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Turkey Is Betting on Aleppo Rebels to Get Islamic State Out of Border Area | VICE News
After the Islamic State’s November attack on Paris, carried out by European fighters returning from the Syrian battlefield, international efforts to close the terrorist group’s last route to and from Turkey have taken on a new urgency.
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Alto Mail Is AOL’s Modern Take On Email On Your Phone | TechCrunch
Meet Alto Mail, a new mobile app to manage your emails on iOS and Android. The app was created by AOL (TechCrunch’s parent company) but supports Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud and AOL Mail. While it shares many features with Google’s Inbox app, it do…
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It’s not every day you hear about a group of teenagers taking on a government department in the name of climate change, but that’s exactly what happened in Washington State. What’s more, the teens won.
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Nations urged to improve climate pledges by April 2017 | Environment | The Guardian
In a new global warming pact, countries set out milestones over the next five years in a bid to bridge the gap between national targets and what science recommends. Climate offers from 187 out of 195 countries fail to cap warming to the upper limit …
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A cardiologist who ordered patients to undergo unnecessary open heart surgery and performed risky tests and procedures in order to reap fraudulent payments from Medicare and private insurers has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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Barack Obama’s hike with Bear Grylls hits 8pm ratings high for Channel 4 | Media | The Guardian
Barack Obama’s trip into the wild with adventurer Bear Grylls delivered Channel 4 its highest-rating 8pm show in the past three years. Bear Goes Wild with Barack Obama – in reality a rather tame walk and chat about climate change followed by a snack…
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‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’: Judy Garland’s Ode to Seasonal Melancholy – 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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Scarpia by Piers Paul Read review – an Italian tour from an old master | Books | The Guardian
Piers Paul Read spent a long time as one of British fiction’s rising stars; but this perpetually promising youngster is now in his mid-70s and has been publishing novels for nearly half a century.
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Java plug-in malware alert to be issued by Oracle – BBC News
Millions of Java users are to be warned that they could be exposed to malware as a result of a flaw that existed in the software’s update tool. The plug-in is installed on many PCs to let them to run small programs written in the Java programming la…
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Drowning is Inevitable by Shalanda Stanley – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
She was the ghost I was always looking for. Now now, before I go any further, I understand that it is morally reprehensible (for a literature lover) to judge a book by its cover, but come on – everybody does it. My own little flaw.
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President Obama has a theory about why people support Donald Trump. But he’s wrong. – Vox
Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders have a lot of disagreements, but there’s one question on which they seem fundamentally united — they say people are telling pollsters they like Donald Trump because they are experiencing underlying anxiety about their…
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The best thing about the SpaceX rocket landing was the human reaction | The Verge
Last night, SpaceX sent a rocket out into space and then landed it back down on Earth, upright and proud, as if it was no big deal.
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Donald Trump and Ben Carson Would Be Historically Inexperienced Presidents | New Republic
Throughout U.S. history, even amid wars and recessions, American voters have never elected a president without government or military experience. Most previous presidents have been elected officials: governors, senators, congressmen, vice presidents…
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Gun Culture’s Dazzling, Dangerous Firework Display | New Republic
In November 2013, two days before Thanksgiving, something exploded in the adjoining backyards of two homes in rural Flippin, Arkansas and an eight-year-old girl named Debra Rackley was rushed to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock by hel…
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Why Flying Home for the Holidays Might Be Greener Than Driving | New Republic
In July, British tabloid the Daily Mail came out with a screaming headline: “EXCLUSIVE: Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push.
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European Credit Card Terminals Are Plagued with Serious Vulnerabilities | Motherboard
As the United States prepares to move to a chip-and-pin model for credit card transactions, Europe has been happily using the generally more secure method of in-person transactions for years. But it was only a matter of time before some really serio…
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Why Is Japan So Obsessed With Moss? | New Republic
It’s the latest craze in a country known for its eccentric tastes and quirky obsessions. The Japanese have gone gaga for…moss? In 2011, Hisako Fujii published a book titled Mosses, My Dear Friends.
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World athletics’ ex-marketing consultant Papa Massata Diack “totally rejects” accusations he had any role in alleged extortion and bribery.
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Polish professor jailed for plot to bomb parliament building – BBC News
A Polish university lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for plotting to ram a car packed with explosives into parliament.Brunon Kwiecien, 48, was convicted of planning a terrorist attack, illegal weapons possession and inciting two stude…
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Regions affected by Storm Desmond prepare for more floods | UK news | The Guardian
Flood waters could return to areas of Britain which have already been devastated by Storm Desmond. The Environment Agency had 17 flood warnings in place on Tuesday morning, two in the north-east, 12 in the north-west and three in Wales.
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Iraq Forces ‘Advance Into Center of Ramadi’ | Al Jazeera America
Iraqi security forces were said to have advanced Tuesday into the center of Ramadi, a strategically important city that has been under ISIL control since May. The fresh push was launched overnight and is aimed at fully recapturing Ramadi, the capita…
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This weekend, Quentin Tarantino’s Western The Hateful Eight will square off against Disney’s space opera Star Wars: The Force Awakens. For its star Kurt Russell, the showdown has added significance.
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US man accused of Kung Fu Panda fraud – BBC News
A Massachusetts man has been accused of fraud and perjury by prosecutors for allegedly back-dating drawings that he used as evidence to sue DreamWorks.Jayme Gordon, 51, took out a lawsuit in 2011 against the company behind the Kung Fu Panda films, c…
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Britain Sends Troops to Helmand as the Taliban Closes In | VICE News
Britain said on Tuesday it had sent military personnel to the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand following reports that the district capital Sangin was on the verge of falling to Taliban forces.
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Abbot Point coal terminal expansion given approval – green given light for dredging and disposal of spoil to create one of the world’s largest coal ports near Great Barrier Reef (theguardian.com)submitted 57 minutes ago by loading…
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One million ‘refugees and migrants’ reached EU in 2015 – Al Jazeera English
The number of “refugees and migrants” arriving by land and sea to the European Union passed the one million mark this year, according to the UN refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration.
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Why don’t we care about anti-Muslim abuse? – Al Jazeera English
The figures keep going up, but still the reaction to them seems to stay the same. With each heinous jihadi terror attack in a Western city, there’s a concurrent increase in attacks on Muslims living in Western cities, too.
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King Curtis’s Robust Saxophone Singles | Mother Jones
The great saxophonist Curtis Ousley was an essential part of classic recordings by everyone from The Coasters and Buddy Holly to Aretha Franklin and John Lennon, but he also made some cool instrumental records for himself.
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That Time When Donald Trump Said Jeb Bush Would Make a Great President | Mother Jones
In recent days, it seems nothing makes Donald Trump happier than assailing Jeb Bush.
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Scott Walker Corruption Case Threatens to Implicate Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices | Mother Jones
It’s the campaign scandal that just won’t die. For three years, prosecutors in Wisconsin tried to investigate what they believed was illegal campaign coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and conservative outside groups.
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The Enduring Musical Romance of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams | Mother Jones
The debut of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams as a musical duo was decades in the making. Husband and wife, they have long pursued largely independent creative careers that havw taken them around the globe many times.
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How 19 Big-Name Corporations Plan to Make Money Off the Climate Crisis | Mother Jones
Climate change will have some pretty terrifying consequences. Experts have predicted everything from deadly heat waves and devastating floods to falling crop production and even increased political instability and violence.
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How To Piece Together an Album From 10,000 Different Samples | Motherboard
Copenhagen-based DJ and production duo Den Sorte Skole is out with a new record, Indians & Cowboys, that fuses together a staggering 10,000 samples mined from 400 records across 75 countries around the world.
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Some students at Oberlin College are taking their demands for diversity and racial inclusion to the dining hall, asking for more traditional meals and criticizing what they consider poor efforts at multicultural cooking.
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Teachers Are About to Get the Data They Need to Educate Your Kids, Experts Say | Mother Jones
When President Barack Obama signed the new Every Student Succeeds Act earlier this month, many school leaders, education advocates, and policy makers of all stripes rejoiced.
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Religious Right Leaders Endorse Ted Cruz – The Atlantic
In August 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stood before a crowd of 15,000 evangelicals in Dallas, Texas, and declared: “I know you can’t endorse me. But…I want you to know that I endorse you.
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Barack Obama Stays on Message – The Atlantic
For a guy who rose to the presidency in large part by relying on his abilities as a communicator, Barack Obama seems to have little regard for messaging.
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December 22, 2010: President Obama Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ | The Nation
The demise, under President Obama’s leadership, of the pernicious “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that excluded gays and lesbians from serving in the US military should not obscure how much time was lost and how much damage done in the seventeen year…
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No Child Left Behind Worked | FiveThirtyEight
In December 2003, parents in Beverly, Massachusetts, got a rude shock. A small, affluent city about half an hour north of Boston, Beverly was widely regarded as having one of the strongest urban school districts in the region.
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San Francisco politician’s iPhone snatched away, but he negotiates for it back | Ars Technica
Turns out, if your phone gets stolen, you might be able to negotiate with your mugger. At least that’s a strategy that worked for San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener last Friday night as dusk was falling around 5:30 pm. The local politician told A…
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China landslide: Aerial footage shows rescue efforts in Shenzhen – BBC News
Dozens of diggers are continuing to search for people trapped after the Shenzhen landslide in China. Authorities have blamed an enormous, man-made mountain of soil and waste for the collapse of over 30 buildings in the industrial park.
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How to retrofit your old house with licorice and chocolate bars | Grist
If you buy an old house, is there any way to make it more sustainable? What if that house happens to made out of baked goods?
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Globally influential climate activist Yeb Saño has just returned home to the Philippines disappointed, having recently trekked 1,500km from Rome to Paris only to see the COP21 climate change summit reach a spectacularly bad result last weekend, he s…
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Which books cheer you up? | Books | The Guardian
It happens once a year, but the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year – got us thinking about books that we resort to when feeling slightly gloomy with the weather.
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Andrea Levy’s Jamaica has vivid colours, but many shades of grey | Books | The Guardian
Early on in The Long Song, the narrator promises that this will not be a book that dwells on the Caribbean landscape. She says she has “little ink” and that:
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Orange Is Thinking About Acquiring Bouygues Telecom | TechCrunch
Who will buy Bouygues Telecom? Rumor has it that the telecom company has been looking for a buyer for a while now. And it looks like Orange might be interested after all in order to make sure it remains the telecom leader in France. Bouygues Telecom…
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UK weather forecasters predict warmest winter solstice on record | UK news | The Guardian
It could be the mildest 22 December since records began, with forecasters saying the unsettled weather sweeping across Britain could last until Christmas Eve. Before 8am on Tuesday, MeteoGroup, the weather forecasters, had recorded temperatures of 1…
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Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull to Mongolia – BBC News
Nicolas Cage has agreed to return a rare dinosaur skull to the Mongolian government. The Oscar-winning actor bought the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull in 2007, unaware it had been stolen.
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Toshiba To Cut 7,800 Jobs, Forecasts Record $4.5 Billion Loss | TechCrunch
Just in time for CES, consumer electronics giant Toshiba announced another wave of layoffs. This time, the company plans to axe 6,800 jobs in the consumer electronics business. It represents around 30 percent of the consumer electronics division, or…
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How does music change shopping habits? – BBC News
The constant background of pop music is something most shops and malls have in common. But some of Britain’s shopping centres may be about to become a lot quieter.
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Burundi accused of ‘systematic killings’ in capital – Al Jazeera English
Burundi’s security forces systematically killed dozens of people on December 11 as an act of repression in the country’s capital, according to a report by a UK-based rights group. The government, however, blamed much of the violence on rebels.
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SpaceX Launched And Landed Its Falcon 9 Rocket And It Was Completely Insane – Digg
4 diggs Space After three attempts, SpaceX finally launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket. The awesome footage was worth the wait.
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Plane crash: Ten die in Delhi’s Dwarka district – BBC News
The Beechcraft King Air plane chartered by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) came down after hitting a wall in Dwarka district and burst into flames.
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Migrant crisis: Sweden operator to halt trains over bridge – BBC News
Sweden’s state-owned train operator SJ is to stop services to and from Denmark because it cannot carry out identity checks demanded by the government to stem the influx of refugees. Under a new Swedish law, transport companies will be fined if trave…
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Quentin Tarantino accuses Chicago police of ‘institutional racism’ | Film | The Guardian
Quentin Tarantino has accused Chicago law enforcement of “institutional racism” in the Oscar-winning film-maker’s latest diatribe against alleged US police brutality.
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A Hit on My Mother | Motherboard
When I was a teenager my mother monitored and recorded all my telephone conversations. I didn’t know she was doing this, so I would babble about boys, friendship, and high school drama without knowledge that my private conversations were not very pr…
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Iraqi Troops Launch Attack to Take back Ramadi From Islamic State | VICE News
Iraq’s armed forces stormed the center of Ramadi on Tuesday to try to dislodge Islamic State (IS) militants who have held the western city since May, said a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units.
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Eric Schmidt: AI should have verification systems to avoid ‘undesirable outcomes’ | The Verge
Eric Schmidt has long been a prominent supporter of research and investment into artificial intelligence. The Google (Alphabet) chairman has been involved in the company’s self-driving car and predictive search engines, and previously warned we shou…
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Panama orders arrest of ex-leader Ricardo Martinelli – BBC News
Panama’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli, who governed the Central American country from 2009 to 2014. Mr Martinelli is accused of using public funds to illegally spy on more than 150 prominent people.
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Sri Lanka man arrested ‘for smuggling gold in rectum’ – BBC News
Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a man for allegedly trying to smuggle gold bars hidden in his rectum. Officers at Bandaranaike International Airport had noticed he was “walking suspiciously”, the spokesman said.
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In 2016, the UN Will Be Transformed. Will That Be Enough to Bring It Back to Life? | The Nation
The United Nations is exhausted. Conflicts that might once have responded to mediation—as in Namibia in the late 1980s, El Salvador in the early 1990s, and Timor-Leste at the turn of this century—are now marked by nihilistic, sometimes genocidal bru…
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Could a bridge over the Mediterranean save refugees? – Al Jazeera English
While several European governments reinforced their walls, reinstated border controls, and implemented repressive policies against refugees from the Middle East and Africa, two ambitious initiatives aim to offer alternatives to the dangerous journey…
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Have California Voters Finally Had Enough of Prop 13? | The Nation
Nine years ago, when the computer magnate Michael Dell was planning to buy the old Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, his tax lawyers urged him to rethink the purchase.
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Florida Man Is A Super PAC Fetishist – The Daily Beast
A Florida man has so far this month created more than 350 political groups—including hundreds of federal super PACs that claim to represent interests ranging from racquetball to the petroleum industry.And no, the super PACs’ creator is not a seasone…
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Japan opts for modest Olympic stadium after dumping Zaha Hadid | The Verge
The new design for Japan’s upcoming National Stadium, intended to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, has been confirmed today by the country’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Gervė – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gervė is a river of Biržai district municipality, Panevėžys County, northern Lithuania. It flows for 20 kilometres and has a basin area of 109 km².
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘forces one million out of school’ – BBC News
An Islamist-led insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school in four West African states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools were shut, while hundreds had been attacked, looted or set ablaze, Unicef said.
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Cosby sues eighth woman over claims – BBC News
Model Beverly Johnson has become the eighth woman to be sued by comedian Bill Cosby this month. Johnson is one of more than 50 women who have accused the 78-year-old of drugging and, in some cases, sexually assaulting them.
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Government borrowing rises in November – BBC News
Government borrowing rose in November from a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Borrowing for the month was £14.2bn, up by £1.3bn compared with November 2014.
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Iraqi army storms Ramadi in effort to retake from ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Iraq’s armed forces have started an attack to dislodge the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group from the key centre of the city of Ramadi, sources told Al Jazeera.
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Iraqi forces ‘advance into Ramadi’ – 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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China landslide: Stories of survival in Shenzhen – BBC News
More than 80 people remain missing in the deadly Shenzhen landslide that took place in China on Sunday while more than 900 were evacuated. A number of survivors have related accounts of their brushes with death to local media. These are some of thei…
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A broken city remembered in the models of a Syrian boy – Al Jazeera English
With no end in sight to the war, it may take years for Aleppo, once a thriving metropolis and Syria’s largest city, to be rebuilt. In the meantime, Mohammad is rebuilding the city with paper, wood, toys and other household items in his bedroom.
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SpaceX rocket launches then lands safely back on Earth – video | Science | The Guardian
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Florida before the reusable main-stage booster turns around, soars back to Cape Canaveral and lands safely. The ability to return rockets to Earth so they can be refurbished and reflown would slash the operat…
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Independent publishers on the books they enjoyed and envied in 2015 | Books | The Guardian
I always love reading the Guardian’s Publisher’s Year: Hits and Misses feature and to hear influential publishers being so honest about the books on their lists.
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Are small independent publishers doing the work for big publishers? | Books | The Guardian
Here’s an observation: it sometimes feels as though smaller independents are the research and development departments for the big publishers, where literary fiction is concerned. We find great writers, nurture them, wipe their brows, polish their wo…
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‘Million migrants’ enter Europe in 2015 – BBC News
UK military personnel have been deployed to Helmand in Afghanistan, as reports suggest the Taliban is close to overrunning the town of Sangin.
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A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
From the minute I read the synopsis during the cover reveal, I knew that A Thousand Nights was a book I just had to have. I was so excited, that I kept telling even my non-reader friends that I had found this book, and I knew it was going to be the …
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When you think Christmas, you probably think recently deceased Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, no? No, you probably don’t, but he made a Christmas record all the same in 2011 (see his “Winter Wonderland” video above).
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Brazil dam collapse death toll rises to 17, BHP says – BBC News
The number of confirmed deaths from the collapse of a dam in Brazil has risen to 17, according to an update from mining giant BHP Billiton. The company said two people working on the dam, which held back waste water from iron ore mining, remain unac…
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In historic first, SpaceX lands first reusable rocket – Al Jazeera English
US space company SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket upright for the first time, a major milestone in the drive to cut costs by making rockets reusable.
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An Australian cricketer has received a two-year suspended sentence for bets totalling Aus $9 (£4.36) during the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Angela Reakes, 24, of the ACT Meteors in the Women’s National Cricket League, was guilty of breaching Cricket Aus…
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Nicolas Cage is returning stolen dinosaur skulls in real life now | The Verge
In his latest movie, Nicolas Cage has to return a dinosaur skull worth more than a quarter of a million dollars to Mongolian officials, after it was smuggled into the United States by a paleontologist described as “one-man black market in prehistori…
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Toxic water isn’t just in Michigan: 4 lessons we must learn from the tragedy in Flint. (time.com)
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Quentin Tarantino gets Walk of Fame star – BBC News
Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was joined at the ceremony by the cast of his latest film Hateful Eight including Samuel L. Jackson.
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Google and Ford reportedly team up to build self-driving cars | Ars Technica
Google just found a major partner for its self-driving car program. A report from Yahoo Autos claims that, during CES, Ford will announce a joint venture between it and Google to build self-driving cars.
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Republican frontrunner Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton for returning late to Saturday night’s Democratic debate following an advert break. “I know where she went. It’s disgusting,” he said.
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Ladybird book pastiches become stocking-filler hit of 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Nostalgia for the days of learning to read with Peter and Jane appears to have made Ladybird’s series of spoof titles for grownups a must-buy this Christmas, with more than 600,000 copies of the mini-hardbacks sold in less than two months.
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The Biggest Mystery of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: Who Are Rey’s Parents? – The Daily Beast
One of the most compelling questions left lingering at the conclusion of Star Wars: the Force Awakens, after Rey offers a bearded Luke Skywalker his old lightsaber on a remote, mysterious island, is what relationship (if any) exists between the lege…
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‘Making a Murderer’: Netflix Outshines ‘The Jinx’ With Stunning True-Crime Saga – The Daily Beast
Miscarriages of justice don’t come much more outrageous than the case of Steven Avery, a resident of Wisconsin’s rural Manitowoc County, who in 1985, at the age of 22 was arrested, tried, and convicted of raping Penny Ann Beernsten along the shores …
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Anatomy of thought at the fault line of invention and discovery. wrote Ada Lovelace in contemplating the nature of the imagination, “is the language of the unseen relations between things.
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Markets await UK public finances, as oil edges higher – live | Business | The Guardian
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial market, the eurozone and business. After hitting 11 year lows on Monday, oil prices have shown some signs of recovery.
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Rear Window at Christmas: behind Google’s new interactive animated short | The Verge
The scene is a snowy apartment building out of the 1950s, rendered in a bright, slightly retro palette. A janitor trudges across the courtyard, then stops, wary. Someone is out there. Someone large, nimble, and wearing a floppy red hat. Then you tur…
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Activists manually halt flow of tar sands oil through Canadian pipeline: Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline declared an affront to Indigenous sovereignty, as well as the planet. (commondreams.org)
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In Texas, a Struggle to Pay Drug Costs | Al Jazeera America
At the end of this year, the targets set by the United Nations in 2000 for developing countries will expire. In this project, we take those Millennium Development Goals and examine how some communities in the United States measure up. We have applie…
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ISIL ‘caliphate’ shrank by 14 percent in 2015: monitor – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has lost about 14 percent of its territory in 2015, while Syria’s Kurds have almost tripled theirs, think-tank IHS Jane’s has said.
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Spotlit on the front of his memoir is the young Elvis Costello of legend: a speccy monochrome scoffer in a run-down motel room. Turn the book over and there is a more recent portrait, in colour and perhaps more in line with the way he sees himself t…
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Jennifer Lawrence might be the perfect guest for Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live. For a massively famous celebrity, J.
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Google And Ford Will Reportedly Team Up To Build Self-Driving Cars | TechCrunch
Google and Ford will announce a new autonomous vehicle joint venture at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, says a report in Yahoo Autos.
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Nepal’s Hospitals Suffer Under Economic Blockade | Al Jazeera America
KATHMANDU, Nepal — At the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, patients sit in the lobby waiting to be treated. Many made difficult journeys to get there, some only to be told that the hospital had run out of medication. Seeking care is a challen…
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Matt Stafford’s three TD passes lead Detroit Lions past New Orleans Saints | Sport | The Guardian
For all the arm talent Matthew Stafford has displayed in his seven NFL seasons, it was his efficiency and decision-making that sparked the Detroit Lions to a big lead and helped prevent them from squandering it.
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“Giving is itself a kind of thank offering.
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Panama Court Orders Detention of Former President | Al Jazeera America
Panama’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the detention of former President Ricardo Martinelli to face charges that he allegedly used public money to illegally spy on opponents.
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The indictment of Martin Shkreli, the widely reviled head of a pharmaceutical company that secured the rights to a decades-old drug and then increased its price more than fiftyfold, was described by a F.B.I.
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Conservationists choose their 12 trees of Christmas – BBC News
Conservationists are unveiling their 12 trees of Christmas, in a bid to highlight the plight facing some of the world’s threatened conifers. As decorated trees take centre-stage in many homes over the festive period, tree experts hope the campaign w…
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Panama issues warrant for arrest of former president – Al Jazeera English
Panama’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli who is alleged to have used public money to spy on more than 150 people illegally. Prosecutors say that Martinelli, 63, used taxpayers’ money and government employe…
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Rowing on a toxic river of human waste and chemicals – Al Jazeera English
We’re still in Washington DC and the sky is a confetti of stars in the early morning. I’m on the docks of the Anacostia Community Boathouse. The setting on the Anacostia River would be picturesque if it weren’t for the trash we see bobbing on the wa…
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Beijing residents buy fresh air from Canada : environment
Someone is about to make a lot of money. Spaceballs is the future.
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“There and back again.” Space X’s liftoff and landing of the Falcon 9 rocket [1024×682] https://t.co/ceKGcNI0E4 https://t.co/Eytk1JT2pK
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New Tokyo Olympic stadium design chosen – BBC News
Spiralling costs had forced the scrapping of renowned architect Zaha Hadid’s futuristic original design. The new design, by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, will cost 149bn yen ($1.2bn; £825m) to design, build and maintain.
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Cards Against Humanity buys Picasso, threatens to chop it to bits and give it away | The Verge
How would you like to own 150,000th of a Picasso? That’s what Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is asking the 150,000 customers who subscribed to its Eight Sensible Gifts For Hanukkah. Sort of. Each year, the irreverent, Kickstarter-funded card game offe…
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Dwarka air crash: Two die as plane crashes in Delhi – BBC News
The Beechcraft King Air plane chartered by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) came down after hitting a wall in Dwarka district and burst into flames. The plane was carrying “10 to 12” personnel of the force, officials said.
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SpaceX Launches Rocket, Then Lands | Al Jazeera America
SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket soaring toward orbit Monday night with 11 small satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer. Then it landed the 15-story leftover booster back on Earth safely.
