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The aroma drifting past the murals, designer lofts and chichi boutiques of Williamsburg was alluring and intriguing. Cocoa. Notes of vanilla and maple blended into one of the world’s sexiest smells: expensive chocolate.
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See the World’s Most Unique Christmas Trees
The tradition of decorating a tree or tree-like structure around Christmas began in Germany and has spread around the world over the past few centuries. In many places, the look of the tree is inspired by the local culture, climate, or environment, …
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How Kohler employees’ united front won new contract and ‘livable wages’ | Business | The Guardian
Louis Wery, who helps manufacture bathtubs, joined 2,000 other union members on Thursday in returning to work for the Kohler Company – a leading producer of sinks, tubs and toilets – after a 32-day strike that focused on one of the most contentious …
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Pets on a Plane: How to Travel Well With Animals
When pigs fly? It might happen more than you think. Over two million U.S. pets and other animals travel by air each year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Loss of monkeys and birds in tropical forests driving up carbon emissions – Overhunting affects seed dispersal and thus survival of hardwood trees, resulting in drastic reduction in Earth’s natural carbon storage, study finds (theguardian.com)submit…
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Tiger Eyes, Crocodile Penis: It’s What’s For Dinner in Malaysia – Endangered species are increasingly showing up on plates in high-end Malaysian restaurants. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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Hong Kong women make clothing from scratch and save the environment: Concerned about textile waste, local stylist Denise Ho has launched Knotti, a brand which hires local women to knit clothing. (scmp.com)
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Even when reduced from three dimensions to two, Stan Lee manages to be viscerally irritating. The man who has been the public face of Marvel Comics for more than half a century is infamous for his “Kpow!”, “Blam!”, “Take That!” approach to self-pres…
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China detains 10 company officials over fabricated pollution data as public anger grows over air quality. (scmp.com)
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Why ice is our greatest emotional landscape | Books | The Guardian
Ice plays on the human imagination, the object of our fear and fascination.
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Natural Resources Canada has put together a handy list of ways Canadians can save money and reduce the impact of their winter activities on the environment. (cbc.ca)
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Turkey will not respond to Putin’s “insulting” remarks – Al Jazeera English
Turkey will not officially respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest remarks on Ankara’s downing of a Russian jet in which he called the act “hostile”, according to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
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For sport, fun and charity: Elephant polo – Al Jazeera English
Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal – Elephant polo originated in 1982, the bizarre idea of two British entrepreneurs, Jim Edwards and James Manclark.
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The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I liked the part about the enchanted mirror and how it broke into little pieces. When it came flying down to Earth sometimes it would get into peoples’ eyes, and sometimes sometimes it would get into their heart.
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Rwandans back the President’s third term contest – Al Jazeera English
Rwanda’s National Electoral Commission has announced the provisional results of the referendum that show the majority have voted for the amendment of the constitution to allow the President to contest for a third term.
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Australia bakes in record early summer heat – Al Jazeera English
Summer so far in Australia has been a series of heatwaves, most noticed in the cities of the south. The latest to break records is Adelaide, capital of the state of South Australia. Adelaide matched its 2007 December record, of three consecutive day…
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US president Barack Obama delivers a statement to the press after meeting families of the San Bernardino shooting victims on Friday.
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Explosion hits Somali capital – 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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Fire Debbie Wasserman Schultz https://t.co/zHwG2DIstk https://t.co/jcW7UU79BM via /r/#politics
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Fire Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Miles Mogulescu
Fire Debbie Wasserman Schultz https://t.co/zHwG2DIstk https://t.co/jcW7UU79BM via /r/#politics
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Report: Refugees drown as boat sinks off Turkey – Al Jazeera English
At least 18 people have drowned after a refugee boat capsized off the Turkish coast near Bodrum, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported.
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China accuses US of B-52 ‘provocation’ over Spratly Islands – BBC News
China has accused the US of “serious provocation” after it flew B-52 bombers near one of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Chinese military personnel were put on “high alert” during the incident on 10 December, and issued warnings…
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China pollution: Factories closed by Beijing smog – BBC News
Cars were forced off the road and factories closed in Beijing on Saturday after the city was once again blanketed by hazardous smog. The government issued a level-four red alert on Friday – the most serious of a four-tier warning system.
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The UN security council unanimously agrees a resolution endorsing an international roadmap for a peace process in Syria. The resolution came after Russia and the US came to agreement on a text. The talks between Syria’s government and opposition sho…
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Barack Obama: Isis will be defeated – video | World news | The Guardian
Barack Obama vows to defeat Islamic State (Isis).
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As a former campaigner for Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a conflict of interest this cycle and if she gave a fuck about even appearing to care about the democratic process she’d at least take a leave of absence until the primaries are over. …
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Sorry, Adele: These Are 2015’s 10 Best Albums | Mother Jones
Each year, Mother Jones’ house critic browses through hundreds of new albums and pulls out maybe a couple hundred to review for the magazine and website. But only a few can make the final cut.
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UNITED NATIONS — For the first time since the nearly five-year-old Syrian civil war began, world powers agreed on Friday at the United Nations Security Council to embrace a plan for a cease-fire and a peace process that holds the distant prospect of…
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Is Indonesia winning its fight against Islamic extremism? – BBC News
Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation, but are its local Islamic traditions in danger of being overtaken by fundamentalism?
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Bob Bradley must face a few questions when passing through customs. Most travellers only have to concern themselves with ridding their baggage of any liquids or gels, but the 57-year-old has to find a way to explain passport stamps from Egypt and No…
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Is Coca-Cola misleading customers with its Mexican fizzy drink? – video | Business | The Guardian
How healthy is Sidral Mundet? The Mexican fizzy drink, owned by Coca-Cola, contains 60g of sugar, yet its ad campaign suggests the drink is made from apples. In reality, the drink contains a meager 1% ‘juice from concentrate’
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December 19, 1968: Norman Thomas Dies | The Nation
The longtime Socialist Party leader and former Nation associate editor, Norman Thomas, died on this day in 1968. Forty years earlier, a Socialist Party activist named Mcalister Coleman wrote a piece in The Nation about Thomas’ 1928 campaign for the …
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Palestinian refugee pianist given Beethoven Prize – Al Jazeera English
A Palestinian refugee, who gained international notoriety after a video of him playing a piano amid the destruction in a Damascus refugee camp went viral, has been given a prestigious human rights award in Germany.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week The Geminid meteor shower, Tim Peake’s journey to the International Space Station, Europe’s refugee crisis, Manchester United’s poor form – the best photo…
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho will not be taking sabbatical after Chelsea sacking
Jose Mourinho will not be taking a sabbatical following his sacking by Chelsea on Thursday. The Portuguese manager left after nine defeats in 16 Premier League games this season which left the Blues one point above the relegation zone.
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Charlotte Rampling: A Sensual Enigma Bares Her Soul – The Daily Beast
It seems silly to try to describe film star Charlotte Rampling once you’ve spoken to her—as if a fleeting conversation could even begin to answer the questions that she’s spent a lifetime exploring through cinema.
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will cost £9.98bn (1.8 trillion yen), six times more than the original estimate, it has been claimed. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported the overspend on its website.
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Metropolitan Police issues guidance on what to do in a gun attack – BBC News
Guidance on what to do in the event of a terrorist gun attack has been released by police. The four-minute video was produced before the 13 November attacks in Paris and the 26 June attack in Sousse, Tunisia, but has only recently been made public.
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SEOUL, South Korea — WHEN she published her book about Korean “comfort women” in 2013, Park Yu-ha wrote that she felt “a bit fearful” of how it might be received. After all, she said, it challenged “the common knowledge” about the wartime sex slaves.
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Burundi rejects African peacekeeping force on its soil – Al Jazeera English
Burundi’s government has reacted angrily to the African Union’s decision to deploy a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to curb ongoing violence in the troubled country, saying it will prevent foreign troops from entering its borders.
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The Wren-Boys | Books | The Guardian
The old year, a tear in the eye of time; frost on the blackthorn, the ditches glamorous with rime; on the inbreath of air,the long, thoughtful pause before snow.
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Rashidabad, East Azerbaijan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rashidabad (Persian: رشيداباد, also Romanized as Rashīdābād; also known as Eleshtava and Yeleshtava)[1] is a village in Kaghazkonan-e Shomali Rural District, Kaghazkonan District, Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
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Two countries had no idea they were in Saudi Arabia’s Muslim coalition to fight terrorism (independent.co.uk)submitted 40 minutes ago by loading…
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Stormtroopers in the White House for Star Wars screening – BBC News
Two stormtroopers and R2-D2 surprised reporters with an appearance in the White House briefing room while President Obama rushed to finish a press conference so he could watch the latest Star Wars film. A screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens wa…
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Sanders campaign says DNC to restore data access Saturday morning : politics
Sanders campaign says DNC to restore data access Saturday morning https://t.co/dHxK3ygIzd https://t.co/zHxUTk8Nuh via /r/#politics
No matter who you support or dislike in this debacle, encourage people to watch the debate tomorrow. I hope this whole thing will bring more attention so people actually see what these candidates support. I’m definitely going to watch now. I hope Sa… -
Sanders campaign says DNC to restore data access Saturday morning| Reuters
Sanders campaign says DNC to restore data access Saturday morning https://t.co/dHxK3ygIzd https://t.co/zHxUTk8Nuh via /r/#politics
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The best feasts quotes in literature | Children’s books | The Guardian
From silken Samarcand to cedar’d Lebanon. Come buy, come buy.
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Literary quiz of the year, as set by authors: part two | Books | The Guardian
26. Who as a young man found his own name so “embarrassingly dull” that he called himself Aaron Azimuth? 27.
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Viz magazine’s Christmas top tips | Books | The Guardian
Viz xmas top tips
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Group Reviews: a selection | Children’s books | The Guardian
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Reviewed by Isabelle This book is spooky and I loved it! Two of the main characters are Hagrid and Harry; Harry is my favourite.
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Literary quiz of the year, as set by authors: part one | Books | The Guardian
1. “What strikes me now as it never has before is that I can’t say my prayers went unanswered.” A quote from a startling memoir published this year. But by whom? 2. Ruth Rendell’s final novel was published after her death this year. What is its titl…
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On strike at 8,848 metres: Sherpa and the story of an Everest revolution | Film | The Guardian
On 18 April 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice slid down the southern face of Mount Everest, killing 16 people. It was the mountain’s deadliest day, until just over a year later, when 22 died in the aftermath of the Nepalese earthquake.
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Syria: US welcomes ‘milestone’ as UN endorses peace plan – BBC News
He said the plan gave Syrians a “real choice… between war and peace”. However, disagreements remain over President Assad and the unanimously agreed Security Council resolution makes no mention of his future role.
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Milky way over Cecil Peak, New Zealand [OC] [4858×2964] https://t.co/t5yZHOyhRR https://t.co/NohQ9h9mDs
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California’s lieutenant governor on Friday directed the State Lands Commission to draw up a plan for a thorough environmental review of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon power plant, the state’s last operational nuclear power plant (news.yahoo.com)submitted 5 ho…
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I’ve been watching Parks & Rec from the start and this might be the funniest 30 seconds of TV I’ve ever seen. “Ron Wins Pawnee’s Government Employee of the Month” (youtu.be) Hahah I actually love that logic.
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Migrant crisis: EU border security becomes new mantra – BBC News
It is often said that crises in the EU give an impetus for further integration – “more Europe”. There was a new example of that at this week’s Brussels summit.
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His documentary, Inequality for All, is really great. It was a fantastic documentary. A must see for sanders supporters. It covers pretty much the core of his platform
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US military: Air strike may have killed Iraqi soldiers – Al Jazeera English
An air strike by the US-led coalition countering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group may have led to the death of Iraqi soldiers, the US military said in a statement.
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This loaf of bread has a bun lodged in it : mildlyinteresting
Hopefully you didn’t find that out after you bought it! That’d be crummy! It’s like one of those parasitic twins or whatever. Only bread.
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The Star Wars movies have always been thoroughly seeded with hidden cameos and Easter eggs by filmmaker pals, franchise royalty, and celebrity superfans sneaking their way into the canon of the galaxy’s most epic franchise, and J.J. Abrams’ The Forc…
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A city held hostage: did the LA bomb threat reveal our urban vulnerability? | Cities | The Guardian
A handful of shoddily written emails spread shock waves across the US last week. The threats were familiar, warning of gunfire, backpack bombs and mayhem in New York and Los Angeles schools. Sent at 1.
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The least interesting thing about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party is Corbyn himself. Not because he is a dull person.
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Me in October 1977 and December 2015 (imgur.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Christmas emotions. via /r/aww https://t.co/qJvTYFgmzB https://t.co/s7PoMIoqtl https://t.co/62FYkkQ9mc
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Christmas emotions. via /r/aww…
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Medics risk lives on front lines of West Bank clashes – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A rubber-coated steel bullet slams into the side of Khalid Abu Qare’s ambulance, leaving a large dent. Clashes have broken out between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army in front of Israel’s Ofer prison on the…
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Democrats prepare to debate in wake of Trump hysteria – Al Jazeera English
Washington – US Democratic presidential candidates are preparing to resume their sparring as they convene in the state of New Hampshire for their third debate on Saturday night.
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Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn review – a formidable debut with bite | Books | The Guardian
Where do werewolves fit in the pantheon of horror? Vampires are easy: they are aristocrats and capitalists. As Marx understood: “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it …
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Watch Harrison Ford’s Brilliant Audition for Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’ – The Daily Beast
For visionary filmmaker George Lucas, finding the perfect Han Solo was a painstaking process, to say the least. In Lucas’s 1974 screenplay for Star Wars, a 132-page script titled The Star Wars: Rough Draft, Solo was depicted as a mammoth green-skinn…
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They were forced to do so : funny
And he never awakened again. Pack it up, guys. Thread closed.
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A day in the life of a Gaza medic – Al Jazeera English
Bureij, Gaza – The whiz of a bullet is quickly followed by another, and then another, as young men start desperately scrambling over the bumpy ground at the Gaza-Israel border to find a place of safety.
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State of calamity declared in Philippines after storms – Al Jazeera English
Heavy rains continue to pummel the Philippines, threatening to aggravate flooding that has prompted the government to declare a state of “national calamity”.
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Not everyone is a fan of the new office puppy. : aww
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India’s Gandhis to appear in court over National Herald case – BBC News
Top Indian Congress party leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi are due to appear in court in connection with a corruption case. They are accused of acquiring the assets of a newspaper illegally. They deny any wrongdoing.
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If you’re anything like us, it’s probably been awhile since you’ve watched all of the “Star Wars” movies.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Herbig Haro 24
Herbig Haro 24 https://t.co/6Dk7xoeBqb https://t.co/b6nnFS5gdK
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My dog still does this when he wants attention. He is 3 – doesn’t use his teeth, just kind of sucks my hand. Did you have to train him not to bite, or did he never bite?
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Satire as US voters support bombing Aladdin’s Agrabah – Al Jazeera English
From Canada’s tar sands to Chinese advertising billboards, we explore the psychology behind dealing with climate change. Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish community, persecuted and even deported last century, continues its fight for recognition.
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Petition to “Remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC Chair” surpassed 30,000 signatures in a matter of hours. (petitions.moveon.org)
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TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it (en.wikipedia.org)submitted just now by Greypo34loading…
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This pose nets this result. Every time. : aww
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Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has regained access to the Democratic party’s master voter file after a day of conflict and litigation between the insurgent Vermont senator and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Ex-Obama adviser: DNC ‘putting finger on scale’ for Hillary : politics
Ex-Obama adviser: DNC ‘putting finger on scale’ for Hillary https://t.co/2bKhjMfQQe https://t.co/P9TDHh50vm via /r/#politics
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Ex-Obama adviser: DNC ‘putting finger on scale’ for Hillary | TheHill
Ex-Obama adviser: DNC ‘putting finger on scale’ for Hillary https://t.co/2bKhjMfQQe https://t.co/P9TDHh50vm via /r/#politics
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The Palestinian: From the Idol to the allegory – Al Jazeera English
In the course of this year’s Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha, Qatar, I was in the joyous company of two dear friends and towering Palestinian filmmakers, Elia Suleiman and Hany Abu-Assad.
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Some comics I drew drew up while in prison if yall like it I have alot more, pen : Art
Ok I flaired it..
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We’re all big fans of Jeni’s ice cream here at The A.V. Club, and we’re honestly not just saying that because sometimes they send us coupons for free scoops. It’s just the best ice cream, straight up, all smooth and creamy, and laden with local prod…
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In The New Christmas Canon, The A.V. Club looks beyond Rudolph’s nose and Zuzu’s petals to highlight entertainment from the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s that has become a seasonal staple—or deserves to.
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In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
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BUILT ME A HOUSE. (imgur.com) Plant a little garden.
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Fatal drug overdoses hit record high in US, government figures show | Society | The Guardian
Deaths from drug overdoses have surged across the US to record levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationwide, overdose deaths last year exceeded 47,000, more than the number of people killed in car accidents and up …
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DNC restores Sanders campaign access to voter file
Today, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement (received via email): “The Sanders campaign has now complied with the DNC’s request to provide the information that we have requested of them.
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S Korean presidential frontrunner sorry for racist joke – Al Jazeera English
The frontrunner to be South Korea’s next president has apologised after sparking a public uproar for jokingly likening the skin colour of an African scholarship student to coal.
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APOD: 2015 December 18 – Herbig Haro 24
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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New angles on woodland life | Environment | The Guardian
It’s not long before midwinter’s day when I step out into Stockley Inclosure. It’s brightish, with a chill wind that rustles in the treetops and makes interlacing branches creek eerily as they rub together.
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Me in October 1977 and December 2015 via /r/pics https://t.co/RftR1laG1L https://t.co/KnNfd3Rz69 https://t.co/0ogATh4SAg
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Me in October 1977 and December 2015 : pics
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‘Stoner Sloth’ campaign tells Australian kids to stop smoking weed, completely backfires. (mashable.com)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Costa Rica boasts 99% renewable energy in 2015 : environment
Costa Rica boasts 99% renewable energy in 2015 (news.yahoo.com)submitted 45 minutes ago by loading…
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Costa Rica boasts 99% renewable energy in 2015 – Yahoo News
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Vicious Rottweiler attack : aww
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, I Lick The Butter! via /r/cats…
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Stone House Image, Portugal – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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‘Open the borders’ rally in Athens in Greece – BBC News
The United Nations has called for a massive resettlement of Syrian and other refugees within Europe. Several thousand people marched through the centre of Athens in Greece, calling for Europe to open its borders.
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Syria war: US welcomes ‘milestone’ as UN endorses peace plan – BBC News
He said the plan gave Syrians a “real choice… between war and peace”. However, disagreements remain over President Assad and the unanimously agreed Security Council resolution makes no mention of his future role.
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It is time once again for the Sidney Awards, when I pick out some of the best long-form essays that you might download for your holiday reading pleasure. This year there were so many fine pieces it’s impossible to read them all without totally ignor…
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Wal-Mart is offering free shipping today with no minimum purchase… Guess who is about to get gum delivered to his door for free.. (imgur.com) We should all do this. Fuck Walmart!
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Slate: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Acting Just Like the Villain Bernie Sanders Says She Is (slate.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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West Wing Week: 12/18/2015 or, “My Soon-To-Be Fellow Citizens” on Vimeo
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President heralded the achievement of the whole world coming together to combat climate change, traveled to the Pentagon and the Nat…
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ELI5: The DNC scandal (self.
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An Oklahoma judge has rejected a request from two energy companies to throw out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater (bigstory.ap.org)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Flint toxic water tragedy points directly to Michigan Gov. Snyder : environment
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Flint toxic water tragedy points directly to Michigan Gov. Snyder | MSNBC
Flint toxic water tragedy points directly to Michigan Gov. Snyder https://t.co/dBautkPZGu https://t.co/T3V0WKirXs via /r/environment
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“This Is All We Are” · The Knick · TV Review Is this it for The Knick? · TV Club · The A.V. Club
It’s not right to say the horror story is over in the season two finale of The Knick, only that it’s relinquished its grip on us.
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Lost In Translation: IoT Adoption In Southeast Asia In 2015 | TechCrunch
We spent a large part of the year in the cities of Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur speaking to local enterprises about this (too) broad and (too) overused term: the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Open thread for night owls: How our prison system is, in one way, worse than in 1750
What got a person locked up – no matter what – in 1790? Piracy. Period. At the birth of the republic mandatory minimum sentences were a rare and targeted thing. Attacking and robbing ships at sea got you life, no ifs, ands or buts.
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Julie is a bitch. (i.imgur.com) Things we know about Julie. -
Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Julie is a bitch. via /r/pics…
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Serena Williams: Diary of a Strong, Black Woman in White America – The Daily Beast
Serena Williams’ otherworldly year was capped this week with her being named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year for 2015.
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South China Sea: US bomber angers Beijing with Spratly islands flypast | World news | The Guardian
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the incident involving the B-52 bomber took place last week near the Cuarteron Reef in the Spratly archipelago, disputed territory claimed by China and several of its neighbours.
