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Kevin Spacey to lead Hollywood film studio Relativity | Film | The Guardian
Actor Kevin Spacey has been appointed chairman of Relativity Media’s film-making division as part of the former powerhouse studio’s attempt to reorganise and escape Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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A Knife-Wielding Man Has Been Shot Dead Trying to Enter a Paris Police Station | VICE News
This is a breaking story, please check back for updates. Police in Paris on Thursday shot dead a knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station in the north of the city, police union sources said.
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Is the Feud Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Really About Islam? – The Atlantic
In recent days, news of Saudi Arabia’s execution of the Shia leader Nimr al-Nimr, and the diplomatic clashes with Iran that followed, has often been accompanied by an explanation that, in simplified form, goes something like this: The schism between…
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Our compassion for drug users should not be determined by race | Marc Mauer | Opinion | The Guardian
Political leaders are displaying increasing amounts of empathy for those suffering from addiction.
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Why Hillary Clinton is hitting Bernie Sanders from the left on bank regulation – Vox
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign did something a little unexpected early this week in advance of an expected Bernie Sanders speech on Wall Street reform — it tried to hit Sanders from the left by having campaign chief financial officer Gary G…
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Cologne sex attacks: Women describe ‘terrible’ assaults – BBC News
More than 100 women and girls have come forward with reports of sexual assault and robbery by gangs of men in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
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CES is the event to get every brain storming … but where will it lead? | Technology | The Guardian
I love a remote mountain cabin perhaps slightly more than the next person, so imagine, if you will, the opposite of that.
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The son of ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack is one of three officials given life bans from the sport.
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Gunmen open fire at tourists outside Cairo hotel – Al Jazeera English
Tourists were attacked by gunmen on a motorcycle as they boarded a bus outside their hotel in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
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Solitary Confinement, and the Growth of Prison Reform – The Atlantic
This piece was reported through The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal-justice system.
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Everything You Should Know About This Year’s Air Travel Changes
From tighter TSA rules to crappier travel rewards, you can expect some big changes in air travel this year. Whether you’re a frequent traveler or a vacationer, you’ll want to be aware of the changes before you get to the airport.
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Jessica’s Ghost by Andrew Norriss – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I knew this was on the 2015 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist, so it’s fair to say I was expecting it to be pretty good. In fact, it went far beyond my expectations and I was gripped from the very beginning.
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The US food guidelines are way too complicated. There’s a better way. – Vox
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay that’s worth revisiting frequently, in which he describes how convoluted language can be used to intentionally confuse people and obfuscate the truth.
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Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce review – going to extremes | Books | The Guardian
Merritt Tierce’s debut novel is a stylishly brutal account of the life of a waitress working in a series of Texas restaurants.
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The Pros And Cons Of Helicopter Parenting – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The rising trend of “helicopter parenting,” or hovering over a child’s educational, social, extracurricular, and home life, has been praised by some as true dedication to one’s kids and decried by others for potentially smothering a child’s independ…
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Google translated Russia to ‘Mordor’ in ‘automated’ error – BBC News
Google has fixed a bug in an online tool after it began translating “Russian Federation” to “Mordor”. Mordor is the name of a fictional region nicknamed “Land of Shadow” in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Unimpressed loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Bernie Sanders has a problem: sometimes greed is good | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders has a problem. Sometimes greed is good. Imagine, for a minute, that your employer tells you that he’s going to pay you 25% more a year and give you an extra week of vacation.
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Gun companies in fear of NRA unlikely to help Obama’s cause | US news | The Guardian
The White House intends to “engage” with gunmakers to “explore what more they can do” following Barack Obama’s tearful announcement of expanded background checks on gun buyers.
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Parks and recreation: America from the air – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
Cities is supported by: Rockefeller Foundation
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Oregon residents say it’s time for the militia to pack it up and go | US news | The Guardian
The local sheriff policing the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon said he has received numerous death threats since armed militia took over the remote government outpost over the weekend.
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CES Attendees Get Crash Course in What’s Worth Being Paranoid About | Motherboard
In the early afternoon on Wednesday, at the midway point of the Consumer Electronic Show’s first-ever all-day event dedicated to cybersecurity in Las Vegas, an attendee got up and asked a group of panelists: “How paranoid should we be?” The rest of …
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Ted Cruz Is Exactly What the Political System Needs | New Republic
Ted Cruz’s surge to the top of the polls in Iowa, and into second place nationally, gave immediate relevance to something campaign-watchers have known for months.
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Iris Murdoch’s Tangled Life and Letters | New Republic
We each tend to perform different versions of ourselves in different situations: either polite or petulant with parents; less restrained around friends than around colleagues; more instinctually deferential to elders than to juniors.
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Panorama on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission : space
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Iran accuses Saudis of bombing their embassy in Sana’a, Yemen : worldnews
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Why Americans Work So Much Despite Economist John Maynard Keynes’s Prediction – The Atlantic
How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? That was the question that worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in 1930.
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Lovie Smith loses job as Tampa Bay endure another losing season | Sport | The Guardian
Jameis Winston had a strong rookie season, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tripled their victory total from the previous year. Still, it wasn’t enough to save coach Lovie Smith’s job.
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Brent crude oil price drops to new low of $32 a barrel as US output rises | Business | The Guardian
The price of North Sea oil fell to just above $32 per barrel, 72% lower than the peak of $115 reached in the summer of 2014.
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Spotlight makes Writers Guild of America awards shortlist – BBC News
Spotlight is among the film’s named on the The Writers Guild of America (WGA) shortlist for best screenplay. The Oscar-tipped drama chronicles The Boston Globe’s investigation into child abuse in the Catholic Church and features an all-star ensemble…
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Mexican drug lord ‘Barbie’ pleads guilty in US court – BBC News
The leader of a Mexican drug cartel, Edgar Valdez Villareal, has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a US court. Valdez, a US citizen better known as “Barbie” for his light eyes, was arrested in Mexico in 2010 and extradited to the US in September 20…
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A refugee New Year in a Greek anarchist shelter – Al Jazeera English
Athens, Greece – It is New Year’s Eve: As the clock strikes midnight, the big room on the ground floor of the squatters’ building on Notara 26 is filled with refugees. There are no fireworks, but there is a bit of joy in the room. Mehdi* stands out …
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Charlie Hebdo anniversary: Hollande pledges security boost – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande has promised 5,000 extra police posts in an “unprecedented” strengthening of French security, a year after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine by jihadists.
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Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of Bombing Its Embassy in Yemen | VICE News
This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates. Missiles fired by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen have hit Iran’s embassy in the capital Sanaa, Iran claimed on Thursday.
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South Korea to resume propaganda broadcasts to North over test – BBC News
South Korea is to resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s claims to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. Seoul said the broadcasts would restart on Friday at noon – a move that is likely to irritate North Korea.
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The Quiet Controversy of Dam Removal | Al Jazeera America
VANDERBILT, Mich. — For generations, visitors flocked for peace and quiet to this idyllic nook of tranquility, a 45-acre lake nestled amid the lush pines of a state forest in remote Northern Michigan. Yet the lake was far from natural.
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If we are what we do, how can we stay human in an er…
As automation sweeps across the world, we face challenging questions about how we work – and how we play. On the one hand, we are designing ourselves out of ever more jobs, leaving us disengaged. On the other hand, games and countless internet-enabl…
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Gaza electricity crisis: ‘People are dying daily’ – Al Jazeera English
Gaza – Three years ago, a teenage boy plummeted three storeys to the ground in the pitch dark after accidentally stepping out of the side of his Gaza home, which was missing a wall due to Israeli shelling.
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A tantalising find from the Jews of medieval Afghani…
In 1946, the French philologist André Dupont-Sommer published the first Jewish tombstone inscription from Firozkoh in Afghanistan. Dated between the 11th and 13th centuries, when the city was destroyed by the invading Mongols, the tombstone inscript…
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It’s Harder Than It Looks To Link Inequality With Global Turmoil | FiveThirtyEight
For thousands of years, close observers of politics have claimed that economic inequality causes political turmoil. In 350 B.C., Aristotle identified inequality as a principal driver of revolution and state collapse. In 19th-century Europe, Karl Mar…
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How books can sap the soul and poison readers with i…
Reading novels is good for you. This is the current wisdom, at least. A 2013 study by the New School for Social Research in New York City attempted to prove that reading passages by Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis had an immediate impact on participants…
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North Korea nuclear test: Seoul to resume cross-border propaganda | World news | The Guardian
Tokyo and Washington will work together to further isolate North Korea after it claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday – a move Japan condemned as a “serious threat” to its national security.
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Scores Killed in Truck Bomb In Libya | Al Jazeera America
Witnesses said on Thursday the vehicle crashed into the gate of the academy in the coastal city of Zliten, around 160 km east of the capital Tripoli. Libyan local news agency LANA put the death toll at more than 50.
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Yahoo – where did it all go wrong? – BBC News
During the 90s and early 2000s, Yahoo was a veritable web titan – a leader in email, online news and search. But the internet media company’s fortunes have changed drastically, with sales falling from $7.2bn (£5bn) in 2008 to $4.6bn (£3.1bn) last ye…
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Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of Yemen embassy air strike – Al Jazeera English
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of an air strike on its embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa amid rising tensions between the two countries. Tehran’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that Saudi jets “deliberately” struck Iran’s embassy in Yemen in an …
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Hillary Clinton Tries to Outflank Bernie Sanders on Financial Reform – The Atlantic
If there’s one issue in the Democratic presidential primary on which Bernie Sanders’s advantage over Hillary Clinton should be clear-cut, it is Wall Street reform.
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Another Day, Another Hack: Up to 320,000 Time Warner Cable Email Passwords | Motherboard
Quite literally, every day someone gets hacked. Whether that’s a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to melt into an…
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Netflix and chilli chicken? Indian social media reacts to launch – BBC News
Indian social media users have reacted with glee to the launch of Netflix in the country. The firm announced it had gone live in 130 additional countries, except in China, North Korea and Syria.
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I Did Standup in Virtual Reality | Motherboard
Recently, I performed live stand-up comedy in virtual reality. My manager says I should tell you this makes me the first comedian in VR, but I’m more excited to be the world’s first stay-at-home comedian.
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Rubio’s All In for Nevada—and the Cards Aren’t Falling His Way | Mother Jones
Marco Rubio is the betting markets’ top-pick to win the Republican presidential nomination, and he’s polling the best among the candidates most closely aligned with the party’s establishment.
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Texas Hasn’t Been Able to Fully Defund Planned Parenthood, So It Did This Instead | Mother Jones
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In the final days of 2015, while most were preparing for Christmas and the New Year, the state of Texas presented a different sort of holiday surprise: The Texas Department of State Health Services announced that at the start of 2016 it would cut of… -
Science Says Soda Taxes Work | Mother Jones
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Mexico is among the world’s top consumers of sugar: In 2011, the average Mexican consumed 163 liters of sugary drinks a year, or about 43 gallons. -
What should I read next? | Children’s books | The Guardian
What should I read next? https://t.co/kdqNjftiHi https://t.co/13dKDcEezK
For bookworms, the new year means one thing: new books, and an even longer to-read list. While mine has now reached teetering heights, it can be tricky to choose which to leaf through first. -
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Ted Cruz’s Dad Says It’s “Appalling” to Have a Gay Mayor | Mother Jones
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It’s no secret that Rafael Cruz, an evangelical pastor and the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, has a penchant for fiery fundamentalist rhetoric. He has declared the United States is a “Christian nation” and called President Barack Obama an “outright Marxis… -
Someone at this museum has a sense of humor : pics
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For a man who has only recently started his job, international development minister Nick Hurd seems sure of his priorities.
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Prior to their New York road trip, the Dallas Stars were the NHL leaders, a team who had spent the first months of the season overpowering teams with their dominant offense.
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Gunmen open fire on tourist coach at Cairo hotel – BBC News
Two gunmen opened fire at a hotel close to the pyramids of Giza outside Cairo, as a coach carrying tourists arrived, Egyptian security sources have said.
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Heavy-handed satirical advice to US journalists who cover gun violence | Media | The Guardian
Clearly, the people who run Ammoland have been stung by the relatively mild antagonism aired in America’s media towards the use of guns following a string of mass murders.
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The Democratic Party in the South Has Changed for Good | New Republic
Progressive politics may work in a Seattle or a New York City, but they’re not supposed to win campaigns south of the Mason-Dixon.
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Iran accuses Saudis of bombing embassy – BBC News
The UK faces a “cocktail” of serious threats from a slowing global economy as 2016 begins, Chancellor George Osborne will warn.
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Kenya court jails teacher who recruited for al-Shabab – BBC News
A school teacher who tried to recruit children into militant Islamist group al-Shabab has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Kenya. Children testified that Samuel Wanjala Wabwire taught them that Christians were unbelievers who shoul…
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Paying the price for a warmer world – Al Jazeera English
Last year is likely to be the warmest since records began in 1880, beating 2014. Yet, 2016 is expected to be even warmer.
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Yesterday VR fans eager to get their hands on the consumer version of the long awaited Oculus Rift headset learnt what co-founder Palmer Luckey meant when he said the price would be in the “ballpark” of last year’s $350 dev kit.
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Water companies withholding sewage data for nearly 2,000 outfalls | Environment | The Guardian
Details of nearly 2,000 sewage outfalls are being withheld by water companies, according to anglers’ legal organisation Fish Legal. A freedom of information (FOI) request by Fish Legal revealed that the frequency and contents of 1,968 sewage outfall…
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She can lick her elbow. : gifs
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Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula. 1 Pixel = 3 solar systems : space
Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula. 1 Pixel = 3 solar systems via /r/space https://t.co/jp1Ate87F1 https://t.co/4oO1J85Nwx
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Jane Lynch makes fun of Steve Harvey at the People’s Choice Awards : television
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You Know, Cord Cutters Might Actually Like This $219 DVR for Free TV | Motherboard
As a “cord never”—someone who has never bought cable—I feel like I can get pretty much all the entertainment I need through the mix of streaming services I subscribe to like Hulu, Netflix, and HBO Now.
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Those of you with memories longer than a week will be aware that Britain experienced a degree of hydrological inconvenience in December. You know: 16,000 homes inundated, £5bn of damage, that kind of thing. I vaguely recall that it made the news onc…
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1920s 18k white gold ring that I set a Montana sapphire in for my mom! : DIY
1920s 18k white gold ring that I set a Montana sapphire in for my mom! (imgur.com)submitted 21 minutes ago by loading…
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O’Malley and Sanders give Clinton run for her money at Nevada caucus dinner | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton found herself in an unexpected battle for the support of primary voters in Nevada, as Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley impressed at a caucus dinner in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
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Pilotless drone to transport humans on display – BBC News
The EHang personal minicopter is not operated by manual controls. The passenger chooses a point on a map to travel to. The device is likely to cost more than $200,000 (£137,000) and could be illegal to ride in public in many countries.
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Some of my friends and family might roll their eyes if they see this – they’ve heard my spiel about The Remains of the Day too many times. Some have already had a copy thrust upon them as a gift. Over the years since I read it, I’ve turned into a Re…
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Truck bomb attack targets Libyan army academy – Al Jazeera English
At least 15 people have been killed and dozens injured in a truck bomb attack on a military training centre in a western town of Libya, according to reports.
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BERLIN — The mayor of Cologne has inflamed a debate in Germany about migrants and sexual harassment by suggesting that women can protect themselves from men on the streets by keeping them more than an arm’s length away.
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2015 National Geographic Photo Contest | National Geographic
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Best images of Orthodox Christmas events around the world – BBC News
Hundreds of millions of people are celebrating Christmas Day, as Orthodox Christians believe Jesus Christ was born on 7 January. Dozens of countries – from Serbia to Egypt – have been engaging in festive traditions unknown to many around the world.
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Bomb targets Libyan police recruits – BBC News
The UK faces a “cocktail” of serious threats from a slowing global economy as 2016 begins, Chancellor George Osborne will warn.
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A man invades the stage at Wednesday’s People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles. As the hosts of The Talk accept their award for daytime TV hosting team, he grabs the microphone.
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Chinese civilian jet airliners land at disputed South China Sea island – state media https://t.co/8Ishn7i0n6 https://t.co/2sot8rvOXZ
The China Daily newspaper said the two planes made the two-hour flight to Fiery Cross reef from Haikou on the southern island province of Hainan on Wednesday. It said on Thursday that the test flights proved the runway’s ability to safely handle lar… -
Guatemala Arrests 14 Retired Military Officers for Civil War Atrocities | VICE News
The Guatemalan authorities have arrested 14 retired army officers on charges of involvement in massacres and hundreds of forced disappearances at the height of the country’s bitter civil war.
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Surviving Nigeria’s Boko Haram – BBC News
More than two million Nigerians have fled their homes seeking refuge from Boko Haram insurgents over the last six years. One of the largest camps is in a semi-arid field outside the north-eastern town of Dalori, with row-upon-row of white tents stre…
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Romans On The Rampage by Jeremy Strong – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
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This hilarious book is about… yes… a talking raven called Croakbag, telling the story about his owner, Perilus, and the crazy adventures they go on together. I think this book is suitable for 5 to 12 year olds. It is amazing and fantastic; it’s … -
Waxwork records underline resurgence in horror comics | Books | The Guardian
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Horror comics are having something of a resurgence, thanks in no small part to a raft of recent new titles from Vertigo, the adult imprint of DC Comics. -
Putin joins ice hockey training session – BBC News
President Vladimir Putin joined members of the Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League for a training session. Mr Putin donned his usual number 11 shirt and skated out onto the rink of the Ice Palace in the Krasnaya Polyana Olympic facility near Sochi, in…
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Osborne warns of ‘dangerous cocktail’ of economic risks – BBC News
The UK faces a “cocktail” of serious threats from a slowing global economy as 2016 begins, Chancellor George Osborne will warn. Mr Osborne will say this year is likely to be one of the toughest since the financial crisis.
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The Fascinating Story of How Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme | Open Culture
We’ve focused a fair bit here on the work of Delia Derbyshire, pioneering electronic composer of the mid-twentieth century—featuring two documentaries on her and discussing her role in almost creating an electronic backing track for Paul McCartney’s…
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Save 90% on EasilyDo: the life-hacking virtual assistant that will save you hours / Boing Boing
This app is more than just a virtual assistant: EasilyDo is a life-hack that saves you hours and hours of time over the span of your lifetime subscription. Instead of wading through emails and logging onto your favorite e-comm site to get your track…
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PushDoctor, The U.K. Video-Based Doctor Service, Scores $8.2M Series A | TechCrunch
PushDoctor, the U.K. ‘on-demand’ service that enables you to have a video consultation with a doctor, has raised $8.
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Your pictures: Germany – BBC News
Your pictures: Germany 7 January 2016 Last updated at 08:55 This is a selection of the best images submitted as part of our Germany Direct season.
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Janet Jackson denies cancer rumours – BBC News
Pop star Janet Jackson has used her own lyrics to deny rumours she has throat cancer. Concerns spread earlier this week, when US media reported “sources close to the singer” saying doctors had found a growth on her vocal cords.
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America’s new favorite defense attorney is still fighting to win justice for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin man Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix’s hit docuseries Making a Murderer.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 To Be Filmed With 8K Camera System : movies
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DNC pressed to remove Wasserman Schultz amid Clinton favoritism charge : politics
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36% grade road in West Virginia, camera level : pics
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American Horror Story: Hotel has as many dead ends and labyrinthian corridors as The Hotel Cortez, and it’s starting to look just as shabby.
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Weakened, cold and starving to death in Syrian town – Al Jazeera English
Abu Abdul Rahman has not eaten in four days. Hungry and weakened, Rahman and his family have been trying to limit their movements inside their house in the Syrian town of Madaya, fearing that any activity would drain the little energy left in their …
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Opener David Warner hit an unbeaten 122 as Australia drew a rain-affected third and final Test against West Indies. The West Indies, who resumed on 248-7, were 330 all out before Warner hit an 82-ball century, the quickest ever at Sydney, as Austral…
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Nauru confirms refugee child assault investigation – BBC News
Nauru’s police force has confirmed it is investigating an alleged sexual assault on a refugee child. The reports said a six-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted by a person known to her and that the girl’s father intervened to stop the act.
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Donald Hall on Growing Old and Our Cultural Attitude Toward the Elderly – Brain Pickings
Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in contemplating aging and the substance of our personhood, “beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is.
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Medical Marijuana Now Legal in New York | Al Jazeera America
NEW YORK — New York on Thursday will join 22 other states when it formally launches its medical marijuana law. Signed by Gov.
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CES 2016: First look at new gadgets on the show floors – BBC News
Power sockets are being sucked dry at the CES tech show as thousands of new gadgets vie for attention. The Las Vegas show floors are finally open and the BBC’s tech team has been racing around to bring you some of the highlights.
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Top Alabama Judge Orders Halt to Same-Sex Marriage Licenses https://t.co/qUaArQ5R47 https://t.co/tyu0fg52JD
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I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember. They began with absurd metaphors and oddly phrased lines about annoying siblings and worlds that don’t exist – like all great novels penned by seven-year-olds do. Unlike most great childhood…
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Indian-administered Kashmir CM dies in Delhi – Al Jazeera English
The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has died of multiple organ failure at at the age of 79. Sayeed took up the position in March last year after forming an alliance with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as …
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ATLANTA — The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy S.
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Saudi-Iran Crisis Throws Wrench in Syria Talks | Al Jazeera America
The diplomatic crisis brewing between Saudi Arabia and Iran could spell trouble for the entire Middle East, as the rivalry between the region’s leading Sunni and Shia powers threatens to escalate their various proxy conflicts in the region.
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Trump Accentuates Deep Divide in Massachusetts | Al Jazeera America
LOWELL, Mass. — Lisa Sefarian smiled and laughed with her family as she walked out of Donald Trump’s rally at the Paul E. Tsongas Center in Lowell on Monday night. She went to the event skeptical of Trump, the longtime front-runner in the race for t…
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Now That Netflix Is Global, You Should Go Buy A VPN | TechCrunch
Netflix shocked the tech word (and excited investors) with an unprecedented global expansion into 130 countries yesterday.
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Today, in “Sebastian, don’t eat that!” we have discovered candy canes. : cats
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In the early 1960s, famed physicist Richard Feynman developed a new lecture course for new undergraduates at the California Institute of Technology.
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New generation eco-balloons promise a greener future – Al Jazeera English
The growing popularity of hot air ballooning has raised questions about the environmental impact of the sport. Hot air balloons use natural gas to heat the air that lifts them and a typical hour-long flight can consume up to 100 litres – that’s enou…
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Conan, Ice Cube And Kevin Hart Help A Student Driver – Digg
6 diggs Late Night Cars Funny TV Dianna is learning the rules of the road, and these grown men are going to give her a lot of very bad advice.
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Marks and Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland to quit – BBC News
Marks and Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland is to step down in April after six years in the role, the company has said. Mr Bolland will be succeeded by Steve Rowe, executive director of general merchandise.
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Transcanada Sues Over Keystone Rejection | Al Jazeera America
The Canadian company that proposed the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Wednesday filed a lawsuit over the U.S. government’s rejection of the project and announced it plans to file a second legal challenge that will seek more than $15 billion in damages.
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New Years Eve sexual assaults investigated in Germany – BBC News
Investigations are continuing as more women report that they were sexually assaulted during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne and other German cities. The crimes are said to have been perpetrated by large gangs of young North African and Arab m…
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Priyanka Chopra: India actress wins People’s Choice Award – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Chopra won the “favourite actress” award for her role as an FBI agent in the US sitcom Quantico. Indian actress Priyanka Chopra has become the first South Asian actress to win a People’s Choice Award.
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As far as an episode of television goes—sitcom or otherwise—Black-ish’s “Plus Two Isn’t A Thing” succeeds based solely on the fact that it doesn’t even dare try to go to the “men and women can’t be friends” well. It would be so easy for it to go int…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Comets and Bright Star
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UK new car registrations at all-time high in 2015, figures to show – BBC News
UK new car sales hit an all-time record last year, figures released later are expected to show. Some 2.63 million vehicles were registered in 2015, up about 6% on 2014 and the fourth consecutive year of growth, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and…
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Kim Jong-un: What we know about the North Korean leader – Al Jazeera English
In early January 2011, many North Koreans learned that January 8 was going to be a special day. It was to be marked with numerous events to commemorate the young man who had recently been promoted to the rank of four-star general and made a member o…
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THE HEAVENS—Saying He was fed up with providing His divine assistance in such cases, the Lord Our God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, proclaimed Thursday He would no longer bestow transcendent near-death experiences upon people who crash their snowmob…
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Parrots Observed Using Tools, Sharing – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Psychologists have found that captive parrots use tools such as pebbles or date pits to scrape the inside of seashells to derive their nourishing calcium powder and also share those tools with one another, the first evidence of a nonhuman species ex…
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Oona Laurence has been acting in movies, on TV, and on the stage since she was in single digits, even winning a Tony at age 10 for playing the title role in the musical Matilda.
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This article contains spoilers for The Revenant and The Hateful Eight. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight—both currently expanding to thousands of theaters after a limited release—are about as close to being “the same movie” as two fundamentally dif…
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Jennifer Lopez and Jane Lynch tag team Thursday nights · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, January 7. All times are Eastern. Angel From Hell (CBS, 9:30 p.m.)/Shades Of Blue (NBC, 10 p.m. -
Diablo · Film Review Diablo is an inane homage to better Westerns · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
Seeing as the Western is going through a small but notable revival, it’s only logical that some total swill should come along, lest anyone get to thinking that the genre only ever produced interesting movies.
