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Return To The Wizarding World In The First Trailer For Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
It’s been just four years since we last visited J.K. Rowling’s magical world on the big screen, but it feels like much longer.
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Clouds Solve Mystery of Missing Water on ‘Hot Jupiter’ Planets
An artist’s impression of 10 hot Jupiter worlds featured in the largest spectroscopic catalogue of exoplanet atmospheres to scale with one another. The cloudy atmospheres of such planets may hide signals of water, scientists say.
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Yahoo Japan Bids To Buy Travel Booking Site Ikyu For Around $830M | TechCrunch
Yahoo Japan, the joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo, has launched a bid to buy Ikyu, a popular online travel and restaurant reservation platform in Japan, for around $830 million. Yahoo Japan is offering to pay 3,433 JPY ($28.
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See the Rigors of War Dog Training
Since at least the Civil War, American military personnel have served alongside highly trained dogs, many of which have saved lives by sniffing out explosives, locating enemy positions, or otherwise protecting their handlers.
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Will interest rates rise? Your guide to the Fed’s upcoming meeting | Business | The Guardian
Is something big happening at the Federal Reserve this week? Yup. The federal open market committee (FOMC) is meeting from Tuesday 15 December to Wednesday 16 December.
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Jeb Bush’s Campaign Is His Own Iraq War | New Republic
It was bad enough for Jeb Bush to launch a presidential campaign in the shadow of his brother, whose disastrous Iraq War made him one of the most unpopular presidents of all time. But now it’s so much worse, because Jeb’s campaign is going just like…
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How to Visit Family Without Being Treated Like a Kid
When you head home to visit family, tons of childhood memories will come rushing back, along with some old family dynamics too. Some dynamics, like inside jokes or age-old traditions, are comforting and great. But others, like teasing, babying, or p…
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The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
If someone ask me today what is so far my favourite book/series I have read this year I would answer hands down The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater.
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Space Rocks Delivered One-Two Punch to Ancient Earth
Around 470 million years ago, what is now central Sweden was covered in a shallow, ancient sea inhabited by tiny, plankton-like organisms. The placid scene would soon be scarred by one of the largest cataclysms in the last billion years. That’s beca…
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SA’s Thembu King Dalindyebo to be jailed – BBC News
A South African king is set to go to jail after the country’s highest court threw out his bid to overturn a 12-year prison sentence. Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo was convicted of kidnapping, assault and arson.
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These Mountain Goats Fly Through the Air—For Science
As the saying goes, it sometimes rains cats and dogs. But high over the mountains of Utah, visitors may occasionally spot a flying mountain goat, dangling underneath a helicopter.
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Ashley Madison hack victims receive blackmail letters – BBC News
Blackmailers are reportedly sending letters to users of the Ashley Madison dating site, threatening to reveal their membership to friends and family unless they pay money. The dating site for married people was hacked in the summer.
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Magical creatures are set to be loosed in New York for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter spin-off starring Eddie Redmayne as the wizarding world’s premier magizoologist Newt Scamander.
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Whoa! 1st ‘Star Trek: Beyond’ Trailer Puts the Enterprise in Peril
The first official trailer for next year’s “Star Trek: Beyond” shows the fan-beloved starship Enterprise on the verge of breaking up while going through a dense asteroid field. “We’ve got no ship. No crew. How are we going to get out of this one?” C…
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Saturn Moons Align (Almost) to Perfection: Photo
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been in Saturn orbit for over a decade and it has seen the whole spectrum of ringed planet delights. But there are few views in Saturnian orbit that are more satisfying than seeing two or more moons in the same frame — …
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Principia launch
Full replay of ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko were launched into space 15 Decemeber XX:XX GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson to make Ted Kennedy thriller Chappaquiddick | Film | The Guardian
Sam Taylor-Johnson is to follow her blockbusting adaptation of erotic thriller Fifty Shades of Grey with a film about the notorious Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Taylor Swift faces painting copyright row – BBC News
Singer Taylor Swift has been accused of wrongfully using an artist’s work to promote her album 1989. US artist Ally Burguieres complained on Facebook after Swift used a wrongly-credited drawing of a fox identical to one of her watercolour designs.
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Veteran NBA referee Bill Kennedy has revealed he is gay after being the subject of homophobic insults from Sacramento guard Rajon Rondo. Kennedy was confronted by Rondo after ejecting him on two technical fouls during the game between the Kings and …
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Tim Peake embarks on journey to International Space Station – in pictures | Science | The Guardian
Photographers take pictures as Russia’s Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station
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Jaguar to join Formula E championship | Business | The Guardian
Jaguar Land Rover is to enter a team into the Formula E racing championship as the luxury carmaker steps up its investment in electric vehicles.
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Homeless Angelenos call the riverbank home. What will happen when El Niño hits? | Grist
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – First Trailer : movies
Yes Yes YEESSSS. The magic is back.
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US and Russia Are Meeting To Try To Find Common Ground On Syria | VICE News
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow on Tuesday in an attempt to build bridges with Russia in how the international community should respond to the Syrian conflict.
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Liftoff! New Space Station Crew Launch Includes a First for the UK
Two experienced fliers and a space newbie — the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station — launched spaceward on a Russian rocket today (Dec. 15) to begin a six-month science mission on the laboratory in orbit. At 6:03 a.m.
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‘Independence Day’ Sequel: 1st Trailer Hints at Big, Bad Alien Things
Twenty years after saving Earth from an alien invasion, it looks like Independence Day’s David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) is going to have to help us again. Levinson’s exploits in the first “Independence Day” are outlined on the site Warof1996.
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MacKeeper users’ details leaked online – BBC News
Users of a popular utility designed to “optimise” Apple Mac computers have had their details leaked online. Kromtech – the German-based firm behind MacKeeper – has acknowledged that its customers’ names, internet addresses and login credentials were…
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France fines delivery firms €672m for price fixing – BBC News
France’s competition authority has fined 20 package delivery firms €672m (£488m) for colluding to artificially raise prices annually. The price hikes, which happened between 2004-10, were agreed during “secret meetings”, the watchdog said.
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Paris attacks suspect held in France – BBC News
Rocket carrying Briton Tim Peake on landmark flight to International Space Station launches from Kazakhstan.
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Brazil police raid homes of lower house speaker Cunha – BBC News
Police in Brazil have raided the official residence of the speaker of the lower house of congress, Eduardo Cunha. Several police cars surrounded the house in Brasilia early on Tuesday.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Principia liftoff
ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko were launched into space 15 Decemeber 12:03 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The strange psychology of pain relief medicine – BBC News
The manufacturer of a leading brand of painkiller has been accused of misleading customers in Australia. But how do people choose over-the-counter pain relief? There’s a whole range of Nurofen products. There are Nurofen capsules, caplets and “meltl…
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Tim Peake and Soyuz rocket blast off – BBC News
Tim Peake has launched into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket to become Britain’s first official astronaut on board the International Space Station.
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Twitter Expands Moments To The U.K. | TechCrunch
Twitter is expanding Moments, its media rich, breaking news focused feed, to U.K. users today. The company debuted the feature in the U.S. back in October, and has since also rolled it out in Brazil. So this is not the first international expansion …
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How Technology Could End the Abortion Debate | Motherboard
Opinion: Christopher Benek imagines a world where plucking out a fertilized egg and incubating it to term is safer and less invasive than a first trimester abortion.
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Briton Tim Peake blasts off for space – 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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Baltimore Braces for a Verdict in Freddie Gray Trial – The Atlantic
As the jury prepares to deliver a verdict in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore police department is taking pains to reach out to the community and signal that it is ready to respond to …
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Iran summons Nigerian envoy after Shia clashes – Al Jazeera English
Iran has summoned the Nigerian Charge d’Affaires in Tehran to protest deadly clashes between Shia Muslims in the country’s north and the army.
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Has Congress Already Forgotten About the Deficit? – The Atlantic
You don’t hear much about the deficit anymore. It was only a few years ago that trillion-dollar budget gaps and the ever-rising national debt were the singular preoccupation of lawmakers in Washington—particularly Republicans.
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The Blogger Who Cried Racism | New Republic
Jon Carroll wants to “beat the cops” who have brought him all of this attention. “If I had known this would be the result … I would have whooped one of them,” Carroll told me, laughing, voice drenched in a syrupy Southern accent.
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New Zealand picks new design to challenge current flag – Al Jazeera English
New Zealanders have chose a new flag design that will be put up as a challenger to their current flag in a March vote.
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December 15, 2011: Christopher Hitchens Dies | The Nation
Christopher Hitchens wrote for The Nation from 1978 to 2002, when he resigned his long-running “Minority Report” column over what he perceived as irreconcilable differences between him and the editors regarding the proper response to the attacks of …
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Israeli businesses grapple with new EU labelling rules – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Canaan Khoury had recently finished work for the day at the first Palestinian boutique winery in Taybeh, overlooking the Dead Sea.
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Rahm Emanuel’s Next Nightmare | Mother Jones
The Chicago Teachers Union announced in a statement yesterday that 96 percent of its members have—in reaction to threatened layoffs and budget cuts that could affect 5,000 teachers and staff—voted to strike.
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Intersection Episode 11: Who’s Afraid of Donald Trump? | New Republic
Donald Trump isn’t just leading the Republican presidential primary field—he’s dominating it. As of Monday, the business mogul and former reality TV star is earning over 40 percent in the polls. How? Identity politics.
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Why Not to Worry About Donald Trump…Yet | Mother Jones
What’s happening with this country? When I talk to friends, relatives, and colleague outside of Washington, I am asked this question more frequently these days. And the premise of the query often boils down to one subject: Donald Trump.
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Why This Was the Year the Traditional Presidential Campaign Died | Mother Jones
One evening in October, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Republican candidate for president, hit the stump at an elementary school in Windham, New Hampshire.
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Republican Voters Are More Pro-Climate Than You Might Think | Mother Jones
The science behind climate change is indisputable. With more than 190 countries signing off on a historic climate deal, the case for action has never been more clear.
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XXL Hunt for Galaxy Clusters | ESO
ESO telescopes have provided an international team of astronomers with the gift of the third dimension in a plus-sized hunt for the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe — galaxy clusters.
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A geek girl’s guide to Christmas | Children’s books | The Guardian
Christmas comes but once a year, and you’d better make sure you’re ready for it. Like, really ready. Some might say too ready, but what do they know? Get your pens, papers and maybe a protractor out, because here’s how to celebrate Christmas, geek s…
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Saudi Arabia Announces Formation of 34-State ‘Islamic Coalition’ To Fight Terrorism | VICE News
Muslim countries from across the globe are coming together to form a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a joint statement published on Saudi Arabia’s state news agency SPA on Tuesday.
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Tim Peake: Live launch to International Space Station – BBC News
Live coverage as UK astronaut Tim Peake blasts off to the International Space Station. The ex-helicopter pilot – with American Tim Kopra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko – will launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.
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Star Wars Fan Explains What He Was Thinking in His ‘Phantom Menace’ TV Interview | Motherboard
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Nurofen Express advertising claims probed by UK watchdog – BBC News
The UK’s advertising watchdog is probing the marketing of Nurofen Express, after receiving complaints about its television advert. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is examining if the advert is misleading by claiming it targets the source o…
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Repixl Pivots To ‘On-Demand’ Image Editing Service | TechCrunch
Everybody calls themselves the ‘Uber of X’ these days, but Repixl has definitely caught the Uber bug. The U.K.
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The Nexus 6P is reportedly following the 5X to Best Buy | The Verge
Google might be realizing it needs stores to sell phones. Recently, as part of its Cyber Monday sales, the retailer Best Buy started stocking the Nexus 5X, with the phone available online and in stores.
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Indonesia’s economy took a $16bn hit this year from forest fires that cloaked south-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, according to the World Bank.
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Sarkozy’s crumbling presidential dreams – Al Jazeera English
The conservative wave has drastically slowed down in France and the next presidential race is as open as ever. During the past three years, under Francois Hollande’s administration, the Socialist party has suffered a crushing defeat in every single …
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Footage shows disgruntled hotel guest driving truck into lobby – BBC News
CCTV footage has been released showing a man crashing his pickup truck into the lobby of a hotel. It is thought the man had a dispute over a bill at the Alva Comfort Inn and Suites in north western Oklahoma.
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – fun, with footnotes | Books | The Guardian
We’ve recently moved house and acquired, for the first time, an attic landing.
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According to Peter Biskind’s fantastic book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, director George Lucas held a screening of a rough cut of Star Wars just after he wrapped shooting in London.
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Yemen truce starts as warring sides meet in Switzerland – Al Jazeera English
A ceasefire has taken effect in Yemen after more than a year of fighting between government forces and Houthi rebels in which thousands of people were killed.
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Johnny Depp’s wife gets ‘dog smuggling’ court date set – BBC News
A date has been set for Johnny Depp’s wife Amber Heard to face a court trial in Australia for allegedly smuggling her two dogs into the country.The case, which has been dubbed the “war on terrier”, will be heard on 18 April in Queensland.
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The Force Awakens to get widest ever December release in US | Film | The Guardian
The early Star Wars movies gave birth to the blockbuster era, ushering in a period in which major new films were released on thousands of screens across the USA to capitalise on the attendant hype.
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One Woman’s Case Proves: It’s Basically Impossible to Get Off the ‘No-Fly List’ – The Daily Beast
As the Senate debated a proposal this month that would have barred gun sales to people on the government’s terrorism watch lists, Republicans decried the lists as unfair, unreliable and un-American.
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These Students Are Demanding Higher Education at Lower Costs – In These Times
On Nov. 12, 2015, students at the University of California, Berkeley, redecorated their idyllic campus with a “wall of shame.
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Yves Parlier: driven by the wind and the waves | Sport | The Guardian
The only souvenir Yves Parlier has kept from his long career sailing the seven seas is the skeleton of a mahi-mahi, or common dolphinfish, almost one metre long.
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What is inflation? Economics explained – video | Business | The Guardian
A small amount of inflation is healthy for an economy – but how is it calculated and what happens when it gets out of control?
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Why Is the FBI Obsessed With This Portland Imam and His Mosque? | The Nation
Three days before the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a Muslim cleric arrived at the airport in Portland, Oregon, with his four children, a brother, several thousand dollars in cash, and tickets to the United Arab Emirates.
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As Western Lifestyles Are Spreading to Poorer Countries, So Is Cancer | VICE News
As wealthy countries have got better at detecting and treating cancer, as well as reducing certain risk factors, rates of the disease have significantly reduced since the early 2000s — but in low- and middle-income countries the opposite is happenin…
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China and Egypt worst jailers of journalists: report – Al Jazeera English
China, Egypt and Iran topped a list of countries jailing journalists in 2015, a year that saw a slight decline in the number of journalists behind bars worldwide, a press freedom watchdog has said.
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N-Gage QD – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The N-Gage QD[4] is a handheld game console and mobile phone by Nokia, and the successor to the N-Gage. It was unveiled on April 14, 2004.[5] It revised the device’s physical design, being smaller and rounder.
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Paul McPherson runs Mac Foliage, a 60-acre (250,000-sq-m) farm in the Dartmoor National Park, in Devon, which supplies many of Europe’s zoos with eucalyptus to feed their koalas. Here, he explains the day-to-day workings of the farm. Photographed, p…
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Man held in UK in VTech hacking probe – 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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Analysis: The fate of Mosul in Turkey’s hands? – Al Jazeera English
On December 4, less than two weeks into the standoff with Moscow over the downing of a Russian jet operating in Syria, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, sent a convoy of several hundred Turkish soldiers, bolstered by tanks and armoured ve…
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Ya right Reddit… (i.imgur.com) I hear you. At first I thought my internet connection was just acting up…
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Star Wars reaction: ‘Met all my expectations’ – BBC News
The premiere of the latest Star Wars film has been held in Los Angeles. Fans had been camping out for days before the premiere, amid much excitement and anticipation.
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Conor McGregor has decisions to make after knocking out Jose Aldo. Though the way he operates, options may cede to visions, and visions may become reality. McGregor has had the courage to say and do a great many things.
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Apple users complain of pop-up ads telling them to buy a better iPhone | The Verge
iPhone users are complaining that Apple is showing them pop-up ads telling them to upgrade their iPhone. Over the last week, there have been multiple reports on Twitter and Reddit of full-screen ads appearing when users open the App Store.
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John Kerry arrives in Moscow for Syria talks | World news | The Guardian
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has arrived in Moscow for talks aimed at making “real progress” in narrowing differences with Vladimir Putin over how to end the conflict in Syria.
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This is a big moment for Saudi Arabia – Al Jazeera English
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s recent municipal elections are not usually a story most international observers would spend an awful lot of time on.
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Millions Of Years In One Picture : pics
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Julian Assange will finally face questioning over rape allegation | The Verge
A Swedish prosecutor may soon question Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for the last three years.
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Girl Online by Zoe Sugg – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Penny has a big secret. To express her views on boys, her friends and the panic attacks that have started to affect her, she writes an anonymous blog under the name of Girl Online.
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What it takes to travel through space – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Children’s books What it takes to travel through space – in pictures As Major Tim Peake leaves our planet for the International Space Station after six years of intensive training, author Louie Stowell explains why being an astr…
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South Sudan: The many barriers to aid – Al Jazeera English
Aid organisations are unable to reach hundreds of thousands of people, and thousands more are at risk of starvation as civil war in South Sudan reaches the end of its second year, according to aid officials speaking to Al Jazeera.
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South Sudan marks two years of ruinous civil war – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan on Tuesday marked two years since the start of a war that has forced one million people from their homes and left four million hungry as politicians broke at least eight committments to peace.
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Frank Zappa was kind of a control freak. But the way he tells it in a 1968 Rolling Stone interview, if he hadn’t been, he wouldn’t have had much of a career. In the mid-sixties, he took over the merchandising and advertising of his albums.
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Mum ‘can’t wait for chemo’ after baby born 12 weeks early – BBC News
A mother who gave birth to her daughter 12 weeks early in order to be treated for cancer says she “can’t wait to start chemo”.Ally Louise Smith was born by C-section on Friday weighing just 2lb 5oz after her mother, Heidi Loughlin, was told she had …
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South Sudan: world’s newest nation ‘needs international management’ | World news | The Guardian
South Sudan has been hijacked, looted and betrayed by irresponsible and venal leaders and must be placed under international management if the total collapse of the world’s newest nation is to be avoided, the US Congress has been told.
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In Philadelphia 22 Percent of Adults Lack Literacy | Al Jazeera America
At the end of this year the Millennium Development Goals, targets set by the United Nations in 2000 for developing countries, will expire. In this project, we examine how some communities in the United States measure up against those goals. We have …
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Koch Brothers Supersize Higher-ed Spending | Al Jazeera America
The Koch brothers are supersizing their already hefty investments into college students’ hearts and minds. That’s several million dollars more than the $19.3 million the Charles Koch Foundation and Fred C. and Mary R.
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New Housing in California Responds to Drought | Al Jazeera America
SAN DIEGO – In an affluent neighborhood north of the city, the Sea Cliff development of million-dollar custom houses appears at first glance to be yet another in a series of expensive homes sprouting across California.
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The government has nearly halved the budget of one of its core environmental programs, the “green army”, by capping the number of projects it can undertake to 500 a year. The savings measure, worth just under $317.5m, was announced in Tuesday’s budg…
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Death and shopping: the story of Oxford Street, London’s ‘urban nightmare’ | Cities | The Guardian
Everyone has their own Oxford Street. Perhaps it used to be the Virgin Megastore and the way down to Soho Square. Maybe it’s now Uniqlo and up to Broadcasting House. Or it might always have been John Lewis and Selfridges.
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Federer won Olympic gold in the men’s doubles in Beijing in 2008 and silver in the men’s singles in London four years laterRoger Federer, the 17-time Grand Slam singles champion, does not intend to retire after next year’s Olympics.
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OP is a fox! *was. Until proven otherwise.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Premiere held in Los Angeles – BBC News
Fans have turned out in ‘force’ for the world premiere of one of the year’s most hotly-anticipated films, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The latest instalment of the series reunites the cast of the original film.
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The Best Children’s Books of 2015 | Brain Pickings
Maurice Sendak scoffed in his final interview. “I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” Some generations earlier, J.R.R. Tolkien vehemently asserted that there is no such thing as writing “for children” and C.S.
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Reddit servers. (self.Jokes) Reddit servers? Reddit servers … what?
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Kerry in Russia in attempt to narrow gap over Syria – Al Jazeera English
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Moscow to try and narrow differences with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over the role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in any political transition in Syria.
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Natural gas leak in California could take months to fix Methane is being released at a rate of about 50,000 kilograms per hour,about the same amount of emissions as driving 160,000 cars for a year (latimes.com)submitted 17 minutes ago by loading…
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New university campus in Vietnam is an urban green paradise (thesquirrelz.com)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has decided not to lift the permanent ban imposed on Pete Rose more than a quarter-century ago, meaning that Rose, the player with more hits than anyone else in the sport’s his
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New university campus in Vietnam is an urban green paradise : environment
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FPT University’s new campus is the coolest sustainable architecture we’ve seen yet
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Aura mission tracks global pollutant trends – BBC News
The success of clean air legislation in western developed countries is evident in the results from a 10-year study by a US space agency satellite. The Aura mission has been tracking trends in emissions of nitrogen dioxide since its launch in 2004.
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Climate change and China: The indispensable nation – Al Jazeera English
To be fair, unlike the West and Japan, which have long contributed to the concentration of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere since embarking on the Industrial Revolution, China’s more recent industrialisation means that it carries smaller historical …
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The Expanse Is The New Battlestar Galactica : television
I think it’s funny that Phil brought up Stargate Universe, which I thought was a great show. It had good ratings and a strong following. But the show was to ‘Expansive'(see what I did) and cost too much per episode for Sci-fi to keep producing.
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Aircraft pollution a worrisome gap in Paris deal: EU climate boss : environment
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India says Paris climate deal won’t affect plans to double coal output| Reuters
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India says Paris climate deal won’t affect plans to double coal output : environment
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Study documents sea lion brain damage due to algae’s toxin| Reuters
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Apple Is Reportedly Developing Its Own, Energy-Efficient Screens For iPhone And iPad | TechCrunch
Apple is reported to be working on its own display technology in a move that could lessen its dependence on third-party suppliers like Samsung and Sharp, and boost the battery life of its products. Bloomberg reports that the U.S.
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Willa Cather wrote as she turned her life around to become a writer.
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News of Donald Trump’s health was unveiled on Monday with the kind of hyperbole typically reserved for leaders of North Korea.
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The holidays have a reputation for being one of the most stressful times of the year, and that’s especially true for Jane Gloriana Villanueva in “Chapter Thirty.
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My cat hates your holiday. : cats
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Caught in the act! [X-post r/aww] : cats
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The Eternaut review – hero in a homemade diving suit | Books | The Guardian
Crikey, but this book comes with an amazing history.
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Guys, Reddit is broken. We know. We are mods. We can’t fix the backend. We’re meseeks (err… mods), we’re not Gods.Modpost (self.AskReddit) Shit’s on fire, yo.
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One Young World Summit: ‘We Will Sink Or Swim Together’, Warns Kofi Annan Over Climate Change (huffingtonpost.co.uk)submitted 57 minutes ago by loading…
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Trump’s Medical Report Is More Insane Than His Campaign, Somehow Donald Trump’s doctor released a medical report so silly that when we asked the American Medical Association about its language, their spokesman started to laugh. (thedailybeast.com) E…
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Finance-Focused Deal Street Asia Is Latest Asian Media Startup To Land Funding | TechCrunch
Deal Street Asia, an eighteen-month-old website covering financial investment news, is the latest media outlet in Asia to raise funding as it plans to increase its presence and expand into events and data services.
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I listened to the interview. Cruz is the worst. Totally prepared, intelligent and completely dishonest. And due to those attributes, is the most frightening possibility.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Pluto: From Mountains to Plains
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Trump and Terrorism Loom Over Marrakech – The Atlantic
Members of the jury and winners pose during the closing ceremony on December 12.
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‘Bounty Hunter’ Bride Loves Donald Trump—and Donated to Hillary Clinton – The Daily Beast
She stuck out among the thousands of retirees, lawyers, and CEOs on the Federal Election Commission form. A self-employed “TV PERSONALITY BAIL BONDSMAN/BOUNTY,” she had gifted Donald Trump with $2,700 on Sept. 4, 2015. Her name is Alice Chapman, but…
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Actors, including Harrison Ford and John Boyega, share their thoughts on their way down the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens world premiere.
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More than three-quarters of Britain’s 59 butterfly species have declined over the last 40 years, with particularly dramatic declines for once common farmland species such as the Essex Skipper and Small Heath, according to the most authoritative annu…
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The UK is going into reverse on renewable energy while pressing the accelerator on fracking, according to former Environment Agency chairman Lord Chris Smith. The final report of a shale gas taskforce led by Lord Smith concludes that the UK should b…
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Saudi Arabia forms Muslim ‘anti-terrorism’ coalition – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia has formed a coalition of 34 mainly Muslim countries – including powers such as Egypt and Turkey – to coordinate a fight against “terrorist organisations”. The alliance was announced by the country’s defence minister and deputy-crown p…
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The Rebel Commander of Damascus – The Daily Beast
In early 2011, I was a part of a group that staunchly believed in the necessity and urgency to change the status quo in Syria.
