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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev and Disarmament – The Atlantic
After his reelection in 1984, President Ronald Reagan sat for an interview with Time magazine. “I just happen to believe that we cannot go into another generation with the world living under the threat of those weapons and knowing that some madman c…
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Book Review: Political Animals – Scientific American
Clara Moskowitz is Scientific American’s senior editor covering space and physics. She has a bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University and a graduate degree in science journalism from the University of California, Santa Cru…
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How much in taxes do U.S tech companies pay yearly : dataisbeautiful
Is this “taxes”, “taxes in the United States” or “Federal Taxes”? That isn’t clear to me and since taxes are collected and revenue is earned:
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73 nations face off at the World Magic Cup | Ars Technica
BARCELONA—England hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to World Cups in the last few years. In the Football World Cup, England went out in the group stage, not winning a single game. In the 2015 Cricket World Cup, England won a couple of matche…
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New Arabic short story prize meets with cautious welcome | Books | The Guardian
Suspicion clings to Arabic literary prizes, particularly the newest ones.
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The 10 best curveball US presidential candidates | US news | The Guardian
Forget Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders; the strangest candidate of the 2016 race was plainly the Republican Lincoln Chafee. As the Atlantic magazine put it: “In a year of inexplicable presidential candidacies, his stood out for its utter…
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As 2015 comes to a close, we can look forward to starting a new year with a global climate change agreement that has been signed by 95% of the world’s governments. We’re equippedwith a multitude of reports that parse all of its endless details.
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Chinese publisher pulls ‘vulgar’ translation of Indian poet | World news | The Guardian
Zhejiang Literature and Arts Publishing House announced this week it would pull from shelves all copies of Tagore’s Stray Birds, translated by the Chinese writer Feng Tang, citing controversy and saying it would review the translation.
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How To Be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I found this to be a witty and charming book with an exceedingly quirky air. It focuses on the world of birdwatching in a way that very few people would think of. I think this book is brilliant because Simon Barnes connects the birds to his life, ra…
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Delhi begins car restriction plan to tackle pollution – Al Jazeera English
New Delhi has kicked off a drastic new plan aimed at reducing its record-high air pollution by limiting the numbers of cars on the streets for two weeks.
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‘Sewing’ with molten glass and maths – BBC News
US researchers have developed what they call a “molten glass sewing machine” by combining 3D printing of glass with a mathematical model of how a liquid thread forms different types of loop.
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Firework displays around the world welcome 2016 – video | Life and style | The Guardian
Major cities around the world see in 2016 with firework displays.
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Mash star Wayne Rogers dies aged 82 – BBC News
Mash star Wayne Rogers, who played US army surgeon ‘Trapper’ John McIntyre in the cult 1970s TV series, has died. The actor, who also had a recurring role in the 1990s series Murder, She Wrote, died aged 82, of complications from pneumonia.
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Intel Bets $16.7 Billion on the Massively Parallel Future of Computing | Motherboard
On Monday, Intel completed its largest-ever acquisition, paying $16.7 billion for chip-maker and recent Intel partner Altera.
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Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to run for third presidential term – BBC News
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has confirmed that he will seek re-election for a third term in 2017. The announcement was expected after a referendum approved constitutional changes to allow him to run for three further terms and could potentially s…
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“No English novelist ever suggested more unspeakable things, and got away without being understood, than me in that book,” wrote Arnold Bennett to a friend after The Old Wives’ Tale was published in 1908.
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Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations. : worldnews
Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations. via /r/worldnews https://t.co/bE8vmVOT2L https://t.co/c7bk6g0SRN
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Other countries have good hitchhiking apps. Why doesn’t the United States? | Grist
From tanking startups to banning tips, from seafood-prepping slaves to climate-protecting seaweed, these works of food journalism brightened the year.
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Munich police told of ‘’serious and imminent threat’’ – BBC News
Police in Munich evacuated two major railway stations after an intelligence agency warned Germany of an imminent attack. Authorities had received information that suicide bombers from so-called Islamic State (IS) could target the central station or …
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Science fiction and fantasy look ahead to a diverse 2016 | Books | The Guardian
After fans fought back at the Hugos, seeing off the Sad Puppies with a host of votes for “no award”, we can look forward to SF becoming a little less old, white and male in 2016.
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As the first thing you lay eyes upon when opening up a new book, the first line needs to be impactful, enticing, and enough to get us hooked.
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Today China begins its 2-child policy : worldnews
Today China begins its 2-child policy (rss.cnn.com)submitted 27 minutes ago by loading…
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Turkey pauses for three days of snow – Al Jazeera English
The heavy snowfall that hit northern and central Turkey in the last days of 2015 has continued into the New Year, causing flight cancellations and road chaos.
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I love my brother 🙂 via /r/cats https://t.co/1r7HMqG0M9 https://t.co/gvOoXjgEGS
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Munich got ‘specific’ warning of IS plot – German officials – BBC News
German officials say they were right to close two major railway stations in Munich on New Year’s Eve, because they had a “specific” tip-off about a possible Islamic State (IS) attack. Munich police are still on high alert, carrying out more checks t…
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The Activist Fighting Silicon Valley for Europe’s Privacy | Motherboard
In October, a monumental court ruling found that an agreement used by American companies to transfer data across European borders was invalid.
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At-Risk Girls Prone to Withdrawal, Then Acting Out | Al Jazeera America
Raised in rural Washington state, her father cut her off from contact with any adults who might have been able to intervene to stop the sexual, physical and emotional abuse she and her siblings suffered.
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You forgot to add… Only the once-in-a-while serious glitch possibly thanks to having too few checks and balances and not enough staff.
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Pace bowler James Anderson is set to return for England’s second Test against South Africa in Cape Town. Anderson missed the 241-run first-Test win with a calf strain but is likely to replace Chris Woakes for the match at Newlands, which begins on S…
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Tolstoy from the pages of the Guardian and Observer | Books | The Guardian
The first mention in the Manchester Guardian of War and Peace by Count Leo Tolstoy appeared two years after its publication, on 7 February 1871.
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Soyuz TMA-13 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soyuz TMA-13 (Russian: Союз ТМА-13, Union TMA-13) was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket at 07:01 GMT on 12 October 2008. It undocked at 02:55 GMT on 8 April 2009, performed a d…
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Donut-Stealing Raccoon Is Totally Doing It – Digg
34 diggs Animals Food Funny Gross What donut shop is this and why does no one seem alarmed that a raccoon lives in the ceiling? MORE: Ralph the dog certainly did not eat your tater tots
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Copyright of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf expires – BBC News
For the first time in 70 years, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf is to be available to buy in Germany. Reprinting the anti-Semitic book was banned after WW2 by Bavaria’s regional government, which held the copyright.
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This is Frank. He’s an asshole.. : cats
This is Frank. He’s an asshole.. via /r/cats https://t.co/yYyWiaep2c https://t.co/l0kprnnwsn
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My friends adorable ten week old kitten : cats
My friends adorable ten week old kitten via /r/cats https://t.co/9lWN1MT2hi https://t.co/K7lHsJsHNN
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I was a homeless worker at a San Francisco tech company : technology
I was a homeless worker at a San Francisco tech company via /r/technology https://t.co/ZNiPrToFyy https://t.co/2kqSAqNpUX
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Quentin Tarantino sued for ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ over Django Unchained | The Verge
A pair of filmmakers have launched a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, claiming that his 2012 film Django Unchained infringes upon the copyright of their screenplay Freedom. According to a report from The Wrap, Oscar Colvin Jr. and Torrance J.
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Fucking NPR with their biased reporting, just like always they conveniently left out the cilantro. NPR will stop at nothing to get your secret guacamole recipe. Who will they target next?
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NFL previews: Rex Ryan and the Bills out to stop the Jets’ playoff bid | Sport | The Guardian
With one week left to go in the regular season, 14 out of 32 NFL teams are still in the running to win Super Bowl 50. Those odds are better than the ones facing our Pick Six contestants.
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An unhappy New Year for Turkey’s exporters to Russia – Al Jazeera English
Istanbul – Burhan Er picked a mandarin out of a crate and held it up. It had been destined for Russia, but following sanctions against Turkey it would have to be sold domestically.
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is a very short adaptation of the TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of the same name. She talks of her experience of sexism growing up in Nigeria and how it has effected her life. It discusses why we still need feminism and why each and…
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Get the thinnest battery case ever made for the iPhone for over 50% off / Boing Boing
Don’t choose between a slim phone and a big battery case, opt for the best of both worlds. With the ThinCharge Case, you won’t have to fumble for your charging cable—simply hit one button to charge up on-the-go.
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The modern enemies of promise | Books | The Guardian
There never was a British literary world that didn’t believe itself to exist in a permanent state of flux. The “serious writers” of the 1890s, grimly regarding developments in popular journalism, thought they were being deluged in trash.
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Learn to create your own video games with the Unity 5 Game Hacker bundle and save 89% / Boing Boing
If you want to learn to create your own games, there’s no place like Unity 5. This bundle will not only teach you to create a game, but make you an expert on the matter. Start turning your passion into profit, and learn this lucrative trade today.
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My resolution is simple, and I’ve already started it. More time reading, less time online. I’ve been trying to read for four hours a day and it makes my brain feel good. My reading resolution next year is a simple one. I am determined to spend more …
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Packing lists are not inherently punk rock. But the handwritten packing list Godmother of Punk Patti Smith scrawled upside down on a photocopied receipt from a children’s bookstore on the eve of a 40-date European tour comes close.
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Eyewitness: Dubai hotel tower in flames ‘within five minutes’ – BBC News
Dubai’s The Address Downtown hotel has been engulfed in flames, hours before the city’s New Year’s Eve firework display. Burning debris could be seen falling from the 300m-tall (1,000ft) building as firefighters tackled the blaze.
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Novel about Jewish-Palestinian love affair is barred from Israeli curriculum (theguardian.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading…
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What is ‘music on the bones’? – BBC News
Western music was banned in the Soviet Union of the 1950s. But with ingenuity and human endeavour, music lovers found a way to listen to their favourite music by recording onto X-rays – a forgotten practice known as ”music on the bones”.
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Crowdfunding campaign puts comic books on call in children’s hospitals | Books | The Guardian
A crowdfunding campaign to put comics into the hands of children in hospital has more than doubled its target, raising funds to distribute printed issues of the Moose Kid anthology to 50 hospitals across the UK.
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New Years Eve fireworks above New York’s Times Square – video | US news | The Guardian
More than one million people watch the traditional dropping of the New Year’s Eve crystal ball in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday, to celebrate the arrival of 2016.
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SpaceX’s first reusable rocket is back in its hangar : worldnews
SpaceX’s first reusable rocket is back in its hangar via /r/worldnews https://t.co/kmsHpzrxxm https://t.co/AVRb3rTVkD
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Environment education to lead in 2016 : environment
Environment education to lead in 2016 via /r/environment https://t.co/dkgvAPuxhh https://t.co/8JJjr1e6S8
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So that’s where I left my ball : aww
So that’s where I left my ball via /r/aww https://t.co/6WmmtSG6Jh https://t.co/jvWEF0BAmp
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Books in 2016: a literary calendar | Books | The Guardian
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani (Macmillan) The long-anticipated major work of the historian of the Holocaust and Anglo-Jewish life, who died last year (another book, on Disraeli, will also be published this year by …
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French Algerians return to parents’ native land – Al Jazeera English
Algiers – Sofiane Chakki, a 34-year-old entrepreneur who was born and raised in a suburb of Paris, did not expect to live in his parents’ native land. For the past four years, however, he has been commuting back and forth from Algiers to Paris sever…
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William Shakespeare: 2016 is the 400th anniversary of his death | Books | The Guardian
Few cultural figures are afforded quite as many anniversary knees-ups as Shakespeare – then again there’s nothing like being born and dying on the same day to keep you in the calendar. In 2014, the world toasted the 450th birthday of Warwickshire’s …
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Dubai seeks cause of massive hotel fire at New Year – BBC News
The authorities in Dubai are trying to find out what caused a spectacular fire to engulf a 63-storey luxury hotel in the city centre on New Year’s Eve. Firefighters managed to subdue the blaze, but smoke was still rising from the Address Hotel in th…
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ELI5: Why tornadoes are most prevalent in North America and Eastern Europe, but not in Asia. (self.explainlikeimfive) The geography of Asia is very mixed and had lots of mountains and uneven land, while the Midwest in America is flat.
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‘Poets grow older; verse turns from passion into habit: but only the first condition is inevitable.” When Sean O’Brien penned this statement a decade ago, he surely did so with a quiet commitment not to fall foul of it.
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Wildlife rangers pulled almost 300 saltwater crocodiles from Northern Territory waterways in 2015, more than in either of the two previous years.
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LPT: More DUI’s occur the morning AFTER NYE than at night. Be careful on the roads and sidewalks. If you wake up groggy, you are still impaired. (self.LifeProTips) Good call on posting this. Thank you
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My friend’s elementary picture. He wore a white sweater. : pics
My friend’s elementary picture. He wore a white sweater. (imgur.com) Because he knows he’s ahead of the class.
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Iran speeds up missile testing amid US sanctions threat – Al Jazeera English
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered an expansion of the country’s ballistic missile development programme, in a move seen as a response to possible new US sanctions against Iranian officials and businesses.
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An Avant-Garde Take on the Gay-Rights Movement – The New Yorker
The Public Theatre takes its art-for-all mission seriously, and, since 2005, its “Under the Radar” festival has been an essential showcase of the avant-garde.
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Eight Questions for the New Year in Politics – The New Yorker
1. Can Donald Trump survive a loss in Iowa?
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A Season of Scandal at Red Bull – The New Yorker
Centuries before it was an ill-advised soft drink, Red Bull was a theatre in Shakespeare’s England, a lesser-known competitor to the Globe.
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Babu Ji: Tables for Two – The New Yorker
The Hindi term “Babu Ji” can be an honorific for a male village elder; in Alphabet City it’s the animating spirit behind the liveliest dinner party on the block.
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The Carnegie Club: Bar Tab – The New Yorker
This elegant two-story cigar lounge has the aura of a friendly den of iniquity: leather couches, red striped wallpaper, stone fireplace, polite patrons, huge ashtrays, cottony clouds of smoke floating by like weather systems.
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The Prototype Festival’s Modern Classics – The New Yorker
Amidst the general uncertainty of New York’s operatic scene, the Prototype Festival, an annual explosion of youthful energy spearheaded by Beth Morrison Projects and the experimental theatre space HERE, has built a clearly defined profile: brash, so…
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Rosie is so photogenic. : cats
Rosie is so photogenic. via /r/cats https://t.co/8pgAdAf1PO https://t.co/QeXEAYC2PQ
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NYE at home with these two studs. : aww
NYE at home with these two studs. via /r/aww https://t.co/RQabp0BH4x https://t.co/NY0rGgnENL
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Tommy Lee and his drum roller coaster : gifs
Tommy Lee and his drum roller coaster via /r/gifs https://t.co/cBmMBpgcaQ https://t.co/3Hd5MxB9hh
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, January 1, and Saturday, January 2. All times are Eastern. Sherlock (PBS, 9 p.m.
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If you’re like me this time of year, wine is the currency that guides you through this party-heavy season. I hardly ever arrive anywhere without a bottle of wine in hand, and accept just as many from guests on my doorstep.
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This is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Edward Snowden : technology
This is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Edward Snowden via /r/technology https://t.co/HrSgg2dUHd https://t.co/VkMFEQ7PCb
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Shenzhen landslide disaster: 11 arrests for negligence – BBC News
Eleven people in China have been arrested for their alleged role in the Shenzhen landslide disaster. Shenzhen prosecutors, late on Thursday, said a dispatcher and supervisor of the landfill, the chief and deputy manager of a company in charge of it,…
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Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX successfully landed is ‘ready to fire again’ | The Verge
SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket successfully made it back to Earth last month, touching down gently at Cape Canaveral after traveling out of our atmosphere, into space, and back again. Now, SpaceX boss Elon Musk says, the rocket is ready for anoth…
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Rwandan President to run for third term in office – Al Jazeera English
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has declared he will run for a third term in office after his second seven-year term expires in 2017. The announcement in his end-of-year message on Friday follows last month’s constitutional referendum in which 98.
