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Batman Envy? Cool New Cars Could Drive Themselves, and Talk
Automakers are showcasing new battery-powered and hydrogen smart vehicles, including a car that will sell for about $30,000 and a futuristic one that’s so sleek it could be the envy of Batman.
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This iPhone Case Doubles As a Cheap and Easy VR Viewer | Motherboard
Earlier this week, Oculus Rift announced a $600 headset for retail, outraging many because the headset combined with an Oculus-ready computer would bring the cost of experiencing virtual reality as high as $1,500.
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Why Shutting Down China’s Ivory Trade Won’t Be Easy
China is the world’s largest ivory consumer, with its legal market often providing cover for illegal ivory. The intertwining of these two markets—legal and illegal—is the subject of a new report by Elephant Action League, a nonprofit organization de…
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Turkish police detained senior local officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday in a raid on one of its Istanbul offices, party officials said, days after President Tayyip Erdogan said he backed legal action against its…
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ESA : The Moon awakens : space
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Revenant’ Is Brutal and Beautiful – The Atlantic
“It’s okay, son. I know you want this to be over.” This is a brave voiceover with which to open a movie that consists of two-and-a-half hours of almost nonstop violence, injury, and privation. In context, it serves as a father’s comforting words to …
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North Korea Nuclear Test: How Truman Announced the Hydrogen Bomb in 1953 – The Atlantic
Thermonuclear weapons, otherwise known as hydrogen bombs or H-bombs, are unimaginably ruinous.
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Giant Mao statue ‘removed’ from Henan village – BBC News
A 37m-high (120ft) gold-painted statue of Chairman Mao in China’s countryside has been removed, just days after it was erected, state media report.A village official told the People’s Daily that construction of the Mao Zedong statue had not been app…
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The Chinese stock market is plummeting so fast that authorities there keep shutting it down. North Korea set off a bomb in a nuclear test. Two of the Middle East’s great powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are eyeing each other menacingly.
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Brutal and sudden cold spreads across Europe – Al Jazeera English
After a record-breaking warm December, Europe finally entered winter at the very end of 2015. The sudden cold really showed on January 3 when temperatures plunged in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, managing a high for the day of -14C, a 17 degree s…
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Expect Even More Pet Tech at CES 2017 | Motherboard
Speaking at CES to Betsy Fore, the founder and CEO of pet wearable company Wondermento, one thing becomes crystal clear to me: not only is “pet tech” here to stay, but it’s poised to become a major category in the next year.
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Palestinian evades Israel extradition in Sofia embassy – Al Jazeera English
European lawmakers and Palestinian critics have spoken out against Bulgaria’s attempt to extradite to Israel a former Palestinian political prisoner who has taken refuge for more than three weeks in the Palestinian Authority’s embassy in Sofia.
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The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
David feels like a girl and wants to become one but he has to face telling his parents first. Leo is new and everyone wants to find out about him and why he moved schools.
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The best recent thrillers – reviews roundup | Books | The Guardian
Veteran thriller writer Peter May is on a roll after the huge success of the Lewis Trilogy and Entry Island. Coffin Road (Quercus, £18.99) returns us to the Outer Hebrides, in this case Harris, where in the opening chapter a man is washed up on the …
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2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year | Ars Technica
It’s that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at least) inside of Google’s sprawling empire.
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Most-browsed book in the UN library in 2015? A primer on war-crime immunity | Books | The Guardian
The most popular book of 2015 at the United Nations’ headquarters was Immunity of Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes, according to the UN library. What was our most popular book of 2015? Find it in our library catalogue! …
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How To Make Sense Of Conflicting, Confusing And Misleading Crime Statistics | FiveThirtyEight
Crime statistics often are confusing, misleading and incomplete — and rarely more so than at the start of a new year, when cities start reporting last year’s crime totals.
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The Weeds: Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed standoff in between – Vox
This week on The Weeds, special guest star Dara Lind joins Sarah Kliff and me to teach a clinic on immigration policy. Next we delve into the ongoing standoff in Oregon, where some historical information actually gets me to change my mind.
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Savings rates hit new low, says Bank of England – BBC News
Interest rates for millions of UK savers have sunk to a new low, according to the Bank of England. The average rate on Individual Savings Accounts (Isas) fell to 0.85% in December, down from 0.99% in November.
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Probiotics and Prebiotics: What They Do For You And How to Get Them
Probiotics—or so-called “good” bacteria—have garnered some Kardashian-level celebrity status in the health world for their benefits on your digestion and links to overall health. Then there are prebiotics. Wait, they’re the same thing right? Not at …
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If paedophilia is a compulsion, is imprisonment the …
A 29-year-old man named Juan Carlos Castillo Ponce was renting a basement apartment in the New Jersey city of Elizabeth when he befriended his landlord’s daughters, who were aged three, six and 10.
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How DNA mugshots can solve crimes: Q & A with Kenne…
The geneticist Kenneth Kidd started his career studying the family trees of purebred cows through their blood types A, B and O, each marked by a unique substance on the surface of red blood cells.
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Turkish troops in Iraq repel IS attack – BBC News
Turkey says it has repelled an attack by the so-called Islamic State on its troops in Bashiqa in northern Iraq, killing 17 militants. There were no reported injuries or deaths on the Turkish side.
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Despair and disease for refugees in Dunkirk – Al Jazeera English
On the edge of northern France’s Grande-Synthe refugee camp, a white van comes to an abrupt halt and three female volunteers leap out clutching tarpaulin sheets. They run into the woods surrounding the camp to avoid detection by the French police an…
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How MSG Got A Bad Rap: Flawed Science And Xenophobia | FiveThirtyEight
As a college student in New York City, I marveled that the city let me eat poached eggs with halloumi cheese and Moroccan spiced pita for breakfast, a spicy-sweet minced meat salad from northern Thailand for lunch, and Singaporean nasi lemak for din…
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Poster poems: clay | Books | The Guardian
When you hear the word “soil”, you tend to think of growth, organic life, fertility. “Clay” is another matter entirely. It’s dead, sticky and wet, it sucks you down, nothing grows in it, it’s useful only to the potter.
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On Father’s Day 2005, an Australian window cleaner named Robert Farquharson was driving his young sons back to his estranged wife after an access visit. Halfway home, on a lonely stretch of Geelong road, he swerved across a dam into a deep, manmade …
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You Give Me ‘H-Bomb,’ I Raise You K-Pop: South Korea Resumes Propaganda Broadcasts | VICE News
Let the propaganda wars (re)begin. South Korea’s birthday gift to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, who is believed to have turned 33 today, was to turn its loudspeakers back on and denigrate his wife.
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‘I saw a town disintegrate before my eyes’ – BBC News
A bushfire in Western Australia has destroyed about 95 homes in the town of Yarloop and continues to burn out of control.Three people are unaccounted for and witnesses described multiple fireballs in the historic town, located south of Perth.
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Refugees in Germany launch paper for fellow newcomers – Al Jazeera English
When Ramy Alasheq was searching last year for a title to give to a newspaper he was helping launch for Arabic-speaking refugees in Germany, the inspiration came from his own journey. “They are great and friendly, they give me a lot of love,” he told…
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How Corporate Greed Caused the Massive California Methane Leak : environment
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Unions and the Friedrichs Case – The Atlantic
Why Are Unions So Worried About an Upcoming Supreme Court Case? https://t.co/dbNg4AnoRj https://t.co/iE6PDu2Amc
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Republicans Send Doomed Healthcare Repeal to Obama’s Desk – The Atlantic
What the Latest Obamacare Repeal Is Really About https://t.co/4lZEZB6VOr https://t.co/sHmivJuvg5
Sometime in the next few days, or even hours, President Obama will happily veto the first bill passed by Congress in 2016, a nearly-full repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Perhaps he’ll flash a big grin for the cameras when he does it, or maybe a mo… -
Kenya crackdown on sex-talk and preacher shows – BBC News
Kenya has published new broadcast regulations, which will place strict limits on sexual content and ban preachers from soliciting money on air. Explicit content will only be allowed on the airwaves between 22:00 and 05:00 in order to protect childre…
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Is Marco Rubio a Sleeper Agent for Netanyahu? | Mother Jones
This week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) released a television ad that slammed President Barack Obama on several fronts: guns, abortion, climate change (it’s not a true threat), and the war on terrorism.
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There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn’t It. | Mother Jones
“If the streets shackled my left leg, the schools shackled my right.” That’s how author Ta-Nehisi Coates described growing up in Baltimore in last year’s influential Between the World and Me, his treatise on the history of racism in America.
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Kumail Nanjiani Wants to Believe | Mother Jones
LONG BEFORE HE WAS CAST as the insecure coder Dinesh on HBO’s Silicon Valley, before he began voicing Prismo for the dystopian children’s cartoon Adventure Time, before Comedy Central gave him his own special, and before he began popping up on shows…
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This Doctor Wants to Treat Your Crippling Fear of Death With Uncut Ecstasy | Mother Jones
Surrounded by redwoods and Buddhist prayer flags, Phil Wolfson greets me outside his clinic at the top of a mountain in Marin County, California. (I’ve agreed not to reveal any identifiable details for security reasons.
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‘Case is made’ for Anthropocene Epoch : environment
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Fighting Australia’s bushfire threat – BBC News
Wildfires like the one which has destroyed nearly 100 home near Perth are a part of life in Australia, but can be devastating and deadly. The BBC asks what can be done to reduce the impact of the fires, and whether the threat is getting worse.
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Tales from North Korea: A defector’s story – Al Jazeera English
She put on her own coat and walked me out to the front gate holding a kerosene lamp. She smiled at me.
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Quanergy Says Its Solid-State Lidar For Driverless Cars Will Cost $250 Or Less | TechCrunch
Quanergy, a California based maker of 3D sensors for real-time mapping and navigation, has put a price on its forthcoming solid-state Lidar which, if it lives up to the company’s claims, could help shave significant cost off the build price of drive…
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Ethiopian forces ‘kill 140 Oromo protesters’ – BBC News
Ethiopian security forces have killed at least 140 people taking part in mass anti-government demonstrations since November, activists say, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Islamic State militant ‘executes own mother’ in Raqqa – BBC News
A militant from the so-called Islamic State (IS) has publicly executed his mother because she encouraged him to leave the group, activists say.Ali Saqr, 21, shot his mother, Lena al-Qasem, 45, outside the post office in Raqqa, Syria, eyewitnesses sa…
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Hacked Toy Company VTech: Let Us Monitor Your House | Motherboard
Last year, an anonymous hacker broke into the systems of VTech, a company that makes internet-connected toys, tablets and baby monitors.
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The anger of ordinary Chinese investors – BBC News
Trading was suspended twice this week in mainland Chinese markets, angering small investors, who blame the government for intervening in the markets. They say they feel “trapped” and “robbed” of not being able to trade, after the market was abruptly…
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Perfectly clear glacial Ice, Antarctica [OC] [1919×1279] : EarthPorn
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My neighbors Tesla is having electrical issues via /r/pics https://t.co/voRGJdgYvh https://t.co/BvUG2foCu9 https://t.co/IWECwpYtLz
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An African Sunset – South Africa [OC 1800×1200] : SkyPorn
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My neighbors Tesla is having electrical issues : pics
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Bryan Stevenson Wants to End Racial Injustice | Al Jazeera America
Josh Rushing (the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative): In the last year, it’s been a zeitgeist issue of videos of police shooting young African-American men.
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I was lucky enough to meet author Robin Stevens in Newcastle just before Christmas at the Books on Tyne festival. There were so many great events. I saw Anne Fine, who told us how she started school at three years old and that that children often mi…
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Friedrichs Draws Major Legal Backing on Both Sides | Al Jazeera America
On January 11, the United States Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in one of the most significant cases of this term: Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a nearly three-year long legal showdown between organized labor and it…
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Another Chinese billionaire has gone missing – BBC News
Chinese billionaire Zhou Chengjian of one of China’s biggest fashion chains, Metersbonwe, has gone missing, the company confirmed. Mr Zhou is the latest in a string of high-profile businessmen in the country to temporarily disappear.
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Sophie Someone by Hayley Long – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
In this novel, the reader follows Sophie as she learns that her parents have kept many secrets from her and her brother Hercule. Sophie’s family live in Brussels, capital of Belgium. But Sophie’s family haven’t always lived there.
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UK trade deficit narrows as oil imports fall – BBC News
The UK’s trade deficit – the difference between the amount imported and exported – narrowed in November. There was a deficit of £3.2bn in the month, which was down £0.3bn from October, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National S…
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She looked guilty for a split second, then continued with her rampage : cats
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Some of our favorite, and most popular, posts at Open Culture focus on book illustration. From fine art to graphic design, from the sublime to the ridiculous to the purely technical, the art used to visualize beloved works of literature and scientif…
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Pupils make radio call to Tim Peake – BBC News
Sandringham School in St Albans has made history by making the first amateur radio call from the UK to a British astronaut on the space station. Pupils contacted Major Tim Peake as he flew overhead on Friday morning.
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Paris attacks chief’s ‘hideout found’ – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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South Africa have included Dale Steyn in an unchanged squad for the two remaining Tests against England. The fast bowler missed the second Test in Cape Town with a shoulder injury as England survived a dramatic final day to draw against the Proteas.
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Dozens of homes destroyed in bushfire in Western Australia – BBC News
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Dozen of homes and businesses in the Western Australian town of Yarloop have been destroyed by a massive bushfire. One resident said it had been consumed by fireballs. The authorities say three people are unaccounted for. -
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CAR faces runoff election to decide presidency – Al Jazeera English
The presidential election in the Central African Republic (CAR) is now headed to a runoff later this month between two former prime ministers, election officials have announced.
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Survival in Madaya: ‘We are living on water and salt’ – Al Jazeera English
Life has become a grim exercise in survival for thousands of families in the Syrian town of Madaya, where the consequences of a six-month siege have been exacerbated by the onset of winter.
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Fitting praying mantises with 3D glasses for science – BBC News
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Scientists have fitted praying mantises with tiny 3D glasses in experiments which could help develop better robots. The aim is to investigate the creatures’ vision – the only insect known to see in 3D. -
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HBO has greenlit a Deadwood movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TVLine is reporting that HBO’s critically beloved Western swear reservoir, Deadwood, is being resurrected as a movie.
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Ever scroll through Instagram and wonder how someone snapped that ridiculously cool aerial shot? Here’s your chance to learn.
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European markets steady after Chinese shares rise – BBC News
Chinese shares have risen and European markets have opened slightly higher at the end of what has been a torrid first week of the year. It was a week in which trading in China’s markets was twice halted by a circuit breaker, before the authorities d…
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BBC Sport – FA Cup: Video assistance for referees may be used next season
The FA Cup could trial video assistance for referees next season after football’s law-making body recommended that experiments take place.
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We need to talk about mental health without shame | Children’s books | The Guardian
As a preface to the rest of this piece, I think it’s important to state that I travelled directly to the Hay Festival 2015 from the Eurovision Song Contest. After five very rainy days in Vienna I was, it’s fair to say, feeling a tiny bit hungover.
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Arab coalition denies striking Iran’s Yemen embassy – Al Jazeera English
The Arab coalition and Yemen’s foreign ministry have denied Iran’s accusation that Saudi fighter jets struck its embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
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EPA to Build Barrier Between Fire, Toxic Waste | Al Jazeera America
Those living near a landfill complex in suburban St. Louis where an underground fire is burning near Cold War-era nuclear weapons waste say they remain afraid and frustrated despite a government pledge to build a barrier between the two.
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Aubameyang crowned African Footballer of the Year – Al Jazeera English
Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang narrowly edged out Yaya Toure to be named African Footballer of the Year at the Confederation of African Football award ceremony.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: High Energy Andromeda
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Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America | TechCrunch
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Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America | TechCrunch
Easy Taxi, the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and among other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride on-demand market in its native South America.
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Bill Bryson’s ‘tribute’ to Jolly Fisherman makes waves in seaside town | Books | The Guardian
Skegness’s Jolly Fisherman, he of the beaming smile and rotund belly, might be a little less cheerful after it emerged that his image was used without permission on the cover of Bill Bryson’s latest travel book – in which the bestselling travel writ…
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Throughout his life Nietzsche thought of himself as an educator, but the time he spent working in higher education was not long and much of it he found frustrating.
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Flying Gurnard Fish in New Zealand : pics
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Netflix to restore unedited Lost finale after streaming wrong version : television
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“The most terrifying things are the most plausible things,” noted Natalie Dormer, ringing from New York to discuss her turn in The Forest as a woman battling inner and outer demons in Japan’s infamous Suicide Forest.
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“I don’t write for children,” Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) told Stephen Colbert in his last on-camera appearance.
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US Marshals raid booth, grab Chinese scooters from CES | Ars Technica
Two United States Marshals raided a booth at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday afternoon, walking away with several one-wheeled electric scooters. The company that makes the scooters, Changzhou First International Trade Co.
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Germany considers deportations after sexual assaults – Al Jazeera English
Germany must examine whether it has done enough to deport foreigners who commit crimes, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, in response to a series of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne.
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Maine Gov: Dealers Impregnate ‘White’ Girls | Al Jazeera America
Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage said out-of-state drug dealers are impregnating “young white” girls, and his remarks were quickly denounced by critics on Thursday as racial fearmongering.
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Injured Yemenis: Unable to leave, unable to stay – Al Jazeera English
Taiz, Yemen – Last October, Wahid al-Esaei, 23, a resident of Taiz’s al-Masbah neighbourhood, was returning home from the supermarket when shelling by Houthi fighters killed two people nearby, and left him with an injured leg.
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Feds Arrest 2 Refugees on Terror-Related Charges : Liberal
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How does one an artist — not in a practical sense, not by some external measure, but by an invisible and intimate surrender to the creative impulse? It often happens in a single moment of recognition — a point of contact with some aspect of the mira…
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Jallikattu: India lifts ban on bullfighting in Tamil Nadu – BBC News
The Indian government has lifted a ban on Jallikattu, a version of bull fighting which has been popular for thousands of years in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. At the annual festival held in January, thousands of men chase the bulls to grab priz…
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Jack Garratt tops BBC Sound of 2016 list – BBC News
Experimental songwriter Jack Garratt has topped the BBC’s Sound of 2016 list, which highlights the most exciting new artists in music. The singer, from Buckinghamshire, said he was “unbelievably, overwhelmingly grateful” for the honour.
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Graceful, elegant creatures, they said. (Xpost from r/catbellies) : cats
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I let my new parakeet explore my room. She stood here for 15 minutes instead. : aww
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Mein Kampf reprinted in Germany for first time since WW2 – BBC News
Mein Kampf is being reprinted and sold in Germany for the first time since World War Two. The copyright on Adolf Hitler’s book expired at the beginning of this year.
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Cat Was Sitting In The Right Place At The Right Time. : aww
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GURNEE, IL—Insisting that every ounce of integrity had been removed from his creation, roller coaster designer Jonathan Leeman told reporters Friday that Six Flags Great America’s egregious incorporation of the Fantastic Four into his ride had compl…
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Pediatricians: Screen All Children For Depression, HIV – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in its new guidelines that all children regardless of risk level be regularly tested for high cholesterol, depression, and HIV, screenings that could detect issues early enough to eliminate the need for …
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South Korea launches propaganda barrage at North | Al Jazeera America
South Korea began a high-decibel propaganda barrage across its border with North Korea on Friday in retaliation for what it claimed as a nuclear test, while the United States called on China to end “business as usual” with its ally.
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Mr. Robot – Season 1 Gag Reel : television
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HBO: Deadwood movie ‘happening’ : movies
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RNTS Media Completes $45M Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Company Heyzap | TechCrunch
The deal is done — Germany company RNTS Media says it has completed its acquisition of Heyzap. The acquisition is worth up to $45 million, specifically $25 million in cash upfront, with cash and stock earn outs of $20 million.
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Eddie Redmayne expected on Bafta shortlist – BBC News
Eddie Redmayne, Leonardo DiCaprio and Saoirse Ronan are among the stars expected to receive Bafta film nominations, which are announced later. Dramas Carol, Steve Jobs and Spotlight are tipped to make the awards shortlist, alongside blockbusters suc…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, January 8, and Saturday, January 9. All times are Eastern. Reign (CW, 8 p.m., Friday): Reign sweeps majestically back onto your television screens after its winter hiatus, and, even more than ever, the…
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“I never foresaw doing a third season, didn’t want to do it, wasn’t interested because the story was told. … And IFC was like, ‘What if it’s a post-apocalypse thing or what if it’s a prequel?’ … No, no, no.
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Crooned and wailed over a backdrop of dark jazz, spy soundtrack, and synth pad, Blackstar finds David Bowie—now old enough to be grandpa to a big chunk of the music-streaming public—at the forefront of something.
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In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. Focusing a viewer’s attention is one of a filmmaker’s primary tasks.
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Unfriended redefines art direction for the webcam era · 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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In which The A.V. Club finds someone notable to schedule 24 Hours Of media for you to enjoy.
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What’s your pop culture resolution for 2016? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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Call them scream queens, final girls, or just B-movie mainstays: However horror-movie heroines are classified, those roles are often tougher than they look.
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Sharpen your swords because we know when Game of Thrones starts | Ars Technica
You know that feeling when you fly on the back of a wild dragon who has rescued you from an angry mob, and then it lands in a remote area full of another angry mob, but you still feel badass because of the aforementioned dragon and your uncanny abil…
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Big Dance Theatre’s Poetic Surrealism – The New Yorker
On the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Big Dance Theatre—the genre-defying performance company led by the married duo Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar—is treating itself to an evening at the Kitchen.
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The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers – The New Yorker
When a politically problematic figure disappears—or is disappeared—in China, a dark uneasiness falls, though usually accompanied by a glum sense of the inevitable. This is the cost of living within an authoritarian regime with diminishing patience f…
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Lowlife: Tables for Two – The New Yorker
In the nineteenth century, a part of Manhattan’s Tenth Ward, which is now the Lower East Side, housed more than thirty-five hundred people a block, or a million per square mile.
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Lumos: Bar Tab – The New Yorker
Below a hat shop in SoHo, through a door marked only by the Chinese characters for “tavern,” this speakeasy engages nightly in a quiet revolution.
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A$AP Rocky Honors the Late A$AP Yams – The New Yorker
The death of the budding record-industry mogul A$AP Yams, at the age of twenty-six, by accidental overdose, in January of last year shook those who knew him and cast a shadow over the industry.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Massive Galaxy Cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508
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Stephan’s Quintent: Galaxies Shimmering and Shining | Space Wallpaper
About this Image The galactic group in this image was originally discovered in 1877 and thought to be a new nebulae. Further research, acceptance of the reality other galaxies in our Universe as well as modern technologies helped the renaming of the…
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Poll: Majority support Obama’s executive actions on guns : politics
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The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million : Music
Sell it all for a payout or tour til you’re 60. They made the right choice. Smash still gets a full listen through every time I put the album on. Solid wall to wall album.
