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Photographs of Somali Refugee Community in America – The Atlantic
Minneapolis, Minnesota, is home to roughly 30,000 people of Somali origin. Many of them are refugees, having fled famine and decades of war—a situation not dissimilar to that of today’s Syrian refugees.
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The Challenges of Using Airbnb With an ‘African American-Sounding’ Name – The Atlantic
Renters with white-sounding names booked successfully 50 percent of the time, compared to 42 percent for African American names, according to the working paper.
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Movie Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ Is a Dull Ocean Adventure – The Atlantic
In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard’s new maritime epic, is based on the same true whaling misadventure that inspired Moby Dick.
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Who – if anybody – is advising Donald Trump? | US news | The Guardian
When Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House, dropped his A-bomb on the presidential contest last week by calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, there is little doubt that …
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Tech giants pledge $1bn for ‘altruistic AI’ venture, OpenAI – BBC News
Prominent tech executives have pledged $1bn (£659m) for OpenAI, a non-profit venture that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.
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Photos Reveal Mexico’s Colorful Virgin Mary Festival
For two millennia, the Virgin Mary has been one of the world’s most venerated women. She is particularly revered in Mexico; the country’s patron saint is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a form of the Virgin that is said to have appeared to an indigenous man …
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Team Trump: the people behind Donald Trump’s quest – and one who used to be | US news | The Guardian
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Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s aggressive campaign manager, has been described as “a bomb thrower” with “a knack for spectacle, an eye toward making money and a proven willingness to defy the Republican Party”. -
Don Verdean, Christians, and the Utility of Religious Humor – The Atlantic
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Can American Christians take a joke? The question will be tested by the new film Don Verdean, a satire about a Christian archeologist who tours churches showcasing the “biblical” artifacts he has unearthed—from the shears used to cut Samson’s hair t… -
San Bernardino shooting: How not to cover breaking news – Al Jazeera English
As televised news events go, it had a touch of the surreal about it. Two days after the San Bernardino mass shooting, scores of reporters stormed into the home of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, two of the crime’s main suspects, broadcasting live wh…
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Tough decisions await China’s pollution battle – Al Jazeera English
Beijing – China is in a unique position: It is a heavy polluter but is also probably spending more on efforts to combat pollution than any other country. And it should, according to environmental groups.
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Paris climate deal marks ‘opportunity to change the world’ | Environment | The Guardian
The Paris climate deal is an “opportunity to change the world”, François Hollande has said as he urged negotiators at the UN talks to adopt the final text of an agreement that will provide powerful momentum to efforts to curb climate change.
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Climate deal ‘to keep temperature rise under 2C’ – Al Jazeera English
French hosts have submitted a proposed 195-nation accord to curb emissions of the heat-trapping gases that threaten to wreak havoc on Earth’s climate system.
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COP21: Climate deal ‘final draft’ reached in Paris – BBC News
Organisers of climate talks in Paris are releasing details of a proposed landmark deal to curb climate change. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a final draft text would be legally binding and temperature rises would be kept “well below 2C…
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week Pollution in China, Europe’s refugee crisis, the aftermath of Storm Desmond – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this w…
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This was the day, fifteen years ago, when the Supreme Court voted 5-4 (in an anonymous decision that specifically, and uniquely, said it could not serve as precedent in future litigation) to end the recount of ballots in Florida, thus making George …
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Douglas Durst, a onetime hippie who had sought a career in international diplomacy, had just taken the reins of one of the most powerful family-owned real estate companies in New York City. At Osteria al Doge on West 44th Street, near Times Square, …
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The Computer Program That Can Detect Political Cybersquatting – The Atlantic
The Internet had a good laugh last week as the news broke that JebBush.com did not direct users to the former governor’s campaign site, as you’d expect, but instead to that of his rival, Donald Trump.
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Climate deal ‘to keep rises under 2C’ – 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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Can the Paris Climate Deal Save This Tiny Pacific Island? | Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Newsweek and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You’ve probably never heard of Nauru. But you might want to learn its name. It may not be around much longer.
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Will High Ping Issues Force Online Gaming Giants to Take On The ISP Industry? | TechCrunch
The popularity of online gaming and e-sports has taken off like a rocket in 2015, but the production houses that are stoking the industry’s engines could become victims of their own success.
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What Orwell can teach us about the language of terror and war | Books | The Guardian
At first sight, it seems hard to imagine a more unlikely pairing than George Orwell and Thomas Merton.
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Bill Murray Befriends the Muslim World: ‘Not Every Flower Is the Same’ – The Daily Beast
MARRAKECH – “Bill,” I call out. “Bill. Can we follow you?” Bill Murray is having an Arabian Nights moment. He is walking through the lobby of La Mamounia, one of the most opulent hotels in Marrakech, Morocco (and the world).
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Japan swept by record rains – Al Jazeera English
The main islands of Japan have just been swept by a wave of rain of record-breaking proportions. Strong winds accompanying the downpour caused damage in many places on land and at sea. The rain came up from the south during Thursday afternoon and la…
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Greenpeace activists paint the Arch De Triomphe into the sun to support 100% renewable energy by 2050 (mashable.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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How Star Wars pioneered film merchandising – BBC News
Star Wars is one of the largest film franchises in the world. The original films pioneered merchandising in the 1970s, into an industry worth billions of pounds.
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COP21: Final climate deal draft text revealed – BBC News
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presents a final draft text at the COP21 climate summit, following a fortnight of intensive international negotiations.
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Delegates cautiously optimistic ahead of COP21 negotiations – video | Environment | The Guardian
Delegates from the COP21 Climate talks in the Le Bourget, near Paris arrive at the venue on Saturday morning. An draft was created late on Friday night and is due to be presented to work negotiators on Saturday morning.
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In final push for landmark climate deal, end of fossil fuel era nears : environment
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What Are Sleep Orgasms, and How Can I Have One? | Broadly
It happens about three times a month. I’ll be in that hazy middle ground between sleeping and waking, clinging onto some vaguely sexy dream I can’t quite pin down, before I feel something slowly building. By the time I wake up, I’m having an orgasm.
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Bipartisan group of federal lawmakers urges halt to seismic testing permits for Atlantic oil and gas (southernstudies.org)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Parents Accuse Belgian Police of Inaction | Al Jazeera America
BRUSSELS — A federal prosecutor in Belgium has asked a judge to convict Jean-Louis Denis — accused of recruiting at least six young people to fight for armed groups in Syria — and to sentence him 15 years in prison.
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I’m in Portugal — sorry, too jet-lagged to post music this week — where I am attending a conference in memory of Jose da Silva Lopes. (No, I’m not doing interviews — I’m spending my spare time with friends.
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‘At least 21’ bodies found in Burundi – BBC News
At least 21 bodies have been found lying in the streets of Burundi’s capital as unrest continues, witnesses and a police source say. Some reports speak of dozens of bodies, mainly of young men, their hands tied behind their backs with signs of havin…
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Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York Senate, and his son were found guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday, a quick and devastating follow-up punch to the State Capitol, which has seen two entrenched leaders convicted a…
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The Limits of Liberal Niceness in Aziz Ansari’s Master of None – In These Times
Aziz Ansari’s wonderful new Netflix series Master of None marks a welcome shift from the last generation of retrograde comics who sought laughs at the expense of the most marginalized. (Think Andrew Dice Clay’s misogynist nursery rhymes).
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Since deciding, after taking a maths degree and working for an insurance company and a building society, that he was more interested in literature, Sunjeev Sahota has written two novels about some of the most hated people in Britain.
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The Latest Embarrassing GOP Attacks on Climate Change Science : environment
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Baron Ladislaus Müller von Szentgyörgy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ladislaus Freiherr Müller von Szentgyörgy (Hungarian: László báró Müller de Szentgyörgy) (18 October 1855 – ?) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin serving as Ambassador at Tokyo at the outbreak of World War I.
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Guardian Live Updater – COP21 (Paris) Final Agreement ETA 5 hours from this post : environment
According to that Guardian live news updater thread, the final COP21 agreement text is due to be published 5 hours from now. The text is apparently done, just waiting on “‘scrubber’ teams of lawyers and translators”.
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The gifs that keep on giving: Cristiano Ronaldo, Odell Beckham Jr and snooker | Sport | The Guardian
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Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn: COP21 – Climate Emergency (Dispatch 5) | VICE News
As the COP21 climate talks reach their final crucial stages, outside of the negotiation halls in Paris environmental NGOs, grassroots organizations, climate justice activists and trade unions from all over the world have been uniting to form a new g…
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Farc rebels: Colombia investigates 150 ‘forced abortions’ – BBC News
Colombia is investigating more than 150 cases of forced abortion by Farc rebels, the chief prosecutor says. Female rebels were compelled to have abortions so as not to undermine their fighting ability, Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre told repor…
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Is Bow Wow a Domestic Abuser? – The Daily Beast
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Gambia declared Islamic republic by President Yahya Jammeh – BBC News
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared his Muslim-majority country an Islamic republic, saying the move marks a break with the colonial past. Mr Jammeh told state TV the proclamation was in line with Gambia’s “religious identity and values”.
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The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson is a sequel to the fantastic The Gruffalo. The story is told in lovely rhyming language and can be brought to life with some good voice variations!
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How to draw… a Christmas robin | Children’s books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Children’s books How to draw …
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Is Bow Wow a Domestic Abuser? – The Daily Beast
Former Love & Hip Hop personality Erica Mena threw shade and one serious accusation at rapper/actor Shad “Bow Wow” Moss this week, capping a public online melee with her ex-fiancé with one very loaded allegation: “I walked away silently,” she said o…
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My hero: William McIlvanney by Ian Rankin | Books | The Guardian
In one of many fine obituaries to William McIlvanney this week, journalist Kenny Farquharson reminisced about a meeting with the Scottish author where McIlvanney told him: “We are part animal. Humanity is an aspiration, not a fact of everyday life.
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ELI5: When knocked unconscious, what bodily function wakes a person back up? What determines when and how quickly it happens? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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Good morning from north-east Paris. Excitement is building here as around 20,000 delegates at the COP21 climate summit await the final draft of a deal to tackle dangerous global warming.
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A doll washed up on on El Salvador’s coast. As the dust settles on UN climate talks in Paris, action can’t come soon enough for communities living along the country’s battered coastline. It is estimated that El Salvador could lose up to 28% of its c…
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First hurdle for young riders at the Shetland Pony Grand National – BBC News
The Shetland Pony Grand National is the first step for many young riders. Aspiring jockeys aged between nine and fourteen take part in the annual event.
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Lifting the commercial curse on Kurdish film – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq – Brain-eating kings, demon’s curses, haunted castles: These are not the first things that come to mind when one thinks of Kurdish film – if one thinks anything at all. Traditionally, Kurdish directors have made films about their people’…
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BBC Sport – Juan Angel Napout: Fifa vice-president resigns from Conmebol
Fifa vice-president Juan Angel Napout has resigned as president of Conmebol, South America’s football confederation. Napout, 56, is currently serving a 90-day ban from football and was arrested in Switzerland last week at the request of US authoriti…
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Tim Peake: The influence on Russia’s space history – BBC News
On Tuesday, Tim Peake will become the first official British astronaut in space. He will blast off to the International Station on board a Russian spacecraft, from the same launch-pad used by the first ever man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
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Fighting ISIL needs more than air strikes – Al Jazeera English
The war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group cannot succeed without a bold, comprehensive international communication strategy consisting of smart media programming. ISIL’s media campaign has been a significant component of …
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Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant, but totally different.
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Exploring the Arab world’s challenges through film – Al Jazeera English
London – Hsan, a penniless 50-year-old in Tunisia, agrees to paint his house purple to honour the country’s president in exchange for a job. But his plan goes awry when the Tunisian revolution in 2011 topples the regime.
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Half Life 2 recreated in Unreal Engine 4 : gaming
When and where can I play it?
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A reminder: Terrorists want us to be terrorized: “terror attacks are designed to sow fear… The best way to enable terrorists is to overstate the effect and magnitude of their attacks — and to overreact to them… We’re terrifying ourselves into so…
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James Pattinson took 5-27 as Australia beat the West Indies by an innings and 212 runs in the first Test in Hobart. Australia wrapped up the victory in three days after dismissing the tourists for 148 in the second innings.
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My cat loving his new Santa outfit : cats
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Internet giant Alibaba to buy South China Morning Post – Al Jazeera English
Chinese internet giant Alibaba said it would buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, pledging to maintain the newspaper’s objectivity in the face of fears it will lose its independent voice.
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Google CEO Pens Open Letter Supporting Muslim Tolerance In U.S. And Beyond | TechCrunch
Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai is the latest tech executive to issue an open call for tolerance after Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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‘I never wanted to live a sensible life … I didn’t want a sensible death either.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change. — “I’m guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice – who would ever want to breathe those fumes?” (self.environ…
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‘Suicide’ gene therapy kills prostate cancer cells – BBC News
A new gene therapy technique is able to modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient’s body attacks and kills them, US scientists have discovered.The technique causes the tumour cells in the body to self-destruct, giving it the name ‘suicide gene …
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Clinton twitter near 50% fake followers : politics
The headline is very misleading. The article states that 15% of her followers are “fake” and 41% are “inactive.” The remaining 44% are “good,” whatever that means. If they’re inactive, how are they also following the 2016 election cycle?
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Grimm isn’t a show that you normally think of when you think of big dramatic twists.
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Harper Lee: my Christmas in New York | Books | The Guardian
Several years ago, I was living in New York and working for an airline, so I never got home to Alabama for Christmas – if, indeed, I got the day off.
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Flooding: five things you need to know about insuring your property | Money | The Guardian
Around 5m, or a sixth of the properties in England, are deemed to have a higher than normal risk of flooding – but only around half are from rivers or the sea. The rest are at risk from rising groundwater, sewer problems and flash flooding.
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FARC rebels in the Colombian jungle – Al Jazeera English
The Colombian government is close to signing a historic peace agreement with the FARC rebel group. After 51 years of often brutal conflict and three previous failed negotiations, FARC, ot the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, seems finally rea…
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Always Lonely: A Visual Celebration of Sinatra – The New Yorker
Frank Sinatra will forever be celebrated for his swaggering sense of style, mellifluous singing voice, and intimidating attitude. He was the world’s first modern pop star.
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Spain cocaine seizure: Drug disguised as wooden pallets – BBC News
Spanish police say they have seized dozen of pallets made out 1.4 tonnes of compressed cocaine that was made to look like wood. They also uncovered cocaine disguised as charcoal as part of the same shipment from Colombia to Valencia.
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In 1989, director Howard Brookner completed his first narrative feature, Bloodhounds Of Broadway (starring Madonna, among many others).
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I’ve been a coffee addict for a long time, but I only recently became a coffee snob. That’s how I got into the AeroPress method of coffee brewing. It’s not the most aesthetically pretty of the coffee-brewing methods—managing editor Laura M.
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He has a point. The reason he doesn’t make the cutoff is because of a single poll from before the Fox Business debate (on Nov. 10th) which is dragging down his average below the minimum threshold.
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A lost landscape with relics of martyrdom | Environment | The Guardian
It wasn’t quite midwinter spring, but the morning was unusually warm, the moors tucked up under blankets of thick grey cloud. Smoke from the chimney of the Grindleford Café rose in an unwaveringly straight line to heaven.
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Austin, Tex. — “WHAT are you doing?” I had just shot a gun for the first time. The instructor was yelling at me because he couldn’t understand how a 22-year-old missed a target some four feet tall and two feet wide, standing only nine feet away.
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Kabul embassy attack: Taliban fighters killed – BBC News
All four gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say. They say four policemen also died in the attack.
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Some of the most prominent executives in the technology industry including the Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk are backing a non-profit artificial intelligence research company with funding of $1bn.
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Saudi holds first ever election open to women – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia is holding its first ever election open to female voters and candidates, in a tentative step towards easing restrictions on women. The Islamic monarchy, where women are banned from driving and must cover themselves in public, is the wor…
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Iceberg Bridge Image, Greenland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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‘The Knick’ Recap: Out of the Past | Rolling Stone
It took 18 episodes and close to 180 gallons of blood, but we finally learned what happened between John Thackery and August Roberston in Nicaragua all those years ago.
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The Pfeffermans are growing up–and down–in thirdTransparent · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
Welcome to The A.V. Club’s Transparent binge-watch. From Friday, December 11 through Sunday, December 13, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero will be watching and reviewing every episode of Transparent’s second season.
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APOD: 2015 December 11 – The Brightest Spot on Ceres
Explanation: Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt with a diameter of about 950 kilometers.
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Hillary Clinton Is Whitewashing the Financial Catastrophe : politics
Of course she is. Her husband’s signing the repeal of Glass-Steagle, which she supported, was an instrumental component of making it happen. IIRC by the time he signed the bill G-S was a tattered remnent of what it once was.
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Climate deal ‘within reach’ at Paris summit – Al Jazeera English
Climate negotiators in Paris say they are close to reaching a deal, after nearly two weeks of tough negotiations at a summit there. Laurent Fabius, French foreign minister, who is leading the summit, is expected to present a potentially final draft …
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One cat on the couch, one cat in the couch : cats
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♫ Little Red Corvette ♫ : gifs
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“Finally a good outcome,” Bertie says just before finding out Gallinger’s been “sterilizing idiots” and Thackery’s bowel is at last responding to his methodical years-long cocaine treatment. “Finally” is right.
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Open thread for night owls: Key issues of civil society groups unmet in climate pact draft
Children of the AVAAZ NGO activist group demontrate with cardboard replica life buoys with the message, “farewell fossil fuels” in front of the World Climate Change Conference in Paris.
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“Champagne” and “Christmas Trifle” make an unfortunately smart pair. What goes up, must come down. “Champagne” starts as low as Please Like Me gets. Josh Thomas is a picture of nerves on his hospital visit to see Ben. Seriously impressive performanc…
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Colorado gold rush ghost town revisited – BBC News
At the height of the Colorado gold rush, the city of Victor, high up in the Rocky Mountains, had a population of more than 18,000 people. The gold and the prospectors are now long gone, but the town remains – along with a few hundred residents.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘let’s not let fear defeat our values’ | The Verge
An escalating tide of intolerant rhetoric has overtaken the media thanks to Donald Trump, but voices at leading businesses are pushing back.
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Supreme Court releases audio of Scalia’s comments on African-Americans in universities : politics
Heriot was not in court to hear Scalia, but she read a transcript of arguments and she defends Scalia’s comments.
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I’m a Sanders supporter, and I’m not giving up all hope, but that’s way, way too much certainty. Realistically, he’ll most likely lose. I hope he doesn’t, and I’ll keep working on his campaign, but I’m certainly not going to act like he’s some kind …
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The Golden Cocoon of the Urodidae : pics
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Washington — I’m a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties. These days, I get two questions repeatedly: “Is it worse than it’s ever been?” and “What’s up with Donald Trump?”
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Real estate companies, furniture makers and other businesses that have emblazoned the Trump name on their properties and products ought to think hard about whether they want to be associated with the outrageous things coming out of Do
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Siegelman held in solitary for 8 weeks after speaking out on prison reform – “The former governor of Alabama has been confined in a SHU cell for the last 8 weeks and has only been out of his cell for <5 hours.
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The Half-Hearted Case for Rubio – The Daily Beast
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Graverobber or Santeria Priest? – The Daily Beast
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A Drop Of Blood That Could Save Your Life: The New Technology of Stroke Detection – The Daily Beast
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Ukraine Extremists With Stolen Dutch Art Try to Sell It Back – The Daily Beast
AMSTERDAM — “Borys is a sympathetic crook,” says Arthur Brand, an art recovery expert whose business has led to encounters with all sorts of criminals. But, he cautions, “Guys like that are kind of Jekyll and Hyde.”
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Swing Dancing’s Sex Assault Scandal – The Daily Beast
Until January 22 this year, Steven Mitchell was a God in the swing dance world. He helped to save the dance from obscurity and spent the last three decades traveling the world as one of its ambassadors.
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A College’s War on Christmas Parties – The Daily Beast
Another holiday, another opportunity for college administrators to trample students’ free expression rights as part of some comically misguided effort to prevent offense.
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Burned Mosque Worshipers: Blame Trump – The Daily Beast
COACHELLA, California — Holy prayers at a mosque here on Friday were canceled with families gawking behind fire lines after discovering the front of their holy house had become one big fireball. So far, there’s no official cause for the blaze.
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Meet Daisy Ridley, Heroine of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ – The Daily Beast
We’re still two weeks out from the release of the new Star Wars movie, and already it is breaking box office records, shattering pre-sale expectations with a staggering $50 million gross, all without any kind of critical or preview word of mouth.
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Literature’s Latest John Lennon Fantasy – The Daily Beast
Hard to believe it was mid-November in New York City. Washington Square Park was buttered with sunshine, temperature in the mid 60s, squirrels going mad. It felt like springtime.
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The Best Fiction of 2015 – The Daily Beast
In this “kaleidoscopic portrait of 1980s D.C.,” Mallon has succeeded where so many have failed: he has produced a genuinely fun book about Washington, D.C. society.
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Satanic Temple Leader Blogs Her Abortion – The Daily Beast
As the national spokesperson for The Satanic Temple and the director of its Detroit chapter, Jex Blackmore’s job description is certainly unusual. But her blog about medical abortion resonated so widely because it is so common. Nearly three out of 1…
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‘A Meteorite Saved My Town’ – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — Who says it’s a bad thing when the sky falls on your head? For people in Saricicek, a Turkish village of 3,000 near the city if Bingol in impoverished southeastern Anatolia, objects dropping out of the sky have been a blessing.
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A Drop Of Blood That Could Save Your Life: The New Technology of Stroke Detection – The Daily Beast
For the 795,000 Americans each year who suffer a stroke, a rapid response diagnostic test may soon be at hand.
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Graverobber or Santeria Priest? – The Daily Beast
Amador Medina’s spirits were likely running wild. The Hartford, CT man was arrested this week after five human skeletons—allegedly stolen from a Massachusetts cemetery—were found in his home.
