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BBC Sport – Michael Platini to boycott Fifa ethics hearing on corruption claims
Suspended Fifa vice-president Michel Platini will boycott an ethics committee hearing into allegations of corruption this week. Lawyers for the Frenchman, who is also president of Uefa, believe the “verdict is already announced”.
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Turkey mistreated scores of migrants, says Amnesty – BBC News
Turkey has detained and mistreated scores of migrants, pressuring some to return to war zones, a new report by Amnesty International says. The group says EU pressure on Turkey to stem migration to Europe has resulted in the “forcible transportation”…
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Polar bears walking more on faster drifting Arctic sea ice – BBC News
Polar bears are working harder just to stay in one place, as the Arctic sea-ice on which they hunt spins up. US scientists have tracked the animals for nearly 30 years and find they have increased their activity levels.
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Tanzania launches school fee crackdown – BBC News
Private schools in Tanzania have been ordered to reduce fees as a part of a government review of education. The education ministry has also banned state schools from seeking contributions from parents.
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EU data laws threaten huge fines – BBC News
Technology companies could face fines of up to 4% of their global annual turnover under new European rules on data protection. The European Union has approved significant changes to data laws, aimed at putting individuals back in charge of their inf…
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Mindwalker by AJ Steiger – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Mindwalker is a science fiction, dystopian novel with a difference. I don’t know about anyone else I’ve started to steer clear of dystopian novel as I’m finding they’re all merging into the same type of narrative.
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The Siege Of Krishnapur by JG Farrell – imperial folly comes fatally undone | Books | The Guardian
A few days ago, I was sitting in a cafe reading a book when a man came up to me, looking vaguely embarrassed, but nonetheless determined. “I’ve never done this before,” he said. “But I have to tell you: that is probably the best book I have ever rea…
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A few weeks ago, I visited the fence that made Hungary a symbol of European anxiety. Chain-link and razor wire, it slices through pastures as it traces Hungary’s southern border.
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CNN Shares Responsibility for the Fear-Mania of the GOP Debate – The Atlantic
Candidates Carson, Trump, and Cruz synchronize their watches before the Tuesday night debate Mike Blake / Reuters
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Spotify Pumps Up The Volume On Activity-Based Music Streams With Spotify Party | TechCrunch
Just in time for your holiday soiree, Spotify is unveiling its latest push into event- and activity-based music curation. It is taking the wraps off Spotify Party, music playlists for social gatherings crafted by DJs — with the debut including an ex…
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Spotify launches beat-matching Party mode with a new mix from Diplo | The Verge
Spotify has been rolling out a number of features over the past year that encourage users to lean back and let the service handle the task of picking the next track. It created a feature for running that picked songs to match your pace.
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Cybersecurity Firm Digital Guardian Raises $66M | TechCrunch
It may seem like every time you check the headlines a new company is getting its data stolen. For the past 12 years Digital Guardian has been striving to help companies classify and protect data on their systems so that they can avoid being the next…
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This Canada Island Is Losing Ground But Not Losing Hope
Wearing clean white cotton gloves, Gilbert Sark carefully unwraps papers containing artifacts from his ancestors. An eel spear. An arrowhead. A flint.
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The Most Common Budgeting Mistakes and How to Fix Them
It’s not too hard to build a basic budget, and a few tips and tricks can help you make it really solid. But even a good budget can go awry. There are a handful of mistakes that throw people off, but the good news is: these mistakes are easy enough t…
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Donald Trump Calls Scotland ‘Small-Minded and Parochial’ as He Can’t Get His Way | VICE News
Donald Trump hasn’t pissed enough people off yet, so he’s now decided to massively insult Scotland.
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Conservationists are celebrating after a successful relocation of endangered finless porpoise in China marked another milestone in the journey to save the species from extinction.
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Michael Pollan on how America got so screwed up about food – Vox
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Morrissey dismisses Bad sex award as ‘repulsive horror’ after win | Books | The Guardian
Morrissey has finally responded to his triumph in the Bad sex award earlier this month – and the singer is not impressed.
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Cuban baseball players who defected to US visit Havana – BBC News
Four Cuban baseball stars who defected to work in the United States have been reunited with their relatives on a return trip to Havana. Friends and fans welcomed them back for a three-day goodwill tour.
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Los Angeles schools to reopen amid alert row with New York – BBC News
Schools in Los Angeles are preparing to reopen after being shut down over an email threat, in a move queried by police officials in New York. More than 1,000 schools in America’s second-biggest city were searched on Tuesday after classes were cancel…
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ASMR: What’s going on inside my brain? – BBC News
ASMR – a strangle tingle in the head caused by certain sights and sounds – is a growing YouTube subculture. Now scientists are starting to investigate what the possible causes might be.
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Dan Rather: Donald Trump Is ‘The Best Thing to Happen to ISIS’ – The Daily Beast
All Dan Rather can do is shake his head.
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Confederate Monument Debate Stirs Up New Orleans | Al Jazeera America
NEW ORLEANS — On the edge of downtown New Orleans, where the oak-lined expanse of St. Charles Avenue narrows to wrap around a busy traffic circle, a statue of famed Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands atop a 60-foot marble column.
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In Your Backyard – Al Jazeera English
Climate change is no mystery. We know what we have to do to limit emissions and we know we need to change our behaviour and yet we fail to take the kind of action necessary.
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Executions in US ‘lowest in 25 years’ – BBC News
The number of executions in the US in 2015 is the lowest in nearly 25 years, new figures reveal. Death sentences dropped 33% from last year’s historic low, with only 49 people sentenced to death. For the first time since 1995, the number of people o…
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Qatari hunters kidnapped in Iraq – 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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New Republican Governor Matt Bevin Aims to Undo Kentucky’s Obamacare – The Atlantic
Matt Bevin campaigned on a health-care pledge that would undo the work of his predecessor: to dismantle Kentucky’s popular insurance exchange and change up the even more popular Medicaid expansion.
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Endocrine disruptors: European Commission ‘breached law’ – BBC News
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the European Commission has not been quick enough in identifying and banning potentially harmful “endocrine disruptor” chemicals. The court ruled on Wednesday in a case brought by Sweden on behalf of the …
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Facebook, Google, Twitter Commit To Hate Speech Action In Germany | TechCrunch
The German government yesterday secured an agreement from Facebook, Google and Twitter to delete hate speech within 24 hours as it steps up efforts to combat racist sentiments being expressed online in the wake of the European refugee crisis.
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Qalendra Wants To Ensure You Never Book A Bad Trip Again | TechCrunch
Qalendra, a Seattle-based company but with an engineering team in Bucharest, Romania, wants to automate travel research.
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December 16, 1901: Margaret Mead Is Born | The Nation
The anthropologist Margaret Mead was born on this day in 1901. Her most famous book, Coming of Age in Samoa, explored the social, psychological and sexual development of teens on an island in the South Seas.
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Sony adds Chromecast support for its PlayStation Vue TV streaming service | The Verge
Sony’s PlayStation Vue TV streaming service has always been a bit of an odd sell.
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Going meatless one day a week only means you are hurting yourself and the planet 6 days a week instead of 7. Video : Cowspiracy (weshare.me) OTOH, that’s a fast, easy, and painless 14.3% reduction, try to do that with car-fuel or (heating/cooling) h…
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Barsik the Cat and other political animals – BBC News
When it comes to prominent election campaign slogans, the one for Barsik the Cat clearly struck a chord with voters: “Only mice don’t vote for Barsik!”Residents of the town of Barnaul in Siberia, tired of corruption scandals, put Barsik’s name forwa…
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How fracking could change the landscape of national parks – BBC News
Fracking could take place within the UK’s national parks, changing their landscapes with rigs and pipelines running underground. Fracking is the process by which shale gas is extracted from the earth.
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Bush and Paul take shots at Trump as other Republican debaters hold fire | US news | The Guardian
Expected to be Trump v world, the fifth Republican debate did not deliver on Tuesday night as thin-skinned Donald Trump came under direct attack by name from just a couple of other Republican presidential candidates, Kentucky senator Rand Paul and f…
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Japan To Begin Whaling As World Celebrates Environmental Breakthrough in Paris : environment
While I know this kinda thing is posted quite often, I can’t stress enough just how important it is for people to stay up to date on the atrocities that some Japanese companies are committing.
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New Harry Potter ebook covers revealed! | Children’s books | The Guardian
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Look at These Charts Before You Eat Your Next Burrito | Mother Jones
As of December 4, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had found 52 cases of people in nine states who had gotten sick after eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill. The outbreak, which involves a strain of E.
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Peshawar massacre: One year later – Al Jazeera English
As new technologies keep us connected, we look at the deadly phenomenon of distracted driving. Former Motherland party representative Natalia Narochnitskaya discusses Russia’s stance on Ukraine, ISIL and Syria.
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#ZumaMustFall: South Africans march against Jacob Zuma – BBC News
Thousands of protestors are marching across South Africa to demand President Jacob Zuma is sacked. The latest protests are a reaction to him sacking two finance ministers last week, further damaging confidence in the economy.
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What We’re Following on Wednesday, December 16 – The Atlantic
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ALMA Reveals Planetary Construction Sites | ESO
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the clearest indications yet that planets with masses several times that of Jupiter have recently formed in the discs of gas and dust around four young stars.
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IBM And Apple Enterprise Partnership Reaches 100 App Goal | TechCrunch
IBM and Apple announced today that they had reached the 100 app milestone in their mobile app partnership.
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Russia urges Montenegro to hold referendum on Nato – BBC News
Russia has urged Montenegro to hold a referendum on joining Nato, arguing that less the half of its population backed joining the military alliance. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova spoke of “deep divisions” in the Balkan country over th…
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The Surrealist Republican Debate Scorecard – The Daily Beast
Went through all the vocal and emotional registers available to Southern men (a lot) to prove how much he cares about 1) beating Trump and 2) invading ISIS territory.
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Star Wars smashes ticket record with more than $100 million in US presales | The Verge
It’s not unexpected, but it’s still impressive: advance ticket sales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens have crossed the $100 million mark, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Yemen conflict: Warring parties ‘exchange prisoners’ – BBC News
Yemen’s warring parties are reported to have exchanged hundreds of prisoners, as UN-brokered talks aimed at ending the conflict in the country continue. The swap involved 360 members of the rebel Houthi movement and 265 civilians and pro-government …
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The port town of Lyttelton in New Zealand is best known for its beautiful landscapes and as a major trade gateway to the South Island.
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Tornado wreaks havoc in Sydney – Al Jazeera English
The twister pummelled the southern suburb of Kurnell packing winds of up to 213 km/h, with residents saying they heard a roaring sound “like a freight train” as the storm struck.
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Watch the World Change But Not Really In Wikipedia’s ‘#Edit2015’ | Motherboard
Maybe that’s part of the point of the Wikipedia Foundation’s #Edit2015 montage: History is always feeding back through the present. It is always subject to edit.
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Egypt delays trial of Irishman on hunger strike – Al Jazeera English
Egypt has delayed a mass trial that includes an Irish citizen on hunger strike for the tenth time, raising concern among his family, human rights groups and lawyers that Irishman’s health will deterioate further.
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Colombian refugees seek justice in peace deal – Al Jazeera English
Quito, Ecuador – After three years of negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC rebels in the Cuban capital, Havana, a peace deal that could bring more than five decades of conflict to an end, appears to be in sight.
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The Expanse: Syfy’s next big thing.
Now look, I . When most folks think Syfy they think . will change that. Syfy has clearly dropped a lot of cash into this, and a lot of creative power.
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Donald Trump loses wind farm legal challenge – BBC News
Donald Trump’s legal challenge to a planned offshore wind farm has been rejected by the UK’s Supreme Court. Developers intend to site the large turbine structures close to Mr Trump’s golfing development on the Aberdeenshire coast.
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8 Terrible Things About the Trans-Pacific Partnership – In These Times
But progressive public-interest organizations say that the final text, the fruit of seven years of secretive trade talks between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries, dashed even their low expectations.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho: Chelsea board discuss manager’s future
Jose Mourinho’s future as Chelsea manager is under question after the club’s hierarchy held discussions about his position in the past 24 hours.
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Donald Trump loses Scottish windfarms appeal | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the US presidency, has lost his campaign against windfarms being built near his golf course in Scotland.
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Eurozone growth ‘slows’ in December – BBC News
Growth in the eurozone economy slowed slightly in December from the previous month, new monthly figures suggest. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) figure for December fell to 54, down from November’s figure of 54.2, according to Markit.
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The Guardian Cook Christmas Bazaar – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
On 5th December, Guardian Cook readers and contributors congregated at London’s Mary Ward House for the supplement’s inaugural Christmas Bazaar. Yes, we marked the festive season but, more than this, the event celebrated all the talent that Cook has…
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Europe Finally Agrees New Data Protection Rules | TechCrunch
Late yesterday European institutions finally agreed the text of new data protection rules (GDPR), more than three years after new regulation was proposed.
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UK unemployment falls again – BBC News
The UK unemployment rate fell to the lowest for nearly 10 years at 5.2% in the three months to October. It was the lowest jobless rate since the three-month period to January 2006, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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EU will not raise social media age limit to 16 – BBC News
The European Union’s member states will set their own age limits for social media use after they failed to agree on a uniform policy.
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Australian mosque ruling draws mixed reactions – Al Jazeera English
Proponents of a mosque planned for a small rural Australian city have hailed a court’s decision to refuse an appeal against the development, saying it is a win for a multiculturalism.
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COP21: Any agreement is better than no agreement? – Al Jazeera English
Countries taking part in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change summit in Paris, faced with the possibility of total failure, were elated to reach any kind of agreement.
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Durant and Westbrook: the league’s most entertaining duo | Sport | The Guardian
Who owns the longest win streak in the NBA? For the entirety of this season the answer to this question was, obviously, the Golden State Warriors. Then the Milwaukee Bucks happened.
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This Mickey Mouse-shaped streaming device will bring Disney to China | The Verge
Call it a Trojan mouse if you like: this is the streaming device that will bring Disney content to China.
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Lupita Nyong’o ‘had no idea she was auditioning’ for new Star Wars film | Film | The Guardian
Her character, a diminutive alien whose eyes hold a special power, is one of the standout debutants in JJ Abrams’ The Force Awakens. But Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o has revealed she had no idea during her audition that she was up for a part in the n…
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‘The Politics of Higher Purpose’: An Interview With Martin O’Malley | The Nation
Martin O’Malley is running a serious race for the presidency, in which he has courageously defended immigrants, refugees, and Muslims while arguing for bold gun-control policies.
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Paytm’s Founder On Its Online-To-Offline Strategy In India | TechCrunch
Paytm already claims to be India’s largest mobile payments platform, with most of its revenue coming from payments for utility bills, app downloads, and online purchases.
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Isaac W. Dyer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac Watson Dyer (September 13, 1855 – February 13, 1937) was a Maine lawyer and politician. Dyer was born in Baldwin, rural Cumberland County, Maine to Isaac and Martha Osgood (Porter). He earned his B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1878 and also grad…
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Can Bernie Sanders Win Back Iowa’s Working Class? | The Nation
Newton, Iowa—According to my GPS, One Dependability Square doesn’t exist. Yet here it is: huge, sleek, with alternating stripes of beige stone and wraparound windows, and completely deserted. The old brick factory buildings around back still say May…
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google crack down on hate speech in Germany | The Verge
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have agreed to remove hate speech from its platforms within 24 hours in Germany, where the companies have come under increased pressure to curb racism online. As Reuters reports, the web companies committed to the measu…
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The Top Searches On Google In 2015 Included Lamar Odom, Paris And Agar.io | TechCrunch
As the world’s largest search engine in terms of market share, Google’s “Year In Search” list is a pretty good gauge of the zeitgeist. In 2015, basketball player Lamar Odom, the terrorist attacks in Paris, and action game Agar.io made the list of th…
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One of the biggest transformative signals that 195 governments sent to energy markets via the Paris agreement at the weekend was a goal for the global warming ceiling to be set well below 2C, and as low as 1.5C if possible. The scientific advice giv…
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Your pictures: Christmas lights – BBC News
Your pictures: Christmas lights 16 December 2015 Last updated at 09:17 Each week, we publish a gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. This week it is “Christmas lights”, and we begin with a picture by David Swales. Mh Zhou: “A huge Christmas t…
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Yemen’s widows ‘weakest victim of the war’ – Al Jazeera English
TAIZ, Yemen – Every morning by 5am, Zobiada al-Zikri, a resident of Taiz city, wakes up to go to the market and buy leeks. Then she walks around neighbouring villages and sells the product, which yields around 1,000 Yemeni riyals ($4.65) – enough to…
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What If The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels Were Good? – Digg
Everyone knows the prequels fell somewhere between a letdown and a loud, expensive trainwreck. Is it possible to salvage the plot elements, and reimagine a better version of these despised films? The short answer to that largely-rhetorical question …
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The embargo is over, the first reviews are in… and the reaction in general has been thoroughly positive. However, Star Wars: The Force Awakens hasn’t blown everyone away entirely.
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Low-Wage Workers Worry Ahead of Likely Rate Hike | Al Jazeera America
For years, Aracelly Cantos in the New York City borough of Queens has waited for the economic recovery to scoop her up. To make ends meet, Cantos, 27, has taken on two roommates to help with rent for her apartment. She now shares a bedroom with her …
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Review: Star Wars; The Force Awakens Will Make You Believe, Again | TechCrunch
There was a time when songs used to come packaged together as things called “albums” that you had to listen to in order. This created an indelible link between the songs placed near each other on a record, tape or CD.
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BBC Sport – Abby Wambach: US World Cup winner to play final game
United States striker Abby Wambach, the world’s all-time leading international goalscorer, is set to play the final game of her career. Wambach has scored 184 goals in 254 matches, the most of any man or woman in international football history.
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Paul Kagame: Rwanda’s President for Life? | Al Jazeera America
KIGALI, Rwanda — In her days as an active member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Eloise Umutoni did her best to show support for Rwanda’s ruling party and its leader, Paul Kagame.
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Google’s search data draws a picture of a violent 2015 | The Verge
Google has trawled through its records to get a picture of how we searched for things in 2015, selecting the terror attacks in Paris, the Oscars, and the Cricket World Cup as some of the year’s biggest moments.
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Was Marco Rubio Overrated All Along? – The Daily Beast
That was a rough debate for Marco Rubio.
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An Iowa television station reports live from the scene of a bank robbery, when the suspect returns to rob the bank for a second time.
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Asian Netflix Clone iFlix Is Raising $150M To Expand To Africa, Middle East And Europe | TechCrunch
Netflix recently revealed that it has plans to launch in Singapore next year, but already a number of ambitious video streaming services have sprouted up in Southeast Asia — a region that is home to more than 500 million people — aiming to dethrone …
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LG will debut new USB-C monitors and Google Cast soundbars at CES | The Verge
Like teaser trailers for superhero movies, pre-announcements for CES are here to whet your appetite before the main event. LG is one of the first companies out of the gate, pre-announcing new sound equipment, monitors, and PCs.
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Japan court upholds law on married couples’ surnames – BBC News
A Japanese court has upheld a law that married couples must have the same surname, in a blow to women’s rights activists. Campaigners have said the law was discriminatory as most couples end up using the husband’s surname.
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US political gender parity worse than Afghanistan | Al Jazeera America
At the end of this year, the targets set by the United Nations in 2000 for developing countries will expire. In this project, we take those eight Millennium Development Goals and examine how some communities in the United States measure up. We have …
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Insurgent by Veronica Roth – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is a great book for fans of The Hunger Games and other dystopian thrillers. Set in a dystopian world where society is divided, Tris must uncover the truth and accept her reckless new life. This is a very fast paced novel, bursting with surprise…
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The Times reporter Adam Nagourney analyzes key moments from the fifth Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday, as candidates sparred over issues such as terrorism. Donald J.
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If you can rank the work of a filmmaker by the number of video essays it inspires, then Yasujirō Ozu must have made some of the greatest motion pictures of all time.
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Las Vegas debate lays bare deep divisions in Republican race | US news | The Guardian
The deep fissures in Republican race for the White House have been laid bare during a televised debate marked by profound ideological clashes between candidates desperate to be noticed amid the suffocating dominance of the Republican frontrunner, Do…
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Congress is still trying to block the US from releasing control of the internet | The Verge
Late Tuesday night, after the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Republican leaders in Congress released a $1.15 trillion budget proposal.
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South Sudan: The complex factors of famine – Al Jazeera English
Nyal, Unity State, South Sudan – After two months of dipping and diving in the shallows of South Sudan’s swamps, surviving on water lily roots and fish, James Gul is hungry and desperate. He hasn’t eaten in two days and doesn’t know when he will get…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is a Satisfying Return to a Galaxy Far, Far Away | Vanity Fair
But these, really, are minor quibbles. By the thrilling, achingly good denouement, proves a sturdy, rousing addition to the canon. (It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to say that, hasn’t it.
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Does the Higgs boson have a cousin? Two teams of physicists working independently at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, reported on Tuesday that they had seen traces of what could be a new fundamental …
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There’s a very good chance that most diehard Star Wars fans are going to love The Force Awakens. They’re going to love it because it’s been made to their exact specifications, relayed through years of constructive criticism and very vocal bellyachin…
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J.J. Abrams’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Is a Mashup Masterpiece – The Atlantic
A dreamer on a desert planet, waiting for a chance to reach for the stars. A caped and cowled villain in a black helmet, seduced by the Dark Side. A lost droid, beeping and chirping the urgency of its secret message for the rebellion. An apprentice …
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Two Students Made This Spec Ad For Johnnie Walker, And It’s Getting Dusty In Here – Digg
47 diggs Advertising Booze Daniel Titz and Dorian Lebherz are studying at the Film Academy of Baden-Württemberg, and their school helped them produce this incredible spec spot that will make you want to drink away the tears.
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Jimmy Fallon and ‘The Force Awakens’ Cast Sing ‘Star Wars’ Theme A Cappella – The Daily Beast
Jimmy Fallon assembled all the major players from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to jam with The Roots on an a cappella version of the iconic theme song.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets rave reviews – BBC News
The first full reviews for the new Star Wars film The Force Awakens have hailed it as “a triumph” and “a classic”. UK newspapers were the first to publish reviews, with The Daily Telegraph and The Times each awarding it five stars.
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Mass Murderer Confesses on the Radio – The Daily Beast
There was something about the voice of the killer calling into the late-night talk show that burned into the conscience of the Chilean nation: not just the fact of the multiple murders he said he committed; not just that he said he was only followin…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens — our spoiler-free review | The Verge
It’s been easy to smirk at the nostalgia-laden campaign for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But in our franchise-heavy movie universe, Star Wars is unique in that it has always been a product of nostalgia.
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Pentagon Hides Its Gitmo Detainees – The Daily Beast
The general in charge of U.S. prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has indefinitely ended journalists’ access to the prison that holds them. It’s an unprecedented step—and it comes amid reports that some detainees do not have access basic supplies, like clot…
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Russia Is Using Space Power In Its Attack on Syria – The Daily Beast
Russia’s two-month-old military intervention in Syria on behalf of the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has involved dramatic, and highly visible, strikes by high-tech jet fighters, lumbering heavy bombers, powerful ground-based …
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Where Did All the Money Shaun King Raised for Black Lives Go? – The Daily Beast
Shaun King is very good at raising money in support of black lives and—one of those lives might be his own.
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When ‘National Review’ Said ‘Star Wars’ Would Make Kids Dumber – The Daily Beast
Star Wars is arguably the most celebrated American film franchise, among both adults and children of all ages. But did you know that the original trilogy was going to make children “dumber than they need to be”?
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The Creepy Anti-Israel Dolls For Kids – The Daily Beast
Two containers of soft, 10-inch dolls are not the cargo one would expect to alarm Israeli customs officials at the Haifa port.
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‘The Force Awakens’ is the ‘Star Wars’ Sequel You’ve Dreamed About | New Republic
Roughly one hour into my screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the digital projector showing the print conked out.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: Plenty of Girl Power, and Plenty of Deja Vu – The Daily Beast
If you’re wondering how much Star Wars there is in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, fret not, nerf herders: Disney’s J.J. Abrams-directed edition might just be the most Star Wars movie of all time.
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Diagnosing Iraq’s problems – Al Jazeera English
Last week the Iraqi government in Baghdad claimed that Turkey had violated its sovereignty by deploying troops and tanks to the town of Bashiqa, north of Mosul. Turkey has stated that this deployment is part of a previously agreed plan to train Iraq…
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Israel army kills two Palestinians in refugee camp raid – Al Jazeera English
Two Palestinians have been killed and four were wounded during an overnight Israeli army raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp in the central occupied West Bank. Ahmed Jahajha, 21, and Hikmet Hamdan, 29, were both fatally shot by Israeli forces before…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a great starter film for a new generation | Ars Technica
One of the most memorable scenes in the Star Wars film series is from Episode IV: A New Hope. Luke Skywalker, then just a farmer, looks out onto the horizon as two suns set on the planet of Tatooine. There is the feeling of hope, and a sense that an…
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How a Hawk Clarifies Love and Loss, Beauty and Terror, Control and Surrender | Brain Pickings
“It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn’t to be shared, no matter how hard you try.
