like suspicion. They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to prod its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.
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Duet turns your iPad into a monitor running iOS and Mac apps together | The Verge
Duet Display, the $9.99 app that turns a tethered iPad or iPhone into an extra display for your Mac or Windows PC, is now more capable than ever thanks to performance improvements and new split-screen multitasking support. Available to download now …
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The headlines read “New study suggests autism can be outgrown”, or “outgrowing autism: a doctor’s surprise and wonder.
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New African Highways Have High Environmental Price – Scientific American
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The National Park Service wants to hire a new Ansel Adams | The Verge
Ansel Adams is one of the most renowned photographers of all time, and his most famous work was his stunning large-format monochrome landscape photography of natural American locations like Yosemite.
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This article contains plot details from Undertale. At their core, most video games are power fantasies.
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India’s New Paris Pledge: We’ll Cut Back On Coal If We Get Help With Renewables Now | ThinkProgress
Until now, India’s position at the Paris climate talks had been that it will massively increase coal production and use without limit.
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PHOENIX—Saying it was nice to know their grandmother had found a companion to spend time with, the family of Desert Spring Assisted Living Home resident Barbara McGann reported Wednesday that the 78-year-old had begun an adorable little sexual relat…
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Yahoo is spinning off Yahoo because Alibaba is a better bet for investors | The Verge
There may be some big changes coming to Yahoo. Yahoo announced this morning that it would be spinning off its core businesses — basically, all of the web and entertainment products you’re familiar with — into a new company, leaving behind only its v…
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MEDFORD, MA—Explaining that the country would need to be extremely selective going forward, a report published Wednesday by researchers from Tufts University revealed that the U.S populace has the collective goodwill to come together for only five m…
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Prep For Your Holiday Trip With Huge Discounts on Travelpro Luggage, Today Only
If you want to upgrade your luggage for your upcoming holiday travel, Amazon’s offering substantial discounts today on a variety of bags from Travelpro, one of the most trusted names in the business.
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George Osborne announces £50m flood damage funds after Storm Desmond | UK news | The Guardian
George Osborne has announced a £50m repair and renew scheme for Cumbria and Lancashire in the wake of the floods, promising businesses and homeowners they will quickly receive the help that they need.
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Respond to Criticism With a “Thank You” to Get the Most Out Of It
Nobody likes getting criticism, which is silly. Criticism is a great way to improve yourself. If you want to get better feedback, and improve your reaction to it, respond to criticism with a heartfelt “Thank you.” As business blog Inc.
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Hot gas caught streaming into “Pandora’s Cluster” | Ars Technica
The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) provides a glimpse at the baby Universe, shortly after its birth in the Big Bang.
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The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
From the biggest international news of terrorist shootings, to hard-hitting national coverage of mass shootings, to the noteworthy local stories of police shootings, no publication covered the monumental events that defined 2015 better than America’…
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DOJ Says San Bernardino Not Tied to Larger Cell | Al Jazeera America
The United States has no indication that a couple who killed 14 people in California were part of a wider cell or that they planned more attacks, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
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Georgia Just Executed A Man For Murder With Shoddy Evidence | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday night, Georgia executed Brian Keith Terrell for shooting and beating an old man to death. Terrell was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in 2001. He refused to plead guilty and maintained his innocence for more than two decades.
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I’ll Never Be My Wife’s Equal — Matter — Medium
I’ll Never Be My Wife’s EqualSometimes partnership is learning to be second best.Laura, my wife, is smarter than I am. She has almost double the degrees. (This bit shouldn’t be entirely surprising; the gap between college and graduate degree attainm…
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One man who does what the police can’t do: The cult of Charles Bronson grows|Dangerous Minds
A new Charles Bronson book and a slew of DVD releases seem to indicate the cult of the macho movie tough-guy is ever-growing. Twelve years after his death, the actor’s legacy shows no signs of fading.
