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Donald J. Trump trails Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa but has a commanding double-digit lead in New Hampshire with less than a month to go before voting begins in the first contests in the Republican presidential nominating fight, according to new Fox New…
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ELI5: A circle is 360°. Is that arbitrary? Could we divide a circle by 100? : explainlikeimfive
ELI5: A circle is 360°. Is that arbitrary? Could we divide a circle by 100? (self.explainlikeimfive) Yes, and there have been other divisions.
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Locals decry plans to spruce up New York’s Bronx – Al Jazeera English
New York City’s Bronx neighbourhood has a reputation as being one of the poorest and toughest areas in the US. Property developers are hoping to change that with the help of celebrities, but locals are not too enthusiastic about the redevelopment pl…
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Heavy rain brings relief to drought-stricken California – Al Jazeera English
Severe storms have caused flash floods in drought-stricken California. Southern regions of the state have been hit by the heavy downpours which caused flooding in parts of San Diego County.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Pocahontas — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway: 15 Snapshots of Snowy Sports
Weird & Wild Healthy Diet Helps 183-Year-Old Tortoise Feel Young Again Jonathan, the world’s oldest known animal, is regaining his health after eating more nutritious foods.
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Tom Gauld on murder methods for modern mystery writers – cartoon | Books | The Guardian
Illustration: Tom Gauld
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P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
You know that feeling you get where you feel like you have lost a friend when you finish reading a book? That feeling is what proves that you’ve read a truly amazing book. This was what I felt after I finished reading P.S. I Still Love You.
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Joyce Carol Oates: ‘People think I write quickly, but I actually don’t’ | Books | The Guardian
When Joyce Carol Oates, the 77-year-old author of well over 100 books, told the New Yorker last year that she thought of herself as “transparent”, before adding “I’m not sure I really have a personality”, the admission felt scandalous.
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How Your Pet Can Influence Your Love Life
The saying “love me, love my dog” may have some basis in reality: A new study suggests that pets can influence how we perceive potential dates.
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Zaevion Dobson’s number 24 now lives in Knoxville infamy.
In honoring Zaevion Dobson, will his death aid Obama’s push for gun control? https://t.co/iextU5zkua https://t.co/i609obuxHp -
Muslim woman thrown out of Trump rally – Al Jazeera English
A 56-year-old Muslim American woman was thrown out of a rally in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump following a silent protest.
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Madaya: Aid to be sent to besieged Syrian village Sunday – BBC News
Aid could reach a besieged Syrian village as early as Sunday morning, the World Food Programme said. People there are reported to have been starving to death, with people eating pets and grass to survive.
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Deportees from immigration raids face deadly climate change | Grist
When you’re all alone with your own personal stash of internalized inadequacies, it’s nice to remember that you’re in good company.
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Sweeping police raids target Palestinians in Israel – Al Jazeera English
Israeli police have raided the homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel, including university students, as Israeli officials and lawmakers have called for a crackdown on Arab communities following a deadly attack in Tel Aviv.
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AMC’s ‘Preacher’ is very different from the comics : television
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CES 2016: The show that was – BBC News
It’s over for another year. CES, the world’s biggest technology trade show – and indeed, the world’s biggest trade show full stop – comes to an end on Saturday.
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Jon & Vangelis — Outside Of This (Inside Of That) — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Bob Dylan — Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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There’s a Huge Problem With the New Food Guidelines That No One Is Talking About | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every five years, the government tries to tell Americans what to put in their bodies. Eat more vegetables. Dial back the fats.
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There has been a long interval between Tracey Herd’s second collection, Dead Redhead (2001), and the Scottish poet’s welcome return with Not in This World, which has been shortlisted for next week’s TS Eliot prize.
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Obama was right to weep: he’s got plenty to cry about | US news | The Guardian
“Americans would like their president to be sick and needy,” James Zogby, an executive member of the Democratic Executive Committee, told me a few years ago.
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The crying game: how political tears became routine | US news | The Guardian
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Some ingenious theories have gone around this week about Barack Obama’s tears. That he wipes his eyes in a suspicious direction (inwards). That he wipes before the tears are visible (he is in fact stimulating them with a dab of menthol). -
Don’t always trust product packaging. : pics
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Bread in a Box (x-post /r/aww) via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/TGsByCaxJj https://t.co/G0Y1yudhTx https://t.co/LXfSrmBRrM
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Bread in a Box (x-post /r/aww) : Catloaf
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, My 13 year old cat. via /r/cats…
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Israel: Soldiers shoot dead two Palestinians attackers – BBC News
Two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers after attempting to stab them at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military says. The incident was reported at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The soldiers were not …
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This 97 year old man holding a baby striped hyena : aww
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George Harrison — This Is Love — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Numbers dwindle at Mexico’s mountain of butterflies | Environment | The Guardian
The number of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) wintering in Mexico plunged this year to its lowest level since studies began in 1993, leading experts to announce Wednesday that the insects’ annual migration from the United States and Canada is…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, George Harrison – This Is Love…
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Mike Oldfield — Taurus 1 — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300…
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Another good article about the raider’s cheerleaders who sued last year. It’s good to the nfl finally taking a hit for withholding wages and not even paying them minimum wage. Their annual compensation will rise from about $1,250 to about $3,200.
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‘El Chapo’ Guzman: Profile of notorious drugs boss – BBC News
Mexican drugs kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is back behind bars after an audacious escape that embarrassed the Mexican authorities and frayed relations with the US. It was the second time he managed to flee jail and evade police.