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India Supreme Court cracks down on Delhi vehicle pollution – BBC News
India’s Supreme Court has announced a slew of measures to curb record air pollution levels in the capital, Delhi. It has stopped registration of diesel vehicles with a capacity of more than 2,000cc and banned trucks more than 10 years old from enter…
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Ryan Tells House GOP of Tax, Spending Deal | Al Jazeera America
Congressional negotiators have wrapped up a sprawling deal to keep the U.S. government operating through next September while setting new policies ranging from repealing a 40-year-old ban on oil exports to making many business tax breaks permanent, …
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Markets await Fed US interest rate decision – business live | Business | The Guardian
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and business. The waiting is nearly over.
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It is intriguing that for decades “wooden” has been a decidedly pejorative description. No actor or sportsman wanted to be called “wooden”. Until a few years ago, there was no material or fuel as unfashionable as wood.
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“We can never know what to want,” Milan Kundera wrote in contemplating the central ambivalences of life and love.
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Just finishing up work and this lil guy showed up : aww
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Just finishing up work and this lil guy showed up via /r/aww https://t.co/rIO6jAmAsl https://t.co/plPAKBkLLE https://t.co/zznTVXwYcZ
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Xi Jinping calls for ‘cyber sovereignty’ at Beijing internet conference – BBC News
China’s President Xi Jinping has called on countries to respect one another’s “cyber sovereignty” and different internet governance models. Mr Xi said that countries have the right to choose how to develop and regulate their internet.
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Barack Obama sent his pollster Jim Messina to the UK in 2014 with his blessing and a message to stop Ed Miliband wining the general election, it was claimed in a victory speech given by a Conservative Party co-chairman the night of the election.
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Federal Reserve almost certain to raise short-term borrowing rates | Business | The Guardian
The Federal Reserve looks almost certain to raise short-term borrowing rates on Wednesday, ending an extraordinary period of government intervention in the financial markets that started at the height of the recession.
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Why is ‘yellowface’ wrong yet pantomime dames are OK? | Helen Lewis | Opinion | The Guardian
How can I put this? Wee Jimmy Krankie in yellowface is not the hill I want to die on.
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The Fifth Republican Debate Ends In A Nine-Way Draw | FiveThirtyEight
The Republican debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night had the feeling of a soccer match that ended in a nil-nil draw. It was a tactical and defensively minded affair, full of technically competent but predictable performances.
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Hallelujah! History of King’s College chapel finally published | Books | The Guardian
In what must be one of the most monumental examples of an academic’s dedication to their subject – a history of King’s College chapel, Cambridge, that ran to more than 20 times its commissioned length and was incomplete when its author died – has fi…
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Sparks fly in Republican candidates debate on security – BBC News
A heated debate by Republican presidential candidates in the United States has been dominated by foreign policy, and how to defend America from attack by militants from the so-called Islamic State group.
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The prime minister has been urged to intervene in planned cuts to solar power subsidies as a response to the signing of the Paris agreement on climate change at the weekend.
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The Flame and Horse Head Nebulae [3252×2444] : spaceporn
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Republicans Argue Over How to Keep America Safe as Trump Sticks to Muslim Ban at Debate | VICE News
It was an evening of high stakes and low blows, fear mongering and bellicosity, as the still-crowded GOP field assembled Tuesday for one last tussle this year.
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Topsy, The Popular Social Analytics Service Bought By Apple, Closes Down | TechCrunch
Topsy, the Twitter and general social media analytics service quietly bought by Apple for more than $200 million two years ago, closed its doors today.
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Native Hawaiian Election Canceled by Organizers | Al Jazeera America
Still, organizers said they plan to press ahead with a convention next year aimed at continuing their cause. Native Hawaiians were voting to elect 40 delegates who would meet at the convention to come up with a proposed self-governance document.
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Nigeria accused of killing hundreds of Shia Muslims – Al Jazeera English
Police have killed at least three Shia Muslim protesters after opening fire in the northern city of Kaduna, the spokesman for the religious minority in Nigeria said, as activists accused soldiers of having killed hundreds in “a massacre” in a nearby…
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Stubbornly theatrical, Quentin Tarantino’s three-hour snowed-in Western The Hateful Eight is a difficult movie by a director who’s not known for making them.
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The 20 worst films of 2015 · Best of · The A.V. Club
Tomorrow, The A.V. Club dramatically unveils its list of the year’s best movies, counting down our favorite summer blockbusters, award-season indies, and foreign-made triumphs from 2015.
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The best TV of 2015, part 2 · Best of · The A.V. Club
Yesterday, The A.V. Club began its survey of the year’s best television programming, counting down from No. 40 to No. 21.
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Concussion takes two things that America has consistently loved—Will Smith and investigative medical procedurals—and pits them against an even bigger cultural touchstone: the NFL. Smith plays Dr.
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The year in swag 2015: A video showcase, part 1 · Best of Video · The A.V. Club
All year, well-meaning PR types send us wacky and elaborate promotional items, with dreams of free publicity dancing in their heads.
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How many great scenes does it take to make a great movie? The Revenant, a ravishingly violent Western survival yarn from Alejandro González Iñárritu, has a healthy few, scattered like acorns across its two-and-a-half-hour canvas.
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Loosely inspired by the life of Joy Mangano, inventor of the self-wringing Miracle Mop, David O.
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Best TV of 2015: The ballots · Best of · The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club’s list of 2015’s best TV programming came together with the input of more than 30 staff members and contributors, who singled out 105 different shows, miniseries, specials, and telefilms as the year’s best.
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The year in swag 2015: Celebrating the many perks of the ivory tower · Best of · The A.V. Club
There are a lot of perks to occupying this, the highest peak in pop culture’s ivory tower. Us A.V.
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What show were you most upset to see left off this year’s Best Of TV list? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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Roughly speaking · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’m a straight 26-year-old man who wants advice on helping my fiancée realize a particular fantasy. We have been dating for three years and are in a happy monogamous relationship. I was always vanilla, but she enjoys rougher sex and light bondage.
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Hideo Kojima is making a new PS4 console exclusive | The Verge
After months of speculation, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima’s future is clear; Kojima Productions has relaunched as an independent studio, and its first game will be a PlayStation 4 console exclusive.
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Los Angeles public schools to reopen after hoax terror threat | US news | The Guardian
Authorities in Los Angeles have ordered schools to reopen on Wednesday after concluding that a threat of violence which triggered mass school closures was not credible.
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A cycling return home: exploring the lost lanes of Wales | Environment | The Guardian
“Oh, I don’t know …” says my father, shaking his head and sucking his teeth, as if I’d asked him to make a much more serious decision than coming out for a ride with me on the only sunny day of the week. “It’ll be fun!” I attempt to convince him.
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Nissan turned into a Jaguar. : pics
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Nissan turned into a Jaguar. via /r/pics https://t.co/5ncOb3GYOb https://t.co/Woqfe9jPXJ https://t.co/VPXfJv3CeH
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It’s not a major surprise that some of the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens can carry a tune. After all, stars Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac sang together about outer space long, long ago in a Coen Brothers movie far, far away.
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Death penalty rates plunge to lowest level in the US since 1970s | World news | The Guardian
The painfully slow death of the death penalty in the United States continued to play itself out in 2015, reducing the ultimate punishment to levels not seen for the past 40 years, according to two new reports.
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Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: 10 things we learned | US news | The Guardian
Long story short from Las Vegas on Tuesday: It was long on substance. Candidates were asked about national security issues, immigration policy, government surveillance and naughty things the candidates have said about each other on the campaign trai…
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Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires via NASA https://t.co/hxMzPkVIGk https://t.co/0N0VX31MjN https://t.co/6aRXT9z1nh
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3 winners and 3 losers from the fifth Republican debate – Vox
Tuesday night’s CNN Republican debate was perhaps the most entertaining installment since the first Fox News debate in August. Donald Trump and Jeb Bush’s weird personal issues with each other went from subtext to explicit, brutal text.
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US Executions at Lowest Level Since 1991 | Al Jazeera America
The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.
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A GOP Debate ISIS Would Love – The Daily Beast
LAS VEGAS — If one of the goals of ISIS is to scare the American people, the GOP did them a service on Tuesday night—ratcheting up the fearful rhetoric, and combining it with ideas that were at times ignorant or illegal.
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Republican debate: tough talk on terror, Isis and NSA – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican candidates took the stage for one last time in 2015 to discuss immigration reform, surveillance and US foreign policy. Jeb Bush accused frontrunner Donald Trump of being a ‘chaos candidate’ while Chris Christie berated President Obama as …
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Apple shuts down Twitter analytics service Topsy | The Verge
Topsy, an Apple-owned service that searched and analysed data from Twitter, is no more. As noted by 9to5Mac, the company’s website now redirects to an Apple support page about how to use the new proactive Search functionality (above) in iOS 9.
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Republican candidates weigh in on NSA, bulk data collection – video | US news | The Guardian
The US government’s right to monitor citizens’ phones and data in an effort to catch potential terrorists took center stage in Tuesday night’s Republican debate with many candidates, including Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, calling for more expansive sur…
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House of Cards Season 4 Gets a Release Date and a Fantastic Campaign Website
Possibly the best thing to happen during tonight’s GOP debate was this ad for House of Cards’s next season. Netflix isn’t a giant tease, either—we’ve got a release date, and a campaign website to tide us over for the next few months.
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Jeb Bush’s Empty Triumph Over Donald Trump | New Republic
It took five tries—and poll numbers plunging to the low single digits—but Jeb Bush finally had what could be described as a good debate on Tuesday night.
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Hey there. Hi. You might have traveled over to this review because there is almost no other new TV content now that most shows are on this new thing called the winter hiatus or whatever.
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No one wants to see a spoiler. That principle was understood by many of those who watched “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at its world premiere in Los Angeles Monday night, days ahead of the vast majority of fans.
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APOD: 2015 December 15 – Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires
Explanation: What are those colorful arcs in the sky? Like rainbows that are caused by rain, arcs of sunlight broken up into component colors can also result when ice crystals floating in Earth’s atmosphere act together as a gigantic prism.
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Polished piece of Ammonite Fossil : pics
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Polished piece of Ammonite Fossil via /r/pics https://t.co/BvAu4egt18 https://t.co/gkdOSLIipT https://t.co/q0cVAJYv1q
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Spirit of the season in a farmyard well | Environment | The Guardian
For sale, beside a stack of 8ft long straw bales at Dupath, are Christmas trees with silver-tinged, non-drop, needles. Later in the week Norway spruce will be cut from the farm’s own plantation and sold at a cheaper price.
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TAPI pipeline: A new silk route or a pipe-dream? – Al Jazeera English
Energy hungry India and Pakistan have joined hands with Afghanistan and struck a deal with Turkmenistan to build a gas pipeline at a cost of $10 billion.
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There used to be a joke popular among English wine producers: “How do you make a small fortune? Start with a large fortune and then open a vineyard.” But if that was once painfully accurate, the burgeoning industry now appears to be on a roll.
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Ben Carson Had Some Difficulty With the Program During Tuesday’s G.O.P | Vanity Fair
While several candidates beat each other up onstage at Tuesday night’s fifth G.O.P. primary debate, Dr. Ben Carson, appeared at times to be doing an impression of the Celestial Tea Sleepytime Bear, occasionally looking as if he briefly forgot that h…
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Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. (vox.com) Pssshht, that’s nothing. We have brain eating amoebas in the water down here in Louisiana.
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Rand Paul – “I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.” (youtube.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]StealthyOwl [score hidden] 58 minutes ago(17 children)Rand has b…
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San Bernardino and the Mechanics of a Double Life – The New Yorker
For all that investigators have learned about the San Bernardino terrorist attack, a mystery persists: How did Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik—a couple with an infant, an American family, and, in the father’s case, a reputation as an …
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Girl and Blue Doorway Image, Morocco – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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N. Korea Hands Pastor Life Sentence | Al Jazeera America
Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was given the sentence after a brief trial before the North’s Supreme Court on Wednesday. Further details were not immediately available.
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New LHC Results Hint at the Existence of a Ginormous Mystery Particle | Motherboard
Results presented Tuesday by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider offer the tantalizing hint of a new particle, possibly a very heavy variation on the Higgs boson.
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Republican debate: Cruz and Rubio vie to eclipse ‘chaos candidate’ Trump | US news | The Guardian
The Republican Party’s next-generation candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz went head-to-head on immigration reform, surveillance and US foreign policy in the final presidential debate of the year, battling to claim the mantle as the most viable alte…
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N Korea sentences Canada pastor to life in jail – BBC News
North Korea’s highest court has sentenced a Canadian pastor to hard labour for life for “crimes against the state”, reports say. Hyeon Soo Lim, 60, was arrested in Pyongyang after he travelled there in January for humanitarian work.
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The Major National Security Issue CNN Didn’t Raise During The GOP Debate | ThinkProgress
Tuesday’s GOP debate was scheduled just three days after nearly 200 countries adopted a historic climate agreement in Paris. Though the debate focused on national security, touching on ISIS, North Korea and terrorism.
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Iran threatened with new sanctions over missile test – Al Jazeera English
Iran violated a United Nations Security Council resolution in October by test-firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the United States for more sanctions on Tehran.
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Republicans are trying to beat Trump with wishful thinking and it’s not working – Vox
If Donald Trump hadn’t been leading national GOP polls for months, one could be forgiven for seeing him as a loser in the Republican debate in Las Vegas.
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The Five Biggest Fights of the Fifth G.O.P Debate | Vanity Fair
The sparks began to fly almost immediately on Tuesday night as the nine top-polling Republican presidential hopefuls faced off at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.
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The GOP debate, in one tweet – Vox
The GOP debate, in one tweet https://t.co/jP18dNn1Yc https://t.co/gPtYDVSVWK
For someone who follows US foreign policy, Tuesday night’s GOP debate was almost physically painful to watch. This tweet, from New York Times Magazine contributor Ana Marie Cox, perfectly summarizes why: This wasn’t a “foreign policy” debate, or eve… -
Cruz and Trump’s ISIS Plans Sound a Lot Like War Crimes – The Daily Beast
Carpet-bombing with no regard for civilian casualties. Murdering the possibly-innocent families of terrorists just to make a point. The line between official U.S.
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The 8 Biggest Moments of Tuesday’s Republican Presidential Debate | Mother Jones
The stakes in Las Vegas were high on Tuesday night, as the nine leading Republican presidential candidates met once again for the last Republican debate of 2015.
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Open thread for night owls: Republicans stoke fear and anger while distracting us from TTP
Middle America is smoldering. For too long, average citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits, off-shored community-sustaining factories, killed family-supporting jobs and crushed opportunity.
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The GOP Is the Party of Fear | New Republic
The Republicans might consider themselves as the party of freedom, but their true identity, as Tuesday night’s debate made clear, is the party of fear.
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House of Cards season 4 teaser : television
I’m hoping there will be more breaking of the 4th wall in this season, it dropped off towards the end of the last one. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for us though. That break after like 3 episodes without during season 2 was honestly my favorite…
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Destructive winds lash Sydney – BBC News
Destructive winds of more than 200km/h lashed south Sydney on Wednesday. Two people from the suburb of Kurnell have been taken to hospital after roof collapses, a New South Wales Ambulance spokesperson told the BBC.
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Trump v Bush round 3: ‘Am I talking or are you talking, Jeb?’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Perennial rivals Donald Trump and Jeb Bush had at it again in Tuesday night’s Republican debate, the fifth and final of 2015. It started when Trump, appearing to compliment Bush, went on to insult his intelligence and toughness.
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Amazon is also making a show about (The Grateful Dead’s) roadies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gear up, folks: There are now two competing TV series in development about the exciting lives of roadies.
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Ben Carson’s North Korea plan: put “one horse show” Vladimir Putin “in a box” – Vox
Ben Carson’s North Korea plan: put “one horse show” Vladimir Putin “in a box” https://t.co/H4CzIW0f4a https://t.co/2fIcWpsaIB
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In a debate about “keeping America safe,” Republicans mentioned guns just 3 times – Vox
In a debate about “keeping America safe,” Republicans mentioned guns just 3 times https://t.co/tcI0ZrXCcR https://t.co/JB32ifi72R
In a two-plus hour Republican presidential debate focused on “keeping America safe,” candidates mentioned guns a total of three times — twice by Ohio Gov. -
Second episodes often repeat patterns established in the first as a way to cement them in viewers’ minds (or because the writers are still figuring out what to do next). Oddly enough, The Expanse confirms to the trend, for good and for ill.
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“Jupiter” is one of those classic, moody before-the-storm finales. Think of Mad Men’s Cuban Missile Crisis episode or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Call To Arms,” a similarly packed episode dispersing dozens of characters to fight a sudden war.
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Police officers in Northern California who were investigating a case of torture and abuse of a child this week found the bodies of two children inside a storage unit.
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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clash over surveillance at Republican debate | US news | The Guardian
The US government’s right to monitor citizens’ phones and data in an effort to catch potential terrorists took centre stage early in Tuesday night’s Republican debate in Las Vegas.
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Paul Ryan announces deal on US spending bill | US news | The Guardian
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced late Tuesday an agreement between congressional leaders and the White House on a year-end tax and spending package that would fund the government through the 2016 budget year, raise domestic and defense spending, an…
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UK fishing quota increases agreed at EU negotiations – BBC News
Increases have been agreed for the UK fishing industry in quotas for fish including North Sea cod. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the cod quota would rise by 15%, and that for English Channel plaice would double.
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Donald Trump’s Brilliant Plan to Defeat ISIS: Break The Internet | Vanity Fair
For months, Donald Trump hinted that he had a brilliant plan to defeat ISIS, but kept his plan mostly mum, dribbling it out in bits and pieces: bomb the group, take the oil, and, possibly, do something in regards to China.
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Why are Chinese fishermen destroying coral reefs in the South China Sea? (bbc.com)
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Donald Trump’s Hair Color: The Biggest Mystery of the G.O.P. Debate | Vanity Fair
At the Republican presidential primary debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, candidates were probed on ISIS, the Internet, and immigration, but one truly great question remained: What is going on with Donald Trump’s hair color?
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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush Can’t Stop Fighting at the G.O.P. Debate | Vanity Fair
There’s no love lost between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, but in the fifth Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, their long-simmering animosity got uncomfortably personal, repeatedly. “Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. But he’s a chao…
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‘Chaos candidate’: Trump attacked over Muslim ban plans – Al Jazeera English
Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush has sharply criticised front-runner Donald Trump in a debate for proposing to ban Muslims from entering the United States, calling him a “chaos candidate” adept at delivering one-liners.
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Republican debate open thread #7
One more thread? Okay, one more thread for: You can watch on your television at CNN, CNN en Español and CNN International or streaming on CNN’s homepage, offered free for anyone who wants to watch. Listen on the radio on the Salem Radio Network.
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Join us for real-time analysis of the fifth Republican debate by Nick Confessore, Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappeport, and live fact checks. Viewers of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas were primed for a feisty exchange between Se…
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How To Run Your Company Based On Metrics | TechCrunch
I prefer to see a screenshot of an internal dashboard, not something created for the board, and I prefer to see that same dashboard in the same format at every meeting.
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Jeb Bush said Donald Trump can’t insult his way to the presidency. So Trump insulted him. – Vox
Jeb Bush said Donald Trump can’t insult his way to the presidency. So Trump insulted him. https://t.co/ZkfTqe6qYw https://t.co/wJC8x5k8W1
But Trump was not having it. In a fiery retort, Trump pointed out what’s perhaps the most uncomfortable fact for the Republican Party: He actually rose to the top while insulting people. In fact, Trump’s insults and bluster have arguably pushed Bush… -
Trump: We must stop Isis from using ‘our internet’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump told CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer that Isis should be stopped from using the internet. Trump, who currently leads the Republican presidential race, appeared to suggest that parts of the internet should be shut down to prevent milit…
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GOP debate audience excited by promises of killing noncombatants and innocents
What do killing family members of ISIS and bombing innocent children have in common? Popularity with the GOP debate audience.
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Trump: I Would Intentionally Kill Families To Defeat ISIS | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump defended his proposal to kill the family members of ISIS terrorists on Tuesday, saying the policy would be warranted because family members “know what is going on” with their relatives.
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Republican debate open thread #6
What do you think so far? A reminder of who you’re watching: You can watch on your television at CNN, CNN en Español and CNN International or streaming on CNN’s homepage, offered free for anyone who wants to watch. Listen on the radio on the Salem R…
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Will UConn’s Dominance End Anytime Soon? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Dec.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Fully proofed. via /r/Catloaf…
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Donald Trump just proposed closing “areas” of the internet – Vox
During Tuesday night’s GOP debate, Donald Trump proposed an unusual strategy for fighting ISIS: banning “areas” of the internet “where we are at war with somebody.” It got odder from there. TRUMP: We should be using our brilliant people.
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Here is Ted Cruz’s totally incoherent answer on how he’d beat ISIS – Vox
Ted Cruz is fond of saying America should “carpet bomb” ISIS — the New York Times, in a recent editorial, called him “Ted ‘Carpet Bomb’ Cruz” because it’s his “favorite” line. So on Tuesday night, Wolf Blitzer asked him what he meant. Cruz’s answer …
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Carly Fiorina said she’s been “called every b-word in the book” at the Republican debate – Vox
Fiorina clearly meant “bitch,” or perhaps “bossy” — in any case, a gendered insult. The comment, and indeed her entire opening statement, was heavily focused on the ways Fiorina has struggled to overcome specifically gender-based obstacles to get to…
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Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. (vox.com)
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Swearing in front of children and duelling no longer crimes in Michigan | US news | The Guardian
It is no longer a crime punishable with jail time in Michigan to swear in front of women or children, or sing the national anthem out of tune.
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My dad. 56. Terminally ill. Preparing to see Motley Crue tonight. (m.imgur.com) He wanted the “Nikki Sixx early glam” look. Here he is with his makeup artist.
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Domino’s buys biggest German pizza chain in $86m deal – BBC News
The companies that own Domino’s Pizza in the UK and Australia have set up a joint venture to buy Germany’s biggest pizza chain. Joey’s Pizza has 212 stores across Germany with annual sales of €143m.
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Rolls-Royce sacks two top managers – BBC News
Rolls-Royce will revamp its management structure and recruit a chief operating officer as Warren East strives to revive the ailing company. Tony Wood, the head of aerospace, will depart, and Lawrie Haynes, who runs the land and sea division, will st…
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Sea lion deaths linked to severe brain damage caused by toxic algae bloom – Sea lions on US west coast beaches that ingest domoic acid may face neurological problems that impair behavior and survival abilities, new study finds (theguardian.com)submi…
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The White House launched an ambitious effort to enlist the private sector in its efforts to reclaim and conserve water Tuesday, saying it’s critical for the country to better manage water supplies that are under increasing pressures from climate cha…
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Donald Trump Details Plan To Close ‘Areas’ Of The Internet | ThinkProgress
Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump followed up on his promise to close parts of the internet in order to fight ISIS radicalization, offering his most specific idea yet in the GOP debate Tuesday night. “I would certainly be open to closing areas w…
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Peake: What Tim’s space flight means for Britain – BBC News
There was a time when the UK government scoffed at the thought of human space flight. Sending people into space was too expensive, indulgent and, frankly, what was the point? This view prevailed in Whitehall for decades.
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Republican debate open thread #5
And it’s still happening. They’re still on the stage: You can watch on your television at CNN, CNN en Español and CNN International or streaming on CNN’s homepage, offered free for anyone who wants to watch. Listen on the radio on the Salem Radio Ne…
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Childhood fears and adult traumas are stored differently in the brain than happy memories. They are buried like porous capsules deep in the primitive regions, below awareness and beyond easy reach of conscious thinking and talking.
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Gaitonde painting breaks world record for Indian art – BBC News
An oil painting by an Indian artist has sold for 239m rupees ($3.6m; £2.4m) at a Christie’s auction in Mumbai, setting a new world record for Indian art. Vasudeo S. Gaitonde’s untitled painting from 1995 was bought by an anonymous buyer, the auction…
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Trump, Cruz Go to Blows Over Muslims – The Daily Beast
After months of trying to be nice and pretending to be friends, Ted Cruz has finally taken on Donald Trump. Sort of.
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Best Time Ever has a pretty crappy time, gets canceled · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Proving that no combination of aggressively happy celebrities and their earnest, constantly widening smiles will ever convince the American public to accept the humble, unloved variety show back into their hearts—no matter how often Maya Rudolph or …
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Republican debate open thread #4
Carson then strives valiantly to sound like he knows what he’s talking about on foreign policy, dropping proper nouns right and left.
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Slack launches an app store and an $80 million fund to invest in new integrations | The Verge
Slack is wrapping up a breakout year with a set of announcements designed to press its advantage as a next-generation productivity app.
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House of Cards’ fourth season is coming on March 4th | The Verge
In a special announcement during tonight’s Republican Presidential debate, Kevin Spacey, playing President Underwood from House of Cards, appeared to announce the next season will debut on March 4th, 2016.