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Boris Johnson: Trump is clearly out of his mind – video | US news | The Guardian
Boris Johnson calls Donald Trump’s claims, that police officers are afraid to go into some parts of London because they are so “radicalised”, “complete nonsense”.
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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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Guillaume Soro arrest warrant ‘dropped by France’ – BBC News
A French judge has dropped his warrant for the arrest of Ivory Coast’s speaker of parliament, Guillaume Soro, according to his lawyers.The judge lifted the warrant following proof he is on official business in Paris, giving him diplomatic immunity.
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Watch: Insane Skiing, No Snow Needed – The Daily Beast
‘Tis the season for ski and snowboard video market saturation, top-tier talent getting wild under bluebird skies, enshrouded in a golden haze of sun-lit powder to entice enthusiasts into early-season and holiday gear upgrades.
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Paul Ryan on Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban: “This is not conservatism” – Vox
Republican presidential candidates and some members of the establishment have by and large condemned Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim from entering the US.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Earthquakes in 2015, and Other Ground-Movers – The New Yorker
Another year, and this old Earth is approaching the end of its six-hundred-million-mile lap around the sun.
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From breastfeeding to theory of mind, a delightful developmental odyssey seen from the parallel perspectives of parent and child.
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Pentagon warns Donald Trump is threatening National Security : politics
Okay, but this is like a clipping from an article about another article. What was the context? Is it just me, or does it seem like everything is a threat to National Security these days?
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A sting operation suggests that some researchers who dispute mainstream scientific conclusions on climate change are willing to conceal the sources of payment for their research, even if the money is purported to come from overseas corporations prod…
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Self-compacting loaf : Catloaf
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Growing up, I used to fill my shelves with things I collected in my travels and since my radius of movement was only about 5 miles, what I amassed was pretty lame. Now, with Amazon and eBay I never have to leave my home and every day is like Christm…
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This Donald Trump / Darth Vader mashup is surprisingly good | The Verge
Comparing Donald Trump to the world’s worst super villains is almost too easy now that the pouting egomaniac has been fully possessed by the racist elves that live in his hair.
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Saving the Original Sounds of Star Wars – The Atlantic
There are thousands of recordings in the Star Wars audio archive, which contains the sounds recorded for and used in the films. The franchise’s collection includes the cranking of antique air sirens, the roar of propeller planes, and the industrial …
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Because a new Star Wars movie is coming out in nine days, I decided to do something different this year as I re-upped my health insurance at healthcare.gov. This year I would sign up while blindfolded and relying exclusively on The Force to guide me.
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The Very Real Pain of Rejection – The Atlantic
The more Donald Trump and Ted Cruz talk about denying Syrian refugees and undocumented immigrants entry into the United States, the more their poll numbers rise. On Monday, Trump went so far as to call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims e…
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How to Treat a Headache Without Drugs – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Nutrition Diva by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Crista posted a question on the Nutrition Diva Facebook page, wondering whether there are any alternatives to…
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In one of the most well known stories from the Old Testament book of 1 Kings, King Solomon is faced with a dilemma: Two women come to see him, and tell him they live in the same house and both recently gave birth.
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Third Bataclan Attacker Is Identified – The Atlantic
Investigators have identified a third assailant in the November 13 attack on the Bataclan concert venue, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. “He has been identified,” Valls said on BFM-TV, but he declined to identify the man, saying “it is not …
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Chicago police inquiry triggers long-awaited change but hard choices ahead | US news | The Guardian
Just hours after the US Justice Department announced this week that it would investigate the Chicago police department for civil rights violations, local elected officials went on the offensive.
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British boxer Fury being investigated for ‘hate crime’ – Al Jazeera English
British world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been named the subject of a police investigation after making comments about homosexuality.