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Yes — The Revealing Science Of God / Dance Of The Dawn — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Mahu Demonstrate Hawaii’s Shifting LGBT Attitudes | Al Jazeera America
LIHUE, Hawaii — Growing up in the largely Hawaiian community of Waianae on the west side of Oahu, Kalani Young enjoyed a diverse upbringing that included attending Catholic, Mormon and evangelical churches and a Buddhist temple, in addition to praye…
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The Feminist Theory of Simone de Beauvoir Explained with 8-Bit Video Games (and More) | Open Culture
Simone de Beauvoir, existentialist philosopher, feminist theorist, author of The Second Sex. Metroid, an action-adventure video game designed for the Nintendo in 1986.
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The ups and downs Respect Helmet A one-two combination Control Benched A matter of perspective Interfering with play Ballyball A double celebration
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From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon : space
From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon via /r/space https://t.co/cteCpwACzI https://t.co/UDXseeAdP8
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Keemstar makes a 62 year old man cry today : videos
Can we stop giving this man-child attention?
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How Lying Reigned Supreme in 2015 – The Daily Beast
On February 5th, Brian Williams admitted on his own news program that he had misrepresented the facts around a dramatic story he reported from Iraq in 2003. He had placed himself at the center of an RPG missile attack on a helicopter which he had no…
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The forgotten pocket of Syria’s refugee crisis – Al Jazeera English
Ramtha, Jordan – In the chilly afternoon, children play among a row of makeshift tents, their wooden frames covered with plastic, cardboard and old rugs. Five-year-old Randa curls up next to an unlit stove near her family’s tent.
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Nepal earthquake survivors face winter’s cold – Al Jazeera English
It has been nine months since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, killing at least 8,000 people and displacing hundreds of thousands of families. Now Nepal’s government is facing a new challenge – preparing disaster survivors for winter’s cold wea…
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 : EndorNineWorlds
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 via /r/EndorNineWorlds https://t.co/42uWUJA6Qt https://t.co/DCnmERquOs
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Jordan Spieth leads the Tournament of Champions by four shots after shooting a nine-under second-round 64 in Hawaii. The American world number one shot seven birdies and an eagle as he moved to 16 under and overtook Patrick Reed.
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Venezuelan protesters seek ‘Chavez on every corner’ – Al Jazeera English
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has condemned the removal of portraits and photos of his predecessor from the National Assembly. The speaker of the newly installed parliament ordered them to be taken down, after the opposition’s landslide victo…
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English bulldog puppy needed a nap. : aww
English bulldog puppy needed a nap. via /r/aww https://t.co/XlLr71n4kG https://t.co/W2ZqmB08uZ
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 …
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Do we really need more guides to mindfulness? | Books | The Guardian
I have a personal theory that almost everyone secretly meditates, whether they realise it or not – even the kind of people who’d make extravagant “I’m being sick” gestures were you to suggest they attend a Buddhist retreat.
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My Life As An Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I have never read a book like this one – the concept really appealed to me. Candice Phee has been set an assignment to write an alphabet autobiography, and that is exactly how the whole book is set out.
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How to make… printy creatures | Children’s books | The Guardian
We’ve got a fabulously creative
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Half in the Bag Episode 101: The Hateful Eight and The Ridiculous 6 (sort of) : movies
Half in the Bag Episode 101: The Hateful Eight and The Ridiculous 6 (sort of) via /r/movies https://t.co/Nw15BdWyaS https://t.co/X9mlBLE3Jy
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Get this classic, minimalist wallet for over 30% off / Boing Boing
Ditch the bells and whistles and take a classic approach to everyone’s essential accessory. This 100% leather wallet holds your cash and cards, and slips easily into your pocket without even a bulge.
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Netflix Without Borders: Why the Streaming Service Going Global Is a Big Deal – The Daily Beast
So what does it really mean for Netflix to go global? For globetrotting Americans like me it’s a matter of convenience.
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Netflix Without Borders: Why the Streaming Service Going Global Is a Big Deal – The Daily Beast
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Several missing after Australia bushfire – BBC News
At least three people are missing after a bushfire that devastated a town in Western Australia and continues to threaten others. Yarloop, south of Perth, was worst hit, with at least 130 properties destroyed. But State Premier Colin Barnett has said…
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Israeli troops kill two Palestinian suspects – Al Jazeera English
Israeli troops have killed two Palestinians during an alleged stabbing incident near the central West Bank city of Nablus as a wave of violence continues without pause.
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The seduction of the guard, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970-ies : OldSchoolCool
That’s… not fair. No, these guards are rarely used at fairs. It’s more likely to be outside a palace.
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UAE releases two men who took hotel-fire selfie – Al Jazeera English
The United Arab Emirates has released two young men it detained over a selfie they took in front of a New Year’s Eve hotel fire. The state-run WAM news agency reported the news late on Friday, citing Essam al-Humaidan, the attorney general of the em…
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Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit review – a bold debut about wartime abandonment https://t.co/N9BEc8PImN https://t.co/wr2ssDjPyE
The loss of innocence is a mainstay in fiction for the young: in fact, one might even argue that all children’s books in some way reflect a knowledge of that approaching moment when childish things are put away. -
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This is Maybelle. She is quite the character. : cats
This is Maybelle. She is quite the character. via /r/cats https://t.co/PKU38Nwx4M https://t.co/NY7mtRuOV2 https://t.co/3MMg0rQSIt
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This is Maybelle. She is quite the character. via /r/cats https://t.co/PKU38Nwx4M https://t.co/NY7mtRuOV2 https://t.co/3MMg0rQSIt
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Saw this guy finding enlightenment at a temple in Thailand : cats
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So My Friend’s Cat Decided To Steal Some Chicken… : aww
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Prometheus and the F Ring
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El Chapo’ Being Taken to Same Prison He Escaped from Six Months Ago : worldnews
Of course, we shouldn’t have expected anything more. See you Twitter El Chapo. They should make a show about this.