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Bushfire causes havoc in Western Australia town – Al Jazeera English
A major bushfire in Western Australia has destroyed nearly 100 homes and left three people unaccounted for, emergency officials have said. The fire, which had already razed 53,000 hectares of land this week, ripped through Yarloop, a small rural tow…
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White House Responds to ‘Making a Murderer’ Petition | Rolling Stone
Netflix’s compelling true crime documentary series, Making a Murderer, has inspired a lot of strong emotions and questions about the U.S.
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The rule of thumb about recapping is to judge the show against the Platonic ideal of itself. It reduces unfair comparisons (and, let’s be honest, keeps you from spending two hours debating relative quality in the era of Peak TV).
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UN condemns Yemen’s expulsion of human rights official – Al Jazeera English
The UN has condemned Yemen’s decision to expel the organisation’s human rights representative in the country and called the government to reconsider its move.
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FBI hacked the Dark Web to bust 1,500 pedophiles : technology
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CNN’s ‘Guns in America’ Town Hall Was More Like a WWF Match – The Daily Beast
President Obama may have expected tough questions in Thursday night’s “Guns in America” town hall, but I think it’s fair to say he was ambushed.
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Grocery Delivery Startup Honestbee Launches In Taiwan | TechCrunch
Honestbee, a grocery delivery service backed by Formation 8, has launched in Taipei, its third city so far. Services are already available in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Niseko, Japan. During the first half of this year, Honestbee also plans to expand…
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APOD: 2016 January 7 – High Energy Andromeda
Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, really is just next door as large galaxies go.
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US Hellfire missile ‘wrongly shipped to Cuba’ – BBC News
An inert US Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a training exercise was wrongly shipped on to Cuba, the Wall Street Journal reports. The incident in 2014 could have led to a serious loss of military technology, officials told the paper.
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Veterans Let Slip the Masks of War: Can This Art Therapy Ease PTSD? – The Daily Beast
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Laquan McDonald Attorneys: Cops Shut Up Witnesses at Killing – The Daily Beast
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The Guns We Don’t Talk About – The Daily Beast
It was a good day to die. In early September 2003, I spent the morning shuffling my children off to school, used our last ten dollars to put gas in the tank, folded a basket of laundry, and tidied up the tiny motel room we lived in. And then, I went…
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Gael García Bernal: Trump’s Hate Speech Is the ‘Genesis of Genocide’ – The Daily Beast
The Mexican-born star of Mozart in the Jungle and the upcoming immigration thriller Desierto believes that good-hearted Americans won’t let Donald Trump become president.
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Obama Birthers Now Want Ted Cruz’s Head – The Daily Beast
In 2008, they went after Barack Obama, In 2016, they’re going after Ted Cruz. The originators of the so-called “Birther” movement are leading a charge this campaign cycle with the same accusations they had two campaign cycles ago.
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Queen of the Dems Faces Palace Coup – The Daily Beast
The head of the Democratic National Committee is supposed to help unify the disparate parts of her party, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.
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Why We Can’t Stay Silent on Germany’s Mass Sex Assaults – The Daily Beast
It reminded us all of the beginning of the end of the Arab Spring. In 2011, the celebratory crowds in Egypt’s Tahrir Square began giving way to organized street gangs who targeted and raped women out in the open. Perhaps this was a bad omen for thin…
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Is This the Collapse of the Kardashian Economy? – The Daily Beast
Kardashian-world is a strange one, a perverse hall of mirrors.
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Why Ethan, 8, Looks Great in Makeup, No Matter What His Haters Say – The Daily Beast
Eight-year-old Ethan Wilwert wanted one special thing for Christmas—not a puppy, nor, thankfully, a hoverboard. Ethan wanted an in-person makeup tutorial at the MAC Cosmetics store in his family’s local Florida mall.
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The FBI Ignored Dylann Roof’s Hate Group – The Daily Beast
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it did not investigate the hate group that inspired Dylann Roof to kill nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina last year.
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Cellphones Won’t Ruin Your Parenting – The Daily Beast
Should you fling your iPhones into the sea, new parents? Are you doing irreparable harm to your infants’ development every time you check your texts or Shazam the radio? Can you Candy Crush your kids into a mood disorder? According to TIME, maybe. M…
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Donald Trump Braves a Socialist Paradise—Bernie Sanders’s Hometown – The Daily Beast
BURLINGTON — Donald Trump has now gone where few Republican presidential contenders have gone before: the backyard of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Veterans Let Slip the Masks of War: Can This Art Therapy Ease PTSD? – The Daily Beast
Service members suffering from PTSD often feel like they’re wearing a mask. Melissa Walker asks them to make one.
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Laquan McDonald Attorneys: Cops Shut Up Witnesses at Killing – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — Attorneys for Laquan McDonald’s estate accused the Chicago Police Department of pressuring eyewitnesses to change their stories about the teenager was killed by a cop.
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The Real Threat Trump Poses to Hillary—and Us – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump says Ted Cruz may not be eligible to be president, and what happens? It dominates the news cycle for three days. Going on four. See a pattern here? You should.
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Picture of Stanley Park, Vancouver (2825×2303) [OC] : EarthPorn
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La Turballe, France [4666×3110] [OC] : SkyPorn
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Barack Obama accuses NRA of misleading US over guns – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has strongly criticised the most powerful US gun lobby during a televised public forum. He said the National Rifle Association (NRA) had deliberately misrepresented proposed legislation on gun control.
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Night Kayaking Image, Quebec – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Sharp spike in anti-Semitic (2x) and anti-Muslim (3x) attacks in France : worldnews
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CES 2016: The toilet you only clean once a year – BBC News
An “intelligent” toilet that opens when you approach it and self-cleans with every flush is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It also cleans the user with an aerated wand, which delivers warm water and warm air “from a seated…
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The Golden Globes Are More Than the Oscars’ Drunk, Corrupt Cousin – The Daily Beast
With its free-flowing champagne, nonsensical nominations, and winners that might have voters waking up Monday morning with hangovers of regret, it might make sense that the prevailing attitude about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual s…
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What To Read When You’re Done Watching ‘Making A Murderer’ – Digg
Like Serial last year, Netflix’s Making a Murderer has captured the public’s interest with a tale of true crime and our broken justice system.
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Nudity and Nerdery • ericscissorhands: Just a little reminder of…
Just a little reminder of what’s to come this year. ;D Happy New Year!
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The White House responds to that Making A Murderer petition : television
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Florida Executes Killer of Three Women | Al Jazeera America
Oscar Ray Bolin, a former carnival worker who was convicted of killing 3 Tampa Bay-area women then married a member of his defense team while on death row, was executed Thursday in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott’s office said Bolin was pronounced dead by …
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Colleges Are Overreacting Like Your Parents And Banning Hoverboards | TechCrunch
Surprise, surprise! If you buy cheap off-brand electronics from a shoddy factory in Asia, they may have poorly-designed lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire. After nearly 60 airlines basically banned hoverboards overnight, college campuses are …
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Channing Tatum Channels Beyoncé in ‘Lip Sync Battle’—with Some Help from Beyoncé – The Daily Beast
You just knew the season two premiere of Lip Sync Battle was going to be a big deal when host LL Cool J revealed that Quentin Tarantino was in the audience.
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Gov. Paul LePage of Maine, a Christie Supporter, Makes Racially Charged Remarks https://t.co/GwgNC4Y5dh https://t.co/G0PWQDahiC
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DNC Chair, Fueled by Booze PACs, Blasts Legal Pot : Liberal
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The first major elected official to endorse Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey for president made racially charged remarks this week about drug dealers entering his state and impregnating “white girls.” During an event Wednesday night in Maine, Gov. …
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What I Learned From Pro-Gun Twitter | Trout Nation
My child is more important than your gun. Now, you’d assume that the above statement isn’t controversial, right? The life and rights of a human child should always be valued above the existence or ownership of an inanimate object.
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Samsung Continues Its Financial Recovery Despite Missing Analyst Expections | TechCrunch
Samsung’s slow recovery appears to be continuing after the South Korean tech company release its financial projections for the final quarter of 2015, although they are lower than industry analyst expectations. The firm said today that it expects to …
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AMC gives series order to oil dynasty drama The Son · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TV shows have told a lot of different stories over the years, from a chemistry teacher who becomes a drug kingpin to a man who gets struck by lightning and can suddenly run really fast, but there’s one story that TV has never dared to tackle: The tr…
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As part of our Best Of 2015 coverage, The A.V. Club opted not to include a list of the worst TV of the year. Instead, we argued the greater crime was being inessential, wasting the audience’s time with forgettable narratives and bland characters.
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Obama: ‘I Won’t Campaign’ With Candidates Who Don’t Support Gun Control – The Atlantic
In an op-ed in The New York Times on Thursday, President Obama vowed to not “campaign for, vote for or support any candidate, even in my own party, who does not support common-sense gun reform.” At a town hall event hosted by CNN that night, he expl…
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CES 2016: Hoverboard booth raided following patent complaint – BBC News
US marshals have raided a Chinese hoverboard-maker’s stand at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. The officials confiscated all the company’s one-wheeled vehicles and took down its signs after a Silicon Valley-based rival filed a patent infringement cla…
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Freddie is right handed : cats
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Trivers’ Pursuit | Psychology Today
To call Robert Trivers an acclaimed biologist is an understatement akin to calling the late Richard Feynman a popular professor of physics.
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NYPD cop claims he was punished for not busting minorities : Liberal
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Open thread for night owls: Activists call for arrest of Michigan Gov. Snyder over Flint poisoning
Anthony Fordham picks up bottled water from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan to deliver to a school after elevated lead levels were found in the city’s water in Flint, Michigan December 16, 2015. Sarah Lazare at Common Dreams writes—Calls for Michi…
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Earhoox for Apple EarPods: 2-Pack | Digg Store
Earbuds often don’t fit well, a literally uncomfortable truth that extends to even Apple EarPods. Earhoox offer an easy solution in the form of silicone molds that wrap around your EarPods, helping them apply traction and pressure to key points on y…
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Migrants struggle in sub-zero temperatures – BBC News
Medics working at refugee aid camps in the Balkans say they are seeing a spike in the number of migrants falling ill as freezing temperatures arrive. It has fallen to as low as -11C in the region.
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US Wants Tech Leaders to Help Disrupt ISIL | Al Jazeera America
The White House is dispatching top national security officials to Silicon Valley to seek the tech industry’s help in disrupting the Islamic State in Iran and the Levant (ISIL) and similar armed groups.
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David Ludwig often uses an analogy when he talks about weight loss: Human beings are not toaster ovens. If we were, then the types of calories we consumed would not matter, and calorie counting would be the most effective way to lose weight. Dr.
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In pictures: Inside former Swiss army bunkers – BBC News
New tougher alcohol guidelines are published, reducing recommended drinking limits and calling for several booze-free days a week.
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Aaron Sorkin is directing his first movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although he’s served as a showrunner, executive producer, and writer for any number of shows and movies—from Sports Night and A Few Good Men all the way up to HBO’s recently concluded The Newsroom—Aaron Sorkin somewhat surprisingly doesn’t have a si…
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Lenovo will launch first Project Tango phone this summer, but won’t show it yet | Ars Technica
If you’re not familiar, Google’s “Project Tango” is a depth-sensing camera setup that the company has been prototyping in special developer hardware for a while now.
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NBC orders DC Comics workplace sitcom ‘Powerless’ for pilot : television
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China, North Korea and what happens after a nuclear test – BBC News
Since the first nuclear test in 2007, there have been broadly two schools of thought amongst Chinese academics and commentators about the problem of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s nuclear programme.
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All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in January
It’s a whole new year, and already the science fiction and fantasy publishers are hitting the ground running.
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Glen Canyon, UT/AZ | [2048×890] by Gaurav Agrawal : EarthPorn
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Honduras starts archaeological dig for ancient city – BBC News
The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, says scientists plan to explore a jungle site where they believe a mysterious ancient city is hidden. Spanish colonisers searched for it believing “the City of the Monkey God” or “the White City” wa…
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Father John Misty Unveils Tour Dates, Pandora Mixtape | Rolling Stone
Father John Misty is hitting the road, beginning on March 30th in Santa Ana, CA, at the Observatory. Josh Tillman’s newly added North American dates round out a 36-date tour, which ends in Europe. This leg of the tour culminates on May 31st in Oslo,…
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U.S. Marshals Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES – Bloomberg Business
On Thursday afternoon, two U.S. federal marshals showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show to conduct a raid. As a crowd gathered, the marshals packed up a one-wheeled skateboard on display at a Chinese company’s booth, as well as a sign and fliers…
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The Big Bang Theory closed out the first half of its ninth season on a high note. For weeks the whole “Amy and Sheldon are going to do it” storyline had been building, and despite a recipe for disaster, the show handled everything right.
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Alcohol limits cut to reduce health risks – BBC News
New tougher alcohol guidelines have been published which reduce the recommended drinking limits and call for some teetotal days every week.
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Event horizon snapshot due in 2017 – BBC News
A network of nine radio telescopes, dotted around the globe, is set to take the first ever picture of a black hole’s event horizon in 2017.The project, called the Event Horizon Telescope, has completed most of its technical preparations as well as e…
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Watch: President Obama takes on “conspiracy” that he’s trying to take people’s guns away – Vox
President Barack Obama has never proposed mass-scale gun confiscation during his time in office. Yet whenever Obama comes up with a new proposal, like his executive actions this week, gun sales spike, in part due to fears that the president is about…
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Quentin Tarantino: Hateful Eight violence ‘necessary’ – BBC News
Quentin Tarantino’s first western, 2013’s Django Unchained, was his highest grossing film in the USA – and now the 52-year-old director’s latest movie, The Hateful Eight, is also set in the wild west
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NowThis – Vice President Biden Says Smart Gun Technology… | Facebook
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App reveals face of man who has teenager’s missing smartphone / Boing Boing
Heidi Whitehead of Denver is asking for help in identifying the gentleman in this photo. He is in possession of a cell phone that Whitehead’s son lost.
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Pushing for Gun Controls, Obama Tears Into the Nra | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama tore into the National Rifle Association on Thursday night as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the powerful lobby group of peddling an “imaginary fiction” that he said has distorted the national debat…
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Israel says four Palestinian knife attackers killed – BBC News
Four Palestinians have been shot dead after trying to stab Israeli soldiers in two incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military says. Three attackers were killed at Gush Etzion Junction, where similar incidents have occurred, and the fourt…
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Samsung’s operating profit forecast misses expectations – BBC News
Samsung Electronics says its operating profit is likely to rise 15% in the fourth quarter from a year ago, missing market expectations. The preliminary figures show that operating profit will be 6.1tn won ($5.1bn; £3.5bn) for the October to December…
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Indiegogo tries to sell crowdfunding to major firms – BBC News
It is perhaps best known for helping small businesses get a leg-up. This week though, the crowdfunding site Indiegogo formally announced its intention to work more closely with the world’s biggest corporations.
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Netflix to restore unedited Lost finale after streaming wrong version · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a mystery befitting a strange island full of mysteries, some Lost fans recently noticed that the version of the show’s series finale that’s streaming on Netflix is 18 minutes shorter than the full, 104-minute behemoth that originally aired on ABC…
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8,000 years into its run, the couch gag is pretty much the only element of The Simpsons that still consistently works, giving bored animators a chance to flex their muscles and generating positive buzz whenever the show’s producers can lure a high-e…
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Meet our Golden Retriever Sam, Two Years Cancer Free : aww
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New USDA dietary guidelines are a win for the meat industry and a loss for the environment | Grist
Never mind that the oil and gas industry has boomed during the Obama administration. Wondering what “eco-friendly” and “natural” really mean on product labels? Advice maven Ask Umbra dusts off a few common terms.
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China’s patience with ‘Kim The Fat’ wears thin after H-bomb test – BBC News
That’s how one irate Chinese social media user responded to North Korea’s claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb, in a location not too far from the border between the two historical allies. The comment is typical of a large swathe of recent Chine…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Reveals its Season 6 Premiere Date | Rolling Stone
Winter is coming… soon. In fact, it hits this spring when Game of Thrones returns for its sixth season. While the fate of Jon Snow is still being speculated (he does figure prominently in a Game of Thrones season 6 promo), the HBO series has confi…
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Oetzi the Iceman had a stomach bug, researchers say – BBC News
Microbes extracted from the insides of a 5,300-year-old mummy have shown he was suffering from a stomach bug before he died, scientists have discovered.
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Movie of the Week: “Damsels in Distress” – The New Yorker
Few dichotomies are as misleading as the one separating style and substance. The exceptions prove the rule: not only do almost all great artists offer both distinctively, but they even make the forging of their style inseparable from their subjects.
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Fifty Shades of Grey may have super saturated pop culture last year, but there is one trivia note about the film adaptation of E.L.
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Goose hunting on a mirrored river. Torrington, Wyoming (OC) 2560×1440 : EarthPorn
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Massive Galaxy Cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508 : EndorNineWorlds
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Why don’t black and white Americans live together? – BBC News
Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t neighbours – they don’t go to the same schools, they don’t shop at the same stories, and they don’t always have …
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THE epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by g…
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Massive Galaxy Cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508 by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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FACT: 90% of Americans support background checks, a pillar of President Obama’s action. #GunsInAmerica https://t.co/qbvvJBnyGD – The Democrats (TheDemocrats) http://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/685280257327378432
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Read President Obama’s op-ed: https://t.co/9Wm4ktajOi #GunsInAmerica #StopGunViolence https://t.co/QcO1zbo7bR – The Democrats (TheDemocrats) http://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/685281148797382657
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President Obama: We’ve improved cars and toy safety. Why don’t we improve gun safety? – Vox
Why do we allow safety improvements and policies for cars, toys, and medications, but we don’t seem to apply the same standard to guns? That was President Barack Obama’s big question at the start of his CNN town hall in support of his new executive …
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The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in the market. And it wasn’t just the audience that they were trying to…
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Sex attackers risk deportation – Merkel – BBC News
Germany must look again at deporting foreigners convicted of crimes following the Cologne sex attacks, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said “clear signals” had to be sent to those not prepared to abide by German law.
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Obama won’t support any Dem candidates who don’t back gun reform | TheHill
RT @thehill: Obama: I won’t vote for a Dem candidate who doesn’t back gun reform https://t.co/ydzrHslvo6 https://t.co/gy7fTb4RYw
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Deer enjoys frolicking in a puddle in the forest / Boing Boing
This is James Smart’s breathtaking photo of an anti-cyclonic tornado touching down near Simla, Colorado. The image is the grand prize winner of the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest.
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Bob Dylan – Desolation Row – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 : Bob Dylan Live 1966 – YouTube
Artist: Bob DylanTitle: Desolation RowAlbum: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 : Bob Dylan Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) [Live]itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/live…Amazon:http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bootleg-S…
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Man claims he don’t take no orders from no women / Boing Boing
He admits he’s from Mars. An unpleasant gentleman whose flatbed truck dumped a bunch of wood all over a residential street tells Detroit 7 Action News he don’t take no orders from no women. Good to know. DETROIT: 7 Action News tracked down Ihor Stet…
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Aramco oil giant could be sold by Saudi Arabia to raise funds – BBC News
Saudi Arabia may sell shares in state energy giant Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer, creating what could be the world’s most valuable company. In an interview in the Economist, deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman said the move was being “r…
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How much inequality is too much? – BBC News
The richest 10% of Americans earn half of all of income. In Britain, the top 10% hold 40% of all the income. Inequality isn’t just an issue for rich countries: a billion people have been lifted out of poverty since 1990, but inequality has also been…
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Our hotel replaced our personal tube of toothpaste upon noticing it was low…now that’s service! (imgur.com) Never come across room service writing a letter before. Guy must be angling for a tip.
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This is ragamuffin tariches.adopted him yesterday : cats
This is ragamuffin tariches.adopted him yesterday via /r/cats https://t.co/iBF0p7Tzpa https://t.co/6K1obPeXJ8
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My grandma’s new puppy, Charlie. : aww
My grandma’s new puppy, Charlie. via /r/aww https://t.co/FhP4kYDE5A https://t.co/pmSB80C0iU
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Eastern Soul Nebula [3440×2512][OS][OC] : spaceporn
Eastern Soul Nebula [3440×2512][OS][OC] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/fWaYZ9QjT3 https://t.co/OFxpnr7Qpk
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The White House responds to that Making A Murderer petition · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The White House responds to that Making A Murderer petition https://t.co/g9gvNWNdB3 https://t.co/uAxazLuIMU
It looks like the White House has finally gotten around to watching Making A Murderer, because it has now responded to that petition we reported on a few days ago about asking President Obama to issue a pardon for Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, th… -
John Legere asks EFF, “Who the f**k are you, and who pays you?” | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere has spent much of today defending the carrier’s controversial “Binge On” program, and he didn’t hold much back when answering his critics.
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Asia shares down as markets await start of China trade – BBC News
Asian shares headed lower ahead of the opening of trading in China, with investors nervous about another sell-off in the mainland markets.
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Lumps Is Showing A Wide Field-Of-View Smart Glasses Prototype | TechCrunch
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These days, it’s hard to stand out in the Smart Glasses category. There are many underwhelming products coming to market now and many more that while extravagant seem to be caught in the “forever-coming-soon” stage. It’s therefore refreshing to see … -
Just a giant bear and his human friend, getting snuggly / Boing Boing
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Folks, don’t try this with the gigantic bear you have at home. As with many viral videos out of Russia, whe you watch this you’ll go “wow” then “WTF” then “aww” then “this is vaguely erotic in a bad way” then “there’s a high likelihood the star of t… -
Mein Kampf hits stores in tense Germany – BBC News
It’s one of the most talked about publications of the year. It’s not a new book. And it’s not even a well-written book. But Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, which hits German bookshops for the first time in 70 years on Friday, is certainly attracting at…
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Alert the nation’s moms: Rizzoli & Isles is ending · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having run through its apportioned share of TNT’s vast stores of banter, sass, and tried-and-true procedural elements, female-led police dramedy Rizzoli & Isles is coming to an end.
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Oregon: Armed protesters reject sheriff’s offer – BBC News
The leader of a group of armed protesters occupying a wildlife refuge in the US state of Oregon has refused a sheriff’s offer to end the stand-off. Ammon Bundy turned down the offer by Harney County Sheriff David Ward to escort the occupiers out of …
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A New York City Settlement on Surveillance of Muslims – The New Yorker
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the New York Police Department began an intense surveillance operation that focused on Muslims in New York City and beyond. Plainclothes officers, sometimes called “rakers,” and informants, or “mosque crawler…
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Notebook with magnetic pages. : gifs
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/m7oIjiIGVI Stories via @UN_CTED
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Guy named KirbyJenner photoshops himself into The Kardashians photos via /r/pics https://t.co/tZXKxX6bdC https://t.co/pJmjnCOmmI
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Stumping for Ted Cruz, anti-immigrant zealot Steve King has an interesting vision for America
Ted Cruz and Steve King, bosom buddies. This is perfect. Better than perfect. At a Ted Cruz campaign event in far-right Sioux County, Iowa, which helped hand Iowa caucus wins to Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012, anti-immigrant zealot …
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Vox Sentences: China tried to stabilize its stock market. It just crashed faster. – Vox
China’s stock market crashes, is frozen, crashes again; Obama’s raids on Central American immigrants are a mess; and zomg people stop it Ted Cruz is allowed to be president. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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App-Improvement AI And The Future Of Web Development | TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence (AI) is permeating our lives — just not in the ways we might have expected from reading sci-fi novels or watching robot apocalypse-themed movies.