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Marriage and Divorce in Morocco – Al Jazeera English
I lost everything because I got married young. I blame myself above all – but I blame my father and society. There’s no law to protect us. Moroccan family law is built around the Moudawana, a family code that governs marriage, divorce, child custody…
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No evidence San Bernardino attackers part of wider cell, says Loretta Lynch | US news | The Guardian
There is no evidence yet that the couple behind last Thursday’s gun rampage in San Bernadino, California, had planned any other attacks or were part of a wider conspiracy, the US attorney general has said.
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Bernie Sanders Courts Support In A Wary, Struggling Baltimore | ThinkProgress
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — Until Tuesday, 49-year-old Mike Williams had never seen a presidential candidate visit Sandtown-Winchester — the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where police killed 25-year-old Freddie Gray this past April.
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Is ISIS Guilty Of Carrying Out Genocide? | ThinkProgress
In February, ISIS beheaded 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya. It massacred some 700 Turkmen in a northern Iraq village in August. Last month, Kurdish forces uncovered a mass grave that’s believed to contain the remains of at least 70 Yazidis.
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The U.S. Is About To Get A Lot More Fracking, Thanks To Congress | ThinkProgress
When Congress emerges on the other side of the annual scrum of budget-building, the oil and gas industry is poised to pick up a major win.
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Meet The People On The Front Lines Of The Fight For Safe Abortion Access | ThinkProgress
The fatal shooting spree at Colorado Springs’ Planned Parenthood last month left many in disbelief and confusion. But for clinic staff and volunteers, it was much less surprising. This attack, while deadlier than most, was one in a long history of v…
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case — Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin — that may end race conscious affirmative action at colleges for good.
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I’m from Canada, and I was never afraid of guns until I moved to the United States – Vox
At a railway station in Washington, DC, last month, a fight broke out between a man and a woman a short distance from where I was waiting to board my train. As their voices escalated to screaming, I had a strange thought: What if one of them takes o…
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How Protesters And Striking Workers Changed The Entire Debate Over The Minimum Wage | ThinkProgress
At the most recent Democratic presidential campaign, candidates clashed over the minimum wage. Bernie Sanders made it clear that he supports raising it to $15 an hour, full stop, as does Martin O’Malley.
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Genetic Kill-Switches Promise to Keep Bioengineered Bacteria in Check | Motherboard
Custom microbes have all kinds of potential, but we need a way to turn them off.
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The Psychology of the Affirmative Action Backlash | The Nation
The Supreme Court re-hears Abigail Fisher’s case against the University of Texas today. Fisher, who is a white woman, claims that she was denied admission to UT because of her race. If the High Court rules in her favor, Fisher v.
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‘Racist’, ‘fascist’, ‘utterly repellent’: What the world said about Donald Trump – BBC News
Donald Trump’s call for a “shutdown” on Muslims entering the United States has provoked a chorus of disapproval. World leaders, leading newspapers, and celebrities have used unprecedented language to describe a possible future president: “Racist”, “…
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Happy 20th Birthday To This American Life, Which Is Way Darker Than You Think
Halfway through the second episode of the third season of Girls, Lena Dunham’s character has one of her signature meltdowns and is left alone in the woods by her friends.
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Pharma’s Bad Boy Exec Paid $2 Million for Wu-Tang Clan’s New Record – Bloomberg Business
It was one of the greatest sales pitches the music industry has ever heard.
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This Site Teaches You to Prepare For and Deal With Online Harassment
The internet is one of the world’s greatest inventions. It’s also sometimes used by some real jerks to do some pretty crappy stuff. If you’ve ever had to deal with online harassment, or are just worried you might, Speak Up & Stay Safe(r) teaches the…
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Independent blogs ‘serve malware’ to readers – BBC News
The Independent newspaper’s blogging platform has been compromised with malware that infects readers’ computers, according to security experts. Researchers from Trend Micro found blogs on the website had been modified to install malware known as Cry…
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The iTunes Top 10 of 2015: How Apple Cracked the Code and Turned Indie | Vanity Fair
On the iTunes Movie Charts, it was a big year for some of the usual suspects—Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Fifty Shades of Grey, among the biggest films of the year, also did gangbusters business in iTunes rentals and purchases.