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What did “that bitch” do at your wedding? : AskReddit
What did “that bitch” do at your wedding? (self.AskReddit) That bitch.
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APOD: 2015 December 31 – Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
Explanation: A southern exposure and striking symmetry made Lulworth Cove, along the Jurassic Coast of England, planet Earth a beautiful setting during December’s Solstice.
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Nature skips a season | Environment | The Guardian
Late December and this landscaped array of flooded gravel pits in the Nene valley is thrumming with people.
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I’m still hoping for the inevitable moment in a Star Wars film where Chewie rips some arms out of their sockets, he did it in the Lego games and I want it on the big screen. C3-P0 had that red arm for a reason………
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E.T. in his first game compared to his latest. : gaming
E.T. in his first game compared to his latest. (imgur.com) It’s not just about graphics, gameplay and story are also important. Unfortunately this game had none of those three.
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Kanye West Blasts Nike on New Song, ‘Facts’ | Rolling Stone
Kanye West knows how to pick his moments. The rapper-producer surprise-released the minimalist new song, “Facts” on Thursday, New Year’s Eve. The news was first unveiled by wife Kim Kardashian, who tweeted, “YEEZY YEEZY YEEZY NEW SONG ABOUT TO DROP …
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Netanyahu’s wife probed over alleged state funds misuse – Al Jazeera English
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been questioned by police over allegations of using public funds for private expenses.
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Oh yeah, that’s right.. : gaming
Oh yeah, that’s right.. (i.imgur.com) Subtile… I like it.
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Last sunset of the year Verde Valley, AZ(1620×1080) : SkyPorn
Last sunset of the year Verde Valley, AZ(1620×1080) via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/g1MBHNHYQR https://t.co/ESiNNFSS1P
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My name is Scratch, I came to say hello! : cats
My name is Scratch, I came to say hello! via /r/cats https://t.co/zlVrs3dE0l https://t.co/WPBPkFBYIO
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Watch Taylor Swift run away from wolves in the video for ‘Out of the Woods’ | The Verge
It’s a busy New Year’s Eve for multi-platinum selling musicians — first Kanye West released his latest song, “Facts,” now Taylor Swift has dropped her newest video on YouTube.
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Hello from the other side : aww
Hello from the other side via /r/aww https://t.co/N6KZvGsAts https://t.co/AhUI1inPom
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‘Alien: Covenant’ To Take Place 10 Years After ‘Prometheus’ : movies
‘Alien: Covenant’ To Take Place 10 Years After ‘Prometheus’ via /r/movies https://t.co/dsvUIQASFi https://t.co/Ha3l2rnD2V
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Alabama advance to national championship game by blowing out Michigan State | Sport | The Guardian
Jake Coker played the game of his career, hooking up with Calvin Ridley for two touchdowns, as second-ranked Alabama aired it out to beat No. 3 Michigan State 38-0 Thursday night and advance to the national championship game. Alabama (13-1) will fac…
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Taylor Swift’s New Video Is A Better Fairytale Movie Than Maleficent and Mirror Mirror Put Together
Seriously, Hollywood keeps making weird-ass fairytale movies. And they really ought to take a note from this insane new Taylor Swift video for “Out of the Woods,” which does for fairytales what her “Bad Blood” vid did for action movies.
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How To Unplug For New Year’s Weekend | TechCrunch
New Year’s is a time we turn off work for a little while. We meet friends and family, reflect on the prior year and begin to imagine possibilities for the coming year. For many of us involved with startups, however, taking time to unplug can be diff…
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Ringing in 2016: Happy New Year!
Yes, yes, it’s been 2016 in other parts of the world for hours and it’s still 2015 in most time zones in the United States, but … Happy New Year! Talk about your hopes and plans for the new year, your highs and lows from the year just ending, or ta…
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Eddystone Image, Tasmania – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Your Shot member Andy Chisolm was taking a break from a rigorous surfing session when he captured from the flybridge of his boat this photo of a “feeding frenzy.
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Kanye West Releases Awful New Song on New Year’s Eve – The Daily Beast
Is Drake inside Kanye West’s head? That’s the impression one gets after listening to “Facts,” a schizophrenic new song Yeezy released onto his SoundCloud page a few hours before the New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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Terror alert and fires disrupt New Year’s celebrations – Al Jazeera English
Millions of people around the world have welcomed in the year 2016 on high security alert, with train stations in Germany evacuated over an “imminent threat” and fireworks canceled in Paris and Brussels, while huge fires ripped through a Dubai hotel…
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100% of people who breathe oxygen will die. This is no lie. Oh god. What can I do to prevent this?!
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For the marketing of “The Ring”, the video from the cursed videotape was played in late night programming over the summer of 2002 without any reference to the movie. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 15
Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 15 https://t.co/x9VaItTIoY https://t.co/ToFeMW822p
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 16
Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 16 https://t.co/qOQvJGyGMn https://t.co/IUO2T4EzXI
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 17
Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 17 https://t.co/2V5WxdfCW0 https://t.co/2azQr17beC
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Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 21.2 https://t.co/LtEUJ4Vnmm https://t.co/w2e9QjuwMq
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Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 21.3 https://t.co/xkAhonQBpU https://t.co/T1gvvbgzgW
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Spiral Wizard Tower Crossroads Station 21.4 https://t.co/blVBtvusd2 https://t.co/lbK6fvfcOx
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/q1TE0We8Rb https://t.co/dK1HNqUdrS
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Well-Armed Activists Openly Defy Texas Law to Feed The Homeless : politics
Well-Armed Activists Openly Defy Texas Law to Feed The Homeless via /r/politics https://t.co/NObjYnuaRi https://t.co/CD9f0lyS9K
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Every Gym owner on January 1st via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/HkIR1M7czr https://t.co/FbripkFTxj
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Cat Sleeping https://t.co/bYfWCJNFer
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Cat Sleeping 2 https://t.co/ojEg1jT0c3
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Watch Taylor Swift Battle Nature in ‘Out of the Woods’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Taylor Swift Battle Nature in ‘Out of the Woods’ Video Superstar takes on feral wolves, forest fires and avalanches in new ‘1989’ video
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Hillary Clinton was told Angela Merkel is against ‘Obama phenomenon’ | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton was informed that German chancellor Angela Merkel is hostile to the “Obama phenomenon” and finds it “contrary to her whole idea of politics”, according to a newly released batch of emails from her time as secretary of state.
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President Obama wears one brand of underwear, always the same color. He shaves before working out in the morning. And he picks out his own suit. Mr. Seinfeld picked up the president for their coffee date in a 1963 Corvette Stingray, but Mr.
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My cat decides she likes to become one with the couch. : cats
My cat decides she likes to become one with the couch. via /r/cats https://t.co/qi26ahURTs https://t.co/gvBDIMr05y
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[1920×1080] can anyone tell me what this is? : spaceporn
[1920×1080] can anyone tell me what this is? via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/unz9YEuaCv https://t.co/ihDiZENEs5
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A kid had sex with his teacher. : Jokes
So the kid just got of school and he got into the car with his mom. The mom asks, “What did you do at school today?” The kid replies, “I had sex with the teacher.” The mom was furious so when they got home, she told him to go to his room and wait fo…
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A California gun statute going into effect on 1 January gives the police or family members the option to petition the courts to seize the guns and ammunition of someone they think poses a threat, the first law of its kind in the country. (theguardia…
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Lifeguards have set up on the normally unpatrolled Hyams beach at Jervis Bay, after two consecutive days of mass shark sightings sent swimmers fleeing the water.
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‘MASH’ Star Wayne Rogers Dies at 82 : television
‘MASH’ Star Wayne Rogers Dies at 82 via /r/television https://t.co/2OzsKpV7S2 https://t.co/gaSYswmg7h
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Delhi begins car rationing to curb pollution – BBC News
Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, have launched major restrictions on private cars to curb alarming levels of pollution. Private cars with even and odd number plates are being allowed on alternate days from Friday in an initial two-week tria…
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Laughing for the right reasons: Hari Kondabolu
This holiday season while the news is slow, I thought I’d share clips from a few comedians of the leftish persuasion. Up now, one of my personal favorites: Hari Kondabolu.
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New Year’s Evil is the Sleazy Slasher Classic You Should Be Watching Right Now
New Year’s Evil is a 1980 slasher film from B-movie gods Golan-Globus; it stars Roz Kelly—a.k.a. Fonzie’s girlfriend, Pinky Tuscadero, on Happy Days—as Blaze, “the first lady of rock.
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Another Hong Kong worker at anti-Beijing bookshop ‘disappears’ – BBC News
Another associate of a Hong Kong bookshop specialising in titles critical of the Chinese government, has apparently disappeared. Last month four other employees of the same bookshop and publishing house, including its owner, went missing.
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Dementia loved ones ‘benefit from visits’ – BBC News
Spending time with loved ones with dementia is important even after they fail to recognise the faces of friends and family, a dementia charity says. But the Alzheimer’s Society said family visits stimulated feelings of happiness, comfort and securit…
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Watson gets Clemson past Oklahoma for Orange Bowl, national title shot | Sport | The Guardian
So much for Clemsoning. The Tigers are headed to the national championship game.
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Grandpa flipping a 57-egg Omelette : gifs
Yeah, just all the bacon in the walk-in right? Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I’m worried what you just heard was, “Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.” What I said was, “Give me all the bacon and eggs you have”. Do you under…
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Goat conquers a mountain : aww
Which one are you at ill drop off a skid after the holiday. Baby mountain goat in training.
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Listen to Kanye West’s new single ‘Facts’ | The Verge
Does this mean Swish is getting closer? It’s New Year’s Eve, but that’s not stopping Kanye West from working. The iconoclastic rapper released new single “Facts” tonight, just a few hours before the ball was set to drop in Times Square.
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We’ll see in a year how we all did. May our hopes be realized and our fears prove unwarranted. And happy New Year to all my readers!
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My cat just jumped into the refrigerator. : cats
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‘Sherlock’ Sends Benedict Cumberbatch Back in Time to Victorian London – The Daily Beast
They finally got Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes to put on that iconic deerstalker cap.
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This Mad Scientist Will Clone 100,000 Cows – The Daily Beast
Two decades after the birth of Dolly the sheep—the world’s first successfully cloned mammal—the year 2016 will likely see the rise of mass-produced animal clones, thanks to an enterprising and madcap scientist in China.
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This Is What Should Happen In The Final Season of ‘Downton Abbey’ – The Daily Beast
Prepare the cucumber sandwiches. The sixth and final season of Downton begins Sunday, with personal and romantic travails anew for the Granthams and their servants.
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The Syrian Refugee Band Touring Europe – The Daily Beast
BUKAREVAC, Serbia — On a cool September night in the Serbian border town of Bukarevac, members of the Syrian post-rock band Khebez Dawle stretched out on a patch of grass next to a bus station full of refugees from the worlds worst conflicts.
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What You Missed While You Were Trumping – The Daily Beast
One of the most frustrating aspects of the Year of Trump, besides everything, was the viciously cyclical nature of Trump coverage.
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Gay Open Marriages Need To Come Out of the Closet – The Daily Beast
The year 2015 was a landmark one for same-sex couples in America—the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, and even before the decision, some 390,000 gay couples had already gotten hitched in states like Massachusetts and New Yor…
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When Mom’s A Drama Queen: Anne Enright’s ‘The Green Road’ – The Daily Beast
Every family is, in its own way, a mini theater troupe, each member reciting well-rehearsed lines, for an audience of just each other. In Anne Enright’s family drama The Green Road, matriarch Rosaleen is both star of the show and director, expertly …
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How Oprah Created a Profitable Weight-Loss Plan – The Daily Beast
Forget portion control: weight loss is a powerful emotional journey of self-reinvention and slow-motion clips of Oprah Winfrey, billionaire media mogul and new Weight Watchers spokesperson, gasping for breath on an elliptical.
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When Florida Men Overcame Our Racists – The Daily Beast
The second decade of the 21st century has been a sobering one for many Americans, especially those who have interpreted racial progress as an indication of the end of racism.
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Why Everybody Should Work in Hollywood – The Daily Beast
I’m convinced that working in Hollywood is the most effective and efficient way to teach people how to work. You have to work well under constant pressure. You have to be responsible for more things than anyone should have to be responsible for. And…
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Translating the ‘Iliad’? Who Isn’t. – The Daily Beast
Pop quiz: Which is greater? (a) The number of Republican presidential candidates or (b) the number of new English translations of Homer’s Iliad published in the last decade. If you answered (a), you’d be right, but by a very slim margin.
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The World Falls For Diana’s Nieces – The Daily Beast
They are young, blonde, and beautiful. They hail from the most aristocratic of British bloodlines, but are also willing to share saucy snaps of their carefree gilded lives on instagram.
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Why Democrats Are Ready for Lincoln – The Daily Beast
A Just and Generous Nation has appeared just in time. Just in time for the 2016 presidential campaigns—and for the Democrats to learn a thing or two about American history. When Sen.
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Munich terror alert: ‘We were all completely shocked’ – BBC News
Two train stations in Munich, Germany have been evacuated after police issued a warning about a possible terror attack. In social media posts, authorities said they had “serious information” that the attack had been planned for New Year’s Eve. They …
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Google Fiber is coming to my city. Comcast is getting nervous. (i.imgur.com) It’s like the shittiest restaurant in town saying they have fancy silverware.
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Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, And The Power of Prosecutors – The Daily Beast
What do Bill Cosby and Tamir Rice’s have in common? Their cases reveal the immense power of prosecutors. Consider the fact that in 2005, Andrea Constand told police that Bill Cosby gave her drugs and sexually assaulted her.
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The Federal Vision For Healthcare IT: A Dystopian Paradise | TechCrunch
In a year not too distant, Loretta, a woman in her late 20s, hears a pleasant tone from her watch and checks to see a text. The message isn’t from a friend or work, it’s from the watch itself: “You’re pregnant.” Loretta is surprised; conception was …
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China’s one-child policy ends – BBC News
The first day of 2016 marks the end of China’s controversial, 40-year-old one-child policy. Although families will still require government-issued birth permits, or face the sanction of a forced abortion, couples in China can now request to have two…
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Awesome! Probably a dumb question but what kind of paint did you use? My son had asked for a “black with flames” jeep but they don’t have those at toys r us so he had to settle for green. I’d like to paint his but I’m hopeless with stuff like that! …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A luxury hotel skyscraper in Dubai was engulfed in flames after a fire broke out Thursday, causing an evacuation of a large crowd from the downtown area that had gathered for New Year’s Eve.
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Teachers unions and other critics of federally required standardized tests have behaved in recent years as though killing the testing mandate would magically remedy everything that ails education in the United States.
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Mother of ‘affluenza’ teen detained in Los Angeles after Mexico deportation | US news | The Guardian
The mother of fugitive “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch will likely remain jailed for several days in Los Angeles after being deported from Mexico, investigators said on Thursday.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/jD3c0jdc0r Stories via @UNPeacekeeping
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Sharks explain Australia’s year in news – BBC News
There’s no question that 2015 has been a big year for shark-related news in Australia. But what about all the other stuff? And what do the sharks think? Cartoonist Christopher Patterson explains the year in Australian news from a unique perspective.
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College football open thread: It’s Michigan State and Alabama in the Cotton Bowl
So kick back, discuss the game … or whatever you feel like talking about because this is an open thread!
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#TheDress couple: ‘we were completely left out from the story’ – BBC News
“The Dress” was perhaps the most viral image of 2015 – so why do the couple who took the picture, Paul Jinks and Cecilia Bleasdale, now have mixed feelings about their wildly popular photo?On the morning of 27 February this year, when I checked my m…
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Why intelligence sharing still has a long way to go – BBC News
The Paris attacks in November appeared to show that jihadists could seemingly move freely across borders while the information required to stop them did not. But improving intelligence sharing is proving a struggle.
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Tim Peake’s New Year message from International Space Station – BBC News
British astronaut Tim Peake has delivered a new year message from the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS operates on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) so the astronauts on board mark the New Year at the same time as the UK.
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Shakespeare’s New Year quiz – BBC News
This year marks 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death. Events around the world are planned to celebrate the anniversary of England’s – and possibly the world’s – most famous playwright.