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Men Can Be Feminists—But They Shouldn’t Be – The Daily Beast
Last month, sexual assault allegations against porn’s reigning “nice guy” rocked the industry. On November 28, Stoya, a well-known adult film star and writer, alleged that her former boyfriend, James Deen, raped her in a series of messages posted to…
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The Acid Genius of Robert Hughes – The Daily Beast
The Spectacle of Skill, a book of pieces by Robert Hughes, is more than welcome. He had covered art for Time for a decade when he fronted The Shock of the New, his 1980 BBC/Time-Life television series, an eight parter on art, which began with Impres…
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The Half-Hearted Case for Rubio – The Daily Beast
I must, I can, I will be positive about Marco Rubio. I’m a Republican. Rubio is the least insane candidate (low bar) with the best chance (faint hope) of actually beating Hillary. The patients have taken over the GOP psychiatric ward. The shrink is …
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Climate deal text ‘agreed’ in Paris – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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The Super-Rich’s Noisy Love Affair With ‘Iceberg’ Basements – The Daily Beast
When a $5m Georgian townhouse in Barnes, West London collapsed last month during building works local residents were quick to lay the blame on the construction of a gigantic basement below the historic six-bedroom property, which was set to include …
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American Dreams: Fiction’s Anti-Karlie Kloss – The Daily Beast
At the heart of this most anti-sentimental of novels is a sentimental story: a young model, beautiful on the outside but hideous within, befriends an aging, overweight proofreader who is beautiful on the inside but on the outside resembles “a human …
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The US has asked Australia and other coalition partners to increase their military contribution to the fight against Islamic State. The defence minister, Senator Marise Payne, said Australia was already making a substantial contribution, though that…
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“Who am I? Who are you?” asks second episode of Transparent · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
Welcome to The A.V. Club’s Transparent binge-watch. From Friday, December 11 through Sunday, December 13, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero will be watching and reviewing every episode of Transparent’s second season.
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Muslims Call For “Total Ban” On Americans Invading Muslim Countries : politics
I’m okay with that. Unsurprisingly so are most Americans.
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My cat telling me I am no longer her favorite human : aww
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I work at a movie theatre. This just came in. : pics
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Watch Miley Cyrus Revert to a Baby in ‘BB Talk’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Miley Cyrus Revert to a Baby in ‘BB Talk’ Video Bonnets, pacifiers and cribs highlight singer’s kiss-off to an ex
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Oklahoma serial rapist cop convicted, media couldn’t care less
Former Oklahoma police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted Thursday on 18 of 36 charges of rape and sexual assault against 13 black women and one minor.
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Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Blasts Network Newscasts for Lack Of Coverage. : politics
Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Blasts Network Newscasts for Lack Of Coverage. (variety.com) The campaign makes the point that Trump draws 20%-30% support among primary voters, the same level as Sanders.
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A Day in the life of an OLYMPEX weather forecaster : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Today’s post will be a ‘guest’ post from Luke Madaus, expert weather forecaster, numerical modeler and graduate student from the University of Washington.
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Climate deal negotiators: ‘No-one is sleeping much’ – BBC News
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What happens when PR campaigns decide who gets an organ?
When the billionaire sports magnate Eugene Melnyk was diagnosed with liver failure, he crowdsourced a new organ and kick-started an alarming trend. What happens when PR campaigns decide who lives and who dies? One day last January, Eugene Melnyk sum…
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Nepal blockade: Six ways it affects the country – BBC News
Nepal has been gripped by a blockade in the country’s south for the past two months, leading to acute shortages of fuel and medicine. The blockade is led by ethnic minorities who say they are discriminated against in the new constitution.
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Twitter Told a Bunch of Users They May Be Targets of a ‘State Sponsored Attack’ | Motherboard
Twitter is letting some users know that their accounts may have been the targets of a state-sponsored attack. The attack is currently being investigated by Twitter.
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Climate deal negotiators: ‘No-one is sleeping much’ – BBC News
Climate deal negotiators are working through a third night in Paris. It’s tiring work not just for them but also the thousands of campaigners and journalists covering the event. Video journalist Paul Harris has been asking them whether it has been w…
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West Wing Week: 12/11/2015 or, “Notorious RBG” on Vimeo
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — and beyond. This week, the President addressed artists in the East Room, the nation from the Oval Office, and Congress on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile,…
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Spain election: Taking back Barcelona’s apartments – BBC News
Tourists enjoying an apartment in Barcelona may not know it, but the terms of their lease are, so to speak, in dispute.
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To understand just how big Conor McGregor has become, how important he is to Ireland, how vital his ascent is to the continued rise of the UFC, consider the line of people that formed outside the MGM Grand Garden Arena at 9am on Friday to watch a we…
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Rural community angered by gas firm-branded suicide prevention advice | Society | The Guardian
Gas company funding of suicide prevention counselling in Queensland’s gasfields has sparked fresh controversy after a government department distributed a brochure for the service to friends of a farmer who took his life after a long battle with the …
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Fukushima report declassified: Worse than we were told : environment
Fukushima report declassified: Worse than we were told (rt.com)submitted 54 minutes ago by loading…
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Trump v Le Pen: In their own words – BBC News
With Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen surging in the polls in the US and France, comparisons between the two politicians have been popping up all over the place.
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The mystery of the 24 Dutch Golden Age paintings – BBC News
Eleven years ago, 24 Dutch Golden Age paintings disappeared from a regional museum in the north-west Netherlands. In July this year two representatives of a right-wing Ukrainian militia turned up at the Dutch Embassy in Kiev demanding 50m euros (£36…
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Saudi Arabian women in historic first-time vote – BBC News
Women are going to the polls in Saudi Arabia for the first time, voting in municipal elections. Female candidates are also being allowed to run for office, marking an historic moment in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Everything Is Perfect About This Boy With A Flaming Samurai Sword On A Flying Lion
The weekend is here so, we figured we’d throw up this amazing illustration by artist Carlyle McCullough. It’s of a young boy with a light-up samurai sword riding a flying lion. Sure, why not?
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Brother from another mother : aww
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Rape allegation puts spotlight on anonymous campus app Yeti – BBC News
The murky case of an alleged rape has put an anonymous video messaging app popular on university campuses in the spotlight. Yeti Campus Stories is a service similar to other apps like Snapchat or Yik Yak.
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Most Popular Health and Fitness Posts of 2015
For something so important, there’s an awful lot of confusion over health and nutrition. This year, we covered more health and fitness than ever before, in an effort to dispel that confusion. Here were our best health-related posts of 2015. Being he…
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Vox Sentences: An Oklahoma ex-cop is convicted of serial rape. How many more are there? – Vox
Oklahoma ex-cop Daniel Holtzclaw convicted of assaulting 8 black women on duty; a big blow to freedom of the press in Hong Kong; and Saudi women go to the polls for the first time tomorrow. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Week in pictures: 5-11 December 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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John Humphrys: Could the European Union really collapse? – BBC News
As leaders gather in Brussels, the founding principles of the European Union are under threat as never before, says the Today programme’s John Humphrys. Stand by for another boring European Union summit.
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‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ Talks Dirty, Finds Love in Exclusive Clip – The Daily Beast
One of the many mysteries of Ash vs Evil Dead, Starz’s raucous horror-comedy sequel to Sam Raimi’s beloved Evil Dead film trilogy, is Ash’s unexpected, miraculous luck with the ladies.
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As diplomats in Paris try to secure an international agreement to rein in carbon pollution from fossil fuels, lawmakers in Washington are pushing a tax break for oil refiners as part of a compromise allowing unfettered crude-oil exports for the firs…
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Janie Liggins stood at a news-conference microphone on Friday and described her horror and defenselessness as an Oklahoma City police officer sexually assaulted her in her car during a traffic stop. “I was so afraid, and I was out th…
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How Startups Are Making Real Estate Businesses More Efficient | TechCrunch
Advances in information technology have generated enormous efficiencies in many industries, including manufacturing, transportation, communications, entertainment, retail and financial services.
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SpaceX, ULA Transforming Historic Launchpads for Commercial Crew Flights
They were the sites where men left for the moon and space shuttles launched into orbit, where rovers departed for Mars and probes took off to the outer planets.
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Huskies howl at video of howling Siberian Husky / Boing Boing
From the Cincinnati Zoo’s wonderful Instagram feed: Bonobo smiles can mean different things like fear or playfulness. They also have large grins when they are wrestling with other bonobos and laughing. Bonobos are a critically endangered species in …
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Women in Saudi Arabia to vote for first time – BBC News
Saudi Arabia will go to the polls on Saturday in unprecedented municipal elections in which women will cast a ballot for the first time. Women are able to stand as candidates, despite the fiercely conservative kingdom being the only nation where wom…
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Dolly Parton’s Latest Act of Reinvention: A Dull TV Movie About Her Childhood | Vanity Fair
Believability is everything in entertainment, but we all know better than to believe what we see. Take the life of Dolly Parton, whose many famous quotes include, “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.”
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The Shins oust Mariah Carey from her mall-based Christmas music throne · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unlikely challengers for the P.A. system holiday crown, The Shins have successfully deposed Mariah Carey as the undisputed queen of music you grow slowly annoyed by while doing last-minute Christmas shopping at the mall.
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We’re all one big unhappy family in season two of Transparent · TV Club Binge · The A.V. Club
Welcome to The A.V. Club’s Transparent binge-watch. From Friday, December 11 through Sunday, December 13, A.V. Club contributor Shelby Fero will be watching and reviewing every episode of Transparent’s second season.
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More Americans support Bernie than The Donald — but he gets 1/23 the TV coverage : politics
I can barely remember the last time I saw him covered by CNN, MSNBC, or FOX. It might have been the “No one cares about your damn emails” soundbite. And that was only covered at length because it was in support of Hillary.
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Exxon Knew about Climate Change 40 Years Ago : environment
Exxon Knew about Climate Change 40 Years Ago (briefmedia.news)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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This is what happens when Zach helps me cut onions. : cats
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Cheeky Goalkeeper Runs The Entire Length Of The Field To Score A Goal – Digg
8 diggs Sports Entertainment Good goalkeeping is not only making the save, but quickly distributing the ball afterwards. Here, the best target for Guillermo Centurión was himself.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Note: Tonight on Eyewitness News, a researcher wonders if he may have to expand his home office, saying more study is needed. Film at 11. Weeks ’til Star Wars Episode VII: One!!!!!!!!
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PGA Tour may strip Donald Trump-owned Blue Monster of WGC event in 2017 | US news | The Guardian
The PGA Tour is to consider alternative venues for the WGC-Cadillac Championship following Donald Trump’s latest controversial comments. The Championship is to be staged at Trump’s National Doral in Miami in March but may be moved elsewhere after 20…
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With security cam, guy catches housecleaner committing identity theft / Boing Boing
A man in the Washington, DC area caught his housecleaner photographing documents and rifling through his papers, presumably to commit identity theft. Or, who knows, maybe he’s also a document archivist and wanted to be very very certain that the pap…
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Having somehow survived those two or three years when the internet unleashed its collective hounds to try to drive her from existence, comedian and TV producer Whitney Cummings has a new stand-up special coming soon to HBO.
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IamA — We are h3h3productions! We make comedy videos on YouTube. Ask us anything! : IAmA
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Too bad she didn’t think of that before her lies about PP set off a firestorm. Let’s focus on the real issues. Like why someone would wear a skin tight flesh colored turtleneck to a TV interview.
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Build an Automatic Cookie Decorating Machine With LEGO Mindstorms
Decorating cookies by hand can be a pleasant activity, but with a LEGO Mindstorms set, you can crank out a bunch of perfectly iced cookies in no time at all.
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A conservative explains Donald Trump: He ‘gives voice to white grievance’ and it’s liberals’ fault
This borefest is just another entry in the genre of conspiracy-minded conservatives attempting to explain “what progressives think” via rambling, tendentious arguments and examples that are “known” to be true mostly because they keep appearing on fo…
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‘Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate’ – The Atlantic
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While Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film The Hateful Eight is coming out on Christmas Day, anybody that didn’t have access to one of the select theaters showing the film in 70mm was going to have to wait a full two weeks.
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The Best News Bloopers Of 2015 – Digg
Funny TV Every year NewsBeFunny makes one of these recaps, and every year we realize how many normal words sound just like words you absolutely cannot say on broadcast TV.
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UK’s defence secretary calls war on Isis ‘agonisingly slow’ | World news | The Guardian
Britain’s defence secretary has expressed frustration at the “agonisingly slow” progress of the war against Islamic State and declined to offer a timetable for its defeat.
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Could MDMA help cure PTSD? | Al Jazeera America
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – Army Sgt. Tony Macie remembers vividly the day he knew he was at war. He was a forward observer in Iraq, on patrol outside of Baghdad, at the height of the surge in 2006. At the time, he was only 19.
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Peter Pham On The Pendulum Swing Back In VCs’ Favor | TechCrunch
Early last week, during a panel about the state of early-stage investing, a handful of VCs I interviewed largely agreed that, as a class, they’re less keen right now to write checks as quickly as earlier this year.
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Antibiotic use went up last year. Should we be freaking out? | Grist
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are also on the rise, explains Chicken Little. While negotiators have been hammering out a global deal, artists have been using the City of Light as a canvas for cool projects.
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Check out these 9 climate art projects that are wowing people in Paris | Grist
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are also on the rise, explains Chicken Little. While negotiators have been hammering out a global deal, artists have been using the City of Light as a canvas for cool projects.
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Song of 2015? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Song of 2015? Cast your vote in our weekly poll Decembe
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Harvard University offers a completely free online course on the Fundamentals of Neuroscience that you can get a certificate for successfully completing and which requires nothing other than basic knowledge in Biology and Chemistry. (mcb80x.org)
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A 22-year-old Texan fires a gun for the first time and—on the same day—passes the test to carry a concealed handgun on Texas school campuses (including college buildings and elementary school parking lots). “Knowing nothing about guns, I was suppose…
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In the Future, Even the Monoliths Bleed
In the Future, Even the Monoliths Bleed https://t.co/phoICzbOI5 https://t.co/o1xoCWXODQ
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Techno-social engineering is freaking insiders out / Boing Boing
I’m guessing there aren’t many of us who are terribly concerned that Skynet will unleash its army of Terminator robots on us. But to hear tech visionaries like Bill Gates and Elon Musk tell it, there’s probably good reason to worry that computers wi…
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Disturbed Covered Simon And Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound Of Silence’ Because Sure, Why Not? – Digg
Music On the one hand, good for them getting out of their comfort zone.
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Uber Drivers Are Still Refusing to Pick Up Blind Passengers | Motherboard
Sassy Outwater, a producer in Boston, ordered an Uber on Friday to drive her from a doctor’s appointment to a different part of the city for Christmas shopping.
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How Elon Musk Plans on Reinventing the World (and Mars) | GQ
One of his companies is trying to upend the auto industry. Another of his companies is trying to put people on Mars. Yet another is trying to bring electricity to everyone who needs it. Elon Musk wants to reinvent the world in a single lifetime. But…
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Former Oklahoma City Officer Found Guilty in Sexual Assault Case | The Nation
On Thursday, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of rape and sexual assault charges, including sexual battery and forcible oral sodomy.
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In the Future, Even the Monoliths Bleed
And when they bleed, the resulting blood pool becomes a portal to the underworld. Full art below. This work is by Matt Relkin, and more of his art can be seen at his website.
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Week in Fashion: Rihanna Makes Us Swoon in Satin | Vanity Fair
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The Bizarre Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin” – The New Yorker
On Tuesday, within a few hours of each other, Wired, and then Gizmodo, published articles contending that Satoshi Nakamoto, the name under which bitcoin was introduced to the world in November, 2008, is likely the pseudonym of an Australian informat…
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Why Cats Knock Stuff Over (and How to Prevent It)
Cats love to knock stuff over or push things off tables, and that leads to a lot of broken items. Are they mean-spirited animals that hate your stuff? Here’s the truth, and how you can help prevent it. Dr.
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The Hypocritical Legal Campaign Against Daily Fantasy Sports – The New Yorker
This has been the year when daily fantasy sports went mainstream. Ads from the two biggest daily fantasy sites, Draft Kings and Fan Duel, were inescapable on sports broadcasts all summer and fall, and the number of Americans playing these games skyr…
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An Argument About Sexual Assault and Race at Harvard Law School – The New Yorker
This is a piece on a subject about which I may soon be prevented from publishing, depending on how events unfold.
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Armed Men Wage Attacks on Military in Burundi as the World Warns of Civil War Risk | VICE News
Gunfire could still be heard throughout the empty streets of Bujumbura on Friday night, more than 12 hours after armed men waged a series of early morning attacks on military bases throughout Burundi.
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Flooding Persists in Southeast India : Natural Hazards
In early December 2015, a deluge of rain led to widespread flooding in southeastern India. One estimate, based on data from a satellite that makes measurements through the cloud layers, found that rainfall totals over the region approached 400 milli…
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A Year in the Life of Carbon Dioxide : Image of the Day
Launched in 2014, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) has been collecting NASA’s first detailed, global measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The OCO-2 team recently released its first full year of data, which is critical to analyz…
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Cartoon: A gun culture Christmas
There were more mass shootings last week, and so I’ve drawn another cartoon about it. I’m feeling like the woman in the second panel, out of ink to spill on the subject long before this blood-soaked country runs out of ammo.
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DraftKings and FanDuel stay alive in New York after emergency ruling | The Verge
DraftKings and FanDuel have averted disaster for now. Hours after one judge ordered the daily fantasy sports sites to cease operations in New York, both companies have been granted an emergency stay and will avoid the massive blow to business — at l…
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There’s nothing new about 15-year-olds drawing pictures of or writing songs about their favorite TV characters. It’s a little less common, though, for the teens in question to then release those songs as part of a massive, self-produced album that g…
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Zoë Kravitz is also a Big Little Li-ar · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A year ago, Zoë Kravitz was, at best, “that stripper who had insect wings for some reason in X-Men: First Class.” (At worse, she was constantly being confused with Zoe Kazan.) Now, though, she seems to be in every other movie that goes into producti…
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Why Camille Paglia’s ‘Nazi Barbie’ Takedown of Taylor Swift Is Spot-On – The Daily Beast
Taylor Swift, progenitor of the celebrity #girlsquad movement, officially initiated Blake Lively into her benevolent blonde power circle this week. Swift announced their friendship in an Instagram post of the two jumping mid-air in what appears to b…
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Congress’ Fix For Puerto Rico Comes With Huge Strings Attached | Mother Jones
Earlier this week, congressional Republicans introduced two bills designed to help Puerto Rico cope with its unsustainable $72 billion debt obligation. Both pieces of legislation—introduced in the House by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wisc.) and in the Senate…
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Free Expression Has Trounced a Law Against Online Harassment in Canada | VICE News
On Friday, a Supreme Court of Nova Scotia judge struck down a law that allowed people who believed they were being “cyberbullied” to apply for legal protections.
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Hillary Clinton to make guest appearance on Broad City | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton is cool. She made Lena Dunham a fangirl. She sang arm in arm with Kate McKinnon. And in her latest attempt to appeal to millennial women, Clinton will appear alongside comedy’s hottest stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on their sh…
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Worst Year For Tech IPOs Since 2009 | TechCrunch
With just 28 technology companies entering the U.S. public markets, 2015 was the worst year for IPOs since 2009, according to Dealogic. This compares to 62 last year and 48 the year before, with 131 “unicorns” opting to remain private longer.
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Frank Sinatra’s Drummer Tells the Story of His Final Concert | Vanity Fair
There was no grand announcement, no farewell tour. He had tried that 20 years earlier, and it didn’t stick.
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The Business Case for a Carbon Tax. Economists say a carbon tax is our best bet to slow global warming, but business groups have lobbied hard to prevent it from being enacted. A new study examining the impact of carbon pricing on markets suggests th…
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Written by Adam McKay (“Anchorman,” “Anchorman 2”) and Charles Randolph, and directed by Mr. McKay and released in the midst of “Star Wars” advent season, the film sets itself a very tall order.
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There’s An 85 Percent Chance The Cubs Won’t Win The World Series Next Year Either | FiveThirtyEight
It’s been a good week for the Chicago Cubs. On Tuesday, they swooped into the bidding on coveted second baseman Ben Zobrist and inked him to a four-year, $56 million deal.
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Track of the Day: ‘Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart’ – The Atlantic
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The Last Man on the Moon, the new documentary about astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan, will gets a theatrical/digital/VOD release on February 26th. As you might have suspected, Cernan was, uh, the last man the U.S. managed to put on the moon, back in 1…
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Darth Vader’s Day – The Atlantic
While the world awaits the debut of the latest Star Wars installment, Ukraine’s Darth Mykolaiovych Vader has some chores to do. He’s got to iron his cloak, vacuum his apartment and prepare dinner for his family.
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Build a High End Gaming Table for About $150
If you play a lot of tabletop games, you know a solid table is a necessity. Ove ron BoardGameGeek, user Bum Kim decided to take matters into his own hands to make a table, and shares a guide for exactly how he did it.
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An Oklahoma County jury handed down a series of guilty verdicts in the trial of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who allegedly raped and sexually assaulted at least 13 black women in the neighborhood he patrolled.
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Elon Musk and partners form nonprofit to stop AI from ruining the world | The Verge
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has never been particularly shy about his fear of killer robots, but now he seems to be doing something about it. Today, Musk and a group of partners announced the formation of OpenAI, a nonprofit venture devoted to open-source r…
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Mr. Robot’s creator is directing every episode of the show’s second season | The Verge
Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail is stepping up his commitment to auterism by directing every episode of Mr. Robot’s upcoming second season. Variety is reporting on the commitment as the show’s writers reconvene in Los Angeles to begin work on another b…
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Was This the Worst or Best Year for YouTube? | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular new videos of the week. This week we have the annual YouTube Rewind video to mull over, plus a famous YouTube couple reunites, a Christmas party sends us spinning into madness, a guy covers Adele …
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The Biggest Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend and Here’s How to Watch
The Biggest Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend and Here’s How to Watch https://t.co/0d9igdoeB0 https://t.co/nqnhzbIOw9
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Tina Fontaine’s Body Was Tossed in a River and Now Police Have Made an Arrest | VICE News
More than a year after 15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s dead body was found wrapped in plastic and pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River — and reignited pleas for an inquiry in Canada into missing and murdered indigenous women — police have made an arrest.