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The Treasure · Film Review The Treasure is an offbeat deadpan gem · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu, whose style of comic deadpan is as diligent and specialized as watch repair, offers up another parable of mores in The Treasure, about a man who agrees to help his unemployed neighbor look for a family fo…
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Tangerine’s all-iPhone cinematography is no cheap gimmick · Oscar This · The A.V. Club
This year’s Oscar nominations will be announced on January 14. Will the Academy uphold conventional wisdom or think outside of the box? With Oscar This, we highlight unlikely candidates—the dark horses we’d love to see compete.
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Angel From Hell has one of those premises that makes you groan as soon as you hear it: A tightly wound young woman discovers that her new, wacky friend is actually her guardian angel.
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Jennifer Lopez signals the type of part she’s playing by her hair. If she’s rocking the long flowing mane, then she’s Jenny Diva Pop Queen who defies anyone to comment on her age with every catsuit she dons.
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Though he’s still best known for playing the delightfully dimwitted Delmar in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Tim Blake Nelson has spent the past two decades quietly building a notable career as a writer-director.
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Segway and Intel Debut a Friendly Robot You Can Ride | Motherboard
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Segway is not necessarily known as the coolest of tech companies, with a name that evokes the idea of superfluous, touristy technology, but the brand is now trying to remedy with that with something unexpected: a robotic butler that users can ride. -
China to pay a steep price in Saudi-Iran conflict – Al Jazeera English
The ongoing Saudi-Iranian diplomatic crisis has quickly morphed into a full-scale regional Cold War. Shortly after protesters stormed the Saudi embassy and consulate in Tehran and Mashhad, Saudi Arabia chose to cut off diplomatic ties with Iran.
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US Copyright Office is taking comments about how well the DMCA is working : technology
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Veronica Mars star Enrico Colantoni to recur on iZombie : television
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N Korea nuclear: US, Japan, S Korea pledge united response – BBC News
The US, South Korea and Japan have said they will be united in their response to North Korea’s claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. North Korea said it carried out the test on Wednesday – if confirmed it would be its fourth nuclear tes…
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World powers vow to punish N Korea after nuclear test – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has vowed to pursue new sanctions against North Korea after the reclusive country said on Wednesday it had successfully conducted a test on its first hydrogen bomb.
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Era of climate science denial is not over, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
Is organised climate science denial finished? After global heat records were continually broken over the last decade, and as sea levels rose and scientists reported the accelerated melting of polar ice sheets, you might be forgiven for thinking the …
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Congress Sends Health Law Repeal to Obama | Al Jazeera America
The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto. The nearly party-line vote in the Ho…
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Nicholas Caldwell, Cofounder of The Whispers, Dead at 71 | Rolling Stone
Nicholas Caldwell, a cofounding member of R&B group The Whispers, has died. He was 71. As the Associated Press reports, a representative for the group said Caldwell died on Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in San Francisco.
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Israeli TV reporter stabbed demonstrating ‘knife-proof’ vest – BBC News
An Israeli journalist has been stabbed accidentally while demonstrating a protective vest for a TV report. Eitam Lachover, of Israel’s Channel 1, was asked to don the supposedly knife-proof jacket and be stabbed several times in front of the camera.
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Meet H. Moser & Cie., The Swiss Watch Company Apple Is Probably About To Sue | TechCrunch
Oh, Switzerland, you seem to have it all: fine chocolates, fondue, goats with bells around their necks. But what you don’t have is a sense of how to beat smartwatch makers without looking silly. To wit: meet the H. Moser & Cie.
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Christmas celebrated by Orthodox Christians around the world – BBC News
Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas on 7 January. Orthodox Christians observe a different calendar from western Christian churches.
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A sarcophagus in the greenhouse | Environment | The Guardian
After the passing of the winter solstice the urge to sow seeds in the greenhouse is like an itch that just has to be scratched, even though the lengthening of the days is still barely perceptible.
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Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street : news
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APOD: 2016 January 6 – Comets and Bright Star
Explanation: This timely, telescopic, two panel mosaic spans about 10 full moons across planet Earth’s predawn skies. Recorded as the year began from Tenerife, Canary Islands, near the top of the frame are the faint coma and tail of Comet Borrelly (…
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Venomous tropical sea snakes wash up on Australian beaches after storms | Environment | The Guardian
Carolyn Larcombe, from Burra near Canberra, spotted a small yellow-bellied sea snake on the sand while walking along Congo Beach, 10km south of Moruya. She told the ABC the snake was “very quiet” and that, using a stick, she was able to manoeuvre it…
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February 2016 U.S. Credits | Vanity Fair
Megyn Kelly’s OSCAR DE LA RENTA top from Oscar de la Renta boutiques nationwide; for JENNIFER FISHER earrings, go to jenniferfisherjewelry.com. Her hair styled with R & CO. Chiffon Styling Mousse, and Outer Space Flexible Hairspray; Garren for R & C…
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Flailing Far-Left Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Tries a Purge – The Daily Beast
LONDON—The Labour Party’s hapless left-wing leader is trying to stamp his authority over colleagues with a purge of the moderates, but his clumsy attempt at brutality has veered toward pantomime—leaving the plot to be branded “the night of the blunt…
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German paper says Volkswagen will likely buy 115,000 cars back from US owners | Ars Technica
On Thursday a German newspaper reported that Volkswagen Group, “assumes it will have to buy back about 115,000 cars in the United States,” according to Reuters.
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New Year, New Food Porn Insanity – The Daily Beast
This week, Tom Daley and his partner Dustin Lance Black gave a very sweet account of their relationship to Out magazine. There were lovely details about the night they met, the cute passing on of a phone number, and today—happily ensconced together—…
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Jennifer Lopez Is Very Good in the Very Silly ‘Shades of Blue’ – The Daily Beast
She’s a cop. She’s a single mom. She’s got some secrets, and she’s contoured like a queen. She’s Jennifer Lopez on a cop show. And she’s pretty good!
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Is the ‘Babouche’ Really 2016’s ‘It’ Shoe? – The Daily Beast
It is with not a little trepidation that I must report on the “It” shoe of 2016: the pointy-toed, flat-soled, slipper-like “babouche,” which you may recognize as Aladdin’s footwear of choice.
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Hollywood’s Favorite Sham Petting Zoo – The Daily Beast
Eduardo Serio loves his cats—all 200 of them. The felines aren’t normal-sized. They’re “big cats”: jaguars, lions, and tigers that range in age from newborns to adults.
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The World’s Leading Kabbalist, Guru to Billionaires, Is Going to Jail – The Daily Beast
The leading Kabbalist in the world is going to jail. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto is a celebrity in Israel and among financial and real estate elites in New York.
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Want Fewer Murders? Tax Guns and Ammo – The Daily Beast
With a new national push to combat gun violence, the city of Seattle has begun to tax firearms and ammunition in an audaciously creative way to get around Second Amendment protections on guns.
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Waco’s Lessons for the Oregon Militia Standoff – The Daily Beast
“It can escalate to a violent situation very quickly when you have armed groups that are willing to die for their cause,” said McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara, who was a U.S. marshal in the 1993 standoff at a Branch Davidian Complex outside…
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New York City Went 17 Hours Without a Murder in 2016 – The Daily Beast
After allegedly savagely beating his bloodied fiancée then leaving her to die, police say the killer tried and failed to kill himself. Fabina Maliza, 24, allegedly committed the first murder in New York City this year when he snatched the life of 19…
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After reviving Mr. Show and Arrested Development, Cross is back yet again with a practically unrecognizable version of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. There wasn’t supposed to be a third season of David Cross’s The Increasingly Poo…
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President Obama Isn’t Taking People’s Guns—But Maybe He Should – The Daily Beast
President Obama said a lot about guns in his teary press conference Tuesday, but the one thing that he is not saying, despite all the howling from the right, is that he intends to take away Americans’ guns.
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China lands more civilian planes on Fiery Cross reef – BBC News
China has landed two civilian planes on an artificial island built in the disputed South China Sea, days after an earlier landing there prompted international concern.
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Spanish chorizo Spanish chorizo has to be produced within a specific geographical region in the country. There’s a big premium associated with that on the label, with consumers willing to pay extra because of where the food is produced. As a result,…
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Red Umbrella Image, Myanmar – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Red Umbrella Image, Myanmar – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Malcolm Turnbull has locked in the dates for his first trip to the United States since becoming the Australian prime minister, with the talks likely to focus on terrorism and regional security.
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China Halts Trading as Stocks Plunge | Al Jazeera America
China halted stock trading Thursday, its second daylong trading suspension this week, after prices plunged in the latest spasm of investor panic on its volatile markets.
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Quote by Carl Gustav Jung: “The best political, social, and spiritual work …”
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.” ― Read more quotes from C.G.
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Protesters demand Canada cancel $15B Saudi contract : worldnews
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There’s really no way around it: Modern Family stumbled into the winter break, churning out rote, stale episodes week after week.
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Is “too bleak” enough of a reason to dislike a series, or to check out of it early? If there has been any general consensus across the board of critics and viewers, it’s that American Crime—both its surprisingly stellar first season and its current,…
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It appears the world has recovered from Trackanon, as Man Seeking Woman resets itself for season two.
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Janet Jackson Shares Video Message: “I do not have cancer” | Rolling Stone
Janet Jackson refuted rumors that she has throat cancer in a video post that she tweeted on Wednesday. The tweet reads, “From my lips…” and it’s followed by a two-minute clip, which begins with scrolled lyrics from her Unbreakable track, “The Great …
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Candles lit at Charlie Hebdo offices ahead of anniversary – BBC News
Parisians have laid flowers and lit candles at the former office of Charlie Hebdo ahead of the anniversary on Thursday of the attack on the magazine. Mourners stopped in ones and twos by the building on the Rue Nicolas-Appert, where a plaque was unv…
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Exclusive: Lawyers Went to Rahm Emanuel, Then Quashed the Laquan McDonald Video – The Daily Beast
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Exclusive: Lawyers Went to Rahm Emanuel, Then Quashed the Laquan McDonald Video – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — City of Chicago lawyers, after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, demanded the Laquan McDonald family bury the video showing the killing of their son by a police officer.
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CES 2016: Desktop 3D printer uses paper, glue and razors – BBC News
A desktop 3D printer that uses paper, ink and glue to create highly detailed objects has been unveiled at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.Mcor said it was the first time such technology had become available in a machine suitable for classrooms and of…
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Oculus founder apologizes for “messaging poorly” on $599 Rift price | Ars Technica
With this morning’s revelation that the Oculus Rift VR headset would sell for $599, many potential customers and industry observers experienced some sticker shock.
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Northern Lights and Rocket Launches | Space Wallpaper
About this Image The European Space Agency, with the Swedish Space Corporation, regularly launches rockets for experiments in microgravity. The backdrop of these launches is north of the Arctic Circle, offering fantastic views of the Northern Lights.
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Pathankot attack: India-Pakistan peace talks derailed? – BBC News
On Christmas Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a landmark visit to Pakistan to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, the first such visit in over a decade. Two weeks on, and events have taken a disturbing, if predictable turn.
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: India Kashmir leader dead – BBC News
India’s Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has died after a brief illness, aged 79. Mr Sayeed, who was admitted to a hospital in Delhi two weeks ago, was suffering from a number of health problems, reports say.
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Local Pilot Makes Good: Congrats Ken Griffey Jr.! – The Atlantic
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China shuts down stock market after 15 min 7% loss. : worldnews
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DNC Chair, fueled by alcohol PACs, blasts legal pot : politics
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Open thread for night owls: 52% of GOP primary voters ‘offended’ by bilingual phone menus
52% of GOP primary voters say they’re offended by bilingual phone menus, to 40% who say they aren’t. This is actually a big dividing line in the GOP race.
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Guantanamo detainees transferred to Ghana – BBC News
Two Yemeni detainees held at the controversial US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Ghana. The Pentagon said Khalid al-Dhuby had been approved for release since 2006 and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef since 2009.
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Two Guantanamo Detainees Transferred to Ghana | Al Jazeera America
Two men who were captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan and held at the base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 14 years without charge have been released and sent to this West African nation for resettlement, officials said Wednesday.
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After nearly a year away the Gang is back—and they’ve brought us a present in the form of another installment of the Paddy’s Pub sort-of board game, Chardee MacDennis.
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Saudi Arabia: Can the country adapt to cheap oil? – BBC News
Events of the last week in Saudi Arabia might not seem indicative of a government on the path to liberalisation. But when it comes to the economy, the oil rich kingdom is primed for reform.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Sleepy tablet loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Chinese markets suspended for second time in a week – Al Jazeera English
Chinese stock markets tumbled by more than seven percent, forcing exchanges to suspend trading for the second time in a week. The official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday that trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges was frozen for t…
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Tamils ‘still tortured’ in Sri Lanka, say rights groups – BBC News
Two campaign groups have alleged ethnic minority Tamils in Sri Lanka continue to face torture, a year after President Maithripala Sirisena came to power promising reform. They interviewed victims who said they were arbitrarily detained, tortured or …
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Is Sweden’s ‘green miracle’ a model for the rest of the world? – BBC News
In the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, many countries will be looking to curb their emissions while continuing to grow their economies. Sweden is often held up as a role model in this regard having increased GDP by almost 60% over the past 25 y…
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Wild floof meets pet floof. : aww
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Grand Teton National Park, WY [5472×3078] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Every boxer wants to be somebody, and everyone dreams of being the champ, and once it looked like Alex Ramos might be both. He had that big wide smile, a way with the ladies and a pair of hands that could hurt any fighter alive.
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Sandra Bland police officer charged with perjury – BBC News
A Texas police officer has been charged with perjury over his confrontation with a woman who died in jail shortly after being arrested.Sandra Bland was arrested during a heated traffic stop captured on film. She was found dead three days later.
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Ben Mendelsohn might play the villain in Ready Player One · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ben Mendelsohn has developed a reputation for being really good at playing excellent villains who range from being mildly creepy and psychotic to terrifyingly creepy and psychotic, and it sounds like he may have found his next film to be creepy and …
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Denis McDonough Profile: Obama’s Obama – POLITICO Magazine
For most of 2014, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough oversaw a stealthy effort to prod Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel into accelerating the release of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay—one of Barack Obama’s most conspicuously unfulfilled campaign…
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Michael Weatherly, who plays the roguish agent Tony DiNozzo on “NCIS,” confirmed Tuesday night that he was leaving CBS’s popular crime procedural after 13 seasons. He will leave the show at the end of the current season, which concludes in April. CB…
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Farm Aid TV Special to Feature Archival B.B. King Footage | Rolling Stone
Farm Aid will broadcast performances from its 30th anniversary concert on national cable and satellite TV network AXS on January 10th.
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Nat Geo might be shooting Darren Aronofsky into space · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Seeking to address the way most photographs of the Earth don’t capture the planet’s tortured, brooding side (Sweden), National Geographic Channel has announced that it’s teaming up with Noah and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky for a new series …
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Hawaiian man beaten and pepper sprayed by police for praying over a seal on the beach
Officer Ming Wang snaps out his collapsible metal baton with his left hand, as Jamie Rice kneels on the sand. Now see, this right here? This right here is probably the perfect illustration of what is wrong with police in the United States and the pe…
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This little guy came back from foster care and went home today. : cats
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Emma Stone might be the new Cruella De Vil · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As part of its ongoing and apparently unstoppable effort to transform its roster of famous cartoon characters into their more-marketable flesh-and-blood equivalents, Disney recently announced that it was planning a live-action movie about 101 Dalmat…
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Diet debate: Are diet drinks a no-go? – BBC News
It’s rare in life to have your cake and eat it. But are low-calorie sweeteners the guilt-free way to be naughty? Nobody is going to claim that regularly drinking full-sugar pop is good for you with a 500ml bottle of cola containing around 200 calori…
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When my husband died from cancer last March at age 37, I was so grief-stricken I could barely sleep. One afternoon, I visited his grave — in a field high in the Santa Cruz Mountains, overlooking the Pacific Ocean — and lay on top of it. I slept more…
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An ‘American Idol’ Premiere So Good Not Even Kanye West Can Ruin It – The Daily Beast
It was a simpler time. Ryan Seacrest was tanner than an Oompa Loompa, had frosted tips, and had not yet worked so many hours on so many jobs that, honestly, Ryan, we’re concerned for your health.
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The designer of the IBM ThinkPad has died : technology
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Star clumps harbour ‘sweet spot’ in search for alien life – BBC News
New research suggests that ancient, tightly packed clumps of stars found at the fringe of the Milky Way are a good bet in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (Seti). Because of their abundance of stars, these “globular clusters” were an ea…
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TransCanada: If we can’t build Keystone, we want $15 billion | Grist
The Canadian pipeline company is filing suit against the U.S. over the Keystone rejection, and appealing its case to NAFTA. Chipotle begrudgingly cedes the hearts of the American fast food-eating public to its ex-boyfriend, McDonald’s.
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Intel’s new Atom and Core M Compute Sticks get faster and look better | Ars Technica
Intel’s original Compute Stick was an neat idea that ultimately wasn’t executed very well. Any system based on one of Intel’s Atom processors is going to be a little slow, but flaky wireless, inconsistent performance, and a clunky setup process all …
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AmpMe Syncs Multiple Devices To Become A Portable Speaker System | TechCrunch
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I am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift. AMA! : IAmA
Technology-LiveI am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift. AMA! (self.IAmA) I am a virtual reality enthusiast and hardware hacker that started experimenting with VR in 2009. As time went on, I realized that VR was actually techno…
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Today On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Oculus Rift, Wearables And We’re Live From CES | TechCrunch
This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show.
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Sphero’s New Wristband Will Let You Control BB-8 With Gestures — And Also The Force | TechCrunch
He stopped by the TechCrunch stage at the Consumer Electronics Show today to show off the company’s Force Band, which will allow people to control the company’s BB-8 robotic toy with gestures.
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Oklahoma Fracking Company Defies Plan To Reduce Earthquakes : environment
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Detroit refinery poised to increase air pollution to make cleaner fuel : environment
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L’Oreal’s Sensor Will Warn You If You’re Getting Sunburned | TechCrunch
No more getting red at the beach! L’Oreal has come out with a new product that will warn you if you’re about to get sunburned. The new skin sensor, known as My UV Patch, was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
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In pictures: Taking the plunge at -30C – BBC News
In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, the Cryophile winter swimming club – named after organisms that thrive in extremely low temperatures – bathe in the Yenisei River whatever the weather. Pictures by Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin capture some…
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Oculus Co-Founder Confirms The Rift Will Be Sold At Cost | TechCrunch
The Oculus Rift will be sold with a $599 retail price. And Oculus is taking a wash on the hardware. Oculus Co-Founder and VP of Product, Nate Mitchell, revealed to TechCrunch’s Jordan Crook earlier today that the company is selling the hardware at c…
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She Was Raped By A Cop, Then Forced To Relive It – BuzzFeed News
For five years, Lindsay F. relived the night she was brutally raped by Jose Rigoberto Sanchez, then a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, over and over again.
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Libya oil storage tanks ablaze after assault by IS – BBC News
Shelling by so-called Islamic State (IS) on two oil terminals in Libya has started fires that have spread to giant storage tanks, officials say. The fires are reported to be raging in Sidra and Ras Lanouf, on the coast between Sirte and Benghazi.
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Andre 3000 Talks New Music, Erykah Badu ‘Hello’ Duet | Rolling Stone
Andre 3000 has been busy working on his new role for ABC’s anthology series American Crime’s second season, but that hasn’t kept him from making music.
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‘The Force Awakens’ Overtakes ‘Avatar’ as Domestic Box Office King | Rolling Stone
‘The Force Awakens’ Overtakes ‘Avatar’ as Domestic Box Office King With over $760 million and counting, the latest chapter in the ‘Star Wars’ saga passes James Cameron’s 2009 epic
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Got an opinion to share about DMCA takedowns? Let the Copyright Office know | Ars Technica
The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the law that allows content owners to remove copyrighted material from the Internet, and it’s made just about no one happy.
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Night time at Bow Falls, Banff Alberta [OC] [5,184 x 3,456] : EarthPorn
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Creative adoption sign at my local shelter : cats
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East Eagle river merges into the main,Eastern Oregon. [OC] [2048×1365] : EarthPorn
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A grave business: The rise of alternative funerals – BBC News
When Rosie Grant’s mother died following a terminal illness, she fulfilled her mum’s wish to have a personal and unique funeral.
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The party-loving mayor who went on the run – BBC News
Last summer the mayor of a forgotten corner of Brazil went on the run, accused of skimming millions from public funds. Lidiane Leite bragged about how much money she had on Instagram and directed staff back at the office via social media.
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Reunited with biological family 30 years after war divides them – BBC News
During the Iran-Iraq war a chemical attack on Halabja in north-eastern Iraq killed at least 5,000 people, and many children were taken to Iran for safety and treatment. Maryam was one of those children and after almost 30 years she returned to find …
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MyFitnessPal Makes It Easier To Order Healthily At Restaurants | TechCrunch
I’m in Las Vegas for this whole week, which means two things. One, I hate myself. Two, I’m constantly out at restaurants, which makes it even harder than usual to eat healthily.
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The Ethiopian Caterpillar on Vimeo
The Ethiopian Caterpillar is a bejeweled automaton from the year 1820. Attributed to Henri Maillardet, only six automaton caterpillars are known to exist and the other five are in prestigious collections in Europe, include one in the Patek Philippe …
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Why the U.S. Should Never Host Another Olympics | Outside Online
Photo: After enough pleading and promises to make a desperate boyfriend seem hard to get, the International Olympic Committee thought it had the final list of candidates that would compete to host the 2024 Summer Olympics: Paris, Rome, Hamburg, Buda…
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Devil Music: A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll — Cuepoint — Medium
On June 1, 1967, the most famous musicians in the world released a new long-playing record whose jacket depicted a gallery of unconventional personalities and one individual whose unconventionality was infamous. The Beatles’ Sgt.
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After President Obama unveiled new executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence, a constant media theme has been that the proposals are deeply controversial.
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Here’s a picture of a dog sneezing. Have a good day. : aww
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The first trailer for A Bigger Splash—the next film from I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino—was mostly about setting a mood. It had increasingly tense music and a lot of quick glimpses of people caught up in a sea of romantic jealousy, but it was a …
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Guinea pigs might have a secret defense against climate change | Grist
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Chipotle begrudgingly cedes the hearts of the American fast food-eating public to its ex-boyfriend, McDonald’s. The armed militiamen squatting in Oregon oppose “Big Government,” except when it’s lining their pockets. -
Should a male politician be allowed to take paternity leave? – BBC News
A request to take paternity leave could, quite literally, make or break the career of 34-year-old Kensuke Miyazaki as a politician. He is the first ever male lawmaker in Japan to request time off when his child will be born in February.
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Asian shares headed lower on Thursday as concerns about the health of the Chinese economy and plunging oil prices weighed on investors’ confidence.
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Colbert Mocks The Ridiculousness Of Jeb… – NowThis Election | Facebook
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Donald Trump Keeps Pushing Ted Cruz Citizenship Issue https://t.co/wFE30AcSC1 https://t.co/V9X0XErWQi
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IBM’s Watson Now Powers AI For Under Armour, Softbank’s Pepper Robot And More | TechCrunch
From its debut to the world as a Jeopardy champion in 2011, IBM’s Watson has made a name for itself as a powerful artificial intelligence platform for large enterprise applications, from medical research through to finance. Now IBM is aiming to take…
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Chancellor is to say slowing global growth, Middle East tensions, and the UK’s first interest rate rise since 2007 are all on the risk register for the next 12 months.
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Depression and anxiety in women linked to male-female pay gap | US news | The Guardian
The wage gap in the US could be making women ill, says a study showing women with lower incomes than their male counterparts are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety.
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Two centuries ago Sarah Baartman died after years spent in European “freak shows”. Now rumours over a possible Hollywood film about Baartman’s life have sparked controversy. Sarah Baartman died on 29 December 1815, but her exhibition continued.
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Time Warner Cable says data from up to 320,000 customers was probably just stolen / Boing Boing
Internet and cable TV provider Time Warner Cable Inc. today revealed that up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” just pushed James Cameron’s “Avatar” aside as the top-grossing film in North America. In just 20 days of release, the seventh installment in the space opera saga has earned more than “Avatar’s” $760.5 million lifetime …
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Updated, 6:10 p.m. | Donald J. Trump continued to fan the flames of doubt over Senator Ted Cruz’s citizenship on Wednesday, suggesting that his Canadian roots might be a problem if he won the Republican presidential nomination. The decision to confr…
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Australia has urged China to use its influence over North Korea to seek to rein in the regime’s “provocative and dangerous behaviour” after a suspected nuclear test.
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Sunrise on Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island, Georgia [OC] [4211×2951] : EarthPorn
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Every move you make, every bite you take, she’ll be watching you. : cats
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/wedrgrBZWF
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The Hazy Desktop https://t.co/zvFk19XoCv https://t.co/UMa75lEVpH
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Instagram Goes Beyond The Feed With Everyday Spotlight Compilations | TechCrunch
Instagram’s answer to Snapchat’s Live Stories isn’t just for holidays and big events any more.