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Meet Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s Crusading Trans Politician – The Daily Beast
On the night of the elections for the Venezuelan Parliament earlier this month, the opposition Democratic Unity coalition took bets among themselves about the result.
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The Return of the Coat Hanger Abortion – The Daily Beast
Before Roe v. Wade, the image of a coat hanger was one of the most compelling arguments for legalizing abortion nationwide. Now, a shocking case in Tennessee has put it in the center of the national discourse on abortion once again.
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The Bobby Knight of Women’s Volleyball – The Daily Beast
This vague signoff on an otherwise anonymous letter sent to the University of Arkansas’ Athletic Director was preceded by 17 loaded allegations—all of them directed at the school’s volleyball coach, Robert Pulliza.
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This Tinder Robot Will Find You Love – The Daily Beast
Tinder users adhere to roughly two philosophies. There are the maximalist users who swipe right on every photo, embracing the possibility of a match with every person on the dating app.
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Is This Pop Star in Bed With Kim Jong Un? – The Daily Beast
Just hours before the the first of three invitation-only “friendship” concerts meant to revive relations with China, North Korea suddenly canceled the performances—and put its leggy girl pop group on an Air Koryo flight back to Pyongyang.
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Donald Trump Is the GOP’s George Wallace – The Daily Beast
Tuesday night, following the fourth Republican presidential primary debate, the pundit class will dutifully declare Marco Rubio the winner, extolling his debate prowess with the usual breathlessness.
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Why One of the World’s Leading Museums Is Erasing ‘Offensive Art’ – The Daily Beast
At first glance, a major museum altering racially insensitive titles and descriptions of works in its collection seems symptomatic of political correctness run amok.
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Inside That ‘Transparent’ Bathtub Scene – The Daily Beast
The second episode of the just-about-perfect second season of Transparent boasts what ranks among the season’s most groundbreaking, emotional, bold, provocative, and normalizing scenes—no small achievement in a series about an L.A.
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DOJ: Trump’s Early Businesses Blocked Blacks – The Daily Beast
When an African-American showed up to rent an apartment owned by a young real-estate scion named Donald Trump and his family, the building superintendent did what he claimed he’d been told to do. He allegedly attached a separate sheet of paper to th…
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So You Want a Brokered Convention? – The Daily Beast
For some of us, the lure of a brokered convention has that irresistible mix of the fantastical and possible. It is like fantasy football, where permission is granted to obsess over the most unlikely scenarios with the gravest of intent. Sure, a lot …
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Sheldon Adelson Is ‘the Hot Chick’ at the GOP Dance – The Daily Beast
In Vegas, the House always wins. And Sheldon Adelson is about to clean up. By the time the CNN debate begins airing on Tuesday, with Adelson sitting in one of the front rows, every GOP presidential candidate will have had a face to face meeting with…
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How ‘Star Wars’ Brought Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Together – The Daily Beast
We have all, over the past several months, felt a great resurgence in the Force. There have been ads—so, so many ads—to the tune of $66 million and rising. Carrie Fisher and her hilarious, tongue-tied bulldog have won our hearts.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in Hollywood – BBC News
The premiere of the latest in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, has taken place in Los Angeles. The film, the seventh in the series, has reunited original stars including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
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Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal calls PM Narendra Modi ‘psychopath’ – BBC News
The chief minister of India’s capital, Delhi, has alleged that his office has been raided by the country’s federal investigation agency. Arvind Kejriwal blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the “raid”, calling him a “coward and a psychopath”.
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ITHACA, NY—Describing it as one of the most groundbreaking achievements in their field, snack scientists at Cornell University announced Tuesday they had developed the never-before-possible capacity to stuff cheese inside itself.
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In The New Christmas Canon, The A.V. Club looks beyond Rudolph’s nose and Zuzu’s petals to highlight entertainment from the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s that has become a seasonal staple—or deserves to.
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Pretend for a minute that Ghostbusters was a real operation and that ghosts actually existed. How would the events of the film really play out? As soon as supernatural beings started showing up all over New York, the military would’ve likely stepped…
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Goodbye, Nick News With Linda Ellerbee · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, December 15. All times are Eastern. Nick News With Linda Ellerbee (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): For nearly a quarter century, Linda Ellerbee has been the first most trusted person in news for a whole bunch o…
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The best TV of 2015, part 1 · Best of · The A.V. Club
In 2015, readymade and/or reductive ways of summarizing the year’s TV output cropped up as frequently and unexpectedly as new seasons of Netflix originals.
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Ashley Monroe covers Joni Mitchell · Holiday Undercover · The A.V. Club
As one of country’s music’s crossover stars, Ashley Monroe is adept at mixing the classic and the contemporary, as evinced by her pair of Grammy nominations for her third album, The Blade.
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Smaller Counties Driving Us Jail Population Growth | Al Jazeera America
While big-city jails get most of the attention, lockups in small and medium-sized counties have actually driven the overall explosion in the U.S. inmate population, according to a new analysis of 45 years of jail statistics. U.S.
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Want to see a cinephile run the gamut of reactions in five seconds? Explain the premise of the documentary The Emperor’s New Clothes. “It’s a Michael Winterbottom film…” [Intrigued expression.] “… with Russell Brand…” [Face falls.] “… explaining eco…
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The Peter Serafinowicz Show took ad spoofs to the next level · SketcHistory · The A.V. Club
In SketcHistory, The A.V. Club gets the story behind some of our favorite comedy sketches from the people who made them. The story: A faux commercial featuring Peter Serafinowicz as Charles Dickens.
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Supergirl’s winter finale swings dramatically from showing off the series at its bubbly best to highlighting its biggest flaws. We’re a little less than halfway through Supergirl’s first season, which means the show should ideally be finding its fee…
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Turkey’s PKK says no ‘peace talks’ without preconditions – BBC News
In Turkey, six months after a ceasefire between government forces and Kurdish PKK militants ended, clashes continue with little hope of peace. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the leader of the PKK says the militant group will not enter talks…
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Saudis announce Islamic anti-terrorism coalition – BBC News
Saudi Arabia has said 34 mainly Muslim nations have joined a new military alliance to fight terrorism. Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia’s main regional rival Iran is not.
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Former Weekend Update partners and longtime friends Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey reunited yet again on The Tonight Show Monday night for a good, old-fashioned impression contest. It wasn’t quite a fair fight.
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Actor James Woods says lucky to be alive after major car accident | US news | The Guardian
Actor James Woods has narrowly avoided serious injury after being involved in a major car accident. The three-time Emmy award winner tweeted on Monday that a man driving “75+ in an ice storm” spun out of control.
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APOD: 2015 December 14 – Pluto: From Mountains to Plains
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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After weeks and weeks of lazy, dull storytelling, WWE managed to do what seemed impossible last night and actually deliver a PPV that, for the most part, worked really well.
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Here for the dawn | Environment | The Guardian
Even as I stepped out, the rain was rattling at the back of my coat. Yet I still needed to release my ears from the noisy tunnel of the hood in order to hear it clearly.
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Perhaps it’s a lack of familiarity with the Bake-Off format, but it’s clear that the American bakers flown across the Atlantic aren’t quite where they want to be in terms of time management.
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The GOP debate is all about winning the news cycle, not the voters
As the candidates prepare for the eighth Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, there are a few things we know for sure. As usual, there will be two debates – an undercard debate at 6 p.m. featuring candidates who currently ar…
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Australia conducting ‘Freedom of Navigation’ flights in South China Sea – BBC News
The Australian military is carrying out “freedom of navigation” flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea, the BBC has uncovered. In November, US B-52 bombers flew over the area angering China. The US insists on its right to make such fli…
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Defra budget cuts must not hit flood defence work, say MPs | Environment | The Guardian
Government spending cuts must not be allowed to affect vital flood defence work, MPs warned on Tuesday. The Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said that with more than 5.
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BREAKING: Protesters Repeatedly Shout Down Donald Trump In Las Vegas | ThinkProgress
LAS VEGAS, NV — Hotel mogul and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump had just handed the microphone over to a group of parents of people killed by undocumented immigrants when the chants began to ring out in the cavernous hall at the Westgate Casino.
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On Wednesday, the European commission will vote on a series of demands made by the EU parliament on corporate tax transparency. This is important: no parliament has done more to promote tax justice issues than the European parliament.
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As the UN climate talks in Paris come to a close, attention will turn to putting words into action – not just from governments but also companies. In the lead up to the UN talks we heard a plethora of pledges from major businesses.
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Hundreds of Santas set record for world’s biggest surf lesson – BBC News
A pack of 320 surfing Santas have embraced Christmas spirit in Australia and broken the world record for the largest surf lesson. Guinness World Record confirmed to the BBC that the festive spectacle at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Tuesday exceeded the t…
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Drinking Fox Image, Czech Republic – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Disposal of Fetal Tissue Debated in Ohio | Al Jazeera America
The actions at the Ohio Statehouse and Columbus federal court comes after state Attorney General Mike DeWine’s investigation into Planned Parenthood facilities.
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Over Half the European Union in Demographic Crisis | Al Jazeera America
The United States has worried about the aging of its population and declining birthrates, and this demographic shift has reached a crisis level in Europe, where more people are dying than are born in 17 European Union nations and more than half of t…
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Beckham shines as New York Giants earn crucial win over Miami Dolphins | Sport | The Guardian
Odell Beckham made two touchdown catches, including an 84-yard reception to break a fourth-quarter tie, and the New York Giants forged a three-way tie atop the NFC East by beating the Miami Dolphins 31-24 on Monday night. New York’s Eli Manning went…
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Apple developing advanced display tech at Taiwan lab: report | The Verge
Apple has a new production lab in Taiwan where it’s working on new advanced display technologies, Bloomberg reports.
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Fargo Season 2 Finale Stretches a Little Too Far to Connect to Season 1 | Vanity Fair
What follows is a discussion of the Fargo Season 2 finale titled “Palindrome.” If you don’t want to be spoiled, you should stop reading here. But if you want to find out who Moses Tripoli is and why he matters, you’ve come to the right place.
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NZ confirms Silver Fern won flag referendum as final votes counted – BBC News
New Zealand has confirmed that the black, white and blue silver fern design has won a referendum to become a possible new flag, after the final votes were counted. The design was named as a preliminary winner on Friday but this final tally factors i…
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What have you fallen out of love with?
I’m always fascinated by love stories, especially the real ones.
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A palindrome is a phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards: “Madam I’m Adam,” or something like that. Fargo’s second season does not read the same forwards and backwards, because I’m not even sure that’s a thing a TV show could do, leastway…
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Open thread for night owls: Gaseous Sunday talk shows can’t quit their addiction to bothsiderism
With Tom Harkin pre-capitulating, telling TMPDC that “There’s enough good in this bill that even without those two, we gotta move,” even before the Dem caucus met to decide the way forward, the writing was on the wall.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens world premiere kicks off in Los Angeles – video | Film | The Guardian
Fans in costume cheers as stormtroopers and actors walk the red carpet in Los Angeles for the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Monday.
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“Dulcinea” · The Expanse · TV Review The Expanse knows exactly what it is · TV Club · The A.V. Club
The Expanse makes no effort to hide what it is. This is not a show that distracts its audience with great jokes (though there are a couple) or simplistic story-hooks.
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Why Rajon Rondo’s Suspension for an Anti-Gay Slur Isn’t Enough – The Daily Beast
On Friday, the NBA announced that it was suspending Sacramento Kings’ point guard Rajon Rondo for one game after a heated confrontation with referee Bill Kennedy, a suspension that feels insufficient with the revelation of what Rondo allegedly said …
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Queensland court dismisses green group’s challenge to Adani coalmine | Environment | The Guardian
Queensland’s land court has dismissed a challenge by conservationists to Adani’s Carmichael mine, Australia’s largest proposed coal project.
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A Simple Explanation for the Paradox of How California’s Almonds Boomed in the Drought
Something strange is happening in California: A punishing drought has been hanging over the state these last five years. And yet, in the middle of it, water-guzzling almond production is skyrocketing—and has been every year of the drought.
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US court grants lesbian woman visiting rights in adoption dispute | US news | The Guardian
The US supreme court has blocked an Alabama judicial ruling that refused to recognize a lesbian parent’s rights over three children she adopted with her partner and raised from birth.
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Ex-Ill. Guardsman Pleads Guilty in ISIL Plot | Al Jazeera America
Hasan Edmonds, 23, of Aurora, Illinois, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
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Syria conflict: Kerry seeks to narrow divisions with Russia – BBC News
US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Moscow for talks to try to bridge gaps with Russia over the political process to end Syria’s civil war. He is due to have meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Surfer Blood Guitarist Funds Cancer Treatment With Solo LP ‘Burner’ | Rolling Stone
Surfer Blood Guitarist Funds Cancer Treatment With Solo Cassette ‘Burner’ Hear “Treason” from the guitarist’s solo release, with all proceeds aiding him in his battle against cancer
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Jennifer Lawrence “Selfishly” Wants Amy Schumer to Beat Her at the Golden Globes | Vanity Fair
Jennifer Lawrence’s mantle is already pretty full of awards season hardware and she’s hoping that come January, it’s her friend and screenwriting partner Amy Schumer who will take home a Golden Globe.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dressed as Yoda for the Star Wars Premiere | Vanity Fair
Joseph Gordon-Levitt went full Yoda greenface at the Star Wars premiere. While the actor recently demonstrated his fondness for elaborate costumes when he dressed up as Janet Jackson for Lip Sync Battle, the face paint takes that dedication to a who…
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Yemen conflict: Ceasefire due to start ahead of talks – BBC News
The truce is to begin at noon (09:00 GMT), but the Saudi-led coalition backing the government says it reserves the right to respond to any breach. The coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels and its allies since the Yemeni government was forced in…
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‘Bubbles’ Script, About Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimp, Tops Black List | Rolling Stone
‘Bubbles’ Script, About Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimp, Tops Black List Unproduced screenplay “details [Bubbles’] life within the King of Pop’s inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.
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Star Wars: droids and dresses on the LA premiere red carpet – in pictures | Film | The Guardian
Skip to main content Star Wars: The Force Awakens Red carpet fashion Star Wars: droids and dresses on the LA premiere red carpet – in pictures The Force Awakens actors Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o and Harrison Ford join cosplay fans and Droid BB-8 on…
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Seattle council allows Uber drivers to join a union – BBC News
Seattle has passed a measure allowing drivers of smartphone-based taxi services such as Uber to join a union. The move – a first in the US – is a setback for the companies, which have sought to avoid regulations that apply to traditional taxi servic…
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Why do many Americans mistrust the Federal Reserve? – BBC News
There is little agreement in the United States at the moment, but when it comes to the Federal Reserve, many Americans feel their central bank is broken, pointless or at worst bad for the country.
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Why do many Americans mistrust the Federal Reserve? – BBC News
There is little agreement in the United States at the moment, but when it comes to the Federal Reserve, many Americans feel their central bank is broken, pointless or at worst bad for the country.
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Kiefer Sutherland will finally become the president in new ABC drama · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For years, Kiefer Sutherland played Jack Bauer on Fox’s 24 and went on thrilling real-time rampages in the name of protecting these United States Of America.
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Seattle OKs Law Letting Uber Drivers Unionize | Al Jazeera America
Seattle on Monday became the first city in the nation to allow drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions. The City Council voted 8-0 in favor of the legislation, which is seen as a test case …
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AP: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water.
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Anger as Cyprus MP shows off banned dish of songbirds at restaurant | World news | The Guardian
A Cypriot MP has stirred controversy online after posting a picture of himself at a table serving a dish of songbirds whose poaching is banned on the Mediterranean island.
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Magic Leap, a secretive company making wearable technology for mixing digital imagery with the real world, is seeking to raise $827 million. Jaunt, maker of a 3-D camera for filming virtual reality video, has nabbed a total of $100 million, includin…
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Two certainties existed entering the Paris climate talks. They hold as true coming out. The first was that the world’s heads of state were not prepared to act as is necessary. The second is that it was never going to be up to them anyway.
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Denver cops need only one psych eval. Kinda.
In Colorado, a state agency will decide today whether or not all police departments in the state should be required to conduct psychological evaluations—as well as physical ones—before making new hires.
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Gwendoline Christie Stormed the *Star Wars* Premiere Red Carpet | Vanity Fair
Star Wars and Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie is no stranger when it comes to the world of high fashion colliding with a galaxy far, far away.
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The Refugee Jail Deep in the Heart of Texas | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
It is 104 degrees in Dilley, Texas on this September afternoon. A smattering of saplings struggle to make sense of the dusty clay beneath them.
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Reports of Angela Merkel’s demise are greatly exaggerated – BBC News
In the village of Stein, just on the edge of the Black Forest, everyone turns out for the Christmas brass band. French horns glint in the lamplight. Everyone sings along, and a rather skinny Father Christmas hands out gingerbread.
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Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej makes rare appearance – BBC News
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has made a rare public appearance, amid concerns for his ailing health. In television footage released Monday by the palace he is seen swearing in judges at a Bangkok hospital where he has been staying.
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Serena Williams is Sportsperson of the Year. Not everyone agrees. – BBC News
The choice to award Serena Williams with the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year has prompted both celebration and contention, with some arguing that the prize had a more deserving victor: racehorse American Pharaoh.
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Why can’t China make a good ballpoint pen? | Marketplace.org
It seemed like an innocuous question: “Why can’t China make a good ballpoint pen?” But it carried a much deeper meaning thanks to the man who asked it: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
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An Uber for dirty laundry – and other apps changing Uganda – BBC News
Like much of Africa, Uganda has a vibrant technology and start-up scene. Some of the technology being developed is geared towards e-commerce and creating jobs, but others are using their computer-programming skills to create tools to solve Uganda’s …
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Is the Paris Agreement an Amazing Achievement—or a Disaster? – The Daily Beast
Not sure what really happened at the Paris climate summit over the weekend? Did we save civilization? Or screw it? As you sort through the post-summit spin, here’s a central fact to keep in mind. When it comes to climate change, the United States is…
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Holiday Shopping Season For SMBs? Not So Much | TechCrunch
It’s an established fact that Americans love to shop during the holidays. The frenzy of rushing to the local mall or Main Street to snap up the latest “Black Friday” deals is a time-honored tradition, and, in the last decade, so is shopping online o…
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Tim Peake: UK astronaut set for space milestone – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake is ready to make his landmark flight to the International Space Station (ISS). On Tuesday, the former helicopter pilot will launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Town rejects solar panels, citing fears they would ‘suck up’ sun’s energy and cause cancer (vancouverobserver.com)submitted 48 minutes ago by loading…
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Seattle City Council says Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize, but mayor won’t sign bill | The Verge
The Seattle City Council has approved a law allowing the drivers of on-demand ride companies like Lyft and Uber to unionize.
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Is it even possible to make sustainable and pollution-free paper? (self.environment) Even if it is never bleached, the chemical process by which lignin is removed from the wood chips produces some pretty hazardous byproducts, at least with the indus…
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Say what you will about Lip Sync Battle or the recurring Tonight Show bit that inspired it, but it’s hard to deny that it can be a lot of fun to watch the right celebrity perform the perfect song.
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From Japan, With Changes: The Endless Debate Over Video Game ‘Censorship’
One of Nintendo’s biggest releases in 2015 is the sprawling 100-hour adventure Xenoblade Chronicles X, released earlier this year in Japan. It’s great-looking and fun. That’s not in dispute.
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Inside Apollo 11: Scanning the capsule for clues – BBC News
As British astronaut Tim Peake heads to the International Space Station, Apollo 11, the first manned space craft to land on the moon, is also making history again.
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A Tale of Two Sisters | Psychology Today
The “Magnificent Seven” members of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team captivated the world at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, earning the country its first-ever all-around team gold medal.
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UK butterflies in ’40-year slump’ – BBC News
More than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined in the past 40 years, according to a report by the charity Butterfly Conservation. The study, State of the UK’s Butterflies 2015, suggests 76% of resident and regular migrant butterflies…
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Diageo, the distiller of single malt whiskies including Lagavulin and Oban, has teamed up with Nick Offerman (actor, author, woodworker and scotch enthusiast) to create a new video series called “My Tales of Whisky.
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iPrice Raises $1.2M More For Its E-Commerce Service In Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
Asia Venture Group (AVG) — which financed the company’s previous $550,000 raise — led the round, which also saw participation from 500 Startups’ ‘500 Durians’ fund for Southeast Asia, IMJ, Venturra, F2 Capital and Startstrike Ventures. That’s not qu…
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The Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has promised a crowd of more than 1,000 Latinos and activists she would remove barriers for immigrants on a path to citizenship if elected president.
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These Boots Took the Final Steps on the Moon
On December 14, 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped up onto the lunar module, shook the moon dust off these boots, and ended an era of human exploration of the Moon. December 13, 1972: Eugene Cernan stands near a rock overhang.
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Islamic State funded Maryland man to attack US, says FBI – BBC News
The FBI has arrested a Maryland man who they say received about $9,000 (£6,000) from the so-called Islamic State group (IS) to carry out an attack in the US.
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Speaking in response to the claim made by Donald Trump’s personal physician that he would be the ‘healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency’, White House press secretary Josh Earnest questions whether the doctor has examined all 44 men to…
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Students create breathtaking unofficial ad for Johnnie Walker : videos
It’s a hell of a lot better than the unskippable Johnny Walker ad that I keep getting on youtube with an INCREDIBLY overblown Scottish accent.
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The Star Wars bit part actors who are now more popular than ever – BBC News
Almost every weekend, somewhere in the world, Star Wars fans don Jedi robes or put their hair in buns to head to a sci-fi convention.
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A Texas plumber has filed a lawsuit against a car dealership after a used truck he sold showed up on the front lines in Syria being used by Islamist fighters. The logo and phone number of his company, Mark-1 Plumbing, were still visible on the doors.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/m3hivWE0Kp
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The Father Of Video Games Was A Refugee To America
It’s perhaps fitting that the man recognized as the father of the video game, that quintessential American invention, was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, whose personal story converged with America’s at a critical time in the nation’s history.
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Seattle Just Became the First City in the US to Allow Uber Drivers to Unionize | VICE News
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a law on Monday that allows ride-sharing drivers — like those who work for Uber and Lyft — to form a union. As the council announced its decision Monday afternoon, the room erupted in applause.
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Netflix’s New Tech Makes for Better-Looking, Lower-Bandwidth Streams | Variety
Over the past few months, Netflix has dared some of its employees in its Los Gatos offices with a special kind of challenge: Two TVs mounted side-by-side were playing the same TV show episode.
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Vox Sentences: We’ll always have (the) Paris (climate deal) – Vox
We have a Paris climate deal; Bowe Bergdahl faces a court-martial; and the French far right gets humiliated in regional elections. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Most Popular Windows Downloads and Posts of 2015
Windows 10 made huge waves this year, adding a ton of new improvements, cleaning up a lot of old features, and did we mention it’s free? Here are our best Windows posts from one the platform’s biggest years in history.
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Seattle’s collective bargaining law for Uber drivers won’t do much to raise incomes – Vox
The Seattle city council has unanimously passed groundbreaking and controversial legislation that effectively allows drivers to bargain collectively with Uber, Lyft, and big taxi companies that treat drivers as independent contractors.
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I’ve read a lot of explanations about blockchains and Bitcoin but What Satoshi Did is among the best of them. This invention works in two parts. Constructing a shared ledger amongst all participants was the first step.
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For the past few years, Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky has been working on a film called Dau about Soviet physicist Lev Landau. Well, sort of. Khrzhanovsky had a huge set built in Ukraine containing a version of a mid-20th century Soviet researc…
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Picture/VideoYaya Toure hitting a small child. (gfycat.com) What’s going on with reddit, how is every comment 1 point.
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Leave it to Bernie to take a question about media diversity and spin it into a stump against the 1%. Well to be fair it was a stupid question. Off the top of my head Diego, Dora, and Speedy Gonzalez come to mind.
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Impacts to health, livelihood continue 1 year after toxic mine spill in Mexico (azcir.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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GOP Candidates’ Views On Planned Parenthood | Al Jazeera America
Last month’s deadly shooting attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and accusations that Republican criticism of the women’s reproductive health organization helped fuel the violence are likely to bring renewed attention to the party’s st…
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Neil Gaiman reads “A Christmas Carol” / Boing Boing
Last year’s New York Public Library podcast featured this wonderful reading (MP3) of A Christmas Carol by Neil Gaiman, reading from the last surviving copy of Dickens own annotated “prompt” text, which Dickens himself used to read from. A perfect, p…
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EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database / Boing Boing
The EFF has just settled a case against the Drug Enforcement Agency on behalf of its client, Human Rights Watch, which sued the Agency over its decades-long program of illegal mass surveillance.
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Obama Expected to Move on Taiwan Arms Sales | Al Jazeera America
The Obama administration is expected as soon as this week to authorize the sale of two guided missile frigates to Taiwan, U.S. congressional sources said on Monday, in spite of China’s opposition to the deal.
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It’s Not Just the Poor Who Can’t Make Rent – NBC News
It’s not just low-income Americans who struggle to pay their rent every month, or find an affordable place to live when they move. New research from Harvard says that even renters with annual incomes of $45,000 face unaffordable rents in many cities…
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Ultimate Data & Analytics Bundle | Digg Store
The modern business creates mountains of raw data—the challenge being the ability to effectively analyze it.