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The world wastes a shocking amount of food. This could change that | Grist
Limiting warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees C may be an empty gesture if countries can’t be held accountable. The green group argues that Clinton is best positioned to hit the ground running with a strong climate agenda on day one.
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Ex-Felons Fight To Restore Their Right To Vote : NPR
In the cabinet meeting room of the Florida capitol building, there are plenty of shaky legs and fidgety hands as the state’s clemency board, chaired by Gov. Rick Scott, sits down. Four times a year, ex-felons in Florida petition to get their civil r…
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A Diplomatic, Apocalyptic Game of Jenga | Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Draft three of the Paris climate document is here, but it ain’t over yet. The delegates still have plenty of sleepless hours left.
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Non-profit OpenAI Launches With Backing From Elon Musk And Sam Altman | TechCrunch
Today, OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. Its director is a research scientist at Google, Ilya Sutskever. This comes a day after Facebook open-sourced its AI hardware.
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016 draw: Home nations set to find out opponents
The Euro 2016 draw takes place in Paris on Saturday, when the home nations will find out who they will meet at next summer’s tournament in France.
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Even in her prepubescent form, Dolly Parton is big on TV · Newswire · The A.V. Club
County-music legend Dolly Parton has always been known for two things: Her down-home charm, and her enormous…popularity. Both those were evident in last night’s broadcast of Coat Of Many Colors, the first in a series of planned TV movies about Par…
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The 20th anniversary of the end of Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip Calvin & Hobbes is fast approaching, and the denizens of Reddit are celebrating by replacing one of the strip’s two title characters with the most divisive candidate in American…
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Australia has belatedly joined a “coalition of ambition” in the Paris climate talks – a loose grouping of more than 100 developed and developing countries including the US, EU, Canada and Brazil – aimed at countering a push by China, India and Saudi…
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Watch: Tiger Mom Shows Cubs the Ropes in Rare Video
The mother tiger rubs against a pine tree in Russia’s remote Bastak Reserve, introducing her rambunctious two-month-old cubs to the scents of other tigers and prey animals that have left their mark.
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According to Lionsgate, anyway, you can never have too many lovelorn adolescents of the dystopian future killing reluctantly and dying tragically.
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The next 24 hours will have a huge impact on the future of Earth | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The next 24 hours could make or break humanity’s chances of staving off the worst impacts of climate change.
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If you’re poor or black in New Jersey, we have some unsettling news for you | Grist
Limiting warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees C may be an empty gesture if countries can’t be held accountable. The green group argues that Clinton is best positioned to hit the ground running with a strong climate agenda on day one.
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Hillary Clinton to Appear on ‘Broad City’ Season Three | Rolling Stone
Hillary Clinton to Appear on ‘Broad City’ Season Three Democratic presidential frontrunner films scene with Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson
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The Biggest Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend and Here’s How to Watch
This weekend’s Geminids are going to be the biggest meteor shower of this year, and you absolutely should not miss it. Here’s when, where, and how to watch the Geminid meteor shower—and what you should be looking for.
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Conservatives Should Blame Capitalism for the ‘War on Christmas’: Liberals aren’t the Ones Who Replaced the Spirit of Christmas with Soullessness. (theguardian.com) How old is a “Charlie Brown Christmas” ? 50 years this year?
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/oNbumydSf2 https://t.co/4vOxBjBV2p https://t.co/kp1cPiwdyz
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/oNbumydSf2 https://t.co/4vOxBjBV2p https://t.co/kp1cPiwdyz
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Barring large amounts of spending on shoreline barriers and flood control systems, these images show what China would face if carbon emissions cause global temperatures to rise by 2° Celsius (3.6°F), the current international target by 2100, or by 4…
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The Taliban Blew Up a Car Bomb Outside the Spanish Embassy in Kabul | VICE News
Taliban fighters mounted a car bomb attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul on Friday, killing at least one security officer and further dimming any hopes of peace talks with moderate elements of the Islamist insurgent movement.
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Connecticut Governor To Ban Guns For People On Federal Terrorism Lists : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Gov. Dannel Malloy on his decision to ban individuals on federal terrorism watch lists from purchasing firearms in his state. Democrats have called for similar measures.
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A Day in the Life of Darth Mykolaiovych Vader – The Atlantic
A Sith Lord’s Story A day in the life of Ukraine’s Darth Mykolaiovych Vader curated by , Photographs by Valentyn Ogirenko 1 / 17 Darth Mykolaiovych Vader, who is dressed as the ‘Star Wars’ character Darth Vader, poses for a picture as he takes a sho…
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Yo Reddit I heard you like cats.. : aww
Yo Reddit I heard you like cats.. via /r/aww https://t.co/eXzz6nmXAV https://t.co/uE930Qr1cM https://t.co/6huIW83qMu
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Yo Reddit I heard you like cats.. via /r/aww https://t.co/eXzz6nmXAV https://t.co/uE930Qr1cM https://t.co/6huIW83qMu
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Chief Of Staff Reveals Plan For Big-Bet Philanthropy | TechCrunch
After weeks of critics jumping to conclusions before seeing details or results, Fox spoke with me for nearly an hour about the strategy for Priscilla and Mark’s philanthropic foundation. CZI will be structured similarly to Facebook’s acquisitions.
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Unrest after Freddie Gray death due to lack of coordination, report says | US news | The Guardian
As lawyers for Officer William Porter wrapped up his defense Friday over the death of Freddie Gray, a new Johns Hopkins University report concluded that the chaos in the city after Gray’s death stemmed from a lack of citywide planning and coordinati…
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It’s Time to Worry About Donald Trump – The New Yorker
For months now, there has been a disjuncture at the heart of the Republican Presidential race. The opinion polls have had Donald Trump leading handily, but the pundits and prediction (or betting) markets have been saying that it is unlikely he will …
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The Game Design Studio on a Boat | Motherboard
Devine Lu Linvega and Jessica Lindsay, the duo behind the game design studio 100 Rabbits, are living their best life. They decided to pack up house, buy a sailboat, and attempt a transient lifestyle documenting their travels and creating games that …
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Outcry as Filipino presidential nominee admits killings – Al Jazeera English
The front-runner for the presidential race in the Philippines has admitted on national radio that he killed at least three men suspected of kidnapping and rape in his city, drawing condemnation from international rights groups who warned against an …
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‘Climate Migrants’ Recognized in Paris Agreement | Al Jazeera America
The recognition of “climate migrants” and “climate migration” in a draft text of the Paris climate change agreement was welcomed by human rights advocates Friday, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which said millions more…
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Gaddafi’s son ‘abudcted’ in Lebanon – Al Jazeera English
The son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi has been kidnapped in Lebanon by armed groups demanding information about the fate of a Shia Imam who went missing in Libya decades ago.
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How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Backchannel — Medium
As if the field of AI wasn’t competitive enough — with giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and even car companies like Toyota scrambling to hire researchers — there’s now a new entry, with a twist.
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How Charlie Brown Killed the Aluminum Christmas Tree And Helped the Environment | Inverse
When A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted 50 years ago, it killed the aluminum Christmas tree. Why? Because Charlie Brown hated them, and Americans love getting their decorating directions from animated holiday specials. (Or it was a fad, and like all …
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Conservatives Call For ‘Religious Freedom.’ But For Whom? : NPR
Terrorism and economic woes may be big concerns, but Republican candidate Ted Cruz sees another issue dominating the presidential race.
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Snowflakes under a microscope via /r/pics https://t.co/4bJS7soMw6 https://t.co/dttDyMjU0i https://t.co/BgRa6ZFIx0
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Foreign minister Julie Bishop says on Friday that Australia still hopes for ambitious targets and strong rules for transparency set in the final COP21 climate agreement.
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Anya Groner: The Public Is Us – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Reflections on public health a century after Typhoid Mary’s quarantine. Photo taken from the United Nations Photo Flickr page.
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Bill Burr has been a battle-hardened, road-tested stand-up comic since the early 1990s, and he’s been hosting his own Monday Morning Podcast since 2007, but he may just have a backup career in case the comedy world experiences yet another one of its…
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The regulars did not take it seriously when Enrique Marquez mused about terrorism at Morgan’s Tavern, a dank dive bar where he hauled ice, cleaned bathrooms and checked IDs at the door.
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UK and Russia discuss aircraft ‘incursions’ – BBC News
British military officials have held talks with their counterparts in Moscow over “incursions” of Russian aircraft around the UK, the defence secretary has said. Michael Fallon said the talks aimed to find ways of heading off any “miscalculation or …
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France’s Far Right National Front Gains Ground Ahead Of Elections : NPR
As France heads into important regional elections on Sunday, the far right party is on the threshold of gaining power in one or more regions of France for the first time in history.
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Before Fighting Atop A Moving Train, Some Things To Consider : NPR
Commentator Brian McConnachie — a former SNL writer and an actor in 15 films — takes on a topic no one else dares to discuss: the dynamics of fighting on the roof of moving railroad trains. There’s great concern for hats blowing off.
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On His 100th Birthday, Why Sinatra Is The Godfather Of Hip-Hop : NPR
On the eve of what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, NPR’s Sonari Glinton shares a theory he’s long held: Sinatra is the godfather of hip-hop. He makes his case to NPR’s Kelly McEvers.
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Los Angeles Struggles To Contain Chronic Homelessness : NPR
Los Angeles has the largest population of chronically homeless people in the country. The city is wrestling with how to deal with a growing homeless population that is spreading far beyond Skid Row.
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Industrial Giants DuPont, Dow Chemical Announce $130 Billion Merger : NPR
Two of America’s oldest and most important industrial companies are tying the knot. DuPont and Dow Chemical plan to merge in a $130 billion deal that would create an agricultural and chemicals powerhouse.
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U.S. Cities Face Challenges In Reducing Homeless Population : NPR
NPR provides an update on the picture of homelessness in the U.S. While there have been many successful efforts championed to get people housed, some cities continue to criminalize homelessness.
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New York’s Political Corruption Scandal Opens Door To Reform : NPR
New York’s political culture is reeling as federal prosecutors target some of the state’s most powerful politicians.
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Paris Climate Negotiators Continue Into Overtime : NPR
The U.N. climate conference in Paris was supposed to end Friday, but negotiators have extended it for at least another day. NPR has the latest from Paris.
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Oklahoma City Jury Convicts Former Police Officer On Sexual Assault Charges : NPR
In Oklahoma City, jurors convicted former police officer Daniel Holtzclaw on Thursday. He was accused of sexually assaulting 13 African-American women while he was on duty.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Health made an unprecedented announcement this month: It told women in the northeast of the country not to get pregnant for the foreseeable future. And it’s all because of a mosquito — the Aedes aegypti species, which can spread…
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Interview: Adam McKay And Michael Lewis On ‘The Big Short’ : NPR
How do you make a subject as complicated as the subprime mortgage crisis into a really good movie? That’s the challenge director Adam McKay took on when decided to turn The Big Short, Michael Lewis’ best-selling book about the people who profited fr…
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Week In Politics: Trump On Muslims, Presidential Candidates On Terrorism : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers is joined by political analyst Leslie Sanchez and Pilar Marrero, a columnist for Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, to talk about the week in politics.
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What Can Government Do To Protect The Shrinking Middle Class? : NPR
Politicians love to present themselves as champions of the middle class. But according to a new study from the Pew Research Center, less than half the American population now falls in that category. NPR explores what the government might do to shore…
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Michigan’s Arab Americans Respond To Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric : NPR
Dearborn, Mich., has the largest proportion of Arab Americans of any city in the U.S., including many who follow Islam. People there share reactions to the week’s political rhetoric regarding Muslims.
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Wingnut Week In Review: Donald Trump vs. American Eagle
Animals have a sense about people. They just know when someone is trouble. So it really wasn’t a surprise when an American bald eagle attacked Donald Trump. Is there a more powerful and well known symbol of America than the bald eagle? Maybe a coupl…
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
The TechCrunch crew is back from Disrupt London with exciting news to report and a few new companies for you to meet. Jukedeck, an AI startup that writes music for your videos, took home the Disrupt Cup and the £30,000 grand prize.
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Yes, America’s religious freedom was explicitly intended to include Muslims
Elahe Izadi runs down the well-documented efforts of Our Founding Fathers Themselves to ensure that yes, religious freedom even extended to Jews and “pagans” and Muslims.
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“If You’re Not Embarrassed When You Ship Your First Version, You Waited Too Long”
Listen up, creators: Don’t wait until that thing you’re making is “perfect” or absolutely finished. Ship version 1.0 when it’s good enough but you might even be embarrassed by it. The quote above comes from Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of Word…
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Meet Marco Rubio’s Far-Right Neocon Donors | The Nation
Despite the continuing prominence of Republican outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson in presidential primary polls, key GOP donors are seeking to anoint Senator Marco Rubio as an alternative—and the freshman senator has gone far beyond any other ca…
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COP21: ‘Conditions never better’ for climate change deal – BBC News
Negotiators in Paris are again expected to work through the night in an effort to secure a new global climate deal. The French president of the meeting said the “conditions were never better” for a strong and ambitious agreement.
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Apple patents waterproof ports for the iPhone | The Verge
Apple received approval for a patent this week that might lead to future weatherproof devices. Although the company filed its patent back in June, it only received approval this week.
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Ben Carson is threatening to leave the GOP following a report that senior Republican officials met to discuss the party’s strategy in the event of a brokered convention. (thehill.com)
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This engineer brought an old Star Wars AT-AT walker to life | The Verge
Beyond lightsabers and famous script snippets, nothing is quite as iconic in the Star Wars universe as the monstrous AT-AT walkers.
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Holtzclaw Conviction Sheds Light on Prevalence of Police Sexual Abuse While on Duty | VICE News
A former Oklahoma police officer accused of raping multiple women on duty was found guilty on 18 of 36 charges of sexual assault Thursday night, in a more than month-long trial that highlighted how some officers have used their authority to intimida…
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TULLIALLAN, Scotland — The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.
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Cambridge Analytica is an obscure data-mining company funded by hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer (Cruz’s main financial backer). Cambridge Analytica created “psychographic profiles” of millions of Facebook users by scraping their personal data w…
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Donald J. Trump said last month that he was prepared to “go to war” with Senator Ted Cruz if the Republican from Texas continued to gain strength. It appears the fight is on. On Friday, after Mr. Cruz told a private gathering of donors that Mr.
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Will the Paris Climate Agreement Save the World? | New Republic
The Paris conference is in its final hours. France pushed the deadline for a new—potentially final—draft text to Saturday morning, and if all goes well, countries could adopt it later in the day. Jonathan M.
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The liberal case against turning the no-fly list into a no-gun list – Vox
Following recent mass shootings, Democrats have increasingly called for turning the no-fly list into a no-gun list. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat, on Thursday vowed to take “common sense steps” to make sure people on terrorist watch lists …
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Space and Time Collide in New Space Watches
In science, space and time are intimately linked. So it’s no surprise that some new high-end watches are looking to space travel and technology to attract the timepiece connoisseur.
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The Work of Samuel Gompers | New Republic
The organization that was a few years later to become the American Federation of Labor began in 1881. In the autumn of 1885 the New York Sun delegated a reporter to “get up a story on the strength and purposes of the Knights of Labor.” The Knights w…
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Tommy Hanson died from cocaine and alcohol mix, coroner says | Sport | The Guardian
A coroner says autopsy results show the death of former Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles pitcher Tommy Hanson was caused by cocaine and alcohol use.
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Pixelmator Adds 3D Touch for Touch-Sensitive Painting Alongside iPad Pro Support
iOS: Pixelmator is already a pretty great photo editing app on iOS, but the most recent update takes advantage of the new 3D Touch feature on the iPhone 6s in just the way you’d expect it to, with touch-sensitive painting.
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Adam Sandler’s western comedy The Ridiculous 6 was in development at several major studios before becoming the first film in the comedian’s deal to make straight-to-Netflix features.
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There has been a great disturbance in the NFL, as if millions of mopes suddenly grunted out in confusion, and were suddenly silenced. For, according to Variety, a New York judge has ordered fantasy-sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings to shut down op…
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In statehouses and courthouses, there’s growing pushback against anti-abortion harassment – Vox
After an attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs killed three people and injured nine, reproductive rights supporters blamed the overheated rhetoric of abortion opponents for helping to incite the attacks.
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This NYC Skyscraper Design Is Like the Chrysler Building Went to Burning Man and I Love It
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These Relatives of Mexico’s Disappeared Are Combing the Desert Looking for Bodies | VICE News
The rest of the party heads towards where María de la Luz López, Lucy, was digging. She is looking for her daughter Irma Claribel Lamas, disappeared in 2008.
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UN Panel Slams the Use of ‘Black Jails’ and Electroshock Therapy for Gays in China | VICE News
China has pushed back against a United Nations report released this week that criticized the continued use by the country’s justice system of secret detention facilities known as “black jails” where prisoners have allegedly been raped and killed.
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The Tor Project has a new executive director: former EFF director Shari Steele! / Boing Boing
Shari Steele, who served as the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for 15 years and built the organization from a six-person shoestring operation that didn’t even have an office into a fifty+ person, multimillion-dollar powerho…
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The Erosion Of “Same Round, Same Price” | TechCrunch
Reading the comments on my recent TechCrunch post, it seems most founders believe investors asking for “extras” on the side are simply greedy and short-sighted.
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What I told the kid who wanted to join the NSA / Boing Boing
In my latest Guardian column, I tell the story of my recent lecture at West Point’s Cyber Institute, where a young cadet took me aside as asked what I thought of their plans for joining the NSA.
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Into the Badlands: Aramis Knight Talks Fighting Boot Camp—Plus M.K. and Tilda
Sixteen-year-old Aramis Knight plays the young warrior with hidden Hulk-like super strength on AMC’s Into the Badlands. He talked to us about being a total badass.
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SpaceX Shooting for a Dec. 19 Falcon Return-to-Flight Launch
Elon Musk said SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket late next week on its first mission since a June launch failure. Musk, in a tweet early Thursday, said a static fire test of the Falcon 9 is scheduled for Dec. 16 and, if successful, launch would…
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Rihanna’s Diamond Ball Raises More Than $3 Million, Draws Kylie Jenner | Vanity Fair
While we all wait (not so) patiently—running on years now—for Rihanna’s (maybe imminent?) upcoming eighth album, the singer went and hosted a ball Thursday night, the second annual Diamond Ball, a black tie fundraising event for her Clara Lionel Fou…
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The Eiffel Tower lights up on Friday night with messages of encouragement and caution as the COP21 global climate talks are drawn out past the original Friday deadline. Messages urged negotiators to decarbonise, keep global warming below “1.5 degree…
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Dead Ant Sounds Like It’s Going to Be the Platonic Ideal of a B-Movie
Technically, the real news is that Sean Astin and Tom Arnold (of, “He’s still working?” fame) are starring in Dead Ant. But the fun news is literally everything else about this movie.
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Playboy magazine publishes last issue featuring naked women | US news | The Guardian
The last issue of Playboy to feature naked women went on sale on Friday, with the magazine stating it will now switch to being “non-nude” . The January/February 2016 issue, which features Pamela Anderson on its cover, draws a close to 62 years of nu…
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This Guy Searches Amazon for the Worst Things You Can Buy | Motherboard
Anyone who’s spent enough time on the internet has probably run into Drew Fairweather’s work, whether it be the long-running comic Toothpaste for Dinner, or Married to the Sea, a collaboration with Fairweather’s wife Natalie Dee that imposes funny c…
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Why Cam Newton Isn’t the NFL MVP | Rolling Stone
Cam Newton deserves plenty of praise for his play this season, but he doesn’t deserve the NFL’s MVP award.
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This NYC Skyscraper Design Is Like the Chrysler Building Went to Burning Man and I Love It
The crop of new skyscrapers going up on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan are very tall, whisper thin, and—yawn—rather boring. This idea for a supertall on the same street is a throbbing EDM antidote to the architectural elevator music that’s taking …
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Dolly Parton’s ‘Coat of Many Colors’ Airs to Record Audience | Rolling Stone
Dolly Parton’s ‘Coat of Many Colors’ Airs to Record Audience Autobiographical NBC TV-movie, the first in a series based on Parton’s songs, draws nearly 13 million viewers
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Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Earth Photos
One year to the day after lifting off, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 paid its home planet a quick visit for a speed-boost. During its closest approach on Dec. 3, the asteroid-seeking spacecraft took several stunning pictures of Earth.
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Lindsey Graham: Trump Leading Because 40% Of GOP Voters Think Obama Is Kenyan Muslim : politics
Lindsey Graham has the weirdest combination of sensible and crazy I’ve ever seen. He argues for action on climate change, acknowledges that a lot of GOP voters are ignorant voters, and then turns right around and wants to murder anything and everyth…
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Hillary Clinton is going to be on Broad City · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Self-proclaimed “boss bitches” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson have landed one of the world’s most powerful women as a guest star for their Comedy Central series Broad City: presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Twitter Just Got On Turkey’s Bad Side — And It Could Cost Them $51,000 | VICE News
It’s getting expensive to be on the wrong side of the Turkish government. On Friday, Turkey announced it would fine Twitter $51,000 for hosting content the government says promoted terrorism and violence.
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When Old Blue Eyes Was ‘Red’ | New Republic
I remember Sinatra who didn’t pal around with rich Republicans. During the early 1950s, at my Sunday school in St. Paul, Minnesota, one of the highlights of the year was the annual screening of The House I Live In, a short film starring a young and …
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Copyfraud: Disney’s bogus complaint over toy photo gets a fan kicked off Facebook / Boing Boing
Justin Kozisek, a staffer for the Star Wars Action News podcast, bought a $6.
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The Bulls Offense Still Starts And (Especially) Stops With Derrick Rose | FiveThirtyEight
On Thursday night in Chicago, the Bulls were clinging to a 4-point lead over the Clippers.
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The Dirty Industries COP21 Ignores | New Republic
With the Paris climate talks coming to a close, participating nations are hashing out the details of how to hold each other to their carbon reduction goals and finance the whole transition to a cleaner world.
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Watch the first trailer for Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer | The Verge
As the second season of Serial premieres — and, more generally, the true crime genre seems to have a resurgence — Netflix is showing its entry into the field. Following an earlier announcement, the company has now released the first trailer for Maki…
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Gaddafi’s son ‘kidnapped in Lebanon’ – BBC News
Ofsted is to set up a taskforce of inspectors to seek out unregistered schools that are operating outside the law in England.