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Vox Sentences: North Korea’s H-bomb claim is silly. Its nuke strategy is serious. – Vox
Why you shouldn’t laugh off North Korea’s “H-bomb;” lead in the water in Flint, MI; and allegations of mass attacks on women in Germany. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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The EHang 184 Is A Human-Sized Drone Taking Off At CES | TechCrunch
We’ve seen some pretty cool stuff at day 1 of CES 2016, but probably nothing more eye-catching than the EHang 184, a human-sized drone built by the Chinese UAV company EHang. Yes you heard right, a giant autonomous drone that fits a human.
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Could a Society Develop Advanced Technology WithOUT Written Language?
It’s a fascinating question. Over at Charles Stross’ blog, he responds to a reader question: What would a technological society look like without written language? And could such a thing even happen? Stross’ answer: probably not.
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When Tammy Saunders lost part of her face her confidence died. But getting back into the world of dating has helped her re-find her self-confidence, she writes. We all have those aspects of our appearance, personality or abilities that cause self-do…
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Police officer Des Hansson could not contain his excitement when water began to flow through the dry bed of the McKinlay River.
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Could a Society Develop Advanced Technology WithOUT Written Language?
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Guatemala Arrests 14 Retired Military Officers for Civil War Attrocities | VICE News
The Guatemalan authorities have arrested 14 retired army officers on charges of involvement in massacres and hundreds of forced disappearances at the height of the country’s bitter civil war.
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Texas Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Is Indicted on Perjury Charge https://t.co/l65GL53CB5 https://t.co/szt9gtYFYg
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How intense are the El Niño rains in LA? Oh, El Pollo Loco roof collapsing intense / Boing Boing
Is Los Angeles prepared for the El Niño storms we’re getting? An #ElPolloLoco in Lincoln Heights wasn’t. Jacqueline Garcia shot this video of the roof about to collapse from the rain at about 1pm today, LA time.
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RZA doesn’t resent disgraced Shkreli, sole owner of Wu-Tang album | Ars Technica
Despite receiving fiery comments from Martin Shkreli, former CEO of the infamous Turing Pharmaceuticals and struggling KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, RZA has no hard feelings towards the beleaguered Wu-Tang Clan fan.
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North Korea says it has carried out its first test of a hydrogen bomb with “perfect success”. John Nilsson-Wright, head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, examines how plausible the claim is, and what it could mean for the region.
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A Lunar Theory of Bill Clinton – The New Yorker
Earlier this week, Bill Clinton, who has played a more behind-the-scenes role in Hillary Clinton’s campaign than he did in 2008, made his first solo campaign appearances of the year, on his wife’s behalf.
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Police in Germany will have to rethink their tactics following attacks on women in the city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve, a senior official has said. Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said police had to “adjust” to the fact …
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US department store giant Macy’s said it will cut thousands of jobs and close stores after disappointing sales over the holiday season. The cuts will impact 3,000 jobs, half of which are expected to be placed in other positions.
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An image from a police dashboard camera shows Trooper Brian T. Encinia arresting Sandra Bland after a traffic stop in Prairie View, Tex., in July. HEMPSTEAD, Tex.
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These Kaleidoscopic, Abstract Images Are Trippy And Gorgeous
Sometimes you see the work of an artist and you just want to stare at it for a long, long time. Such is the art of Joe Eisner, whose digital images make mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic work of everyday items, landscapes, and God knows what else.
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RZA on Martin Shkreli: ‘He Has the Power to Do Something Really Cool’ | Rolling Stone
RZA is unconcerned with Martin Shkreli, the controversial drug-company CEO who purchased the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s LP Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and how he intends to enjoy the record. “He bought it, he can do what he wants,” the producer sa…
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Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real Reveal New Album | Rolling Stone
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real Reveal New Album ‘Something Real’ features an appearance by rock icon Neil Young
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William Porter, whose own case ended in a mistrial last month, can be compelled to testify in the case of Cesar Goodson in exchange for immunity. Goodson is charged with second-degree murder in Gray’s death.
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Villagers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu hope to celebrate the New Year harvest festival later this month with traditional “bull-taming” contests once more.
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Emma Stone Might Play Cruella De Vil in Live-Action Movie About Disney Villain | Vanity Fair
Break out the hair dye and hide the Dalmations: Emma Stone, Oscar-nominated charmer, is in early negotiations to go against type and play evil in a live-action Disney film about iconic villainess Cruella de Vil. Can you see it?
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Tough times for Chipotle, but McDonald’s is doing just fine | Grist
Chipotle begrudgingly cedes the hearts of the American fast food-eating public to its ex-boyfriend, McDonald’s. The armed militiamen squatting in Oregon oppose “Big Government,” except when it’s lining their pockets.
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Can Emma Stone Fill Cruella de Vil’s Dog-Skin Coat?
Disney has already made a fortune off reinventing animated villains like Maleficent in live-action. And now, the latest of these films may have found its star. Emma Stone is in talks to play Cruella de Vil in a live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel cal…
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Hear a song from Jack White’s pre-White Stripes band, Two Star Tabernacle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite what most people believe, Jack White didn’t simply appear fully formed as the pale, prolific, and hat-wearing musician we know him as today.
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Cartoon Network UK censors queer content from Steven Universe · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Steven Universe might be the most progressive kids’ show in the history of cartoons, the kind of fantasy adventure where even the villains are treated with kindness and sympathy, and where one of the major characters is literally the physical embodi…
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Jake Gyllenhaal to produce A&E anthology series about cults · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Cults are totally in right now, at least according to the nation’s leading charismatic bearded men living in the desert. Now—presumably after a weekend with one of these charismatic gentlemen—Jake Gyllenhaal is tapping into this fad with a new cult-…
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Upper and Lower Table Rock – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upper Table Rock and Lower Table Rock are two prominent volcanic plateaus located just north of the Rogue River in Jackson County, Oregon.
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Trooper Indicted in Sandra Bland Traffic Stop | Al Jazeera America
A grand jury indicted Trooper Brian Encinia with the misdemeanor count, alleging he lied about how he removed 28-year-old Bland from her vehicle during the July traffic stop.
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First photograph on Mars by the Viking I : space
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10 Under 10-Years-Old | TechCrunch
Watch this sad old man (age 25) interview the top pre-tween entrepreneurs in this hilarious video. Even though it’s a parody of the Forbes 30 Under 30, this is too real.
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The company behind the rejected Keystone XL pipeline fired off two legal challenges on Wednesday, accusing Barack Obama of overstepping his authority and violating the North American free trade agreement (Nafta).
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A Few Quick Laps In Chevy’s New $30k All-Electric Vehicle, The Bolt | TechCrunch
This morning at CES, Chevrolet unveiled an all new electric vehicle called the Bolt (not to be confused with their hybrid, the Volt.) For around $30k after rebates, Chevy is promising a range of around 200 miles per nine hour charge and a pretty swe…
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Declares Emergency | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in the Porter Ranch gas leak that has displaced thousands of residents in the affluent suburb 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Methane has been spewing out of a S…
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Mariana Mazzucato’s The Entrepreneurial State uses empirical research to demolish the capitalist orthodoxy that holds the state to be a feckless, harmful distorter of markets.
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TechCrunch Takes The UberCHOPPER | TechCrunch
So this just happened. An hour ago or so, Uber activated UberCHOPPER promotion in Vegas. Walking out of the GM keynote, I open up the Uber app to get a ride and up popped the $99 UberCHOPPER option. So what do you get? Sadly it’s not a flight from t…
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Uber Settles Privacy Probe With NY Attorney General’s Office, Pays $20K Fine | TechCrunch
Uber has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office for failing to report unauthorized third-party access to its drivers’ personal information in timely manner, BuzzFeed reports.
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Review: Crio Bru brewable roasted cacao, for drinking instead of (or with!) coffee / Boing Boing
I love coffee. I love chocolate. I shop a lot on Amazon for coffee-related accessories and for good quality cacao nibs and the like (I dig making my own chocolate).
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Psychonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign passes $3.3 million goal line | Ars Technica
Nearly four years after gaming studio Double Fine Productions broke Kickstarter records with its first crowdfunding campaign, the company announced on Wednesday that its latest, nostalgia-fueled cash request had proven successful.
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One-Pan Pasta Is Easy to Make, Filling, and Requires Next to No Cleanup
Weeknights are busy enough without having to spend hours planning, cooking, and cleaning up dinner. Try this one-pan pasta for a fresh meal that’ll fill you up while cutting down on dishes. This method focuses on cooking pasta in a pan, then using t…
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A year after the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, and as the French satirical magazine’s latest issue draws fire from the Vatican, free speech organisations around the world have come together to proclaim the importance of protecting dissent…
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Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea’s “H–Bomb” Isn’t – Scientific American
North Korea’s nuclear threats reached new heights when the country claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb underground on Tuesday night.
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Barry Bonds Wasn’t Half Bad, Either | FiveThirtyEight
Ken Griffey Jr. has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame after receiving a vote on 99.32 percent of ballots — a record. Earlier, we examined how Griffey’s prime, once separated from his unfortunate latter years, compared with the primes of othe…
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U.S. ‘Tactically Surprised’ by North Korean Nuke – The Daily Beast
The U.S. military insisted Wednesday that it was was not surprised “strategically” by North Korea’s test of a nuclear device. But Pentagon and intelligence officials admitted that they were caught off guard by the specific timing of the detonation. …
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Latest tech support scam stokes concerns Dell customer data was breached | Ars Technica
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Texas native known as ‘La Barbie’ pleads guilty in Mexico cocaine conspiracy https://t.co/lGbEfpor7g https://t.co/P26iBsz6e9
A former Texas high school football player whom authorities say rose from petty street dealer to the top ranks of a Mexican drug cartel was responsible for sending truckloads of cocaine across the border for distribution in the eastern US, prosecuto… -
The Texas State Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Was Just Indicted for Perjury | VICE News
The state trooperwho arrested Sandra Bland for assault in Waller County, Texas, leading to her imprisonment in jail and her death while in police custody of apparent asphyxiation, has been indicted by a grand jury for lying about their encounter dur…
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Orthodox Christians around the world have started celebrating Christmas, which they mark on Thursday, in line with the Julian calendar. Communities from Europe to the Middle East are marking the day – each with their own unique traditions.
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Spotlight on green news & views: About those wildlife refuges; hot December; energy bust
Evaluating the Endangered Species Act, 42 years on written by Kortadler: “On December 28th, 1973, President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law.
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Judge says monkey cannot own copyright to famous selfies | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal judge on Wednesday said that a monkey that swiped a British nature photographer’s camera during an Indonesian jungle shoot and snapped selfies cannot own the intellectual property rights to those handful of pictures.
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Airlines try auctioning off seat-upgrades at the gate / Boing Boing
Because aviation isn’t already a perfect model for class war, privilege and the market’s ability to erode comfort, pleasure and humane treatment.
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You Can Watch The One Great Scene From Jane Lynch’s Angel From Hell Pilot Right Now
Jane Lynch is one of our comedy gods, so it’s too bad her new TV show Angel From Hell is kind of a bust. (Although it could get better.) Luckily, there’s one hilarious scene in the first episode, and you can already watch it right now.
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In Lois Colley Murder Investigation, 2 Are Accused of Stealing Hay From Farm https://t.co/YGEGwwnU7M https://t.co/JWBu1dYBTP
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Mr. Chili Man, Tear Down That Cosby Wall – The Daily Beast
It is arguably the most awkward mural in the nation’s capital. Near the corner of 13th and U Streets in northwest Washington, D.C., tourists and residents can find a tall, brightly colored portrait of two African-American icons painted on the wall o…
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Prosecutors in Los Angeles have declined to charge comedian Bill Cosby for two alleged sex assault cases, one from 1965 and one from 2008. In the more recent case, involving a 25-year-old model, a district attorney said there was insufficient eviden…
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Police in Cologne, Germany have been strongly criticised by the country’s interior minister for their handling of gang attacks on women and girls in the city on New Year’s Eve.
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Investigators trying to solve the murder of a Westchester County socialite on her family’s 300-acre horse farm have yet to unravel a killing that has captivated and mystified residents in one of the New York City region’s most affluent and tranquil …
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Melania Trump Steps Into the Spotlight | Vanity Fair
Former supermodel Melania Trump does not fit the mold of a traditional first lady. In her first-campaign-related comments since her husband, G.O.
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Dillon Francis – Not Butter on Vimeo
Written & Directed by Brandon Dermer Executive Producer: Kevin Kusatsu Producers: Fiction Pictures, Mike Longenbach Co-Producers: Matthew Vaughn, Lisa Frame Director of Photography: Taki Kanelopoulos Production Designer: Justin McClain Editor: Andre…
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Netflix is now available live in more than 190 Countries. : movies
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North Korea nuclear test meets with familiar response from White House | World news | The Guardian
Barack Obama’s administration has greeted North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in a decade with the same mix of condemnation, exasperation and pleas for collective action prompted by Pyongyang’s previous nuclear detonations.
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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on Wednesday declined to press criminal charges against Bill Cosby related to two allegations of sexual assault.
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Alabama Chief Justice Screwed 66 Judges – The Daily Beast
Defying history, the law, and common sense, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has issued an order prohibiting Alabama probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Those judges now face a choice between disobeying the law of the l…
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Songlink Lets You Create Music Links With Multiple Listening Options
Lots of music services let you share songs with others using direct links, but that can be messy when there are so many different music services out there. Songlink makes it easier to share songs with a wider audience by letting people decide where …
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Severing diplomatic ties with Iran ‘a slap across the face’ | World news | The Guardian
I am not surprised that Tehran has been somewhat paralysed over Riyadh’s decision to break off ties after an Iranian mob attacked the Saudi embassy following the execution of the leading Saudi Shia cleric, Nimr Baghir al-Nimr, on 2 January.
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The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down has debuted, and as can be expected from Luhrmann, it features lots of singing and dancing and paints a very romanticized picture of a group of teens in the Bronx in the ’70s who f…
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Trooper Brian Encinia Charged With Perjury in Sandra Bland Case – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, a grand jury issued an indictment against Trooper Brian Encinia, who was widely criticized after a video of his traffic stop and subsequent arrest of Bland was made public.
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Why Trump is going ‘birther’ on Ted Cruz – CSMonitor.com
History – or least the part of it concerning Donald Trump – often repeats itself. In 2011, the billionaire businessman made headlines when he questioned President Obama’s citizenship, suggesting that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States.
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This Robotic Arm Can Do Everything From 3D Printing To Laser Cutting To Cake Decorating | TechCrunch
Having hands is pretty damn great, you know. Most of us take it for granted just about every day. Armed with the right tool, your hands can do just about anything. That’s the idea behind Carbon Robotics’ KATIA, a product launched at the TechCrunch H…
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DCM’s David Chao On Investing In China, And VR, And, Oh, Hey, Cannabis | TechCrunch
DCM Ventures, the early-stage, cross-border venture firm, has scored many hits by sticking it out in China since nearly its 1996 founding, even as many competing firms – because they were unable or unwilling to invest the time in local relationships…
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Animating the “Karakoram Anomaly” : Image of the Day
Watching the movement of a glacier with an untrained human eye can be like watching paint dry. You know it is happening, but the pace is tedious and slow. Glaciologist Frank Paul of the University of Zurich found a way to speed up the action, and th…
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The results are not entirely a shock.
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The Republican War on Obamacare Heads to the President’s Desk | Mother Jones
Republicans in Congress have finally concluded their long-running, if likely futile, campaign to send a law gutting the landmark Affordable Care Act to President Barack Obama’s desk.
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Why the Japanese Language Makes It So Hard to Pluralize Emoji in English – The Atlantic
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The Edge: Gary Johnson Yesterday: ‘Why Not?’ – The Atlantic
North Korea claims it tested a hydrogen bomb yesterday, but the White House isn’t so sure. Gary Johnson jumped into the presidential race. Former CIA Director David Petraeus appeared before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. And Dr.
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BOSTON — The scope of a sexual abuse scandal at St.
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We could extend housing vouchers to every very-low-income household—and expand housing support to the middle class, too—if we were willing to take away just one of the big housing subsidies to people making over $100,000 a year.
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Marco Rubio’s ‘high-heeled booties’ mocked by Republican rivals | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio has made the critical political mistake of not dressing like a complete schlub. Everyone, it seems, is talking about his kinky boots.
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California governor Jerry Brown declared an emergency on Wednesday in a Los Angeles neighborhood where a blown-out natural gas well has been spewing record amounts of global warming pollution.
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What Just Happened in North Korea? – The New Yorker
North Korea detonated some sort of bomb last night. Pyongyang says that it was a hydrogen bomb, although, as Barbara Demick notes, the seismological readings don’t really support that claim. The tremor from the explosion seems to have had a magnitud…
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Chinese Drone Company Unveils Insane Autonomous Flying Pod for Humans | Motherboard
Climb into a giant, human-sized autonomous drone, type in the address for your destination, and sit back and relax while the machine flies you there. This may sound like a device from the Jetsons, but Chinese drone company EHang is trying to make it…
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The Fastest Way To Defog Your Car Windows (And Why It Works) – Digg
5 diggs How-To Cars Explainer Winter is upon us and that means foggy windows when you’re already late for work. Mark Rober breaks down the best defog method that’ll get you on the road in half the time.
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TransCanada Announces It Will Sue U.S. Over Keystone XL Denial | ThinkProgress
TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, announced Wednesday it is filing a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying that the project’s permit denial was “arbitrary and unjustified.
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BREAKING: Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Charged For Lying In His Police Report | ThinkProgress
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday for perjury, based on a statement he made in his report on his encounter with 28-year-old Sandra Bland.
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Hi everyone! I’ve been having some internet problems watching the episode again/getting something up, so I’ll be back with a full review later tonight. In the meantime, I want to give you all a space to talk about the episode (which, without being a…
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Here’s new news about pesticides and bees | Grist
A new poll finds that 70 percent of Americans believe in climate change. That’s the good news. Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slow…
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Luxury car designer sues Aston Martin for civil extortion | Ars Technica
Auto designer Henrik Fisker filed a lawsuit against British automaker Aston Martin this week, accusing the company of civil extortion (PDF). Fisker says Aston Martin threatened to sue the designer if he showed off his new Force 1 luxury sports car a…
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Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch is developing a new series for Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Showrunners, like carnival folk or the majestic Manx shearwater, are a transitory lot, always ready to move on to the next town or show or coastal nesting habitat once the greasepaint is stripped or the weather starts to turn.
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New York mayor raises minimum wage for city employees to $15 an hour | US news | The Guardian
New York mayor Bill de Blasio announced an executive order on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for city employees to $15 an hour in a move he labeled “a milestone towards a fairer city”.
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El Niño rain turns southern California roads to rivers – video | US news | The Guardian
Aerial footage of Los Angeles streets flooded with water on Wednesday, after an El Nino-fueled storm moved into southern California. Brad Walsh, an LA resident, films a trash bin being swept along by the floodwater as he drives behind it in his car.
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When Amy Schumer went social-media official with her new boyfriend, Chicago-based furniture designer Ben Hanisch, on Tuesday, the relationship news created such a gossip flurry on the Internet, that the comedian even poked fun at the reports herself.
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What climate? With cheap gas, auto sales spike | Grist
Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slowdown.
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TransCanada Sues Obama Administration Over Keystone XL Rejection | VICE News
President Barack Obama trampled TransCanada’s pipeline dreams, and now the Canadian company is fighting back.
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Mexican-American Drug Lord ‘La Barbie’ Has Changed His Plea to Guilty | VICE News
The Mexican-American drug trafficker who rose through the cartel ranks in Mexico and became known as “La Barbie” declared himself guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and money laundering in US federal court on Wednesday.
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Venus Shines Near Saturn in Dazzling Display This Weekend
On Friday (Jan. 8), the planet Venus will appear to pass close by Saturn, making this a rare opportunity to see two planets at the same time in a telescope’s narrow field of view. During the planetary encounter, Venus will appear to pass just 5 arc …
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The Islamic State’s Next Target: Libyan Oil | VICE News
Islamic State (IS) militants and Libyan forces were engaged in a pitched battle on Wednesday for coastal oil terminals that experts said hold the key to the extremists establishing control of the country and turning it into a base for future attacks…
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FITGuard Is A Mouthguard That Detects The Severity Of A Blow To The Head | TechCrunch
There are 3.8 million sports-related head injuries each year, and 47 percent of athletes do not report symptoms of their head injuries, whether out of lack of understanding or a need to feel tough.
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An Israeli reporter has been accidentally stabbed – while filming an item demonstrating a stab-proof vest. Yaniv Montakyo, the vice president of the company which designed the vest accidentally struck reporter Eitam Lachover on an area not protected…
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This Gadget Tests Food For Gluten In Under 2 Minutes | TechCrunch
More people than ever are realizing that bread isn’t supposed to make a person bloated and sick and perhaps they have a sensitivity to gluten. Or worse, they’re allergic. The Nima from 6SensorLabs could change the lives of these people and not just …
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Oregon Tribal Leaders Say Militant Group Needs To ‘Get The Hell Out’ | ThinkProgress
The Oregon tribe that once inhabited the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has made its stance clear on the militant group now occupying refuge headquarters: They’re not welcome.
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How to Spot the Brightest Planets in January’s Night Sky
Venus will shine brightly at dawn throughout January 2016. The planet will pass close to Saturn on the morning of Jan. 9.Credit: Starry Night Software View full size image Skywatchers have many reasons to look up in this first month of 2016.
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Qatar has become the latest country to back Saudi Arabia in its diplomatic row with Iran. On Wednesday it said it was recalling its ambassador to Tehran.
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US transfers two Guantanamo detainees to Ghana – Al Jazeera English
The US military announced on Wednesday that two detainees held for years without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison will be transferred to Ghana, leaving 105 detainees at the notorious camp.
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The US has released two Yemeni men from Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday after nearly 14 years’ detention and nearly six years after the Obama administration approved them for transfer. But neither Mahmud Umar Muhammad bin Atef nor Khalid Muhammad Salih …
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This 1981 book eerily predicted today’s distrustful and angry political mood – Vox
Over the past several months, attempts to explain the rise of anti-establishment candidates like Donald Trump and now Ted Cruz have evolved from, “What the hell is going on?” to, “No, really, what the hell is going on?” But at least the basic descri…
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Chipotle faces federal criminal probe for one of its several outbreaks | Ars Technica
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., the Denver-based chain staggering from a string of food-borne illness outbreaks at its restaurants, is under federal criminal investigation for a norovirus outbreak at one of its California locations.
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What North Korea’s nuclear tests sounded like – Vox
Every time North Korea has tested an atomic weapon underground, the explosion releases a wave of seismic energy that moves through the ground like sound moves through the air.
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The Best Chocolate for Making Amazing Hot Chocolate from Scratch
Hot chocolate is always tasty, but for the best cup possible should you use powdered or solid chocolate? What about the amount of cocoa in your chocolate? An expert chocolatier reveals all.
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Deep into Dawn: Marc Rayman on the Mission to Ceres
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. More than a thousand times farther from Earth than the moon, farther even than the sun, an extraordina…
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BBC Sport – Everton 2-1 Manchester City
Everton goalkeeper Joel Robles will replace first choice Tim Howard for Wednesday’s League Cup semi-final first leg against Manchester City. Captain Phil Jagielka (knee) and midfielder Steven Pienaar (hamstring) are unlikely to be risked.
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The Shannara Chronicles Starts Off With A Dense And Entertaining Pilot
The next book to be adapted off your bookshelf is Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara Trilogy, which kicked off this week on MTV. We liked how it started off, and it’s a dense, entertaining introduction to the world. The first episode is an exercise…
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Brian T. Encinia, the trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, will face perjury charges
A Texas grand jury concluded its deliberation today with the decision to indict Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian T. Encinia on a perjury charge stemming from his statements about the night when Sandra Bland was arrested before her dea…
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Want Better E Ink Displays for the Kindle? Bug Amazon | Motherboard
I have good news and bad news for fans of E Ink-based e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and Kobo: E Ink has not forgotten about you, but it may be a while before the fans get their desired new displays. E Ink has not made a higher resolution display …
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Handmade Blown Glass Spider via /r/pics https://t.co/sZ0ZQE3ryt https://t.co/y6fUdptqMo https://t.co/3AS0eoW6g2
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Someone must’ve made a terrible mistake : pics
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If it’s big news in North Korea, this is the woman who will deliver it
She’s mournfully announced the deaths of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. She’s bombastically delivered news of North Korea’s proudest achievements. And she was, until recently, mostly retired, having stepped aside to mentor the next generation of so-ca…
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O’Reilly Tells NRA To ‘Be Reasonable’: ‘Background Checks Make Sense’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday night dinged the National Rifle Association for its statement opposing President Obama’s new executive orders regarding background checks, arguing that the government should conduct background checks on everyon…
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The Quixotic Adventures of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore – The Atlantic
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an administrative order Wednesday that effectively banned same-sex marriages in the state, less than seven months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage bans violated the Consti…
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That’s the question of the day, as observers try to determine the veracity of North Korea’s announcement that it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb, which the country said was done in “self-defense against the U.S. having numerous and h…
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The movie version of Mark Millar’s Superior gets two new writers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the future, movies will be divided into two categories: “movies” and “movies not based on comic books written by Mark Millar.
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ARLINGTON, VA—Calling the effort a dramatic display of the Asian country’s powerful capabilities, officials from the RAND Corporation confirmed Wednesday that North Korea has successfully harvested wheat.