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The Best Biographies of 2015 – The Daily Beast
Few intellectual figures in the 18th and 19th century were as influential as the peripatetic Alexander von Humboldt—and few of his stature have so inexplicably faded to oblivion.
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Two Years an ISIS Slave – The Daily Beast
Muhammad just arrived in Turkey with his family after fleeing the ISIS-controlled Syrian town of al-Ashara, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. He’d spent two years under the jihadist army’s rule.
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How Popular Music Secularized Christmas – The Daily Beast
Every year the arguments over the meaning of Christmas heat up with the intensity of a Wal-Mart crowd on Black Friday. But most people assume that the trend toward a secular Christmas—emphasizing family and snow instead of baby Jesus in a manger—is …
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Is Hillary Ready to Defend Her Libya War? – The Daily Beast
This is getting to be a habit with Bernie Sanders, isn’t it, these misrepresentations at the debates of his foreign-policy positions? As I wrote back in October, he misrepresented in an earlier debate what he called his support for President Obama’s…
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America, Look at What Donald Trump Is Doing to Us – The Daily Beast
During Saturday night’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton declared that Trump is “becoming ISIS’s best recruiter,” noting that his words will help ISIS radicalize people. Clinton is right.
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Christian Colleges Get License to Discriminate From Obama Administration – The Daily Beast
Nearly 60 colleges have applied for a license to discriminate from the Obama administration under the guise of “religious freedom.
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Where Mass Murderers’ Weapons of Choice Are Sold With a Smile – The Daily Beast
As the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings approached, a weapon identical to the Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle used to murder 20 youngsters and six staff was on display at an Indiana gun show.
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The State Where Racism Is Enshrined in the Constitution – The Daily Beast
As the presidential race heats up and the American public becomes consumed with the drama that will inevitably engulf the campaign, we should not forget that democracies are intended to be based around voter enfranchisement, and that in many ways Am…
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How Liberals are Recruiting Ricky Martin to Fight Trumpmania – The Daily Beast
Is it possible that the Democrats’ secret weapon for the 2016 election and crushing Trumpmania is… Ricky Martin??
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On Commitment, Bobby Darin became a folkie radical · Permanent Records · The A.V. Club
After the zeitgeist-tilting emergence of the youth counterculture in the mid-’60s, musicians of every stripe, from blues men to Vegas nightclub acts, were expected to release a “groovy” album even if they had never shown any previous interest in psy…
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Afghanistan Taliban: Sangin police headquarters ‘under siege’ – BBC News
The police HQ in the strategic Afghan town of Sangin remains under siege after a Taliban attack, officials say. But there are conflicting reports as to who controls the remote district in Helmand province.
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Nicolas Cage returns stolen Mongolian dinosaur skull he bought at gallery | Film | The Guardian
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $276,000 to US authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, December 22. All times are Eastern. The Expanse (Syfy, 10 p.m.
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The year in outrage: 24 times 2015 totally lost its shit · Best of · The A.V. Club
Jon Stewart no longer sits behind the Daily Show anchor’s desk, stoners can get McDonald’s breakfast whenever they want, and if anyone is going to give a monologue about cats and dogs living together, it’s not going to be Bill Murray.
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Every December, there seems to be only a handful of holiday songs, but a multitude of versions of each. This year, we’re throwing down in a Christmas Carol Cage Match to decide the definitive version of some of the most common seasonal cuts.
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Drive-By Truckers cover Greg Lake · Holiday Undercover · The A.V. Club
As one-third of the prog-rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, it’s strange that one of Greg Lake’s biggest hits came by way of a solo Christmas song.
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Our favorite games of 2015, part two · Best of · The A.V. Club
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through individual perspectives.
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Happy Christmas: 9 British TV specials to stream this holiday season · Inventory · The A.V. Club
The British Christmas special has no real Stateside analogue. The confluence of the U.K. television model and the particular place Christmas holds in the British popular imagination make sure of that.
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These Are the Most Bad-Ass Photos from the SpaceX Rocket Landing
Not only did SpaceX land their Falcon 9 rocket, but they looked damn good while doing it. This is how to do a return-to-flight with style! Launch, reentry, and landing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Image credit: SpaceX
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Indian artist Chintan Upadhyay arrested over wife’s murder – BBC News
Indian artist Chintan Upadhyay has been arrested in connection with the murder of his estranged wife Hema and her lawyer Harish Bhambani. Mumbai police arrested Mr Upadhyay on Tuesday after questioning him for several days.
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When people start talking about how to fix Monday Night Raw during its most abysmal creative times, there are three things that largely dominate the conversation. Firstly, there’s the notion that Raw should be shortened back to a two-hour show so as…
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Star Wars Merch’s Sexism Problem: #WheresRey Highlights Dearth in Female Toys – The Daily Beast
Now that fans have flocked to the new Star Wars flick to the tune of a record-breaking $247 million opening weekend, a disgruntled hashtag has been awoken, sending a disturbance into the Force’s franchising prospects right before the last-minute hol…
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As recently as two years ago, only five towers in New York City topped 1,000 feet. Now, there are that many “supertall” towers in the works on 57th Street alone, and roughly two dozen either under construction or on the drawing boards across Manhatt…
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The marketing director for this company deserves a lifetime achievement award for this : funny
Also, if you’re buying other juices, specifically expensive juices like pomegranate or grape, and it says 100% juice, it’s probably mostly apple juice with a tiny bit of whatever is advertised. We should concentrate more on the ingredients.
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SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image via NASA https://t.co/aLHCLOiyAF https://t.co/P8S5l7mjXw https://t.co/H0phsDFHOI
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India’s Shuttl Raises $20M To Accelerate Its Smart Shuttle Bus Service | TechCrunch
India’s transportation app future isn’t just about Uber and billion-dollar homegrown rival Ola.
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Iranian hackers infiltrated computers of small US dam, says report | US news | The Guardian
Iranian hackers reportedly breached the control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, raising concerns about the security of the country’s infrastructure. Two people familiar with the breach told the Wall Street Journal it occurred at the Bowm…
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My pine cone ritual | Environment | The Guardian
The light is already leaving the valley on this December mid-afternoon, though it lingers on the larch tops in the hillside wood to the north. Beyond that, the high fields are suffused with a rosy glow.
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Suspended Sentence for China Rights Lawyer | Al Jazeera America
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court found Pu Zhiqiang guilty of “provoking troubles” and “inciting ethnic hatred.” Pu, 50, was sentenced to three years in prison but the suspended sentence means he does note have to serve prison time.
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General Patton dies: archive, 22 December 1945 | US news | The Guardian
A habit of wearing two revolvers helps to make a general “news,” but it does not necessarily make him a great commander. The American General George S. Patton was always “news.
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Watch SpaceX’s historic rocket landing from up close | The Verge
SpaceX made history tonight, becoming the first company to land a rocket after launching it to space. The live streamed coverage of the event was kinetic, but the footage of the landing was shot from a distance, giving us an almost crude look.
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California man arrested for building a pipe bomb and threats to Muslims | US news | The Guardian
Police in California waited more than two weeks before arresting a man who posted an image of a homemade bomb on Facebook amid messages professing support for Donald Trump and opposition to Muslims, the Guardian can reveal.
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There’s a central contradiction at the heart of the Bake-Off format.
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Celebrated Chinese lawyer handed suspended sentence – Al Jazeera English
A court in Beijing has convicted one of China’s most famous human rights lawyers over comments he made online, giving him a suspended jail sentence, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Pu Zhiqiang was sentenced by Beijing’s No.
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Australia approves Abbot Point coal port expansion – BBC News
Australia has approved the expansion of an existing coal port at Abbot Point near Bowen in north Queensland. The controversial project will see Abbot Point become one of the world’s biggest coal ports.
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Britain’s poultry sector is in the midst of its annual Christmas bonanza as consumers splash out on festive supplies. But as people rush to get their meat they may be unaware of a dark side to this industry.
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Uber China Lands Strategic Investment From Chinese Automaker GAC | TechCrunch
Uber China, Uber’s independent business in China, has announced this morning that it has taken a strategic investment from Chinese automaker GAC Group. GAC produces both consumer vehicles — under its Trumpchi, Gonow and Changfeng Motor brands — in a…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Monday with a payload of communications satellites before the reusable main-stage booster turned around, and landed safely near its Cape Canaveral launch pad in a dramatic spaceflight first.
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Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a Yiddish vulgarity to refer to Hillary Clinton on Monday, saying she was “schlonged” in her 2008 Democratic primary loss to Barack Obama. Schlong is a Yiddish term for penis.
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Grand Canyon Image, Arizona – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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APOD: 2015 December 21 – SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image
Explanation: It’s back. Never before has an observed supernova been predicted. The unique astronomical event occurred in the field of galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. Most bright spots in the featured image are galaxies in this cluster.
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THE Democrats need young black voters. But the political party of our parents doesn’t seem to know how to reach us — the black millennials they can’t afford to lose — this time around.
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SpaceX rocket lands safely back on earth – BBC News
The private space technology company SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket back on land after a mission into space orbit. The Falcon-9 rocket came back to earth in an upright position a short distance from where it took off at Cape Canavarel in Fl…
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I inadvertently “spoiled” Making A Murderer for myself after just the first two episodes, trying to fact-check a name and learning that both Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey had been convicted and were still in jail.
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Unmanned SpaceX rocket makes breakthrough landing – BBC News
An unmanned US Falcon-9 rocket booster despatched 11 communications satellites before successfully landing in an upright position at Cape Canaveral. It is the first time an unmanned rocket has returned to land vertically on Earth and has been hailed…
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The ‘Unfolding Global Disaster’ Happening Right Under Our Feet : environment
The ‘Unfolding Global Disaster’ Happening Right Under Our Feet (thinkprogress.org)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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SpaceX Makes History – Returns First Stage to Landing Pad Successfully : news
This happening during the opening week of Stars Wars makes for a great cultivator for enthusiasm for space travel in pop culture. Here’s the video of the landing.
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Watch Henry Rollins Make a Gingerbread House | Rolling Stone
Watch Henry Rollins Make a Gingerbread House Singer gets into the holiday spirit in ‘Late Show’ online exclusive
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SpaceX Launches, Lands, Deploys 11 Birds | Highlights Video
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Bernie Sanders on Challenging Wall Street: “CEOs May Like Hillary — They Ain’t Going to Like Me” (democracynow.org)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…[–]paulen8[S] [score hidden] 4 hours ago(12 children)”And Wall Street is going to like me even les…
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Just a black and white cat loaf : Catloaf
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Bernie Sanders Is Right, Donald Trump Is A ‘Pathological Liar’
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US wild bee numbers decline as land is converted for biofuel – BBC News
Wild bees in the US have declined in many farming areas according to the first national effort to map their numbers. The study suggests that between 2008 and 2013, the numbers of wild bees went down across almost a quarter of the US.
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SpaceX successfully lands the first stage of Falcon 9 rocket! (i.imgur.com) 11 satellites successfully delivered as well. This could lower the cost of sending things to space 100 fold. What a historic day. Well done humanity.
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With a historic landing, SpaceX launches new age of spaceflight | Ars Technica
SpaceX did it. On Monday night the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket soared into space, separated from the second stage, and then made a guided flight back to a landing site in Florida.
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Prosecutor: No Indictment in Sandra Bland’s Death | Al Jazeera America
But prosecutor Darrell Jorden says the Waller County grand jury on Monday reached no decision on whether the trooper that arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland should face charges. The grand jury will return in January to consider that.
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Open thread for night owls: O’Neill—Discourse with Dummies 101
Jamie O’Neill at The Smirking Chimp writes, Discourse With Dummies 101—An Introductory: Ok, for those progressives or liberals who have been cozy and comfy in the exclusive company of the likeminded, exchanging agreement and due self regard with oth…
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Yoga enthusiasts link the practice to a long list of health benefits, including greater flexibility and range of motion, stronger muscles, better posture and balance, reduced emotional and physical stress, and increased self-awareness and self-estee…
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No indictment in Sandra Bland jail death, grand jury decides | US news | The Guardian
A grand jury has decided no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in the treatment of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a south-east Texas county jail last summer.
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SpaceX Sticks Rocket Landing in Its First Launch Since Summer Tragedy | Motherboard
SpaceX made history tonight as it successfully landed the first stage booster of a Falcon 9 rocket on land at Cape Canaveral.
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Bernie Sanders Is Right, Donald Trump Is A ‘Pathological Liar’ : politics
What’s the diffrence between Sanders and Trump? Trump actually has a chance of winning. By gawd, that man has a family! Stop the damn match!
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Clinton not only rubber-stamped major weapon deals with 20 countries that donated to her and her husband’s philanthropic arm, the Clinton Foundation, but also approved nearly double the amount of arms sales to those same 20 countries as the State De…
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Wash. Post Contributor Finally Admits He’s A Shill For Fossil Fuel Industry On Climate Change (mediamatters.org)submitted 41 minutes ago by loading…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ comes full circle rehashing an old story in a different way
Even at the darkest of times, in the most horrible of places, one of our species’ greatest strengths is the ability of some to dig deep in imagination to find hope where there is none, and believe in a tale where someone can persevere where others w…
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SpaceX’s ‘reusable’ Falcon 9 rocket won’t fly again, Elon Musk says | The Verge
The history-making Falcon 9 first stage will never fly again, Elon Musk said during a press call this evening. “I think we’ll probably keep this one on the ground,” he said, “just [because] it’s kind of unique, it’s the first one we’ve brought back.”
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What it means that both Blue Origin and SpaceX have landed rockets | The Verge
Now that both Blue Origin and Space X have landed rockets upright after launch, it looks like the one-off era of rockets is coming to a close. Before the two landings, rockets were regarded essentially as trash after take-off, if they weren’t totall…
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Unlocking the Mysterious Mangrove | Al Jazeera America
Mangroves may not be the most verdant trees in the forest, but they pack a very important punch when it comes to environmental stability. One of their main attributes is protecting coastal areas from storm surge.
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Grand jury refuses to indict anyone in connection with Sandra Bland’s death | abc13.com
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All models are wrong.
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A research paper published today in Nature Climate Change predicts widespread death of needleleaf evergreen trees (NET) within the Southwest United States by the year 2100 under projected global warming scenarios. (nature.com)submitted 55 minutes ag…
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SpaceX Lands the Falcon 9. (youtu.be) And then proceeds to finish the satellite deployments as well. Total success today for SpaceX.
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Jeff Bezos Throws Shade On SpaceX (Forgets SpaceX Has Been Landing Rockets For Years) | TechCrunch
Well look who entered the shade-throwing game on Twitter: Mr. Jeff Bezos. Fresh from landing a rocket through his space company Blue Origin, the Amazon founder jabbed at SpaceX after the company successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket for the first ti…
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‘Schlonged’: Watch Trump’s Astonishingly Sexist Attack On Hillary | ThinkProgress
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
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The laws politicians tell us are there to protect our environment can seem as pointless as the cheap Christmas giftwrap covering that bottle of wine you just bought for your least favourite uncle. Surprise. It’s still another coal mine.
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SpaceX captured the Falcon 9 rocket’s launch and landing in one photo | The Verge
SpaceX just launched a rocket to space and safely landed the first stage, in case you hadn’t heard. The historic feat marks a huge shift in the private space industry, as the idea of a reusable rocket is now on the table.
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Haiti Postpones Presidential, Legislative Runoff | Al Jazeera America
Less than a week before balloting was scheduled, Haitian authorities postponed the country’s presidential and legislative runoffs because they said they needed to wait for recommendations from a special commission tasked with evaluating the widely c…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands upright. (theverge.com) Historic moment in space flight.
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China landslide: First body found amid signs of survivors – BBC News
Rescuers have pulled out the first body from the Shenzhen landslide in China, as signs emerge that several survivors are trapped alive in the rubble. State news agency Xinhua said the body was dug out early on Tuesday. The massive landslide engulfed…
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Nicolas Cage Returns Stolen Dinosaur Skull to Mongolia | Rolling Stone
Nicolas Cage Returns Stolen Dinosaur Skull to Mongolia Actor bought Tyrannosaurus bataar fossil for $276,000 at auction not knowing it was smuggled illegally into U.S.
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By SERGIO PEÇANHA and DEREK WATKINS DEC. 21, 2015 The Islamic State has lost 14 percent of the territory it held in January, according to an analysis by IHS, a defense research firm.
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Jeff Bezos’ congratulatory rocket landing tweet to SpaceX is actual, clinical shade | The Verge
The biggest news of the evening is that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully landed the Falcon 9 rocket after launching its payload into orbit.
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Upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 11 ORBCOMM Birds | Video
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You and me both, man! 3rd times the charm! Was crazy to watch live!
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SpaceX Finally Manages to Land an Orbital Rocket Back on Earth
Right on schedule, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster made a beautiful soft landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station moments ago. It’s a huge moment in the history of spaceflight, marking the first time a rocket has ascended into orbit and landed back on …
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Martin Shkreli fired from another pharma company after arrest | The Verge
Martin Shkreli’s bad month continues. After being arrested last week on charges of securities fraud, the infamous Shkreli — who came to public attention when he raised the price of drug Daraprim from $13.
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Reagan’s Daughter: My Dad Would Be ‘So Appalled’ By GOP Presidential Candidates: And Nancy Reagan supports the marriage equality decision! (huffingtonpost.com) Reagan would not win today.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches, and Then Vertically Lands, an Orbital Rocket – The Atlantic
On Monday evening, for the first time in aerospace history, a rocket took off vertically from its launchpad, pierced the boundary of space and deposited its second stage into orbit, and returned intact to Earth, landing upright not far from where it…
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Oculus Shipping Early Builds Of Final Rift Hardware To Developers | TechCrunch
If you’re developing a launch title for the upcoming Oculus Rift, you may have gotten a little good news in your inbox this evening.
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Amazing Ash vs Evil Dead Gingerbread House Is the Grooviest Reason for the Season
Huge props to io9 readers Johnny Larocque and Nicole Cooper, who crafted this adorably spooky yet undeniably festive gingerbread house inspired by the TV show Ash vs Evil Dead and the Evil Dead movies. Ash vs Gingerdead? Check out more photos below!
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Presidential Candidates Must Articulate Decisive Cybersecurity Plans | TechCrunch
Traditionally, physical security and cybersecurity have been considered two separate entities. The cybersecurity threat, while significant, was often relegated to the sphere of enterprises, individual privacy, intellectual property loss and financia…
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SpaceX Successfully Lands A Giant Falcon 9 Rocket For The First Time | TechCrunch
SpaceX has done it. Elon Musk’s rocket startup just successfully launched and then landed a Falcon 9 rocket some 10 minutes later. This comes after several attempts that ended in fiery explosions. The rocket was carrying 11 satellites destined for l…
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Wow! SpaceX Lands Orbital Rocket Successfully in Historic First
The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket comes back to Earth for a historic landing at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 21, 2015.Credit: SpaceX View full size image The third attempt at a historic reusable-rocket milestone was t…
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SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket after launching it to space | The Verge
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed upright on solid ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida this evening, after traveling into space and back.
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Obviously There Are a Bunch of Trekkies Designing USA Today
What’s that sound? Like millions of nerds suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced? You had one job, USA Today! But oh no no nononono, this tweet simply does not tell the whole story. The designers at USA Today are much smarter than …
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This is incredible. Seeing this incredible step in history for space aviation is just incredible. The intensity at SpaceX HQ on the webcast was amazing. It was great to watch.
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BREAKING: SpaceX finally sticks a rocket landing
In its latest test of launching and landing rockets, space exploration startup has finally successfully nailed a round trip of its Falcon 9 rocket. The success comes after numerous failed attempts for its predecessors. SpaceX had trouble landing its…
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Google and Ford reportedly creating a new company to build self-driving cars | The Verge
Google and Ford will create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles, according to a report from Yahoo! Autos. The joint venture will reportedly be announced by the two companies at CES next month.
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Wild bees, crucial pollinators for many crops, are on the decline in some of the main agricultural regions of the United States according to a new study. (theguardian.com)
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Watch Selena Gomez’s Seductive ‘Hands to Myself’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Selena Gomez’s Seductive ‘Hands to Myself’ Video Singer stalks a former flame in her latest sultry video from ‘Revival’
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Man killed by shark in Caribbean while being rescued by coast guard | Environment | The Guardian
A Venezuelan man whose boat capsized off Aruba in the Caribbean has died after a shark attacked him in the middle of a rescue attempt by coastguards.
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Quiz of the Year: 52 weeks 52 questions, part two – BBC News
It’s the second part of the Magazine’s quiz of the year. Test your recollection of 2015 over four days with four sets of 12 questions – themed on the lines of “who?”, “what?”, “why?” and “where?” – and a four-part puzzler. Today it’s “what”:
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China rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang expected to be convicted – BBC News
Pu Zhiqiang faces charges of “inciting ethnic hatred” and “picking quarrels” for comments he made on social media. His trial ended last week with no verdict announced. Critics say the case amounts to political persecution.
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Report details abuses and resistance to reform at California prison
A recent report by California’s Inspector General details a culture of racism, abuse, and silence at one of the state’s maximum security prisons.
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How Congress’ crazy omnibus spending package will change what we eat | Grist
The big new bundle of laws won’t pre-empt GMO labeling by states, killed labeling of where meat comes from, and affects food in many other ways. From powdered protein to fried insects, these special hors d’oeuvres are a far cry from the Swedish meat…
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Vivek Ranadive On How He’ll Invest UC’s $250 Million | TechCrunch
Entrepreneur and Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive sat down with TechCrunch to discuss how he’ll be allocating the University of California’s $250 million investment. The venture fund will be used to invest in innovative “value-driven” startups,…
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Here are the meatballs of the future | Grist
The more you look into it, the more you find that there is no way to sensibly draw a line around a class of foods and say they contain GMOs.
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Orion Capsule Exhibit Previews ‘Journey to Mars’ at Space Center Houston
Artifacts from NASA’s on-going efforts to develop Orion, its new spacecraft to fly astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, have landed at Space Center Houston as a preview of a planned “portal” that will give the public a look at NASA’s “Journey to Mars.
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Watch SpaceX’s Latest Attempt To Land A Reusable Rocket | TechCrunch
SpaceX is set to launch and then attempt to land a rocket at 8:29 PM Eastern Standard Time. This time around, though, SpaceX is attempting to land the rocket on solid ground rather than a robotic barge like previous attempts that resulted in fiery c…
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Tonight, SpaceX Will Attempt to Land a Rocket on Solid Ground
Are you ready to watch SpaceX try to make history with a bold attempt to send its souped-up rocket all the way into space and back to Earth in a spectacular nighttime launch? Of course you are!
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‘I don’t love you anymore’ and other ways to say goodbye – BBC News
Some are poignant, some are touching, and some are puzzling. They chronicle break-ups, goodbyes and deaths. And although you’d expect it to be a very sad collection – it’s not actually that simple. Video journalist: Alvaro A. Ricciardelli
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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is to retire from international cricket. The 34-year-old batsman has confirmed that the Test series against Australia in February will be his last.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/sCnipAq93Y Stories via @UN_Disarmament
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BBC – Future – How the most expensive structure in the world was built
In mission control rooms around the world – in Houston, Moscow and Munich – a daily reality TV show is played out on giant screens. It is the dullest reality show you will ever watch. There is no conflict or peril, little tension and certainly no ro…
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PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — This resort town at the tip of Cape Cod is such a popular destination, its promoters like to say, that even the Pilgrims landed here before they settled in Plymouth. In the summer, Provincetown is still one of the most crowded …
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Getting Over Sylvia Plath – The Atlantic
Her husbandis the title of a previous book about the English poet Ted Hughes, reflecting the odd asymmetry of his fame.
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Baranta, Hungarians’ Attempt to Preserve the Fighting Style of Their Ancestors – The Atlantic
Around this time last winter, at a gymnasium 45 minutes outside Budapest, I was startled to come across a group of roughly 30 men and women with wooden axes. I was in town reporting a profile of Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, wh…
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Inside the Story of the Abuse at Horace Mann – The Atlantic
The catcher in the rye is famous for the intense and sometimes mysterious connection it makes with the adolescent boys who love it most.
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Cornell University Residence Will Be Energy-Efficient High-Rise – The Atlantic
In the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge, on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, three buildings now under construction will together form the core of a new technology campus for Cornell University.
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The Future of Pets – The Atlantic
In his 1915 guide to pets, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, an American naturalist, lambasted the dog-keeping habits of his day. “There is no excuse for pampering, constant fondling, dressing up in clothing, and other ridiculous customs,” he wrote.