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KeySmart – Premium Pocket Key Organizers & Key Holders – Made In The USA
> Premium key holders aircraft grade aluminum holds up to 100 keys Play Video to learn more about keysmart Expandable to your needs Play Video to learn more about keysmart Loop ring included to attach larger accessories Play Video to learn more abou…
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Uber Drivers Can Now Unionize In Seattle | TechCrunch
In a move that could set a significant precedent in other cities, Seattle has just passed legislation that will allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize , meaning they can negotiate pay and benefits.
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Here’s How to Live Stream Tonight’s Force Awakens Red Carpet!
Hey, have you heard about that new Star Wars movie? The premiere is tonight in Los Angeles, but even if you’re stuck in a galaxy far, far away, you can tune into the red carpet for all the excitement and cast and crew interviews thanks to StarWars.c…
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Seattle City Council votes to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize | Ars Technica
In a first-of-its-kind law, the Seattle City Council voted 8-0 to allow drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to bargain collectively. “Uber does not share and does not care,” said Councilmember Kshama Sawant.
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George Saunders Explaining Why a Bad Story is Like a Bad Date Is the Greatest Thing Ever
This new video from Ken Burns’ series about story is just so awesome. George Saunders, author of The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, explains why reading a bad story is like going on a bad date. A bad story is one where you know what the story is, …
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fifty Shades Of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson has found her next project, and it’s significantly less sexy than that one.
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Delhi gang rape: Second chance for teenage rapist? – BBC News
Three years after the brutal gang rape – and subsequent death – of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus in the Indian capital, one of her rapists – a minor at the time of the crime – is set to be freed.
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I’ll Register My Drone When You Have to Register Your Gun | Motherboard
For the past half-dozen months, I’ve owned and operated a tiny quadcopter that I built from parts sourced online. It’s only 110 millimeters wide, weighs about one pound, has a very small camera, and is more likely to be blown into a tree by a mild b…
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Study: Presidents die younger than unelected candidates – Vox
You need to look no further than President Obama’s mug to know that leading a country is no easy task. Yes, you get access to fun parties, a private jet, and staff to take care of all your every need and whim, from a 24-hour cook and fitness trainer…
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The New Superman Is Going To Team Up With The Old Superman
Wait, what’s that I hear you cry? There’s no such thing as old Superman and new Superman? They’re ostensibly the same character, Kal-El/Clark Kent? How is this even happening? I’ll tell you why. COMIC BOOKS, THAT’S WHY.
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The Spiritual Life of the Long-Distance Runner – The New Yorker
Shortly after sunrise, on June 14, 2015, a Finnish man named Ashprihanal Aalto stood on Eighty-fourth Avenue, in Queens. At 6 A.M., he began running around the block. He passed a playground, some houses, and a technical high school. After half a mil…
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Hanya Yanagihara’s “Sex and the City” – The New Yorker
When I first heard about Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life”—a 720-page, four-friends-in-New-York novel that unexpectedly morphs into the saga of the self-loathing and self-harm of the disabled survivor of serial homosexual pedophilia—I didn’t plan o…
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“I mean, when they asked each of the candidates what the most important issue facing our planet is, Bernie Sanders simply said climate change. To me that’s inspiring.” – Leonardo DiCaprio (wired.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Francis Kurkdjian Celebrates 20 Years Of Fragrance Poetry | Vanity Fair
It’s hard to believe, but 20 years have passed since Francis Kurkdjian’s love affair with perfume-making began.
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Fifty Shades of Grey Filmmaker Trades Christian Grey for Kennedy Family Scandal | Vanity Fair
After reportedly clashing with Fifty Shades of Grey mastermind E.L. James on the making of the franchise’s first film, Sam Taylor-Johnson announced this past March that she was leaving the erotic empire.
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Hot Beauty Gifts: Advent Calendars | Vanity Fair
For those who grew up in Christian homes, Advent calendars are special calendars for celebrating the days leading up to Christmas. They range in various themes and styles, of course, but we’ve got our eyes on these beauty calendars, which reveal a l…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Victim-Blamers? / Boing Boing
Ever get into an online argument about someone with brown skin who’d been senselessly slaughtered by state-appointed law officers and start to feel like you’re talking with someone who’s not quite in possession of the full complement of human empath…
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VP Of Design At Twitter, Mike Davidson, Stepping Down In February | TechCrunch
Personal news: After 3+ years leading Design @Twitter, I’m leaving in Feb to take the 1st break from work in my life. Thank you & GO TEAM ✌️ More to come.
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Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels Since Late 2014 | TechCrunch
After a mostly boring 2015, bitcoin is making waves as the year ends by reaching new price heights. Bitcoin is north of the $400 mark, once again, for the second time since 2014. This time, it has surpassed a prior boomlet, reaching price points not…
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The Key to Super Juicy Meatloaf, Every Time
Dry, crumbly meatloaf is always a letdown, but you can make sure yours is always perfectly moist by using a combination of lean and fattier meats.
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Antidepressant use by moms during pregnancy linked to increased autism risk / Boing Boing
Researchers examining a possible link between the use of antidepressants during gestation and autism in children found that women who took antidepressants while pregnant were far more likely to have autistic kids.
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Argentina axes disputed grain and beef export controls – BBC News
Argentina’s new President Mauricio Macri has announced he is signing a decree slashing the country’s steep taxes on agricultural exports. He said he would lift export taxes on Argentine wheat, corn, sorghum and beef and cut the tax on soya by 5%.
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The Australian defends ‘racist’ cartoon on ‘freedom of speech’ grounds | Media | The Guardian
The Australian newspaper has defended the publication of Bill Leak’s cartoon depicting starving Indians eating solar panels on the grounds of “freedom of speech”.
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A Republican lawmaker in the Missouri House of Representatives has proposed a bill that aims to strip scholarships from college athletes who refuse to play for non-health related issues.
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Russell Westbrook Throws Inbounds Pass Off Opponent’s Back To Himself, Scores Buzzer-Beater – Digg
20 diggs vine.co Sports We have no words. This is insane.
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RIAA wins huge judgement against GrooveShark clones | The Verge
Trying to clone an illegal music site that was soundly crushed by the RIAA in court probably wasn’t the best idea, and now Grooveshark’s unofficial mirrors have met a similar legal defeat.
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Facebook will let you add a lightsaber to your profile picture this week | The Verge
The only force more unstoppable than the Force is Star Wars’ marketing machine, which, like the universe itself, is continually expanding to places beyond our comprehension.
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Drones Flawlessly Censor Naked Dancers, in Japanese Ad – The Atlantic
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Watch three astronauts launch to the International Space Station at 6:03AM ET | The Verge
Three new astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station on Tuesday, taking the place of three crew members who just departed the orbiting lab last week.
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Is this the earliest Nick Cave interview?|Dangerous Minds
This is fascinating: An early—1978—interview with Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard back when the group that would eventually gain infamy as the Birthday Party were still known as the Boys Next Door.
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Kourtney Steals The Kardashian Krown, With Help From Justin Bieber – The Daily Beast
The notion that Justin Bieber and Kourtney Kardashian are an item, or even “hooking up” as Us Weekly put it, hasn’t quite sunken in for even the most avid devourers of Kardashian antics.
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Camera offers unique view of lunar eclipse – BBC News
An American satellite stationed a million miles from Earth has obtained a unique view of a lunar eclipse. The DSCOVR spacecraft, which was launched in February, has a camera that stares constantly at the sunlit face of the Earth.
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The Paris Climate Agreement Would Be A Great First Step If This Were 1995 (fivethirtyeight.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Tim Wu says internet speed promises in New York may still be ‘illusory’ | The Verge
In October, the New York Attorney General’s Office announced that it was investigating major internet service providers in the state, sending letters to Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Cablevision that asked the companies to disclose more informatio…
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Exceptionally small Japanese apartment : pics
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Mexico’s Tiny Minimum Wage Is About to Increase — By Almost Nothing | VICE News
Mexico’s authorities have increased the country’s daily minimum wage for 2016 after a year of debate over its inability to cover even basic needs. The increase approved, however, amounts to enough for an extra half pound of tortillas. The National M…
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2015: The Year Teen Pop Grew Up | Rolling Stone
This was more than just a great year for pop — 2015 was the year teen pop grew up. All over the radio, yesterday’s Disney moppets kept mutating into arty, angsty, confident grown-ups, as their music kept expanding both sonically and emotionally.
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‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Gets Its First Trailer – Digg
5 diggs Trailers Movies Jeff Goldblum is back and fighting aliens again. And everything is right in the world (except for the threat of extraterrestrials).
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Bowe Bergdahl Will Face Court-Martial, Possible Life in Prison | Vanity Fair
Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years by the Taliban after walking off his base in Afghanistan in 2009, has been recommended for trial by court-martial, the Army announced Monday.
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Ted Cruz May Be Stalking Your Facebook Page | Vanity Fair
As Sen. Ted Cruz quietly positions his way to G.O.P front-runner ahead of rival Donald Trump, people must stop and ask: Wait, how did a guy some considered unelectable leapfrog Marco Rubio into the front of the pack? Simple: data mining and psy-ops.
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Sulfur Dioxide Down over China; Up over India : Image of the Day
Sulfur dioxide is a pungent, toxic gas found in Earth’s atmosphere. In addition to harming human health, the gas affects the environment by interacting with water vapor to produce acid rain.
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North Carolina town bans solar for fear it will “suck up all the energy from the sun” | Grist
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. This video explains how.
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Track Your Vitals With This $30 Bluetooth Smart Scale
$30 is a solid price for any decent bathroom scale, but this one actually includes Bluetooth to sync with your phone. In fact, it can import the data directly into a bunch of popular fitness tracking apps, including Apple’s built-in HealthKit.
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How U.S. negotiators made the Paris climate deal Republican-proof | Grist
Nonetheless, the fight over the deal began even before French workers could finish dismantling the conference site. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, led the attack for Republicans.
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Green groups are deeply divided on whether the Paris Agreement is a win or loss | Grist
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. This video explains how.
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U.S. military no longer automatically exempt from emissions targets under Paris deal | Grist
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. This video explains how.
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Nuclear power? In this economy? You must be drunk, world leaders | Grist
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. This video explains how.
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No, Kim Kardashian, It’s Probably Not an Awesome Idea for You to Eat Your Placenta – Mic
After giving birth to her son Saint West on Dec. 5, Kim Kardashian West has decided to stay off her feet and chill at home for a little R&R, just as a normal mother would do. Just kidding. She’s ingesting her afterbirth in pill form.
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Listia Isn’t Just For Swapping Free Stuff Anymore | TechCrunch
Listia started out as a way for people to swap free stuff, but now its users can actually make money. The new feature takes advantage of Listia’s existing system, where users give away their stuff in exchange for credits.
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Jurors in Baltimore, Maryland are now deliberating whether a police officer is guilty of manslaughter and assault in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from a spinal cord injury that took place while he was in police custody last April.
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Is Gilt About To Be Acquired By Saks Fifth Avenue? | TechCrunch
Gilt.com, the New York-based fashion discount site, is in talks to be acquired for $250 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The prospective buyer is Hudson’s Bay, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue.
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The Jaguars Scored 51 Points; Blake Bortles Had Practically Nothing To Do With It | FiveThirtyEight
Fifty-point outings are pretty rare in the NFL.
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New Space Station Crew Launches Tuesday: Watch It Live
Three new crewmembers will launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft early Tuesday (Dec. 15), and you can watch the liftoff live online.
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Trump’s Medical Report Is More Insane Than His Campaign, Somehow – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s doctor appears to be just as bombastic as he is. It’s the only conclusion to be drawn from a hilariously bizarre letter that the mogul’s doctor—Harold Bornstein—wrote about his yuuuugely terrific health. And the letter raises as many …
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Georgia Cops Escape Criminal Accountability For Raid That Maimed Toddler | ThinkProgress
More than a year and a half after sheriffs nearly killed a toddler with a flashbang grenade during a no-knock raid based on bad information, a Georgia jury acquitted the only deputy to face charges tied to the episode on Friday.
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New research finds that environmental state of China is even worse than initially predicted. (medium.com)
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Federal Reserve Expected To Raise Interest Rates For First Time In 7 Years : NPR
The Federal Reserve has held interest rates at super low levels for years in an effort to bolster the economy, but it is expected to raise rates for the first time in seven years this week.
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Taylor Swift Responds to Artist’s Infringement Accusations | Rolling Stone
A spokesperson for Taylor Swift has issued a terse response to a visual artist who accused the pop star of unfairly compensating her for a painting Swift had used without permission.
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John Oliver’s Tips for Regifting the Horrible Presents You Don’t Want
Let’s face it, we’ve all received gifts that might as well have been lumps of coal. If you’re careful enough, you can use these tips to rid yourself of those stinkers and look generous all at once.
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Everything You Need to Know About Tuesday’s GOP Debate | New Republic
The fifth Republican primary debate will take place on Tuesday, December 15, in Las Vegas, hosted by CNN. During the debate, follow along at the New Republic’s blog Minutes, which will have updates, analysis, and all the best Donald Trump GIFs.
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Rajon Rondo (Sort Of) Apologizes for Directing Slur at Gay NBA Referee | Rolling Stone
Rajon Rondo (Sort Of) Apologizes for Directing Slur at Gay NBA Referee Sacramento guard says he used anti-gay slurs toward referee Bill Kennedy “out of frustration and emotion,” but never actually says sorry
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See Josh Homme-Approved Eagles of Death Metal Video Tribute | Rolling Stone
See Josh Homme-Approved Eagles of Death Metal Video Tribute “I’m proud to be among you, part of you, one of you,” singer writes to fans on Facebook
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Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband
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Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband : politics
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The Internet Is Coming To An Ocean Near You | Atlas Obscura
Why wait until you’re out of the water to check Snapchat? (Photo: Public domain/WikiCommons) Imagine this: You’re deep underwater, scuba diving somewhere in the South Pacific. You snap a picture of a colorful and bulbous coral, write a cute caption,…
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Your mouse moves differently when you’re upset, study suggests
Anyone who’s ever owned a computer has, at some point or another, been frustrated with it.
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That shrimp you’re eating may have been peeled and packed by slaves / Boing Boing
Widespread human trafficking is a big part of why Thailand is now one the world’s biggest shrimp providers, an Associated Press investigative series details.
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The Xena revival hires a writer, is apparently still real · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The journey of the Xena: Warrior Princess reboot/revival has been as wild and unpredictable as something wild and unpredictable from the old Xena: Warrior Princess TV show, with original star Lucy Lawless initially revealing that she wanted to bring…
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Lightsaber Yourself With Facebook’s Star Wars Profile Pics | TechCrunch
Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures.
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What Should Fashion Look Like in 10 Years? – Racked
Fashion is moving faster than ever — but you knew that. Product turnaround is lightning speed, shipping is nearly instant, customization is the norm, and smart watches know more about our day-to-day lives than our significant others do.
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The New $7M Xprize Focuses On Mapping The World’s Oceans | TechCrunch
The latest Xprize offers a total of $7 million for teams that advance ocean mapping technology. This is part of Xprize’s broader ocean initiative, but Jyotika Virmani, senior director of ocean discovery, noted that the previous prizes focused on oce…
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Life Below the City: Scenes From the NYC Subway – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Life Below the City: Scenes From the Subway” Presented by
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A Brand New Vision of the Future From io9 Founder Annalee Newitz
There’s a killer new novel about a pharmceutical pirate and the robot that hunts her, set in the world of 2144, coming from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9. Annalee just sold her first novel, Autonomous, to Tor Books.
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The Atlantic Daily: Obama’s ISIS Strategy, Bowe Bergdahl’s Fate, Trump vs. Cruz – The Atlantic
Obama made a rare trip to the Pentagon to meet with his cabinet officials and senior national security advisers to discuss the more than 18-month-old campaign against the Islamic State. The president said that the U.S.
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Stanford, UPenn, and others are still breaking the law on clinical trial reporting | The Verge
Since 2008, most research labs have been legally required to publish the results of their clinical trials to a federal database at ClinicalTrials.gov — but according to a new investigation by Stat News, that just isn’t happening.
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Prepare Your Home for an Earthquake With These Three Easy Tips
Depending on where you live, earthquakes can be fairly common. They may not be the earth-shattering quakes you see in disaster movies, but it only takes a little shaking to wreck your stuff. Here a few easy tips for making your home more quake-proof…
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There Might Still Be Crooked Cops from the Silk Road Investigation | Motherboard
In the last month, two crooked federal agents embedded inside the Silk Road investigation were sentenced to prison, but they may not have been alone.
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Trump doesn’t really scare me. Cruz’s religious fervor frightens me in the most fundamental of ways. Trump doesnt scare me because he is just saying shit to get elected. In no way do I believe he thinks half the shit he says. He’s a salesman and kno…
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In the booming high-end market of Los Angeles, where hidden ownership is common, one house stands out. LOS ANGELES — The most notorious new house in Los Angeles hangs from a Bel Air hillside, high above the sprawl and smog, unfinished and unloved.
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Astronomers explain what’s wrong (and right) with the science in ‘Star Wars’
Can Star Wars defend its take on astrophysics and other elements of space science? Not really—but that doesn’t stop science geeks from loving it.
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There’s Shelter, And Then There’s Housing. Utah Claims Muted Victory : NPR
Utah has housed nearly all of its chronically homeless people — those who have a disabling condition, and who have been homeless for more than a year, or four times in the last three years. These days, there are fewer than 200. But chronic homelessn…
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Egypt: No Bomb on Russian Jet, Trust Us! – The Daily Beast
Where is the evidence? That continues to be the essential question at the heart of the controversy over what brought down the Russian Airbus 321 over the Sinai on October 31, killing all 224 people aboard.
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Almost every year, there’s a couple of big award-bait movies that most people agree are really good, even though their lack of explosions make them a little boring.
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Last we checked in with TV father figure-turned-cultural lightning rod Bill Cosby, he had been dumped by his agent, stripped of several honorary degrees, and had his biography pulled from shelves by its publisher. They even took down his statue at D…
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Navy warns as BBC flies near China islands – BBC News
Countries from around the world have insisted that China’s expansion into the South China Sea is illegal. It is building a huge artificial island in the Spratly Island chain, one of the most contested areas in the world.
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Ex-US soldier court-martialled for desertion – Al Jazeera English
US soldier Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five former leaders of the armed group held in Guantanamo Bay, will be court-martialled for desertion. No date has been set for the court-martial but if convicted, Bergdah…
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Exclusive: Watch ‘Patti Pie’ Viral Star Cook With Patti LaBelle – The Daily Beast
The “Patti Pie” pandemonium is charging through the holidays with all the gusto of a Patti LaBelle whistle note. Ever since James Wright, clad in a bedazzled baseball cap, transformed into a viral video star thanks to his enthusiastic review of Ms.
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A Skeptical Note on the Paris Climate Deal – The New Yorker
President Obama, President Hollande, and Prime Minister Cameron are right: the climate-change agreement in Paris over the weekend was historic.
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Six Movies for this Year’s Political Moment – The New Yorker
2015 has been a disorienting political year, and 2016 promises to be even dizzier: maybe some political movies can help us figure it all out.
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Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband (theintercept.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sticking to his promise of pulling Canada out of the bombing campaign against the Islamic State, despite a request for more military help from the US government.
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Did the Utopian Pirate Nation of Libertatia Ever Really Exist? | Atlas Obscura
For twenty-odd years during the 17th century, on the coast of Madagascar, there was a democratic colony comprised of surprisingly noble pirates who lived together in peace and harmony. They bankrolled their colony with spoils stolen from evil slave …
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This is Only the Beginning: COP21 – Climate Emergency (Dispatch 6) | VICE News
On Saturday December 12, the UN climate negotiations between nearly 200 countries finally resulted in what world leaders called a historic agreement marking the end of the fossil fuel era.
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DSCOVR satellite’s ‘million mile camera’ captures lunar eclipse – BBC News
An American satellite stationed a million miles from Earth has obtained a unique view of a lunar eclipse. The DSCOVR spacecraft, which was launched in February, has a camera that stares constantly at the sunlit face of the Earth.
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A Turning Point in Combating Climate Change May Be Here – Scientific American
The world is shifting. At least that’s what Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist, tweeted on November 6. He was referring to the recent wave of push-back against fossil fuel companies.
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Scientists are trying to revive an extinct species of Galápagos tortoise | The Verge
It might be a… slow process Lonesome George was the last Galápagos tortoise of his kind who lived on Pinta Island. His name was Lonesome George because he was alone; he died in 2012 after living for more than 100 years.
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BBC Sport – Leicester City 2-1 Chelsea
Leicester welcome back on-loan winger Nathan Dyer, who was ineligible against parent club Swansea last weekend. The Foxes have no new fitness concerns but Ritchie de Laet remains out with an ankle problem, while Matt James lacks match fitness after …
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Flying close to Beijing’s new South China Sea islands – BBC News
Last year the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travelled across the South China Sea in a fishing boat and became the first journalist to observe close-up how China is constructing new islands on coral reefs.
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Newell Rubbermaid makes $15bn bid for rival Jarden – BBC News
Consumer products company Newell Rubbermaid said it would buy competitor Jarden, the owner of brands including Breville and Sunbeam, for $15.4bn (£10bn). The combined business is expected to generate $16bn in annual revenue.
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Flashback: See Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens Cover Johnny Cash | Rolling Stone
Twenty-four years ago today on December 14th, 1991, singer Dwight Yoakam made his acting debut on the short-lived TV series P.S. I Luv U. Since that time, he has gone on to act in a number of TV shows and feature films, including the 1996 Oscar winn…
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Why it matters that Serena Williams is on the cover of Sports Illustrated – Vox
Since 1954, Sports Illustrated has declared the most groundbreaking, important person in sports each year, starting with British runner Roger Bannister, the first known person to ever run a mile in under four minutes.
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How ‘Childhood’s End’ Finally Made It to TV | Rolling Stone
They descend from the skies, these huge motherships hovering over the big cities and major metropolitan hot spots of our planet.
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Colombia Wants to Charge a Guerrilla Medic With Up to 500 Forced Abortions | VICE News
Colombia is seeking the extradition from Spain of a man reportedly known as “The Nurse” within the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who allegedly carried out up to 500 forced abortions on female fighters in the group.
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Interview: Aja Raden, Author Of ‘Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession And How Desire Shapes The World’ : NPR
As Raden tells it, jewelry is the quintessential object of desire — and it’s the perfect lens through which to view human history. She makes her case through the stories of eight noteworthy jewels, starting with the glass beads a Dutchman used to bu…
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Flying close to Beijing’s new South China Sea islands – BBC News
Last year the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travelled across the South China Sea in a fishing boat and became the first journalist to observe close-up how China is constructing new islands on coral reefs.
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Watch the Original Star Wars Trilogy As It Was Before George Lucas Screwed It Up
Since 1997, George Lucas has been hell bent on ruining the original Star Wars trilogy. Every new release—in theaters, on DVD, and on Blu-Ray—comes with more added garbage than the last. This fan-made version of the original trilogy is the best versi…
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No surgery for Andy Dalton but date for Bengals return still uncertain | Sport | The Guardian
Andy Dalton won’t need surgery on his broken thumb and could play again this season. Dalton broke the thumb on his passing hand during a 33-20 loss to the Steelers on Sunday, a result that left the AFC North up for grabs.
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Mass shooting survivor: Gun violence easy access | Al Jazeera America
John Moffatt still remembers the day he almost lost his life. In 1986, the assistant principal of a high school in Lewistown, Montana was preparing for the school’s first big event since renovations: the girls state basketball tournament.
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Bill Cosby Countersues Seven Sexual Assault Accusers for “Morally Repu | Vanity Fair
The accusers the comedian targets include retired attorney Tamara Green and Barbara Bowman, the latter of whom outlined her allegations against Cosby—that he drugged and raped her repeatedly when she was a 17-year-old actress—in an essay published b…
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Carl’s Crush: Last-Minute Gifts For All the Men on Your List | Vanity Fair
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Prosecutors say Baltimore officer could have prevented Freddie Gray’s death | US news | The Guardian
Baltimore police officer William Porter could have prevented the death of Freddie Gray in police custody with a few simple steps but failed to do so, prosecutors argued in a forceful closing argument Monday.
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Migrant’s perilous journey to Europe to escape Syria – BBC News
Hisham describes how he thought he would die as he travelled in a flimsy dinghy to Italy. This film was a joint collaboration between the BBC World Service, BBC Arabic and independent animator Sherbet.
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Obama says America is squeezing the heart of Isis in Iraq and Syria | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama sought to reassert himself as commander-in-chief on Monday, standing with military top brass at the Pentagon and warning leaders of Islamic State: “You are next.
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Azerbaijan bans GMO tobacco, wine and cotton products : environment
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Azerbaijan bans GMO tobacco, wine and cotton products – AzerNews
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Colombia Wants to Charge a Guerrilla Medic With Up to 500 Forced Abortions | VICE News
Colombia is seeking the extradition from Spain of a man reportedly known as “The Nurse” within the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who allegedly carried out up to 500 forced abortions on female fighters in the group.
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Kim Kardashian’s placenta convinced me to subscribe to her app | The Verge
I’m comfortable with my place somewhere in the top third of Kardashian-Jenner family fandom, a part of my life I’ve managed to sneak into my work here at The Verge. I’ve written about Kim Kardashian’s battles with the FDA over an Instagram ad for mo…
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The Case For An Emphasis On Traffic Management | TechCrunch
Smart cities. Teletopia. Quantified communities. Whatever label you prefer, the concept of cities utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to create connected communities is an increasingly popular one, gaining more and more attent…
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Here’s what id Software’s PC port of Mario 3 could have looked like | Ars Technica
PC gamers of a certain age probably fondly remember the Commander Keen game series, some of the first smoothly scrolling platform games made for MS-DOS.