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Chipotle Faces Criminal Probe Over Food-Sickness Outbreak | Vanity Fair
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Indiegogo Now Wants Fortune 500 Companies To Create Pre-Order Campaigns | TechCrunch
Indiegogo has historically been about helping the young and scrappy entrepreneur to put their idea out there and get some much-needed capital for a first production batch. The company is launching a brand new set of tools today dubbed ‘Enterprise Cr…
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Andre Agassi Invests In Square Panda To Help Kids Read | TechCrunch
Tennis legend Andre Agassi is furthering his commitment to childhood education, investing in a tool that teaches kids how to read. The Andre Agassi Foundation is working with Square Panda on its digital games that promote literacy in preschool age c…
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Incredible timelapse of Dubia skyscraper in flames / Boing Boing
On New Year’s Eve, a 63-story hotel in Dubai caught on fire. There were no fatalities. Kirill Neiezhmako’s time lapse video of the inferno is like something from a big budget Hollywood movie.
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Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland indicted for perjury | US news | The Guardian
The state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a south-east Texas county jail last summer, has been indicted by a Texas grand jury on perjury charges.
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Alabama chief justice tells judges to keep denying gay marriage licenses | US news | The Guardian
Alabama chief justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a US supreme court decision effectively legalized same-sex marriage more than six months ago.
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Effectively Monitor Water Use In Your Home With Calliope | TechCrunch
It’s estimated that nearly 18% of the water used in a person’s home is lost to leaks. Annually that can amount to a staggering 13,000 gallons of water.
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Uber, Lyft helped slow death of San Francisco’s largest taxi company | Ars Technica
San Francisco’s largest taxi company is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy protection, according to a leaked letter from its president.
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The Case of a Stolen ID and a Meth-Addicted Baby | Al Jazeera America
SALT LAKE CITY – It was an average day in Salt Lake City for Anndorie Cromar. She’d sent two of her kids off to school and was at work. Her mother was at home taking care of her twin 2-year-old boys when someone left a business card on the front doo…
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Clint Dempsey left out of Jürgen Klinsmann’s youthful USA training squad | Football | The Guardian
Clint Dempsey was among the veteran stars left out of Jurgen Klinsmann’s training camp ahead of USA’s friendly games against Iceland and Canada – but Columbus Crew stars Tony Tchani and Ethan Finlay are in the squad for the first time.
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Free Kindle e-book: “Imhotep” by Jerry Dubs / Boing Boing
Imhotep, by Jerry Dubs, is free for a limited time as a Kindle e-book. It has 4.3/5 stars with over 500 reviews. It sounds like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court but this time the Hank Morgan character winds up in ancient Egypt.
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Macy’s to cut thousands of jobs after weak holiday season | US news | The Guardian
Macy’s is cutting thousands of jobs after disappointing holiday sales. The Cincinnati-based department store chain says sales fell 5.2% in November and December at existing stores. Warm weather and lower spending by international tourists hurt sales.
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Bandidos biker gang leaders accused of waging ‘war’ on rival Cossacks | US news | The Guardian
National leaders of the Bandidos biker gang face federal racketeering charges in an indictment that accuses the group of waging “war” on the rival Cossacks motorcycle gang. Both groups were present at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, in May, …
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The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has urged judges in his state to deny marriage licences to same-sex couples. Roy Moore’s administrative order defies a US Supreme Court ruling from June that legalised gay marriage across the United Sta…
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Less than a week into the new year, the same day Netflix announced that it was now available in more than 190 countries, more than half a million people tuned in to watch a very different kind of broadcast: a livestream of a puddle. The puddle wasn’…
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Gary Johnson Is Running for the Libertarian Nomination for President – The Atlantic
Gary Johnson wants you to know that he’s not delusional. The former New Mexico governor knows that his campaign for the presidency, which he announced Wednesday on the Fox Business Network, won’t end with him in the White House.
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Agency tasked with enforcing Obama’s gun control measures has been gutted | US news | The Guardian
The beleaguered federal agency charged with bringing to life much of President Obama’s new roster of gun controls faces an uphill task to deliver meaningful change.
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Jake Gyllenhaal To Produce Jim Jones Series Because Cults Are Suddenly All the Rage
We’ve been eagerly following the rise of Satanic TV, thanks to new shows like Lucifer and Damien. But it turns out there’s room for another sinister trend: cults! A just-announced, Jake Gyllenhaal-backed drama for A&E joins upcoming Hulu series The …
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America’s top privacy regulator refuses to wear a Fitbit | Technology | The Guardian
As chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Edith Ramirez is America’s top privacy regulator. She won’t wear a Fitbit. Speaking at a panel at CES here, Ramirez said she was a big fan of the step-counting fitness trend.
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A Happiness Experiment: Can You Make Every Day Feel Like Saturday?
We’re happiest on Saturdays at 7:26pm—at least that’s what this survey found. Yet while the exact time of 7:26pm seems strange, there have been multiple studies to back up that people are generally happier on weekends. So how can we make the rest of…
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Slideways: if Connect 4 was as sneaky as Go / Boing Boing
Slideways is a tic-tac-toe variant that lets players occupy squares, change their opponents’ squares, or move where the squares are relative to one another. It’s a strategy game with more sneaky ways to win — and lose — than seems possible, at fir…
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Study: Blood Plasma Has Limits As Ebola Treatment | Al Jazeera America
Blood transfusions drawn randomly from survivors of Ebola may offer little benefit to people afflicted by the disease, according to a report today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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What It Takes To Win The Powerball: Play Alone, Be Over 50
Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is worth half a billion dollars.
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The Business of Space Funerals
In November near the beaches of Hawaii, the latest incarnation of a military rocket line dating back to the early 1960s called the Super Strypi launched its inaugural voyage. At first operations appeared normal.
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Faltering Messaging App Unicorn Tango Gets A New CEO To Turn Things Around | TechCrunch
Fresh from laying off 9 percent of its 200 staff and closing down its e-commerce service at the end of 2015, Tango has made a change at the top with CTO and co-founder Eric Setton (right in image above) stepping in to replace fellow co-founder Uri R…
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The $8.2 Billion Adtech Fraud Problem That Everyone Is Ignoring | TechCrunch
Despite the popularity of mobile applications such as Peace, Blockr and Ghostery over the last year, ad blocking will be the least of digital advertisers’ problems in 2016.
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WASHINGTON—Citing the group’s outrage over recent executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence, Americans across the nation collectively shuddered Wednesday at the mere thought of the National Rifle Association’s furious reaction were President O…
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A puddle has captured the imagination of the British people · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In these days of ever more sophisticated and technologically advanced entertainments, it’s only fitting that some people would seek out simpler and less challenging amusements as a respite from the hectic modern world.
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Even pizza boxes are bad for you, FDA suggests · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Here’s some news to warm your cold, congested heart as you choke down that kale salad while your co-workers loudly enjoy a Meat Lover’s Supreme in the next room: Not only will the sausage and pepperoni on that piping-hot platter of New Years’ tempta…
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John Barrowman and His Sister Are Writing Their Own Arrow Comic Book
John Barrowman and his sister Carole have a history of teaming up to work on new stories for characters Barrowman has played in the past (including several stories about his Doctor Who/Torchwood hero Jack Harkness).
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Long before Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Psycho hit theater screens, three 11-year-old boys attempted to recreate their favorite movie, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, in their backyards. They did it not for fortune or glory, but simply out of th…
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Why Wait-and-See May Actually Be the Best Approach to the Oregon Siege | Vanity Fair
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Upgrade To 802.11ac With a Deal on This Popular Netgear Nighthawk
If you still haven’t upgraded to 802.11ac, the venerable Netgear Nighthawk X4 is down to $150 today on Amazon, which is within a few pennies of the best price they’ve ever listed. [Netgear Nighthawk X4 Router, $150] Own it? Let us know what you thin…
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A top New Hampshire legislator warned his colleagues on Wednesday to be civil following a social media spat over a bill barring women from exposing their nipples in public.
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Advanced Alien Civilizations Could Live in Globular Star Clusters
Crowded globular star clusters like this one, called 47 Tucanae, may be the best place to search for signs of interstellar alien civilizations, scientists say. The relative close proximity of stars could allow a spacefaring civilization to explore n…
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Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed occupation of an Oregon U.S. Fish and Wildlife Building It was a tweet too terrible to be believed: last night, @Ammon_Bundy compared the armed occupation of a federal facility in Oregon to the heroism of Rosa Pa…
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Why Is Hobby Lobby Buying Biblical Artifacts? – The Atlantic
In November 2017, the Museum of the Bible will open in Washington, D.C., two blocks from the National Mall. Like many of the city’s other museums, it is designed to attract hordes of visitors each year, and it will be vast—eight stories tall, and co…
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See If Your PC Is VR-Ready With the Oculus Rift Compatibility Tool
Preorders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset are finally open to all, but you’ll need a beefy computer running Windows to use it. This tool will check your system and see what you need to upgrade so you’re ready come launch in May.
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Why They Pardon Peyton | The Nation
In 2015, 80 of the top 100 watched sports shows in the United States were National Football League games and frankly it’s surprising that the number isn’t higher. Yet despite this immense popularity, most of the players are unknown when the helmets …
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There Is Nothing More Adorable Than a Stealth Connie Episode of Steven Universe
Steven Universe is never afraid to turn its deft characterization skills to characters other than Steven himself, leading to the entire cast being incredibly well-fleshed out.
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10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in January | Rolling Stone
It’s January, and if your new year’s resolution was to watch better movies, then good news: We’ve got you covered (The bad news: You have terribly low ambitions).
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A robot private eye who clanks around the hardboiled streets of 1960s Los Angeles, seeking to unravel a Cold War plot as well as the secrets of his own creation: What’s not to love about the premise of Adam Christopher’s latest novel, Made To Kill? …
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Like pretty much every person with taste, Bay Area resident Elliot Lim is a huge fan of The Wire. Unlike most people, though, Lim is an extremely talented professional animator and designer. Now, Lim has combined his gifts and his Wire fandom to mak…
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Now that the threat of communism has been extinguished by the power of McDonald’s and blue jeans, the United States no longer needs to worry about Cuba teaming up with the USSR to undermine our plan for world domination with their own plan for world…
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What has Donald Trump tapped into that other Republican candidates are missing? I posed this question to some of my best sources. Jonathan Haidt, the author of “The Righteous Mind,” emailed me his response.
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Netflix expands to 130 additional countries—next stop, Mars (probably) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rejoice, ye citizens of the cord-cutting world, for Netflix has just announced that even more individuals will have the opportunity to swear fealty to Frank Underwood and Jessica Jones, as the streaming company has added 130 countries to its empire—…
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Hope Pro 4: Adam Brayton RAW on Vimeo
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Mexico’s First Independent State Deputy Tries to Stay Different | VICE News
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Surrogate parents should be treated like sex offenders and sent to prison, Italy’s interior minister has said. Angelino Alfano’s staunch opposition to surrogacy is part of a wider campaign by the minister against rights for gay and unmarried heteros…
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc, under scrutiny for months over outbreaks of foodborne illness across several US states, has said it was served with a subpoena in a federal criminal investigation linked to a norovirus case in California last year.
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Look at this banana popsicle mold / Boing Boing
The domestic terrorists who seized the Malheur National Widlife Refuge Building in Burns, Oregon and vowed to stay there “for as long as it takes” have put out a plea to their supporters asking them to send “supplies or snacks” to help the nosh thro…
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BBC Sport – Barcelona 4-1 Espanyol
Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona came from behind to beat Espanyol, who ended up with nine men in the Copa del Rey last 16 first leg. Felipe Caicedo put the visitors ahead after good play by Marco Asensio.
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Chevy Debuts Its Bolt Electric Car At CES, Promises 200-Mile Range | TechCrunch
As expected, Chevrolet today officially unveiled its new electric vehicle — the Chevy Bolt — during its keynote at CES. The new car, which will retail for just under $30,000 after Federal tax credits, will have a range of about 200 miles.
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Foursquare Promises, Via Poem, That It Does NOT Drain Your Battery | TechCrunch
The location aware app Foursquare, and its check-in sidekick Swarm, seemingly kills my phone’s battery. I mean, whenever I get within a block of the TechCrunch office, it lets me know all of the wonderful places around me that I can grab a coffee or…
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VR sticker shock: How Oculus failed to prepare the world for a $599 Rift | Ars Technica
On Monday, when Oculus first announced that it would finally be taking consumer Oculus Rift pre-orders later in the week, I tweeted an over/under prediction that the Rift itself would come in at $500.
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io9 All the Backstory You Desperately Want to Know About The Force Awakens | Kotaku Fallout 4 Player Beats Impossible Battle In The Best Way | Deadspin The Bucks Are A Big Fuckin’ Bummer | Jezebel This Week In Tabloids: Buckingham Palace ‘Confirms’ …
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Lumosity fined millions for making false claims about brain health benefits https://t.co/Zgy2pXaMWT https://t.co/MWZSzWdqfo
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When Will Dubai Fix Its Burning Skyscraper Problem?
Watching a 63-story Dubai hotel explode into flames on New Year’s Eve and smolder well into New Year’s Day, you might’ve been wondering the same thing I was: Why do so many of Dubai’s skyscrapers catch fire? And how terrifying is it that this city c…
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How to convey sarcasm in written texts and emails, according to psychologists, whoop-de-doo.
So you’ve decided to be sarcastic in an email or text. Wow, great idea! There is exactly no chance that choice could go south on you. I mean, it’s not like the absence of nonverbal cues—a joking tone of voice, an eye roll, a smile—could result in yo…
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A ‘Crash’ Diet: Merger May Have Slimmed Down Supermassive Black Hole
An image of the galaxy SDSS J1126+2944 taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray observations, shown in purple, show the locations of two black holes, which were brought together by a galaxy merger.
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Intel’s next NUC will be a quad-core mini PC with Iris Pro and Thunderbolt 3 | Ars Technica
Last night, Intel’s opening-day CES keynote focused mostly on wearables and Internet of Things things, the sort of forward-facing, maybe-useful, possibly-vaporware technology that characterizes CES.
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Work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Hacker, lawyer, activist geeks / Boing Boing
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring four new staffers: a criminal defense staff attorney, a technology generalist and two new activists (here’s what life is like for EFF activists). The EFF is located in central San Francisco, is a charitab…
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See Doctor Who’s Matt Smith Marry Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown | Vanity Fair
Doctor Who’s Matt Smith time travels again! This time, though, for Netflix’s ambitious upcoming series The Crown, which examines Queen Elizabeth II’s adjustment, as a British twentysomething, to the titles “queen” and “wife.
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Mascot Zodiac: the animals inside us that let us be more than ourselves / Boing Boing
tells the story of Wolter’s discovery of the power of imagination — starting with an old pink bat sticker that he put on his bike, sending him into imaginative flights around his neighborhood, and then into the way that toys and dress-up costumes h…
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Android N switches to OpenJDK, Google tells Oracle it is protected by the GPL | Ars Technica
The Oracle v. Google legal battle over the use of Java in Android keeps on going, but this week Google made a change to Android that it hopes will let the company better navigate its current legal trouble.
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Stolen bottles of Kentucky whiskey may be destroyed instead of auctioned | US news | The Guardian
Prized bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon that were spirited away by a whiskey-theft ring in Kentucky might end up being destroyed rather than auctioned off, a sheriff said on Wednesday.
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How to become better at smelling and avoiding the many varieties of bullshit / Boing Boing
How strong is your bullshit detector? And what exactly IS the scientific definition of bullshit?
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Chevrolet’s Bolt is an electric vehicle for the masses—and we’ve driven it | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—Today at CES, General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra will formally unveil one of the most significant new cars in the company’s history. It’s called the Chevrolet Bolt, and when it goes on sale later this year it will be the first long-range batte…
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Q&A: Can ancient remedies head off super-bug crisis? – Al Jazeera English
Researchers in the UK are seeking to recreate ancient natural remedies to tackle bacterial infections as alternative treatments amid the emerging antibiotic-resistant “super-bug” epidemic that the world is facing.
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How Much Does Ex-Walking Dead Showrunner Frank Darabont Hate AMC? So Much, You Guys
Hey, remember how boring season two of The Walking Dead was? All those interminable scenes at Herschel’s farm? It turns out the real drama was happening behind the scenes, according to a recently unsealed deposition by original TWD showrunner Frank …
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Enable the Three-Finger Drag Gesture in El Capitan Under Accessibility Options
The three-finger gesture that allows you to drag windows around without a click has been in OS X for a while, but in both Yosemite and El Capitan, the setting to enable it was moved. Now, it’s over in the Accessibility options. Open up System Prefer…
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The Fast and the Furless: Explaining Newly Recognized Dog Breeds
Meet the fast and the furless new members of the American Kennel Club: the greyhound-like sloughi and the American hairless terrier. The two new additions, which bring the AKC’s total breed list to 189, have some quirky characteristics—and couldn’t …
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Carbon Capture and Storage Liquified and Demystified – Scientific American
Paris Climate Talks: The Consequences of Climate Change November 28, 2015 — Nature Video
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If There Are Aliens Out There, Where Are They? – Scientific American
Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked the question “Where are they?” to express his surprise over the absence of any signs for the existence of other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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The Beleaguered Sunnis of Iran, Caught in the Sectarian Feud With Saudi Arabia – The Atlantic
The execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has brought new attention to the relatively obscure and precarious Shiites of Saudi Arabia, as I wrote Tuesday.
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The oil price has tumbled again, with Brent crude sinking by 4.2% to $34.88 a barrel on Wednesday, taking the price to its lowest level since 1 July 2004.
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A Brief History of Western Ranchers Fighting Uncle Sam
The continued occupation of a wildlife refuge by about 20 armed protesters in Oregon is the latest flare-up of long-standing tensions in the Western United States.
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In Photos: Paris Dredges Canal in Hipster Neighborhood, Finds Bicycles and Beer Bottles | VICE News
On Monday, Paris city workers began dredging the Canal Saint-Martin, a historic 19th Century waterway that winds through the French capital’s northeast.
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Adele Just Posted the Most Relatable New Years Photo | Vanity Fair
How are those New Year’s resolutions going? Have you been hitting the gym? Staying off the booze? Eating more kale? We hope so. And even if you’re not, we like you, just as you are.
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The de Blasio Diaries, Chapter 52: New Year, New BDB | Vanity Fair
Well, it’s 2016. I guess there’s nothing any of us can really do about that. It is what it is. You know, I learned a while back that numbers are just numbers. Years and dates, ages and times: all just completely arbitrary constructions.
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Saints coach Sean Payton said on Wednesday he’s remaining with New Orleans, ending speculation that he could be on the move after consecutive 7-9 seasons. Payton has been with the Saints for a decade and is coming off his first consecutive losing se…
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Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates was a ‘close call’ | Business | The Guardian
The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates in December – the first rate rise in almost a decade – was a “close call” for some policymakers, according to minutes of the Fed’s meeting released on Wednesday.
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Netflix Shares Spike 9% As It Moves Into 130 New Countries | TechCrunch
Netflix shareholders seem to be in a good mood today — no doubt thanks to the company saying it will launch in 130 new countries. Shares of Netflix spiked immediately after CEO Reed Hastings made the surprise announcement at CES 2016 today, and have…
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The Cassini spacecraft took a photo of two moons of Saturn, Tethys and Enceladus, beautifully aligned with each other. The cosmic ballet goes on. (via slate)
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J. Edgar Hoover’s “Kennedy blackmail files” revealed, and other tabloid stunners / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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The Guatemalan authorities have detained 13 former military officials on charges of human rights abuses during the country’s 36-year armed conflict. Among those detained was 83-year old Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia, a former general and brother of …
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Want a happier marriage? Share the housework equally. – Vox
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he would take two months of family leave following the birth of his daughter, he earned praise for fighting the “stigma” that still surrounds men who take family leave. Priscilla and I are starting to …
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This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren (Official Video) – YouTube
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North Korea Just Insulted the US and Bragged About Its New ‘H-Bomb of Justice’ at the UN | VICE News
The UN Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear test on Wednesday, and promised to respond with significant measures against the country, possibly including additional sanctions.
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This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren (Official Video) – YouTube
Subscribe to 4AD here: http://bit.ly/4ADYouTubeA cover of the Tim Buckley song featuring the guitar of Robin Guthrie and voice of Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins). It was first released on a single then included on This Mortal Coil’s debut album, It…
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George Constanza from a fan’s Seinfeld videogame work-in-progress / Boing Boing
Activision Blizzard announced Monday evening that it plans to buy King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, for about $5.9 billion. It’s the third-largest video game industry deal ever. It’s quite a dollar amount, but it’s significa…
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US government says widely used pesticide could harm honeybees | Environment | The Guardian
The US government has acknowledged for the first time that one of the world’s most widely used pesticides can be harmful to honeybees.
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The birth of Debian, in the words of Ian Murdock himself | Ars Technica
As we reported a few days ago, Ian Murdock, the creator of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, died in rather unclear circumstances last week. Until more details emerge, it seems wise to refrain from speculation about what really happened.
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Widely-Used Pesticide Is Harmful To Honeybees, EPA Finds | ThinkProgress
The Environmental Protection Agency has finally begun to answer a major question on honeybee health. This week, the EPA released its first findings on neonicotinoids, a widely-used class of pesticides that many think play a role in the staggering ho…
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Help us choose 2016’s A.V. Undercover songs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s time for you, the reader, to help us, The A.V. Club staff, pick the 25 songs that will be features in this year’s A.V. Undercover. But instead of voting from a list of pre-determined categories, as we’ve done in past years, we’d like for you to…
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Troma’s Latest Horror Comedy, BC Butcher, Was Directed by a 17-Year-Old Girl
Proudly schlocky indie studio Troma Entertainment built its rep on cult curios like The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet, the latter of which was co-scripted by a pre-Guardians of the Galaxy James Gunn.
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Add a USB Hub with a Case to a Raspberry Pi Zero
The Raspberry Pi Zero has only one USB port, but you can always add more with a powered USB hub. Over on Circuitbeard, they show off how to do so in a fashionable way.
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Remind Yourself How Awesome The Dark Knight Is With These Insane New Posters
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight came out almost eight years ago. That’s so long! But even though it’s box office dominance feels quaint by today’s standards, it’s still fantastic, and these posters will remind you why.
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Christian College to Fire Hijab-Wearing Professor | Al Jazeera America
Officials at a Christian college in suburban Chicago have begun efforts to fire a tenured associate professor who was placed on administrative leave last month after she asserted that Christians and Muslims worship the same God — a statement she mad…
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Awards season is well underway. There’s no stopping it now. The Golden Globe nominations have already been announced, which means that the Oscar nominations cannot be far behind.
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From Making a Murderer to The Jinx to FX’s upcoming American Crime Story, true crime is the TV genre du jour, making salacious murders or miscarriages of justice just as binge-worthy as your favorite fictional dramas.
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Season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story Will Be About Hurricane Katrina | Vanity Fair
FX’s newest anthology, American Crime Story, has yet to premiere its first O.J. Simpson-themed season, but creator Ryan Murphy has already lined up a subject for Season 2: Hurricane Katrina. Season 1 is loosely based on Jeffrey Toobin’s 1997 book Th…
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Detroit Refinery Set To Increase Harmful Emissions | Al Jazeera America
Lockridge lives in Boynton, a neighborhood that abuts the refinery and is dwarfed by its towering smokestacks. Many residents say a nearly constant stream of foul-smelling, harmful emissions wafts from the facility. The smell sometimes awakens resid…
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Midday open thread: Paiutes unhappy with Malheur occupation; everything wrong with Silicon Valley
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Islamic State Vows to Break Open Saudi Arabian Prisons | VICE News
A day after the Islamic State appears to have staged its first ever military-style attack on Saudi Arabia, the group pledged to destroy two Saudi Arabian prisons that house jihadi detainees.
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Look at the size of this demonstration handcuff / Boing Boing
Pressed into service recently to teach handcuff escape workshops to high school students, I built this. The huge, functional, see-through demonstration handcuff.
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Lumosity “Brain Training” App Maker To Pay $2 Million Settlement To FTC | TechCrunch
Lumos Labs, the creator of “brain training program” Lumosity with $67.5 million in venture funding, has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the Federal Trade Commission for its deceptive advertising.
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Predictions For 2016 From Emergence Capital Partners | TechCrunch
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DC TV news crew’s car broken into while they covered anti-robbery press conference / Boing Boing
An officer speaks with ABC7 crew after robbery Jan. 6, 2015. (Stephen Tschida/ABC7 News) Glad to see that our nation’s capital hasn’t been completely gentrified, and retains some of the utlraviolent grit I remember from the streets in the 1980s.
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Fear and Loathing – The gonzo classic gets a brilliant graphic novel treatment / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Anyone who’s read Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas knows that the technicolored, bug-eyed, meth-fueled craziness of that narrative is hard to capture in another medium.
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Alabama’s top judge keeps trying to stop same-sex marriages in the state – Vox
Nearly a year after a federal court struck down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban, and more than six months since the US Supreme Court ended all same-sex marriage bans across the country, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore keeps trying to b…
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Blue’s is a magazine about Japanese construction worker culture / Boing Boing
“There’s no media anywhere about these guys, but they’re so cool!” That’s the thought Tomonobu Yanagi had when he decided to make a magazine about “construction culture.” Yanagi was a punk musician in the 1970s, and now manages a waterworks construc…
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Analysis: Breaking down North Korea’s H-bomb test claim – Al Jazeera English
North Korea said on Wednesday it successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb, a claim that if confirmed would signal a major advancement in the isolated country’s nuclear capabilities.