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How Swearing Helps and Hurts You – The Atlantic
In 2013, Martin Scorsese’s darkly comic depiction of white-collar crime and hedonism, The Wolf of Wall Street, claimed the title for most uses of fuck ever in a Hollywood feature film. Over the course of three hours, the film’s characters utter the …
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Radio, poem by Stanley Plumly – The Atlantic
I couldn’t go to sleep without it, the music of those voices in my head, surviving or dying as best they could among the sound effects of footsteps in a hall, city traffic in a cab, women older than my mother talking like girls, The Shadow’s Orson W…
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Why Winston Churchill Was So Bad With Money – The Atlantic
In may of 1940, as French forces crumpled in the face of the Nazi onslaught and the British anxiously scanned the skies for signs of the dreaded invasion, the newly installed prime minister was preoccupied with another pressing problem.
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‘This Is Why I Came,’ by Mary Rakow: A Sinner Reimagines the Bible – The Atlantic
mary rakow’s quite extraordinary book is billed as a novel, but “agnostic gospels” would be more accurate labeling. Her plot and protagonist are skeletal at best. In three opening pages, a woman, no longer young, enters a church for the first time i…
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Can Nick Hanauer Get the Rich to Support a $15 Minimum Wage? – The Atlantic
The seattle-based tech entrepreneur Nick Hanauer was riding in a black Uber SUV to the private-jet terminal at Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C., when I asked him whether he really thought his was the best face for the movement …
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What Is the Greatest Collaboration of All Time? – The Atlantic
“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous,” the designer Elsa Schiaparelli reportedly said. So her sartorial collaborations with Salvador Dalí couldn’t be more relevant today.
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Nixon, Kissinger, and Leading From Behind – The Atlantic
No matter how many books are written about Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, there’s always room on the shelf for more. Our fascination with these two larger-than-life characters hardly needs explaining.
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Volkswagen, Johnson & Johnson, and Corporate Responsibility – The Atlantic
One day in 1979, James Burke, the chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, summoned more than 20 of his key people into a room, jabbed his finger at an internal document, and proposed destroying it. The document was hardly incriminating.
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Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election? – The Atlantic
The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter.
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The Conversation – The Atlantic
For the November issue, James Bennet interviewed Bill Gates, who has committed his influence and his personal fortune to propelling the world beyond fossil fuels before climate change wreaks cataclysmic damage.
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America Is Becoming More Liberal – The Atlantic
Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation. In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally, was choked to death by a New York City policeman.
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Marc Maron’s ‘WTF’ Podcast and the Strange Origins of Success – The Atlantic
The american monologue, once you get an ear for it, is everywhere, beguiling and blustering and buttonholing. It raises you up, it bums you out. It has its pulpits and its sanctified places—the radio booth, the campaign trail, the AA meeting, the co…
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Why Tap Dancer Bill Robinson Was Shot by Police – The Atlantic
In 1934, a group of New York’s prominent white citizens elected Bill Robinson, the most celebrated black tap dancer in America, the unofficial “mayor of Harlem.
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Letter from Africa: What can Ghana learn from Norway? – BBC News
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers what her country can learn from Norway. My visit to the Norwegian city of Lillehammer a few weeks ago reaffirmed my conviction that the Scandinavians really…
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LG is bringing webOS 3.0 to smart TVs in 2016 | The Verge
But can it measure up to today’s set-top boxes? WebOS, the former smartphone operating system that now lives on LG’s smart TVs, is about to be refreshed. LG is bringing webOS 3.0 to CES 2016 next month and onward to a majority of its TV lineup for t…
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Remembering My Dad, A Tough Guy With A Big Heart – The Daily Beast
John Nuzzi was a character. Actually, he was a few characters. He was a tough guy: Born in Brooklyn on April 7, 1955. He had a tattoo of a baby devil on his bicep and a star on his knuckle. He wore white t-shirts and smoked Marlboro Reds.
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Vox Sentences: FIFA’s long international nightmare is over – Vox
FIFA president Sepp Blatter hit with an 8-year ban from soccer; the FDA kind of fixes its discriminatory blood-donation policy; and a very confusing Spanish election. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Meet Harry Potter’s ‘Black Hermione’—and A Few Predictable Bigots – The Daily Beast
Early on Monday morning in the UK, this summer’s much-anticipated stage production, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” announced the cast of the West End show, which imagines the wizard troika—Harry (Jamie Parker), Ron (Paul Thornley), and Hermion…
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Twitter wants to patent a drone controlled by tweets | The Verge
Twitter may be the latest tech giant interested in unmanned aerial vehicles — but not for delivery. The company has applied for a patent, which became available last week, for a drone capable of taking photos and videos and transmitting them through…
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Most Popular Android Downloads and Posts of 2015
This year, Android got even sweeter. Marshmallow built on the already-awesome foundation Lollipop laid the year before, plus we got two new Nexus phones, and a bunch of improved apps. Here are our best Android posts this year.
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China power audit: The hard and the soft – BBC News
It was a typically gritty day of toxic air and toxic politics in the capital of the world’s rising power. Plainclothes police were shoving protesters and journalists outside the courthouse; inside a lawyer was on trial.
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Hillary Clinton is raking in donations from Wall Street, and her attempts to downplay it are under fire. (money.cnn.com) Enough said.
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Local and organic food has extra safety risks. Just ask Chipotle. – Vox
Chipotle likes to emphasize the quality of its food, a goal summed up in the company’s slogan, “Food with integrity.” So it might seem paradoxical that Chipotle, of all companies, has gotten hit by a string of food safety problems. Yet it turns out …
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What could possibly go wrong on a spacewalk? – BBC News
On Monday, astronauts on the International Space Station carried out a spacewalk in order to perform repairs. Everything went according to plan, but leaving the safety of the station is extremely dangerous and things can go wrong. What do astronauts…
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Build-A-Startup Course Bundle | Digg Store
Ben Parr is a respected technology commentator, investor, entrepreneur, and aspiring world changer. He is currently launching a new venture, and is a columnist and commentator for the popular technology news website CNET. He was previously the Co-Ed…
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SpaceX’s first rocket launch in six months – The Verge
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What could possibly go wrong on a spacewalk? – BBC News
On Monday, astronauts on the International Space Station carried out a spacewalk in order to perform repairs. Everything went according to plan, but leaving the safety of the station is extremely dangerous and things can go wrong. What do astronauts…
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People who reject Syrian refugees are the “best allies” of Islamic State militants and other extremists, the United Nations refugee chief said on Monday after US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed an entry ban on foreign Muslims…
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Boy Scout leader attacks bear with hammer after being dragged into cave | World news | The Guardian
A Boy Scout leader was pulled into a cave by a bear but beat the animal away with a rock hammer, authorities in northern New Jersey have said. Christopher Petronino and three other Scouts were hiking at Split Rock reservoir on Sunday afternoon when …
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Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders – The New Yorker
Douglas Sirk, whose Hollywood career ran from 1943 to 1959, may be the most intellectual filmmaker ever to work in Hollywood (at least, he’d run Terrence Malick, who translated Heidegger, a close second), and it shows in his films, which are the sub…
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RIP Gerard Quinn, One of the Pioneers of British Science Fiction Art
Gerard Quinn was one of the great British science fiction artists of the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s, working for magazines like New Worlds and Science Fantasy. And even though he left genre art in the mid-60s to go work in advertising, hi…
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Google considers following Mozilla, Microsoft, and dropping SHA-1 certificates early | Ars Technica
Last month Microsoft said that it was considering ending support for TLS and SSL certificates that used the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, after Mozilla previously described a plan to do the same.
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Two very suspicious loaves : Catloaf
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Migrant crises: Trauma takes toll on mental health – BBC News
“Some people see me crying on the road and they probably think I’m crazy. But I really want to cry it out, scream, get it out of my system.”Rafat Hazeema is a Syrian refugee who has been living in Germany for over a year.
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Burundi security forces accused of violent repression – BBC News
The security forces in Burundi systematically killed dozens of people during violent repression that took place in the capital Bujumbura on 11 December, Amnesty International says.
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Watch this elegant dance of triangles by animator René Jodoin (1966) / Boing Boing
Screen Novelties’ Witch Doctor kickstarter is looking to raise $60,000 to finish a gorgeous-looking, tiki-themed stop-motion black-light movie inspired by classic dark rides. The high priestess of soul in an interview with Lilian Terry from July 196…
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Foursquare Is Raising A Down Round | TechCrunch
We’re hearing a lot of chatter that Foursquare is in the process of raising a new fundraising round that will be a down round.
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Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t merely use a mop in her latest David O. Russell collaboration, Joy.
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Abbot Point coal terminal expansion given approval by Greg Hunt | Environment | The Guardian
The federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, has given the green light to expanding the Abbot point coal terminal in northern Queensland, on the condition that the dredge spoils are properly disposed of.
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Sao Paulo fire wrecks historic railway station – BBC News
A fire in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo has destroyed parts of a historic 19th Century railway station housing a popular museum. The museum, which documents the history of the Portuguese Language, was severely damaged.
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Complaints from ex-Theranos employees spur two federal investigations | Ars Technica
Theranos, Inc., a beleaguered, multi-billion-dollar startup developing blood testing technology, is now under investigation by two federal agencies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The curious effect of 457 mph wind on a man’s face / Boing Boing
“Test conducted in 1946 where a human subject was exposed to blasts of air. The test was performed at NASA Langley Research Center’s 8 ft High Speed Tunnel.
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US FDA partially lifts gay men blood donation ban – BBC News
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow gay men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year – lifting a 30-year ban. Some gay activists called the one-year rule discriminatory, but it matches policies in other counties inclu…
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Shark ‘jumps’ on surfer’s board at Bondi beach | Environment | The Guardian
The experienced surfer was catching waves with a friend in choppy conditions just after 7am on Tuesday at the beach. “I’ve looked down. Originally I thought it was a seal but it wasn’t. It was a shark,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB.
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Drizly Delivers Wine, Beer, and Liquor to You Within an Hour
iOS/Android: If you need some spirits on short notice, like restocking the bar mid-party, or just don’t feel like braving the local liquor store, Drizly can deliver what you need to you within an hour.
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Oracle settles with FTC over Java’s “deceptive” security patching | Ars Technica
Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktop runtime for Java.
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Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner At Miss Universe Pageant – Digg
27 diggs Entertainment TV Steve Harvey, host of Miss Universe 2015, incorrectly announced Miss Colombia as the winner and Miss Philippines as the first runner-up. He then had to interrupt Miss Colombia’s celebration to correct his mistake.
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Oracle settles with the FTC over deceitful security updates | The Verge
More than 850 million computers have Java installed on them, and for years, users might not have known the software wasn’t fully updated or secure. Oracle is now settling with the Federal Trade Commission over that security oversight.
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Are Tweeting Drones On The Way? | TechCrunch
In today’s episode of “boring patents…wait, WHAT ARE THOSE???”, it looks like Twitter filed a patent for messaging with or from, or both, an unmanned vehicle (drone!) in June of this year. It was just published a few days ago.
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Passengers rescued from SeaWorld ride in Orlando, Florida – BBC News
Passengers have been rescued after being stuck on a ride in SeaWorld which malfunctioned. Visitors to the park in Orlando, Florida were trapped in he Sky Tower ride, which is 122m tall, but all got out safely.
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Haiti presidential election run-off delayed – BBC News
Image copyright AFP Image caption Haitians protest last week over the results of the first round of voting for a new president. Haiti’s presidential run-off election has been postponed until January amid accusations of irregularities, electoral offi…
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Here’s Your Last Minute Holiday Camera Steal
In the market for a camera that’s not a smartphone or point-and-shoot? Not a professional photographer? This is your time to buy. Sony’s a6000 boasts ludicrously fast autofocus, a great ecosystem of lenses, and a small form factor.
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Game of Thrones’ Season 5 Blu-Ray Will Feature A 20 Minute Animated Movie Packed With Dragons
One of the biggest events in Game of Thrones history before the events of the show is the “Dance of Dragons”—an epic two-year-long battle that saw Daenerys’ ancestors in House Targaryen nearly rip themselves apart in civil war. Scratching your head …
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Amtrak Activates PTC at Site of Deadly Derailment | Al Jazeera America
On May 12, an Amtrak passenger train derailed after hitting a curve outside Philadelphia at more than twice the posted speed, leaving eight dead and more than 200 injured.
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Unlikely face of heroin epidemic in small town America – BBC News
Drug-related deaths have soared in New Hampshire, where an influx of cheap heroin has claimed victims from every section of society. The state is facing an epidemic of addiction and overdoses.
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Go Badgers! Plenty of colleges offer the occasional course on science fiction, but now at UW Green Bay, you can actually major in science fiction studies. Including making your own movie!
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Tor.com Is Closing its Doors to Unsolicited Fiction Submissions
Tor.com has been a terrific market for short fiction since it launched in 2008, and it’s been open to over-the-transom stories from new writers that whole time. But starting Jan. 7, that’s going to change. Tor.
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Why New U.S. Protections for Lions Matter
After a tough year, things are looking up for lions. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday that it will list two subspecies under the Endangered Species Act, a move that will make it difficult to bring live lions or their parts into…
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Drybar Opens at Brookfield Place in the Financial District | Vanity Fair
For the FiDi crowd, getting the perfect blowout right before or after work (or maybe even during that lunch break) just got a little easier, with the opening of Drybar at Brookfield Place.
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An Underfunded UN Means More Children Will Die Before Turning Five
The United Nations humanitarian assistance program is short some $10 billion, the largest the funding gap has been in over ten years.
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The Resurgence of the Labor Movement: The Year in Workers’ Power | VICE News
Fast food workers. Airline workers. Healthcare workers. Retail workers. All of these groups rallied for higher wages and better benefits in 2015, giving new power to organized labor as a force for economic and political change in the country.
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We ship most oil through these problematic choke points | Grist
The more you look into it, the more you find that there is no way to sensibly draw a line around a class of foods and say they contain GMOs.
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In Wake Of Attacks, U.S. Cities Step Up Terrorism Simulations : NPR
The recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have put pressure on local authorities to show they’re ready for that kind of violence. Some jurisdictions, such as Los Angeles, are stepping up exercises and terrorism simulations. There’s a hill near …
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Star Wars Writer Explains Why The Force Awakens Leaves So Many Questions Unanswered | Vanity Fair
It’s been a few days since Star Wars: The Force Awakens roared into theaters and, at this point, most people are done being precious about spoilers.
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No TRADES !!!!! So begins a rather intense eBay listing that is not just mostly in ALL CAPS but posted in extra big bolded fonts, too, JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN’T HEAR HIM!
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Sulfur Dioxide Down over the United States : Image of the Day
Sulfur dioxide is a pungent, toxic gas found in Earth’s atmosphere. In addition to harming human health, the gas affects the environment by reacting with water vapor to produce acid rain.
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China smog: Beijing residents buy fresh air from Canada – BBC News
Beijing is shrouded under a toxic haze again, as the city enters the fourth and final day of its ‘red alert’. The measures are aimed at trying to curb the city’s notorious smog. More and more Chinese people are now taking precautions against the air…
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CBGB to Reopen as Restaurant in Newark Airport | Rolling Stone
The famous New York City punk outpost CBGB & OMFUG, where Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads and many others cut their teeth and sullied its notoriously disgusting bathroom, closed in 2006. But now it will get a second life, nearly a de…
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Watch Sarah Palin Attempt a Tina Fey Impression in 30 Rock Spoof | Vanity Fair
It may have taken seven years, but Sarah Palin has finally retaliated against her Saturday Night Live foe, Tina Fey, with a parody of Fey’s brilliant NBC series, 30 Rock.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jean Peters Baker, the county prosecutor here, stood at her desk poring over Facebook photographs of young men posing with guns. One wore a grinning mask and pointed his gun at the camera. Another clasped guns in each hand.
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Toronto police say the pregnant wife of a Canadian army veteran was stabbed multiple times by her husband before they both plunged to their deaths from a high rise tower Sunday evening.
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There is something remarkable and uplifting about Bernie Sanders. He is who he is, he’s principled and decent. And he’s not willing to change as a matter of campaign strategy. This is no small achievement, as American politics continues to get shril…
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini bans mark end – Greg Dyke
Eight-year bans mark “the end” for Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini, says Football Association chairman Greg Dyke. Having previously backed Platini for the next Fifa presidency, Dyke said the FA had yet to decide who to suppo…
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See How Memorable Your Profile Pictures Are With MIT’s MemNet Algorithm
If you want a profile that stands out on social networks and dating sites, a memorable picture is essential. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims their new MemNet algorithm can predict how memorable your photos are nearly as accurately a…
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Apple announces formal opposition to UK surveillance bill | The Verge
Apple is speaking out against the UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill, the new web surveillance proposal that privacy groups have dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter.
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The Best Way to Get the Elevator Door to Close Faster
Your elevator arrives at a floor, the doors open, and nobody is there. You hammer on the door close button, but it doesn’t seem to work no matter how many times you press it. There’s a better way to get those doors shut and you on your way.
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Harvard Steps Back From Placemats For Racist Uncles – The Daily Beast
Fiery, fork-throwing conversations—or, you know, shouting matches—with loved ones about hot-button political and social issues are such a common experience that it’s close to surpassing gathering around the fire and roasting chestnuts as the most cl…
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How I Work With Compositional Lines in Photos
Composition can make or break a photograph. This is why it’s important to understand it and know how to effectively and creatively use it. In essence, composition describes the position of relative elements in a photograph.
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The Great Hello Kitty Hack of 2015 – The Daily Beast
Hello Kitty is the internet’s cutest new security threat. Parents are on alert after 3.3 million user credentials for the website sanriotown.com were found in an online database. SanrioTown, the official website for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio toy …
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Can coal-hungry Appalachia take any lessons from Australia’s new solar farm? | Grist
A reader is conflicted about whether to buy a new VW, what with all the recent emissions-evading sneakiness — so advice maven Umbra Fisk suggests a few rules of the road.
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Paris Agreement represents progress on cutting emissions, but not so much on climate justice | Grist
The more you look into it, the more you find that there is no way to sensibly draw a line around a class of foods and say they contain GMOs.
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Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces | Ars Technica
In a new video statement posted on Monday, the administrator of novelty e-mail provider cock.li announced that one of the hard drives used to host the service in a Bavarian data center had been seized. Cock.li was reportedly used last week to send a…
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Study: Republicans are embarrassed to admit how much they like Donald Trump – Vox
Donald Trump has consistently led in polls of Republican primary voters since August, when he first took the lead. But present in those numbers is an interesting wrinkle: Trump consistently performed better in online surveys than in polls conducted …
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Chelsea Peretti Will Host The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards | TechCrunch
You can’t hold an awards show without a stellar host. The Oscars had Neil Patrick Harris. The VMAs had Miley. And the Emmys, coincidentally, had Andy Samberg.
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Esplorio Records Your Journey So You Don’t Have To | TechCrunch
Before I took an arrow to the knee I was quite the adventurer. From Dragonsreach to Blue Palace I’ve visited them all and I have the mugs and commemorative shot glasses to prove it. But what about photos and web checkins? It’s hard to get those at a…
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The Year People Still Tried to Get the Hell Out of North Korea | VICE News
Over the last two months, at least a dozen North Korean boats have been found drifting off the coast of Japan carrying grisly cargo: 27 decomposing dead bodies. The “ghost ships,” as they have come to be known, present the world with yet another mys…
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Rwanda’s President Dangles The Possibility Of A Third Term : Parallels : NPR
It’s a recurring question throughout many parts of Africa: How long should a leader stay in power? Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is the only president the country has had since the 1994 genocide, and his tenure has been marked by stability and rela…
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I’m not a political scientist, man. But I am someone who follows politics, and likes to keep track of conventional wisdom.
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Perhaps anxious to showcase the host’s witty repartee with Will Ferrell, Crackle has moved up the premiere date for season seven of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld (which should be its subtitle).
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Ursids Outshone: December’s ‘Other’ Meteor Shower Beaten by Moon
The Ursid meteor shower will peak the night of Dec. 22-Dec 23, but a bright moon may wash out the unlucky display.
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Clinton: No apology for claim Trump helps IS recruit members – BBC News
Hillary Clinton has defended her claim that the so-called Islamic State is using videos of Donald Trump’s anti- Muslim rhetoric to attract followers. Mr Trump disputed that the videos exist and demanded an apology, to which Ms Clinton’s spokesman sa…
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Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster – Scientific American
Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But where does one end and another begin? And where are we in the picture? This article was reproduced with permission and was first…
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In a testament to Barack Obama’s comedic competency, Jerry Seinfeld has booked the sitting president in an episode of his online Crackle series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
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See R. Kelly Respond to Fans Conflicted Over Sex Claims: ‘F–k That’ | Rolling Stone
R. Kelly reacted effusively to questions about past allegations of sexual misconduct on Monday in an interview with Huffington Post. Over a decade ago, the singer was accused of having sex with a minor but was later acquitted.
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Jurassic World Congratulates Star Wars With a Classy Throwback Tribute | Vanity Fair
In 1977, when Star Wars surpassed Jaws to become the highest-grossing film of all time, Steven Spielberg wrote an affectionate and public note to his old friend George Lucas to congratulate him.
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The 10 Best Time Capsules Opened in 2015
Time capsules can be pretty boring. But time capsule nerds like me live for those rare capsules with something really cool inside. This year we saw time capsules filled with the weird, the rare, and the surprising. One thing that so many of 2015’s t…
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‘Tis the Season for Symbiosis – Science Sushi
The whooping calls of howler monkeys were an effective alarm. I rolled up my mosquito net and hastily yanked on the pair of skinny jeans I had draped over the chair next to my bed. Ugh. They were still wet from yesterday’s rain.
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Boozy Root Beer is Taking the Country By Storm – Bon Appétit
It’s been a long time since we drank beer for breakfast. Say, centuries. Back when a certain British king was micromanaging from thousands of miles away. And root beer, which started off as medicinal tea made with sassafras by Native Americans, was …
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Barack Obama: The Third Way Between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – The Atlantic
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In the So-Called ‘Abortion Wars,’ Only One Side Is Murdering the Other | The Nation
It’s been a while since a journalist set the world straight on this whole abortion thing.
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International system has failed Syria – BBC News
Today the tourists come to view the magnificent ceramics. There is a special section devoted to the treasures of Mesopotamia. But the visitor will find no evidence of the moment which made the museum at Sevres briefly famous.
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Political uncertainty in Spain as new forces emerge – Al Jazeera English
Spain’s People’s Party (PP) will struggle to hold onto power after Sunday’s general election produced no outright winner, in an election result that will transform Spanish politics.
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Wild bees on the decline in key US agricultural ecosystems – study | US news | The Guardian
Wild bees, crucial pollinators for many crops, are on the decline in some of the main agricultural regions of the United States, according to scientists who produced the first national map of bee populations and identified numerous trouble spots.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Sciences the Sh*t Out of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ – The Daily Beast
The Force, fan service, and global box office might be strong in Star Wars: Episode VII, but sound scientific logic? Not so much, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Singapore’s robot exercise coach for the elderly – BBC News
With one of the fastest ageing societies in the world, Singapore has been investing in technology to help care for the elderly. Xuan, the exercise robot, is one such investment. Developed by a local polytechnic, the robot conducts simple workout ses…
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Sepp Blatter Suspended for Eight Years, Compares Self to Mandela | The Nation
When Al Capone was arrested and convicted on tax evasion charges, a message was sent: if you have to run a criminal cartel that produces acres of corpses, then so be it, but the government had better wet its whistle too.
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First websites: PHOTOS – Tech Insider
CERN The first website launched on December 20, 1990 and was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN research facility in Switzerland.
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Your Smartphone Camera Should Suck. Here’s Why It Doesn’t | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Smartphone cameras are great, or at least close enough to great that you don’t notice the difference.
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Why It’s Never Been Easier to Fly a Drone | WIRED
Drones are the hot consumer product of the year, and 2015 saw an explosion in automation software that made the devices easier to fly and easier to control. We predicted this would happen, but it’s remarkable just how far the technology’s come in 12…
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I went to Donald Trump’s shitty $100 million tax break park
Off the Taconic State Parkway, about 50 miles north of New York City, lies a 436-acre wasteland known as Donald J. Trump State Park.
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Apple ends a patent fight, strikes a deal with Ericsson | Ars Technica
Apple and Swedish telecom Ericsson have ended a year-long patent dispute that spanned US federal courts, the International Trade Commission, and included lawsuits in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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Iraqi Leader: We Want More U.S. Airstrikes, But Not U.S. Ground Troops : Parallels : NPR
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his country wants the U.S. to provide more airstrikes, weapons and intelligence in their joint battle against the Islamic State. But he stressed his opposition to ground troops from the U.S.