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Donald Trump v Archie Bunker quote quiz: who said it? | US news | The Guardian
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Things we don’t write: K Anis Ahmed on the murdered writers of Bangladesh | Books | The Guardian
Things we don’t write about: The Prophet. The Quran. The mosque. The hijab. Indeed, anything to do with Islam that might offend anyone willing to kill. The problem is that we can never be certain what will offend them.
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A Jaguars-Eagles Super Bowl? It’s not an impossible dream | Sport | The Guardian
Who’s pumped for a Jaguars-Eagles Super Bowl? This year, like every year, the playoffs will feature one team from the AFC South and another from the somehow even worse NFC East.
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BuzzFeed editor-in-chief: fair to call Donald Trump a ‘mendacious racist’ | Media | The Guardian
BuzzFeed journalists have been told they can call Donald Trump a “mendacious racist” on social media as a matter of fact.
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The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude | Vanity Fair
The house, in a quiet part of Mexico City, had a study within, and in the study he found a solitude he had never known before and would never know again. Cigarettes (he smoked 60 a day) were on the worktable. LPs were on the record player: Debussy, …
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Empire leads NAACP Image Awards race – BBC News
Musical drama Empire is leading the TV nominees for 2016’s National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People’s (NAACP) Image Awards. The US show is up for 12 prizes, including outstanding drama series, actor and actress.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday that an additional Republican primary debate will be hosted by the Fox Business Network on Jan. 14 i…
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Syria conflict: Divided opposition begins unity talks in Riyadh – BBC News
More than 100 Syrian rebels and opposition politicians are meeting in Riyadh in an attempt to come up with a united front for possible peace talks. As the conference in the Saudi capital began, one of the most powerful rebel groups struck an uncompr…
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“Renting Is Throwing Money Away” Is Completely False
You might have heard the old adage “renting is throwing money away.” It seems like common sense. You don’t buy anything when you rent, but you keep to keep the house you buy. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Confirmed: Akatsuki is in Orbit Around Venus!
After a year-long hiatus, we have a robotic explorer around our angry, overheated twin of a planet again! Early this morning the Japanese Space Agency confirmed their audacious plan to use manoeuvring thrusters worked, and now the spacecraft is alre…
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This Police Raid May Have Solved the Bitcoin Creator Riddle | VICE News
Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said.
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Eight Things About Donald Trump | Whatever
Do I have thoughts on Donald Trump today? Why, yes. Yes I do. 1. Without offering this up as an excuse — it’s rather the opposite — I don’t think Trump planned to become the face of 21st century American fascism.
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Jorge Luis Borges Picks 33 of His Favorite Books to Start His Famous Library of Babel | Open Culture
Over the years the recommendation robots of Amazon and other online services seem to be usurping the role of the librarian.
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Yahoo reverses Alibaba spin-off plan – BBC News
Yahoo has abandoned a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. Most of the internet company’s $32.7bn (£21.7bn) value is attributed to its shareholdings in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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Charitable Giving Guide 2015 / Boing Boing
Here’s a guide to the charities the Boingers support in our own annual giving. As always, please add the causes and charities you give to in the forums! Planned Parenthood Because donating to Planned Parenthood is the right thing, for Americans who …
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Merkel is Time person of the year – BBC News
Chancellor George Osborne announces a £50m fund for those affected by floods in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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Improving Pubic Schools for Better Economies – The Atlantic
The benefits of a better education are most often discussed in terms of personal gain: higher wages, greater economic mobility, and generally, a better life. But not all the benefits are private: Local economies flourish when there are more skilled …
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Israeli PM to meet Donald Trump despite outcry over Muslim ban | World news | The Guardian
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has confirmed he will meet Donald Trump despite an international outcry over the Republican presidential frontrunner’s suggestion that Muslims should be banned from entering the US.