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Michael Mosley: The truth about alcohol – BBC News
Michael Mosley has given up alcohol for January – but does anyone know exactly what effect drinking has on our health? You can’t open a newspaper at this time of year without reading a story about moderate alcohol consumption being good or bad for y…
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine’s email newsletter to get articles sent to your …
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There’s Something Very Strange Lurking In the Space Between Galaxies
In the starless void of intergalactic space, there are clouds of cosmic gas as old as the Milky Way. They produce no visible light, and they barely radiate heat. Now, for the first time, astronomers have determined their size. These shadowy structur…
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Think of Surplus Money as Something to Invest, Not Spend
When you find yourself with a little extra cash, it’s hard to not immediately start thinking of all the stuff you want to buy. You’re better off saving that money or putting it to work, and a simple shift in perspective can help you do that.
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Iran Bans All Imports from Saudi Arabia : worldnews
Iran Bans All Imports from Saudi Arabia via /r/worldnews https://t.co/9Fiz0LbCJ5 https://t.co/PXZvmmEUB4
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Eating Right Can Save the World | Outside Online
Most of us are aware that our food choices have environmental consequences.
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Asmodee becomes board gaming’s new monster, acquires English rights to Catan | Ars Technica
The modern board game renaissance can trace many of its origins to the nation of Germany—whose annual Spiel des Jahres awards are arguably as big there as the Oscars are in the United States—but one major tabletop gaming producer has begun an aggres…
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Big Money, Small Farmers and the Stubborn Persistence of Hunger – In These Times
From the early 1990s onwards, it was possible for some to imagine that Green Revolution rises in rice and wheat yields and a continuous decline in world cereal prices had answered definitively what classical writers called “the agrarian question.
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Fears for town hit by massive bushfire in Western Australia – BBC News
Dozens of homes and businesses are believed to have been destroyed by a massive bushfire in Western Australia. Accounts from residents say most buildings in the town of Yarloop, south of Perth, were destroyed in the blaze.
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Dolce & Gabbana’s New Collection Proves That Hijabs Are Now High Fashion – The Atlantic
In the ground-floor Food Hall of Harrods—the storied London department store owned by the Qatari royal family—individual chocolates beautifully arrayed in glass cases are labeled according to their alcohol content, a courtesy to Muslim customers.
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Desk loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/MraXyyPoIe https://t.co/CLtk1KUi38 https://t.co/qC9S7xWsOe
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This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like | The Nation
As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into labor…
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Militia Leader Ammon Bundy, Sheriff Meet To End Oregon Standoff | VICE News
The leader of the anti-government militia that has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and the local sheriff met on Thursday in an effort to resolve the situation peacefully. The meeting ended without an agreement, and the two will talk aga…
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The Revenant’s Bear Attack Triggered My Fight Or Flight Response – BuzzFeed News
My resting heart rate was stable until the bear attack. Then, precisely 26 minutes into Alejandro Iñárritu’s The Revenant, it spiked.
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GlaxoSmithKline should be split, star investor Woodford says – BBC News
The UK’s biggest drugs company should be split up, says one of Britain’s most successful and influential investors. Neil Woodford said GlaxoSmithKline needs radical restructuring.
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Worst stock slump in 3 months on China worries | Al Jazeera America
Stocks and oil prices plunged again Thursday on spreading fears that China’s economy, a major engine of global growth, is sputtering. It was the worst one-day drop on Wall Street since late September, and the main U.S.
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Migrant crisis: Medical help for refugees in the cold – BBC News
Migrants crossing Europe are facing worsening conditions after snow blanketed large parts of the Balkans. Aid centres have been organised along borders to help the migrants as they attempt to make their way to their final destination.
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HBO sets a return date for Game Of Thrones (and Silicon Valley, and Veep) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Winter is almost over (or here, depending on how you look at it): According to Variety, HBO has set a return date of April 24 for its massively popular fantasy series Game Of Thrones.
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California gas leak is so bad that governor evacuates 30,000 people | Grist
Wondering what “eco-friendly” and “natural” really mean on product labels? Advice maven Ask Umbra dusts off a few common terms. The Canadian pipeline company is filing suit against the U.S. over the Keystone rejection, and appealing its case to NAFT…
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Radiohead creates a new company, probably has a new album ready · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Consequence Of Sound is reporting that the members of Radiohead have filed paperwork to form a new company together.
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Posing like its school picture day : cats
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“Can I have a bedtime story?” : aww
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Sunny wallpaper to enjoy : space
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How to Throw a Knife Perfectly | Inverse
The deadly throwing knife attack is such a reliably badass visual in movies it’s a shame to ruin it with physics. Even with sweetest Valyrian steel, mass plus velocity equals one completely intact White Walker.
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Jerry Seinfeld Did 5 Minutes Of Standup On ‘Colbert’ – Digg
9 diggs Funny Late Night TV If your only familiarity with Jerry comes from “Seinfeld,” let his standup remind you that he’s a guy has deeply studied the craft of joke writing.
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Were Hobbits Real? | JSTOR Daily
New research based on dental morphology suggests that the skeletons of an early human-like creature known as Homo floresiensis represent a distinct species of human after all.
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Bruce Kingsbury – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruce Steel Kingsbury, VC (8 January 1918 – 29 August 1942) was an Australian soldier of the Second World War. Serving initially in the Middle East, he later gained renown for his actions during the Battle of Isurava, one of many battles forming the…
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Lesson for Stalemated Sides in Oregon: A Texas Standoff Without End https://t.co/tddrgoBoQ4 https://t.co/SpL4U5N7Lq
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A 2010 Video Game Predicted The Ending Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
A 2010 Video Game Predicted The Ending Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens https://t.co/HDfdVENrGj https://t.co/VXB0SNEyYB
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Hans Zimmer Will Score Christopher Nolan’s WWII Film ‘Dunkirk’ : movies
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IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team | TechCrunch
This week at CES, IBM unveiled a some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly divested itself of an older asset. Today it was announc…
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Caught lying by an EFF investigation, T-Mobile CEO turns sweary / Boing Boing
On Monday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published an investigation into T-Mobile’s “Binge On” video service, which allegedly optimizes videos for mobile download and does not count them against T-Mobile’s bandwidth caps. EFF found that the Bin…
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We Finally Know The Premiere Date For Game Of Thrones Season 6
We knew Game of Thrones was coming back in April, but we didn’t know exactly when. Now we do. HBO has announced that the premiere date is April 24, which unfortunately means we’ll have to wait until the end of the month to find out what happens in s…
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Maine Governor Makes Shocking Racist Statement At Public Meeting | ThinkProgress
Drug dealers with stereotypically black names are importing heroin to Maine and leaving pregnant white women behind when they leave the state again, Gov. Paul LePage (R) told a town hall meeting on Wednesday.
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist : Longreads Blog
Below is an excerpt from Abducting a General, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s recently published memoir of a remarkable military operation in Crete: the kidnapping of a Nazi general. It was the only such kidnapping to have been successfully undertaken by the…
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Homeless in Los Angeles – The New Yorker
A heavy El Niño rainstorm came to Southern California on Tuesday, hurling boulders onto the Pacific Coast Highway, causing a small tornado near downtown, and allowing the cement-lined chute known as the L.A.
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A 2010 Video Game Predicted The Ending Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As the headline states, this article will ruin one of the major spoilers in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But what you didn’t realize is, the ending was already ruined back in 2010, two years before the movie was even announced
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The Image of Netflix as a Content Utopia – The New Yorker
On Wednesday, the Verge, citing comments made by the Netflix chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, reported that the Adam Sandler gross-out comedy Western “The Ridiculous 6” had become the most-watched movie …
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Inevitable Spin-Off Doc About the Making a Murderer Case Is Currently In Production
Netflix series Making a Murderer is the most popular project to inspire distrust in the justice system since the West Memphis Three went free.
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TRINIDAD, Tex. — How long can the Oregon standoff last? If the one that dragged on here in this rural East Texas town is any example, the answer is at least a decade, and perhaps much longer.
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Dog Day Afternoon is heading to Broadway · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a production that will finally give some lucky actor a chance to scream “Attica!” as loud as they can while getting paid, Warner Bros. has announced that it’s going to produce a Broadway adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
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Beware the “Healthy = Less Filling” Bias During Meals
Foods are constantly getting labeled as “healthy” to help consumers make better dietary decisions, but that trend could actually be doing the opposite. A recent study suggests most people think of healthy food as less filling, so they consume greate…
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Hear Megadeth Shred Guitar on ‘Dystopia’ Title Track | Rolling Stone
Dave Mustaine shares some of his worries about the decline of civilization in “Dystopia,” the title track of Megadeth’s new album out January 22nd. “There’s panic and there’s chaos rampant in the streets, where useless thoughts of peace are met with…
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Phil Collins Details New Retrospective Reissues | Rolling Stone
Phil Collins has detailed the next two albums in his upcoming “Take a Look at Me Now” retrospective series that will examine how his songs have evolved throughout his career.
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Oregon Standoff: Burns Split on Militia’s Presence | Al Jazeera America
Oregon standoff: Town of Burns split over militia’s presence https://t.co/Sjaw9lIoRt https://t.co/Db2YjAghCN
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The Modern Trailer For ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ Makes It Look Like A 2016 Blockbuster – Digg
46 diggs Movies Entertainment Trailers YouTuber Tom F took the “Star Wars” movie that started it all and brought it into 2016 with this awesome modern trailer.
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Jail for French official who ran fake Chinese wedding trips – BBC News
Lise Han organised for Chinese couples to renew their wedding vows against romantic backdrops in the Loire Valley. The trial took place after Jean Germain, a former Tours mayor and close ally of President Francois Hollande who was also accused in th…
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Boy, eight, who was attacked by chimps to get lip reconstruction – BBC News
An eight-year-old boy who was attacked by a group of chimpanzees which tore off his lips, will have them reconstructed in a New York Hospital. Dunia Sibomana was playing near a river with his younger brother in his native Democratic Republic of Cong…
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Ben Carson Humiliated a Fifth Grader in Public | Vanity Fair
Nothing screams commander in chief like humiliating a small child in front of 500 people, and that’s why Ben Carson fits the bill as a G.O.P. presidential candidate.
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Karijini National Park, Australia [OC] [990×742] : EarthPorn
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Iran Has Banned Its Citizens from Making Pilgrimages to Mecca : worldnews
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The Edge: Obama Takes His Fight on the Road – The Atlantic
U.S. stocks tumbled after Chinese markets closed less than 30 minutes after trading began. Lawyers for Baltimore police officer William Porter filed for an injunction to prevent him from testifying against colleagues in the Freddie Gray case.
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Methane leak not a catastrophe, says gas company – BBC News
The company behind a massive gas leak in California has denied it is responsible for an environmental catastrophe. SoCal Gas said it was deeply sorry for what happened and is working to stop the leak, though it could take weeks.
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Dare ye gaze into Fuller House’s yawning, nostalgic maw? · Newswire · The A.V. Club
All containment efforts having been exhausted, and all fervent prayers having gone unanswered, it may finally be time to accept that Fuller House is on its way.
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Maine’s governor: Out-of-state drug dealers like “D-Money” are impregnating white girls – Vox
Speaking on the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, made an unbelievably racist remark at a town hall on Wednesday: These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These types of guys, they come fr…
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Oil Tank Fires in Libya : Image of the Day
After battles in Libya on January 4–6, 2016, several fires were observed at oil production and storage facilities near Sidra, on the coast between Sirte and Benghazi. Smoke plumes from several oil tanks and facilities spread a pall of black smoke ac…
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Ethereal Images From World’s First Photo Book Released
Who knew algae could take on such ethereal, beautiful forms? These 19th-century photos of algae hold up today as art, but they’re also a window into the development of photography. They’re part of a new digital archive the New York Public Library pu…
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Kymeta’s Partnership With Panasonic Brings Internet To Maritime Markets | TechCrunch
This week at CES, Kymeta announced a partnership with Panasonic to bring lightweight, flat-panel antennas to the maritime market. Kymeta’s core technology, the mTenna, is designed to communicate with satellites in order to bring high speed internet …
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Cambodian leader’s love-hate relationship with Facebook – BBC News
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for 30 years. Now, the self-styled strongman is focusing his formidable political and security apparatus on a new theatre of operation – Facebook. Last week, he warned social media users to…
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RAMADI, Iraq — As his armored vehicle bounced along a dirt track carved through the ruins of this recently reconquered city on Wednesday, Gen. Ali Jameel, an Iraqi counterterrorism officer, narrated the passing sites.
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Snoop dog livin the dream : gifs
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2016 Moon Phases via /r/space https://t.co/16LQ6aIEFA https://t.co/1IOJXarPtt
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A 57-year-old man has been charged with threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and murder 10 female members of Parliament, and kidnap their children. James Platts was arraigned on Wednesday in an Ontario courtroom, facing charges o…
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The GoSun Stove Cooks With Just The Power Of The Sun | TechCrunch
Fire is for prehistoric man. The modern man uses the sustainable and renewable of solar power to cook meats an veggies – like the GoSun Stove.
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French explorer Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso to sail again – BBC News
Calypso – the iconic ship of the late French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau – will sail again in a few months, its owners have revealed. In an online statement, the Cousteau Society said the ship would “be getting a whole new life”.
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There it is, everyone. Peridot is officially on the team now, whether she likes it or not. (Probably not.
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Deadspin Football Is Always Worth It | The Muse Wow This Husband-Wife American Idol Audition Got Too Real Real Quick | Field Guide Use These Secret Codes to Unlock Netflix’s Hidden Categories | Gawker New Jersey High Schooler Sent to Principal’s Off…
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Clear Your Mind and Get Some Exercise With Walking Meditation
A lot of people refuse to try meditation because they don’t want to sit in silence for extended periods of time. Walking meditation let’s you enjoy all of the mental benefits while adding some physical benefits as well.
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Costume designers think Carol, Kingsman, Cinderella are looking good · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Yesterday we heard from the members of the Producers, Cinematographers, and Writers Guilds about their favorite films of the year.
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Obama is leading a revolution in America’s kitchens | 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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How to Safely Pack Away Your Christmas Ornaments
One of my favorite Christmas traditions as a kid was carefully unwrapping the old ornaments to decorate the tree. Of course, if you didn’t safely store them last year, you might be greeted by a box of decorative broken glass. Luckily there are a few…
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Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson: Actually, I Wouldn’t Ban the Burqa – The Daily Beast
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For 24 hours, the leading Libertarian Party presidential candidate seemed like he was to the right of Donald Trump when it comes to Muslims. -
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Today On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Drones, Smart Fridges, French Startups And Tales Of CES https://t.co/5t5FAVAnEz https://t.co/wUoPeqImZn
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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Paraguay police raid Conmebol HQ near Asuncion – BBC News
State prosecutors in Paraguay have raided the headquarters of Conmebol, South America’s football confederation, near the capital Asuncion. They said the move was part of US-led investigations into corruption at Fifa, the world football authority.
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Wife heard a bunch of whinning while she was in the shower. : aww
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NYPD Settles Lawsuits Over Surveillance of Muslims – The Atlantic
The city does not admit to any wrongdoing under the agreement in the two cases—Raza v. City of New York and Handschu v. Special Services Division. Both agreements are subject to court approval.
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Segway Made A Robot That Connects To Your Two-Wheeled Scooter | TechCrunch
Another day, another autonomous two-wheeled robot. Segway, the maker of two wheeled riding machines, has released something called the Segway Robot.
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Meet Glance, An Incredibly Useful Smart Wall Clock That Displays More Than The Time | TechCrunch
Glance is a smart wall clock featured in our Hardware Battlefield competition at CES and launching soon. The device is not only a good looking wall clock, it is also a great way to get all the information you need in a visual way.
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A young girl and a city struggling for life – BBC News
The BBC’s Safa Alahmad is one of few journalists to have reached the besieged city of Taiz, at the heart of Yemen’s civil war. She found a city destroyed by shelling – and a doctor struggling to save the life of a six-year-old girl.
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Conservatives urge Jeb Bush to get his smarter brother’s help on the campaign trail
This has been going around certain still-bitter establishment circles of late—the notion that if only America’s Worst President, George W. Bush, would come stump for his floundering dumber brother Jeb, the game would be changed. One professed reason…
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Decemberists Frontman Gleefully Trolls Oregon Militia With Erotic Tales – The Daily Beast
Ted Cruz erotica, out. Oregon militia and Ammon Bundy homoerotic fanfiction, in. On Tuesday, Colin Meloy, frontman for the indie folk-rock band The Decemberists, gave the world a new hashtag—a sexy-ass hashtag: #BundyEroticFanFic.
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Governor declares state of emergency in connection with California methane leak | Ars Technica
On Wednesday evening, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County in connection with a massive natural gas leak that’s ongoing at a Southern California Gas Company storage facility.
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Worthwhile Canadian Initiative | New Republic
These three words, which appeared over New York Times, strike many experts as possibly the most boring headline ever written. Each word taken alone is sleep-inducing. Taken together, they are virtually lethal. Our scientific curiosity is aroused.
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If you aren’t intensely following the developments of the Ammon Bundy-led heavily armed “peaceful protest” currently going on at the Oregon nature preserve, lemme tell ya, you are missing some Grade A comedy gold.
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Steven Universe’s Newest Addition Still Has A Long Way To Go
Peridot joining the Crystal Gems in Steven Universe has given us some great moments, and a softening of one of the show’s few villains.
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The Selfie of the Future Is 3D Printed | Motherboard
You can’t throw a stone at the Sands Expo Hall at CES this year without hitting a 3D printing company. But one such company, Shapify, is going the extra effort to distinguish itself from the pack: Helping attendees take 3D-printed “selfies,” as seen…
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The Zealots, Cowboys and Infidels of the Oregon Insurgency | Rolling Stone
The Oregon militants are proving as stubborn as they are self-righteous, and their armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge shows no signs of resolving soon.
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T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’ | Motherboard
Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the most well-respected internet freedom nonprofits in the world, published an investigation showing that T-Mobile’s new Binge On video streaming program throttles all video content.
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Henry Rollins Removes Morrissey From ‘Kill List,’ Keeps Others | Rolling Stone
Henry Rollins Removes Morrissey From ‘Kill List,’ Keeps Others Punk vet says Morrissey’s no longer a target: “I think the world is a much better place with him in it”
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What We’re Following: The Growing Outrage in Germany German officials have vowed to find and prosecute the men behind the sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve “no matter where they come from”—an apparent attempt to respond to the connection …
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Team Jeb’s latest attempt to attack Donald Trump is almost cartoonishly bad – Vox
So Bush’s Super PAC appears to have paid to put up at least one billboard in Iowa that simply quotes Bush saying, “Donald Trump is unhinged.
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Class-action lawsuit over Apple iPhone warranty falls apart | Ars Technica
On Tuesday, a federal judge rejected a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting Apple’s extended service plan. US District Judge William Orrick shot down (PDF) all five of the plaintiff’s legal theories and also had scathing words for the Texas lawye…
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Thousands of Uzbek Muslims jailed for ‘extremism’ – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of Muslims in Uzbekistan have been incarcerated for alleged “religious extremism” as part of a government crackdown on peaceful Muslims who practice their faith outside government-approved mosques, according to a rights group.
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Cara Delevingne Gets Rejected by the *Mona Lisa*: A Three-Part Saga | Vanity Fair
Cara Delevingne’s Instagram account is a generally very entertaining time.
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Deadspin Football Is Always Worth It | The Muse Wow This Husband-Wife American Idol Audition Got Too Real Real Quick | Field Guide Use These Secret Codes to Unlock Netflix’s Hidden Categories | Gawker New Jersey High Schooler Sent to Principal’s Off…
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Planned Parenthood to give Clinton its first-ever primary endorsement : Liberal
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BBC Sport – Caf Player of the Year: Aubameyang beats Yaya Toure to award
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has narrowly beaten Yaya Toure to the Confederation of African Football’s player of the year award. More to follow.
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Anthony Hill case: Police ‘murdered’ Army veteran, says prosecutor – BBC News
A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Air Force veteran should be charged with murder, a state prosecutor has urged.DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said he would ask a grand jury to indict Officer Robert Olsen, who shot Anthon…
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Snap, The 4K Flying Camera With Auto-Tracking, Is Ready For The Spotlight | TechCrunch
Snap, a flying camera we first wrote about in September, is ready for the spotlight as it takes the stage today to compete at CES TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield.
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Write Some Six-Word Science Fiction For Us
Tell me a story, io9—and do it in just six words. What’s on your mind today? Is it lovelorn time-travelers, attempting to make contact across the distance (“Time Traveler seeks partner; have met.
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LOS ANGELES — About 45 minutes into “The Big Short,” Adam McKay’s “true story” — or so it says on the billboards — of Wall Street greed, the actor Finn Wittrock turns to the camera and confesses, “O.K., so this part isn’t totally accurate.
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The most expensive pocket watch in the world made for Marie Antoinette : pics
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Trinidad, Toco beach, Galaxy S5. [OC] [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
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An Alberta judge who has been publicly shamed for telling a sexual assault complainant to keep her knees closed, and that she should have tried harder to avoid penetration, will face an inquiry by his peers that could result in his permanent removal.
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Postal Banking Worked—Let’s Bring It Back | The Nation
When I moved to Georgia a few years ago, I went to the town water office to get the water turned on. When I arrived, around lunchtime, there was a long line at the cashier’s window.
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What the Pathetic Case Against Rentboy.com Says About Sex Work | The Nation
In a coordinated take down at 6 am on August 25, teams of agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and officers from the NYPD appeared unannounced with guns and vests at the homes of the CEO and several employees of the popular 19-year-…
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They’re Called Hoverboards, Get Over It
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Who The F Is The EFF? John Legere Wants To Know | TechCrunch
Welp, it happened. T-Mobile CEO John Legere decided to field questions about the “Binge On” program the company launched on Twitter. Is it great? Is it throttling? The EFF has its thoughts. The organization also decided to participate in Legere’s Tw…
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Anyone hoping for an early peek at some of 2016’s most anticipated movies and TV should probably look into booking a trip to Austin this March: According to a press release, SXSW will be the first place in North America you can see director Jeff Nic…
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Gilt’s Unicorn Tale Comes To An End After Being Acquired For $250M | TechCrunch
Hudson’s Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $250 million. The sale still represents a tough end to the story of Gilt. The startup was one of the original darling flas…
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That ain’t baloney, it’s magic! / Boing Boing
Yasuo Amano, a Tenyo collector, author of the Japanese blog Hey Presto, and all around creative guy recently bought a package of what is known in Japan as “Fan Shaped Sausage.” It appears to be a cross between salami, baloney, or perhaps a luncheon …
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R.I.P. Pat Harrington Jr., One Day At A Time’s Schneider · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Pat Harrington Jr., best known for playing building super Schneider on One Day At A Time, died January 6 at the age of 86. His daughter, Tresa Harrington, shared the news of his death on Thursday morning, and TV Line reports the actor had suffered f…
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In The Insanity of CES, One Company Is Trying to Bring Electricity to Refugees | Motherboard
WakaWaka (the name means “shine bright” in Swahili) makes a series of solar-powered portable chargers that can be used to recharge most USB devices, including smartphones and tablets, and that also function as LED flashlights.