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The amazing survival of the Baltic Muslims – BBC News
It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the forests and lakes of Lithuania for more than 600 years – showing that tolerance reigned here in the Middle Ages, even when religious strife w…
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The composer discovering the secrets of birdsong – BBC News
Birdsong is the inspiration for composer Peter Cowdrey’s music. As a child he tried to transcribe birdsong but was frustrated by the speed and complexity of the songs of everyday garden birds.
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21 Golden Retriever puppies from two litters. : aww
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Instant Karma via /r/gifs https://t.co/Hr0KEs9ekz https://t.co/pAPuA1f9Se
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NH Republican lawmakers harass female state rep who objected to sexist law / Boing Boing
After NH state rep Amanda Bouldin objected to HB 1525-FN, a bill banning public displays of women’s nipples introduced by four alleged “small government” men from the GOP side of the house, two GOP members took to social media to bombard her with ha…
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It ain’t just the flag. A look at Confederate iconography in the South
The original square flag, with its blue diagonal cross and stars, was proposed as the first flag of the Confederacy, but was later relegated to battle flag status of the Army of Northern Virginia after the voting body in 1861 decided that they wante…
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The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel – The New Yorker
The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel – The New Yorker https://t.co/29QPM9Rfrn
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Obama And Jerry Seinfeld Roll Around The White House – Digg
18 diggs Funny Cars As much as Jerry Seinfeld would like to take President Obama on the open road, it’s not so easy getting Barry out of the White House. That being said, a tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ain’t so bad.
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The Childhood’s End Miniseries Has Given Us Some Utterly Superb Spaceship Art
Syfy’s ambitious miniseries based on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End served up some beautiful spaceship visuals. Including the alien mothership, which looks striking and angelic. Concept artist Ben Mauro shared with us some of his beautiful Child…
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The ones that got away: 14 police shootings that saw no charges in 2015
Today is the last day of 2015 and police in the United States have killed more than one thousand people. More than one thousand. Out of those cases, fourteen police officers either have been or will stand trial for some of those deaths. That’s the l…
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They Use Every Part of the Creature
When the giant sea beasts beach themselves, everyone scavenges whatever they can—meat, teeth, skin. And the remaining carcass becomes shelter.
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Martin O’Malley fails to qualify for Ohio’s ballot : politics
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Munich police warn of terror threat – Ask people to avoid crowds : worldnews
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‘Agent Carter’ Season 2 Synopsis : television
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Ian Murdock died in mysterious circumstances : technology
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New York man accused of planning pro-Isis attack on New Year’s Eve | US news | The Guardian
A 25-year-old man accused of planning to attack a restaurant in upstate New York on New Year’s Eve has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group, the US Department of Justice said on Th…
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The food writing that set my brain on fire this year | Grist
More than 20,000 pieces of trash have accumulated around this Pale Blue Dot over the past half-century.
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Russia security paper designates Nato as threat – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an updated national security paper describing Nato’s expansion as a threat to the country. The paper says Russia’s “independent domestic and foreign policy” has triggered a “counter-action” from the US and…
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The Alphabet from Orbit: Letter T : Image of the Day
Today’s Image of the Day is derived from our newest feature: Reading the ABCs from Space. T…what begins with T?
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George Lucas criticizes “retro” feel of new Star Wars, describes “breakup” | Ars Technica
Is George Lucas having regrets about selling his Force-filled empire to Disney? He says no, but the Star Wars creator seemed slightly bitter about his space opera in an interview with Charlie Rose at the Skywalker Ranch that aired over Christmas but…
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Dubai hotel fire: The Address Downtown hotel engulfed in flames – BBC News
Dubai’s The Address Downtown hotel has been engulfed in flames, hours before the city’s New Year’s Eve firework display. Burning debris could be seen falling from the 300m-tall (1,000ft) building as firefighters tackled the blaze.
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The best of 2015 https://t.co/pYwn28hqiw https://t.co/K6Vo9MaA1Z
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He cuddles with his tail : cats
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States added another 47 abortion restrictions in 2015. No doubt there are more to come
All these laws have one objective in mind: making it more difficult and expensive for women—especially poor woman—to obtain this legal medical procedure: “After 2013, many thought this had run its course,” said Elizabeth Nash, a researcher at Guttma…
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Where Are All The Women In White Hats? | TechCrunch
America needs cyber talent — especially among women. Without a capable workforce to secure the smartphone in your hand or the highly classified networks our government operates within, our economy and national security will be at risk.
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The latest Zootopia trailer takes on workplace sexism against bunnies | The Verge
At this point, the Walt Disney Animation Studios deserves praise for producing work that can arguably sit comfortably next to some of Pixar’s own efforts. Zootopia, at first blush, takes that all-too-familiar anthropomorphic animals idea and builds …
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The right had a very good run last year. It’s not just the election victory in the UK and the continued ascendancy of the Turnbull government in Australia.
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Texas to Allow Holstered Pistols in Public | Al Jazeera America
When the new year begins in the Lone Star State, licensed Texans for the first time since 1871 will be allowed to carry a holstered pistol in public under an “open carry” law passed in the Republican-dominated 2015 legislative session.
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Ny Man Arrest Isil Support | Al Jazeera America
On the last day of a year in which an unprecedented number of people have been charged with crimes linked to terrorism, federal authorities announced the arrest of a 25-year old man from western New York State for allegedly attempting to provide mat…
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Boing Boing’s top posts of 2015 / Boing Boing
Our most successful posts last year were out of this world. In Meet the people who have volunteered to die on Mars, Walker Lamond writes about the thousands of people who wanted to compete to be the first humans to travel to Mars and colonize it.
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The Very Best in Bears for 2015
This was an adorable year for the bearcam in Katmai National Park. Here’s our ten favorite moments of coastal brown bears catching salmon, playing with their cubs, sleepily lazing the day away, and frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness in 2015.
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Biggest El Niño Impacts on US May Come in New Year | Al Jazeera America
The El Niño weather effect, already blamed in large part for unusual winter floods, tornadoes and other extreme weather in the U.S., Britain and other countries during 2015, is far from over. In fact, scientists predict El Niño’s biggest impacts wil…
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My cat just jumped into the refrigerator. : aww
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Munich police warn of terror threat – 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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With ‘Sophia,’ A Forgotten Suffragette Is Back In The Headlines : NPR
We get so many books in the mail — hundreds every week — that we can’t read them all, and sometimes all we can do with a book is say hey, that looks interesting, and file it away on the shelf.
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Mein Kampf Enters the Public Domain – The Atlantic
Adolf Hitler’s notorious book is about to get a new lease on life. The copyright for Mein Kampf, which has been held for 70 years by the government of the German state of Bavaria, expires at midnight on December 31, 2015.
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We’re about seven hours away from a brand new year here on the East Coast, and people around the world are looking forward to 2016 with optimism and good cheer.
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Obama lets loose on Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld took Barack Obama out for short spin in the latest episode of his popular web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In his latest pop culture venture, Obama filmed a special guest spot for the series streamed on Crackle.
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Happy public domain day: here’s what copyright term extension stole from you in 2015 / Boing Boing
When Congress amended US copyright law in 1976, they extended the copyrights on works whose creators had produced them with the promise of not more than 56 years. Since then, almost nothing has entered the US public domain.
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China defence: Work starts on second aircraft carrier – BBC News
China is building a second aircraft carrier – but this time made entirely from domestic technology, its defence ministry has announced. The 50,000-tonne vessel is being built in the port of Dalian. It will not be nuclear powered, the ministry says.
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Guesstimate: a spreadsheet for adding up uncertainties / Boing Boing
Guesstimate is a new free/open source project from Ozzie Gooen: unlike normal spreadsheets, its cells accept confidence intervals, and it outputs models based on 5,000 Monte Carlo simulations. The whole thing runs in your browser.
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Oil drags Wall Street to 2015 looses – BBC News
Oil prices suffered a second year of steep losses and are expected to take at least another year to clear as the international surplus continues. The Dow Jones was down 178.84 points or 1.03%, at 17,425.03.
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Oculus announces “Touch” VR controller delay to second half of 2016 | Ars Technica
Want to simulate waving your hands around in virtual space? 2016 should be a very good year for you, with burgeoning VR hardware makers HTC, Oculus, and Sony all gearing up to launch motion-tracked VR options by way of handheld controllers.
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Bill Cosby Lawyer Says Charges Are Politically Motivated : NPR
Bill Cosby’s attorney says the comedian and actor will fight criminal charges filed against him and predicted he will be exonerated. She also said the charges are politically motivated.
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Top Ben Carson Staffers Resign Amid Campaign Makeover : NPR
Two top aides for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson have quit the campaign. The retired neurosurgeon has seen his fortunes wane since national security took center stage on the campaign.
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Fight Over Control Of Western Lands Heats Up In Congress : NPR
A Utah legislative commission has voted to move forward with suing the federal government in an attempt to seize control of millions of acres of federal land.
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Pulling the plug on floods | Environment | The Guardian
Recent news reports have focused on flood defences which have failed, but it is also important to see where flooding has been successfully controlled.
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Immigration Activists Hope To Maintain Momentum For Reform : NPR
Immigration activists go into 2016 hoping to maintain momentum in their campaign for reform. The new year promises a major Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s executive actions.
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Al Jazeera chief reflects on 2015 accomplishments – Al Jazeera English
It has been a year in which we set the news agenda and enabled our audience to hear the human story. Far from just slogans, our content was infused with the spirit behind those words. And we received just reward – winning an array of awards for our …
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Why is in-flight turbulence so unpredictable? – BBC News
An Air Canada flight bound for Toronto from Shanghai made an emergency landing after severe turbulence injured 21 passengers, including three children. The plane was diverted to Calgary after turbulence hit and the injured are in a stable condition.
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With The Birkin Bag, Hermes Plays Hard to Get : NPR
There are luxury goods, and then there is the Birkin bag from the French company Hermes. It has been an elusive status symbol for 30 years, but it is also always mysteriously out of stock.
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First Mention: Wikipedia : NPR
We dig into the NPR audio archives for another installment of a our feature “First Mention” to hear the initial use on air of the term “Wikipedia.
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Thousands Evacuated As Floodwaters Rise In The Midwest : NPR
Floodwaters continue to rise in the Midwest where thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. Nine states have declared a state of emergency.
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Record Water Levels Shut Down Miles Of Mississippi River : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition, about the effect of historic flooding on the Mississippi River on corn and soybean farmers.
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From ‘Tostitos Lime’ To ‘Sexy Sunblock,’ ‘The Best Drinks Of 2015 : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel interviews Emma Allen about her article in The New Yorker called “The Best Drinks of 2015.” She walks us through mixing a drink from her list, which anyone can make at home.
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Europe’s Refugee Crisis Pales In Comparison To World War II Aftermath : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Ben Shephard, author of The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, about how today’s crisis compares to the number of displaced people after World War II.
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What Does The 2016 Campaign Roadmap Tell Us? : NPR
Candidates have split time in a handful of early states. So what does where they’ve been tell us about where they’re going?
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Why Do We Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ On New Year’s Eve, Anyways? – Digg
Let’s be honest, most of us don’t actually know the words to Auld Lang Syne. Of course, that doesn’t stop us from drunkenly slurring along to the instantly-recognizable tune at our annual New Year’s Eve parties.
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Puerto Rico Faces Uncertain Future Amid Debt Crisis : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Puerto Rico Rep. Luis Vega Ramos about what will happen when the commonwealth defaults on its nearly $37 million worth of debt.
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Brussels Cancels New Year’s Celebrations Amid Security Threat : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with reporter Teri Schultz about the security alert in Brussels after police arrested six more people suspected of plotting a terrorist attack.
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George Lucas apologizes about that whole ‘white slaver’ thing | The Verge
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Famous boozers and their favorite liquid vices|Dangerous Minds
As I’m sure many of you are right now preparing for tomorrow, a day when you will be attempting to brush away vodka-coated cobwebs from your eyes, I thought it would be fun to share some stories and images of some of the best-known boozers and profe…
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Why didn’t high-priced/pseudoscientific “behavioral profiling” work in San Bernardino? / Boing Boing
San Bernardino is ground zero for the bunkum industry that sells “behavioral detection” courses to law enforcement, the place where the most cops and government employees are taught to spot “lone wolf” “active shooters” before they snap — but none …
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For sale: autonomous Isuzu VehiCross, lightly used | The Verge
Are you on the market for an odd-looking cute-ute with just 15,000 miles on the clock? How about a modified Isuzu VehiCross that’s fully autonomous? That’s what we’ve got in this eBay listing.
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The Books About Artificial Intelligence That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina’s Alex Garland
Ex Machina remains a strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2015. It’s jam-packed with ideas along with all that psychosexual weirdness. And now at last, writer-director Alex Garland has unpacked where some of those ideas come from.
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Value of gun manufacturers’ stocks almost doubled in 2015 | Business | The Guardian
Stock markets around the world closed down on the last trading day of 2015, with the Dow suffering its first annual drop since 2008. But for the two largest stock market-listed gun manufacturers 2015 has been another great year – their value has dou…
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It Was a Wild, Weird Year to Live on Planet Earth
The year 2015 will go down as many things, but normal isn’t one of them. We saw record-smashing temperatures, exceptional droughts, deadly heat waves and massive wildfires. Add in earthquakes, landslides, and a brewing El Niño and we’re convinced ou…
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College football open thread: It’s Clemson and Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl
It’s time for the Capital One Orange Bowl, pitting the number four ranked Oklahoma Sooners against the number one ranked Clemson Tigers.
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Dumpin’ the Pumpkin Phelps Hydraulic truck elevator dump (Schneider Truck) – YouTube
This is one strong lift! Had a load of cotton seeds. watch as it picks up my truck and dumps it! SORRY for the shakiness in the middle of the video, i dropped my keys and went to pick them up Facebook: … http://www.google.c
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Was Dubai’s Address Hotel Built to Burn? – The Daily Beast
Dubai never planned fireworks like these to ring in the new year. At 9:30 p.m., the 63-story Address Hotel in the United Arab Emirates’ city, burst into flame. Within five minutes, the fire spread from one floor to about 40 floors, Ali Khedery, a fo…
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Data released by the I.R.S. on Wednesday shows that tax rates on the income of America’s 400 wealthiest taxpayers rose sharply to 22.9 percent in 2013, erasing a majority of the last two decades’ decline in their effective tax rate.
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Updated, 3:53 p.m. | Fresh upheaval engulfed Ben Carson’s troubled presidential campaign on New Year’s Eve as his campaign manager and spokesman both resigned abruptly.
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Go Ahead, Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ Badly Tonight : NPR
At the end of It’s A Wonderful Life, George Bailey realizes he wants to live. And everyone from the mythical town of Bedford Falls comes barreling into his living room to tell him how much they love him and sing “Auld Lang Syne.
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Despite Bipartisan Effort, Window To Pass Sentencing Reform May Be Closing : NPR
It’s not every day the White House and Republican leaders in Congress have a meeting of the minds. But before he left for the holidays, the president singled out an issue he considers ripe for compromise next year.
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Los Angeles court records filed this month by Jenner’s lawyer show that Jessica Steindorff settled her case. The court papers do not indicate terms of the settlement. Attorneys for both sides did not immediately return calls and messages seeking com…
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Dubai fire eyewitness: ‘I was never so terrified’ – BBC News
Anita Williams said there was a “stampede” as people tried to flee the building, and said she was “never so terrified”. Officials say the fire is now under control and 16 people suffered mostly minor injures. The cause is not known.
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Dominicans of Haitian Descent Face Life in Limbo | Al Jazeera America
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Adonis Peguero is a well-known fighter in his small town outside Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic’s capital. The 20-year-old dreams of one day representing his home country in competition.
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The Hateful Eight is a play, and a miserable one at that | The Verge
Major plot spoilers ahead. Unless you live near the rarest of things — a well-funded theater — you probably haven’t heard the name Martin McDonagh.
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The new anti-abortion laws states passed in 2015, mapped – Vox
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States have enacted an unprecedented number of anti-abortion laws in the last five years, and 2015 continued that trend. According to a new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights, state lawmakers proposed nearly 400 bills restricting abortio… -
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Chicago releases hundreds of emails related to Laquan McDonald video | US news | The Guardian
City officials released hundreds of emails on Thursday related to a police video that was kept secret for more than a year after a white Chicago officer shot a black teenager 16 times.