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Malala condemns Donald Trump call for Muslim ban in US – BBC News
Malala Yousafzai has condemned a call by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the US. The Nobel Prize winner said his comments were “full of hatred” and blaming Muslims for terrorism would only “radicalise more terrorist…
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Libya: Rival parliament leaders hold first meeting – BBC News
The heads of Libya’s two rival parliaments have met for the first time, Libyan television reported. Agila Salah, from the internationally recognised congress in the eastern city of Tobruk, and Nouri Abusahmen, from the Tripoli-based General National…
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In his opening statement at the Republican presidential debate, frontrunner Donald Trump defended his call for a total ban on Muslim immigration, claiming that “tens of thousands” of ISIS sympathizers are coming across the southern U.S. border with …
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Highlights from the Fifth Republican Debate | New Republic
Republican candidates gathered in Las Vegas on December 15 for their fifth debate of the primary season. Read the highlights from the debate below and follow along at our blog Minutes, where we’ll be covering the action as it unfolds.
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Conservative Radio Host Says Carly Fiorina Went ‘Full Vagina’ In GOP Debate | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina began her opening statement during Tuesday’s GOP debate with a personal appeal. The former Hewlett Packard CEO mentioned her battle with breast cancer and how she worked her way up the corporate ladder…
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Final Data Collection And Farewell To Jang Bogo : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Before it was time to recheck our GPS stations and download data from them, the icebreaker Araon arrived at Jang Bogo, bringing new scientists, a new helicopter crew, fresh food, and other supplies.
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The Barbie movie hires three more writers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
These days, movie studios have so much riding on their big adaptations of toys, cartoons, and board games that it’s tough to survive a Jem-like flop. To avoid running into something like that for its Barbie movie, Sony has decided to hire three writ…
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Jet traffic linked to ice haze – BBC News
Planes may be making a high-altitude icy haze that is brightening US skies, according to a group of scientists. They have been looking for a reason why the total amount of solar radiation reaching the surface has been increasing over time.
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Lindsey Graham Warns Ted Cruz Not to Cross Princess Buttercup | Vanity Fair
Ted Cruz is taking it from all sides this week over his professed love for The Princess Bride.
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Star Wars Breakout Character BB-8 Has a Surprising Celebrity Voice | Vanity Fair
Though J.J. Abrams probably had a lot of voices weighing in on who he should cast to play some of the major characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s clear that the director had his share of fun with some of the smaller bits of the film.
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Not a peep in the debate about that other terrorist attack on U.S. soil
ISIS terrorism? Muslims and Syrians and terrorists crossing the border? Those we’ll talk about. But we’ve had more time devoted to the hoax threat against Los Angeles area schools than the actual attack that took place in Colorado just weeks ago. Go…
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Three hurt as Southwest Airlines jet skids into ditch at Nashville Airport | US news | The Guardian
A Southwest Airlines plane packed with passengers has skidded into a ditch at Nashville international airport after landing, injuring three people.
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Republican debate open thread #3
You can watch on your television at CNN, CNN en Español and CNN International or streaming on CNN’s homepage, offered free for anyone who wants to watch. Listen on the radio on the Salem Radio Network.
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Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa – video | World news | The Guardian
Rick Spinrad, chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), announces global warming in the Arctic circle has hit new heights in the past year.
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Trump says we need to ban Syrian refugees because they have ISIS photos on their phones – Vox
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Early in Tuesday night’s GOP debate, Wolf Blitzer asked Donald Trump to defend his proposal to ban all non-American Muslims from entering the United States. Trump’s answer was, even for Donald Trump, pretty strange: We are not talking about isolatio… -
The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root | Grist
Oil is in trouble already in the global marketplace. Could the new climate agreement deliver a knockout punch?
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Video: Meet the architect who builds solar homes from recycled materials | Grist
Meet their architect, Michael Reynolds.
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The Paris Agreement has a few ideas about how to curb deforestation | Grist
Oil is in trouble already in the global marketplace. Could the new climate agreement deliver a knockout punch?
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Let’s do some basic math about Yahoo since took the helm over three years ago. She paid about $3 billion for acquisitions of companies you’ve mostly never heard of, like Aviate, Polyvore and Distill (and one company you may have heard of, Tumblr). S…
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Slack Launches App Directory And Joins Top VCs For $80M Fund Backing Developers | TechCrunch
Slack just hatched a master plan to ensure it becomes the social and collaboration hub of the enterprise. It’s harnessing all its Silicon Valley hype to create rocket fuel for its growing app platform. Slack wants to lock in the 2 million daily acti…
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LAS VEGAS—His voice slowing during his response to a question about immigration as he struggled to comprehend what was happening to him, a visibly terrified Jeb Bush reportedly began to vanish from the visible spectrum while on stage at Tuesday nigh…
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Fairphone 2: world’s first modular phone goes on sale – BBC News
The internal components of the Fairphone 2 are split into modules which can be replaced with minimal tools or expertise. The company behind the phone hopes this will encourage owners to keep their phones for longer, rather than regularly changing to…
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When the Federal Reserve last raised US interest rates – BBC News
So will the Federal Reserve finally do it? Certainly the financial markets think that it will raise US interest rates on 16 December. You could be forgiven for having forgotten what that’s like.
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Sir Elton John: ‘My album is happy because I’m happy’ – BBC News
Pop star Sir Elton John talks about his “joyous” new album, and insists he will never retire. Sir Elton John’s work rate might have slowed since the 1970s, when he regularly released two albums a year, but the star shows no signs of stopping.
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What is the World Trade Organization? – BBC News
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international agency with 162 member countries and its purpose is to promote international commerce. It has become closely associated with globalisation and is a frequent target for critics of the process.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake boards the International Space Station, which will be his home for the next six months, after a six-hour flight through space.
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Family portraits of a ‘transitional generation’ – BBC News
This year, the US Supreme Court made the landmark decision to legalise same-sex marriage across the US. But residents of Massachusetts had already been given marriage rights in 2004 – though without any of the federal benefits they received after th…
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The man behind the world’s most popular puzzle – BBC News
In 1974, Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik created his eponymous Cube as a teaching tool for his students. His students loved playing with the Cube which inspired him to make it more widely available. Forty years on, the Cube has sold 350 million copie…
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Star Wars’ Abrams leads move from CGI to reality – BBC News
Every so often, Hollywood has a bete noire. Over the years, it’s been talkies, piracy, the video cassette industry and right now, in some quarters, it appears to be computer-generated imagery (CGI).
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Miami Underwater: As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels. : environment
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Trump, Cruz in spotlight on GOP debate stage | Al Jazeera America
Republican presidential candidates take the debate stage Tuesday night for the first time in a month, their race reshaped by national security threats but still dominated by outsider contenders. Now it’s Texas Sen. Ted Cruz challenging front-runner …
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All times in Pacific. Click any time to convert it to your local time zone. The candidates will be split into two debates according to poll rankings, in a manner similar to the previous GOP debates.
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Admire This Picturesque Launch for an Imperfect Mission
Ooooh, pretty! This is the Soyuz spacecraft shaking the bonds of gravity to carry astronauts to the International Space Station in the wee hours of this morning. After a brief docking hiccup, the trio joined the station crew to kick off Expedition 4…
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Venus and Earth: Too Much Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Do A Planet Good : environment
Venus and Earth: Too Much Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Do A Planet Good (primalsapien.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Miami Underwater: As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels. (newyorker.com)
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Flint’s mayor has declared a state of emergency due to problems with the city’s water system caused by using water from the Flint River, saying the city needs more federal help (bigstory.ap.org)submitted 16 minutes ago by loading…
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El Nino’s extreme effects: Corals around this island aren’t just bleaching — they’re dying (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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The environmental cost of rapid expansion in China : pics
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Trump wants to ban all Muslim immigrants. What do other candidates say? – Vox
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Donald Trump’s statement that he thinks it’s prudent to ban all Muslims, citizens or not, from entering the country until we can “figure out what is going on” is sure to be a top question in tonight’s Republican debate on CNN. -
Rubio supporters outspend Republican rivals | Al Jazeera America
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has used a surge of TV advertising to position himself as an ascendant media messaging force ahead of Tuesday’s critical Republican presidential debate.
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CNN Republican Debate: Live Coverage | FiveThirtyEight
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Tyler Perry to host a live musical presentation about Jesus on Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The recent fad of TV networks putting on elaborate live musical presentations has certainly been thrilling (mostly in terms of the hilarious tweets they inspire), but this whole trend has been lacking a certain something that could boost these music…
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Liveblog of the Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas – The Atlantic
8:31 pm: It’s a truism of presidential politics that early polls don’t matter; voters don’t tune in before the holidays are over. But this time just might be different.
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Next month will see the release of The Monkees complete TV series—all 58 episodes plus the feature film Head and the “33 and a 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee” TV special—for the first time in HD video.
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Chennai floods: ‘We had to pay a bribe to cremate our mother’ – BBC News
Residents of the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) came together to help each other as their city was hit by the worst floods in a century. But stories of how the unscrupulous exploited the tragedy are now coming to the fore. Sibi Arasu recou…
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Republican debate open thread #1
They’re back. Tonight’s CNN event is the last Republican presidential debate of 2015, touted by CNN as “a critical event that will help shape the contest heading into the Iowa caucuses.
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Belgium angers Germany with nuclear reactor restart | Environment | The Guardian
Belgium has restarted an ageing nuclear reactor after a nearly two-year shutdown, angering neighbouring Germany which fears the danger of a Fukushima-style meltdown. Power company Electrabel said it put the Tihange 2 reactor back online “in complete…
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Vox Sentences: Nigeria’s government may have massacred hundreds of Shiites – Vox
Nigeria’s government may have massacred 200 or more Shiite Muslims; LA schools close due to bomb hoax; another GOP debate. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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The Star Trek Debate – The Verge
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Hillary Clinton outlines plan to fight homegrown terrorism and Isis | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton sought to convince a tense nation that she was the candidate best suited to prevent homegrown terrorism, presenting a “360-degree” counter-terrorism strategy that called for a key role forAmerican technology companies and moves to gi…
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LONDON — It is not a great idea to carry a plank of wood down a busy sidewalk. Nor should you ride a horse while drunk, or handle a salmon under suspicious circumstances. But should such antics be illegal? Still?
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You can tell mostly everyone has forgot about this and turned their attention onto something else. This is why they just kept bringing it up. Eventually people will forget about and forget about fighting it. You’re absolutely correct.
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Howard Stern is sticking around for at least five more years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Delighting uncles, brothers-in-law, and “co-workers you’re friendly with but would never hang out with outside work” everywhere, radio host and former Fartman Howard Stern has signed a new deal to keep himself on the air at Sirius XM for at least an…
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Homan Square hearing listens to testimony on Chicago police practices | US news | The Guardian
Detainees, legal advocates and activists testified on Tuesday at the first public hearing to examine Homan Square, the Chicago police interrogation facility exposed by the Guardian and falling under renewed scrutiny amid intense examination of the c…
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Lindsey Graham apologizes to Muslims after Donald Trump’s remarks – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham offered an apology to Muslims around the world in light of Donald Trump’s controversial plan to bar them from America. ‘He does not represent us,’ Graham said during CNN’s undercard Republican debate …
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BREAKING: Trump’s Vegas Hotel Refuses To Recognize Its Workers’ Union | ThinkProgress
LAS VEGAS, NV — Just 24 hours before billionaire frontrunner Donald Trump took the stage for the fifth GOP debate, the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas launched a legal challenge to its 500-odd workers’ effort to form a union.
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Lindsey Graham Apologizes to the Muslim World for Donald Trump | Mother Jones
The GOP undercard debate has almost solely focused on how to deal with ISIS and terrorism, with a lot of talk about how the overall religion of Islam factors into the situation. South Carolina Sen.
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Scars laid bare one year after Peshawar school massacre – BBC News
The authorities at Peshawar’s Army Public School (APS) have carried out massive renovations in an attempt to remove the memory of the 16 December 2014 attack by the Pakistan Taliban that claimed 150 lives. But the first anniversary has laid bare the…
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How hummingbirds avoid overheating – BBC News
Colourful footage, shot with a thermal camera, has revealed how hummingbirds avoid overheating as they beat their wings up to 70 times per second. The birds have “windows” for heat loss, around their eyes, shoulder joints, feet and legs.
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Pupils to speak to Tim Peake in video-link to space – BBC News
UK pupils are being offered the chance to speak to astronaut Maj Tim Peake by video-link next year, during his six-month mission around the Earth. More than 1,000 schools, both primary and secondary, have already signed up.
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Most Popular Mac Downloads and Posts of 2015
It’s been another year, which means yet another iteration on OS X. While Apple didn’t make any major moves with the Mac this year, there was still plenty to talk about. Here are our best Mac posts from this past year. Macs are bundled with a ton of …
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Japan court ruling: The women fighting to keep their surnames – BBC News
Japan’s Supreme Court is due to rule on two 19th century family laws which critics say are sexist and out-of-date. One bans women from marrying for six months after divorce, the other forces married couples to have the same surname.
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Keeping on the Sunny Side of Earth : Image of the Day
From dust streaming across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera is keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of Earth. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCO…
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Reading the ABCs from Space : Feature Articles
A few years ago, while working on a story about wildfires, a V appeared to me in a satellite image of a smoke plume over Canada. That image made me wonder: could I track down all 26 letters of the English alphabet using only NASA satellite imagery a…
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Los Angeles Mayor Explains School Closure Over Terror Threat : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti about the closure of over 900 city schools after receiving a threat. Garcetti says the decision was made by the district superintendent.
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Fear and Loathing on the “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” graphic novel tour, part 3 / Boing Boing
Troy Little, creator of the graphic novel adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been keeping a diary of his book signing tour.
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CALL NOW: Paul Ryan is trying to sneak mass surveillance into the budget bill! / Boing Boing
Evan from Fight for the Future writes, “Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is trying to use a Congressional loophole to push through two attacks on our Internet freedom in the ‘omnibus’ must-pass budget bill that Congress is expected to file tonight.
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The 13 Best Bluetooth Speakers And Audio Gizmos For Music Lovers | TechCrunch
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Legend Is the Weirdest Ridley Scott Movie of All Time
Tops among Ridley Scott’s best-loved movies are early entries Alien and Blade Runner. His varied career has also included Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, The Martian, and that movie where Russell Crowe weathers his midlife crisis making wine in Proven…
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Sponsor the Great Barrier Reef and improve its health, says government | Environment | The Guardian
Wealthy companies are being asked to sponsor the Great Barrier Reef as part of a new initiative to improve its health.
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Fargo Season 3 Will Veer Wildly from Familiar Coen Territory | Vanity Fair
Fargo has garnered glowing critical praise for the last two seasons for the clever way it riffs on both the Coen brothers film of the same name and their filmography as a whole.
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Yelp Shares Are Not Having A Good Year | TechCrunch
The year has not been kind to Yelp shareholders. On the year, shares of Yelp have tanked around 50 percent. Today wasn’t an exception, with shares of the company down more than 9 percent.
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The Nemesis of Brazil’s Beleaguered President Is Now the One Feeling the Heat | VICE News
Eduardo Cunha — the speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, who is also the nemesis of the country’s president whom he wants to see impeached — did not have a good Tuesday.
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Jeb Bush on the Apple Watch: ‘It’s not as intuitive as other Apple products’ | The Verge
In case you were holding off on buying the Apple Watch to see what Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush thought of it, you’re in luck. Bush sat down with Business Insider after a town hall meeting in Milford, New Hampshire last week to get his…
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Pakistan remembers Peshawar Army Public School attack – BBC News
Pakistan is remembering the victims of its worse militant attack in recent times. On 16 December 2014 Taliban gunmen stormed the Army Public School in the northern city of Peshawar. More than 150 people were killed, 132 of them children.
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Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. – Vox
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The water in Flint, Michigan, poisoned the town’s children with lead for months. Now the mayor of Flint has declared a state of emergency, saying that the elevated lead levels will have long-lasting effects in its children. -
Aberdeen, Which Invests in Top VC Funds, On Its 2016 Outlook | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, FLAG Capital Management — an asset manager that has backed a long list of top venture firms, including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures — was acquired by the British f…
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Fake president to interrupt real debate · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As would-be public servants bicker tonight over who most hates taxes and loves the convenient parts of the American dream, a true leader is preparing to cut through the clutter and address his waiting people.
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Be a Better Party Host to Non-Drinkers With This Simple Rule of Thumb
Cocktails are essential for most parties, but those who don’t or can’t imbibe are often left sipping a boring can of soda. Here’s a simple rule to follow so non-drinkers can feel like they’re treating themselves too.
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How Guns Gave The ‘Daily News’ Its Mojo Back – The Daily Beast
Finally, there’s a bit of good news for the financially-strapped, morale-sapped New York Daily News.
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Google Play Books adds a nighttime reading mode that’s easier on your eyes | The Verge
Google is following Amazon’s lead with a new mode for its ebooks app that makes reading at night more pleasant and comfortable for your eyes.
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Lifting the Visor on Virtual Reality – Scientific American
Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots.
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‘Harry Potter’ Spin-Off ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Gets Its First Teaser – Digg
2 diggs Movies Trailers The first teaser for JK Rowling’s “Harry Potter” spin-off promises tons of magical mayhem in New York.
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Wish list app from Target springs a major personal data leak | Ars Technica
The next time a friend or family member asks you to install a gift-registry app, remember this: the app is almost certainly soaking up lots of your personal details. In the case of one such app from retailing giant Target, it’s more than happy to ma…
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The Ice Age movies have never really been about historical or scientific accuracy, and even most religious people can agree that the Bible doesn’t say anything about wooly mammoths that talk like Ray Romano.
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Trump and Cruz take aim at one-another in latest Republican debate – BBC News
Front-runners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are expected to clash, breaking their months-long entente in the last Republican presidential debate of 2015. It is the first Republican debate since Mr Trump urged the US impose a ban on Muslim arrivals, in l…
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Canada vows ‘full reconciliation’ with indigenous peoples – BBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged “full reconciliation” with Canada’s indigenous peoples after a report detailed decades of abuse. Speaking at the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report on Tuesday, he said he wants…
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Sydney’s Martin Place hosts cafe siege memorial – BBC News
Crowds have gathered in Sydney’s Martin Place to honour the victims of the Lindt cafe siege, one year on. The city was brought to a standstill on 15 December last year when a gunman held 18 hostages for 17 hours.
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The “Witch Hunt” Barring Same-Sex Families From Adopting Children In Kansas
Dr. Lisa Hines had just finished breaking down the baby’s nursery when she got a text message. It was a year after a Kansas court ordered an infant girl removed from her home with her wife, Tesa, and adopted by the Schumms — a husband and wife who a…
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Smash Bros. DLC concludes with Bayonetta, Super Mario RPG Geno costume | Ars Technica
The most recent Super Smash Bros. fighting game releases have been followed with hints that series creator Masahiro Sakurai would not return to any sequels, only to be followed years later with announcements of him working on new entries. But his ti…
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December 15, 2015 RNC Primaries – CNN Undercard Debate Discussion Megathread : politics
All times in Pacific. Click any time to convert it to your local time zone. The candidates will be split into two debates according to poll rankings, in a manner similar to the previous GOP debates.
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Toxic Algae cause brain damage, memory loss, in sea lions : environment
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Flint Mayor Karen Weaver Declares State of Emergency – The Atlantic
The mayor of Flint, Michigan, has declared a state of emergency over the city’s drinking water, which she says has caused “irreversible” damage to the health of the children consuming it.
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Billy Currington Announces Summer Forever Tour Dates | Rolling Stone
With a February 19th kick-off, Billy Currington has chosen the right name for his 2016 headlining Summer Forever tour. The “Don’t It” singer will keep summer alive in more than 20 cities on the trek, which launches in San Antonio, Texas, and is slat…
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No Matter If You Love or Hate Return of the Jedi, You’re Right
Growing up, I always said Return of the Jedi was my favorite Star Wars movie. It wasn’t until years later I realized I was in the minority by saying that. Watching it again, I now know exactly why I enjoy it so much, why others don’t, and why we’re …
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A Look At One Way Twitter Prepares For Hardware Failures | TechCrunch
In a perfect world, Twitter’s Head of Infrastructure and Operations Mazdak Hashemi can walk over to a data center and kick out a power cable to a server, and the service will continue to run fine.
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Conservatives Are Rewriting Star Wars as a Battle Against Terrorism | New Republic
In writing about Star Wars, certain conservatives love to do a twist on the old adage that “one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.
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See If Your Drone Requires Registration With This Handy Chart
Yesterday, the FAA announced that recreational drones need to be registered by February 19, 2016. Not all drones require registration, however, and it can be a bit confusing. If you’re not sure if your drone needs to be registered or not, you can ch…
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New XPRIZE competition looks for a better underwater robot | Ars Technica
XPRIZE has tempted people to accomplish tasks ranging from putting stuff on the Moon to measuring pH in the deep ocean by using the promise of a sweet cash prize.
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CNN Undercard Republican Debate: Live Coverage | FiveThirtyEight
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The new restaurants I reviewed this year gave me a very deep bench from which to pick this year-end list. Ruthlessly, this ranking of my favorites was capped at 10, but I could have stretched it to 15 without any noticeable drop-off in quality.
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This 9-Foot-Long iPhone Cord Is The Ultimate Holiday Gift, And It’s Only $12 | TechCrunch
Free your friends and family from hunching over the side of their bed, sitting on the floor in airports, and infinite other uncomfortable positions. Buy them this Anker 9-foot long iPhone/iPad lightning cable that’s almost 3X longer than the normal …
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Google Play Books Gets A Feature To Make It Easier To Read At Night | TechCrunch
If you’re a night-reader on your mobile device, then you know that it’s hard to get tired with the bright screen burning your eyeballs. This of course isn’t a problem with physical books, as you can add a soft light to the room to wind down.
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Thousands of Angelenos Deal With School Closing | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — The decision to close every one of the more than 900 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) because of a “credible” threat has disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of families. Working parents scrambled Tues…
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Bus station plays Alvin and the Chipmunks music to annoy homeless people / Boing Boing
If you visit the Bournemouth, England bus station after midnight, you’ll be treated to the fine squeaky sounds of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel pressed guest Oscar Isaac on the aspects of his musical past that don’t involve taking a beating while Bob Dylan gets discovered at the Gaslight.
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Yes, these guys are still running for president, more or less. So here’s former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov.
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Nutanix CEO & Serial Entrepreneur Dheeraj Pandey On “Letting Go” As A Leader | TechCrunch
Dheeraj Pandey, is co-founder & CEO of Nutanix, one of the most disruptive software infrastructure companies today. He has held leadership positions with Aster Data & Oracle. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, and has been wor…
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The public school systems of Los Angeles and New York both received an email message threatening violence this morning. Los Angeles officials, citing the recent rampage in nearby San Bernardino, shut down its more than 900 schools, ranging from kind…
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Who Killed These Preschoolers? – The Daily Beast
Police arrested a 39-year-old California woman and her 17-year-old boyfriend after two small children left in their care were found dead in a storage locker.
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The U.S. High-School Graduation Rate Is Increasing – The Atlantic
The U.S. Department of Education is celebrating a new milestone for the nation’s high-school graduation rate, with just over 82 percent of seniors earning diplomas in 2014.
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Ford’s autonomous cars will hit the streets of California next year | The Verge
Ford is the latest company to receive a permit from California to test its autonomous cars on public roadways. The California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program provides a regulatory framework for companies to legally test self-driving cars.
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British police make arrest in hack that exposed info on 6 million minors | The Verge
Police in England today announced an arrest made in connection to the hacking of VTech, a Hong Kong-based toy maker. Last month, a breach at the company, first revealed by Motherboard, exposed personal information on 11 million people, including mor…
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Nintendo is making amiibo of Final Fantasy’s Cloud and Street Fighter’s Ryu | The Verge
With the latest Super Smash Bros., Nintendo has been introducing plenty of characters from outside of Nintendo games: and some of them are getting amiibo of their very own. Today Nintendo announced that it’s releasing NFC-enabled figures for new Sma…
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Bayonetta joins Super Smash Bros. as the final downloadable character | The Verge
Just over one year after the new Smash Bros. debuted on Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo has announced its last downloadable character: Bayonetta, the titular character from Platinum Games’ action game.
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Email service hit with subpoena after double bomb threat | The Verge
After two bomb threats in Los Angeles and New York, police have issued a subpoena to cock.li, the email service the threats were sent from. Cock.li was served with a subpoena earlier today by the New York Police Department, and is cooperating with t…
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Flint mayor declares ‘manmade disaster’ over lead-tainted water supply | US news | The Guardian
The city of Flint, Michigan has declared a state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation, the resignation of the state governor and a class action lawsuit that could top $1bn.
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1968 stop motion TV commercial for Gulf No-Nox gas / Boing Boing
In 1968, I eagerly waited for this gasoline commercial to air. It featured people magically scooting around the street on their butts. It was likely the best thing on TV that year.
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Psychiatric drug—not antibiotic—messes with gut microbes, spurs obesity | Ars Technica
In a series of experiments in mice, researchers found that a common drug used to treat psychiatric illnesses, including autism and bipolar disorder, alters the gut microbial community.