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Civilian to oversee NYPD counterterrorism operations – Al Jazeera English
New York Police Department will appoint an independent monitor to review police investigations as part of new reforms designed to protect Muslims from discriminatory and unjustified surveillance, officials said.
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The best of CES 2016, in 10 photos / Boing Boing
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is under way in Las Vegas, and we’re enjoying the sights and sounds at a distance. Vegas during CES is a lot to handle. Here are 10 images from Reuters photographers that capture some of the more interesting disp…
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Saudi Arabian prince: War with Iran not going to happen – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia does not foresee war with its arch-foe Iran despite heightened tensions between the regional heavyweights, its deputy crown prince was quoted as saying.
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Set Up an Attachments-Only View in iOS Mail with a Quick Toggle
Sorting your inbox is one of those necessary evils and while the default iOS Mail app doesn’t have a ton of options for doing so, it does have a few clever perks. OS X Daily points out that one of those the slightly hidden away attachments mailbox.
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Jennifer Lawrence, You’re Skinny. Deal With It. – The Daily Beast
Dearest Jennifer Lawrence, we really did want to be your best friend. We drooled over every photo and crazy anecdote from your nights out with your real BFF, Amy Schumer.
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A Foreplay Gadget to Get Women in the Mood | Motherboard
Whether it’s due to stress at work, menopause, postpartum health issues, or simply not really feeling like it, millions of women report having problems with sexual arousal. Enter Fiera, a recently-debuted sex tech gadget on display at the Consumer E…
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WASHINGTON—In an effort to ensure a constructive discussion for tonight’s town hall on gun control, White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that officials are carefully screening any audience questions that refer to Pre…
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Amazon’s Having a Big Sale on…Chewing Gum
If you really like chewing gum, Amazon will sell you several months’ worth for an extra 25% off today. You get your choice of a four-pack of Eclipse “Big E” bottles with 60 pieces each, or 24 boxes of Orbit gum with 14 pieces each.
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Syrian starvation: Is there any hope left? – Al Jazeera English
As the war in Syria enters its fifth year – with no signs of fighting coming to an end – millions are struggling to survive. This week a series of strong storms blanketed much of the country in snow.
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NYC to assign civilian to monitor NYPD counterterrorism / Boing Boing
An independent civilian appointed by New York’s mayor will monitor counterterrorism activities of the New York Police Department, the New York Times reports that lawyers said in court documents Thursday.
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They’re Called Hoverboards, Get Over It
Have you seen those two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter things that all the kids are crazy about? They’re called hoverboards. Get over it. Many people take issue with the name “hoverboard.” But here in 2016, we find ourselves futilely debating over …
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A New Pluto Wonder? Possible Ice Volcanoes Spotted (Video)
The more scientists learn about Pluto, the more interesting the dwarf planet gets.
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Republican candidates turn desperate: Let the New Hampshire pie fight begin!
It’s do or die time for many candidates in the Republican presidential primary, and that means things are getting nasty. More so, I mean: Even low-energy Jeb! is throwing rocks. “They’re not high heeled,” Bush said, according to NBC News reporter Ka…
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Get You A Growler Of Brass Monkey On Demand With Hopsy | TechCrunch
We truly live in the future, friends. Food on demand. Love on demand. Uranium ore on demand. Now you’ve got growlers – essentially buckets – of beer on demand.
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The People’s Choice Awards results are nothing if not results · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As of last night, the 2016 People’s Choice Awards have come and gone, in a proud and patriotic display of the value of democracy as represented by the ability to go to a website and click on things you recognize.
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All grown up and still only 6lbs of Floof, Reddit meet Lola : aww
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Sublime Extract with Chanel’s Sublimage Creams | Vanity Fair
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In celebration of their 10-year anniversary, Chanel Sublimage creams have been remastered with a unique key ingredient, Éphémères de Planifolia, taken from Vanilla planifolia, a species of orchid cultivated in a shaded environment owned by Chanel… -
“The Great Acceleration” –Impact of Earth’s Anthropocene Epoch
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The evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on the Earth is now overwhelming according to a recent paper by an international group of geoscientists. -
Here’s what it’s like to drive off a cliff / Boing Boing
Here’s a fellow who lost control while driving too fast on the Angeles Crest Highway in Southern California, and drove off a cliff. He survived. His dashcam recorded the entire experience.
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The EPA says this popular pesticide can hurt bees. Should we still use it? – Vox
Originally published on Grist. Bees are struggling, and several environmental organizations want to try to help them out by banning neonicotinoid pesticides. Now the EPA has published an assessment showing that one particular neonicotinoid insectici…
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The Problem With Telling Women to Stay an ‘Arm’s Length’ From Men – The Atlantic
Carnival season in Cologne is just weeks away. For six straight days, the western German city will be locked in a giant party that one Berlin-based reporter said makes Oktoberfest look civilized.
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Winter has now well and fully arrived, with its mercilessly harsh winds, hopelessly grey skies, and stubbornly low temperatures.
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Polish president signs media law despite major concerns – Al Jazeera English
Poland’s president has signed a temporary new law that is expected to be a major step towards giving the government full control of state radio and television. The move has sparked a concern for media freedom in the country among European Union lead…
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Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Used $45 Million E*Trade Account to Secure B | Vanity Fair
Pharma bro Martin Shkreli, who is currently unemployed after he was arrested on charges of securities fraud, put up his $45 million E*Trade account to secure the $5 million bail set last month, according to new court documents.
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The Serial Serial is back for 2016 with a recap of episode three, “Escaping,” and episode four, “The Captors,” of Serial season two.
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FDA Bans Chemical Found in Pizza Boxes – The Daily Beast
Early this year the Food and Drug Administration is banning three chemicals often found in food packaging such as pizza boxes and microwave popcorn bags.
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The Case for Why You Should Floss Before Brushing
For whatever reason, a lot of people struggle with flossing more than with brushing their teeth. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely suggests it has to do with what’s known as “reward substitution,” which means after your breath is fresh from brushing y…
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One of the angry ranchers’ complaints might make more sense than you think | Grist
Never mind that the oil and gas industry has boomed during the Obama administration. Wondering what “eco-friendly” and “natural” really mean on product labels? Advice maven Ask Umbra dusts off a few common terms.
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Get some of last year’s best stories for just $1.99! The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 is a Kindle Daily Deal today.
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WASHINGTON—Faced with seemingly ceaseless debates over how to curb the rampant number of shootings occurring across the country, millions of Americans took a brief moment Thursday to fondly look back at a time when simply regulating video games seem…
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The Ultimate Guide to All the Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows Coming in 2016
This year is full of great science fiction and fantasy TV series. Actually, 2016 is too full. Seriously, check out how long this list of new, returning and potentially premiering shows due out over the next 12 months is.
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Rachel Reinert Announces Departure From Gloriana | Rolling Stone
And then there were two: Gloriana singer Rachel Reinert took to social media to announce her departure from the country group, leaving brothers Tom and Mike Gossin to carry on as a duo.
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Mexico Has Rescued Nine Cuban Migrants Adrift on a Makeshift Boat | VICE News
Nine Cuban migrants adrift in a makeshift boat have been rescued off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the Mexican navy said in a statement on Thursday.
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Happiness Linked to Valuing Personal Time Over Money – Neuroscience News
Valuing your time more than the pursuit of money is linked to greater happiness, according to new research published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
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Was Pizza Rat A Hoax?: Gothamist
Are the Internet’s most cherished viral rat videos the work of a mysterious woman who trains rats to do her bidding for an elaborate series of YouTube stunts? Possibly. Meet Eric Yearwood, an actor and member of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) im…
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No Accident: Inside GM’s deadly ignition switch scandal – Atlanta Magazine
Marietta attorney Lance Cooper was looking for answers behind a single crash. What he found led to a recall of 30 million vehicles. Brooke Melton’s car was a key piece of evidence in her parents’ lawsuit against General Motors.
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Find Your Trainer Helps You (Duh!) Find A Personal Trainer | TechCrunch
We’ve seen plenty of startups succeed in the fitness space, from activity frackers like Fitbit to gym subscriptions like Classpass. But access to a personal trainer has yet to be democratized. Until now
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Dan Auerbach’s The Arcs release Making A Murderer-inspired single · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Like much of the country, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach and his bandmates in the Arcs were enthralled and horrified by the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey after watching the Netflix documentary Making A Murderer.
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Major piracy groups warns games may be crack-proof in two years | Ars Technica
In the never-ending battle between pirates and game makers, it often seems like the pirates have the upper hand, releasing DRM-breaking cracks within hours or days of a game’s official release.
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New Year’s Resolution: Civic Action to Fix Our Democracy
If the mean spirit of this year’s campaign upsets you or you’re worried about the lava of dark corporate and billionaire money corrupting our elections, consider one more New Year’s resolution: To get involved in civic action to rebuild government o…
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US fails its annual broadband deployment test at FCC | Ars Technica
The Federal Communications Commission’s annual review of broadband deployment says that advanced Internet service is still not being offered to all Americans.
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The New York Public Library just digitized and made available more than 180,000 high resolution items, which the public can download for free. The images come from pieces in the library’s collection that have fallen out of copyright or are otherwise…
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Crunch time coming for Republican presidential campaign – Al Jazeera English
In the first contest in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign, voters in Iowa will gather in caucuses across the state and decide who they want to be the nominee. Here is my assessment of where the campaigns are – and where they’re headed.
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TNT terminates Teen Titans TV series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a shocking break from the norm, a TV network has decided that it doesn’t want to get on board with the recent superhero craze. This is according to Deadline, which reports that TNT has dropped its plans for a live-action Teen Titans drama.
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Code for America’s year in civic tech / Boing Boing
Gmoke writes, “Code for America organizes a network of people dedicated to making government services simple, effective, and easy to use by building open source computer and communications technologies. They have 133 chapters and more than 40,000 me…
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This Self-Flying Drone Chased Me Around the Desert | Motherboard
No matter where you go, the Hexo+ drone will follow you. The device was designed for outdoor adventure and was tested in the mountains of France filming snowboarders and hikers.
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New federal dietary guidelines announced on Thursday urge Americans to drastically cut back on sugar, and for the first time have singled out teenage boys and men for eating too much meat, chicken and eggs. Despite those warnings, the guidelines wer…
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Weekly polling update: Trump and Clinton lead nationally, but early states closer
Every Thursday I survey the latest presidential polling, and as of now, there’s not much new since the last time I did one of these on December 22.
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My wife’s cat is pretty photogenic, meet Chalupa batman : aww
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Weekly polling update: Trump and Clinton lead nationally, but early states closer
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Italian Woman Making Pasta Shells By Hand Shows You What You Can’t Learn In School – Digg
28 diggs Food World A YouTuber captured this women making pasta shells by hand on the streets of old town in Bari, Italy. A year of cooking school won’t teach you that, folks.
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Netflix’s Utopian Plan to Conquer the World – Bloomberg Business
Netflix’s New Year’s resolution for 2016 was to become truly global, and it pretty much fulfilled the goal before the year was even a week old. As Reed Hastings, the company’s chief executive, was giving his keynote address at CES, Netflix flipped t…
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Heat Waves And Drought Are Already Having A Devastating Impact On Important Crops | ThinkProgress
For all the wrong reasons, the summer of 2012 was a historic one for the American Midwest.
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1964 photo of the guys who built Star Trek’s Enterprise studio model / Boing Boing
In 2015 the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum restored the original USS Enterprise model from the original series. It was built in 1964 by Richard C. Datin, Jr., Mel Keys, Vernon Sion (above), and Volmer Jensen (not pictured). It’s 11 feet long and h…
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BitBar Stuffs All Kinds of Customizable Info In Your Mac’s Menu Bar
Mac: The menu bar is a great place to store tiny bits of information, whether that’s weather, a calendar, current IP address, or what’s currently playing on Spotify. BitBar allows you to create your own little menu bar information icons, no coding r…
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Pro-Rubio Operatives Causing Christie Problems | Al Jazeera America
Just as fast as Chris Christie rose in New Hampshire presidential polls, one Republican opponent’s super PAC is attempting to knock the New Jersey governor’s popularity back down.
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Making of a Murderer: Filmmakers hit out at critics – BBC News
Making A Murderer is a true crime documentary series on Netflix that’s become a massive hit. Many are comparing it to the podcast Serial. But is the picture they are presenting the full one?
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Peggy went full loaf today! : Catloaf
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Loafing on a cookbook : Catloaf
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Blame Your Neanderthal Genes For Your Allergies | IFLScience
If you suffer from hayfever in spring or food allergies, you might want to blame a Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestor.
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Can You Taste The Algorithm In This Arugula? | FiveThirtyEight
The modern farm is indoors (because of unpredictable climate change), hyperlocal (to cut down on transportation costs), and controlled by an app (because everything in the future will be controlled by an app).
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Flying while trans: still unbelievably horrible / Boing Boing
Cary Gabriel Costello is a trans-man in Milwaukee. Two-thirds of the time when he flies, the TSA has a complete freakout over the “anomalies” his body displays on the full-body scanner.
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The Grillbot Is A Robot That Cleans Your Grill | TechCrunch
Lazy grillers, rejoice. Thanks to the Grillbot, you may never have to clean your grill again. Today at CES we discovered the Grillbot, and it’s exactly what it sounds like – a robot that you plop down to automatically clean your dirty grill.
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Saudi coalition denies air strike on Iran’s Yemen embassy – BBC News
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has rejected Iran’s accusation that its warplanes struck Tehran’s embassy in the capital, Sanaa. Iran vowed to complain to the UN, saying a rocket strike on Thursday had “seriously wounded a gu…
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Famous Ancient Iceman Had Familiar Stomach Infection – Scientific American
Researchers have extracted the oldest complete genome sequence of a pathogen yet, from the body of the 5,300-year-old ice mummy Ötzi. According to a January 7 paper in Science, the ‘Iceman’ was infected with the bacteriumHelicobacter pylori, which a…
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Donald Trump favours high tariffs on Chinese exports – BBC News
Presidential candidate Donald Trump supports a hefty export tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the US. He said he supports a 45% tax on Chinese goods to address the trade imbalance between the US and China.
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The Force Awakens Is the Biggest Movie of All Time, But Not For Long | Vanity Fair
By the time you finish reading this sentence, Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have made more money than you’ll make all year. It’s overtaken Avatar to become the highest grossing movie of all time (domestic, unadjusted for inflation), and it’s onl…
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There’s a new evil afoot in the trailer for The Conjuring 2 · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
It’s only been a few years since the first one, but for fans of James Wan’s The Conjuring, this sequel couldn’t come soon enough.
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The company behind Keystone XL says the US owes it $15 billion under NAFTA – Vox
This week, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline made a move that activated progressives’ worst fears about major trade agreements.
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This past November, with dozens of Republican governors calling for Syrian refugees to be denied entry into the Unites States, President Obama stood firmly in defense of admitting those fleeing violence and the terrors of war. During a speech at the…
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One of the funniest, weirdest running jokes on NBC’s late, lamented Parks And Recreation is that the cheerful-looking Pawnee city hall building in which most of the characters worked was filled with very matter-of-fact murals depicting the Indiana c…
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Meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/EodOZZyiom https://t.co/Kc6zhnXUdJ
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American Presidential Candidates Are Now Openly Promising to Commit War Crimes | The Nation
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They’re back! From the look of the presidential campaign, war crimes are back on the American agenda. We really shouldn’t be surprised, because American officials got away with it last time—and in the case of the drone wars continue to get away with… -
TBS greenlights, renames its alien abduction show starring Wyatt Cenac · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TBS greenlights, renames its alien abduction show starring Wyatt Cenac https://t.co/48ENLPbc5k https://t.co/EQOlsCWd09
While much of Hollywood is currently focused on giving or receiving accolades for the accomplishments of last year, the impatient visionaries at TBS are lining up the nominees of the future. -
What Is A Sunspot? | Popular Science
Shown in ultraviolet light, a large sunspot group is visible as the bright area near the horizon. The bright glowing gas flowing around the sunspots has a temperature of more than 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit.
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Donald Trump ‘Veterans for Trump’ co-chair joins Oregon militia standoff
If Donald Trump’s New Hampshire outreach efforts begin to look a little spottier in coming weeks, don’t blame him. His New Hampshire Veterans for Trump co-chair has skedaddled off to join the snackless Bundy-led militia “takeover” of an Oregon wildl…
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Are Republicans The Party Of Silicon Valley? | TechCrunch
So how does the Republican party view the importance of Silicon Valley and innovation in the 2016 Presidential election? According to Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, innovation is central to the Republican’s chances in 2016.
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The Magnetic Force Is Strong in These Dying Stars
Stars like the sun puff up and become red giants towards the end of their lives. The red giants (‘old’ suns) of the same mass as the sun do not show strong magnetic fields in their interior, but for stars slightly more massive, up to 60 percent host…
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Rooney Mara Reminds Carol Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy of Her Friend, Pat | Vanity Fair
Nearly 30 years ago, a young New York Times Magazine fact checker named Phyllis Nagy had the bright idea to send Patricia Highsmith to write a piece on Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, and she accompanied the notoriously acidic novelist on the visit.
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Malicious apps in Google Play made unauthorized downloads, sought root | Ars Technica
Google has banished 13 Android apps from its Play marketplace after security researchers found the apps made unauthorized downloads and attempted to gain root privileges that allowed them to survive factory resets.
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Don’t Fear the 10,000-Character Tweet – The Atlantic
Is Twitter abandoning its trademark 140-character limit? Twitter users quickly and understandably freaked out.
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New Dietary Guidelines Limit Sugar, Saturated Fat | Al Jazeera America
The Obama administration unveiled new dietary guidelines on Thursday that urged Americans to limit their sugar intake, called on men and boys to eat less protein, but eased previous recommendations on cholesterol and sodium. The guidelines, which ar…
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Sorry NASA, Europe says it’s going to the Moon instead of Mars | Ars Technica
NASA has made it clear for the last half decade that it considers Mars the next destination for its astronauts. Nevertheless, since President Obama took the Moon off the table during a 2010 space policy speech, potential partners for NASA’s “Journey…
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Kim Jong-un celebrates birthday in week of ‘hydrogen bomb’ tests – BBC News
Millions of people living in North Korea will be expected to join forces to celebrate the birthday of the man who leads the country, Kim Jong-un. Little is still known about the elusive leader, including exactly when he was born.
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CES: Five smart gadgets for all the family – BBC News
One manufacturer is even offering a smart water bottle. Lifefuels won an award at the tech show for the bottle with “five interchangeable “fuelpods” filled with vitamins, nutritional products and flavours, allowing users to tailor their water to sui…
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2015 Was a Warm, Wild Year. What’s Next?
The United Nations had previously reported that 2015 was shaping up to be the warmest year on record for the whole planet. Last year was also the third wettest on record in the U.S. and saw ten weather- or climate-related disasters that each caused …
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Q&A: The high price of freedom of speech in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Ahmad Saeedi, an Afghan political analyst and former diplomat, is a prominent critic and supporter of free speech in Afghanistan. He was shot and wounded by attackers in November 2015 in an attempt he believes was made to silence him.
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Black Keys Frontman Releases Song Inspired by ‘Making a Murderer’ – The Daily Beast
Like Serial and The Jinx before it, the new true-crime Netflix series Making a Murderer has inspired obsessive research, analysis and discussion from viewers, along with some genuine news developments about the case of exonerated killer Steven Avery.
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Hot Toys’ Baby Batman and Superman Are Super Adorable
I mean, just look at them. Sure, one’s a heavily armored angry dude and the other is a space alien with glowing red eyes that are about to shoot out hot laser beams of death. But still, babies!
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Bernie Sanders’s new fundraising numbers are really amazing : Liberal
Bernie Sanders’s new fundraising numbers are really amazing via /r/Liberal https://t.co/2TcbpWb6rm https://t.co/rZm7yWHqHf
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Hot Toys’ Baby Batman and Superman Are Super Adorable
Hot Toys’ Baby Batman and Superman Are Super Adorable https://t.co/xloReoAO1L https://t.co/Nh7ignBH5g
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Programmer who aided financial malware to be sent home to Latvia | Ars Technica
Programmer who aided financial malware to be sent home to Latvia https://t.co/ySdq0OL9UQ https://t.co/s32W3vICfy
The Latvian programmer who was involved in the creation of the Gozi virus—what American authorities called “one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in history”—has been sentenced to time served and will be sent back home soon. -
An oral history of PM Entertainment, a low-budget high-octane American dream — Hopes&Fears
Today, the Sundance narrative has become colloquial shorthand for all American indies of the 90s. It was, however, only part of the story.
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The price of the Oculus Rift is a sad reality
You are probably not going to own an Oculus Rift anytime soon. The asking price isn’t actually $600. You may have to tack on at least another $350 when you consider the cost of the single, basic upgrade to your PC that you might have to accept in or…
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What’s the Point of Donald Trump’s New Ted Cruz Birtherism? – The Atlantic
Brand new year, brand new resurgence of one of the more frustrating and futile political firedrills out there: Ted Cruz birtherism. Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: “Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court f…
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A List of Things Not to Do When Global Markets Dip – The Atlantic
To most investors, the central message—implied, but not written—of news stories about dramatic stock-market dives is “GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN.” If things are going downhill so quickly, shouldn’t everyone bail? Well, no.
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Companies In the Gig Economy Are Growing, but Where Is All the Job Creation – The Atlantic
For most of the 20th century the companies that brought in the most money also employed the most people. For example, in 1962 General Motors was one of the top five companies by market capitalization and employed more than half a million workers.
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News | NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation
NASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) as the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The office remains within NASA’s Planetary Science Division, in the agency’s Science Mission Directorat…
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Bernie Sanders Accused of Using Campaign Money to Benefit Family | Vanity Fair
A new report suggests that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife have repeatedly done the most socialist thing ever: funnel thousands of campaign and nonprofit dollars toward family members and friends.
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Another reason fracking sucks: Study links fracking to even more health problems | Grist
Wondering what ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘natural’ really mean on product labels? Advice maven Ask Umbra dusts off a few common terms. The Canadian pipeline company is filing suit against the U.S. over the Keystone rejection, and appealing its case to NAFT…
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3 charts that explain the North Korean nuclear test – Vox
On Tuesday night, the US Geological Survey detected an unusual 5.1-magnitude tremor in North Korea, located in the northeast of the country — a part of the world not known for earthquakes but very close to the nuclear test site of Punggye-ri.