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I Killed The Plant! via /r/cats https://t.co/qy46RNwE16 https://t.co/LefJSvWPfa https://t.co/A2bx1g8yuw
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, I Killed The Plant! via /r/cats…
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Why Pussy Riot Won’t Stop Fighting – The Daily Beast
If Maria Alyokhina was a professional entertainer no casting director, would shortlist her for a role as a firebrand, there being a sweetness about her, a reticence, a lack of heroic self-regard.
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These Are 2016’s Hottest Destinations – The Daily Beast
The world continues to open up as a fresh crop of destinations lay the groundwork for more mainstream tourism. Our top three picks for 2016 are—now, more than ever—easier to reach, explore, and enjoy. The others are all tangible choices worth adding…
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Baby Boomers Are America’s Sith Lords – The Daily Beast
The original Star Wars movie famously takes place “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way,” but the reality is a tad more down to Earth.
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Her Body, Their Choice: When A Surrogate Refuses To Abort – The Daily Beast
Both women had signed a clear contract before becoming pregnant. But thinking about being pregnant and actually being so are two very different states.
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Bobby Fisher Was a Genius and a Jerk – The Daily Beast
The opening section of The Best Sports Writing of the Century, edited by the late David Halberstam along with Glenn Stout, is titled simply, “The Best of the Best.
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The HIV Drug Half a Million Women Need – The Daily Beast
After all, Krellenstein and Ebert weren’t just heading in for dinner. Krellenstein had planned a showdown with ACT UP and Gay Men’s Health Crisis cofounder Larry Kramer.
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Best of Breslin: A Night to Be Jolly – The Daily Beast
Any place with a bar in it yesterday was packed. They were shaking hands and kissing each other and then taking a drink whether they wanted one or not because everybody drinks before he goes home on Christmas Eve.
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The Jews Who Made American Whisky – The Daily Beast
From ubiquitous bagels and cream cheese to restorative matzo ball soup to decadently rich pastrami, Jews are famous for contributing a number of delicious dishes to the menu of American food favorites.
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The Year the Food Industry Gave in to Anti-GMO Fear Mongering – The Daily Beast
As this December inevitably came to pass, I made the usual pilgrimage to my office, where for probably the first time all year, I put my cell phone away, turned off the TV, and unplugged my computer. I sat. And I thought.
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How To Fight Your Seamless Addiction—And Win – The Daily Beast
Shall I cook or order-in tonight? If you’re a 20- or 30-something living in an urban dwelling these days, odds are the answer to this question is simple: You’ll Seamless or GrubHub something.
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Removal of Confederate Monuments Compared to ISIS – The Daily Beast
WALLACE, Louisiana — On a warm afternoon in early December, John J. Cummings III, 78, sat in a slant of sunlight among the statues of slave children in Antioch Baptist Church, which he installed at Whitney Plantation after the congregation moved to …
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George and Martha Up Close and Personal – The Daily Beast
Flora Fraser has an illustrious pedigree. She’s the granddaughter of the renowned historian Lady Elizabeth Longford, the daughter of noted biographer Antonia Fraser, and the step-daughter of the late playwright Harold Pinter. So literature and biogr…
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The Irony of the Dispossessed: Why is the World So Angry? – The Daily Beast
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” – Fyodor DostoyevskyAs I recoil with the rest of the world from the horrors of Paris and San Bernardino, ad nauseum, I’m straining to maintain my …
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Turns out ancient humans were bad for nature, too! | Grist
And it makes a strong push for economic and climate justice. It took imagination, ingenuity, and months of meetings, but Matthew Mazzotta’s poop-digester project finally turned dog waste into public lighting.
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3 hours of mouse tracking later… [OC] : dataisbeautiful
OC3 hours of mouse tracking later… [OC] (i.imgur.com) What’s the difference between the filled in circles and the ones that are just borders? What do the colors signify, if anything?
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Leaning Loaf in a bed of down coat. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/x8kjTfzrGT https://t.co/Nax2Hh5Zai https://t.co/01kfAKEPB9
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Someone over there just got Raptured : pics
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Someone over there just got Raptured via /r/pics https://t.co/hTXD6Qk2a2 https://t.co/jWzGVvkCQS https://t.co/JoIRBXtdNo
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Amid public outrage and ridicule over drastically raising the price of a life-saving drug earlier this year, Shkreli, who is now facing criminal securities fraud charges and questions about his finances, tweeted that he gave “millions” to charity.
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Unfortunately I was overseas and had to miss what was reportedly a luminous performance at Bowery Ballroom. But here’s a sample:
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WHERE, many have asked these last weeks, do the rhetorical fireballs — the raging suspicion and rabid xenophobia — come from? Barring people from our shores, Paul Ryan reminds us, is “not what this country stands for.” Emma Lazarus would have agreed.
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publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
Updated, 2:15 p.m. Mistakes are bound to happen in the news business, but some are worse than others.
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Madonna Comes Forward About Sean Penn’s Alleged Abuse: ‘Sean Has Never Struck Me’ – The Daily Beast
To casual fans, Like a Prayer, Madonna’s fourth studio album, is epitomized by the gospel-inspired title track—and its Vatican-shamed music video—as well as the female empowerment anthem “Express Yourself.
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A president and a Bear walk into a glacier: Watch Obama’s wilderness adventure | Grist
President Obama joined Bear Grylls — the TV host and survivalist who regularly consumes the excrement of other species — on Running Wild with Bear Grylls on Thursday.
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What makes mayo? FDA finally answers this existential question | Grist
It took imagination, ingenuity, and months of meetings, but Matthew Mazzotta’s poop-digester project finally turned dog waste into public lighting. Allow us to break down a pretty complicated Paris climate deal for you — using everyday household ob…
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GOP Congressman: ‘Trump’s Probably Going To Be President’ | ThinkProgress
In what appears to be a first for a sitting Republican congressman, Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC) predicted on Friday that Donald Trump would be his party’s presidential nominee.
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Clearly he was having a stroke. Retarding Henry?
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Tim Cook calls notion of Apple avoiding US taxes ‘political crap’ | Technology | The Guardian
Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook has dismissed as “total political crap” the notion that the technology giant was avoiding taxes.
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Rwanda vote ‘allows Kagame to extend term in office’ – BBC News
Rwandans have voted overwhelmingly to allow President Paul Kagame to extend his term in office, initial referendum results show. Some 98% of voters support changing the constitution to allow him to run again in 2017 after his second term ends, the N…
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The Coolest Science Stories You May Have Missed in 2015
Not every scientific advance is heralded as a revolutionary breakthrough, because science mostly progresses in incrementally. Sure, certain high-profile stories caught the lion’s share of attention this year.
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Black Holes Only Go Truly Black if They’re Really Big
Black holes don’t emit light, but they still shine. They do so because of accretion disks, but those disks don’t appear around black holes of all sizes. There could be incredibly huge black holes out in the universe that we can’t see, because they’v…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/S4XyBhSmpD
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Blind photographer’s concert pictures are an Instagram hit – BBC News
Blind photographer Ahmad Zaghal talks to the BBC about his work taking pictures at music concerts, which has gained him a following on photo-sharing service Instagram.
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Most Popular Featured Bags and Workspaces of 2015
Each week, we showcase what’s in other people’s everyday carry bags as well others’ workspace setups. Take a look back at your favorite ones from this year. Bags don’t always have to be big and sit on your shoulders.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Dis is my spot now. via /r/aww…
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Alaskan Villages on Front Lines of Climate Change | Al Jazeera America
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Well, hallelujah. A week that didn’t totally suck. Thank ya, baby Jesus. Your west coast-friendly edition of Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold… [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!] Note: A quick reminder that the $50 discount on your Netroots Nation…
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Week in Fashion: Daisy Ridley Awakens the Fashion Force at the *Star Wars* Premiere | Vanity Fair
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Is Saudi Arabia to blame for Islamic State? – BBC News
Is Saudi Arabia to blame for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIL)? It is commonly claimed that Wahhabism, the strict form of Islam originating in the Kingdom – and the Saudi state’s aggressive promotion of it – has fuelled terrorism.
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Week in pictures: 12-18 December 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Christmas cards that shocked the web – BBC News
For many families in America, Christmas is the time to send out cards with families dressed in matching jumpers or festive novelty outfits. However, some stand out from the crowd and thanks to social media, these cards are seen by many more people t…
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Could a war in space really happen? – BBC News
In the past the nuclear balance between the US and the USSR helped to prevent war in space. The modern world is more complex and already some 60 countries are active in space. So is a war involving attacks on satellites now becoming more likely?
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Christ Child fight-back against Santa for Austrian Christmas – BBC News
Traditionally the bringer of gifts in the Alpine republic is the Christ Child – but in recent years he has been facing competition from Father Christmas. But now the province of Lower Austria is sponsoring a campaign to encourage children to believe…
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Rugby World Cup-winning fly-half Dan Carter has been named 2015 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. He beat Novak Djokovic, Katie Ledecky, Usain Bolt, Jordan Spieth and Serena Williams after the award was decided by a public vote for the fi…
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Vox Sentences: dum dududum daaa, DAAAAAH, da dada DAAAAAAAH daaa… – Vox
A spoiler-free celebration of the Star Wars franchise; Bernie Sanders is suing the Democratic National Committee; and don’t look now, but there’s momentum toward a peace in Syria. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Migrant crisis: Is Germany far right rise echo of the past? – BBC News
The late German writer Guenter Grass once described his country’s history as being like a toilet that would not flush. It was a provocative metaphor. The past simply would not allow itself to be cleansed from the present.
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Waiter returns £32,000 cash to forgetful family of customers | US news | The Guardian
An waiter at an Applebee’s restaurant in central California handed in $32,000 (£21,500) in cash – an amount that likely comes close to his annual salary – which a family had forgotten at a table, a restaurant official said on Friday.
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Hubble’s ‘Einstein Cross’ Supernova Strikes Back
This Hubble image shows the supernova’s signal appearing in the Einstein Cross as predicted by astronomers.Credit: NASA & ESA and P.
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Chicago, we’ve got another free comedy show coming this Saturday · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hey Chicago! If you ventured out to any of this year’s 26th Annual Comedy Festival, you may have seen Ian Abramson performing, either as the host of the delightful 7 Minutes In Purgatory, or perhaps opening for Kyle Kinane.
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President Obama convened reporters at the White House for his annual end-of-the-year press conference on Friday.
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Prisoner Sues For Lack of Waffles and Bread Pudding – The Daily Beast
That advice was not heeded by Iatonda Taylor, a Grand Rapids, Michigan man who stabbed his brother to death in 2008. Now he’s suing Aramark, the company that used to stock his prison’s decadent bruncheteria and former waffle house, for running out o…
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26 percent of Americans think video games are a big dumb waste of time · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Confirming what, statistically, about a quarter of your parents have already been telling you, a new Pew Research Center poll shows that 26 percent of Americans consider video games to be a complete waste of time.
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Boost and Protect Your Memory Formation by Playing 3D Video Games
Video games have several benefits that make them more than just a form of entertainment. A recent study suggests that 3D games can actually help you form better memories as you age.
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Messier 22, Globular Cluster [1509×1035][OS][OC] https://t.co/0MilCDSRqD https://t.co/NTCpfLtnwY
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My view of the Geminid Meteor Shower [OC] [3000×2000] https://t.co/FDPNYXzLFE https://t.co/YWKULuXRII
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WASHINGTON — Senator Marco Rubio made a big bet on an immigration overhaul that failed – and he has been running away from it since. Now his past is catching up with him, stoking old grievances from conservative rivals who are reopening one of the m…
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Here’s What Happens When You Drill Into An 11,000-Volt Electric Cable – Digg
The Independent News In 2013, two men working in Britain’s House of Lords struck an 11,000-volt power cable. Luckily, both survived the resulting explosion.
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Iraqi soldiers thought to have been killed by US airstrike near Fallujah | World news | The Guardian
The US military said it is investigating an American airstrike that may have inadvertently killed Iraqi soldiers near the city of Fallujah.
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US military: Iraqi soldiers ‘killed by friendly fire’ – BBC News
An air strike by the US-led coalition during an offensive against so-called Islamic State (IS) may have killed Iraqi soldiers, the US military said. An officer and nine soldiers died or were wounded in the incident, Iraq’s joint operations command s…
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Drug overdose deaths in the US reach record levels – BBC News
More than 47,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2014 – the most ever recorded in one year, US officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Friday that showed overdose deaths jumped 7% from just one …
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Nicki Minaj reveals tiny doppelganger for her self-titled sitcom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Musician and nascent TV producer Nicki Minaj has revealed the cast and title for Nicki, her upcoming sitcom on Freeform (previously the far-less-fluid ABC Family).
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Arrested Development almost found anustart at Showtime instead of Netflix · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Wrap reports that Arrested Development almost landed at Showtime rather than Netflix when Fox made what some fans might consider a huge mistake and killed the series after three seasons of low ratings.
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Anti-Wolf Facebook Page Allows Terroristic Threats Against Native Americans Following Night Hunting Ruling (ourwisconsinourwildlife.wordpress.com)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Sues DNC After Breach Of Voter Database : NPR
The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing the Democratic National Committee after it suspended access to a voter database. The DNC says the campaign inappropriately accessed Hillary Clinton’s data.
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How Big Oil and Nancy Pelosi Defeated the House Freedom Caucus – The New Yorker
Today, the House and Senate passed a $1.1 trillion Omnibus spending bill that averts a government shutdown and funds the government for the next year.
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How Berned Is Bernie Sanders By The DNC Data Breach? | FiveThirtyEight
In New York, they say, money is power. In Washington, it’s who you know. If you’re running for president, it’s who you’re hoping to get to know that matters.
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See Kacey Musgraves’ Rapid-Fire Cover of ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’ | Rolling Stone
Although 2016 is still a few weeks away, Kacey Musgraves has concert dates booked through the year that will take her from Dallas, Texas, to Dublin, Ireland. But it’s not like she spent 2015 lounging around.
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Brazil’s pro-austerity Finance Minister Joaquim Levy replaced – BBC News
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has replaced her finance minister as Latin America’s largest economy struggles to recover from recession. Joaquim Levy has decided to leave after disagreements with the president and the governing Worker’s Party ove…
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Malcolm Turnbull has expressed his disappointment at Japan’s resumption of whaling on a brief visit to Tokyo. The Australian prime minister’s trip was about expanding trade and education ties and also touched on Japan’s bid to build Australia’s next…
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He could only type this in 140 characters, all the other candidates can type longer tweets than him. This is so unfair! He’s been waiting like, literally ten minutes to say this.
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Wingnut Week In Review: Seig Hair
Donald Trump’s supporters are now yelling “Seig heil!,” and calling for a black man to be burned alive. Can we call them fascists now? Can we call them racists now? Well, here we are. It finally happened. It was inevitable, really.
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Storm Troopers and R2D2 escort Josh Earnest into White House briefing – video | Film | The Guardian
The White House spokesman made an unannounced appearance in the press briefing room flanked by two Storm Troopers and R2D2.
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The 76ers Would Be The Worst Expansion Team In Modern NBA History | FiveThirtyEight
Now that Jerry Colangelo is Skyping in to the Wells Fargo Center for what The New York Times calls a “father figure” role in the 76ers front office — which, suuure — it seems like an opportune time to take inventory of just how big a mess Sam Hinkie…
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The UN Security Council Just Took a Huge Step Toward Resolving Syria’s Civil War | VICE News
The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution that for the first time endorses a roadmap for peace in Syria, and offers backing to a nationwide ceasefire as part of that process.
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Cartoon: Donald Trump’s reactionary recipe
Trump’s overtly bigoted campaign is just a spicier version of the hate the G.O.P. has been serving up for decades. And the base is eating it up to the dismay of the Republican establishment, who prefer to rile up the base just enough to enact tax cu…
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“Time Is Everyone’s Most Valuable Asset, Not Just Yours”
Time is something we all wish we had more of, but it’s unfortunately a finite resource. Whether you’re trying to be less flaky, or you can’t seem to ever be on time for anything, it can help to remember that time is valuable for everyone.
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Congress to Americans: You Get a Tax Break! And You Get a Tax Break! | Mother Jones
The Senate on Friday passed a massive $1.8 trillion spending and tax bill, including a mess of tax breaks expected to cost the government $680 billion over the next decade.
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Star Wars Is God’s Gift to Content Farms | Motherboard
Star Wars arrived in theatres yesterday, creating a massive demand for internet content that reaffirms the movie as a cornerstone of global culture. When a ‘phenomenon’ occurs, content farms must provide the content that supplements the phenomenon a…
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Yellowstone Waterfall [OC][3082 x 3174] : EarthPorn
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Facebook’s website now uses HTML5 instead of Flash for all videos | The Verge
Facebook today announced that every video you see on its website now plays in HTML5 by default — and across all browsers, a change the company said “best enables us to continue to innovate quickly and at scale, given Facebook’s large size and comple…
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Vevo is publishing great Beatles videos on YouTube / Boing Boing
I’ve never seen any of these Beatles videos before! The color and clarity are fantastic. They are included in The Beatles 1 Video Collection.
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Migrant crisis: EU needs ‘massive’ resettlement – BBC News
The United Nations has called for a “massive resettlement” of Syrian and other refugees within Europe. It said that hundreds of thousands of migrants must be found homes – or Europe’s asylum system would collapse.
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Obama grants 97 pardons and commutations – The Atlantic
President Obama granted pardons to two people and commuted the sentences of 95 others on Friday, marking his most expansive use of the clemency power yet as his presidency enters its final year.
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How Obama Channeled His Inner Kennedy – The Daily Beast
Fifty-five years ago during the 1960 president campaign, John Kennedy, then a senator from Massachusetts, had one of his finest political moments when he went before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, and in a deeply emotional speech, conf…
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A journey to Rome to visit the long-dead saints whose bodies don’t stink|Dangerous Minds
The incorrupt body of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, wax portraiture over bone, San Crisogono, Rome. For many in our empirical and rational age, the belief in miracles and saints that is an accepted part of Catholic doctrine might present something of a …
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‘Where Evil Grows’: Dig the obscure pop psychedelia of The Poppy Family|Dangerous Minds
When the powerfully-voiced Susan Pesklevits met her future husband Terry Jacks in the mid-1960s, she was a pretty blonde 17-year-old regular on a national Canadian teen TV show called Music Hop.
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During his three months as a household name, Martin Shkreli has been a walking, talking (incessantly) personification of one of the pharmaceutical industry’s worst nightmares — the greedy drug company executive.
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Bernie Sanders’ union supporter calls for him to consider independent run | US news | The Guardian
One of Bernie Sanders’ biggest union supporters has called on him to consider running as an independent candidate if Democratic party leaders continue to refuse to give him access to his campaign’s voter records.
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‘Gay conversion therapy’ provider ordered to shut down after lawsuit | US news | The Guardian
A “gay conversion therapy” provider that was found guilty of consumer fraud in June will permanently shut down and dissolve its corporate entity, according to a settlement reached on Friday.
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American leadership about more than ‘just bombing somebody’, Obama says | US news | The Guardian
American leadership in the world “is not just a matter of us bombing somebody”, Barack Obama insisted on Friday as he reeled off a year of achievements from a global climate deal to the Iran nuclear pact.
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday’s Democratic Debate | New Republic
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley will face off at the third Democratic presidential debate on Saturday, December 19, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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The feud between Bernie Sanders and the DNC, explained – Vox
The feud between Bernie Sanders and the DNC, explained https://t.co/x601I3AHTu https://t.co/kI9rY4jESJ
On Friday, news broke that several staffers from the Bernie sanders campaign had taken advantage of a data breach to access some of Hillary Clinton’s proprietary voter information. -
The prescription painkiller and heroin epidemic, explained – Vox
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America’s latest drug epidemic began with the best intentions from doctors and a profit-driven campaign from pharmaceutical companies. -
30% of GOP voters nationally support bombing Agrabah, the country from Aladdin / Boing Boing
We all know that Ghostbusters 3 is not going to happen, because Bill Murray will waffle back and forth until everyone is dead and no one will be able to do the movie with actual ghosts. But that doesn’t mean we can’t report on new developments about…
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Clinton and Sanders are fighting about data because campaigns are bad at protecting it | The Verge
This week saw the first data breach of the 2016 campaign. Last night, BuzzFeed News reported that one of Bernie Sanders’ staffers accessed confidential information from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, made possible by a larger security failure by a thir…
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Local rescue posted this tiny derp! : aww
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Browser Fairy for Mac Sets Rules for Which Links Open in Which Browser
Mac: If you care about privacy, then you might prefer to use more than one browser. Perhaps you have use something like Firefox for all your social media, Chrome for anything that requires Flash, and Safari for general browsing.
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Warner Bros. threatens film snobs with 70mm Batman V Superman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been easy for film fanatics to get behind the recent push for 70mm film projection, what with Quentin Tarantino—one of their own—leading the charge.
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Yes, that was [REDACTED] playing a Stormtrooper in The Force Awakens · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We here at The A.V. Club suppose this is as good a place as any for a spoiler alert. But seriously, what kind of fan are you if you haven’t seen The Force Awakens at least once in the past 24 hours?