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Shoppers This Year May Need The Nudge Of Cold Air And Gift Cards : NPR
Stores may be decorated for the holidays, but warmer-than-normal temperatures throughout the U.S. hardly make it feel like it’s gift-giving season. Initial sales reports have been subdued, not exuberant.
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Help A Blind Person Identify Everyday Things, Via Smartphone App : All Tech Considered : NPR
The camera on your smartphone is powerful. You use it to record your baby’s first steps. Take a panorama shot or selfies at the Taj Mahal. Every day, we’re finding new uses.
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Cruz’s Cozy Ties To DC’s Most Prominent, Paranoid Islamophobe – The Daily Beast
The top two Republican presidential contenders share more than a star-crossed bromance: They are also both big fans of an Islamophobic birther conspiracy theorist who thinks Huma Abedin is a sleeper agent.
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The forgotten kingpins who conspired to save California wine / Boing Boing
Last month, Frances Dinkelspiel’s new book, Tangled Vines, cracked the New York Times’ Best Seller list. It’s a great read, since it mostly follows the events leading up to an arson-caused wine-warehouse fire in 2005, in which 4.
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Jessica Williams Gives GOP ‘Assholes’ Last-Minute Debate Advice – The Daily Beast
In this web exclusive from The Daily Show, correspondent Jessica Williams shares her down-to-the-wire advice for Republicans ahead of their big CNN debate in Las Vegas tonight. The Daily Show won’t get a chance to cover tonight’s big CNN Republican …
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Here Are the Best and Worst Moments From Last Night’s Supergirl
Here’s one of the best moments from last night’s episode of Supergirl. The fight scenes were actually pretty great, and seemed to be done in a way that actually used the show’s low VFX budget to good effect. This moment felt like it borrowed from Ch…
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Watch Nuns Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Help ‘Broad City’ Girls | Rolling Stone
Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer get some holy help from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in the hilarious Comedy Central “Sisters” sketch.
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South Sudan’s War Just Turned Two — And the UN Says Its Peacekeepers Aren’t Leaving | VICE News
Two years to the day after war broke out in South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country through next summer. The US-drafted resolution was approved by a vote of 13-0 on Tuesday.
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Nine Inch Nails Prep Limited-Edition ‘Hesitation Marks’ Art Book | Rolling Stone
Nine Inch Nails Prep Limited-Edition ‘Hesitation Marks’ Art Book Each copy of ‘Cargo in the Blood’ to come with original piece by artist Russell Mills
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Sherlock Meets The BBC’s Other Great Detectives In This Fun, Weird Promo
Mashup video edits are universal favorites among fans, and have been for ages. Wars and Trek? Sure. DC’s live action movies and TV shows in one trailer? Fantastic! The BBC mashing up its hit crime shows Sherlock, Luther, and The Fall? Okay that’d be…
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How to Stream Tonight’s CNN Republican Debate Online, No Cable Required
The onslaught of Republican debates may never end. Tonight’s debate is on CNN, but if you don’t have cable, they’re streaming it for free online. As usual, there will be two debates: one at 6 PM ET (3 PM PT) with George Pataki, Mike Huckabee, Rick S…
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Ben Carson Wants US Troops Patrolling the Canadian and Mexican Borders | VICE News
Ben Carson wants US soldiers to patrol certain parts of the Canadian border, according to the seven-step anti-terrorism plan he issued on Tuesday.
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Chicago and Milwaukee, see Will Smith in Concussion early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Why does Will Smith look so sad? Is it because his teenage daughter just dropped an album with a track titled “dRuGz”? Well, yeah, probably, but it’s also because he’s playing Dr.
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Crytek’s Oculus debut The Climb successfully tackles VR sickness, vertigo | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—The game industry’s last major “first-person platformer,” Mirror’s Edge, was met in 2008 with a small-but-passionate fanbase as it toyed with a more intense view of full-blown parkour.
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Why are Chinese fishermen destroying coral reefs in the South China Sea? – BBC News
What I came across on a reef far out in the middle of the South China Sea has left me shocked and confused. I’d been told that Chinese fishermen were deliberately destroying reefs near a group of Philippine-controlled atolls in the Spratly Islands b…
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If CNN Asks the GOP Contenders This Question Tonight, It Will Make Them Squirm | Mother Jones
At CNBC’s Republican presidential debate in October, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lashed out at the moderators after they asked a question about whether daily fantasy sports—a growing and lucrative industry—should be considered a form of gambling …
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These Mexico City Drivers Are Pretty Pissed Off Over Some New Road Safety Rules | VICE News
Claudia Reyes is proud of her multitasking skills, which include the ability to put on her makeup while driving to work. From today, however, the young and busy Mexico City office worker could find that whipping out her mascara while she’s behind th…
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In April, Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn revealed that the film’s sequel would be a “story about fathers,” presumably meaning that it will at least elaborate on the many references the original movie made to the parentage of Chris Pratt…
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Ariana Grande definitively settles the “Han Shot First” debate · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Say what you will about Ariana Grande, the pop star who likes to be carried around like a baby and reportedly hates Americans, loves donuts, and gives zero fucks about germophobes. She knows Star Wars.
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Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud is coming to Smash Bros. today | The Verge
Last month Nintendo surprised Super Smash Bros. fans by announcing that Cloud — the surly hero of Final Fantasy VII — would be joining its ever-growing cast of fighters. And now we finally know when: Cloud will be available as DLC for the game start…
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Republican debate live: candidates hope to hit jackpot in Las Vegas | US news | The Guardian
It’s debate night! Welcome to our live coverage of the fifth Republican presidential debate, and thanks for joining us. The location of tonight’s debate, Las Vegas, invites a prizefight analogy.
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The new Ford GT supercar will be full of fancy technology. A twin-turbo engine. Carbon fiber everything. And, thanks to a partnership with Corning, a windshield built with Gorilla Glass, the same tech that’s used to keep your smartphone screen intac…
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Philip Chism was 14 when he followed his algebra teacher, Colleen Ritzer, into a school bathroom, strangled her, stabbed her at least 16 times and raped her.
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Chinese poachers ‘destroying coral reefs’ – BBC News
When Rupert Wingfield-Hayes visited the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, he found Chinese fishermen were deliberately destroying coral reefs.
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Obama says US is ‘born of immigrants’ in speech at citizenship ceremony | US news | The Guardian
Muhanned Ibrahim Al Naib woke up on Tuesday morning to a surprise. The Iraqi refugee knew this was the day he would finally realise his dream of becoming a US citizen. He did not realise, until he checked his email, that he would be personally welco…
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Bataclan policeman: ‘It was an indescribable moment of fear’ – BBC News
The first police officer to arrive at the Bataclan has spoken about the “indescribable fear” he felt the moment he entered the scene of the massacre. Ninety concert-goers were killed at the Bataclan concert hall, where Eagles of Death Metal were pla…
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Tim Peake begins stay on international space station – BBC News
The Soyuz space capsule carrying UK astronaut Tim Peake and two crew members has arrived at the International Space Station. The Russian had to steer the craft to dock with the orbiting spacecraft due to complications with the usual automatic dockin…
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Fifa vice-president Juan Angel Napout extradited to US – BBC News
Fifa vice-president Juan Angel Napout has been extradited to the US to face corruption charges, Swiss officials said. The president of the South American football federation Conmebol was detained in Zurich earlier this month.
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Midway through its second day of deliberations, the jury reported it was deadlocked on criminal charges against Baltimore police officer William Porter for the death of Freddie Gray, signaling a lack of certainty in the closely watched trial.
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Was Paris attack ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Leros? – BBC News
Two independent eyewitnesses have told the BBC that they saw the ringleader of the Paris attacks on the Greek island of Leros in October, placing him on the island at the same time the two Stade de France suicide bombers arrived.
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Tamir Rice family attorneys ask DoJ to investigate shooting and prosecutors | US news | The Guardian
The attorneys for the family of a 12-year-old black boy who was fatally shot by a white Cleveland police officer while carrying a pellet gun have asked the US Justice Department to investigate both the killing and the conduct of the prosecutor in ch…
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One magic mushroom trip can permanently make you more open / Boing Boing
Taking psychedelic mushrooms just once can change your personality for the rest of your life, according to Katherine MacLean, a postdoctoral researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The results, published today (Sept.
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I’m Lauren McGoodwin, CEO of Career Contessa, and This Is How I Work
After graduating into a lackluster job market, Lauren McGoodwin needed some career guidance. She eventually got a job working as a recruiter for a big company but still felt there was a lack of career development resources available to young women—s…
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Sharpen Your Less-Expensive Knives With Just a Few Pieces of Sandpaper
While you might be better off sharpening your really nice knives with a water stone, you can easily sharpen your less-expensive knives with a few different grits of sandpaper.
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9 questions about interest rates you were too embarrassed to ask – Vox
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Residents In Upscale Paris Neighborhood Oppose Plans For Temporary Homeless Shelter | VICE News
Paris city authorities have unveiled plans to build a shelter that will house 200 homeless individuals and migrants in the capital’s swanky 16th Arrondissement, much to the dismay of some of the neighborhood’s residents.
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The Golden Age Of Open Source Has Arrived | TechCrunch
In the new economy, it’s not the code that matters — it’s how you use it to connect people to things they need. From 3D printers to Docker, open-source-based innovation is fueling some of the hottest digital capabilities of our time. Finally — the g…
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Google’s new data-only Project Fi tablet plans don’t charge device fees | Ars Technica
Google’s invite-only Project Fi MVNO experiment is still small, but today Google is expanding it beyond phones for a small subset of devices.
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Why is there a drone built into this weird BMW i8? | The Verge
The answer to that headline up there is “Rinspeed.” In fact, as a general rule of thumb, if you come across a concept car with a bunch of bizarre ideas slapped into one brightly colored package, the answer is almost always Rinspeed.
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Lawmakers from the European Union have settled a debate over the digital age of consent with a compromise: each country can decide for itself.
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Kurt Russell May Be Star-Lord’s Dad in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
We don’t know who Star-Lord’s father is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe quite yet, but we may know who’s playing him—the current rumor is that director James Gunn wants Kurt Russell to play the mysterious sire of Peter Quill for the much-anticipate…
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Clean air advocates got a major win Tuesday, after a court of appeals ruled that the first U.S. regulations limiting toxic heavy metal emissions from power plants will be upheld as the Environmental Protection Agency fine tunes the rule.
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Groups Challenge Walgreens’ Decision To Outsource Health Care To Catholic Hospitals | ThinkProgress
Nineteen groups are challenging a decision by drugstore giant Walgreens to allow a Catholic hospital to run its clinics in Oregon and Washington state, arguing the move will create a health care system “limited by religious doctrine.
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Report: Atlantic Drilling Would Offer $0 To States, Not $19 Billion | ThinkProgress
The global community agreed last week that carbon emissions are destroying our environment. A massive oil spill five years devastated the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem. And yet, the Obama administration and several southern governors are talking about …
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Cozy up to this Darth Vader yule log / Boing Boing
Keep fucking that chicken. Dan Ashwood writes, “I wrote and animated a new holy days carol to memorize and perform at neighbors and homeowners. Take a look!”
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49 Things Republican Presidential Candidates Actually Said In 2015 | ThinkProgress
Spectacle is part of every political campaign. But in the Republican primary during 2015, the spectacle subsumed the campaign. It was a year that defied parody, analysis or understanding. Comments that in other years would be fodder for negative ads…
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‘Legend’ Chronicles Lives Of London’s Identical Twin Gangsters : NPR
The new movie Legend stars Tom Hardy as both Ron and Reggie Kray, the legendary gangster twins who controlled East London in the 1960s.
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Tech firms could owe up to 4% of global revenue if they violate new EU data law | Ars Technica
European Union negotiators have finally agreed on the text of a significant new data protection and privacy law after years of debate.
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The shared cinematic universe is a major studio’s wet dream. Each film acts as a commercial for another movie in the series, but you don’t necessarily have to pay the same cast members to come back for each one.
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Here’s the first track from Ennio Morricone’s Hateful Eight score · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Quentin Tarantino’s decision to hand The Hateful Eight’s aural reins over to famed Italian film composer Ennio Morricone was one apparently not made easily.
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With all the Star Wars news coming out now, it’s easy to forget that the movies weren’t always so beloved.
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Grateful Dead Bio-Series in Development at Amazon | Rolling Stone
A limited-run Grateful Dead bio-series is in the works at Amazon, with Bob Weir slated to executive produce and oversee all aspects of the show’s music, Deadline reports.
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The World’s New Plan to Save the Climate Is Weak, Vulnerable, and Toothless | Motherboard
In 2009, when the Copenhagen climate talks concluded, they were roundlydecreed a failure.
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Things the Internet Suggests You Do With Your Placenta | Motherboard
One of the world’s most notorious new mothers, Kim Kardashian, just blogged about her experience eating her placenta, which was freeze-dried and packed into pill capsules.
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Amid overwhelming interest, 124 teams qualify for Hyperloop competition | Ars Technica
SpaceX has selected 124 teams of mostly college student engineers to participate in a Hyperloop Pod competition at the end of January. The teams will present their concepts for pods, which will then compete on a test track next summer in front of ju…
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Tehran Is in the Midst of an ‘Airpocalypse’ | VICE News
On Monday, air pollution levels in Tehran hit record levels as authorities issued a call for all of the city’s 14 million residents to stay indoors.
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Sen. Warren: Reform Dodd-Frank Now! – The Daily Beast
Congress has been scrambling to come up with a budget deal to avoid a government shutdown, and part of that compromise can and should be a bipartisan amendment that would reform the Dodd-Frank financial regulation package.
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Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton’s Romance Was Totally Made Up – The Daily Beast
That was the question a friend asked me this week after a new and completely fabricated story about a romance between Harry and Pippa started doing the rounds. It’s a reasonable query.
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Bitcoin Creator’s Mysterious Identity Beguiles Cryptography World : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Andy Greenberg, a senior writer at Wired, about the mysterious founder of Bitcoin. He explains what the leading theories are about the true identity of the founder.
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Climate Change Plays ‘Fairly Insignificant’ Role In Current Warm Weather : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks to Mike Halpert, NOAA’s deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, about the odd weather caused by El Nino and if climate change has a role.
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How To Predict Which Chicago Cops Will Commit Misconduct | FiveThirtyEight
Protests against police violence raged on in Chicago over the weekend, with some demonstrators demanding Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer who is now charged with his murder.
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Moment UK astronaut Tim Peake arrives at International Space Station – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the International Space Station, which will be his home for the next six months.
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Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Amazon Prime has just announced the new titles it will feature in the new year, including original content of the Zahn and Zane (though not zany) kind, as well as well as classics you probably should have gotten around to watching already, like An A…
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Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany| Reuters
BERLIN Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis.
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‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Falls From Top Of Holiday Playlists : NPR
After years, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has been displaced from the top of retail stores’ holiday music playlists. NPR investigates the news behind this startling development.
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People Across The U.S. React To Unseasonably Warm Weather : NPR
All Things Considered hears from people around the country about the unseasonable weather.
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For Sex Industry, Bitcoin Steps In Where Credit Cards Fear To Tread : All Tech Considered : NPR
Across the country, law enforcement is cracking down on sex trafficking of minors by going after online escort ads. Five years ago, Craigslist was pressured to shut down its adult-services forum. The new target is Backpage.
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Lack Of Diversity In Clinical Trials Presents Possible Health Consequences : NPR
Despite striking ethnic disparities in the incidence and mortality of diseases like cancer and respiratory disease, minorities are not well represented in clinical trials.
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Cows’ ‘Night Milk’ May Help You Fall Asleep : NPR
In South Korea, researchers have found that milk collected from cows at night contains high amounts of tryptophan and melatonin, supplements “proven to aid sleep and reduce anxiety.
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Who Bought The ‘Las Vegas Review-Journal?’ Reporters Investigate : NPR
Who’s the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal? Many journalists — especially the paper’s own employees — have been trying to figure out the answer.
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Los Angeles Schools Close After Receiving Terror Threat : NPR
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, closed down Tuesday after receiving a “credible terrorist threat.” A similar threat was received in New York City, but schools remained open.
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New York Investigates Similar School Threat As A Hoax : NPR
The bomb threat that disrupted the lives of millions of people in Los Angeles Tuesday had a decidedly different effect in New York City, which received a similar email threat to its schools late Monday night.
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U.N. Bases Turn Into Cities For The Desperate And Displaced In S. Sudan : Parallels : NPR
Two years ago today, thousands of desperate South Sudanese came rushing to the gates of United Nations peacekeeper bases in the country, fleeing villages torn by ethnic conflict and begging for sanctuary.
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Global Businesses Show Cautious Support For Climate Deal : NPR
Business groups around the world are studying the climate change agreement reached in Paris over the weekend. Many support the idea of taking steps to limit carbon emissions but are worried about how reductions will be implemented and enforced.
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GOP Candidates Meet In Las Vegas For First Debate Since Terror Attacks : NPR
The Republican presidential candidates are in Las Vegas for their latest debate, the first since terrorist attacks in Paris and California refocused the campaign on national security.
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How Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Tamed Inflation — Maybe For Good : NPR
Inflation is so low that it’s nearly nonexistent now. But it most certainly wasn’t always that way. The Planet Money team tells the story of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker’s wild fight against inflation, his radical idea, and how the U…
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Looking For A Podcast? Try ‘What I Wore When …’ : NPR
In the “I Got Divorced” episode of What I Wore When … , Glamour editor Sophia Chabbott describes what she wore to her Orthodox Jewish divorce ceremony.
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Announcing Our 2016 Tiny Desk Contest : All Songs Considered : NPR
Have you ever watched a Tiny Desk Concert and thought, “Hey, I want to do that!?” Well, now’s your chance to play behind my desk here at NPR. That’s right: We’re bringing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest back for a second year. Here’s what you do.
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Fargo’s third season is going to be about selfie culture | The Verge
But it won’t air until 2017 Fargo’s critically-acclaimed second season wrapped up last night, and the show’s braintrust — FX president John Landgraf and executive producers Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield, and
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China’s Internet Forum May Provide A Peek At Its Cyber-Ambitions : Parallels : NPR
Heads of state, including the prime ministers of Pakistan and Russia, and major technology firms will gather Wednesday in Wuzhen, a picturesque little town of canals and boats in eastern China, to talk about the Internet.
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Men call themselves gamers, but just as many women play games | The Verge
The Pew Research Center today published more findings on Americans and gaming, this time delving into who plays video games and general attitudes about them.
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What an Interest-Rate Hike Means for Non-Economists – The Atlantic
The December Fed meeting began Tuesday morning, and the news surrounding it will be closely watched, as many economists and financial analysts believe that this is the meeting when the U.S. central bank will finally move to raise interest rates for …
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Over 1,000 college students will compete to design the best Hyperloop pod | The Verge
Are you #TeamPodPeople or #TeamHyperBears? On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced the design teams that would be taking part in a two-day Hyperloop design competition at Texas A&M University at the end of January.
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When Bernie Sanders held a rally in Atlanta last month for his presidential campaign, the senator from Vermont was introduced by local rapper Killer Mike. Prior to the rally, Sanders and Killer Mike sat down to record an interview, which was release…
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Force Block Avoids Spoilers and Blocks Every Mention of Star Wars
Chrome: With the Force Awakens right around the corner, it’s tempting to click on Star Wars links. Easily they flow, quick to join you on the internet. But beware the spoilers. The Force Block extension can help keep you from that dark path.
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Colombia Government, FARC Agree on Reparations | Al Jazeera America
Representatives of the Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels signed an agreement on Tuesday on reparations for war victims and the establishment of special tribunals to try former combatants once the two sides reach a definitive peace pact.
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This story originally appeared in The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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The Entrepreneur Who Wants You to Make Love, Not Porn
Cindy Gallop never intended to get into sextech. Today she is the CEO of a small startup, a video platform called Make Love Not Porn, whose members pay $5 to stream videos submitted by content creators. Its premise is unorthodox, even for the contra…
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United Nations: U.S. Is Failing Women – The Daily Beast
Earlier this month, human rights experts from the United Nations visited a backwards country where women are paid significantly less than men, where women are drastically underrepresented in the national legislature, where the percentages of women l…
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Mixing a 1940’s style noir detective film with the grittiness of mid 1970’s New York City is the peanut butter firmly engulfed in the sleaziest of chocolate. Throw in the then still-fresh punk movement and you will have the bittersweet treat of Cart…
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A Big Win for Senate Cafeteria Workers
A sustained campaign on behalf of Senate cafeteria workers – including a 63-year-old employee who was homeless because he could not earn enough money to afford an apartment – has succeeded this week in getting these workers a desperately needed boos…
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Will Global Warming Heat Us Beyond Our Physical Limits?
If greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, rising temperatures and humidity wrought by global warming could expose hundreds of millions of people worldwide to potentially lethal heat stress by 2060, a new report suggests.
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Alfredo Returns with Pink Frosted Donuts in Elementary
It’s a return of the reoccurring characters this week on Elementary! We finally spend time with Alfredo for the first time since his kidnapping, Captain Gregson and Detective Bell get a shot at doing police work, and everyone engages in banter. Spoi…
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Jury deadlocked in trial of first of six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death
The jury tasked with coming to a verdict on William Porter is deadlocked, according to a tweet from Reuters (below).
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Beijing via /r/pics https://t.co/4YfDbhmxMM https://t.co/oFRh9M3vhP https://t.co/CCaeqNt19I
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Beijing via /r/pics https://t.co/4YfDbhmxMM https://t.co/oFRh9M3vhP https://t.co/CCaeqNt19I
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Jurors Deadlocked in Trial of Baltimore Cop Accused of Killing Freddie Gray | VICE News
Jurors deliberating the case of the first of six Baltimore police officers facing trial over the murder of Freddie Grey, a black man who died from a broken neck sustained while he was shackled and unbelted in the back of a police van, could not deci…
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The Long, Complicated Relationship Between Star Wars and Marvel Comics
The release of Star Wars in 1977 was an absolute gamechanger, on so many levels—from effects, to toys, and to how expanded universes were created in general. But Star Wars was also of vital importance to an unexpected ally in Marvel Comics.
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VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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‘I’ve Known Donald for Years’: 3 Hours Undercover at a Young Republicans Holiday Party
The New York State Young Republicans—not to be confused with the New York Young Republicans, whose website is much nicer—is a scrappy group.
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LA’s “credible” terror threats were reportedly anonymous email from cock.li / Boing Boing
It looks like the “credible” terror threats that led LA to shut down its entire school system came in a rather incredible form: anonymous email sent via internet “meme sewer” cock.li. Subpoena sent today to meme email provider for “threatening email…
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Is the Link Between SSRIs and Autism Real? – The Daily Beast
Is there an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children born to women who took anti-depressant medications late in their pregnancy? A new study suggests the answer may be yes. But pregnant women shouldn’t chuck their Paxil prescrip…
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Titus Andronicus announces spring tour with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Titus Andronicus, punk rock’s favorite group of Shakespeare players/disgruntled New Jersey residents, is going on tour.
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Move over, Singing Dogs. And Jingle Cats, your time in the spotlight has passed. This is the year of the goat. The internet has already shown its love for goats who make amusingly horrifying, human-like screaming noises.
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It’s a given that celebrities are superior to regular people in virtually every respect.
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Edge of Sports: Shooting Hoops in Syria | The Nation
Today, we learn what it’s like to be blackballed from your job for speaking your mind, and what it means to play pro ball…in Syria. Craig Hodges was a three-point specialist during the dawn of the Jordan-era Bulls, who won their first of six titles …
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Here are your official Vox bingo cards for CNN’s Republican debate – Vox
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76 Viral Images From 2015 That Were Totally Fake
We debunked dozens of fake photos this year, covering everything from Charles Manson’s baby photos to John Lennon’s skateboarding skills, and everything in between. It was another busy year for anyone spreading fake images on the internet.
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History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
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Google’s Project Fi Now Works With Tablets, Even iPads, For Free
Project Fi, Google’s carrier service, is a great idea currently stymied by a limited rollout. Only owners of Nexus 5X, 6, and 6P devices can test drive what it’s like to have Google as a carrier, for good or bad.
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Colombia’s Peace Process Just Took a New Big Step Forward | VICE News
The Colombian government and leftist rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have signed an agreement on the difficult question of how to recognize and compensate the many victims left by over 50 years of fighting.
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The Republican Primary Dropout Draft | FiveThirtyEight
For this week’s 2016 Slack chat, we introduce a new, fantasy-football-inspired game. As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited.
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CAR rebel leader declares autonomous state – Al Jazeera English
A Muslim rebel leader in the Central African Republic (CAR) has declared an autonomous state in his northeastern stronghold after rejecting upcoming elections aimed at ending years of conflict.
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Politician calls India’s PM a ‘psychopath’ after raid – Al Jazeera English
Delhi’s chief minister accused India’s leader on Tuesday of waging a political vendetta against him after federal investigators raided his administration’s headquarters.