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African textiles made in the Netherlands
Love these. African textiles. Studio 360: “But I had no idea that some of the trendiest of these prints are actually designed and produced in the Netherlands by a company called Vlisco.”
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Apple raises concerns over UK’s draft surveillance bill – BBC News
Apple has raised concerns about the UK’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill. The proposed law aims to overhaul rules governing the way the authorities can access people’s communications.
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Four Signs Your Career Has Stalled (and It’s Time to Move On)
You’ve been doing the same tasks for as long as you can remember. New skills? New responsibilities? Can’t really name any off the top of your head. In fact, you’re starting to feel like things are a little stalled.
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io9 33 Questions We Desperately Want Answered After Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Kotaku The Year In JRPGs, 2015 | The Concourse The 2015 Deadspin Bear Of The Year | Jezebel Dog Travolta, Big Ass Lizard and Carly Fiorina’s Struggle Turkey: The Best…
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Chelsea Clinton Announces Second Baby Will Be Born Just Months Before | Vanity Fair
Weeks before the beginning of primary season, Chelsea Clinton announced via Twitter that she is pregnant with her second fortuitously timed child.
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Jan Morris Remembers the Magic of Venice, Then and Now | Vanity Fair
On a morning of late spring in 2015, I step ashore from a water taxi onto the Piazzetta San Marco, in Venice, without doubt the most historically celebrated patch of waterfront in the world.
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Scientists Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Understanding Autism | Mother Jones
Last week brought some rare good news in the autism research world: For the first time, scientists have found a direct link between autistic behavior and a neurotransmitter, a kind of brain chemical that communicates information from one nerve cell …
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Elizabeth Holmes, Martin Shkreli, and the Piercing of the Millennial B | Vanity Fair
Elizabeth Holmes, the 31-year-old founder and C.E.O. of Theranos, the blood-testing start-up once valued at $9 billion, has watched her privately held company endure a rare form of public flogging.
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CEO Tim Cook denies tax dodging: “Apple pays every tax dollar we owe.” | Ars Technica
In an interview last weekend with 60 Minutes, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his company’s use of the legal overseas tax maneuvering that effectively keeps tens of billions of dollars in would-be American tax revenue out of the country.
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Ars Science Q&A: How we pick our stories | Ars Technica
In my blog post on my 10th anniversary at Ars, I promised to answer readers’ questions. This is one of my attempts to do so.
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Tea Party Groups See Win in Spending Bills | Al Jazeera America
Two-and-a-half years after the Internal Revenue Service apologized for using “inappropriate criteria” to scrutinize tea party-aligned nonprofits applying for tax-exempt status, President Obama has signed into law a new measure that makes it easier f…
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Newly printed copy of the Constitution of Ireland! : pics
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Justin Trudeau Wants to Scrap Law That Lets Teachers and Parents Spank Kids | VICE News
Justin Trudeau’s government wants to scrap the part of Canada’s Criminal Code that allows caregivers to spank their kids in certain circumstances, more than a decade after the Supreme Court upheld it.
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Not long ago, Donald J. Trump and Russell Simmons were close. Mr. Simmons, the hip-hop mogul, and his brother Rev. Run would fly on Mr. Trump’s private plane to Mar-a-Lago, the real estate developer’s lavish Florida resort. Mr. Simmons even had a pl…
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How Did We Do On 2015 Tech Predictions? ‘Still Waiting’ : All Tech Considered : NPR
Predictions are always a tricky thing — especially for a fast-moving world like technology. Alina Selyuhk and Aarti Shahani spoke with Robert Siegel on All Things Considered about some of the biggest themes in tech and tech policy.
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Lindsey Graham quits Republican presidential race – Al Jazeera English
There was an inevitability to Lindsey Graham’s decision. The Republican presidential hopeful has been polling nationally at around one percent and not much better in his home state of South Carolina.
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Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Netflix has already declared its intentions to hold you captive—figuratively speaking, of course, because Skynet is not yet a thing—in 2016 with twice as much original content for your viewing (and world-eschewing) pleasure.
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New York Giants star wideout Odell Beckham Jr suspended one game | Sport | The Guardian
Of all the things NFL players can do to each other on the field the one most forbidden in today’s climate is to intentionally hit another player in the head.
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Jacques Pepin to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt: The Best Food Books of 2015 – The Atlantic
Adventure: it’s what the writers of this year’s food books want you to have, mostly in your own kitchen.
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Hezbollah chief vows to retaliate for Kantar killing – Al Jazeera English
Hezbollah blamed Israel on Monday for the killing of its high-profile commander Samir Kantar in Syria, vowing to avenge his death.
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BBC Sport – Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City
Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez is back in training after a hamstring injury and could be in contention to play. Mikel Arteta could also be back after a calf injury, but Jack Wilshere, Francis Coquelin, Danny Welbeck, Santi Cazorla and Tomas Rosicky …
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Climate-Change Christmas Carols Live – The New Yorker
Inspired by Ethan Kuperberg’s classic “Climate-Change Christmas Carols,” Marc Philippe Eskenazi croons some holiday tunes (updated to account for the effects of global warming) to merry passersby at Rockefeller Center. Here’s to dreaming of a sixty-…
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R. Kelly Shows His True Colors When Confronted with Sexual Abuse Allegations – The Daily Beast
Who the hell decided to forgive R. Kelly?
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AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running th…
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More E. coli cases linked to Chipotle / Boing Boing
Another day, another round of E. coli outbreaks at Chipotle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating E. coli outbreaks in three states. “Give ill people have been identified in Kansas (1), North Dakota (1), and Oklahoma (3),”…
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Chelsea Clinton announces she is expecting second child | US news | The Guardian
By the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton will have a second grandchild to gush over. On Monday Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, announced that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting a second child.
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The Secret to the Perfect Homemade Egg McMuffin Clone: Steaming Your Egg
McDonald’s may be offering all day breakfast now, but it’s still cheaper to make your own Egg McMuffins at home. If you want your sandwich to look, feel, and taste like their version, however, it all comes down to how you cook the egg.
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Adele’s ’25’ Tour Sold Out Quickly And Scalpers Were the Biggest Losers – The Atlantic
For American Adele fans, there haven’t been many opportunities to see the star live on stage: She cancelled most of a 2011 tour due to a vocal chord hemorrhage and hasn’t toured the states since. So Adele’s announcement of a 2016 North American tour…
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If it is progress to say to gay and bisexual men that it is OK for them now to donate blood, but not if they are sexually active—then, yes, today’s news that the FDA has lifted its ban on gay men donating blood is, indeed, a rainbow-flag waving bona…
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Cornell McKay’s Overturned Sentence Calls Eyewitness Testimony into Question – St. Louis Magazine
He smells the food and thinks of the cans of cat food you get at Family Dollar. Cornell McKay’s been locked in this square of concrete and steel at the St. Louis City Justice Center for 16 months, waiting for trial without a gulp of fresh air.
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Russia: Black box on warplane ‘too damaged’ to use – Al Jazeera English
Russian investigators say they will not be able to retrieve flight data from the black box of warplane downed by Turkey in November. An officer in Russia’s air force on Monday said data from the Su-24 jet could not be recovered from the device beca…
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Airflow Sends Just About Any Video to Chromecast or Apple TV from Windows or OS X
Windows/Mac: We’ve seen a variety of options for sending video from your computer to your Chromecast with Chrome or even the command line, but if you’re looking for more of an all-in-one solution, Airflow’s an app that’ll send just about any video t…
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Watch French Montana’s Merry ‘Feliz Navidad’ Cover | Rolling Stone
Watch French Montana’s Merry ‘Feliz Navidad’ Cover Rapper livens up our “Holiday Playlist” series with spirited rendition of Jose Feliciano favorite
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Pickles looking pretty by a plant : cats
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Advanced Brain Imaging Could Better Diagnose Concussions | MIT Technology Review
Brain images taken from hundreds soldiers diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injuries suggest that methods for diagnosing concussions are inadequate in detecting damage.
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We’ll be live blogging SpaceX’s rocket launch and attempted landing tonight | The Verge
Join us at 7:30PM ET! A rocket company’s prosperity is largely decided by the successes (or failures) of its launches. For Elon Musk’s SpaceX, that fact looms large in anticipation of tonight’s launch.
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Spain election: PM Rajoy’s party ‘has responsibility’ to form government – BBC News
Spain’s PM Mariano Rajoy has said his Popular Party has a “responsibility” to try to form a cabinet, despite failing to win a majority in Sunday’s poll. The conservatives took most votes, but the traditional Popular Party-Socialist two-party dominan…
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How to See Comet Catalina in the Early-Morning Sky: Tips and Tricks
Catch Comet Catalina in the sky over the next several weeks. Amateur astronomer Rich Tyson snapped this image from the Slooh Observatories on the Canary Islands Dec. 12.
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Norwegians Propose Gifting Finland One of Their Mountains – The Atlantic
Some people can be especially hard to shop for during the holiday season. What do you get your picky grandpa who has everything? That guy you’ve only been seeing for a few weeks? The cousin you’ve barely talked to in years, but whose name you drew i…
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You can start registering your drone with the FAA today | The Verge
Starting today anyone who wants to fly a drone in the US can register it with the FAA. You can keep flying without registering until February 19th, 2016, after which you will face civil and criminal penalties ranging from a $27,500 fine to three yea…
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Bill Cosby sued the supermodel Beverly Johnson for defamation on Monday, over her claim that the comedian drugged and attempted to sexually assault her in the 1980s. Cosby’s lawsuit contends Johnson has been using the story to try to rekindle her ca…
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How MEG 9 Got William Gibson Involved In Gaming
MEG 9 is the forthcoming video video game from developer Skunkwerks Kinetic and William Gibson. Yes, the William Gibson who wrote Neuromancer, so it should be no surprise that it oozes classic scifi elements.
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A World Coffee Shortage Is Inevitable
In the coffee-world, there’s been quiet rumblings of a shortage brewing for awhile now. And yet, despite the threat, it hasn’t hit quite yet—but that doesn’t mean it’s gone away.
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Steve Harvey disproves evolution / Boing Boing
Thanks to the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV, great-quality HD television can be accessed without committing to a lengthy cable or satellite contract. Connect up to 35 miles away from your closest broadcast tower and start watching news…
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I feel like he tolerates me too much. : aww
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HBO Documentary Explores Dark Underbelly Of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet : NPR
Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet was rocked following the 2013 acid attack on the company’s artistic director. A new documentary airing Monday on HBO, Bolshoi Babylon, looks at the culture of the company and how things got to that point.
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High On The Highway: Scientists Try To Build A Marijuana Breathalyzer : Shots – Health News : NPR
A quartet of Western states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana, and voters in half a dozen more states may vote on pot legalization in 2016.
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‘Son Of Saul’ Captures The Holocaust Without The Melodrama : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with the lead actor Geza Rohrig from the harrowing new Holocaust film, Son of Saul.
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After Killing Of Cecil, White House Enacts Protections For Lions : NPR
Months after an American dentist shot and killed a beloved African lion named Cecil, the Obama administration moves to protect lions in Africa through the Endangered Species Act.
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Carolina Panthers Remain Undefeated As NFL Regular Season Winds Down : NPR
With two weeks remaining in the NFL’s regular season, the Carolina Panthers remain undefeated. NPR’s Robert Siegel discusses the Panthers, their quarterback, and the last two weeks of the season with Jane McManus of ESPN.com.
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Digital Culture Critic Abandons ‘Fake On The Internet’ Column : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro interviews Caitlin Dewey, the digital culture critic for the Washington Post, about why she ended her “What Was Fake On The Internet This Week” column.
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FDA Lifts Decades-Old Ban On Blood Donations By Gay Men : Shots – Health News : NPR
The Food and Drug Administration is relaxing a 32-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
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Music Review: ‘ A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters,’ John Coltrane : NPR
An expanded version of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme has been released. Music reviewer Tom Moon says the set, which includes alternate studio takes and a live recording, gives insight into the musician’s creative drive.
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Brother Honors Legacy Of Relatives Lost In Chapel Hill, N.C., Shooting : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Farris Barakat, who lost relatives in the Chapel Hill, N.C., shooting. He recently visited a Syrian refugee camp to honor his brother’s legacy.
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U.S. Prepares To Relinquish Oversight Of Internet To International Body : NPR
The United States is giving control of the Internet to the world next year. At least, that’s how the folks at ICANN are framing it. ICANN is the organization that determines how the Internet is organized.
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Explaining The Celestial Logistics Of The Winter Solstice : NPR
Why doesn’t the winter solstice have the earliest sunset of the year? NPR’s Ari Shapiro explores that and other fun celestial news with NPR blogger Adam Frank.
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Here’s What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill : NPR
NPR explores the details of the federal spending bill that President Obama signed into law last week.
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Actress Gabourey Sidibe Explains How She Meets People Through Podcasts : NPR
Actress Gabourey Sidibe — you’ve seen her in Precious, American Horror Story and Empire — admits she’s a bit of a shut-in. “I really wish I wasn’t, but I am,” she says with a laugh. And while she’s “puttering around” the house she listens to all sor…
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Meet Hillary Clinton’s New Campaign Weapon — Bill : NPR
At a Manchester, N.H., watch party following Saturday’s Democratic primary debate, Hillary Clinton stood side by side with the man she called her “not so secret weapon” — her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Voters are about to see much more …
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Obama Says Trump Takes Advantage Of American Anxieties : NPR
In an interview with NPR, President Obama shares some thoughts on Donald Trump. The Republican frontrunner was also highly discussed in the latest Democratic debate.
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Why oil prices are crashing again
Consider it a Christmas gift from Saudi Arabia: This morning, AAA reported that the average price of gasoline had fallen below $2 per gallon for the first time since March of 2009, when the U.S. was still smack-dab in the middle of the Great Recessi…
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Crackdown on ‘Pill Mills’ Saved a Thousand Lives | Al Jazeera America
The researchers said their findings imply that restricting doctors and clinics that have been overprescribing addictive oxycodone drugs like OxyContin not only helps prevent painkiller overdose deaths, but may reduce heroin overdose fatalities as we…
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With Graham’s Exit It’s Game On In SC – The Daily Beast
Another experienced national Republican bites the dust—and John Kasich may be standing to benefit. This morning, Sen.
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Behold, Enceladus! Awesome Photo Shows Off New Features on Saturn Moon
The image, which was taken on Aug. 18 by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers), dramatically shows that some parts of Enceladus’ surface are much younger than others. “Newer surfaces (on the left in the image…
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Lack Of Public Options Shows How The Economy Gets Rigged Against Us
In a country with a Constitution beginning with the words, “We the People,” should our economy work for all of us instead of just a few of us? You would think it should work for We the People, but example after example shows how it is actually rigge…
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Rebel leaders return to South Sudan pledging peace – Al Jazeera English
Juba, South Sudan- South Sudan’s rival factions said on Monday they are both committed to finally pushing ahead with implementing a peace plan signed in August to bring an end to the disastrous two-year civil war.
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Politifact’s 2015 Lie of the Year: Donald Trump’s Campaign Statements : politics
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2015 Lie of the Year: the campaign misstatements of Donald Trump | PolitiFact
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Muslims Unite for 2016 Voter Drive | Al Jazeera America
An alliance of U.S. Muslim groups said Monday it is launching a national bus tour and voter registration drive to respond to what it calls an alarming rise in anti-Muslim attacks that it says is driven by Islamophobia in 2016 presidential campaign r…
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A senior figure at athletics’ world governing body was planning to delay naming Russian drug cheats in the run-up to the 2013 World Championships.The plan is outlined in an email from IAAF deputy general secretary Nick Davies to Papa Massata Diack.
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Alien: Convenant gets its star
Katherine Waterston has been cast to star in “Alien: Covenant,” the sequel to “Prometheus” to be directed by Ridley Scott. Waterston starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” and is the daughter of actor Sam Waterston. So what’s the storylin…
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E-Commerce Isn’t Everything | TechCrunch
The holiday season is here. For many of us that means lots of shopping. Are you doing most of your shopping online or in stores? If you’re like most consumers, the answer is both, but with a significant bias toward physical stores.
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Christmas is saved by this Blondie ‘X-mas Offender’ sweatshirt|Dangerous Minds
Blondie “X-mas Offender” Christmas sweatshirt How this amazing piece of Christmas adornment slipped past my radar until now is beyond me but, here it is—an officially licensed Blondie “X-mas Offender” sweatshirt. Squeee! Christmas is saved!
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R. Kelly Says Sex Crime Allegations Don’t Matter Because He’s Still Popular | ThinkProgress
R&B singer R. Kelly walked out of a HuffPost Live interview today after the interviewer asked questions about his history of alleged sex crimes and whether increasing public knowledge of those allegations is cutting into sales of his latest album, T…
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A new trial date of 13 June 2016 was announced Monday in the case of officer William Porter, the first of six Baltimore police officers to be tried in connection with the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in April.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died on December 21, occupied an extraordinary position in American life, both as a writer and because of the significance he came to have as a spokesman for the post-war young people.
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Iggy Pop wishes you a ‘White Christmas’!|Dangerous Minds
It’s a challenge to picture Iggy Pop chilling out next to an open fire savoring a snifter of eggnog, but versatile Iggy, that’s more or less who showed up to sing on his cover of “White Christmas,” the Irving Berlin Christmas classic mostly associat…
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Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, a little webseries about being rich and funny and having funny friends, is about to enter its seventh season, and he really outdid himself for this one.
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Certain Aspects | New Republic
F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died on December 21, occupied an extraordinary position in American life, both as a writer and because of the significance he came to have as a spokesman for the post-war young people.
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‘Black-ish,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Master of None’: The Best TV Shows of 2015 – The Atlantic
From Master of None and Black-ish to The Leftovers and Mr. Robot, The Atlantic’s writers and editors pick their favorite TV shows of 2015. (For those seeking a lengthier list, there’s also a roundup of the year’s best TV episodes.)
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Apple May Turn Streaming Music Quality Up to 11 | Motherboard
Apple may use high-resolution audio to differentiate Apple Music from the rest of the pack.
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Battle of Useless Machines a Metaphor for Something, Probably | Motherboard
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Freddie Gray case: Police officer charged in case to face new trial – BBC News
Baltimore prosecutors have decided to hold a second trial for an officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray. William Porter, one of six police officers accused in Gray’s death, will face a new trial in June.
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Lakes Are Heating Up, Putting Food And Water Supply At Risk | ThinkProgress
While pretty much every aspect of the global ecosystem has been heating up, freshwater lakes are warming faster than the oceans or the air, according to a new study from NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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Don’t Blame the Military Drone Pilots | Motherboard
Opinion: Claudia Hauer teaches at the US Air Force Academy and interviewed the sources quoted here for academic purposes. Names are withheld for privacy reasons and quotes have been reconstructed. The twenty-three-year-old pilot sat at his console i…
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The 10 Best and 10 Worst Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies of 2015
First, the good news: 2015 was a fantastic year at the movies. There were great original stories, sequels done right, adaptations that match their source material and more. But for every great movie, there’s a ton of bad ones too.
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There Are Now No More Major GOP Candidates Left Who Accept Climate Science. (thinkprogress.org)
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With all that’s going on in the world — from record-breaking warm spells to rapidly melting ice sheets — it’s easy to ignore something so seemingly mundane as dirt.
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James Franco to remake Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? for Lifetime · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even if you’ve reached your saturation point for Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens news, at least that glut of marketing (and critical assessment) briefly stemmed the tide of reboot news. But J.J.
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American Muslims Adopt Two-Pronged Approach To Combating Extremism | ThinkProgress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representatives from American Muslim organizations met at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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Immigrant Detainees Accuse US of Using Sleep Deprivation During Hunger Strike | VICE News
Dozens of detainees held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claim they were subjected to sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and other forms of retaliation after they went on hunger strike last month to protest the rejection of thei…
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No One Knows Why a Canadian Soldier and His Wife Plunged to Their Deaths in Toronto | VICE News
The couple who plunged to their deaths from a high rise tower in Toronto on Sunday have been identified as a Canadian veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan and his wife.
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Bezos’s Behind-the-Scenes Role in the Washington Post’s Web Growth – Bloomberg Business
Every two weeks, Jeff Bezos holds an hour-long conference call with executives at the Washington Post. Twice a year, the managers fly to Seattle for day-long strategy sessions with the Amazon.com Inc. founder.
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Computers Crack Life’s Secrets – h+ Mediah+ Media
Once the three-billion-letter-long human genome was sequenced, we rushed into a new “omics” era of biological research.
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The Most Popular Science Studies of the Year – Scientific American
The 2015 science research that set the Internet abuzz included a super antibiotic, plastics pollution in the ocean, climate change, and species extinction, according to Altmetric, a start-up that analyzes online activity surrounding academic papers.
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Help decide which charity is better: Child’s Play or the EFF | Ars Technica
Just over two weeks ago, we kicked off the 2015 edition of our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes, where we urge readers to donate to a good cause for a chance to win some of the piles of vendor-provided swag we can’t keep.
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These idiots are acting like terrorists invented encryption. WE invented encryption and it ensures the entire modern economy runs without widespread cyber chaos. No they are saying they use encryption. Are you saying the NSA shouldn’t be able to bre…
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A Massive Landslide of Mud and Construction Waste Strikes Shenzhen, China (29 photos) https://t.co/81OzbKUzLQ https://t.co/77x27ZIQle
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Hubble image of galaxy pair Arp 116 [7373 x 6220] https://t.co/3IlvUajN3h https://t.co/KKWNndZ2yS
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Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled https://t.co/Mu44tY1bXe https://t.co/WTSSuCJDBQ
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Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan- like project ” to break encryption : politics
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Thanks to the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV, great-quality HD television can be accessed without committing to a lengthy cable or satellite contract. Connect up to 35 miles away from your closest broadcast tower and start watching news…
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After Freddie Gray Mistrial,Justice for Baltimore? | Al Jazeera America
BALTIMORE — The mistrial this week in the case of 25-year-old Freddie Gray certainly wasn’t what many residents of Baltimore were expecting from a trial that some considered to be a “slam dunk,” one ending in a jury finding Officer William Porter gu…
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Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Theater’s Long Tradition of Colorblind Casting – The Atlantic
Earlier this year, the director Trevor Nunn sparked uproar when he announced the casting for his fall production of The War of the Roses, an adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s history plays. Of the 20-plus actors chosen for the show, every single …
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Judging By ‘Best Of’ Lists, Kendrick Lamar Was 2015’s Cultural Icon | FiveThirtyEight
Afraid you missed out on one of the best movies, TV shows, books or albums of the year? Don’t worry, the critics at [insert any given publication here] probably have your back.
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Wearing blackface is a big part of Dutch Christmas – Vox
There’s remarkable variety in Christmas traditions internationally. In Japan, eating at KFC on Christmas is a thing. A number of Alpine countries incorporate a demonic figure known as Krampus.
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BBC Sport – Tokyo Sexwale: Fifa candidate questioned over World Cup bribes
Fifa presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale has appeared before a US grand jury in New York as part of an on-going investigation into World Cup bribes.
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Woman suspected of driving into Las Vegas crowd ‘not distressed’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Sheriff Joe Lombardo says 24-year-old Lakeisha Holloway “didn’t appear to be distressed” after allegedly plowing into a crowd on the Las Vegas strip, killing one and injuring dozens more.
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Turkish forces and PKK engage in intense clashes – Al Jazeera English
The Turkish military and Kurdish separatists engaged in fierce clashes on Monday as troops attempt to root out fighters from two southern towns.
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Adele: Streaming ‘A Bit Disposable,’ ‘Music Should Be An Event’ | Rolling Stone
Adele Says Streaming ‘A Bit Disposable’: ‘Music Should Be An Event’ “I don’t use streaming. I buy my music.
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Picturepedia – Fun facts, trivia and eye candy on every page / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Picturepedia is a highly visual, engaging reference book for kids.
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The FAA’s Drone Registration Site Is Now Up And Running | TechCrunch
As promised, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opened its drone registry today. If you live in the U.S. and own any kind of drone that weighs more than 0.
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Top 5 TV: ‘Big Bang’ Gets Sexy, Steve Harvey Screws Up | Rolling Stone
Late last Saturday night, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey said their goodnights on SNL and threw it to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, who belted out a rousing version of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.
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Footwear Company Gets In On The Paid Family Leave Arms Race | ThinkProgress
KEEN Footwear, the outdoor shoe manufacturer, has increased its family leave policy to offer more pay, more time off, and include more parents, one of the few companies outside of the technology industry to do so recently.
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Retrial Date Set for William Porter | Al Jazeera America
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams set the trial date for Officer William Porter after meeting with prosecutors and defense lawyers, the Maryland state courts office said in a statement.