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Can Syria’s opposition do a deal with the government? – Al Jazeera English
About 100 delegates from a spectrum of armed and political opposition groups have agreed on how they want to end the civil war in Syria.
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Watch the gorgeous first trailer for stop-motion adventure Kubo and the Two Strings | The Verge
Stop-motion studio Laika is heading into a world of adventure for its next film.
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If America had closed its doors to Syrians, there’d be no Steve Jobs and no Apple – Vox
In recent months, discussions of Syrian migrants have happened mostly in negative terms.
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Super Loud Commercials Are Driving Sling TV Users Crazy | Motherboard
Since this past summer, Sling TV users have taken to Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter to complain about extraordinarily loud commercials that air while watching channels like HGTV and ABC Family.
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Republican Senate Committee hearts Trump: Cha-ching!
Forget all that GOP hand-wringing over Donald Trump—there’s money to be made! So while Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are decrying Trump’s proposals as not conservative and un-American (but still vowing to vote for him if he’s the nominee), the Natio…
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55 Healthcare Data Breaches Have Hit More Than 100 Million People in 2015 | Motherboard
In the last year, hackers have broken into at least 55 health care providers, stealing data from more than 110 million Americans, according to government data.
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Three year old Sophie’s Princess Chewbacca birthday cake / Boing Boing
In 2014, US doctors wrote ~20,000 prescriptions for risperidone, quetiapine and other antipsychotics for children under the age of two; a cohort on whom these drugs have never been tested and for whom there is no on-label usage.
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A new stencil/pasteup in the notorious “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais, France depicts Steve Jobs with a satchel and a classic Macintosh. Jobs’s parents were Syrian refugees, though he was adopted by an American family at an early age, and he didn’t…
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Watch Year’s Best Meteor Shower this Weekend
As the holiday season approaches, skywatchers can begin celebrating early with Mother Nature’s gift of a celestial fireworks show: the Geminid meteor shower.
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Police chiefs are facing a series of lawsuits from women attacked by a predatory officer who used the cover of his job to target vulnerable victims.
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The Sum of Our Lives, in One Short Video – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Flood-hit Cumbria communities prepare for more wet weather | UK news | The Guardian
Cumbrian communities hit by floods during Storm Desmond are gearing up for a second weekend of wet weather. The Environment Agency said it was checking the condition of flood defences and the position of pumps and temporary flood barriers before a p…
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These Elegant New Harry Potter Book Covers Tell Their Own Stories
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books have become such an integral part of the way we all live our lives, sometimes we take aspects of them for granted. Like, for example, the amazing original cover art by Mary GrandPré. She now has new a colleague: Oll…
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Citadel Students Suspended Over KKK-type Photos | Al Jazeera America
Seven cadets at The Citadel who appeared in photos with pillowcases over their heads, similar to Ku Klux Klan robes, have been suspended, officials at the state military college in Charleston, South Carolina confirmed Friday.
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Cuba and US to restore postal service after 52 years – BBC News
Cuba and the United States have agreed to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War. The move is part of the rapprochement process that was announced by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro on 17 Decemb…
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Canadian man charged in Red River murder – BBC News
Canadian authorities have charged a man in the death of an indigenous woman whose murder caused a national outcry. Raymond Cormier, 53, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tina Fontaine, 15, who was found dead in 2014 in Canada’s R…
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Ron Howard says Arrested Development season 5 is in the writing stage · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Speaking from what we’re going to assume was an omniscient, slightly sardonic point of view situated permanently just at the edge of sight, Arrested Development executive producer and free-floating Bluth chronicler Ron Howard has said that writing i…
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November Puzzler Answer: The Mackenzie River : Earth Matters : Blogs
The November 2015 puzzler turned out to perplex many of our readers. That’s no surprise; the scene shows less than 20 kilometers of Canada’s longest river—the Mackenzie.
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A Vienna Hotel, Run by Refugees – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
Video by Most of the staff at the Magdas Hotel in Vienna, Austria, are refugees. From the receptionists, to the cleaners, to the cooks—many once risked perilous journeys to escape persecution or conflict. With an investment of 1.
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Hillary Clinton Is Whitewashing the Financial Catastrophe | The Nation
Hillary Clinton’s recent op-ed in The New York Times, “How I’d Rein In Wall Street,” was intended to reassure nervous Democrats who fear she is still in thrall to those mega-bankers of New York who crashed the American economy.
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Who Wants What in the Final Climate Deal | New Republic
LE BOURGET, France—The circus ended today. Every day on the train to the climate summit, I’ve passed a traveling circus from Italy.
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Hot Beauty Gifts: A Roundup of the Latest Over-the-Top Beauty Picks | Vanity Fair
Imagine if you or a loved one had endless amounts of money (maybe you and your friends do, and, in that case, this gift guide is perfect for you!). The possibilities are endless when it comes to gift-giving.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: December 4th to 11th
This week we did some preemptive work to avoid burnout, learned how to deal with those noisy questions your family might ask around the holidays (hi mom!), compared the best home theater apps, and more. Here’s a look back.
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Give The Gift Of a Working Car With This $50 Portable Jump Starter
By now, most of you probably have a USB battery pack or two to keep your phones charged, and that’s great! But I’m willing to bet most of them won’t start your car if its battery dies.
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The Future Comes Fast at Transparent Star Judith Light, But She’s Ready For It | Vanity Fair
When Judith Light starred in 1989’s The Ryan White Story, a TV movie about a child who contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, she says that people wrote her and swore to never watch her on-screen again.
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Elite Rio police arrested for ‘tipping off drug lords’ – Al Jazeera English
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Four members of a crack Brazilian police squad have been arrested after they were accused of taking bribes from drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, officials said.
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Historic Saudi poll ‘a step towards gender equality’ – Al Jazeera English
For the first time in Saudi Arabia, women are allowed to run as candidates and cast their votes in local elections. The municipal polls will open at 8am on Saturday and close at 5pm, local time (5am-2pm GMT).
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Ben Jennings on the Paris climate talks – cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
Illustration: Ben Jennings
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If You’re a Star Wars Fan, the Novel Lost Stars Is an Essential Companion to the Original Trilogy
Here’s the pitch: A Rebel and an Imperial fall in love against the backdrop of the entire Star Wars trilogy. Sounds like a winner, right? It is. It’s the plot of Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, one of the first releases from the new Journey to the Force…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s shockingly reasonable climate-change plea : environment
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s shockingly reasonable climate-change plea (salon.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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SOAR: An Animated Short on Vimeo
A cross between Miyazaki and Pixar, SOAR is an award-winning 3D animated movie about a young girl who must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it’s too late. facebook.com/SOARfilm Soar was created as Alyce Tzue’s thesis project in school. What beg…
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Geminid Meteor Shower, Best of the Year, Peaks Sunday: Watch It Live
The Geminid meteor shower peaks Sunday (Dec. 13) and Monday (Dec. 14), 2015. Shown here, astrophotographer Manish Mamtani caught this snapshot of the Geminid meteor shower over the Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island in 2014.
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Midday open thread: Louisiana cop who witnessed marshals kill a 6-year-old didn’t fear for his life
Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Trump recruitment and retention: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … Review and preview of ‘Childhood’s End’, by DarkSyde Words matter: When a radical is not a radical, by Mark E Andersen Conservative radio just loves to …
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Once a politician calls for the borders to be closed against a single religious minority, he’s going to get called a fascist. The picture editors will find shots of him doing an apparent Hitler salute, there will be front pages in faux German.
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The Hateful Eight’s digital release is coming sooner than anticipated · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to a new report by Deadline, the release of the 35mm and digital versions of The Hateful Eight will be moved up one week from January 8 to January 1.
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Mad TV is coming back for a one-hour 20th anniversary special | The Verge
Mad TV, the sketch comedy show known for characters like Stuart, Miss Swan, and the early version of Key & Peele, is making a comeback. The CW will premiere a one-hour 20th anniversary special next month, TVLine reports.
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Steven Avery spent 12 years in prison for rape before being exonerated by DNA evidence. After his release, he was charged with murder. Making a Murderer, a new 10-show Netflix series premiering on December 18, will examine Avery’s crimes, a la Seria…
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GLENDALE, AZ—Claiming that the haunting din suddenly and without warning filled the air of the 63,000-seat arena, sources confirmed that a bell tolling through the University of Phoenix Stadium’s PA system Thursday night portended certain doom for t…
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Anonymous vs. Donald Trump: the internet’s id takes on its ego | The Verge
It’s 2015 and information is the weapon of choice. Donald Trump, the billionaire blowhard and front runner for the Republican presidential nomination, demands the media’s constant attention.
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You might think that any piece of merchandise even vaguely connected with 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope had long since been discovered, laminated, sealed in Mylar, auctioned off at an exorbitant price, and sold to some covetous, obsessive …
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Can a ‘Mass Farting’ Drown Out Gun Nuts? – The Daily Beast
It will be a death march. Protestors outside the University of Texas-Austin will march down a public street with rifles and pistols on Saturday and, at the end, they will turn, and they will simulate a mass killing. Fake blood will splay. Actors wil…
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Bjork Talks Trump, Climate Change, New Music | Rolling Stone
Björk has had it with the “rednecks” running Iceland. The singer is at her home, where it is midafternoon yet below freezing, and her daughter has just returned home from school and is practicing piano in the background.
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016: Uefa consider using goal-line technology in France
Goalline technology could be used at Euro 2016 and in next season’s Champions League and Europa League. If approved, Uefa’s system of positioning an additional assistant referee behind each goal would remain.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, 16, was the youngest person shot in a classroom at Umpqua Community Colleg…
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Stock markets sink as oil keeps sliding – BBC News
Stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic fell on Friday and oil sank further as fears about global oversupply mounted. In London the FTSE 100 closed under 6,000 points as investors dumped commodities shares.
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Hillary Clinton is going to appear in Broad City’s upcoming third season | The Verge
Yas queen? Sure, why not
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Is Uber trying to pull a fast one on its drivers? | The Verge
Uber updated its driver agreements Friday, in a move seen by some as an end-run around a federal class-action lawsuit challenging the ride-hailing company’s labor practices.
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Disney initially drops—then doubles down on—DMCA claim over Star Wars figure pic | Ars Technica
A Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice sent by the Walt Disney Company earlier this week seems to have truly awakened The Force, and now the group can’t seem to decide if they want to be on the light side or the dark side.
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Pickles are The Bad Food — De Gustibus — Medium
Look at this thing. Just look at it. This is a thing people claim is “good.” They seem to enjoy that sour, wet crunch of this pukish-green, kinda transparent (?) fake vegetable. People with that bad taste. Trash people. Because this a trash food for…
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Another two mass murders, another push from the NRA to block anyone from researching solutions
Hmm. You know, it’s theoretically possible that doing gun “research” would show that everybody should have more guns.
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Anonymous Targets Donald Trump Over Proposed Muslim Ban – The Atlantic
Fresh off a campaign to shutter thousands of Islamic State-affiliated Twitter accounts, Anonymous, the loosely affiliated group of hacker-activists, has turned its attention to a new target.
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South African Air-Force Bases Use Cheetahs to Clear Runways of Wild Animals – The Atlantic
This week, two cheetahs attacked an officer on a South African air-force base. The officer was not seriously injured, and was treated for minor wounds on her shoulders and the back of her head. After that, the cheetahs got back to work.
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X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer: Tough Times for Mutants | Vanity Fair
Sansa Stark—sorry, Sophie Turner—just can’t catch a break, huh? The new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer opens by ominously introducing us to one of our newest Jean Grey describing her dream about the end of the world.
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That Time the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ Predicted VR Porn | Motherboard
Let’s get this out of the way: yes, the Star Wars Holiday Special is terrible and there’s a reason it’s never been released through official channels.. But what no one talks about in their assessment is how weird it is.
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Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ | Motherboard
“The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.” My conversation with, Peter Sunde, one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically.
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This Santa Claus Browser Plugin Stops Curious Kids from Learning the Truth | Motherboard
For the tech-savvy 21st-century kid, sussing out the truth about Santa is a sadly simple feat. A quick Google search provides way too much information about jolly old Saint Nick—including guides for parents on how to break the news to their kids.
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Banksy work in Calais ‘Jungle’ shows Steve Jobs as migrant – BBC News
The graffiti artist Banksy has created a new artwork in the so-called Jungle refugee camp in Calais depicting the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. The artwork shows Jobs, the son of a Syrian migrant, carrying an early Apple computer and a bin …
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Bennett Miller Interviews Hank Bedford About the Guts It Takes to Make | Vanity Fair
Hank Bedford may be making his directorial debut with Dixieland, but he’s no stranger to a film set, having worked with Bennett Miller, Scott Cooper, and David O. Russell as an on-set assistant, and as an associate producer on Miller’s Foxcatcher.
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Jose Canseco’s Guide to Terraforming Mars | Motherboard
Former baseball superstar and finger auctioneer Jose Canseco says he has solved one of the most difficult atmospheric engineering problems conceived of by man: Terraforming the planet Mars to make it habitable for humans.
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« Voici venir votre rayon de soleil », peut-on lire sur une pancarte à l’entrée de la première centrale solaire d’envergure en Afrique de l’Est.
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Hillary Clinton on Broad City: Yas, Queen, Indeed | Vanity Fair
What’s the best way to get up close and personal with the future President of the United States? Make a show about smoking weed, being unemployed, and getting into trouble with your best friend, if you’re Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
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That Lake That Was Going to Fall Off a Cliff in Canada Actually Did | VICE News
Decades of gradually rising temperatures culminated in two hours of “catastrophic” flooding in Canada’s Northwest Territories, as a small lake burst through its melting embankment and sent tens of thousands of cubic meters of water crashing into a n…
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Yup, Republicans are planning their anti-Trump coup
Yup, Republicans are planning their anti-Trump coup https://t.co/i8inggD8GZ https://t.co/p9kUODJcmO
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YouTube Gaming For Android Gets A “Cardboard Mode” For More Immersive Viewing | TechCrunch
YouTube Gaming, Google’s answer to Twitch, is trying to stay ahead of the curve by adding new functionality quickly. One such feature is only available for Android right now, and its a “Cardboard Mode” that allows you to watch any video in a theater…
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Are There Genes for Intelligence—And Is It Racist to Ask?
Some people are taller than others. Others have wider hips, lighter hair, longer toes, or flatter feet. No one disputes that our genes help determine how we look. But what about intelligence—is it an inherited trait?
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Postmates Digs Into Commerce With Curated ’12 Days Of Postmates’ Campaign | TechCrunch
Postmates, the on-demand delivery startup that has dug nationwide trenches in the food delivery space, has today unveiled the ’12 Days of Postmates’ campaign.
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Microsoft Backpedals On OneDrive Downgrades, Opt-In for More Space
Last month, Microsoft did a massive downgrade on all its OneDrive accounts, getting rid of unlimited storage, cutting large pay plans, and decreasing the amount of storage for free tiers. Today, they’re backpedaling on some of that, but you’ll need …
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Michael B. Jordan got knocked the fuck out, man (for Creed) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sylvester Stallone is getting a lot of awards attention for his performance in Creed, but his co-star Michael B. Jordan also deserves recognition for all he went through filming the movie. Like, for example, taking a punch to the face from British p…
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Dynamite’s New Tarzan Comic Reunites Him With Sheena, Comics’ First-Ever Leading Female Hero
It’s been a good week for Tarzan in general—first a look at his latest cinematic incarnation (played by Alexander Skarsgård’s abs), and then a ridiculously wild trailer—but also good news for fans following his comic book escapades! Dynamite’s lates…
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If you’ve been thinking that the one thing missing from Netflix’s copious content is true-crime stuff, you’re in luck—the streaming giant has just released the trailer for Making A Murderer, a docuseries that follows the arrest, conviction, exonerat…
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For Sale: The True Blue Hits of Margaret Thatcher’s Wardrobe – The Daily Beast
LONDON — Britain might as well be selling off the crown jewels.
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Downtown Boys: Meet America’s Most Exciting Punk Band | Rolling Stone
Victoria Ruiz and Joey DeFrancesco, lead singer and guitarist of the most exciting punk band in America today, Downtown Boys, are eating pizza before a show in their hometown of Providence and discussing the finer points of Internet policy.
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During what his campaign claimed was the first visit to a mosque by any of the 2016 presidential candidates on Friday, Democratic hopeful Martin O’Malley assailed Donald Trump, the Republican primary’s chief agitator and frontrunner, for proposing t…
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 7252 – Atoms for Peace Galaxy https://t.co/8qzjBymC7B https://t.co/mAK2qPFlWd
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Spiteful loaf (xpost /r/meow_irl) : Catloaf
Spiteful loaf (xpost /r/meow_irl) via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/Rsr0PRG9oC https://t.co/37d9wIT38Z https://t.co/w61zMmD1we
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Spiteful loaf (xpost /r/meow_irl) via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/Rsr0PRG9oC https://t.co/37d9wIT38Z https://t.co/w61zMmD1we
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The Democratic presidential candidates are calling for the removal of a Confederate flag in a chapel at the Citadel military college in South Carolina, in response to the publication of photos of cadets who posed with pillowcases on their heads in i…
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The last two days have brought us two absolute must-reads on the idiocy of the typical Trump voter—articles that also clarify why they may be unusually difficult to divert away from their current white knight in shining armor.
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Paris climate talks: Obama calls Xi Jingping in final push for a deal | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama phoned the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in a last ditch effort to prise open a climate change agreement that can be unveiled at the UN climate talks in Paris on Saturday.
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Stock markets tumble as oil sinks to seven-year low | Business | The Guardian
A week of turmoil on the world’s financial markets has ended on a downbeat note after a fresh plunge in oil prices triggered sharp stock market falls.
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Can a Predator Really Be Friends With Its Prey? – The Atlantic
The phrase is “man’s best friend,” full stop. Not “man’s best friend unless maybe a better offer comes along, in which case, well, it’s been fun.” But Marc Bekoffs’s dog, being a dog, was unfamiliar with this particular saying. And so when a better …
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The Prospective Paris Deal Ignores Two Major Polluters: Shipping and Aviation – The Atlantic
With the Paris climate talks coming to a close, participating nations are hashing out the details of how to hold each other to their carbon-reduction goals and finance the whole transition to a cleaner world.
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How The World Is Reacting To Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban | ThinkProgress
Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments about banning Muslims from entering the United States drew criticism across the political spectrum.
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10 TV Series Where Santa Claus Is Real
At a certain point, as we grow up, we all learn the hard truth that Santa Claus isn’t real. And then, as we grow up some more, we discover that’s a lie, and Santa is totally real. We know this because TV shows—many of them ostensibly for adults—have…
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Climate change means days are getting longer, scientists find | Science | The Guardian
The impact of climate change may appear to be overwhelmingly negative but there is a bright spot for those who struggle to find enough time in the day: melting glaciers are causing the rotation of the Earth to slow thereby lengthening our days, new …
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The Best Way to Make Easy to Peel Eggs: Steam, Don’t Boil Them
The ideal way to hard cook an egg is to steam it and then drop it in ice water. The shells practically jump off the egg and the egg holds its beautiful shape. Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, explains the science behind this in the video ab…
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Breakup Coordinator Helps People Get Over Exes – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new service position, a so-called social media breakup coordinator, is assisting those who have recently exited relationships by erasing exes from the client’s social feeds, manipulating website algorithms to hide updates about those exes, and rem…
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Many injured in grenade attack on Ethiopian mosque – Al Jazeera English
An unidentified attacker has reportedly thrown a hand grenade into the largest mosque in Ethiopia’s capital, injuring at least 16 people, officials said.
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It’s Holiday Time, Celebrate With Your Gifs!
It’s the time of year where many of us are forced to endure awkward holiday party. Instead of one of those, have a non-awkward gif party! Or 11th.
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Yup, Republicans are planning their anti-Trump coup
Just a day after I speculated heavily about Republican establishment efforts to rid themselves of their Donald Trump scourge, turns out Republicans are doing their own heavy speculation.
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Donald J. Trump mocks his opponents as “low energy,” but his own campaign travel schedule is relatively sleepy: He left his home base of New York for only 17 public events during a 30-day stretch.
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Quick Hit: Brawl Erupts in Ukraine’s Parliament | VICE News
Fists fly in Ukraine’s parliament after an opposition lawmaker grabs Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk from the podium during an annual speech. The prime minister and his allies are accused of corruption, and MP Oleg Barna says the people will remove…
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Will Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Let Another Crisis Go To Waste?
Faced with outrage against police violence, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must decide whether he will turn crisis into an opportunity for accountability and healing for his city.
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iPhone app makes 3D Gifs you don’t need glasses to enjoy / Boing Boing
I’ve seen this kind of jittery-but-effective 3D effect before. In fact, you can take old stereoscope cards and make looping Gifs with the two images. A new iPhone app called Slide uses the same principle, but takes out the grunt work. Slide is a bra…
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Google is giving away Star Wars Cardboard headsets right now | The Verge
Free shipping, even! Who says you need to be a Verizon customer to pick up the limited edition Star Wars: The Force Awakens-themed Google Cardboard headsets? Certainly not Google.
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Ethiopia’s Grand Anwar Mosque hit by ‘grenade attack’ – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The mosque is in the Mercato district, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of Addis Ababa. A grenade attack during evening prayers has wounded at least 10 people at the biggest mosque in the Ethiopian capital o…
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If allegations put forward this week are true, one of the nation’s largest fracking companies may have to pay millions in Pennsylvania for underpaying royalties to landowners.
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In retrospect, it’s unusual that the paths of David Lynch and Britney Spears have not crossed until this moment. After all, singer/icon/cautionary tale Spears represents the particularly American mix of innocence, debauchery, and sensual surrealism …
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Zombie Gozombie to be the Arab world’s first zombie comedy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you ask people what they think the Arab world needs most right now, they’ll almost certainly say, “Um, probably its own zombie comedy.