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Some Muslim Women Are Taking Self-Defense Into Their Own Hands : NPR
It’s not an easy time to be Muslim in the U.S. Attacks on mosques are at a record high, according to the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group. Women wearing hijabs, or headscarves, are often singled out for harassment. That’s galvanized some to t…
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Stop Taking Dating Advice from Internet Videos | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular new YouTube videos of the week. This week we have a bad video about women and dating, a Google video that will make you cry despite yourself, some idiots getting engaged on a highway, and a conspi…
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When Dane DeHaan made Life, he was waiting for his own life to change. He’d finished filming a role as Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and was hearing what a lot of actors hear after being in a superhero movie.
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President Obama’s long view of politics – Vox
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When a reporter asked President Obama about criminal justice reform at a year-end press conference Friday, the president gave a sobering response. This is a long-game view of his administration’s place in history, and of what it can do to bring chan… -
Sanders Campaign: DNC Trying to Help Clinton | Al Jazeera America
The presidential campaign of Vermont Sen.
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Obama Urges Americans to Remain Vigilant Against Homegrown Threats | VICE News
President Barack Obama urged Americans to remain vigilant against the potential threat of homegrown Islamic State militants on Friday due to the difficulty of tracking “lone wolf” attackers like those who went on a shooting spree in California.
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Anthony D. Marshall spent only a few days at Rikers Island in 2013 before being transferred to an upstate prison to serve his sentence for stealing tens of millions of dollars from his mother, the philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
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Messier 22, Globular Cluster [1509×1035][OS][OC] : spaceporn
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Chris Christie Says He’d Shoot Down Russian Planes and Trigger War | The Nation
My favorite moment during the GOP debate in Las Vegas came when Rand Paul cut my governor off at the knee caps. Not that that’s hard to do.
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No, Bacon Isn’t Better for the Environment Than Lettuce | VICE News
Call it bacongate — or, the short-lived, but too good to be true, victory for bacon lovers.
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President Obama Is Setting Free 95 Nonviolent Drug Offenders—Including 2 Pot Lifers | Mother Jones
Marine veteran William “Billy” Ervin Dekle, 66, used to fly planeloads of weed into South Florida in the 1970s and ’80s in his single-prop airplane.
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UN Security Council agrees on Syria peace plan – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has unanimously agreed on the text of a draft resolution for peace talks in January and a ceasefire aimed at ending the war in Syria. All 15 members of the council agreed to approve the text, which came after hours of negotia…
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Nicki Minaj Reveals Sitcom Title, Cast Members | Rolling Stone
Nicki Minaj took to Instagram Friday to reveal who will portray her family in the upcoming Freeform series Nicki, a sitcom about the rapper’s childhood growing up in Queens in the 1990s.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed – The New Yorker
O.K., spoilers first. The Millennium Falcon is back, although one character dismisses it as “garbage,” and you still don’t need an ignition key to start it.
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Our friends at Kotaku have put together some great pieces on the state of the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, PC, and other consoles in 2015. Check them out below.
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Self-Help: There’s An App For That | TechCrunch
Digital therapy is the new frontier of health innovation — and the tech world has taken notice. Myriad apps promise to make you happier, more mindful, less anxious — you name it. But, do they work?
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Democrats Better Get To The Bottom Of Datagate, And Soon | The Nation
Is John Kerry busy? The Democratic Party needs a top diplomat, right away, to get to the bottom of Datagate, and settle the dispute between the Democratic National Committee and the Bernie Sanders campaign pronto.
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Little Rorschach (Rory) : cats
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NASA orders its second commercial crew flight from Boeing | The Verge
NASA just ordered its second commercial crew flight from Boeing — one of the two private companies that is building vehicles to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. That means Boeing is guaranteed to launch astronauts at least tw…
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Two NASA astronauts will perform an unscheduled spacewalk next week | The Verge
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra will likely perform an unexpected spacewalk next week, to fix a rail car that stalled on the outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk could happen as early as Monday, December 21st.
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Amazon is making a big original content push with five new series | The Verge
Amazon is sending a clear message with its decisions regarding its September group of TV pilots: it’s going all in on streaming video.
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Recording facility fosters S African music talent – Al Jazeera English
Johannesburg – The Downtown Music Hub in Johannesburg is a government initiative, offering high-quality recording facilities at a low cost. The building housing the music hub has been associated with the music industry since the 1970s.
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A majestic herd of Musk ox. : pics
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I have really been digging this Burning Man sunrise DJ set from Tycho.
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Extroverts Rejoice! Now Facebook Now Finds You Parties | TechCrunch
Facebook should tell me what to do tonight. It already knows what I like, where I live, and who I hang out with. Now it will. After accidentally becoming the most powerful force in party invitations, Facebook is jacking us into its omniscient view o…
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The roaring (drunk) 20s: literature’s biggest party animals | Books | The Guardian
The life of a writer can be a quiet business, spent hunched over a manuscript in a quiet countryside house. In a contemporary twist, writers usually live God-knows-where in order to teach in a creative writing program. But for much of the 20th centu…
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Barack Obama chided Republicans on Friday for standing apart from every other rightwing party in the developed world by denying the science of climate change.
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Democrats In Civil War Over Clinton Data Breach – The Daily Beast
A Democratic family feud over how a Bernie Sanders staffer managed to gain unauthorized access to critical voter data, which belonged to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, spilled into public today with finger pointing, accusations and lawsuit threats.And …
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The pilot for Netflix’s Making a Murderer series is on YouTube | The Verge
Netflix’s new true crime documentary series Making a Murderer premiered today, and it’s already getting glowing reviews from critics.
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Tumblr Devolves into Literal Witchhunt Over Alleged Bone Thief | Motherboard
Tumblr’s latest meme involves witchcraft and self-professed thief of human bones. User pastel-prouvaire alleges that another blogger, named littlefuckinmonster, has been stealing bones from cemeteries to practice witchcraft and sell to others.
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Homeland Security Office Uses Community Outreach To Fight Violent Extremism : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to George Selim, director of the Office for Community Partnerships at DHS, about strategies to stop ISIS recruitment and preventing attacks by “lone wolves” on American soil.
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OptionSpace Adds a Spotlight-Like Search for Menu Items in OS X
Mac: While learning keyboard shortcuts certainly puts you on the fast track to obtaining your official productivity geek credibility card, it’s not for everyone.
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Why do Americans love wars so much? Did the overwhelming deluge of Star Wars marketing induce a sort of Pavlovian conditioning where any combination of words from the movie’s title gets us all jazzed up (we also love stars, just saying), or did we a…
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Attacks increase against Australia’s Muslims – Al Jazeera English
Sydney – Two hostages and an armed man were killed during a siege at a cafe in Sydney, Australia last year. In the wake of that attack and others like it elsewhere – including most recently in Paris – Muslims in Australia say they are increasingly b…
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The term “uncanny valley” refers to the sensation you get when you’re watching something—an animation or a humanoid robot—that is almost, but not exactly, like a real person.
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Here’s what’s coming to Hulu in January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although they’re basically gifts you can’t unwrap for another two weeks, Hulu has just announced the newest additions to its ever-expanding (and Epix-stocked) streaming library.
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Gorgeous Concept Art of the Fiery Alien Planet From Syfy’s Childhood’s End
Syfy’s adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End wrapped up earlier this week, and ended with a stunning glimpse of an alien planet. We’re excited to premiere some concept art by Emmanuel Shiu illuminates that insane vista, exclusively at io9…
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POUZE KHOON, Iran — The early-morning sun meagerly brightened the gloom of this sad township, a collection of empty, crumbling houses along a highway through the dusty desert landscape in southeastern Iran.
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Young Burn Victim’s Simple Christmas Wish Comes True : NPR
Earlier this month, 8-year-old burn victim Safyre Terry shared a Christmas wish: to fill her Christmas card holder with as many cards as she could. After her request went viral, she received some 300,000 cards and gifts from around the world.
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Obamacare Deadline Extended As Demand For Health Insurance Rises : NPR
The deadline to sign up for an Obamacare health insurance plan starting on Jan. 1 was extended until Friday because the web site was overwhelmed. Demand was up, but that might be because the penalties for not having insurance are increasing.
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Secretary Of State Kerry Works To Focus Global Leaders On Syria : NPR
Secretary of State John Kerry tries to keep up the momentum in talks to resolve the civil war in Syria. Nearly 20 countries are meeting in New York to plan for peace talks expected next month.
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Veterans’ Advocates Highlight Progress On Homelessness, Claims Backlog : NPR
New Year’s day 2016 is the deadline for two ambitious goals set at the Department of Veterans Affairs — ending the backlog of disability claims and reaching zero homeless veterans. Neither goal has been met, but veterans’ advocates hope momentum on …
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‘Star Wars’ Superfan Describes Episode VII As ‘The Movie We Always Wanted’ : NPR
Sixteen years ago, Daniel Alter was first in line to see Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. NPR tracked him down to get his thoughts on the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens.
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Friend Of San Bernardino Shooter Charged For Conspiring To Support Plot : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro interviews Brian Bennett, national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He’s been covering the investigation into the San Bernardino terrorism attack and tells us the latest known about the attackers.
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Nicaragua Canal Project Put On Hold As Chinese Investor Suffers Financially : NPR
Plans for the transcontinental canal to be built across Nicaragua have been placed on hold. Opposition is growing and the main Chinese backer has lost a large percent of his wealth in the downturn of the stock exchange.
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Preparing To Break Away From GOP Field, Ted Cruz Organizes In Tennessee : NPR
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz believes the road to the GOP nomination runs through the South — especially the southern states voting on March 1st. NPR explores what he’s up to in Tennessee.
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Obama Delivers Year-End News Conference Before Holidays : NPR
President Obama held a year-end news conference Friday as he prepared to head off to Hawaii for the holidays. He answered questions about the fight against terrorism, and touted some successes.
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NPR’s Code Switch Team Explores Political Correctness On College Campuses : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch team about his recent article, “The Long, Necessary History of ‘Whiny’ Black Protesters At College.
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Evangelical College Suspends Professor For Showing Solidarity With Muslims : NPR
Wheaton College, an Evangelical school outside of Chicago, has been roiled by questions about Christianity’s posture toward Islam and academic freedom at religious schools. An associate professor who vowed recently to wear a headscarf in solidarity …
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Little Florida Bank Goes Where Behemoths Fear To Tread: Cuba : NPR
Since President Obama opened a door to Cuba, there’s been progress in the last year. Americans can travel there. The two countries reopened their embassies and have agreed to re-establish commercial air travel. But on the financial front, progress h…
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Week In Politics: GOP Debate, Obama’s Legacy : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times about the GOP debate this week and President Obama’s legacy.
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That Time NPR Turned ‘Star Wars’ Into A Radio Drama — And It Actually Worked : NPR
This week, the latest installment in the Star Wars film saga is posting record numbers around the world. In 1981, NPR hoped the interstellar fable would do the same for its audience numbers.
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Shallow Focus Creates Depth Of Feeling In ‘Son Of Saul’ : NPR
The camera stays tight on a gaunt, weathered face as we hear a train and the dull roar of exhausted travelers disembarking at the outset of Son of Saul. The screen is narrow — almost square — so there’s very little space in the image around his head.
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I Hated All the Star Wars Movies. Except This One. Here’s Why. | Mother Jones
Star Wars: The Force Awakens just hit theaters. We asked Mother Jones’ own Ben Dreyfuss—a known Star Wars critic—and Edwin Rios—a self-proclaimed fanboy—to share their thoughts after seeing the highly antipated picture. This discussion has been edit…
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Hot Beauty Gifts: Fragrances | Vanity Fair
If you’re thinking we’re going to bore you with old, musky smells for the holiday season, you are dead wrong. Here is a roundup of our favorite fall fragrances that are perfect for gifts for your loved ones this season.
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Hot Beauty Gifts: Makeup Palettes | Vanity Fair
For the makeup junkie in your life, makeup palettes are dream gifts for the holidays. Here, we’ve rounded up the prettiest and most fun!
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Hot Beauty Gifts: Gift Sets | Vanity Fair
If you’re pressed for time (Christmas is next week!) there is nothing easier than a gift set, and it’s still chic. You get multiple items already packaged in pretty boxes and fun designs. Here is a roundup of fabulous gift sets that we absolutely lo…
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Binge-watching all of Breaking Bad in just 3 days / Boing Boing
Just don’t ask your barista where they store the cash. The Star Wars fever is alive and well, and it’s time you joined in on the fun. These extremely high-quality posters will elevate any room in your house to a true fandom tribute.
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Turkish forces say scores of PKK fighters killed – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s security forces have killed 62 PKK fighters in three days of operations in two mainly Kurdish towns near the border with Iraq, according to the military.
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Despite the Star Wars: The Force Awakens furor that’s currently dominating film news and criticism, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have marched valiantly on, dutifully making all the requisite stops on the press tour for their house party comedy Sisters.
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Whatever you think we should do about 3D printed guns, this isn’t it / Boing Boing
The US government has tried to apply its arms export control rules to 3D model files that describe firearms, and declare that publishing those files is the same thing as exporting guns, and is therefore prohibited.
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Extinction of large animals could make climate change worse : environment
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Fear & Loathing at Christmas: Watch Dr. Hunter S. Thompson burn his Christmas tree|Dangerous Minds
When TIME magazine writer Sam Allis visited Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at home in Colorado in January of 1990, during his visit the good doctor decided that he wanted to set his discarded Christmas tree ablaze.
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Ben Heck Guides You Through Which Electronics Board Is Best for Your Project
We’ve talked before about choosing the right electronics board for your project, but venerable DIYer Ben Heck takes a deep crack at it as well, breaking down using a discreet logic, microcontroller, or a Raspberry Pi.
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The media’s rules for when it’s okay to praise a violent foreign dictator – Vox
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Donald Trump has drawn open scorn from the media after he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and seemingly endorsed Putin’s oppressive rule. -
This is your next jam: Lizzo, Willow, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I can’t believe this is the last time I’m going to write this column in 2015.
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Get Ready for the World’s First Cyborg Olympics – IEEE Spectrum
Michael McClellan flashes a thumbs-up sign as he speeds by on a recumbent tricycle, breathing hard but smiling behind dark sunglasses. He pedals along a paved path that loops through a leafy park in Cleveland, passing office workers enjoying alfresc…
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Astronauts May Take Surprise Spacewalk to Fix Space Station: NASA
Astronauts on the International Space Station will likely take an unplanned spacewalk next week to fix a stuck rail car used by the orbiting lab’s robotic arm, NASA officials said today (Dec. 18). The surprise spacewalk could occur as early as Monda…
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Here’s What Might Explain Why Afghanistan’s Opium Production Dropped by Half This Year | VICE News
For the first time since 2009, poppy production in Afghanistan is on the decline with overall production sliding to nearly half of what it was in 2014.
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Oslo — AFTER Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to the Islamic State, reportedly beheaded the American hostage Nicholas Berg in 2004, he became known in jihadi circles as the Slaughterer.
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I made a pneumatic air gun : pics
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Bryce Canyon [3334X2620] : EarthPorn
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.18.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, December 18, at 1:00pmPT.
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There Are More Displaced People in the World Than Ever Before | VICE News
The number of people who have been forcibly displaced across the globe is likely to have “far surpassed” 60 million for the first time, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Among the unprecedented masses are some 20.
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Obama Delivers Final Press Conference of 2015 – The Atlantic
President Obama opened his last press conference of the year on Friday with a joke.
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Should I buy my parents a Chromebook instead of a MacBook? Which one? | The Verge
So here’s my dilemma: my parents are classic Bad At Computers parents. It’s cute, you know? Everything is always breaking, and sometimes things have gone so hilariously wrong that I can’t even figure out what they did to get there.
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Vixen Is Joining the Live-Action DC TV Universe, Thanks to Arrow
You can’t keep a good woman imbued with the power of the entire animal kingdom down. Previously relegated to an animated series companion to the CW’s DC TV-verse, Vixen will be joining the live-action big league when Megalyn Echikunwoke brings the h…
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This new campaign in New York wants the state to move to 100 percent clean energy | Grist
And it makes a strong push for economic and climate justice. It took imagination, ingenuity, and months of meetings, but Matthew Mazzotta’s poop-digester project finally turned dog waste into public lighting.
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The 15 Most Popular Products Of 2015, As Purchased By You
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US reportedly pursuing criminal investigation for Uber data breach | The Verge
Reuters is reporting via anonymous sources that the US Department of Justice is investigating the theft of thousands of Uber drivers’ names and driver’s license numbers that occurred in May 2014.
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Obama takes victory lap at year-end presser: ‘We have shown what is possible when American leads’
President Obama cheered America’s leadership around the world and gains made by Congress here at home, saying he has never been “more optimistic” about the year to come at his year-end press conference in the White House briefing room.
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MERS Vaccine Protects Camels, Which Is Good for People – Scientific American
A vaccine that protects against the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has been shown to be effective in camels, a new study finds.
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Steven Universe Will Finally Return to Our Screens in January!
It feels like it’s been far too long since the heartwarming delight of Steven Universe was in our lives—but the wait for more Crystal Gem goodness is nearly over. Steven Universe is back January 4th, with a whole week of episodes!
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A Utah county commissioner in who challenged the federal management of Western public lands was sentenced Friday to 10 days in jail for organizing an ATV protest ride through a closed canyon. San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman also got three ye…
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The United States Department of Justice is pursuing a criminal investigation around Uber’s May 2014 data breach, Reuters, citing “sources familiar with the situation,” reported.
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Women’s inclusion in the workforce on a mass scale is relatively new. In 1950 only about one-third of women in the U.S. were active workers; by 2000, nearly two-thirds were.
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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Bernie Sanders Goes to War With the Democratic Party – The Atlantic
Updated on December 18 at 3:56 p.m. EST Bernie Sanders’s anger at the Democratic establishment is boiling over.
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Chuck Hagel Reveals Obama’s Negligence in Syria – The Atlantic
Last week, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave his first extended interview since resigning as Pentagon chief in November 2014.
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Cherry Peace stood, feet firmly planted, at the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in October.
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Congratulations, You’ve Been Cast In Star Wars! Will You Ever Work Again? | FiveThirtyEight
The newest Star Wars film — “The Force Awakens” — has plenty of familiar faces but also infuses a lot of fresh blood into the franchise.
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‘Star Wars’ Fans Call B.S. on ‘The Force Awakens’ on Opening Night – The Daily Beast
Thursday evening in Los Angeles, the Force was giddy to lukewarm as fans filed out of the very first screenings of Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens.
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Pastrami on Rye is a full-length history of the NYC Jewish deli, written by Judaism scholar Ted Merwin. From a review in The Economist:
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How to register your drone with the government / Boing Boing
Analysts are predicting that 2015 will be the drone-givingest holiday retail season ever, and you can even buy drones in our Boing Boing store. In the U.S., do you have to register your quadcopter or other drone with the government? Depends on the s…
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How Not to Debate Nuclear Energy and Climate Change – The New Yorker
It has been just a week since negotiators from a hundred and ninety-six nations agreed, for the first time, on the need to cut the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions. The accord is a couple of decades late, and its terms are far too weak.
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Ike Barinholtz: With Sisters, an “Indigent Psychopath Weirdo Pervert” No More | Vanity Fair
is here to talk about his role in Sisters, but first, he’s going to talk about Arthur Miller and Shakespeare.
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Will Donald Trump’s Supporters Show Up at the Polls? – The New Yorker
For months now, commentators and political insiders have been making various arguments about why Donald Trump can’t win the Republican Presidential nomination: he’s too extreme; he has no political experience; his campaign will eventually implode; t…
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Esquire gets its epic drama on in this Beowulf trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
With an April 2016 premiere date, Game Of Thrones is still a ways away, but you can pass the time until then with Esquire’s Beowulf, which will make with the sword-clanging and throne-snatching as early as January.
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We at The A.V. Club take our Star Wars seriously, and, like the LA Times, have a dedicated Star Wars section of our style guide.
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Back in the ’00s, a man from Omaha named Alex Martin decided he didn’t like where his life was headed. He was living in a punk party house, working for minimum wage at a pizza place, and was in a six year relationship that he felt wasn’t going anywh…
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A New War of the Worlds TV Show Is in the Works
H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has been adapted for other media before—notably for the 2005 Spielberg film, and the infamous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast. Now a new TV version is in the works, written by Peter Harness (Doctor Who, Jonathan Stran…
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Deadspin How The Hero Of Friday Night Lights Won And Lost His Good Name | The Slot Poll: About a Third of Republicans Think We Should Bomb Aladdin | Gizmodo The 20 Best Gadgets of 2015 | Gawker The Worst Tweets of 2015 |
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Incredible magic trick with Star Wars theme / Boing Boing
Here’s how the spike trick is supposed to work: a magician shows the spectator a large nail mounted on a block of wood. He sets it on the table so the nail is pointed up. Then he covers the nail with a paper bag. He places three identical paper bags…
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Browsers Are Starting to Block Ads by Default | Motherboard
Here’s an intriguing new twist in the debate over adblockers: starting in early 2016, AdBlock Plus will be “baked-in” to electronics company Asus’ proprietary browser that ships with all of its products—that is, it will be activated by default.