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The World Bank has warned of new threats to efforts to reduce poverty in the developing world. In its twice-yearly assessment of global economic prospects, the bank forecasts only a modest increase in growth.
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Italian Minister Says Surrogate Parents Are Sex Criminals | ThinkProgress
Surrogate parents should be treated as sex offenders, Italy’s Interior Minister said on Wednesday. Angelino Alfano is opposed to all forms of surrogacy, but his comments referred to a proposal to allow same-sex couples to collectively adopt their st…
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ trading cards|Dangerous Minds
The late, great Blogspot site Bubblegum Fink bit the dust several years ago, but we can ensure that the Fink’s creativity lives on for future generations to appreciate.
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Alabama Chief Justice Halts Gay Marriage Licenses | Al Jazeera America
The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges on Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year legalizing gay marriage. Chief Justice Roy Moore …
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Amp Up Your Bodyweight Workout With These Suspension Exercises
A suspension trainer like TRX is a great way to make your home workouts more flexible and challenging: just hook the set of straps to a door or other sturdy anchor, and you’re ready to go. This clickable graphic gives you a ton of ideas for what to …
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Canada’s Ice Roads Are Melting — And That Is Terrible News for Aboriginal Communities | VICE News
Aboriginal chiefs in Canada are blaming climate change for water and food shortages on their reserves this winter.
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Star Foreman photographs the Flying Morgan’s NYE extravaganza / Boing Boing
Each year the Flying Morgan’s play host to an amazing New Year’s Eve party! They are always thrilled, and lucky, to have incredible photographer Star Foreman on hand to document it.
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TO outsiders, one of the puzzling aspects of the anti-government militia’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is its location. Twenty-five million birds a year visit the refuge in the high desert of southeastern Oregon, but few people …
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A Juror in the ‘Making a Murderer’ Case Believes Steven Avery Was Framed | VICE News
A juror who helped convict Wisconsin man Steven Avery for a murder that is documented in the wildly popular Netflix series Making a Murderer, reportedly told filmmakers they thought Avery was innocent and had been framed.
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she makes this look easy! : gifs
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Lemmy’s funeral will be live-streamed this Saturday · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Soon, Motörhead fans everywhere will be able to gather together and mourn a fallen icon online. Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister’s funeral will be streamed live online this Saturday, January 9 on YouTube.
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Haze over the Indo-Gangetic Plain : Natural Hazards
As is often the case in the winter, a thick river of haze hovered over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in January 2016, darkening skies over northern India and Bangladesh.
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Donald Trump threatens to cancel £700m investment in Scotland | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has reacted to the announcement that MPs will debate on banning him from entering the UK by threatening to pull the plug on what his company says are plans to invest more than £700m in Scotland.
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Just How Good Of A PC Does An Oculus Rift Need? | TechCrunch
The Oculus Rift is now available for pre-order at $599, but there’s been some confusion about what else you’ll need to plug it in and getting going once it hits your doorstep. Wait just a minute. You need a Windows PC to run … https://t.co/jxq0qsAPHn
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Router Company Luma Acquires A Smart Home Security Provider | TechCrunch
As routers get smarter we will expect them to do amazing things: protect our networks, filter bad stuff, and even make margaritas. But Luma, the fan favorite Wi-Fi router has bought Nodal Industries to help your router protect your home.
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Last February, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) made a pledge, along with a number of other mayors across the country, to end homelessness for all veterans in his city by the end of 2015.
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Wild weather forces halt to search for missing sailor overnight | Australia news | The Guardian
The search for a sailor missing off the New South Wales mid-north coast is expected to resume after wild weather forced rescue crews to pull out overnight. The yachtsman was thrown from his vessel on Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a huge …
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Lawsuit claims Fitbit devices dangerously underestimate heart rate | Ars Technica
With some Fitbit devices, every beat may not get counted, according to claims in a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Killer Mike is a killer talk show guest.
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This year, rather than writing our own predictions, we decided to have Motherboard interview each other.
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Although we all know that the only awards that count are those that are voted on by celebrities, Hollywood still allows the humble tradesfolk in the Producer’s Guild of America, Writer’s Guild of America, and American Society of Cinematographers to …
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The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates in December was a “close call”, according to minutes from the Fed’s December meeting. Fed members voted unanimously to raise its key interest rate by 25 basis points to between 0.25% and 0.5%…
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Griffey In His Prime Was The Second Coming Of Willie Mays | FiveThirtyEight
One hundred percent of public ballots have Ken Griffey Jr. going into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which should surprise exactly no one.
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Paris, a year after Charlie Hebdo attacks – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – The street in front of the former Charlie Hebdo building is almost empty. A plaque, placed here on Tuesday January 5, to commemorate the journalists killed inside almost a year ago is being modified.
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Lead exposure is a race issue. The crisis in Flint, Michigan, shows why. – Vox
On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency over a lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, where 4 percent of children have elevated levels of lead in their bloodstream — twice what it was just years ago.
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Prince George Attends His First Day At School – The Daily Beast
Kate Middleton’s determination to give Prince George as normal an upbringing as possible received its most dramatic demonstration so far today as the young Prince attended his first day at kindergarten.
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Is the State of the Union Response Cursed? | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday, the G.O.P. anointed South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to give the party’s response to Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address.
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‘Making a Murderer’: Steven Avery Thought Brothers Framed Him | Rolling Stone
‘Making a Murderer’: Steven Avery Thought Brothers Framed Him 2009 court document reveals Avery provided possible motives for members of his family to murder Teresa Halbach
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Zoomable view of ex-Apple designer Bret Victor’s bookshelf / Boing Boing
Here’s one of my bad habits: when I go to someone’s house, I head straight to their bookshelf. I’m not trying to judge the person based on the kinds of books (or lack of books) they own. I do end up judging them, but that’s a side effect.
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4 Ways the World Will Suck in 2016 | Rolling Stone
The year of our Lord 2015 was bad, and 2016 will be worse. I know this on a personal level, because someone asked me what some of my more serious work was in 2015, and almost all were essays about different mass shootings. But this isn’t about me.
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This Global Ruling Is Just Not Cool
They say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. Well, we Americans have just been fed a live toad by the World Trade Organization.
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Nebraska routinely holds children in solitary confinement, report finds | US news | The Guardian
Solitary confinement is a commonplace experience for children held in Nebraska juvenile detention facilities, a report has shown, with minors routinely detained in isolation for days, weeks, even months at a time.
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ trading cards|Dangerous Minds
The late, great Blogspot site Bubblegum Fink has bit the dust several years ago, but we can ensure that the Fink’s creativity lives on for future generations to appreciate.
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In the early ‘80s, a group of friends decided to do a shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. The herculean task became an Internet legend, and this summer you can watch the entire story unfold on the big screen.
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Who Wants to See Ronda Rousey Covered in Body Paint? | Rolling Stone
Who Wants to See Ronda Rousey Covered in Body Paint? New photo reveals the UFC star will once again appear in the ‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue – only this time, without a suit
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Climate change could have a bigger impact on developed countries’ food systems | Grist
Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slowdown.
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Watch Disco, Hip-Hop Collide in Thrilling ‘The Get Down’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Watch Disco, Hip-Hop Collide in Thrilling ‘The Get Down’ Trailer Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Netflix musical-drama chronicles cultural fusion of late-Seventies New York City
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Hopes&Fears — Life and culture through a global lens
There isn’t a doubt in my mind that LaBeouf is performing for the camera while he’s live streaming himself watching his films. But it’s the best kind of performance. A team of art historians and researchers from Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery have found…
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I followed a different horoscope every day for a week and it bullshat on my soul — Hopes&Fears
I hate it when people tell me I am a typical Sagittarius. First of all, I see through your facade and can tell when you’re calling me a jerk. Secondly, being born in December isn’t why I am a jerk. Chemical imbalances and a childhood that primed me …
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Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You’re Thinking Of | VICE News
The rumbling started early Wednesday morning when a small earthquake was detected near a known nuclear test site in North Korea. Not long after, North Korean state media broadcast the announcement that the country had successfully tested a small hyd…
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Check Out This 360-Degree Panorama of Sand Dunes on Mars
As the Curiosity Mars rover continues its slow climb up Mt. Sharp, it paused to capture this stunning panoramic view of the Bagnold Dunes—a band of dark sand lining the northwestern flank of the mountain.
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Benghazi panel stretching longer than 9/11 Commission : politics
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Sunrise At Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, Utah [OC] [1600×698] : EarthPorn
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What a difference ONE YEAR can make! Spokey’s Update. : aww
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This one change would improve Twitter without losing its essence – Vox
Twitter has been the subject of much discussion lately, what with its slowing growth and stock troubles. Lately it has hinted at some changes, the goal of which seems to be to keep people within the “walled garden” of the app, like Facebook does wit…
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Wiivv Lets You Create Custom 3D-Printed Insoles | TechCrunch
After closing a $3.5M seed round last month, Wiivv is officially launching today at TechCrunch’s CES Hardware Battlefield. The startup’s first product, BASE, is a custom, 3D-printed insole, that just launched for preorder on Kickstarter.
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What Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Have in Common – The Atlantic
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Fifth Avenue Then and Now, a Century of Streetviews in New York City – The Atlantic
The New York Public Library has recently released even more digitized images from their vast collection, including more than 180,000 in the public domain.
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Detroit Public Schools Teeter On The Edge Of Bankruptcy | ThinkProgress
A little over a year after the city emerged from the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit’s public schools are still so mired in debt that they are redirecting nearly half of the money they get for students toward paying back cr…
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The Risks of Overusing CT Scans – The Atlantic
Jean Hanvik decided that enough was enough. When a painful intestinal inflammation flared in 2014, the 55-year-old benefits communications consultant balked at her doctor’s recommendation that she undergo another abdominal CT scan—her fourth in eigh…
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Oklahoma Fracking Company Defies Plan To Reduce Earthquakes | ThinkProgress
In this Nov. 14, 2013 photo a SandRidge Energy rig pumps oil near Anthony, Kan. The company has said it will not comply with a state request to reduce volume in wastewater disposal wells.
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Assist Has No App. It’s A Free Travel/Shopping Chat Bot For SMS And Fb Messenger | TechCrunch
You don’t care who delivers dinner or drives you home, as long as it gets done fast. That’s the idea behind Assist, a chat bot that aggregates APIs to let you text to interact with GrubHub, Eat24, Postmates, Uber, Lyft, OpenTable, StubHub, and more.
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Enrique Marquez Jr, who stands accused of buying the guns used in the San Bernardino attacks, has pleaded not guilty to the five charges he faces. Mr Marquez, 24, was shackled when he answered “not guilty” as he was asked for his plea.
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Morgan Parker’s “Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night” / Boing Boing
The title grabbed me in such a way, I had to buy Morgan Parker’s Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night without reading a single line. I tore through about half the poems, before realizing I was exhausted and emotionally drained.
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Wounded US soldiers evacuated from Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Two wounded US soldiers and the body of a third were evacuated from a battlefield in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday during a joint US-Afghan operation, the US military said.
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New study hints that we’re closing in on metallic hydrogen | Ars Technica
We tend to think of the properties of the chemical elements as immutable—a metal is a metal, and a gas is a gas. But all those properties are what we experience on Earth.
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How Much You Have to Make to Be in the Top 1% of Your State
1 percenters aren’t all millionaires. The household income threshold for being in the top 1% starts at $228K a year, depending on your state. That’s still a lot, of course, but totally doable if you and your partner both are in high-income professio…
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The UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It’s kind of disturbing. – Vox
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations — named after the secretary general who died in 1961 — doesn’t make the news very often.
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Beloved by Bill, Ted, Beavis, Butt-Head, and pretty much anyone who slept through high school English while wearing a frayed jean jacket, Iron Maiden has been entrancing metalheads for four decades with a potent mixture of guitar pyrotechnics, actua…
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Comedy Central Loves Broad City So Much It Ordered Two New Seasons | Vanity Fair
Just as 2015 was the year of Amy Schumer, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
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Kanye West spotlights the exuberant “Power” in Saints Row · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games.
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Boyz II Men to have a little East Coast fling with Grease: Live · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Motownphilly’s back again and hanging out at Rydell High, apparently—The Wrap reports that Fox has just added Boyz II Men to the cast of Grease: Live, the offer having been made on bended knee, we hope.
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The Hollywood Reporter brings the glorious news that Comedy Central has renewed Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s Broad City for a fourth and fifth season.
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Scotland warned to expect further ‘heavy and prolonged’ rain | UK news | The Guardian
Flood-weary communities across central and north-east Scotland have been told to expect further “heavy and prolonged” rain as the Met Office upgraded its weather warning for Thursday to amber “be prepared”.
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With Making A Murderer still picking up speed as it captures a streaming nation’s attention, there’s plenty of news and content related to the show hitting the internet on a daily basis.
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Frontier life is a hard life in this windswept Western · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Hateful Eight and The Revenant have us thinking about modern Westerns.
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New York Public Library does the public domain right The New York Public Library is aggressively digitizing the public domain works in its collections, adding high-quality machine-readable metadata to each of the hundreds of thousands of assets, pro…
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Charlie Hebdo Pays Tribute To Slain Contributors With Provocative Anniversary Issue | VICE News
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo released a special issue of the magazine on Wednesday, marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack that wiped out most of its editorial team.
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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Orders End To All Same-Sex Marriage Licenses | ThinkProgress
In a notably provocative legal order Wednesday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an order directing Alabama probate judges to not issue any marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Moore, himself an ardent opponent of marriage equa…
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Why North Korea’s Nuclear Test Isn’t Business As Usual | Mother Jones
There’s still plenty of doubt about whether North Korea did in fact detonate a sophisticated hydrogen bomb on Wednesday local time, or if the explosion that triggered a 5.1-magnitude earthquake was a nuclear test more akin to previous ones in 2006, …
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The single most important fact for understanding North Korea – Vox
North Korea: There is probably no other country on Earth that draws such obsessive fascination from Americans yet is so widely misunderstood. You can see it in the (many) portrayals of North Korea in American popular culture.
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The Guardian view on North Korea: a puzzle for China | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
Looking at the bizarre, sinister world of North Korea’s leadership, it is almost anyone’s guess why the world’s most reclusive regime decided to mark the new year by exploding a device it claimed was a hydrogen bomb, sending seismographs quivering a…
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Kids Can Learn To Code With Programmable Friendship Bracelets By Jewelbots | TechCrunch
I have no idea if friendship bracelets are still a thing, but Jewelbots is trying to bring them into the 21st century — and it’s trying to teach kids the basics of programming at the same time.
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Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 line, adds USB Type-C and a hint of style | Ars Technica
Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 line, adds USB Type-C and a hint of style https://t.co/8OmyTn6FZH https://t.co/eNW2NJZcKn
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Netflix now everywhere except North Korea, China, Syria, Crimea | Ars Technica
Netflix has decided that it’s no longer interested in incremental expansion to reach new markets.
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For most families, news that their son has been sentenced to 10 years in Yemeni jail without a chance to present a defense would be heartbreaking. But for the Mobleys of Buena, New Jersey, the ruling against their son comes as a relief. It may just …
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Reddit published a real book collecting its best AMAs / Boing Boing
Reddit has published a hardcover compendium of the editor’s favorite AMAs from r/IAmA. The 400 page tome, Ask Me Anything, includes AMAs with Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Martha Stewart, the Waffle House Grill Masters, Spike Lee, Bill Gates, Bette Midler…
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Video of a jewel-studded mechanical robot caterpillar, 1820 / Boing Boing
Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet created the “Ethiopian caterpillar” in 1820 (or thereabouts) for a wealthy Chinese collector. It’s covered in gold and encrusted in jewels and peals. It was sold at Sotheby’s in 2010 for $415,215.
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Trucks have hit this low bridge more than 100 times, and officials still haven’t fixed it – Vox
The federal government recommends that bridges on public roads have a clearance of at least 14 feet. This ensures that trucks shorter than the maximum truck height — 13 feet, 6 inches in most states — can pass underneath them safely.
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Stereolabs’s Depth-Sensing Camera Helps Robots, Drones And Cars See | TechCrunch
Stereolabs’s ZED stereo camera is a Kinect-like sensor that allows developers to build depth-sensing into their devices. Say you want to build obstacle avoidance into a robot or drone. To do that, you need to have a basic idea of what’s around the m…
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Half the World’s People Live on 1 Percent of Its Land – The Atlantic
In the simple map above lies a stark spatial imbalance: Half the people in the world cram into just one percent of the Earth’s surface (in yellow), and the other half sprawl across the remaining 99 percent (in black).
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Your Favorite Kitchen Trash Cans: Simplehuman
Nominations for your favorite kitchen trash can went about as you’d expect, with various Simplehuman’s stainless steel models rising to the top of the garbage heap. There are several different shapes and sizes you can choose from, all of them as bea…
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The UN Security Council says it will begin work immediately on new measures against North Korea, after Pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb. The council condemned the test, saying “a clear threat to international peace and security continues…
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FOX’s Grease Live Casts Three Perfectly 90s Teen Angels | Vanity Fair
Of all the many weird and wonderful casting decisions made in this new era of live musicals on television, this may now be our all-time favorite.
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Set Aside a “Maintenance Day” for Your Less Important Tasks
Most of us have things we have to do every week that are necessary but don’t have a great impact on your professional or personal progress. Fast Company advises taking all those tasks and doing them on a day set aside for them.
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Parker Millsap Plans New Album, ‘The Very Last Day’ | Rolling Stone
Oklahoma native Parker Millsap turned a lot of heads after releasing his self-titled album in 2014, whether from the striking maturity of his songs or the otherworldly blues-tinged howl that relayed them.
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Mystery Solved? How Sharks Find Their Way Home
How sharks navigate the vast and seemingly featureless ocean has long been a mystery. Now there’s evidence they may follow their noses. Sharks rely on their sense of smell to help chart a path through the ever-shifting waters of the deep seas, accor…
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Finland and Estonia have agreed to look into building an undersea railway tunnel connecting their capitals. The tunnel – expected to cost up to 13bn euros (£10bn; $14bn) – would link up Helsinki and Tallinn, which are separated by the Baltic Sea.
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Novelist Marlon James: Jamaica’s Rebel Son | Rolling Stone
You cannot fuck with Marlon James. Those days are over.
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A hotel under the stars [OC][2,048×1,331] : spaceporn
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The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen : space
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A Montreal man who left Canada to join the Islamic State in 2013 — and starred in two of its propaganda videos — has abandoned the “stupid” militant group that he says is incapable of protecting Muslims on their own territory.
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History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
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Bitmoji, the silly cartoon avatars that say everything you can’t.
I turned 30 this past year, and like many Americans who are finally ready to grow up, I created a tiny little version of myself. Ever since she came into my life, I’ve been overjoyed, and a little obsessed.
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Ex-copyright troll now sends letters inviting “pirates” to join fan-clubs / Boing Boing
Tommy Funderburk used to be a copyright troll whose company, Payartists, sent legal threats to people accused of copyright infringement, though they didn’t represent any actual artists (the closest they came was in representing Frank Zappa’s widow).
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History Channel Snaps Up Jeremy Renner’s Scripted Drama About the Knights Templar
While it may sometimes seem that History exclusively airs back-to-back episodes of Pawn Stars, the cable channel will soon be adding a new scripted drama to its schedule: Knightfall, about the Knights Templar. And it’s got major star power behind it…
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Brain games like Lumosity are snake oil. Don’t waste your money. – Vox
Americans are hooked on brain-boosting apps.
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Head, Hands and Feet get their show on the road / Boing Boing
David writes, “TSA is out of control. We made a video compilation of some of TSA’s greatest hits.” Punk icon Jello Biafra’s acting showreel, used as a resume-of-sorts in the TV/movie business, features his moments in Portlandia, Death and Taxes, Tap…
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Kodak introduces a new Super 8 film camera / Boing Boing
Some people prefer vinyl LPs over MP3s. And it’s likely that some people would rather make films instead of videos. That’s one reason why the Eastman Kodak Co. announced it will make a Super 8 film camera again.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beats Avatar to Become the Biggest Movie of All Time | Vanity Fair
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has made more than $761 million at the domestic box office, not only besting Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time, but doing so at an astonishing pace.
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How my daughter and I make Adventure Breakfast / Boing Boing
A hot, filling breakfast is important to get my kid’s school day off to a good start! I’m a disorganized mess of a dad who frequently wakes up late. Luckily, we’ve come up with Adventure Breakfast, a method that leaves us with piping hot oatmeal rea…
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“Low Sugar” Diets Are Overtaking “Low Fat” in Google Trends – The Atlantic
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TSA screener insists that full-body screening is mandatory / Boing Boing
Saizai, who is seeking an injunction against the TSA’s new mandatory full-body screening test (but only for people they don’t like), flew out of SEA-TAC on Dec 31 and was told that the full-body scanner was mandatory.
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Inside a Salon on Wheels for the Homeless – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Matt Damon Says Sylvester Stallone Changed His Life | Vanity Fair
Nearly four decades after first appearing as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone reprises his iconic role for the seventh time in the spin-off sequel film Creed, which has catapulted him back in the spotlight and as the surprise awards-s…
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“Not everyone ‘digs’ underground movies, but those who do can ‘dig’ ’em here.
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Why Do We Keep Comparing Trump and Sanders? | New Republic
Comparing Senator Bernie Sanders with reality television star Donald Trump has become something of an election-watching pastime.
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Miley Cyrus Is Now Skipping Performances to Be with Liam Hemsworth | Vanity Fair
This year is proving to be the year of celebrity-couple reunions. Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner caused something of a Tumblr meltdown when they met up on a yacht over New Year’s (joined, for maximum strangeness, by not only both their moms but als…
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Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, and Conan just made the best Conan sketch in recent memory – Vox
If there is a higher being, this new Conan sketch will, in the near future, become the premise of a full-fledged television show. In a round of promotion for their movie Ride Along 2, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube joined Conan and one of his employees, Di…
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Father John Misty is not, nor he is he likely to become in the foreseeable future, the next Ed Sheeran in terms of sales or media exposure. And yet, the Maryland-born singer-songwriter, also known as J.
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The face of Crystal Skull Vodka
You know the vodka that comes in the Crystal Skull head?1 A forensic scientist used facial reconstruction techniques to give the skull a face.
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Last Night’s Bradley Cooper-Filled Limitless Was a Roller Coaster of Emotions
Bradley Cooper, star of the original Limitless movie and an executive producer of the CBS TV version, has made most of his appearances on the show (including the time he voiced a talking CGI fetus).
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North Korea Claims It Tested Hydrogen Bomb but Is Doubted https://t.co/l734ojojyK https://t.co/O0Xcep5dK1
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Former NSA Official Tells UK Politicians Mass Surveillance Risks Citizen Safety | Motherboard
What if mass surveillance was not only ineffective, but a potential danger to the safety of citizens? That’s the argument made by one former intelligence official.
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Jason Mantzoukas is writing the Battling Boy movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When we first reported on the development of a Battling Boy movie, details were sparse. All we knew was that Patrick Osbourne, a Disney employee who had directed the company’s Academy Award-winning animated short Feast, had been tapped to helm the p…
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These Star Clusters Could Be the First Place We Find Alien Life | Motherboard
Densely packed stellar balls, known as globular clusters, could be the best places to search for alien life, according to research presented today at the 227th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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A handful of comparisons spring to mind when watching the new trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s lavish Netflix musical series, The Get Down. It’s HBO’s Vinyl! It’s Empire! It’s West Side Story! But one thing it does not look like is a Baz Luhrmann producti…
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How 3D Printing Threatens Our Patent System – Scientific American
Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files—usually digital music—that infringed the copyrights for those songs. Now imagine that, instead of music, you could download a physical object.
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How Canada’s Cybercrime Problems Differ From the US | Motherboard
When you think about high-profile hacking, you probably don’t think of Canada. (You may also know us as Less Important America.) It’s fine, seriously—everyone knows that we’ve got a weird inferiority complex thing going on up here.
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Samuel L. Jackson Calls B.S. on Trump’s Golf Game – The Daily Beast
Former Grantland staffer Alex Pappademas casually asked his interview subject, actor Samuel L. Jackson, if the rumors are true that he is “golf buddies” with Donald Trump. “I would never say buddies,” Jackson replied. “Or friends. I’ve golfed with h…
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s declaration on Wednesday that it had detonated a hydrogen bomb for the first time was the latest destabilizing move from one of the world’s most isolated and unpredictable countries.
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A day inside Des Moines’ only abortion provider | Fusion
DES MOINES, Iowa—Rebecca didn’t want to go to Planned Parenthood, but she also didn’t want to be pregnant. So she looked for other options.