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Beating Legend of Zelda without a sword
One of my video game triumphs as a kid was playing all the way through The Legend of Zelda using only the wooden sword.1 It was difficult. The person in the video above beat Zelda with only three hearts and without using a sword (until right at the …
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‘The Daily Show’ Effectively Debunks ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ Theory – The Daily Beast
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in America, there’s only one way to stop a bad guy with a gun,” Trevor Noah said on The Daily Show Thursday night, setting up an impressive two-part field piece in which correspondent Jordan Klepper set out to do h…
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The Rise of Medicinal Honey | Motherboard
Honey can treat wounds, may kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and tastes great in tea. The antimicrobial effects of honey have been touted since before the Egyptians built the pyramids, but it’s only within the past five to ten years that science…
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Congress Wants to Give Oil Markets Exactly What They Don’t Need — More Oil : environment
Congress Wants to Give Oil Markets Exactly What They Don’t Need — More Oil (news.vice.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Volcano eruption, Chile : pics
Volcano eruption, Chile via /r/pics https://t.co/wXY7GzToZL https://t.co/CJ5nFsWaRm https://t.co/pZn7bTlBjA
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Volcano eruption, Chile via /r/pics https://t.co/wXY7GzToZL https://t.co/CJ5nFsWaRm https://t.co/pZn7bTlBjA
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Will the Planet Survive the Next 24 Hours? | Mother Jones
Will the Planet Survive the Next 24 Hours? https://t.co/ALEfXpI46W https://t.co/tATGjDtD0h
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DO harsh words lead to violent acts? At a moment when hate speech seems to be proliferating, it’s a question worth asking. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch recently expressed worry that heated anti-Muslim political rhetoric would spark an increase …
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What I Learned From Putting All of My Crushes Into a Secret Facebook Group
While it might have been tempting to use the group to post an endless stream of thirst selfies as crush bait, it became more interesting to me to foster a community of all of the people I wanted to kiss. I genuinely wanted to engage with these peopl…
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Senior staff at Taser International appear to have posted scathing online reviews of a new film that is critical of the electronic weapons manufacturer, without disclosing that they work for the company.
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Google’s Movies & TV app for iOS adds AirPlay support for easier TV viewing | The Verge
Google Play Movies & TV has always been kind of a non-player on iPhones and iPads; on Apple’s platform, it’s just nowhere near as popular as iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, and so on.
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Watch this supercut of every noise Chewbacca makes in Star Wars | The Verge
Over nine minutes of ‘mmmmrrrmmmmrrrhhhhh’ How are you supposed to type out the infamous grunt of Peter Mayhew’s Chewbacca? The giant Wookiee’s signature noise was cobbled together from a wide range of animal soun
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Huge Jupiter-Like Storm Rages On Cool ‘Failed Star’ (Video)
Jupiter’s Big Red Spot is the largest example of a long-lived storm in the solar system, but now it has some pretty stiff competition in another star system. However, this “exo-storm” hasn’t been spied on another gas giant, it’s been spotted in the …
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OTTAWA — Canada welcomed 163 Syrian refugees under its new accelerated entry program late Thursday night, the first of 25,000 the country has promised to take in by March.
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The Movie About Muslims in America That Donald Trump Needs to See | Vanity Fair
This week, the front-runner in the race to become the Republican presidential nominee called for a ban on roughly 1 billion people from entering or remaining in the United States.
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Israelis kill three Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza – Al Jazeera English
In the West Bank city of Hebron, 22-year-old Uday Jihad Irshaid was killed during a protest by Palestinian youths against the Israeli military. An Israeli military spokesperson told Al Jazeera that Palestinians hurled rocks at the soldiers and rolle…
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A Freaks and Geeks geek on becoming the M’Lady meme — Hopes&Fears
erry Messing wasn’t exactly a child star—more like an unusually young character actor. It all started when his mother visited a psychic, who saw his future: He would do big things in showbiz. It so happened that this psychic’s side-gig was managing …
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Climate negotiators, listen up: A warmer world is a more violent world – each degree increase in Celsius (or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) is linked to a nearly six percent average increase in homicide rates around the globe. (washingtonpost.com) I can vo…
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Thanks to Republicans, Nearly a Quarter of Florida’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote : politics
What I don’t get is that people in prison are not allowed to vote, but they ARE counted as citizens in a district. A district can have more prisoners than it does actual free citizens, but those numbers still count towards getting a district more re…
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Ben Carson joins Donald Trump in threatening to leave GOP : politics
Oh noes! Pleez dont! Were you not paying attention when Trump pointed out what a shitty candidate Carson is?
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Get A Free Star Wars Edition Google Cardboard | TechCrunch
Welp. If you want one, you can still get one. For free. Just order it through the Google Play store (US only). You don’t even have to pay for shipping.
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Duet Display Can Now Turn An iPad Pro Into A Second Display | TechCrunch
If you use a dual monitor setup at home, chances are you feel a bit constrained when you’re on a trip with your laptop. I’ve been traveling lately for Disrupt London, and Duet Display has been one of my most useful productivity tools. It’s an app th…
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Head of Republican Muslim Coalition Challenges Trump To Attend Prayer At A Mosque | ThinkProgress
The head of the Republican Muslim Coalition (RMC) is challenging GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump to attend a prayer service with her at mosque, saying his recent comments about Islam and his call to end Muslim immigration “reflect[s] a lack …
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Uber’s New Drivers Agreement Could Undermine Judge’s Ruling In Class Action Lawsuit | TechCrunch
Uber has thrown a curveball by revising the arbitration clause in its latest driver agreement, whichShannon Liss-Riordan, the lead plaintiffs’ attorney, says is an attempt to challenge Judge Edward Chen’s recent court ruling that effectively allows …
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Syfy Takes Some Liberties With Childhood’s End, But Its Powerful Message Stays the Same
A fleet of alien ships suddenly appears overhead, carrying a mysterious race of visitors with weirdly benevolent intentions: They’re here to fix all of the world’s problems. Great! So what’s the catch? That’s the set-up for Arthur C.
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If Your Missed Flight Makes Your Trip Pointless, Ask About the “Trip in Vain” Rule
Let’s say your business meeting is in a few hours, you’ve arrived at the airport on time, but your flight is delayed. You’re not going to make the meeting, and your entire trip was in vain. Some airlines have casual rules that might allow them to co…
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Oklahoma police officer convicted of rape breaks down in court – video | US news | The Guardian
Former Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, breaks down in court as he is found guilty of rape and sexual battery. Prosecutors say Holtzclaw used his position of authority to violate 13 black women and that he targeted his victims while o…
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Will Donald Trump be using Jefferson’s Qur’an? | Letters | US news | The Guardian
I think we can assume a future president-elect Trump is unlikely to swear the oath of allegiance to the constitution using Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Qur’an kept by the Library of Congress (Report, 8 December). Mind you, as a Christian, I would …
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The family of a black teenager fatally shot by a white Chicago police officer spoke publicly Friday for the first time after a video of the 2014 killing set off days of protests calling for the mayor’s resignation and demanding an overhaul of the po…
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The Kubo and the Two Strings Trailer Features Stop-Motion Like We’ve Never Seen Before
When you say “stop-motion animation” a very specific aesthetic comes to mind. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just how the art form looks. Well, LAIKA has taken a step beyond that with its latest film, Kubo and the Two Strings.
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Close encounters of the drone kind: near-collisions with UAVs increasing | Business | The Guardian
Close encounters of the drone kind are becoming more frequent according to a Bard College study that uncovered some 90 “incidents” with commercial jets in the last two years alone, and hundreds more with other manned aircraft.
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Woman Who Shot at Home Depot Shoplifters Vows to Never Help Anyone Again https://t.co/FpMmPUGOpg https://t.co/QPESP453BC
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American, United, Delta, British Airways all ban “hoverboards” | Ars Technica
On Friday, three major US airlines’ ban against so-called “hoverboards” goes into effect. American, United, and Delta banned the devices on Thursday out of concern that their lithium ion batteries could be a fire hazard on a flight.
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HO fhtagn! Detailed model railroad layout recreates HP Lovecraft’s Arkham / Boing Boing
Model railroader John Ott has devoted years to creating a fantastically detailed, HO-scale recreation of Arkham, the site of HP Lovecraft’s horror stories, complete with model railroad engines and historically accurate cars.
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Microsoft Partially Takes Back Changes To OneDrive’s Storage Caps | TechCrunch
Microsoft announced changes today to OneDrive’s storage limits, partially undoing unpopular amendments it detailed this November. The new rules include refunds for unhappy customers, more storage for select free users, and in some cases, a free, one…
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Judge Orders DraftKings And FanDuel To Cease Operations In New York | TechCrunch
After an expedited injunction hearing November 25th, New York State Supreme Court Judge Manuel Mendez just upheld a cease-and-desist request from New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, meaning DraftKings and FanDuel must now cease operating…
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Hopeful Images From 2015 – The Atlantic
After a year of news stories that produced photos that can often be difficult or disturbing to view, I thought I’d take the time to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past year.
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The UK’s airports conundrum requires joined-up thinking | Letters | World news | The Guardian
Insufficient airport capacity has long been a serious problem for UK aviation. It is misleading to think of any decision about a hub airport in the south-east as a choice between either Heathrow or Gatwick.
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Judge says FanDuel and DraftKings must stop operating in New York state | Ars Technica
On Friday, New York Supreme Court Judge Manuel Mendez ruled that FanDuel and DraftKings—two daily fantasy sports websites—must cease operations in New York, at least as long as the two companies are embroiled in a legal dispute with the state attorn…
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Nearly 400 Anti-Abortion Bills Were Introduced Across the Country This Year | The Nation
Despite the right’s insistence that Robert Dear, the man who shot and killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month, was really a bank robber or a “transgendered leftist activist”—really, anything but an anti-choice radic…
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Andy Serkis Is Going to Produce, Direct, and Star In a Rumplestilskin Movie? Okay, Sure.
Why not? At least this live-action, updated version of a fairy tale from the perspective of the villain isn’t a remake of something. Plus, there’s something distinctly Rumplestiltskin-y about Serkis.
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German plasma success raises nuclear fusion hopes – BBC News
A German nuclear fusion experiment has produced a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy.The helium plasma – a cloud of loose, charged particles – lasted just a tenth of a second and was about one mil…
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Heathrow third runway: backers fear game may be up | Environment | The Guardian
So is it the environment, or plain old politics? Heathrow said it was confident it could meet the government’s environmental criteria for a new runway – although it has yet to be told what green hoops it now needs to jump through.
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Suicide rates are highest in spring — not around Christmas / Boing Boing
No one’s sure how the story of suicides increasing during holiday season got started (some researchers think it may have come from It’s a Wonderful Life!), but it’s not true. The incremental stress of the holiday season isn’t the sort of thing that …
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A Hot Spiced Wine Perfect for Cold Winter Nights | Vanity Fair
Mulled wine is to December what chilled rosé is to the dog days of summer: a delicious and highly Instagrammable way to kick off cocktail hour.
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Philip Hensher on the great British short story – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
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The New Gun-Control Strategy: Let the Voters Speak | New Republic
Congressional Democrats’ latest push for gun control has landed in Washington with a thud.
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Flash fiction: Husband | Books | The Guardian
If you should have an ex-husband, who first writes, then doesn’t write, then writes to the point of absurdity, then refuses to write, refuses to receive correspondence from you, refuses to acknowledge you in any way, denies you exist, then writes ag…
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Why did Sarah leave Tammy? Was their entire relationship a “moment,” an attempt to get out of what she felt was a stifling marriage, or some measure of routine? Does the thought of any sort of routine or commitment to a person give Sarah, the ostens…
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How I Went From Weight Lifting to Bodyweight Exercises and Still Gained Strength
Two months ago, I was about to embark on a nomadic life, a suitcase and laptop in tow, knowing that I was also saying goodbye to a proper gym. But fitness is important to me, so I had to make do with the most important “equipment” of all: my own bod…
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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Diesel power companies get big tax breaks under Osborne’s energy regime | Business | The Guardian
Wealthy investors will earn millions from polluting diesel generators – and get lucrative tax breaks for doing so – under the government’s energy regime. So-called “diesel farms” won contracts worth £175.
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“Jingle Bells,” the recurring nightmare America wrought on itself · 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. When it comes to the American tradition of Christmas earworms, the rule of thumb is that the only good songs are the religious o…
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What is it with rock stars (indie and otherwise) and Christmas songs lately? Do they feel some kind of obligation to contribute to the new Christmas canon, or to dilute the lameness of some of the elder statesmen of that category? Well, whatever the…
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Alabama immigration detainees end hunger strike after force-feeding threat | US news | The Guardian
Immigration detainees at a holding center in Alabama have ended a hunger strike started last month to protest conditions, the government said Friday, but some detainees still aren’t eating at other facilities nationwide.
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Scientists Warn: The Paris Climate Agreement Needs Massive Improvement | The Nation
Paris, France—The long-running clash between climate science and climate politics again took center stage at the Paris summit on Friday as the talks headed into overtime and activists prepared an unauthorized march near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturd…
Scientists Warn: The Paris Climate Agreement Needs Massive Improvement https://t.co/6hw1OEvqGt https://t.co/GNaMiV8SuU -
For a man who has been engulfed this week in the political equivalent of a category five hurricane, Donald Trump is in remarkably good shape.
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Hillary Clinton Talks Trump with Seth Meyers: ‘I No Longer Think He’s Funny’ – The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton used to let out her signature guffaw nearly every time someone brought up the name Donald Trump. But as she told Seth Meyers during an appearance on NBC’s Late Night on Thursday, she’s not laughing anymore.
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Gwendoline Christie Tells Us If Captain Phasma Is Worthy of Boba Fett Comparisons
Gwendoline Christie Tells Us If Captain Phasma Is Worthy of Boba Fett Comparisons https://t.co/Krg6thGr14 https://t.co/U2X1VjaSNG
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The gunslinging bystander who drew national attention when she opened fire at fleeing shoplifters in a Home Depot parking lot vowed Wednesday that she will never help anyone again.
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Well, he’s got the Hitler vote. The neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, was out and proud earlier this week: “Heil Donald Trump — the Ultimate Savior.
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What to Expect at Tomorrow’s Illegal Climate Action in Paris | VICE News
After failing to come up with a new global climate agreement today in Paris, world leaders are working around the clock to agree on a text that will keep global warming below acceptable levels. But climate activists aren’t holding out much hope.
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The Shenanigans Of A Bored Ballet Troupe Stuck At An Airport – Digg
This is the child of OK Go’s treadmill dance, all grown up.
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Microsoft to give back some of the free OneDrive storage it’s taking away | Ars Technica
Microsoft will be giving back some, but not all, of the OneDrive storage that it was planning to take away from users of its cloud storage service. In early November, the company made a surprising announcement to OneDrive users in two parts.
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Microsoft is letting OneDrive users keep their 15GB of free storage after all | The Verge
Microsoft surprised many last month by announcing plans to reduce its free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB. While the company is also removing its unlimited storage tier, it was the free storage removal that generated a backlash from OneDrive fans.
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Accelerated Innovation is the Ultimate Solution to Climate Change – Scientific American
PARIS—From “clean coal” evangelists to solar power enthusiasts, most experts at the U.N. climate talks here agree that solving climate change means transforming how the world produces and uses energy—and as quickly as possible. Such a transformation…
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Watch Charles Barkley destroy Donald Trump / Boing Boing
#DonaldTrump advocates closing up the Internet 2 stop the process of thought/free speech. So Communist China-like. pic.twitter.com/hRab3xpVcK— NotBuffytheVMPslayer (@NotBUFFY_VS) December 8, 2015 It’s not surprising that Donald Trump thinks censorin…
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Airbnb hosts consistently discriminate against black people / Boing Boing
Harvard Business School’s Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca, and Dan Svirsky created 20 identical Airbnb profiles, ten of which had names meant to sound African-American, ten of which were meant to sound white and undertook thousands of attempted Airbn…
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French prime minister says he’s not in favor of banning public Wi-Fi or Tor | The Verge
Although leaked documents obtained by French media this week suggested the country’s security forces had drafted proposals to ban public Wi-Fi and access to Tor in the wake of the attacks on Paris, France’s prime minister has now come out against th…
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Gwendoline Christie Tells Us If Captain Phasma Is Worthy of Boba Fett Comparisons
The armor is intimidating and awesome. The character, evil and mysterious. It’s no wonder Gwendoline Christie’s First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma became a fan favorite long before Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters next week.
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This is your next jam: Babyface, Pusha T, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’m excited that one of this year’s most eclectic playlists is being delivered during a pretty slow period for new releases.
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On Oct. 31, 1926, Charles Vance Millar, a well-known and wealthy Canadian lawyer, died at age 73.
How A Dead Millionaire Convinced Dozens Of Women To Have As Many Babies As Possible https://t.co/qbulDWryyp https://t.co/CngkzkjbA7 -
Google just made taking screenshots way easier in Android Marshmallow | The Verge
Google has finally come up with a simpler way of snapping a screenshot of your Android phone — at least if you’re lucky enough to be running Marshmallow. As noted by Droid Life, the company has updated Android 6.
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Here’s why the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund endorsed Hillary Clinton | Grist
The green group argues that Clinton is best positioned to hit the ground running with a strong climate agenda on day one. Climate change takes a hard toll on women, but it’s tough to get that message through to the people (mostly men) making the dec…
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Look at this footage of the streets in Tokyo after WWII / Boing Boing
Record producer and DJ Boogie Belgique assembled this crisp black-and-white footage of post-WWII Tokyo.
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Top US airlines ban hoverboards over fire concerns – BBC News
The three leading US airline groups have announced a ban on so-called hoverboards, saying their batteries present an unacceptable fire hazard. American, Delta and United airlines say the ban will apply to checked and carry-on luggage on all flights.
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Republican leaders don’t want to make America great again.
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Watch the best news bloopers of 2015! / Boing Boing
Dan Ashwood writes, “I wrote and animated a new holy days carol to memorize and perform at neighbors and homeowners. Take a look!”
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Walmart.com Begins Selling The Apple Watch | TechCrunch
Walmart has now become the latest large retailer to carry the Apple Watch. The company’s U.S. website has begun selling the Apple Watch Sport and various accessories, including the Sport Band and a magnetic charging cable.
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Nintendo touchscreen controller patent offers clues about upcoming NX | Ars Technica
Nintendo has remained largely silent on its plans for its next console, codenamed NX, since the system was casually announced earlier this year.
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Robert Mugabe warns Zimbabwe security services – BBC News
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has warned the country’s security services not to get involved in politics. Army, police and intelligence officers were taking sides in the ruling Zanu-PF party infighting over the battle to succeed him, he said.
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Truck hit by train after jumping red light – BBC News
A truck driver escaped with minor injuries when his vehicle was hit by a passenger train on a crossing in the Czech republic. It is believed the driver jumped flashing red lines warning not to proceed. No-one on the train was hurt.
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José Aldo and Conor McGregor collide at last – and the hype is justified | Sport | The Guardian
Impromptu or staged, orderly or not, the posing and posturing between Brazilian UFC champion Jose Aldo (25-1) and his wild-eyed Irish challenger Conor McGregor (18-2) has tantalized fight fans during the past 12 months. Now it’s time for the payoff.
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The best city stories we’ve collected this week include temporary public transport initiatives in Italian cities hoping to counter increasing air pollution, and the Japanese town on course to become the country’s first “zero-waste” community.
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A church that looks like a confused chicken : pics
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What will it take to get MIT to stand up for its own students and researchers? / Boing Boing
In 2007, 19-year-old MIT Media Lab student named Star Simpson went to Boston’s Logan Airport to meet a friend wearing a sweater she’d decorated with LEDs in the shape of a star; the Logan police responded (with machine guns) to a call about a “dark-…
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An Exclusive Look at the Fantastical Misadventures of Allen, Son of Hellcock!
Living in the shadow of your parent’s legacy can be a tough thing—even moreso if a) your parent was the mightiest warrior to ever live and b) you’re the direct opposite of that.
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Lifehacker Readers: Let’s Take a Money Challenge Together in 2016
Be honest: you could probably stand to save a few bucks next year. Money challenges, like the 52-week challenge, are a great way to save some cash and get started with personal finance in the process. Let’s start one together next year. Your pick.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Found the Silver Lining in Goop’s $170,000 Theft | Vanity Fair
Mere days after Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop pop-up shop in New York City was robbed of more than $170,000 in merchandise, the Oscar-winning actress-turned-entrepreneur has seemingly come to terms with the six-figure theft, calling it good publicity for t…
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For These Refugees, Trump’s Threats Are Already a Reality | The Nation
In response to Donald Trump’s vitriolic anti-immigrant spew, many politicians have condemned his rhetoric as “un-American,” arguing that his bigotry flouts a supposed national tradition of welcoming refugees.
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Florida deputy charged in death of man who may not have heard commands | US news | The Guardian
A South Florida sheriff’s deputy was charged Friday with manslaughter in the 2013 shooting death of a man who was carrying only an air rifle and might have been unable to hear police commands to drop it because he was listening to music through earb…
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Syria’s Assad rules out negotiations with ‘terrorists’ – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed possible negotiation with the Syrian opposition until rebel groups lay down their arms. The leader, who lost control of large parts of the country after a civil war began in 2011, told state media on …
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“Why Europeans understand the danger Donald Trump poses better than anyone else: Europe ignored the bigoted hate speech of the far right for a decade. Now it’s mainstream.” (slate.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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According to Nielsen TV data through mid-January, the average age of Fox News viewers is 68-years-old. It’s interesting to me how much more liberal the internet skews than broadcast media.
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Obama Administration Set to Take Executive Action on Gun Control | VICE News
Gun owners are bracing for an imminent policy proposal from the White House to tighten gun laws without Congressional approval, at the same time that Connecticut’s governor has moved to use executive powers to stop people on federal terrorism lists …
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13 black women on how an Oklahoma City police officer terrorized their neighborhood – Vox
When a police officer fails to uphold the law, whom do you tell? And will doing anything even matter? These questions are underscored in the testimony of 13 black women in Oklahoma City who accused former police officer Daniel Holtzclaw of several i…
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George Saunders Demystifies the Art of Storytelling in a Short Animated Documentary | Open Culture
An interesting thing happens when you read certain of George Saunders’ stories. At first, you see the satirist at work, skewering American meanness and banality with the same unsparing knife’s edge as earlier postmodernists like John Barth or Donald…
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Experts baffled to learn that 2 years olds are being prescribed psychiatric drugs / Boing Boing
In 2014, US doctors wrote ~20,000 prescriptions for risperidone, quetiapine and other antipsychotics for children under the age of two; a cohort on whom these drugs have never been tested and for whom there is no on-label usage.