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Did a Republican Mega-Donor Just Secretly Buy Nevada’s Biggest Newspaper? | Mother Jones
Conventional wisdom holds that you do not want to buy a newspaper, because newspapers are terrible investments. Yet late last week, someone did buy the largest newspaper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and paid a premium for it.
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DC’s New Legends of Tomorrow Comic Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With Legends of Tomorrow
Oh, DC, this is very silly. The good news first: a new comic anthology series coming from the company brings back some minor DC heroes and, re-pairs some of them with their original creative talents.
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Time Travel Meets Film Noir in This Intriguing Trailer for Synchronicity
“You’re operating independently of yourself in an alternate time line”—now, is there any way that won’t end badly? With this trailer—fast-paced and stuffed with sinister, urban-noir vibes—we’re super excited for Synchronicity, the latest science fic…
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Japanese university bans all watches from exams | The Verge
One of Japan’s most prestigious universities is banning all watches from entrance exam rooms over cheating concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kyoto University’s ban was “required to conduct a fair test,” and applies to any type of watch,…
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Court pulls Nurofen products from Australian market – Al Jazeera English
The maker of the popular painkiller Nurofen was ordered on Monday to remove some of its brands from store shelves in Australia. The Federal Court ruled that UK-based drug giant Reckitt Benckiser made misleading claims about the pills’ effectiveness.
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No, The Paris Climate Agreement Isn’t Binding. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Matter. | ThinkProgress
The Paris climate deal has been lauded as “historic,” “sweeping,” and “ambitious” — a way to lead the world into a post-fossil-fuel, less-than-2°C-warming future. But it has also been ridiculed for being “non-binding.
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US Mayors Work to Slow Climate Change | Al Jazeera America
Now that the world has reached a historic agreement aimed at averting the worst effects of global warming, action on climate change will increasingly happen at the municipal level, environmental advocates say.
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VIDEO: What Does Climate Change Have to Do With Hunger in America? | The Nation
On October 27, 2015, the Sacramento Public Library hosted a discussion in honor of The Nation‘s 150th anniversary. In this recording, you’ll see Nation contributor Sasha Abramsky expose just how many Americans go hungry every day in a country that p…
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10 of the worst changes to the Star Wars trilogy after their original theatrical release
There have been so many little changes in the original Star Wars trilogy since their theatrical release because there have been so many “special edition” DVDs and Blu Rays and VHS tapes and LaserDiscs that have come out after the fact that it’s real…
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Bowe Bergdahl to face general court-martial for desertion – BBC News
Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, a US solider who was held for five years by the Taliban, will face a general court-martial for desertion and other charges. Gen Robert Abrams overruled a previous recommendation that the case be moved to a lower court with a maxim…
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Meet Laurent Fabius, Non-Stop Climate Negotiations Gangster | WIRED
On day nine of the now-completed Paris climate talks, a negotiator from the small island nation of East Timor made a modest proposal: If the climate deal was signed, he would nominate Laurent Fabius for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
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SocialRank Helps You Understand your Followers — And Now It’s Getting Collaborative | TechCrunch
Hey, it’s great that you’re trying to get more followers, but what about understanding the followers already have? That’s what New York City starutp SocialRank aims to provide, and today it launched a new feature called SocialRank for Teams.
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Membo Is The Yik Yak For Trendy Local Discovery | TechCrunch
Membo is a bit of a fusion between neighborhood social networking apps like Nextdoor and local discussion apps like Yik Yak.
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Jeremy Lin’s ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Trailer Looks Like a Lot of Fun – The Atlantic
As a new J.J. Abrams sci-fi reboot steers into theaters this week, another franchise he once tried to salvage is soldiering on without him. The trailer for Star Trek Beyond, which dropped online Monday, looks like a simultaneous embrace and rejectio…
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Independence Day Resurgence – Official Trailer | Video
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This year’s screenplay Black List has been revealed · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The 2015 Black List was revealed earlier today, giving us a look at what might be one day.
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Trump’s personal doctor: Trump would be ‘the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency’
Good news: Donald Trump’s doctor says Donald Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” He’s just that super-healthy. If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to…
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PSA: Register Your Recreational Drone With the FAA by February 19, 2016
Whether you’re a longtime drone pilot, or just gifting one to a family member for the holidays, be sure to register your device before February 19, 2016. It will be free for the first 30 days, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to dodge some…
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Long before J.J. Abrams was handed the keys to the Star Wars kingdom, he got his start composing part of the score for Don Dohler’s 1982 cheapie Nightbeast.
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NBA referee Bill Kennedy comes out as gay after Rajon Rondo confrontation | Sport | The Guardian
One of the NBA’s top referees has come out as gay. Bill Kennedy, an 18-year veteran who has refereed more than a thousand regular-season games and five NBA finals contests, made the revelation to Yahoo Sports’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Sunday night.
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Trump hits new high in national poll – surpasses 40% support : politics
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Trump hits new high in poll | TheHill
Trump hits new high in national poll – surpasses 40% support https://t.co/gHfpEYzFta https://t.co/zmwwYXET4o via /r/#politics
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Last week, a Russian-led proposal to ban first deployment of space weapons passed the UN General Assembly.
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People Who Curse Have Better Fucking Vocabularies, According to Science – Mic
Has anyone ever told you that your habit of swearing like a sailor makes you sound less intelligent? The next time they say that, don’t feel bad about calling them an asshole. You’re probably a lot smarter than they are, anyway. Or at least you prob…
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‘Map’ Is An Exquisite Record Of The Miles — And The Millennia : NPR
The other day, a beautiful brick landed on my desk — a thick, fat, illustrated book, called Map: Exploring the World.
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Congressional auditors say The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda,” a violation of federal law, when it launched a massive social media campaign urging Americans to support the Waters of the United States rule.
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Star Trek Beyond – Trailer (2016) – Paramount Pictures | Video
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Why Trump’s ridiculous doctor’s note actually matters – Vox
The presidency is a job far too large for any one human being. It requires simultaneous management of everything from the Iranian nuclear deal to hurricane relief efforts to government procurement reform to legislative outreach. No one can keep that…
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Trump’s doctor cites candidate’s ‘excellent’ health – BBC News
The doctor of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he is in “excellent” health and has had no significant medical problems. Mr Trump had been under pressure to release his medical history after several other candidates had done so.
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A Surreal Epic About Michael Jackson’s Chimp Topped the 2015 Black List
The Black List is an annual ranking of Hollywood’s most promising yet-to-be-produced screenplays. Past years have highlighted eventual awards-grabbers like Argo, American Hustle, and The Social Network, as well as genre entries like Abraham Lincoln:…
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This Week’s TV: Can Syfy Win Back Your Love By Adapting Three of Your Favorite Books?
Syfy’s bid to get back the people who loved Battlestar Galactica begins tonight. Not just one, but three of our most beloved books are coming to the channel this week, in an all-out effort to regain your eyeballs. Plus a ton of finales and huge turn…
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Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Concert Film Coming to Apple Music | Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Concert Film Coming to Apple Music November 28th gig in Sydney, Australia with many all-star cameos will be focus of ‘The 1989 World Tour’
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Obama to ISIL leaders: Nowhere to hide – Al Jazeera English
President Barack Obama said on Monday the US was hitting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) “harder than ever” in a message seen as an effort to ease public concern after a spate of deadly attacks around the world.
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Kosovo parliament hit by fresh tear-gas protest – BBC News
Protesting opposition MPs in Kosovo have released tear gas in parliament for the sixth time in just over two months, disrupting a vote on the government’s 2016 budget. Outside, opposition supporters threw stones and smashed windows before they were …
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China Celebrates Its Spaceflight History on New Banknote and Coin
China’s Central Bank has released bills and coins celebrating the country’s spaceflight history. The designs of the new 100-yuan banknotes and 10-yuan coins feature crewed and robotic spacecraft that span 45 years of Chinese launches.
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Shields Up! How the Earth Got a Force Field
Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace, and the YouTube series Space In Your Face. He contributed thi…
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Haha amazing… he just might actually pull this whole thing off. Yeah, I’m sure the trains will run on time and everything.
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda” in violation of federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the general public to support President Obama’s controversial rule intended to be
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Sputnik — a short film by Maxim Zhestkov on Vimeo
| Full Screen recommended | http://www.facebook.com/ZhestkovMaxim/ http://www.zhestkov.com “Sputnik” is a Maxim Zhestkov short film about the evolution of an extraterrestrial mind, and its journey to the light. The project was created with the help of industry le…
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Maternal exposure to anti-depressant SSRIs linked to autism in children – The Washington Post
A new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that using an antidepressant like Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft during the final two trimesters of pregnancy may be linked to a higher risk of autism spectrum disorder for the child.
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How Your Brain Determines If You’re a Santa or a Scrooge | Motherboard
They say there’s something about this time of year that just puts people in the giving spirit.
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Jury Deliberates In Trial For Baltimore Officer Charged In Freddie Gray Death : NPR
The fate of Baltimore police officer William Porter is in the hands of a jury after the prosecution and defense delivered closing arguments Monday.
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FAA Announces New Registration Guidelines For Drones : NPR
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday most small drones will now have to be registered. The government hopes this will make it harder for drones to fly into small aircraft.
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Global Leaders Move To Cut Emissions In Wake Of Climate Deal : NPR
NPR has reaction from Russia, China and Brazil on the climate deal reached over the weekend in Paris.
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Federal Reserve Expected To Raise Interest Rates For First Time In 9 Years : NPR
The Federal Reserve has held interest rates at super low levels for years in an effort to bolster the economy. On Wednesday, Fed policymakers are widely expected to raise rates for the first time in nine years. The Fed is in an odd position as it ho…
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Major League Baseball Upholds Ban On Pete Rose : NPR
Pete Rose will not be eligible for the Hall of Fame, at least for now. Major League Baseball announced Monday it was denying his plea for reinstatement. Rose received a lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 for betting on the game.
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Hugh Hewitt’s Presence On Debate Stage Represents Larger GOP Push : NPR
Conservative journalists are playing in the GOP presidential primary debates by serving as panelists. It is a result of reforms pushed by the Republican Party in light of Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss.
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Obama Visits Pentagon To Highlight Ongoing Fight Against ISIS : NPR
President Obama used a visit to the Pentagon on Monday to signal that he is focused on the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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Bears For Newtown: Tax Assessor Recalls Gift Influx After Sandy Hook Shooting : NPR
On the third anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Chris Kelsey, a tax assessor in Newtown, Conn., whose task it was to figure out what to do with the things people sent to the town in response to…
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In ISIS Fight, Obama Points To American Power Beyond Military Force : NPR
President Obama says the U.S. and its allies are ratcheting up the military campaign against ISIS. But Obama says military force is just one aspect of American power. He points to the climate agreement in Paris as another example of American leaders…
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Texas Plumber’s Old Truck Ends Up In Hands Of Syrian Militants : NPR
A Texas plumber who traded in his old F-250 pickup is suing the dealership for failing to take the decals off of it as he says they promised to do.
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Ford Emergency Device Squeals On Florida Hit-And-Run Driver : NPR
NPR explores the unexpected consequences of a Ford device called “911 Assist,” which is a system that can call for help in the event of an accident. The device ratted out a Florida driver who committed a hit-and-run accident by calling the police.
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Ford CEO Outlines Plans To Compete With Ride-Hailing Services : NPR
Ford Motor Company plans to roll out a fleet of hybrid cars, and it’s also developing new ride-hailing services. This is Ford’s latest effort to not just sell cars, but drive people and gain entry into the ride-hailing economy dominated by Uber and …
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U.S. Envoy Calls Deal An ‘Important Start’ In Fight Against Climate Change : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Todd Stern, the Obama administration’s climate envoy, who negotiated the climate deal in Paris. He calls it a “very important start” in the fight against climate change.
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Unbelief As A Belief System: Core Tenet For Christians’ Fight For Religious Rights : NPR
Christian conservatives who are battling for the right to promote their faith in public or official settings see themselves locked in an epic contest with a rival religion. But that rival isn’t Islam, it’s secularism.
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Economic, Environmental Concerns Threaten Future Of Oil Sands : NPR
Alberta, Canada, has the third largest oil reserves in the world, but the potentially lucrative oil sands business faces serious economic challenges, including low oil prices and a lack of pipelines to move the crude to market.
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Dance troupe interprets Neil Young’s ultra-depressing 1974 album ‘On the Beach’|Dangerous Minds
Released in 1974, On the Beach is one of Neil Young’s more intriguing efforts. It’s also one of Young’s albums that could fairly be called “elusive”—it took an online petition to secure a CD release of On the Beach, which finally occurred in 2003.
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How Mass Shootings Like Sandy Hook Can Be Contagious – The Atlantic
Eight days after the San Bernardino shooting came the scare at Arkansas State University: A 47-year-old man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun threw the campus into temporary lockdown.
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What the government should’ve learned about backdoors from the Clipper Chip | Ars Technica
In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications, a noted encryption expert urged Congress not to adopt the requirements due to technical faults in the plan.
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Watch Siskel and Ebert explain Star Wars’ greatness to a grumpy critic | The Verge
Few souls dare besmirch the Star Wars brand on this, its most holiest week. When New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio told a room of reporters, “I respect Star Wars’ place in the American cultural firmament, but it’s never quite been my thing,” the in…
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This is what Super Mario Bros. 3 on PC could’ve looked like | The Verge
Before they made Doom, the team at id Software tried their hand at bringing Super Mario to PC. Back in 1990, when the studio was still known as IFD, the developers created a demo for a PC port of Super Mario Bros.
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Burundi Refugees in Rwanda Recruited to Fight | Al Jazeera America
Burundian refugees in Rwanda say they are being forcibly recruited by Burundian opposition groups and sent to military training camps in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, allegedly with the knowledge of Rwandan security officials, acc…
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Spark for iOS Adds Customizable Snooze Options and New Attachment Options
iPhone: Spark is well on its way to becoming the next best email client for iOS and today it gets a few handy new features pulled right out the playbook for the now-defunct Mailbox. The update allows you to customize various snooze options and adds …
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Don’t Be Misled; The TPP Is Still Coming Full Steam
Recently there have been news reports that Republicans are going to delay TPP until after the 2016 elections. Do not be misled; this is a bargaining ploy. They want the Obama administration to make “side agreements” that give corporations even more.
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When word came down that Sports Illustrated had made Serena Williams this year’s “Sportsperson of the Year” – complete with a cover displaying the winner seated in what could certainly be considered a throne – I smiled from the inside out. The woman…
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Join us on WhatsApp for real-time chat during the next Republican debate | US news | The Guardian
It’s that time again: the final Republican debate of 2015 will take place on Tuesday in Las Vegas. Since the last debate, more than a month ago, Bobby Jindal has withdrawn and Donald Trump has gone from court jester to xenophobic king of the world.
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Three years after Sandy Hook, there’s still no new federal gun laws. States are a different story
Guns on sale at a Glendale, California, store. Nick Wing takes note of all the federal laws that have been passed since the Sandy Hook massacre that took the lives of 20 children and six adults three years ago today. Here they are The reason for tho…
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The Ukrainian Crisis: It’s Not All Putin’s Fault | The Nation
Editor’s Note: The following are adapted from remarks by Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and New York University, delivered at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club on November 24, 2015. Paris should have changed everything …
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Homeland Security wants to use Facebook in visa reviews | The Verge
The Department of Homeland Security is working on a new plan for incorporating social media posts into visa reviews, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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FAA announces $5 registration fee for national drone registry.
On Monday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled its not-long-in-the-works national drone registry. There are no major surprises here, except perhaps for the atypical speed with which the registry was devised and implemented. The regi…
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Tina Fey Reveals Which SNL Cast Member Called Her the C-Word | Vanity Fair
Tina Fey pulled much of the behind-the-scenes drama that was played for laughs on her show 30 Rock from her real-life experience as head writer on Saturday Night Live. That includes the Season 1 episode titled “The C-Word” where the character Lutz c…
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Time For Us To Be the Enforcers Of the Climate Change Accords
Imagine if the 10 Commandments were written under the same political constraints as the just-completed climate change accord in Paris.
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NBA Referee Comes Out As Gay, Alleges Star Player Hurled Homophobic Slurs At Him | ThinkProgress
On Sunday night, veteran NBA referee Bill Kennedy revealed that he is gay. Kennedy, who has been an NBA referee for 18 years, ejected Rondo due to consecutive technical fouls in a December 3 game in Mexico City.
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FALSE: The Word ‘Picnic’ Originated with Lynchings. : snopes.com
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Poll: 71% believe mass shootings are now just a normal part of American life / Boing Boing
A new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that a whopping 71% of Americans surveyed believe the many shootings and other acts of mass violence in we’ve seen in 2015 are now a permanent part of life in our country.
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Can Canada’s new PM stop mining abuses in Latin America? | Environment | The Guardian
A Guatemalan investigative journalist named Luis Solano was in Canada last month to launch a report about a Canadian-owned silver mine in south-east Guatemala.
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Trump on Scalia’s Supreme Court racism: ‘I don’t like what he said,’ but he’s ‘terrific’
When even the man who wants to deport millions and bar Muslims from the country thinks Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s mutterings about black Americans probably being better off at “less advanced” schools were ick-worthy, we can be assured th…
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How the Lightsabers In The Force Awakens Finally Realized George Lucas’ Original Vision
That innocent period where what little we knew of The Force Awakens was the debate over the feasibility of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber was a wonderful time.
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When Laurent Fabius brought down his green gavel in Paris on Saturday, the atmosphere in the hall was said to be electric.
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A top Army commander on Monday ordered that Sgt.
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Your Face Is Covered in Mites, and They’re Full of Secrets | WIRED
When you look in the mirror, you’re not just looking at you—you’re looking at a whole mess of face mites. Yeah, you’ve got ‘em. Guaranteed.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Backstage at The Nutcracker (25 photos)
Backstage at The Nutcracker (25 photos) https://t.co/YeT7V2WjG8 https://t.co/xsOwVwZM6u
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Little Loafer with 1 I via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/tChXLxJl8i https://t.co/krtwI9xrnj https://t.co/OtO91OFc0i
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Little Loafer with 1 I : Catloaf
Little Loafer with 1 I via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/tChXLxJl8i https://t.co/krtwI9xrnj https://t.co/OtO91OFc0i
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A chilling reminder: the name and face of every single Sandy Hook shooting victim – Vox
A chilling reminder: the name and face of every single Sandy Hook shooting victim https://t.co/TFOqtITl9J https://t.co/GEpD1TkIYt
It’s been three years since a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. To mark the tragedy’s anniversary, CNN’s Jake Tapper memorialized the victims on Twitter, posting the ages and pictures of… -
You’re In Trouble If This Pee-Powered Energy System Leaks | TechCrunch
Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre at the University of the West of England has created a bioenergy system that uses urine circulated by your footsteps to power wearable electronics. The system uses energy generators called…
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WGN has just released two teasers for its period piece/escape thriller, Underground, that help piece together the plot (especially if your only history lessons have come from a Texas classroom in recent years).
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The Red Cross brought in an AT&T exec as CEO and now it’s a national disaster / Boing Boing
In 2008, the Red Cross was a dysfunctional mess, so it hired on Gail McGovern, an AT&T exec and Harvard Business School prof, who parachuted in a group of other AT&T alums to oversee a program of rigid, centralized control; mass layoffs;secrecy and …
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Never underestimate the power of humorous signage. Mel Brooks knew it. The Simpsons knew it. Looney Tunes knew it. Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker knew it. And, perhaps most keenly of all, the creative team of the 1966-1968 Batman series on ABC damned well k…
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Bill Cosby on Monday filed a defamation suit against seven women who have accused him of sexual assault or misconduct. Cosby, 78, said in the lawsuit that the women made “malicious, opportunistic and false and defamatory accusations of sexual miscon…
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Bowe Bergdahl to face US army court-martial over desertion charges | US news | The Guardian
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a US army soldier who disappeared from his post in Afghanistan in 2009, will be tried in military court for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bill Cosby sues women who accused him of sexual assault – BBC News
Bill Cosby, accused by more than 40 women of sexual assault, has filed a lawsuit claiming that several of them lied about him for financial gain. Mr Cosby, 78, is seeking unspecified monetary damages and said the women inflicted emotional distress.
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Childrens Hospital gets a new trailer and a premiere date · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
As some people have probably noticed, there are really only three different kinds of trailers. First is the normal one, which features clips from the thing it’s promoting along with voiceover or onscreen text telling you how exciting/dramatic/funny …
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Tom Hiddleston loves his ominously classy apartment in the first High Rise trailer | The Verge
High Rise, director Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 dystopian novel, won’t see a wide release until sometime next year. But its trailer reminds us all how alluring the sight of decadence descending into savagery is.
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Barack Obama: We are hitting Isis harder than ever – video | World news | The Guardian
Speaking after consulting with top Pentagon officials, Obama claimed that Isis is losing territory and fighters in Iraq and Syria. Obama said that while coalition forces are making progress against Isis, also referred to as Isil, the pace of that pr…
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NBC’s Xena Reboot Picks Up Steam By Hiring Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Look, I know Javier Grillo-Marxuach has done many things in his career—both Deadline and Variety have him as a “Lost alum.” But I will always leap to The Middleman first. And then follow him wherever he goes. The fact that it happens to be Xena is j…
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According to Deadline, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will executive produce a new single-camera comedy for Fox called 2 Black Dudes created by J. Lee, a writer on MacFarlane’s late Cleveland Show. Mike Mariano (Raising Hope) will serve as showr…
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Planned Parenthood sues Ohio over claims of improper fetal tissue disposal | US news | The Guardian
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ohio department of health’s director, after the group was cleared of selling fetal tissue and accused of improperly disposing of it in the same press conference.
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Donald Trump would be America’s healthiest president, doctor’s letter says | US news | The Guardian
Related: Who – if anybody – is advising Donald Trump? Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has released a letter from his personal physician stating that he “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
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The US government has not halted a single project out of the 88,000 actions and developments considered potentially harmful to the nation’s endangered species over the past seven years, a new study has found.
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This Video Explains What a Hymen Really Is
The hymen is a poorly-understood body part, right up there with the spleen and the gallbladder: you’ve heard of it, but may have no idea what it looks like or how it actually works. This video from CollegeHumor schools you with style.
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The U.S. Military Loses Its Emissions Exemption in the Paris Climate Deal | New Republic
The U.S. military and armed forces of countries around the world will no longer be automatically exempted from emissions-cutting obligations under the UN Paris climate deal, the Guardian has learned. Although the U.S.
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Bowe Bergdahl Is Going to Face a Court-Martial Trial on Desertion Charges | VICE News
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who walked off his Army base in Afghanistan and was held captive for five years by the Taliban, will be court-martialed on desertion and misbehavior charges after his case was referred to a full trial after a t…
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NASA seeking astronauts for Mars mission, apply online
NASA published a press release today seeking qualified citizens to help them get to Mars, complete with online application. NASA is on an ambitious journey to Mars and we’re looking for talented men and women from diverse backgrounds and every walk …
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These Cops Might Actually Get Punished For A Cover Up | ThinkProgress
The Phoenix Police Department is recommending felony charges against two of its officers after an investigation revealed they lied about their conduct following an incident in May that ended in the pair pepper spraying a woman.
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Acclaimed Graphic Novel Essex County Is Getting the Television Treatment
Coming-of-age drama Essex County, adapted from Jeff Lemire’s series of short stories set in his hometown of Detroit-adjacent Essex County, Ontario, Canada, will be developed for Canada’s CBC network.
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Ah, nothing goes easy with that $67 billion Dell-EMC deal, does it? Today the plot thickened a bit more when VMware announced in a filing with the SEC that it was walking away from the agreement with EMC to form Virtustream as a jointly owned compan…
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Midday open thread: Silicon Valley boom creates more homeless; oil price drop not boosting economy
Normally, wealthy people who move into an area don’t see the results of their displacement because the people who lose their homes don’t stick around; they move to cheaper suburbs and work themselves into the fabric elsewhere.
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Hoverboards Facing Increased Restrictions – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following several reports of hoverboards spontaneously combusting due to low-quality batteries, Amazon and Overstock have ceased to sell the product, and many airlines have taken steps to ban the boards from their flights due to safety risks. What d…
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Charges Against Bergdahl to Go to Court-Martial | Al Jazeera America
The military charges against U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan charged with desertion, were referred on Monday for trial by general court-martial, the U.S. Army Forces Command said.
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Donald Trump’s recent call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States may end up hindering his businesses abroad. While the real estate mogul is denouncing Muslims, he is simultaneously profiting from businesses in a number of Muslim-majorit…
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Poll: Young voters split evenly between Clinton and Rubio – Vox
Poll: Young voters split evenly between Clinton and Rubio https://t.co/ygKz2Vdcfa https://t.co/g2DIDZdGP8
There’s a wake-up call buried in a new national poll from NBC/Wall Street Journal out today for Democrats: Marco Rubio ties Hillary Clinton among young voters, 45-45. -
A heated battle between NGOs in Israel ratcheted up another gear on Monday as leftwing not-for-profit Peace Now accused nine of its rightwing counterparts of concealing the origin of some $147 million in funding from the public.