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December 15 RNC Primary Debate Live Thread : politics
December 15 RNC Primary Debate Live Thread https://t.co/ysw8NH87CM https://t.co/jF6PSj9r09 via /r/#politics
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December 15 RNC Primary Debate Live Thread https://t.co/ysw8NH87CM https://t.co/jF6PSj9r09 via /r/#politics
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Speed Up OS X Photos by Reducing Motion
We all know about the motion effects in iOS, but it turns out they’re tucked away in OS X as well. OS X Daily points out that the Photos app has it, and you can speed up performance by turning it off. Open up Photos, then Head to Photos > Preference…
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A Thai Man Faces Long Prison Term After Insulting the King’s Dog – The Atlantic
One of the perks of American life is the freedom to comment or speculate wildly about the pets of the head of state. Like The Daily Show, which first suggested Bo Obama’s sexual preference or the many outlets that raised alarm when Barney Bush bit a…
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Is Climate Change to Blame for the Eastern United States’ Unseasonably Warm December? – The Atlantic
Man, it’s a warm one. At least, here in the eastern half of the United States it is. Since late last week, cities from Chicago to Atlanta to Boston have experienced decidedly un-seasonal heat, with temperatures dozens of degrees Fahrenheit above ave…
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Google made a Star Wars game that turns your phone into a lightsaber | The Verge
If you’re really excited about the imminent release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but you don’t feel like you’ve been sufficiently immersed in it yet, Google has a new interactive web game you might enjoy.
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Inside the Ruins of an NSA Spy Station – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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‘Metal Gear’ Creator Hideo Kojima Has Left Konami to Start His Own Studio | Motherboard
Beloved Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima has officially left Japanese game publisher Konami as of December 15 and is in talks to form a new studio, according to a report from Japanese business journal Nikkei.
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Google’s Project Fi adds support for iPads, other data-only devices | The Verge
Google has announced that Project Fi is expanding to more than just Nexus phones for the first time. Subscribers to the phone service will be able to order a data-only SIM to put into a tablet.
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Give Jeb Bush $25, or maybe something happens to your email account | The Verge
Ashley Feinberg at Gawker received an unusual email from the Bush campaign yesterday, which effectively asked her to cough up protection money. In exchange for $25, Jeb (also known as Jeb!) promised to stop sending email for two weeks.
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The Future of Yemen Hangs in the Balance at the UN Talks in Switzerland | VICE News
After nearly nine months of war, a tentative week-long ceasefire in Yemen began on Tuesday, as representatives from the country’s warring parties sat down for make or break peace talks in Switzerland.
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The Future of In-Flight Wifi, a Cautionary Tale
We were cruising at around 10,000 feet, somewhere above the Midwest, when two pizza-shaped antennas on top of the plane finally connected with the satellite. Within seconds, I was streaming a movie on Netflix in full HD while the man next to me wave…
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Google’s Project Fi Now Supports Data-Only Devices | TechCrunch
Project Fi, which is Google’s way of jumping in the middle of the great carrier race, has shared today that you can now order a SIM for your data-only device.
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“We are trying to be bold and take risks,” Fast & Furious franchise director Justin Lin asserted Monday in Los Angeles, hours after offering up the first teaser for his threequel Star Trek Beyond to the scrutiny of a half-century old fandom.
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Molly Crabapple has gone from “Occupy’s greatest artist” to a powerhouse journalist.
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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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When does your Christmas really start? For some people, it’s the minute that Starbucks break out the red cups – surely a little premature – while for others, it’s once they’ve heard Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” blaring out at the work d…
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The problem at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s Muslim anti-ISIS coalition – Vox
The problem at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s Muslim anti-ISIS coalition https://t.co/h5IMFUrMom https://t.co/YDhhPG5FDr
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December 15 RNC Primary Debate Live Thread (reddit.
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All times in Pacific. Click any time to convert it to your local time zone. The candidates will be split into two debates according to poll rankings, in a manner similar to the previous GOP debates.
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Space Adventure Game Simulates Milky Way in Stunning Detail
Instead of fighting, trading or hunting for smugglers, many players of the space adventure game “Elite: Dangerous” are turning tail and heading for parts unknown deep within the galaxy.
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Obama’s Leadership Style: Chessmaster or Pawn – The Atlantic
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Midday open thread: Bill Cosby is awful, Mandy Patinkin is not
“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote…
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Domestic Abuse Is Out of Control in England — and Cops Are Struggling to Deal With It | VICE News
Recorded domestic abuse cases in England and Wales jumped by almost a third in the 12 months since March 2014, according to the national police inspectorate, resulting in more than 100 calls for assistance per hour while making up 10 percent of all …
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Thanks To Google, Your Phone Now Doubles As A Lightsaber | TechCrunch
Every single time I see something else pushing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” I roll my eyes. And then I try something else where I think “OK, that was pretty smart.” Disney has teamed up with every brand known to man to promote the film, which prem…
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Apple Continues To Showcase Its Own Apps In The App Store’s Top Charts | TechCrunch
It seems Apple is continuing to use its App Store’s “Top Charts” section to promote its own applications, by allowing apps like iMovie and those from its iWork suite to appear the Top 10 Free apps on users’ iPhones.
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Mali attack: Bamako’s Radisson Blu hotel re-opens – BBC News
The luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, has reopened less than a month after it came under attack from Islamist militants. Twenty two people died in the siege, including the two attackers.
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Image of the Day: A Distant Galaxy Radiates Light Equal to 300 Trillion Suns https://t.co/gHRs8KjH0W https://t.co/JlXb7e9Td8
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A swirl of star formation [2603 x 1862]
A swirl of star formation [2603 x 1862] https://t.co/O9KepbDTox https://t.co/CxL4EwjOKt
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A Pessimist’s Guide to the World in 2016
SOURCE: Interviews with dozens of former and current diplomats, economists, investors, geopolitical strategists and security consultants. The scenarios were reviewed and ranked by 119 economists in a survey and probabilities were assigned by Nightbe…
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It’s 1942, and Britain is in the midst of WW2. On HMS Petard, amidst battle, three men act with bravery and courage, in the process capturing vital Nazi documents and secret codebooks that helped Bletchley Park to crack the enigma code, and ultimate…
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The 12 Most Disturbing Hallmark Ornaments of All Time (Updated)
Back in 2013, I took on the unsavory, festive world of Hallmark ornaments. What I found, of course, rocked our nation to its core, but Hallmark’s onslaught of holiday WTF-ery did not end there. As such, I have updated our exposé of the company’s mos…
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The best book cover designs for 2015
Check out more great covers at the NY Times, Buzzfeed, and The Casual Optimist.
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Warm weather melting millions off winter gear retailers’ bottom lines | Business | The Guardian
Down is down: warm winter weather has cost retailers scores of millions of dollars as sales of everything from winter coats to snow boots have failed to take off, according to multiple reports across the clothing industry.
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Confusion where a person’s colour is concerned | Letters | US news | The Guardian
Thanks to Chris McGreal for a searching, sensitive interview with Rachel Dolezal (‘I don’t believe in race. It’s a fiction’, G2, 14 December).
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Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appeals sentence for sex with minors | US news | The Guardian
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is appealing his more than 15-year prison sentence for having sex with underage prostitutes and possessing child abuse images. Fogle’s attorney, Ron Elberger, said on Tuesday that he will appeal the sentence, but h…
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Girls star Lena Dunham to campaign for Hillary Clinton in Iowa | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton is continuing her efforts to connect with young voters by having actor Lena Dunham campaign on her behalf in Iowa next month. Dunham, the star and creator of the HBO show Girls, will appear at campaign rallies in Des Moines and Iowa …
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Iraq veteran named first female commandant of West Point cadets | US news | The Guardian
The academy announced Tuesday that Brig Gen Diana M. Holland will be the 76th commandant of the Corps of Cadets. Under West Point’s superintendent, she’ll oversee discipline and training for the academy’s approximately 4,200 cadets.
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The overall security situation in Afghanistan deteriorated in the second half of 2015, with an increase in insurgent attacks and higher casualties among both Taliban and national forces, a Pentagon report stated Tuesday.
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Jeff Koons, a US pop artist whose works can fetch millions, is facing allegations he used a New York photographer’s commercial photo from the 1980s in a painting without permission or compensation, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
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Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? – The Washington Post
“You used to say bad things about me,” Madonna mused during a recent appearance on his satellite radio program. It’s true: He panned her acting; he dished filthy gossip about her.
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Volkswagen’s Nazi-Era Blood Crimes | The Nation
Wolfsburg, in Lower Saxony, located in the northwestern quadrant of Germany, is a bright, low-slung industrial city of 125,000, with the sort of modern look of curvilinear roofs and Cubist glass architecture that qualified as futuristic in the 1950s.
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Fargo won’t return until spring 2017, says creator Noah Hawley · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fargo, which aired its second season finale last night, has been at or near the top of many year-end TV lists, so it’s no surprise that the show picked up a renewal for season three.
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Night milk: milk taken from cows at night might be the sleep aid you need | Society | The Guardian
As anyone who has suffered from insomnia knows well, drinking a glass of warm milk doesn’t always help. But it might, a new study reports, if the milk is taken from a cow at night.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for all correspondence the agency has had with Congress over proposed FOIA reform bills that died last year in Congress, despite hav…
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Facebook’s open-sourcing of AI hardware is the start of the deep-learning revolution | Ars Technica
A few days ago, Facebook open-sourced its artificial intelligence (AI) hardware computing design.
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Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton walk into a Netflix movie… · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although we’ll probably never get a sequel, fans of The First Wives Club might be consoled with the knowledge that the film’s stars are reportedly working on another project about a trio of estranged friends who are reunited late in life.
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Republicans are paying way more attention to this election – Vox
Republicans are paying way more attention to this election https://t.co/D4wARkDT92 https://t.co/0DZXBPm4o0
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Report: Hideo Kojima has officially left Konami, formed new studio | Ars Technica
It looks like Hideo Kojima’s long, troubled history with publisher Konami has finally come to an end.
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This Video Shows How Republican Candidates Talk About Women | Mother Jones
The stakes are high in tonight’s CNN debate among Republican candidates in Las Vegas. It’s the fifth and last GOP debate in 2015, and yet another opportunity for the hopefuls to try and unseat a seemingly unstoppable Donald Trump.
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The heartbreaking photo of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach was a tipping point in the refugee crisis. The three-year-old had drowned alongside his brother and mother, when a boat carrying the family to Greece sank.
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Turn Your iPhone 6s Into a Scale with this Web App
iPhone: Last week we saw a cool app that turned the 3D Touch feature on the iPhone 6s into a scale, but Apple pulled the app. Thankfully, one place Apple can’t pull an app from is the internet, which is why a web app is a perfectly suitable replacem…
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First high-energy LHC results: Supersymmetry still dead, watch for gravitons | Ars Technica
The world’s biggest particle collider, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), suffered a disastrous failure during its initial startup. After basic repairs, scientists ran it cautiously for a few years, enough time to gather data to confirm the discove…
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Hands-on with Simblee, connecting things to the cloud through smartphones | Ars Technica
Earlier this year, Ars Technica got a demonstration of a technology that seeks to change how we interact with embedded computing technology—tying together Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communications, Arduino-style microcontroller technology, and mobil…
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Fukushima: Over 100 New Radioactive Contamination Sites Found Off North America’s West Coast (activistpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Florida prison is a house of horrors for women
We know its past time to hold police accountable for the sexual terror they inflict on vulnerable populations.
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Facebook has a secret Yelp competitor for finding local businesses | The Verge
A hidden section of Facebook unearthed by a social media manager today suggests the social network may try and compete with Yelp as the go-to directory for local businesses. Found at facebook.
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GTA Online’s new expansion includes luxury yachts and limos with guns | The Verge
The latest expansion for GTA Online somehow makes the game even more ostentatious.
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Hydrogen fuel cells promise to keep drones flying for hours | The Verge
The use of drones by consumers and companies has exploded over the past few years. As the devices have soared in popularity, a lot of the critical features and functions have rapidly improved. The aircraft have gotten steadily cheaper, more powerful…
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Five hours of Darth Vader’s burning corpse will replace your Yule Log | The Verge
You awake in a room that looks like your room, but it isn’t your room. The baby blue cotton sheets have been replaced with a fluffy, retro Jabba the Hutt comforter. Your automatic daily routine follows its well-trodden path, unobstructed, and yet th…
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A Swedish Village Built This Hotel Out of Solid Ice – CityLab
Sculpting ice isn’t something that Swedes take lightly. In Jukkasjärvi, a village a few miles east of Kiruna, the proprietors of one hotel begin planning for a winter ice festival in March.
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See Beyoncé Put Your Ugly Christmas-Sweater Game to Shame | Vanity Fair
It isn’t even Christmas week yet and Beyoncé has already officially toppled your efforts in the ugly holiday-sweater department.
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Would you replace the New Zealand flag with this? – CNN.com
The current flag — which features a British ensign — has flown over the country for more than 100 years, but critics say it is anachronistic and too similar to the Australian flag.
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Paris Hilton Wants to Move to Switzerland, Which Sounds Perfect | Vanity Fair
After all that she’s endured, can you blame Paris Hilton—socialite, designer, D.J.
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Kurt Russell Has No Regrets Turning Down Star Wars | Vanity Fair
Imagine Kurt Russell as Han Solo flying the Millennium Falcon or as Luke Skywalker training to become a Jedi Knight. That could have been a reality.
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Why Jewish-Catholic Reconciliation Gives Us Hope for the Future | Vanity Fair
Twice I have had the honor of meeting a pope. The first time was 20 years ago, when the bombing of Sarajevo was at its height. Fed up with the abdication of the great powers, I sought an audience with John Paul II and brought with me the Muslim pres…
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New York Dismisses L.A. Bomb Threat as Creation of “Homeland Fan” | Vanity Fair
Out of an abundance of caution, every public school in Los Angeles was shut down Tuesday after city officials said they received a specific, credible bomb threat.
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Android Wear Now Sports Designer Watch Faces | TechCrunch
If you’ve stuck with your Android Wear watch, you’ll be happy to know that there’s a slew of new downloadable watch faces from some notable designers. What makes a watch worth wearing? It should be beautiful and useful. Save you time and express you…
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News | NASA Examines Global Impacts of the 2015 El Niño
People the world over are feeling, or will soon feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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Mandy Patinkin wishes Ted Cruz would stop quoting The Princess Bride · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With Donald Trump now gleefully egging on his supporters when they scream, “Sieg Heil!” as security roughs up protesters, Ted Cruz embarrassing himself by reciting quotes from The Princess Bride seems positively quaint. All the same, Mandy Patinkin …
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My roommate and I decided to give Christmas cards a go : cats
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My Siamese loaf enjoys holding hands : Catloaf
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A veritable bakery via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/YcIbRYfBIF https://t.co/iNMym2NV3t https://t.co/qUVYz24drY
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, A veritable bakery via /r/Catloaf…
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Do you want to build a death star? : pics
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Jay Leno Drives Darth Vader’s Car – The Daily Beast
In celebration of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Hot Wheels created a life size and fully functional replica of their toy Darth Vader car, you know, just because. Engineers resurfaced a sixth generation Corvette to look exactly the villain’s helmet.
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So much depends upon an overweight, orange tabby, devouring lasagna atop a kitchen counter.
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Merriam-Webster, the leading publisher of dictionaries in the U.S. as well as The A.V. Club’s go-to grammar argument settler, has announced its word of the year.
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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz May Spar at Fifth GOP Debate – The Atlantic
Nine Republican candidates will squeeze onto a Las Vegas debate stage on Tuesday, but the lights seem to be shining brightest on two of them at the moment: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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Microsoft’s Free Visual Studio Program Gives You Free Software and Online Training
With Visual Studio you can develop apps for Windows as well as Android, iOS, and the web. Microsoft has released a Visual Studio Dev Essentials program to give you the tools you need to start coding—including Parallels for Mac and Pluralsight traini…
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Showtime’s Penny Dreadful Will Become a Comic Book Series
In kind of a flip-flop of how these things usually unfold, Showtime’s Victorian England-set horror drama Penny Dreadful—which will unveil its third season in 2016—will jump from the screen to the page, courtesy of a Titan Comics series penned by the…
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Facebook Makes Changes To Its Real Name Policy | TechCrunch
After over a year’s worth of controversy around Facebook’s real names policy, Facebook has announced a couple of changes to its process in order to better serve all of its members, including those in the LGBTQ community.
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Taking a selfie with the gang via /r/aww https://t.co/d8Y9sqnXb7 https://t.co/bFokyr4VAV https://t.co/fRSArKAigS
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Netflix Expands Family Leave Thanks To Progressive Organizing Pressure
In August, Netflix did a great thing. The company announced a new unlimited parental leave policy. The Los Angeles Times covered this, in “Netflix offers new parents ‘unlimited’ leave“:
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The return of the coat hanger abortion. 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 …
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Google’s Angular 2 Framework Hits Beta | TechCrunch
Angular 2, Google’s framework for building mobile and web apps in HTML and JavaScript, is now in beta. Google first announced Angular 2, which represents a significant (and controversial) break from Angular 1, in September 2014. Since then, it’s gon…
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Facebook Has Changed Its Controversial ‘Real Name’ Policy | Motherboard
In the last few months, Facebook has been under fire for its policy to not allow nicknames or pseudonyms on the network, and for requiring people to verify their real names if they’re reported by another user.
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British Cops Arrested a Man They Suspect of Hacking VTech | Motherboard
Police officers have arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of hacking Chinese toymaker VTech, and exposing the personal information of millions of parents and kids.
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Not sure who thought this was a good idea. : pics
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My new best fiend Nugget : aww
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How to Move Your Rdio Playlists to Spotify
Ever since I learned the best music site on the internet is being acquired by Pandora, I’ve been sick about losing the amazing Christmas playlist that I’ve been carefully curating for years. Thankfully, Rdio and Spotify have made it really easy to e…
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In Praise of Admiral Piett, the Best Background ‘Star Wars’ Character – The Atlantic
Firmus Piett’s most memorable scene in the Star Wars series is the moment of his promotion. Standing silently in the background, he watches nervously as his boss, Admiral Ozzel, gets telepathically strangled by Darth Vader, the homicidal sadist ever…
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Discussing Teen Suicide in Palo Alto and Elsewhere – The Atlantic
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Kelsey Grammer to lead the cast of Amazon’s The Last Tycoon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Kelsey Grammer has landed a starring role in Amazon Studios’ adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon.
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Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio Turns All Your Liked Songs into a Playlist
Pandora recently launched a new station called Thumbprint Radio. As the name suggests, this station is based on the music you’ve given a thumbs up to—whether it was 10 minutes or 10 years ago.
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French Authorities Arrest Three Suspects in Connection to Separate Paris Terror Attacks | VICE News
Police in France have arrested three people in connection with two terror attacks that occurred ten months apart in Paris. One of the people detained is a 29-year-old man who was arrested Tuesday by a counterterrorism squad at his home in the easter…
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Netflix’s Ongoing Quest To Save Bandwidth | TechCrunch
Netflix has a bandwidth problem. It currently represents 36.5 percent of U.S. Internet traffic and it’s going to increase as 4K becomes more popular, and LTE and fiber Internet improve.
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The Future Of In-flight Entertainment Is Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
If you happened to have flown out of San Francisco to Seattle on Virgin America last week, or back last night, you might have noticed me. I was the guy with the big helmet on his dome, swinging his head around like a weirdo. I didn’t see you, though.
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Japanese Women Sue For Right To Keep Surname – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A group of five women are suing the Japanese government in an attempt to eliminate the 1896 law that requires couples to take the same surname when they marry, a law that they say violates their civil rights but which conservatives uphold as a means…
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Shepherds protest new sheep dog laws at Romanian parliament – video | World news | The Guardian
Around 4,000 shepherds, some dressed in floor-length sheepskins, travelled from rural parts of Romania on Tuesday for a protest in Bucharest. They are angry about a law that will limit the number of dogs that can guard their sheep, as well as a ban …
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The bizarre new allegations about Planned Parenthood and landfills, explained – Vox
The bizarre new allegations about Planned Parenthood and landfills, explained https://t.co/2mHT5baF3p https://t.co/mPza4aADdB
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Watch This Amazing 3D-Printed Clock Made With A Multi-Toolhead Printer | TechCrunch
In the future multi-toolhead robots will harvest our organs and control our reproductive cycles. Until then, they can make amazing clocks! This clock, created by Matt Olczyk, was made using a ZMorph 3D printer, a printer that can swap tool heads to …
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Lead in kids’ blood causes Flint, Michigan to declare state of emergency | The Verge
The city of Flint, Michigan, has declared a state of emergency because of high levels of lead in children’s blood, reports The Washington Post.
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Lettuce Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than Bacon Does – Scientific American
Bacon lovers of the world, rejoice! Or at the least take solace that your beloved pork belly may be better for the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions than the lettuce that accompanies it on the classic BLT.
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Driving Porsche’s most perfect, most elusive 911 | The Verge
Why a sports car? Why drop upwards of $200,000 on a vehicle whose primary goal is unremitting speed? A car that runs on old-fashioned gasoline and is a chore to drive around town?
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Hideo Kojima is reportedly launching a new studio after leaving Konami | The Verge
In October, Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima’s time at Japanese game company Konami reportedly came to an end with a farewell party, though a non-compete clause meant that the famed developer hasn’t been able to talk much about the situation.
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The Pebble smartwatch finally does real fitness tracking | The Verge
Pebble may have started out as a smartwatch for early adopters, with its bare-bones design and an open software platform, but recent iterations of Pebble show that the startup is trying to appeal more to the masses. And its latest software update is…
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Apple Music now works with Sonos speakers | The Verge
Sonos just released an app update for iOS and Android that lets users stream albums, songs, playlists, and Beats 1 radio from Apple Music. The company is making it very clear that Apple Music support is in beta (you can sign up here), though all the…
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New York City calls bomb threat a hoax, while Los Angeles closes schools | The Verge
An electronic message from “overseas” described as a credible bomb threat has led Los Angeles to shut down its entire school system, according to multiple news reports.
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Facebook is changing the way it enforces its real name policy | The Verge
After enduring more than a year of criticism, Facebook is making major changes to the way it enforces its real name policy. Starting today, Facebook users will notice a new system for reporting fake names along with a new system for responding to th…
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Spotify’s new tool will import your Rdio music collection for you | The Verge
Rdio just released an export tool to help users download the metadata from their music collections to take with them when they switch streaming services. Now Spotify is trying to make that transition even simpler with a new Rdio to Spotify importer.
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The Science of Baking Cookies | Lucky Peach
In December, my thoughts turn to all things cookie. I’m not alone. Magazines dedicated to holiday cookies line grocery store checkout lanes, and invites to cookie swaps pour in.
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There are good reasons to find the onslaught of religious music this time of year objectionable. And yet—though I want to do my part in the War on Christmas—I don’t so much object to the content of Christmas songs.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter agree German hate speech deal – BBC News
Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed a deal with Germany under which they will remove hate speech posted on their websites within 24 hours. German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said the measures would ensure German law was applied online.
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Showtime orders a docuseries on the 2016 presidential campaign · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Wrap reports that, rather than wait to post clips from The Daily Show, Showtime is going straight to the source for information (and, should it ensue, hilarity) on the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Astronomers Rename Famous Exoplanets – Scientific American Blog Network
The votes are in. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), a collective of astronomers with the authority to give titles to celestial bodies, has assigned crowdsourced names to several prominent exoplanetary systems.
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This was a difficult and troubling year in many ways, and television journalists spent much of 2015 reporting the unhappiest of headlines to their worried viewers.
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When you’re broke and aimless, the apocalypse can’t come soon enough · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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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. It’s understandable why a year’s success is measured by what’s changed instead of what’s stayed the same.
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Cartoon animal comics have been making a big comeback over the past year, with both The Autumnlands and The Humans ending up on The A.V. Club’s Best of Comics 2015 list by using anthropomorphized animals to tell intense, mature narratives.
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Bryan Cranston, Amy Schumer, Seth Rogen and More Recreate Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ – The Daily Beast
Among the parodies of Drake’s delightfully simple “Hotline Bling” music video this year included Donald Trump dancing like no one was watching on Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon and his holiday partner-in-crime Rashida Jones singing “Butterball…
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It’s been five weeks since the last Republican primary debate, and candidates are flying to Las Vegas tonight to do it all over again for the fifth and last time of 2015. They’ll have plenty to discuss.
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Italy’s dietary guidelines actually say pasta and cookies are food groups – Vox
Italy’s dietary guidelines actually say pasta and cookies are food groups https://t.co/o4AtAqryD2 https://t.co/KFzMnXvWk2
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Android Pay adds in-app purchasing feature, catches up to Apple Pay | Ars Technica
Android Pay, Alphabet’s successor to Google Wallet and its answer to Apple Pay, is allowing in-app purchases starting today. This is a feature that Apple Pay has had since day one, and it’s a feature that Google Wallet had until late 2014, when Goog…
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In the 1860s Chicago underwent an amazing transformation in which dozens of buildings were moved around the city and gangs of men raised giant hotels and banks on jackscrews.
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The simple visual test that might predict political views / Boing Boing
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reports that conservatives are more likely to be strict about classify geometric shapes than liberals are. In three different experiments, researchers asked people to differentiate between perfect and…
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Score a spare charger for your Macbook for over 40% off in the Boing Boing store / Boing Boing
Cables fray, and chargers disappear into thin air. Even if you don’t need a replacement, snag a backup to store in your bag while you’re on-the-go.