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Father John Misty announces spring tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Riding high on a wave of year-end accolades for his sophomore record, I Love You, Honeybear—including taking the No. 5 spot on The A.V. Club’s list of the best albums of 2015—Father John Misty has announced an extensive world tour set to begin at th…
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Tales From The Crypt returns with help from M. Night Shyamalan · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Good afternoon, boils and ghouls! By now we all know that just because a TV series gets the axe (or the cleaver, or the hatchet), that doesn’t mean it’s dead.
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2015 Was the Second Warmest Year in the US | Al Jazeera America
The year 2015 was the second warmest and third wettest year in the United States since recordkeeping began 121 years ago, according to a new federal report released Thursday.
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America was really damn hot last year, scientists confirm | 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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How Chicago Is Using Predictive Policing to Save People From Food Poisoning – The Atlantic
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The three dozen inspectors at the Chicago Department of Public Health scrutinize 16,000 eating establishments to protect diners from gut-bombing food sickness. Some of those pose more of a health risk than others; approximately 15 percent of inspect… -
Extreme Weather Wiped Out a Tenth of the World’s Cereal Production | VICE News
The fragile state of the world’s food supplies has become increasingly apparent in recent years, as extreme weather events have been linked to spikes in commodity prices and food riots, bringing into sharp focus the threat of climate change.
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‘Charlie Hebdo’ Timeline: A Look Back at the Attacks That Brought France to a Standstill | VICE News
At around 11.30 am, Chérif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Saïd, 34, follow a postwoman into the building housing the offices of satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo.
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The FBI Now Considers Animal Abuse a Class A Felony | VICE News
In a move seen as a big win for animal rights activists, the FBI has added animal cruelty to its list of Class A felonies, alongside homicide and arson.
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Midday open thread: Gun-makers have reason to fear the NRA; Sandy Hook truther fired
Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is The cattle caliphate: • Are gun manufacturers too afraid of the NRA to support White House policies? In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre, Smith & Wesson, founded in 1852, cooperated with the Clinton a…
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The Last Starfighter Was Ahead of Its Time, and That’s Its Biggest Problem
The Last Starfighter Was Ahead of Its Time, and That’s Its Biggest Problem https://t.co/CuNXL75QTx https://t.co/yQQoxr5EA0
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The Shifting Balance of Power is Everything on American Horror Story: Hotel
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Too Private To Fail | TechCrunch
At a San Francisco Halloween party this year, I ran into a man wearing nothing but bubble wrap, covered in glitter, waving a wand. “I’m a unicorn,” he explained.
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3DR Makes It Easier To Take Exactly The Drone Video You Want | TechCrunch
3D Robotics (3DR) is making it a lot easier for the owners of its Solo drones to take exactly the video they want. The company is introducing a couple of new functions for its drone (and especially the smartphone apps that control is) at CES this we…
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Fusar Mohawk Turns Any Helmet Into A Powerful Smart Helmet | TechCrunch
Meet Fusar, a helmet kit. Instead of trying to reinvent helmets, the Fusar system works with any helmet. You just have to clip the main component, the Mohawk, to your existing helmet to turn it into a safe, smart helmet.
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Layered perovskite-on-silicon could boost PV efficiencies to 30 percent | Ars Technica
Given how fantastically cheap silicon-based photovoltaic cells have gotten, it might be hard to muster much excitement for developing any other material. But the cost of silicon-based PV has created a potential niche—it’s so cheap that installation …
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Biz Stone “Unpivots” To Revive Q&A App Jelly | TechCrunch
After a year on hiatus, Biz Stone is restarting active development of the social Q&A app Jelly he originally launched in January 2014. Stone, one of Twitter’s founders, paused Jelly in November 2014 to focus on a whimsical opinion sharing app called…
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News About Prehistoric Migration from a Frozen Mummy’s Gut Bacteria – The Atlantic
Here are some of the things scientists know so far about Otzi, the frozen Copper Age mummy who was discovered in 1991 in the Otzal Alps: He suffered from parasitic worms, Lyme disease, tooth decay, joint problems, and other ailments.
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MoveOn Members Are Voting on a Presidential Endorsement That Matters | The Nation
Before media and political elites began to understood the potential for online activism, MoveOn was doing it.
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Sian Blake and children confirmed dead – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend’s Twitch Fame Is Ruining Our Relationship
Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that’s authorized under article 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. This week, we’re talking about dating anxieties and inconvenient emotions.
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Lemmy Kilmister’s memorial service to be live-streamed this Saturday|Dangerous Minds
This is great: For family, friends and fans not able to attend Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister’s memorial service, it will be live-streamed via Motörhead’s official YouTube page this Saturday.
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Stop Overthinking Sleep So You Can Wake Up Energized the Next Day
When you go to bed late and realize you only have a few hours of sleep available, you’re sure the next day is going to be hell. But maybe it won’t. Maybe the biggest battle we have with sleep is in our heads. Insomnia and other sleep problems are de…
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The Shifting Balance of Power is Everything on American Horror Story: Hotel
American Horror Story: Hotel returned last night after its holiday hiatus, and nearly every character had his or her claws out. When the dust settled, we were left with an in-depth lesson on who is controlling whom at the Cortez—as it stands now, at…
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The Last Starfighter Was Ahead of Its Time, and That’s Its Biggest Problem
The Last Starfighter is my first memory as a human being. Not the first movie I remember seeing—the first thing that I remember at all. Suffice to say, it’s been a pretty formative piece in long time love of science fiction, games and more.
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Ily Aims To Be The New Home Phone That Keeps Your Family Connected | TechCrunch
If you’re a parent who’d like to do a better job keeping in touch with your kids when you’re not a home, then a forthcoming product called Ily might be the answer.
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Futuristic ‘Uncanny Valley’ Explores The Potential Unintended Consequences Of VR | TechCrunch
As we dip our toes into virtual reality more and more each day, one could imagine a far-off unintended consequence — the blurring of virtual and actual reality. A short film called “Uncanny Valley” explores that notion, with a bit of an “Ender’s Gam…
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When Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos started production on what would become Making A Murderer 10 years ago, they probably weren’t expecting their documentary to become the runaway hit it is today.
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Bluetooth sports headphones for $16 / Boing Boing
Aukey makes smartphone cables, chargers, battery packs, etc. I’ve tried quite a few things made by Aukey (some were sent for review and others I bought) and have always been happy with the quality. The bluetooth sports headphones made by Aukey are n…
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There’s almost no evidence that cancer screening saves lives, say researchers | Ars Technica
In a bracing op-ed published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, researchers questioned the idea that cancer screening “saves lives” as many PSAs for these services promise.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker waited just one day after President Obama announced a package of modest gun control reforms before directing his attorney general to explore challenging the new rule — becoming the first governor to threaten legal action …
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Marco Rubio Shifts Toward Donald Trump – The Atlantic
On Monday in New Hampshire, Marco Rubio virtually accused President Obama of treason. “It’s now abundantly clear,” the Florida senator declared, that “Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America.
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Guillermo del Toro might direct the Fantastic Voyage remake · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since he’s no longer prepping Justice League Dark, Pacific Rim 2, At the Mountains Of Madness, or Hellboy 3, Guillermo del Toro, Hollywood’s go-to director for imaginative (and sometimes imaginary) films, might helm Fox’s remake of Fantastic Voyage,…
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Israeli troops shoot dead alleged Palestinian attackers – Al Jazeera English
Three Palestinians, who allegedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers in the south of occupied West Bank, have been shot and killed. With the latest incident, the Palestinian death toll since the beginning of the latest unrest late last year increase…
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How Hermès’s 2016 Will Benefit the World’s Wildcats | Vanity Fair
‘I really like objects or projects or collections that unfold like books with many stories,” says Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermès. The year 2016, which Hermès has themed Nature at Full Gallop, sees one of the most passionate “un…
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This is why no other Republican can beat Donald Trump (at the ballot box)
Ha ha the GOP frontrunner! Donald Trump has a clear path to the White House, nobody else (absent a coup at the GOP convention) does. That assertion has felt intuitively right to me for months, but it was time to back it up.
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Reykjavik, Iceland during midnight sun [OC][960×720] : SkyPorn
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How Thor saves his seat : pics
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The UN’s Top Human Rights Official in Yemen is Now “Persona Non Grata” | VICE News
The Saudi-backed Yemeni government has declared the head of the United Nations’ human rights office in the country “persona non grata,” just days after investigators published further evidence of civilian deaths resulting from Saudi Arabia’s interve…
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Humans Leave a Telltale Residue on Earth – Scientific American
Evidence for a new geologic epoch continues to accumulate, like layers of sediment that over time harden into strata.
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Strange space balls fell in Vietnam / Boing Boing
Three strange metal spheres fell from the sky in Vietnam’s Tuyen Quang province. They range in size and weight, with the smallest at 250 grams and the largest at 45 kilograms. According to the Ministry of Defense, they are likely compressed air tank…
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Smart Toy Maker Elemental Path Starts Accepting Pre-Orders For IBM Watson-Powered Dinos | TechCrunch
Elemental Path is now accepting pre-orders for its smart toy products. The smart toy maker made its debut on Kickstarter this year with a line of what it calls CogniToys, or toys that learn and grow with the child that plays with them.
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To End North Korea’s Nuclear Program, End the Korean War | The Nation
Editor’s Note: This piece is cross-posted from Foreign Policy In Focus. North Korea announced recently that it had successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
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Polish media laws: Government takes control of state media – BBC News
The Polish President, Andrzej Duda, has signed controversial laws enabling the new conservative government to appoint the heads of public TV and radio, as well as civil service directors.
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All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in the Anthropecene | Motherboard
“Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.
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Twitter sues Turkey over ‘terror propaganda’ fine – Al Jazeera English
Twitter has challenged Turkey in an Ankara court seeking to cancel a $50,000 fine for not removing content from its website, the social media site’s lawyer told Al Jazeera on Thursday.
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TNT’s Live-Action Teen Titans Show Is Dead
When TNT started filming a pilot for its long-in-the-works adaptation of the DC superhero team, the Teen Titans, we wondered if it was going to be one DC live-action show too many. Turns out we need not have worried: Titans is officially dead.
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Billy Eichner will continue to be America’s red-faced sweetheart · Newswire · The A.V. Club
New York pedestrians be warned (or excited)—TruTV has just announced it’s renewed Billy On The Street for a fifth season of celebrity-adjacent sprints and sidewalk queries from host Billy Eichner.
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The Dumb and the Restless | Rolling Stone
First of all, when did it become OK for cowboys to cry in public? The coolest thing about the Gary Cooper-Clint Eastwood-James Coburn-Yul Brenner-style cowboys is that they never said a damned thing.
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Pat Harrington Jr., ‘One Day at a Time’ Actor, Dead at 86 | Rolling Stone
Pat Harrington Jr., best known for playing scene-stealing superintendent Dwayne Schneider on CBS sitcom One Day at a Time, has died at age 86.
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M. Night Shyamalan to Revive ‘Tales From the Crypt’ | Rolling Stone
Tales From the Crypt, the Emmy-nominated horror anthology series that ran for seven seasons on HBO two decades ago, will live again. Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has agreed to curate and produce the series reboot for TNT, according to Variety.
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On Tuesday, in an emotionally charged speech, President Obama announced a series of relatively modest executive orders to aid in preventing guns from getting into the wrong hands.
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Will the titans of the sharing economy meet their match? – The Long and Short
Our weekly newsletter features updates on all the latest articles from The Long + Short, and a roundup of the best stories of innovation from around the web, too. Sign up below.
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This Pesticide Might Be Killing off Bees | VICE News
At least one pesticide from a controversial family of chemicals appears to be a threat to bees and other pollinating insects when applied to certain crops, US regulators announced this week.
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Lucid Dreaming May Help Us Unravel the Mysteries of Consciousness – Neuroscience News
Dan Denis, a PhD student from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Psychology, comments on how studying dreams could pave the way for new insights into the neuroscience of consciousness. We spend around six years of our lives dreaming – that’…
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Looking for love at CES: it’s hard out here for a teen | The Verge
I’m no longer a teen, but I am still a #teen. As in, my favorite band is One Direction and I care very much about keeping my Lauren Conrad coffee table books in pristine condition. Also I’m 22, and this is my first job outside of food service.
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Watch Jerry Seinfeld do stand-up on The Late Show last night / Boing Boing
Jerry Seinfeld does 5 minutes of hilarious stand-up last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This guy needs a TV show!
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Oil Fire in Libya : Natural Hazards
On January 6, 2016, Islamic State militias in Libya were reported to be shelling oil production facilities near Sidra, on the coast between Sirte and Benghazi. The attacks set fire to several oil tanks and pipelines, spreading a pall of black smoke …
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The Daily Show rips Fox News for accusing Obama of fake-crying about gun violence – Vox
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama teared up as he announced executive actions on guns and described some of the gun violence that has killed children around the US. “Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” Obama said, as he wiped tear…
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After Years Of Secretly Spying On Muslims, NYPD Agrees To Never Do It Again | ThinkProgress
For years after the September 11 attacks, the New York Police Department secretly spied on Muslim Americans in their schools, restaurants, mosques, and bookstores, meticulously mapping out innocent New Yorkers’ every move.
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Glorious new trailer for High-Rise, based on JG Ballard’s novel / Boing Boing
The new trailer for High-Rise, director Ben Wheatley’s film based on the 1975 novel by one of my all-time favorite writers JG Ballard, looks absolutely fantastic. And dig the use of Tangerine Dream’s track “Love on a Real Train” (famously first hear…
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Five years later, Thunderbolt is finally gaining some traction in PCs | Ars Technica
For many years, it looked like Thunderbolt was destined to be a modern version of FireWire: faster and smarter than contemporary USB interfaces, but so rare outside of Macs that we haven’t seen a very wide range of Thunderbolt accessories beyond ada…
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Bruce Lee’s Only Surviving TV Interview, 1971: Lost and Now Found | Open Culture
Bruce Lee’s TV acting career began in 1966, when he landed a part in The Green Hornet. (Watch his thrilling audition here). But it took another five years before he gave his first–and, it turns out, only television interview in English.
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For over a decade, both climate activists and scientists have used one word to describe the mass-level changes humans are causing on Earth: Anthropocene. But whether or not this word actually describes a real, measurable geologic time period has bee…
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Let’s talk for a minute about Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Both of them were in New York this week. Sanders made a speech about Wall Street to a large and boisterous crowd. They cheered his idea of taxing financial transactions and using the mon…
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Ava looking like a cheese ball : cats
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just after sunset in Dominical, Costa Rica[5312×2988] : SkyPorn
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Snag Fitbit’s Cheapest Tracker For Just $30
Snag Fitbit’s Cheapest Tracker For Just $30 https://t.co/fIFGOIcFf4 https://t.co/hNgso2T8XY
Fitness trackers can help you ward off holiday weight gain, but if you don’t want to commit to wearing a bracelet every day, the clip-on Fitbit Zip is a great alternative. The Fitbit Zip is about as basic as smartphone-era fitness trackers come. -
“You Can’t Have a Dollar Without a Penny”
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You can’t buy anything with a penny these days, but, as the quote above drives home, every penny absolutely counts. The quote comes from The Washington Post’s Michelle Singletary’s grandmother Big Mama, who also said that “every penny out to have a … -
China’s Shortest Ever Trading Day Rocked the Global Markets | VICE News
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Big-Eared Statues Reveal Ancient Egyptian Power Couple
Six ancient statues of Egyptians, some with round faces and big ears, have been found near the Nile River in Upper Egypt. The statues, which were once sloughed off their original bluff in an earthquake and buried in Nile silt, are of a man named Nef…
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Roadtrip (2014) | with english subtitles Julius can’t sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can’t manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of…
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Most profitable industry in history whines about Obama and overregulation | Grist
Wondering what ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘natural’ really mean on product labels? Advice maven Ask Umbra dusts off a few common terms. The Canadian pipeline company is filing suit against the U.S. over the Keystone rejection, and appealing its case to NAFT…
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Iceman’s Gut Holds Clues to Humans’ Spread into Europe
The near-ubiquitous gut bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes some forms of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer.
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Weird and wonderful medical and scientific museum / Boing Boing
We’ve posted previously about Steve Erenbgerg (Radio Guy)’s online collection of wonderful and strange antique scientific instruments, medical devices, anatomical models, and, of course, radios. SciFri took a video tour, above, of Erenberg’s delight…
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New High-Rise trailer traps you in its madness · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
A new trailer—much more somber and ominous than the first—has been released for High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name. The trailer shows Dr.
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Shortly after North Korea claimed it had tested a hydrogen bomb—a weapon potentially hundreds of times more powerful than the fission bombs the country had already set off—seismologists at the United States Geological Survey, or USGS, went to work t…
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BBC Sport – Michel Platini will not stand in Fifa presidential election
Suspended Uefa president Michel Platini will not stand in the Fifa presidential election to be held on 26 February, reports Associated Press. More to follow.
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As Carson tries to jumpstart his campaign, he asks fifth-graders who’s the ‘worst student’ in class
Ben Carson’s dropping like a rock in the polls and his staff members are fleeing faster than migrants fled Morocco in Trump’s latest video. But don’t worry, Carson fans, he’s got the cure. Kyle Cheney reports:
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The Secret Origin of The Force Awakens’ Adorably Angriest Stormtrooper
New heroes like Rey, Finn, and Poe. Old ones like Han and Leia. New foes like Kylo Ren. The Force Awakens is packed with great characters, but the Internet has chosen one above all: A Stormtrooper with a stun baton. Now this icon has been given an o…
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I am actress Natalie Dormer, from The Forest & Game of Thrones. AMA! : IAmA
Actor / Entertainer – LiveI am actress Natalie Dormer, from The Forest & Game of Thrones. AMA! (self.IAmA) Hi Reddit!
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World number five Rafael Nadal beat Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3 5-7 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Qatar Open. Nadal was made to work for his victory by the world number 79, but prevailed in just over two hours.
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The Questions to Ask When Picking a Financial Planner
The Questions to Ask When Picking a Financial Planner https://t.co/BsreTmhgXJ https://t.co/yUEQollYAd
We’re all for DIY money management, but there’s a case to be made for hiring a financial planner, too. If you’re considering it, keep these questions in mind when you interview one. -
New US Dietary Guidelines: Hey Dudes, Eat Less Meat | Motherboard
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Teenage boys need to cool it on the chicken fingers, according to the US government’s new dietary guidelines. -
The First Trailer for The Conjuring 2 Is Legitimately Unsettling
The First Trailer for The Conjuring 2 Is Legitimately Unsettling https://t.co/5MGkvzRM5D https://t.co/dbr0ujsNBd
After director James Wan left the horror genre for Furious 7, many fans thought he’d never be back. Quite the contrary! His very next film is The Conjuring 2, and the first trailer shows that the Saw and Insidious helmer hasn’t lost a single step. I… -
Government unveils its latest revision to dietary guidelines | Ars Technica
Government unveils its latest revision to dietary guidelines https://t.co/pG9RvNfuee https://t.co/Sg0obICNXa
The federal government’s dietary guidelines, updated every five years, just received its regularly scheduled refresh. The big takeaways largely stand in the revised version, released jointly Thursday by the Agriculture and Health and Human Services … -
Did anti-police sentiment lead to more murders in 2015? One expert makes her case. – Vox
Peaceful marches, standoffs between protesters and law enforcement, and, in some cases, riots — over the past year and a half, there has been a rising movement critical of excessive use of force by police. At the same time, there has been a troublin…
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The Supreme Court will hear its most consequential abortion rights case in 25 years this March with Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, which challenges two major abortion restrictions in Texas.
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The Queen’s Most Royal Accessory: Her Headscarf | Vanity Fair
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Let’s Put Twitter Moments In The Hands Of Twitter Users | TechCrunch
Moments is a tool for Twitter itself to pull together these things and nag you talk you into viewing them. ENGAGEMENT! However, what Twitter is missing out on is the need and the want for users to tell the stories themselves.
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Poor Joe Biden Is Still Upset About Not Running for President | Vanity Fair
Joe Biden, who spent months agonizing over whether or not to challenge Hillary Clinton for the presidency, is still haunted by his choice not to run.
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Wil Wheaton and Jeri Ryan “Star Trek space ship bump” : gifs
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The Smallest Bunny Ever : pics
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Geologists Found a Rock That’s ‘Older Than Earth’ in the Australian Outback
Geologists working in Australia have recovered a primordial meteorite that fell to Earth this past November. Using an extensive camera system and some pretty sophisticated math, the researchers recovered the 4.5-billion-year-old rock just moments be…
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Donald Trump will be testing his uncanny ability to pull in massive crowds of supporters pretty much anywhere in the country by hosting a rally in the Vermont city of Burlington — which is ground zero for Bernie Sanders territory.
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The Internet Isn’t Obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence. “The Internet” Doesn’t Exist. | New Republic
The internet is obsessed with everything. Type “the internet is obsessed with” into Google and you’ll find a seemingly never-ending stream of what the internet is mad for: cats, new apps, Jennifer Lawrence, some show on Netflix, and, depending on th…
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Top 15 bedbug-infested cities in the U.S. / Boing Boing
Terminix has just released its annual list of the top 15 U.S. cities most infested with bedbugs, determined by the most S.O.S. phone calls the company receives about the stealthy blood-suckers.
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Paul Ryan slams Obama for being ‘distracted’ by murdered children
Paul Ryan isn’t joining the Republicans suggesting that President Obama faked his tears over the children killed at Sandy Hook … but he doesn’t seem to see why Obama would waste his time or emotion on 20 murdered children.
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Continuing its trend of releasing very long trailers, Netflix has dropped a four-minute-plus preview of its upcoming drama, The Crown. Created by Peter Morgan (Rush), The Crown follows all the political, familial, and romantic drama of Queen Elizabe…
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The Atlantic’s Big Question: Reader Poll – The Atlantic
We asked readers to answer our question for the January/February issue: What is the greatest collaboration of all time? Vote for your favorite response, and we’ll publish the results in the next issue of the magazine.
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The title track of David Bowie’s new album, Blackstar, is about ISIS. Maybe.
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M. Night Shyamalan Is Bringing Back Tales From the Crypt
The iconic horror anthology series Tales From the Crypt is coming back to TV from one of our most polarizing filmmakers. M. Night Shyamalan will produce the reboot as part of new horror-centric block that’s coming to TNT.
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The New Lives of Decommissioned Swiss Army Bunkers – The Atlantic
Reuters photographer Arnd Wiegmann has been visiting and documenting some of the thousands of military bunkers and fortresses installed across Switzerland, most dating back to Word War II. Most of the bunkers have now been decommissioned and sold, a…
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The three countries (and one disputed territory) that don’t have Netflix – Vox
On Wednesday, Netflix announced that it would expand service “around the world.” Only three whole countries missed the cut: China, North Korea, and Syria: Map of where Netflix service is available.There’s one other place that won’t get Netflix.