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9 Tons Of Vegetables Produced On One Third Of An Acre In The City : environment
9 Tons Of Vegetables Produced On One Third Of An Acre In The City (ecosnippets.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Bowe Bergdahl’s Fate Will Be Decided by a General Court-Martial – The Atlantic
The Army will send Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to a general court-martial despite the suggestion of an investigator, his attorney said in a statement. He faces life in prison if convicted.
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The Invisible Work That Women Do Around the World – The Atlantic
Over the past 25 years, according to the United Nations, about 2 billion people have seen improvements in health care, sanitation, and job opportunities.
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We Know Almost Nothing About the Animals That Live on Our Faces – The Atlantic
The history of humanity’s grand sweep around the world is recorded in our genes and genealogies, our art and artifacts, our literature and languages. It’s also written in the legions of tiny mites that live, eat, crawl, and have sex on your face.
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Ask an Expert: All About Taking Better Photos
The great thing about photography is that it accessible to everyone: whether you’re simply using your phone to take pictures or you’ve invested professional cameras and lenses, everyone can improve their photos.
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This is why you keep your Star Wars toys in the box · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Saturday Night Live might have had some fun this weekend mocking adults who collect Star Wars toys, but at least one of those (ostensible) virginal nerds is laughing all the way to the bank: Rolling Stone reports that a collection of vintage Star Wa…
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Egypt Sinai plane crash: Who is to blame? – BBC News
Egyptian investigators say they have so far found no evidence that terrorism caused a Russian jet to crash in the Sinai in October, killing 224 people. However, that is not how Russia and the West see it.
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‘Chi-raq’ Reveals Spike Lee’s Outdated Race Politics | The Nation
Spike Lee’s latest film, Chi-raq, is his best in years, which makes the fact that it’s so bad that much more frustrating.
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Margaret Cho to produce and star in a pot comedy for Amazon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety reports Amazon Prime has just picked up Highland, a pot comedy starring Margaret Cho. The sitcom will see Cho’s character, who’s an addict, move back in with her family after she’s released from court-ordered rehab.
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Most of us believe that lying is wrong. We teach our children that it is wrong, and hope or expect that value judgment is shared by our friends and family. In public, we decry politicians and public officials when they lie, which we have frequent oc…
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Donald Trump given perfect bill of health by a ghost | The Verge
Donald Trump, who had previously been believed to be a rotting pumpkin filled with bile and a 12-word vocabulary, has turned out to be an extremely healthy human being. At least, according to “the highly respected Dr. Jacob Bornstein of Lenox Hill H…
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The Day Calais Said No to France’s Anti-Immigration Party | VICE News
It is a Sunday night at the Centaure, a bar and restaurant in downtown Calais, where patrons have gathered to watch live coverage of the French regional elections.
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Families Get Screwed Sending Dollars To Mexico. TransferWise Is 4X Cheaper | TechCrunch
Money transfers are a crooked racket. They’re designed to hide just how much cash they steal from immigrant workers sending funds to family back home.
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News | Some Mars Minerals with Watery Past May be Relatively Young
Minerals formed by water altering precursor geological materials are widespread on Mars. Most come from a wet era more than 3.7 million years ago, early in the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history.
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Merry Mixmas 2015: more jolly holiday mashups / Boing Boing
Philips makes a line of “smart” LED lightbulbs and controllers called Hue, that run the Zigbee networking protocol, allowing third-party devices to control their brightness and color. You may have noticed that Scott “Dilbert” Adams is a colossal ass…
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Talking to Danny L Harle, the LeBron James of PC Music | The Verge
Danny L Harle has only released one EP to date, but that doesn’t mean he’s hard to figure out. Unlike some other members of the amorphous pop collective PC Music, Harle doesn’t look like a futuristic superstar, nor does he avoid interviews or record…
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Justin Bieber Has Another Mystery Girl | Vanity Fair
Another day, another mystery about Justin Bieber’s love life. Yesterday, the Canadian songbird posted a photo to his Instagram account, in which his back is the camera and he seems to be having some sort of intimate moment with a lady. But it is not…
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Losing Andy Dalton Crushes The Bengals’ Championship Hopes | FiveThirtyEight
What had been the greatest season in Bengals history took a regrettably Bengals-like turn Sunday, when Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton fractured his thumb, likely putting him out for the season.
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Tickets for The Hateful Eight’s 70mm roadshow are on sale now | The Verge
Can you resist that alluring, glitchy ‘glorious Ultra Panavision 70’? If you haven’t been scared off by all of the difficulties associated with The Hateful Eight’s glitchy international 70mm extravaganza, today is your lucky day: tickets for the mov…
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Paris Attacks Survivor Isobel Bowdery Shares Her Story | Vanity Fair
I had not met Isobel Bowdery when her sister Cordelia shared a Facebook status that showed up in my feed shortly after the Paris attacks on November 13. Isobel, the younger of the two, had been in the Bataclan theater that night, and the next mornin…
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Google Maps for iOS Gets Offline Maps, Local Gas Prices, and Popular Business Hours
iOS: Google updated Google Maps for iOS today with a few handy features that have been available elsewhere for a while. You can now see local gas prices and popular times at local businesses right in the app’s search results.
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NASA is now accepting applications for its astronaut program | The Verge
If you want to be a space explorer, you’re one step closer to quitting your day job. NASA is now accepting applications for its astronaut program. It’s the first time the space agency has opened up applications since 2011.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Opens Up About His Near-Death Experiences | Vanity Fair
In The Revenant, the snowy survival epic that will probably earn Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar, the actor comes perilously close to on-screen death during a vicious bear attack.
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A Massachusetts Town Will Offer 2 Gbps Fiber Internet for $45 a Month | Motherboard
Soon, a small town fiber network in Massachusetts will offer twice the speed of Google Fiber for nearly half the price. The catch is that it’s a really small town, even by Google Fiber standards.
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The Paris Climate Agreement Would Be A Great First Step If This Were 1995 | FiveThirtyEight
Those are optimistic words, and indeed the Paris agreement, a 195-country affair representing the culmination of decades of climate negotiations, offers some cause for hope.
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Jennifer Lawrence Thinks It’s Much Too Soon for Hunger Games Prequels | Vanity Fair
Lionsgate may be going forward with more Hunger Games movies, but they’ll have to do it without their leading lady Jennifer Lawrence. Not that anyone really expected a prequel to feature Katniss, but rest-assured that if the studio could figure out …
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Donald Trump’s doctor just wrote the Trumpiest letter about Trump’s health – Vox
Donald Trump’s doctor just wrote the Trumpiest letter about Trump’s health https://t.co/6gfHo8IYBN https://t.co/b27bX6n2Of
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The trials of 6 Baltimore police officers over Freddie Gray’s death, explained – Vox
The trials of 6 Baltimore police officers over Freddie Gray’s death, explained https://t.co/CMIoWpozfQ https://t.co/3GZsfToAy2
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’: Superhero – The Atlantic
Welcome to The 12 Days of Christmas Songs: an attempt to uncover the forgotten history of some of the most memorable festive tunes. From December 14 through 25, we’ll be tackling one secular song and one holy song each day.
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The Oil-Price Plunge – The Atlantic
Over the summer, analysts predicted that oil prices might plunge below $40. Now they’re even lower, nearing an 11-year low with U.S. crude oil dropping briefly below $35 a barrel this morning. Brent crude, the global benchmark, is hovering just belo…
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Dispel’s Privacy-As-A-Service Platform Keeps Your Internet Connection Secret And Safe | TechCrunch
Most security services today give you virtual private networks that encrypt your connections (if you work for any sizable company, you probably use some kind of VPN client to log in to your intranet).
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Reddit Official Android App Is Coming Soon | TechCrunch
If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to offer an official app for the platform. Hi everyone! I’m the product manager for native mobile…
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Op-ed: There’s a new Star Trek trailer and it looks terrible | Ars Technica
Star Trek is a science fiction series. It is at its best when it is exploring the implications of its science. Yes, we want action and adventure, too, but there should be a context: exploration, the conflict between different cultures, the dangers o…
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This guy made a periscope so he could see the Eiffel Tower from his bed / Boing Boing
La Fabrique DIY says, “I wanted to view the Eiffel Tower from my bed so I made a giant periscope with 2 mirrors in order to shift the view from my window.” This only works if you live in Paris.
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The Lazer Team Trailer is Ghostbusters With Aliens, Mixed With a Little Super Troopers
Lazer Team is a hodgepodge of everything you love about genre. It’s about four dopey guys who are forced to band together to save the world from aliens. Think the cast of Super Troopers starring in Ghostbusters, but fighting aliens instead of ghosts.
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Obama: ‘We Are Hitting ISIL Harder Than Ever’ – The Atlantic
President Obama said Monday the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State “continues to be a difficult fight.” “We are hitting ISIL harder than ever,” the president said, using one of the name for the Islamist militant group, which is also called I…
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Philips pushes lightbulb firmware update that locks out third-party bulbs / Boing Boing
Philips makes a line of “smart” LED lightbulbs and controllers called Hue, that run the Zigbee networking protocol, allowing third-party devices to control their brightness and color. The latest Hue bridge firmware update locks out competitors’ bulb…
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Famous YouTube stars are barely scraping by / Boing Boing
Gaby Dunn, co-star of the YouTube channel Just Between Us, explains the dismal economics of being a mid-list YouTube star. I’m 27 years old and have been building an online following for 10 years, beginning with a popular Livejournal I wrote in high…
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Merkel says Germany will reduce refugee arrivals – Al Jazeera English
Chancellor Angela Merkel says her government now plans to “significantly reduce” the number of refugees entering Germany after facing opposition from a faction of her party.
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Tor Books buys Annalee Newitz’s debut novel / Boing Boing
Newitz, who co-founded IO9 and recently moved to Ars Technica has already published marvellous, book-length science non-fiction, but now she’s publishing her first sf novel! The novel, Autonomous is half of a two-book deal that Newitz made with Tor …
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Airbnb and the “sharing economy” still suffer from old-fashioned racism – Vox
“Sharing economy” services like Airbnb are thought of as revolutionary and democratizing. They let ordinary people make extra money using something they already have, like an apartment, and they give consumers a wider variety of affordable choices t…
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Another year, another couple thousand new apps for you to wade through in a befuddled haze.
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Colombia and Farc reach deal on war reparations – BBC News
The government of Colombia and Farc rebels have announced that they have reached a deal on reparations for war victims. The agreement deals with one of the most sensitive issues in the three-year peace talks taking place in the Cuban capital, Havana.
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Every Syrian refugee is a propaganda victory against ISIS, but only if we embrace them
Refugees fleeing ISIS-controlled territory. ISIS hates them, so why do we hate them as well? In the ‘70s and ‘80s, the United States welcomed defectors from the Soviet bloc with open arms.
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Burundi: Former minister on trial over May coup attempt – Al Jazeera English
The trial of 28 men accused of launching a failed coup in Burundi in May opened on Monday amid heightened tensions after attacks last week in which 87 people were killed.
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“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read… read, read… read,” Werner Herzog once said. “If you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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Press junkets have become an intrinsic part of how movies are released these days, with actors grinning their way through the same set of questions journalists know they have to ask, over and over and over again.
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Sarah Palin: My political crush on Marion Marechal-Le Pen – BBC News
Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said she has a “political crush” on Marion Marechal-Le Pen of France’s National Front (FN).
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How rare is a full moon on Christmas? Not as rare as a December 25 lunar eclipse. – Vox
How rare is a full moon on Christmas? Not as rare as a December 25 lunar eclipse. https://t.co/Kmawh0Un2E https://t.co/5LA9Nc6mjk
For the first time in 38 years, the Christmas night sky will have a full moon. What joy! The last time this occurred was in 1977 — not too long after the release of the movie Saturday Night Fever. The next Christmas full moon won’t appear until the … -
What it’s like to be an inheritor — Hopes&Fears
In the latest installment of our anonymous interview series we talk to inheritors, trust fund recipients, and the solemnly rich. The ins and outs of inheritance are an emotionally wrought and economically ambiguous phenomenon.
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Someone Used a Drone to Deliver a Handgun Into a Notorious Canadian Prison | VICE News
Authorities in a Quebec prison found out on Sunday that one of their prisoners was likely armed with a handgun, thanks to a delivery from a drone on Saturday.
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face court-martial for desertion, misbehavior charges
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been recommended for trial by general court-martial, the Army announced Monday. The case was referred to court-martial by Gen. Robert Abrams, commanding general of Forces Command and the court-martial convening authority in th…
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OPM – Saitama vs Subterranean [HD] – YouTube
This happens when you are OP.Just like in Monster Strike
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AMV – The Strongest [ONE PUNCH MAN] – YouTube
Finally Good ANIME!! Nope, for me the best of 2015!TWITCH ……………………… http://www.twitch.tv/deerpaulFacebook…………………….. https://www.facebook.com/deerpaulbeyondYoutube Vlogs ……………… …
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Jane Goodall at COP21: “I’m Here to Save the Rainforests” from Intensive Farming, Corruption (democracynow.org)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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‘The Last Man on the Moon’ to Launch Onto Movie Screens in 2016
Forty-three years after he became the last man on the moon, Gene Cernan now has a launch date in movie theaters. Cernan, who as commander of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission took the last — or at least most recent — step off the lunar surface on Dec.
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9 Etsy-Made Gifts That Keep Holiday Giving Weird | TechCrunch
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France’s Front National Party Wins Over Six Million Votes – The Atlantic
Over the weekend, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front Party did not win control of any of France’s 13 metropolitan regions in the second round of voting in local elections.
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Climate change will alter the Earth. But it could destroy humanity | Grist
“Save the planet.” This is an oft-used phrase in the fight against climate change — one meant to relay the gravity of global warming as well as to inspire action.
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Fans of The Venture Bros. everywhere adore two ostensibly peripheral characters, henchmen 21 and 24, who toil for the evil mastermind known as ….
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TheThe New York Times reported last week that climate change is forcing environmental researchers to seek cold-water refuges for imperiled salmon.
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Backstage at The Nutcracker – The Atlantic
Backstage at The Nutcracker (25 photos) https://t.co/tSsoZL2xZe https://t.co/lI4QESC95H https://t.co/pup40M9OCf
Choreographer Nacho Duato is presenting his version of the Christmas classic The Nutcracker at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. -
Backstage at The Nutcracker (25 photos) https://t.co/tSsoZL2xZe https://t.co/lI4QESC95H https://t.co/pup40M9OCf
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One Punch Man Official Trailer – YouTube
Coming this Octoberhttp://www.viz.com/one-punch-manStraight from the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump (http://shonenjump.viz.com/) Meet Saitama, hero for fun and the cast of colorful characters swinging to simulcast this October. More about One Punch Man…
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The pigeons that could discriminate between a Monet and a Picasso / Boing Boing
In The Guardian, psychologist Tom “Mind Hacks” Stafford outlines five classic scientific studies that underpin much of today’s thinking about how we learn things.
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Into the Badlands Recap: AMC, We Need Season Two, Please
So… that fight scene. THAT FIGHT SCENE. What a shame that there’s only one episode left. Badlands took several episodes to really get going, and now that it’s finally crazy good, the season is almost over. Which leads me to a humble plea: AMC, ple…
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UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github / Boing Boing
Gaffer is a graph database “optimised for retrieving data on nodes of interest” developed by the notorious UK spy agency GCHQ, and now you can download, run and improve it because they’ve posted it to Github under the permissive, free/open Apache li…
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“Passion Isn’t Something You Have, It’s Something You Develop”
Passion is usually thought of as some intrinsic calling you either have or you don’t. It’s a frustrating way to think about passion if you don’t know what yours is. But as author and financial expert Stefanie O’Connell points out, passion is somethi…
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6 Predictions On Enterprise Software From Scale Venture Partners | TechCrunch
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While it probably won’t break any of the box-office records currently being shattered by The Force Awakens, Tarantino diehards now have their chance to frantically press “refresh” as ticket pre-sales begin for The Hateful Eight’s 70mm roadshow run.
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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. While some U.S.
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Death Cab For Cutie’s “The New Year” commemorates our dumbest holiday · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our favorite songs with “year” in the title. At this point, I think I’ve seen Death Cab For Cutie more than I’ve seen any other band.
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Yahoo investors rankle at spin-off plan, one suggests laying off 9,000 | Ars Technica
In recent days, Yahoo investors have been calling for a new plan and new leadership to restore the value of the company. Some argue for Yahoo to sell its core businesses as quickly as possible.
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Google Maps for iOS adds offline navigation, gas prices, and more | The Verge
Google today updated its Maps app for iOS, bringing over some features that’ve been on Android for about a month. The biggest among them is much better offline maps support. Now you can select a portion of the map and save it locally onto your iPhon…
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Facebook will now force users to download Moments app to sync mobile photos | The Verge
Remember Messenger? Facebook is asking its users to download more apps by taking features out of its main mobile app.
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Wins For Saudi Women At The Polls Open The Door To Increased Rights | ThinkProgress
Despite still being barred from driving themselves to the polls, Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday. Twenty of them have been elected to serve as municipal councilors, a largely ceremonial position in a government that remains …
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Gorgeous color photographs of Paris from over a century ago|Dangerous Minds
In 1909, millionaire banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn traveled to Japan on business. He was accompanied by his chauffeur and the photographer Alfred Dutertre, who he commissioned as his own personal Instagram to document his travels.
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Food waste is a big problem in the United States — nearly 40 percent of the food produced in the country is wasted each year, costing consumers $161 billion annually.
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Watch Channing Tatum Go Full Beyoncé in First Lip Sync Battle Season 2 Trailer | Vanity Fair
Lip Sync Battle—the joyous and unlikely spin-off of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon—is kicking off its second season next month and if you thought the star wattage would be turned down this time, you were dead wrong.
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The Federal Reserve will most likely raise interest rates this week for the first time in nearly a decade. To understand what it means — and doesn’t mean — consider a previous year in which interest rates were on the rise.
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The Paris Climate Deal Won’t Save the World Just Yet | Vanity Fair
No one ever anticipated that the Paris climate talks would end with world leaders linking arms and singing the global-warming version of “Kumbaya,” though they reached something close to it on Saturday when 195 nations finally signed an agreement co…
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Serena Williams won Sportsperson of the Year. Cue the backlash. – Vox
Serena Williams won Sportsperson of the Year. Cue the backlash. https://t.co/2Q3FDI3wyU https://t.co/q8oJf8pb3l
Sports Illustrated picked Serena Williams on Monday as its Sportsperson of the Year, honoring her dominance in the sport and her cultural role outside of it. But every honor for Williams comes with backlash, even though she’s one of the most decorat… -
Over on Uproxx, Mike Ryan suggests today is the best day ever to be a Star Wars fan. The reason? With the film premiering tonight, press screenings happening Tuesday and reviews posting Wednesday, it’s officially the last day the movie can be any an…
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There Has Been a ‘Sea Change’ in Privacy Rights in Canada, Warns Watchdog | VICE News
The man tasked with defending Canadians’ personal information, once decried as a government stooge, directly chastised the federal government over its efforts to track and surveil Canadians — and recommended that the new government put safeguards on…
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Meet the only lobbyist pushing for US government “disclosure” of E.T. visitation / Boing Boing
Stephen Bassett is the only lobbyist of his kind in Washington DC. He’s working to get the government to admit that it has proof of extraterrestrials visiting our planet. “I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary,” says Bassett who has …
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Cybercrime 3.0: stealing whole houses / Boing Boing
Articles in the UK and US press describe fraudsters who used public document registries to steal entire houses, using forged documents to list the houses for sale, transferring title to them, and disappearing (or attempting to) with a lot of money i…
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Major League Baseball commissioner nixes Pete Rose’s plea for reinstatement | Sport | The Guardian
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has rejected Pete Rose’s plea for reinstatement, citing his continued gambling and evidence that he bet on games when he was playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
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Antidepressants in Pregnancy Tied to Autism – Scientific American
(Reuters Health) – Women who take antidepressants during pregnancy may be more likely to have children with autism, a Canadian study suggests. The overall risk is low – less than 1 percent of the nearly 150,000 babies in the study were diagnosed wit…
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FTSE falls to three-year low as oil price plunge rattles markets | Business | The Guardian
The FTSE 100 has fallen to a three-year low as global markets dropped sharply again, with investors unnerved by a further plunge in oil prices and the prospect of a US interest rate rise this week. In volatile trading, London’s leading index lost 78…
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Orbiting EPIC Camera Snaps 12 Whole-Earth Images Each Day | Video
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Elite Dangerous Gives Gamers 400 Billion Stars | Video
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Have we hit “the end of the fossil fuel era”? Not even close. – Vox
Have we hit “the end of the fossil fuel era”? Not even close. https://t.co/covjBR6GUY https://t.co/IWrsMfzvQO
The Paris climate deal is, potentially, an important first step toward addressing climate change. But some of the headlines have been wildly overstated, saying the treaty marks the “end of the fossil fuel era.” That’s awfully premature. -
The Black-and-White Cut Of Mad Max: Fury Road Could Hit Theaters Next Year
Even before Mad Max: Fury Road released (and promptly blew our socks off), Director George Miller was insistent that the film would best be viewed in black and white.
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Obama: ISIS is being hit ‘harder than ever’ by coalition forces
President Obama addressed his strategy against ISIS Monday in a short press conference in which he asserted that the terrorist organization is losing territory to U.S.-led coalition forces. John Parkinson reports:
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Goodbye, Middle Class–Hello Donald Trump? | The Nation
The image of the US as a broadly prosperous middle-class nation is a core tenet of American exceptionalism: the certainty that we provide for our citizens better than other countries, where a sclerotic class system stifles mobility.
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The First Step to Setting a Money Goal Is Asking Yourself “Why?”
Paying off your student loans, opening a Roth IRA, saving for an emergency: these are all financially responsible things to do, and that’s great. However, they don’t work well as goals unless you can make them personal. When setting your money goals…
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Update: The driver who was found guilty of plowing into a “zombie walk” at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, causing serious injuries to a bystander, was sentenced on Friday to three years’ probation and 60 days of electronic monitoring; he also lost hi…
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Here’s What We Can Piece Together About the Plot of Star Trek Beyond From the Trailer
The Star Trek Beyond trailer is full of exciting action and explosions. But what does it mean? We went through it frame by frame, trying to figure out just what kind of mess Kirk and the rest of the Enterprise crew have gotten themselves into. Here’…
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Watch the Eighth Doctor Totally Nail the Twelfth Doctor’s Epic Doctor Who Speech
The Twelfth Doctor’s barnstorming speech about the horror of war in “The Zygon Inversion” is already being hailed as the breakout moment of Peter Capaldi’s tenure on Doctor Who.
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It would be a stretch to claim that “End Of The World” fixes all of the problems that have plagued this first season of The Man In The High Castle, but at least it’s an episode that manages to generate some suspense from its story developments, whic…
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Oregon Is The Latest Target Of Right-Wing Effort To Get Rid Of National Forests | ThinkProgress
A draft bill recently released by U.S. Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) proposes to dispose of hundreds of thousands of acres of national forest land in Oregon’s Klamath River Basin so that it can be clear-cut or auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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The Man Who Foresaw ‘No Drama Obama’ – The Daily Beast
PARIS — Countless students of anthropology and international politics, colonialism, and revolution know the book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson, certainly one of the most brilliant work…
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Army Begins Trial Allowing Active-Duty Sikh Soldier To Grow Beard, Wear A Turban | ThinkProgress
The United States Army is temporarily allowing a Sikh soldier to grow a beard and wear a turban while serving, a dramatic shift that could usher in a new era of religious accommodation for Sikhs serving in the U.S. military.
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727 People on Chesapeake Bay Island Could Become America’s First ‘Climate Refugees’. (livescience.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Science Release: Hubble reveals diversity of exoplanet atmospheres https://t.co/mDGWTPw0FD https://t.co/EBqIOaZst6
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Hubble/Spitzer Space Telescopes Reveal Water “Fingerprints” on Hot Jupiters https://t.co/ypxCFqgZj8 https://t.co/M863xWYgzU
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Burundi is “Going to Hell,” Says US Ambassador to United Nations | VICE News
A day after the United Nations’ Security Council received a report from the UN’s special envoy for Burundi on the recent deadly violence in the country, US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power dashed off a distressed note to diplomats at the British …
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“I am the former chairman of the U.S. Senate committee on Veteran Affairs, and if elected president I will make certain that every veteran in this country gets the quality health care that they deserve, and benefits they need in a timely fashion,” S…
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Multiethnolects: How Immigrants Invent New Ways of Speaking a Language – The Atlantic
The story of languages is, by and large, one of extinction. Some estimate that in a hundred years only a few hundred languages will survive, as urbanization, globalization, and international media lead ever more people to adopt a few dozen “big” lan…
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Google Inbox Gets Sharable Trip Bundles, Improved Photo Attachments | TechCrunch
Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundles emails about a trip you have coming up into a single Trip Bundle.
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J.P. Morgan, OnDeck And The Future of Alternative Lending | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, J.P. Morgan announced a strategic partnership with OnDeck Capital to originate, underwrite, and distribute loans targeted specifically at small businesses.