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Ask the Lifehacker Staff Anything
Do you have any itching questions for the Lifehacker team? Wondering about the latest, greatest keyboard shortcuts or advice on how to use binder clips to prop up your holiday season? The Lifehacker staff is here to answer your questions!
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Coldplay to Take Song Requests on Upcoming Tour | Rolling Stone
Coldplay to Take Song Requests on Upcoming Tour “We’d ask people to give us a reason why they want us to play that song so there is a purpose behind why we play it,” Chris Martin says
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Midday open thread: Latest ‘Star Wars’ hits box office record; climate change eats Canadian island
Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Year in review, part one: What you may have missed on Sunday Kos … There’s no such thing as 100 percent safe.
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Months after the killing of one of Zimbabwe’s protected lions sparked global outrage, US wildlife officials announced steps to make shooting Africa’s most famous big cats tougher and more expensive for trophy hunters.
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One of the gunmen who terrorized Paris last month, killing 130 people, was stopped by French police three times in the immediate aftermath of the massacre.
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Stories have repeatedly emerged this year over the poor treatment of transgendered offenders within prisons both in the UK and the US. In the last six weeks, two deaths have occurred in British jails.
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Gang Rapist Who Was Said to Have Pulled Out Delhi Victim’s Intestines Freed Amid Outrage | VICE News
The youngest of six men convicted of the gruesome gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 was released on Sunday after serving just three years in correctional center. His discharge was greeted by protests and an attempt to extend…
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What the most popular posts on Instagram in 2015 say about us
With the end of every year tech companies produce a slew of round-ups attempting to distil the past 12 months into a neat and tidy data-driven package. Spotify has done it, so has Google. Instagram too joined the bandwagon with its most liked photos.
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Roland TR-909 drum machine made with HTML5 / Boing Boing
My 12-year-old daughter recently picked up my long-neglected ukulele and has gotten pretty good at it in a short amount of time. I lost my ukulele pitch pipe, so she’s been using an online tone generator to tune it, which is not convenient. So I got…
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Tesla’s Model S To Get Spotify Premium For Free Outside Of The US | TechCrunch
If you’re buying a Tesla Model S, you can probably afford to bring your own tunes to the mix, but the company has announced today that you’ll get free Spotify Premium integration with your purchase in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong.
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A TSA agent spills his secrets
Mental Floss has an interesting article disclosing the secrets of TSA agents. Among them: Your cat is like a terrorist, if they refer to you as “very nice,” you are not, and they handle their professional status like the mob. Image via Evan Roth’s T…
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Bakersfield Police Department Named Deadliest in United States | Vanity Fair
According to the data set, the California city’s police department killed 13.6 people per million residents.
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Tesla is adding free Spotify Premium to its cars outside the US | The Verge
Tesla and Spotify have hooked up to integrate the music service deep into the Model S and Model X. This is timely since Tesla’s previous music streaming partner was Rdio, which just went kaput. That’s the good news.
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The Drake Effect Is Real, But The Nicki Effect Is Bigger | FiveThirtyEight
After toying with Drake in 2014, the queen of rap showed him up again in 2015.
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Lyft Files To Raise As Much As $1 Billion | TechCrunch
Lyft has authorized a Series F round in which it could raise as much as $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing a Delaware state filing.
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Use LEGO Bricks to Teach Basic Math Concepts
There are tons of different ways to teach your kids basic math concepts, but if you’re looking for something a bit more fun, the folks over at Scholastic have a guide for using LEGO bricks to teach concepts like fractions, square numbers, and more.
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Orphaned bear cubs prepare for first Russian winter alone – video | World news | The Guardian
Volunteers from Utyos wild animal rehabilitation centre help orphaned Himalayan black bear cubs prepare to spend their first winter on their own in a sanctuary in the far eastern Russia. Biologist, Yana Panova, explains that the bears could become e…
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The Scariest Video Game Moments of 2015
The emotional range of games have come a long way; they can make us laugh, cry, and poop our pants in fright. Right now, we’re gonna focus on the last one. Unlike books or movies, you can’t turn the page or close your eyes and wait for the freaky pa…
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This Week’s TV: River Song and the Doctor Fight a Robot Crab at Christmas!
River Song returns in a new Doctor Who Christmas Special! There are 96 hours of Godzilla on El Rey! Lucy Lawless finally returns to Ash vs. Evil Dead! Happy Holidays, it’s This Week’s TV! Have they tried Hare Krishna?
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Nigeria’s Shia detainees ‘dying’ without medical care – Al Jazeera English
Nigerian Muslims wounded in military raids earlier this month are dying in detention because they are being denied medical care, the Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) said Monday. Ibrahim Musa, the movement’s spokesman, said in a statement two …
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The Democratic National Committee, which considers opposition research it obtains on Republicans as a core function for the Democratic campaigns, has been buying reams of material from an outside group started by a close ally of Hillary Clinton.
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Unsmellable Snake Camouflages Its Scent – Inkfish
If your favorite activity is lying motionless on the ground, you’d better make sure hungry animals can’t find you. Snakes and other creatures that hunt by ambush, waiting for their prey to wander past, often have impressive visual camouflage.
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Funny and useful “no thank you” form letters / Boing Boing
Austin Kleon has assembled a bunch of “no thank you” form letters from writers and publishers. I’ve seen a few of these before. My favorite is Edmund Wilson’s postcard, where he says, “it is impossible for him under any circumstances to receive unkn…
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Spacewalking Astronauts Rescue Stuck Space Station Railcar
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra completed a spacewalk today (Dec. 21), releasing a stuck railcar and moving it to a workstation, where it could be locked down. Here, Kopra works near the recently arrived Cygnus supply craft (top).
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Trump Supporter Arrested In Alleged Plot To Bomb Muslims | ThinkProgress
Police in Richmond, California have arrested 55-year-old William Celli, who was allegedly constructing explosive devices he intended to use against the Muslims in his community.
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Pinball In Virtual Reality? Yes Please | TechCrunch
The system is built using Unreal Engine 4 and it will have a built-in editor so you can create your own pinball experiences. It’s designed for PC, VR headsets like Oculus and Vive and virtual cabinets, the team says.
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Hip-hop artists back push to send rap lyrics case to US supreme court | US news | The Guardian
US rappers Big Boi, TI and Killer Mike have backed a court case they are hoping will land in the US supreme court as part of a broader effort to curb the criminalization of rap music.
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Suicide Attack in Afghanistan Killed Six Foreign Troops, Three Afghan Soldiers – The Atlantic
Six foreign troops were killed and three others were wounded in an apparent suicide attack Monday in the Parwan province in Afghanistan, officials said. The attack occurred at about 1:30 p.m. local near Bagram air base, the largest U.S. military fac…
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GG Allen. Get it here Need a last-minute, inexpensive holiday gift for that hard-to-please friend? Okay, I believe I’ve got you covered with these amusing mash-up t-shirts by Wear Dinner. They’re pretty funny and each one sells for $25.00 + shipping…
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Lorrie Morgan Readies New Album ‘Letting Go… Slow’ | Rolling Stone
One of country music’s most versatile talents of the past three decades, Lorrie Morgan will kick off 2016 with Letting Go… Slow. Her first new solo album in five years, the LP is set for release February 12th on the Shanachie Entertainment label.
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year that we didn’t review.
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Leon Bridges Talks ‘Concussion’ Song, Grammy Nod | Rolling Stone
On his debut album, Coming Home, Leon Bridges sounded like the second coming of Sam Cooke. During the course of the year, the young singer from Fort Worth, Texas, has staked out his own identity as the new voice of gospel and soul music.
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Bjork Releases 360-Degree ‘Stonemilker’ Video as Virtual Reality App | Rolling Stone
Björk has invited fans to explore her oceanic “Stonemilker” video through a new virtual reality app. The piece is available to purchase via iTunes for both iPhone and iPad platforms, as either a “magic window” or by using third party virtual reality…
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The Traveling Wilburys came to terms with death on “End Of The Line” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs about endings. I discovered the Travelling Wilburys when I was 10 or something, having stumbled across the group’s debut album on a tape my parents had tu…
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Deep Purple Singer: Rock Hall Band Member Exclusions Are ‘Very Silly’ | Rolling Stone
Deep Purple Singer: Rock Hall Band Member Exclusions Are ‘Very Silly’ “The induction is not – in clear fact – for Deep Purple,” Ian Gillan writes of 2016 induction, which won’t include current members Steve
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Jimmer Fredette’s Journey Back | Rolling Stone
Contrary to popular belief, Jimmer Fredette is still Jimmer Fredette. He still has a proclivity to launch the ball from an unconscionable distance and watch it gently drop through the net.
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There Are Now No More Major GOP Candidates Left Who Accept Climate Science. (thinkprogress.org) Kindof sad that the guy who proclaimed “I miss George Bush” and was calling for a re-invasion of Iraq (and brand new invasion of Syria)…was the level-h…
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E-Cigs’ Inconvenient Truth: It’s Much Safer to Vape | Rolling Stone
Daniel Walsh was first drawn to electronic cigarettes for the same reason millions of smokers have taken up the devices. “I was a guy who could work 20 hour days and juggle a number of complex projects, but I couldn’t quit,” says Walsh. “It was my g…
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It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs” | Grist
The more you look into it, the more you find that there is no way to sensibly draw a line around a class of foods and say they contain GMOs.
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HONG KONG — As rescuers searched Monday for survivors of a catastrophic landslide in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a series of failures and ignored warnings that contributed to the disaster began to emerge.
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Donald Trump Didn’t Invent Wingnut Putinphilia. He’s Channeling It.
Despite the fact that this past weekend featured a Democratic Party presidential deb ate, the news continues to be Donald Trump and the GOP race. One assumes the press was not interested in the debate simply because the three candidates are professi…
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Polish police find pure cocaine hidden in banana crates – BBC News
Police in Poland have seized 178kg (around 28st) of pure cocaine that had been hidden in banana crates. The €24.7m (£18.1m) haul from Colombia, was found in a lorry at a vegetable market in Bronisze, west of Warsaw.
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Worst Attack in 18 Months Shocks U.S. Military – The Daily Beast
Six U.S. troops were killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. It marked the deadliest day for American forces in nearly 18 months, and signaled that a resurgent Taliban was on the move in what was supposed to be the waning year of the war.
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Martin Shkreli fired from drug firm KaloBios following arrest – BBC News
Martin Shkreli has been fired as chief executive from the drug company KaloBios Pharmaceuticals. It comes just days after his arrest by the FBI for securities fraud.
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Las Vegas Strip crash driver ‘faces murder charge’ – BBC News
Las Vegas prosecutors say a woman accused of deliberately driving her car into a crowd of pedestrians, killing one, will be charged with murder. Police said Lakeisha Holloway, 24, from Oregon, drove her vehicle onto a pavement packed with more than …
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FDA Overturns 30-Year Ban On Blood Donations By Gay Men – Scientific American
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled on Monday that gay men can donate blood 12 months after their last sexual contact with another man, overturning a 30-year ban aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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African Lions Finally Gain Endangered Species Act Protection – Scientific American Blog Network
Here’s roaring good news: In a move several years in the making, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finally announced that the African lion (Panthera leo) would formally be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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The Year in Kate Middleton’s Hair: 2015 Edition | Vanity Fair
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Unemployment Is Much Higher Among Black Americans Even When They Are More Educated – The Atlantic
The economy is improving: Nationally, unemployment is about 5 percent, down from 10 percent in 2009. But for black Americans, the unemployment rate is much higher—for them, the economy is still a disaster. Unemployment among blacks was 9.
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Survivors of Domestic Violence Deserve Clemency, Not Prison Cells | The Nation
I recently received a letter from Valerie Seeley, who is imprisoned at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State’s maximum-security prison for women. She had been told that Governor Andrew Cuomo was going to start granting clemencies and a…
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Dealmaster: Get a 64GB unlocked Nexus 6P smartphone for just $499 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a number of deals you can still get in time for the Christmas holiday.
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Captain America Will Celebrate His 75th Birthday With a TV Special
2016 is a special year for Marvel’s First Avenger; it’ll mark 75 years since Steven Rogers burst his way onto the comics scene by punching Hitler in the face.
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With new funding round, Lyft’s valuation is a shadow of Uber’s | The Verge
Lyft, the ride-haiing startup that isn’t Uber, is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in new financing, according to Bloomberg.
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The Best and Worst Days to Travel Over the Holidays, According to Waze
We’re on the heels of Christmas and New Year’s, which means you can expect the roads to be packed. Waze has predicted the best and worst days to travel over the next couple of weeks. Probably unsurprisingly, the best day to be on the road to avoid t…
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Obama Tells the Truth About Race, and the Right Explodes | The Nation
In a broad and fascinating end-of-year NPR interview, President Obama accused Donald Trump of “exploiting” the fears of “blue-collar men.” Now the right is shrieking that he’s playing “the race card,” as Matt Drudge’s top headline read most of Monda…
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FDA loosens ban on blood donations from gay men | Ars Technica
Men who have sex with men are now allowed to donate blood, according to a revised policy posted today by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Into the Badlands Is Over and I’m Already In Martial Arts Withdrawal
Just like that, all six episodes of AMC’s Into the Badlands have (already?!) wrapped up—and with it go some of the most mesmerizing, elegant on-screen battles ever produced on an American TV program.
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Researchers confirm backdoor password in Juniper firewall code | Ars Technica
On December 17, Juniper Networks issued an urgent security advisory about “unauthorized code” found within the operating system used by some of the company’s NetScreen firewalls and Secure Service Gateway (SSG) appliances.
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2015 in Daily Cartoons – The New Yorker
Every day, our daily cartoonists get out of bed with one goal: to make people laugh. To achieve this, they also have to set a second goal: to read every news item that has transpired in the past twenty-four hours.
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The GOP primary just got a little less sane on climate change | Grist
Graham’s campaign had been struggling to gain traction. He was averaging just 0.5 percent in the polls, according to Real Clear Politics. He never made it onto the main stage of a GOP debate, and he was even excluded from one of the undercard debate…
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Yahoo Renews Its Partnership With NBC Sports | TechCrunch
Today, Yahoo announced that one of their crown jewels, a relationship that they have with NBC Sports, has been renewed.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died 75 years ago today
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940. According to his New York Times obituary, he was felled at 44 by a heart attack that he’d suffered three weeks earlier.
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Art Exhibit on Bill Murray Opens in the UK | Open Culture
Somebody get us Bill Murray stat! The actor and secular saint has no direct involvement with BILL MURRAY: A Story of Distance, Size, and Sincerity at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art but the interview with artist Brian Griffiths, above, sugges…
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Every year, the Natural History Museum hosts an outdoor ice skating rink. It’s a great day out for thousands of families. But it’s also a bizarre exercise for an organisation that aims to put climate change at the heart of its programme of public en…
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On stage at the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday night, the two finalists clutched hands, waiting for the host to read out the name of the winner. Announced as the winner, Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez Arévalo, stepped forward to deaf…
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It was confirmed this summer that news of a Kindergarten Cop sequel was not just a rumor (or, for that matter, a toomah), and that erstwhile Expendable Dolph Lundgren would succeed fellow behemoth Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role.
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No Water Required: Mars Gullies Caused By ‘Dry Ice’?
More than a decade ago, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor returned stunning images of gullies shaped like water-carved streams on Earth, raising the prospect that Mars may be a friendly haven for life. But appearances can be deceiving.
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Saudi Arabia ‘jails reformist writer Zuhair Kutbi’ – BBC News
Zuhair Kutbi’s lawyer and son said half the sentence was suspended, but that he was also banned from writing for 15 years and travelling abroad for five, and fined $26,600 (£17,900). It is not clear on what charges Mr Kutbi was found guilty.
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‘The Force Awakens’ Is the Least Interesting Star Wars Yet | Motherboard
Warning: Spoilerz. The results are in for The Force Awakens, the receipts tallied, the reviews aggregated, and just look at all those zeros and blissful tomatoes.
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New Argentine criticises Venezuela over rights record – BBC News
Venezuela has accused the new Argentine President Mauricio Macri of meddling in its internal affairs after he criticised its human rights record. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delci Rodriguez hit back after Mr Macri made his remarks at a meeting of re…
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I Made My Own Clickbait with Adobe’s New App ‘Post’ | Motherboard
On Thursday, Photoshop developer and all-around software giant Adobe released its new app Post, which makes simple graphic design easy and accessible to just about anyone.
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‘This is the Moody Blues’ megapost|Dangerous Minds
This Is The Moody Blues is one of those almost mythical greatest hits albums from the 60s or 70s where every single cut was killer, the cocaine had not yet taken its toll and the group or artist had not yet begun their inevitable middle-aged 80s cre…
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Retaking Ramadi From the Islamic State: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 11) | VICE News
Iraqi security forces recaptured a large part of the city of Ramadi this week in one of their most significant military victories over the Islamic State (IS) to date.
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Lindsey Graham Tries To Stop Trump The Only Way He Can — By Quitting | FiveThirtyEight
It might seem inconsequential that Lindsey Graham suspended his presidential campaign earlier today, but make no mistake, the decision had a point: It was all about helping the Republican establishment and hurting Donald Trump. Graham, a U.S.
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Earth’s Extreme Tilt Marks the Winter Solstice
The winter solstice is a vampire’s delight. No other night is longer and no day shorter. But it also means the subsequent days get longer. This year’s winter solstice will occur at 11:48 p.m. ET Monday (04:49 GMT Tuesday). At that moment, the sun wi…
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‘A Death Unrecorded Is a Death Forgotten’ – Joao Silva – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
Editor’s note: This video contains images that may be disturbing to some viewers. Joao Silva and a group of photojournalists known as the “Bang Bang Club” gained international notoriety for their work in the townships of Johannesburg in post-aparthe…
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HappyFunCorp Launches Happy Fun App To Make Instagram More Social | TechCrunch
For the past year and a half the Brooklyn-based development shop, HappyFunCorp has been laboring over a new graph that would offer new ways to interact with Twitter and Instagram. Now, just in time for the holidays, the company is unveiling the firs…
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Sarah Palin Hits Back at Tina Fey with ‘30 Rock’ Parody – The Daily Beast
Sarah Palin finally gets the chance to turn the tables on Tina Fey and play a Liz Lemon knockoff in a new parody of 30 Rock.
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Bernie Blackout? As DNC Accused of Targeting Sanders, Corporate Media Ignores Historic Campaign (democracynow.org) What people really need to consider: The media has time to cover Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Carson 24/7, Bush gets more coverage th…
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What’s This Tropical, Venomous Sea Snake Doing in California?
Highly venomous yellow-bellied sea snakes are rarely spotted in the cold waters off California. But a dead one was found this week on a popular state beach in Southern California.
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Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat – ProPublica
This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Nursing home workers across the country are posting embarrassing and dehumanizing photos of elderly residents on social media networks such as Snapchat, violating their privacy, dignity and, some…
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Jailhouse cuisine: how to cook prison spread / Boing Boing
This 2010 video explains the preparation of “prison spread,” a kind of hybrid top ramen mixed with other jailhouse ingredients, highly customizable based on taste and circumstances.
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J.K. Rowling Shuts Down Backlash To ‘Black Hermione’ | ThinkProgress
A black actress has been cast as Hermione in the upcoming “eighth” Harry Potter story, the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, prompting a firestorm on social media.
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Arrest warrant for Blaise Compaore over Sankara killing – Al Jazeera English
Burkina Faso has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted leader Blaise Compaore in connection with the murder of former President Thomas Sankara, news reports said Monday.
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Renewables Boom Expected Thanks to Tax Credit – Scientific American
The U.S. solar and wind power industries will mark the holidays with heightened spirits after receiving multiyear extensions of their coveted renewable energy tax credits from a divided Congress.
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Newborn Otter yawning via /r/aww https://t.co/vRey6AnKp3 https://t.co/4PiGGBNzfY https://t.co/K6Jg80ByG2
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Newborn Otter yawning via /r/aww…
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Diesel was not pleased by his first trip to the vet : aww
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With 100,000 Sellers Connected, Square’s App Marketplace Builds A Bridge | TechCrunch
Since it’s bouncy debut, Square’s stock has remained relatively stable. This can be attributed to many factors, but the underlying predictability of its payments processing business is a big pillar of that.
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Microsoft Buys Ray Ozzie’s Communications Startup Talko, Team Will Join Skype | TechCrunch
Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobile messaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, involves the Talko technology and the team.
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It may have been a German judge who finally banished Sepp Blatter from the world of football, but the longtime Fifa president’s real nemesis was a diminutive US lawyer whose legendary prowess at bringing down mobsters was dramatised in the movie Goo…
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The FDA’s New Policy on Blood Donations From Gay Men – The Atlantic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will remove the country’s longtime policy barring all gay and bisexual men from donating blood, the agency said Monday.
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Theranos’ Only FDA Approved Test Is Also Under Scrutiny After Ex-Employee Complaint | TechCrunch
Two former Theranos employee have filed complaints so far with the Food and Drug Administration over alleged faulty test results.
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Barack Obama: Donald Trump is ‘taking advantage’ of GOP voter anxieties | US news | The Guardian
President Barack Obama called out Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday for “taking advantage” of the “anger, frustration and fear” increasingly felt by blue-collar workers over economic hardships and the changing cultural makeup of America.
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Seven sentenced to death for brutal rape-murder in India – BBC News
Police in India have sentenced seven men to death for the brutal rape and murder in February of a Nepalese woman. The 28-year-old victim was suffering from depression and had been undergoing treatment when she went missing in the northern Haryana st…
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Not all retirement advisers are required to give you good advice. That’s about to change. – Vox
You know setting aside money for retirement is smart, but you don’t know anything about how it works. You need advice. Where do you turn? Maybe you have a financially-savvy friend or family member. But a lot of people turn to professional advisers.
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When Christmas-Tree Tinsel Was a Lead-Poisoning Risk – The Atlantic
In the midst of the pre-holiday frenzy, it can be helpful to pause and take a moment to remember the important thing: Life is fragile, and Christmas is full of dangers.
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Children Of Future Sleep on Vimeo
a short film about a robot’s realization of the true nature of their reality, directed and animated by Ivan Gopienko https://vimeo.com/ivangopienko music from Floex, Son Lux, DVA, Joe Hisaishi, Mum, and S. Larue more info … http://kingdeluxe.ca/sleep
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Registering Your Drone With the FAA Is Surprisingly Painless | Motherboard
In what must be some sort of minor miracle from the ghosts of government competence, the Federal Aviation Administration has launched a functioning version of its drone registration website on time.
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A Simple Demonstration That Provides An Amazing Explanation Of Gravity – Digg
5 diggs Science Space Employees of the Michigan Science Center went on a local news show to plug an upcoming event. With an extremely simple demonstration, they give a surprisingly awesome explanation of gravity.
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Switzerland Islamic council member defends Syria videos – BBC News
A leading figure in a prominent Muslim organisation in Switzerland has denied allegations he used videos made in Syria to spread jihadist propaganda.Naim Cherni, a board member of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), insisted his aim w…
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Everything to Know About Kim K’s Kimoji App, Launching Today – Racked LA
This is not a drill: today, Kim Kardashian launched her very own emoji app, and everyone cares.
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Six US service members killed in Afghan suicide bombing – BBC News
A suicide bombing in Afghanistan has killed six US service members in one of the deadliest attacks on American forces this year, US media report.The Taliban said they were behind the blast, which also injured several US and Nato soldiers.
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Vladimir Sorokin’s ‘The Blizzard’ and the Russian Novel’s Identity Crisis – The Atlantic
Vast, grand, breathtaking—English-language readers typically associate such words with the 19th-century Russian novel. Bleak, brave, subversive—those go with 20th-century Russian fiction. If it’s epic or dissident, we know how to make sense of it.
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The Republican Primary Just Got a Little Less Sane | Mother Jones
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham suspended his presidential campaign on Monday. And just like that, the Republican nomination battle got a little less sane when it comes to climate change. You might be wondering how that’s even possible.
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A Massive Landslide of Mud and Construction Waste Strikes Shenzhen, China – The Atlantic
On Sunday, an enormous pile of excavated soil and other construction waste crashed down on an industrial park in Shenzhen, China, in a landslide burying dozens of buildings, and leaving more than 90 people listed as missing.
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Lindsey Graham is taking credit for making the GOP hawkish again. He’s wrong. – Vox
Lindsey Graham is taking credit for making the GOP hawkish again. He’s wrong. https://t.co/sQ0U1SIsYv https://t.co/n0VRDokoq8
Monday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Despite polling at around 1 percent for the entire race, and never participating in a main-stage debate, Graham declared victory. -
Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled | NASA
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“A Way Out” turns out to be a microcosm of this first season as a whole, with all the flaws and virtues that implies. There are revelations and cliffhangers and a final twist worthy of debate, but also the same problems with pacing and character dev…
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Miami judge rules that immigration detainees can be force-fed | US news | The Guardian
A federal judge has authorized the force-feeding of a group of immigration detainees in Miami who have been on a hunger strike.