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The Outback is as vicious as the Old West in The Proposition · 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. Flies everywhere—buzzing around the eyes, landing on flesh living …
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Hear Randy Rogers and Alison Krauss Salute the Gypsy Life on ‘Yonder’ | Rolling Stone
Nothing Shines Like Neon might be Randy Rogers Band’s seventh studio album, but it’s also a record loaded with renewal. It’s the Texas mainstay’s first album with a new label, Thirty Tigers, and their first time working with renowned producer Buddy …
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The Middle: “The Rush”Welcome to 2016, otherwise known as “The Year of Sue: No, Seriously, For Real This Time.
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Sex, Scandal and the Marching Band: Inside the New Rules at Ohio State | Rolling Stone
Seven hours before kickoff, Nate MacMaster sits on a folding chair in the foyer of the Ohio State University Marching Band Center. The complex forms part of Ohio Stadium’s outer shell, a monument to marketing ambition that expanded seating capacity …
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Chill out with Donkey Kong Country · 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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Space exploration is noble and all, but it sucks for the people astronauts leave behind. Is there anything nearly as intolerable as the idea that someone you love is in space? With that in mind, today’s story examines one possible future of space tr…
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President Obama shed tears on Tuesday as he called for new gun safety measures, and some critics perceived weakness or wimpishness. Really? On the contrary, we should all be in tears that 225,000 Americans have already died of gun violence in his se…
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Jimmy Kimmel Gets Americans to Congratulate North Korea – The Daily Beast
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‘Jungle Book’ triptych poster revealed : movies
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Jennifer Lawrence Reveals Her Signature Scent | Vanity Fair
If there’s one thing we can count on as a society in this strange, complicated, mostly unpredictable world, it is this: a Jennifer Lawrence interview will always be an enjoyable one. Just when you think, “I have seen/watched/read so many J.Law inter…
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Georgia Sunset [4272×2848] Roswell, GA : SkyPorn
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, The show must go on via /r/pics…
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Neanderthal genes ‘boosted our immunity’ – BBC News
We may owe our ability to fight disease to our extinct relatives – the Neanderthals and Denisovans. According to a pair of scientific studies, key genes in the immune system come from our ancient “cousins”.
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Cologne sex attacks: Police could not cope – report – BBC News
An internal police report reveals officers “could not cope” with the volume of attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, German media say. Women were “forced to run the gauntlet” through gangs of drunken and aggressive men outside the station, it said.
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Mexico’s Rising Murder Rate Is Driving Down Men’s Life Expectancy | ThinkProgress
The life expectancy in Mexico has been increasing for six decades.
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Resilience over rigidity: how to solve tomorrow’s computer problems today / Boing Boing
My new Locus Magazine column, Wicked Problems: Resilience Through Sensing, proposes a solution the urgent problem we have today of people doing bad stuff with computers.
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Screen Recorder For iOS Vidyo Gets Yanked From App Store | TechCrunch
If you didn’t grab a copy of the new screen recording app Vidyo that sneaked into the iTunes App Store yesterday, it’s now too late. Apple, not surprisingly, has pulled the app from the store.
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Christian college to fire professor over Muslim actions – Al Jazeera English
Chicago area conservative Christian college began a process to fire a professor for saying Muslims and Christians worship the same God.
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Let’s be honest, Jeb Bush was never ready for anything
Of all the candidates in this election, Jeb (!) is the most poignant figure of all.
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What We’re Following on Thursday Afternoon, 1/7 – The Atlantic
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Jimmy Kimmel Gets Americans to Congratulate North Korea – The Daily Beast
Over the years, Jimmy Kimmel and his team of roving reporters out on Hollywood Boulevard have demonstrated that people will lie about almost anything to seem smart and informed on national television.
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What to Expect When You Start Working Out Again After a Long Break
If you’re just now getting back into a workout routine after a few weeks off for the holidays, or after injuries or laziness kept you grounded for a long time, don’t feel guilty, and don’t worry. You will get that strength and fitness back.
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Official ‘Veterans For Trump’ Chairman Joins Bundy Militia | ThinkProgress
The co-chairman of Donald Trump’s New Hampshire “Veterans for Trump” group has arrived in Burns, Oregon, to assist the small cadre of armed men who are seeking to provoke a standoff with federal officials there.
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December Heat Boosts 2015 to 2nd Warmest Year in U.S. History – Scientific American
2015 is officially in the books as the second-hottest year ever recorded for the U.S., with a major boost provided by the incredible warmth that bathed the eastern half of the country in December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
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BBC Sport – Swansea City: Alan Curtis to take charge until end of the season
Swansea City have announced caretaker boss Alan Curtis will remain in charge of the Premier League club for the rest of the season. Former Swans player Curtis has since led the side to one win, two draws and two defeats in five games at the helm so …
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‘I’m Down’: Beastie Boys boil B-Boy bouillabaisse of Beatles classic|Dangerous Minds
In 1986 the Beastie Boys released Licensed to Ill, and the world of whiteboy rap was changed irrevocably.
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Family of Mexican Man Killed by Police Files Suit | Al Jazeera America
The parents of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, a Mexican immigrant fatally shot by police in Pasco, Washington, have filed a wrongful death suit against the city and and the officers who killed him, accusing them of excessive force, an attorney said on Wed…
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BBC Sport – Philippe Coutinho: Liverpool man could be out until February
Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho could be out for the rest of January after suffering a hamstring injury in the League Cup against Stoke. Defender Dejan Lovren also suffered a hamstring injury and Kolo Toure cramp, but have shorter recovery ti…
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Apple Dives Deeper Into Artificial Intelligence By Acquiring Emotient | TechCrunch
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. The company confirmed the move to the WSJ.
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VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Wildfires across the United States blackened more than 10 million acres of land in 2015, a new record set amid an intense drought across the West, the …
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Black Holes Set the Clock for Life on Earth
There is a chance – just a chance – that if black holes rule the universe, they could have “switched on” habitable planets, such as Earth, allowing them to support complex life.
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Samsung Partners With Microsoft For Windows 10 IoT Effort | TechCrunch
Samsung has made its name in mobile devices as being the world’s biggest maker of Android devices. But it looks like it has different plans in mind when it comes to connected devices and the Internet of Things.
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It’s Too Late for a Two-State Solution in Israel-Palestine | New Republic
Many obstacles stand in the way of a two-state solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. At the moment, negotiations are a nonstarter for all parties.
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Ted Cruz Is All Alone | New Republic
In this contentious Republican presidential primary, with candidates constantly hurling insults at each other, there was one island of calm. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump had a mutual admiration society that verged on a bromance.
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T-Mobile’s video throttling may not violate net neutrality, lawyers say | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA will soon meet with the Federal Communications Commission about whether its controversial “Binge On” program violates network neutrality rules.
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South Africa ends trade row with US over chicken imports – BBC News
South Africa has resolved a trade row with the US which threatened millions of dollars worth of business, its trade minister has said. The US had said it would throw South Africa out of its preferential trade programme over its refusal to allow the …
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Try These Exercise Modifications If You Have an Injury or Chronic Pain
Working out is much less enjoyable if you have bad knees, chronic back pain, or recovering from an injury. You can still exercise without the stress by modifying classic moves. DAREBEE (formerly NeilaRey.
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Guillermo del Toro Might Take A Fantastic Voyage With James Cameron
A modern remake of Fantastic Voyage has had a not-so-fantastic voyage through the Hollywood system. Several writers and directors have taken a crack at the project, which will be produced by James Cameron, and now another one is up to bat: Guillermo…
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Tamir Rice Grand Jury Testimony Won’t Be Released | Al Jazeera America
An Ohio prosecutor has rebuffed a request by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP for the release of grand jury testimony in the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying it would put those on the jury at risk of threats.
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Guillermo del Toro Might Take A Fantastic Voyage With James Cameron
Guillermo del Toro Might Take A Fantastic Voyage With James Cameron https://t.co/EcPn2FOpB1 https://t.co/9PiSA7qUXz
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Alyssa Milano Claims She Almost Had the Winona Ryder Role in Beetlejuice | Vanity Fair
Alyssa Milano Claims She Almost Had the Winona Ryder Role in Beetlejuice https://t.co/sjJxywr0dp https://t.co/J9DLpu4xxp
When Tim Burton picked 16-year-old Winona Ryder to play Lydia in Beetlejuice he unwittingly created a goth-girl icon. But according to Alyssa Milano, the role almost when to her instead. -
Cumbrian farmer watched sheep flock drown – BBC News
James Stobart is a third generation hill farmer from the north Pennines. His sheep graze the slopes of the Eden Valley. Last month, when unprecedented floodwaters engulfed Cumbria, he watched 160 of them drown.
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Why We Should Actually Feel Reassured by Islamic State’s Latest Execution Video | VICE News
As 2016 dawned and a fresh news cycle began, the Islamic State group clawed its way back into the headlines in what has become its hallmark manner: the release of another instalment of execution theater designed to win back the media narrative after…
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Ice Volcanoes On Pluto? New Imagery Points To It | Video
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Cellphone plans are getting cheaper — thanks, Obama! (and T-Mobile) – Vox
Next time you go shopping for a new cellphone plan, you’re likely to find that the options are a lot better than they were a couple of years ago. Prices are lower. You don’t have to sign up for one of those annoying two-year contracts.
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Q: Does Donald Trump think Paris is in Germany? A: Probably not – BBC News
Could it be that those those making fun of the latest Donald Trump tweet have themselves got it wrong? Republican presidential candidate and controversy fan Donald Trump has shocked and – let’s face it – delighted many of his critics with several co…
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U.S. Sued for Killing Keystone XL – Scientific American
TransCanada is suing the U.S. government for more than $15 billion in losses and damages for denying the Canadian company’s permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. The U.S. State Department denied the permit in November, saying that the proposed $…
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Petition to name a new element in Terry Pratchett’s honour / Boing Boing
Now that the International Union of Applied Chemistry has recognised four new elements, the race is on to decide what to call them.
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The Atlantic Launches Politics and Policy Expansion – The Atlantic
Washington, D.C. (January 7, 2016)—The Atlantic has embarked on a multi-platform expansion of its coverage of Washington politics and policy—across TheAtlantic.com, the magazine, video, and live events—focused on offering a distinctively sophisticat…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Will Be The First Film Shot On the New 8K Red Weapon
The second Guardians of the Galaxy film will start filming this year and when it does, director James Gunn will be the first person to shoot on a brand new camera. He’ll be using the 8K Red Weapon.
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Surreal Places in Germany : pics
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Reddit, meet Hershey. via /r/aww https://t.co/5TQvamAbG8 https://t.co/YPaLrQIeKf
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How Donald Trump Loses https://t.co/l4v4odj5ao https://t.co/0TZ34hHam3
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Hong Kong Bookstores Scrap Banned Books After Bookseller Disappearances | VICE News
Bookstores in Hong Kong have begun pulling literature banned in mainland China, after the mysterious disappearances of five booksellers linked to a company that had been selling politically sensitive books.
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Why We Remember the Beatles and Forget So Much Else – The New Yorker
Over Christmas, when the Beatles catalogue finally got released on several music-streaming services, Spotify notably among them, a few of us waited to see not whether anybody wanted the old songs but which ones they would want.
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Certain experiences in life are meant to be enlightening and educational, but never entertaining. Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Donald Trump isn’t going to be the Republican nominee. Six months ago, that was a truism. Three months ago, it was the conventional wisdom.
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Emma Watson starts feminist book group on Twitter | Books | The Guardian
Harry Potter actor, UN ambassador and feminism campaigner Emma Waston has announced she is starting a feminist book group on Twitter, called ‘Our Shared Shelf’.
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When Dr. Paul Kalanithi sent his best friend an email in May 2013 revealing that he had terminal cancer, he wrote: “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.
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Suddenly surprised loaf : Catloaf
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Bernie Sanders Demands President Obama End ‘Inhumane’ Roundups Of Immigrant Families | ThinkProgress
Vermont Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote to the White House on Thursday, demanding an end to the stepped up immigration raids and deportations of Central Americans that the Obama Administration announced just before Christmas.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Germany would give a “clear sign” to those not willing to follow the law, amid growing controversy over the response to the assaults on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve reportedly by Arab or North Africa…
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The ‘New Abolitionists’ Post-Tamir Rice | Al Jazeera America
CLEVELAND – When Joseph Worthy thinks of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old shot by Cleveland police while playing with a pellet gun, he sees family. “I have a lot of nieces and nephews in the city of Cleveland. They like to play in the park,” Worthy said.
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Rashida Jones, Levine on Nineties Nostalgia, New Single | Rolling Stone
Producer Sunny Levine comes from one of the most famous musical families. His grandfather, Quincy Jones, worked with legends like Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, and his father, Stewart Levine, produced albums for Simply Red, B.B. King and Minnie…
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Donald Trump plays the media like a fiddle. This Ted Cruz birther flap proves it. – Vox
Amazingly enough, “birther” questions about Ted Cruz’s qualifications for the presidency have suddenly become mainstream in the GOP.
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The Second Amendment: Original Intent – The New Yorker
How is it almost 1792?! Quick question on the right to bear arms thing in your “Bill of Rights”—the wording and punctuation are slightly confusing.
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What do you get if you survive a plane crash? — Hopes&Fears
The National Institute of Mental Health says that the fear of flying, usually called aviophobia, affects 6.5 percent of the population, or approximately 20 million people.
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Nebula NGC 2080 nicknamed the ‘Ghost Head Nebula’ [1348 x 1348] : spaceporn
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My father just posted this image of our flying dog : pics
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David Sedlak: 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought | TED Talk | TED.com
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Dologuele and Touadera to contest CAR run-off – BBC News
Two ex-prime ministers in the Central African Republic will contest a run-off after no candidate gained 50% in the first round of presidential elections, officials have said. Anicet Georges Dologuele, who came first with 24%, will face Faustin Touad…
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Google Translate dubs Russia “Mordor” and Russians “occupiers” | Ars Technica
Google Translate has been making some rather unflattering conversions when going from Ukrainian to Russian. “Russia” became “Mordor,” “Russians” became “occupiers,” and Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, became “sad little horse.”
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Marco Rubio’s Plan To Lock Tea Party Policies In Place Permanently | ThinkProgress
In a brief USA Today op-ed that extends for just 340 words, Republican presidential candidate and Senator Marco Rubio calls for major constitutional changes that would fundamentally rework American society to be implemented through a process that ha…
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Nielsen: Music Streams Doubled In 2015, Digital Sales Continue To Fall | TechCrunch
2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a doubling from 2014, which saw 164.5 billion songs streamed, Nielsen repor…
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The Simpsons have mocked or referenced literature over its 27 (!!) seasons, usually through a book Lisa was reading, or with guest appearances (e.g., Michael Chabon & Jonathan Franzen, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan).
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A bouncer wore a GoPro to show the drunk jerks he has to deal with / Boing Boing
On New Year’s Eve, a patient bouncer wore a GoPro at a nightclub to show how hard he works dealing with drunk people who plead, lie, and threaten to let them in.
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The Obama administration is quietly trying to make it harder to study public officials – Vox
A lot of what we know about how the government works — what motivates politicians, how exactly the three branches of government respond to one another — is thanks to the work of political scientists, who have been studying public officials for decad…
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After Horrific Rape Charges, Tennessee High School Cancels Basketball Season | ThinkProgress
Three basketball players at Ooltewah High School in Tennessee have been charged with the aggravated rape and assault of a 15-year-old freshman teammate on December 21.
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It’s official. The United States roasted in 2015.
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Appeals court upholds deal allowing kids’ images in Facebook ads | Ars Technica
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld a 2013 settlement between Facebook and a number of advocacy groups representing minors whose images were used in “Sponsored Stories.
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Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez’s run on All-New Hawkeye has been characterized by overlapping time periods, with their first arc exploring Clint “Hawkeye” Barton’s past while their second looks at Clint and Kate “Hawkeye” Bishop’s tense relationship 30…
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Hitler’s manifesto ‘Mein Kampf’ back in bookstores – Al Jazeera English
Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf will be on sale in Germany on January 8, for the first time since World War II. In accordance with European law, a copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author, whereupon the published writings …
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Why It’s Wrong To Say The Fight Against ISIS Is A ‘Clash Of Civilizations’ | ThinkProgress
Shortly after the Paris attacks in November, a number of Republican presidential frontrunners regurgitated the idea that the war against ISIS represents a “clash of civilizations.” While this is a favorite Republican talking point, there are several…
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David Sedlak: 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought | TED Talk | TED.com
As the world’s climate patterns continue to shift unpredictably, places where drinking water was once abundant may soon find reservoirs dry and groundwater aquifers depleted. In this talk, civil and environmental engineer David Sedlak shares four pr…
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The ISS Is Getting a New Camera to Check Itself for Space Debris Damage | Motherboard
The International Space Station is under constant threat of impact from space debris. Some of that debris is so small that damage can be hard to see in traditional photos or with the naked eye. Some of it, such as meteorites, is natural. But more an…
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Mockumentaries must seem a great deal easier to make than they really are, judging by how many are produced each year and how few truly succeed.
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BBC – Earth – These are the discoveries that made Stephen Hawking famous
Stephen Hawking is probably the most famous genius of the modern age. But what exactly is he famous for – apart from his astonishing resilience to an incapacitating disease, that instantly-recognizable retro-robotic voice, and his walk-on roles on T…
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Facebook Wants Messenger to Be the Only App You Use | Motherboard
According to a post on Facebook’s blog, the social media giant wants its Messenger app to be much more than just a messaging app, taking the place of smaller apps with more specific purposes.
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Why the opioid epidemic is making a libertarian rethink drug legalization – Vox
One of the biggest debates in drug policy is whether legalizing drugs, and therefore increasing access to them, would actually lead to more use and abuse — or whether people would be rational enough to stay away from dangerous drugs.
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The Best Way to Manage Email – The Atlantic
The man who sent the first email is not overwhelmed by email. In our culture, it seems, this is unusual.
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My Tinder date with ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli / Boing Boing
Jacklyn Collier was dubious that the man claiming to be Martin Shkreli really was Martin Shkreli. He convinced her by showing photos of his identification. Curious about the notorious HIV drug price-gouger, she went on a date with him and wrote abou…
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AL MUZAHIMIYAH, SAUDI ARABIA—Complaining that he must have “tweaked it pretty good,” Saudi executioner Khalid al-Faraj told reporters Thursday that he thinks he pulled something in his shoulder during yesterday’s last 10 decapitations.
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The Best Investing Advice Is Too Boring For TV – The Atlantic
The stock market opened 2016 with a giant thud, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 276 points on the very first trading day. Chinese stocks were down nearly 7 percent. European stocks fell, too.
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A brief history of North Korea’s nuclear program and the failed US campaign to stop it – Vox
Very late on Tuesday, North Korea claimed that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, an especially powerful type of nuclear weapon. Experts are skeptical that the North Koreans actually detonated a full hydrogen bomb, but the evidence does suggest that som…
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John Kasich Can’t Explain How He Would Block North Korean Ships | ThinkProgress
In an interview on Fox News on Thursday, GOP presidential candidate John Kasich criticized the Obama administration’s actions against North Korea, calling for the aggressive interception of North Korean ships and aircraft after the country claimed i…
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Celebratory Gunfire as Syria Allows UN to Bring Food Into the Starving Town of Madaya | VICE News
The United Nations announced on Thursday that it would be delivering food aid to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya with the cooperation of the Syrian government, as over 40,000 people in the mountain village face starvation.
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Twitter / Authorize an application
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In the Age of Grindr, Cruising and Anonymous Sex Are Alive and Well | VICE | United States
In the darkness, Jake looks at me suspiciously. Jake is 25, a clean-cut looking type with an office job in nearby Leeds. So what keeps him coming back?
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Robo-Sauce is a brilliant twist on both storytelling and book design / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Robo-Sauce starts out as a mere picture book, then – with a few paper folds and a little imagination – transforms into a ROBOT picture book.
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An Instagram feed of fun illustrated facts / Boing Boing
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Marco Rubio Finds Common Ground With Armed Militia In Oregon | ThinkProgress
An armed militiaman at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, right, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), left. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) doesn’t like that militants are currently occupying a federal wildlife facility …
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Antibodies to our own proteins may predict adverse vaccine responses | Ars Technica
Let’s get something straight from the start: vaccines are good. Let’s be completely clear about that. But sometimes some people have adverse reactions to them—no, not autism, but things like diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, maybe a sore arm.
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The most convincing argument for legalizing LSD, shrooms, and other psychedelics – Vox
I have a profound fear of death. It’s not bad enough to cause serious depression or anxiety. But it is bad enough to make me avoid thinking about the possibility of dying — to avoid a mini existential crisis in my mind.
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Firefox ban on SHA-1 certs causing some security issues, Mozilla warns | Ars Technica
Mozilla has warned Firefox users that its decision to reject SHA-1 certificates has caused an unfortunate side effect: some man-in-the-middle devices, such as security scanners and antivirus products, are failing to connect to HTTPS sites.
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One graphic that explains how brokered conventions work — and why they’re so unlikely – Vox
Every four years, the chatter begins in earnest over the winter: Will this be the year that party elites, through backroom deals, end up picking their own, favored candidate?
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The Son of the Devil Discovers His Heritage in the New Damien Trailer
Mark your calendars, folks: between A&E’s Omen follow up Damien and Fox’s ridiculously charming Lucifer, there’s never been a better year for Satan on television. If this new trailer is anything to go by, Damien is definitely going to be the darker …
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Saudi Arabia and Iran fight for Africa’s loyalty – BBC News
Sudan made headlines this week when it became the first African state to cut diplomatic ties with Iran following the attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran, as tension escalated over the Saudi execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr for terror-rel…
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Angelina Jolie’s Kids Have an Adorable Cameo in Her Newest Film | Vanity Fair
You’d never know it, but four of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s kids—Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and Knox—all took part in Jolie’s latest film, Kung Fu Panda 3. These middle members of the Jolie-Pitt brood range in ages from 7 to 12 and all recorded panda …
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USA Paralympic silver medallist Richard Browne has sustained broken ribs and concussion in a car accident. The 24-year-old spent two nights in hospital after his car was in collision with a lorry in Florida.
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‘Making a Murderer’: 10 Questions We Still Have | Rolling Stone
The 10-part Netflix series Making a Murderer is the latest entry in America’s newfound obsession with serialized true crime storytelling, coming on the heels of the hugely popular podcast Serial and HBO’s The Jinx. In each case the show ends but the…
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Time Warner and Linode report possible password breaches | Ars Technica
Time Warner Cable is warning that login credentials for 320,000 customers may have been stolen.
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Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch Still Loves Mike Piazza | Rolling Stone
On Tuesday night, Mike Piazza was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, capping a career that saw him club 427 home runs, play 1,630 games as a catcher and earn a reputation as perhaps the greatest hitter to ever crouch behind home plate.