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Is Fantex, The Athlete Stock Exchange, The Future Of Fantasy Sports? | ThinkProgress
Thanks to fantasy sports, particularly the recent and controversial rise of daily fantasy, athletes are increasingly seen as commodities more than human beings. Fans have a personal and, often a monetary, investment in the players’ individual succes…
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Most People In New York Actually Like Common Core, According To New Survey | ThinkProgress
The majority of New Yorkers have positive feedback for Common Core standards, according to the results from a large survey — but state officials are planning to overhaul them anyway.
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O’Malley Becomes First Presidential Candidate To Meet With Immigrant Hunger Strikers | ThinkProgress
Over the last two months, hundreds of immigrant detainees have gone on hunger strikes across the nation to protest their prolonged detention. Not many people have noticed.
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Marco Rubio: Paris Climate Deal Is An ‘Unfunny Joke’ | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio mocked the Paris climate deal this week, calling the agreement an “unfunny joke.” In an interview with Fox News and at an event in Las Vegas on Monday, Rubio said the deal — agreed upon last week by near…
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The Terrific Second Season of ‘Fargo’: Aliens, Bloodshed, and … Hope? – The Atlantic
Absurdity is everywhere in Fargo—in the original Coen brothers film as well as the the FX television adaptation. The second season, though, really doubled down on that theme.
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Justice Scalia and ‘Mismatch Theory’ in University Admissions – The Atlantic
Last week, during oral arguments in the Fisher v.
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Welcome to the ‘Earthships’: Off-Grid Homes Made From Garbage – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Welcome to the ‘Earthships’: Off-Grid Homes Made From Garbage” Presented by
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How the Internet Changed Advice Columns – The Atlantic
In the earliest days of the Bintel Brief, an advice column geared towards Eastern European Jewish immigrants at the turn of the 20th century, one advice-seeker wrote: “Ah, my home, my beloved home. My heart is heavy for my parents whom I left behind…
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Vader Beats Trump in 2016 Poll – The Daily Beast
In a new, completely troll-y and click-bait-y poll released by Ipsos, it appears Americans would rather have a fictional space-knight elected president than any of the real-human 2016 presidential candidates.
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In a scene more reminiscent of a Victorian orphanage or an 1800s one-room schoolhouse, the wooden paddle allegedly hit the child’s backside about a dozen times, each smack accompanied by wailing cries.
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The Expanse Delivers the Sci-Fi Political Thriller We’ve All Been Waiting For
If you’ve read the series of novels by James S.A. Corey, then the most surprising thing about The Expanse is that it manages to translate the dense, interwoven stories of the books into a near-perfect TV show.
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33 maps that explain terrorism – Vox
33 maps that explain terrorism https://t.co/WMQm6xKVJB https://t.co/jLLIkacKK8
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The best TV of 2015, part 1 · Best of · The A.V. Club
The best TV of 2015, part 1 https://t.co/LLnY1Da24X https://t.co/2527TuEpnK
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Up close
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ESA: Galaxy Clusters –“Reveal Clues to the Universe’s Notoriously Strange Dark Side” https://t.co/ZqtdZWUpIt https://t.co/iPePUr2zQ8
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Galileos in the zone for launch
Galileos in the zone for launch https://t.co/uhMy2z6u8K https://t.co/WNYfucesER
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Batman Labels is the Batman Twitter account we deserve – Vox
Batman Labels is the Batman Twitter account we deserve https://t.co/ihtN2AUwI4 https://t.co/jy5egV6iYc
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Martian Water –An Ancient, or More Recent Story? https://t.co/04txC74PEF https://t.co/MB9Azcwe4a
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/H35cZ4YjmT https://t.co/7qssYIvo9b https://t.co/yMDEcwJlI3
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/H35cZ4YjmT https://t.co/7qssYIvo9b https://t.co/yMDEcwJlI3
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BPA Is Everywhere. Is It Safe?
Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a chemical found in plastics, including food packaging, that may interfere with the way our cells work. Are we exposed to enough BPA to harm us? And should we be afraid of the alternative products with their “BPA free” sticke…
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The Corporate Takeover Destroying The Red Cross – Digg
When Gail McGovern was picked to head the American Red Cross in 2008, the organization was reeling. Her predecessor had been fired after impregnating a subordinate. The charity was running an annual deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. It has…
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The Field Guide to Typography: Typefaces in the Urban Landscape / Boing Boing
See sample pages of http://winkbooks.net/post/134912574252/the-field-guide-to-typography-typefaces-in-the at Wink. Typography is a rich, thought-provoking study with a deep, storied history. And yet, for most of us, it is an unremarkable aspect of m…
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Nature Is Violent | Motherboard
When it comes to issues of environmental ethics, it’s common to argue from the gut, with advocates on any given side of an issue defaulting to vague, emotional statements about natural “harmony” and what is “felt” to be right.
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Judge reverses $3.5 million award to family of Chicago man killed by police
As national scrutiny continues to tighten on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez in the wake of events following the 2014 shooting and killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, other cases of fatal officer-involve…
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Rdio’s Final Goodbye Is an Export Feature for Its Users’ Music Collections | Motherboard
Rdio, the small but beloved music streaming service that announced its shut down last month, posted a touching goodbye message to its users on Tuesday—along with an option to export their listening data and playlists for later use.
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How Databases with Personal Info Get Accidentally Left Open on the Public Web | Motherboard
On Tuesday, it emerged that the personal details of 13 million users of MacKeeper—essentially a piece of adware that tells people they can keep their Mac secure—were sitting in a database that was publicly accessible by anyone with an internet conne…
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Multiracial in America: Who gets to be “white”? — Hopes&Fears
Cover Photo: The author with his parents, Mary and Dennis Gordon. Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.
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LOS ANGELES — A veritable army of security guards, publicists and event staffers. Quadruple the typical number of invited guests. A lavish after-party, replete with Stormtroopers and a roaming Chewbacca, stretching for four city blocks.
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WASHINGTON — Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia have done the best among 20 cities competing to sign up people for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, while Dallas, Denver and Las Vegas are lagging, the White House sai
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BANGKOK — Thailand’s strict laws making it a crime to insult the monarchy entered new territory on Monday when a factory worker was charged with disparaging the king’s dog.
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Evelyn Lieberman, who as the first woman to serve as deputy chief of staff to a president grew concerned about the behavior of the junior aide Monica S. Lewinsky around Bill Clinton and banished her to a job outside the White House, died on Saturday…
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It wafts down the pavement, an unmistakable odor more Haight-Ashbury than New York — the tang of marijuana smoke in the city’s streets.
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Good morning. Nine presidential hopefuls share the main stage in Las Vegas for the first Republican debate since the attacks in France and San Bernardino, Calif. (8:30 p.m. Eastern, CNN). Here’s where they stand on the issues.
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Easy Taxi And Tappsi Merge To Try To Run Uber Off The Road In LatAm | TechCrunch
Rocket Internet-backed Easy Taxi is joining forces with Colombian taxi app startup Tappsi in a merger the pair will be hoping helps them keep accelerating ahead of Uber, which only has a limited presence in the region.
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Four Market Forces That Will Shape Robotics Over The Next Year | TechCrunch
This is the number one question I get from friends and family members, whose expectations are unconstrained by the software and hardware technical realities that make robots tick (washing dishes is a close second by the way).
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First Briton to join space station blasts off – Al Jazeera English
Three astronauts blasted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, including the first official UK astronaut to reach the orbiting base.
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Pebble’s new Health app integrates with Timeline, suggests tips to get healthier | Ars Technica
Pebble is stepping up its fitness game, literally, with a new software update today. The company announced the release of Pebble Health, the first native fitness-tracking app for its Time series of smartwatches.
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Chairman Mao letter to Clement Attlee fetches £605,000 – BBC News
A 1937 letter from Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong to then-Labour Party leader Clement Attlee has sold at auction for £605,000 ($918,000). In the letter, Mao asks Attlee for “practical assistance” in battling Japanese troops who had invade…
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Websites may soon know if you’re mad—a little mouse will tell them | Ars Technica
In a move akin to Google’s efforts to help you avoid drunk e-mailing, computer scientists are now trying to keep you happy while using the Web—by gauging when you get ticked off.
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The forecast high temperature for Christmas Eve in New York City is 66°F. What the hell is going on? Climate change? Yes, but mostly the balmy East Coast temps are due to a super-strong El Niño.
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Nowhere to Go: The Housing Crisis Facing Americans With Disabilities – The Atlantic
Even for those who are flexible about location and amenities, finding an apartment can be a serious ordeal.
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German 3D Indoor Mapping And Navigation Startup NavVis Locates €7.5M Funding | TechCrunch
Munich-based 3D indoor mapping and navigation startup NavVis raised a €7.5 million Series B round of funding as it readies the launch of its smartphone indoor navigation app.
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Today’s Best Deals: Anker’s New Bluetooth Speaker, Router Gold Box, More
Today in deals, the weather gets wireless, Anker breaks into the bluetooth market, and Amazon’s your new router. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of th…
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Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1316 in Fornax Cluster by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1316 in Fornax Cluster https://t.co/PRESXy1McN https://t.co/EJwzIN9YI7 https://t.co/7sLRXSqxPJ
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Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1316 in Fornax Cluster https://t.co/PRESXy1McN https://t.co/EJwzIN9YI7 https://t.co/7sLRXSqxPJ
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MTV picks up 3 new comedies (anything but more Scream sounds good) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a bold new effort designed around actually being funny on purpose, MTV is doubling down on scripted comedies.
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Somebody put this airport waaaay too close to the beach|Dangerous Minds
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747-400 from Amsterdam I think these marvelous photographs by prominent German photographer Josef Hoflehner and his son Jakob pretty much speak for themselves. They were taken at Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of …
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Atlassian’s Marketplace For Third-Party Devs Hits Over $120M In Sales | TechCrunch
You can now buy stock in Atlassian, but that’s not the only way to make money from the quickly growing collaboration and developer tools company.
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Bernie Sanders and Killer Mike Spar on Owning Assault Weapons – The Daily Beast
As Bernie Sanders attempts to solve his black-voter problem, he sat down with Killer Mike at the rapper’s Atlanta barber shop for a fascinating six-part conversation on economic policy, gun control, and social justice. The one issue on which the pai…
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Vatican Souvenir Shops Caught Selling Fake Papal Blessings – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — The labyrinth of cobbled streets crisscrossing the famed Borgo Pio near St. Peter’s Square have always been among this city’s most unholy.
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What We’re Following Tuesday Afternoon, 12/15 – The Atlantic
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The final GOP debate of 2015: Watch and get your holiday shopping on
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both get middle-stage billing tonight and Trump’s been itching for a fight ever since Cruz dusted him in several recent Iowa polls. Here’s the lineup from left to right: Kasich, Fiorina, Rubio, Carson, Trump, Cruz, Bush, Ch…
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Winners Know When to Quit : AnnMaria’s Blog
Winners never quit. You know that, right? You’ve won a world championships, founded several companies, earned a Ph.D. You never would have done that if you quit. That idea that winners never quit is complete and total bullshit.
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Stop Avast from Adding Its Signature into Your Outgoing Emails
Avast is Lifehacker readers’ favorite antivirus program but it sure can be annoying. A recent update now inserts a footer advertising Avast into your outgoing messages. Here’s how to turn it off.
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The Mysterious, Disputed Birth Of America’s Greatest Supercar
The Saleen S7 is a mystifying car, a $375,000 American mid-engine supercar that sprung up out of nowhere in the year 2000. But what if it wasn’t exactly nowhere? Acting on a tip, I spent months trying to figure out the S7’s true origins. And I’m sti…
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A swirl of star formation [2603 x 1862] : spaceporn
A swirl of star formation [2603 x 1862] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/304Unzw1r0 https://t.co/MuEjtIt3FJ https://t.co/hskwDnBRn3
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This little guy joined me for breakfast today : aww
This little guy joined me for breakfast today via /r/aww https://t.co/71ZDKjlxQA https://t.co/d2iTAy1yE6 https://t.co/941S4LccfJ
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This little guy joined me for breakfast today via /r/aww https://t.co/71ZDKjlxQA https://t.co/d2iTAy1yE6 https://t.co/941S4LccfJ
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The best games about home are the ones that make you leave it / Offworld
We’re in the midst of the rainy season in Portland, Oregon when a thick, soporific sheet of gray wraps itself around the city like a wet wool blanket and doesn’t let go till Spring.
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Win a signed vinyl copy of Ashley Monroe’s The Blade · Contest · The A.V. Club
If the name Ashley Monroe sounds familiar to you, then maybe it’s because the country singer/songwriter has been making big waves in the music scene this year. Or, perhaps, you may have heard her excellent Holiday Undercover, which debuted on this v…
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When a person dies at the hands of law enforcement, they leave behind parents and children, loss and confusion. What’s to be done when those you’d call are the same people that pulled the trigger? In 2015, these officer-involved shootings were more …
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Twitter Moments arrives in the UK and I hate it already | The Verge
Project Lightning, they called it. It was supposed to be the key to Twitter’s maturation and organization into a coherent (and unique) real-time news and opinion aggregation service.
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Howard Stern signs a new five-year deal with SiriusXM | The Verge
Howard Stern has renewed his deal with SiriusXM, keeping his immensely popular radio show on the service for five more years. Stern has been crucial to the success of SiriusXM since he joined the satellite radio service in 2004.
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International contest renames 14 stars and 31 exoplanets | The Verge
Thanks to a worldwide vote, 14 stars in our universe and 31 exoplanets that orbit them now have new names. The International Astronomical Union — the reigning authority on naming celestial bodies throughout the cosmos — released the winners of its N…
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Damon Wayans Jr. to guest star on Brooklyn Nine-Nine · Newswire · The A.V. Club
2015 saw Brooklyn Nine-Nine usher in a guest star list of Will & Grace-ian proportions, with one-offs from Garrett Dillahunt, Bill Hader, Anders Holm, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Archie Panjabi, Chris Parnell, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Neil deGrasse Tyson, …
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“You have a corporate media which is own by large corporations and the agenda that I am presenting is not necessarily something that large corporations feel comfortable with,” said Sanders “and I think we are in some ways not getting a fair shake.” …
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One Woman’s Case Proves: It’s Basically Impossible to Get Off the ‘No-Fly List’ – The government admitted it made a mistake when it put this Stanford Ph.D. on a terror watch list. She’s still not allowed in the United States. (thedailybeast.com)
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Watch Killer Mike’s six part interview with Bernie Sanders. The pair talked pot, poverty and guns in a wide-ranging conversation at Killer Mike’s Atlanta barbershop. (rollingstone.com) These are great!
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Fact-Checking Site Finds Donald Trump Only Tells The Truth 7 Percent of the Time : politics
Trump is like a human Facebook feed owned by your elderly relatives. Almost everything he says is meant to resonate with some dark corner of the psyche, facts be damned. It’s amazing he’s created this “truth teller” image for a lot of people when he…
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Google is expanding the capabilities of its clever mobile feature, “Google Now on Tap,” which offers additional information about what you’re looking at within a mobile application without having to exit and then perform a Google search.
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Reminder: I’m Holding Mini New York Meetups Tonight And Tomorrow | TechCrunch
Here they come: my mini-meetups. This week we’re meeting at WeWork Chelsea for a chat with Amol Sarva of Knotable about the magic and pain of starting up in NYC. The event starts at 7pm and there will be food and booze! You can RSVP here.
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Backblaze’s Low-Cost Cloud Storage Service Comes Out Of Beta | TechCrunch
After a short beta, Backblaze today opened up its new low-cost cloud storage service for all developers. Backblaze made a name for itself as a backup service for individuals and small businesses.
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Dozens Killed As the Nigerian Army Raids Shiite Sect Inspired by the Iranian Revolution | VICE News
Nigerian armed forces clashed with the West African country’s most prominent Shiite muslim sect over the weekend, killing upwards of 60 people and arresting the head of the group, who models himself after another well-known global Shiite leader — th…
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Study: Elite scientists really do hold back science – Vox
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Star Wars Fans and Their Collections (12 photos) https://t.co/fab5UptuFs https://t.co/jaQW5KDqeK https://t.co/A3NhFMA2ce
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Star Wars Fans and Their Collections – The Atlantic
Star Wars Fans and Their Collections (12 photos) https://t.co/fab5UptuFs https://t.co/jaQW5KDqeK https://t.co/A3NhFMA2ce
This week’s premiere of the newest Star Wars movie has both casual fans and die-hard enthusiasts excited. Reuters recently sent photographers to visit some of the most dedicated Star Wars fans in Japan, England, and the U.S. -
LinkedIn Revamps Its Jobs Listings With Big Data Analytics | TechCrunch
LinkedIn, a social network focused around the working world with nearly 400 million members, is well known for how it uses algorithms to suggest potential business connections and jobs to you based on your profile.
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Man arrested in toymaker hack says he wanted to expose inadequate security | Ars Technica
UK police said they have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection to the November breach of electronic toymaker VTech, a hack that exposed personal data of almost 12 million people, including gigabytes worth of headshot photos and chat logs for mill…
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A German Islamist preacher was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly helping to recruit fighters and providing material support for a militant group in Syria, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.
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Ring-themed J-horror doughnuts / Boing Boing
Redditor Two Plus Two is Fore thinks it was made by stacking and frosting different-colored sheet cakes, cut into rings and combined to make the pattern.
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Congress will blow another funding deadline, expects to vote Thursday on keeping government open
Congress is going to have to pass another short-term funding bill to keep the government’s doors open.
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BigQuery, Google’s SQL-based big data analytics service, is getting an update today that, among other things, will make it easier for users to avoid runaway query costs and to stream large amounts of data right into their databases. Google is also i…
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LOS ANGELES — All public schools in Los Angeles will be closed on Tuesday because of a bomb threat telephoned to a member of the school board, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
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CNN Republican debate in Las Vegas: News and updates – Vox
CNN Republican debate in Las Vegas: News and updates https://t.co/SPRsxpWgJp https://t.co/oG8IWc1q50
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Martian Water -An Ancient, or More Recent Story? https://t.co/hPGZHTY4bx https://t.co/8pAujoHl1d https://t.co/aElNPSWuZL
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GOP candidates should not throw away their shot to use these 51 sick burns from Hamilton – Vox
GOP candidates should not throw away their shot to use these 51 sick burns from Hamilton https://t.co/XQ22iZx3E9 https://t.co/qDlumUrn8o
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Philips Hue DRM Update Blocks Third-Party Light Bulbs | TechCrunch
It’s 2003 all over again, DRMs are back. This time, Philips has released an update to its bridge software to block third-party light bulbs. The company cites interoperability issues with third-party bulbs. As a reminder, Philips uses a ZigBee wirele…
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All Los Angeles schools shut after ‘threat’ – Al Jazeera English
All schools in Los Angeles were closed on Tuesday after officials reported receiving an unspecified threat to the district, the second-biggest in the country. Officials said the threat, which came via an electronic message, is still being evaluated.
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All Los Angeles schools closed over ‘credible threat’ of terrorist violence / Boing Boing
Wouldn’t be a Tuesday in America without an incident of mass violence or a threat of one. LAUSD is America’s second-largest school district, and has over 700,000 students.
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Official BBC instructions for knitting Doctor Who’s scarf
Apparently if you wrote the BBC asking how to make Tom Baker’s Doctor Who scarf, they would send you the knitting instructions on BBC letterhead. According to the Whovians in that forum, the Fourth Doctor wore this particular scarf in a pair of epis…
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Martian Water –An Ancient, or More Recent Story?
Recent orbital and rover missions to Mars have turned up ample evidence of clays and other hydrated minerals formed when rocks are altered by the presence of water. Most of that alteration is thought to have happened during the earliest part of Mart…
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Russia: 20 ISIL-linked rebel leaders killed in 2015 – Al Jazeera English
Moscow, Russia – Twenty leaders of 26 armed groups that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have been “neutralised” in Russia this year, a top security official announced on Tuesday.
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Los Angeles closes all public schools over threat | US news | The Guardian
All schools in the vast Los Angeles Unified School District have been ordered closed due to a threat. School district spokeswoman Ellen Morgan announced the closure on Tuesday but released no further details.
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Superintendent Ramon Cortines said the “broad” threat was not made to any one campus but to students and schools generally, and that he ordered the closure out of an “abundance of caution”.
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Campaigners back Quentin Tarantino at The Hateful Eight premiere | Film | The Guardian
Campaigners against alleged police brutality turned up to support Quentin Tarantino at the New York premiere of the Oscar-winning film-maker’s new western The Hateful Eight.
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Record US temperatures are work of El Niño and polar vortex, experts say | US news | The Guardian
Meteorologists have blamed El Niño and the polar vortex for record-breaking warm temperatures across the US this week, saying the pair of weather systems will likely keep 2015 warm enough to be the hottest year on record.
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A mosque torched in California. Suspicious white powder sent in hate mail to two offices of a Muslim civil rights group. A coffee shop defaced with Nazi graffiti and firebombed. A woman cursed out and spat on while using public transportation.
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Russell Wilson is a game manager. If a team has a great defense, Wilson can hand off, limit turnovers, move the chains and do all the little, if unremarkable, things that need to be done to help his team to victory. That’s a game manager. Game manag…
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Russia test missile ‘hits flats’ – BBC News
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Rival Factions Begin Yemen Peace Talks in Switzerland – The Atlantic
The nine-month-long conflict in Yemen, which has killed nearly 6,000 people, pits the government against Houthi rebels, and serves as a microcosm of the wider regional conflict between Saudi Arabia, which backs the government, and Iran, which suppor…
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Is is Safe for Diabetics to Buy Insulin Without a Prescription? – The Atlantic
As anyone who needs insulin to treat diabetes can attest, that usually means regular checkups at the doctor’s office to fine-tune the dosage, monitor blood-sugar levels and check for complications. But here’s a little-known fact: Some forms of insul…
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‘Don’t send your children to school’, say LA authorities – BBC News
Schools in Los Angeles (LA) have been closed due to an unspecified threat. Steve Zimmer, the President of the School Board of the LAUSD, said they were treating the threat with extreme caution.
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How Star Wars’ Insane Toy Frenzy Changed Movies Forever
A not-so-long time ago, in a galaxy pretty nearby, fans lined up to buy toys of Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren and other brand new characters from a movie they wouldn’t see for another three months. Only one franchise could harness that kind of blind powe…
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You can add a lightsaber to your Facebook profile picture now · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In recent months, customization of Facebook profile pictures has taken on increased political significance. It’s become a way to align one’s self with a cause or memorialize a tragedy.
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Sometimes, starting the Y-axis at zero is the BEST way to lie with statistics / Boing Boing
If you’ve read Darell Huff’s seminal 1954 book How to Lie With Statistics, you’ve learned an important rule of thumb: any chart whose Y-axis doesn’t start at zero is cause for suspicion, if not alarm. But Huff’s heuristic has become dogma.
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Nazism and a hate crime—aka a Donald Trump rally
Mein Coif. A Monday evening rally for Donald Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada, brought out the worst the usual supporters of the presidential hopeful.
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So are liberal Hispanics suggesting that Rubio and Criz are “Uncle Juans”? Uncle Juan? Uncle Thomas
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Those in charge that decided that they should just switch to river water without due diligence should be fired and jailed. Or, one could ask why the river water has lead in it at all.
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Missouri legislators want to revoke athletes’ scholarships if they boycott : politics
Steve Silver, a former Las Vegas Sun sports reporter and lawyer, writes at the Legal Blitz that this would probably violate athletes’ First Amendment rights. That’s a tricky one.
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One can describe the 2016 Republican presidential candidates in many ways, but “silent” is seldom one of them. Yet after 195 nations agreed on Saturday to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, the Republican field remained n…
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Lucianne Walkowicz: Let’s not use Mars as a backup planet | TED Talk | TED.com
Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA’s Kepler mission, searching for places in the universe that could support life. So it’s worth a listen when she asks us to think carefully about Mars. In this short talk, she …
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Uncanny Valley, a short film about VR “addiction” with a sting it its tail / Boing Boing
The short movie Uncanny Valley is a beautifully made, effects-heavy science fiction film about virtual reality “addicts.” It starts a little slowly, but just as soon as you think you’ve got the gag, the movie veers off into some extremely interestin…
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Disco’s Out…Murder’s In!’: The unsparing memoir of a punk rock killer|Dangerous Minds
Punk rock documentia—and there’s been a ton of it lately, revisiting crucial scenes now that their prime movers are approaching old age—has overwhelmingly tended to focus on the reminiscences of musicians whose importance has survived multiple gener…
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In February, Oliver Sacks announced that he was suffering from terminal cancer. And, by August, he was gone — but not before showing us (if you read his op-eds in the Times) how to die with dignity and grace.
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Salvador Dali’s signs of the Zodiac|Dangerous Minds
Always with his eye keenly trained to make a quick buck, Salvador Dali noted the sixties zeitgeist for all things astrological and produced a limited edition portfolio of 250 lithographs on woven paper depicting the signs of the zodiac.