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That French kindergarten teacher stabbed by ISIS? Nope, didn’t happen. / Boing Boing
Retired US Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News commentator Ralph Peters’s comment on live TV after President Obama’s Oval Office address yesterday about ISIS: “We’re angry. We’re pissed off. We’re furious. We want to see you react. We want you to d…
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Major League Baseball Rejects Pete Rose’s Request for Reinstatement – The Atlantic
On Monday, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred weighed in on a saga that has hung over the national pastime for more than a generation: the status of Pete Rose, the Reds great, who was banished from the sport in 1989 for betting on baseba…
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Nigeria’s Sambo Dasuki charged over Boko Haram ‘arms fraud’ – BBC News
Nigeria’s ex-national security adviser has appeared in court, charged with fraud over the alleged diversion of $2bn (£1.3bn) of government money meant to buy arms to fight Boko Haram. Mr Dasuki denied the allegations and says the case is politically…
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First data collection day : Notes from the Field : Blogs
The big day had arrived. We were due to fly to our tiltmeters to collect the data that they had been gathering for two weeks.
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FAA launches drone registration website, gives owners February deadline | Ars Technica
The US Department of Transportation has launched a “streamlined and user-friendly” online registration process for aerial drones, starting today. New regulations announced in October require all drone owners to register.
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‘Spell Check a Racist,’ your new favorite Internet waste of time|Dangerous Minds
A screenshot from the Facebook page Spell Check a Racist I feel like it is safe to assume that you have perhaps come across commentary on posts in your social media news feed that defy all logical explanation.
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Today’s Best Deals: Stocking Stuffers, Cheapest Nest Ever, Lord Of The Rings
A free Amazon credit with Nordstrom gift card purchase, stocking stuffers, and Lord of the Rings lead today’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal.
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Watch the new Star Trek Beyond trailer! / Boing Boing
What happened to all the Star Trek hair? Shatner didn’t take all of it home, did he? A 1968 memo from Paramount producer Robert Justman to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry reports on the sad state of the show’s hairpieces, which had gone missing i…
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Get the eduCBA complete office productivity bundle for 98% off / Boing Boing
Efficiency, productivity, and agility are increasingly valued career skills. Cultivate your own with this e-learning bundle from the expert instructors at eduCBA.
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Dealmaster: Get a Dell 3440×1440 curved monitor and a $250 gift card for $799 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a number of exciting Green Monday deals for you! The featured deal today will save you lots of money on a curved Dell monitor: you can get a Dell UltraSharp 34-inch 3440×1440 curv…
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What’s the truth about the story of singing Canadian children and Syrian refugees? – BBC News
It was the heart-warming story behind a video that went viral: Canadian schoolchildren were singing an ancient Islamic song in order to welcome Syrian refugees to their country. There’s only one problem: the story isn’t entirely true.
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Watch Joanna Newsom Sharpen Larry King’s Harp Technique | Rolling Stone
Larry King has interviewed world leaders and A-list celebrities, but he’s never looked more satisfied than when Joanna Newsom taught him to play rudimentary harp.
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The Hawaiian couples retreat was marketed as a chance to receive “godly counsel on marriage,” and it featured daily seminars on the art of apologizing, the perils of miscommunication and the power of expressing emotion. “Admit your anger,” read the …
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Jennifer Lawrence Compares Saint West’s Birth to Princess Charlotte’s | Vanity Fair
In what is sure to have caused some sort of panic-button emergency situation in the Us Weekly offices, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, and Kate Middleton are now wrapped up in one single gossip item.
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Watch Action-Packed First Trailer for ‘Star Trek Beyond’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Action-Packed First Trailer for ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Teaser for the upcoming blockbuster proves franchise will live long and prosper — and blow all kinds of stuff up
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Marco Rubio Says He Has a Plan to Make Gay Marriage Illegal Again | VICE News
Senator Marco Rubio outlined his plan to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage and wipe out protections for transgender people if he is elected to the White House next year.
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Cable’s Campiest Channel Has Perfected the Art of Killing Women | Washingtonian
Turn on the Investigation Discovery channel and there’s a good chance a woman is getting killed. On Wives With Knives, Scorned: Love Kills, and Fatal Vows, people kill their partners. On Blood Relatives, Evil Kin, and Evil Twins, people kill their f…
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Can Obama’s Climate Pledges Survive Republican Opposition? | New Republic
As part of a global agreement on climate change, the U.S. has pledged, among other things, to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26-28 percent compared to 2005 levels by the year 2025. But opponents of President Obama argue that he cannot …
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Here’s Everything You Need to Know About That Big Climate Deal | Mother Jones
The story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Paris Agreement to address climate change, adopted on Saturday, will be remembered as a big step forward and at the same time a frustra…
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US politics: Obama to deliver statement on Isis strategy – live updates | US news | The Guardian
President Obama speaks with defense secretary Ash Carter during a national security council meeting on the counter-Isis campaign, at the Pentagon. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
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Brain Manipulation Studies May Produce Spurious Links to Behavior – Scientific American
In the tightly woven networks of the brain, tugging one neuronal thread can unravel numerous circuits.
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One of the most consistent criticisms of Transparent I’ve seen is that the show, along with other recent high-profile pieces of pop culture like I Am Cait, has done a lot to raise the profile of trans people—but only within a relatively limited aest…
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The Mohu BeBox Is a Portable, Wireless Audio System Powered by Android
Mohu, makers of some of our favorite over-the-air TV antennae, recently unveiled the Mohu BeBox, a wireless audio system that’s small enough to go with you, loud enough to sound out a party, flexible enough to be a streaming stereo or a Bluetooth-co…
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Exclusive DC preview: Hunky heroes battle it out in Secret Six #9 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If The A.V. Club were giving out an award for Most Improved Comic of 2015, Secret Six would be a top contender for the prize. (We’re not, but you can read our Best of Comics 2015 lists right here.
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Serial is back, this time with the enigmatic tale of Bowe Bergdahl · Podmass · The A.V. Club
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Fresh-faced Rubio pledges to appoint Supreme Court justices who will roll back marriage equality
Marco Rubio, the candidate of the future, sounded a distinctly 20th Century theme Sunday, reports Ryan J. Reilly. “I don’t believe any case law is settled law. Any future Supreme Court can change it.
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Three little (gene-edited) pigs are immune to problematic viruses | Ars Technica
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) gives pigs a fever and cough, but it costs American swine farmers over $600 million a year. Vaccines have been ineffective at fighting it, as has breeding pigs to be resistant.
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Buyers beware! If that drone you find under the Christmas tree weighs much more than half a pound, you’re going to have to register it with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before you fly it outside.
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US hitting IS harder than ever, says Obama – BBC News
President Barack Obama will deliver a speech about countering the so-called Islamic State (IS) during a visit to the Pentagon on Monday. He is seeking to ease public concern following attacks in California and France, at the hands of militants who w…
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Three years after Newtown: lawmakers demand action against gun violence | US news | The Guardian
Political leaders are calling for concerted action to combat gun violence in the US on the third anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six educators were killed.
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A top health official has voiced concern that too little money is available to house the unexpectedly high numbers of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border.
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John Oliver Shares His Essential Guide to Regifting Awful Presents – The Daily Beast
After sending his viewers off with an exacting breakdown of America’s refugee vetting process, followed by a treatise against the penny, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver disappeared into the night for a three-month hiatus.
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Paris climate change deal too weak to help poor, critics warn | Environment | The Guardian
Leaders from around the world have hailed the agreement struck in Paris on climate change, but some analysts and environmentalists are less sure about its impact.
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Two die in clashes between Turkish police and Kurdish protesters – BBC News
Two protesters have died in the south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir in a clash between police and Kurdish demonstrators over a curfew imposed as part of a security crackdown. Police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters at a march calle…
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The strange case of America’s disappearing middle class | Paul Mason | Opinion | The Guardian
The shot was of two women in party dresses taking a selfie next to the Greek riot police. In the summer of 2015 it was an unremarkable sight – middle-class supporters of the euro rallying to save Greece from the threat of Grexit.
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Four Blind Mice | New Republic
It is a riveting experience to find, within the covers of a single short book, such a splendid variety of American scholars, officials, politicians, activists, publicists, and hacks making fools of themselves.
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Parse Launches SDK Support For Apple’s WatchOS 2 And tvOS | TechCrunch
It’s been pretty quiet around Facebook’s Parse developer platform this year. The team launched its Internet of Things service in March and open-sourced its SDKs in August, but otherwise, we haven’t heard much about it. It looks like Facebook is putt…
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Aging, from our cells to possible future treatments | Ars Technica
None of us can avoid the effects of aging, though many of us try in various ways, through cosmetics or nutrition and wellness products. Though these things may slow or disguise the progression of age-related effects, the health-related issues of agi…
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The Most-Covered Christmas Songs Ever | FiveThirtyEight
Christmas music: It’s unavoidable now, infiltrating our radio stations, dominating our streaming services, and pumped into department stores like a narcotic, gingerbread-tinged gas. It’s almost two weeks out from Christmas, so we’re quickly coming u…
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet – The Atlantic
The Ted Cruz moment has arrived. The question is how long it will last. Is it fleeting? Or will it run right up to the nomination stage at the RNC in Cleveland? In the latest Des Moines Register poll, the Texas senator has surged way ahead of Donald…
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First Look at the Next Series of Rivers of London Comics!
Rivers of London is back! After a miniseries earlier this year, Ben Aaronovitch’s magical detective series is returning to comics, and this time Peter and the Special Branch are tackling a case that leads directly into the next book in the series.
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Like the Notorious B.I.G. before him, John Oliver has been in the game for years, and it’s made him an animal. But in Oliver’s case, the game in question is regifting unwanted Christmas presents. Still, there are rules to this shit, and he has writt…
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The Hateful Eight features music originally written for The Thing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When it comes to filmmaking, Quentin Tarantino places as much importance on soundtracks as he does on idiosyncratic dialogue and career-resuscitating casting decisions.
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X Prize launches $7 million competition to explore the ocean’s depths | The Verge
The X Prize Foundation just launched another global competition, aimed at exploring and mapping the depths of the ocean floor.
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Adele announces 56-city North American tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Nothing says “triumphant return” quite like some extensive touring (and okay, quintuple-platinum album sales), which is presumably why Adele will hit the road in the new year to promote her latest album, 25.
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The internet isn’t making us stupid. It’s making us humble. – Vox
You are sitting across from a friend who asks if you know the capital of Canada. How does your willingness to answer this question change if you have access to the Internet (e.g., via the smartphone in your pocket) or not (e.g., you are hiking in th…
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Leonardo DiCaprio: The WIRED Interview | WIRED
Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t always survive. Titanic? Dead. Django Unchained? Unalive. The Departed? Departed. Romeo and Juliet? We won’t spoil that one for you, but you get the point. His new movie, The Revenant, takes the struggle not to die and real…
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Google Maps For iOS Now Shows You When Stores Are Busiest, Plus Gas Prices | TechCrunch
Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping plans, Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google Maps iOS application which will now show you when stores are the busiest.
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Ted Cruz is in luck: likability doesn’t play a big role in who wins the White House – Vox
As Ted Cruz’s popularity surges with Iowa Republican primary voters – bringing his campaign newfound frontrunner gravitas — one issue about the candidate keeps coming up: He’s just not that likable a guy.
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After Paris, There Is Some Room for Hope | The Nation
Historically, the transition from one energy system to another, as from wood to coal or coal to oil, has proven an enormously complicated process, requiring decades to complete.
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Hackers actively exploit critical vulnerability in sites running Joomla | Ars Technica
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical remote command-execution vulnerability that has plagued the Joomla content management system for almost eight years, security researchers said. A patch for the vulnerability, which affects versions 1.5 th…
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Here’s What’s Causing the East Coast’s Absurdly Warm Weather | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The weather’s been positively toasty across much of the East Coast over the past several days, especially for a December.
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Inbox Can Now Share Trip Bundles With All Your Important Travel Info
Google’s Gmail-alternative Inbox does a pretty awesome job of managing your travel information into easy-to-reach bundles. Now, you can share all that information with others in a single email.
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Here’s an amazingly simple way to cut poverty – Vox
Politicians across the spectrum like to fret about fraud in anti-poverty programs, but the biggest problem isn’t too many people getting benefits: It’s too few people getting benefits.
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Will Spain Replace Its Old Guard in the December 20 Elections? | The Nation
Madrid, Spain—“How does Podemos propose to solve Spain’s most important problem?” Albert Rivera, 36, asked Pablo Iglesias, 37.
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Here’s DARPA’s Proposed Plan to Recover from a Massive Power Grid Hack | Motherboard
If a massive attack on America’s power grid were to plunge the country into darkness tomorrow, the Pentagon estimates that it would take the nation’s top engineers “many weeks” to bring everything back online.
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Baltimore Evicts Nearly 7,000 People From Their Homes Every Year | The Nation
The case of Freddie Gray has provided a long-awaited opportunity to put Baltimore’s legacy of police brutality on trial.
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New Yorkers: Use This Tool to Catch Your ISP Advertising False Speeds | Motherboard
If you’re a New Yorker, now’s your chance to get revenge on your crappy Internet service provider—by contributing data for an investigation by the state Attorney General that just might set a national precedent. In the U.S.
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Robots Don’t Just Want to Be Your Helper, They Want to Be Your Friend | Motherboard
At the 2015 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo’s Big Sight convention center, businessmen pinballed between two visions of a robotic future. One was found in the sprawling Industrial Robot Zone, which featured distinctly machine-like machines d…
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I Read the FAA’s 211 Page Drone Registration Regulation So You Don’t Have to | Motherboard
The Federal Aviation Administration issued rules today that will require all drones to be registered with the federal government by February of 2016.
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Chicago Officer Acquitted in Brutality Case | Al Jazeera America
The ruling comes amid heavy criticism of how the city’s police department treats suspects and protests over the police killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald, who appeared to be walking away from officers when he was shot 16 times last year. Cook…
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Milky Way Globular Cluster Terzan 1 in Scorpius by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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The GOP’s ObamaCare bluff. It is all a bluff. they are left holding an empty hand. : politics
The GOP’s ObamaCare bluff. It is all a bluff. they are left holding an empty hand. (thehill.com) They don’t have a replacement and it turns out people really like having coverage. This genie’s not going back in the bottle without a big fight.
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Is a Real Lightsaber Possible? Science Offers a New Hope
Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. An elegant weapon … for a more civilized age.
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The Search for Humanity in War Photography: Pete Muller – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Adobe Survey Lays Out Marketing’s New “Multiscreen Reality” | TechCrunch
Adobe is releasing a new “State of Content” survey that outlines five broad rules for marketers in 2016.
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The Last Man on Earth Just Had Its Funniest (and Most Intense) Episode Yet
The winter finale of The Last Man on Earth, “Silent Night,” might have been the funniest episode of the show to date, but it also had the most intense sequences ever on the show ending in not one but two enormous cliffhangers.
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Over the weekend, Ben Smith published an interesting profile of Mickey Kaus, a pioneering blogger and contrarian liberal who over time has evolved into an anti-immigration crank.
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‘Secondary Trauma’: When PTSD is Contagious – The Atlantic
Michael was not in New York on September 11, 2001. But for years afterwards, when an elevator opened at work, he would imagine people on fire rushing out, their screams filling the lobby. When he closed his eyes, he would sometimes limbs trapped in …
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Republican megadonors are sad that elections are so hard to buy – Vox
Gabe Sherman reports that Republican megadonors are getting frustrated that it’s proving so hard to buy a presidential election.
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X Prize to map 4,000m-deep ocean floor with robots – BBC News
There is a new X Prize to accelerate technologies to explore the ocean. Shell is sponsoring the competition, which will challenge teams to map a 4km-deep, 500-sq-km area of sea floor using autonomous robots.
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Top 5 TV: Welcome Back, ‘Transparent’ and Dubya! | Rolling Stone
In the olden days — like, say, a year or two ago — TV critics held a slight edge on the folks who made year-end movies and music best-of lists.
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Can the Cincinnati Bengals Reverse the Curse? | Rolling Stone
It’s been almost 27 years since the Cincinnati Bengals last-minute loss in Super Bowl XXIII and 24 years since their last playoff victory. Nearly three decades of agony.
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Watch Kacey Musgraves Cover Coldplay in London | Rolling Stone
Watch Kacey Musgraves Cover Coldplay in London While Prince Harry watches, ‘Pageant Material’ singer reimagines “Yellow”
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Planetary Nebula NGC 3699 in Centaurus by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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The number of Americans who see terror as the country’s top problem is skyrocketing – Vox
The number of Americans who see terror as the country’s top problem is skyrocketing https://t.co/nx54JHhTAl https://t.co/YnRESFXEjl
American concern about terrorism has increased about fivefold in the past month, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday morning. Terrorism, Gallup found, is the problem Americans are most likely to rank as “most important” — surpassing even t… -
NEW YORK — Welcome to Weimar America: It’s getting restive in the beer halls. People are sick of politics as usual. They want blunt talk. They want answers.
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Was STAR WARS influenced by a French science fiction comic? | Nothing But Comics
A variety of sources – Flash Gordon movie serials, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and mythological hero narratives, among others – influenced the creation of the Star Wars franchise.
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The Wii U game release Nintendo would prefer you didn’t notice | Ars Technica
Nintendo doesn’t publish all that many Wii U games these days, but you can usually expect to hear a lot about the few games it does release; you may have seen the marketing blitzes for titles like Super Mario Maker or even third-party title Xenoblad…
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The Final Verdict on the Paris Climate Agreement | New Republic
There was uncertainty to the very end of the Paris summit, down to the final moments when the U.S. delegation demanded a change to a single typo in the draft text. Then the confusion finally cleared. After running into overtime on Saturday, the two-…
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Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its big-data analytics for marketers. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with Salesforce that it has acquired MinHash, a young startup based in Palo Alto co-founded by two data science engineers…
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Hubble/Spitzer Space Telescopes Reveal Water “Fingerprints” on Hot Jupiters
A team of international experts analysed observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, to create a detailed study of the atmospheres of 10 hot-Jupiter exoplanets – the largest number ever collectively st…
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The prime minister is right. He concluded his speech at the start of the Paris climate change summit by saying: “Instead of making excuses tomorrow to our children and grandchildren, we should be taking action against climate change today.” Friends …
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Beware of state-sponsored hackers, Twitter warns dozens of users | Ars Technica
Twitter has warned dozens of users that their account data may have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers. In e-mails sent to security researchers, journalists, and activists over the past few days, Twitter officials said there’s no evidence the …
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When trying to make sense of these horrifying killing sprees, we always seem to lump the attackers into neat little boxes. Boxes that give us some peace of mind because, when we look into them, we never see ourselves.
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Get a glimpse of Sherlock’s ‘abominable bride’ in new teaser for holiday special | The Verge
Sherlock’s Victorian-era special The Abominable Bride is set to premiere around the world in just a few weeks. The BBC released another short teaser for the special yesterday, one that offers a first look at the titular ghastly, gowned villain.
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The Discourse Suffers When Trump Gets 23 Times As Much Coverage as Sanders | The Nation
If we imagine American media as a hungry beast that thinks only about its next meal, then it is easy to see why Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has gone from strength to strength. Trump feeds the beast.
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Pollution from Planes and Ships Left Out of Paris Agreement – Scientific American
After 195 nations agreed to commit nearly all of the world’s countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, heads of state praised the accord and the people who made it happen. President Obama said the deal “sends a powerful signal,” deeming it a possib…
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A Canal District With Everything but an Actual Canal – The Atlantic
In the 20 years after the Blackstone Canal opened in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1828, the town quadrupled in size. The goods produced in Worcester’s factories—textiles and machinery, wire and cast iron—could now be shipped to Rhode Island’s port w…
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“Sabotage” by The Beastie Boys is a great song. No one’s denying that. But are we really meant to understand that, almost 250 years in the future, this one song is so awesome, everyone knows it and loves it and still listens to it? It was cute when …
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Welcome to The 12 Days of Christmas Songs: an attempt to uncover the forgotten history of some of the most memorable festive tunes. From December 14 through 25, we’ll be tackling one secular song and one holy song each day.
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Cruz topples Trump in Iowa, Trump goes berserk
Now that Ted Cruz is surging in Iowa, Donald Trump is unleashing his fury on Cruz.
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Solar Farm Rejected Amid Fears It Will ‘Suck Up The Sun’s Energy’ : environment
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Welcome Back to Earth: Everything We Spotted in the Independence Day 2 Trailer
There was a surprising amount packed into the first Independence Day: Resurgence trailer. There were dogfights, moon attacks, secret bases… pretty much everything you’d expect from a Roland Emmerich-directed alien invasion movie. Here’s everything…
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Paul Greenberg: The four fish we’re overeating — and what to eat instead | TED Talk | TED.com
The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and irrationality of the seafood economy, and suggests a few specific ways we can change it, to benefit bot…
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The Number of Child Migrants Arriving on the US’s Doorstep Has Doubled Since Last Year | The Nation
Before the current debate over Syrian refugees, and before this summer’s European migrant crisis, the United States confronted a humanitarian emergency of its own last year.
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India says Paris climate deal won’t affect plans to double coal output | Environment | The Guardian
India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after rich and poor countries agreed in Paris to curb carbon emissions that cause global warming.
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Can this tiny Bluetooth speaker replace your whole home stereo? | The Verge
In the world of wireless home audio, there are two camps. You can either go Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, each with its own pros and cons. Bluetooth speakers tend to be less expensive, more portable, and simpler to set up.
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Star Trek Beyond trailer: ‘How are we gonna get out of this one?’ | The Verge
Star Trek Beyond’s first trailer was supposed to hitch a ride on this week’s premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Paramount has gone ahead and released the clip this morning. (A German-language version leaked onto YouTube Monday morning, li…
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‘Vuvuzela’ messaging system hides your metadata in a blare of noise | The Verge
It’s worrying to think about spies or hackers reading the content of your texts and emails, but we sometimes forget about another sort of snooping that can be just as invasive: access to metadata — when you sent a message, who to, and where from.
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Your Kid Just Got a Drone. Should You Get Insurance? – Bloomberg Business
The next wave of hobby drones will be wrapped in boxes underneath Christmas trees before they fill the skies.
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This ‘smart’ router can now control your Nest thermostat | The Verge
Securifi’s Almond+ and Almond 2015 routers are getting a little smarter today thanks to a software update that enables integration with Nest products, such as the Nest Thermostat, Nest Protect smoke detector, and Nest Cam security camera.
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WSJ: Samsung Galaxy S7 to have pressure-sensitive display, microSD slot | Ars Technica
The Wall Street Journal has posted some tantalizing new details about Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7. The report paints a picture of the S7 as being a minor upgrade to the major revamp that was the Galaxy S6, but with a few ne…
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EA’s adorable yarn game Unravel is launching in February | The Verge
February just got a lot cuter. EA has announced that Unravel — an adorable puzzle / platforming game that stars a character made out of yarn — will launch on February 9th for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC for $19.99.
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Weekend Box Office: The Force Awakens isn’t out yet · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A sleepy weekend short on new releases found the American moviegoing public split between going to see that Hunger Games half-movie again or maybe that one with the ship, or staying home while wondering why they keep running ads for that new Star Wa…
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Kyle Mooney is Saturday Night Live’s current weirdo-in-residence, specializing in deeply discomforting portrayals of weird, sweaty, off-putting nerds, like fictional comedian Bruce Chandling and real-life politician Lincoln Chafee.
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We’ve been hearing good things about High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel, for several months now, with The A.V. Club’s own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calling it “something I genuinely dig.
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A Woman’s Attempted Coat Hanger Abortion May Land Her In Prison | ThinkProgress
A Tennessee woman faces attempted murder charges after trying to terminate her pregnancy in a state with some of the strictest laws against pregnant women.
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Migrant crisis: Athens shelter for some, despair for others – BBC News
The Greek government has signed an agreement with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and European Commission to create 20,000 places for refugees in private accommodation in Athens. It is the latest effort to ease the pressure on Athens, a major bottlene…
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Bernie Sanders is not seeing the traction he needs if he wants to win the state. And the big burst of momentum that put him into contention over the summer slowed, retreated and isn’t necessarily starting back up — with fewer than 50 days until Iow…
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Aspiring Astronauts, You Have Two Months to Send Your Resume to NASA | Motherboard
If you’re in the market for a job with out-of-this-world travel benefits, NASA has good news for you.
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Rare ‘Star Wars’ Toys Bring in $500,000 at Auction | Rolling Stone
Rare ‘Star Wars’ Toys Bring in $500,000 at Auction Yak-Face, a Luke Skywalker figurine with a faulty lightsaber and a ultra-rare cardboard box all score huge bids at “Return of the NIGO”
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El Nino not global warming behind East Coast December warmth.
On Sunday, the temperature in New York City’s Central Park hit 67 degrees—the warmest December 13th since 1923. Manhattanites practiced yoga outdoors and ice-skated in short sleeves.
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Obama: I hope to visit Cuba if country makes progress on civil liberties | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama wants to visit Cuba before the end of his presidency, but only if sufficient reforms are carried out to secure civil liberties and opposition voices, he said in an interview released on Monday.
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News | Missing Water Mystery Solved in Comprehensive Survey of Exoplanets
A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery — why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected.
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World Bank: Climate literacy – a must for businesses – Al Jazeera English
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, has hit back at critics of the Paris agreement on climate change and said major corporations need to familiarise themselves with the potential impacts of global warming.