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Happy Birthday’s copyright status is finally, mysteriously settled / Boing Boing
September’s court ruling that Warner Chapell Music didn’t hold the copyright to “Happy Birthday” was swiftly followed by a claim from the Association for Childhood Education International, a nonprofit established to administer the money that Warner …
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“It is quite surprising that gravity can play any role in quantum mechanics”, says Igor Pikovski, a theoretical physicist working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:”Gravity is usually studied on astronomical scales, but it seems tha…
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Early thoughts on Joy, and to a trip to the heart of the sea · Film Club · The A.V. Club
This week, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky marvel at the visual wonders of In The Heart Of The Sea, Ron Howard’s silly but surprisingly robustMoby-Dick origin story. They also offer an early take on Joy, the new David O. Russell and Jennifer Lawr…
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See Rascal Flatts’ Fast-Paced ‘I Like the Sound of That’ Video | Rolling Stone
See Rascal Flatts’ Fast-Paced ‘I Like the Sound of That’ Video Country trio’s Las Vegas residency resumes February 17th
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Hear Pusha T’s Boasts, Bleak Visions on ‘Crutches, Crosses, Caskets’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Pusha T’s Boasts, Bleak Visions on ‘Crutches, Crosses, Caskets’ Timbaland-produced track is G.O.O.D.
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Jon Stewart crashed Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. Together they made fun of Donald Trump. – Vox
On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert welcomed an old friend to his new digs. Jon Stewart, patron saint of The Daily Show, stopped by The Late Show and gave the world another chance to witness (and envy) the best friendship in show business this side o…
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The Best New TV Shows of 2015 | Vanity Fair
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15 Things We Learned About ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ | Rolling Stone
Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were kind enough to welcome a Rolling Stone writer into their homes; Harrison Ford was kind enough not to slice him open like a Tauntaun after a hour’s worth of Star Wars questions. The Force Awakens director J.J.
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Nicole Paris and Ed Cage: A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo | TED Talk | TED.com
Nicole Paris was raised to be a beatboxer — when she was young, her father, Ed Cage, used to beatbox her to sleep at night. Now the duo is known for their beatbox battles and jam sessions, which mix classic rap beats with electronic dance sounds. P…
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Walk-Up Revolution: Royce Clayton’s Pitch to Change MLB At-Bat Music | Rolling Stone
Imagine, at the start of each day, if your favorite song dropped the moment you stepped through your office door. Heads would turn, keyboards would stop clacking and your boss would finally get around to approving your vacation days.
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Tesla is selling iPhone cases made from leftover seat leather | The Verge
Tesla’s Model S has become one of the most desirable cars in the country, so Elon Musk’s company ramped up production to the tune of 50,000 cars a year. That means more materials and, inevitably, more waste.
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Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping women while on duty, was found guilty on Thursday. Mr. Holtzclaw was convicted on 18 of 36 counts of sexual assault in attacks on 13 women. Conviction on the charges comes wit…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Expedition 45 Crew Members Return Home
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Vega graduates with perfect record
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Sanders wants to put price on carbon pollution | introduced legislation that would require fossil fuel producers to pay for the carbon they emit starting at $15 per ton in 2017. (thehill.com)
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California’s Oil & Gas Industry Spent $10 Million Getting Rid Of Environmental Review – Environmental groups are suing over a new ordinance that gives oil & gas companies a 20-yr lift of the review process. (thinkprogress.org)
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Ford to invest billions to boost range of electric cars – Carmaker to launch 13 eco-friendly vehicles by 2020 as regulators call for lower emissions and tech companies encroach on market (theguardian.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Paris attacks: Germany ‘hunts suspect linked to Abaaoud’ – BBC News
German security services are searching for a man wanted in connection with last month’s terror attacks in Paris, German media reports say. The 42-year-old-man – named only as Huseyin D – is believed to have been spent time with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, t…
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A new official trailer has been released for Anesthesia, the Tim Blake Nelson-written/directed/produced drama that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.
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‘It was the dead I wanted to talk to. The writers and artists and composers who kept me company in the late hours of the night.” On the edge of suicide, Jessa Crispin finds herself unable to confide in her “married, employed, insured” friends in Chi…
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What Jules Feiffer taught me about writing for kids / Boing Boing
25 years into creating my comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug,” I’ve just embarked on another venture: writing books for kids.
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In This TMNT Fan Flick, the Ninja Turtles Actually Look Like Turtles
And I don’t just mean that they don’t have the creepy human eyes and unfathomably disturbing human lips or teeth of the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. I mean their limbs and heads actually somewhat resemble an actual turtl…
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Why cheap oil is the key to beating climate change | Mitchell Anderson | Opinion | The Guardian
As world leaders enter the home stretch of the Paris climate negotiations they should keep in mind a key measure of success in limiting carbon emissions: cheap oil.
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Creator Sam Esmail will direct all of Mr. Robot season 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Those worried that the whims of network executives might alter Mr. Robot’s distinctly claustrophobic look and feel now that it’s a success, fear not: Variety reports that creator and showrunner Sam Esmail is expected to direct all 10 episodes of sea…
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Turkey fines Twitter over ‘terrorist propaganda’ – BBC News
Turkey’s communications regulator has fined Twitter 150,000 lira (£33,000) for failing to remove “terrorist propaganda”. It is the first time such a fine has been issued to the company.
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For flood-hit areas the problems don’t stop after the waters have receded | Money | The Guardian
Government pledges to spend billions of pounds on flood defences won’t necessarily shield householders against rising insurance costs in flood-hit areas of the country, despite the protection they offer.
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Smart Fridge Only Capable of Displaying Buggy Future of the Internet of Things | Motherboard
At some point in late 2014, several owners of a Samsung smart fridge could not log in and check their Google Calendars on the refrigerator’s internet-connected screen.
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More than 900 women to stand in Saudi elections for first time – BBC News
Saudi Arabia is marking a political milestone this weekend with municipal elections which for the first time will see women voting and more than 900 women standing as candidates. But how big a breakthrough for gender equality in the conservative kin…
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Paris Talks May Set an Ambitious—And Meaningless—Goal on Climate Change | New Republic
Compared to the conferences that came before it, Paris is going smoothly. So smoothly, relatively speaking, that there is still some sense of positivity amid the last-minute scrambling.
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Yemen crisis: Saudi-led coalition ‘targeting’ schools – BBC News
Air strikes carried out by Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen have targeted schools that were still in use, Amnesty International has said. The rights group accused the coalition of violating international law and disrupting the education of more t…
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Zayn Malik Keeps Surprising Us | Vanity Fair
You may not think this is news, but it is news. Long ago, before most of you were born, back in a purer and more utopian time, there was a fifth member of One Direction. Yes, I know it borders on sacrilege to say that the holy four was once the holi…
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What Happened to Adam | New Republic
This is the second story in a two-part series on AdvoServ, a for-profit company that operates a network of facilities for the disabled in several states. The first story can be found here.
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Yahoo’s Video Guide App Is Like a TV Guide for Cord-Cutters | Motherboard
Buried by the recent news about Yahoo spinning off the core elements of the company was the announcement of a new, small, useful Yahoo service to help you find fun things to watch.
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Relaxing on the Golden Gate Bridge : pics
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Congress Wants to Give Oil Markets Exactly What They Don’t Need — More Oil | VICE News
A years-long push to get rid of the US ban on exporting crude oil may be bearing fruit, just as the market for that crude is in a nosedive. The Republican-led Senate is haggling over whether the repeal the 40-year-old restriction as part of a year-e…
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Police Union Endorses Donald Trump Despite His Controversial Muslim Ban Proposal | VICE News
Donald Trump pledged to give police killers the death penalty in a speech he delivered to an audience of police officers in New Hampshire, as the Republican presidential frontrunner was endorsed by a major police union.
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On The Line: Neha Shastry Discusses the Navajo Nation’s Contaminated Water | VICE News
VICE News journalist joined to answer your questions on the Navajo nation’s contaminated water crisis. Decades of uranium mining have contaminated the majority of water sources on Navajo Nation land. As a result, tens of thousands of Americans are l…
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What Happened to Adam – ProPublica
One winter day nearly eight years ago, Lori Kennedy-Shields dashed off an email to her son’s private boarding school before starting the 90-minute drive through Florida’s rural midsection, to a lake-dimpled stretch of small towns northwest of Orland…
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Kickstarter hires journalist to investigate failed drone campaign / Boing Boing
After a Kickstarter campaign raised $3.5m to make drones only to fly away into the void, it brought the shortcomings of crowdfunding into sharp relief. But Kickstarter itself is hiring an investigator to unravel the circumstances of the failed ventu…
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Wink 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: What Kids Want / Boing Boing
It’s mid-December folks. Like a bullet train. White knuckle time. With parties in motion and merry children abound, it’s time to jump on the fast track with those holiday gifts. And Wink’s gift guide is your golden ticket. The fun stuff on this week…
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Meat industry ignores FDA, health experts, buys more antibiotics | Ars Technica
Despite recent efforts by health experts, doctors, and the Food and Drug Administration to pull the meat industry away from its heavy use of antimicrobials, livestock producers seem to have dug in their heels.
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Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette to do ‘True Romance’ live reading together|Dangerous Minds
For several years now, director Jason Reitman has been delighting audiences with his “Live Read” series in which a group of well-known actors convenes at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to execute a reading of a well-chosen Hollywood cl…
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) likely knew that there was unreleased video evidence of Officer Jason Van Dyke killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald within 50 days of the shooting, internal emails obtained by NBC Chicago indicate.
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Is the Mafia Saving Italy From ISIS, or Just Profiting From Them? – The Daily Beast
ROME — About 20 miles north of Naples, there’s a beachfront community that operates so far outside the law no one even tries to intervene.
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Tech companies urge Congress to drop fight against net neutrality rules | Ars Technica
A group of tech companies has urged Congressional leadership to abandon a GOP plan to kill the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules.
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Ben Carson threatens to leave party if Republicans don’t stop plotting against his pal Donald Trump
This Republican presidential primary is so much fun (when it’s not incredibly depressing on policy and moral grounds).
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Thousands of tumbleweeds blow across Montana field – video | US news | The Guardian
Amateur footage captures the moment thousands of tumbleweeds blew across farmland in Bozeman, Montana, during a blustery storm. The video, shot by Thomas J Forwood Jr at Davis Lane Pond, shows the peculiar scene as an army of spiny thistles bounded …
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Judge rules fantasy sports companies must cease operating in New York | US news | The Guardian
A New York judge on Friday ruled that daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings must cease operating in the state for now, in what could be a crippling blow to the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry.
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Get iFlask, the world’s first “smart” flask, for over 45% off / Boing Boing
There’s a new Genius Bar in town, and it’s serving up the good stuff. Meet iFlask. It’s discreet, holds up to 5 oz of your favorite beverage, and packs an emergency bottle opener.
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Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump | TechCrunch
Hacker collective Anonymous seems to be targeting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after the real estate tycoon called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. One of the Twitter accounts for the h… http://www.trumptowernyc.
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The Weeds: Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate – Vox
This week, the regular cast of Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff, and yours truly is back for an action-packed discussion of why health insurance premiums — both inside and outside of Obamacare — are on the rise. Then we talk Donald Trump, immigration politic…
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Every Bit of Information Revealed By the X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer
The X-Men: Apocalypse trailer hit today. Along with unveiling James McAvoy in the classic Professor X look, we got a pretty decent amount of info about Apocalypse, his goals, his agents, and who will fight him and where. We’ve broken it all down.
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New Bansky piece puts Steve Jobs in a Syrian refugee camp | The Verge
Anonymous street artist Banksy is bringing awareness to the Syrian refugee crisis. The British artist spray painted an image of Steve Jobs, the child of a Syrian refugee, on a wall in France’s infamous Calais refugee camp.
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New trailers: X-Men, The BFG, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, and more | The Verge
Guess what? There isn’t a single Star Wars trailer this week. I mean, there was one — and you can watch it if you really, really want to — but it’s time to call it quits. Seriously. You don’t need to watch a Chinese Star Wars trailer to hold you ove…
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The best versions of Star Wars you can buy on eBay | The Verge
In just over a week, your local place of cinematic worship will be filled with screen after screen preaching the good word of the Force Awakening. That leaves you plenty of time to seek out the best versions of old Star Wars movies to catch up. We w…
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Judge orders FanDuel and DraftKings to halt all business in New York | The Verge
Online fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings will need to temporarily shut down operations in New York, as a judge today granted an injunction against both companies.
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There’s a cafe next door to the thronging media centre at the UN global climate talks in Paris where the constant clang of the door to the chill air outside can barely be heard above the buzz.
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BP faces Mexican class action lawsuit over Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Environment | The Guardian
BP is facing another potentially huge compensation bill from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill after a class action law suit was launched in Mexico for the environmental catastrophe caused in its territory by the fatal disaster. The company recently a…
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Delta, United, and American Airlines are the latest to ban ‘hoverboards’ | The Verge
The more popular ‘hoverboards’ get, the harder it is to get around on them. After widespread reports of the personal transportation devices’ tendency to spontaneously combust, the three biggest airlines in the United States have now banned passenger…
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and More
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In Photos: Canada’s Big Weed Machine | VICE News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to “legalize, regulate, and restrict” marijuana. What that looks like is anyone’s guess at this point.
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www.thetrace.org | 520: Web server is returning an unknown error
A year and a half after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Lenny Pozner called to set up a meeting with Wolfgang Halbig.
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Rand Paul could be booted from main debate stage : politics
That’s really too bad. I don’t agree with quite a lot of Paul’s policies, but his frequent schooling the other candidates on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were usually highlights in the previous debates. Trump is going to boot the Constitu…
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How to Make Sushi: Free Video Lessons from a Master Sushi Chef | Open Culture
I think we’ve all had moments when, bellying up to our favorite sushi bar, we’ve watched the chef in action behind the counter and thought, “I wonder if I could do that?” Then we see a documentary like Jiro Dreams of Sushi and think, “Well, no, I pr…
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Earth-Sized Storm Observed Raging on a Star –“Similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot”
“The star is the size of Jupiter, and its storm is the size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot,” said John Gizis of the University of Delaware, Newark. “We know this new found storm has lasted at least two years, and probably longer.
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A cellphone case that spits out instant photo prints / Boing Boing
Prynt is a $140 printer that’s also a (bulky) phone case. It looks cute and brings instant-print nostalgia to the cellphone you already have and to your very large cargo-pants pocket.
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The World War II meme that circled the world – Vox
We know about the epic drama of World War II, but what about the jokes? The above video tells the story (as best as we can). The iconic piece of graffiti that was known in America as “Kilroy” traveled the world in a fashion remarkably similar to a m…
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Cowardly and Inept Republican Elites Play Into Trump’s Hands | The Nation
If the Republican establishment had set out to confirm every criticism Donald Trump has made of them, they could not have done a better job of it.
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Ghetto Man ‘roasts’ the SuperHeroes, 1979|Dangerous Minds
Legends Of The SuperHeroes was the name given to two Hanna-Barbera-produced live action TV specials from the late 1970s.
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Circle Is the Parental Control for the Internet I’ve Always Wanted
Parenting often means managing a small network. It’s challenging because there’s no built-in way to apply the same parental controls across all of the tablets, laptops, and other devices your family uses. That’s where Circle comes in.
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Colin Kaepernick Rips Donald Trump’s ‘Racism’ | Rolling Stone
Colin Kaepernick Rips Donald Trump’s ‘Racism’ 49ers quarterback takes GOP frontrunner to task on Instagram for his plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
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The Daily Show tests if a “good guy with a gun” can stop a mass shooting – Vox
It has been said millions of times after a mass shooting: The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. On Thursday, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper put the theory to the test.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and More
Relive the entire Indiana Jones saga, before they spoil all your memories with an inevitable Chris Pratt reboot.
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Action, atmosphere, and humor make Head Lopper an exciting read · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Head Lopper #2.
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin says Obamacare not working—70 percent of Kentuckians disagree
A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 72 percent of all Kentuckians want to keep Medicaid the same, opposing Gov. Matt Bevin’s calls to repeal or change the program in Kentucky. Kentucky is rare among southern states in that leader…
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Donald Trump has gone too far for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen – Vox
Donald Trump has been frequently compared (including by me) to “far-right” populist movements in Europe. Indeed, scholarly experts on fascism say that this — rather than fascism — is the correct comparison to make about Trump. Mr. Trump on Monday ev…
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There are two types of Machiavellians in politics, Selfish Machiavellians and Kind Machiavellians. The Selfish ones are the ones we usually think of — the nakedly ambitious people who are always strategizing, sometimes ruthlessly, for their own pers…
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An armed robber snatched an estimated one million euros ($1.10 million) worth of jewelry from a Chopard store in Paris, in a brazen heist carried out just a few doors away from France’s presidential palace.
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Chinese Billionaire’s Tesla Rival Sets Up Shop in Elon Musk’s Backyard | Vanity Fair
Faraday Future, an upstart electric-car company backed by a Chinese billionaire, is further inching into Tesla Motors’ territory, announcing Thursday that it would spend $1 billion to create a 3 million-square-foot facility in a suburb of Las Vegas—…
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Ben Carson Threatens to Leave the G.O.P. if Convention Is Brokered | Vanity Fair
In response to a Washington Post article reporting that G.O.P. leaders have begun laying the groundwork for a brokered convention to choose their presidential nominee, an angry Dr.
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Ban Ki-moon calls Paris climate talks “most complicated & difficult” ever – As summit enters closing stages, UN secretary general urges negotiators to set aside national interests to reach a strong global deal for all (theguardian.com)submitted 1 ho…
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Please Smile Back: Transparent’s Gaby Hoffmann on Hugging Strangers | Vanity Fair
What does it take to be part of the zeitgeist—like actress Gaby Hoffmann—for three decades? Be born to Viva, an Andy Warhol superstar. Spend a childhood roller-skating the hallways of New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel.
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How do we stop UK publishing being so posh, white and male? | Books | The Guardian
I’m writing this hoping it’ll be my last piece on diversity in publishing. I am tired. Tired of fighting for representation for writers of colour, pushing for more black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to be in positions of management in th…
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Apple Pushes Users To Upgrade Their iPhones Via Pop-Up Ads In The App Store | TechCrunch
Likely in hopes of boosting its holiday sales, Apple has surprised a number of iPhone owners by displaying unsolicited pop-up ads within the App Store application that promote the iPhone 6s.
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France won’t block public Wi-Fi or ban Tor after all | Ars Technica
Public Wi-Fi networks and Tor won’t be blocked or forbidden in France in the near future, even during a state of emergency, despite the country’s Ministry of Interior reportedly considering it.
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Fintech’s Five Emerging Powerhouse Markets Are At A Crossroads | TechCrunch
Accenture has warned local banking communities in Asia to wake up: It took just nine months for investment in the region’s non-banking fintechs to quadruple from 2014’s $880 million to $3.5 billion.
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Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer’s chest-cavity / Boing Boing
In 1981, Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, published a thought experiment in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: what if the codes to launch nuclear war were kept inside the chest-cavity of a young volun…
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Virginia Islanders Could Be U.S. First Climate Change Refugees – Scientific American
For Tangier Island, Va., lifelong resident Claudia Parks, climate change is a direct threat to her golf cart.
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Iraq to file UN complaint over Turkish ‘incursion’ – Al Jazeera English
Iraq’s prime minister has ordered his foreign ministry to file an official UN complaint over what he calls a “violation of Iraqi sovereignty” by Turkey.
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What’s a Latke, Really? – The Atlantic
In 1927, when the word “latke” made its English debut, The American Mercury defined the Hanukkah delicacy as “luscious … pancakes made of grated, raw potatoes, mixed with flour and shortening.
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PM Trudeau welcomes Syrian refugees to Canada – BBC News
The first military plane carrying Syrian refugees to be resettled in Canada has arrived in the country. Welcoming the 163 refugees, new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country was showing “the world how to open our hearts”.
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Anger in Greek refugee camp after Idomeni eviction – Al Jazeera English
Athens, Greece – Hundreds of asylum seekers lined up to receive food outside a former Olympic Taekwondo centre, turned makeshift camp for refugees and migrants, while dozens of heavily-armed Greek riot police watched on.
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BBC Sport – Yaya Toure wins BBC African Footballer of the Year award 2015
Yaya Toure has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2015. The 32-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder becomes only the third player, after Nigerians Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, to receive the honour twice.
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Optimism as climate change conference delayed – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – It was always an optimistic call to get a global climate change agreement in the can by a firm 6pm deadline on Friday and so it proved.
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Guo Guangchan Detained by Police – The Atlantic
On Thursday, Guo Guangchan, often referred to as China’s Warren Buffett, was said to be unreachable. The 48-year-old businessman oversees Fosun International, one of China’s largest conglomerates, which owns Club Med and Cirque du Soleil.
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Tying teacher pay to student test scores. Creating public schools of choice with private operators. Setting common standards for all students. Those issues probably are familiar to any American reporter who covers education.
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‘Oh, the places you’ll go!’ The best Dr Seuss quotes | Children’s books | The Guardian
It’s hard to imagine growing up without the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch, the Lorax or Horton: Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known as the beloved Dr Seuss – produced some of the most popular children’s books ever published.
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Thneed-to-know: what’s the formula for Dr Seuss’s funniest lines? | Books | The Guardian
When it comes to reading to small children, there is nothing better than a picture book that rhymes. And when it comes to picture books that rhyme, there is nothing better than Dr Seuss.
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My Quest To Fight Muhammad Ali, The Man Who Saved Me
Excerpted from Davis Miller’s new book Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts (W.W. Norton). Be sure to read Miller’s other famous story about his relationship with Ali right here. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This story was written as a nonfiction novel.
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Oklahoma police officer guilty of raping women – BBC News
Daniel Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma City police officer has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting women. Holtzclaw was convicted of assaults on eight victims, including a grandmother in her 50s and a 17-year-old.