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I’m sick and she won’t leave me alone : aww
That and “SQUIRREL!” is about all that goes through their minds. Humans go away eventually, don’t worry.
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Managing your money should be pretty straightforward, but that doesn’t make the task all that easy. That’s the biggest takeaway from the handful of simple financial instruction lists making the rounds among the New Year’s resolution set.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Our newest addition via /r/aww…
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How Should You Manage Your Money? And Keep It Short https://t.co/sGgctsOEbE https://t.co/1fByqaON6b
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Anyone else know any cats that bow at the altar of the Faucet God? : cats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Grayscale loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Periodically, signs go up saying that Grub Street is closed to through traffic.
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Jon & Vangelis — Beside — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Rush — Xanadu — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Rush – Xanadu http://ift.tt/NfTKk9
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Heliocentrism VS Geocentrism : space
Heliocentrism VS Geocentrism (i.imgur.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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I’m 46. I finally took my dream vacation:) : pics
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Sanders and Wife Steered Campaign, Nonprofit Money to Family and Friends : Liberal
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Tracey Curtis-Taylor finishes solo bi-plane flight in Sydney – BBC News
A British pilot has arrived in Sydney in Australia – more than three months after setting off from Farnborough, Hampshire, in the UK in a vintage bi-plane. Tracey Curtis-Taylor wanted to retrace the journey made by Amy Johnson in 1930.
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Saturn’s Moon Tethys [2500×2473] : spaceporn
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Who is responsible for Syria’s malnourished children? – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian government says it will allow aid agencies to deliver supplies to three besieged towns where residents are starving. But the Syrian Emergency Task Force says it might be too late for many families.
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German police officer dismissed over sexual assaults – Al Jazeera English
The police chief of the German city of Cologne has been dismissed amid mounting criticism of his force’s handling of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies.
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Central Valley’s growing concern: Crops raised with oil field water. : environment
Central Valley’s growing concern: Crops raised with oil field water. via /r/environment https://t.co/24zlhxheEu https://t.co/vDxcwSXZFc
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Nice Who is this guy? Spiderweb Lemon.
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Winter Takes Hold, Durango, Colorado [OC] [OS] [1920×492] : EarthPorn
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It is hard to truly understand grey until you live in the Pacific Northwest : pics
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A Horror-Western, sturdy dishware, and a new look at Happy Endings · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
Marathoning Happy Endings three years after its cancellation is like running into your old college buddy: No matter how long it’s been, you’ll quickly find your rhythm, recalling inside jokes and remembering why you clicked in the first place.
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A pulpy, violent tale of revenge based on a comic serialized in a popular Playboy-esque men’s magazine, Lady Snowblood didn’t have to be art.
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The movies have done reasonably well by Patricia Highsmith’s most celebrated character, the smiling sociopath Tom Ripley. He first appears in The Talented Mr.
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13 inches of snow vs. 12 inches of corgi : aww
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Israeli police kill Tel Aviv assailant in shootout – Al Jazeera English
Israeli police have killed a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was wanted for a fatal shooting attack in Tel Aviv more than a week ago.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – I Let Love In https://t.co/2Bz2QcvYe0 https://t.co/i7bqXWrIm8
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – I Let Love In – YouTube
Track 6 of 10 from the 1994 album Let Love In. Lyrics: Despair and Deception, Love’s ugly little twins Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in Darling, you…
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China’s giant Mao Zedong statue ‘demolished’ – Al Jazeera English
A giant gold-painted statue of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong has reportedly been demolished because it lacked government approval, just days after images of it were widely shared on social media.
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Prometheus and the F Ring via NASA https://t.co/Dqlt4mi1qP https://t.co/QHO7dVxigw https://t.co/J3W4uXQuSm
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song – YouTube
Music video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing The Weeping Song.
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APOD: 2016 January 8 – Prometheus and the F Ring
Explanation: In Greek myth Prometheus was a Titan, known for bringing fire from Mount Olympus. But in modern times the name is given to is a small moon of Saturn, orbiting just inside Saturn’s F ring.
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Life returns to the bog | Environment | The Guardian
After days of rain, the fields either side of Spitewinter Lane were soaked, the heavy clay soil of those more recently ploughed liquid and greasy. Raindrops bounced off the asphalt. Thick cloud skimmed the top of Big Moor.
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TIL that American Sniper Chris Kyle admitted to lying about a fight with Jesse Ventura in his book and his widow has ignored her late husband’s wishes and withheld millions from the bereaved families of his fallen friends that he publicly had promis…
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Tracey Curtis-Taylor finishes UK to Australia biplane flight – BBC News
A British adventurer has arrived in Australia, having completed an epic 13,000-mile solo flight from the UK in a vintage open cockpit bi-plane.Tracey Curtis-Taylor, 53, set off in her 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis aircraft from Farnborough,…
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Fox Image, Hokkaido – National Geographic Photo of the Day
After days of cold, late autumn rain, the sun appears in Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaido, Japan. “He [seemed] to have eaten no mouse for several days,” writes Your Shot member Hiroki Inoue of this fox, captured as it lifted its head to the rays.