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ISIL Attack on French School Made Up by Teacher | Al Jazeera America
The Paris prosecutor’s office says a teacher who claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) made up the story. The attack reported Monday by the teacher set off a manhunt in the northe…
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The “red alert” issued by the city of Beijing on Tuesday over mass pollution has made many wonder if China can keep its pledge to curb its carbon emissions by the year 2030, but scientists say hitting the target is still possible. (france24.com)
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Star Trek Beyond Trailer (2016) – Paramount Pictures : movies
Count me in! Witty Bones line when Spock is beamed up…
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Climate activists knew going into the Paris talks they would still have tons of work to do afterward
“While this is a step forward it goes nowhere near far enough. The planet is in crisis. We need bold action in the very near future and this does not provide that,” said Sanders. Sanders is right. The agreement hammered out in Paris doesn’t go far e…
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Good morning. Representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday that will commit almost every country to lowering planet-warming carbon emissions. It was six years in the making.
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The Hunt Is on for the UK Thieves Who Were Caught on Camera Stealing 190 Christmas Trees | VICE News
The grinch has apparently relocated to England and this time is selling stolen Christmas trees. Police are searching for several men who were caught on CCTV stealing nearly 200 Christmas trees worth 6,000 English pounds, or more than $9,000, from a …
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Since Sandy Hook, an American Kid Has Died by a Gun Every Other Day – NBC News
There are at least 554 reasons to ask whether American children are safer from gun violence today than they were three years ago, when the unthinkable happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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What Happened to the Sandy Hook Donations That Poured into Newtown
One week after the massacre, Chris Kelsey got a strange call from a Connecticut state trooper. Kelsey was the town of Newtown’s tax assessor, a big guy with a black goatee and a buzz cut who looks more like a retired linebacker than an accountant.
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Verizon Now Allows TV Customers To Stream DVR Recordings Outside Of The Home | TechCrunch
In an effort to stave off further cord-cutting as well as catch up with rivals, Verizon* announced today that its FiOS customers will be able to stream their DVR recordings outside of the home, anywhere they have an Internet connection, for the firs…
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Downton Abbey Actors Perform Scene from the Show with American Accents | Open Culture
However stiff they may seem on the show, the cast of Downton Abbey can let down its hair and have some fun.
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Remix this dance track by clicking samples—and listen to random variations / Boing Boing
Adventure Machine is an online music-remixing widget by Madeon, whose album Adventure came out earlier this year. Similar to Novation’s Launchpad gadget, you click different buttons in the grid to turn different loops on and off, thereby creating yo…
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Golden State Finally Loses Its First Game of the Year – The Atlantic
As the reigning NBA champions marauded their way through November, shattering the record for most consecutive wins to start a season, basketball observers started wondering if the Golden State Warriors had a shot at the all-time best season, 72 wins…
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If Donald Trump Doesn’t Watch It, Will Smith May Quit Acting to Battle Him in Politics | Vanity Fair
Twenty years after saving the planet from aliens in Independence Day, Will Smith is considering rescuing the country from an even more imposing threat: Donald Trump. During an interview that aired this weekend, the two-time Oscar nominee confessed t…
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Jennifer Lawrence thinks it’s too soon to talk Hunger Games prequels · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although she’s out stumping for her latest David O. Russell collaboration, Jennifer Lawrence isn’t exactly shoveling dirt over the corpse of the YA franchise that made her a huge star.
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The First Trailer For Star Trek Beyond Is Both Fast and Furious
When Justin Lin signed on to direct the third Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, you knew the action was going to be bigger. But in the first trailer for the film, it really does feel like a Star Trek version of the Fast and Furious.
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Survival of the fittest, single-celled organism edition
The winner of the 2015 Small World in Motion competition is Wim van Egmond’s video of a single-celled organism consuming a smaller single-celled organism. The winners of the photomicrography contest are worth a look as well.
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Review: ‘Transparent’ Season 2 Is Not Here to Comfort You – The Atlantic
Those words were once sung by Mama Cass Elliot, and on YouTube, there’s a video of her performing them in front of a giant peace sign in 1970, a year when the world did seem in the midst of rebirth.
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IS militants launch counter-attacks in Iraq’s Ramadi – BBC News
Islamic State militants have reportedly launched several counter-attacks in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which government forces are trying to recapture. Government forces have encircled Ramadi and are preparing for a final assault on the city, which I…
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R.I.P. Hoverboards: A Eulogy to 2015’s Too-Hot Toy | Vanity Fair
“Hoverboards” had so much promise. The holiday season’s hottest toy had otherwise self-respecting, image-conscious celebrities cruising around on plastic hands-free Segways, and had the rest of the public clambering to shell out up to $2,000 for a g…
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The Real Housewives of New York Booze War Escalates | Vanity Fair
Ancient grudge has broken to new mutiny, as the latest war between two cast members on Bravo’s reality horror series Real Housewives of New York City belches into being.
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Google’s new Chromecast now comes with $20 in Play Store credit | The Verge
If you haven’t picked up the redesigned Chromecast yet, now is a good time to make a new purchase. Google is offering $20 in Play Store credit when you purchase the streaming stick, which is currently on sale at Best Buy and Walmart for $30 (regular…
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Here’s what the opening scene of Star Wars: The Force Awakens sounds like | The Verge
The Hollywood premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is merely hours away, and the rest of us only have to wait a few days more.
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San Bernardino attacks: killers social media ‘not checked’ – BBC News
US security officials failed to detect social media posts sympathetic to violent jihad on one of the San Bernardino killer’s accounts, during immigration screening processes. Tashfeen Malik passed three background checks when she moved from Pakistan…
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New mass grave discovered in Srebrenica – Al Jazeera English
Forensic experts say they found a mass grave in northeast Bosnia most likely containing victims’ remains from the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
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French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack – BBC News
A teacher at a French school who said he had been stabbed by a man shouting “Islamic State” made the story up, prosecutors say.The teacher said he had been attacked in a classroom at a preschool in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris.He has been treate…
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Utopia Has a Dark Side in the First Trailer for High-Rise
Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s book certainly has the opulence of the upper levels down. In the first trailer for High-Rise, Tom Hiddleston’s Robert Laing narrates all the creature comforts of the building. But there’s a revolution comi…
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How to Keep Your Head Up in the Constant Stream of Bad News
Doing your best to stay up with current events can often feel like drowning in a torrent of never ending bad news. With information coming at you in every direction, it’s easy to get burned out.
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Hubble reveals diversity of exoplanet atmospheres | ESA/Hubble
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of ten hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets in detail, the largest number of such planets ever studied.
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U.S. Hogs Fed Pig Remains, Manure to Fend off Deadly Virus Return – Scientific American
Animal-nutritionist John Goihl knows Minnesota farmers who feed the remains of dead baby pigs to hogs used for breeding in attempts to ward off infections of a deadly virus in offspring.
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The EU has admitted it has not yet looked into the polices needed to hold global warming to 1.5C, as agreed at the landmark Paris agreement, and will instead ask a UN climate science panel for advice involving ‘negative emissions’ technology.
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Version Tracker examines how different artists have performed the same song over the years, adapting it to suit their own needs and times. Maybe it’s the story. Maybe it’s the onomatopoeia. Or maybe it’s just that everyone digs a dude who can pound …
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We could see a black-and-white Mad Max: Fury Road in theaters next year | The Verge
We could potentially see Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white — just like director George Miller wanted.
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A Shifting Education Model in China Moves Away From Its Sole Emphasis on Test Scores – The Atlantic
Just as President Obama steps back from student testing and governors coast to coast retreat from high-stakes accountability in schools, China’s leaders are pushing to enrich their national exams and nudge teachers away from rote instruction, aiming…
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Chart of the Day: Don’t Judge a Candidate’s Book By Its Number – The Atlantic
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‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli’s Pricing of Chagas Treatment Hurts Latinos – The Atlantic
After dropping $2 million on a Wu-Tang Clan album, the pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has found a new project: making an essential treatment unaffordable for poor immigrants from Latin America.
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Syfy’s Childhood’s End miniseries is, in theory, at once a no-brainer and a distressing, nigh-impossible prospect. The book it’s based on, by sci-fi don Arthur C.
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New head coach Eddie Jones has begun overhauling his England backroom team by getting rid of Mike Catt, Andy Farrell and Graham Rowntree. The trio worked under former boss Stuart Lancaster, who was relieved of his duties last month following a disap…
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Egypt extends journalist’s detention for a second time – Al Jazeera English
For the second time, Egypt has extended the detention of a journalist accused of “releasing false news aimed at spreading terror” and “joining a banned group” by another 15 days pending further investigation, the detainee’s family and local media sa…
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Why Brazil Loves Breastfeeding – The Atlantic
RIO DE JANEIRO—The other day here, I saw something I rarely encounter back home in Washington. A young woman holding a toddler sat down at the table next to me at a boardwalk cafe.
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Spanish energy giant Abengoa’s collapse predicted by 17-year-old | Business | The Guardian
As Spanish engineering and renewable energy giant Abengoa struggles to avoid becoming the country’s biggest bankruptcy, it has emerged that a 17-year-old schoolboy predicted its collapse a year ago, spotting accounting discrepancies apparently overl…
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Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal charges ex-navy chief – Al Jazeera English
The navy commander of Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime was formally charged on Monday for genocide, homicide and other offences by a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal.
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North Carolina citizenry defeat pernicious Big Solar plan to suck up the Sun: Town council votes to deny zoning permit that would allow solar farm development. (arstechnica.com) I pass by a solar farm at 6:30am on the way to work every morning. It j…
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Sarajevo: Memories of war – Al Jazeera English
Tina Smalcelj still lives in Dobrinja, Sarajevo, not far from the hospital where she was born, a month prematurely, in January 1986. It was the middle of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s frigid winter and several years before the the siege of the city.
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A heartbreaking account of Obama comforting the grieving families after Sandy Hook – Vox
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Obama’s drug czar: “We can’t arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people” – Vox
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Maps of the Earth’s Most Cursed Destinations | Atlas Obscura
Amityville, New York: One of the world’s cursed places. (All images: Courtesy Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations) Curses are not all the same.
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Empathy for Humanoid Robots is Ideal UI for Elementary Schools | Inverse
Researchers in Holland are making robots friendlier by teaching them to express emotional body language. Mimicking typically ‘positive’ body language actually improved the relationship between the robot and humans in a university lecture hall where …
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Taser Takes Aim At Europe | International Business Times
PARIS — Rick Smith, the chief executive of the billion-dollar American weapons manufacturer Taser International (TASR), was dining with his family at a restaurant in the suburbs of Paris in mid-November when the shootings started. Text messages expl…
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CAN YOU READ MY LIPS? on Vimeo
What’s it like to use one sense to do the work of another? “Can You Read My Lips?” is an immersive short about lip-reading based on the essay “Seeing at the Speed of Sound” by Rachel Kolb who narrates and stars in the piece. Produced by Little Movin…
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Your Algorithmic Self Meets Super-Intelligent AI | TechCrunch
As humanity debates the threats and opportunities of advanced artificial intelligence, we are simultaneously enabling that technology through the increasing use of personalization that is understanding and anticipating our needs through sophisticate…
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PSA: See Goldblum worry in debut trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence | Ars Technica
It may not have Will Smith punching an alien in the face, but the long-in-the-works sequel to Independence Day finally saw the first light of day on Sunday by way of a premiere trailer during the day’s NFL action.
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SketchDeck Raises $1.7 Million More in Seed Funding | TechCrunch
SketchDeck, a two-year-old, on-demand design service for marketing and sales teams, has raised $1.7 million in new funding. The round comes 10 months after the startup raised $500,000 from investors.
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US politicians, ranked by their willingness to lie / Boing Boing
Angie Drobnic Holan, of the respected, nonpartisan factchecking org Politifact has an editorial in the New York Times about the record levels of falsehood in the GOP race, an outlier in a general increase in the literal factualness of political camp…
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I kinda find this ingenious, brilliant and funny all the at the same time: About £240m (or roughly $363,495,600) of compressed cocaine disguised as wooden pallets and bags of coal was seized by the Spanish National Police at the Port of Valencia in …
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Wilbur Smith: a writer’s memorable quotes you may want to forget | Books | The Guardian
Perhaps we should start a new blog series. It would run every Monday, and it would lay out the most extraordinary comments by authors in the press over the weekend. The first contender for the slot? Wilbur Smith, the bestselling South African noveli…
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Watch Fred Armisen help Sleater-Kinney cover The B-52s’ “Rock Lobster” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sleater-Kinney’s No Cities To Love tour is winding down this week with two shows in New York City and three in Brooklyn (we suppose that means there’s at least one borough to love).
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Gun deaths in your district: what have your elected representatives done? | US news | The Guardian
Find out how many people near you have died from gun violence in 2015, where your congressional representatives stand on guns — and how much money they’ve received from the gun lobby
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When University of Georgia officials broke ground on Baldwin Hall in December 2014, the project was almost as historic as the building itself.
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Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker had not properly disclosed millions of dollars in income from real estate, hedge funds and other investments until last Friday (politico.com) Tennesseean here. Bob Corker is as corrupt as they come, on top of being an outri…
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India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease : environment
India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease (publicintegrity.org)submitted 58 minutes ago by loading…
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These Cliven Bundy Impersonators Took Millions in Government Handouts : politics
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Where’s the right when it comes to these scumbags who steal from us all to the tune of billions. I’m willing to bet at least one of them drives a cadillac. Where’s the cry of “welfare cowboys”? -
These Cliven Bundy Impersonators Took Millions in Government Handouts
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Past climate treaties have failed. Here’s why the Paris deal is different. – Vox
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There’s a radical, counterintuitive idea at the heart of the big Paris climate accord that strikes many people as baffling. The deal is … largely voluntary. That’s right: None of the 195 countries that signed on are actually required to make emiss… -
The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong) | Motherboard
On the morning of November 7, 1940, Professor F. Bert Farquharson was standing on one of the world’s longest structures as it bounced and twisted, and he probably knew better than anyone else how she behaved in a gale. But this.
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Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater – USA TODAY
In dozens of interviews in the United States, India, Peru and Morocco, many ideas for potential solutions emerged – ways people can work toward lessening overpumping and preventing groundwater from being progressively depleted. Some of the proposals…
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MST3K Raises $5.76 Million To Help Bring Joel And His Robot Friends To The Screen | TechCrunch
If you spent a lot of time eating jars of tamales and reading Stephen King novels as a kid like I did you’ll know that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was the best thing ever (aside from Siskel & Ebert’s movie review show). When it died a lot of nerds …
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Pandora Unveils “Thumbprint Radio” For People Who Like Variety | TechCrunch
Music listening service Pandora says its algorithm just got smarter with “Thumbprint Radio.” Users who have liked music across multiple genres will find their unique mix on a new custom station.
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Find the Average Cost of Home Repair Projects With This Interactive Tool
If you’re looking to take on a home maintenance project, the cost can run the gamut from ridiculously expensive to surprisingly affordable. This interactive tool lists the average costs of various home improvement projects by city.
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Hot Toys’ Batman v Superman Line Will Include a Massive Batmobile, Too
There should be no surprises that Hot Toys will be turning their uncannily details eyes towards Batman v Superman ahead of its release next year.
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Congressional negotiators still working to give the nation a funded government for Christmas
Wednesday is the new deadline for Congress to fund government, and details of their package could be announced as early as Monday. But that Wednesday deadline might end up being pushed back again with another short-term spending bill of a few days, …
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AC/DC Announce New U.S. ‘Rock or Bust’ Tour Dates | Rolling Stone
AC/DC will return to the United States for a second leg of their Rock or Bust tour early next year. The dates kick off on Groundhog Day in Tacoma, Washington and run through early April, when they end at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Ticket…
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Hair vs. Hair: Romney Is No Alternative to Trump | New Republic
Heading into Tuesday night’s GOP debate, Trumpism remains scarily popular: The dominant figures in most polls are either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, who is selling himself as a more polished version of the front-runner.
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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Teen fiction can be like a brand war. You’ve got the one you like, and then, the others. This one is like a supermarket’s own value brand – at first glance, similar, but it seems like an impostor. It looks OK, feels OK, but just isn’t.
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Watch John Oliver’s Hilarious Holiday Re-Gifting Tips | Rolling Stone
Watch John Oliver’s Hilarious Holiday Re-Gifting Tips “At some point this month, you will unwrap a present that induces the sort of jaw-dropping disappointment that one normally associates with the term ‘lettuce
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Alessia Cara Talks Huge ‘Here’ Year, Def Jam Signing | Rolling Stone
“I still feel like I’m floating above myself,” Alessia Cara says. It’s less than 24 hours since Taylor Swift invited Cara onstage on Halloween to sing Cara’s smash single “Here” in front of 55,000 screaming Swifties in Tampa, and the 19-year-old Can…
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Hebh Jamal does not remember the Sept. 11 attacks. She was 1.
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Aaron Rodgers and the Packers Just Keep Punching | Rolling Stone
It won’t show up on his season highlight reel. It won’t even make the cutting-room floor. But there were few plays across the NFL on Sunday that spoke louder than an 11-yard run by Green Bay Packers superstar quarterback and inveterate badass Aaron …
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FAA announces drone owners must register by February 19th, 2016 | The Verge
Regulation of drones in the hands of civilian pilots took a big step forward today. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that all units weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must be registered by February 19th, 2016.
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Serena Williams is SI’s Sportsperson of the Year 2015 – Sportsperson – SI.com
This story appears in the Dec. 21, 2015, issue of Sports Illustrated. To subscribe, click here. Real life? For Serena Williams that’s the easy part now.
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Hope From Paris – “Republican attitudes haven’t changed, except for the worse: the G.O.P. is spiraling ever deeper into a black hole of denial and anti-science conspiracy theorizing.” (nytimes.com) Facts and nuance are hard. It’s easier to just go w…
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The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
It was all so painfully awkward. That night, Brittany Ashley, a lesbian stoner in red lipstick, was at Eveleigh, a popular farm-to-table spot in West Hollywood. The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed’s Golden Globes party.
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India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease : environment
India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease (publicintegrity.org)submitted 37 minutes ago by loading…
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Sandy Hook Truthers are the worst / Boing Boing
Lenny Pozner’s young son died in the Sandy Hook mass killing. Conspiracy theorists believe the killing was staged. Pozner’s efforts to educate them, to prove that his son died, only resulted in relentless trolling and harassment.
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After one of the most impressive and dominating years of her career, Serena Williams has been named the 2015 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year.
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Congressman Mocks Gun Control Debate On Sandy Hook Anniversary | ThinkProgress
Three years ago, when 20 first-graders were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary school, the tragedy reignited the national fight over gun control. Little has changed since then, despite hundreds of mass shootings and calls for reform. And on the th…
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Facebook Is Killing Photo Syncing, Asks Users To Download Its “Moments” App Instead | TechCrunch
Facebook clearly believes it has its next hit app on its hands to follow Messenger with its private photo-sharing service, Moments.
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These Teens Were Jailed For Wearing Saggy Pants. This Isn’t Unusual At All. | ThinkProgress
Two seniors at Bolivar Central High School in Bolivar, Tennessee, were arrested for wearing sagging pants to school and spent 48 hours in jail.
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Tout est dit dans le titre de ce documentaire sur la nature – tout sur ce que les données scientifiques récoltées en Antarctique racontent sur ce qui se passe là-haut dans le ciel ou dans l’air qui nous entoure.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Sports Writing : Longreads Blog
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in sports writing. Mina KimesSenior Writer at ESPN the Magazine and espn.com.
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Ask the average person to name a living fossil, the chances are they will think of the coelacanth, or perhaps horseshoe crabs. However, plant examples of living fossils are all around us, surviving from long before the rise of today’s dominant plant…
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R2-D2 was the original smartphone – The Atlantic
It has been said that R2-D2, the squat blue-and-white robot from the Star Wars universe, gets his charm by being the perfect amount of robot—only a little anthropomorphized, but clearly more machine than human.
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Female lawmaker hilariously troll-proposes to limit men’s access to boner pills|Dangerous Minds
Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Mia McLeod, filed a bill on December 10th calling for any man seeking to obtain a prescription for Viagra, Cialis, Levitra or other such erectile dysfunction drugs, to be required to …
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Bromance on the edge of sanity · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
We all know what a standard bromance is—it’s indicated by high-fiving and a little bit more than standard best friendship. But sometimes bromances go beyond that, into something a little closer to a marriage.
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Learn more about the humble shopping cart with Wiki Wormhole · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or angrily looking up gun violence statistics to quote on Facebook to people you haven’t talked to since high s…
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Ugh, This A Place Where Bartenders Wear Bow Tie – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
PITTSBURGH—Saying they should have known from the moment they walked in the unmarked speakeasy entrance and spotted the extensive wood paneling, customers confirmed Friday that, ugh, this is one of those places where the bartenders all wear bow ties.
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Tips For Presenting Your Best Self In Court – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In order to give yourself the best chance at a favorable outcome, don’t enter the courtroom as part of any marginalized racial, ethnic, or cultural group.
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Verizon Fios will let you stream from your DVR when you’re out of the house | The Verge
Verizon has just announced that Fios customers will now be able to “stream nearly all of their DVR-recorded shows from anywhere they have an Internet connection.
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But will it be family-friendly?
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Ambitious sci-fi game Star Citizen hits $100 million in crowdfunding | The Verge
Crowdfunding has its $100 million game. Star Citizen, the ambitious space game from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, hit the goal late last night. The news comes just a few days after developer Cloud Imperium Games released the 2.
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PARIS — French voters dealt a sharp setback to the far-right National Front in regional elections on Sunday, depriving the party of victory in any of the country’s 13 regions, according to projections based on exit polls.
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Adele Announces Her First North American Tour in Five Years | Vanity Fair
Nearly a month after the release of her 25 (this new record you may have heard a thing or two about), Adele has announced she will be heading out on a North American arena tour in 2016, beginning next summer and winding through the fall.
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Our 3 office cats 🙂 via /r/cats https://t.co/zzrOFT322f https://t.co/5Et4n79qa1 https://t.co/0A4tvZQTf2
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Our 3 office cats 🙂 via /r/cats…
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Sen. Bob Corker Failed to Properly Disclose Millions of Dollars in Income : politics
Sen. Bob Corker Failed to Properly Disclose Millions of Dollars in Income https://t.co/dNWdXBQnqw https://t.co/5LZ2pobnLT via /r/#politics
The senator is the third-ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the real-estate and financial-services sectors. The new forms show that Mr. -
Sen. Bob Corker Failed to Properly Disclose Millions of Dollars in Income – WSJ
Sen. Bob Corker Failed to Properly Disclose Millions of Dollars in Income https://t.co/dNWdXBQnqw https://t.co/5LZ2pobnLT via /r/#politics
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Did the Paris climate accord save civilization? Maybe. That may not sound like a ringing endorsement, but it’s actually the best climate news we’ve had in a very long time.
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This Week On The Line: Danny Gold Discusses El Salvador’s War on Gangs | VICE News
On Thursday at 12pm EST VICE News correspondent Danny Gold will join On The Line to take your questions on the escalating violence between gangs and police in El Salvador. El Salvador has now eclipsed neighboring Honduras as the most murderous peace…
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As of last month, 685 multi-planet solar systems (with 1705 planets) have been discovered outside our own. This video shows the relative sizes of those systems compared to ours. Please note: The size of the orbits are all to scale, but the size of t…
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Buy a $30 Chromecast, Get $20 in Google Play Credit
If you still haven’t gotten yourself a Chromecast (or six), Google is currently giving away $20 in Google Play credit to new owners, and you can get in on the action for as little as $30 today, courtesy of Best Buy and Walmart.
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Get Ready To Register Your Drone With The FAA On December 21 | TechCrunch
The Federal Aviation Administration today launched its long-expected drone registration program. Starting December 21, owners will have to register their drones with the government for a $5 fee (though the FAA is making registration free for the fir…
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Polls Suggest Trump Will Win Between 8 Percent And 64 Percent Of The Vote | FiveThirtyEight
In 2007, I woke up every morning — alarm set with a 1980s or ’90s TV show theme song — opened my computer and searched the term “poll” on Google. I did this through the spring, summer, fall and winter.
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The Garden Containers That Can (and Can’t) Stand Cold Weather
Winter doesn’t mean you can’t have plants in your yard, but if you have potted ones on your deck or patio, you should be careful which materials those containers are made out of. The last thing you want is your all-weather plant to die because the p…
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Foundation Capital Closes Eighth Fund With $325 Million | TechCrunch
Foundation Capital, a 20-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based venture firm, has raised $325 million for its eighth fund, six months after kicking off its official fundraising effort.
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Independence Day: Resurgence Has an Excuse for Its Lack of Will Smith
We’ve known for while that the next Independence Day would bring back more than a few familiar faces, and that one of those faces would not be Will Smith’s resident Earth-welcomer Steven Hiller. But thanks to a new tie-in website, there’s now an in-…
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Inside the NRA: the officials keeping gun control laws off the US agenda | US news | The Guardian
The National Rifle Association lost no time in launching its attack against the inevitable demands for greater gun control in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre.
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Hey! Be sure to visit TT’s online store for your holiday shopping needs!
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Newell Rubbermaid is buying Jarden Corp in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $13.2bn that combines some of the most famous names in household goods.
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Watch: The Star Wars theme, recreated by a one-man electric guitar “orchestra” – Vox
Much of the excitement swirling around Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens — the latest addition to the seminal film franchise — centers on the details of the plot. But Star Wars wouldn’t be nearly as iconic without its famous, instantly reco…
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Cybersecurity Researchers Are Hunted from All Sides | Motherboard
Cybersecurity researcher Peter Kruse, founder of CSIS Security Group in Denmark, thought his mother was calling. Her number appeared on his phone, but when he answered, it wasn’t her. Instead, a male voice told him to stop what he was doing as a com…
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From Raqqa to London: A year-long journey of a refugee
It’s 2 am and French police have just stopped, searched and questioned the three Syrian refugees I’m following. We are inside a shopping mall complex that backs up against the western side of the Eurotunnel zone.