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The Guardian view on US killings by police: why we must keep counting | US news | The Guardian
At the beginning of 2015, the Guardian began a grim task – to record the death of every person killed by American police officers – for a simple reason: astonishingly, the United States government publishes no such record.
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Midday open thread: Three SoCal counties skew the death penalty; small debts matter to black lives
Capital punishment is fading away across much of America. There were only 28 executions this year, the fewest since 1991, and 24 of them were in just three states, Texas, Missouri and Georgia.
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Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths | US news | The Guardian
Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.
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Climate change is showing up in blockbusters and binge watches. So what? | Grist
More than 20,000 pieces of trash have accumulated around this Pale Blue Dot over the past half-century.
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This Is the Best of Lifehacker 2015
At the end of every year, we take a look back at our most popular posts to reminisce (and to help you catch any stuff you might have missed). Here’s one last look at our best posts in 2015.
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This Asian Time Travel Thriller Could Be Next Year’s Breakout Action Movie
Asia is becoming an increasingly important market for science fiction and fantasy movies, but we’re still waiting for countries like China to produce their own worthy competitors to The Avengers and Star Wars. A new movie now in production could hel…
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Biggest Book Trends: Print Is Back, and Everyone’s Reading Science Fiction
Rumors of the death of the print book were massively exaggerated, it turns out. According to the L.A. Times, 571 million print books were sold in 2015, 17 million more than in 2014. And ebooks, which had been forecast to hit 50 to 60 percent of book…
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The Five Most Important Business Stories of 2015 – The New Yorker
The past year was a tumultuous and fascinating one for corporations and the global economy. Here are five stories that stood out as especially significant.
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Animal-themed condoms aim to slow population growth – with grandpa’s help | US news | The Guardian
Environmentalists will ramp up their attempts to curb what they see as harmful population growth by distributing thousands of condoms adorned with pictures of polar bears, otters and other vulnerable creatures.
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Twitter sucks at fighting ISIS | The Verge
Governments and Silicon Valley leaders are going crazy about fighting ISIS online, and the panic has even recently led people who are usually pretty smart to give up on free speech.
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How To Stem The Global Shortage Of Data Scientists | TechCrunch
Data scientist might be considered the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” with many companies eager to hire data science talent. But 20 years ago the term was barely used, save for a few academic articles. Even a decade ago, explaining data science …
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Ben Carson’s top aides quit in another blow to Republican’s campaign | US news | The Guardian
The campaign manager of Republican Ben Carson’s presidential run and another top aide resigned on Thursday amid sliding poll numbers for the retired neurosurgeon.
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What’s Happening in Dubai? – The Atlantic
A massive fire engulfed the Address Hotel, a skyscraper in downtown Dubai, on Thursday as the city prepared to ring in the new year. The cause of the blaze, which broke out near the site of planned New Year’s Eve fireworks, was not immediately clear.
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The Year In Eggs: Everyone’s Going Cage-Free, Except Supermarkets : environment
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Resist Becoming a People Pleaser by Creating a “No Script”
Saying “no” is an important time-saving skill to learn, especially for those of us who worry too much about being liked by others. Having a “no script” planned out ahead of time can make saying “no” in a nice manner much easier.
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Here’s why repealing the crude oil export ban wasn’t such a bad deal | Grist
More than 20,000 pieces of trash have accumulated around this Pale Blue Dot over the past half-century.
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Carson’s Campaign Continues to Implode – The Daily Beast
Two senior members of Ben Carson’s campaign can cross off one New Year’s Resolution: not being a part of the campaign. Bennett told The Daily Beast that he resigned “after coming to the realization I was not going to be able to solve the Armstrong W…
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Saber a Champagne Bottle With a Spoon
Sabrage, the process of opening a bottle of champagne with a saber, is a fun ceremonial tradition that’s great for impressing party guests. You don’t necessarily need a saber or knife for this party trick, however.
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Happy New Year Message From Space Station | Video
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Loki practicing looking innocent : aww
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Who wants to get crazy for a new year? : gifs
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Canada’s Spy Agency Disputes Idea That Personality and Terrorism Aren’t Linked | VICE News
It’s an accepted truth among terrorism experts that someone’s personality does not indicate whether they will become a terrorist “As of now, there is no specific terrorist profile,” Jocelyn Bélanger, a professor at the Université du Quebec à Montrea…
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Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones, and the Paranoid Style of American Policing – The Atlantic
When I was around 10 years old, my father confronted a young man who was said to be “crazy.” The young man was always too quick to want to fight. A foul in a game of 21 was an insult to his honor. A cross word was cause for a duel, and you never kne…
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Racist fracking aficionado fired after video posted to YouTube / Boing Boing
Butler News in Pennsylvania identified this man as John Pisone, seen here harassing a group of anti-fracking protestors and making incredibly racist remarks and monkey noises to the black cameraman.
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‘Human Computation’ Could Save the World Without the Risks of AI | Motherboard
Forget artificial intelligence: The key to solving the world’s most complex problems could be human-machine collaboration.
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Fear of black boys is in the jaundiced eye of the beholder
That’s the short version. Here’s a quote from the actual article for the long version:
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Procrastination is bad for your health – Vox
It’s last-minute Christmas-shopping time: sales, sales, and crazy sales. To many people, this is a terrific. To Joseph Ferrari, it’s a terrible sign that our culture is encouraging procrastination, to its overall detriment.
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Jamie Benning, an Englishman who edits live television broadcasts of auto races by day, spends all his nights pursuing his appreciation for Hollywood blockbusters of the 1970s and 80s — or at least I assume he does, given how much effort and enthusi…
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It’s an accepted truth among terrorism experts that someone’s personality does not indicate whether they will become a terrorist “As of now, there is no specific terrorist profile,” Jocelyn Bélanger, a professor at the Université du Quebec à Montrea…
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Dutch V&D department store business goes bust – BBC News
Vroom & Dreesman, the largest Dutch department store chain, has declared itself insolvent. The company employs about 10,000 staff at 67 stores and hopes to remain open after a reorganisation of the business.
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Neighbors and Family Recount Chilling Details in Chicago Police Shooting | Mother Jones
Eyewitness accounts from neighbors appear to confirm a Chicago police officer began shooting into the home of Quintonio Legrier and Bettie Jones from several feet away while standing on the sidewalk.
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Mesmerizing time-lapse of crowd control at Tokyo comic convention / Boing Boing
After watching this video, you’ll probably want to play this. Comiket which is the world’s largest self publishing comic book fair that is held twice a year in Tokyo.
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Top aides desert Ben Carson’s sinking ship
Last week, Ben Carson said he was shaking up his presidential campaign. Then he said he wasn’t, because he had “100 percent confidence in my campaign team.
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Meet my mothers cat Misty. : cats
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Hamas says it plans to resume suicide attacks in Israel : worldnews
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It’s an accepted truth among terrorism experts that someone’s personality cannot indicate whether they will become a terrorist “As of now, there is no specific terrorist profile,” Jocelyn Bélanger, a professor at the Université du Quebec à Montreal …
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Finally Has A Worthy Opponent: Sherlock
Unless you totally unplugged for the holidays you are surely aware that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a box office juggernaut unlike anyone has ever seen, breaking records left and right. But in China, one movie may stand a chance against it: Sher…
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Dubai’s 63-story Address Downtown Hotel is on fire – Vox
A giant fire has turned Dubai’s 63-story luxury Address Hotel into a towering inferno that lit up the skyline as midnight neared in the United Arab Emirates: It’s not yet clear what caused the fire or how many people were injured.
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It is human nature, when things go well, to believe that skill more than luck was the cause. So David Cameron and George Osborne will naturally look back on 2015 as a year of vindication, both for their handling of the economy and their political st…
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Obama Will Try To Enforce Stricter Gun Safety Regulations In 2016 | ThinkProgress
President Obama is reportedly planning to announce executive action to enforce stricter gun regulations, after a year blighted with nearly as many mass shootings as there were days. In 2015, 457 people died from 353 mass shootings (as of December 17…
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Syfy’s renewed The Expanse, the TV show based on a series of novels by James S.A. Corey, for a second season. The first four episodes have already aired, and The Expanse is already one of our favorite new shows. Watch it here.
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2015: The Year in High-Stakes Handshakes – The Atlantic
The handshake is a political performance. On the one hand, it can signify two powers coming together for cooperation. Adversaries can be unmade. Alliances can be forged. On the other hand, dominance can be asserted.
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In Photos: The Year in High-Stakes Handshakes – The Atlantic
In Photos: The Year in High-Stakes Handshakes curated by 1 / 11 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, left, made a surprise visit to Moscow to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching air-strikes against Islamist militants in Syria.
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Oculus delays Touch motion controllers until second half of 2016 | The Verge
Oculus’ Touch motion controllers have been delayed until the second half of this year, the company recently announced.
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Ryan Coogler will officially direct Black Panther with a mostly black cast | The Verge
Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther movie was pushed back to a 2018 release date this year, but details about the film are still slowly trickling out.
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Federal marshals said Wednesday that it was uncertain when Ethan Couch, the Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving case, would be returned to the United States from Mexico to face charges of violating his pa…
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Donald Trump’s dominance of the Republican primary so far, in one map – Vox
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In a little more than a month, Republicans will finally begin voting in the primary over whom their nominee for president will be. But the race has been underway for months, and a lot has happened since then. -
Star Trek Fan Film Makers Didn’t Know They Were Being Sued … Until They Read the News
Yesterday, Star Trek fans were up in arms at the news that CBS had filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the hugely successful crowdfunded fan production Axanar, after a year of tolerating the project’s development.
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Artist paints people to look like paintings / Boing Boing
In the 1980s, “controversial Republican art collector” Vincent Melzac donated 29 abstract paintings from the Washington Color School to the CIA, which now hang on the Agency’s walls, but when asked for details about them, the CIA goes mum, claiming …
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Canada will take in more than 6,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, missing its already delayed target of accepting 10,000 by year-end, the Canadian government said on Thursday.
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How to Watch the 2016 New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
Most of us don’t have the time or patience to wade through Times Square crowds on New Year’s Eve, but you can still watch the 2016 ball drop at midnight for free online or on your television.
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Ben Carson Campaign Chaos: Two Top Staffers Resign – The Atlantic
The doctor is Ben Carson; the patient is his base of support.
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But I was there: the LCD Soundsystem reunion and accelerated nostalgia | The Verge
If you believe The New York Times, next year’s edition of Coachella will once again depend on a few high-profile reunions for headliners.
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Deadspin These Were Your Favorite Videos Of 2015, And A Lot Of Them Are NSFW | Jezebel George Lucas: I Sold Star Wars to ‘White Slavers’ | Gizmodo Lighting 10,000 Sparklers at Once Is the Best Way To Ring in the New Year | Gawker Obama to Seinfeld: …
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Deadspin These Were Your Favorite Videos Of 2015, And A Lot Of Them Are NSFW | Jezebel George Lucas: I Sold Star Wars to ‘White Slavers’ | Gizmodo Lighting 10,000 Sparklers at Once Is the Best Way To Ring in the New Year | Gawker Obama to Seinfeld: …
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Not everyone celebrates the New Year on January 1. Here’s when other cultures do it. – Vox
Not everyone celebrates the New Year on January 1. Here’s when other cultures do it. https://t.co/3BluxrO1dn https://t.co/CUiCSy5CbI
January 1 is far from the only New Year’s Day. Many cultures have other New Years spread throughout the seasons: Note: This chart shows a small subset of the many New Years that exist among the many cultures on Earth. -
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Fire engulfs 63-story Dubai hotel near world’s tallest building : worldnews
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The Address Hotel in Dubai Goes Up in Flames Ahead of New Year’s Celebration | VICE News
A fire engulfed The Address Hotel in downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates hours before a large fireworks display was set to start nearby from the Burj Khalifa tower, the world’s largest building.
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New York man charged with plotting New Year’s Eve attack – BBC News
US authorities have arrested a man described as a supporter of so-called Islamic State (IS) and accused him of planning an attack in New York State. Emanuel Lutchman, 25, from Rochester, was charged on plotting to kill people at a restaurant on New …
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Oculus Pushes Back Touch Controller Launch To Second Half Of 2016 | TechCrunch
Sometimes timing creeps up on you and you have to move things back. It’s an ugly reality for hardware creators, but it happens.
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Surging midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or train to a virtual standstill Thursday in the St Louis area.
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The Best Stories on Money, Business, and Economics for December – The Atlantic
Having trouble keeping track of all the great journalism that is published on any given day is a good problem to have. But still, between Twitter, bookmarked sites, links shared by friends, and aggregating apps, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.
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Fire at Dubai Hotel Near World’s Tallest Building | Al Jazeera America
Witnesses said large tongues of flames shooting skywards enveloped the luxury hotel, which lies across a plaza from the Burj Khalifa, where hundreds of people were gathering to view a spectacular fireworks display due to start shortly to mark the Ne…
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A cosmic question in NGC 4696 [3864 x 1820] : spaceporn
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Meet Count Vladimir via /r/aww https://t.co/sdsgmrdK8j https://t.co/XWDYfT8wz7
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Paris Scales Back NYE Event Amid Terror Fears : worldnews
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Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42 : technology
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Heres an example of why Person of Interest is great Science Fiction : television
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Seinfeld takes Obama for a spin in Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee / Boing Boing
Jerry Seinfeld usually brings along a fellow comedian for a ride with him in a vintage car to a coffee shop, but this time he mixed things up a bit by inviting the President to accompany him.
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All of the chatter about virtual reality shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Over the years, we’ve been forcing our way to get closer and closer to content of all types. For example, before anyone ever sat to watch a movie we’d hang out at a playhous…
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Force Refresh the iOS App Store by Tapping the Tab Bar 10 Times
Every once in a while, the App Store seems to glitch out and get stuck either not properly updating or not showing new updates correctly. Over on Twitter, Zachary Drayer points out that you can force reload everything in the app by tapping an icon o…
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Facebook bug congratulates us all on 46 years of friendship | The Verge
Ever heard of the Unix epoch? Some Facebook users are running into an interesting bug today congratulating them on 46 years of friendship with other users. That’s strange for a couple of reasons.
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Fire engulfs Dubai tower before New Year celebrations – Al Jazeera English
Videos posted on Twitter on Thursday showed the 63-story Address Hotel in the Downtown area of the city engulfed in flames with hundreds of people fleeing its vicinity.
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Huge blaze engulfs Dubai skyscraper – BBC News
The building is located close to the world’s tallest skyscraper the Burj Khalifa. Debris is reportedly falling onto the streets below.
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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye obituary | Books | The Guardian
The British-born Kenyan writer Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who has died aged 87, told the story of her adopted country through novels about its downtrodden and dispossessed.
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Eric Church to Play College Footall Championship Tailgate | Rolling Stone
Later today, two finalists for the College Football Championship will be decided when Alabama plays Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl and Clemson plays Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl.
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How to Survive the Perils of New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve might be the best party night of the year, but it can also be the most stressful, from losing your phone to the far more perilous drive home. Here are a few things you can do now to stay safe and sane this New Year’s.
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This Venomous Snake is the First Animal Suspected to Be Completely Scentless
There are a lot of animals that blend in visually with their environment; there are relatively few that can mask their smell. One exception is the puff adder. Recent research shows that this venomous snake is virtually scentless, the better to hunt …
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2015: The Year Music Documentaries Brought Back the Dead | Rolling Stone
Nothing fits the music documentary format quite so compellingly as a life cut tragically short.
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Electric car subsidies are hated by economists, loved by activists. Why? – Vox
Electric car subsidies are hated by economists, loved by activists. Why? https://t.co/uF1Exked13 https://t.co/nMzAt9aQBl
Earlier this month, over at the Energy Institute at HAAS, economist James Bushnell had an interesting post on the way economists and climate hawks clash on the subject of electric cars. It also offered a window into broader clashes between those gro… -
George Lucas’ original ending for Star Wars Episode 7 (SPOILERS) : movies
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Spaceballs 2 via /r/movies https://t.co/8XTlgc4Q7E https://t.co/AcEGSXvAuP
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A 24-year-old man slipped and fell to his death as he and a friend tried to scale the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night using scaffolding near the top of the tower, the police said.The man, Conner Cummings, of Rockaway, N.J.