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This is a crucial and underappreciated point about why defeating ISIS is so difficult – Vox
There is, to many casual observers of the Middle East, a certain puzzle in why ISIS has managed to hang out, improbably, for so long.
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We Now Know the Backstory of Greg Grunberg’s Star Wars Character
In grand Star Wars tradition, Greg Grunberg’s X-Wing pilot has a rich background that can only be found in the tie-in materials. Minor spoilers ahead. In The Force Awakens, Greg Grunberg—good friend of J.J.
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Seann William Scott almost scooped Crank from Jason Statham · Podmass · The A.V. Club
Most Read A.V. Club Most Read 1 Posted Dec 21 2 Posted Dec 21 3 Illustration by Luke Meeken (www.gildedgreen.com) Posted Dec 21 4 Posted Dec 21 The Latest From Newswire The Latest From Features Illustration by Dan Henrick (catsuitstudios.
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Apple’s Live Photos come to Facebook’s iOS app | The Verge
Facebook is adding support for Live Photos taken with the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, following Tumblr’s support of the photo format from a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, since support is limited only to iOS users, they will only be viewable in Faceboo…
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Well, that didn’t take very long. We’re halfway through the season, and two of the biggest changes to the status quo going in—Colton’s presence and Maura’s renewed relationship with Shelly—have been blown up by two kinds of Pfefferman capriciousness.
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That the warmest episode so far of F Is For Family includes a major betrayal, a savage beating, and the biggest rupture yet in the Murphys’ marriage is indicative of how creators Bill Burr and Michael Price have made insecurity and instability (and …
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The Librarians Weaponizes “Happily Ever After”
In “And the Happily Ever Afters,” The Librarians ramped up to the final confrontation with Prospero (which I still don’t care about) and delivered us a look at everyone’s greatest wishes.
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A small New England college goes 100 percent solar : environment
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: [3139×1977] The Orion Nebula
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A small New England college goes 100 percent solar – Yahoo News
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Learn to Love Wine Without Being a Snob About It
A good wine isn’t something you should be ashamed to enjoy. It’s also not a one-way ticket to the often-expensive and over-the-top world of wine, wine lingo, and wine reviewers.
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Recently, I was doing some research on food in prison, specifically prison spread. According to Urban Dictionary: “Typically spread is a Top Ramen base that can be augmented to a specific flavor by using chips, canned meat, or other foods that are a…
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Facebook Starts Rolling Out Support For Apple’s Live Photos | TechCrunch
It’s been just under 3 months since Apple debuted “Live Photos” with the iPhone 6s and, slowly but surely, big third parties are finding ways to integrate them.
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French consumer group sues for right to resell Steam games | Ars Technica
A French consumer group has brought a lawsuit against Valve, saying the Steam and its required terms of service infringe on a number of European legal rights, including the right to legally resell purchased software.
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Controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has called his arrest last week a “real injustice” and blamed it on the political heat generated by his former company’s decision to raise the price of a cancer and Aids drug by as much as 5,000%.
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FDA Makes It Official: Celibate Gay Men May Donate Blood | ThinkProgress
The FDA formally announced on Monday that it finalized the policy change first announced a year ago: The lifetime ban on blood donation by any man who has ever had sex with another man will now be replaced with a one-year ban.
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Microsoft acquires Ray Ozzie’s Talko messaging app | The Verge
Microsoft has been acquiring a number of different mobile apps over the past couple of years, but today’s purchase is particularly interesting. Microsoft is buying Talko, a messaging app that started off life with Ray Ozzie, former Microsoft chief a…
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Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton must apologize for saying I help Isis – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump told NBC’s Today Show on Monday that he will demand an apology from Hillary Clinton, after the Democratic candidate suggested the Republican candidate was inadvertently helping Isis recruit fighters.
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2015 IPO Scorecard: How Box, Square, Fitbit And Others Stacked Up | TechCrunch
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Denmark’s young Prince Christian ‘saved from waves’ – BBC News
Prince Christian, the second in line to Denmark’s throne, has been rescued after getting into trouble in the waves at an Australian beach, reports say. The 10-year-old son of Crown Prince Frederik was saved last Thursday by a lifeguard on the popula…
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Burkina Faso ‘warrant’ for ex-leader Blaise Compaore – BBC News
An arrest warrant has been issued for ousted Burkina Faso leader, Blaise Compaore, over his alleged role in the 1987 murder of ex-President Thomas Sankara, judicial sources say. Mr Compaore’s ally, Gen Gilbert Diendere, was recently charged in conne…
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Lindsey Graham dropping out is a surprisingly big opportunity for the GOP establishment – Vox
Four down, 12 more to go. On Monday, long-shot GOP candidate Lindsey Graham announced that he’s suspending his presidential campaign.
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Bacteria that resist ‘last antibiotic’ in UK – BBC News
Bacteria that resist the antibiotic of last resort – colistin – have been discovered in the UK. Officials say the threat to human health is low, but is under ongoing review.
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‘When We Made Mistakes in Our Sewing, They Slapped Us’ | The Nation
Over two years after one of the worst industrial accidents in recent memory, Bangladesh’s garment workers are “safer” now—or so they’ve been told. So why do they still go to work afraid?
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Why You Should Give Your New Year’s Resolution a Theme
The New Year is as good a time as any to make goals and resolutions. You’ll find no shortage of tips on how to accomplish those goals, but one fun option is to give your resolution a theme.
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FDA Overturns Ban on Blood Donations by Gay Men | Al Jazeera America
Federal health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can donate.
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Company licenses to be revoked over Indonesia haze – BBC News
More than 50 Indonesian companies will have their licenses revoked for their role in causing the haze that blanketed South East Asia earlier this year, the government has said.
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US plans to extend endangered species status to lions in Africa | Environment | The Guardian
The US plans to extend its endangered species protection to lions in Africa, five months after an American dentist caused an international furore by killing Cecil, a famed lion which lived in Zimbabwe.
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We’ve seen some glimpses of silver foxes Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey and one promotional photo of leading lady Renée Zellweger, but here, for the first time, are all three legs of the love triangle at the center of Bridget Jones’s Baby.
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Donald Trump weighs in on that Miss Universe blunder · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although he’s been stripped of his intergalactic overlord powers, i.e., he was “inspired” to sell the pageant after landing in hot water, Donald Trump is still emotionally invested in the Miss Universe proceedings.
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Exclusive Valiant preview: Faith grows up with her own solo miniseries · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The breakout character of Joshua Dysart’s Harbinger series, Faith Herbert is a cheerful, enthusiastic nerd that sees the manifestation of her superpowers as an opportunity to become the kind of hero she’s idolized her entire life.
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This Lexus is riding on wheels and tires made entirely of ice | The Verge
The headline pretty much says it all: here’s a Lexus NX — the company’s small crossover — fitted with wheels and “tires” made of glowing ice. Lexus UK worked with a British ice sculpting company to make the stunt happen, laser-scanning the NX’s real…
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FDA drops lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men | US news | The Guardian
US government health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will remain on who can donate.
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The best ride in the galaxy—coming back to Earth in a Soyuz | Ars Technica
Just a little more than a week ago astronaut Kjell Lindgren prepared to take the ride of his life. The experience of returning to Earth inside a Soyuz spacecraft—likened to a fireball—may well be the most exciting thrill ride known to humans.
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Miss Universe mistake: How Colombia reacted to ‘stolen’ crown – BBC News
For a brief moment on Sunday evening, Miss Colombia’s dreams came true. Ariadna Gutierrez was mistakenly crowned winner of Miss Universe 2015 in Las Vegas before host Steve Harvey recognised his error.
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The Best Drinks of 2015 – The New Yorker
One dilemma faced by the Bar Tab contributor is how to consume largish quantities of booze while also remembering its specific attributes.
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What people in your state want for Christmas, in one map – Vox
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All Alabamans want for Christmas is … a purse designed to conceal a gun, apparently. This is one tidbit that showed up when we asked Google to pull data on the most uniquely searched shopping items for each state over the past week. -
Video about a $32,000 plane trip from NYC to JFK / Boing Boing
Brian Kelly (aka The Points Guy) reviewed what it was like to fly Etihad’s Residence suite from New York JFK to Abu Dhabi. His “seat” was a three-cabin suite. Etihad forgot to load his baggage on the flight.
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Toshiba cuts 7,800 jobs following accounting scandal | The Verge
Toshiba’s consumer electronics division is struggling. Toshiba’s former president and CEO Hisao Tanaka stepped down six months ago today, following a disclosure that the company had declared $1.2 billion in false profit.
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The US will finally let gay and bi men donate blood — but only if they stop having sex – Vox
After more than 30 years, the United States is finally relaxing its decades-long ban on blood donations from gay men. The ban dates back to 1983.
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Court upholds FAA ruling that bans ride-sharing for planes | The Verge
Uber-for-flying startups will stay grounded after a federal appeals court declined to review a ruling by the Federal Aviation Administration that prohibited cost-sharing by private pilots. Flytenow.
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Hezbollah vows to hold Israel accountable for Qantar’s death – BBC News
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has vowed that Israel will be held to account for the killing of one of its leading figures in an air strike in Syria. Speaking at the funeral of Samir Qantar in Beirut, executive council chief Hashem Safieddine warned I…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens — what’s up with the Republic and the Resistance? – Vox
After I saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I did what I’m sure all of you did — I talked to my friends about it. In these conversations, there was one thing almost everyone was confused about: what the hell was going on with the war part of Star Wars.
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What We’re Following This Afternoon on December 21 – The Atlantic
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The Case Against (and For) ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ – The Atlantic
The Atlantic’s David Sims and Spencer Kornhaber discuss two very different reactions to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (Spoilers abound.) Kornhaber: The most telling scene of The Force Awakens isn’t about Han Solo’s fate, or Rey’s powers, or BB8 and …
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The kid who unlocked the iPhone just built a self-driving car in his garage / Boing Boing
In 2007, 17-year-old George Hotz became the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone. Two years later, he was the first person to break the security on the Sony Playstation. This year, Hotz unveiled a self-driving car that he built in his garage.
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FDA okays blood donations from gay men if they don’t have sex for a year | The Verge
A year ago, the US Food and Drug Administration recommended lifting the ban that disqualified gay men from giving blood. Today, the FDA followed through on that recommendation — but only for men who haven’t had sex with another man for a year or mor…
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Cock.li Email Server Seized After LA Bomb Scare, Admin Says | Motherboard
Last week, all public schools in Los Angeles were closed for a day due to a hoax bomb threat. Now, the administrator of Cock.li, the meme email service used to send that threat, says a hard-drive from one of his servers has been seized by German aut…
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The Biggest Threat to American Public Safety Is the American Police State | The Nation
If you’ve been listening to various police agencies and their supporters, then you know what the future holds: anarchy is coming—and it’s all the fault of activists.
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Explosions rock Afghan capital Kabul – Al Jazeera English
Three loud explosions hit the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, police said. Two rockets landed near Kabul’s diplomatic district, a police source told Al Jazeera.
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The 10 Scariest, Weirdest, Coolest Robots of 2015
2015 was an insanely wild year in robotics: From leaps in AI technology to piloted, Gundam-like battle machines. We’re living in a bizarre, sci-fi world that entangles humans with robots more than ever before. Here are ten of the craziest ‘bots from…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens beat every box office record but one – Vox
Star Wars: The Force Awakens beat every box office record but one https://t.co/VVOxAQIYIs https://t.co/kHOea8NgUX
In the end, even the dinosaurs were no match for a universe far, far away. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is officially a record-breaking hit, raking in $238 million in its opening weekend. To put that in perspective, The Force Awakens crushed Jurassi… -
Marrying your best friend is a cliche, but a good one for women | Life and style | The Guardian
“Being in love is an amazing thing. Being in love with your best friend is everything.” So claims jewelry retailer Zales in a TV spot for one of their newest products, the “Ever Us” ring.
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Lab screw-ups with smallpox and anthrax show we must rethink biosecurity | Ars Technica
Over the past couple of years, American labs have been caught mishandling biological samples that require extreme care: things like smallpox, anthrax, and avian flu.
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Donald Trump given a posh British accent / Boing Boing
A short film by Peter Serafinowicz. “What if Donald Trump had elocution lessons? All words verbatim.” It would be interesting to see the opposite: give Cameron a New York accent.
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The underlying horror of the rebooted Full House / Boing Boing
People who bought Cards Against Humanity’s Eight Sensible Gifts for Hannukah subscription were invited to take a survey at the end of the purchase, one that asked all kinds of weird, invasive questions — naturally, CAH has published the results! Fiv…
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Yoyo Launches Mobile Wallet In The U.S. | TechCrunch
UK-based mobile wallet app Yoyo Wallet has quietly brought their mobile payment technology to the U.S. and has been stealthily rolling out services with select partners in a private beta. The company is planning its official launch in the first quar…
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Will Water in Flint, Michigan, Ever Be Safe Again? | Al Jazeera America
FLINT, Mich. – The head of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality says he hasn’t regained the public’s trust after a water crisis in the city of Flint left tens of thousands of residents at risk of lead exposure.
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Poet Robin Coste Lewis: ‘I am an artist through to my marrow’ | Books | The Guardian
At age six, Robin Coste Lewis told her aunt that she wanted to be a writer. This, she thought, meant being a novelist.
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How Police Dogs Turned into Cybernetic Hunters | Motherboard
A German Shepherd lies on a stretcher in a sterile exam room, tucked in a fleece blanket. The room’s perimeter is lined with men in crisp khaki uniforms, handguns strapped to their sagging utility belts.
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Trapped CO2 gas may form Martian gullies – BBC News
Gullies seen on the surface of Mars could be formed by trapped CO2 gas causing sand to flow downhill, a new modelling study suggests. In the Martian winter, a layer of CO2 frost – dry ice – forms on the surface in many regions of the red planet.
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Here’s How MyFitness Pal Just Made Dining Out Much Easier for Dieters | Motherboard
MyFitnessPal, the app that lets users keep track of their calories and macronutrients, just added a major new feature that’s sure to make dining out less of a hassle for dieters.
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Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans | CSO Online
A database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters, has been discovered online by researcher Chris Vickery. The database houses 3.3 million accounts and has ties to a number of other Hello Kitty …
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We Heart It, an image bookmarking service popular with teenaged girls, is out now with its second mobile application called Easel.
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Not much grows in Woodland. Farmers cultivate small amounts of tobacco, pick cotton, and harvest soybeans in this northeastern North Carolina town. This 800-person community with roughly twice the national poverty rate has seen better days. But then…
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Sexy ugly Christmas sweater / Boing Boing
The $120 Digital Wizard hoodie started out as a 2012 April Fool’s prank, but as with other Thinkgeek April Fools products, it proved so popular that they went ahead and made it.
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Best TV shows 2015: from Mad Men to Jessica Jones – Vox
Compiling a year-end top TV list is always a humongous beast of a task, even when you watch as many shows as I do. But that was truer than ever in 2015. There’s so much out there! This year, there were more than 400 scripted dramas and comedies just…
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Just in time for the holidays, Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, is releasing her own line of emoji. They are called Kimoji.
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Real New Yorkers’ UNCENSORED Opinions on Donald Trump | Vanity Fair
One might instinctively think that New Yorkers would hate Donald Trump, the Queens native who filled the skyline with his gaudy buildings and his wispy, frail hair. (After all, New York is the home of the Liberal Media Conspiracy.)
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Matt Damon Explains How Bourne 5 Links to the Previous Movies
It goes without saying that the next Bourne movie will take place after the last ones. At the end of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne went off the grid with his enemies assuming him dead. In 2016, he’ll be back, and Matt Damon recently talk…
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10 Best Miss Universe Steve Harvey Memes – The Daily Beast
Last night, no doubt distracted by the galaxy of beauty surrounding him, Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner.
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Treating it as a crime is not resolving the issue. As a criminologist, why we even allowed drug use to be considered a crime is beyond me.
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[3139×1977] The Orion Nebula : spaceporn
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The drag queen who kept a mummy in her closet, an unsolved mystery|Dangerous Minds
In the May 2, 1994, issue of New York Magazine there appeared an astonishing story by Jeanie Russell Kasindorf about a certain noteworthy discovery in the West Harlem apartment that had previously belonged to Dorian Corey, one of the drag queens who…
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Howto: sustain long-haul creativity / Boing Boing
With New Year’s Resolution season on the doorstep, it’s time for end-of-year articles about self-improvement, and despite the cliche and improbability of that species of endeavor, I’m recommending that everyone read “Secrets to Long Haul Creativity.
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With Lindsey Graham’s Exit, a Dismal Republican Race Is Diminished Further Still | The Nation
Americans who disagree with Lindsey Graham on virtually every issue can, and should, still recognize that the South Carolina senator’s decision to suspend his 2016 Republican presidential run is a loss for his party and the broader debate.
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This Week’s Night Sky: Winter Solstice and a Christmas Moon
Winter solstice. The sun reaches its lowest point in the sky at exactly 11:48 p.m. ET on Monday, making it the shortest day of the year north of the equator. On the flip side, December 21 is the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Mars’ Sweeping Dunes Steal the Show in 1st Close-Up View
It’s a familiar view to those who watched Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, fight for survival in “The Martian,” yet it’s one we’ve never actually seen up close until now: rippling sand dunes on Mars.
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There Are Now No More Major GOP Candidates Left Who Accept Climate Science | ThinkProgress
Say goodbye to the only major Republican presidential candidate who publicly accepts mainstream climate science. On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Canada vows to double Syrian refugee intake – BBC News
Canada has vowed to double its intake of Syrian refugees next year. The minister of immigration and citizenship, John McCallum, said the country’s resettlement programme would be expanded in 2016 to take 50,000.
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FIFA Leaders Sepp Blatter And Michel Platini Banned From Soccer For 8 Years | ThinkProgress
Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, since 1998, and Michel Platini, the president of European soccer, were banned from the sport for eight years on Monday due to ethics violations. This ban is not a surprise.
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St. Louis Cop Who Fatally Shot VonDerrit Myers Quits Force After DUI Crash | VICE News
The white St. Louis, Missouri police officer who was cleared over the fatal shooting of 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers has quit the police department after allegedly causing an accident while driving his patrol car drunk.
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Over the past year, I’ve tried to clear up a lot of the misconceptions on food and drink: about salt, artificial sweeteners, among others, even water. Now let me take on alcohol: wine, beer and cocktails.
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Frog murder and boiled children: ‘Merry Christmas’ Victorian style – BBC News
Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards. But in Victorian times it was all par for the course. BBC News takes a look at some of the more unusual cards of Christm…
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Spain in Flux as Parties Oppose Conservative PM | Al Jazeera America
Three of Spain’s top political parties signaled Monday they would not actively support a bid by acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to form a new government, paving the way for weeks or possibly months of negotiations and political uncertainty.
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Blaze Laser Projection Bike Light Comes To All 11,500 Santander Bikes In London | TechCrunch
Blaze has come a long way. After participating in our Hardware Battlefield competition two years ago, the company signed a deal with a big client, London’s bike-sharing program. Starting next year, Blaze will provide Santander bikes with new safer l…
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Is Facebook’s photo-tagging system violating privacy law? | The Verge
If you were building a system to catalog and study the human face, it would be hard to do better than Facebook. Just 12 years after its creation, the network is not just the largest photo-storage service but the largest single collection of images t…
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The environmentally conscious Fairphone 2 is now shipping | The Verge
Fairphone is starting to ship its easily repairable smartphone to customers today. All smartphones are, of course, repairable if you find the right place to ship them off to, but Fairphone wants to make repairing its phone simple enough that anyone …
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IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship / Boing Boing
The 451 HTTP error code, first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel is now an IETF standard and is the preferred error message for a server to send to a browser when content is blocked for legal reasons.
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Star Wars Fans May Have Already Missed the Best Way to See The Force Awakens | Vanity Fair
I am a movie fan and a thirtysomething male, and so to the continued surprise of no one I’m actually a pretty big Star Wars fan. And this weekend a new Star Wars movie was released in the United States.
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“More Complex Than a Galaxy?” –Human-Brain Intelligence Networks Identified for First Time
According to physicist, Roger Penrose, What’s in our head is orders of magnitude more complex than anything one sees in the Universe: “If you look at the entire physical cosmos,” says Penrose, “our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they’re the…
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Puscifer Detail ‘Round 2’ of ‘Money Shot’ Tour Dates | Rolling Stone
Puscifer will kick off “Round 2” of their Money Shot tour on March 17th with a performance in Riverside, California. The band has booked 21 new shows for 2016, with additional dates to be announced in early January.
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Caffeinated Toothpaste Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Mainlining Coffee | Motherboard
I’ve pretty much given up on caffeine. I started drinking coffee young, and it’s been at least a decade since a normal, healthy amount of strong coffee has really affected my wakefulness level much at all.
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Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don’t understand cyber warfare. We need hackers | TED Talk | TED.com
The Internet has transformed the front lines of war, and it’s leaving governments behind. As security analyst Rodrigo Bijou shows, modern conflict is being waged online between non-state groups, activists and private corporations, and the digital la…
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Seymour Hersh’s bizarre new conspiracy theory about the US and Syria, explained – Vox
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Seymour Hersh, an investigative journalist famous for uncovering the 1968 My Lai massacre and the mid-2000s Abu Ghraib scandal, says there’s another scandal afoot, and it’s bigger than anything he’s previously reported. -
The Dark Side: An Oral History of ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’ | Mental Floss
Summer 1978: Over a year after its debut, Star Wars wasn’t through smashing box office records. Ushered back into theaters for a return engagement that July, it made $10 million in just three days.
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A survivalist on why you shouldn’t bug out / Boing Boing
Seven years ago, Alex Steffen and I proposed that rather than preparing “bug out bags” you can grab and go with after the apocalypse, we should all have “bug-in bags” full of things we’ll use to help our neighbors when the lights go out.
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Whatever our set of beliefs, most of us sooner or later unite in the same celebratory pursuit on Christmas Day: the watching of movies.
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The Very Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2015
This has been a really great year for science fiction, fantasy and horror books, taking us to fabulous worlds and opening our minds to new ideas and brilliant new characters. Here’s our list of the most amazing books we read this year.
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Nasa astronauts repair International Space Station – video | Science | The Guardian
Nasa astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra venture outside the International Space Station on Monday for an unplanned spacewalk to fix a stuck railcar used by the station’s robotic arm. The surprise spacewalk started at 12.45pm GMT and was expected t…
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Apple may be positioning Lightning as the high-res audio port of the future | The Verge
The Portable Audio Festival has just taken place in Japan this weekend, and multiple sources from the show are said to have learned of Apple’s plans to start streaming high-resolution audio as part of Apple Music in the new year.
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Lindsey Graham Drops Out of the Republican Presidential Race – The Atlantic
In possibly the least surprising development of the 2016 presidential race, Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who dropped out of the race on Monday, never managed to gain traction. He was running on the most unpopular platform imaginable: m…
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Lindsey Graham Drops Out of Presidential Race | Vanity Fair
Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican presidential candidate who always seemed to be having the most fun (when he wasn’t calling for World War III), announced on Monday that he would end his White House bid after his peculiar combination of barroom…
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Does Exposure to Antibiotics Cause Weight Gain? It Seems To – The Atlantic
Doctors in Newport, Rhode Island, had to change one of their policies last year because they inadvertently made a young woman obese. At least, because they believe they possibly did.
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Israeli company’s product can (allegedly) pwn any nearby mobile phone / Boing Boing
The Interapp from Tel Aviv’s Rayzone Group is an intrusion appliance that uses a cache of zero-day exploits against common mobile phone OSes and is marketed as having the capability to infect and take over any nearby phone whose wifi is turned on.
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Can Hermione be black? What a stupid question | Books | The Guardian
Is Hermione Granger black? This is the question prompted by the casting of a black actor, Noma Dumezweni, as Hogwarts’ cleverest pupil in an upcoming theatre production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The answer is twofold. First, why the hell…
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Drugged Gut Microbiome Cuts Heart Risk In Mice – Scientific American
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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’s become a seasonal staple—or deserves to.
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Pakistan hunts down network of female ISIL fundraisers – Al Jazeera English
Police in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi are hunting down a network of women from wealth families who are allegedly acting as fundraisers for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and arranging marriages for its followers.
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The media needs to stop telling this lie about Donald Trump. I’m a Sanders supporter — and value honesty (salon.com) The world is on fire.