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The 12 Days of Fetty Wap’s instant Christmas classic, ‘Merry Xmas’ | The Verge
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Fetty Wap — New Jersey rapper, bringer of joy and good tidings, the real Santa Claus — has just unleashed a Christmas song onto the world.
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Target temporarily bans Swagway hoverboards over safety concerns | The Verge
Following in the footsteps of Overstock.com and Amazon, Target has temporarily stopped selling the Swagway X1 hoverboard yesterday as it called on the company to provide documentation proving it meets battery and charger safety standards after a ser…
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Paramount and Hasbro are making an ’80s toy cinematic universe | The Verge
Considering how in vogue large-scale movie universes are these days, Paramount is already on its way to building its second one. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the studio and Hasbro have teamed up to create a massive, cross-property film univer…
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The EPA broke the law with social media ‘propaganda,’ ruling says | The Verge
When the Environmental Protection Agency used social media to support a clean water rule from the Obama administration, it violated the law in the process, a ruling released by watchdog agency the Government Accountability Office says.
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You can now make in-app purchases with Android Pay | The Verge
Google’s Android Pay already handles tap-and-pay transactions just fine, but today the company is launching the other half of its mobile payment platform: in-app purchases.
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We won’t have clothes in the future, just little drones with curtains | The Verge
When I am old and rich and a disgrace and am continually trying to embarrass visitors to my floating offshore megaranch with the sight of my weak and scabby flesh, I may — may — concede on some days to hide my shame using a drone.
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Google’s Now on Tap adds new languages, flight status, and more | The Verge
Google’s Now on Tap is the marquee feature of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and we’ve found it to be a really promising idea. Now on Tap analyzes whatever’s on your screen when you engage it, and then tries to surface helpful links and shortcuts within s…
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Considering Windows 10 this holiday? Here’s what you need to know | The Verge
Last week, I wrote about Microsoft’s plan to bring Xbox One and Windows 10 closer together. I’ve been wondering what this future might look like. I know a good deal about Microsoft’s video game consoles, but Windows remains a bit of a mystery.
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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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What’s Happening at Los Angeles Schools? – The Atlantic
The second-largest public school system in the nation shut down on Tuesday after officials received a threat against an unspecified number of its more than 900 campuses.
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In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared (washingtonpost.com)submitted 35 minutes ago by loading…
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Maryland Man Charged With Accepting Money from ISIS to Launch an Attack – The Atlantic
The Justice Department announced Monday it had charged a Maryland man with “attempting to provide material support” to ISIS in a case that involved money transfers from Egypt, a pledge of allegiance to the terrorist group, and a possible plot to lau…
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Brace Yourselves: io9 and Gizmodo Are Now One Epic Website
That’s been the tagline for io9.com since the website was launched in 2008. And it’s a phrase that perfectly, brilliantly sums up exactly what both Gizmodo.com and io9.
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How to Properly Catch Up on All the Star Wars Movies Before The Force Awakens
The seventh Star Wars movie comes out this week (seventh!) and if you’re feeling a little behind, don’t worry: here’s how to catch up on the first few movies before the latest installment drops.
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All Los Angeles public schools are closed today due to ‘credible threat’
All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday after LAUSD received a “credible terror threat,” according to school district officials and police. More details about the threat were expected to be provided during a Tuesday morni…
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Despite controversy after controversy, Donald Trump still dominates the polls. With his seemingly impervious lead, it is tempting to declare that he is a clear front-runner for the nomination.
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Pandas Have More Babies if They Can Pick Their Mates
Giant pandas that are crazy about each other produce more cubs than panda couples lacking that mysterious spark, according to new research. Even a one-sided romance has better odds of producing a baby than a mutually indifferent union.
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The Story Of My Tits is so much more than a comic book about boobs · Comics Panel · The A.V. Club
Don’t be fooled by the title of Jennifer Hayden’s The Story of My Tits (Top Shelf).
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What Ignited Our Burning Desire for Luxury Candles – Racked
Ever since French candle brand Diptyque first opened its New York City flagship on ritzy Madison Avenue, shoppers have raced to the store as soon as the annual holiday collection drops in early November. Diptyque is well aware it inspires a certain …
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To say that Jessica Jones’ handling of Kilgrave is an improvement over the Alias comic book is a major understatement.
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Los Angeles schools closed after credible threat | Al Jazeera America
Los Angeles schools were closed Tuesday after authorities received what was described as a credible terror threat — resulting in more than half a million children being kept at home.
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Opinions on Love Actually are as divided as they are strong, but people generally seem to agree on what it is they are reacting to.
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Republicans should debate these Black Lives Matter and criminal justice questions – Vox
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CNN Las Vegas Republican debate moderators: Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash, Hugh Hewitt – Vox
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Beijing’s Air Is So Bad, the Sale of Bottled Canadian Mountain Air Is Soaring | VICE News
It may have started out in jest, but two Canadians are now profiting off a smog “red alert” in Beijing, as Chinese people buy canisters of fresh air from the Rocky Mountains.
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The New Establishment Summit Will Return October 18–20, 2016 | Vanity Fair
On the heels of two buzzed-about, sold-out New Establishment Summits in San Francisco, Vanity Fair announced that the summit will return for the third time to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, from October 18–20, 2016.
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The Curious Case of the Jihadi Who Started Out a Hacktivist | Vanity Fair
Once upon a couple of years ago, Junaid Hussain was a teenager of Pakistani descent living in Birmingham, England. By day, he was an aspiring rapper.
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DEA ignored prosecutor’s warning about illegal wiretap warrants, now it’s losing big / Boing Boing
For years, the DEA relied on a Riverside, California magistrate judge, Helios Hernandez, to write illegal wiretap warrants, making Hernandez the national champion of wiretapping warrants, signing off on five times more than any other judge in Americ…
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Cut global emissions by cutting fossil-fuel subsidies – In the United States, the debate on fossil-fuel subsidies centers on tax breaks for drillers, which cost the Treasury about $4 billion annually. (washingtonpost.com)
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Oregon Is The Latest Target Of Right-Wing Effort To Get Rid Of National Forests : environment
Oregon Is The Latest Target Of Right-Wing Effort To Get Rid Of National Forests (thinkprogress.org)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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How an agency charged with protecting endangered animals ignored them instead: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service did not intervene in thousands of environmentally harmful projects, new analysis shows. (commondreams.org)
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Space in Images – 2015 – 12 – Up close
The launch of Soyuz TMA-19M seen from 113 m by an automatic camera – standing this close to 274 tonnes of rocket fuel would not be a good idea.
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Android Pay Now Works In Mobile Apps | TechCrunch
Following its launch this fall, Google’s Apple Pay rival known as Android Pay is taking another notable step this morning: it’s now available to use within mobile applications.
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Welcome to Earth, and Also These Awesome Covers For the Independence Day Comic
It’s the week for all things Independence Day, after our first look at the sequel promised a return to Earth for the aliens.
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Another Day, Another Hack: Details of 13 Million MacKeeper Users | Motherboard
Quite literally, everyday someone gets hacked. Whether that’s a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to melt into ano…
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Muslim Americans and US liberal values – Al Jazeera English
Former Motherland party representative Natalia Narochnitskaya discusses Russia’s stance on Ukraine, ISIL and Syria. The FIFA presidential candidate on his alleged ties to Bahrain’s 2011 crackdown on protesters and the future of FIFA.
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Los Angeles school closures and bomb threat: What we know – Vox
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Season’s greetings
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An Unusual Tech Bet Could Slow Climate Change – Scientific American
Corn is king in the U.S. Midwest, and few companies in the field are larger than Archer Daniels Midland. The agribusiness giant runs a corn processing plant in Decatur, Ill. that turns tons of golden kernels into thousands of liters of alcohol, food…
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Republicans Threaten to Shred Historic UN Climate Agreement | VICE News
If you’re wondering what the leading Republican presidential contenders have to say about this weekend’s landmark agreement to rein in planet-warming carbon emissions, here’s a summary: None of the top Republicans have addressed the Paris agreement,…
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A Technology Port In A Market Storm | TechCrunch
Headlines in 2015 have been particularly worrisome for global investors. Front pages talking about “The Great Fall of China” and a “Wild Week for World Markets” have seen stocks and share investors around the world make a dash for the door.
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A Day in the Life of Americans | FlowingData
From two angles so far, we’ve seen how Americans spend their days, but the views are wideout and limited in what you can see. I can tell you that about 40 percent of people age 25 to 34 are working on an average day at three in the afternoon.
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Lifelock anti-identity theft service helped man stalk his ex-wife / Boing Boing
Suzanna Quintan’s ex-husband bought a Lifelock account in her name, which let him monitor virtually everything she did in realtime, and then the company stonewalled and refused to help her shut down his access and figure out what he’d learned about …
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Dust Bowl returns as an Expedition in Oath of the Gatewatch | Ars Technica
The release of the next Magic: The Gathering set, Oath of the Gatewatch is fast approaching, and thus spoiler season has officially begun! Ars Technica has a few exclusive cards to show off, starting with a new Expedition—one of the new set of twent…
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Israel: No proof to try ‘terrorists’ for arson attack – Al Jazeera English
Israel’s defense minister said on Tuesday there was not enough evidence to prosecute the suspects in a deadly arson attack on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank in July.
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Giroptic Is Building The GoPro For Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
French startup Giroptic just raised $4.5 million for a new kind of action camera. Giroptic looks like a GoPro, but if you look closely, you can notice three different cameras. The egg-shaped 360cam captures everything around you, making it the perfe…
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Letter from Sanaa: Some long for death as a way out – Al Jazeera English
Yemen has been embroiled in a vicious conflict since March, with more than 5,000 people killed, mostly civilians, and the country pushed to the brink of famine. The situation is so desolate that it’s common to hear some people saying they wish an ai…
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Facebook is quietly testing a new feature that will direct users to the best-rated and reviewed local service providers in their area. At the easy-to-access URL Facebook.
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A foreign correspondent’s stories from Iraq – Al Jazeera English
In this 10-minute episode of The Debrief, Al Jazeera’s Senior Correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom tells us about his most recent experience reporting in Iraq. He paints a clear picture of the struggles faced by the Iraqi people as they try to lead a some…
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The Great Divide – Al Jazeera English
Across Australia, the fear of violence inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has created a growing intolerance towards the nation’s Muslim community. It is fuelling a rise of ultra-nationalist groups determined to defend what t…
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UN awards Al Jazeera for Samoa climate change reporting – Al Jazeera English
A series of Al Jazeera reports on climate change and its effects on island nations has won a United Nations Award, highlighting what the Doha-based channel said is its commitment to covering the environment.
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That GOP voter outreach is going great! Let him appoint a few Supreme Court justices as president and so much more will be overturned.. it’s a nightmare to imagine.
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Chinese Researchers Explore How to Implement Ivory Ban
When Chinese President Xi Jinping announced in September 2015 that China would, together with the United States, work toward a complete domestic ban on ivory, it was a welcome step in the fight against elephant poaching. Yet it was also only the fir…
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Carly Fiorina’s exaggerated claims about Americans’ views on Planned Parenthood and the 20-week abortion ban: Three Pinocchios (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]Conzerak [score hidden] 58 minutes ago(1 child)paint her green an…
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Your Human Rights Court Is Not Our Human Rights Court, Says Putin | VICE News
It’s official — Russia doesn’t care about what the world has to say about its human rights record.
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The Most Unforgettable Moment in the First Episode of Childhood’s End
Syfy’s Arthur C. Clarke adaptation premiered last night with its first installment, “The Overlords.
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Billionaire GOP superdonors aren’t getting what they paid for / Boing Boing
The billionaires who bankrolled Mitt Romney and other Republican establishment candidates are becoming disillusioned with the political classes, who give them the mushroom treatment: keep ’em in the dark and shovel shit all over them.
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‘Home Alone’ at 25: When Torture’s Fun for All the Family – The Atlantic
Home Alone, which was released in 1990 and has since become an It’s a Wonderful Life-caliber Christmas classic, is on the whole a heartwarming object lesson about the sanctity of the home, the value of family, and the power of forgiveness.
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Barcode Alarm Clock Forces You to Get the Day Started
iOS: If you have a hard time waking up, join the club. It’s so tempting to hit snooze in the morning and return to the comfort of your pillow. Barcode Alarm Clock is an alarm clock app that forces you to start your day by making you scan your toothp…
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Corpse-eating microbes could help solve murder mysteries | Ars Technica
There’s no accounting for taste, but it may be a good thing that some microbes are cadaver connoisseurs—their picky palates for flesh, aged to their exacting preferences, may help forensic detectives call a time of death in unsolved murders, a new s…
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The Price We Pay for Corporate Money In Campaigns
If you wonder what price we all pay for corporate money flooding political campaigns ($1.7 billion in 2014), see Exhibit A — the decision by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to renounce its U.S. citizenship and become an Irish company in order to duck U.…
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Congressional Republicans and the Roadblock Keeping Republicans From the Presidency – The Atlantic
There is a fundamental conflict at the heart of the Constitution that is bedeviling current Republican efforts to retake the White House: The president and Congress don’t have to be controlled by the same political party.
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Inside the Ratings Success of ‘Coat of Many Colors’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Inside the Ratings Success of ‘Coat of Many Colors’: The Ram Report Nearly 13 million viewers tune in for the NBC movie based on Dolly Parton’s signature song
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What Paris Climate Deal? GOP Candidates Move On As If Nothing Happened | New Republic
In the wake of the two-week climate conference in Paris, at which 195 countries agreed to significantly curb carbon emissions, the world has moved on to the question of how to implement such an ambitious plan.
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Hear Menacing Arcs Song From Danger Mouse Label Comp | Rolling Stone
Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton’s new label, 30th Century Records, the Gnarls Barkley producer’s imprint for Columbia Records, will share its inaugural release on December 18th in the form of 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I.
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Donald Trump Calls MLB’s Pete Rose Ban ‘Ridiculous’ | Rolling Stone
Donald Trump is never one to shy away from controversy, so you knew it was only a matter of time until he weighed in on the situation involving Pete Rose and Major League Baseball.
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Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Deal, Plans Streaming Video App | Rolling Stone
Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Deal, Plans Streaming Video App “if you are not listening to SiriusXM and ‘The Howard Stern Show,’ then you are really more like a zombie, a rotting corpse monster, living half a li
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Beth Ditto, Jean Paul Gaultier Start Plus-Size Clothing Line | Rolling Stone
Beth Ditto, Jean Paul Gaultier Start Plus-Size Clothing Line Fashion designer’s iconic cone bra features on collaborative shirt celebrating the February arrival of Gossip singer’s line
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Tom Jones on Meeting Elvis, ‘Panty Magnet’ Phase | Rolling Stone
Tom Jones has thought a lot about Elvis Presley. As a teenage fan growing up in a small village in South Wales, Jones used to tell his rock & roll friends in the Fifties: “I’ll meet Elvis one day.” No one believed him.
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You can finally buy a $12,000 model of the McLaren P1 hypercar | The Verge
The McLaren P1 just went out of production, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still buy a new one — it’s just a little smaller.
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Hide from Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers with this free Chrome extension | The Verge
You probably didn’t consider when you awoke this morning that today is our first in a post-The Force Awakens world. I suspect that if you’re here, reading this now, you know that hundreds of humans witnessed the film at last night’s premiere.
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Hoverboard-riding Lucozade thief could make legal history in the UK | The Verge
A Londoner who stole a crate of Lucozade while riding a two-wheeled hoverboard could make legal history in the UK as the first person to be prosecuted for using such a device on the sidewalk.
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Watch Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s new expansion trailer in virtual reality | The Verge
VR-based advertisements and trailers are so common that they’re barely notable at this point. But if you’ve got Google Cardboard or the Gear VR, you should check out the latest trailer for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s first expansion.
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Guillermo del Toro’s deluxe Cabinet of Curiosities will make fanboys (and girls) swoon / Boing Boing
I love Guillermo del Toro: he’s a Renaissance man who makes deeply artful and emotional horror films and revels in his work. What’s not to like? His soul is bottomless as a well and seems to replenish itself from some miraculous underground source.
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Rethinking How We Diagnose Psychosis – Scientific American Blog Network
If you are unfortunate enough to develop acute chest pain this winter you will probably be assessed by a clinician who will order a battery of tests to determine if your symptoms result from pneumonia, bronchitis, heart disease, or something else.
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Why Herman Cain, Former Republican Presidential Favorite, Is Loving The 2016 Race | ThinkProgress
LAS VEGAS, NV — In October of 2012, Herman Cain was on top of the world — and the presidential polls.
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Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Reached Mexican Waters, Lawsuit Claims | ThinkProgress
BP may have settled in United States court after the largest marine oil spill in history polluted the Gulf of Mexico, but now a Mexican civic organization is seeking remediation for alleged ecological damages from drifting contamination affecting Me…
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She’s braved rough seas and space walks. Can she weather climate change skeptics? | in recent weeks he has assailed her for refusing to cooperate with an investigation he says will show that NOAA scientists “altered” historical climate data. (washin…
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Orbitar, really? Some new exoplanet names are downright weird | Ars Technica
Everyone who lived through the demotion of Pluto as a planet knows that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the final arbiter when it comes to designating all things astronomical, including official names for celestial bodies.
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Jaguar returns to racing with a Formula E team | Ars Technica
Jaguar has been on quite the roll recently. The company made its name in the 1950s and 1960s with cars like the C-Type (the first use of disc brakes in a car) and the E-Type. But by the mid-1980s, things weren’t looking so good.
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Fact-checking the debate on encryption | Ars Technica
As politicians and counter-terrorism officials search for lessons from the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, senior officials have called for limits on technology that sends encrypted messages. It’s a debate that has repeatedly…
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The Plight of the Black Academic – The Atlantic
In his new book, The Scholar Denied, the sociologist Aldon Morris writes that contrary to the discipline’s preferred origin story, the field of sociology was actually founded by W.E.B. DuBois, the first black person to receive a Ph.D. in the United …
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Garret Dillahunt denies playing a drug-stashing trucker in Braven · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that Garret Dillahunt has just joined the cast of Braven, that Jason Momoa-led film about ruthless drug runners in the Pacific Northwest and the humble, hunky lumberjack (Momoa) who stands up to them.
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Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA | Ars Technica
It was time for the spent rocket to die. So the 2,000kg Centaur upper stage, about the size of a yellow school bus, detached from its spacecraft and began falling toward the Moon six years ago. Soon lunar gravity took hold, tugging the Centaur ever …
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El Niño, explained: A guide to the biggest weather story of 2015 – Vox
Over the past year, scientists have been keeping a close eye on an important swath of the Pacific Ocean, just along the equator. When conditions here get just right, an El Niño can form — wreaking havoc on weather patterns across the globe. Now it l…
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Missouri legislators want to revoke student athletes’ scholarships if they boycott – Vox
Some Missouri state legislators upset about the protests over racism, backed by the football team, that ousted the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor. And they want to make sure it never happens again.
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French teacher who invented school attack ‘in psychiatric hospital’ – BBC News
A French teacher who falsely claimed he had been stabbed by a man shouting “Islamic State” has been sent to a psychiatric hospital, prosecutors say.The teacher at a school near Paris made the claim on Monday morning before admitting he had made the …
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LA schools shut over ‘threat’ – BBC News
The Soyuz space capsule carrying UK astronaut Tim Peake is in orbit around the Earth, heading for the International Space Station.
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Podcasting is getting huge. Here’s why. – Vox
Serial, one of the most popular podcasts of all time, returned last week with an episode chronicling the capture of Bowe Bergdahl, a US service member imprisoned for five years by the Taliban.
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UN ends Iran nuclear investigation – BBC News
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Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs – Vox
What if the media covered alcohol like it does other drugs? This was a question that came up in my coverage of flakka, a synthetic drug that made headlines after law enforcement blamed it for people running in the streets naked in delusional paranoi…
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Sundar Raises $1.3 Million From NEA To Bring Transparency To Fashion’s Supply Chain | TechCrunch
Everyone at this point knows that the general supply chain that serves the fashion industry is a nightmare.
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How Fermentation Gives Us Beer, Wine, Cheese—and Cancer? – Scientific American
In 1931 German physician, physiologist and biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that cancerous cells—unlike most healthy human cells, which produce energy using oxygen via respiration—favor the anaerobic process of …
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The First Spoiler-Free Impressions of The Force Awakens, Straight From the Premiere
The first group of non-Lucasfilm employees have finally been allowed to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens last night, and good news! The reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
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How to Raise a 165-Year-Old Cat | Atlas Obscura
Jake Perry is a cat man. Standing about 5-foot-7 and often clad in workman’s clothes, the 85-year-old Austin, Texas, plumber is also a father and husband. But anyone who’s met Perry will tell you—first and foremost, he’s a cat man.
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Getting Real About Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
Hacking together a VR experience* to see firsthand what’s involved, revealed just how close we are to something great, but there are five areas that need to fall into place for VR to become a technology we all use daily.
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If Your Holiday Lights Include Lasers, Keep Them Out of the Sky
Some of this year’s cheeriest holiday decorations look great, but use lasers or other focused light projected on the side of your home for a stunning display.
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Health care researchers who have seen the new findings say they are likely to force a rethinking of some conventional wisdom about health care. In particular, they cast doubt on the wisdom of encouraging mergers among hospitals, as parts of the 2010…
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Dinosaur egg candle ‘hatches’ baby Velociraptor as it melts|Dangerous Minds
Since we’re cutting it close to the holidays, I thought I’d share this wonderful last minute gift idea for that special paleontologist in your life: an egg that “hatches” a baby Velociraptor when it’s melting. C’mon, this is kind of great, right? Or…
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Hollywood awards expert predicts Oscars success for The Force Awakens | Film | The Guardian
Hollywood’s top awards season expert has predicted that Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be garlanded with a best picture Oscar nomination next month, making it the first film in the long-running space saga to achieve the feat since 1977’s Star War…
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Rajon Rondo’s homophobic slur shows how prejudice runs deep | Sport | The Guardian
This is not the Rajon Rondo article I had intended to write. I wanted to focus on Rondo’s comeback, a campaign that up until this point was going well for the 29-year-old point guard.
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Roy Jones, like Floyd Mayweather, only more dramatically, has long since ceased to justify the appellation “Junior”.
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Virginia Woolf letter urging friend to ‘go on living’ goes to auction | Books | The Guardian
A letter from Virginia Woolf to her friend Philip Morrell urging him to “go on living”, because “far too many of my friends have given that up lately”, a year before the novelist committed suicide, will go under the hammer this week.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them teaser trailer
The most teasing of teaser trailers is out for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter prequel that everyone insists isn’t a prequel. Out November 2016. (via trailer town)
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Weezer’s Bizarre Copyright Crackdown on ‘Hash Pipe’ | Motherboard
Like many guitar dabblers who are neither talented nor dedicated, I’ve got to have songs explained to me by someone sitting in front of a webcam in their bedroom in order to stumble my way through even the most basic of tunes.
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Justice Ginsburg’s Ominous Warning About Creeping Corporate Power : politics
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KRS-One discovers Scott La Rock is a DJ / Boing Boing
Looks are deceiving when KRS-One finds out that the social worker at his homeless shelter has skills on the wheels of steel. Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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MEPs urge tougher EU stance on diesel emissions – BBC News
The European Parliament’s environment committee has rejected new EU standards for diesel car emissions, arguing that they are not strict enough. The standards agreed by EU governments in October would allow diesel cars to continue exceeding the maxi…
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Steve Borthwick has been appointed England forwards coach as part of new head coach Eddie Jones’ backroom team. More to follow.
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There is no Nazi gold train, Polish scientists say | World news | The Guardian
Scientists have quashed a claim by two amateur treasure hunters that they had discovered a legendary gold train hidden by the Nazis in a southern Polish railway embankment.
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Two cities, two shootings, one question: Why?
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies murdered 28-year-old Nicholas Robinson on Saturday, December 12. Like the murder of Mario Woods by San Francisco police on December 2, Robinson’s execution was digitally recorded. Like Woods, Robinson was shot n…
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Netflix is re-encoding its whole catalog for better streams that use less data | The Verge
Netflix has spent four years rethinking the way it serves movies and TV shows to its customers over the internet, and it’s in the process of rolling out the result.
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Jaguar officially joins Formula E, and will make electric vehicles for the road | The Verge
Rumors were reported last week, but today the two sides made it official: Jaguar Land Rover is joining Formula E, the all-electric racing series. The automaker will field a team in time for the sport’s third season, which starts in late 2016.