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Mexican Soccer Idol Cuau Is Bringing His Antics to Being Mayor of Cuernavaca | VICE News
As a soccer player, Cuauhtémoc Blanco was known and loved for his irreverent antics on the pitch, eccentric playing style, and somewhat fluid attitude to the rules. As a politician, he seems to apply the same modus operandi, but the effect is rather…
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Canada Isn’t Going to Say Sorry for Missing Its Syrian Refugee Target | VICE News
Canada will miss its latest target for admitting Syrian refugees, but senior members of Justin Trudeau’s administration congratulated their own government for having moved “heaven and earth” to welcome 6,000 asylum seekers in two months.
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Julianne Moore, Ex Machina, and More Surprising Stories from the 2015 | Vanity Fair
Box-office numbers can be terrible and wonderful things. For phenomenons like Star Wars: The Force Awakens—which as I write this is not yet the year’s biggest film, but likely will be in a matter of weeks—it’s a handy way to track just how huge some…
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Happy 46th Anniversary! Love, Facebook | TechCrunch
There’s a funny Facebook glitch telling people they’ve been friends on Facebook for 46 years, even though Facebook has only been around since 2004. My good friend, who hasn’t even been alive for 46 years, sent the following screenshot to me:
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10 words that explain 2015 – Vox
The final days of the year offer a chance to look back on everything that’s happened in our last revolution around the sun. We’ve looked at TV shows, books, and instances of faux-outrage; now here are some of the words and phrases that defined 2015.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and a Critical Turnaround – The Atlantic
As someone who often sees movies more than once, I occasionally have the following experience: I see a film and I’m pleasantly surprised that it’s better than expected; then I see it again, and I’m disappointed that it no longer sustains my upwardly…
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Bright Planets, Moon, Put on New Year’s Show – Scientific American
Early risers this week will be treated to a spectacular display by the moon and the four brightest planets in the sky, in a fitting celestial welcome to the new year.
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George Pataki Never Had a Chance | Vanity Fair
George Pataki’s quiet exit Tuesday from the Republican presidential race has not yet set off an obvious scramble for his base of support, which, after briefly peaking last May at 3 percent, soon settled down to a more sustainable zero, with occasion…
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2015’s Biggest Stories about Gender Inequality at Work – The Atlantic
Gender inequality in the workplace continued to be a subject of contention this past year. Companies from Netflix to Goldman Sachs sought to make their paid-leave programs more equitable.
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Good catch by Josh Barro. It’s been clear for a while that taxes on top incomes went up significantly in 2013; but we’ve had to rely on estimates of the change, not actual numbers. Now the actual numbers on income taxes are in, and sure enough, fair…
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Big Pharma Ceo: Why Aren’t We Creating $1 Pills? | Al Jazeera America
IRVINE, California – The debate over price gouging in the pharmaceutical industry reached a fever pitch in 2015.
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Fire breaks out in Dubai skyscraper – BBC News
Labour MP Simon Danczuk is suspended from the party following newspaper allegations about his private life.
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Air Canada: Many passengers injured by severe turbulence – BBC News
At least 21 passengers were injured on a flight from China to Canada, which was hit by severe turbulence. The Air Canada flight from Shanghai to Toronto had to make an early landing in Calgary, with 332 passengers and 19 crew on board.
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Happy New Year from The A.V. Club · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As we did last week, Newswire is taking the rest of the week off to say goodbye to 2015 and ring in 2016. We have a few pieces of content—including this week’s Staff Picks—coming in over the weekend, but things will be mostly quiet around here until…
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Cats meet their owners after long time : cats
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View from Mendon Peak in Vermont [OC] [4160×2340] : EarthPorn
View from Mendon Peak in Vermont [OC] [4160×2340] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/floWAVkHMk https://t.co/9YqrriQwjC
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Huge fire in residential hotel in Dubai : worldnews
Huge fire in residential hotel in Dubai via /r/worldnews https://t.co/zsFMIrRNWi https://t.co/iN6izxo0vf
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Jennifer Lawrence Explains Why the Night of Her Oscar Win Was Such a Disaster | Vanity Fair
Hard to believe that it’s been nearly three years since Jennifer Lawrence’s Oscar win, when the Silver Linings Playbook starlet tripped on her way to the podium, instantly reaching immortal status in viewers’ hearts.
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Over 800 UK bankers paid €1m or more by US banks in 2014 | Business | The Guardian
More than 800 bankers in the UK were paid at least €1m (£736,000) by four major US investment banks in 2014.
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Martin O’Malley fails to qualify for Ohio’s primary ballot | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley failed to qualify for Ohio’s primary ballot after falling short of the signatures needed to appear before the state’s voters, a spokesman for the state’s elections chief said Thursday.
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“Affluenza” Teen Ethan Couch Delayed in Mexico, Mom Charged in Texas | Vanity Fair
This is likely not the New Year’s Eve “Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mom had in mind. Sure, Ethan is still in Mexico, where he fled with his mom in fear of facing charges of violating his parole.
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Microsoft Didn’t Warn Victims of Chinese Hack | Al Jazeera America
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My sister has been dating her boyfriend for two years. They live together and seem mostly happy. And I am happy for them, except for one thing: I am about 99 percent sure he is gay. Now, I have no problem with homosexuality, but you can understand m…
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Hackers get Linux running on a PlayStation 4 : technology
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Motive behind BBC website attack ‘unclear’ – BBC News
BBC websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack. Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline due to what is known as a “distributed denial of service” attack.
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What We’re Following This Afternoon, December 31 – The Atlantic
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2015: The year of the desperate journey – Al Jazeera English
In 2015 the fallout of the wars in the Middle East, Africa and Asia came to Europe’s door step. Hundreds of thousands risked their lives in the waters of the Mediterranean and the cold mountain steppes of the Balkans trying to escape conflict and po…
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 31st – The New Yorker
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The Sad Lessons of the “Affluenza” Teen – The New Yorker
In considering the lamentable chronicle of the “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch—which was positioned to be this year’s final tabloid preoccupation until Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault—it’s been hard to know where to let one’s sense of appall…
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Israeli troops shoot dead alleged Palestinian assailant – Al Jazeera English
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who allegedly rammed into them with his car on Thursday – the latest incident in a wave of violence in the occupied West Bank. The army said one soldier was wounded in the alleged attack on the troops patrollin…
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The Year in Amy Davidson – The New Yorker
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New Year’s Resolutions: Turning Broken Promises Into Steps Toward Success – The New Yorker
Every year, we make the same promises to ourselves: we’ll get in shape. We’ll start saving. We’ll stop following Nancy home from the office. But every year we break these promises. Why? Because promises are flimsy, inconvenient, and outdated.
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CNN: President Obama will announce executive action on guns in the new year
President Obama will start the new year by taking executive action on guns, CNN reports. The White House wouldn’t comment directly on the exact timing or content of Obama’s executive orders.
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Best of 2015: How Women Helped Lead the Fight Against Ebola in Liberia | VICE News
Mama Tumeh sits on a plastic chair on the porch of her pale green home outside the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Well into her seventies, gray hair pokes out of her traditional white head wrap, which she wears with a long, patterned dress.
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These Expertly Designed Spinning Tops May Never Stop Spinning – Digg
34 diggs Design A team of master craftsmen squared off against a team of engineers to see who could create the perfect spinning top. They both did a very good job.
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New Hampshire Legislators Mock Breasts, Push Ban On Public Nipples | ThinkProgress
Members of New Hampshire’s Republican-controlled state legislature are pushing for a bill that would make it illegal for a woman to show her nipples in public.
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Why You Shouldn’t Memorize a Speech or Presentation
Memorizing your presentation will help make it go smoothly (and you feel less nervous), right? Probably not, according to Toastmasters International experts on public speaking. Many people think memorizing their speeches will ensure success, but “it…
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Meet Knightscope’s Crime-Fighting Robots | TechCrunch
The robots might one day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of crime-fighting machinery it hopes to keep us safe.
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Bill Cosby sexual assault charges ‘politically motivated’ – BBC News
Bill Cosby’s defence lawyer has called the sexual assault charges brought against the comedian “politically motivated”. Monique Pressley told ABC’s Good Morning America that the prosecutor in the case is not seeking justice, but making good on a cam…
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Twitter Announces Deal To Revive Politwoops | TechCrunch
Political gaffes on Twitter will once again be preserved on the website Politwoops, according to an announcement from Twitter. The company blocked API access for Politwoops earlier this year, a move that apparently crippled the service’s ability to …
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Soon, Your Mail Will Boldly Go Where No Person Has Gone Before
It goes without saying the gap between the fake exploration on Star Trek and the actual exploration at NASA is huge. But next year, they’ll be worth exactly the same at the post office.
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Top technological innovations of 2015 – Al Jazeera English
How Bolivia is asserting its political and economic independence by setting up an entirely homemade Internet network. Can a beauty contest restore the dignity and hope of Colombian women put behind bars because of drugs and violence?
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The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art of 2015
The word “art” can mean many things but most think of it as paintings and drawings. Visual media. In that broad topic, one of our favorite sub-categories is pop culture art, visual art based on movies and TV shows. And below we’ve picked some great …
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The world in 2015: Are we becoming more polarised? – Al Jazeera English
How Bolivia is asserting its political and economic independence by setting up an entirely homemade Internet network. Can a beauty contest restore the dignity and hope of Colombian women put behind bars because of drugs and violence?
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Politwoops Is Back. Is Twitter Finally Listening to Users? | Motherboard
Politwoops, the site that aggregated deleted tweets from politicians, is coming back after being blocked by Twitter in May.
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Making A Murderer prosecutor says the show left out key evidence · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Making A Murderer, Netflix’s widely buzzed-about documentary series, tells the story of Steven Avery, a man who served 18 years in prison for a wrongful conviction, only to be arrested two years later for the murder of Teresa Halbach.
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Kosher-Certified Medical Marijuana Products Are Coming to New York | VICE News
The Orthodox Union, which bills itself as offering “the world’s most recognized and trusted kosher certification,” has decided after nearly a year of deliberation that pot is not only acceptable under Jewish law, but using it while sick is a mitzvah…
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Donald Trump Celebrates Being Conspiracy Website’s ‘Man Of The Year’ | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took to Facebook on Thursday morning to thank a right-wing conspiracy website for the “amazing honor” of naming him its Man of the Year.
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Did Bob Dylan Invent Millennial Catchphrase ‘I Can’t Even’? – The Atlantic
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Year in Review: Adele Stands Alone, EDM Is Not Dead and More | Rolling Stone
1. Adele Is the Exception to Every RuleHow can the record business survive? “Put good records out,” said Richard Russell, head of British label XL. “That’s it.” Adele, the star of his label, took this advice to heart in late November, selling a mind…
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The Heightened Security at New Year’s Eve Celebrations Around the World – The Atlantic
As people around the world prepare to ring in the new year, their governments and police forces have increased security measures at celebrations and gatherings or canceled them altogether amid fears of terrorist attacks.
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Cosby Accusers’ Lawyer: More Women Have Come Forward | Rolling Stone
Monique Pressley, the lawyer defending Bill Cosby against the first criminal charges filed against him, told Today that she and her team would accept nothing less than a full exoneration for the 78-year-old comedian.
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Why Is It So Hard to Pick the Best Movie of 2015? | Vanity Fair
It was a weird year at the movies in 2015, whether it was total fluke blockbusters (Jurassic World, for six months, was the biggest movie of all time!) or shocking flops (you were too beautiful for this world, We Are Your Friends).
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George Lucas has criticized the latest installment of “Star Wars,” the series he created, in an interview with Charlie Rose, describing the film as too “retro” for his taste and jokingly comparing the Walt Disney Company, whic
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2015: The year in quotes – BBC News
2015 had it all. Political upheavals, sporting triumphs and scientific leaps, natural disasters and man-made ones. BBC News takes a look at some of those moments in memorable quotes.
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Cat chooses to rest in an egg box rather than one of his many beds. : cats
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Say Hello to Bella (Russian Blue) : cats
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Who likes the beach? via /r/aww https://t.co/HTQ4Zt9t8r https://t.co/OsfhPTxJ7K
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Torres del Paine National Park, Chile; Gleb Tarro [990 x 742] : EarthPorn
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile; Gleb Tarro [990 x 742] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/hbFVTdI4XQ https://t.co/IqizXg7HUB
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Marco Rubio’s presidential aspirations have long been dogged by vague unsubstantiated allegations that he is a “risky bet” with skeletons in his closet that could prove damaging in a high-profile election.
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Create a Reading Challenge for Your Kids to Get Them Reading Throughout the Year
Weekly or monthly challenges are motivating and fun for adults, so why not use this strategy to encourage our kids to read more? You could set a challenge for a number of books in a specific timeframe or use this themed template to broaden your kids…
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Artificial Intelligence Poses A Greater Risk To IP Than Humans Do | TechCrunch
Substantial thought and angst has been expended over the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to your workplace to take over blue- and white-collar jobs, alike. But a major risk of AI has been almost entirely ignored: the threat to compa…
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UK floods: your photos and stories | Environment | The Guardian
As 2015 comes to an end, swathes of Britain are struggling with unprecedented floods. With more rain expected, areas of northern England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are struggling to cope with the rising waters. Below, we highlight some of…
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Amazon donates proceeds of anti-Muslim song to refugees – Al Jazeera English
Online retailer Amazon has promised to donate its share of profit from sales of a song by German anti-Islam group Pegida to help thousands of refugees who have fled conflict seeking safety in Europe.
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Affluenza: Five unusual criminal defences – BBC News
The leniency showed by a US court to a rich young teenager who killed four people in a drink-driving accident surprised many. Ethan Couch’s family money didn’t just buy him the best defence, it was his defence.
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Bill Bratton, Ray Kelly, and the Feud Over the NYPD’s Crime Statistics – The Atlantic
The Disraeli and Gladstone of American policing are at it again. There’s Bill Bratton, the commissioner of the New York Police Department, currently in his second stint as the city’s top cop, and crowing over a decline in crime in 2015.
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Six Arrested in Belgium on Alleged New Year’s Plot | Al Jazeera America
Belgian police detained six people during house searches in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to carry out an attack in the capital on New Year’s Eve.
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Woman Beats Drunk Driving Charge by Telling Judge That Her Gut Is a Brewery | VICE News
When police stopped her car near Buffalo, New York, the woman driving swore she hadn’t had more than three drinks in the past six hours. But her blood alcohol content (BAC) seemed to tell a different story — it was four time the state’s legal limit.
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The Year Europe Buckled Under the Biggest Refugee Crisis Since World War II | VICE News
In 2015, Europe finally woke up to the world’s worst refugee crisis since the World War II, as unprecedented numbers of people fleeing conflict and oppression in the Middle East and Africa landed on the continent’s shores.
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A Not-So-Brief History of George Lucas Talking Shit About Disney’s Star Wars
There’s suddenly a storm of outburts about a week-old interview that George Lucas had with Charlie Rose. It’s the one where he compared selling Lucasfilm to Disney as selling his children to “white slavers.” This was a stupid thing to say, but not r…
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A Not-So-Brief History of George Lucas Talking Shit About Disney’s Star Wars
There’s suddenly a storm of outburts about a week-old interview that George Lucas had with Charlie Rose. It’s the one where he compared selling Lucasfilm to Disney as selling his children to “white slavers.” This was a stupid thing to say, but not r…
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Jeb Has A New Joke About Hurricane Katrina – The Daily Beast
On Wednesday night at a town hall in South Carolina, Jeb Bush tried out a new joke that raised some eyebrows.
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The Best New Year’s Eve Deals: Must-Read Books, Cast Iron, Noise-Cancelling
Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here to learn more.
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Watch President Obama’s episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | The Verge
With a dry, biting wit and several well-reviewed performances at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama is often cited as one of the funniest men to grace the Oval Office.