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Don’t Believe the Hype: Winter Does Not Begin Tonight – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Tonight, at 11:48 PM Eastern Time, is the moment of the winter solstice, when the Northern Hemisphere is pointed as far away from the Sun as it ever gets. It will be the longest night of the year, and tomorrow will be the day with the fewest hours o…
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Canada Wants to Double the Number of Syrians it Admits to 50,000 | VICE News
Even though Canada’s new Liberal government has pushed back its original promise of bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees this year, the immigration minister announced this weekend he hopes to resettle as many as 50,000 by the end of 2016.
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The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good – Quartz
This morning, just like every Monday morning, 75 million Spotify users received a great new mixtape: 30 songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, who might once have made a cassette tape with your name scrawled across the front.
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Alibaba Hires Ex-Apple Investigator To Tackle Its Counterfeit Goods Problem | TechCrunch
Alibaba has brought in a former counterfeit-battling executive from Apple to battle its own problem of fake goods.
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Rebecca Solnit hits back after male commenters ‘explain Lolita’ to her | Books | The Guardian
The writer and essayist Rebecca Solnit has said in a new essay entitled Men Explain Lolita to Me that she “sort of kicked the hornets’ nest” when she recently wrote that she identified with the character of Lolita.
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The tenth largest school district in the nation took the first step toward joining a national effort to rename K-12 and college campus buildings named after slaveowners, Confederate soldiers, and known white supremacists.
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Martin Shkreli is right: fraud charges only arose because of pharma scumbaggery / Boing Boing
Martin Shkreli, the notorious, most-hated-man-on-the-Internet pharma douchebro who was arrested last week for securities fraud, told the FBI that the only reason they bothered busting him for financial corruption is that he had made a spectacle out …
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Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption | Ars Technica
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for a “Manhattan-like project” to help law enforcement break into encrypted communications.
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Are In-Class or Take-Home Exams Helping Students Learn More? – The Atlantic
Since there is no way for me to avoid exams, I am currently questioning what kind are the most taxing and ultimately beneficial. I have already sweated through numerous in-class midterms and finals, and now I have a professor who issues take-home on…
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Measuring Greenland’s increasing weight loss using aerial photos | Ars Technica
Past performance may not always predict future results in the stock market, but in the Earth sciences, it can tell us a hell of a lot. Since we only have the one planet, examples of some processes can only be found in the past.
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Adam Silver Is Not A Fan Of The Sixers’ Strategy | FiveThirtyEight
The Sixers are a mess, and Adam Silver is not happy.
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Oberlin College’s Food and Cultural Appropriation – The Atlantic
Last week, students at Oberlin made national headlines for casting complaints about bad dining-hall food––a perennial lament of collegians––as a problematic social-justice failure. Word spread via people who saw their behavior as political correctne…
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Cook started the interview saying that the company pays “more taxes in this country than anyone,” adding, “We happily pay it.” But an analysis in 2012 found that the company was able to avoid paying $2.
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this Christmas? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of your comments and photos from last week – and we’d love to hear what you’re planning to read over the holidays. We’ll be back in the new year (and comments will stay open until then). Have the merries…
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There’s A Bluetooth Speaker For You In Today’s Gold Box
There’s a bluetooth speaker for everyone in today’s Gold Box… well, there’s a bluetooth speaker deal for everyone today, they’re not necessarily all part of the Gold Box. Enjoy.
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Bro: a free/open intrusion detection system / Boing Boing
“Bro network” an (unfortunately named) open/free IDS that turns all your network traffic into events that can trigger scripts you write. As Nat writes, “Good pedigree (Vern Paxson, a TCP/IP elder god) despite the wince-inducing name.
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How to Read an Entire Book in a Single Day
You’ve been putting off reading that book for weeks, and you’re supposed to have read it all by tomorrow. Whether you’re cramming for school, or trying to avoid looking like a lazy bum in your book club, don’t lose hope.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Comic Will No Longer Have a Fantastic Peter Capaldi Cameo
Aww. In Marvel’s current “All-New, All-Different” comics, Peter Parker is the head of a global business that also helps Spider-Man confront threats all over the world.
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 21st – The New Yorker
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A woman was taken into custody after the police said she intentionally veered onto a crowded sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night, killing at least one person and injuring at least 36 others before she fled the scene.
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POLER X NIKE SB | THE LONG WAVE GOODBYE on Vimeo
Poler is proud to join forces with Nike SB for our third collaboration to create a collection that is rooted in Nike’s heritage while featuring our unique design aesthetic. Daryl Angel and Donovon Piscopo skate and explore Hawaii in this film by dir…
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Afghanistan’s Government Really Wants to Shut Down the New Islamic State Radio Station | VICE News
The Islamic State terror insurgency has launched a radio show in eastern Afghanistan in a bid to win fresh recruits to its cause.
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THIS was the year of the great unraveling, with international orders and borders challenged or broken, with thousands of deaths, vast flows of migrants and terrorist attacks on some of the most cherished symbols of civilization, both Western and Mus…
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Why Startups Will Dominate The AI-Powered Apps Landscape | TechCrunch
Earlier this fall I published an article predicting that a new class of AI-powered applications will reshape the workplace by automating away the individual tasks that make up our jobs. Most of the companies featured in the landscape are early stage…
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Clayton Cubitt has a new installment of his “Hysterical Literature” series, and this one’s in French.
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Alive Is A Neat Little App To View, Edit And Share Your Live Photos | TechCrunch
Meet Alive, a Swiss army knife for live photos on the iPhone 6s. There are many live photo editing apps out there, but this one is particularly well designed. Alive lets you turn your live photos into gifs, make animated collages with multiple live …
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Administrate, the Scottish startup that offers a Sofware-as-a-Service for training providers, has raised a $2.5 million funding round led by Scottish angel syndicate, Archangels, with participation from Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm o…
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More Fodder For Dell-EMC Deal As Pivotal Buys UK-Based CloudCredo | TechCrunch
The Dell-EMC deal has had so many moving pieces since it was announced in October, it’s hard to tell the players without a score card.
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Why Articles About Murder Are So Popular Online – The Atlantic
There’s an old, callous journalistic proverb on news judgment: “If it bleeds, it leads.” In the hierarchy of story promotion, in other words, violence takes precedence.
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Three people who were injured in a crash on the Las Vegas strip on Sunday night that killed one and injured 36 are in critical condition, a hospital official has said.
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Anti-PUA: Fascinating profile of the data-driven “love science” pioneers / Boing Boing
John and Julie Gottman are a husband and wife psychologist team who run a hugely successful couples therapy practice that encompasses books, seminars, research, and one-on-one sessions.
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US senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday he was dropping out of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
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Is the season upon us? Is it Christmas almost? I hear Christmas music, and so many nice letters have come to me here at the North Pole requesting fine gifts. But something’s not right this year: it’s too warm to be Christmas.
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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Fifa bans explained – BBC News
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Fifa bans explained 21 December 2015 Last updated at 15:01 GMT
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Too cloudy for meteors, but caught a starry break. [5,672×3,648][OC] https://t.co/qGXkiRYgsL https://t.co/0Ui4zvOCXZ
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Water Spirit Dragon Library 1
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Water Spirit Dragon Spiral Tower 2
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The Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Champagne Tower | VinePair
There is absolutely nothing more celebratory than serving Champagne from a Champagne tower – that is unless you also plan to saber the bottles of Champagne before raining the delicious liquid down into the glasses. And constructing one isn’t as hard…
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Gusto Is Looking For Another $50M To Take On Zenefits | TechCrunch
Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is looking to raise $50 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. That’s only natural for the startup, which is increasingly competing with the well-funded — and cash burning — Zenefits. …
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Russia hits Ukraine with trade sanctions over EU deal – BBC News
Russia is tightening trade sanctions on Ukraine in retaliation for Kiev’s sanctions and its EU free trade deal. Russia will apply new tariffs to Ukrainian exports from 1 January, when the free trade deal takes effect.
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SoundCloud settles lawsuit with UK music group over unpaid royalties | The Verge
SoundCloud’s legal battle with the UK licensing company Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS) has come to an end.
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US drone owners encouraged to register online – BBC News
A US government registration system for Americans who own drones has gone live.New rules governing drone ownership require anyone aged 13 or over who owns one of the craft to add their details to the register.
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Washington finally have quarterback to build around in Kirk Cousins | Sport | The Guardian
The NFC East has been derided for its mediocrity all season, but one team is finally emerging from the pack. Kirk Cousins, who was criticized heavily early in the year for his penchant for turnovers, has been stellar over the past two months and led…
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A database for the Hello Kitty community Sanriotown.com containing 3.3 million accounts has been discovered online in an apparent breach.[Gizmodo] http://gizmodo.com/3-3-million-he…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens beat Jurassic World for largest global opening ever | The Verge
Well, that didn’t take long. Only hours after the numbers came in showing the new Star Wars overtaking Jurassic World at the domestic box office, it now looks like The Force Awakens has officially bested the dinosaur flick by setting a new record fo…
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Negotiate a Higher Salary With This Simple Formula
Asking for a raise isn’t easy for most of us, but a few tips and tricks can help along the way. When it’s time to hit your boss up for a raise, make sure to let him or her know what sets you apart, and you can do that with this simple formula.
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Stories of 2015: Paula Hawkins, from struggling author to literary sensation | Books | The Guardian
Two years ago, Paula Hawkins was in “financial difficulty”. She had spent two years writing her fourth novel under the pen name Amy Silver. The Reunion, a slice of commercial fiction aimed at women, was published in September 2013. “And it just died…
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Riding High – Roads & Kingdoms
The trouble with mountain biking in Nepal is that you’re surrounded by distractions. Fields of bright orange marigolds and golden mustard flowers look like a sunset splashed across the earth. Chubby-cheeked babies bathing in buckets of water cause m…
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Lindsey Graham Drops Out of GOP Nomination Race After Hitting Wall | VICE News
Just a day after Senator Lindsey Graham said he would compromise with the GOP’s arch nemesis and prospective Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on foreign policy if she were to win the White House in 2016, the Republican presidential candidate suspe…
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Ted Cruz immigration ad earns Four Pinocchios for a strange anti-Rubio argument “In this ad, Cruz has taken a ridiculous claim and brought it to new heights of absurdity.” (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Senator Rand Paul Announces Senate “Audit the Fed” Vote (youtube.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…[–]20WPM [score hidden] 2 hours ago(0 children)“Paul will need the support of 60 senators to overcome an initial procedural hurdle once the Senat…
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Stratos Card To Shut Down Just Six Months After Launching | TechCrunch
The Stratos Card is about to jump in the deadpool. The company behind the universal credit card is shutting down, TechCrunch has confirmed from several sources. Founded in 2012 by Thiago Olson and Chris Bartenstein, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based sta…
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Edward Snowden: Clinton’s Call for a ‘Manhattan-Like Project’ Is Terrifying : politics
Snowden, how about you just stay in Russia and stop talking for a while.
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Majority Of Mobile Apps In China Don’t Retain Users For More Than A Week | TechCrunch
China may be the world’s largest app market when it comes to downloads, but new data indicates that those download numbers aren’t translating into loyal users who return to apps on regular basis.
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500 computer-generated novels: the Nanogenmo 2015 entrants / Boing Boing
To enter Nanogenmo, you have to write a program that generates a novel, then post it, along with the novel and the training data used to produce it. 500 teams’ entries have been posted to Github.
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Keyboards, OSes, lenses, pedals, and the other gadgets we liked most in 2015 | Ars Technica
You find a lot of “best of” lists on the Internet this time of the year, following the intense September-to-November product launch corridor and a full year of new hardware and software.
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How the robin’s red breast could be the key to colours that never fade | Science | The Guardian
Sheffield scientists now know why kingfishers catch fire, robins are red, and jays are blue: the pattern of colour on a bird’s wing may have nothing to do with pigment, and everything to do with feather structure on a scale of billionths of a metre.
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Q&A: UN mission chief on challenges of S Sudan peace – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan recently marked the second anniversary since a brutal conflict began that has killed thousands of people and forced two million others from their homes. Under immense international pressure, President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Mac…
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Why We’ll Miss Lindsey Graham | ThinkProgress
Graham, who struggled to reach even 1 percent in the polls, even in his own home state of South Carolina, still stood out as a moderate voice as his party drifted further to the right.
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Republican Lindsey Graham Ends Bid for Presidency | Al Jazeera America
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham announced Monday he was ending his 2016 presidential campaign. The South Carolina senator posted a video saying he was proud of his campaign, which he said was focused on the nation’s security.
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Trump demands apology from Clinton for calling him ISIS’ best recruiter
Big tough insult politician Donald Trump is outraged that Hillary Clinton dared to criticize him. At Saturday night’s debate, Clinton said that Trump is becoming “ISIS’ best recruiter,” a statement experts on the issue generally agree with.
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With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or making a list of obscure facts and checking it twice. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,034,6…
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Lindsey Graham ends 2016 White House run – CNNPolitics.com
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Graham ends his campaign for the White House : politics
Graham ends his campaign for the White House https://t.co/i4vbLVw7ZM https://t.co/5vjaRNmFnv via /r/#politics
Why I do declare! This news is giving me the vapors…The undercard debates wont be the same without out you Lindsey, you will be missed. I always enjoyed watching Graham debate. -
Taliban Suicide Attack Kills at Least Six Near Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan | VICE News
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed six foreign soldiers near Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday. Brigadier General William Shoffner, the spokesperson for the NATO-led Resolute Support mission, told reporters tha…
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How to Make a Hot Dog Christmas Tree | Lucky Peach
In the year we’ve spent making Deranged Crafts, we’ve utilized hot dogs several different ways.
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Here’s What the Pentagon’s Top Cost Estimator Has to Say About the Death Star | VICE News
The Pentagon’s office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, occasionally referred to as the Pentagon’s bean counters, helps (or tries to help) the Department of Defense keep a lid on costs by vetting or challenging the cost estimates provided e…
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Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected / Boing Boing
Juniper Networks makes a popular line of enterprise firewalls whose operating system is called Screen OS.
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Lindsey Graham drops out of race for Republican presidential nomination | US news | The Guardian
US senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday he is dropping out of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, leaving 13 candidates in the party’s still-crowded field.
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Russia-Turkey crisis: Sukhoi jet black box ‘unreadable’ – BBC News
Data on the flight recorder of the Russian war plane downed by Turkey last month has so far proved to be unreadable, Russia’s military has said. It said the memory chips from the Su-24 bomber downed on the Syrian border were destroyed or badly damag…
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Researchers Use A Fiery Robot To 3D Print Glass | TechCrunch
Glass printing is, as you can imagine, a pretty heady process. It requires a lot of heat and a lot of luck and a general acceptance that your print will look awful simply because the glass will cool unevenly. Once you get over all of those things, h…
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Why Bloodborne is my game of the year | The Verge
I never got through more than an hour of Dark Souls, the beloved and famously difficult predecessor to Bloodborne. Among other things, I was intimidated by what felt like dozens of initial choices and mechanics, all in a world that felt strangely em…
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Nigeria bans credit card use abroad – BBC News
Nigeria’s central bank has ordered commercial banks to stop customers from using their debit and credit cards abroad, a source has told the BBC. One bank has emailed customers to this effect, stressing it is a “temporary measure”.
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Th Withering of High-Speed Internet – The Atlantic
More people in the United States are connected to the Internet than ever before, but how they go online is changing dramatically.
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Republican Lindsey Graham quits 2016 race – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham has said he is dropping out of the race for his party’s nomination. There had been speculation he would withdraw before Monday’s deadline to enter his home state’s primary ballot.
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33 Questions We Desperately Want Answered After Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It’s been a few days since we saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and our minds are still reeling. This movie added so much to the Star Wars universe, and opened up so many new mysteries. Here are the questions that are driving us the most crazy after…
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Sometimes I think when you’re in a reading slump it is best to read something you have already read and loved.
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The DNC: damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t – Vox
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The recent flap between Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee highlights something important and, for many people, novel: The DNC exists, and it actually plays a role in politics. -
How marketers convinced us that we all need mint to fix our bad breath – Vox
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Modern society provides us with all sorts of breath-freshening products: toothpaste, mints, mouthwash, gum, and even weird, translucent strips that dissolve in your mouth. All these products have one thing in common: their default flavor is mint. -
A black actress is playing Hermione in the Harry Potter play, and J.K. Rowling loves it – Vox
The lead actors have been picked for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the London play created in part by J.K. Rowling that will depict the Harry Potter books’ main characters as adults.
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Isis Pharma Changes “Unfortunate” Name To Avoid Confusion – Scientific American
(Reuters) – After deliberating for most of the year, Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday it would change its name to avoid being confused with the Islamist militant group known as ISIS. The biotechnology company said it would be called Ionis Pha…
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If you’re interested in strange stories involving brain tumors, fecal bacterium, and Institutional Review Boards, Emily Eakin’s “Bacteria on the Brain” for the New Yorker should be right up your alley. Dr. Paul Muizelaar, then chair of the neurosurg…
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The HTTP 451 Error Code for Censorship Is Now an Internet Standard | Motherboard
The 451 HTTP status code is now official in the eyes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the independent organization responsible for many of the internet’s operating standards.
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Easy, Beautiful Ways to Wrap and Gift Cookies for the Holidays
Cookies are an easy way to give everyone on your gift list a present they’ll actually enjoy. Showcase your tasty holiday cookie creations with these simple, good-looking ways to wrap them. The video above walks you through three different methods, b…
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Republicans grope for way to kill Paris climate agreement | Republicans are running out of ways to undermine the Obama administration’s commitments as part of the Paris climate agreement. (thehill.com)
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Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Got Hacked | Vanity Fair
Martin Shkreli’s week is off to a bad start. On Monday, he and his attorneys finally regained control of the recently arrested ex-pharmaceutical C.E.O.’s Twitter account, after it was hacked and began sending, without context, messages all-too simil…
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Kik Invests In Its Platform, Buys Fashion Startup Behind Popular Kik Bot | TechCrunch
This past year something interesting happened in China. Mobile services began sprouting up without mobile apps or websites.
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Editor’s Picks: 2015’s Must-Read Science, Technology, and Health Stories – The Atlantic
This was a big year for The Atlantic’s coverage of science, technology, and health. We hired new reporters and editors. We officially launched a dedicated science section. And we reported and wrote a lot—along with everybody else on the Internet.
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Apple agrees to pay Ericsson a portion of its iPhone revenue in patent deal | The Verge
Apple and the mobile telecom giant Ericsson have agreed upon a patent license deal that will find the world’s largest company paying out a small portion of its iPhone revenue to the Swedish company.
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A Prosthetic Eye Is a Work of Art – The Atlantic
The eye is about the size of a quarter, resting gently in Kurt Jahrling’s hand as he adds faint washes of yellow and blue to the white surface.
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Anti-Muslim Rant Ends Ms. Puerto Rico – The Daily Beast
Ms. Puerto Rico Destiny Valdez has found herself indefinitely suspended after a twitter fight with director Michael Moore surrounding his “We Are All Muslim” campaign. The Miss Puerto Rico Association issued a statement announcing her termination, a…
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Retro cigarette card inspired ‘Pulp Fiction’ posters are super cool, honey bunny|Dangerous Minds
Vintage look portrait of Vincent Vega from “Pulp Fiction” Last year, a South African-based creative design studio called MUTI created a fantastic series of posters and portraits based on members of the cast of ne’er–do–well’s from Quentin Tarantino’…
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How to Sell a Hijab in Malaysia – The New Yorker
In October of 2013, the Malaysian entrepreneur Vivy Sofinas Yusof posted a slightly blurry snapshot of herself on Instagram. She was looking at a menu, wearing a simple green top and black head scarf.
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The Man in the High Castle is Amazon’s most popular original show | The Verge
Alternative history Nazi drama The Man in the High Castle only needed a month to become Amazon’s most-streamed original show, overtaking shows like the detective-centric Bosch and Jill Soloway’s feted dramedy Transparent.
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This Is What Justice Looks Like in Saudi Arabia | New Republic
A married housemaid, she received the death penalty while the man, also a Sri Lankan migrant worker, was given 100 lashes, the New Republic reported earlier this month. Since that article appeared, we received word that the Canadian embassy to Saudi…
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This Is the Missing Ingredient in the Climate Change Fight | Until the food we eat is grown, harvested and consumed with a healthier planet in mind, we will not reach the goals outlined in Paris. (time.com)
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FTC rejects Staples’ latest offer on Office Depot acquisition | The Verge
Staples’ takeover of competitor Office Depot is starting to look doomed. After filing an antitrust lawsuit to block the $6.3 billion buyout, today the Federal Trade Commission has formally rejected a revised version of the deal — without making any …
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Yet another way that humans are wrecking tropical forests – and making global warming worse. By hunting and poaching many large forest animals whose diets depend on eating fruit, humans are also undermining carbon storage and thus worsening the clim…
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Lindsey Graham drops out of 2016 presidential race (yes, he was running)
Lindsey Graham announced on Monday morning that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination for president.
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2015, in 4 minutes https://t.co/FAxZYXR9d7 https://t.co/PzTqepMXEJ
This year began and ended with tragedies in Paris. But in between, we celebrated a groundbreaking Emmy win for Viola Davis, a World Cup victory for the US women’s soccer team, and marriage equality. Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore sparked protests… -
More UK support for Nigerian forces fighting Boko Haram – BBC News
The UK is to step up support to the Nigerian armed forces to tackle militant Islamist group Boko Haram. It will include a specialist team to help deal with improvised explosive devices and more medical training.
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The Awesome Black Widow/Captain America Battle That Nearly Made It in Age of Ultron
Ever since Age of Ultron got its home release, we’ve heard about a lot of scenes that didn’t make it into the movie (and we’ve also desperately wanted Whedon’s fabled “Director’s Cut” to get released). But this recent animatic from the film adds ano…
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The Year We Started Buying Phones Like We Buy Cars | WIRED
For years, the process of buying a phone remained largely the same. You paid $200 for a flagship, or nothing for a clunker, and in exchange agreed to ride out a two-year contract with the carrier offering the best deal (or service) at the time. All …
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What Happened on the Las Vegas Strip? – The Atlantic
Local police said the woman plowed her 1996 Oldsmobile several times into dozens of pedestrians walking along Las Vegas Boulevard shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday. She fled the scene, but was later detained by police.
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The Real-Life Christmas Grinches Who Steal Lights, Ornaments, Trees—Even Baby Jesus | Atlas Obscura
A house decorated for Christmas. (Photo: Nickolay Khoroshkov/shutterstock.com) Every year plastic Santa Clauses, wooden reindeer and other novelties are extracted from storage and arranged on lawns to anoint the Christmas season.
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Pickled Onion Are the Perfect DIY Gift for the Cocktail Lover in Your Life
Fancy cocktail accouterments make for fantastic gifts, and these pickled pearl onions are great in a Gibson (or atop chicken liver mousse).
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Amazon Dominated Nearly Everything This Year | New Republic
2014 was a grim year for Amazon in the news: there was the six months of bad publicity after company’s protracted contract dispute with Hachette, the catastrophic failure of the Amazon Fire smartphone, and the concerns about the company’s profitabil…
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Efforts under way for Iran-Saudi ‘direct dialogue’ – Al Jazeera English
Regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia are working towards a rare “direct dialogue” to put an end to long-standing differences in the volatile Middle East, a spokesman for Tehran’s foreign ministry said Monday.
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Star Wars’ stories should not be limited to the cinema narratives | Books | The Guardian
In 1980, when I was eight years old, my family took the closest thing we ever had to a foreign holiday. It was to the island of Guernsey.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a prime example of Hollywood’s nostalgia problem – Vox
Those with fond memories of the original Star Wars — which to some degree includes just about everyone who loves movies — will find much to like about The Force Awakens, the latest entry in the series.
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Pop Culture In 2015: Criminal Justice Edition | ThinkProgress
Because ubiquitous end-of-year roundups have, for better or worse, become a holiday tradition in their own right, it’s only fair that ThinkProgress gives the people what they want. We’ve already tackled the biggest pop culture surprises and some of …
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Kim Kardashian Has Launched Her Own Set of Emoji | Vanity Fair
Kim Kardashian continues to be something of a tech innovator, at least as it relates to capitalizing on her own brand.
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Why a Black Hermione Has Harry Potter Fans, and Even J.K. Rowling, So Excited | Vanity Fair
In the Harry Potter books, the brilliant Hermione Granger is described as having frizzy, untamable dark hair, brown eyes, and protruding teeth, but more often is defined by her intellect and devotion to her friends.