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You can now pay an exorbitant fee to boost your level in Destiny | The Verge
Why is Bungie so sure the game’s vanilla content is totally worthless? There’s a new microtransaction available in the world of Destiny, one that has the potential to send the game’s fanbase into a frothing rage: you can pay real money to boost your…
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Ted Cruz: Hey, I also enjoy Star Wars | The Verge
Ted Cruz has often been keen to play up his pop culture bona fides — with controversial results — but he’s taken it to a new level with Star Wars this week, tweeting out what appears to be a low-budget fan-made
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Rdio lets users look back at their listening history one last time | The Verge
Last month Rdio announced it would be shutting down, with Pandora buying “several key assets” from the bankrupt service. Ultimately, it seemed Rdio’s sad demise was sealed from the start, but in its five years of existence, the service still managed…
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Significant Digits for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Probability of a White Christmas for the east coast of the United States from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, part of a recent period of warm weather bro…
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Paramore Part Ways With Bassist Jeremy Davis | Rolling Stone
Paramore announced Monday night that bassist and co-founder Jeremy Davis is no longer a member of the band. “We’ve written and re-written this countless times and there’s just not a good way to put it… Jeremy is no longer going to be in the band w…
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The Year of ‘Deflategate’: How a Dumb Drama Ruined the NFL | Rolling Stone
Someday, when we are all dead and gone, when all that is left behind are the remnants of half-remembered jokes about inflated balls, those who are still here will mark 2015 as the year professional football tipped into the realm of cultural satire.
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Will CNN Break Donald Trump’s Grip on the Republican Debate? | New Republic
For more than one month now, the Republican presidential contest has been a virtual forum for a debate about the extent to which U.S. security policy should be rooted in suspicion of foreign and domestic Muslims.
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Primo Levi, Mountain Rebel | New Republic
In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape the Nazis. A keen mountaineer since the age of 14, for Levi the Alps had long been a sanctuary for physical release and spiritual recovery.
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The Brain’s GPS Tells You Where You Are and Where You’ve Come From – Scientific American
Our ability to pilot a car or airplane—or even to walk through city streets—has been completely transformed by the invention of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Under the COP21 Paris Deal, the U.S. Military Isn’t Exempt From Carbon-Emissions Cuts – The Atlantic
The U.S. military and armed forces of countries around the world will no longer be automatically exempted from emissions-cutting obligations under the U.N. Paris climate deal. Although the U.S.
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Trump Boom Or Trump Bubble? | FiveThirtyEight
The Republican debate on Tuesday night in Las Vegas will offer Republican presidential contenders a rare opportunity: the chance, at least for a couple of hours, to compete on a level stage with Donald Trump, who has dominated coverage of the campai…
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Sea lion deaths linked to severe brain damage caused by toxic algae bloom | US news | The Guardian
The mystery of why sea lions have been stranding in droves on US west coast beaches in recent years is closer to being solved.
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13 million MacKeeper users exposed after MongoDB door was left open | Ars Technica
Security researcher Chris Vickery has found and reported a massive security issue on the Web servers of MacKeeper, a piece of software often regarded as scareware.
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Tim Peake: Space launch in pictures – BBC News
The Russian Soyuz craft, which blasted off at 11:03 GMT, is also carrying Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra. Here is the adventure so far – in pictures.
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Peter Pomerantsev: ‘Putin’s Russia needs a new genre for each chapter’ | Books | The Guardian
How can one writer capture the experience of 21st century Russia? I realised that for this book I needed to find a way of writing that could describe a new form of authoritarianism that felt like a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy by lunch, …
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How Star Wars redefined the notion of what a movie could be – Vox
In just a few days, the world will finally get to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh entry in the movie franchise and the start of a new trilogy and new chapter for the series.
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“Ism” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year – Vox
Merriam-Webster joins a proud tradition of not picking actual words for Word of the Year. In November, Oxford Dictionaries said its “word” of the year was the “face with tears of joy” emoji.
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My wife has depression. There’s finally a TV show that understands our relationship. – Vox
She kept saying she was going to do it, so I told her to just go ahead and do it already. I was 19. She was 18. It was college. We were “dating,” but that can mean many things at that age.
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Officials with the Oregon Department of Forestry knew Applebee Aviation had lost its pesticide license, but still let the company spray weed killer over 800 acres of state and private land. (opb.org)
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Guide To The Characters Of ‘The Force Awakens’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Finn: The film’s unlikely hero. Because he’s a Stormtrooper, not any racist reasons. Luke Skywalker: Seriously, where is he in the trailers? What does this mean? He went to the dark side, didn’t he? Oh, man, we knew it. We fucking knew it.
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And J.K. Rowling (and Warner Bros.) said “let there be lumos maxima”—as well as the first Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them trailer.
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The Republican Carnival Comes to Town
Donald Trump will be center stage in CNN’s Republican Presidential debate tonight, flanked this time by a surging, sinister Sen. Ted Cruz on his left and a flagging Dr. Ben Carson on his right. Once more Trump will claim the spotlight, with the othe…
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RED BAY, Ala. — At 72, her gray hair closely shorn, her days occupied by sewing and television, Wanda Chism seems every bit a typical nursing home patient — but for her size. Ms. Chism is severely obese, unable to leave her bed without a mechanical …
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The Nolab Digital Super 8 Cartridge Could Digitize Your Old Movie Cameras | TechCrunch
Photographer Hayes Urban wants to breathe new life into your own Super 8 camera. As you’ll recall, Super 8 was a format used in prehistoric times to shoot home movies. The cartridges contained actual film and to play back the movies you used somethi…
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Updated, 11:02 p.m. | Donald J. Trump has released a letter from his personal physician attesting that his health is “extraordinary.” The letter, gushing in tone and signed by Dr. Harold N.
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The head of Europe’s coal lobby has said that his industry will be “hated and vilified in the same way that slave-traders were once hated and vilified” as a result of the Paris climate deal, in an extraordinary diatribe sent to his members and press…
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Kerry, Lavrov Meet on Syria’s Civil War – The Atlantic
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Moscow for meetings he hopes will bridge the differences between the United States and Russia on ways to end the Syrian civil war. Kerry is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin later Tuesday.
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A New Doctor Strange Set Picture Teases Some Major Marvel Mysticism!
Is there more to Batman v Superman than everyone thinks? And will The Force Awakens include a tease for Rogue One? Jennifer Lawrence talks turning blue for X-Men Apocalypse. Plus more from Deadpool, Charles Dance talks Childhood’s End, and a new loo…
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How Donald Trump mainstreamed Ted Cruz – Vox
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A sackful of holiday greetings from Divine, Edie the Egglady & Miss Jean Hill (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
Here are the grand goddesses of John Waters’ Dreamland repertory company, Divine, Edith Massey, and Jean Hill, making spirits bright for the holidays in this collection of pin-up photos.
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for context this BLM protester shouted at a black man and his wife who were talking about their son being murdered. Called him an uncle tom. https://youtu.be/VuVmBgR5mlY?t=1546 The wife starts crying. EDIT * You can down vote me all you want. The pr…
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Avegant’s Glyph ‘personal theater’ headset starts shipping next month | The Verge
The Avegant Glyph will get you noticed. The consumer version of the projector-headset combo is remarkably more attractive than the prototypes Avegant has shown off in the past, even if wearers will never quite escape looking like LeVar Burton donnin…
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We’re going to liveblog the Republican debate as characters from Star Trek | The Verge
In the very beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all of humanity is put on trial before a cunning and fiendish god named Q.
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ESA has ensured the continuation of the Sentinel-1 Earth observation satellite series for Europe’s Copernicus environmental programme by ordering two more satellites. The €400 million contract was signed today with Thales Alenia Space of Italy to bu…
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Space Station Bound – Soyuz TMA-19M Launches With 3 Aboard | Video
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The war on drugs is doomed. Here’s how it could actually end. – Vox
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Azalead Grabs $5 Million For Its Special Weapon For Sales Teams | TechCrunch
French startup Azalead just raised $5 million (€4.5 million) from Idinvest, with existing investor Aurinvest also participating. The startup is building a platform for account-based marketing, a recent and interesting trend for marketing and sales t…
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Voight-Kampff Empathy Test, 2015 edition / Boing Boing
You may have noticed that Scott “Dilbert” Adams is a colossal asshole. Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales is a 300-page anthology of Golden Age comic book stories by the great Walk Kelly. It’s edited by comic book historian Craig Yoe.
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Artificial Intelligence Needs a New Pronoun – The Atlantic
Deep inside a spaghetti bowl of suburban Maryland streets this weekend, I turned to a trusted guide for directions back to the highway. But this guide couldn’t figure out what direction we were going, and she asked me to perform nonsensical maneuver…
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AMD embraces open source to take on Nvidia’s GameWorks | Ars Technica
AMD’s position in the graphics market continues to be a tricky one. Although the company has important design wins in the console space—both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are built around AMD CPUs with integrated AMD GPUs—its position in the PC spa…
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The Reliable Motor Vehicle, 1916 [Slide Show] – Scientific American
Steam Machine: In 2016, as internal combustion gives way to electric motors, it is good to remember that in 1916 there were also alternatives, such as this prototype for a steam-powered, boiler-fired motor car. It took 1 1/2 minutes to warm up.
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Finding Our Place with the Brain’s GPS – Scientific American
Where am I going? As you’ll learn in this issue, the way the brain processes the straightforward, location-based meaning of that question is just as interesting as its ability to ruminate on the existential meaning of the phrase.
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This week, the US government will take action to slow the economy and prevent wage growth – Vox
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Block potential Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers with this Chrome add-on | Ars Technica
As you may have heard, this week a new Star Wars film is coming out. Chances are, it may even be good. Or, if you’re as excited about The Force Awakens as I am, you know it will be good.
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Historic Virginia Mansion Hosts “Plantation Christmas” | Mother Jones
Residents of Virginia’s Fairfax County were given the opportunity to travel back in time this weekend to celebrate Christmas as it would have been on an 18th-century plantation—complete with actors portraying slaves.
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A Call for More Black Men to Become Teachers – The Atlantic
NEW ORLEANS—During his high-school days, no football game could start without Louis Blackmon III: the team’s center. Each play began with his snap. Though Blackmon was renowned for his hustle on the field, he didn’t put the same effort into the clas…
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Fossil Q Founder review: Bold, beautiful, but average with Android Wear | Ars Technica
Fossil knows watches: its wide selection of timepieces are made of quality materials and with a consistent style while remaining on the affordable side of luxury. Now the fashion company is bringing its watch expertise to Android Wear with the Q Fou…
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Public domain illustrations from old books / Boing Boing
Old Book Illustrations is a search engine and browseable library of—you’ve guessed it!—the engraved illustrations and litho prints found in old books. Choose the type of illustrations you want to see: animals or people, landscapes, buildings, etc.
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I type those words all too often, as I wrote in this space last year when the list-making season arrived—and of course it’s true again this year. I send them to publicists who fill my inbox with plugs for one title after another on publishers’ lists.
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Le Pen acquitted of inciting hatred – BBC News
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Why Victims of Sexual Abuse Are More Likely to Be Obese – The Atlantic
Christine White was a preteen when she went on her first diet. At school, she was bubbly and sociable, an honors student immersed in social causes. But at home, she would carefully ration her food. By the time she was 14, she had developed bulimia.
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: ‘Let It Snow’: How to Quench Holiday Ardor – 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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Is Apple 3D Touch Worth It? – The Atlantic
The computer mouse, when it first went mainstream, was awkward to describe but easy to use. “Instead of typing instructions, one points to pictures on the screen by sliding a handheld device called a mouse along the top of the desk next to the compu…
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Upgrade Your Home Network With Today’s Amazon Gold Box
Today only, Amazon’s offering solid discounts on a variety of TP-Link networking products, including routers, modems, switches, powerlinen adapters, and more. If you haven’t upgraded your network to 802.
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Every budget needs an occasional check up. You want to make sure your spending is still in tune with your income and money goals. The PERK method can help you get started.
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Man jailed for attempted murder of Uzbek dissident in Sweden – BBC News
A Swedish court has sentenced an Uzbek man to 18 years in prison for the 2012 attempted murder of a Muslim cleric who criticised the Uzbek government.The imam, 54, was shot in the head in the stairwell of his home in Stromsund.He was initially in a …
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Major Peake’s boss: ‘Tim was ready to go to Space’ – BBC News
Among those watching the launch of the Soyuz rocket on Tuesday morning, carrying a crew of astronauts that included Tim Peake, was his boss. Frank de Winne, head of the European Astronaut Centre, told BBC News that the British astronaut was excited …
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Fantastic Beasts Trailer: Eddie Redmayne Works His Magic | Vanity Fair
So here’s what a Harry Potter movie without Harry Potter looks like.
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Who’s doing what in the coalition against Islamic State? – BBC News
Since September 2014, the US has led a multinational coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, although not all members are engaged in actual fighting.
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Zimbabwe MP charged over Grace Mugabe insult – BBC News
Justice Wadyajena was accused of using “abusive language” against a fellow Zanu-PF party member, who had a portrait of Mrs Mugabe on his car. The incident is being seen as part of internal party wrangling over who should succeed President Robert Mug…
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HabitRPG Levels Up on Android With a New Beta
Android/iOS: HabitRPG is the awesome to-do list and habit tracker that turns your life into an RPG. Now, after getting a new name this summer, Habitica has come out with a brand new beta for Android. The previous version of HabitRPG (which you can s…
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The ‘Most Earthlike’ Planets We’ve Found So Far Are Not Very Earthlike | Motherboard
The title of most “Earthlike” exoplanet has been in constant flux recently. Every few months, a new extrasolar planet waltzes in and upstages the last contender. Last year, it was Kepler-186f. Then it was Kepler-438b.
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5 Reasons ‘Star Wars’ Spaceships Make Absolutely No Sense
The Star Wars films are great escapist fantasies, and like all escapist fiction, it’s best not to think about it too much. The films take place, as the saying goes, “a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away,” where apparently almost everything is…
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Man drives pick-up truck into Oklahoma hotel lobby – CCTV video | US news | The Guardian
CCTV footage shows the moment John Parsley, 62, drives his pickup truck into the lobby of the Comfort Inn & Suites hotel in Alva, Oklahoma, allegedly following a dispute about his bill. The truck drives through the check-in counter, narrowly missing…
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Someone colorized the opening credits to ‘The Munsters’|Dangerous Minds
Most people dislike the colorization of old B&W films and photographs. I’m one of those people. The colors never look real enough to me and they add a certain “fakey” modernization to the film or photograph. That’s just my opinion.
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Itch is a desktop app for indie gaming’s open marketplace / Boing Boing
Koaning.io used Markov chains, a kind of stochastic modeling more famously used to generate pseudo-meaningful written text, to show that the board game Monopoly is heavily imbalanced by the “go to jail” mechanic.
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Cat got your tongue? Check out these cheeky ‘pussy panties’|Dangerous Minds
3D printed cat panties If you’ve been on the Internet at all, then you are likely aware that cats OWN IT. From clothes to memes, it’s all about, ahem, pussy.
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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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Kerry Calls for Common Ground on Syria | Al Jazeera America
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for the United States and Russia to find “common ground” on contentious differences over ending Syria’s civil war and restoring stability in eastern Ukraine.
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Canned designs: rip it up and start again in Paris – The Long and Short
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TV Remembers the First Nuclear Bomb Test – Scientific American
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Ali Gharib: is Trump a fascist? | Opinion | The Guardian
Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is openly spreading bigoted rhetoric about Muslims, and many people are cheering. Ali Gharib explains how the hate that Trump leverages for political power is aligned with the fascist narrative
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9 Perfect Gifts For The Health Nut In Your Life | TechCrunch
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Qualcomm Decides Again Not to Split Chip, Licensing Businesses | Re/code
Despite shareholder pressure, Qualcomm says it won’t split apart its chipmaking and licensing businesses. The company was been pushed to consider such a move amid weakness in both businesses, but the board concluded such a move wouldn’t help matters.
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Shaker Aamer: a ‘very bad man’ or simply wronged? | Michael White | World news | The Guardian
Can we really make even a tentative character assessment of someone we don’t know by watching them on the easily manipulated medium of television? I pondered this one again yesterday when checking out Shaker Aamer, Britain’s recently released last d…
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… The Bill ‘O Rights Top Ten Countdown I You can say anything you want except “Fire!” falsely in a crowded theater or “Let’s elect Donald Trump President” seriously in a crowded room of people with functioning brains; Yo…
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How to Find Meaning in Suffering – Scientific American
Recently, mass killings have been front and center in the news. The terrorist attacks in Paris struck a chord worldwide, and similar attacks in Beirut, Baghdad, Mali, Lake Chad, and elsewhere have made the horror seem never-ending.
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Nazi gold train: ‘No evidence’ of discovery in Poland – BBC News
There is no evidence that a Nazi train rumoured to be carrying gems and gold has been found in Poland, experts say. Researchers presenting findings about the alleged discovery in the Polish town of Walbrzych said there might be a tunnel but no train.
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When the Republican candidates for president debate Tuesday night, they should all be asked a simple question: In light of Donald Trump’s crude and divisive stances, will you refuse to support him if he is the party’s nominee for president?
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Crytek’s The Climb is a jaw-dropping rock climbing experience in virtual reality | The Verge
“You’re going to have to jump,” says David Bowman. He’s standing next to me while I cling to a jutting rock in what he describes as an idealistic virtual recreation of a Southeast Asian mountain range.
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The UK’s Frontline – Al Jazeera English
Good primary care is pivotal in a healthcare system – it is an aspiration for countries around the world desperate to keep costs down and reduce pressures on their hospitals. The UK boasts nearly 10,000 local doctors’ practices, providing primary he…
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Nuance wants to build the power of Siri into every app | The Verge
Smartphones let you control a lot using only your voice. Whether you’re on an iPhone or an Android phone, you can ask for directions, perform a search, start a call, or dictate a message.
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Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays | Open Culture
As you can probably tell if you’ve interacted with any of his hard-core fans, the science fiction of Philip K. Dick has a way of getting into readers’ heads.
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Turkey’s Transformation – Al Jazeera English
Good and affordable universal healthcare is still a dream for many countries, but Turkey seems to have made this dream become a reality. There’s nothing to stop us. To be frank, there’s no accountability. This is one of the main achievements of the…
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Who bought the South China Morning Post? – Al Jazeera English
As long as there have been newspapers, there have been rich men who wanted to own them. At one point Rupert Murdoch owned nearly a thousand.
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Republican debate 2015 live stream: time, TV schedule, how to watch online – Vox
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Farming requires less energy than it used to. That’s a huge deal. – Vox
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What is this tiny being doing in my presence!? : aww
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WARSAW — In the few weeks since Poland’s new right-wing government took over, its leaders have alarmed the domestic opposition and moderate parties throughout Europe by taking a series of unilateral actions that one critic labeled “Putinist.
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Gentleman rams hotel lobby with truck after credit card declined / Boing Boing
John Edward Parsley, 62, of Gonzalez, Texas, was charged with assault and battery Monday after ramming a hotel lobby with his truck. Taking aim at two women staff at the Alva Comfort Inn in Oklahoma, he plowed into their reception desk as they dive …
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Spotify Poaches BBC Radio Exec In Push For Localised, Curated And Undiscovered Content | TechCrunch
Video may have killed the radio star, but streaming services are bringing it back to life. In the latest development, BBC and Spotify today both announced that George Ergatoudis, head of music at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, is leaving in March 2016 to be…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Friends soft kitty via /r/cats…
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Why I stopped looking for lessons in tragedies – Vox
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Justice Ginsburg’s Ominous Warning About Creeping Corporate Power | ThinkProgress
If you’re a business looking for new ways to squeeze money out of your consumers without having to worry about whether doing so is illegal, than you had a very good day in the Supreme Court on Monday. In its first divided decision of the current Sup…
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SoundHound Launches Houndify Platform To A Voice Interface To Other Apps And Devices | TechCrunch
SoundHound’s Houndify, which promises to “add voice enabled conversational interface to anything,” is officially available to developers today.
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On the road in the Flux Capacitor, Europe’s fastest street-legal EV | Ars Technica
Jonny Smith is a British car journalist (you may know him best from Fifth Gear) with an interesting perspective on all things automotive. His current project—called the Flux Capacitor—is no exception.
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Luxury fashion house Alexander McQueen is being sued for racial discrimination. Again. Red carpets are lousy with McQueen creations.
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Teachers’ Racial Biases Have Different Effects for High Vs. Low Performers – Scientific American
In a study of first-graders, teachers rated low-performing minority students more positively than low-performing white students, but they ranked high-performing minority students lower than white students at the same level.
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How to Watch CNN’s Republican Debate Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
CNN’s second Republican primary debate airs Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m. ET, with an “undercard” event for the four lowest-polling candidates scheduled for 6:00 p.m. ET. The debate—the fifth of at least a dozen—will take place at The Venetian in Las…
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The Ebola epidemic in Africa has loomed large over the chemistry community in 2015, as medicinal chemists found themselves in a race against time in a battle against the deadly disease.
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Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 – The New Yorker
“Hopscotch,” the mobile opera that occupied Los Angeles this fall, left me sufficiently awestruck that I contemplated giving it three places on the following list—one for each of the routes that snaked through the city, carrying audiences in small g…
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A Plea For More Frisbee Data From A U.S. Ultimate Coach | FiveThirtyEight
It’s midway through the first half against England and they are scoring too easily. As a coach of the U.S. under-23 men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, I’d scouted the English team in an earlier game.
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How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
When children grow up in poverty, their brains can take a different shape. That’s one of the stark and uncomfortable findings from the lab of Kimberly Noble, a pediatrician and cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University.
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Auto-Tune — one of modern history’s most reviled inventions — was an act of mathematical genius. The pitch correction software, which automatically calibrates out-of-tune singing to perfection, has been used on nearly every chart-topping album for t…
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French police have arrested two sets of people in connection with terrorists attacks that rocked Paris this year.
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First Click: Europe wants to raise the age of internet consent to 16 | The Verge
Negotiations around the law began today, and could be approved as early as tonight before ratification by the European Parliament in the new year. Countries would then have two years in which to implement the new rules. Teens, of course, aren’t happ…
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This could be New Zealand’s new flag | The Verge
New Zealand’s government has revealed the final design that could replace the country’s national flag in a public vote in March next year.
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As those who would commit terrorist acts in the name of Islam are but a tiny piece of the entire Muslim population, so too is a Christian who attacks a Planned Parenthood location and murders in the name of his religion. This a thousand times.
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Expedition 46 Soyuz Launch to the International Space Station https://t.co/PBrKZ8Ui0q https://t.co/Nxm8XEbLkr
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Principia liftoff
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Go for the burn: how to melt a satellite
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FontShop | May The Fonts Be With You
To say a whole lot of people are getting a whole lot of excited about Star Wars – The Force Awakens which premieres in Los Angeles today is kind of an understatement. More than just a new installment in the insanely popular franchise, the new film b…
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Ultimate Frisbee Is In The Dark Ages Of Analytics — And It Wants To Escape | FiveThirtyEight
ST ALBANS, England — On a field 20 miles north of London, three people were camped on the edge of a field wearing USA Ultimate hoodies, notebooks open in front of them. They were the coaches of the U.S.
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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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Why Asking Good Questions Actually Makes You Seem Smarter
When you’re clueless about a topic, asking questions about it can make you feel dumb. However, despite how you feel, asking good questions actually makes you seem smarter. This video breaks down research that supports this very concept.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans should support climate change deal
One can describe the 2016 Republican presidential candidates in many ways, but “silent” is seldom one of them. Yet after 195 nations agreed on Saturday to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, the Republican field remained n…
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The USWNT is a soccer team, not a traveling circus. It’s time for a fix | Football | The Guardian
Somewhere along the path to Hawaii, the US women’s soccer team’s victory tour veered into Spinal Tap territory. The team canceled a game in Honolulu, then returned to the mainland for a grim contest against a woefully underfunded and outclassed Trin…
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Suspect linked to Paris attacks arrested in France – Al Jazeera English
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the Paris region as part of the investigation into the November 13 attacks on the city that left 130 dead, a judicial source said.
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Andrea Levy’s The Long Song gives the silent majority a compelling voice | Books | The Guardian
“The whole of everything is never told,” said Henry James – and often we don’t even get the half of it. The 300-odd-years of slavery in Jamaica from the 16th century until abolition in 1834 is a case in point. It was black Africans who were forced t…
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When Healthy Eating Becomes a Fear of Food | Motherboard
When Jenna Strong started eating healthier, she did it for her future. She and her wife, Kate, wanted to start thinking about having a family, but the two were self-admittedly not able to take that step without evaluating their eating habits.
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Zillow Launches New Home-Pricing Tool For Sellers | TechCrunch
Online real estate site Zillow is launching a new home-price estimate tool today that allows users to create a custom and private estimate for their homes based on recently sold homes and comparable listings.
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The Expanse premiere: This is the most promising, bold, and ambitious new space opera in ages – Vox
The race to become the science-fiction version of Game of Thrones has begun in earnest. Syfy’s The Expanse, the network’s main entrant in that particular sweepstakes, wants so badly for you to describe it to a friend as, “Y’know, like Game of Throne…
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Scores killed after multiple suicide bombings in Iraq – Al Jazeera English
At least 65 people have been killed after multiple suicide attacks targeted Iraqi troops and government-allied fighters in the country’s Anbar province, according to security officials.
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Fargo season 2 finale: Why this show is the heir to Breaking Bad’s throne – Vox
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Love Everyone Often 12/16/2015
BBC Sport – Michael Platini to boycott Fifa ethics hearing on corruption claims Suspended Fifa vice-president Michel Platini will boycott an ethics committee hearing into allegations of corruption this week. Lawyers for the Frenchman, who is also president of Uefa, believe the “verdict is already announced”. tags: Pocket bbc news…
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