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Scotland bears brunt of Storm Frank – as it happened | UK news | The Guardian
Hundreds of homes were evacuated and thousands are without power after Storm Frank battered the UK with heavy rain and high winds.
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“Beyond the Higgs” –Hints That the Universe Could Suddenly Collapse (2015 Most Popular) https://t.co/mR5I5ztTru https://t.co/GDDw3GAxUY
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Death for Bangladesh blogger killers : worldnews
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Temperatures at the North Pole today are above freezing. : environment
Temperatures at the North Pole today are above freezing. via /r/environment https://t.co/VwlvI3dLAu https://t.co/tAcvdKsqNT
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How Gawker Brings In Millions Selling Headphones, Chargers and Flashlights – WSJ
Gawker Media, a network of websites known for pillorying the powerful in media, tech and politics, has helped sell millions of cable ties to readers looking to control their tangled messes of electronic cords.
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This Is Why You Still Feel Like Shit Even Though You Just Chugged That Coffee – Mic
The iced coffee you just slammed should be turning you into the Incredible Hulk, or at least a hell of a living room cleaner. But instead, you sprawl out, listless, robbed of energy.
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Student Experiments Vital for Space Research, Spaceflight Meeting Founder Says
Patricia Hynes, speaking at the 2015 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, of which she is cofounder and chair. In a recent interview with Space.com, Hynes emphasized the value of getting college students involved in space…
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As Home Births Rise in the U.S., New Study Explores Risks – Scientific American
(Reuters Health) – A study comparing the risks of in-hospital and out-of-hospital births in Oregon finds the odds of infant death are more than two times higher for planned out-of-hospital births.
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TCU quarterback Boykin charged with felony assault on eve of Alamo Bowl | Sport | The Guardian
Police charged star TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin with felony assault of a police officer stemming from a bar fight early Thursday and he was suspended for this weekend’s Alamo Bowl game against No15 Oregon.
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Syrian rebels push back after government onslaught – Al Jazeera English
Syrian rebels say they have pushed back a major government offensive near the southern city of Sheikh Maskin as the battle intensifies for control of key supply routes in the nearly five-year-old civil war.
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A California Law Addressing the Gender-Pay Gap Is About to Go Into Effect – The Atlantic
In less than 24 hours, California’s Fair Pay Act will take effect. The new law, passed this October with unanimous bipartisan support in the California state senate, has been called the “strictest” fair-pay law in the U.S., and it applies to any com…
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Scotland bears brunt of Storm Frank as body of kayaker is found | UK news | The Guardian
As the battering winds and torrential rains of Storm Frank subsided, leaving the people of Scotland, Ireland and northern England to survey the damage in its wake, police confirmed that one man had lost his life during the latest bout of extreme wea…
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Midwest Flooding Kills 20 Shuts Major Interstate | Al Jazeera America
Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or train to a virtual standstill Thursday in the St. Louis area.
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Hi…. I am feeling cold via /r/aww https://t.co/VOk6p0SWSd https://t.co/PFs5lE5NXW
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10th person arrested in connection with Paris attack : worldnews
10th person arrested in connection with Paris attack via /r/worldnews https://t.co/GJtg3DtVRC https://t.co/8QyhdriLP2
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Fear, fake data, and fragmented parties: political science in 2015 – Vox
Fear, fake data, and fragmented parties: political science in 2015 https://t.co/jrLiTT6Zjc https://t.co/3pi1LN11wN
Bloggers notwithstanding, the primary goal of most political scientists is not to provide internet commentary on politics, but to humbly seek answers about why the political world unfolds as it does. -
Marijuana legalization is already making Mexican drug cartels poorer – Vox
Marijuana legalization is already making Mexican drug cartels poorer https://t.co/LdNsx7mCTv https://t.co/6vF4V9Ze0s
We’re still not sure of the full impact of marijuana legalization, in terms of pot use and abuse, in the states that have legalized. But a report from Deborah Bonello for the Los Angeles Times shows one way that legalization for recreational and med… -
FIVE POINTS, Calif. — The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino busines…
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Watch the Full Length:http://bit.ly/1XZEpIr “We’re hoping to show that language is a powerful tool, that self-expression is a powerful tool — it’s just as valuable as any rifle you carry or any tool you can put in your pack.
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Cockfighting has deep roots in Cuba – The Washington Post
“It’s the sort of place that families would go on a Sunday afternoon,” Washington Post photographer Sarah L. Voisin told In Sight, referring to a government sanctioned cockfighting ring on the outskirts of Havana. “This sport clearly runs in the vei…
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Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs — Medium
One of the best and most challenging aspects of my job is whittling down a year’s worth of photographs to the final selections for my annual Year in Photographs. Every year, I attempt to keep it less than 100 photos — and every year I fail in that g…
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NYC Dining Was Not Better Than Ever in 2015 – Eater NY
But Bill doesn’t live here full time and is in general more of a celebrator of the good in life than a wallower in the bad.
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[No Music] How to Make Miso Ramen – YouTube
This is a No music version of the original Miso Ramen video below.https://youtu.be/UVArzD88hmwI wanted to make Miso Corn Ramen but corn is not in season anymore. I chose bean sprouts and green onion as vegetables ingredients but actually you could u…
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Final Fantasy IX is coming to PC and mobile | The Verge
Final Fantasy IX, one of the most memorable role-playing classics of the early 2000s, is coming to PC and mobile devices in 2016, developer Square Enix announced today in Japan.
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The First Adult Coloring Book: See the Subversive Executive Coloring Book From 1961 | Open Culture
Since the Harry Potter craze began, we’ve seen young adult fiction gain massive popularity with adults, in ways some critics have lamented as a trend that infantilizes the buying public. (Some say the same about superhero films and adult fans of boy…
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Corbyn calls for more investment in face of ‘terrible floods’ – video | Environment | The Guardian
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warns that Britain is “faced with terrible floods” and says more must be spent on flood defences, river basin management and the Environment Agency.
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Jeb Bush Says That ‘The Process Worked’ In Tamir Rice Case | ThinkProgress
Former Florida governor and current Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told reporters that a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officers in the shooting of 12-year old Tamir Rice shows that “the process worked.
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What we got wrong this year | The Verge
This past week, we’ve been running a series of conversations between writers and editors about what we learned in 2015. It was a year when we watched tech companies emulate one another, with Google, Apple, and Microsoft launching rival products and …
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President Obama goes for a spin with Jerry Seinfeld – BBC News
President Obama joined Jerry Seinfeld for his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. They started off their journey in a classic 1963 Corvette Stingray before moving to Obama’s custom-built Cadillac.
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This Is What It’s Like to Read Lips – The Atlantic
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MNDFL: A Gym for Mindfulness – The Atlantic
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Food in books: boeuf en daube from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | Books | The Guardian
… an exquisite scent of olives and oil and juice rose from the great brown dish as Marthe, with a little flourish, took the cover off. The cook had spent three days over that dish.
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What the Future Fiction of 2015 Said About Humans Today | Motherboard
We told a lot of stories about the future in 2015. More than usual, maybe. Big budget blockbusters, hefty, idea-rich novels, and epic, dystopian video games—there was complex, stirring speculative fiction dripping from every media faucet we’ve got.
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Women in Hollywood Were Mad As Hell in 2015 | Vanity Fair
“I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion and still be likable! Fuck that.” That was film’s biggest female star, Jennifer Lawrence, speaking her mind about gender politics behind the scenes in Hollywood earlier this year.
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How to Work Out When the Gym Is Crowded
It’s the least wonderful time of the year to get a peaceful workout. Throngs of eager exercisers will fill the nation’s gyms this week to work on their resolutions.
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Ronda Rousey ‘Died’ at UFC 193, Sister Says | Rolling Stone
Ronda Rousey ‘Died’ at UFC 193, Sister Says Maria Burns Ortiz calls Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm “the moment I saw someone I cared about have her soul crushed”
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The G.O.P. Field Is Less Chaotic Than You Think – The New Yorker
In the Wall Street Journal, on Monday, Benjamin Ginsberg, a longtime Republican Party lawyer who is most famous for the role he played as the Bush campaign’s legal counsel during the 2000 Florida recount, caused a stir in political circles.
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Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan Ring in 2016: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan Ring in 2016: The Ram Report Country’s male and female superstars perform in Times Square, while Kelsea Ballerini and Chris Stapleton anchor Nashvil
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Old Crow Medicine Show to Stream Annual New Year’s Show | Rolling Stone
Old Crow Medicine Show’s New Year’s Eve concerts at the Ryman Auditorium have become a Nashville tradition — every December 31st (save for one) since 2009, Ketch Secor and his old time string band have rung in the new year with their high energy bra…
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‘Only Yesterday’ Poster (Studio Ghibli, poster for next year’s US release) : movies
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A shadow of violence hangs over New Year’s celebrations in New Orleans | US news | The Guardian
Twenty-two years ago, I assumed a mortgage on this somewhat-historic 120-year-old-house, spent eight weeks making it suitable for habitation, and then moved in, as required by the terms of the grant.
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Did you know cats could play Jenga? / Boing Boing
You’d be forgiven for thinking the videocassette format long-dead, but it turns out that Betamax is still around. Sony is finally going to withdraw tapes from sale, bringing a 40-year story to an end. The last recorders were sold in 2002.
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In 2015, promising surveillance cases ran into legal brick walls | Ars Technica
Today, the first Snowden disclosures in 2013 feel like a distant memory. The public perception of surveillance has changed dramatically since and, likewise, the battle to shape the legality and logistics of such snooping is continually evolving.
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Gene editing tech named Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year | Ars Technica
CRISPR, a genome-editing technology that has been progressing rapidly in the last three years, has just been named Science’s Breakthrough of the Year. CRISPR is a futuristic technique that can be used to edit and manipulate the DNA of any organism—c…
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Foamy White “Snow” – Scientific American
Introduction If you live where there is snow, it can be fun to play in it for a while—but it can get quite chilly. Or maybe you live someplace where it doesn’t snow. In this fun activity, you can experience something similar to snow anytime, in the …
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Hero. Villain. Good. Evil. Kilgrave says these types of labels are reductive in “AKA Smile,” and it’s one of the rare instances in this series where he’s actually right. In reality, people don’t fall so easily into one camp or the other.
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U.S. Midwest Braces for More Flooding as Rain-Swollen Rivers Rise – Scientific American
Dec 31 (Reuters) – Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma braced for more flooding on Thursday as rain-swollen rivers, some at record heights, overflowed their banks, washing out hundreds of structures, closing major highways and leaving …
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AT&T acquires part of data collection startup Carrier IQ | The Verge
Back in 2011, data collection developer Carrier IQ caused a firestorm of criticism after a security researcher discovered its kernel-level software could be used to track smartphone users without their consent or control.
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Spinning Fire Under the Milky Way Makes an Awesome Photo
Resembling a thousand sparklers on fire, this stunning image pits the shining Milky Way as a backdrop to the spinning landscape below. This unique method of photography is called steel wool spinning. This image was taken by Nimit Nigam from Kaza, Sp…
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Poll: Religious Freedom For Christians Much More Popular Than For Muslims | ThinkProgress
Most Americans believe Muslims deserve religious freedom, according to a poll by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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How will the cities of the future be lit? | Cities | The Guardian
The ever-increasing demand for the 24-hour illumination of cities is blighting urban residents with two distinct forms of pollution. Current lighting solutions rely on vast amounts of energy, of course, much of which is not yet generated from renewa…
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Netflix’s fake New Year’s countdowns trick your kids into an early bedtime – Vox
Good news for tired parents who want to lie to their children about when the new year starts: Netflix is here for you. Netflix did this last year, too, but with only one option. Apparently it was successful enough to offer multiple choices, but the …
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White guys aren’t the only ones who can save the world
I have very red hair. Growing up in a big Irish Catholic family packed with redheads, my hair was the reddest. After a few years where unwanted attention made me wish I could look like everybody (anybody) else, I embraced my hair, becoming something…
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Do It Yourself Good! – Paper Airplane – YouTube
Here is a cheap and effective way to make your own paper airplane. Please be safe.Thanks for sharing this video with your friends and aunts.- Follow Gus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gusbuckets- Follow Gus on Facebook: … https://www.youtu
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Direct Imaging: The Next Big Step in the Hunt for Exoplanets
This false-color composite image traces the motion of the planet Fomalhaut b, a world captured by direct imaging.Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute) View full size image The hunt for planets around…
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Dick Clark Will Always Be Part of New Year’s Rockin’ Eve—and That’s a | Vanity Fair
Traditionally, when a show changes its host, its name changes with it—The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson became “with Jay Leno,” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart became “with Trevor Noah,” Live! with Regis and Kelly became Live! with Kelly and M…
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Time Warps and Black Holes: The Past, Present & Future of Space-Time
When giving the coordinates for a location, most people provide the latitude, longitude and perhaps altitude. But there is a fourth dimension often neglected: time.
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“Beyond the Higgs” –Hints That the Universe Could Suddenly Collapse (2015 Most Popular)
A stable universe is one in a low energy state where particles and forces interact and behave according to theoretical predictions, forever.
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Here’s Your Prerequisite “Explain The Whole Story” Trailer For Zootopia
Disney’s new animal-packed animated film Zootopia has already put out a few funny teasers—but we didn’t really know a lot about the story of this world populated exclusively by anthropomorphic animals. But don’t worry: the traditional trailer that b…
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Sometimes I play a kind of shivery game in which I think about how different my life would be if I had made other choices. One thing leads to an unforeseeable other. After spending my 20s as a would-be musician, I attended law school in New York Cit…
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Our top 10 favorite pop songs of 2015 – Vox
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The thing about “best of” lists is that there’s only so much you can do before your eyes start crossing and your opinions start blurring into one confusing mass of doubt. Did you see/hear/critique enough to know what was best? Do you remember it wel… -
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Guide the plant to sunlight above its dark and dingy habitat. Thanks for playing!
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How Long Different Items Stay on Your Credit Report
Past credit mistakes can come back to haunt you. While they don’t stay on your credit report forever, some mistakes drop off faster than others. This infographic from Experian tells you just how long different events stay on your report.
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Mother and Love. via /r/aww https://t.co/PWNIxqLHre https://t.co/ccSeyv4AEW
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It was warm at the North Pole : environment
It was warm at the North Pole via /r/environment https://t.co/WOORFhEbqN https://t.co/MXuGpSqtbk
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Jeb!’s latest desperate move—pulling $3 million in ads
It seems to have finally sunk in at Jeb!’s HQ that all the advertising in the world isn’t doing jack for their flailing candidate.
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Chicago will reform its police to reduce use of force. Here’s why it might not work. – Vox
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Wednesday that the city will focus on reforming police policies to reduce excessive use of force incidents, following protests over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the Justice Department’s announcem…
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A California gun statute going into effect on 1 January gives the police or family members the option to petition the courts to seize the guns and ammunition of someone they think poses a threat, the first law of its kind in the country.
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5 Facts to Know About the California Methane Leak – Scientific American
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Consent to Be Core Question in Cosby Case | Al Jazeera America
Entertainer Bill Cosby has long maintained that his extramarital conquests over the years were all consensual.
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Mother of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Returns to the US | Al Jazeera America
The mother of fugitive Texas teen Ethan Couch, known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, has been returned to the U.S. from Mexico minus her son, whose own deportation was delayed by a Mexican judge.
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The far-out sci-fi costume parties of the Bauhaus school in the 1920s|Dangerous Minds
As we get ready to tell yet another year to kiss our collective asses on its way out the door, that also means it’s almost time for that annual liver-killing bacchanal known as New Year’s Eve.
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What we learned in 2015 | The Verge
This year, in lieu of the traditional Best Of Lists, we thought it would be fun to throw our editors into a draft together and just have a conversation. For our kick-off chat, Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn discuss how tech’s biggest companies have es…
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Milan’s cavernous central train station, covering more than 700,000 square feet and fronted by a majestic stone façade, is one of the biggest railway hubs in Europe. More than 300,000 people stream through its vaults every day.
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It’s official! Element 113 was discovered at RIKEN
Element 113, discovered by a RIKEN group led by Kosuke Morita, has become the first element on the periodic table found in Asia.