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‘She’s a Punk Rocker UK’: Watch the documentary on England’s female punk pioneers|Dangerous Minds
She’s a Punk Rocker UK is a useful corrective to the male-dominated arena of U.K. punk directed by Zillah Minx, formerly of the day-glo anarcho-punk group Rubella Ballet. It came out in 2010 but hasn’t been available to watch online until a few days…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Whiskered loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Listen to the sounds of 18th century Paris / Boing Boing
Musicologist Mylène Pardoen and a team of 3D artists created this “sonic tableaux” of 18th century Paris based on a 1781 map and numerous historical documents and research on what Paris’s Grand Châtelet district, between the Pont au Change and Pont …
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Netflix launches in 130 new countries, but not in China, Syria, or North Korea / Boing Boing
Big streaming content news out of CES this morning: Netflix is now live in 130 additional countries, which makes its service available to billions of new users. The most notable exception: China. CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement at the annual…
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An ode to TSA screeners / Boing Boing
Punk icon Jello Biafra’s acting showreel, used as a resume-of-sorts in the TV/movie business, features his moments in Portlandia, Death and Taxes, Tapeheads, The Hipster Games, and others. (via Dangerous Minds)
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Find the Right Pork Cut to Buy at a Glance with This Infographic
Pork labels can be pretty confusing. There’s blade steak and shoulder blade steak, country style ribs and back ribs. This graphic shows which cut to buy based on your cooking method and your budget.
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Iraq has offered to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the dispute sparked by the Gulf kingdom’s execution of a dissident Shia Muslim cleric. Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said if tensions were allowed to escalate, the entire region could b…
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The leader of an Oregon Paiute Indian tribe joined on Wednesday the chorus of residents of the local community in calling for the armed militia camped out at a local federal wildlife refuge to give up their fight and go home.
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Man pleads not guilty to supplying weapons used in San Bernardino attack | US news | The Guardian
The man accused of illegally supplying the weapons used in the December mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, pleaded not guilty to five federal charges on Wednesday, including conspiring with one of the shooters to commit separate and unreal…
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Christian college moves to fire professor who said Muslims worship same god | US news | The Guardian
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, confirmed the decision at a press conference on Wednesday.
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Seismometers detect underground atomic bomb test in North Korea | Ars Technica
Just last week we had occasion to mention that seismometers are used to detect secret nuclear weapons tests as well as earthquakes. (That mention came in a story about seismometers detecting munitions explosions during fighting in Baghdad in 2006.) …
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Visible Light from a Black Hole Spotted by Telescope, a First
For the first time, astronomers have seen dim flickers of visible light from near a black hole, researchers with an international science team said. In fact, the light could be visible to anyone with a moderate-size telescope.
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If Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn were each to represent British versus American children’s literature, a curious dynamic would emerge: One defeats evil with a wand, the other takes to a raft to right a social wrong.
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Ted Cruz Is Placing The Biggest Bet On The South | FiveThirtyEight
What did you do this December? Gain 5 pounds? Yell at a relative? If you were a presidential candidate, you probably traveled to Iowa or New Hampshire and shook the hands of locals toting around that fruitcake weight and seething at their kin — unle…
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6 great reasons to give up shrimp for good | Grist
Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slowdown. The Seychelles deal cancels $30 million in national debt and protects a piece of ocean th…
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Another Hedge Fund Says They’re Done with Marissa Mayer | Vanity Fair
For months, Yahoo and its executives have faced mounting criticism and calls for action as the sprawling technology company has fumbled to figure out a plan for its Internet business.
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Eat it, Avatar: According to The Hollywood Reporter, the surprise hit independent sci-fi film Star Wars: The Force Awakens has just surpassed James Cameron’s Dances With Na’vi to become the highest-grossing movie of all time at the U.S. box office.
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What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas – The New Yorker
It’s nice to see George Lucas get a little love (as Bryan Curtis noted this week). Yet this retroactive recognition is nonetheless proof that a filmmaker can be both rich as Croesus and assured of a place in history while still remaining a misunders…
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RJD2 Mines Philly Soul, Social Unrest on New LP, ‘Dame Fortune’ | Rolling Stone
Philadelphia producer RJD2 is impossible to pin down. Over the past two decades, the crate-digging sonic chameleon has explored hip-hop, psychedelia and singer-songwriter styles, blending obscure samples with live instrumentation.
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Hermione Shoves Harry Aside: How I Learned To Subvert the “Chosen One” Trope
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Netflix just announced that they added 130 new countries today : television
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Watch these tough little kids duke it out in the ring! / Boing Boing
This is footage from the 45th annual Junior Boxing Program Championships, held in 1964. From History’s Playlist: The Naval Junior Boxing Program was founded in 1919 by Spike Webb, and was made available to the children of naval Officers and cadets s…
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Black Holes Can Make Stars Actually Twinkle | Video
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Ammon Bundy is the leader of the domestic terror group that has occupied the Malheur National Widlife Refuge Building near Burns, Oregon because they believe the US federal government is an illegitimate, oppressive entity that must be stopped.
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David Bowie Does Jazz His Way – The Daily Beast
David Bowie has reinvented himself again and again over the course of a crazy-quilt half-century plus career. There have been so many strange ch-ch-ch-changes in his public persona, I’ve lost count. But which performer is the real Mr. Bowie?
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Rams owner Stan Kroenke rips ‘lagging’ St Louis market as he seeks move to LA | Sport | The Guardian
The NFL would benefit most by moving the Rams to Los Angeles, leaving behind a St Louis market that lags economically and a stadium proposal doomed for failure, the team said in their relocation application provided to the Associated Press on Wednes…
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Corbyn attacks PM over flood defences – but his own defence needs work | Environment | The Guardian
David Cameron buttoned up his mac and clumped his way into the chamber. Striding authoritatively is always tricky when you’re wearing wellies. Even when they are green Hunters.
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Hermione Shoves Harry Aside: How I Learned To Subvert the “Chosen One” Trope
So I had this idea of Nazi artifact hunters crossed with a Harry Potter-type young hero who inherits one of those artifacts. At the time I was planning on writing a science fiction novel, but when I thought about it… Come on, how could I not write a…
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Do Prosecutors Have Too Much Power? – The Daily Beast
Outraged by our criminal justice system after binge watching Making a Murderer? You’re not alone. The highly viewed Netflix series has shined an even bigger spotlight on the national conversation surrounding criminal prosecution.
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The New York Public Library’s Huge Online Trove of Public Domain Images – The Atlantic
Oh, hello, my new favorite Internet rabbit hole. The New York Public library has digitized more than 187,000 images, all in the public domain—meaning they’re freely available for anyone to use. And not just that: They’re organized beautifully.
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Depressing photos of an aging mall devoid of shoppers during the holidays|Dangerous Minds
Editor and former photographer for her high school newspaper and yearbook, took a trip back in time just before Christmas last year and paid a visit to a mall where she and her friends spent countless hours, the Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pen…
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What Is a Brewery Doing at CES? | Motherboard
Shock Top told me at a Tuesday evening event called Digital Experience that it wanted to help raise consumer awareness of water conservation efforts.
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The 44 Most Wondrous Places to Visit in 2016 | Atlas Obscura
Inside Salina Turda, a salt mine in Romania. (Photo: Gabriel Tocu/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 4.0) The options are overwhelming, but we’re here to help—Atlas Obscura staff have combed our 8000-strong places database and come up with 44 suggestions for yo…
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We are Living in the Golden Age of the Goatee | Atlas Obscura
A triple portrait of Charles I by painter Anthony Van Dyck. Both men helped popularize the goatee in the 17th century. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)
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Netflix Launches In 130 New Countries, Including India But Not China | TechCrunch
U.S. movie streaming giant Netflix just dropped the hammer and opened its service in 130 new countries, including India and Russia — but crucially not China. The surprise announcement came at CES 2016, where the company had expected to announce its …
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Facial Flex: terrifying facial muscle exerciser / Boing Boing
Even when producing infomercials extolling its own product’s virtues, the people behind Facial Flex can’t prevent their fundamental creepiness from shining through. Dean posted this in ’11, but you should probably watch it at least twice a decade to…
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Watch The TechCrunch CES Live Stream Right Here | TechCrunch
CES is the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show, giving attendees the opportunity to check out the latest and greatest in gadgetry and the highest possible chance of contracting influenza.
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The sunken treasures of a Paris canal | World news | The Guardian
Curious crowds had gathered on the arched footbridges that criss-cross Paris’s favourite hipster hang-out, the Canal Saint-Martin, craning to get a look at the oddities poking out of the mysterious brown sludge below.
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America’s Food System Could Be More Vulnerable to Climate Change Than We Thought | Mother Jones
For billions of people around the world, the most immediate threat posed by climate change is at the dinner table, as staple crops face a steadily worsening onslaught of drought, heat waves, and other extreme weather events.
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A New School In Georgia Offers LGBT Students A Safe Haven From Bullying | ThinkProgress
A new private school in Georgia that wants to provide a safe space for LGBT students, Pride School Atlanta, will open this fall. It will be the first school of its kind in the state and models itself after the Harvey Milk school in New York, accordi…
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SpaceX’s Next Steps Toward Rocket Reusability | TechCrunch
Over the weekend, SpaceX revealed that there was no damage found on their recovered Falcon 9 and it was ready to be fired again. SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, shared some of the first photos of the rocket from a hangar at Cape Canaveral.
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How to Get Your Kids Interested in STEM (Without Forcing It on Them)
Hopefully your kids are getting a great education in science, technology, engineering, and math at school, but chances are those classes aren’t enough to instill a lifelong interest in these fields for most kids.
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The Most Chilling Political Appointment That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of | ThinkProgress
Unless you’re unusually familiar with libertarian legal activists (or you are a Republican presidential candidate) you probably have never heard the name “Clint Bolick.” But Mr.
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How does it happen? How does an astronomically expensive yet astonishingly successful science-fiction blockbuster by one of the world’s most famous directors dominate popular culture for months on end, only to disappear without a trace from the publ…
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‘Touch of Evil’: The movie that finished Orson Welles in Hollywood|Dangerous Minds
In February 1957, Orson Welles walked onto to Stage 19 at Universal Studios to begin directing his first Hollywood movie in almost a decade—Touch of Evil.
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What We’re Following Wednesday Afternoon, 1/6 – The Atlantic
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Volunteer Bikers Save Lives by Delivering Blood in Dead of Night
For the past ten years, John Stepney has spent his nights and holidays delivering blood, breast milk, vaccines, medical equipment, test results, and other vital materials to hospitals in England. But he doesn’t drive an ambulance or a car … he makes…
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Alexander Skarsgård to return to HBO to tell Big Little Lies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been a while since Alexander Skarsgård towered over his co-stars (except for Joe Manganiello) in an HBO series, but he’ll soon be flanked by Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in the upcoming drama, Big Little Lies.
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The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West. In some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nevada, the majority of land is owned by the federal government. Of course, it used to own nearly all of it.
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Beer crate curling on the frozen streets of Groningen, the Netherlands : gifs
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A beer froze in my buddy’s fridge and bent the freezer rack above it. : pics
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2016 Will Be the Year Box Office Records Don’t Matter Anymore | Inverse
Do you realize how much money The Force Awakens has made so far? It’s a lot. In fact, as of right now it stands at upwards of $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office, putting it at No. 4 on the list of highest grossing movies of all time. Disney an…
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The US Department of Justice is suing Volkswagen for $48 billion over alleged violations of the US Clean Air Act, according to Reuters.
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NZ police broke the law when they raided investigative journalist’s home / Boing Boing
The New Zealand High Court has ruled that the NZ police broke the law in 2014 when they raided the home of Nicky Hager, an investigative journalist whose work was sharply critical of the NZ government, and who was working on Snowden-related disclosu…
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Netflix has gone live in nearly every country in the world. The firm announced it had switched on its service in 130 additional countries, but was still not able to stream video in China.
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On December 30th, someone using an IP address from the 32nd Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg sent a probe out to every IPv4 address with an open connection on Port 80, consisting of a poem exhorting the reader to “DELETE your logs. Delete yo…
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Oil price falls below $35 a barrel to fresh 11-year low : worldnews
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A Space Black Milanese Loop Band For Apple Watch Spotted On Apple’s Online Store | TechCrunch
Whoops! It appears Apple accidentally leaked imagery and details regarding a new Apple Watch band, a “Space Black” Milanese Loop, which briefly appeared on various international Apple Store websites, including the one in the Czech Republic.
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This Futuristic Exploration Vehicle Is a ‘Swiss Army Knife on Wheels’ | Motherboard
Imagine the travel vehicle of the future and you probably don’t picture a caravan. But a group of LA-based designers and engineers are taking the idea of an exploration vehicle away from the traditional Winnebago-type RV and to a kind of souped-up u…
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The iPhone of slide rules / Boing Boing
I have vague memories of my older scientist brother Mark wearing a slide rule in a leather case on his belt. It was really one of the first wearable computers, although a mechanical, analog one.
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Why Donald Trump is casting birther aspersions on Canadian-born Ted Cruz – Vox
Senator Ted Cruz, who is currently leading in the polls for the Republican Iowa caucuses, was born in Canada (Calgary, to be exact). Donald Trump, who is currently second in the polls for the Republican Iowa caucuses, claims to be very concerned abo…
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This Is the Steven Universe Moment That Cartoon Network UK Doesn’t Want British Kids to See
Steven Universe is a show that prides itself in subverting gender sterotypes and championing non-binary displays of love, so two feminine characters dancing seems like a pretty mild thing to worry about.
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Send Automatic, Recurring Square Cash Payments With This IFTTT Recipe
Let’s say your roommate takes care of the rent, and you need to send her a check for your half every month. You could easily set up some monthly reminders, but better yet, make this task entirely automatic.
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Cricket: Hashim Amla quits as South Africa test captain – Al Jazeera English
Hashim Amla has quit as South Africa’s test captain in a surprise move in the middle of the four-test series against England. Amla, 32, said after the drawn second test at Newlands on Wednesday that he was stepping down immediately.
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The final Anfield memorial service to remember 96 football fans who died at Hillsborough will take place in April. Memorial services have been held at Liverpool’s stadium in most of the 26 years since the disaster.
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Rouhani Seeks Prosecution of Embassy Attackers | Al Jazeera America
President Hassan Rouhani asked Iran’s judiciary on Wednesday to urgently prosecute the people who attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran in protest at the kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric.
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He doesn’t even care if you turn the water on. : aww
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Ridiculously Photogenic Old Timey Criminal. : pics
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Living in a van has its perks : pics
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The chairman of the Environment Agency has said he wished he had returned earlier from a Christmas holiday in Barbados to help deal with flooding in northern England.
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Bernie Sanders on small money donations vs sucking up to billionaires / Boing Boing
Bernie Sanders, who smashed Obama’s record for small-money donors in December and blew through his own fundraising goals, writes about the difference between raising lots of small sums from individual Americans and chasing huge donations from Americ…
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T-Mobile added another 8.3 million customers in 2015 | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA added 8.3 million customers last year, including 2.1 million in the fourth quarter, solidifying its position as the country’s number three wireless carrier ahead of Sprint and behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T. T-Mobile had 63.
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Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data threatens democracy / Boing Boing
I was hugely impressed with Cathy “Mathbabe” O’Neil’s talk at Personal Democracy Forum 2015, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” in which she laid out the way that the “opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable” conclusions of Big Data threatens fairness an…
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NYPL puts 180,000 public domain images online
Really putting the “public” in “public library”, the New York Public Library has placed 180,000 public domain items online.
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What Is the Flu Virus? – Scientific American
It’s that time of year again – when our noses start to drain, our throats feel like we swallowed a golf ball, and our muscles feel like we aged 30 years. Yes, it’s flu season.
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Hydrogen bombs versus atomic bombs, explained – Vox
North Korea’s government claims it has successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb. For now experts are very skeptical of that claim. They agree that North Korea likely tested some sort of atomic weapon on Tuesday, but it remains to be seen wha…
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Needle Exchange Programs Now Get Fed Support – Scientific American
In 1988 the U.S. government instituted a ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs for people who inject street drugs. Here’s a quote from an article in the July 1998 issue of Scientific American on HIV prevention:
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Netflix to make sexy psychological thriller, amount of sex undetermined · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It seems Netflix might be longing for the old days, when its infant streaming service was forced to rely on things like foreign softcore to pad its content. (Not that you can’t still delve into the ambiguously titillating “steamy romantic movies” se…
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A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong. – Vox
Silicon Valley philosopher king Paul Graham’s essay on inequality has set tech Twitter on fire for the past few days. It’s about as intensely loved and hated as any piece on the topic I can remember. Which makes sense, because it manages to jam some…
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On ‘Craigslist for guns’, Obama’s gun control actions have little impact | US news | The Guardian
The founder of America’s largest peer-to-peer firearm sales website – known as the “Craigslist for guns” – has said that Barack Obama’s executive actions on gun control are “well-meaning but ultimately ineffective”. Jonathan Gibbon, the founder of A…
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November’s Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Continued Economic Damage
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the November goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $42.4 billion. This is for just one month, not an entire year. This is down $2.2 billion – 5 percent – from October’s enormous, h…
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Prince George Officially Starts Nursery School, Sports Adorable Backpa | Vanity Fair
It’s been a very exciting start to the New Year for Prince George, as the future King started nursery school in Norfolk today, Kensington Palace has confirmed. The nearly two-and-a-half-year-old prince had a “good” first day at Westacre Montessori, …
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The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has been put on sale at a price of $599 (£410). Pre-orders for the CV1 version of the headset are now officially open and the device can be bought via the Oculus website.
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Donald Trump’s Debut on the National Stage in the 1980s – The Atlantic
In 1980, a 33-year-old Donald Trump sat down with Tom Brokaw to talk real estate in New York City, predicting that investments in inner cities would do well in the long run and that, five years out, a hotel room in NYC might fetch $1,000 per night. …
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Foe of President Erdogan Charged in Turkey | Al Jazeera America
Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. His passport was revoked in February 2015.
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Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid Can Afford to Live in Manhattan | Vanity Fair
Two days ago, on Monday, a 20-year-old and a 22-year-old went apartment hunting in Soho, in Manhattan. Frankly, it’s sort of beside the point that the 20-year-old was model Gigi Hadid and that the 22-year-old was her boyfriend, former One Direction …
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The Oregon Militia’s Mormon Leader Is Getting Snubbed By The Mormon Church | VICE News
The Mormon Church has rejected assertions made by the leader of an armed militia that he could use Mormon scripture to justify storming and occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon this week.
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This week we’re barely putting up with Long Island Medium · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
The final season of Downton Abbey, finally. Maggie Smith only has so much turn-of-the-century side-eye left to give. Pringles’ revolting Hot Diggity Dog flavor. Turns out once you pop, you can stop if the chips inside the can smell like old hot dog …
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How ‘The Dress’ exposes viral media’s shaky future | Fusion
ecilia Bleasdale was mulling over an outfit for her daughter Grace’s wedding, at a Roman Originals store about 30 minutes outside of Liverpool in early February 2015. The 57-year-old snapped photos of three possible dresses and texted them to Grace.
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Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian school outside Chicago, has begun the firing process for a tenured professor who was put on leave last month after she said Christians and Muslims worship the same god.
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Meet The Startups Participating In Hardware Battlefield 2016 At CES | TechCrunch
Today, we are thrilled to introduce the Hardware Battlefield 2016 participants. These startups represent what we at TechCrunch feel are the most interesting, most promising early stage hardware companies being built.
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Amazon customer complains, finds spiteful 10-inch dildo in his shopping basket | Ars Technica
On a fateful day in October 2015, Pedro—an IT contractor living in Ireland—was surfing Amazon.de for a specialised textbook he needed for a new extracurricular art class. He found the book, ordered it, but was disappointed when it arrived.
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From Charlie Hebdo attacks to a state of emergency – Al Jazeera English
French police have raided hundreds of homes, restaurants and mosques in the two months since the deadly November 13 attacks in the French capital carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
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Why Republicans Are Changing Their Approach To Drug Addicts | ThinkProgress
It’s been over 25 years since Congress decided to ban the use of federal dollars for programs that distribute sterile syringes to intravenous drug users, over the objections of scientists and health experts.
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The Director of Ex Machina Is Recruiting a Trio of Awesome Lady Scientists for His Next Movie
Before Alex Garland blew our minds with Ex Machina, we already knew he was a force, as he’d been writing great movies long before he started directing them. Now it sounds like his next film—another scifi movie—is on the same track, as three amazing …
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Judge sets bail for former cop filmed killing an unarmed man, but delivers blow to his defense team
Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer seen on cell phone video shooting an unarmed Walter Scott in the back numerous times in April of 2015, has been granted bail.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now the highest-grossing film in U.S. history. In just 20 days, it’s surpassed the $760.5 million James Cameron’s Avatar grossed in 34 weeks, but now it sets its sights on the seemingly insurmountable $2.79 billion in…
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Republicans in Congress ended the decades-long funding ban on needle exchange programs – Vox
Republicans in Congress ended the decades-long funding ban on needle exchange programs https://t.co/IuM1DQ8N8v https://t.co/8vzUMjhmUF
In December, Congress quietly made a huge change to help combat HIV: It effectively lifted the federal funding ban on needle exchange programs, which provide clean needles — meaning syringes that aren’t infected with HIV — to drug users. -
Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages / Boing Boing
Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages https://t.co/6YFZYpAMh3 https://t.co/5ozaqRKNw8
Subprime mortgages began as a project to extend credit to poor people to give them a bridge to home-ownership, but it did so by allowing unscrupulous lenders to offer credit on unfair terms, with government guarantees to back the loans, even the bad… -
Who’s Been Killing the Feral Peacocks of Palos Verdes? – Los Angeles Magazine
Kirk Retz was home one Sunday afternoon when a neighbor called him about a dead peacock. This was in early 2012, before it occurred to him to start keeping records, so he can’t be sure who phoned.
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Google Announces New Chromecast Audio And Android TV Hardware Partners | TechCrunch
You could be forgiven if you had already forgotten about Android TV, but Google’s one-year-old Android-based successor to its ill-fated Google TV project is still around and kicking.
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Migrants crisis: Turkey police seize fake life jackets – BBC News
Police in Turkey say they have confiscated more than 1,000 fake life jackets made for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece. Officers raided a workshop in the port of Izmir, where they say they found life jackets stuffed with packaging …
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Identilock Is A Mobile Gun Lock That Keeps Firearms Secure | TechCrunch
If a parent makes the choice to keep a firearm in their home, a key decision that follows should be a decision on how to keep the gun protected from kids in the home.
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BBC Sport – Prince Ali: Fifa presidential candidate ‘tough enough’ for job
Fifa presidential candidate Prince Ali of Jordan says he is “tough enough” to lead football’s world governing body. He also insisted he could be trusted as he attempts to bring about “real change” at the crisis-hit organisation.
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Pinterest Hires Its First-Ever Head Of Diversity | TechCrunch
Pinterest has hired Candice Morgan, formerly of Catalyst, to work as the unicorn startup’s first-ever head of diversity.
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“Skies of Concrete”: Life in Leftover Spaces – The New Yorker
The Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacher first became interested in life in the hidden crevices of urbanized landscapes after discovering a house that had been built between two bridges in her native city of Vienna.
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Samantha Hunt’s Literary Mixtape: how to be a deranged cult leader | Books | The Guardian
Do you remember mixtapes? Did you ever sit next to a radio/stereo/computer with a notepad, a few tracks in mind, and a heart that beats? How about the thrill of receiving one? Well, we’ve asked some of our favorite authors to make us a mixtape.
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What is the best music to listen to while reading? | Books | The Guardian
The pairing of music and literature offers a universe of possibilities. From the best songs to listen to while reading certain books, to authors’ choices as soundtracks for their writing, to music featured in books, or loved by characters: we can’t …
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Listen to an Excerpt of Portlandia’s First Audiobook | Vanity Fair
Portlandia’s Candace Devereaux isn’t just the co-owner of Portland’s Women and Women First Bookstore. She’s also the author of The Brussels to Antwerp Express, a travelogue that’s now available to pre-order, for free, in audiobook form.
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Ukrainian social media users have called for a boycott of Coca-Cola after it posted a festive map of Russia that included Crimea. The company originally posted a map that excluded the annexed peninsula, but backtracked when it received protest from …
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Watch Courtney Love’s Raw Cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Courtney Love’s Raw Cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ Christina Aguilera also tackles John Lennon’s “Mother” at private Los Angeles gig
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Backroad Anthem Release Video to Honor Craig Strickland | Rolling Stone
Backroad Anthem Release Video to Honor Craig Strickland Filmed months before his death, clip for “Torn” shows country singer “doing what he loved”
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The Bounty Hunters – Al Jazeera English
Two of the Philippines’ most wanted men were recently arrested after being on the run since 2012, thanks to a tip-off from an informant. The bounty for their capture was $90,000.
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When I Am President, There Will Be No International Phone Numbers – The New Yorker
Thank you all for being here. I hope you know how much I appreciate your support. It’s been a long road, but we’re almost at its end, and let me tell you, I can see the light.
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BURNS, Ore. — They used to call it Bundyville, a dot of the arid Wild West where in 1916, a Mormon pioneer named Abraham Bundy staked out a homestead in a sea of northern Arizona sagebrush.
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From its very inception, Donald Trump’s campaign for president has been life imitating Twitter.
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For home cooks, it’s all too easy to fall into a vegetable rut. Coming up with main courses for weeknight dinners is hard enough; very often, vegetables are the afterthought.
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This family portrait will make you smile : aww
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Crescent earth from the Apollo 11, landed on the moon : space
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The Secret, Hypocritical Gay World of ISIS – The Daily Beast
The murder of a 15-year-old teenager, thrown to his death by ISIS for being gay, not only reveals—yet again—the terror group’s murderous homophobia, but also the hypocrisy that exists alongside it.
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It was crunchtime for Samantha Bee. With the clock ticking down to the Feb.