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It’s Lonely Out There for a Star Wars Dissenter | Motherboard
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened last night to just about universal critical acclaim, and I’m happy that seemingly everyone I know is fully aboard the hype train. I, however, completely don’t care. Put yourselves in my shoes. Growing up, Star War…
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The Federal Reserve’s Shaky Optimism | The Nation
Janet Yellen, the first woman to chair the awesomely powerful Federal Reserve, reminds us of a wicked one-liner made famous by Clare Boothe Luce and Oscar Wilde. “No good deed goes unpunished.
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Fear and loathing at a Trump rally – Vox
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As Donald Trump’s positions on Muslims got more extreme last week, he didn’t take a hit in the polls. I was so shocked that I traveled to Iowa to talk to supporters at a rally. And I brought my video camera along. -
Arabic Calligraphy Shuts Va. School | Al Jazeera America
Officials closed all schools in a Virginia district as a precaution on Friday, days after an Arabic calligraphy assignment in a high school textbook sparked anger among some parents who said the exercise was meant to convert their children to Islam.
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A 19th Century Glimpse of a Changing Climate | New Republic
The first time John Ruskin noticed the gray clouds of the “plague-wind” was in 1871, decades into the industrial era.
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How to Destroy a Hard Drive‑Permanently – Scientific American
This time last week FBI divers were searching Seccombe Lake, a freshwater lake about three kilometers from the Inland Regional Center, the site of December 2 shooting that left 14 dead and 22 injured.
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Are migrants a benefit or a burden? – Al Jazeera English
The 2015 has been a difficult year to be a refugee or a migrant. The UN says by the end of the year, war in Syria and elsewhere will have forced more than 60 million people from their homes.
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After witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Star Wars, director Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start his own religion. Lucas laughed him off, but Coppola may have been onto something.
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Bernie Sanders campaign manager says DNC is “actively attempting to undermine” campaign : politics
This fight could be the best possible news for Bernie because it brings out into the spotlight just how hard the political establishment is working to marginalize the populist candidate. The DNC is running scared and this time they’ve pushed the pan…
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UN security council agree resolution on Syrian peace process | World news | The Guardian
The text of a draft UN security council resolution on a Syrian peace process has been agreed by its five permanent members, diplomats have said. The resolution, which will be presented to the remaining 10 members, will call for all sides to stop att…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Succeeds, But Trades Wisdom For Wows | ThinkProgress
WARNING: The following contains super-minor spoilers from Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You may find it odd that ThinkProgress asked its religion reporter to review Disney/Lucasfilm’s new blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed b…
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The Surprising Winner Of Congress’ Budget Deal | ThinkProgress
There has been a lot of outcry about Congress repealing the oil export ban in the new budget bill, but two alternative forms of energy just got big boosts.
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San Bernardino shooter and neighbor plotted other attacks in 2011 and 2012 | US news | The Guardian
The friendship began in a southern California garage and ended with one person dying in police shootout and the other in the custody of the US government.
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What It’s Like To Live In Beijing Under Hazardous Levels Of Air Pollution | ThinkProgress
The air in Beijing is so polluted that Meng Han’s nostrils get filled with black dust after just a couple of hours outdoors.
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A ship building and repair company will pay $5 million to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) race and national origin discrimination lawsuit with 476 Indian guest workers who worked at the company’s facilities after hurrica…
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A look at how hilariously wrong the media was on Donald Trump – Vox
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US spending bill lifts 40-year ban on crude oil exports – BBC News
US politicians have approved a measure to lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. The move is part of a $1.1 trillion (£738bn) spending bill approved by the Senate on Friday that will fund the US government until 2016.
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Obama commutes sentences of 95 prisoners and pardons two / Boing Boing
President Barack Obama today announced he has commuted the sentences of 95 federal prisoners, and granted two prisoners pardons. Most of them are nonviolent drug offenders.
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Why Dick Van Dyke is the coolest 90-year-old in town / Boing Boing
In 1968, I think, my grandmother offered to take me to the movies. I would have been 10 at the time, and my grandmother was cool: she took me to see Planet of the Apes and The Poseidon Adventure when they first opened in the big movie theaters on Br…
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Deadspin How The Hero Of Friday Night Lights Won And Lost His Good Name | The Slot Poll: About a Third of Republicans Think We Should Bomb Aladdin | Gizmodo The 20 Best Gadgets of 2015 | Gawker The Worst Tweets of 2015 |
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This $15 Alarm Alerts You When Somebody Pulls Into Your Driveway
We’ve all been there. The doorbell rings, and you’re in the bathroom, or otherwise pantsless. Before you know it, you’re answering the door wearing a towel, or missing an important package delivery.
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Barack Obama: ‘Guantanamo key magnet for jihadi recruitment’ – BBC News
US President Obama has said it is his expectation to have reduced the prison population at Guantanamo Bay to below 100 by early next year. Speaking at his year-end address he said: “Guantanamo continues to be one of the key magnets for jihadi recrui…
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories : Longreads Blog
We asked all of our contributors to Longreads Best of 2015 to tell us about a story they felt deserved more recognition in 2015. Here they are. Leslie JamisonAuthor of The Empathy Exams, hailed as one of the best nonfiction books of 2014.
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‘Tis the season to make Japanese nengajo cards! / Boing Boing
See sample photos at Wink. Here in Japan, ’tis the season to make nengajo. Nengajo are specialized New Year’s postcards sent to friends, relatives, acquaintances, former classmates, current classmates, co-workers, and anyone and everyone else in one…
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US police arrest Sikh teen over bomb hoax – Al Jazeera English
Police in the US state of Texas have arrested a 13-year-old boy after he allegedly made bomb threats, an account disputed by his family. Armaan Singh Saraai, a Sikh teenager, was detained on Friday last week and held in juvenile detention centre unt…
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Vertigo Comics have always been deeply rooted in British culture thanks to the contributions of creators like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Warren Ellis.
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Why Bridgegate Still Haunts Chris Christie | Vanity Fair
Standing at the edge of the stage during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Kentucky senator Rand Paul saw his chance.
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Homeland’s Mandy Patinkin Pens 1,300-Word Essay on Ted Cruz’s Princess Bride Problem | Vanity Fair
Earlier this week, Mandy Patinkin registered his complaints about Ted Cruz’s annoying habit of reciting lines from The Princess Bride on the presidential campaign trail.
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Selahattin Demirtas looks weary. He’s well-groomed as usual, navy suit, pressed shirt, and neatly trimmed black hair, but his dark eyes are red-rimmed, his broad face somber.
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Why Does Hillary Clinton Still Make Environmentalists Nervous? | New Republic
From the start of her 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton has worked methodically to prove she is a candidate the environmental movement can trust—a process that will no doubt continue in the third Democratic debate on Saturday night.
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The “hidden” mathematics and order behind everyday objects & phenomenon like spinning tops, dice, magnifying glasses, and airplanes. (via @stevenstrogatz)
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Women Chief Financial Officers’ Pay Compared With Men – The Atlantic
It’s widely known that there are very few women executives: A study of the world’s 2,000 top-performing companies found that only 1.5 percent of chief executive officers were women and an analysis of S&P 500 companies found that women held only 14.2…
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Find Out Which Brands of Meat Feed Antibiotics to Their Animals
Antibiotic use on farms is a big deal. The more often antibiotics are used, the less effective they get—and this is leading to a worldwide problem of drug-resistant infections. This chart from Consumer Reports helps you tell which brands feed their …
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How to succeed with hoverboards without catching on fire | Ars Technica
The news has been overrun the past few weeks with stories of hoverboards causing frightening fires and explosions. After one of the most popular hoverboards caught fire and damaged someone’s home, Amazon pulled the Swagway board from its website (it…
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French State of Emergency Facing Court Challenges | Al Jazeera America
After hundreds of police raids on homes, mosques, restaurants and hotels in the less than five weeks , some Muslims in France are taking the government to court for committing what they call illegal acts in the name of preventing another terrorist a…
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At this point in the holiday season, most of the old traditional Christmas songs are getting a bit old. Sure, you love “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” but you can only listen to it so many times before even it starts to grate a little.
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Elizabeth Warren fought Wall Street in last year’s omnibus. This year it paid off. – Vox
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About a year ago today, Congress passed a government funding bill that contained a handful of policy riders including one that repealed Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill. Elizabeth Warren took issue with that, and started an ef… -
Macaulay Culkin Is Reliving His ‘Home Alone’ Nightmares As A Traumatized Uber Driver – Digg
39 diggs Funny Entertainment Fame In the new web series “DRYVRS,” Macaulay Culkin reprises his role as Kevin McCallister, albiet as a grown up, chain-smoking Uber driver forever scarred by his childhood.
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How Esurance Lost Its Mascot to the Internet
If you watched TV in the mid-2000s, you probably saw Erin Esurance. Fitted in a leather catsuit and sporting a spunky pink haircut, the 2D-animated secret agent navigated her way through a variety of 30-second national commercial spots.
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Inside Secrets of Zootopia, the New Film From the Makers of Wreck-It Ralph
Zootopia isn’t just Disney’s latest “talking animal” movie. It’s also co-directed and co-written by Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, the guys behind Wreck-It Ralph. So we were excited to go to Disney Animation Studios and learn all about the making of …
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Six months with a dumbphone / Boing Boing
In yearning for simplicity, the question is its own answer. Or maybe just get something old from Nokia. A while back, I realized that something was amiss in my relationship with my telephone.
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tales of book-collecting bonanzas / Boing Boing
Needle-in-a-haystack stories are the caffeine of collecting. As the editor of Fine Books & Collections, Rebecca Rego Barry knows this better than most; her new book, Rare Books Uncovered, is filled with more than 50 such tales of book-collecting bon…
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NASA/Hubble: The Cloaked, Hidden Lair of a Supermassive Black Hole https://t.co/fwTIUJOd8A https://t.co/7yW1Ly1eIl
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Team Sanders: We will go to court if DNC ‘holds our data hostage’ : politics
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Sanders threatens to sue DNC | TheHill
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Team Sanders: We will go to court if DNC ‘holds our data hostage’ (thehill.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]PantsB [score hidden] 44 minutes ago(3 children) She said the party’s investigation found that the Sanders campaign “not only viewed …
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Midday open thread: NV making schools worse; protests return to Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood
Be sure to join the Daily Kos live-blogging team here for the third Democratic debate at 8 PM ET Saturday. The decades-old school choice debate is back, this time in Nevada.
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Tim Cook calls Apple tax evasion claims ‘total political crap’ | The Verge
Tim Cook doesn’t often lose his cool, but he got surprisingly riled up while discussing claims that Apple is doing its best to avoid paying taxes on overseas earnings during an interview with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose. “That is total political crap,”…
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Paul McCartney saved the Earth, we’re good now | The Verge
You know what I would really like for Christmas? I would really like it if someone saved the Earth. Not in a superhero, there’s aliens attacking, the horsemen of the apocalypse are riding way — in a very low-key, unimposing, pseudoscience-y way.
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President Obama commutes sentences of 95 drug offenders – The Washington Post
President Obama commuted the sentences of 95 drug offenders Friday, more than double the number of commutations he granted earlier this year in July, in an effort to reduce prison crowding and give relief to drug offenders who were harshly sentenced…
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President Obama Just Commuted 95 Prison Sentences | ThinkProgress
Days before the end of a ground-breaking year in criminal justice, President Barack Obama pardoned two federal prisoners and commuted the sentences of 95 more.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Holiday Cheers And CES Fears | TechCrunch
With the holiday season in full swing, we’re looking forward to everything CES has to offer in the new year. But we’re also prepping for more gift-giving, following along with the TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide.
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US ‘tracking closely’ ISIL threat in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
The US defence secretary has warned of a threat from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan during an unannounced visit.
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projectDETOUR – CALIFORNIA on Vimeo
projectDETOUR is a short film series about three trips to three destinations. We’ve been hiking waist deep powder in the Alps, we high fived sheep farmers in Greece and rode our motorbikes through the state of California. California baby… What do …
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A Lost Love Returns From an Icy Grave | New Republic
In 1999, comic book writer Gail Simone noticed that his peers had a tendency to use the tragic deaths of female love interests as plot devices to incite male heroism. He calls this contrivance the “Woman in the Refrigerator.
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The FDA wants to ban use of tanning beds by youth under 18, to fight skin cancer / Boing Boing
The Food and Drug Administration today proposed banning the use of indoor tanning beds by minors under 18 years old, to try and reduce the risk of skin cancer. Indoor tanning beds dramatically increase your risk of melanoma, a deadly form of skin ca…
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‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Resigns As CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals – The Atlantic
Martin Shkreli, the infamous “Pharma bro” who was arrested Thursday and charged with securities fraud, has resigned as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company announced. Turing said Ron Tiles, the chairman of the board of directors, will serves a…
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China’s Latest Crackdown on Workers Is Unprecedented | The Nation
In an unprecedented crackdown on some of China’s most effective independent labor organizations, known as worker centers, seven worker-activists have been detained and held virtually incommunicado in detention facilities in Foshan and Guangzhou.
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On Touch: A Visualization of Walt Whitman’s Musings – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Fashion Models Will Now Need a Doctor’s Approval to Work in France | VICE News
From now on, models who want to work in France will first need to get a doctor’s note to prove that they are healthy. Deputies in the National Assembly approved the measure on Thursday as part of an anti-anorexia package in France’s new public healt…
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Christmas 1909. colorized by me : pics
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Bernie Sanders’ campaign threatens to sue DNC : politics
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Sanders’ campaign threatens to sue DNC – POLITICO
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Star Wars will make its real money in the mall, not the cinema – Vox
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Bernie Sanders Goes to War with the D.N.C. | Vanity Fair
The long-simmering tension between Bernie Sanders and the Democratic establishment, embodied by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton, reached a boiling point on Friday after the committee abruptly cut off his campaign’s access to a …
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Star Wars: Watching the Force Awaken Deep in Lucas Country | Vanity Fair
Barsetti and friends plugged their ears and yelled to defend themselves against spoilers as the seven P.M. crowd spilled out of the theater to excitedly gush about . Once seated, the 10 P.M.
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US President Barack Obama pledges Guantanamo closure plan – BBC News
President Obama is delivering a year-end address before heading to San Bernardino to visit families bereaved by the terror attacks. The speech and the trip to California are his last scheduled appearances before going to Hawaii for holiday until the…
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Sponsor Content: Shell and Brazilian Start-Up Light Up Santa Marta Community
What does it take to change the world for the better? Sometimes it’s as simple as a bright idea and a bit of help.
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Powers ‘agree Syria draft resolution’ – BBC News
David Cameron is upbeat about the prospect of an EU reform deal in 2016 with a referendum to follow, after talks in Brussels.
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The latest Twin Peaks teaser shows the ‘sacred places’ of the Pacific Northwest | The Verge
Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival will finally arrive in 2017, meaning there’s still plenty of time for David Lynch to pump his trademark weirdness into the new series. Today, fans are getting a tiny tease of the crew setting up shop in the rural Washin…
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SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 launch since June disaster may be delayed | The Verge
They’re having some fuel issues. SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 rocket launch will likely be pushed back from its target date of Saturday, as the company seems to be having some issues with the rocket’s propellant.
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Oh, So That’s Who Daniel Craig Played in The Force Awakens
One of the least crazy rumors about The Force Awakens was that somehow, James Bond actor Daniel Craig had filmed a cameo. Now we know it’s true, and who he played, so more spoilers for The Force Awakens! Also Daniel Craig, guess. Ready? Hope so.
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This is a fight Bernie needs. It puts him into the headlines and more importantly puts into the spotlight how hard the DNC is working to deliver the nomination to Hillary Clinton. He’s had trouble getting media coverage because he’s been talking iss…
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A Canadian Allegedly Killed a British Guy During an Ayahuasca Trip in Peru | VICE News
A British man has allegedly been stabbed to death by a Canadian man who was reportedly acting in self-defense during an ayahuasca ceremony at a retreat deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
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veryone knows the Mad Scientist — the white hair; the lab coats; the endless shouting and cackling; the lightning, oh, god, the lightning.
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The Miami Hurricanes fans who flew the banners that got Al Golden fired
The thread appeared at 8:01 p.m. on a Thursday. “CLEMSON BANNER(S) LINK,” it read. The poster called himself OzarCaneSaw, a member of the message board WestEndZone.com and organizer of its righteous and pissed-off horde. His link led fellow Miami fa…
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Five Good 3D Printers You Can Buy Before The Holiday | TechCrunch
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Going to a Donald Trump rally? Don’t forget your hidden knives and open racism.
Donald! Donald! Sign my stabbin’ knife, Donald! Going to a Donald Trump rally sounds amazing. Not good amazing, but amazing as in what would happen if you built a meth lab in the back of a monster truck, tied a brick to the accelerator and pointed i…
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Missing Tropical Animals Could Hasten Climate Change – Scientific American
As go toucans, spider monkeys and tapirs, so goes the climate. Put another way, the hunting and poaching of tropical animals could change the face of rainforests such as the Amazon, diminishing their ability to store global carbon dioxide emissions …
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Skip the Expensive Roasting Pan and Use a Rack and Baking Sheet Instead
A roasting rack and an aluminum baking sheet not only cost less combined than many roasting pans, in most cases, the combo works better than a roasting pan. Serious Eats’ J.
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Martin Shkreli steps down as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals | Ars Technica
Martin Shkreli, founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals, has resigned as chief executive of the embattled company, effective immediately. The chairman of Turing’s board of directors, Ron Tilles, has been appointed interim CEO, the company announced.
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Kill Your Airbnb’s Hidden WiFi Cameras With This Script | Motherboard
The Internet of Things is here, and in many ways it’s already catapulting us into the nightmarish future that dystopian science fiction writers predicted.
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The late-night story of 2015 was supposed to have been the September 8 debut of Stephen Colbert, who left his cozy Comedy Central perch to take over for the retiring David Letterman weeknights on CBS.
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These incredible trees can “walk” / Boing Boing
These are the “walking palm trees” of Ecuador. Each year, they could walk as much as 20 meters. Slower than the Ents from Lord of the Rings but, well, real.
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Amazon renews The Man In The High Castle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Forging a bizarre alternate universe in which a Philip K. Dick adaptation about a Nazi-run U.S. can somehow become a minor, but potent, critical hit, Amazon has announced that it’s renewing The Man In The High Castle for a second season.
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David Lynch Will Personally Terrify You in This Twin Peaks Teaser | Vanity Fair
This first teaser for Showtime’s unlikely-but-really-happening Twin Peaks season is, for a while at least, a pretty straightforward behind-the-scenes featurette, with Michael Horse (a.k.a.
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On September 10, 2015, satellite named WorldView-3 was whisking on its regular path from pole to pole, locked in orbit 400 miles above the eastern Pacific Ocean. WorldView-3 is one of the most advanced privately owned Earth-observing satellites in u…
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Nursing Homes Are Struggling to Care for the Obese Elderly – The Atlantic
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. Chism is severely obese, unable to leave her bed without a mechanical lift and…
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Readers debate the pleasures and perils of extra lives · Keyboard Geniuses · The A.V. Club
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Evernote Is Ending Support for Clearly and Most Versions of Skitch
A few Evernote apps will no longer be updated or available for download in the new year. These include screenshot and annotating tool Skitch and Clearly, which makes web pages more readable. Support for Skitch and Clearly, as well as Evernote for Pe…
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Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Resigns from Pharmaceuticals Company | Vanity Fair
Martin Shkreli, the perennially brazen onetime hedge funder turned pharmaceutical executive turned indicted 32-year-old accused of securities fraud, has another moniker as of Friday: unemployed.
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We’ve never had a debate this close to Christmas – Vox
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Watch live: President Obama’s year-end press conference – Vox
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Poll: 30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the city from Aladdin | US news | The Guardian
Almost a third of Republican primary voters would support bombing the fictional kingdom of Agrabah, according to a report released by Public Policy Polling on Friday.
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The First Twin Peaks Teaser Invites You to Visit Its Picturesque Town
As if to prove that this is really happening, Showtime released the first teaser for the Twin Peaks revival. It’s got Deputy Hawk (Michael Hoarse) extolling the virtues of the area, the theme song, and a requisite creepy moment. Contact the author a…
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JP Morgan Chase to pay $307m for steering investors toward own products | Business | The Guardian
JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $307m on Friday to settle charges that two of its wealth management units failed to disclose conflicts of interest when promoting investments to its wealthy clients.
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A British man has allegedly been stabbed to death by a Canadian man who was reportedly acting in self-defense during an ayahuasca ceremony at a retreat deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Iraq says US coalition airstrike kills or wounds 10 soldiers | World news | The Guardian
Iraq’s joint operations command said 10 Iraqi soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday by so-called friendly fire from US-led coalition aircraft west of Baghdad.
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Star Wars: Linguists Explain the Way Yoda Speaks – The Atlantic
When Luke Skywalker first encounters Yoda, it’s on a swampy planet in The Empire Strikes Back. At first, Luke doesn’t realize the long-eared, wrinkly green creature is, in fact, the one he’s seeking. There’s a narrative effect to the way Yoda speaks.