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Islamic State ‘moving to access Libya oil’ – France – BBC News
The Islamic State group is extending its territory inside Libya, aiming to gain access to the country’s oil wells, France’s defence minister says. The group has started to move inland from its stronghold in the coastal town of Sirte, Jean-Yves Le Dr…
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Sweden ‘terror crimes’: Pair jailed for life over Syria murders – BBC News
A court in Sweden has sentenced two men to life imprisonment over “terror crime” murders carried out by Islamic State militants in Syria in 2013.Hassan al-Mandlawi, 32, and Al-Amin Sultan, 30, both Swedish nationals, were found guilty of actively ta…
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Creator of “Republicans shooting dildos” blog explains himself / Boing Boing
Matt Haughey (of Metafilter fame), explains his latest project: Why I can’t stop putting dildos into the hands of powerful conservatives.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 To Get Pressure Sensitive Screen, Fast Charging Port, Says WSJ | TechCrunch
In the cut-throat battle for smartphone buyers in increasingly saturated global markets it’s become a game of clones for device makers. To wit: Samsung is set to take a leaf out of Apple’s playbook for the next iteration of its flagship Galaxy smart…
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The Year in Female Politicians Dealing with Utter Crap | New Republic
When John Boehner walked onto the House floor in early January to address the first legislative session of the 114th Congress, women occupied 84 of the seats around his dais.
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South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan warns state firms – BBC News
South Africa’s new finance minister has warned heads of state-owned companies not to use them as “personal toys”. Pravin Gordhan, the country’s third finance minister in less than a week, was making his first comments since he was appointed on Sunda…
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‘Trump-lite’: Democrats attack Republican field’s approach to Muslims | US news | The Guardian
It had been less than 24 hours since Donald Trump unveiled a controversial plan to ban all Muslim entry into the United States when Hillary Clinton and her allies grabbed at an opportunity.
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Those Extracts In Your Cupboard Have Many Uses Beyond Baking
Extracts (other than vanilla) have a way of hanging around for years in a cupboard, usually used in one recipe and then forgotten about. Luckily, there are a ton of clever ways to use them up.
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The computer virus that blackmails you – BBC News
Ransomware is the fastest growing form of computer malware, experts warn. It’s a malicious virus that locks the user out of their computer and demands a fee to return their files.
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Iowa Poll: Clinton builds lead over Sanders | Hillary Clinton is building her lead among Iowa Democrats, but rival Bernie Sanders hasn’t faded, a new Iowa Poll shows. (usatoday.com)
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Teflon’s Toxic Legacy – For more than half a century, DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick. The chemical C8 is the poster child for the failures of US toxic chemical law. (truth-out.org)
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As GOP Debates Climate Change, Corporate Lobbyists Wish For Action | While congressional Republicans remain staunchly opposed to action on climate change, corporate America pretty much agrees that the change is happening (npr.org)submitted 30 minute…
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The Paris agreement signals that deniers have lost the climate wars – 195 world nations have agreed to ignore climate science denial and cut carbon pollution as much as possible (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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24 privacy tools — not messaging apps — that don’t exist / Boing Boing
There are a lot of secure messaging apps out there, and more every day. They’re vital and the sector is vibrant, but if you want to help groups and individuals keep their work private from repressive states or any other authoritarian agency of repri…
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Los países en desarrollo no deben ser tratados como un solo bloque en las discusiones sobre el cambio climático en París, ya que sus intereses son a menudo marcadamente divergentes , manifestó el expresidente de México.
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Neil Gaiman in talks to adapt Gormenghast for cinema | Books | The Guardian
The crumbling towers of Gormenghast and the evil machinations of Steerpike could be set to head to the big screen after Neil Gaiman revealed he was in talks with studios about a film adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s gothic fantasy novels.
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Beam Your Booze With Glowing Star Trek Transporter Pad Coasters
Have the folks at ThinkGeek finally figured out the technology needed to transport matter? Sadly, no. If they did, they probably wouldn’t have used that technology to make a set of Star Trek-themed coasters that look like the transporter pads used o…
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I was in San Antonio on Saturday for the college graduation of a nephew when one of my brothers, the one who’s a gun collector, invited me to a local gun show. As he put it, “If you’re gonna write about it, you need to see it.” I jumped at the chanc…
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On his first day at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Simratpal Singh sat in a barber chair where new cadets get their hair buzzed short, forced to choose between showing his faith and living it. Cadet Singh had grown up a Sikh.
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Meow_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/SpUZnwEgTv https://t.co/m9SgW1tuZI https://t.co/EYtYyosjnP
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Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors : politics
Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors https://t.co/MiK7TTsRzG https://t.co/zllEs5aqXE via /r/#politics
You mean outsourcing at twice the price is bad business? whodathunk? But… But… The experts! -
Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors
Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors https://t.co/MiK7TTsRzG https://t.co/zllEs5aqXE via /r/#politics
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Migrant crisis: EU to launch new border force plan – BBC News
Controversial plans for an EU Border and Coast Guard force are to be set out on Tuesday – part of an EU drive to curb the record influx of migrants. Some national governments are wary of granting the EU new powers in such a sensitive area of soverei…
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The truth about Ada Lovelace / Boing Boing
Stephen Wolfram set out to find the truth about Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician hailed as the first computer programmer. In “untangling the tale,” he found a mystery much harder to unravel than he expected. Historians disagree. The pers…
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How Paris Turned The Climate Movement Into An Everyone Movement | ThinkProgress
They came from everywhere — from the Arctic to the Amazon, from the mahogany forests of Peru to the plains of North Dakota. They brought icebergs from Greenland and life-sized sculptures of blue whales and plastered Parisian bus stops and metro stat…
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The man behind the Fisker Karma is launching a new $300,000 car next month | The Verge
For many, designer and entrepreneur Henrik Fisker is probably best known for the Fisker Karma — a short-lived hybrid sedan whose quality and reliability never lived up to its stunning design.
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Bad Santa: Santa Claus behaving badly|Dangerous Minds
Recenlty I was thinking about the movie Bad Santa and the epic “fuck stick” scene. And for whatever reason, that thought led me down the rabbit hole of trying to find some real life “Bad Santas.” By the way, the worst offending Santa in my opinion i…
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Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on the soulful stop-motion of Anomalisa · Interview · The A.V. Club
Moviemaking is a fundamentally collaborative process. But even by the standards of this all-hands-on-deck medium, Charlie Kaufman is a born team player.
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If you want to understand why six million disaffected French voters gave their support to Marine Le Pen’s Front National candidates in the regional elections (and will do so again when they get the chance), you could do worse than contemplate the ca…
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Nevada Gun Show Enthusiasts Have A Big Disagreement With The NRA | ThinkProgress
LAS VEGAS, NV — Surrounded by monogrammed assault rifle parts, bulletproof vests, and rows and rows of guns, many of the tattooed, bearded vendors at the Las Vegas Gun Show had an unexpected stance on the state’s proposal for expanded background che…
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Spot the loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/chG8R2wNOp https://t.co/1Yt1bIAU4E https://t.co/kUvJBnzBXX
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the wise and wonderful Grace Paley observed in her advice to writers, “life is difficult, hard to understand, useless, and mysterious.” A century earlier, Thoreau made a similar case for the value of “useful ignorance.
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Republican Billionaires Just Can’t Seem to Buy This Election : politics
Odd, one Republican billionaire seems to be doing just fine… Except, you know, the one leading their party.
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Reduce Your Stress First Before You Start Building Better Habits
Your bad habits make you stressed. That sucks. What’s worse, is the more stressed you are, the harder it is to make new habits. It might be better to deal with your stress levels first.
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Ridley Scott Teases The Origins of The Xenomorphs in Alien: Covenant
A heap of insane Batman v Superman rumors could give away the whole movie. A new rumor teases Iron Fist casting. Could Arrow turn Felicity into a major figure from the comics? Plus, new details on the Doctor Who Christmas Special, The Flash teases a…
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Watch Rick Ross Talk ‘Miami Vice’ Influence, His First Screenplay | Rolling Stone
Watch Rick Ross Talk ‘Miami Vice’ Influence, His First Screenplay “I feel it’s too big to be one film,” rapper says of ‘Gabos.
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The little box that controls half your home’s energy use | Ars Technica
A thermostat can be such a simple device—so dumb a device if we’re feeling 21st Century snobby—that a strip of metal coiled up with a droplet of mercury at the end can do the job.
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Watch Tarantino Actor Craig Stark Star in Trippy Alberta Cross Video | Rolling Stone
Actor Craig Stark (Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight) takes a desperate trip through the desert in the new video for Alberta Cross’ “Ghost of Santa Fe.
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Return of the Gronk: Patriots Are Back, Just Like That | Rolling Stone
The names are starting to sound as if they were generated by a PlayStation algorithm, but here is what I can tell you about New England Patriots cornerback Leonard Johnson: He is apparently an actual human being.
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Adele Details Massive North American Tour | Rolling Stone
Adele has announced an expansive North American tour for 2016. The 56-date trek – which follows her previously announced, sold-out tour of Europe and the U.K. – will kick off July 5th in St. Paul, Minnesota and conclude November 15th in Mexico City.
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Has Marine Le Pen Been Trumped? – The Daily Beast
PARIS — So, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front party, which placed first in six of 13 French regions last week, failed to win the second round in a single one this week.
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Cam on How Eric Church Inspired New Album ‘Untamed’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Cam on How Eric Church Inspired New Album ‘Untamed’: The Ram Report “I still have ‘Chief’ in my car,” says the country singer, who listened to Church’s breakout LP while making
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Morning Digest: Democrat Sylvester Turner wins the Houston mayoral race in a squeaker
● Houston, TX Mayor: Voters in America’s fourth-largest city went back to the polls on Saturday for the runoff, and they gave longtime Democratic state Rep. Sylvester Turner a narrow 51-49 victory over businessman and ex-Kemah Mayor Bill King, a con…
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The best stocking filler books for children this Christmas | Children’s books | The Guardian
Can you recommend books to put in an under eight-year-olds child’s stocking, that might even be entertaining at 5am when we want to still be asleep?
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The Invisible Casualties of Dementia
Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist based in New Jersey. She is currently working on a graphic novel tentatively entitled How to Draw a Nose. Her previous books include Girl Stories and The Goddess of War.
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Giphy Cam Adds Star Wars Overlays In First Introduction Of Featured Content | TechCrunch
Giphy Cam, the app that lets you create and share your own GIFs with a few clicks, is today unveiling its first featured content layer in the form of Star Wars overlays.
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Caribou still under threat despite changing political climate, report says: Woodland herds’ habitat still under pressure, but wilderness society sees signs of hope in new governments. (cbc.ca)
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Pandora gives you a station made from 10 years of thumbs-ups | The Verge
For better or for worse, Pandora is giving listeners one station where they can hear everything they’ve ever thumbed up in the radio streaming service’s 10-year history. This station, called Thumbprint Radio, automatically appears in your list of Pa…
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Experian Sells Hitwise, Simmons To Connexity And Its PE Owner Symphony For Up To $52M | TechCrunch
Some more chopping, changing and consolidation in the worlds of traffic analysis and fraud protection. Today it was announced that Experian, one of the world’s biggest credit ratings agencies, is selling off its two well-known analytics divisions in…
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Poll: Trump and Cruz are the Republican front-runners, and Clinton would beat them both – Vox
Sen. Ted Cruz is on the rise in the Republican Primary and has climbed to second place in national polls. But Republicans are still clustering behind candidates — Cruz and Donald Trump — who would likely lose to Hillary Clinton, according to a new p…
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My cat enjoying his birthday present. : cats
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GOP leaders hate Ted Cruz, but he may be their last best hope – Vox
GOP leaders hate Ted Cruz, but he may be their last best hope https://t.co/BzadKdZmde https://t.co/WrHwMLIwMG
Ted Cruz’s quest for the GOP presidential nomination has been hampered, from the start, by the reality that the vast majority of influential DC Republicans simply can’t stand the guy. No other candidate in the race gets articles like this written ab… -
Poll: Clinton adds to lead over Sanders in Iowa : politics
Poll: Clinton adds to lead over Sanders in Iowa https://t.co/3P4j9RBpHM https://t.co/pPLIR9FXQx via /r/#politics
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Poll: Clinton adds to lead over Sanders in Iowa | TheHill
Poll: Clinton adds to lead over Sanders in Iowa https://t.co/3P4j9RBpHM https://t.co/pPLIR9FXQx via /r/#politics
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Andy Richter’s Twitter Is No Joke | ThinkProgress
You’d expect Andy Richter, the comedian, writer and actor best-known as Conan O’Brien’s right-hand man, to have a funny Twitter account. And he does. There are plenty of tweets like this one: Once again, another day on the Warner Bros. lot in which …
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Scientists may have found formula for a painless existence | Ars Technica
Physical pain is a near universal problem, whether its sudden pangs or chronic aches. Yet, researchers’ efforts to quash it completely have fallen short—possibly due to a moonlighting channel in nerve cells. But that may be about to change. The sodi…
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This Private Garfield Facebook Group Is the Last Irony-Free Place on the Internet
The people you meet on the internet are, for better or worse (just kidding it’s always for worse), probably not what they seem. Years of bile and racism and flamewars and the MTV show Catfish have seared this fact into our brains.
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Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop | Ars Technica
Qubes OS, the security-focused operating system that Edward Snowden said in November he was “really excited” about, announced this week that laptop maker Purism will ship their privacy-focused Librem 13 notebook with Qubes pre-installed.
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Freedom Blocks Distractions In Sync Across Every Device You Own
Windows/Mac/Android/iOS: What good is blocking distractions on your computer if you can pick up your phone and end up on Facebook? Freedom knows you’ll find loopholes and creates a synchronized block session across every device.
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Typhoon Melor batters Philippines – Al Jazeera English
Typhoon Melor has hit the central Philippines, bringing winds of up to 220kph, intense rainfall and mountainous seas. Melor, known locally as Nona, made landfall over the northern tip of the island of Samar after undergoing a rapid intensification.
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Defeated Now, French Far-Right Sees Bright Future | Al Jazeera America
Many French voters and political leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief Sunday night at results showing that the far-right National Front (FN) failed to win control of any of the nation’s 13 mainland regions. Yet the FN’s inability to follow i…
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Man Claiming Allegiance to the Islamic State Stabs Schoolteacher in France | VICE News
A hooded man claiming to be acting on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) stabbed the throat of a teacher in a school outside of Paris, French officials said on Monday.
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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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I made a giant periscope to see the Eiffel Tower from my bed : DIY
I made a giant periscope to see the Eiffel Tower from my bed (imgur.com)submitted just now by Lurluberluloading…
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Standards for air pollution particles linked to lung cancer and restricted lung growth could be set at levels beyond those recommended by the World Health Organisation, doctors and community groups fear. (smh.com.au)
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What do nail bars, the fishing industry, the London house of two medical professionals and cannabis farms have in common? They have all recently been implicated in modern slavery.
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Pentagon to lose emissions exemption under Paris climate deal – Armed forces around the world – including US military – will no longer be automatically excluded from including their carbon emissions under national reductions targets (theguardian.com…
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Infographic: Traditional Medicine Fuels the Mass Slaughter of Wild Animals – Humans are uniquely gifted at driving other animals into extinction (vice.com)submitted 24 minutes ago by loading…
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The COP21 Climate Summit: The Ambitions and Flaws of the Paris Agreement. Outcome of Deception and Bullying (globalresearch.ca)
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Wild animals endure illness, injury, and starvation. We should help. – Vox
Cecil the lion captured the world’s attention earlier this year when an American dentist hunted and killed him. People were justifiably outraged at this tragedy — so much so, in fact, that they turned against the entire practice of trophy hunting.
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The following are the threats to your Homeland community for Dec. 14-18, 2015, as determined by the Republican party: And as always, “President” Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his simultaneous display of unstoppable dictatorial strong-arm tyranny and spin…
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Egypt Says Russian Plane Crash in Sinai Wasn’t Terrorism After All | VICE News
Egypt said on Monday there was no evidence that a terrorist act caused a Russian passenger jet to crash in the Sinai on October 31, killing all 224 people on board — a position at odds with what Russia, western governments, and the Islamic State (IS…
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Metabolic Research AMAScience AMA Series: We’re researchers at the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. We recently published a study showing that obesity may be inherited through epigenetic modifications in sperm. Ask …
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What the Hell Is Up with This Homicidal Japanese Schoolgirl Simulator? | Motherboard
I’m watching students exit the school building as the sun sets on another beautiful day in Japan. She doesn’t know it, but one of these students, Osana Najimi, is going to die by my hands. You see, Najimi likes the same boy I like, and that’s just n…
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Could more gun control have stopped 2015’s deadliest mass shootings? | US news | The Guardian
Last Wednesday, two mass shootings happened in America. In one of them, 14 people were killed and 21 others were injured, prompting Barack Obama to describe stronger background checks for gun purchases as “common sense”.
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Why $200m player contracts are a great deal for baseball owners | Sport | The Guardian
Two hundred seventeen million dollars for David Price. Two hundred six million dollars for Zack Greinke. One hundred eighty-four million for Jason Heyward.
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Donald Trump Is Making Ted Cruz Look Like a Uniter | New Republic
When the Republican candidates convene Tuesday in Las Vegas for the next primary debate, Donald Trump will be flanked for the first time by Ted Cruz, who now polls in second place nationally and first in multiple Iowa surveys.
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Single-celled death scene wins Nikon photomicrography prize | The Verge
It’s a microorganism eat microorganism world out there, as proved by this year’s Nikon Small World In Motion competition.
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Palestinian journalists ‘targeted from all sides’ – Al Jazeera English
Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Shadi Hatem was standing among a group of fellow Palestinian journalists, covering clashes in al-Bireh near Ramallah last month, when he was shot at close range with a rubber-coated steel bullet.
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Yemen conflict: Gulf commanders ‘killed in missile strike’ – BBC News
A Saudi military commander and an Emirati officer are reported to be among a number of Gulf, Yemeni and Sudanese soldiers killed in Yemen.They appear to have been killed by a missile fired by Houthi rebels at troops from the Saudi-led coalition seek…
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Why Obamacare premiums are spiking in 2016 – Vox
No matter how you slice the numbers, Obamacare premiums will rise significantly next year. The Obama administration estimates rates will rise 7.5 percent in 2016, compared with 2 percent in 2015. Insurance markets are complicated.
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Bus plunge kills dozens of Argentine police – Al Jazeera English
At least 41 Argentine police have been killed in a bus accident in the northern part of the South American nation. Authorities say the crash happened early Monday while a convoy of three buses with gendarmes officers was traveling near Salta, a city…
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Tiny Star Shoots Out Flares 10,000 Times Brighter Than the Sun’s (Video)
A small, cool star is emitting flares 10,000 times brighter than those ejected by the sun, a find that could be bad news for those hoping to find the galaxy filled with life.
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Egypt: No Evidence Yet of Terrorism in Russian Plane Crash – The Atlantic
Egyptian authorities say a preliminary investigation into the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai in October indicates terrorism was not responsible—a direct contradiction of Russia’s assertion, backed by the U.S. and the U.K., that a …
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Donald Trump Has An Absolutely Terrifying Plan For The Supreme Court | ThinkProgress
Early in his campaign for the White House, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump suggested that his nominees to the Supreme Court may be unexpectedly moderate — he said that his sister Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a left-of-center Clinton …
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Rising over 1,000 feet in the air, 1 Undershaft will one day be London’s tallest skyscraper. The project will take its place among the Shard, the Cheesegrater, and the Gherkin as buildings that have utterly transformed the city’s skyline in recent y…
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So You’ve Been Scammed By A For-Profit College. Now What? | ThinkProgress
In the past few years, for-profit colleges have come under increasing scrutiny for preying on students.
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This Calculator Shows How Much You’ll Lose by Cashing Out an Old 401(k)
If you have an old 401(k) from a company you don’t work for anymore, you may be tempted to cash it out, rather than move it somewhere else. This tool will show you just how much that will cost you in the long run.
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Marco Rubio: Foreign Policy Pretender
One consequence of the deafening media din generated by Donald Trump’s hateful blather is that his competitors seem moderate in contrast.
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What Tuesday Night’s Republican Debate Means for Refugees | New Republic
When a counterfeit Syrian passport was discovered near the mangled body of one of the killers responsible for the November 13 terrorist attacks on Paris, the future of more than one hundred thousand Syrian refugees recommended for international rese…
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French National Front leader Le Pen condemns ‘campaign of lies’ in regional polls – BBC News
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front (FN), has condemned opponents for colluding to prevent it winning a single region in elections. Her voters had been “disenfranchised by a campaign of lies”, she said.
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Sci-Fi Classic ‘Childhood’s End’ TV Miniseries Debuts Tonight
Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction classic “Childhood’s End” has been reimagined for the 21st century, and brought to the small screen, in a new TV miniseries debuting tonight (Dec. 14).
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A Day on Pluto: Photos Show Dwarf Planet’s Changing Faces
The changing faces of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, are highlighted in a set of newly released photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons took the images from July 7 through July 13, in the lead-up to the probe’s historic …
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You lose friends when you have a baby, and other lessons I learned the hard way – Vox
My first moment as a mother, no more than five weeks pregnant, I sat on my bathroom floor, crying over a positive test, unsure if I could handle the responsibilities that life had thrown me.
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US school stops teaching Huckleberry Finn because of ‘use of the N-word’ | Books | The Guardian
Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been removed from the curriculum at a school in Philadelphia after its administration decided that “the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits”.
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Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The 196 nations participating in climate talks agreed to a deal that hopes to limit the warming of our world to 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial le…
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New Measurements Confirm That Electrons Will Outlive God | Motherboard
66,000 yottayears is a 6.6 followed by 28 zeroes. It looks like this. This is the expected lifespan of a single electron, according to new measurements described in this week’s Physical Review Letters from physicists at Italy’s Borexino experiment.
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Burundi crisis: Dozens on trial over failed Nkurunziza coup – BBC News
The trial has begun in Burundi for 28 people accused over May’s attempt to oust President Pierre Nkurunziza. The defendants include Burundi’s former defence minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye and 27 other senior military and police officials.
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How much energy does a soda machine waste? | Grist
Soda vending machines are refrigerated. How much energy (or CO2) does a typical soda vending machine consume? Most of us are familiar with the frosty refreshment that awaits whenever one pops open a soda can — an ideal reinforced by years’ worth of …
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China: Diners charged ‘air cleaning fee’ – BBC News
Diners at the eatery in Zhangjiagang city, Jiangsu Province, were charged one yuan ($0.15; 10p) each to cover the cost of purifying the air inside, the official Xinhua news agency reports.
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Top 10 Weirdest Animal Stories of 2015—Editors’ Picks
Weird & Wild Wisdom the Albatross and Other Shockingly Old Moms From killer whales to sea turtles, many animal mothers have kids well into their elder years.
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I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m Chinese-American and my husband is white, an American of English-Dutch-Irish descent; we have two chil…
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The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde – fairytales for all ages | Books | The Guardian
“It is the duty of every father to write fairytales for his children,” pronounced Oscar Wilde, while acknowledging that “the mind of the child is a great mystery”.
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COP21: What does the Paris climate agreement mean for me? – BBC News
As the euphoria of delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris fades, it is time to get down to the business of saving the planet and ask what does it mean for me?
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: Paris Pact gathers praise and brickbats; Trump’s cadres love his spew
Under its provisions, nations have made voluntary pledges to begin reducing their carbon emissions. These are modest — the United States, for instance, plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 2025 by 12 to 19 percent from their levels in 1990.
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Cloudyn Cloud Monitoring Service Catches $11 Million Investment | TechCrunch
Cloudyn, a service for monitoring and optimizing cloud usage across multiple vendors, announced an $11 million Series B investment today. The round was led by by Carmel Ventures with participation of previous investors Titanium Investments and RDSee…
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Most writers find their individual voice only after they sojourn through periods of imitation. Though it’s an excellent way to appropriate experimental techniques and move out of comfortable ruts, imitation can only take us so far.
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Check Out Your 2015 “Best Of” Moments on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with ThinkUp
The end of the year means it’s a good time to look back to see how far you’ve come, and social aggregator ThinkUp is, as they always do, collecting insights in December from the past year to see what you’ve said that’s really resonated on social med…
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Australian newspaper cartoon depicting Indians eating solar panels attacked as racist : environment
Australian newspaper cartoon depicting Indians eating solar panels attacked as racist (theguardian.com)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading…
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Unique Clinic Uses Genomic Findings to Help Patients Immediately – Scientific American
Levi and Emma Kinsinger operate a small greenhouse in southern Pennsylvania. On November 6, 2002, they traveled 450 miles round-trip by taxi, at a rate of a dollar per mile, to bring their eldest son—Mark—to the Clinic for Special Children in Strasb…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Window on the past
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Planetary Nebula NGC 3699 in Centaurus
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Republican debate 2015: start time, schedule, and what to expect – Vox
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The next Republican presidential debate is Tuesday at 8:30 pm Eastern. It will take place in Las Vegas and be aired on CNN. An earlier undercard debate, with candidates who aren’t polling as well, will begin at 6 pm Eastern. A free live stream will …
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