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The Best Books Atlantic Staffers Read in 2015 – The Atlantic
The Atlantic’s editors and writers share their favorite titles—new, classic, or somewhere in between—from a year of reading.
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Kelvin Villanueva was almost home one night last June when a policeman stopped him for a broken taillight. From his truck, he could see his longtime girlfriend, Suelen Bueno, waiting for him behind the glass door of their apartment. She often did th…
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The Real Climate-Change Villain Isn’t China. It’s Congress. – At the Hotel California in Paris, an alternative universe of climate change deniers was addressed on video by U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. (thedailybeast.com)
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The Princeton Academic Testifying for Ted Cruz’s Climate Hearing Is For-Hire by Fossil-Fuel Corporations – A new report reveals ties between dirty-energy interests, a prominent climate denier, and a notorious dark-money group. (thenation.com)submitt…
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Mysterious Galaxy Crash Remnants Glow In New Views (Video)
The aftermath of an old galactic collision, which formed a very unusual dwarf galaxy, shines brightly in new images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Severe flooding in Lake District as dam bursts, October 1927 | Environment | The Guardian
Storm Desmond has wreaked havoc across the north west of England. One of the villages affected is Glenridding, near Ullswater, which is experiencing the worst flooding since 1927, when the dam at Keppel Cove burst its banks.
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Australian police raid the home and offices of reported Bitcoin creator | Ars Technica
Australian federal police have raided the Sydney home of Craig Steven Wright, the man who—just a few hours ago—was named by Wired and Gizmodo as the probable creator of Bitcoin.
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Behind the scenes with middleweight contender Peter Quillin – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
Peter Quillin, the 32-year-old middleweight contender known as Kid Chocolate, allowed Guardian US to follow him throughout the day of the biggest test of his career: Saturday’s title fight with Daniel Jacobs in Brooklyn.
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Ancient Cosmic Crash Site Hints At How Galaxies Formed | Video
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Trump, proto-Fascism and evangelicals
In front-page headlines and television interviews, he is increasingly being compared to Hitler. Jeb Bush called him “unhinged.” Dick Cheney said his proposed ban on Muslim immigrants “goes against everything we stand for and believe in as a country.…
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Did ISIS plan or just “inspire” the San Bernardino attacks? The difference is important. – Vox
Sometime on Wednesday, December 2, a woman named Tashfeen Malik posted a message to Facebook announcing her allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.
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This Year’s Biggest Business Blunders | Vanity Fair
Change is hard. It’s uncomfortable. And apparently, it was the kiss of death for many companies this year. First came the full-scale meltdown when Cadbury Creme Eggs, the very sweet, conceptually bizarre Easter classic, underwent a recipe change.
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Top 10 uncanny graphic novels | Books | The Guardian
I was recently invited to contribute a graphic story to a collection of uncanny tales, Congregation of Innocents, published by the Curious Tales collective.
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VW says CO2 emissions irregularities affect fewer cars than feared | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen has said the number of cars with irregular carbon dioxide levels is far lower than originally feared, providing some much-needed respite for the beleaguered German carmarker.
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Landmark Articles Highlight Scientific American’s 170 years – Scientific American
Since 1845, Scientific American has chronicled ideas and inventions that have changed the world. On the following pages, we present highlights from our archives on evolution, the cosmos, the brain and other topics, including a few written for us by …
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Dell’s new XPS laptops get a 10 percent discount in the US today | The Verge
Microsoft is currently discounting a number of PCs, Xbox One bundles, and accessories as part of its 12 days of deals promotion. While most of the deals have focused on older devices, today’s involves Dell’s latest XPS laptops.
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Donald Trump and ‘Demagogue’: The History of a Loaded Word – The Atlantic He’s been compared to Hitler. And also Voldermort. And also Mussolini, and an African dictator, and Sanjaya, and Biff Tannen from Back to the Future, and, mainly for aesthetic purposes, an orangutan. And yet recently a new…
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