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The Best Way to Move Mountain Goats? Helicopters. – YouTube
How do you move a mountain goat nearly a hundred miles? With a helicopter. Mountain goats were introduced to Utah in the late 1960s, and since the initial release of six goats, their population has increased to more than 2,000. When a group gets too…
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Is Eating Lettuce Really Worse For The Environment Than Eating Bacon? – Modern Farmer
A recent study, and the various blog posts and news articles covering the study, seems to make a baffling and contradictory claim: is it possible that adjusting our diets from meat-heavy to produce-heavy could actually result in an increase in green…
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Isis Pharmaceuticals changes name to avoid confusion with Islamic State | Business | The Guardian
After deliberating for most of the year, Isis Pharmaceuticals has announced it will change its name to avoid being confused with the militant group Islamic State, also known as Isis.
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A blow to Bernie Sanders’s campaign: losing access to the DNC’s voter files – Vox
Bernie Sanders’s campaign just suffered a serious blow. Sanders can no longer access the Democratic National Committee’s database of registered voters, after a glitch allowed the campaign to download data from rival Hillary Clinton.
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Hello, and welcome to our liveblog of President Obama’s end-of-year address at the White House.
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Environmental factors increase risk of some types of cancer, study finds | Society | The Guardian
Environmental factors are overwhelmingly to blame for some forms of cancer, according to a new study. Among the contributors are diet, sun exposure, UV radiation, tobacco, alcohol, the human papilloma virus and hepatitis B and C.
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Teacher Alleges That She Was Fired ‘Solely Because Of Her Heritage And Religion’ | ThinkProgress
Two Hunterdon County, New Jersey high school teachers showed a movie clip about Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai in their history classrooms.
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Bernie Sanders set to sue Democratic National Committee over data access | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders is preparing to sue the Democratic National Committee to regain access to crucial voter information it claims is being “held hostage” by party leaders who are “actively trying to undermine” the senator’s presidential campaign.
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Large fruit-eating monkeys and birds in tropical forests have been revealed as surprising climate change champions, whose loss to over-hunting is driving up carbon emissions. This is because their seed-spreading plays a vital role in the survival of…
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Oberlin College Quietly Reverses Course, Revokes Bill Cosby’s Honorary Doctorate | ThinkProgress
Oberlin College is rescinding the honorary degree it gave to Bill Cosby in 2010, the school announced Friday. “Mr.
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Egg-less condiment can still be called mayo says FDA | Ars Technica
Mayonnaise, the creamy, fatty condiment often slathered on sandwiches and fries, may now have a looser definition—at least in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration. Generally, mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil and vinegar or lemon juice, and c…
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What does environmental devastation actually look like? TED Talk shows shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project — and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat. (ted.com)
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Grindr users targeted by armed gang, say police – BBC News
Police in London have warned that an armed gang is using the dating app Grindr to rob unsuspecting men. Two victims were attacked in separate incidents by four men carrying knives, after going to meet dates they had chatted to online.
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“It is no longer possible to think of ‘the Republican Party’ as a coherent political force. It is nothing of the sort — and the Donald Trump insurgency should be seen as a symptom, not the cause, of the party’s disintegration.” (washingtonpost.com)s…
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Why Did the DNC Let the Bernie-Hillary Tech Story Leak? A better question: Would it have leaked if the roles were reversed? (esquire.com)
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Beijing issues its second ‘red alert’ in history for deadly air pollution : environment
Beijing issues its second ‘red alert’ in history for deadly air pollution (mashable.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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As NASA’s Curiosity rover treks up a three-mile-high mountain on Mars, the rocks are changing. That says something about how the planet’s climate and environment changed more than three billion years ago — but scientists are not sure what.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — By themselves, the emails were arresting enough: videos, photographs, cartoons and jokes, some depicting sex acts; others mocking or demeaning blacks, gays, Muslims and even the poor and uneducated.
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How Volunteers From All Over the World Have Transformed the Refugee Crisis on Lesbos | VICE News
On a windswept, rocky outcrop high above the north coast of the Greek island of Lesbos, a small group of volunteers peered through binoculars at an inflatable boat bobbing across the waves a few miles away.
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The Best Beers of 2015 | VinePair
Late December “Best of the Year” lists are dicey at best, and corrupt at worst. So I have good news for you: This is the best kind of list! It’s not corrupt, because I’m not trying to advance any nefarious agenda. Make no mistake: my integrity is ab…
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What We’re Following on Friday Afternoon, 12/18 – The Atlantic
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Scrap-metal welded bugs / Boing Boing
The welded scrap-metal bugs of Green Hand Sculpture are gorgeous, intricate, labor-intensive, and therefore expensive, but surely worth ever cent: Preying Mantis, Holly Blue Butterfly, Woodlouse, Peacock Butterfly and the Peacock Butterfly (chainsaw…
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Sometimes when I enjoy a movie less than I thought I would, I find that my dissatisfaction stems from the feeling of having watched a movie made out of other movies, a Frankensteinian creation assembled from the dead bits and pieces that worked well…
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The 10 Greatest Personifications of Death in Pop Culture
When tackling something as big as death, it’s sometimes easiest to make it into a single personality. Genre fiction is replete with capital-“D”-Deaths. Some are serious, some are funny, and some are just annoying. Here are ten great representatives …
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Sanders campaign locked out of crucial databases after breach | The Verge
Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president is facing a serious data problem. Earlier this week, it was revealed that the campaign had accessed data belonging to Hillary Clinton’s opposing campaign, made available after a security failure by a third-part…
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Congress approves surveillance legislation tucked into budget package | Ars Technica
Congress on Friday adopted a $1.15 trillion spending package that included a controversial cybersecurity measure that only passed because it was slipped into the US government’s budget legislation.
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Showtime’s first Twin Peaks promo is appropriately vague · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Showtime just unveiled the first “production featurette” for its Twin Peaks revival, and appropriately enough, it tells us basically nothing about the show.
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Amazon renews The Man in the High Castle for a second season | The Verge
Amazon today announced that its alternate-reality series The Man in the High Castle will be coming back for a 10-episode second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Donald Trump’s Role Model? Vladimir Putin. – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s role model for running a country is Vladimir Putin. Trump has proposed a ban on Muslims, shutting down “our” Internet to prevent ISIS from accessing it, and collective punishment for innocent family members of terrorists.
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Yep, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is still the worst · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
At this point, hopefully everyone knows that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a non-stop creepfest. What masquerades as a cheerful little holiday ditty is really a hellscape of a song with messages of entrapment and date rape, and almost murderous undert…
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Martin Shkreli just got kicked out of his company as his sad little empire crumbles | The Verge
Martin Shkreli resigned as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals — the company where he came to notoriety for jacking up the prices on an old drug for no good reason. He is replaced by Ron Tilles, the chairman of Turing’s board of directors, who presumably …
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Pope Francis approves sainthood for Mother Teresa – Al Jazeera English
Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the Albanian nun who cared for the poor in India one of the Catholic Church’s highest honours just two decades after her death.
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The Strange Acoustic Phenomenon Behind These Wacked-Out Versions of Pop Songs | Motherboard
Earlier this week on Twitter, I came across quite the sonic phenomena. If you take an mp3 file, convert it to MIDI, then convert it back to mp3, it sounds totally nuts. Just give a couple of these songs a quick listen so you know what you’re dealing…
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A Spammer Sued by Facebook for $873M Is Seeking Redemption in Bitcoin | Motherboard
Like so many Bitcoin evangelists, Adam Guerbuez says he’s passionate about shining a light on the good side of the digital currency. After all, it’s attracted its share of scammers and drug dealers since bursting onto the scene six years ago.
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Some of the Worst Internet of Things Products You Could Buy This Christmas | Motherboard
Happy holidays, humans. In case you’ve got some very odd, specific needs or just need a quick gag gift, we’ve got you covered. We plumbed the internet of things for a few very odd, very bad products.
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The Most Notorious Science Scandals of 2015
There were an alarming number of science scandals in 2015, from fabricated data to sexual harassment. Here are our picks for the worst of the worst.
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Get Final Fantasy, XCOM, Transistor, and more mobile games for cheap | The Verge
It’s that time of the year again, when mobile game developers drop prices ahead of the holidays. This year you can get a few great deals on otherwise pricey games you might have missed out on.
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‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Resigns Amid Criminal Probe, Isn’t in Pharma Anymore | VICE News
Disgraced pharmaceutical chief Martin Shkreli, who became infamous this year for raising prices of drugs in order to increase his company’s profits, resigned Friday from Turing Pharmaceuticals following his arrest the previous day on securities frau…
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Microsoft Acquires Big Data Startup Metanautix | TechCrunch
Microsoft announced today that it has purchased Metanautix, a big-data focused startup that came out of stealth in 2014. The company was backed by $7 million in capital, including cash from well-known venture firm Sequoia. Terms of the deal were not…
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Photos of the Week: 12/5-12/18 – The Atlantic
Photos of the Week: 12/5-12/18 Argentina bids farewell to President Cristina Fernandez, Storm Desmond in the UK, the now-completely-dry Lake Poopo in Bolivia, a huge attitude hat in Denver, Angela Merkel carrying a wolf in Germany, the arrest of Ma…
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The Places to Visit In Each State for Incredible Christmas Lights
Putting up Christmas lights may be a chore, but checking them out is festive and fun. If you’re looking for lights this holiday season, Travel + Leisure has a list of the best places to see them in every state. Obviously, this is a subjective list, …
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Battle Begins Over World’s Richest Shipwreck
The discovery of the San Jose shipwreck has all the elements of a great drama: international political intrigue, a treasure of gold and emeralds worth up to $17 billion, and now, accusations of lies and treachery.
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Idiot faces jail for shutting down freeway to propose to girlfriend / Boing Boing
Remember the cretins who shut down a busy freeway in Los Angeles several years back, forcing stalled drivers to listen to their musical performance? Or the marriage proposal that took place in the middle of the 10 freeway in West Covina in a cloud o…
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Bernie Sanders campaign goes on the offensive against the DNC
Bernie Sanders’ campaign held a strongly worded press conference early Friday afternoon to address the events leading to the Democratic National Committee suspending his campaign’s access to voter files after four staffers reportedly took advantage …
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The Inside Story of Syriza’s Struggle to Save Greece | The Nation
Yanis Varoufakis is pacing the marble hall, cellphone to his ear. In the Maximos Mansion, where the cabinet is about to meet, there’s a “spy room” for secure communications. But by June 21, Varoufakis—hunched against a statue—no longer needs it.
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All the Stuff From The Force Awakens Trailers That Wasn’t in the Movie
Last night, we felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a million people went to see a movie and were suddenly rocked. But did you notice a few missing pieces? After months of dissecting the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a few bits …
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A Video Compilation Showing How Badass Princess Leia Is – The Atlantic
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Martin Shkreli resigns from Turing Pharmaceuticals after fraud charges | US news | The Guardian
Pharmaceutical entrepreneur Martin Shkreli has resigned as chief executive of the company he founded a day after being arrested on fraud charges.
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Donald Trump Returns Vladimir Putin’s Effusive Praise – The Atlantic
It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond. The subtext here is, perhaps, that Trump is a strongman that other strongmen would have a beer with.
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In what might be the least surprising development of the week (aside from the temperature finally dropping in Chicago because it’s December), Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens raked in millions overnight at the box office.
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There’s all sorts of questions raised by the trailer for new thriller Misconduct, not least of which being, “Are we sure David Mamet didn’t ghostwrite this?” Because it certainly comes across like one of his screenplays, full of corporate intrigue, …
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Our Favorite Royal Christmas Tradition: The Queen Takes the Train – The Daily Beast
In his novel Mrs Queen Takes The Train, the writer William Kuhn imagined the Queen slipping incognito aboard an express service just for the fun of it.
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Miners clock out of Kellingley colliery for the final time – video | Environment | The Guardian
Miners at the UK’s last remaining deep coal pit speak after working their final shifts ahead of its closure in North Yorkshire on Friday. Coal still remains underground but it is cheaper to ship it from overseas. The pit’s closure brings an end to c…
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Ex-US defence chief blasts Obama on Syria – BBC News
Former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has criticised the Obama administration for lacking an overarching policy on Syria. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Mr Hagel described long, tedious policy meetings that often concluded withou…
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Longreads Best of 2015: Science : Longreads Blog
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in specific categories. Here, the best in science writing. Carl ZimmerNew York Times columnist and science writer.
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Promotional materials for F Is For Family don’t do the show any favors, hyping up comedian (and series star and co-creator) Bill Burr’s “anti-PC” credentials.
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The 20 Best Comics and Graphic Novels of 2015
It’s been a remarkable year for comics. Huge publishers like DC and Marvel have rejuvenated their line-ups with tons of amazing books; beyond the big two, there’s been some of the most compelling, challenging material in the industry we’ve seen in y…
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The Stones went sci-fi with “2000 Light Years From Home” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Some of our favorite songs with “year” in the title.
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Among the most obscure DC Comics adaptations in movie history is Steel, a Shaquille O’Neal vehicle that came and went very quietly in the summer of 1997, grossing only about a tenth of its relatively modest budget.
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Congress approves vast $1.1tn spending bill to avoid government shutdown | US news | The Guardian
Congress passed a sweeping budget deal on Friday with bipartisan majorities, averting a government shutdown. Both the House and the Senate approved a combined omnibus legislation to fund the federal government for the next year while also making per…
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Was there more to Spandau Ballet than “True”? · 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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This is what I ask myself pretty much every time two characters who aren’t related occupy the screen on Transparent.
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Garbage: The Back End of the Renewable Economy : environment
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Garbage: The Back End of the Renewable Economy | Steven Cohen
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NASA/Hubble: The Cloaked, Hidden Lair of a Supermassive Black Hole https://t.co/mMJj8BNEiK https://t.co/8jT7F4pbGo https://t.co/3NFb7fuXfA
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“Helping” Hillary Clinton with little-watched Saturday debates was a terrible plan – Vox
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The robots at RE^2 robotics are tricksy devils. In this video a pair of robot manipulators carefully cut out a snowflake-shaped piece of paper with a pair of regular scissors – a feat that, if truly assessed in the context of future technology, shou…
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Giant inflatable duck hates drinking water in Japan / Boing Boing
In this Japanese TV commercial we learn that anyone who tries to prevent college students from enjoying any beverage other than water will face the wrath of a giant inflatable duck.
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Shkreli resigns as head of Turing following arrest – BBC News
Martin Shkreli has resigned as chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals following his arrest, the company has said. Ron Tilles will take over from Mr Shkreli, who has been accused of securities fraud in relation to a drug company and a hedg…
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Lively Lets You Trim Your iPhone’s Live Photos, Pick Your Best Shot From The Video | TechCrunch
Since the debut of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which introduced support for a new, animated type of photo called Live Photos, a number of apps have launched to help iPhone owners do more with those moving images, including turning them into GIFs, sav…
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Ethiopia: Funerals for protesters following clashes – BBC News
Funerals have taken place across Ethiopia’s Oromia region after weeks of clashes between security forces and protesters. There is opposition to government plans to expand Addis Ababa.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: December 11th to 18th
This week in a galaxy far, far away, we caught up with the original Star Wars trilogy by learning about the de-specialized editions (and where to find them). Meanwhile on terra firma it’s business as usual: comparing the best Android phones, avoidin…
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On 3 September this year, 24 hours after the first images of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, stretched out on a Turkish beach, appeared online, the novelist Patrick Ness took to Twitter. “Okay, I don’t know if this’ll work,” he said.
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Everything You Know About Martin Shkreli Is Wrong—or Is It? | Vanity Fair
“I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.” So says Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old hedge-fund manager turned pharmaceutical-company C.E.O., who achieved instantaneous notoriety last fall when he acquired the U.S.
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The Peanuts Movie: classic cartoon strip gets a 21st-century revamp | Books | The Guardian
“Be yourself,” Charles Schulz once wrote. “No one can say you’re doing it wrong.
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CHERUB: Mad Dogs by Robert Muchamore – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
CHERUB: Mad Dogs is a fantastic book full of twists and turns; it reels you in, making you want to read on. Mad Dogs is about a gang war over drugs and power. When the war spirals out of control, CHERUB is called in along with James Adams.
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How Amy Schumer Fought a Year-Long Battle for Women . . . and Won | Vanity Fair
“She’s the one most likely to be on your side when the bullies circle in. That’s her face, there, that one pushing in to save you, elbowing them out of the way. She’s the one who misses nothing: who buys no bullsh-t, fitted with a radar as keen as a…
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2015 Was The Costliest Wildfire Season Ever | ThinkProgress
Burning through over 9.8 million acres — an area roughly the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined — the 2015 wildfire season was one of the worst on record. It also ended up being the most expensive wildfire season on record, costing the U…
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The Real Reason Sandra Bland Got Locked Up | The Nation
Sandra Bland’s mother and sisters were in federal court in Houston on Thursday.
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Jeb! Bush plans to use his toughness and guts (really) against Donald Trump
Jeb! Bush thinks he has his chance to earn the exclamation point in his campaign logo, and maybe pick up some polling support, by attacking Donald Trump.
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Iran’s Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump – The New Yorker
Two years of transformative diplomacy between the United States and Iran—after almost four decades of hostility—are reaping tentative benefits on other Middle East flashpoints.
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Poll: 30% of Republicans Want to Bomb a Fictional Disney Country | Mother Jones
According to Public Policy Polling (PPP), a recent poll of 532 Republican primary voters found that thirty percent supported bombing Agrabah. The only problem is that Agrabah is the fictional country from the Disney movie Aladdin.
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WASHINGTON — Congress on Friday morning overwhelmingly gave final approval to a sweeping, year-end fiscal package that includes a $1.15 trillion spending measure as well as $620 billion in tax breaks for businesses and low-income workers.
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Delaware just decriminalized marijuana. Here’s where other states stand. – Vox
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Pro-Kurdish Political Leader Calls for Resistance Against Turkish Security Operation | VICE News
The leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party called for resistance against a large-scale security operation in the country’s southeast after fierce urban fighting that state media claims has killed dozens of Kurdish militants.
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week, tech companies geared up for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere with a bunch of fun Easter eggs like this phonesaber from Google, WhatsApp was ordered to shut down in Brazil, and we got more information about the Chan Zuckerberg In…
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Aliens May Be Polar Bear-Sized*
How big and powerful would aliens be compared to humans? The answer that we can currently give is of course limited, because we haven’t found any evidence for extraterrestrial life, yet. But a little statistics knowledge suggests we may beway undere…
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Google uses its VR camera rig for a Cardboard White House tour | The Verge
Google Expeditions, the educational program that equips schools with smartphones and Google Cardboard VR viewers, has stayed relatively low-profile since launching in September.
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Behind Abbey Road Studios New Incubator For Music Tech | TechCrunch
The past decade has rendered the music industry unrecognizable. Digital music is king and songs are purchased (and created) in the cloud. Faster computer processing and affordable hardware allow professional recording tools to be available to all.
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Caterpillar Fungus and John Kerry: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing – The Atlantic
ISIS Inc: Loot and Taxes Keep Jihadi Economy Churning Erika Solomon and Sam Jones | Financial Times “Syria’s oil may ostensibly be the militant group’s most profitable resource but even if US, French and Russian planes succeed in trying to bring dow…
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Target is reportedly working on a mobile payments system of its own | The Verge
According to a new report from Reuters, Target has quietly reached the “early stages” of developing an in-house mobile wallet, although it’s not clear how far along the project is.
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Pluto’s Cratered Plains and Jagged Faults Come Into Focus (Photo)
Researchers are only beginning to uncover all of Pluto’s complexity with the results from the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past the dwarf planet in July.
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DotDashPay Wins $250,000 Startup Competition At UC Berkeley | TechCrunch
Last summer, we told you about a new competition sponsored by Pejman Mar Ventures, a two-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca., venture firm with close ties to Stanford and a growing interest in technologies coming out of the University of California, Berkeley.
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This is no time to weaken limits on air pollution | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
I was dismayed to read your article (UK lobbying for weaker limits on air pollution, 14 December). The British Lung Foundation (BLF) has written to the government, urging ministers not to open a back door for laggard car manufacturers to escape thro…
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Airline execs say Amazon is looking to lease planes for shipping service | The Verge
FedEx and UPS might face new competition in 2016. The Seattle Times reports today that Amazon is looking to lease 20 Boeing 767 jets in an effort to build its own air-delivery service.
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A Festive Holiday Punch from a New York City Institution | Vanity Fair
For some of us, the word “punch” might conjure up images of recycling bins filled with rotgut vodka and lemonade, ladled into plastic cups by a bunch of sweaty frat boys in a questionable basement.
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Congress passes controversial cybersecurity bill attached to omnibus budget | The Verge
This morning, Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, attached as the 14th rider to an omnibus budget bill. The bill is expected to be signed into law by the president later today.
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Son of Saul is a brilliantly original vision of the Holocaust | The Verge
Son Of Saul opens with an out-of-focus shot of an empty forest glade. The camera is handheld, but it still stands passively still for nearly two minutes, until protagonist Saul (Géza Röhrig) walks from the background to the foreground, and his grey …
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What are the health benefits of eating avocados? Avocados are high in fiber and rich in healthy monounsaturated fats.