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History’s Worst Hotel Room Wreckers | Van Winkle’s
Once upon a time, travelers seeking shelter checked into monasteries and abbeys along their journey’s path. But to stay with the monks, they had to play by the monks’ rules. Among other things, this meant not getting wasted on mead and whoring it up…
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Hamburger Gauge Plummets Amid Oversupply of Fatty Beef: Chart – Bloomberg Business
Hamburger prices are likely to get cheaper, according to one key gauge. Beef trimmings, the ground-up meat used to add fat in a burger, fell to a 10-year low this week, according to U.S. government data. There’s a greater supply of trimmings after U…
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Why Mormons identify with Syrian refugees – Vox
After November’s terror attacks in Paris, Republican governors across the country said their states wouldn’t welcome Syrian refugees. But Utah Gov. Gary Herbert broke with his conservative counterparts.
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London shares lose 5% during 2015 – BBC News
The 100 share index has ended the year lower than it started, for the fourth time in the past 10 years. In the traditional half day New Year’s Eve session, the index closed at 6,242, down 32 points or 0.5% on the day, and 5% down on the start of the…
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Before and after via /r/cats https://t.co/iIPcDzbPiT https://t.co/OL3g2pOt11
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Clockwise from top left: Flooding in Straiton, Scotland, on Wednesday; haze in Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, in October; flooding in Horry County, S.C., in December; drought in South Australia in November.
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock is Back– And He’s Finally Got a Prope | Vanity Fair
When Sherlock writer and creator Mark Gatiss addressed the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, in 2006, he spoke of the need to extract the character from the Victorian aspic he had been trapped in and update him for the 21st century.
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Lighting 10,000 Sparklers at Once Is the Best Way To Ring in the New Year
Today in “amazing ideas the internet had” we bring you an experiment that is without a doubt the best way to celebrate the end of 2015 tonight, and an even better way to usher in 2016. One sparkler is fun, but 10,000 igniting at the same time? That’…
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The Science Stories We’ll Be Watching in 2016
Another amazing year of science has come and gone, so it’s time to look ahead and see what the next year has in store. Here are Gizmodo’s most anticipated scientific and technological developments of 2016. Skywatchers will be greeted in the New Year…
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Why Russia Spent 2015 Half-Assing it in Ukraine | VICE News
What went on in Ukraine in 2015 (after Russia sneaky-invaded the country in early 2014 and annexed Crimea) was not a Cold War or frozen conflict, where the shooting and killing lie either in the past or in a potential future.
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Kendrick Lamar Confronts Demons, Temptation in ‘God Is Gangsta’ Short | Rolling Stone
Kendrick Lamar Confronts Demons, Temptation in ‘God Is Gangsta’ Short Rapper delivers furious performance in clip that features ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ cuts “U” and “For Sale”
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How the College Football Playoff Conquered New Year’s Eve | Rolling Stone
A moment, please, before we delve into the future, to let us recognize the dear-departed Bluebonnet Bowl, a middling and largely meaningless contest played in Houston, Texas, during the New Year’s Eves of my childhood.
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Watch Barack Obama’s Hilarious Chat With Jerry Seinfeld | Rolling Stone
On the eve of Barack Obama’s last year as president, he endured what he called his most embarrassing moment as Commander-in-Chief: Sitting down with Jerry Seinfeld for an episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
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Tiny Bubbles, Tough Decisions – Bloomberg View
Sparkling wine is hard to figure. At least, for me it is. I don’t drink it all that often, and when I do, I tend not to be paying close attention. So when I go to buy the stuff I usually find that I’m flying blind, and that the price tags discourage…
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Record Flooding Hits U.S. Midwest, Threatens South – Scientific American
VALLEY PARK, Mo/KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Swollen rivers in the U.S. Midwest and other regions brought flood warnings for over 12 million people on Wednesday as scores of buildings were submerged after days of intense rain in which 24 peop…
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Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Throne of Glass is a fantastical book about an arrogant but deadly assassin, Caleana Sardothien, who at the beginning of the book is in the salt mines of Endovier.
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Twitter agrees to restore archiving of politicians’ deleted tweets | The Verge
This summer, Twitter shut down Politwoops, a network of sites dedicated to archiving deleted, regrettable tweets from politicians. The decision was met with criticism by several rights groups arguing for the necessity of political transparency. Toda…
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Cartoon: Senior citizens of Counter-Earth, in kick-butt gear
Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook. Please join Tom the Dancing Bug’s subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more.
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IS computer hacker Siful Haque Sujan killed in air strike – BBC News
A Cardiff-based businessman who became a computer hacker for the so-called Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in Syria. The Pentagon said Siful Haque Sujan, originally from Bangladesh, was killed near the city of Raq…
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2015 and the rise of the introvert party jam – Vox
2015 and the rise of the introvert party jam https://t.co/vdzx9xD5JW https://t.co/COLMlgPvDd
Back in 2014, a troubadour by the name of Lil Jon, along with hypnotic tunemaker DJ Snake, captured the heart of the nation. -
Epoch time: Why a Facebook bug is congratulating some users on 46 years of friendship – Vox
Epoch time: Why a Facebook bug is congratulating some users on 46 years of friendship https://t.co/x30CIDGmV9 https://t.co/fkqfgoUlsO
A weird bug on Facebook is congratulating people on 46 years of friendship — even though most of them are younger than 46 and the site has been around for less than a quarter of that time. -
MRW I go to /r/ProgrammerHumor and I have no clue about programming. : reactiongifs
MRW I go to /r/ProgrammerHumor and I have no clue about programming. via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/wywfhvx4Zg https://t.co/7uDGZaNkM4
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Daughter got this thing for Christmas and it’s mesmerising. : gifs
Daughter got this thing for Christmas and it’s mesmerising. via /r/gifs https://t.co/zaiXmIlrze https://t.co/iTkuxkCexL
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Plan Your Vacation Destinations from Least Culture Shock to Most
Visiting multiple countries—or even regions—gives you a chance to experience different cultures in one vacation. But if you haven’t traveled much, it can also mean culture shock. Ease into the journey by visiting destinations culturally similar to y…
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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Donald Trump holds a dominant position in national polls in no small part because he is extremely strong among people on the periphery of the Republican coalition. He is strongest among Republicans who are less affluent, less educated and less likel…
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Paraguay village refuses to flee floods – BBC News
Residents of a village in south-eastern Paraguay are refusing to leave their homes even though flooding is imminent, officials say. The Paraguay river has reached a height of 9.64m (32ft) in Alberdi in Neembucu province, and officials have warned th…
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Storm Frank: ‘I just cannot believe water could do this’ – BBC News
Many homes have had to be evacuated with thousands still left without power. Dozens of flood warnings remain in place across the country.
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Late-night TV is focusing on politics more than ever. Here’s why. – Vox
Late-night TV and politics have always been tightly linked, and not just through easy monologue jokes or soft-launch candidacy announcements.
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Trump Spokeswoman Wears Bullet Choker – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s official campaign spokesperson, noted fringe conservative firebrand and alleged unemployment cheat Katrina Pierson made a statement, and stir, by appearing on CNN’s The Lead wearing a choker-style necklace of bullets wired together.
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Manny Pacquiao to return in April to fight Timothy Bradley | Sport | The Guardian
Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring April 9 for the first time since losing to Floyd Mayweather, and it will be against a familiar foe.
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In the movies, New Year’s Eve is always full of excitement and intrigue, attractive people in sparkly outfits, and surprise kisses at midnight.
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Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees| Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it de…
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Microsoft Got Hacked and Didn’t Tell Anyone
Microsoft knew that Chinese spies hacked people using Hotmail accounts for years—and didn’t tell any of the people who were hacked.
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We Need to Talk About this Insane 1898 Thomas Edison Fanfic – History Buff
We’ve read our share of weird fiction, but recently we came across one of the oddest stories we’ve ever seen—and we really need to talk about it. Essentially a Thomas Edison fanfiction set in space, Edison’s Conquest of Mars was written by astronome…
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Bill Bratton, Ray Kelly, and the Feud Over the NYPD’s Crime Statistics – The Atlantic
The Disraeli and Gladstone of American policing are at it again. There’s Bill Bratton, the commissioner of the New York Police Department, currently in his second stint as the city’s top cop, and crowing over a decline in crime in 2015.
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Sarah Palin Lists Her Arizona Compound for $2.49 Million | Vanity Fair
There is a rare opportunity to rest your head one degree away from someone who was once almost one degree away from resting their head at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Why Are Digital Privacy Apps So Hard to Use? – The Atlantic
Unless two people are in the same room, it’s hard for them to communicate information securely. Phone calls, emails, and text messages could be open to eavesdropping from governments, companies, or hackers—and even paper mail is subject to tracking.
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MRW I get the joke : reactiongifs
MRW I get the joke via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/rz7lHbKHGo https://t.co/KLPmcul9v5
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Cats Who Know That The Sink REALLY Belongs To Them : aww
Cats Who Know That The Sink REALLY Belongs To Them via /r/aww https://t.co/J16UQ1L2BL https://t.co/YLEQ8ncPSH
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Bernie Sanders wins hearts by flying coach : politics
Bernie Sanders wins hearts by flying coach via /r/politics https://t.co/305PzmvocW https://t.co/FSc7oTGx4k
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[OC]Morning planets over Vistula River in Torun, Poland [1280×853] https://t.co/7owWxFoGNM https://t.co/UKAfTjvcA1
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Jamal is serving a life-sentence for a widely deplored conviction for killing a police officer. Prison Radio recorded this insightful interview with him about the role that Star Wars and Star Trek both played in the American consciousness. (via Kers…
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In terms of sustainability, this year is going out with a bang: a monumental Paris agreement that was signed by 195 nations.
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In a Very Short Short, a Raccoon Steals a Mysterious Artifact
In “Jack and the Mysterious Lost Orb,” Jack, who appears to be a relative of Rocket Raccoon, steals a glowing ball. Which of course leads to him being chased by the object’s guardian, a giant shadow monster.
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Bandai Desperately Wants You to Think These Dragonball Z Figures Are Lego
Well, to the point that they don’t get an angry letter from the Lego Group asking them what the hell they think they’re doing, that is. But this new line of miniature toys based on Akira Toriyama’s designs of some of anime’s most recognizable heroes…
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You were a doctor for seven years before you switched to comedy and acting full time. Did your parents want you to do medicine first? Yeah, I always joke that I was Koreaned into doing medicine. But there has to be some kind of through line between …
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Some Worthless Bullshit I Learned in 2015 – The Awl
If you slice holes in the knees of your jeans, you increase their coolness percentage by twenty percent. Whatever you look like when crossing the path of a “skinny mirror” is how the rest of the world generally sees you. You’re not actually as disgu…
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Why Hollywood movie kisses sound so juicy | Fusion
It’s New Years Eve again, meaning it’s time to crack open the champagne, don the glittery “2016” sunglasses, and oh yeah, find someone on which to lay the perfect kiss—you know, the kind that happens in the movies, where the whole world stops and th…
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Mix Champagne and Stout For a Bubbly, Creamy Cocktail
New Year’s Eve is all about bubbly, and mixing Champagne with an Irish stout like Guinness will bring out the beers fruitier flavors, while stretching your champers supply.
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Bahrainis sentenced for deadly bombing – BBC News
A Bahraini court has sentenced one person to death and 22 others to life in prison over two deadly bomb attacks in the country last year, reports say.The defendants, all of whom are Shia Muslims, were also convicted of forming a terrorist organisati…
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6 times John Oliver obliterated the US criminal justice system in 2015 – Vox
Leave it to a British comedian to do some of the best journalism on the American criminal justice system in 2015. Over the past year, John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, put a huge spotlight on the many, many problems with American justice.
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Auto-brewery syndrome: US woman avoids drink-driving charge – BBC News
A US woman in New York state has avoided drink-driving charges after arguing that she suffers from a rare condition called “auto-brewery syndrome”.The 35-year-old schoolteacher told the court that her digestive system sometimes converts food into al…
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Diversity is now the defining conversation of the entertainment industry | The Verge
This year, in lieu of the traditional “Best Of” lists, we thought it would be fun to throw our editors into a draft together and have a conversation. The last few years we’ve been made more aware than ever of systematic discrimination, everywhere fr…
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The Persistence of Health Disparities in HIV Treatment – The Atlantic
A major insurer said recently it would offer life insurance to HIV-positive people because of their rising life expectancies, prompting cheers from AIDS activists. But on the very same day, the nation’s top disease control official described an Amer…
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An American Infestation | Motherboard
This story needs little introduction, given the all-consuming hell circus that is the 2015 presidential campaign season. Suffice to say that this is a short, macabre vision of what might happen if America ends up winning just a bit too much. Happy N…
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Our 47 Weirdest Charts From 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
We made more than 1,500 charts in 2015 at FiveThirtyEight. Many were bar charts, line charts and scatterplots — but not all. Here are some of the more unusual graphics we published.
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Why the dream of the flying car hasn’t panned out – The Washington Post
If you’re ever bothered by the blind spots in the typical car today, then you would hate to drive a flying car. But a new Toyota patent offers a solution to a classic flying car problem — awful blind spots and a vehicle that’s too wide for roads, pa…
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Black Panther Is The Unlikely Key To Avengers: Infinity War
It’s a total Marvel blowout as Kevin Feige talks Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and more. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton tease their Doctor Strange roles. Brian Michael Bendis discusses improving Powers for season…
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Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide / Boing Boing
Ian Murdock is half of the founding team of Debian, a popular and foundational flavor of GNU/Linux from which Ubuntu and Mint are descended.
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President Obama Tells Jerry Seinfeld About the Downside of Fame | Vanity Fair
There may be no non-President better suited than Jerry Seinfeld to talk to Barack Obama about what it’s like not to be famous.
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He was her mentor and one of the most famous people to ever have attended Temple University, where she worked as a director of operations for the women’s basketball program.
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Donald J. Trump appears to be more concerned about the quality of his hair than the quality of the air. Mr.
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Cutting these hotdogs via /r/gifs https://t.co/B2zy7DRVn8 https://t.co/89rVDZsvfu
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BBC Sport – Jurgen Klopp shrugs off Sam Allardyce ‘soft German’ jibe
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has played down Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce calling him a “soft German”. “It’s not a problem,” said Klopp. “A lot of people have said worse things about me. It’s not the first time.
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Normalizing deviance: why tech companies repeatedly do stupid, destructive things / Boing Boing
“The normalization of deviance” is a sociological term describing how groups of people become accustomed to ignoring safety rules and best practices, becoming plagued with (sometimes fatal) problems that no one can seem to fix.
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By the time Dietmar Mueller arrived at the University of Texas as a graduate student in the mid-1980s, scientists had already long embraced a once-astonishing idea: that the continents on which all human history has unfolded, rather than fixtures of…
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Texas Legislator Claimed Rape Doesn’t Exist In Marriage | ThinkProgress
Texas State Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R) apologized Wednesday after the Texas Observer published a 2008 quote from an online post in which the lawmaker joked that nothing a husband does to his wife could possibly be rape.
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3D printed model of cellular division / Boing Boing
D. Allan Drummond, assistant professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and human genetics from the University of Chicago’s The Drummond Lab 3D printed this model of a yeast cell dividing in solid bronze: “Late-anaphase budding yeast, mother & dau…
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Wonder Woman gets back to her BDSM roots in 2016 | Books | The Guardian
Anne is critiquing the eagerly anticipated Wonder Woman Earth One by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette, due out in the spring. Wonder Woman is supposed to be an icon of feminism, Anne argues; her isolated homeland of Paradise Island is supposed to …
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The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer – swash and swoon | Books | The Guardian
I adored Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances when I was younger.
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Delhi is to implement a fortnight-long driving ban for certain cars from New Year’s Day in an experiment critics say falls far short of what is needed to lower the Indian capital’s lethal pollution levels.
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The biggest climate stories of 2015 | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
2015 has been a big year for climate change. The year has witnessed dizzying highs and stunning lows, from the hottest January on record, to March, when global carbon dioxide levels hit a million-year high, to December, when nearly 200 nations signe…
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Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA | Ars Technica
In November 2014, a strange-looking little spider of a spacecraft caught the world’s attention. It may have been one of the oddest-looking pioneers of all time, resembling a mini-refrigerator attached to an insect’s legs.