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Aomawa Shields: How we’ll find life on other planets | TED Talk | TED.com
Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she isn’t exploring the heavens, the classically trained actor (and TED Fellow) looks for ways to e…
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Snapcha Stops Selling Animated Selfie Lenses To Focus On Free Rainbow Puke And Ads | TechCrunch
Buy your rainbow puke, heart eyes, or demon face Snapchat selfie lenses now, because then you’ll get to keep them after it shuts down its lens store this Friday.
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When you take a prescription drug in the United States, you can be reasonably sure of what’s in it.
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Fires sparked by ISIL attacks spread at Libya oil ports – Al Jazeera English
Fires caused by clashes between fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and security forces at Libya’s biggest oil ports have spread to five oil storage tanks that were still burning on Wednesday.
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An HBO executive explains why True Detective season 2 kind of sucked · Newswire · The A.V. Club
First of all, let’s agree that viewer opinions regarding the second season of HBO’s True Detective have been conflicting, at best. Some of us thought it was a damn fine show, and no amount of grimacing Rachel McAdams memes are going to change that.
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You Can Finally Preorder the Oculus Rift Right Now for $600
Want an Oculus Rift? Go order one. They cost $600, plus the price of whatever powerful computer you’ll need for VR. (Your dusty old PC probably won’t work, by the way.) Preorders are open right now, and the device will start shipping on March 28.
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German Police Identify Suspects After Mass Sexual Assault by up to 1,000 Men | VICE News
German police have identified three suspects in connection with mass attacks on women at New Year celebrations in the city of Cologne, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia said on Wednesday.
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RZA Puts an End to Nonexistent Feud with Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli | Vanity Fair
With everyone from federal agents to presidential candidates dumping on Martin Shkreli over the last few months, one man, and one man alone, seems to be taking the high road when it comes to the infamous pharma bro.
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The morning light made her look interesting today : cats
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Virgin Galactic’s Second SpaceShipTwo Spaceliner in Pictures
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Kobe Bryant’s ‘light-skinned’ remark hints at NBA’s peculiar racial politics | Sport | The Guardian
At Tuesday night’s Warriors-Lakers game at Staples Center, it was hard not to notice the vocal contingent of Golden State fans infesting Los Angeles’s home gym. We’re about a seven-hour drive from Oakland, but the reigning NBA champions command quit…
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Before the New Year, we brought you footage of Russian polymathic inventor Léon Theremin demonstrating the strange instrument that bears his surname, and we noted that the Theremin was the first electronic instrument.
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The Israeli Army Unit That Recruits Teens with Autism – The Atlantic
TEL AVIV—For eight hours a day, E., 21, sits in front of multiple computer screens, scanning high-resolution satellite images for suspicious objects or movements.
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The hidden drugs in your favorite supplements
When you take a prescription drug in the United States, you can be reasonably sure of what’s in it.
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What Will Become of America’s Office Parks as They Go Out of Fashion? – The Atlantic
A report from the real-estate-service firm NGKF released late last year provides new numbers on an ongoing phenomenon: the slow, agonizing death of the American office park.
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Denials and devaluation as China’s currency tumbles to five-year low | Business | The Guardian
The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports. It has all the attributes of an illusory conflict because no one ever agrees that a genuine dispute has taken place.
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Netflix sets Ricky Gervais’ war satire Special Correspondents for April · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Edwin Starr might finally have an answer to his famous query, as what war appears to be good for these days is serving as grist for comedy.
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Now We Know Who to Blame for True Detective Season 2 | Vanity Fair
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the sharp drop off in quality between True Detective Season 1 and 2, HBO president Michael Lombardo would prefer you not attack neither the cast nor creator Nic Pizzolatto.
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GoButler, the messaging-based digital personal assistant that combines AI with human assistants to let you request anything on-demand, has exited the German market, where the startup first launched after being founded by ex-Rocket Internet employee…
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The URB-E Is A Foldable Electric Scooter For The Urban Commuter | TechCrunch
Debuting in prototype-form at CES a few years ago, the URB-E is finally ready for the spotlight. Weighing just under 35 pounds, the foldable scooter can carry an adult up to 20 miles at a top speed of around 15 MPH.
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Dutch government: Encryption good, backdoors bad | Ars Technica
The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that “it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development, availability and use of encryption within the Netherlands.
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How the Cat Got Its Coat (and Other Furry Tails) – Scientific American
From Sylvester in Looney Tunes to Mr Mistoffelees in the 1980s musical, some of the most famous (albeit fictional) cats share a distinctively sharp appearance thanks to their black and white tuxedo-style coats.
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DNC chair: Young women have been complacent since Roe. Young women: WTF? – Vox
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a fraught relationship with some members of her party, especially progressives and activists.
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Oculus Rift Headset Priced At $599 For Consumers, Ships In March | TechCrunch
It’s been a long wait but the price-tag for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has finally been confirmed now that pre-orders are open — and it costs $599 (plus shipping). Also confirmed: the month the Rift is slated to …
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World Disorder in the New Year | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new US-Russian Cold War. Cohen points out that the Cold War that erupted two years ago has now spread from Ukraine and Europe to Syria and Turkey.
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Why the Saudi-Iranian Cold War Is Heating Up | The Nation
The current crisis between Iran and Saudi Arabia started on Saturday when Riyadh executed a prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, and in response an angry mob was allowed to set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
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Spike Lee accuses Obama’s gun control opponents of taking ‘blood money’ | Film | The Guardian
Director Spike Lee has become the latest film industry figure to publicly support President Obama’s recent gun control measures, describing politicians who oppose them as receivers of “blood money” from the National Rifle Association.
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New York Public Library does the public domain right / Boing Boing
The New York Public Library is aggressively digitizing the public domain works in its collections, adding high-quality machine-readable metadata to each of the hundreds of thousands of assets, providing an API, offering residencies to remixers who d…
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Twitter’s White People Problem | The Nation
DeRay McKesson joined Twitter in the spring of 2009 at the insistence of a friend who thought it would help him be more effective in his role as student government president at Bowdoin College. “She said that it was going to be the new wave of commu…
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The Schools in Connecticut Taking in Syrian Refugees – The Atlantic
HARTFORD, Conn.— When N.A. told her three young daughters in 2010 that they were only going to New York City for a few weeks to visit their grandmother, she meant it.
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Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599 | Ars Technica
After dozens of trade-show demos, two publicly available development kits, a $2 billion buyout, and nearly four years of speculation, Oculus has finally locked down the release details for the first consumer version of the Rift virtual reality heads…
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Emoji or Emojis: What’s the Plural of Emoji? – The Atlantic
As The Atlantic’s de facto senior emoji correspondent, I try to keep abreast of all emerging emojio-grammatical issues. Lately, one has risen above the rest: Should English speakers refer to more than one emoji character as these emoji or these emoj…
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Tech Tips for the New Year: CloudMagic, Workflowy, ‘Low Light’ Filter on iPad – The Atlantic
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Waiting to Socialize in VR? Try a Telepresence Bot | Motherboard
There’s already been a lot of chatter about the promise of virtual reality in 2016.
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Former England assistant coach Andy Farrell will become Ireland defence coach after this year’s Six Nations. Farrell will link up with Joe Schmidt’s Ireland set-up having lost his England role following Stuart Lancaster’s departure after the World C…
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Uzbekistan has abandoned plans to demolish a 700-year-old minaret in the eastern city of Andijan, in an unusual climb-down for the country’s authoritarian government.
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“A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy,” says Rosanne DiStefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way.
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Dan Auerbach: ‘I Can’t Get Enough Rage Out With Just My Fists’ | Rolling Stone
You work a ton, and you’re a lifelong insomniac. Have you ever learned to relax?I have a hard time turning the brain off sometimes. A quarter of a Xanax helps [laughs]. And I’m a real good cook, man – I make breakfast, lunch and dinner. I got, like,…
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Watch Savages’ Brooding, Minimalist ‘Adore’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Savages’ Brooding, Minimalist ‘Adore’ Video Clip for post-punk epic finds singer Jehnny Beth in dramatic close-ups
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North Korea Says It Just Tested A Hydrogen Bomb — Here’s What We Know – Digg
Late Tuesday, a “man-made” earthquake was reported in North Korea, in the vicinity of one of the country’s nuclear test sites. The North Korean regime has now announced that the earthquake resulted from a hydrogen bomb test — the country’s first, if…
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This Is California’s Single Biggest Contributor to Climate Change | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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One could argue that “don’t read the comments” is a good piece of “Internet advice.” I’d normally agree, but I’ve seen the light. It is distant and flickering but it’s definitely there, and we’re moving towards it. When Digg launched Dialog in Octob…
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You should be watching How to Get Away With Murder, the ABC legal soap opera for lots of reasons. The first and best reason is Viola Davis’s performance as the egomaniacal lawyer, Prof. Annalise Keating. (Davis was the first black woman to win lead …
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Oscobo Is An Anonymous Search Engine Targeting Brits | TechCrunch
We’re frequently told Brits don’t care a fig-leaf for online privacy. But one London-based startup is about to test that theory — it’s just launched an anonymous search engine, called Oscobo, initially serving up search results specifically for the…
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CloudMagic Brings Its Simple, Distraction-Free Email Client To Mac | TechCrunch
CloudMagic, the makers of a popular mobile email client for iOS and Android which touts some 3 million users, is expanding to the desktop with today’s launch of a new Mac Store app.
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How to Join a Gym Without Getting Ripped Off
Gym memberships can be a pain in the ass. In theory, joining a gym should be like buying a car or a house: research, shop around, and ask the right questions. But many first-timers get suckered into paying a lot more money than they should. Here’s h…
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Please Try Not To Be Shocked, But Star Wars Was the Best Selling Comic of 2015
If a single force dominated the pop culture world last year, it was the reawakening of the titan that is Star Wars. While The Force Awakens has ruled the box office for weeks now, the galaxy far, far, away has been ruling the roost on comic book she…
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North Korea Test Draws Condemnation, Skepticism | Al Jazeera America
North Korea faced international condemnation Wednesday following a claim from Pyongyang that it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear bomb — a development that if confirmed, would mark a significant advance in its strike capability.
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More nations back Saudi Arabia over row with Iran – Al Jazeera English
Jordan, Djibouti, and Turkey expressed pro-Saudi positions on Wednesday after attacks on its missions in Iran that followed the execution of a renowned Shia leader in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
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Beautiful Friends babies pets : cats
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Apollo mission pictures compilation that looks like a stop motion animation : space
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UN Peacekeepers May Have Sexually Abused More Women in Central Africa | VICE News
Four girls are alleged to have been sexually abused by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, only the latest accusations levied against the scandal-plagued mission in the country.
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Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Brilliant Star Clusters
For three decades, humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth, and yet we’ve only sampled a tiny drop of our vast cosmic ocean. If we’re ever to find a radio-hot, spacefaring civilization, we need to know where to point our tele…
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Cockroaches Versus Unicorns: The Golden Age Of Cybersecurity Startups | TechCrunch
According to Gartner, worldwide information security spending reached $76.9 billion in 2015. As the frequency and intensity of hacks worsen, security spending is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020. That’s more than 100 percent growth in 5 years!
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Income For The 1 Percent Has Grown Way Faster Than The Bottom 90 For Half A Century | ThinkProgress
Some of the top experts on income inequality released a study of new, more accurate data this week, revealing that Americans in the top 1 percent have done far better than everyone else for the last half century — and why they’ve gotten so far ahead.
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What makes North Korea so bizarre, explained in 3 minutes – Vox
North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test may have you wondering about the most basic question of all: what is the deal with this country? It’s a question that touches on the rogue nuclear program, but also the ridiculous propaganda, the deification…
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UK governmet spent a fortune fighting to keep the number 13 a secret / Boing Boing
The BBC’s Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, wanted to know how often the UK government’s new “red tape-busting cabinet panel, the Reducing Regulation Committee” was meeting, because he thought that it was probably “all froth and no act…
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Casio Releases An Android Wear Watch That You Can Beat Up | TechCrunch
Casio, the biggest name in rugged sports watches, has dipped a cautious toe into the smartwatch space with their new WSD-F10. This watch features an dual LCD/LED touchscreen and a battery life of about a day.
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A Small Norwegian City Might Hold the Answer to Beating Winter Blues | New Republic
Many dread the approaching winter—the darkness, frigid weather, and lower energy levels that blow in along with cold fronts and snowstorms.
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President Obama isn’t closing the “gun show loophole.” Here’s what he’s doing instead. – Vox
There seems to be a big source of confusion coming out of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on guns: Is Obama really closing the infamous “gun show loophole”? The short version: No.
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has questioned whether rival candidate Ted Cruz is eligible to become his party’s nominee because he was born in Canada. Mr Trump called it a “very precarious” issue for the party and said that Mr Cr…
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Why Photographs Are Vital to Cultivating Empathy – The Atlantic
While looking back and trying to make sense of a year just ended, we often focus on its most hopeless parts, the violence and acrimony. Last year did include plenty of negativity to mourn. But it also reminded us of an important lesson about how to …
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Quentin Tarantino has had a busy time on the streets of Hollywood recently. Just weeks ago he unveiled his star on Hollywood Boulevard and now he has put his hand and footprints in cement outside the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
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The drug war is cutting life expectancy in Mexico | Ars Technica
A plague of drug violence in Mexico stands to undo gains in life expectancy from the last century, according to new research published in Health Affairs. Life expectancy crept upward during most of the 20th century, largely thanks to improved access…
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Hashim Amla resigned as South Africa captain immediately after his side drew the second Test against England in Cape Town. More soon.
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Nabokov, Neruda and Borges revealed as losers of 1965 Nobel prize | Books | The Guardian
Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges were all in the running for the 1965 Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives have revealed, but the judges that year went instead for the controversial choice of Mikhail Sholokhov.
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Hasbro adds Rey to its Star Wars Monopoly game, despite fear of spoilers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens premiered less than a month ago, but its related merchandising has been in full swing since Force Friday, a hallowed day on which Captain Phasma figures were sold to fans who’d kept vigil.
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Yep, Medicaid expansion is working, where it’s allowed
It’s not a big secret that Obamacare is working to reduce the uninsured in the states that fully embraced the law, particularly those that expanded Medicaid.
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To Remind of Surveillance, Arists Stream Web Cams from Around the World | Motherboard
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What’s in a Spotify Name? – The Awl
A musician’s name used to function as part of a fairly simple brand.
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Donald Trump Revives ‘Birther’ Debate, And Ted Cruz Tweets Fonzie Jumping the Shark | VICE News
Sparring between the Republican Party’s top two presidential candidates is heating up amid Donald Trump’s revival of “birther” questions surrounding Ted Cruz’s eligibility to hold the US’s top office.
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Good news: We’ve accidentally cut mercury pollution | Ars Technica
Coal-fired plants and other human activities release mercury into the environment, where some of it ends up converted into methyl mercury, a potent neurotoxin. Because of this toxicity, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently in the process…
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North Korea says it has for the first time successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was made on state television, hours after a tremor with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected near a known nuclear test site.
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On March 6, 2009, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies to find planets around other stars within a field of view 1/400th the size of the Milky Way in search of potentially habitable worlds.
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Tackling the Pervasive Culture of Harassment in Astronomy – The Atlantic
“If it’s unwanted, it’s harassment,” proclaim signs around the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) 227th conference, held this week in Kissimmee, Florida.
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Penguin Books ditches self-publishing subsidiary / Boing Boing
The Financial Times’ Henry Mance reports that the world’s largest publisher has withdrawn from the self-publishing business, likely having lost much of its $116m investment in the field.
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Call for Entries: Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award – The Atlantic
Washington, D.C. (January 6, 2016)—Atlantic Media has issued a call for entries for its 2016 Michael Kelly Award, honoring journalists for their exemplary work in memory of the late Atlantic Media editor Michael Kelly. The deadline to enter is Frida…
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Fail Fast, But Don’t Forget to Learn from Your Failures
Failure seems to be having a moment, and that’s great. Embracing failure means you grow and progress, and that’s a good thing. However, in your zest to fail, don’t forget to actually learn from those failures. By now, you’ve probably heard the sayin…
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Fatally weak MD5 function torpedoes crypto protections in HTTPS and IPSEC | Ars Technica
If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you’d be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still widely used in the transport layer security protocol that …
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A New Year’s resolution for everybody: cook more – Vox
If I were to decree from on high a single New Year’s resolution for everyone I possibly could, it would be to improve your cooking game in 2016. For a lot of you, that might mean to start cooking, period.
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Obama Continues to Stubbornly Link Gun Violence with Guns – The New Yorker
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republican Presidential candidates ripped President Obama on Tuesday for what they called his stubborn insistence on linking gun violence with guns. In campaign stops across Iowa and New Hampshire, the G.O.P.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 6th – The New Yorker
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When the bacon is cooking…… : cats
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Up Up & Away, Big Bend National Park by Jesse Sewell [OC] [2700 x 1800] : SkyPorn
Up Up & Away, Big Bend National Park by Jesse Sewell [OC] [2700 x 1800] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/x8sC66gAEh https://t.co/kzadzVQhzU
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Solar System 360 VR Experience : space
Solar System 360 VR Experience via /r/space https://t.co/OCiKzabEtj https://t.co/FtZsZ7I1eI
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It rained in the desert today… : pics
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Has Obama Hit His Limit on Gun Control? | New Republic
We learned on Tuesday that Barack Obama, in his final year of office, will continue to test the boundaries of executive authority in order to break through congressional inertia.
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Dog gets human for Christmas / Boing Boing
This adorable dog, Trouble, got exactly what he wanted for Christmas: his favorite human underneath the tree. My heart melts each time I watch it.
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Wheaton College, a Christian school in Illinois sometimes called the “Harvard of evangelicalism,” is preparing to fire a professor for claiming that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
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What Bernie Sanders Thinks Is Wrong With the Fed: The ‘Revolving Door’ – The Atlantic
Bernie Sanders detailed a number of his financial-policy proposals in New York on Tuesday.
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Some states give rape survivors 30 years to pursue justice. Some give them 3. – Vox
The recent criminal charges against Bill Cosby are sparking a debate over the statute of limitations for rape and sexual assault.
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Cologne Mayor’s Suggestion For How To Avoid Sexual Assault Is Mocked and Criticized – The Atlantic
In October, Henriette Reker, who was running for mayor of Cologne, became the face of Germany’s welcoming attitude toward the refugees and migrants who entered the country in 2015.
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Record UK rainfall will not prevent water restrictions, experts warn | Environment | The Guardian
Despite December’s record rainfall, which led to thousands of people being flooded and the highest river levels ever seen in England, water restrictions due to drought could still be imposed in some parts of the country by the summer, say Britain’s …
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Cameron uses sacking of Pat McFadden to attack Corbyn at PMQs | Politics | The Guardian
David Cameron has offered strong support for Pat McFadden, who was sacked from the shadow cabinet after he was accused of disloyalty for asking pointed questions about terrorism in the House of Commons.
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It’s time to change how we discuss feeling sick in VR | Polygon
Saying this was nearly once a slap in the face to a virtual reality developer. It used to mean that the game wasn’t running well, or the screen door effect inherent in the earlier development kit screens was distracting. Low resolution and bad desig…
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HOOKSETT, N.H. — Jeb Bush’s elder son, George P. Bush, is the land commissioner of Texas and is nicknamed “47” — a look ahead to when, many joke, he will become the 47th president. His younger son, John Ellis Bush Jr.
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I remember the moment as if it were yesterday. In 1982 I’d returned to my home town of Brighton one Sunday from Bristol, where I’d been appearing in a play, to visit my ailing father, who’d suffered a stroke and was convalescing in hospital.
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VHX, a startup that helps customers sell videos online, is taking a big leap into mobile, with new capabilities for publishers to launch their own custom apps.
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Where’s Literature’s Class Diversity? | New Republic
In every field, the answer to the question of diversity tends to hinge on questions of representation. With the arts and media especially, there’s the question of seeing a version of oneself (or one’s actual self!) on a magazine cover or onscreen.
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Op-ed: This is why people hate Airbnb | Ars Technica
In the wake of New Year’s weekend, the news seemed inevitable. Some high school kids faked their identities on Airbnb, rented a nice couple’s house in Oakland, California, and absolutely trashed the place during a giant party.
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Donald Trump warns Britain over travel ban debate / Boing Boing
The visibly excited Donald Trump supporter in this photo is Ms. Robin Roy. We should all be so lucky to experience such exhilaration in this lifetime. Ms. Roy was among the many fans of U.S.
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Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Brilliant Star Clusters
For three decades, humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth, and yet we’ve only sampled a tiny drop of our vast cosmic ocean. If we’re ever to find a radio-hot, spacefaring civilization, we need to know where to point our tele…
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Little-known gun trust loophole facing closure by Obama’s executive action | US news | The Guardian
In an emotional call for gun control in the US, Barack Obama outlined new rules that will close important background check loopholes.
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Oh God, DC Comics, People From Pakistan Don’t Speak “Pakistanian”
No, DC. No no no. Oh no.
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The rape allegation against Bill Clinton, explained – Vox
This past Sunday, Hillary Clinton faced a loud and persistent heckler at a Derry, New Hampshire, campaign event, eventually dismissing the woman in strident fashion. “You are very rude, and I’m not going to ever call on you,” Clinton declared, spark…
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How ‘The Hateful Eight’ Recycles—and Ruins—an Iconic Tarantino Scene – The Atlantic
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Cartoon: The Bundy Boys meet a very scary terrorist
Order a copy of Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib, 300 pages of political cartoons, comics journalism and essays. Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors.
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Watch ‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyers Defend Arguments | Rolling Stone
Since true crime docu-series Making a Murderer hit Netflix in mid-December, many viewers have walked away convinced its central character – Wisconsin native Steven Avery, who was convicted of murder in 2005 – was framed by local law enforcement.
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Randy Rogers Band Bring Twang, Special Guests to New Album: Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Randy Rogers Band Bring Twang, Special Guests to New Album: Ram Report Alison Krauss, Jamey Johnson join the Texas stalwarts on bright new LP ‘Nothing Shines Like Neon’
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How Soon Before Your Job Is Done By A Robot? This Handy Chart Will Tell You
If you’re planning a career, or planning a career change, it may be worth thinking about how automation could affect the job market of the future.
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What You Should Do With Your Phone This Year | Motherboard
This year, rather than writing our own predictions, we decided to have Motherboard interview each other. Jason Koebler is opening his electronics. And he wants you to open yours up, too.
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Researchers have identified dozens of “runaway stars” in the Milky Way, by combing the galaxy for the curved waves of material they plough before them. These stars move at more than 30km/s relative to their surroundings, flung from their home neighb…
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North Korea claims to have tested “Hydrogen bomb of Justice” / Boing Boing
Angry mad uncle kingdom North Korea claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb, but observers are skeptical because the new blast was no beefier than North Korea’s earlier tests.
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Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen’s Diet Sounds Kind of Miserable | Vanity Fair
One may look at Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, the handsome sportsman and his beautiful Brazilian bride (herself a wildly successful model and entrepreneur), and think that they pretty much have it made in the shade. They’re gorgeous, they’re rich a…
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England survived a top-order collapse on day five as the second Test against South Africa ended in a draw. Resuming on 16-0, a second innings lead of 18, the tourists lost their top four cheaply to leave them 85-4 with more than 80 overs left in Cap…
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Prince William Swore on Television, Causing Minor Scandal | Vanity Fair
Now, before we get into this, we must say, as we have said many times before, that being a royal—for all the perks and luxuries it provides—must be very, very trying at times.
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Misfit Debuts Spector, “Smart” Headphones That Double As A Fitness Tracker | TechCrunch
Wearables maker Misfit, now owned by Fossil, is following up on yesterday’s news of Ray, a slimmer alternative to its flagship fitness tracker the Misfit Shine, with the launch of its first set of in-ear wireless headphones.
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The legendary Technics SL-1200 turntable is back and better than ever | Ars Technica
In 2010, Panasonic made the odd decision to stop producing the Technics SL-1200MK2, a turntable that’s as much a part of pop culture as it is one of the most revered and reliable ever made.
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Drone footage of New Year’s fireworks over Lima, Peru
Apparently they set off fireworks everywhere in Lima, Peru when the New Year hits. And Jeff Cremer was there with his drone to capture the craziness. Wow. (via colossal)
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Zimbabwe plans to sell more elephants and lions to China as part of a controversial scheme to raise funds for conservation, its environment minister has said.
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Blood and Ink by Stephen Davies – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is about jihadists invading Timbuktu in Mali in 2012. The two main characters are Ali and Kadija. Ali is a mujahid, a Defender of the Faith, who despises music, dancing and anything modern.
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Marine Convicted of Killing Transgender Appeals | Al Jazeera America
A U.S. Marine has asked a Philippine court to reverse his conviction in the killing of a transgender Filipina and seeks a bail and a reduction of his six- to 12-year jail term, his lawyer said Wednesday. Lawyer Rowena Garcia-Flores said she would in…
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Do you want to see Hamilton? Do you want to get front row seats for ten dollars, because that would be amazing and also because you don’t have a couple hundred bucks to burn? Alas, so do tens of thousands of other fans of the Broadway smash to end a…
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Bananas and Spring Roll Wrappers Are All You Need for This Quick, Easy Dessert
Everything tastes better fried, especially dessert, and this Filipino classic is a quick, easy one to make. All you need are spring roll wrappers, sugar, and bananas. You can check out the full technique in the video linked below.
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Obamacare is here to stay. Just look at Kentucky. – Vox
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin stormed into office promising to kill off the state’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion the moment he took office. “Absolutely. No question about it. I would reverse that immediately,” Bevin said in February.