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This filmmaker makes a crucial point on Muslim leaders’ struggle to stop radicalization – Vox
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Christmas comet
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A Galaxy Sized Black Hole?
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Box Marketing SVP Whitney Bouck Announces She Is Moving On | TechCrunch
Five years ago Whitney Bouck joined Box from EMC Documentum to teach them a thing or two about the enterprise. Today she announced she was leaving the company. Her last day at Box is today.
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An Exclusive Look at the Never-Before-Seen Concept Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? The day is finally here: The Force Awakens is upon us, and so is a bevy of new books about the film—including The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, revealing a never-before-seen look at the concept a…
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Our film staffers search their feelings about The Force Awakens · Film Club · The A.V. Club
It’s the final Film Club of the year, so it only makes senses that our staffers, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, would spend it talking about the biggest movie of the year: J.J. Abrams’ relaunch of the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens.
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Congress Passes Enormous Package of Spending, Tax Cuts – The Atlantic
The age of austerity in Washington is over.
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When It Comes to Your Finances, Don’t Let Perfect Get in the Way of Better
When you’re in debt or living paycheck to paycheck, it’s hard to be interested in personal finance.
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Goddess Diana statue looted by Nazis returns to Poland – BBC News
The 18th Century statue was taken in 1940, but its whereabouts remained unknown until it emerged in a Vienna auction house earlier this year. The private collector who put the bust up for auction has now allowed it to return to Warsaw for good.
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The NFL has never been more popular. Every Sunday — and Thursday and Monday — millions of people across the globe gather around their televisions and computers at home and in bars to watch an inherently violent sport.
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See Conan, Andy Richter Bicker as Rejected ‘Star Wars’ Characters | Rolling Stone
See Conan, Andy Richter Bicker as Rejected ‘Star Wars’ Characters Hilarious cold open from the ‘Star Wars’-themed episode of ‘Conan’ finds Lando, Jango and crew berating Chewbacca, dissing J.J.
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See Bieber, One Direction, Stevie Wonder Sing ‘Joy to the World’ | Rolling Stone
See Justin Bieber, One Direction, Stevie Wonder Sing ‘Joy to the World’ ‘Late Late Show’ host James Corden drops all-star Carpool Karaoke version of Christmas classic
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‘9 to 5’ Turns 35, and It’s Still Radical Today | Rolling Stone
December 19th marks 35 years since the release of 9 to 5, the cult comedy that brought together Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin with Dolly Parton in her film debut as Miss Doralee Rhodes, a kind-hearted secretary who fantasizes about lassoing her “sexist…
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Mystery on Mars: Does Methane Really Indicate Life?
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists may never know for sure if NASA’s Curiosity rover detected signs of life on Mars two years ago, but now is the right time for them to gather some promising clues.
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Obama just released the biggest energy efficiency rule in U.S. history – translate into $ 167 billion in saved costs for businesses over the life of the standard, as well as 885 million tons fewer carbon dioxide emissions. (That’s just shy of a giga…
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The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative May Be More Important Than Facebook | TechCrunch
We were both students at Philips Exeter Academy, and Mark had taken a volunteer position — “tech proctor” — to help new students with computers. September 11th was my first day at a new school, and all scheduled activity had been cancelled.
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NASA/Hubble: The Cloaked, Hidden Lair of a Supermassive Black Hole
Galaxy 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Best Bernie Sanders Impressions of the Year | New Republic
On the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders can’t help but be himself: Whatever the political weather this year, the Democratic insurgent was relentlessly on message, voicing outrage about inequality and corporate greed in his unmistakable Brooklyn accent.
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Anti-Evolution Legislation Shows Descent With Modification – Scientific American
Nicholas Matzke, an evolutionary biologist currently on a fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. Those states are Tennessee and Louisiana.
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Great Lakes wolves to remain under federal protection | Agweek
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Watch: Star Wars got an all-star Bad Lip Reading treatment. It’s hilarious. – Vox
Resisting Star Wars is futile. There are Star Wars oranges. There is Star Wars makeup. There is even Star Wars coffee creamer. And now, there is a Star Wars edition of Bad Lip Reading.
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President Obama refuses to drink his own piss for our entertainment · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because he’s a wimp—or maybe just a sitting global leader with a sense of dignity and self-respect—Barack Obama refused to drink his own piss on television last night.
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Spoiler Space: Star Wars: The Force Awakens · Spoiler Space · The A.V. Club
Thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our review.
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Orbital View: The World’s Largest Swimming Pool – The Atlantic
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For fans of films where a killer gets pulled out of retirement to kill some more, the news that Keanu Reeves’ John Wick would return for a sequel was a pretty big deal.
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Race Relations Lowest in Decades – The Daily Beast
An annual poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News found U.S. race relations to be at a twenty year low. Only 34% of people polled view the current racial climate in a positive light compared to 77% in 2009, just after Barak Obama was …
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The 2015 A.V. Club Readers’ Poll results are in · Best of · The A.V. Club
It’s here! The one year-end list to rule them all: The A.V. Club’s 2015 Readers’ Poll results.
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We Finally Know What’s Inside These Mysterious Black Hole Clouds
Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe. But, just as impenetrable a mystery? The heavy cloud cover encircling some black holes. Now, for the first time, researchers say they’ve managed to get a glimpse inside of one of those c…
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Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise Met Hillary and Chelsea Clinton | Vanity Fair
Imagine great minds meeting. Something like the Yalta Conference, except without the recent tragedy of globally annihilating war. Nixon in China, minus Nixon. Einstein and Oppenheimer, only it doesn’t result in a godless technology that will surely …
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“Sisters” is a movie to go out and see when you’ve run out of television to watch. Which could happen, at least theoretically.
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After protests, construction equipment removed from giant telescope site | Ars Technica
For astronomers seeking to build the world’s largest telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, it will be anything but a Mele Kalikimaka. Hawaiian media reported that heavy machinery parked near a construction site atop the mountain since March was removed …
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China Could Be Hit With Its Worst Air Pollution of the Year This Weekend | VICE News
Beijing issued on Friday its second ever “red alert” ahead of what is predicted to be a blanket of heavy smog stretching across a large part of the country’s north, Reuters reported. The bad air is expected to roll out on Saturday evening and persis…
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Judge scolds Uber for confusing its drivers with new contract | The Verge
Uber was blocked from requiring its drivers to sign a complex new labor agreement by a federal judge in California Thursday. It’s the latest development in an ongoing class-action lawsuit that is not going so well for the $62.5 billion ride-hailing …
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Arabic calligraphy assignment forces closure of schools in Virginia county | US news | The Guardian
Schools in Augusta County in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events were canceled amid an angry backlash about a school lesson involving the Islamic faith.
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Merry Christmas from the Cocteau Twins!|Dangerous Minds
It isn’t necessarily your first thought that the Cocteau Twins have Christmas content lurking somewhere in their catalog, but it turns out they do!
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How the DEA’s successful takedown of a drug cartel shows the drug war’s real failure – Vox
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Even when the war on drugs succeeds, it fails. ProPublica has a fascinating piece, by David Epstein, about the Drug Enforcement Administration’s largely successful efforts to dismantle the Tijuana Cartel in Mexico from the 1990s to the 2000s. -
This UN report shows that women’s rights in the US are an international embarrassment – Vox
This UN report shows that women’s rights in the US are an international embarrassment https://t.co/yEBTekkxaV https://t.co/FqI55YoJ8M
There’s a lot of political debate in the US right now over so-called “women’s issues” like paid family leave, equal pay, and access to health care. -
FBI and US marshals join Texas police in hunt for missing ‘affluenza teen’ | US news | The Guardian
Federal authorities have joined the hunt for Texas teen Ethan Couch who has gone missing two years after getting probation for killing four people in a drunken driving crash. A warrant for his arrest was issued on Wednesday after he failed to report…
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Costa Rica ex-football chief extradited – BBC News
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The Ugly Fight Over Arabic in Augusta County – The Atlantic
If there was any doubt that Americans haven’t figured out a good way to grapple with Islam, look no further than Augusta County, Virginia. Schools there are closed today after an uproar over an assignment that including copying the Islamic professio…
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Is a Real Lightsaber Possible? Science Offers a New Hope – Scientific American
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab, the United States’ biggest Large Hadron Collider research institution.
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Which is the most boring exoplanet? / Boing Boing
Every other week, it seems, an exciting new discovery crops up in a distant star system. The latest is Wolf 1061c, the closest Earth-like world yet found, barely a probe’s throw away at 14 light years. But this got me thinking: which is the least in…
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How Flint Water Crisis Affects Poorest Residents | Al Jazeera America
FLINT, Mich. – A bottle of murky tap water – with swirling rust-colored pieces of sediment – still sits on Rhonda Kelso’s kitchen counter in Flint, Michigan.
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Medical professionals have cast doubt on some of the research claims made by forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, whose pioneering work in the field of identifying head trauma in NFL players is the subject of the Will Smith film Concussion.
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Weiland died from ‘toxic drug mix’ – BBC News
David Cameron is upbeat about the prospect of an EU reform deal in 2016 with a referendum to follow, after talks in Brussels.
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Quiz: 2015 in books – how closely were you reading? | Books | The Guardian
1. Which star’s debut novel was a black comedy about industrial farming? 2. Which literary prize will reappear in 2016 with the same name and remit as in 2015?
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Kurds seek help in fight against ISIL in Iraq – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq – Peshmerga soldiers in Iraq’s Kurdish region have appealed for more help to hold off the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Despite successes against it, Kurdish soldiers are struggling to counter ISIL’s use of asymmetri…
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Japan Hangs Two Convicted Murderers After Sentencing by ‘Lay Judge’ Court | VICE News
Japanese authorities sent two convicted murderers to the gallows on Friday, including one of whom was the first prisoner sentenced to death by the country’s relatively-new lay judge system, in which regular citizens decide on the guilt and sentence …
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Justice Might Just Be Possible in the Case of Mass Forced Sterilizations in Peru | VICE News
It wasn’t until Esperanza Huayama awoke in a ward full of moaning women who were lying two in each bed and saw the stitches in her abdomen that she realized what had happened — she had been sterilized. “We were just innocent country women.
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On The Line: Danny Gold Discusses El Salvador’s War on Gangs | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype.
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The Single Worst Day on the Internet in 2015
The February 26 issue of Nature contained a paper on the discovery of one of the brightest quasars in the early universe. The black hole that sits at its center, with the equivalent mass of 12 billion of our suns, is believed to have formed around 9…
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How DJ Khaled uses Snapchat – Tech Insider
The sun was setting as DJ Khaled’s jet ski roared down Miami’s Intracoastal Waterway. He’d just been pulled over by the cops for speeding, and the clock was ticking. Khaled had misjudged how long it would take him to get home from the nearby estate …
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How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net Neutrality Rules – The Atlantic
One of the most unfortunate misnomers of The Cloud as a metaphor for describing an increasingly networked society is not only that it perpetuates a fiction of an intangible system—but also a fiction that everyone experiences that system in the same …
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In New York, an oyster-studded reef is driving a $67 million strategy that can help a waterfront neighborhood thrive in the face of rising seas.
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NASA just released an unbelievable new image of the Earth rising over the Moon | The Verge
One of the most — if not the most — famous images taken in space is “Earthrise,” a photo of the Earth taken by the Apollo 8 crew as they rounded the back side of the Moon.
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Jordan Deporting 800 Refugees Back to Sudan | Al Jazeera America
AMMAN – Jordan has begun deporting more than 800 Sudanese refugees who had been protesting their living conditions in the country, despite pleas from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Sudanese community in Jordan that they face perse…
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Star Wars film breaks opening day box office record – BBC News
Cinemagoers in the UK and Ireland spent almost £10m to watch the new Star Wars film on its first day of release – a new opening day box office record. The £9.64m tally beat the previous best of £9.48m, set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Pa…
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Liam Gallagher: No reunion for Oasis – BBC News
Liam Gallagher has told a court he would like Oasis to reform – but there is currently no chance of it happening. Gallagher has given evidence in a legal dispute with ex-wife Nicole Appleton over how their assets should be split.
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The Last 10 Percent: How to Push Through a Project When You’re Nearing the Finish Line
Remember the excitement you felt when you launched headfirst into your latest project? Every door was open and the opportunities were endless. But then, if you’re like most people, you start to stumble near the finish line.
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You can listen to the score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens now | The Verge
It’s hard to imagine a Star Wars movie springing to life without a score from John Williams.
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Hydraulic Rock Storage: “The construction costs however only increase with the square of the radius, r². This means that the construction costs increase substantially more slowly than the storage capacity. Thus, very low costs per kilowatt hour of s…
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Sri Lanka investigates attempt to fix international cricket match – BBC News
Sri Lankan authorities are investigating an attempt to fix an international cricket match involving the national team and the West Indies.
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Who Will Stop Republican Islamophobia? | New Republic
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Islamophobia has become a powerful and divisive issue in American politics.
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TV Review: Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’ Is a True-Crime Tale That Feels Like Fiction – The Atlantic
“When I left prison, the anger left … I was probably the happiest man on earth.” These words feel like they belong at the end of a story—as a bookend line that signals to the audience that happy endings still exist.
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Islam homework assignment prompts closure of Virginia schools – video | US news | The Guardian
Students in a world geography class at Riverheads high school were asked to practice calligraphy by copying the Muslim statement of faith, but the assignment quickly sparked controversy, with school officials deciding to shut down all public schools…
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See Chris Stapleton’s Electrifying ‘Cry’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
See Chris Stapleton’s Electrifying ‘Cry’ on ‘Fallon’ ‘Tonight Show’ audience treated to a live version of ‘Traveller’ closer “Sometimes I Cry”
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Muhammad Ali Sings in Broadway’s First Black Power Musical (1970) | Open Culture
The Great White Way is littered with flops. And then there is 1970’s Big Time Buck White, activist Oscar Brown, Jr.’s adaptation of Joseph Dolan Tuotti’s play.
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American grins are just as bad as Britain’s—kind of | Ars Technica
The stereotype of yellow, slimy, crooked British smiles may not have teeth any more.
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Which country do Republicans want to bomb next? Hint: It’s just a magic carpet ride away
No pollster knows how to unmask the GOP parrot brain better than Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen. Let’s just say it’s time to make way for Prince Ali: While typical liberals are too politically correct to call out radical genie-ism for what it i…
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Target May Launch Its Own Mobile Wallet Next Year | TechCrunch
Target may launch its own mobile wallet as soon as next year, according to a report out this morning from Reuters, citing unnamed sources. The move would put the fourth-largest U.S.
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There’s a sweet new HD Beatles VEVO channel that I wanted to call your attention to, dear readers.
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2015: The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being – The Atlantic
From Paris to Syria through San Bernardino to Afghanistan, the world witnessed obscene and unsufferable tragedy in 2015. That was on top of the ongoing misery of hundreds of millions who are literally stunted by poverty, living lives shortened by pr…
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The tradition of holding a Christmas parade on Hollywood Boulevard started 1928 as a way to encourage shoppers to spend money at the various businesses along the Boulevard of broken dreams.
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I once read that a Facebook account is like a living room. My front door is unlocked, and anyone can come sit for a spell, have a conversation or just listen to the dialogue already going on.
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How Star Wars Began: As an Indie Film No Studio Wanted to Make | Vanity Fair
After a $4 billion Disney deal, 87 different trailers, and over a year of hype, Star Wars: The Force Awakens premieres worldwide this week after a red-carpet frenzy.
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The Simpsons meets You’re Next in this claymation couch gag · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The Simpsons’ couch gag has become a great place for innovative filmmakers and artists to show off their take on the iconic nuclear family and the many denizens of Springfield. From the creators of Rick And Morty, to Don Hertzfeldt, Guillermo Del To…
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There’s a odd, slightly uncomfortable line when both creating and watching true-crime documentaries like Netflix’s new ten-part series Making A Murderer: Is this “entertainment” or is it something else? (Or both?) As evidenced recently with The Jinx…
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LeBron James offers condolences to Ellie Day after sideline collision – video | Sport | The Guardian
LeBron James offers his condolences to Ellie Day, the wife of PGA star Jason Day, after a sideline collision in Thursday’s match against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Cleveland Cavaliers star was chasing a loose ball when he bowled into Day, knocki…
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Kiev has a nasty case of anti-communist hysteria | World news | The Guardian
An anti-communist hysteria is prevailing in Kiev. After banning Soviet symbols earlier this year, a court has now outlawed the Communist party of Ukraine, preventing it from organising and taking part in elections.
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And now the game’s over: Kellingley miners finish final shift | Business | The Guardian
The lobby of the Kellingley colliery was thick with cameras as the final shift at the country’s last deep coalmine came to an end. Mining is an industry full of contradictions – it’s dangerous, arduous work but people love it. The majority started s…
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Celebrity Hipster Chocolatiers Reportedly Sold Remelted Commercial Cho | Vanity Fair
Mast Brothers Chocolate, the Brooklyn craft-chocolate company whose expensive, beautifully wrapped bars are a staple of the Whole Foods checkout aisle, may not be all it appears to be.
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Magnetic Mystery of Earth’s Early Core Explained – Scientific American
Geophysicists call it the new core paradox: They can’t quite explain how the ancient Earth could have sustained a magnetic field billions of years ago, as it was cooling from its fiery birth. Now, two scientists have proposed two different ways to s…
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Yemen Rebels Halt UN Peace Talks in Switzerland | Al Jazeera America
Yemeni peace talks in Switzerland were halted Friday after the country’s Shia Houthi rebel delegation suspended all meetings with the internationally recognized government in protest at its cease-fire violations, members of Yemen’s two warring sides…
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Scott Walker Is Dismantling an Oversight Committee That Investigated Him
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Scott Walker Is Dismantling an Oversight Committee That Investigated Him : politics
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Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin’s alleged human rights abuses: “at least he’s a leader” – Vox
Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin’s alleged human rights abuses: “at least he’s a leader” https://t.co/wcaHPSrhGf https://t.co/wYd9b1Mxr8
Donald Trump doesn’t seem to want to insult his new buddy, Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski asked Trump about the comments, given that Russia’s government isn’t exactly a beacon of de… -
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The Divide Between Affordable Housing and High-Opportunity Areas – The Atlantic
People living in high-poverty neighborhoods in the U.S. often don’t have easy access to good schools, jobs, or parks and other green spaces. Instead, the residents of such neighborhoods are exposed to violence and environmental hazards on a daily ba…
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I had a nightmare the other night.
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Wind Farms and Broken Promises: Donald Trump’s Tortured History With Scotland – The Atlantic
Donald Trump is a man without a country. The Queens neighborhood where he grew up has changed radically, and is now home to some of the Muslims he disparages. In New York, a left-leaning city and state, his presidential run is met with derision and …
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Ray Bradbury needed somewhere quiet to write. His wife had given birth to a baby daughter and their neat home did not seem so large anymore. Bradbury couldn’t afford to rent an office, so he spent his writing time in the UCLA library.
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It’s Friday and It’s GIF Party O’Clock!
Hello friends and GIFs, this is your party. Close out the week with style. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Hundreds Of New Orleans Residents Will Finally Be Able To Go Home | ThinkProgress
Tonya Boyd-Cannon and her family will finally be able to go home after a decade of trying.
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Democrats Should Squash the Ginned-Up Right-Wing Panic | New Republic
Beyond the appeals to anti-Muslim xenophobia that have defined the Republican Party’s post-Paris consensus, the most recent GOP primary debate was an elaborate group sermon on the importance of being afraid.
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2015: The Year in Justice and Policing – The Atlantic
2015 could be written in protest. The deaths of Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and other black Americans were met immediately with activism.
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Prince George Will Be Attending Nursery School Starting in January | Vanity Fair
Imagine driving your child to nursery school in the morning and seeing, in the car behind you, Kate Middleton in the driver’s seat, handing George a backpack and a folder of loose papers, giving him a kiss before he jumps out of the car.
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“War Hammer” Joins the Fray in This New Captain America: Civil War Art—Wait, Who?
A new promo piece for Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: Civil War is here. It features separate groups of the Avengers, led by Steve Rogers’ Cap and Tony Stark’s Iron Man, just civil warring the hell out of each other. But who’s that in the upper-r…
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Cheer Up, The Saddest Day of The Year Is A Hoax | Atlas Obscura
Is one Monday in January the most depressing day of the year? Probably not. (Photo: SevenLittleThings/Flickr)
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Benedict Evans On 16 Mobile Themes To Watch Next Year | TechCrunch
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Cold Case Suriname – Roads & Kingdoms
On the battlements of Fort Zeelandia, overlooking a vast murky stretch of the Suriname River, the tour guide stops in front of a wall riddled with bullet holes.
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A Turning Point For Quantum Computing | TechCrunch
Quantum computing is moving from theory and experimentation into engineering and applications.
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How to Adopt the Poop Emoji and Support Unicode Internationalization – The Atlantic
Have a friend who loves typography or emoji, but hates material gifts of any kind? Now there’s a present for them.