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Cologne attacks: Merkel considers tougher migrant laws – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will consider changes in the law to make it easier to deport migrants who commit crimes after sex attacks on women in Cologne. The attacks on New Year’s Eve have shocked the country and sparked a debate a…
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‘El Chapo’ returns to Mexico Altiplano prison – BBC News
Captured Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is being taken back to the maximum-security prison from where he escaped six months ago. He was paraded before cameras as he was bundled into a marines helicopter to Altiplano prison in central Me…
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Lena Dunham Pitches For Hillary, But Are Women Listening? – The Daily Beast
It was only a matter of time before Lena Dunham made her Hillary Clinton campaign trail debut.
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Meet Mowgli and his beautifully huge rosettes. : aww
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The elegance of Beans via /r/cats https://t.co/JbY3efjvvx https://t.co/tedHEYXGz3
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Why you shouldn’t show off your Christmas present at the office : gifs
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Some of the kittens we rescued by my office. : cats
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Vangelis — Horizon — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman immediately after his capture : pics
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Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona at sunset [1800×1200] [OC] : EarthPorn
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This is what I saw when I closed my son’s bedroom door. : creepy
This is what I saw when I closed my son’s bedroom door. https://t.co/DNFkjs8mjw https://t.co/F4OPvEme2j
This is what I saw when I closed my son’s bedroom door. (imgur.com) I’m surprised that his nose can support his own body weight. TIL. -
Brice Creek, OR [OC] [2800×1867] : EarthPorn
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Reign is always trying to dance on lightbulbs. Secret history, actual history, romance, fantasy, court intrigue; it’s a lot to balance, and any element has the potential to trip any of the others.
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Rush — A Farewell to Kings — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Open thread for night owls. WaPo’s Cillizza exhibits his anti-Bernie bias in coverage of Trump rally
Cillizza, the blogger of the newspaper’s “The Fix” feature, expressed surprise at how big Donald Trump’s crowd was in Lowell, Massachusetts, this week.
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I’m Proud to Be a Gay ‘Slut’ – The Daily Beast
Gay men aren’t having nearly as much sex as you might think they’re having.
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Remember the Heroes Who Napped El Chapo – The Daily Beast
In the photo of him slouched in a grimy wife-beater after his capture, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has the forlorn look of someone who has reached an end. His face is the face of fucked.
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Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omerta: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain – The Daily Beast
Vandalism, blood and hookers. A Daily Beast investigation exposes the best-kept secrets of Britain’s most powerful men; the hidden archive; the club’s latest outbreak of destruction; new heavyweight members named and Prime Minister David Cameron’s h…
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You, Too, Can Smell Like Vladimir Putin – The Daily Beast
The master perfumer lowered his voice as he described the days, weeks and months spent thinking about one man, the inspiration for his new fragrance—Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
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MARLOW: The Golden Globes is Sunday, and yes, they’re now, thanks to years of great hosting, regarded as more than the Oscars’ drunk, corrupt cousin.
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From British Lady Rebel to the Founders’ BFF – The Daily Beast
Accounts of the American Revolution often sound like tales from the Legion of Nerdy Superheroes with Wigs. Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration. John Hancock signs it. John Adams grumbles.
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Get Tough on Drones Before People Die – The Daily Beast
It was a quiet October afternoon in the small seaside village where I live, Sag Harbor, on the eastern end of Long Island. The summer swarms who inundate our streets—locals call them “the Martians”—had long since disappeared.
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The Man Who Made John Travolta: Remembering Robert Stigwood – The Daily Beast
He produced Saturday Night Fever and Grease. He partied at Studio 54. Robert Stigwood’s outsized life perfectly matched the days—and nights—of disco.
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The Making of Netflix’s Global Empire – The Daily Beast
So what does it really mean for Netflix to go global? For globetrotting Americans like me it’s a matter of convenience.
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Just How Toxic Is Richard Dawkins? – The Daily Beast
A couple of months ago I was enjoying a drink with a group of social activists in a London pub. At the end of the night, I began chatting to a woman sitting opposite me, and mentioned that Richard Dawkins would be an interviewee at a live book night…
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Mein Kampf Returns to Germany – The Daily Beast
MUNICH — Who hasn’t heard of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s infamous Nazi screed? The book laid the foundation for his Nazi ideology and the roadmap to the Third Reich. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was Hitler’s preamble to war; it’s where he preached what h…
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AMC announces premiere dates for Turn, Fear The Walking Dead · Newswire · The A.V. Club
AMC announces premiere dates for Turn, Fear The Walking Dead https://t.co/iMmpPTi8CL https://t.co/m5XuriXYTT
Having reiterated its desire to keep The Walking Dead and its various fearful and/or chatty spin-off shows running from now until the end of time, AMC is ready to get into the details of when the next phase of its undead reign is expected to start. -
Our kiddos gift from Santa. She’s the sweetest cuddler and so ornery : cats
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Inside the Bloody Manhunt for El Chapo – The Daily Beast
Inside the Bloody Manhunt for El Chapo https://t.co/C6isiezTmr https://t.co/3akAIuhe6f
Ever since Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the world’s most wanted drug lord, escaped from a Mexican federal prison six months ago, special forces troops attached to the Mexican Navy have pursued the kingpin with a scorched earth policy that forced him o… -
Hillary Clinton issues stern rebuke to Bernie Sanders on gun control record | US news | The Guardian
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One day after Barack Obama pledged not to support any candidate who did not favor “common-sense gun reform,” Hillary Clinton issued some of her sharpest criticism of rival Bernie Sanders to date as “wrong on gun safety”. -
Gun Nuts Take Aim At Trump – The Daily Beast
Gun Nuts Take Aim At Trump https://t.co/eX67W5aQbE https://t.co/rrK1vaIyNs
A notorious pro-gun group is taking shots at Donald Trump—and may have found a way to damage the Republican frontrunner. -
Christmas Eve Is the Most Depressing Day of the Year – The Daily Beast
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For some, it’s definitely not the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays can be particularly challenging for people who suffer from depression. And during this most recent holiday season, Christmas Eve may have been the most depressing day of… -
Black Lives Matter activists in MA tried and sent home
Julius Jones wearing the hoodie a judge ruled no jurors could see … if they had been allowed to be jurors on this trial A judge is going to tell four Black Lives Matter activists in Worcester, Massachusetts, if they’re guilty or innocent by mail.