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Will Republicans Seek to Undermine Paris Agreement? – Scientific American
If Republicans are preparing to launch an offensive against the historic climate change agreement the Obama administration struck in Paris last month, they’re being awfully quiet about it.
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Study: Presidents Die Sooner Than Opponents – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A study analyzing data from 17 countries found that, although elected leaders live slightly longer than the average citizen, the losers in these elections tend to outlive the victors by approximately three years, a disparity likely caused by the str…
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Oregon occupation leader: ‘We’re not doing this to be activists’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The leader of a so-called militia which has occupied an Oregon wildlife refuge, said on Tuesday that their plan is to help local residents regain their rights from federal government. Harney County sheriff David Ward has called on the protesters to …
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‘Towers of London’: Must-see doc for all serious XTC fans|Dangerous Minds
In late August 1980, XTC spent an extended weekend at Richard Branson’s Manor Studio in order to lay down another version of “Towers of London,” a track that would eventually become the second single off of Black Sea, following “Generals and Majors.
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At a campaign event for Donald J. Trump in Mississippi last weekend, Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson — two African-American YouTube stars who go by the names Diamond and Silk — rallied the roaring crowd with a plea. “Ditch and switch! Ditch…
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A new two-year visa system for Chinese nationals visiting the UK will begin next week, the foreign secretary has announced.It will enable visitors from China to make multiple trips to the UK for longer periods, the government said.
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My new kitty ❤ via /r/cats https://t.co/wWyE3pZRcr https://t.co/oYEwB4HP2T
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A Vanishing History: Gullah Geechee Nation | VICE News
On the Sea Islands along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, a painful chapter of American history is playing out again.
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Chipotle’s food safety crisis, explained in 4 minutes – Vox
After hearing a trickle of reports about food poisoning over recent months, millions of lunch-seeking Americans are probably wondering: Is it safe to eat at Chipotle? The bad news is that public health investigators haven’t identified the source of …
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Samsung reveals luxury Gear S2 Classics, brings iOS support to smartwatch line | Ars Technica
Samsung has upped its smartwatch game with what it’s calling premium materials and high-end style. The company announced two new Gear S2 smartwatches at its CES press event, one encased in 18K rose gold and the other in platinum.
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Melt Butter for Baking in Your Preheating Oven
If you have a recipe that calls for melted butter and a greased baking dish, you can kill two tasty birds in one oven by melting your butter in the preheating oven. This tip is almost stupidly simple, but it will save you time and a dish or two.
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The Campaign to Preserve Science Fiction Legend Forrest Ackerman’s Home
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North Korea Claims It Tested a Hydrogen Bomb | Vanity Fair
North Korea claimed Wednesday to have successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb, an announcement that sent shockwaves throughout the world after South Korea confirmed that that they had detected an unusual earthquake out of the hermit kingdom just…
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The situation in three besieged villages in Syria is “extremely dire”, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned. Activists say civilians have died because of a lack of food and medicine in rebel-controlled Madaya, near Damascus…
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Where White People Meet, the controversial new dating site, explained – Vox
Sam Russell is the 53-year-old mastermind behind Where White People Meet, a dating site whose title explains its purpose. Though anyone can join Russell’s site, its exclusionary title and apparent focus has irked many people on the internet. But Rus…
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It’s an established fact that David Bowie’s had an accomplished music, stage, and movie career. In fact, when he turns 69 this Friday, January 8, he’ll celebrate it by releasing a new album, ★ (a.k.a. Blackstar), which is already receiving rave revi…
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Storms trigger flooding in drought-hit California – Al Jazeera English
One of the most powerful El Ninos on record has brought torrential rain to California. The heavy rain triggered a number of floods and mudflows across the western US state, forcing the closure of a several roads. Dangerous waves sparked the risk of …
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Okay, folks, so we kind of have to make this happen: There’s a petiton on Change.org that’s tryng to get a newly discovered ‘heavy metal’ element named after Lemmy Kilmister. The suggested name? Lemmium. That works for me. You? Sign the petition!
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The Campaign to Preserve Science Fiction Legend Forrest Ackerman’s Home
Besides being a renown literary agent and publisher, Forrest Ackerman was also an avid collector of science fiction, fantasy, and horror memorabilia. His Los Feliz home acted as a private museum for his collection, but now his neighbors are fighting…
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Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker has drawn ridicule online for proposing a “code of conduct” for women to prevent sexual assault, advising them to remain at “an arm’s length” from strangers.
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Harnessing the energy of small bending motions | MIT News
For many applications such as biomedical, mechanical, or environmental monitoring devices, harnessing the energy of small motions could provide a small but virtually unlimited power supply.
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See Curiosity Cruise Around Gigantic Martian Dunes in These Stunning New Panoramas
NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently investigating a chain of Martian sand dunes, offering an unprecedented glimpse of these dynamic—but strangely familiar—features.
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Two Asian forest scorpions are counted – very carefully – at the start of Chester Zoo’s 2016 creature census. Keepers have to take stock annually by law – and last year’s tally found the zoo was home to 12,518 animals from 463 different species.
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A Look Back At Some CES Hot Air | TechCrunch
In 2006 I was “leading” a team of Gizmodo reporters at CES from by underground lair in deepest Brooklyn. My son had just been born in December and I decided to stay home so I’d chat with the team over Campfire and tell them to look at stuff. It rare…
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Did Marc Bolan play guitar on the Ike & Tina Turner classic ‘Nutbush City Limits’?|Dangerous Minds
It’s a topic that needs to be tackled definitively by the cybersleuths of Snopes.com: DID Marc Bolan, in fact, play guitar on Ike & Tina Turner’s classic “Nutbush City Limits” in 1973? Or was it Ike? Or neither of them?
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Oregon sheriff: Armed extremists will face charges in wildlife refuge occupation
Ward did not give specifics on what charges the men will face. However, they have not at this point faced having the power cut in the building they’re occupying.
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It’s no secret that Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally make up not only one of Hollywood’s most admirable couples, but also one of the world’s.
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Why Finding the Right Gym Culture Makes You Stick to Your Workouts
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Spiral galaxy NGC 4911 in the Coma Cluster [3765 x 3261] : spaceporn
Spiral galaxy NGC 4911 in the Coma Cluster [3765 x 3261] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/uuY0PXRaLs https://t.co/0Q4W8iyfmR
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These Ultra-Cheap Earbuds Are Here to Help With Your New Year’s Resolutions
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If you’re hitting the gym a little more often to fulfill your new year’s resolutions, you can keep yourself entertained with a new pair of sweat-resistant earbuds for under $15, today only on Amazon. -
The Manmade Marvel of the Baltimore Sewers | Atlas Obscura
Filters at the Back River sewerage plant in Baltimore, 1973. (Photo: NARA) In 1909, Baltimore’s sewer system was nearing completion and the local press was in a tizzy, proclaiming it an “unexcelled marvel of the engineering world.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Cattle Caliphate Invades Chagrin Falls, USA / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Smythes, of Chagrin Falls, USA, discover their backyard is wanted for the grazing rights of the Cattle Caliphate. Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Mystery Of The Disappearing Book Publishers | ThinkProgress
“Due to some urgent matters that I need to handle and that aren’t to be revealed to the public, I have made way own way back to the mainland…” read a handwritten letter faxed into a bookstore in Hong Kong last Wednesday. “It might take a bit of time…
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Apple’s Record-Breaking Holiday Season Saw Over $1.1 Billion In App Store Sales | TechCrunch
Attempting to steal a bit of thunder away from this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, Apple announced this morning a record-breaking holiday season for its App Store, with over $1.1 billion spent on apps and in-app purchases in the two week…
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Bill Cosby and the case for ending statutes of limitations on rape – Vox
Bill Cosby has been accused of sexually assaulting more than 50 women over a period of five decades, but so far only one case has resulted in criminal charges. There’s one big reason for this: the statute of limitations.
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Microbes Added to Seeds Could Boost Crop Production – Scientific American
Nathan Cude pulls open the top of a whit e Tupperware containerlabeled Q8R, which holds one of the hundreds of samples of American farmland he’ll handle in a year.
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Double Robotics’ Double 2 gains speed, agility, laser eyes (ok, no laser eyes) | Ars Technica
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, telepresence company Double Robotics announced that it would be making some long-awaited upgrades to its original hardware.
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Wakaliga, a small village in Uganda is home to Ramon Film Productions. This small studio has churned out dozens of ultra-low-budget action films in the Ugandan slums which have developed a bit of a cult following on the Internet.
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LOS ANGELES — Michael Bay, known for four “Transformers” films and an action-romance about the Pearl Harbor attack, made a promise to Mitchell Zuckoff on beginning a screen version of the story Mr. Zuckoff told in his book “13 Hours: The Inside Acco…
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What Zuckerberg And Gates Teaming Up Really Means For Clean Energy In 2016 | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates first teamed up in 2010 for a Wired cover that revisited the 25th anniversary of Steven Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. During the interview, Gates states that there are new and more opportunities fo…
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A deputy sheriff who works for an anti-narcotics task force in Northern California found himself swept up in a $2 million marijuana arrest in Pennsylvania last week. The authorities are now trying to determine if any of the cases he worked on have b…
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South Africa to criminalise racism : worldnews
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California Drug Enforcer Caught With Marijuana in Pennsylvania https://t.co/SRd8Y5E61L https://t.co/xbo1swwNRq
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Motherboard x UFC ‘Blade Runner’ Competition Terms and Conditions | Motherboard
PROMOTERS TERMS AND CONDITIONS Entrants to the Competition and the winners of the prize are subject to these terms and conditions. By submitting your entry, you agree to comply with these terms and conditions.
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London, Come Watch ‘Blade Runner’ With Us. Humans and Replicants Welcome | Motherboard
Over three decades on, Blade Runner still stands up not only as a genre-defining sci-fi film but as an exploration of future-looking concerns that are as relevant today as they were on its release in 1982.
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Meet Double Robotics Faster, Sturdier Double 2 Wheeled iPad With A Face | TechCrunch
You’ve likely seen Double Robotics’ telepresence robot roaming around a tech event or two. The iPad on a stick that live streams into the board room or your living room just released a faster, sturdier version of its robot with an iPad for a face at…
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Shocking Scenes From Benjamin Franklin’s Experimental Electricity Parties | Atlas Obscura
It’s the experiment that launched a thousand elementary school posters—in 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite, took it out in a thunderstorm, and proved that a) lightning is made of electricity and b) crazy-sounding ideas can make you famou…
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How Relying on Apps to Remember Things Is Making It Easier For Me to Forget Them | Motherboard
As someone who works two jobs, keeping track of what’s on my to-do list is crucial. And after months of looking, I’ve finally settled on the ideal app for organizing my life—but it may have altered my memory.
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Beyond oil: the US-Saudi alliance, explained – Vox
When Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including dissident Shia cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, seemingly in a deliberate effort to inflame tensions around the Middle East, it led a number of Americans to ask a question: “Why are we allies with these peopl…
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Microsoft readies kill switch for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 | Ars Technica
Microsoft has reminded Internet Explorer users that it will imminently end support for older versions of its browser from next week.
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Behind Barneys’ Cutting-Edge Return to Its Old Neighborhood | Vanity Fair
‘When you think of Barney’s,” Fred Pressman once said, “you think of Seventh Avenue at 17th Street.
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Hasbro Relents, Will Add Star Wars Main Character to Star Wars Monopol | Vanity Fair
After weeks of mounting outcry on social media that led to the #WheresRey hashtag, Hasbro has relented and decided to add the main character of Star Wars: The Force Awakens to a new version of Monopoly.
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Have We Already Learned The Name Of Felicity Jones’ Rogue One Character?
Plus, could we get a trailer soon? Henry Cavill says that Batman v Superman won’t directly address criticisms of Man of Steel. Chris Evans discusses the politics of Civil War. Venture Bros. is finally returning! Plus, tons of images from Disney film…
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The Town of Light: A psychological thriller with a mental health message | Ars Technica
Despite how common mental health problems can be, understanding them, or even just discussing them without prejudice, is something of a modern invention.
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Mt Ngungun, Queensland, Australia [OC] [4788×2434] : EarthPorn
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Astronomers Struggle to Translate Anger into Action on Sexual Harassment – Scientific American
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Semantic Search Engine Omnity Reckons It Can Beat Google | Motherboard
One new search engine is so confident in its technology that it thinks it could buy Google, and not the other way around.
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Morning Digest: Two-time DCCC chair Steve Israel will unexpectedly leave the House
● CO-Sen: Over the summer businessman Doug Robinson, a nephew of Mitt Romney, flirted with a run against Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, but he announced on Monday that he’d stay out. The GOP establishment seems to have settled on state Rep.
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How Not to Get Sick at Work – Bloomberg Business
It might be you, it might be your co-worker, but at some point this winter, someone’s going to show up at the office when they shouldn’t.
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If you’re one of the few million (yes, million) people who follow DJ Khaled on Snapchat, you’ve definitely become familiar with a few consistencies that exist along the journey to more success.
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Razer Raises The Bar On VR Gaming With Its New $200 Stargazer Webcam | TechCrunch
Last summer, gaming tech company Razer said that it was working with Intel on a webcam that would take in-game video recording to a higher level. Today, at CES in Las Vegas, the company is taking the wraps off that product.
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What’s Behind Brazil’s Alarming Surge in Babies Born with Small Heads – Scientific American
Thousands of Brazil’s newborns last year had abnormally tiny heads and potentially debilitating brain damage. In 2015 the country reported nearly 3,000 cases of the incurable condition, called microcephaly—about 20 times more than the prior year.
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Ransomware Lets Hackers Hold Your Devices Hostage – The Atlantic
Modern hackers can do much more than steal. They can make their way into a laptop and turn on its webcam, monitor its keystrokes, or transform the device into an inanimate hunk of metal and plastic.
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How are Iranians dealing with the rising tension between their country and Saudi Arabia? In many cases, through jokes. Tensions in the region have been rising for several days, since Saudi authorities executed prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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Focus Your Goal Strategy On What Motivates You, Not Other People
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Why Obama’s gun control efforts will fail – Al Jazeera English
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The rise in gun violence, and its most horrific episodes, brought US President Barack Obama to tears on Tuesday afternoon. -
Apple iPhone’s Wi-Fi Assist feature blamed for teen’s $2,000 phone bill : technology
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The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War | WIRED
It’s been more than 30 years since David Chaum launched the ideas that would serve as much of the groundwork for anonymity online.
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Coca-Cola Briefly Decided That Crimea Is Part of Russia After All | VICE News
Drinks firm Coca-Cola on Wednesday blamed a marketing agency for a map of Russia used in an online advertising campaign that first did not include Crimea, then got changed to show Crimea as part of Russia, sparking protests and threats of a boycott …
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I went on vacation alone. Why do people think that means I’m disturbed? – Vox
There are lots of things we humans do alone in life. Grocery shopping. Working at a coffee shop. Binge-watching Jessica Jones and Master of None in a single weekend. If we’re going to get real, dying.
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Artificial intelligence: Can Watson save IBM? – FT.com
The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by seemingly revolutionary moments — breakthroughs that promised to bring what had until then been regarded as human-like capabilities to machines.
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How Gay Marriage’s Triumph Could Protect Abortion Rights | New Republic
In 1984, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then an appellate court judge, delivered an important lecture on Roe v. Wade, arguing that the case should have been decided in terms of both liberty and equality.
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TV watchdog Ofcom has received 165 complaints about homophobic comments made by Winston McKenzie on the launch show for Celebrity Big Brother. In his entry video, the London Mayoral candidate said he would “cope with a homosexual in the house” by “s…
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The Infrastructure Cure For The Economy
Everyone understands that our (and the world’s) economy is underperforming. While U.S. unemployment is down, people are finding jobs that underpay and/or don’t provide enough hours. Regular people just don’t have enough to get by – never mind enough…
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Significant Digits for Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Austere U.K. television programme “Downton Abbey” tells the story of an upper-class family in the early 20th century living out a soap opera in waist co…
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Cologne sex attacks: What went wrong? – BBC News
A series of apparently co-ordinated sexual assaults and thefts in the German city of Cologne on New Years Eve has inspired an outpouring of shock and anger.
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How Christy O’Connor Jr became Europe’s hero at the 1989 Ryder Cup | Sport | The Guardian
Before 1989, Christy O’Connor Jr had a strained relationship with the Ryder Cup. Winless in his one previous appearance and then rejected in 1985, he must have felt that his chances of taking part in the event had long gone.
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Epidemiology AMAPLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Christine Kreuder Johnson and Tierra Smiley Evans, from UC Davis. We developed an oral sampling technique to screen for pathogens in primates which allows researchers to samples previously missed primate…
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Note: C&J is severing relations with Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza until they start cutting their pepperoni into quarters again.
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Just months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, W.Va., said that his cows were dying left and right.
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Loading the player reg… BILL O’REILLY (HOST): On the other side, the NRA and gun owners should be reasonable. The FBI should background check anyone buying a firearm in America. The FBI should background check anyone buying a firearm in America. T…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Welcome to Wednesday! That’s Joan McCarter day around these parts. “Around these parts!” That’s me trying to talk like a rancher, so I can sneak into that bird sanctuary. How’d I do? I heard they’ll let you get away with saying any ridiculous thing,…
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Here’s how much Obamacare has cut the uninsured rate in every state – Vox
What you below is a map of Obamacare. It shows how much the uninsured rate has dropped in each state since the health reform law’s insurance expansion went into effect. We used Gallup data from this summer to build it.
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The Phoenix Suns have gone from bad to worse. Time to blame the millennials | Sport | The Guardian
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Phoenix Suns power forward Markieff Morris is having a down year and team owner Robert Sarver thinks he knows why: Morris is a millennial. “My whole view of the millennial culture is that they have a tough time dealing with setbacks, and Markieff Mo… -
Border controls on ‘The Bridge’ between Sweden and Denmark https://t.co/o63PxtvljK https://t.co/X7i3GjKLYx
The Oresund Bridge is the crossing from Sweden to Denmark made famous by the TV crime drama The Bridge, but it is no longer open for business as usual. The two countries controversially introduced border controls there this week to try to reduce the… -
Curiosity Rover Eyes Towering Sand Dunes on Mars (Photos)
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This Dec. 18, 2015, view of the downwind face of “Namib Dune” on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. -
‘Fear overrides everything’: immigrants desperate for reassurance after ICE raids https://t.co/2GeHB1AdZJ https://t.co/hpwx2sgOoj
Agents arrived at the Morales home around 4.30am on Saturday. The knocking was so loud, it rattled the windows in the house and it seemed like the agents would break down the door. -
Kotaku McDonald’s Cosplay Stunt Backfires in Taiwan | Deadspin High School Basketball Coach Chest Bumps Ref To The Ground (UPDATE) | Jezebel Dammit: Here’s the Rocky Horror Remake’s New Brad and Janet | Gizmodo The Technics 1200 Turntable Is Back |
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Struggling as an author? Stop writing only what you want to write | Books | The Guardian
I left school with a burning urge to lead the life of a writer: travelling like Byron, feted like Wilde before his fall, creating laughter like Wodehouse and crafting sentences like Nabokov.
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Each of the last three Januaries, I’ve compiled tips on how to save money on travel in the year ahead. Much of that advice is still valid today, which is good, since most readers undoubtedly forgot about it by the time they began planning their vaca…
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This Staple Crop Could Be The Year’s Hottest Food | ThinkProgress
Move over, quinoa, kale, and açaí– 2016’s newest superfood might come in a familiar package (or can).
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These Entreprenuers Want To Help Poor Women On Their Periods, One Tampon At A Time | ThinkProgress
Women don’t exactly like to spend a lot of time thinking about sanitary products. The tampons and pads they buy once a month — adding up to more than $1,000 over a lifetime — are usually more of a burden than a blessing, something to purchase and th…
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Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. The main criticism against Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is that it’s far too much like the original Star Wars. But quite honestly, I think this whole lin…
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DC City Council Comes Close To Allowing Pot In Bars And Restaurants | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday afternoon, the D.C. City Council briefly agreed to let the ban on marijuana use in privately owned businesses expire. But soon after, several council members reversed course and voted to extend the ban for another 90 days.
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Top 5 YouTube book vloggers | Children’s books | The Guardian
At book group, because we love raving about books, discussing characters, debating plots and just generally getting excited about being around books it is inevitable that quite a few of us love watching other people talking about books as well.
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Philip Pullman: professional writers set to become ‘an endangered species’ | Books | The Guardian
His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman is heading a new charge from writers demanding to be rewarded fairly for their work, as the Society of Authors warns that unless “serious” changes are made by publishers, the professional author “will become …
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Drink a Glass of Water Shortly Before Each Meal to Eat Less
You sit down to your meal, planning to only eat a small portion. Then, you realize you’re ravenously hungry, so you wolf down twice as much as you planned to eat. Want to break the cycle? Start drinking water before you get to the meal.
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Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem | Vanity Fair
Faced with an unending scandal about her use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton decided last September to “reset” her presidential campaign.
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Giant Submarines With Huge Guns | Motherboard
This story originally appeared on War Is Boring. A century ago submarines presented as much of a challenge for naval war planners as drones do today. Like airborne and surface stealth decades later, underwater stealth was a game-changer—but how to u…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Best birthday ever! via /r/aww…
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Set Aside One Hour Each Day to Work For Yourself
Most of your working hours are probably taken up by someone else. Your boss or your clients want you to do their stuff. If you’re not happy with your situation, give yourself one hour a day where the only boss you have is you.
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Why Do We Feed Wild Animals? https://t.co/wUE95W4GRE https://t.co/Axiwg9159K
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How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers https://t.co/iKOcWHAC3N https://t.co/2rUuB9GDe0
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Iraq offers to mediate in Saudi Arabia-Iran row – Al Jazeera English
Iraq is willing to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, its foreign minister said, as a deepening diplomatic row between the two regional heavyweights continued.
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One of the things I miss about living in a city with a subway system are the myriad thoughtful design elements that go into managing a perpetual flow of tourists and commuters.
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What Will Replace Email? – The Atlantic
Email, ughhhh. There is too much of it, and the wrong kind of it, from the wrong people.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Guns, Oregon domestic terrorists, and the GOP race
Here is what the new initiative does: It clarifies which gun-sellers are supposed to obtain a federal firearms license.
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Oil has continued its rollercoaster ride into the new year, with Brent crude falling below $35 a barrel for the first time in 11 years. Brent crude sank by 3.7% to $34.
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Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes – The New Yorker
These days, the Brotherhood Church of Stapleton, one of Britain’s two remaining Tolstoyan communes, has just four residents, plus a friendly deaf cat, some chickens, and a large, lumbering cow. The commune can trace its history back more than a hund…
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Grandfathered’s back! That exclamation point is used in all sincerity. When a new series returns after a break, it’s often easier to see flaws that were hidden in the first big rush.
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CES: What is driving car makers to attend tech show? – BBC News
There are plenty of vehicle manufacturers at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and they all have roughly the same message – it is time to shake up the industry.
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This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Pharmacists will be able to prescribe birth control to women in two states in 2016, but the nation’s leading group of gynecologists wants to know why these women can’t just get…
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Here’s What the Oregon Occupiers and the GOP Presidential Candidates Agree On | VICE News
When Ammon Bundy, the son of a Nevada rancher who led an armed confrontation with federal agents last year, claimed that the occupation of federal property in Oregon was about “freeing up” land and ending government “tyranny” that hamstrings miners,…
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White-haired, with a faintly aristocratic glamour, Mrs. Leslie-Smith lived alone in a wooden bungalow full of books and glossy houseplants a few doors from my childhood home. One warm autumn evening more than 30 years ago, she invited my mother an…
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Full disclosure: I am a 36-year-old dude who bores easily, drinks I.P.A.s and wears sports-themed T-shirts, especially ones with faded, nostalgic logos that suggest better times.
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Local TV stations see windfall as 2016 election and Super Bowl converge | US news | The Guardian
If you’re in a state with an early presidential primary, you won’t be able to escape political advertising during the Super Bowl. Republican candidates have spent more than $1m on splashy ads during the game among just six tactically critical TV sta…
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Best birthday ever! via /r/aww https://t.co/szSg10VvIG https://t.co/L2mYvWGuhi
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In case you guys missed it, this game exists (Elite Dangerous) : space
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Pretty sure our cat thinks the crib we put together was for him. : aww
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Neil Gaiman to release non-fiction work at end of May | Books | The Guardian
Neil Gaiman to release non-fiction book in May https://t.co/AlU49libVQ https://t.co/iZl8MIsgrd
Neil Gaiman has revealed that a new collection of his non-fiction work, The View from the Cheap Seats, is set to be released at the end of May this year. On his blog, Gaiman announced he had finished “a giant proofread” of the book. -
What does all the land in Manhattan cost? – Vox
What does all the land in Manhattan cost? https://t.co/CjtU1652kB https://t.co/bjlWZtksqk
What is all the land in Manhattan worth? Economists Jason Barr, Fred Smith, and Sayali Kulkarni think they know the answer based on a dataset of vacant parcel sales in Manhattan. -
President Obama Remarks Gun Control Executive | Video | C-SPAN.org
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Kevin Spacey to lead Hollywood film studio Relativity | Film | The Guardian Actor Kevin Spacey has been appointed chairman of Relativity Media’s film-making division as part of the former powerhouse studio’s attempt to reorganise and escape Chapter 11 bankruptcy. tags: Pocket andrew pulver news newsblur us | the guardian…
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