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This Guy Turned Making Weird GIFs Into a Lucrative Job | WIRED
Caption: Loop #36 Karen D’Ambrosi creates tiny shock waves with the snap of a finger. Romain Laurent Caption: Loop #29 Yannick Roux’s mind is high in potassium. Romain Laurent
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Obama promises statement on encryption before Xmas / Boing Boing
The Obama administration, which has staffed up on savvy pro-privacy technologists, even as its law enforcement arm has called for a “magic pony” that would let Internet users attain technological security without compromising the ability to wiretap …
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Speaking to a powerful police officers’ union in New Hampshire Thursday night, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump vowed that if elected, one of his first actions in office would be signing a particular executive order.
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The debut of Samantha Bee’s talk show, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, is still two months away, but the backlash has apparently already begun.
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Kern County, California, where 95 percent of the state’s fracking takes place, is getting sued over a recent decision that did away with public notice and environmental review for oil and gas permits for the next 20 years.
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Hollywood Chases the White Whale | New Republic
Movie audiences, safely sucking on a soda straw and sitting in comfortably plush theater seats, love to watch desperate characters struggle against the elements.
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Justin Bieber, the pop star who went from up-and-coming-darling to human-equivalent-of-Axe-body-spray to repenting, heartsick, young man enjoying one of the more successful second acts in American life, decided he liked a girl on Instagram, On Decem…
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Cop Used Whiteness as His Weapon to Rape Black Women – The Daily Beast
“Is this the first time you sucked a white cock?” Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw asked as he bent over his victim. “You’re gonna have to give me head or ass or go to jail.” Holtzclaw was found guilty Thursday night on 18 of 36 counts,…
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This Glacier’s Vanishing Act Is Beautifully Heartbreaking : environment
This Glacier’s Vanishing Act Is Beautifully Heartbreaking (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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A Net Full of Jello, from the Mickey Mouse Club via /r/pics https://t.co/vFWVFUbtK8 https://t.co/XnZ3QXaJPA https://t.co/91GI9lVnFC
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A Net Full of Jello, from the Mickey Mouse Club : pics
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On the UN climate summit’s penultimate day on Friday, Greenpeace activists paint Paris’s streets yellow with ‘eco paint’. They dangle banners from the Arc de Triomphe calling on the French president, François Hollande, to ‘renew the energy’
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The end is nigh in the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
We learned last month that the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer would be released along with Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, which is now only a week away.
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Americans are capable of dramatically changing their energy use. And our political leaders can take decisive, bipartisan action on global environmental problems. This is not just wishful thinking. We know this because they have done so before – in r…
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Ahora que el mundo se reúne en París con la abrumadora tarea de pasar de los combustibles fósiles a las energías renovables, un pequeño país al otro lado del Atlántico hace que esa transición parezca cosa de niños y además asequible.
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Svetlana Alexievich – Nobel Lecture
Svetlana Alexievich delivered her Nobel Lecture on Monday 7 December 2015 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Which Nobel Laureates are hidden within the maze of letters?
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Employers Should Offer Free Screenings for Depression
America’s workforce is in crisis as a silent epidemic eats away at the U.S. economy through lost productivity and underperformance. More importantly, if this health crisis is left unchecked, it will cost lives. It’s not AIDS, cancer, or diabetes.
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Antibiotic Use in Food Animals Continues to Rise – Scientific American
U.S. sales of medically important antibiotics approved for use in livestock rose by 23 percent between 2009 and 2014, federal regulators said on Thursday, fueling concerns about risks to humans from antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Make Forgiveness Easier by Remembering the Strong Side of a Person’s Weakness
Forgiving someone doesn’t always come easy, and if you know you should forgive, but you’re having a hard time doing it, this video gives you a few mental tricks to help you along the way. One of my favorite suggestions in the video is to remember th…
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Harlem Cryptoparty: Crypto matters for #blacklivesmatter / Boing Boing
This week’s Radio Motherboard podcast (MP3) talks with Matthew Mitchell, a former data journalist who organizes Harlem Cryptoparty, a regular training meeting for black activists who want to learn to defend themselves against the burgeoning police/D…
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New JPMorgan Chase Data Shows The Cities Where People Shop Small – The Atlantic
I always get irritable upon setting foot in big-box stores. Things are never where I expect them to be —why is it so hard to find garbage bags?— and it’s easy to get lost in the endless rows of merchandise arranged like a maze to prevent me from eve…
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Kabul attack: Militants raid guest house used by foreigners – BBC News
A guesthouse used by foreigners in Kabul has come under attack from armed insurgents, with the Taliban saying that they were behind the assault.Eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud explosion followed by heavy gunfire. There are unconfirmed reports o…
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Justin Trudeau Welcomes Syrian Refugees to Canada – The Atlantic
The first planeload of Syrian refugees arrived late Thursday in Toronto where they were welcomed by Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, and members of his Cabinet. Trudeau replied: “You are home. Welcome home.”
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Shit Is About to Get Real in California, El Niño Report Predicts – FEMA is preparing for El Niño. Here’s what Californians can expect. (motherjones.com)
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Rival Libyans agree to sign unity government deal – Al Jazeera English
Rival factions in Libya have agreed to sign a United Nations-backed national unity government deal following months of negotiations, the UN special envoy for Libya announced in Tunis.
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Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission (theguardian.com)submitted 50 minutes ago by loading…
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Death Toll From Hajj Stampede Reaches 2,411 in New Estimate https://t.co/lCuAAhCUGh https://t.co/57UzWTZcxA
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Vega graduates with perfect record / Launchers / Our Activities / ESA
Europe’s Vega light launcher is entering its commercial life boasting a flawless record and an impressive set of capabilities for a wide range of missions.
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The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Secret Seven series is series about 7 children: Peter (the society’s leader), Janet (Peter’s sister), Jack, Barbara, George, Pam and Colin. They also have a cheeky Golden Spaniel called Scamper. They unite and solve mysteries or help others in n…
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Geneva terror alert prompted by ‘IS cell’ tip-off – BBC News
A raised security alert in the Swiss city of Geneva was triggered by a warning that a cell of so-called Islamic State (IS) was in the area, the country’s president says.Simonetta Sommaruga said a “foreign authority” provided the information, but did…
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4 Simple Tips to Wrap Gifts Like a Pro
Beautifully wrapped gifts make a great impression and look beautiful when you give them, but can be hard to do right. This video offers a few simple tips to master gift wrapping and present those perfect presents in just a few minutes.
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How ‘Minecraft’ Is Connecting Kids Caught Up in the Israel-Palestine Conflict | Motherboard
“Building is our answer to murder,” declared Israel’s former economics minister and current education minister Naftali Bennett in September 2014, responding to outrage over his government’s appropriation of 990 acres of Palestinian land near Gvaot i…
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For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. At a NASA lab in Silicon Valley, Google is testing a quantum computer—a machine based on the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of things like atoms and electrons and photon…
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The Deadliest Mass Shooting Everyone Forgot
Roberta King was a 72-year-old mother of 10 the day she got a call asking if she would substitute teach a citizenship class at the immigrant resource center where she taught English part-time. “She was the sweetest, gentlest woman around,” her son, …
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First Draft Makes You Feel Like A Potentially Non-Drunk Hemingway | TechCrunch
Writing is hard. To do it I usually have to prepare myself with vigorous stretches, vocal exercises, and a robust bowel movement. Every. Single. Day. But what tools to I use to write? Tools like First Draft. First Draft comes from Ben Watanabe and D…
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A NASA Engineer Explains How to Build a Death Star
Looking to build a moon-sized space station of your own one day? Then you’ll want to hear this helpful tip from NASA’s Brian Muirhead as he discusses giant technological terrors, the best way to fly through an asteroid field, and how NASA itself is …
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Eventually Every Living Oscar Winner Will Be in a Superhero Movie | Vanity Fair
Cate Blanchett is officially in the “do absolutely whatever you want” part of her career, and the results thus far have been pretty tremendous.
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The Ultimate Guide To Winning Your White Elephant Gift Exchange Using Game Theory | FiveThirtyEight
White elephant gift exchanges, also known as Yankee swaps or, somewhat creepily, “dirty Santa” games, are a fun alternative to the old office staple “secret Santa.” Like secret Santa, everyone brings one gift and takes one home.
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Republicans Make Presence Felt at Climate Talks by Ignoring Them : environment
Republicans Make Presence Felt at Climate Talks by Ignoring Them (nytimes.com)submitted 57 minutes ago by loading…
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Expedition 45 Crew Members Return Home via NASA https://t.co/UjJ7gpg3LK https://t.co/sxSxSnjhjV https://t.co/4EnmBkID2A
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Expedition 45 Crew Members Return Home | NASA
Expedition 45 Crew Members Return Home via NASA https://t.co/UjJ7gpg3LK https://t.co/sxSxSnjhjV https://t.co/4EnmBkID2A
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A millionaire bought the only copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s new album. Is this the future of art? – Vox
With less than a month left in 2015, a new tale involving the Wu-Tang Clan, a disgraced millionaire, and possibly Bill Murray is making a serious play for Weirdest News Story of the Year.
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NYC Getting ‘High-Heel-Friendly’ Subway Grates – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The MTA has announced the completion of its new ventilation facility, paired with new sidewalk grates that feature slip-resistant surfaces and smaller half-inch openings between crossbars to make them safer and more convenient for pedestrians wearin…
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Taliban attack diplomatic area of Afghan capital Kabul – Al Jazeera English
An explosion has hit the diplomatic area of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, with initial police reports suggesting at least three attackers were involved.
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Ohh kitty, why so cute? via /r/aww https://t.co/i90u1KKQgm https://t.co/LGSLdYWDMY https://t.co/JLVSLmFucG
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Ohh kitty, why so cute? via /r/aww https://t.co/i90u1KKQgm https://t.co/LGSLdYWDMY https://t.co/JLVSLmFucG
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VERO BEACH, FL—Frequently reminding her that the year is 2015 and that she no longer lives in suburban Pennsylvania, the family of dementia sufferer Evelyn Parker, 84, keeps brutally ripping her away from the soothing, idyllic world of the 1950s, so…
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The Rise of Medical Scribes in Doctors’ Offices – The Atlantic
A national campaign for electronic health records is driving business for at least 20 companies with thousands of workers ready to help stressed doctors log the details of their patients’ care—for a price.
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We asked 6 pollsters if Trump could win the general election. Here’s what they said. – Vox
Forget about the primary for a few minutes. If the increasingly less unthinkable happens and Donald Trump becomes the GOP nominee, could he actually win the presidency?
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Ride along with Rosetta through the eyes of OSIRIS / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera team has launched a new website to showcase their recent images of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The high-resolution images, taken either with the narrow- or wide-angle scientific imaging camera, will show the comet as rec…
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Watch: The X-Men: Apocalypse trailer – Vox
On Friday, Fox released the official trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse, the culmination of the “First Class” trilogy of films. Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender all return for this film, along with Oscar Isaac, who plays the big bad…
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O’Malley calls for ‘shameful’ detention of undocumented migrants to end | US news | The Guardian
Sandra Ojeda clearly remembers the last time her husband, Miguel Cornejo, a Mexican immigrant, was home. It was 17 August 2014, the day US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stopped him in Tempe, Arizona, and deported him to Nogales, S…
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There comes a time to challenge a vast, pernicious liberal conspiracy perpetrated by NASA, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Al Gore, and the scientific community in general, all of whom want to convince the public that an utterly imaginary threat called “climat…
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‘I want to join the NSA. What do you think of that?’ | US news | The Guardian
In September, I spent a day at the United States military academy at West Point, an elite, 113-year-old academic institution.
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The 12 best comic books of 2015 – Vox
In the comic book industry, 2015 was more of the same, and that’s a good thing. More talented writers and artists went work with independent publishers, where they produced flashy, stellar works.
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Chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont announce $130bn merger | Business | The Guardian
Dow Chemical and the DuPont announced on Friday that they are merging in a $130bn chemical industry megadeal.
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Clinton says Trump is ‘dangerous and no longer funny’ – BBC News
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has rebuked Republican campaign rival Donald Trump saying “I no longer think he is funny”. Ms Clinton had downplayed the former TV star, making jokes about his campaign.
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The host of the podcast Song Exploder tells us the secrets behind your favorite songs – Vox
For music fans, there’s nothing quite like the Song Exploder podcast.
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Science and math PhDs earn about $65,000 — more than double what arts majors do – Vox
You may know people currently grinding through a PhD program. Job prospects at their university are likely terrible. The pressure to publish is great. And there’s a good chance that they will never work in the academic field they’ve spent nearly a d…
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The estimated death toll from a stampede at the hajj three months ago surpassed 2,400 on Thursday, widening the gap with Saudi Arabia’s publicly announced figure and raising new concerns about why the kingdom has not yet reported its own inquest int…
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In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school w
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Paris Climate Negotiations Reach Sleepless Zombie Stage | New Republic
International climate conferences are marathons punctuated by naps. You can tell the final hours of the Paris climate conference are near based on the number of people crashing on couches, chairs, and sleeping bags late into the night.
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Paul Greengard has been busy. In August he co-authored a paper on molecules that appear to regulate genes that might protect against Parkinson’s.
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The Hunt for Alien Molecules – Scientific American
Something strange was hiding in the Horsehead. The nebula, named for its stallionlike silhouette, is a towering cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light-years from Earth where new stars are continually born. It is one of the most recognizable celestial obj…
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Backslash — an “art/design” project from NYU Interactive Technology Program researchers Xuedi Chen and Pedro G. C.
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Cartoon: Trump recruitment and retention
Try as I might to not fan the flames of the Trump publicity machine, I just could not stand by when the leading Republican candidate for president announced his intention to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
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Dear Vlad, I like Android phones, but I don’t like carrying around enormous bricks of technology — what’s the phone for me? The best Android smartphones are often also the biggest. Nexus 6P. Galaxy Note 5. LG V10.
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Tokyo’s drone squad will deploy 10-foot drones armed with nets to police the sky | Ars Technica
In an effort to enforce no-fly-zones across the city, Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department is launching a drone squad. According to Japan Today (via Popular Science), the squad will patrol no-fly-zones and “will search for the operators and order …
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Travis Barker Talks Scott Weiland and Effects of Addiction | Rolling Stone
Travis Barker Talks Scott Weiland and Effects of Addiction “Whatever you’re masking when you’re doing drugs gets more severe the more you mask it,” Blink-182 drummer says
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Google’s Life Sciences spinoff now has a robotic surgery spinoff | The Verge
On Monday, Alphabet surprised us by introducing Verily, the new name for Google Life Sciences. Now, Verily has delivered its own offspring with the help of Johnson & Johnson: a surgical solutions company named Verb Surgical.
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Vintage AT-AT Comes To Life With The Help Of An Xbox Controller
With the help of an Xbox controller and micro-board, Star Wars enthusiast Dave Stein converted an old 1981 Kenner AT-AT Walker into something we all wanted as kids back in the day. Here’s the old fella in action (via Prosthetic Knowledge).
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Watch Jon Stewart Imitate Donald Trump on ‘Late Show’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Jon Stewart Imitate Donald Trump on ‘Late Show’ “No one is going to listen to you unless you, I don’t know how to put this, ‘Trump’ it up a little bit,” Stephen Colbert tells his former Comedy Central coho
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Democratic Congresswoman Makes Offensive Claim About Muslims | ThinkProgress
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a Democratic congresswoman from California, claimed on Thursday that as many as 20 percent of Muslims “have a desire for a caliphate” and are willing to “institute that in any way possible,” including terrorism.
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Colombia’s City of Women – Al Jazeera English
“We made little cardboard houses and put them in a big box, and you reached your hand in and pulled one out … ‘What number are you in? … Aiyee! you’re my neighbour!’” says Lubis proudly. “It was an amazing experience. From that moment forward, w…
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Watch Justin Bieber Take Over Corden’s ‘Late Late Show’ Monologue | Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber and James Corden have developed a Late Late Show rapport in recent months. The Canadian pop star sang some hits from his latest LP, Purpose, during a November “Carpool Karaoke” segment, and he crashed the set to play drums this summer.
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Nature, not humans, has greater influence on water in the Colorado River Basin : environment
Nature, not humans, has greater influence on water in the Colorado River Basin (eurekalert.org)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading…
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Delhi considers shutting schools as toxic smog continues. : environment
Delhi considers shutting schools as toxic smog continues. (theguardian.com)
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How Japan is Fueling the Slaughter of Elephants: Five takeaways from a new report slamming Japan’s ability to keep illegal ivory out of its legal market. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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We live in an era of political news that is, all too often, shocking but not surprising. The rise of Donald Trump definitely falls into that category.
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Cybercriminals will target Apple in 2016, say experts – BBC News
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‘You Are Home:’ Justin Trudeau Welcomes Syrian Refugees to Canada | VICE News
The young Syrian girl in a pink coat looked up at the famous prime minister of Canada as cameras flashed and her family beamed around her.
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Part II of my landscape timelapse series featuring the Dolomites and Italian Alps. This is a little bit of an ongoing side project of mine I work on every time I get the chance to visit the beautiful region of South Tirol. Soundtrack: “Dona Nobis Pa…
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Motörhead “Ace of Spades” Christmas Edition, 1980 I’ve compiled what I think is a pretty cool collection of Christmas album covers from tons of different artists – many that you have probably heard of and, many more that you may not have heard of th…
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The Problem With Using Old Weather Reports to Track Climate Change – The Atlantic
In November 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, flooded the Piazza del Duomo, located in the heart of the Renaissance city’s historic center, submerging millions of classic pieces of art, rare books, and manuscripts.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Ceres’ Bright Spots Unmasked
Wildlife Watch Will 2016 Be a Breakthrough in the Fight to Save Elephants? Signs of hope in East Africa include high-profile court cases, on-the-ground results, and a new president nicknamed the Bulldozer.
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Microsoft Band updated to include music controls and inactivity alerts | Ars Technica
Just a few months after the new Microsoft Band came out, the company is adding functionality with a small software update. The two biggest features of this update—music controls and inactivity alerts—contribute to the band’s identity as part smartwa…
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Recollections From Members of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Commenting Community – The Atlantic
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One-of-a-kind resin Krampus mask|Dangerous Minds
Even though it’s already after December 5th—the day Krampus is celebrated—I thought I’d share this Krampus mask with you guys anyway.
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Soyuz Spacecraft Crew Lands on Earth After 141 Days on Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft is seen just after undocking from the International Space Station on Dec. 11.Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly via Twitter (@StationCDRKelly) View full size image Three space station crewmembers made a rare nighttime return to Ea…
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Taylor Swift makes ‘Swiftmas’ trademark bid – BBC News
Taylor Swift is seeking to trademark the word “Swiftmas” and “1989”, the name of her album, in the US. It is the 25-year-old’s latest attempt to stop others from using phrases associated with her on merchandise.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho: Chelsea manager wants “dream” fourth place
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho wants to achieve a “dream” by finishing in the top four at the end of the season. The Premier League champions have struggled so far, lying in 14th place, 14 points off fourth position.
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Alibaba to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post – BBC News
Chinese internet giant Alibaba has confirmed it has struck a deal to buy Hong Kong’s popular English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The deal also includes licences for the Hong Kong editions of Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper…
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Cybercriminals will target Apple in 2016, say experts – BBC News
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Apple devices and 2016 will see a rise in attacks on its operating systems, security experts suggest.
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Tony Blair defends advice to Colonel Gaddafi during Libya conflict – BBC News
Tony Blair is being questioned by MPs about his dealings with Libya during his decade in power and the country’s troubled history since then. While in office, the ex-prime minister supported the West’s rapprochement with the regime of Colonel Gaddaf…
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X-MEN: APOCALYPSE | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX : movies
Definitely the super hero I’m most looking forward to. Really want to see how Magneto’s character has developed since the last movie and how he’ll be once he’s one of the four horsemen. Shit am I first in this! Looks awesome very excited for this an…
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We’re Eating Less Meat—But Using More Antibiotics on Farms Than Ever : environment
We’re Eating Less Meat—But Using More Antibiotics on Farms Than Ever (motherjones.com)submitted 45 minutes ago by loading…
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Ted Cruz Challenged Science At His Climate Change Hearing. Science Won. : politics
Ted Cruz Challenged Science At His Climate Change Hearing. Science Won. (thinkprogress.org) Not really a fair fight, you know with evidence and stuff.
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Ted Cruz’s Tiny Army of Climate-Denying Scientists – While diplomats in Paris attempt to negotiate an international deal to fight global warming, Cruz is in Washington railing against mainstream climate science & “partisan dogma & ideology.” (newrep…
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Last week Hawaii’s Supreme Court rescinded the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), an estimated $1.4-billion observatory planned for Mauna Kea, the dormant volcano whose red dusted slopes rise 4,205 meters above the Pacific Oce…
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How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America | New Republic
An advertisement appeared in the Atlanta Journal for “The World’s Greatest, Secret, Social, Patriotic, Fraternal Beneficiary Order” on December 9, 1915.
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Tokyo police unveil net-wielding interceptor drone | The Verge
Earlier this year, a drone carrying a tiny amount of radioactive sand was flown onto the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s office. The act was a protest against the country’s nuclear energy policy rather than a serious threat, but Japanese polic…
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The first X-Men Apocalypse trailer shows mutants remaking the world | The Verge
The first X-Men Apocalypse trailer is finally here, and it looks like its title villain is living up to his name. Oscar Isaac plays En Sabah Nur, a centuries-old mutant who was once worshipped in Ancient Egypt.
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Jean Grey Sees the End of the World In the First Trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
Our first look at the next generation of X-Men is here—and things aren’t looking too hot for Charles Xavier and his friends, old and new. Apocalypse has come to wreak… errr, the Apocalypse!
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Several killed in suicide attack in northern Cameroon – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 people have been killed and 22 others wounded following a suicide attack in northern Cameroon, an area where the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram has been carrying out attacks.