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I think I’m being watched… : cats
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Missing Hong Kong booksellers: US ‘disturbed’ by disappearances | World news | The Guardian
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The US said on Friday it was disturbed by reports that five Hong Kong booksellers critical of China’s leaders had disappeared. -
Kanye West’s new album, Swish, to arrive on Feb. 11 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Well, that was fast. Less than a day after Kanye West announced he was reinstating G.O.O.D. Fridays, his weekly song release program designed to hype his upcoming album Swish, we’ve got a release date for the seventh (studio) coming of Yeezus.
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Want Viagra? Fill out these forms. Oh, and you’ll need counseling … and more counseling …
Are you sure you understand the psychological ramifications of your decision? Democratic South Carolina Rep. Mia McLeod has a straightforward idea. Take the restrictions her conservative colleagues have imposed on the state’s women in regards to abo…
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Just my cat on his way to confessional : cats
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So I got my cat one of those shark cat beds : cats
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One of my favourite things about working in the ski fields : pics
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Closeup of large Mars dune by Curiosity (zoom from panorama) : space
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Toxins Found in Fracking Fluids and Wastewater, Study Shows : environment
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Living the good life in Berlin’s allotments – but for how long? – BBC News
Forget the garden gnomes and replace those pink begonias with something more hip. Allotments in Germany are no longer the preserve of the pensioner, writes the BBC’s Berlin correspondent, Damien McGuinness.
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Muslim Woman Gets Kicked Out Of Donald Trump Rally For Being Muslim | ThinkProgress
A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump rally on Friday night for no apparently reason. The woman, Rose Hamid, told CNN that she “came to the rally to let Trump supporters see what a Muslim looks like.” She stood silently with a t-shirt that…
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Local heroes: Unsung women of Africa – BBC News
The BBC has been running a series about inspiring women across Africa, and followers of BBC Africa’s Facebook and Twitter pages have nominated their local heroines. Brenda Iyoha nominated Inkosi Kachindamoto, who is a chief in the district of Dedza …
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Spain’s Princess Cristina prepares for historic trial – BBC News
On Monday Spain’s Princess Cristina will become the first member of the country’s royal family to be put on trial. King Felipe’s sister faces tax fraud charges as part of an alleged embezzlement scam involving her husband and 16 other defendants, wh…
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Grey squirrel non-shooting policy criticised by group – BBC News
A wildlife organisation has criticised the Forestry Commission over its policy of dealing with grey squirrels and claimed the animals should be culled with airguns.The European Squirrel Initiative (ESI) said the grey squirrel is an invasive, non-nat…
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Uber Lowers Fares In Over 100 Cities | TechCrunch
Uber says it is lowering prices in over 100 U.S. and Canadian cities, effective tomorrow. January is a slower month for the car service and the company says it is reducing fares in order to increase demand.
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Why is India’s wealthy Parsi community vanishing? – BBC News
Udvada is an obscure hamlet in India’s western Gujarat state which houses the holiest fire of India’s Parsi community.
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No heroes for Denmark’s A War movie – BBC News
In the heat of battle in Helmand province, Afghanistan, an army commander with an exemplary military record has to choose to save the life of one of his men, or a group of local civilians. He chooses his soldier. On his return home, he faces charges…
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How could I read more books? – BBC News
Agatha Christie read 200 books every year, while Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gets through a book a fortnight. President Theodore Roosevelt read a book a day, and increased this to two or three when he had a quiet night. But how can mere mortals…
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Syrian girl’s talent show tears – BBC News
A young Syrian girl broke down in tears on the Arab version of The Voice TV show, making millions of fans including controversially Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Blue Ridge Appalachian tunnel today. NC (OC). : pics
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VW Refuses to Give American States Documents in Emissions Inquiries https://t.co/L25lNJ1tBD https://t.co/BPtwxTYMsp
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Citing German privacy laws, Volkswagen has refused to provide emails or other communications among its executives to attorneys general in the United States, impeding American investigations into the company’s emissions-cheating scandal, according to…
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‘Plot to kidnap one of Obama’s dogs’ stopped by police – BBC News
US police have arrested a man who allegedly plotted to kidnap one of President Obama’s two pet dogs. Officials say Scott Stockert – who is from the state of North Dakota – was planning to snatch one of the dogs, either Bo or Sunny.