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Also ask for a window seat when flying over Greenland (2160×3840)[OC] : EarthPorn
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Dry ice. via /r/gifs https://t.co/oB8OD4i79S https://t.co/7w6WunWDLY
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China’s Moon Rover Finds New Kind of Lunar Rock
Data gleaned by China’s Yutu rover on the moon has identified a new type of lunar rock, shedding insight on lunar volcanism. As noted by the state-run Xinhua news agency, the new type of basaltic rock was discovered at a fresh crater named Zi Wei.
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NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Project Officially Starts in February
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — NASA’s next flagship astronomy mission after the James Webb Space Telescope will become a formal project in February thanks to increased funding and direction from Congress, even as the agency looks to make cuts elsewhere in its as…
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The best facts I learned from reading The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015
Kathryn Schulz, who wrote the now-infamous New Yorker piece about earthquake that will devastate the Pacific Northwest, shared a list of the best facts she learned fron books in 2015. Two stuck out for me.
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Share your unpopular music opinions / Boing Boing
The #UnpopularMusicOpinionhour hashtag is proving unexpectedly cilivized today—for once, not everyone is complaining about the Beatles like that’s some kind of deliciously transgressive thing.
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In the wake of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo a year ago, a group of French academics put aside their work to assemble a collection of major 18th-century writing promoting tolerance; the final product – including writings from Voltaire to Montesquieu …
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The all-girl pop band theory of North Korea’s nuclear test – Vox
Americans are nothing if not narcissistic, and so the recent North Korean nuclear test has been portrayed and debated in the US as varying degrees of all about us. It’s a message or warning or plea to America; it’s a reaction to President Obama’s we…
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Stunning vintage portraits of Canada’s First Nation People|Dangerous Minds
Chief Owl—Blackfoot circa 1886. During the 1880s, Canadian Alex Ross photographed many of the First Nations people who lived around Calgary.
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Fighting China’s Stubborn Stigma Around Mental Health – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Primer on Bill and Hillary Clinton Scandals – The Atlantic
Amid all the scandals related to the Clinton family, Bill Clinton’s sex scandals were supposed to be a dead letter. After all, the former president weathered impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s—in fact, Hillary Clinton’s popularity soared at t…
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“Ancient Cities of the Universe” –Most Distant and Massive Galaxy Cluster Ever Discovered
“We had some sense of how massive and distant it was, but we weren’t fully convinced,” says Michael McDonald, assistant professor of physics and a member of MIT’s Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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Do I Need Regular Checkups When I’m Already Healthy?
Annual health exams are a tradition among healthcare-having Americans, but whether or not they’re necessary is up for debate. Years ago, I asked my own doctor for a checkup and he chuckled at me, pointing out that I seemed fine so it wasn’t necessar…
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Syrian government allows aid to enter starving town – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian government has allowed humanitarian workers access to an opposition-held town near the border with Lebanon where people are reported to be starving to death in the freezing cold weather.
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Conservatives have theories about Obama’s tears. Grief over murdered children doesn’t make the cut.
If you can’t imagine crying over 20 murdered children, I guess it makes sense to you that anyone else’s tears must be fake.
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Nauru Police Investigate Sexual Assault Child | Al Jazeera America
Police on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru are investigating an alleged assault on a child refugee by another refugee, the government said on Thursday.
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Facebook’s LiveRail Is Pulling Out Of The Ad Serving Business | TechCrunch
Facebook is narrowing the focus of the LiveRail ad platform that it acquired in 2014 — the company says it will no longer be accepting new customers to LiveRail’s ad serving business.
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“Home, Part 2” is the episode where Meier dies. This is not a big event. Much as I love character actor James Remar, he hasn’t been on the show long enough to make a huge impression; mostly he’s there to give us some insight into what Zarek is plann…
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Ask Hannibal Buress your love, sex, and relationship questions · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Every year around Valentine’s Day, The A.V. Club sets out to help our readers find romantic fulfillment, whether it’s through movie recommendations, sexy songs, or an open and honest look at the “elusive and sadly ephemeral” nature of love with Aziz…
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Show of hands, and be honest: How many here scrawled meaningful song lyrics in notebooks and diaries as moody teenagers? How many powered through emotional times in their lives by listening to the same song on repeat for hours? Who has ever felt lik…
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Finally! Science proves that Canadians are way more polite than Americans. – Vox
It is a generally assumed principle, much like the sun rising in the east or bears hibernating in the winter, that Canadians are an unfailingly polite people. They don’t like to argue; they apologize for mistakes that others make.
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Hugh Laurie is getting another Chance to play a TV doctor as Deadline reports that the erstwhile Dr. House has signed onto Hulu’s new medical thriller. (In case you didn’t pick up on it from the previous sentence, the title of the show is Chance.
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Hot Robots Won’t End Sex | Motherboard
This month, a new class of robots designed to be almost indistinguishable from actual humans will be introduced to a select group of remote markets worldwide. Their services will be employed in a variety of ways, including, yes, providing sex to tho…
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3D Printing Our Future in Space and on Earth | Tommaso Ghidini | TEDxESA – YouTube
TEDxESA talk at the European Space Agency on 11 November, 2015:No matter what you take with you when going up into space, it’s going to be complicated and expensive. Very expensive. If we talk about longer missions, we better come up with something …
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The Canadian Space Agency’s Plan to Engineer Super-Thin Wearables for Astronauts | Motherboard
For such a complicated piece of technology, floating high above the Earth, the International Space Station takes a decidedly low-tech approach to measuring the health of its inhabitants.
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Sharp fall in crude oil prices – BBC News
The Asian market turmoil is having an impact on commodities around the world – especially crude oil prices. Prices tumbled to $32.62 a barrel on Thursday as a result of rising US energy stockpiles and China’s weakening currency.
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Feeling Claustrophobic? : pics
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I tried teaching my dog to get the mail for me. : gifs
I tried teaching my dog to get the mail for me. via /r/gifs https://t.co/F5x7qTDO31 https://t.co/dchn0GM7Rj
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Someone learned about the rain today. : cats
Someone learned about the rain today. via /r/cats https://t.co/xw0cymLbqe https://t.co/BQZ7OEQRjc
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Our two new female kittens, Willow and Cotton Socks via /r/cats https://t.co/Ax3gLYn5Bs https://t.co/Dv9DHtxgou https://t.co/w2vO9T2LwO
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Oculus Rift VR headset turns out pricier than expected / Boing Boing
Touted at $350, the consumer version of the Oculus Rift VR headset will in fact be $599. The sticker shock led the company’s CEO to do an apologetic AMA on Reddit, where he explained the circumstances and why the earlier price suggestion was made.
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Is it Time for France to Abandon Laïcité? | New Republic
As France marks the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, French officials are stepping up efforts to counter violent extremism. One measure involves widening police powers to conduct raids and detain suspecte…
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San Francisco police want onlookers to turn their smartphone camera on suspected criminal activity — instead of police behavior.
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Amazon Expands Access To Prime Video To U.S. Military Members Overseas | TechCrunch
Amazon said today it will expand access to Amazon Prime Video to military members and families serving overseas, as a part of the company’s ongoing efforts to deliver programming to those who reside on U.S. military bases around world.
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Poland’s President Signs Media Law | Al Jazeera America
Poland’s president signed a new law giving the government control of state radio and television, an official announced Thursday, despite concerns from the European Union about media independence in the country.
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It is a familiar claim by many Second Amendment defenders — and, during the Obama administration, an increasingly popular one — that unfettered gun rights are necessary to protect American citizens against the threat of a tyrannical government.
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Terrorism, Migrants, and Crippling Debt: Is This the End of Europe? | Vanity Fair
Some things about Paris never change. One November evening in the Place André Malraux, near the Louvre, I noticed a couple in their late middle years who were waiting on a traffic island to cross to my side of the street.
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Every year, Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame continues to wrestle with the sport’s complicated legacy of steroid use, and 2016 is no different. On Wednesday, its notoriously selective voters admitted just two new members: the outfielder Ken Grif…
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Is Cancer Contagious? – The Atlantic
Twenty years ago, scientists identified a bizarre new disease afflicting Australia’s Tasmanian devils. These black, rambunctious, corgi-sized predators started turning up with grotesque facial tumors that proved invariably fatal.
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Kate Hudson and Nick Jonas Went on a Ski Trip Together, Which Sounds F | Vanity Fair
Let’s assume you want to go skiing. You’ve decided to strap two slick sticks to your feet and go barreling down a mountain, because you enjoy it. Of course there’s also the whole après-ski scene, with its crackling fires and warm, boozy drinks, to b…
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UK demand soars for electric and hybrid vehicles | Environment | The Guardian
Demand for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles is soaring, according to new figures released today by the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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The B Corporation movement, which certifies companies that benefit society as well as their owners, is gaining momentum. Last month, Laureate Education, a global education company with $4.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 7th – The New Yorker
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Thomas Rhett Reigns With ‘Happy Man’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Thomas Rhett Reigns With ‘Happy Man’: The Ram Report Singer scores a career hit with love song to his wife
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For the Price of a House, You Will Soon Be Able to Buy a Drone to Ride | MIT Technology Review
The 184, pictured here as a rendering, has an enclosed cockpit to keep passengers cozy even when flying hundreds of feet in the air. Attendees at the CES conference in Las Vegas will have an opportunity straight out of the Jetsons today: the chance …
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I’m pretty sure this hand model is naked. : pics
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Planetary Exploration Timeline, 2003-2018 : space
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Techcrunch At Davos: Slovakia’s President Talks Technology And Startups | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is going to the World Economic Forum, Switzerland to unpack how technology is affecting the world’s economies. We’ll be speaking to heads of states and captains of industry about what many refer to as the next industrial revolution.
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Four Advertising Tricks That Get Us To Buy Stuff We Don’t Need
Advertising is kind of fascinating. Advertisers use a number of psychological tricks to get you to spend money. Knowing these tricks is a great way to stop buying crap you don’t need.
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Trump appears to think Paris is in Germany / Boing Boing
It’s the perfectly-optimized Trumpian Twittergaffe, lurking somewhere between a) bloviating ignorance and b) his inability to form coherent thoughts in 140 characters. None of his followers will care, every else will find it amazing.
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Jean-Marc Choffel, a 42-year-old Frenchman who splits his time between New York and Miami, was mulling over his plans for the night. Nothing seemed appealing. He had worked late into the evening, and a December rain was coming down hard. As 9 p.m.
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Dangerous Methane Leak Requires Emergency Measures – Scientific American
California must craft a plan to blunt the impact of large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions that have spewed into the air from a methane leak in Los Angeles, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said yesterday.
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750 reality TV shows aired on cable in 2015. Yes, 750. – Vox
Most TV fans have heard of “peak TV,” the phrase coined by FX president John Landgraf to describe the current abundance of scripted series and how hard it is for any one of them, no matter how good it is, to stand out.
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Should American Muslims Embrace Holiday Commercialism? – The Atlantic
Growing up, the Eid holidays were absolutely magical for me. My parents would decorate the house with glimmering lights, and my siblings and I would gather around the dining room table to cut out paper and foil decorations—a mixture of European and …
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Panama-born John McCain doesn’t know if Canada-born Ted Cruz is eligible for presidency
It sounds like Sen. John McCain is a full participant in the loathing for Sen. Ted Cruz shared by just about everyone who’s ever spent much time around Cruz.
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Video: an old man burns his memories / Boing Boing
Don’t believe me? Just watch. 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.
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Almost Half of Parents Know Their Teenager’s Email Password | Motherboard
According to a Pew study on parenting in the age of the internet, most parents still don’t trust their teenagers to be responsible online, with about half keeping tabs on at least one of their kid’s passwords.
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Ars talks car design with Faraday Future at CES | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—On the Monday night before CES kicked off properly, several hundred journalists and VIPs assembled under a purple-lit tent in a vacant lot to witness the reveal of a new electric vehicle from a startup called Faraday Future.
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you were gone forever….i counted… : aww
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Our two new female kittens, Willow and Cotton Socks : cats
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Man turns his decades-worth of fingernail clippings into paperweights|Dangerous Minds
I’m sorta speechless with this one. Not gonna lie. Anyway, 45-year-old Queens resident Mike Drake collects his fingernail and toenail clippings and turns them into acrylic paperweights which sell for $300 – $500 a pop. It’s called ART, dammit. Try n…
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Quadrantid Meteors Seen From Edge of Space | Video
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SAN VITALIANO, Italy — If there is one label that Antonio Falcone, a doctor turned civic leader, does not want to be known by, it is “the anti-pizza mayor.
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Cancer rates in the US continue their long decline in 2016, according to a new report, though the disease remains the second leading cause of death around the country. Deaths caused by cancer have dropped 23% since 1991, according to an American Can…
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Syria civil war: Civilians ‘starving to death’ in besieged villages – BBC News
The situation in three besieged villages in Syria is “extremely dire”, the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned. Activists say civilians have died because of a lack of food and medicine in rebel-controlled Madaya, near Damascus, or ha…
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China suspends circuit breaker – BBC News
China will suspend its new stock market circuit breaker mechanism – designed to stop free-falling prices – from Friday the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have said.
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Watch Tom Hiddleston Lose His Composure in the New High-Rise Trailer
The first trailer for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise was a fake ad for the titular building itself, focusing on the luxury it provides. This one is all about Tom Hiddleston’s Dr. Robert Laing and how living in the building goes for him. Based on the trail…
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Christina Hendricks to play a philanthropic love interest in Bad Santa 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Christina Hendricks hasn’t exactly been wallowing in grief since the end of Mad Men last spring; she’s moved on by accepting roles in other period dramas (because why mess with a good thing?), as well as a contemporary film about bullied adults.
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Wall Street sharply down on China woes – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters (Open): Wall Street stocks opened more than 1% lower on Thursday, reflecting share turmoil in Europe, after trading was suspended on the Chinese markets for the second time this week.The Dow Jones fell 231.82 points to 16,906…
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The Coolest Star Wars Rey Toys That You Can Actually Buy Right Now
Star Wars toys have been in the news, as people reacted angrily to the distinct lack of merchandise based on The Force Awakens’ main hero, Rey—culminating in rage over a Rey-less Monopoly set.
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The town of Pickering is a notorious flood spot in the north-east of England, on the edge of the North York moors. So when the town escaped flooding this Christmas while York – just 40 miles away – was underwater, it seemed an open and shut case.
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House’s Hugh Laurie to star in psychological thriller Chance | Media | The Guardian
Hugh Laurie will be back on US television in Chance, his first starring role stateside since medical drama House. The British actor heads the cast in the psychological thriller for streaming service Hulu.
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NBCU’s Comedy Subscription Service For Cord Cutters, SeeSo, Goes Live | TechCrunch
SeeSo, NBCUniversal’s oddly named subscription service aimed at cord cutters, is now live.
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We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is simply heartwarming. I didn’t want the book to end while I was reading it and I wanted to find out what happened in the end at the same time. Stewart had always wanted a sister, and now he was about to get one.
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JK Rowling has praised the author and poet Musa Okwonga’s response to mass sexual assaults in Cologne.
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Why You Should Use Cream Polish on Leather Shoes Before Wax
If you own leather shoes, taking good care of them will keep them in good shape for years. Wax-based polishes and shines are popular, but a cream polish may be better to keep the leather in good condition over the long haul.
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geist.xyz is a different kind of fashion project: what looks at first glance as an eccentric tangle of simulated dance and a color coordinated tumblr exploration turns out to be a study of handcrafted algorithmic textiles and procedural surfaces. A …
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Hillary Clinton began two days of secretive, closed-door meetings in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley on Thursday – two areas that account for a large portion of her donor base and will be ever more crucial as the primary season begins.
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Trump Supporters Appear To Be Misinformed, Not Uninformed | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump has a consistently loose relationship with the truth. So much so, in fact, that the fact-checking website PolitiFact rolled his numerous misstatements into one big “lie of the year.
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The Freedom Caucus Blusters in the House – The Atlantic
House members came rolling into town for the new session this week, and the merry band of conservatives who made life so exciting for Speaker John Boehner last year wasted no time in warning his replacement, Paul Ryan, that they consider him on prob…
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Ben Carson’s Flat Tax Would Only Benefit The Rich | ThinkProgress
On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson released his tax plan, the center of which is a flat tax of 14.9 percent.
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Casio Throws Its Wrist into the Smart-Watch Game | Vanity Fair
Smart watches present a perplexing duality. In one sense, they’re a buzzing, beeping look into the future on your wrist—the beginning of what will likely be a way of life not too far down the line.
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John McCain Questions if Ted Cruz’s Canadian Birth Prevents Him from Being President | Vanity Fair
Like camel coats and suede, birtherism is back in style this week thanks to two unlikely bedfellows, Donald Trump and Senator John McCain, who made waves in a radio interview Wednesday by echoing Trump in casting doubt on whether his colleague Senat…
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How Star Wars Changed Ridley Scott‘s Life | Vanity Fair
“The very first Star Wars . . . it completely flipped my brain,” says Sir Ridley Scott on this week’s episode of the Little Gold Men podcast.
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Trailer Confirms That, No, Daredevil Season 2 Will Not Open Against Batman v Superman | Vanity Fair
There was a beguiling rumor flying around earlier this week that Netflix and Marvel, in a bold, superheroic move, had decided to open the second season of their hugely popular comic book show, Daredevil, on the same day Warner Brothers would open th…
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The case of a French aid worker arrested in Bangladesh – Al Jazeera English
The French government, human rights organisations and social media users worldwide have spent the past two weeks calling on the Bangladeshi government to release Moussa Tchantchiung, who was arrested on December 22.
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Sierra Ventures Closes 11th Fund With $170 Million | TechCrunch
Today, Sierra Ventures, a San Mateo, Ca.-based early stage technology venture capital firm, is announcing that it has closed its 11th fund with $170 million. It’s an impressive amount, given that Sierra’s future was somewhat cloudy several years ago.
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Joe Biden ‘regrets not entering 2016 race’ – BBC News
Vice President Joe Biden has said he regrets not launching a campaign for the presidency. But he added he believed the decision was right for him and his family.
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Yale Medical School Professors Are Starting a Psychedelic Meetup | Motherboard
The Yale School of Medicine announced Monday that it has formed a study group to explore the re-emerging field of psychedelic science, focusing on the clinical applications of psychedelic drugs in treating mental illnesses.
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Time Warner Cable Hacked, Change Your Passwords Now
Account information for over 320,000 Time Warner cable customers was stolen yesterday, mostly due to malware and phishing attacks on Time Warner partner companies. If you’re a subscriber, you know the drill: change your password now.
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A Newly Discovered Form of Sound Wave Could Change Drug Delivery | Motherboard
Acoustics experts from Australia’s RMIT University have created a new variety of hybridized sound wave, the first in over 50 years of acoustics research.
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This week “boots on the ground” took on a whole new meaning in politics. Senator Ted Cruz’s communications director, Rick Tyler, wrote on Twitter: “A Vote for Marco Rubio Is a Vote for Men’s High-Heeled Booties.
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Interior of the Olympus B-2100 habitat as supplied by Bigelow. : space
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Vibrant Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas [OC][3744×2104] : EarthPorn
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‘Underground battery’ could store energy, CO2 : environment
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Google Fixed a Bug Where “Russia” Automatically Translated to “Mordor”
Google Fixed a Bug Where “Russia” Automatically Translated to “Mordor” https://t.co/nJZBSAEbd4 https://t.co/tPPwZZ5fOw
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This Supreme Court Case Could Make All Public Unions ‘Right to Work’ | The Nation
On January 11, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a full-bore attack on public-sector unions. The lead Friedrichs plaintiffs, a group of fiercely anti-union California public-school teachers, seek …
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This man remixed The Wizard of Oz word-by-word — and the result is a surprising delight – Vox
Do you like The Wizard of Oz? Most likely you do. It’s a beloved film classic, a longtime television staple, and the movie that spawned the song “Over the Rainbow.”
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Asking for a Friend: Can I Steal From Chain Stores to Feed Myself? | The Nation
Is it morally objectionable to steal food to feed yourself, and only from chain businesses? There’s no moral reason to refrain from stealing food from chain stores, especially if you live in one of the 14 percent of American households struggling to…
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Why Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’ Are Still Relevant Today | The Nation
In her syndicated newspaper column on January 6, 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: “America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars.
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Five piss-your-pants-stupid answer songs to ‘Eve of Destruction’|Dangerous Minds
“Eve of Destruction,” written by teenage Bob Dylan fan P. F. Sloan and sung by former New Christy Minstrel Barry McGuire, spent eleven weeks on the Billboard chart in 1965, reaching number one that September. Apocalyptic, adolescent and aporetic, it…
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The Hillary Clinton Double Standard | The Nation
I like Bernie Sanders.
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Two Campaign Trajectories: An Analysis | The Nation
While the Carson campaign loses luster, Near the Donald the newsmen still cluster. If you’re peddling hooey, It comes off as less screwy When you coat it in boasting and bluster.
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When should a robot say no to its human owner?
This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Future Tense will host a lunchtime event in Washington, D.C., on human-robot interaction. For more information and t…
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How Michigan literally poisoned an entire city to save a few bucks
You know what’s bad? Brain damage. Flint, Michigan, is finding this out after it accidentally gave its entire population at least a little bit of lead poisoning when it switched up their water supply.
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Vacation Rentals Search Engine Holidu Raises €5M Series A | TechCrunch
It was only last July that HomeToGo, a European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, raised €6 million in Series A funding. And now competitor Holidu has gotten in on the fundraising action. The Munich-based company has closed a €5 million Serie…
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Netflix: from DVD rentals to the verge of world domination | Media | The Guardian
When Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings took to the stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce the streaming service’s expansion into a further 130 countries, he told the audience they were “witnessing the birth of a global TV network”.
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Dear Comcast: broadband isn’t gasoline / Boing Boing
Comcast’s CEO Brian Roberts has been doing a lot of spinning lately to explain his company’s plan to increase its prices (already some of the highest in the developed world) by turning on usage caps and charging up the wazoo for people who exceed th…
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Google Fixed a Bug Where “Russia” Automatically Translated to “Mordor”
Google has some good news! Earlier this week, Ukranian media noticed a slight glitch wherein Google Translate was giving “Mordor” as a translation for “Russian Federation.” The good news is that they’ve fixed the problem.
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Clay Aiken Goes After *American Idol* Judges, Says Root Canals Are “More Entertaining” | Vanity Fair
The last season of American Idol is underway, which means there are going to be a whole bunch of retrospectives and think pieces and the like about the end of this once mighty pop-cultural institution.
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17 Miners Trapped in Upstate New York Are Rescued – The Atlantic
All 17 #Cargill Miners are now out! All are safe! That’s the tweet announcing the rescue of 17 miners stuck for 10 hours in an elevator at the Cayuga Rock Salt Mine in Lansing, New York.
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From Dave Pell at Nextdraft, who says that “rage is all the rage these days”, comes the results of an Esquire/NBC News poll about how angry Americans are these days. Americans are more angry, especially white Americans. Half of all Americans are ang…
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Chinese company unveils world’s first passenger drone at CES | Ars Technica
The Chinese startup company Ehang unveiled yesterday at CES what it claims is the first passenger drone, capable of carrying one person for about 20 minutes.