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Welcome to Reddit Environment! https://t.co/liLsxPQ0zr https://t.co/kG5uu0k3En
If airlines care about climate change they should make everyone travel economy – Business travel is booming & airlines are expecting other sectors to compensate for their apathy (theguardian.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading… -
Tampon tax: France MPs back VAT cut on sanitary products – BBC News
Tampon tax: France MPs back VAT cut on sanitary products https://t.co/b3s1DywsLy https://t.co/jh1lV81DjV
French MPs have voted to cut the VAT on sanitary products from 20% to 5.5% despite previously blocking the move. The government opposed the change in October as it would reduce tax receipts in 2016 by €55m (£40m, $60m). -
China’s missing executives: Why are they disappearing? – BBC News
China’s missing executives: Why are they disappearing? https://t.co/reNFbmIdeq https://t.co/zgQwe8jsN3
Guo Guangchang is the latest executive to go missing in China. Financial magazine Caixin said that staff at Mr Guo’s company, Fosun International, had been unable to contact their boss since Thursday afternoon. -
Endohedral fullerenes on sale for just $167 million per gram | Ars Technica
Endohedral fullerenes on sale for just $167 million per gram https://t.co/RTYTsNE6BS https://t.co/nOl5rvrQj9
Designer Carbon Materials, an Oxford-based scientific startup, has recently sold its first 200 micrograms of nitrogen atom-based endohedral fullerenes for £22,000—or about £110 million per gram. -
Obama executive action targets ‘gun show loophole’, campaigners say | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama’s resolve to bypass Congress to tighten gun controls is likely to target loopholes around firearms bought at gun shows and on the internet, campaigners believe.
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After a period of decline in some countries, business travel is on the rise. Total spending is expected to have grown by 7.4% in the UK, 3.1% in the US and 15% in China, according to the Global Business Travel Association, with $1.
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The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists – The Atlantic
Computer scientists and cryptographers occupy some of the ivory tower’s highest floors. Among academics, their work is prestigious and celebrated. To the average observer, much of it is too technical to comprehend. The field’s problems can sometimes…
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Bundle Up With Amazon’s Huge Winter Accessory Sale, Today Only
If your current wardrobe isn’t quite winter-ready, Amazon’s offering a huge sale on caps, gloves, scarves, and more, today only. There are a ton of options available here for men, women, and children, starting as low as $6. So pick out your favorite…
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The Year We All Talked About the Catholic Church | New Republic
In America, the role of religion in politics is always grounds for op-eds and letters-to-editors, if not reams of articles and stacks upon stacks of books.
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How schools will be different without No Child Left Behind – Vox
Congress just undid a major tenet of President George W. Bush’s legacy. No Child Left Behind is no longer the law of the land. President Obama signed the first major education law in nearly 14 years, the Every Student Succeeds Act, Thursday morning.
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“You have an easy job,” I tell Hugh Grant, the CEO of Monsanto, as we sit down at the W Hotel in New York City. He looks puzzled, so I explain: “I just read on the Internet that Monsanto controls the world’s food supply.” Grant, 57, jokes that it’s …
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures Siberian tigers, giant panda and an albino squirrel are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Donald Trump has claimed more British Muslims join Islamic State than join the British armed forces, but can that really be true?
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The call came down from on high: “Now watch me whip. Now watch me nae nae.” And the world heeded that call over 115 million times. But fast away the old year passes, and so Mic’s Liz Rowley has assembled a list of the 10 most-watched YouTube videos …
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Spike Lee Talks to Sarah Hoye | Al Jazeera America
Sarah Hoye: So talk to me a little bit about why “Chi-Raq,” which [is about] Chicago — why now? Spike Lee: Well, Chicago is — the Southwest Side of Chicago — is like the canary in the coal mine for gun violence.
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Donald Trump, as you have probably heard, is dominating national polls of Republicans who want to lead their party in the 2016 presidential election. As you have likewise probably heard, Hillary Clinton is currently crushing left-wing challenger Ber…
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Global intrigue as ‘China’s Warren Buffet’ goes missing – Al Jazeera English
Billionaire Chinese entrepreneur Guo Guangcheng, who styled himself on famous US investor Warren Buffet, has reportedly gone missing – causing his companies to halt share trading ahead of an expected announcement about his fate.
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Help Your Nonworking Spouse Save for Retirement With a Spousal IRA
Generally, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) can only be funded with earned income. So if you’re unemployed, that’s kind of a bummer. There is, however, a loophole if you’re unemployed and married: set up a spousal IRA.
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A Suicide Squad Star Could Play a Major Role in The Solo Batman Movie!
Tom Holland calls Spider-Man the world’s biggest indie movie. Ghostbusters may have added a former Game of Thrones star. Bryan Fuller lists an unorthodox inspiration for the American Gods show. Plus sneak peeks for the new Toho Godzilla and Supergir…
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The County: what happens after police kill someone you love? | US news | The Guardian
When someone dies after an encounter with law enforcement, he or she leaves behind parents and children, loss and confusion. What’s to be done when those people sworn to protect you are the same people who pull the trigger?
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Al-Nusra Front to release Jolani press conference – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s al-Nusra Front has said it will post an interview conducted with its leader Abu Mohamed al-Jolani on the group’s ties with al-Qaeda and the Syrian opposition conference that was held in Saudi Arabia.
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Ford to invest billions to boost range of electric cars | Business | The Guardian
Ford is to invest $4.5bn (£3bn) in electric vehicles over the next five years as part of a drive by global carmakers to overhaul their product range. The US company will launch 13 eco-friendly vehicles by 2020, meaning that 40% of its models will co…
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Can Americans Save Israel from Its Own Extremism? – The Daily Beast
The year 2016 is crucial for both Americans and Israelis. While Americans will go to the polls and elect their leader for the next four years, Israelis must decide whether the aggressive march toward rightwing extremism led by Prime Minister Binyami…
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Russia’s Jihadi Tolik wanted by Interpol – Al Jazeera English
Moscow, Russia – The Russian national, who beheaded a spy sent by Moscow to infiltrate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, is now wanted by Interpol after being charged in absentia by a Russian court.
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How the Freedom Caucus conquered the House — and what they want next – Vox
The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza has published the best account so far of the conservative insurgency that ended up toppling House Speaker John Boehner.
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The Department of Transportation Is Now Investigating Alabama’s DMV Closings – “The federal agency is looking into the closing of more than 30 DMV offices to determine whether there’s a discriminatory effect on African Americans seeking licenses.” (…
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Permanently Reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund : environment
Permanently Reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (rachelegolden.com)submitted 33 minutes ago by loading…
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How Hollywood made the financial crisis entertaining | Fusion
Never has a nationwide crisis been felt by so many and understood by so few. As banks and stocks and mortgages and houses all crumbled alarmingly in 2008-9, millions of startled Americans asked themselves a simple question: “What the fuck just happe…
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Bethesda Softworks Is the Creator of Bitcoin: An Insane Conspiracy Theory | Motherboard
Despite two big who-is-Satoshi-Nakamoto stories at Wired and Gizmodo this week, the debate over the identity of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin goes on. But what if Bitcoin wasn’t made by any one or two people, but a hugely successful game compa…
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Insiders: Trump independent bid would ruin GOP chances : politics
Insiders: Trump independent bid would ruin GOP chances https://t.co/P3lyEl2gEb https://t.co/YV684WfqY1
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Morning Digest: National Republicans hope this Iraq War vet will take down Michael Bennet
Morning Digest: National Republicans hope this Iraq War vet will take down Michael Bennet https://t.co/o9bEQSl9Wp https://t.co/9f8dbe2pvy
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Backslash: Anti-surveillance gadgets for protesters | Ars Technica
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military technologies and tactics authorities have adopted over the past decade.
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Morning Digest: National Republicans hope this Iraq War vet will take down Michael Bennet
● CO-Sen: A number of Republicans have been running to challenge Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet for a while but even though the NRSC is not impressed with any of them, their preferred picks have decided not to join the campaign.
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Deadly Protests in Ethiopia as Students Defend Farmers from Urban ‘Master Plan’ | VICE News
Eleventh and twelfth grade students are among the protesters allegedly killed during clashes with police in Ethiopia this week, as student-led protests against the government’s master plan to expand Addis Ababa, the East African nation’s capital, ha…
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Darlene’s Water Delivery Service (Extra Scene from ‘Contamination Nation’) | VICE News
There are tens of thousands of Americans living without clean, running water on the Navajo Nation today. This is because decades of uranium mining have contaminated the majority of water sources on the reservation.
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Mezi Is An Intelligent Virtual Assistant That’s Obsessed With Shopping | TechCrunch
There is an increasingly large roster of personal assistant apps that use artificial intelligence in an attempt to make users’ lives easier.
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Cockroach Caca Contains Chemical Messages Made By Microbes – Scientific American
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
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Provence’s Legendary Lavender and Olives Threatened by a Changing Climate
Down a row of sage-colored trees, workers on footstools with battery-powered rakes shake the last black and green fruits off the branches. Christine Cheylan eyes the progress with a wary smile. She knows that yearly olive harvests in Provence, even …
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Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Amazon is now delivering booze in New York in one hour, though only to Prime members in Manhattan.
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There are many ways to describe Bernie Sanders: a Democratic socialist, an independent senator, a Democratic presidential candidate. But the best adjective may just be: consistent. (npr.org)
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It’s official: The Bush tax plan loses trillions and worsens inequality : politics
Oh, Jeb!’s plan. I though people were still denying the reality around what W did. Well, at least you get consistency with that family.
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Creating Adrift: the space survival game that will make you love VR | The Verge
Creating Adrift: the space survival game that will make you love VR https://t.co/xenFbVEBj9 https://t.co/d4ktNhACa2
Adrift is a game that takes place in the ruins of a gleaming, futuristic space station, one that has you doing your best Sandra Bullock impersonation as you attempt to navigate the debris and stay alive. -
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Fascinating Images Reveal the Genesis of the TWA Flight Center, America’s Greatest Terminal | WIRED
Fascinating Images Reveal the Genesis of the TWA Flight Center, America’s Greatest Terminal https://t.co/CsqPs6lklF https://t.co/GXMvg52m4V
Caption: Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center was a striking response to the expanding popularity of jet travel. Dan Page / Eero Saarinen Collection (MS 593). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library -
Former Cop Found Guilty Of Raping Multiple Black Women While He Was On Duty | ThinkProgress
The jury reached its conclusion after hearing 13 different black women’s accounts of being sexually assaulted by Holtzclaw.
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The ‘real’ New York: Gritty scenes of NYC street life, 1970|Dangerous Minds
Avenue C, Lower East Side. The photographer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara uses photographs as “a means of discovery, as a tool with which to clarify visions and construct knowledge about a particular city or place.
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The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said the international climate talks that are edging towards a conclusion in Paris have been the most complicated and difficult negotiations he has ever been involved in.
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The Last Word On Nothing | New Yorkers, I Am Watching You
I recently wrote a story for The Atlantic about a question that I have been obsessed with for a long time: How many photographs am I in, in the world? It’s something that has bugged me for years, and before you chalk this up to pure narcissism, here…
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Readers’ top 10 best books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
It’s December, and you know what that means: best-of lists have been published and to-be-read piles have grown. Take your pick: authors’ favourites (here, curated by the Guardian Review; here, by The Observer) or critics’ picks genre by genre.
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All of the best books of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Fiction, food, biographies, sport… the best books of the year as selected by critics and authors for the Guardian and the Observer
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The Bowe Bergdahl case, explained for Serial fans – Vox
The first episode of season two of Serial, the popular podcast from creator Sarah Koenig, went up on Thursday — and it’s all about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl is a US Army soldier who, one night in 2009, snuck away from his post in Afghanistan and …
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Reader Theories on a Language Mystery, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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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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Amid disputes, Paris climate talks run over | Al Jazeera America
High-stakes climate talks aiming to craft a global accord to combat climate change stumbled Friday with China and many other nations refusing to yield ground, forcing host France to extend the international summit by a day to overcome stubborn divis…
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Star Wars: The Force Accounted
Methodology Good vs. Evil We recognize that a case can be made that some Force practitioners are using the Force in some unobservable way at all times, and we don’t even want to talk about midi-chlorians at all. So we limited this exercise to clear …
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This Zoetrope will have you mesmerized / Boing Boing
From a very young age, the illusion of motion has fascinated me. I would spend hours and hours destroying the books in my parent’s library by creating crude, hand drawn flipbooks in the margins. Below is a rare 1890’s sketch of my hands at work duri…
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Less than a week after state regulators shut down seven waste disposal wells in Oklahoma, two companies being sued for earthquake damages are asking the case be dismissed.
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My strange, unexpected love affair with delivering food – Vox
Oh, shit, I thought. Am I being fired? I’d been a part-time delivery driver — a “Dasher” — for three weeks by that point, driving around San Francisco on a scooter, delivering everything from burgers to pad thai to frozen yogurt.
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LGBT Fight Could Return To Anchorage, Making It Another Houston | ThinkProgress
LGBT Fight Could Return To Anchorage, Making It Another Houston https://t.co/Dhby6564fU https://t.co/ti4IfB0W5X
This year saw an ugly fight to defend LGBT nondiscrimination protections in Houston, Texas, and it won’t be the last. Conservatives in another city — Anchorage, Alaska — are already preparing to attack a similar law with some of the same ugly tactic… -
Banning assault weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem – Vox
Banning assault weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem https://t.co/tbn6QSZ6NY https://t.co/mnWITDBYGN
Assault weapons are large, ominous-looking guns — or at least that’s how we colloquially define them. There is no strict definition of an assault weapon, but they tend to be modified versions of military weapons that can unload hundreds of bullets p… -
Stop Feeling Guilty About Your Indulgences to Get the Most Out of Them
Stop Feeling Guilty About Your Indulgences to Get the Most Out of Them https://t.co/90oSfSDLgk https://t.co/Ln76ws7Q1u
We all have little indulgences we know we shouldn’t take part in. The concert we shouldn’t have spent money on, the ice cream that breaks our diet. It’s fine to want to break those habits, but if you’re indulging a little, don’t beat yourself up wit… -
Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu | Pitchfork
Interviews: Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu https://t.co/gMHzKVlZED https://t.co/F5OTBU0m26
Erykah Badu is a messenger, a medium, a macrocosm. As humanity toils from day-to-day, she is channeling the longview, seeing the continuum of mankind on an elongated timeline. She isn’t especially tuned into current events. Her awareness spans past,… -
Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Talking climate
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What’s The Best Way To Drop A Smartphone? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s first weekly installment of The Riddler. On Fridays, I’ll offer up a problem related to the things we hold dear around here — math, logic and probability, of course.
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Aviation in 1915: A Weapon of War – Scientific American
Dan Schlenoff edits the “50, 100 & 150 Years Ago” column for Scientific American. He is a keen student of the role of science in history.
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Russia Claims It’s Working With Free Syrian Army Alongside Assad’s Troops | VICE News
Russia, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Syrian Army working together? Anybody remotely familiar with the Syrian conflict would say that sounds like a scenario straight from cloud cuckoo land — but that’s what Russian President Vladimir Putin clai…
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Noah Movie – “Creation” Clip – YouTube
In theaters now. Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.http://www.noahmovie.comhttp://www.twitter.com/darrenaronofsky
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What Jackanory did to me and other authors | Children’s books | The Guardian
Long, long ago, when the world wasn’t digital and there were only three channels on TV, there was a show called Jackanory. It seemed a simple little show – a grown-up sat in a peacock chair and read a story straight off the autocue, into the camera.
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COP21 environmental photography exhibition – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Environment COP21 environmental photography exhibition – in pictures From shrinking glaciers to extreme weather and urban waste, world’s top photographers present images that capture what is at stake as leaders from over 190 cou…
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Is Donald Trump a 2016 Manchurian candidate? | Peter Bradshaw | Opinion | The Guardian
As Donald Trump’s behaviour becomes more and more outrageous, and his popularity with Republicans more and more worrying, the time has come for us all to listen to Salman Rushdie. The novelist’s theory about Trump was laughed off when he mentioned i…
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Sarah Polley takes on David Gilbert’s novel & Sons | Film | The Guardian
Stories We Tell writer-director Sarah Polley is to adapt & Sons, an acclaimed book by David Gilbert about a reclusive novelist and his three sons, which was published in 2013.. According to Deadline, Polley has been commissioned by Brett Ratner’s Ra…
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Make a Cocktail With Snow at Your Holiday Party This Winter
If you have a holiday party coming up and live in one of those states that actually knows what snow looks like, try serving cocktails your with fresh snow for a cool (ha) novelty drink.
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Women are getting a bum deal from the Paris climate agreement | Grist
Climate change takes a hard toll on women, but it’s tough to get that message through to the people (mostly men) making the decisions. Did Jimmy Carter actually have the right idea? We investigate your dad’s favorite topic: home heating.
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Burundi army posts stormed in deadly overnight attacks – Al Jazeera English
Heavily armed assailants have stormed two army posts in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura in coordinated attacks. The attacks in the early hours of Friday sparked clashes with troops that left at least 12 fighters dead, an army spokesman said.
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Man arrested in Thailand over Facebook posts – Al Jazeera English
Thai police have arrested the creator of a Facebook group that opposes the government for allegedly posting pictures and content that “insult the monarch”, local media say.
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Fighting breaks out in Ukrainian parliament – BBC News
Fighting breaks out in Ukrainian parliament https://t.co/Vdgb2hKmaN https://t.co/U9X0An9MLG
Fighting erupted in the Ukrainian parliament after the Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk was pulled him from the podium. The Prime Minister was defending his government’s record when MP Oleh Barna walked over to him with a bunch of roses and then grab… -
Prince Charles: Storm Desmond floods highlight need to tackle climate change https://t.co/Ah2SfGZC8N https://t.co/CC9EzXuMwm
The devastating flooding caused by Storm Desmond is linked to the failure to tackle climate change, the “root cause” of the problem, according to Prince Charles. The Prince, whose charity has given £40,000 to affected communities, also lashed out at… -
Enki Launches Snackable Mobile Learning App For Developers | TechCrunch
So-called ‘professional learning’ has come a long way since the days of densest of textbooks. It eventually gravitated towards online courses and we’ve seen businesses arise to take enormous advantage of this trend.
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Dow, Dupont Chemicals Announce They Will Merge – The Atlantic
A Mega-Merger of Equals https://t.co/uloOi9ZgAt https://t.co/uUHZBHWbMy
The boards of directors of DuPont and Dow Chemical Company have unanimously approved a merger between the two chemical giants, the companies announced Friday. They are calling it a merger of equals, and the combined company, DowDupont, is worth more… -
Half of Kepler’s Giant Exoplanet Candidates Are False Positives: Study
Artist’s illustration showing the giant, Jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, which in 1995 became the first alien world to be found around a sunlike star.Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.
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MST3K Reboot adds Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, and More Writers : television
MST3K was a GREAT, even formative, show for many and super nerdy. But it was low-budget, late-night, under-the-radar, homemade fun. All these big names…
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Wow! Spectacular Video Shows Test Launch of New Earth-Return Capsule
A small rocket carried four technology experiments to suborbital space last month, and onboard cameras captured the flight in breathtaking detail. The rocket, built by Denver-based UP Aerospace, launched Sunday (Nov.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: What will the GOP do about Donald Trump?
The blustery billionaire’s “us” is nowhere near a majority of the U.S. electorate, but it might be enough to win him the Republican nomination for president. And even if he falls short, the forces he has loosed will not easily be tamped down. […]
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Poet Sarah Howe named young writer of the year | Books | The Guardian
Sarah Howe has been named young writer of the year for a “luminous” first collection of poetry exploring her dual English and Chinese heritage, Loop of Jade. Howe, 32, was named winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop young writer of the…
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This Adidas 3D-printed sneaker is made from ocean waste | The Verge
Adidas has teamed up with Parley for the Oceans — a movement aimed at eliminating the plastic waste that ends up in our seas — to create a new 3D-printed sneaker concept.
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Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other…
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Trump endorsed by police union after proposing Muslim ban : politics
Actually he was endorsed after saying we should execute all cop killers. My uncle was a cop and killed in 2003 when he was stabbed in the back and stomach trying to break up a fight. The man is in prison for life but I wish I could have seen him han…
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Google Photos Can Now Share Whole Albums, Let Others Add Their Own Photos
Google Photos is pretty killer for managing all your photos, but it sure would be nice if you could share entire albums, right? Now you can. Better yet, you can even choose to let other people submit their own pictures to a shared album.
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Google’s Project Sunroof, which started as a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, helps you figure out how well solar panels would work on your roof.
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Christen Press scored three goals after entering the game as a second-half substitute and the United States defeated Trinidad and Tobago 6-0 in an exhibition at the Alamodome on Thursday night.
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Climate talks: anger over removal of human rights reference from final draft https://t.co/ZDuMPeDKv7 https://t.co/KECNPpIlOc
Strongly held positions are frequently traded away or dropped by governments out of necessity in the last hours of international negotiations. -
Thai park exposes corruption claims and murky politics – BBC News
When the Thai army decided last November to use a plot of land it owns near the royal resort town of Hua Hin, to construct a park containing 14 metre-high bronze statues of seven past kings, it must have seemed an ideal way for the military to demon…
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$100bn? A drop in the ocean, says climate campaigner Amina Mohammed https://t.co/wJtMmWoUax https://t.co/a5L1Fy89iP
Nigeria’s new environment minister, Amina Mohammed, was hailed this month as one of the world’s leading female “climate warriors” in the fight against global warming in a Vogue magazine photoshoot. She could, however, be forgiven for feeling a littl… -
Cameras That See around Corners Are Closer Than You Might Think – Scientific American
Cameras That See around Corners Are Closer Than You Might Think https://t.co/HpmXUFomNP https://t.co/rqjNO2AGif
1 An LED projects photons at a wall opposite the camera. Some of those photons bounce from the wall to the subject—a person around the corner from the camera. A portion of those photons then bounces off the subject, back to the wall. -
The Big Short: Sound and Fury on Wall Street https://t.co/bfbKkl3RHU https://t.co/soUm3WeCv1
Adam McKay is angry, and righteously so. The director of The Big Short, a rollicking adaptation of Michael Lewis’s non-fiction examination of the financial crisis, has taken that book’s disparate threads and thrown them together onscreen, and the me…
Love Everyone Often 12/12/2015
Photographs of Somali Refugee Community in America – The Atlantic Minneapolis, Minnesota, is home to roughly 30,000 people of Somali origin. Many of them are refugees, having fled famine and decades of war—a situation not dissimilar to that of today’s Syrian refugees. tags: Pocket brainiacs & opinion culture emily anne…
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