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INT. A HOUSE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS—NIGHT It’s quiet at this long, low ranch house up in Benedict Canyon even though it’s Saturday night. The year is 1974, and the decor reflects the era’s aesthetic: zebra rug, mod wallpaper and suede sofas facing a…
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The Tetons by the clear waters of Jackson Lake, WY [1333×2000] [OC] : EarthPorn
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I am not sure what I see. It could be danger. I shall alert my pack! : aww
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Rectify will end after its fourth season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rectify will end after its fourth season https://t.co/6AzTYgwDXZ https://t.co/DsxMnR4wJY
Variety is reporting that there’s only one more season left of Rectify, SundanceTV’s dark examination of justice, family, and loss in a small Georgia town. -
Parrot’s Henri Seydoux Shares His Vision Of The Future Of Drones | TechCrunch
Parrot has had an interesting week. Many were expecting a new drone from the famous drone maker (among other things). But when you think about drones, chances are you are picturing a quadcopter in your mind. Instead, the company unveiled and airplan…
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The Magnetic Fields – World Love – YouTube
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California surfers take advantage of big El Niño waves | US news | The Guardian
Dozens of big-wave surfers rode 50-foot swells at Mavericks, a famous surf spot in Northern California, as El Niño-driven storms pounded the California coast on Friday.
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Tracing the Deep Roots of the Oregon Occupation
Nobody expects militants to take over vacant government buildings, but there they were—20 or so armed men from Idaho, Montana, Utah, and adjacent states seizing the headquarters of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in early January.
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Mechanical Bull vs. 400 lb Woman : gifs
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The Weird, But True, Evidence for ‘Spooky Action’ at Distance
The Weird, But True, Evidence for ‘Spooky Action’ at Distance (Kavli Hangout) https://t.co/jLm164z91B https://t.co/VTKwIEvFAX
This artist’s illustration depicts how the foamy structure of space-time may appear, showing tiny bubbles quadrillions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom that are constantly fluctuating and last for only infinitesimal fractions of a second… -
The Magnetic Fields – World Love – YouTube
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Week in pictures: 2-8 January 2016 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/gSUopIhVY2
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Why Seattle’s Ridesharing And Taxi Unionization Measure Misses The Mark | TechCrunch
The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local ordinance that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain.
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I Am Cardboard Showing Newly Funded DSCVR Headset AT CES | TechCrunch
Since delivering the 3,000 headsets promised to backers just before Christmas, the Hong Kong-based company of 10 have sold approximately another 20,000 of the DSCVR model on Amazon and at their own website according to CEO Joseph Li.
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Finnish milk commercial pays tribute to Lemmy, obviously · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The death of Motörhead frontman Lemmy (a.k.a. Ian Kilmister) has resulted in a wide outpouring of tribute and support, ranging from strangely touching WWE videos to loving essays from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne.
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Favorite tips from Gareth Branwyn, former editorial director of Make / Boing Boing
My old friend Gareth Branwyn is the former Editorial Director of MAKE. He was also the senior editor at bOING bOING print, a section editor at Mondo 2000, and a Wired contributing editor for 12 years. Gareth has also written and edited over a dozen …
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One of the most bizarre meetings in White House history occurred in 1970, when President Nixon sat down with an aging Elvis Presley, who was requesting to be made an undercover Federal Agent at large.
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The best explanation you’ll see about Chipotle’s food crisis | Grist
We know, we know — you’re sick of hearing about Chipotle’s contamination crisis, which we hope has seen the last of its seemingly bottomless burrito bowl of food safety disasters.
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Texas’ state run psychiatric hospitals are now gun friendly / Boing Boing
An unintentional oversight in a new Texas law, enabling open-carry advocates to make the world even more dangerous, has opened up Texas state run psychiatric hospitals to guns. Formerly even law enforcement officers would lock up their guns before e…
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Britain fines Trump for air pollution — and they don’t mean his speeches | Grist
Here’s what future cyborgs might find when they look back at what early Anthropocene dwellers (that’s us) left behind. When it comes to food purity and ingredient quality, there is no golden age for us to restore.
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The Abandoned Has Yet Another Horror Protagonist Who Is Too Dumb to Live
Horror movies have plenty of annoying habits—remaking sacred classics with gobs of CG, for instance. But the most annoying thing in horror has got to be when the protagonist is so utterly dumb that he or she makes decisions that everyone in the audi…
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Should have picked a different driver : gifs
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The Rocky Mountains of Colorado [OC] [2800 x 1557] : EarthPorn
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‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Returning April 10, Seven Episode Half of Season : television
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Obama vetoes Obamacare repeal bill : politics
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HP’s EliteBook Folio is basically a MacBook with two ports and that’s great | Ars Technica
Whether you want to admit it or not, Apple’s laptop designs have an enormous impact on the rest of the industry.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Note: Tomorrow is Richard Nixon’s 103rd birthday. On behalf of C&J, I got him a sweater vest from his favorite clothing store: 18 1/2 Minute GAP. Tons of methane and other gases escaping daily from a well in Los Angeles, which has prompted Gov.