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Test-driving the new Chevrolet Volt at CES | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—Yesterday at CES Chevrolet formally unveiled the Bolt, its new, battery-powered electric vehicle. But the Bolt wasn’t the only EV that the company brought to Las Vegas.
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State of emergency in US city after water poisoned – Al Jazeera English
The US state of Michigan has declared a state of emergency in the city of Flint after its water supply was poisoned by toxic lead, leading to severe illnesses among its 100,000 residents with children suffering the worst.
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Next London Ars meet: January 28 | Ars Technica
Happy new year, Arsians! I come bearing exciting news. To begin with, we have a new hire. After a very successful first year (we grew from around 400,000 readers to 1.5 million), the Powers That Be decided that we deserved another writer.
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Nestled in the folds of mountains, the site has a base camp along with several tunnels, where the tests are thought to be conducted. Satellite imagery from the past year shows construction work on a new tunnel in the complex, but it is unclear if th…
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Rescue Overripe Fruit by Pureeing and Freezing It Into Flavor-Packed Cubes
You know that moment when fruit crosses over from perfectly ripe to just a little busted? It’s not technically bad, but it’s no longer enticing. Instead of chucking it in the compost, puree and freeze it into tasty little cubes!
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Blood Plasma from Ebola Survivors Fails to Prevent Deaths in Field Study – Scientific American
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State of emergency over LA gas leak – BBC News
A state of emergency has been declared in California in response to a methane gas leak that began more than two months ago. More than 2,000 people have been moved from their homes in a suburb of Los Angeles.
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The battle lines are drawn in the Daredevil season 2 teaser · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The wait for news about the Daredevil season two premiere is over—Netflix has just announced that Hell’s Kitchen’s hero (and villains) will return on March 18, at the stroke after midnight.
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Slow Mass opens a portal to hell with new track · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In just over a week Chicago’s Slow Mass will be sharing the stage with both Metz and Bully. While Slow Mass doesn’t sound exactly like either of those acts, it does a good job of finding the middle ground between the two.
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Jerry Seinfeld Does His Best Tight Five – YouTube
Jerry Seinfeld drops in on The Late Show to try out that whole telling jokes with a microphone thing.Subscribe To “The Late Show” Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTubeFor more content from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, click HERE: …
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Queens quiz: how well do you know royalty in literature? | Books | The Guardian
1In Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, what fact is changed about Catherine of Aragon?In reality, she died earlier.In reality, she died later.She kills Cardinal Wolsey in the play.She kills Henry VIII in the play.
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Here’s Marvel’s new teaser trailer for Daredevil season 2 – Vox
No good deed goes unpunished. #Daredevil On Thursday, Marvel released an official teaser for the second season of its hit Netflix show Daredevil. It’s more of a recap of the show’s moody, dark first season than it is a look at the new season.
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Don’t Expect Any Oscar Night Feud for The Big Short | Vanity Fair
When two people share an Oscar nomination for a screenplay, it can get ugly.
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Syria ‘to let aid into besieged town’ – 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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Dutch government says no to ‘encryption backdoors’ – BBC News
The Netherlands has said it will not force tech firms to share encrypted communications such as emails with its security agencies. The move puts the country in stark contrast with US and UK officials, who have argued agencies need such access to fig…
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Afghan cricket fan killed by celebratory gunfire – BBC News
An Afghan teenager has been killed by gunfire in the south of the country as cricket fans celebrated victory over Zimbabwe in Sharjah. Several others were hurt as thousands of fans danced in the streets and fired in the air in cities and towns.
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Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests | The Nation
Early on in Les Blank’s 1980 short documentary film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, the star says in his unmistakable Bavarian-inflected English: “I’m quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to filmmaking.
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Treat Your Feet to a Discounted Pair of Work Boots, Today Only
Everyone needs at least one good pair of boots, and Amazon will sell you a set of Wolverines for $63-$76, today only. There are a dozen different styles available, so go find the one that suits you best, and lace up. [Wolverine Work Boot Gold Box]
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Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion | The Nation
What if potato chips were put on sale only once every quarter-century? Imagine the crowds lined up at convenience stores on the night of the release, the fans in imitation Ruffles bags waving high their replica spuds.
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When you fly over the Alps, remember to ask for a window seat. The view is breathtaking. This is the Y-shaped Como lake during a hazy sunrise. [OC] [2000×1411] (i.imgur.com)
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Food in books: raisin bread from The Book of Strange New Things | Books | The Guardian
As they drove through the dark towards the invisible horizon, they munched on raisin bread. Grainger had positioned a big fresh loaf of it in the gap between the front seats, propped up against the gearstick, and they each helped themselves to slice…
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MIAMI — A Florida Atlantic University professor who suggested in blog postings and radio interviews that the 2012 massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary and other mass shootings were a hoax designed by the Obama administration to boost suppor…
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Around the World in Eighty Cokes | Lucky Peach
Beer buffs have brewery flights; oenophiles have Napa tours. The sodaphile has but one temple: the World of Coca-Cola at Pemberton Place, a museum-slash-advertisement in the heart of Atlanta.
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Lab-Grown Testicles Could One Day Help Injured Soldiers Have Kids | Motherboard
Four years ago in Afghanistan, US Army Sgt. First Class Aaron Causey was called to investigate a possible improvised explosive device hidden inside a culvert. Causey was a part of the 760th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, a team dedicated to fi…
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So What Does Natural and Healthy Really Mean? | The Plate
It’s a new year, and there’s a new chance to cleanse your cupboards of the junk and focus on food that’s more natural and healthy. The trouble is, when we see those words on food labels, they can be misleading.
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Strange New State of Hydrogen Created
By crushing Earth’s lightest element with mind-boggling pressures, scientists have revealed an entirely new state of matter: phase V hydrogen. The squished hydrogen is a precursor to a state of matter first proposed in the 1930s, called atomic solid…
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Facebook Messenger Hits 800M Users: 2016 Strategy And Predictions | TechCrunch
Kill SMS, spawn a chat bot platform, bring friends together offline, improve artificial intelligence, and delight people.
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500 hours of random VHS recordings condensed to five minutes / Boing Boing
Bob Jaroc used to obsessive record long stretches of random TV on VHS cassettes.
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Hear Sia, Kanye West Team Up for New Song ‘Reaper’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Sia, Kanye West Team Up for New Song ‘Reaper’ Track, originally meant for Rihanna, will appear on singer’s upcoming LP ‘This Is Acting’
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Watch Billy Joel, Fallon Sing Doo-Wop on ‘The Longest Time’ | Rolling Stone
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A Game of Thrones Star Promises The TV Show Is Still Following George R.R. Martin’s Books
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New Agent Carter pictures tease the show’s new villain. Zack Snyder talks Batman v Superman spoilers. An Arrow character is heading to The Flash. Mark Millar’s Superior adaptation gets its writers. Plus, what’s to come on The X-Files, and The 100, a… -
Donald Trump throwing tantrum over calls for UK ban, says activist | UK news | The Guardian
The campaigner whose petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK was signed by more than half a million people has dismissed the tycoon’s threat to shelve £700m worth of investment in Scotland as a “temper tantrum”.
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Freddie Gray looms over Baltimore race for mayor as Sheila Dixon leads pack | US news | The Guardian
Baltimore’s mayoral race will be run in the shadow of Freddie Gray.
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Miners rescued after being stuck underground in New York | US news | The Guardian
All 17 miners who were stuck hundreds of feet below the surface in an elevator at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere have been rescued. Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says the last two miners were raised to the surface by a crane aro…
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High-rez trip through Florida’s Haunted Mansion with a low-light filter / Boing Boing
The Socal Attractions 360 folks crossed over to the east coast and rode the Walt Disney World version of the Haunted Mansion with a 4K camera, equipped with a extreme low-light filter. The resulting footage is spectacular, the best I’ve seen.
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Significant Digits for Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Rep. Steve Israel of Long Island will step down following his eighth term in office. He’s gonna spend a little more time on that novel he’s always wante…
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North Korea Actually Developed Its Nuclear Program Under Republican Presidencies | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidates took aim at President Barack Obama, blaming him for failing to reign in North Korea in light of their claims of a hydrogen bomb test. Republicans claim Obama’s demureness is responsible for North Korea’s aggressive…
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I was a poster child for Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I realized I’m not an alcoholic. – Vox
The first time I went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, I was 13 years old. It was 1989 and the apogee of the 12-Step Movement: AA Everywhere. The underlying philosophy was all problems stemmed from drug addiction and alcoholism.
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‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’ | The Nation
About Europa they could never agree, the Old Masters. Yet the story is simple enough: A girl is abducted from a beach by a bull and carried across the sea.
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Divine and friends action figures from John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’|Dangerous Minds
“Mr. Wineberger, Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in CLAESS!” Divine’s official social media guru directed my attention, yesterday, to the work of sculptor Tyson Tabbert, who recently created a batch of “action figures” for Joh…
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NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, an Expedition 24 flight engineer in 2010 : space
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Aurora over Iceland | by Chris Burkard. [1500×1001] : EarthPorn
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Rest Stop – Thompson Springs, Utah – Shot with iPhone 6s [2048×1091] : EarthPorn
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Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth
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Charleston South Carolina [OC] [4000×6000] : EarthPorn
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Learn a Few Of These Body Language Tricks to Help Express Affection
Communication is pretty tricky in any relationship. If you want to share affection without blurting out “Hey, I like you!” to everyone you meet, a few of these body language tricks will help you be a bit more subtle.
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Get Organized With This $19 Rechargeable Label Maker
It might not seem like mission-critical equipment, but there are times when owning a label maker can really come in handy, and you can buy a really good one right now for just $19.
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UN Global Goals: Life as a 13-year-old girl in Pakistan – BBC News
Teenager Farzana, 13, lives in Ibrahim Hyderi near Karachi, Pakistan, and shares a room with up to 15 members of her extended family. Both her mother and father work and Farzana also has to help supplement the family income by working as a maid, cle…
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Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking – BBC News
Microsoft has revealed details about the data it is tracking via its new operating system (OS), Windows 10. In a blog, the firm listed statistics on how many minutes had been spent by users in total in the Edge browser and the number of photographs …
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Global Stock Markets Tumble After China’s Rout – The Atlantic
Chinese stocks plunged 7 percent Thursday, closing markets 29 minutes after trading began, and raising more fears about the health of what by some measures is the world’s largest economy. Consequently, markets across Asia and Europe slid, and U.S.
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Governor Of California Declares A State Of Emergency Over Massive Methane Leak | ThinkProgress
The Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles is officially in a state of emergency, according to a declaration by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. The area has been suffering from the effects of a methane gas leak at the Aliso Canyon Storag…
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Black holes emit light visible to even amateur astronomers
A new study into a black hole 7,800 light-years from Earth has shown that flashes of light beaming out of its centre are visible to owners of even modest telescopes. Black holes are a bit mad, when you think about it. Nothing can escape them, not li…
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South Korea Resumes Propaganda at Border | Al Jazeera America
In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nucle…
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Could Getting Rid Of Helmets Actually Make Football Safer? | ThinkProgress
These days — thanks to mounting scientific research and the Hollywood movie Concussion — the public is much more aware of the fact that playing football can damage your brain. So now the question is: What, if anything, can be done to make the most p…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
It’s Thursday, and time for my fourth attempt this week to steer clear of Bundypalooza. Rosalyn MacGregor has agreed to help out, with a Michigan update focused on the ongoing Flint water crisis.
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Pathankot attack: India says talks only if Pakistan acts – BBC News
India has said that planned talks with Pakistan would go ahead only if Islamabad took action against militants that Delhi said were behind the deadly assault on the Pathankot air base. Indian troops killed six militants during a four-day battle at t…
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The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is back—and he’s bringing the Punisher with him. This new teaser trailer for Daredevil’s second season doesn’t have any new footage, but it’s a pretty cool tease.
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Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth
With Pluto millions of miles behind us and construction of the James Webb Space Telescope moving swiftly along, astronomers are already thinking about the Next Big Mission. At the top of their wish list? A forty foot-wide orbital telescope that’ll s…
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Can Activision Blizzard create the ESPN of eSports? Gamers are skeptical | Technology | The Guardian
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Major League Gaming, a professional eSports organization, announced on Monday that it was acquired by video game publisher Activision Blizzard for a reported $46m, bringing MLG’s assets and infrastructure under Activision Blizzard’s Media Network. -
My Accidental Career as a Russian Screenwriter https://t.co/MtU0AsJBUr https://t.co/SdjYkJntmB
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On the monitor, a turquoise 1958 Cadillac Sedan DeVille rolls past a Lenin statue and comes to a stop next to a rat-gray 1960 Series 2 Volga.
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Hate Stopping for Gas? There’s an App for That
You were stuck late at the office, again. Sitting in traffic on the way home, you realize you’ll need to fill up on gas for tomorrow’s commute. Ugh.
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Primates in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Kindu, a Schmidt’s red-tailed guenon
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Iran Accuses Saudi of Yemen Embassy Airstrike | Al Jazeera America
Iran on Thursday accused the Saudi-led coalition intervening against Houthi rebels in Yemen of hitting its embassy in an overnight airstrike in Sanaa. The reported incident in Yemen’s capital comes amid rising tensions between Tehran and Riyadh.
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Jezebel World Weeps in Gratitude for Hungarian Who Did 7 Types of Blackface to Save Africa | Gizmodo When Will Dubai Fix Its Burning Skyscraper Problem? | Gawker Lawsuit: Ten Women Charge Duggar Homeschool Leader With Sexual Abuse | Jalopnik The Che…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, We got tuckered out via /r/cats…
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Chinese Stock Plunge Forces a Trading Halt, and Global Markets Shudder https://t.co/DGcKH153E5 https://t.co/bMOZgOn3dl
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Top 10 terrifying teachers in children’s books | Children’s books | The Guardian
I think all of us can relate to having a terrifying teacher. Whether it’s a no-nonsense Miss that can silence a room with a word, or a bullying Sir that makes you do PE in your socks; every school has one of those teachers that you don’t want to cro…
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#WheresRey and the big Star Wars toy controversy, explained – Vox
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a high-budget lynchpin of Hollywood’s biggest film franchise. It just became the biggest movie of all time. And two of its main characters, Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega), are a woman and a black man, respe…
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Note: FINAL REMINDER! If you’re in the greater New England area this weekend, join us at our New England Daily Kos meetup happening Saturday, January 9 starting at noon. The place: The Farm Bar And Grille at 57 State Street in Kittery (Maine’s sout…
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Syria war: Civilians under siege – BBC News
Unconfirmed reports from Syria say that people are dying of starvation in the the government-besieged town of Madaya, and have resorted to eating grass at two Shia villages further north, Foua and Kefraya, which have been blockaded by rebel forces f…
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Nearby Black Holes Spied Gobbling Gas in Andromeda Galaxy (Photo)
NASA’s black-hole-hunting NuSTAR X-ray space telescope has found 40 new black holes and neutron star binaries in the Andromeda galaxy. The inset at top shows the X-ray view of a section (see main image) of Andromeda.
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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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How to Get Out of Solitary — One Step at a Time | The Marshall Project
B efore solitary confinement became a widely acknowledged national problem—before the hunger strikes and class-action lawsuits, before the Senate hearings, before a Supreme Court justice’s condemnation of the “human toll wrought by extended terms of…
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6 Things Everyone Should Know about Concussions – Scientific American
One minute I was waving hello to the neighbors during a typical Rollerblading session with my dog, and the next I was flying down a newly paved hill at a runaway speed. Aiming for a soft landing, I steered up a driveway toward a lawn.
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Jezebel World Weeps in Gratitude for Hungarian Who Did 7 Types of Blackface to Save Africa | Gizmodo When Will Dubai Fix Its Burning Skyscraper Problem? | Gawker Lawsuit: Ten Women Charge Duggar Homeschool Leader With Sexual Abuse | Jalopnik The Che…
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EU scientists begin review of ban on pesticides linked to bee declines | Environment | The Guardian
The European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) has begun a review that could pave the way for rolling back a pioneering EU-wide ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides, that are thought to have ravaged European bee populations.
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Make This One-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse Tonight
Unless you count water as an ingredient, the only thing this chocolate mousse requires is, well, chocolate. The trick is in what you do with it, and this video from Epicurious shows you how it’s done. Spoiler: It may be easy, but it’s a good bit of …
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#DiverseDecember, last month’s celebration of writers of colour, was “hugely popular” according to the book bloggers who created it, and who are planning to continue the initiative through 2016.
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What I Learned When I Left My iPhone Behind – The Atlantic
A couple of months ago, I disrupted my household by going on a treasure hunt. Drawers ransacked, closets deconstructed, boxes dug through. I was looking for a cellphone—and not just any cellphone, this cellphone:
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Voter Suppression Battles To Watch In 2016 | ThinkProgress
As presidential candidates begin the year by gearing up for primary season, Republican-controlled state houses and lawmakers across the country are doing everything they can to suppress votes and to swing elections in their favor.
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Climatologist James Hansen argued last month, “Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change.” He is wrong.
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Do You Read Differently Online and in Print?
In A History of Reading, the Canadian novelist and essayist Alberto Manguel describes a remarkable transformation of human consciousness, which took place around the 10th century A.D.: the advent of silent reading.
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What It’s Like To Go Through A Deportation Raid | ThinkProgress
With President Barack Obama’s action running out of time to temporarily protect up to five million unauthorized immigrants from deportation, supporters of the measure to keep families together rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Nov. 2…
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A mosaic of the nebula structures in constellation Auriga | by Paul C. Smith. : space
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Why Saudi leaders keep making bad decisions: they’re scared – Vox
How to explain Saudi Arabia’s recent actions? Just since the new year, the country has executed 47 people, including the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr; ended the ceasefire in Yemen; and broken diplomatic ties with Iran. These moves might seem b…
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The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real – The New Yorker
In early 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, pro-Russia separatists in the north of Ukraine, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s backing, seized parts of the border area near Donetsk.
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Man with knife shot dead at Paris police station – Al Jazeera English
A knife-wielding man wearing a fake explosive belt was shot and killed on Thursday after he entered a Paris police station, French officials said. The shooting came a year to the day after an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo la…
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Joe Biden has said he regrets not running for president “every day” but that he made the right decision for himself and his family. The US vice-president told television station WVIT in Connecticut that he planned to stay “deeply involved” in the ca…
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Female Founders: The State Of The Union | TechCrunch
Building a tech company from the ground up and having it succeed is an ambitious goal. Doing that as a female founder and CEO is another beast, entirely.
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HONG KONG — The market turmoil in China continues to have global reverberations, as investors worry about the country’s currency and the health of its economy.
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Armed suspect shot dead after trying to storm Paris police station : worldnews
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Keep Your Relationship Healthy by Sharing the Housework Evenly
If you’ve just emerged from a time capsule in the 60s, welcome to the future! In this world, the majority of women have jobs, which means housework doesn’t come with a gender anymore. To keep your relationship healthy, it’s probably best to share it…
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Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of Bombing its Embassy in Yemen – The Atlantic
Iran is accusing Saudi warplanes of bombing its embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, as already-heightened tensions between the two most-powerful Muslim countries in the Middle East continues to rise.
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Man With Knife Shot Dead at Paris Police Station | Al Jazeera America
Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man with wires protruding from his clothes at a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, French officials said, a year to the day after an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo launched…
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How punctuation can convey sarcasm. No, really | Science | News | The Independent
Scientists think they have worked out how punctuation in texts and emails can convey sarcasm. The simple winking face was found to be the most effective device to convey sarcasm in an ambiguous message.
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Why Do Oculus Rift and Other Virtual Reality Experiences Feel So Real?
I am standing a few feet away from a conference table, about to test something called a “Holojam.” It is made of head-mounted displays, motion capture cameras and many lines of code.
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Diamond squeeze hints at metallic hydrogen – BBC News
British researchers think they have come close to creating a long-sought new state for hydrogen. They have put a sample of the familiar gas under so much pressure that it takes on a previously unseen solid crystalline form.
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Does Hillary Clinton Need To Distance Herself From Obama?
Republican operative Ed Rogers writes in The Washington Post that “Hillary Clinton is the most miscast character in the 2016 race” because “this is shaping up to be a change election, and nothing about a Clinton candidacy offers change.” Rogers does…
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The Fall of Chavismo in Venezuela (Trailer) | VICE News
Venezuela’s December election was an historic moment. After exactly 17 years of dominating the country’s institutions and politics, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) — founded by the late President Hugo Chavez — was defeated at the poll…
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Last stand of the GOP dodo before extinction
We should treat Moore’s order with the same respect and reverence that Moore has shown for his office—which is to say, absolutely none at all. At best, Moore’s order reads like a senior prank by an underachieving high school student.
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Adam Sandler’s The Ridiculous 6 triumphs on Netflix | Film | The Guardian
Adam Sandler’s debut film for Netflix, the western-themed comedy The Ridiculous 6, has debuted to the highest-ever opening viewing figures in the streaming service’s history.
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The Counterintuitive Tech Behind Netflix’s Worldwide Launch | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Netflix just expanded into 130 new countries, now reaching just about every nation on Earth. And that’s a big deal—not just for Netflix and its viewers, but for the Internet as a whole.
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Bela Gil hosts one of Brazil’s most popular food TV shows, Bela Cozinha, now in its fifth season. The premise is putting a hip, healthy spin on Brazilian classics—think tofurkey, but not disgusting.
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Mahmoud Abbas, your time is running out – Al Jazeera English
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can no longer think outside his self-imposed bubble, thus he is constantly trying to reiterate his credentials as “a peace partner” to Israel and his commitment to combatting “terrorism and extremism”.
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Guardant Health, a three-year-old, Redwood Shores, Ca.-based company whose non-invasive genomic sequencing test for cancer requires just two vials of blood, has raised nearly $100 million in Series D funding roughly one year after closing on $90 mil…
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Automobiles Designed for Racing; Roads Built for Automobiles, 1916 – Scientific American
Communication by laser “The announcement in 1960 that a working model of a laser had been achieved was greeted with enthusiasm by workers in many fields.
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Dense Star Fields Might Be Home To Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomers searching for noisy extraterrestrials might try looking in a most unexpected place: dense conglomerates of stars that appear to be largely empty of planets. The Milky Way’s roughly 150 globular clusters are about 10 billion years old—nea…
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These 4 Things Need to Happen to End California’s Drought
Rain and snow have deluged much of California this week, prompting questions about whether the state could dig out of its four-year drought, the worst in recorded history. But certain conditions need to converge on the state before its water crisis …
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Island in the stream Co Kerry Ireland. (5184 x3456) (OC) : EarthPorn
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Daredevil Season 2 Trailer – Netflix : television
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Love Everyone Often 01/08/2016
Batman Envy? Cool New Cars Could Drive Themselves, and Talk Automakers are showcasing new battery-powered and hydrogen smart vehicles, including a car that will sell for about $30,000 and a futuristic one that’s so sleek it could be the envy of Batman. tags: Pocket national geographic news newsblur wendy koch…
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