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Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research at the University of Leicester.
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LG cuts staff from Silicon Valley lab, says webOS development will continue | The Verge
LG has conducted a round of layoffs at its Silicon Valley lab, home of its webOS development team. The company cut around 20 members of its staff in what LG characterized as a realignment to improve efficiency.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Investigative Reporting : Longreads Blog
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in specific categories. Here, the best in investigative reporting. Lauren KirchnerSenior Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.
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Microsoft Lumia 950 XL review | The Verge
Can Microsoft win me back? A year ago, I gave up on Windows Phone. Frustrated by a lack of quality apps, poor hardware offerings, and a feeling of missing out, I bought an iPhone like millions of others. I haven’t regretted switching away from Windo…
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Virginia schools shut in Islam calligraphy row – BBC News
A school district in the US state of Virginia has closed all schools on Friday after a geography lesson that included Islam sparked vociferous complaints from around the country.Students were asked to trace Arabic calligraphy in an exercise some par…
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House passes government funding bill, Senate on deck
The House, no doubt with visions of sugar plums and a couple of weeks off dancing in their heads, easily passed the omnibus spending bill Friday morning, 316-133.
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PJ Harvey announces first new album in five years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because it’s never too early to start filling out your most-anticipated lists, here comes the news that guitar goddess PJ Harvey will release a new album in 2016. The as-yet-untitled album will be her first in five years, following 2011’s Let Englan…
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You will have a problem getting John Candy. There’s two additional cast members who won’t be able to reprise their roll, Joan Rivers who was the voice of Dot Matrix and Dick Van Patten who played King Roland.
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Trump Suggests Muslims Should ‘Surveil Their Own People’ | ThinkProgress
An outright total ban on Muslim immigration isn’t enough for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, whose anti-Muslim rhetoric has correlated with an uptick in Islamophobic attacks around the country. Now, Trump also wants Muslim-American…
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Rand Paul: Stop Paul Ryan’s Omnibus Spending Bill : politics
It even expands the surveillance state through incentives for companies to turn over customer information to the NSA and FBI. Too bad this is stated as an afterthought, but at least he said it.
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That seems reasonable. If you think about police and answer the question, “Do they provide a good or a service?”, the answer is service. They are essentially in the customer service business.
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Past time for the Justice Dept to investigate Walker, as well as election fraud in Brownback’s Kansas. Scott Walker thoroughly disgusts me.
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Obama runs wild with Bear Grylls to promote action on climate change | He declined to drink urine but Barack Obama did make tea from glacier water and munch on a bloody salmon previously chewed by a bear in his wilderness bromance with Bear Grylls. …
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Are Americans losing faith in democracy? – Vox
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A lot of Americans are viscerally angry at the political system. They hate Washington, they don’t trust politicians, and they are increasingly willing to vote for populist outsiders—like Donald Trump. -
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P9 AiR Profile: Madeline Gannon on Vimeo
During her residency at Pier 9, Madeline Gannon developed a project called Quipt – a gesture-based control software that gives industrial robots basic spatial behaviors for interacting closely with people. Wearable markers and a motion capture syste…
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Rob Sheffield’s Top 20 Albums of 2015 | Rolling Stone
1. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a ButterflyToo many great albums this year for a mere Top 10 — just cutting it down to my 20 favorites is a challenge.
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Watch Cast of David Bowie Musical ‘Lazarus’ Perform on ‘Colbert’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Cast of David Bowie Musical ‘Lazarus’ Perform on ‘Colbert’ Star Michael C.
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A blow to Bernie Sanders’ campaign: losing access to the DNC’s voter files – Vox
Bernie Sanders’s campaign just suffered a serious blow. Sanders can no longer access the Democratic National Committee’s database of registered voters, after a glitch allowed the campaign to download data from rival Hillary Clinton.
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Nielsen: Facebook Remains The Top App Of 2015, But Messenger Was The Fastest-Growing | TechCrunch
Facebook this year continued to hold the number one position as the top app installed on U.S. smartphones based on the average number of unique users, according to a new report out this week from Nielsen, but its mobile messaging application clocked…
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Why medicine costs so much in America – Vox
America’s soaring drug prices are suddenly getting lots of attention. For that, you can thank Martin Shkreli, the much-loathed CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who recently raised the price of an anti-parasitic drug by 5,500 percent. Overnight, a singl…
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Steven Johnson in conversation with Brian Eno / Boing Boing
Exponential population growth and other unkillable science myths There’s a widespread understanding that the vaccine-autism link and climate denial are bullshit, but there are plenty of widespread science myths that are repeated by people who should…
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Data access suspended for Sanders campaign over Clinton snooping – BBC News
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign has had its access to a critical voter database suspended following a data breach, US media reports say. The campaign has fired a member of staff who had viewed data owned by the Hillary Cli…
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7 Star Wars Gifts For The Jedi Knights In Your Life | TechCrunch
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Find Out How Much Your Original Star Wars Collectibles Are Worth
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s a new Star Wars movie out. If you collect Star Wars toys or memorabilia, you might be surprised at how much they’re worth in light of The Force Awakens.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: let’s try to solve the new trilogy’s biggest mystery – Vox
If you’ve seen Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens (and by now, you probably have), it probably left you with one big question: Just who are the parents of Rey, the new character played by Daisy Ridley?
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Blackberry revival hopes boosted by revenue rise – BBC News
Blackberry has reported revenues of $548m for the three months to November – 12% higher than the previous quarter. It was the struggling smartphone maker’s first quarter-on-quarter increase for more than two years.
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Car crashes are no longer deadlier than gun violence. It’s our fault. – Vox
Cars are no longer deadlier than guns in America. For the first time in modern history, the age-adjusted death rate for both guns and car crashes is identical: 10.3 deaths per 100,000 people. It’s a shocking statistic, but it’s not true for the reas…
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EU renegotiations: Cameron says 2016 will be ‘year of change’ – BBC News
David Cameron has said 2016 will be the year in which the UK “fundamentally changes” its relationship with the EU and this moment is a “step closer” following negotiations with EU leaders. He said getting a deal on his reform demands by February, as…
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World powers meet in New York for Syria talks – Al Jazeera English
Foreign ministers from around the Middle East and Europe are meeting in New York City for talks to bring the Syrian government and armed opposition to the negotiating table.
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Mark Zuckerberg Posts Photo of Baby Max Dressed as a Tiny Jedi | Vanity Fair
Mark Zuckerberg’s journey is nearly complete, from a guy who is a cover star, in charge of a $300 billion company, and the subject of a blockbuster Hollywood movie to a get-ahold-of-yourself millennial dad since his daughter, Max, arrived last month.
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D-Link’s Wi-Fi camera provides a sharp, 180-degree view of your home | Ars Technica
D-Link promises to watch over much more of your home with its new Wi-Fi security camera. While it resembles other cameras like the Nest Cam and the Samsung Smartcam HD Plus in many ways, its 180-degree field of view is unbeatable.
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John Mellencamp Thinks He Drops Too Many F-Bombs | Vanity Fair
What is your idea of perfect happiness? It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My quick temper and the chaos that ensues…
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“Virtual Fossil” –Created of Last Common Ancestor of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals
We know we share a common ancestor with Neanderthals, the extinct species that were our closest prehistoric relatives.
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House OKs year-end budget deal | Al Jazeera America
The House has passed a $1.14 trillion spending bill to fund the government through next September. It’s a peaceful end in the House to a yearlong struggle over the budget, taxes and Republican demands of President Obama.
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Hillary Clinton’s Economic Balancing Act | New Republic
Terrorism has pushed the economy to the margins of the 2016 debate—and off the stage entirely at Tuesday’s Republican debate.
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Here Are All of the Box Office Records The Force Awakens Has Broken So Far | Vanity Fair
At this point it’s not a question of whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens will break box office records, but how many.
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Top-Selling Christmas Gifts Of 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Looking for ideas for what to get family and friends for Christmas this year? Here are the top-selling Christmas gifts in 2015.
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Trump embraces Putin’s killing of journalists: ‘He’s running his country’
So some journalists get killed, meh. If we didn’t already have a sense of what Donald Trump’s America would look like, now we know it would look a lot like Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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San Bernardino Shooter and Friend Planned ‘Rush Hour’ Traffic Attack In 2011 | VICE News
Enrique Marquez, Jr.
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Revel In This Cat’s Confusion As It Tries To Remove A Tiny Santa Hat From Its Own Head – Digg
Until cats get thumbs, at least their confusion, slipperiness, and quick reflexes keep them entertaining.
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Bernie Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton voter data, DNC says | Ars Technica
The Democratic National Committee has cut off the Bernie Sanders campaign’s access to a voter database after allegations that Sanders staff members improperly viewed confidential information gathered by the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
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Lily Flying Camera Closes $14M In Funding, Delays Shipping Until Summer 2016 | TechCrunch
Lily, a drone that is meant to satisfy all your selfie needs, has today announced the close of a $14 million Series A of funding, with investors including Spark Capital, SV Angel, Stanfrod-StartX Fund, Steve Aoki and Joe Montana.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
Our week through the lens: 7-11 December 2015 Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image
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Season’s greetings! | Rosetta – ESA’s comet chaser
Season’s greetings from the Rosetta blog team… and from our cartoon friends at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko And finally… just a reminder that the blog is now taking a short break – we’ll be back on 4 January 2016. Best wishes to all!
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Meet my incredibly photogenic floof, Skye : cats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, A Christmas loaf! via /r/Catloaf…
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What immigration activists want from Hillary Clinton – Vox
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Hillary Clinton was more than half an hour late for her speech to the National Immigrant Integration Conference on Monday. But the mood in the room was neither particularly eager nor particularly impatient — it was expectant. The attendees are used … -
Ten years’ worth of holiday mashups / Boing Boing
DJ BC wrote us with the news that he’s not doing another Santastic Christmas mashup album this year, but: “While we have no NEW collection this year- we do have ten years of holiday mashups and remixes here for your enjoyment and free downloading.
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Buoyed by an aggressive performance in Tuesday’s Republican debate, Jeb Bush is intensifying his strategy of attacking Donald J.
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Glam for iPhone Connects You to On-Demand Hair, Makeup, and Nail Stylists
iOS: If you have a special event coming up and want a professional to do your hair, makeup, or nails, Glam can help. Book a stylist where and when you need them rather than trying to fit into a salon’s busy schedule. The app lets you pick between di…
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2016 Slated To Be Warmest Year Ever – The Daily Beast
Between El Niño and climate change, a new report from the British Met Office is suggesting that 2016 could shape up to be the warmest on record. Barring any unexpected changes, scientists hypothesize global temps will be between 1.29 and 1.
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Historians and the Tightrope of History – The Atlantic
Historians find it hard to be peddlers of hope. A classic New Yorker cartoon shows a bearded historian lament to his psychiatrist: “Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it, but those who do study history are doomed to stand by helple…
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It’s still all Trump, all the time. Now that Donald Trump is at the top of his publicity game, his wild views are making those near him suddenly seem a little more reasonable—even though not that long ago their views would have been considered way …
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India’s deadly exam-rigging scandal: murder, corruption, suicide and scapegoats / Boing Boing
Since 2013, I’ve been reading in the Times of India’s RSS feed about the Vyapam scandal that has shaken the state of Madhya Pradesh to the very highest levels, but I never understood exactly how insane and massive the scandal was until I read Aman S…
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Reciprocal Drug Approval Between the FDA and Europe Surfaces in the Presidential Race – The Atlantic
A couple years ago, James Joyner, a professor at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, shared a story about how his doctor advised him to treat a cataract.
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DNC suspends Sanders campaign’s voter file access after data breach
The Democratic presidential primary is seeing a jolt of unexpected drama, as the Bernie Sanders campaign has temporarily lost its access to the Democratic voter file after a staffer took advantage of a data breach to access the Hillary Clinton campa…
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The UN Security Council Is Trying to Cut Off the Islamic State’s Funding — Again | VICE News
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution aimed at further pinching the financial resources available to the Islamic State (IS), and cajoled governments to stand up to their existing obligations to target terr…
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Taco Belle in a shoebox. : cats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Tofu just hanging out via /r/cats…
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NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image https://t.co/rfLjW5niLL https://t.co/LQcPTiD7Rp
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In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to emulate the celebrated Pecora Commission of the 1930s, which used careful historical analysis to help craft regulations that gave Americ…
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New trailers: Fantastic Beasts, Independence Day: Resurgence, Star Trek Beyond, and more | The Verge
Happy Star Wars week everyone — I hope you’re enjoying it as much as everyone at (spoiler-free link) The Verge has.
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PromoAffiliates Is A Startup That Distributes Promo Codes For Other Startups | TechCrunch
Getting users to sign up for your startup is really hard. That’s why young companies often create promo codes to entice users to recruit friends in return for free cash or credits.
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Star Wars: the 7 best conspiracy theories – Vox
The best Star Wars stories aren’t the ones you’ll find in the movies.
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Judge knocks Uber over latest attempt to bar drivers from class-actions | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, a federal judge admonished Uber over its questionable newly issued labor agreement. He also ruled that the new agreement does not affect members of the certified class of California drivers who are currently suing Uber ove…
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When a school assigned homework on Islam, it drew so many threats the district shut down – Vox
A high school world geography teacher in Augusta County, Virginia, gave her students what seemed like a standard assignment: a worksheet on Islam as part of a curriculum on world religions.
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Red Tape and Installation Prove Biggest Challenge to Solar Today – Scientific American
Second of a two-part series. To see the first part, click here. Solar energy is surging in the United States, but the biggest boost isn’t coming from better hardware.
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Your Spoiler-Filled The Force Awakens Discussion Zone
Not everyone has been able to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet! If you have, however, chances are you desperately want to talk about it with others. So I’m declaring this comment section a Spoiler FILLED Zone—where we can all talk about TFA to o…
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Don’t Write The Death Penalty Off Quite Yet | FiveThirtyEight
In 2015, 28 prisoners have been executed in the U.S., the lowest total since 1991, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group that tracks statistics on the death penalty.
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Plex’s streaming app is now completely free to use on PS4 and Xbox One | The Verge
Plex, the popular media streaming app, is now free on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The app launched on both consoles in preview for paying Plex Pass customers, but now their core functionality is available to everyone at no cost.
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Star Wars lightsaber colors, explained – Vox
What lightsaber color would you choose? This chart shows all of the known colors in the Star Wars universe, along with what we know about the characters who typically use them. Research for this chart comes from the excellent breakdown by EvanNova95…
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Islamic Homework Closes Virginia Schools – The Daily Beast
An entire county’s public schools were shuttered today in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley region after a homework assignment, which had students write “”There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah” in Arabic, drew a national backla…
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Significant Digits for Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Most U.S. state prison systems don’t arm the guards with shotguns, but Nevada does. As a result, lots of people get shot with shotguns in Nevada prisons.
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A Vanishing History: Gullah Geechee Nation (Trailer) | VICE News
On the Sea Islands along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, a painful chapter of American history is playing out again.
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Mansplaining Lolita / Boing Boing
Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant, scathing critique of Esquire’s “The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read” (a list with 79 male authors in it) earned her a mailbag full of mansplaining letters in which dudes explained to an eminent, brilliant author how t…
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Sailfish OS Lives To Fight Android Another Day As Jolla Secures Series C Funding | TechCrunch
Finnish mobile OS maker Jolla, whose Sailfish platform is one of the few remaining alternatives trying to fight the Android-iOS duopoly, has pulled out of its latest financing death valley by closing a delayed Series C financing round.
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My 18-Hour ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Movie Theatre Marathon Experience | Motherboard
At 3:30 on Thursday morning, the theatre was already abuzz with Jedi and stormtroopers, bounty hunters and droids, and plenty of ordinary humans. Rebels or Imperials? Corellians or Naboo? It was difficult to tell. But nerds? Definitely that last one.
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It’s Nearly 2016. Why Aren’t Banking Apps More Secure? | Motherboard
Banking apps handle some of the most sensitive data on our smartphones. And yet, they’re not as secure as you might think, or as they should be.
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Will Smith declares that if Republican presidential candidates keep ‘talking about walls and Muslims’, namely Donald Trump, he’ll be ‘forced to enter the political arena’.
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Here’s How You Can Avoid Star Wars Spoilers Online | Motherboard
A little film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened last night, and it’s already on track to smash worldwide box office records. And that’s great—except for the fact that you now have to spend the entire day trying to avoid spoilers online.
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No, There Has Not Been a Mass Shooting Every Day This Year: This inflated stat all over the media isn’t just misleading—it’s stirring undue fear. (motherjones.com) If you want to truly change the data set that’s fine.
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Pat Buchanan: “If we do not want Syria in 2016 to become what Sarajevo became in 1914, the powder keg that explodes into a world war, the War Party Republicans, who have learned nothing from the past, should be relegated to the past.” (original.anti…
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“A Boca Raton father and son have filed a lawsuit claiming the Palm Beach County school board isn’t teaching the theory of evolution.” (wpbf.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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The North Carolina town that’s scared of solar panels, revisited – Vox
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NASA Releases New High-Res Earthrise Image | NASA
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Raspberries make grape beards : pics
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Shady dealings on the balcony. : aww
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Obama just released the biggest energy efficiency rule in U.S. history – translate into $ 167 billion in saved costs for businesses over the life of the standard, as well as 885 million tons fewer carbon dioxide emissions. (That’s just shy of a giga…
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The case for why casual hook-ups are great for women – Quartz
As fall turns to winter, the temptation to find a certain someone to cozy up with during the frosty months gets ever stronger. Yes, friends: cuffing season is officially upon us, the time of year when Tinder goes into hibernation mode and singles tu…
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Beijing grinds to halt as second ever ‘red alert’ issued over severe smog | Four days of heavy pollution in China’s capital means restrictions on vehicle use, school closures and bans on fireworks and outdoor barbecues (theguardian.com)submitted 31 …
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Dutch court: Shell can be liable for Nigeria spills – Al Jazeera English
Four Nigerian farmers will have the chance to sue Shell, the multinational oil and gas company, in the Netherlands for pollution they blame on leaking pipelines, a Dutch appeals court has ruled.
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Mixed offering of snow for skiers this season – Al Jazeera English
The northern hemisphere is sitting beneath a weather pattern that shows a great reluctance to change. The result is that similar weather occurs perpetually in the same place. For operators of winter resorts, this is either very good or very bad news.
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US Defense Chief in Afghanistan Reviews Security | Al Jazeera America
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is in Afghanistan to assess the fragile security situation, amid reports of increased violence and a growing campaign by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) loyalists to gain a foothold in the eastern part of the…
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Defying prejudice, more Americans learn Arabic – Al Jazeera English
New York, United States – Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric tells one story about the modern day US. But, students painstakingly learning Arabic’s right-to-left script in classrooms across the country tells anot…
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Give the Gift of littleBits DIY Electronics Kits, On Sale Today Only
It goes without saying that any of these would make a terrific gift, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to buy one for myself. There are several sets available, so go check out the full collection before they start selling out.
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Yemen forces capture ground as fragile talks continue – BBC News
Yemeni government forces have captured a rebel-held town in the north of the country, as fighting threatened to derail peace talks and a ceasefire. Hundreds of troops crossed into Yemen from Saudi Arabia, taking control of Hazm, capital of Jawf prov…
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Kindergarten Has Become the New First Grade – The Atlantic
Step into an American preschool classroom today and you are likely to be bombarded with what we educators call a print-rich environment, every surface festooned with alphabet charts, bar graphs, word walls, instructional posters, classroom rules, ca…
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Live: Tim Peake news briefing from International Space Station – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake is giving a news briefing from space, after becoming the first Briton to serve on the International Space Station. The former army pilot and his two Soyuz crewmates arrived at the space platform on Tuesday, following a six-hou…
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New York Times botched terrorism story that became centerpiece of Republican debate
One of the recurring themes in the all-ISIS all-fear CNN/Republican “debate” on Tuesday was the premise that the San Bernardino terrorists, who we care about—as opposed to the Colorado Springs or Charleston terrorists, who we do not—were openly post…
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Back in the early days of MTV, original VJ Martha Quinn hosted the series Basement Tapes. Quinn would tour the homes (and basements) of musicians such as Frank Zappa and Rainbow’s Joe Lynn Turner while featuring music videos from unsigned bands comp…
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This Brian Eno-Stephen Stills mashup will flush your mind down the toilet|Dangerous Minds
Adam Payne, the prodigiously talented solo artist, leader of Residual Echoes and proprietor of Pacific Coast Editions, has discovered a shocking fact no one else dared suspect: “St.
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James Brown has a ‘Ski Party’ with Frankie and Annette|Dangerous Minds
Two years into Frankie and Annette’s Beach Party series, emboldened by the five installments behind them, American International Pictures tried a variation on the movies’ profitable formula: Ski Party.
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The Three Basic Questions to Ask When Tuning Up Your Investment Portfolio
We’re all for “set and forget” investment portfolios, but keep in mind: that’s not literal. You shouldn’t completely forget about your investment accounts, because every now and then, they need a tune-up. Here are the three questions you should ask …
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The Best Star Wars: The Force Awakens Celebrity Cameo, Revealed | Vanity Fair
Spoilers ahead for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There are some star cameos you’ll know immediately in the new Star Wars movie—J.J.