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J.J. Abrams Explains Why The Force Awakens Isn’t Just a Carbon Copy of A New Hope
A droid carrying important information is jettisoned on a remote desert planet. A mechanically inclined loner with a mysterious past find it, setting them off on an adventure that will see the destruction of a huge weapon and more. Yes, The Force Aw…
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Former El Salvador official deported from US for human rights abuses | World news | The Guardian
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Nestor Yglesias said Friday that former general José Guillermo García-Merino was flown on a chartered plane from the US to San Salvador, El Salvador. García-Merino was arrested last month in Florida.
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When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect? https://t.co/l05A51Olp9 https://t.co/zklCBVD6Cb
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Winning at origami means always being willing to fold – BBC News
Robby Kraft is an American origami artist with a penchant for complicated mathematics who creates wonderful paper sculptures, often from a single sheet of paper. He spoke to World Update’s Dan Damon.
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And The Winner Of Hardware Battlefield 2016 Is… Nima By 6SensorLabs | TechCrunch
The competition was very fierce for the third edition of our Hardware Battlefield. Fourteen shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy.
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The planet will lose every time that business calls the shots | The big issue | News | The Guardian
Surprisingly, your article on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) fails to mention the environment (“A deal for freer trade or corporate greed? Here’s the truth about TTIP”, Business).
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Make a Secret Bookshelf Stash for Hiding Valuables With Some Old Binders
Hiding your valuables is a great way to protect them. Even if someone breaks into your home, they may not get away with the goods. This clever hiding spot makes use of some old three-ring binders you probably have lying around somewhere.
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Having tapped actors Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon to throw themselves into the roles of two of the most heavily imitated men of all time—Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley, respectively—Amazon Studios is ready to show off some footage from its new …
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Wikipedia word of the day is strife : Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope. https://t.co/2ZBLgXtpnd
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Raymond Chandler Mocked Science Fiction, But He Also Inspired It
Raymond Chandler was one of the greatest writers to come out of pulp fiction, but he also had some snobbish tendencies of his own. Notably, in a 1953 letter to his agent, he makes fun of science fiction for being kind of ridiculous. But Chandler als…
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This Retro ‘Simpsons’ Couch Gag Pushes It To The Limit – Digg
3 diggs Animation Funny TV Keep an eye out for easter eggs, like the Doc and Marty McFly extras at the :30 mark.
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AS a lifelong devotee of fashion and tabloid magazines, I’ve read dozens of “Beautiful/Sexy at Any Age” features. You’ve probably seen these spreads, showcasing a bevy of lovely women whose faces, fashions, exercise routines and skin-care regimens a…
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Vox Sentences: Mexico resets “Days Since Chapo Guzman Escaped” sign to 0 – Vox
Mexico captures Chapo Guzman for a third time; two high-profile terrorism arrests and a bizarre ISIS-“inspired” attack; Saudi Arabia to sell share in $1 trillion company. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Dogs that have their tongue sticking out just a little / 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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Ever since Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer redefined friendship goals by riding a jet ski together into the sunset, we’ve followed their relationship—as they collaborated on a screenplay, danced on Billy Joel’s piano mid-concert, and teased entici…
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Technology giants appeared to be open to helping the US government combat Islamic State during an extraordinary closed-door summit on Friday that brought together America’s most senior counter-terrorism officials with some of Silicon Valley’s most p…
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Unicorns And Little Ponies Hit The Slaughterhouse As Maker Media Lays Off 17 | TechCrunch
Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they’re mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses. The latest forced to do layoffs is Maker Media, the champion of the do-it-yourself movement.
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Kanye West’s Every Friday Progress Report: ‘Real Friends’ | Rolling Stone
Kim Kardashian confirmed today that Kanye West has relaunched his G.O.O.D. Fridays series in a new incarnation called Every Friday, which will culminate in the release of West’s long-awaited new LP, Swish. We’ll evaluate each track as it drops.
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Falcon’s Fury – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Falcon’s Fury is a free-standing Sky Jump drop tower attraction at the Busch Gardens Tampa amusement park in Tampa, Florida, United States.
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PHILADELPHIA — A man who shot and wounded a Philadelphia police officer sitting in a patrol car told investigators that he did it in the name of Islam and the Islamic State, police officials said Friday, adding that the gunman gave no indication tha…
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Gunman Said He Shot Philadelphia Officer for ISIS, Police Say https://t.co/tpKN9SsnTp https://t.co/sL9r6rgMl2
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The New Yorker https://t.co/JuuRr1hdZR https://t.co/27TRyStNWN
“Love Sick,” a popular Y.A. novel in Thailand, and the television show based upon it, just concluded, has become a trans-Asian sensation since its success at home, where it won high ratings and fan awards. -
The Last Time El Chapo Was Captured – The New Yorker
The Last Time El Chapo Was Captured https://t.co/CeduY7JNpU https://t.co/aQcUEJSr5F
“Mission accomplished,” Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted earlier today, “Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been arrested. -
Pentagon Says Increase in Reporting of Sex Assaults at Service Academies Is a Good Sign | VICE News
During a year in which a relatively great deal of attention was paid to sexual assault in the military and on college campuses, the number of reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the United States service academies skyrocketed.
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Yeah, Obi-Wan Remembers the Truth Alright / Boing Boing
Shahan’s clever and well-edited video interprets’ Obi-Wan Kenobi’s evasive memories of Prequel Trilogy events in a touching, favorable light. I differ, sadly, so we made the video reply above. With respect to the anonymous author of the original mem…
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Bernie Sanders Calls Bill Clinton’s Affair “Totally Disgraceful” | Vanity Fair
The mounting political attacks on Bill Clinton are not coming just from the right anymore.