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Hear Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes’ morning radio show|Dangerous Minds
In the years after the Butthole Surfers had a radio hit with “Pepper”—a single that, Billboard noted at the time, “borrows liberally” from a much better song by DM’s Marc Campbell—not much was heard from the band. About a year after I saw them (bill…
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Iraq: 80 percent of Ramadi in ruins after fighting – Al Jazeera English
Months of fighting and the recent pitched battle to take Iraq’s Ramadi from ISIL have levelled most of the key city as officials warned it was too soon for civilians to return after it was recaptured.
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My friend just got a kitten – Reddit, meet Hubbie : aww
My friend just got a kitten – Reddit, meet Hubbie via /r/aww https://t.co/qjSCtwcPgH https://t.co/CJh78HxN7S
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‘Zootopia’ Official US Trailer #2 : movies
‘Zootopia’ Official US Trailer #2 via /r/movies https://t.co/GFscZgoLrJ https://t.co/YKGiNjjWN1
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The Most District: What’s the most Asian district in America? Welcome to California’s 17th
Of the nation’s 435 congressional districts, no seat has a higher proportion of Asian-American residents than California’s 17th District. According to the Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey, 52 percent of the district is non-Hispanic Asi…
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Asphalt Roads Could De-Ice Themselves – Scientific American
Christopher Intagliata
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The perfectly named ninja lanternshark is a new glow-in-the-dark shark species | The Verge
Meet the ninja lanternshark. It was officially declared a species just last week, and its superhero-esque new nickname — known scientifically as a “common name” — makes up for its slightly unsettling little frown mouth and iridescent eyeballs.
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Our 25 most social stories of 2015 – Vox
Our 25 most social stories of 2015 https://t.co/xEdEmyArkc https://t.co/Ks4VYmFhYP
As 2015 turns into 2016, one way we are taking stock here at Vox is by looking back through our numbers and seeing which stories were popular with audiences and in which ways. -
Remembering My Day with Lemmy Kilmister | VICE | United States
It was 1990 or ’91.
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How Did January Get Its Name? – History Buff
Unlike its summery counterparts, July and August, wintery January got its name not from a two-faced Julio-Claudian, but a god with two actual faces. Who was Janus, and how did his double-headedness feature into the name of a month?
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How New Year’s Eve Came to Times Square | Atlas Obscura
Confetti showers in Times Square at midnight on December 31. (Photo: Kohei Kanno/flickr) On New Year’s Eve in 1903, there was no countdown to midnight, no ball drop, and no partygoers wearing silly hats in Times Square. In fact, there was no “Times …
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Lessig on how the economics of data-retention will drive privacy tech / Boing Boing
In an interview with the WSJ’s CIO blog, Lawrence Lessig proposes that the existence of cryptographic tools that allow for “zero-knowledge” data-querying, combined with the potential liability from leaks, will drive companies to retain less data on …
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Here’s Obama’s appearance on Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee” – Vox
President Obama and Jerry Seinfeld got in a car to get coffee, and they didn’t get very far. Obama was on the first episode of the new, seventh season of Seinfeld’s show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, a show on Sony’s web-based streaming service…
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From Jan 1, UK to stop financial aid to India – Times of India : worldnews
From Jan 1, UK to stop financial aid to India – Times of India via /r/worldnews https://t.co/kSGvBlp78N https://t.co/8buoZ4UVAS
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Jezebel Old Navy Doesn’t Want Your Kids to Become Artists | Factually This Viral List About 1915 Is Full of Lies | Gawker The Republican Party Is a Trick | Jalopnik Barack Obama Drives A 1963 Corvette With Jerry Seinfeld! |
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In 2015, Airbnb Began a Fight for Its Life. In 2016, It Has to Win. | Re/code
Airbnb is the third-most valuable startup today at $25.5 billion, and the now ubiquitous home rental service wants to be nothing less than the hotel-substitute glue holding the global middle class together.
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The Many Masturbating Motorists of My Life | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
I’m at a red light in Los Angeles on Melrose and Gower. A Honda Civic pulls up beside me and I unwillingly cringe. The rest is ritual: The light changes and I casually let my vehicle lag a bit behind. Then, I gingerly crane my neck to cop a semi-aer…
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Recreating the CIA’s “top secret” abstract painting collection / Boing Boing
In the 1980s, “controversial Republican art collector” Vincent Melzac donated 29 abstract paintings from the Washington Color School to the CIA, which now hang on the Agency’s walls, but when asked for details about them, the CIA goes mum, claiming …
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Six Bits of Good News from 2015 – The New Yorker
When I was younger, I once asked my mother why she didn’t read the newspaper on a regular basis. “It’s all bad news,” she replied.
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Jezebel Old Navy Doesn’t Want Your Kids to Become Artists | Factually This Viral List About 1915 Is Full of Lies | Gawker The Republican Party Is a Trick | Jalopnik Barack Obama Drives A 1963 Corvette With Jerry Seinfeld! |
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Space took over the internet this year | The Verge
This year, in lieu of the traditional Best Of Lists, we thought it would be fun to throw editors and writers into a draft together and have a conversation. It was an exciting and eventful year for space news even before SpaceX landed its first Falco…
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Corbyn vows to pressure government to properly fund flood defences | UK news | The Guardian
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has called for greater flood defence spending after experts criticised the chancellor, George Osborne, for prioritising cutting the deficit.
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Get Your Financial House In Order In the New Year With This Checklist
Today’s the last day of 2015, with tax season not far behind. It’s the perfect time to take stock of your finances and get everything in order. This checklist should help you cover everything.
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Transform Your Holiday Leftovers into Quick, Simple Quesedillas
If you still have leftovers kicking around in your fridge or freezer, this simple quesadilla recipe will breathe new life into those tired bits of leftover cheer and turn them into an anytime lunch, or weeknight dinner. A.V.
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Who’s a tough little puppy? : aww
Who’s a tough little puppy? via /r/aww https://t.co/CIh04aD8fJ https://t.co/PFDmHn3dKF
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9 great first-person essays from 2015 – Vox
In 2015 we worked hard at Vox to explain the biggest news stories of the year with charts, maps, videos, and lots of explainers. And in our First Person section we turned to you — our readers, our friends, and the experts we trust most — and asked f…
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Microsoft to warn of nation-state hacks – BBC News
Microsoft will start warning people if it suspects a government is trying to hack into their email and other online accounts. Users will be informed if their Outlook, OneDrive and other consumer-facing services are being targeted.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
OK, this is it for the year! We have to fit every story from 2015 that we didn’t cover into one final show! Those are the rules. Which I just made up. Of course, that can’t happen. I probably couldn’t even fit just a list of the titles of the articl…
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Healthy relationship habits most people think are toxic – Quartz
About six months ago, I wrote a post titled Toxic Habits that Most People Think Are Normal. It became very successful.
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How long do people keep their New Year resolutions? | News | The Guardian
A fair share of Brits looking with guilt at their indulgence over the festive season will start the new year hoping to be a little healthier.
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Donald Trump blasts Barack Obama for watching Star Wars | Film | The Guardian
It’s the eternal battle for control of the most powerful force in the known galaxy, but this time there are no X-wings or TIE fighters, and the Millennium Falcon is not in sight.
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Ed Victor – an honoured literary agent | Books | The Guardian
The veteran literary agent Ed Victor has been awarded a CBE in the New Year honours list.
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Hand-colorized Munsters credit-roll / Boing Boing
Zach Smothers hand-colored all 1,300 frames from the opening credit roll of The Munsters, doing a beautiful job that balances the palette of the later color episodes and the classic EC/Haunted Mansion horror-colors. He was inspired by this hand-colo…
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[OC]Morning planets over Vistula River in Torun, Poland [1280×853] : spaceporn
[OC]Morning planets over Vistula River in Torun, Poland [1280×853] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/enufTgrqzr https://t.co/3tYDv3L3EZ
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Cheers and Jeers: 2015 Flashback, Part III
Note: C&J will be off tomorrow in observance of a really early Easter. We’ll emerge from our Barbie Dream Bunker on Monday to greet the new year with, well, whatever we can dig out from between the sofa cushions. Happy New Year!
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Food, Sex, Gambling, the Internet: When Is It Addiction? – Scientific American
Theo did not seem like the type to become addicted to gambling. He was a literary star who had published his first novel at age 24 to great success. While traveling through Europe, he began visiting elegant casinos, at first dabbling in table games …
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What We’re Following This Morning, December 31 – The Atlantic
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Dieselgate: an analysis of VW’s cheating firmware / Boing Boing
Daniel Lange and Felix “tmbinc” Domke bought some of Volkswagen’s cheating Engine Control Units on Ebay and extracted and decompiled the software in them to learn exactly how the cheating took place.
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Why Growth Mindsets Are Necessary to Save Math Class – The Atlantic
Why do so many students either hate math, fear it or both? If you ask most students what they think their role is in math classrooms, they will tell you it is to get questions right.
Why do so many students hate math, fear it, or both? If you ask most students what they think their role is in math classrooms, they will tell you it is to get questions right. -
Every so often in politics, a perfect storm rolls in. Thunder, lightning, squalls and a career-ending moment. In 1991, the Coronation Hill mining project was just such a storm. Like all big issues, it echoes many of today’s debates.
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How Dangerous Are Champagne Corks, Really? | Motherboard
You’ve probably heard the warnings every year come December 31. If your New Year’s Eve plans include shaking up a bottle of champagne, popping the cork with two thumbs, and blasting the wine over a crowd of people in a vaguely pornographic spray of …
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Shortly after Jill Alexander Essbaum’s novel Hausfrau was published in the spring, the New York Times book critic Janet Maslin dismissed the novel on the basis of the main female character being an “insufferable American narcissist.
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snap-circuits-sell-big-on-amazon – Quartz
One of the most popular toys on Amazon this year is made by a small company that doesn’t even specialize in toys. Snap Circuits—kits that teach kids to build electronic projects—rank alongside Nerf, Jenga, and Star Wars toys.
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New Year: Celebrations begin to mark start of 2016 – BBC News
The world has begun celebrating the start of a New Year, with revellers in Australia and New Zealand some of the first to usher in 2016. Crowds counted down the last seconds of 2015 at Auckland’s Sky Tower, which hosted a laser show and fireworks di…
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Iran is Not Happy About Proposed US Sanctions Over Its Ballistic Missile Program | VICE News
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Ring in the New Year with Taylor Swift, Pope Francis, and . . . Ben Ca | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair imagines the party of the year, where the biggest headliners wait for the ball to drop, for better or for worse. 10:48—Boredom sets in. While angry Baltimore mom Toya Graham shows U.F.C.
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Open letter to the future ISIL recruit – Al Jazeera English
Dear fellow Muslim, who has a heart for “jihad”, or struggle, in the name of God, I actually doubt that you are a regular reader of these pages, but still wanted to give it a shot, and penned this letter to convey a few friendly thoughts. You are pr…
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Summer skies over Mesquila Beach, Mallorca (OC) [683×1024] : SkyPorn
Summer skies over Mesquila Beach, Mallorca (OC) [683×1024] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/VlhTBQ0Mz9 https://t.co/771OWgvxKB
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While it’s perhaps necessary to look at the year ahead and anticipate all the ways 2016 can go wrong – as another publication brilliantly did – it might also be helpful to remind ourselves that in the middle of wars, strife and injustice, progress i…
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This New Year’s Eve, it is almost inevitable that you will hear (and possibly try to sing) “Auld Lang Syne,” a song whose melody is synonymous with the new year (and the theme of change more broadly) in the English-speaking world, despite nearly inc…
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El Niño blamed for weather chaos – but California sees an upside | Environment | The Guardian
The El Niño climate phenomenon has been blamed for fuelling a spate of recent natural disasters around the world, from flooding in northern England and Paraguay to bushfires in Australia to storms in Texas. But, for many people in California, the cu…
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New Year’s Is America’s Fourth-Favorite Holiday | FiveThirtyEight
We’re just about done with the cataclysm of cheer and consumption that is the holiday season. Soon we will all sober up and go back to our lives as grumpy people ashamed of our weight and spending habits.
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Ars’ favorite science images of 2015 | Ars Technica
Science is an inherently visual activity. Yes, we can know about all sorts of things in the abstract and try to envision them in our minds. But it’s one thing to hear a description of the developing brain, and another thing entirely to see one as it…
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Ties that bind: how the bond between police and prosecutors impedes justice | US news | The Guardian
To win his election campaign and oust the top state prosecutor in Omaha, Nebraska, Don Kleine first needed to secure the support of an influential group of voters.
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1. Goodness gracious, great balls of … Ikea There’s more to Ikea than its flatpack furnishings, something customers were reminded of not once but twice this year when the famous purveyor of the Billy bookcase announced it was adding veggie balls a…
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This Is the Age of the Power Couple | New Republic
“My dearest partner of greatness,” Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) addresses his wife from the battlefield.
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The Biological Warfare of Plants
Compared to the hectic rush of our bipedal world, a plant’s life may appear an oasis of tranquility. But look a little closer. The voracious appetites of pests put plants under constant stress: They have to fight just to stay alive. And fight they d…
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Why 2015 Was the Year That Changed TV Forever | New Republic
Indeed, the past year saw audiences becoming more and more amenable to adopting new ways to watch TV shows, with live audiences for broadcast and cable programs declining sharply.
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The Sinkhole Hunters: In sprawling Florida, one group of geologists is never short on business.
One day last May, a muddy truck bound down a dirt road through the backwoods of Gainesville, Florida. It pulled up in a cloud of dust to a sprawling green farmhouse with a wide front porch, nestled among cypress trees dripping in gray Spanish moss. …
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December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends | The Nation
All years end on December 31, of course, but 1865 was a particularly special year—for The Nation, for the nation, and for the world.
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The Story of WHER, America’s Pioneering, First All-Women Radio Station (1955) | Open Culture
Sam Phillips changed the course of music history with his label Sun Records, which gave us Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison and essentially the second half of the 20th Century’s pop culture.
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Why researchers keep citing retracted papers – Quartz
This week, Retraction Watch released a list of the retracted research papers with the most citations, and many of the citations came after those papers were pulled. The second-most-cited paper on this list, published in The Lancet in 1998, is widely…
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Shipwreck Champagne and Other Bubbly Tales – The Atlantic
There is champagne, and then there is the idea of champagne. Champagne is what people drink on New Year’s Eve. The idea of it is what gets smashed onto the hulls of yachts and sprayed on joyful men after championship games.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Campaign challenges in 2016
Ten months before the United States elects a new president, the Republican Party has yet to resolve a problem that its leaders said contributed to Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss to Barack Obama: a lack of support among Hispanic and younger voters.
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Bill Cosby: how tide turned against man once dubbed ‘America’s Dad’ | World news | The Guardian
The tableau outside Pennsylvania’s Cheltenham Township police department on Wednesday left the entertainer facing charges of sexual assault and confirmed him in a role he had fought mightily to avoid: that of America’s fallen icon.
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AT&T Is Killing Off Two Year Contracts Starting January 8th
If you like getting a phone from AT&T on a two year subsidized plan, you have until January 8th to do it. Starting on that date, AT&T is killing off its old two year contracts, in favor of payment plans through AT&T Next. AT&T is the last in line of…
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Did This Extinct Human Species Commit Homicide? – Scientific American
“Fossil First: Ancient Human Relative May Have Buried Its Dead” (Reuters). “Why Did Homo naledi Bury Its Dead?” (NOVA Next).
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Page Views Don’t Matter Anymore—But They Just Won’t Die | WIRED
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Mexico missing students: Mayor charged over ‘gang ties’ – BBC News
The town hit the headlines last year when local police officers were linked to the disappearance of 43 students. The government said corrupt officers from Cocula and nearby Iguala abducted the 43 and handed them over to a local drug gang, that then …
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NEWBURY, ENGLAND — “I just want to get over it,” Lady Mary said. “I mean, over him. I mean, over with. What do I mean?” She burst out laughing and turned back into the actress Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary on “Downton Abbey.
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev and Disarmament – The Atlantic After his reelection in 1984, President Ronald Reagan sat for an interview with Time magazine. “I just happen to believe that we cannot go into another generation with the world living under the threat of those weapons and knowing that…
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