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Inside the Making of *Home Alone*’s Fake Gangster Movie | Vanity Fair
As far as beloved family Christmas movies go, Angels with Filthy Souls is an unlikely one: a gritty, noirish gangster flick in which a crow-voiced curmudgeon abruptly unleashes a blaze of gunfire on his unsuspecting victim. Even more unlikely, since…
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We’ve Already Got Our First Surprising Hint About Star Wars: Episode VIII
Yes, some surprising Force Awakens castmembers may be making an appearance in Episode VIII. Nicole Kidman may be out of Wonder Woman. Margaery Tyrell may have a new ally on Game of Thrones. Legends of Tomorrow will bring back an Arrow foe. Plus, a p…
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Our Furry Friends: The Science of Pets* – Scientific American
3.1 The Taming of the Catby Carlos A. Driscoll, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Andrew C. Kitchener and Stephen J. O’Brien
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Spain’s major political parties are now embarking on potentially long and arduous talks to form a coalition government, after the most fragmented national election result in the country’s history on Sunday.
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In Brazil, Women Protest Against Eduardo Cunha’s Abortion Bill – The Atlantic
RIO DE JANEIRO—Two dozen women formed a circle and linked hands on a stretch of concrete near the Carioca metro station here Wednesday, dancing and chanting.
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How to Block Minority Representation, Yesterday and Today – The Atlantic
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Befriending a gentle giant – BBC News
A new BBC film, Gorilla Family and Me, explores the lives and behaviour of Grauer’s Gorillas, the largest primates on Earth. Dr Ian Redmond is a tropical field biologist and conservationist, renowned for his work with great apes and elephants.
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Lee Siegel’s Groucho Marx: The Comedy Of Existence opens with an image of its subject in profile, a photo of a man who is unrecognizable. Absent is the famous greasepaint mustache, the familiar glasses, the comic’s bushy eyebrows or ever-present cig…
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Timelapse highlights as Tim Peake assists on space walk – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake has been helping his crew members Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra conduct a space walk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday.
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Charts: Adele’s ’25’ Becomes Best-Selling Album Since ’21’ | Rolling Stone
Charts: Adele’s ’25’ Becomes Best-Selling Album Since ’21’ Singer’s latest sells another 825,000 copies to stay cemented at Number One
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Ben Roethlisberger: Bruising, Brilliant – and Never Better | Rolling Stone
In human years, Ben Roethlisberger is 33 years old, but I imagine he is an octogenarian in football years, because for more than a decade, Roethlisberger is the quarterback who has absorbed the most overt punishment in professional football.
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Odell Beckham’s Psycho Sunday – Say Goodbye to the NFL’s Nice Guy | Rolling Stone
Holy shit, Odell Beckham Jr. Sunday’s 38-35 victory by the Carolina Panthers over Beckham’s New York Giants was easily the game of the year in the NFL. It had to be as wild and entertaining a game as we’ve seen in any major American sport in 2015.
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Inside Taylor Swift’s All-Star Concert Film: Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Inside Taylor Swift’s All-Star Concert Film: Ram Report Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley and Keith Urban are just a few of the country stars appearing in Swift’s 1989 Tour docume
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The film flew past the opening weekend record held by Universal’s “Jurassic World,” which made $208.8 million on the weekend it opened in June. So far the film has made $517 million around the world since opening overseas on Wednesday.
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It’s time to transition to 100% clean energy: the wind is now at our backs | Mark Ruffalo | Relying fully on clean energy is not only good for the environment, human health and the economy, it is also doable (theguardian.com)submitted 58 minutes ago…
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Netflix’s Making a Murderer is grim, riveting, and satisfying true-crime TV – Vox
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Trader has Libor rate-rigging sentence cut to 11 years – BBC News
Former City trader Tom Hayes has had his jail sentence for rigging global Libor interest rates cut to 11 years. He was previously sentenced in August to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud.
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These headphones were designed by audiophiles, and they’re glorious | The Verge
Design by community works! Fostex and Massdrop were, I confess, unfamiliar names to me before this November. But their collaboration on a glorious new product has turned me into an immediate and enthusiastic fan.
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Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini, have been banned from football for eight years, ending the career of the former and definitively derailing the vaulting ambitions of the latter.
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Trump Wants an Apology For Hillary’s ISIS Lie – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump called out Hillary Clinton on Monday for her claim that ISIS has used him in propaganda videos as a recruiting tool and demanded the Democratic frontrunner apologize for the erroneous claim.
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As Pot-Growing Expands, Power Demands Tax U.S. Electricity Grids – Bloomberg Business
Pot’s not green. The $3.5 billion U.S. cannabis market is emerging as one of the nation’s most power-hungry industries, with the 24-hour demands of thousands of indoor growing sites taxing aging electricity grids and unraveling hard-earned gains in …
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Camden Town Brewery sold to world’s biggest drinks company | Business | The Guardian
The craft beer brand Camden Town Brewery is to put its independent image on the line after agreeing to be bought by global drinks giant AB InBev. The UK brewer said it had accepted a takeover offer from the world’s biggest drinks company in order to…
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Only mediation can stop the violence in Burundi – Al Jazeera English
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) made the unprecedented decision to send a 5,500-strong intervention force to Burundi on December 17.
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Concussion cares too much about hurting football’s feelings | The Verge
About two-thirds of the way through Peter Landesman’s Concussion, Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), explains that when he was growing up in Kenya, becoming an American was the closest thing to divinity he could imagine. “You could be anything, you coul…
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December 21, 1892: Rebecca West Is Born | The Nation
The novelist, travel writer, and literary critic Rebecca West was born on this day in 1891. In February of 1932, West wrote an installment of The Nation’s series, Living Philosophies, in which working writers offered an essay-length exposition of th…
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Your pictures: Northern Lights captured over England – BBC News
The Aurora Borealis – better known as the Northern Lights – was spotted across parts of England on Sunday. They are caused by charged particles emitted by the sun colliding with atoms in the earth’s atmosphere – different gases create the range of c…
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Things don’t work out so well for Santa and his reindeer in “Happy Holidays,” a video by Eoin Duffy. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
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FitzGibbon Media and the problem of sexual harassment in the progressive movement – Vox
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The women who say Trevor FitzGibbon, founder of the progressive PR powerhouse FitzGibbon Media, assaulted or harassed them thought they were alone until an early-December staff retreat in Austin, Texas. Austin-based writer and journalist Sierra Pedr… -
Space in Videos – 2015 – 12 – Highlights 2015
2015 began and ended with two pioneering missions: IXV proved Europe’s ability to return autonomously from space and Lisa Pathfinder set out in December to detect electromagnetic waves and, with them, a new way to look at our universe! But a lot has…
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President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign. Mr.
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This morning on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough asked Rick Santorum a simple question: What can we do to show the millions of peaceful Muslim Americans that they are valued and respected members of society?
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Morning Digest: Why chemtrails might actually be good news … for John McCain!
● AZ-Sen: Call it the tea partier’s lament: You’ve got your Freedom-Loving Big Gun who can take out the Loathsome Establishment Traitor in the primary, but there’s some irritating Grade-A Nutbar who won’t drop out and will make it impossible for Big…
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Bask, Friends, In The Glory Of A Full-Sized, 3D-Printed BB-8 | TechCrunch
If you love Star Wars have we got a 3D printing project for you. MontyBug of the BB8BuildersClub has posted a build record of his model BB-8 droid. The droid is made of 3D printed parts and a little Arduino board to run his lights and Monty spent ho…
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Watch NASA astronauts make an unscheduled spacewalk to repair the ISS | The Verge
Two NASA astronauts have exited the space station in order to make an unscheduled repair. Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly made their way to the stuck “Mobile Transporter,” a rail car used to move supplies on the outside of the space station.
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India Court: Cannot Keep Gang Rapist Locked Up | Al Jazeera America
India’s top court said Monday it had no power to detain the youngest of the men convicted of the 2012 gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi in a case that shocked the nation, a day after he was released after three years in custody.
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The Spanish Vote Bodes Ill for Europe’s Economy and Global Security – The Daily Beast
MADRID—On the eve of Spain’s general elections my phone rang before dawn: “There are 150 fires in northern Spain.” The caller, a veteran newspaper hand, sounded distressed.
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The Year in Fungi – The New Yorker
“If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year. “They challenge our preconceptions of how biology works.
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The Only Way to Save Our Beloved Bananas Might Be Genetic Engineering – Yes, we may soon have no bananas, thanks to a nasty fungus. (motherjones.com)
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Canada has a new government and it plans to follow through on its election promise to protect five per cent of it marine territory by 2017 and another five per cent in the following three years. (rcinet.ca)
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People Who Were Certain Climate Change Is Fake Are Now Certain That Paris Can’t Stop It (nymag.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Environmental groups say the Baird government is “playing Russian roulette” in Sydney’s water catchment by approving coalmining without a full understanding of its impacts, taking a “damage first, fix later” approach. (smh.com.au)
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter is banned from soccer for 8 years – Vox
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been banned from soccer for eight years, effective immediately, the latest consequence in a year when FIFA’s widespread corruption came home to roost. -
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Suicide Attack on US-Afghan Patrol kills five | Al Jazeera America
In a tweet, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility and said 19 U.S. soldiers had been killed and a number wounded. The death toll claimed by the Taliban does not correlate with that given by Brig.
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Scientists anticipate birth of Cecil the lion’s grandcubs | Environment | The Guardian
The son of Cecil, the lion killed by American dentist and hunter Walter Palmer in July, has been observed mating and scientists now anticipate the birth of Cecil’s grandcubs in March.
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Sepp Blatter, Michael Platini Banned From Soccer for Eight Years – The Atlantic
Two powerful figures in soccer were found guilty of ethics violations and banned from the sport for eight years on Monday.
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The best children’s books to read aloud this Christmas | Children’s books | The Guardian
School is out and Christmas is still some days away. Before the big TV viewing days of Christmas and New Year we want to have a few days which are screen free in which we will read aloud to them instead. What stories would you recommend?
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Practice “Benign Envy” To Make Your Jealousy More Useful
It’s normal to be a little jealous of someone else every once in a while. The big question is what you do with that feeling. If you’re jealous of someone, but know that you could achieve the same thing if you tried, practicing “benign envy” could he…
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The Key To The GOP Race: The Diploma Divide | FiveThirtyEight
The latest polls of the Republican presidential primary show a party badly divided by education: Donald Trump’s strong showings are entirely attributable to huge leads among voters without a college degree, while voters with a degree are split among…
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The latest floods in the north-west of the country have shown the weakness of connected technology when power is lost and all digital devices and infrastructure – mobile phones, internet, transport – stop working.
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Sepp Blatter banned from FIFA for 8 years / Boing Boing
Hilariously corrupt soccer governing body FIFA has finally made a scapegoat of suspended president Sepp Blatter, banning him from the organization for 8 years. He is defiant, reports CNN, demanding to know what he was banned for. It’s for all the co…
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Wave of migrant children has Texas towns scrambling to set up housing | US news | The Guardian
As a wave of Central American children are crossing the US border alone fleeing violence and poverty in their countries, new facilities to house these kids are popping up with just a few days’ notice in southern border towns.
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Why zero is a better climate target than 2 degrees – Vox
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One important element of the Paris climate accord has been somewhat overshadowed in all the press coverage. Before the whole thing fades from the news cycle, I want to take a moment to celebrate it. -
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 5 ways the new movie copies the original film – Vox
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By far the most consistent criticism of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been that it’s a baldfaced ripoff of the original Star Wars, now known as Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope. (I’m going to refer to it as A New Hope from here on out, to avoid… -
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
We’re back for the start of the Christmas week, which we’re not afraid to say. Just like Ben Carson! We’ll catch up on the Democratic debate, which happened on one of those days that don’t count for us.
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Coffee Meets Bagel Adds Its Own Version Of Super Like With ‘Send A Woo’ | TechCrunch
In the past few months, Tinder has been working on a feature called Super Like, which let users tell one of their matches that the situation is more serious than simply swiping right.
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The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film – The New Yorker
Several weeks ago, the Starz cable network unveiled “Flesh and Bone,” a miniseries about the travails of a fictional ballet dancer in a company rife with sexual manipulation, body shaming, and generalized nastiness.
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I Joined the Best Dance Crew in ‘Destiny’ | Motherboard
I’m waiting for my close-up on one of the boulders on the jagged shores of Venus, looking at the yellow, alien clouds.
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Daffi is pregnant with her third child. On holiday in Thailand recently she wondered whether it was safe for her to eat prawns. She asked her new pregnancy app, which reassured her that she could go ahead and pop the prawn in her mouth.
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Margaret, I’ve been doing a lot of musing lately about things that just don’t add up in my head. Of course, at my age lots of things don’t add up anymore, like why I keep a shopping list but then forget to bring it with me when I shop.
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Patent trolls’ favorite East Texas court awards costs against one of them / Boing Boing
The plaintiff-friendly East Texas district has long been patent trolls’ favorite place to file lawsuits, but one was so egregious that even their favorite judge has not only shut it down, but awarded costs against them.
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Aging Brings Big Changes in Visual Perception – Scientific American
Aging causes significant changes in visual perception, even in healthy people with no dementia or eye disease. As a result, many people struggle with simple daily activities as they age—things like driving safely, walking on uneven ground or negotia…
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Nato: Taliban attack kills six troops – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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The Force Awakens Box Office: Star Wars Is Bigger Than Ever | Vanity Fair
A great Jedi master once said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” This weekend Star Wars: The Force Awakens did not try; it did.
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Belgium Detains Five in Paris Attacks Probe | Al Jazeera America
Belgian authorities have detained 5 people, including two brothers, after two days of raids related last month’s attacks in Paris. The federal prosecutor’s office said two people were detained following a house search Monday in the Laeken district o…
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Terrianne’s winning entry in the Rap/Lyric category of the 2015 Prison Reform Trust competition, for the theme ‘working it out’. The judges were impressed with her “great use of language, metaphors and imagery”. It’s almost tangiblethe pain beats a …
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Quickly Get To Your Phone’s Battery Stats With This Shortcut
Android (5.0 and up): Android has a pretty powerful tool that allows you to see what’s been using your phone’s battery since it was last charged. If you’re using it often, this shortcut makes it easier to get to.
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Kotaku Look At World Of Final Fantasy. Just Look At It. | The Concourse Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner Of Miss Universe, Chaos Ensues | Jezebel Winner of Pornhub’s College Scholarship is a 48-Year-Old Texan Mom | Gizmodo Forget 404 Errors: HTTP…
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ Is A Hymn for the Ages – 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. “I think there must be so…
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It’s been a hard year for prisons in England and Wales. As well as nine prisoner-on-prisoner killings – the highest ever recorded – there has been a self-inflicted death every few days, thousands of incidents of self-harm and record levels of violen…
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Facebook turns away from Flash for video – BBC News
Facebook has stopped using Adobe’s Flash technology to show video across the entire social network. Instead Facebook has developed a video player built around the widely used HTML5 technology.
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Renault has completed its takeover of the Lotus team and will return to Formula 1 as a constructor in 2016. The move ends months of speculation and secures the future of the team based in Enstone in Oxfordshire.
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The following contains spoilers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s impossible to avoid a sense of déjà vu.
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“I think this is the guy”—The complicated confidence of eyewitness memory | Ars Technica
Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton have every reason to be enemies. In 1984, an intruder broke into Thompson’s apartment and raped her. She identified Cotton as the rapist in both a photo array and a live lineup. Although Cotton proclaimed his inno…
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JK Rowling ‘loves black Hermione’ casting of Noma Dumezweni | Books | The Guardian
JK Rowling has expressed her approval for the casting of Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger in a new London stage production of Harry Potter, stating that “Rowling loves black Hermione”.
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The Most Meaningful Education Protests of 2015 | ThinkProgress
It’s been a year of robust student protests that have effectively highlighted racial and economic inequality in both K-12 and higher education. And unlike previous years, 2015 has made it clear to students that these protests can yield results.
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2015 wasn’t a great year for reproductive rights. Federal and state lawmakers introduced more than 400 bills and enacted 47 new laws intended to restrict access to reproductive health care — the most in any recent year.
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Video raises questions over Chicago police account of fatal shooting | US news | The Guardian
The intersection of 71st and Merrill on Chicago’s south side was quiet on the late night of 19 June 2015, as most of the city slept through another warm summer night. But when the clock passed midnight, the block lost its quiet.
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Google X Alum Flux Factory Raises $29M Series B | TechCrunch
One of Google X Lab’s former moonshots is raising cash as it looks to disrupt the architecture design space with its specialized collaborative service. Flux Factory, Inc. announced $29 million in Series B funding co-led by Temasek and Surbana Jurong…
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CCTV footage shows Chicago police shooting of 22-year-old – video | US news | The Guardian
Footage released to the Guardian of police pursuing and shooting 22-year-old Alfontish ‘Nunu’ Cockerham this past June. The video raises questions about the police narrative leading up to the fatal gunfire. Warning: contains images some viewers may …
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Marisa Kakoulas at Needles and Sins has a cool post on “Star Wars” tribute tattoos. The one you see here is by A.D. Pancho.
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Bernie Sanders Just Made Presidential Campaign Contribution History : politics
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BERNIE 2016, I;m definitely voting for him. Those who say he doesn’t stand a chance don’t stand for chance. I’m voting Bernie not because it’s a waste of a vote, but because I give a damn that an honest man is doing his best in a sea full of sharks!… -
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The incredible unfairness of the global war on drugs, in one paragraph – Vox
The incredible unfairness of the global war on drugs, in one paragraph https://t.co/HQHEw6BifK https://t.co/n8rA289OSF
What if I told you that the US could sacrifice tens of thousands of American lives to potentially save a few thousand lives in Canada and other developed nations? Would it seem like a good trade-off to you? Most Americans, I’d guess, would not accep… -
The spotlight on Donald Trump has been so bright, so yooge, in 2015, that a person could be forgiven for forgetting the cultural space he’s long occupied.
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Holiday Dinner, With False Memories for Dessert – Scientific American Blog Network
It’s that time of year again. Cookies, cold noses, festive socks, reindeer, eggnog, and, perhaps most importantly of all, sharing memories with family and friends.
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Elephant Daughters Step Up to Replace Murdered Mothers – Scientific American
As highly social animals—like human beings – elephants rely on their bonds to navigate everyday life. Group living helps elephants with the difficult decisions that they make on a regular basis—what to eat, where to go when the water dries up, how t…
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Kotaku Look At World Of Final Fantasy. Just Look At It. | The Concourse Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner Of Miss Universe, Chaos Ensues | Jezebel Winner of Pornhub’s College Scholarship is a 48-Year-Old Texan Mom | Gizmodo Forget 404 Errors: HTTP…
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Fractal jigsaw puzzle / Boing Boing
It has only nine pieces, but each is a sprawling, intersecting fractal nightmare: “you can provide people with the solution and they still can’t solve it.” The creations of Oscar van Deventer (check his youtube channel for all his puzzle designs) yo…
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Why Has the Common Core Not Been Discussed on the Campaign Trail – The Atlantic
The Common Core was expected to be a ubiquitous subject on the campaign trail in 2016. The education standards had, over time, become a political football as conservatives condemned them as federal overreach. It’s so far hardly been the case.
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Significant Digits for Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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The end of 2015 has been dominated by crises.
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Spain’s political future uncertain after election – BBC News
It is the beginning of a new, multi-party era in Spain. The unrivalled dominance of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and the Socialists (PSOE), who have alternated in power for 32 years, always with parliamentary majorities, is over.
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Sepp Blatter: ‘Even suspended, I am the president’ – BBC News
Sepp Blatter has said that he is still the president of football’s world governing body, Fifa, despite being suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation.
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CellSavers, An On-Demand Phone Repair Startup, Raises $3M | TechCrunch
CellSavers CEO Itai Hirsch was not a fan of driving to a local repair shop after he’d broken many of his phones and tablets. So he decided to take a run at building CellSavers, an on-demand repair service that’s like an Uber for smartphone repairs.
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What We’re Following on Monday Morning, December 21 – The Atlantic
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Short film festival offers $1m award – BBC News
Hopefuls must submit a “thrilling, exciting, moving” 500-word story pitch, in either Japanese or English. The winning work will be shown at the 2017 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Tokyo.
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Goodbye 2015, a programming note
Hi there. My name is Jason, the host of this here thing. How was your 2015? Mine was…not good and not bad. Challenging? Interesting? Uneven? Unparalleled? (You don’t want to know. And I’m not going to tell you anyway.) This is my last post to kott…
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Jonathan Safran Foer to publish first novel in a decade | Books | The Guardian
Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in 11 years, set against a backdrop where Israel is invaded and the Middle East has been hit by an earthquake, will be published next autumn.
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First Click: Hateful Eight, System Shock 3, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has obliterated box office records since opening Thursday night. In fact, half of all Verge readers might have already seen the Disney film if our Friday poll was any indication.
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: Budget bill adds to domestic spying; missing black Millennials
Congress easily passed a thinly disguised surveillance provision — the final version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA — on Friday; it was shoehorned into a must-pass budget bill to prevent a government shutdown before the holida…
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Word Fireworks Makes Learning Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Hebrew Fun and Easy
Android/iOS: Learning to read, write, and speak languages with their own character sets can be challenging to those of us used to roman lettering, but Word Fireworks turns it into a game that’s not just easy to get into, but compelling enough to sti…
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BBC Sport – Pavel Srnicek: Ex-Newcastle keeper in critical condition
Former Newcastle goalkeeper Pavel Srnicek is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest in the Czech Republic. According to information received by his agent Steve Wraith, the 47-year-old collapsed while out jogging in Ostr…
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The Primitive Streetlights That Predicted Electronic Music in 1899 | Motherboard
The streets of London began humming in 1878. Where once had stood streetlights powered by pipelines of flammable coal gas now were the first “electric candles,” primitive lamps that produced light as intense electric arcs between two electrodes.
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Russia Launches Robotic Supply Ship to Space Station
A robotic Russian cargo ship packed with tons of food, equipment – and just maybe some holiday treats – launched into orbit today (Dec. 21) in a special delivery to the International Space Station, just in time for Christmas.
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How Driverless Cars Will Keep Their Eyes on the Road | Motherboard
“Eyes on the road” is such a core proverb of safe driving that even driverless cars will have to obey it. Indeed, according to information engineer Roberto Cipolla, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome in the pursuit of self-driving cars will be r…
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Arsenic: A Growing Plague in the World’s Drinking Water – Scientific American
On her wedding night, Gita Paul felt doomed.
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In her dreams, the first Briton in space revisits st…
In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space. Since then, she has never let go of the ethereal feeling of floating above the Earth.
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David Beckham admits he would love the chance to sign “born winner” Zlatan Ibrahimovic to his proposed Major League Soccer franchise. Former England captain Beckham played alongside Ibrahimovic at French champions Paris Saint-Germain before announci…
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From Bee Larvae to Toilet Rats, Our Favorite Videos of 2015
In addition to a number of surprising viral videos, this year saw some big discoveries and exciting coverage by National Geographic explorers and storytellers, from a mesmerizing time-lapse of bees to a disturbing encounter involving a toilet.
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Grim Video Shows Huge Waves of Industrial Waste That Have Left Scores Missing in China | VICE News
At least 91 people were missing after a giant mound of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump site in a southern China boomtown and buried 33 buildings in the country’s latest industrial disaster.
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Extremely Rare Fishing Snakes Discovered
Deep in the remote tropical forests of the northern Andes, scientists have discovered three new species of extremely rare snake. The discovery comes mere weeks after a separate team announced the discovery of a closely related snake in southwestern …
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Everything You Need to Know About the Winter Solstice
The Northern Hemisphere’s procession of dwindling days is about to reach its nadir. The winter solstice is the year’s shortest day, but the start of winter also launches the sun’s steady climb towards the long, warm days of summer.
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Google, Facebook Have Most Popular Phone Apps – Nielsen | Re/code
From the “Things You Knew but It’s Still Helpful to See Them in a Chart” file*: Google has a decent lead over Apple when it comes to the number of people using its phones/operating system.
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The 2015 Data Awards | FiveThirtyEight
It’s been a dubious banner year for lies, damn lies and data. And it probably comes as little surprise that our award for Most Insidious Manipulation of Data goes to Volkswagen.
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Oil price: Brent crude hits 11-year low – BBC News
Oil prices have fallen to levels not seen since 2004, surpassing the lows seen during the recession of 2008. Brent crude sank to $36.05 a barrel – its weakest since July 2004 – before recovering slightly to $36.47.
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Turkey Is Betting on Aleppo Rebels to Get Islamic State Out of Border Area | VICE News After the Islamic State’s November attack on Paris, carried out by European fighters returning from the Syrian battlefield, international efforts to close the terrorist group’s last route to and from Turkey have taken…
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