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See the Royal Family Christmas Card, Featuring William, Kate, George, and Charlotte | Vanity Fair
If you were planning on sending out a Christmas card this weekend, you might as well just forget it.
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Jezebel Did Elizabeth Hurley Just Post the Best Holiday Card of All Time? | Gizmodo There’s a Mystery Lurking in Curiosity’s Latest Drillholes | Gawker Virginia School District Cancels Classes After Teacher Gives Students Arabic Calligraphy Assignme…
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Climate talks chef Marc Veyrat fined for razing forest – BBC News
A French chief hired to work at the Paris climate change talks has been fined for razing 7,000 sq metres (75,000 sq feet) of protected forest near his restaurant.Marc Veyrat illegally destroyed the trees near the La Maison des Bois (House of the Tre…
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Tim Peake: Itinerary for a stay in space – BBC News
So “Major Tim” has successfully made it into space. What’s on his itinerary for the next six months? Life on board the International Space Station (ISS) runs to a strict schedule, with crew members given a rigorous timetable by their respective miss…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the New York City Subway | Motherboard
The New York City subway is sprawling system, with more than 5 million people per day (and sometimes many more, on special occasions) passing through more than 460 stations.
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4 charts that will change how you think about Syrian refugees – Vox
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One question comes up again and again in the debate over Syrian refugees: Why do they have to come here? Why don’t they just stay in the Middle East? A new report on poverty among Syrian refugees, released on Wednesday to little fanfare, provides a … -
If a presidential debate is held and nobody watches, does it really happen?
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Pope Francis just recognized Mother Teresa’s second miracle. Now she will become a saint. – Vox
Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun famous for her work among the poor in Calcutta, India, is going to be made a saint, the Vatican has announced. The Vatican must recognize two miracles in order to canonize a saint, and Mother Teresa was put on a fast …
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Hacker group Phantom Squad takes down Xbox Live in DDoS attack | Ars Technica UK
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. While the service is now currently back up, some users experien…
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You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline | WIRED
This article will not restore your faith in humanity. Nor will it amaze, stun, delight, shock, charm, or in any literal or figurative way, blow your mind. What it will do—hopefully in a clear and intelligent way—is explain why people continually fal…
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Molly Crabapple Talks to Stephanie Sy | Al Jazeera America
Stephanie Sy: You write in your memoir, “To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.” So art was an outlet for you, not just a form of expression growing up? Molly Crabapple: Oh, God. I mean, art saved my life. To me, art was my addiction.
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A New Doctor Who Picture Teases the Ultimate Answer to a Years-Long Mystery
Simon Pegg promises that Star Trek Beyond has more “Star Trek stuff” than the trailer lets on. Do Civil War toys tease a big reveal in store for Ant-Man? Plus, new looks at The Jungle Book and Lucifer, Power Rangers gets a new release date, and Drew…
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Jezebel Did Elizabeth Hurley Just Post the Best Holiday Card of All Time? | Gizmodo There’s a Mystery Lurking in Curiosity’s Latest Drillholes | Gawker Virginia School District Cancels Classes After Teacher Gives Students Arabic Calligraphy Assignme…
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The Saturday Night Democratic Presidential Debate
Eighteen million Americans watched as Republican presidential candidates savaged Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton incessantly in their “Fear and Loathing” debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Now Democrats will have their turn on Saturday night in New Ha…
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The case against sleeping in on weekends – Vox
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Every week, you’re giving yourself jet lag. When you switch from an 11 pm to 6 am sleep schedule on the weekdays to a 2 am to 9 am sleep schedule on the weekends, you are effectively moving over three time zones. Mondays are awful because they are M… -
Trump Brushes Off Concerns Putin Kills Journalists: ‘At Least He’s A Real Leader’ | ThinkProgress
Friday morning on MSNBC, Trump returned the favor. Trump responded by defending Putin. “He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader. Unlike what he have in this country.”
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Putting Scientific Peer Review In the Courtroom – Scientific American
Courts in the United States process huge quantities of scientific information. Every day, they must determine the validity of expertise ranging from acoustics to zoology, in matters ranging from civil slip-and-fall cases to criminal prosecutions tha…
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This is probably the world’s largest billboard created with MS Paint | Ars Technica
It ain’t easy to stand out nowadays, especially if you’re a small company: you either have to do something crazy enough that the media notices you, or market something so wonderfully novel that the media has to write about you.
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Netflix DIY smart socks can stop your binge-watching when you fall asleep | Ars Technica
What do you get if you combine an Arduino, knitting, a fair amount of DIY chutzpah, and a genetic and/or epigenetic predisposition towards falling asleep while watching TV? Netflix socks, of course.
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: ‘O Holy Night’ Is a Physical Call to Prayer – 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. Knee metaphors are for hu…
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Facebook Tests “Click For More” To Boost Video Views On Desktop | TechCrunch
Facebook now gets around 8 billion video views on its platform each day, and the social network has made no secret of its plans to make it an even bigger part of the experience in the future. Now Facebook is testing a new “click for more” feature fo…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens — watch our staff’s first reactions | The Verge
It’s official: we are living in a post-The Force Awakens world. As dutiful consumers of pop culture, many of the Verge staff were right there on the front lines last night, at Thursday night preview screenings across the country. And as fans, we had…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows the joys — and limits — of fulfilled nostalgia | The Verge
It sure feels like Star Wars. But is that enough? Note: This piece discusses plot points and bits of fan-candy in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There are no major spoilers, but the completely detail-averse should start with our spoiler-free review a…
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Tiger Eyes, Crocodile Penis: It’s What’s For Dinner in Malaysia
Tiger eyes. Crocodile penis (yes, really). Pangolin meat. Enter a restaurant in Malaysia, and you might see all of them on the menu. The country has long been regarded as a strategic transit point for smuggling wildlife parts and products to other A…
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Comedy wildlife photography is the best wildlife photography | The Verge
A lot of wildlife photography competitions focus on animals looking majestic or human or weird. But not many pay credit to them looking funny. Enter, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, which is all about animals looking, well, comedic.
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GSK pays $1.4bn for next generation of HIV treatments – BBC News
GlaxoSmithKline has ended a frenetic week for the pharmaceutical sector with a $1.4bn (£939m) takeover of HIV drug development assets from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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Pope Francis Paves the Way for Sainthood for Mother Teresa – The Atlantic
Pope Francis has authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to recognize a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, the Vatican announced Friday, paving the way for her sainthood.
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Following months of Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood, one GOP congressman is speaking out against his party’s push to defund the women’s health organization. “Do you really want women not to have access to health care?” Rep.
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Ukraine halts $3bn Russia debt repayment – BBC News
Ukraine will not repay a $3bn debt owed to Russia by this weekend, claiming Russia has refused to accept repayment terms already offered to other international creditors. The moratorium means that Ukraine is likely to default on the debt, which is d…
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BBC – Future – This is why lunar colonies will need to live underground
For decades the thought of colonising the Moon has tantalised scientists and visionaries alike. Various colonies have graced our screens, from the sprawling Moonbase Alpha in Space: 1999 to the compact mining colony in Moon. A lunar colony is arguab…
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Burundi crisis: African Union plans to deploy peacekeepers – BBC News
The African Union has announced a plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi, even without the government’s consent. The proposal was approved by the AU’s Peace and Security Council but will need to be approved by the UN.
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Judges in The Hague ordered Shell to make available to the court documents that might shed light on the cause of the oil spills and whether leading managers were aware of them.
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Xbox Live pummeled by DDoS attack; hacker group claims responsibility | Ars Technica
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. While the service is now currently back up, some users experien…
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With Project Loon and Internet.org Companies like Google and Facebook are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each to ensure that everyone on the planet has access to the internet, but with a modest $4.
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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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Cancer is political – as the argument about its causes shows | John Vidal | Opinion | The Guardian
In 1925, the surgeon Frederick Pybus compared the lungs of people who had been living in smoke-polluted Newcastle with those of people from the Northumbrian countryside. One set was clean and pink; the other black and cancerous – no prizes for guess…
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Manhunt for Missing Texas Affluenza Teen | Al Jazeera America
The 18-year-old, named by Tarrant County officials as Ethan Couch and placed on the county’s most wanted list, missed his mandatory meeting with his probation officer, prompting a warrant for his apprehension on Dec. 11.
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Syria Talks Falter Before They Begin | Al Jazeera America
A high-level diplomatic push aimed at kick-starting the process for a negotiated end to Syria’s brutal civil war faltered as it was due to begin in New York on Friday, with key players split over major issues and members of the U.N.
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The Bhopal boy set to prove David Cameron wrong on carbon capture | Environment | The Guardian
“I have seen first hand what can happen if pollution is not controlled,” says Aniruddha Sharma. The Indian entrepreneur was born in Bhopal, where his parents’ wedding took place three days before the catastrophic chemical leak in 1984 that killed th…
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Is it fair to punish prisoners by downgrading their food? – BBC News
New York prisons are to stop punishing inmates with a type of food known as “nutraloaf” or “the loaf”, in a change to the state’s solitary confinement policy. But what’s in a loaf, and is it ever fair to punish prisoners by downgrading their food? N…
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Global refugees and displaced to hit record, UN says – BBC News
The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide will “far surpass” a record 60 million this year, the UN says. The report by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said “one in every 122 humans is today someone who has been forced to flee their…
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Syria war: Powers meet to push ceasefire plan – BBC News
World powers are meeting in New York to try to move forward a tentative plan to bring about a ceasefire in Syria. Countries on both sides of the conflict are seeking to narrow considerable gaps which stand in the way of progress.
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Marco Rubio’s rise may be a little too House of Cards for his colleagues – Vox
Marco Rubio’s rise may be a little too House of Cards for his colleagues https://t.co/5BD3JULSS7 https://t.co/Gsnx7OUHyK
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BBC – Earth – When a volcanic apocalypse nearly killed life on Earth
If there is ever a competition for best-named geological phenomenon, the Great Dying is surely a contender. Over a relatively short period of time some 70% of vertebrates living on land and around 90% of ocean species were killed off.
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Rubio, Cruz immigration feud was months in the making – POLITICO
In one 24-hour news cycle Marco Rubio’s campaign had managed to put Ted Cruz on the defensive over the issue most expected would Rubio’s Achilles heel. | Getty
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Review—Star Wars: The Force Awakens / Boing Boing
As a huge Star Wars fan (previously), I went in expecting to love The Force Awakens, and was not disappointed. But I think you are going to love it, too, because this film is pretty much the opposite of the reviled prequel trilogy. No painful dialog…
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Wait Until You’ve Done Something to Post It Publicly For Better Motivation
Talking about your goals publicly can be a good way to motivate yourself to do better. However, you may want to wait until you’ve taken the first step before making an announcement to really take advantage of the effect. As business blog Inc.
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Q: Thank you, senator, for sitting down with the Guardian here in New Hampshire. Your schedule is pretty gruelling – I can testify having followed you around for the last week in Iowa and Baltimore. One of the things that struck me was the energy in…
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Bernie Sanders is waging war on millionaires and billionaires, one gymnasium at a time. Deep into his fourth campaign stop of the day, the would-be Democratic presidential candidate is seducing another packed sports hall in Iowa with talk of a new A…
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Sanders: Clinton’s pursuit of ‘regime change’ in Libya helped rise of Isis | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders has accused Hillary Clinton of encouraging Islamic extremism in Libya, in a prelude to a Democratic debate on Saturday during which he is expected to go on the attack for the first time over the unintended consequences of the former s…
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In an exclusive interview with the Guardian’s Dan Roberts, the Democratic presidential candidate says he supports Muslim troops on the ground to fight the war on terror and attacks Hillary Clinton on her role in Libya, all while hammering away at th…
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First chance to see Tim live | Tim Peake’s Principia blog
Tomorrow Tim Peake will hold his first press conference from space from 14:15 to 14:35 GMT on 18 December 2015. Attending journalists at Tim’s homebase, the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, will ask the questions.
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Just 15 days after Robert Dear killed three people and injured many more at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, pro-life activists came back to protest the clinic, which is still closed.
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The lights are still dark at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood where on 27 November a shooter killed three people inside the clinic and wounded nine. But the protesters are already trickling back.
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The Big Bang Theory is at its best and worst in a milestone episode for Sheldon – Vox
The Big Bang Theory is at its best and worst in a milestone episode for Sheldon https://t.co/1E0BZqOIXf https://t.co/D9TLfU5dNm
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: ‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’ Is Festive Insult Comedy – 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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Readers Respond to “100 Years of General Relativity” – Scientific American
Celebrating Einstein The opportunities for groundbreaking new discoveries as profound as those of Albert Einstein, whose achievements were documented in your September issue, have diminished.
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Offshore Drilling Heats Up As Candidates Approach South Carolina | ThinkProgress
If all politics are local, as the saying goes, then offshore drilling is poised to put presidential candidates in the hot seat come January, when the primaries reach South Carolina.
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Dorothy Martin, the Christmas Eve Alien Prophecy, and the Psychology of Belief – The Atlantic
At six o’clock on Christmas Eve, 1954, a small group of people gathered on the street outside Dorothy Martin’s home in Oak Park, Illinois, singing Christmas carols and waiting. But this was no symbolic vigil; they weren’t waiting for the birth of ba…
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Damaged Virginia Spaceport Launchpad Repaired for Private Rocket Launches
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. ─ It’s taken a year of repairs, but a commercial launchpad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore is once again ready for private rocket launches bound for the International Space Station.
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Ring in the New Season; December Solstice Happens Next Week
The December solstice signals the beginning of winter for the Northern Hemisphere. This image was taken near Stockholm, Sweden, by astrophotographer P-M Hedén of in December 2012.Credit: P-M Heden/clearskies.
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At Pepperdine University, a private college in California affiliated with the Churches of Christ, two students are suing over discrimination.
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‘The Force Awakens’ in Space: Astronauts to Watch Star Wars on Station
As it turns out, the allure of “the Force” can out-pull even the force of gravity. The cultural impact of Star Wars, including episode 7, “The Force Awakens,” premiering in theaters on Friday (Dec. 18), has escaped the Earth and extended all the way…
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7 Scientific Breakthroughs This Year That Prove We’re Already Living In The Future | ThinkProgress
The 2016 spending bill is a welcome reversal for United States science after a decade of cuts, boosting the budgets of U.S. science agencies across the board. But the good news comes after years of fighting over funding that put the future of U.S. i…
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On the plus side maybe we can stop seeing low level staffer everywhere. Finally we can correctly report that it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz who illegally forced an unpaid intern janitor to access this data.
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Why We Still Love ‘Star Wars’ After All These Years
Nearly 40 years after the first “Star Wars” film debuted, the iconic sci-fi movies remain as popular as ever, capturing the imaginations of multiple generations and gaining new fans as the next movie in the franchise, “The Force Awakens,” premieres …
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Democratic debate 2015: Start time, schedule, and what to expect – Vox
Democratic debate 2015: Start time, schedule, and what to expect https://t.co/OCgXFMppJ9 https://t.co/dTvFaHKBCs
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Schedule Like You’re in High School to Be Better Organized
Ah, for the care free days of youth, right? When your every class was planned ahead of time, you coordinated every after school activity, and everything you did had a due date. Wait, that sounds super organized. Maybe adults should try that.
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Made: Lisa Aronzon Hand Blown Glass
By James Tarmy | Dec. 17, 2015 Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and craftsmen behind them.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama, seeking to counter pressure for a military escalation in response to terrorist attacks, told a group of news columnists this week that sending significant ground forces back to the Middle East could co
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Lightsabres for real
Lightsabres for real https://t.co/IqcISI2fH1 https://t.co/WQ4cIeGv6d
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The Democratic National Committee has accused Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign of improperly accessing his rival Hillary Clinton’s private campaign data, and, in response, has suspended the Sanders campaign’s access to the list of like…
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After slamming his fists into the wall until his knuckles dripped with blood, the raging teenage boy turned to a staff member and shoved him.
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Poll: Who’s NOT seeing the Star Wars? | The Verge
Last night my Instagram and Twitter feeds exploded with images of ticket stubs for The Force Awakens. Granted, I follow a lot of geeky people, many of whom were lined up for the midnight US box-office openings. But I didn’t expect the appeal to be s…
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The Bernie Sanders Campaign Has Been Punished After Software Glitch | VICE News
The presidential campaign team for Bernie Sanders has been banned from accessing the Democratic National Committee’s voter database after staff took advantage of a software glitch to access Hillary Clinton’s confidential voter information.
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Why we need to talk about sex in teen novels | Children’s books | The Guardian
Let’s talk about sex in novels! The usual responses follow these paths (in order of frequency): Pornography: “Oh, porn. Right! Don’t read it myself but I defend other people’s rights to…”
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It is no longer possible to think of “the Republican Party” as a coherent political force. It is nothing of the sort — and the Donald Trump insurgency should be seen as a symptom, not the cause, of the party’s disintegration.
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Iko Uwais and the Indonesian heroes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens – BBC News
As a film actor, there might be a few signs that you have made it into the big time. Your name in lights, perhaps. Your first award, maybe.
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Donald Trump ‘honoured’ by Vladimir Putin’s compliments – BBC News
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said it is a “great honour” to receive a compliment from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The property tycoon hailed Mr Putin as a man “highly respected within his own country and beyond”.
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An Instagram Photo Tour of America’s Wind Power | Motherboard
In recent years, wind turbines have been springing up across the United States with increasing rapidity. Alongside solar, wind is the fastest-growing energy source in the country.
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Researchers Who Uncovered VW Dieselgate Are Now Accusing Mercedes and BMW – The companies deny the allegations. (motherboard.vice.com)
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In September 2000, Oscar Del Toro of Monterrey, Mexico, arrived with his wife and three children at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to start a new life in the United States. Del Toro, then 38, had spent his whole life in Mexico.
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Hideo Kojima’s Mission Unlocked – The New Yorker
It has been a difficult year for Hideo Kojima. Although Metal Gear Solid V, the project that the video-game director worked on for more than five years, launched in September to enviable sales and widespread acclaim, its creation was not without com…
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Dispatches from the console wars: Xbox One vs. PS4, two years later | Ars Technica
Back in late 2013 when both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were brand new to the gaming scene, we recommended taking a wait-and-see attitude before diving into the new generation of console hardware.
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Star Wars: Linguists Explain the Way Yoda Speaks – The Atlantic
When Luke Skywalker first encounters Yoda, it’s on a swampy planet in The Empire Strikes Back. At first, Luke doesn’t realize the long-eared, wrinkly green creature is, in fact, the one he’s seeking. There’s a narrative effect to the way Yoda speaks.
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Tim Peake: ‘Loving every minute’ of first days in space – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake has begun his life in space with tea and a bacon sandwich. He arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket.
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How Your Sunscreen Is Destroying the Great Barrier Reef – Recent studies show that it actually deforms and bleaches coral. (vice.com)
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The Weeds: Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters – Vox
The Weeds: Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters https://t.co/0RQCejzkik https://t.co/nG5mEArJPc
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Single moms often forgotten in San Francisco’s homeless crisis | Society | The Guardian
They sleep on couches, in cars, and on the floors of churches. Every day hundreds of single moms and their children struggle to find shelter for the night and survive in San Francisco, which has one of the most expensive housing markets in the US. “…
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Learn How to Build a VR-Ready PC With This Guide
Building your own PC gaming rig is pretty awesome. if you’re interested in upcoming VR headsets like the Oculus Rift, you might need something more powerful. Here’s what you’ll need to consider.
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The demise of UK deep coal mining: decades of decline | Business | The Guardian
As Kellingley, the last deep mine colliery in Britain, closes, we chart the decline of the industry from 1960
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Genomics Can Improve Health Care–Right Now – Scientific American
A tale of three sisters offers a glimpse into how, with the right systems in place, genomics research can already be applied to alleviate human suffering.
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Iran has called on the US and Britain to “join hands” with Tehran in a common effort to defeat Islamic State and end the war in Syria.
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Katie Hopkins’ TV chatshow axed | Media | The Guardian
Donald Trump may have said that politicians should watch her, but Katie Hopkins’ chatshow hasn’t proved a hit with viewers and has been axed. If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World has not been commissioned for a second series on Discovery’s female-focuse…
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Elon Musk: Not Paying Carbon Taxes Is Like Not Paying for Garbage Collection – The SpaceX CEO gave a talk in San Francisco reflecting on climate change and the Paris Climate Conference. (motherboard.vice.com) He’s right.
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San Diego adopts an ambitious, and legally binding, plan to cut emissions : environment
San Diego adopts an ambitious, and legally binding, plan to cut emissions (latimes.com)submitted 29 minutes ago by loading…
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Mast Brothers: controversial world’s ‘best’ chocolate faces swirl of scandal | US news | The Guardian The aroma drifting past the murals, designer lofts and chichi boutiques of Williamsburg was alluring and intriguing. Cocoa. Notes of vanilla and maple blended into one of the world’s sexiest smells: expensive chocolate. tags:…
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