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Trailer for ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 is pretty awesome / Boing Boing
Can’t wait for Season 2 of AMC TV’s ‘Better Call Saul,’ the offshoot of the Breaking Bad multiverse in which our protagonist is the beloved underdog scumbag lawyer played so perfectly by Bob Odenkirk. This is my absolute favorite show right now.
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US Attorneys General say Volkswagen has refused to turn over internal documents | Ars Technica
According to reports from the New York Times and Reuters, the Volkswagen Group is refusing to turn over e-mails and correspondence from its top executives to US Attorneys General (AG), citing German privacy laws.
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What if the Oregon Occupiers Were Black, Muslim? | Al Jazeera America
The federal government’s tempered response to the occupation of a U.S. national wildlife refuge in Oregon by an armed group of white ranchers and their supporters have critics crying foul.
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Low cost mechanical pencil with a hard-to-break tip / Boing Boing
My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly. I’m not the only one who dislikes mechanical pencils for this reason.
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Someone stuck a GoPro inside a washing machine, and let the video roll / Boing Boing
In case you were wondering, this is what a laundry cycle looks like from inside the clothes washing machine.
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Arrested Development Season 5 will echo Making a Murderer and Trump. This is not a prank. – Vox
Not only is Arrested Development returning to Netflix for season five, it’s planning to grab the news cycle by the throat and make us laugh at it.
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Always Have Enough Appetizers for Your Party Guests With This Simple Rule
Appetizers are great for dinner and cocktail parties. They keep hungry guests happy, and they help soak up some of the booze early on. Here’s an easy way to determine how many you need.
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When you’re all alone with your own personal stash of internalized inadequacies, it’s nice to remember that you’re in good company.
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Can we make the Anthropocene official yet? | Grist
The Holocene is so last epoch. It’s all about the Anthropocene, a new geologic period in Earth’s history that started when our cities, farms, and nuclear bombs began to permanently alter the face of this planet. (It’s not yet agreed upon when that p…
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Iguazu Falls, Argentinian side [OC][2534×1426] : EarthPorn
Iguazu Falls, Argentinian side [OC][2534×1426] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/WPZvmFlfnv https://t.co/MefnzgRxM8
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Guy catching a fish at a fish market in Seattle : gifs
Guy catching a fish at a fish market in Seattle via /r/gifs https://t.co/EagDsfgrYt https://t.co/CRNLiWzeVD
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There have always been shady people cutting your food with garbage | Grist
There have always been shady people cutting your food with garbage https://t.co/RqYrhB0Sjh https://t.co/GlZTpuLYbo
When you’re all alone with your own personal stash of internalized inadequacies, it’s nice to remember that you’re in good company. -
Hillary Clinton Ordered an Aide to Communicate on a Non-Secure Channel | VICE News
The latest release of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her time as Secretary of State reveals that she directed a top aide to send her sensitive information over a non-secure fax line, and scrub the document of its “identifying heading.
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How much money did you send your bank this year when you used your credit card? Did you notice that you paid a $400 fee—one of the highest in the world?
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Soil Composition Across the U.S. : Image of the Day
Soil is the sum of its parts. The most basic ingredients include sand, silt, and clay of various particle sizes, as well as rock fragments, roots, live organisms, air, and water. But depending on your location, the proportion of those ingredients ca…
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The late Lemmy Kilmeister of Motorhead immortalized in a milk ad from Finland / Boing Boing
Just weeks before he died, Mötorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmeister shot a TV ad for the Finnish dairy products company Valio. After the rocker’s death, Valio ran some of Lemmy’s unscripted, improvised material — which wasn’t even part of the ad! — as …
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When Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino first appear in the documentary The Hunting Ground, they’re among a mass of faces and voices speaking about their experience with sexual assault on a college campus. That’s deliberate.
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Cartoon: 2016 election survival kit
It’s almost time for actual primary votes to be cast in the presidential campaign that began even before the last one ended in 2012. This is the fourth election I’ve endured since making the questionable decision to become an editorial cartoonist.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Baby Post Rebukes Anti-Vaxxers | Vanity Fair
Sure, it may seem like Mark Zuckerberg, millennial dad, was simply posting another darling photo of his daughter, Maxima, as he’s grown quite fond of doing since she joined the Facebook family in November.
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Report: Next-generation iPhone design will ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack | Ars Technica
Report: Next-generation iPhone design will ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack https://t.co/zo1MCCd1Zl https://t.co/VnbJSk9EMS
The “iPhone 7” rumor mill kicked into overdrive this week when Fast Company reported that the design may ditch the standard 3.5mm headphone jack to make the phone thinner. -
Guns in Texas psychiatric hospitals could harm patients, advocates say | US news | The Guardian
Guns in Texas psychiatric hospitals could harm patients, advocates say https://t.co/sNxNyz4wvR https://t.co/PE1tQSf2gD
Mental health advocates have condemned Texas’ new firearms law for allowing the open carry of guns in state psychiatric hospitals, arguing it could negatively impact patients’ treatments and could lead to an uptick in suicide rates. -
Federal hacking conviction follows pro baseball scouting scandal | Ars Technica
Federal hacking conviction follows pro baseball scouting scandal https://t.co/coHXCxQ1pc https://t.co/pL5eLom2zw
Theft in professional baseball used to be about stealing bases and signs. But not any more—not in the era of big data. The St. -
These Devices Are Trying To Secure The Internet of (Hackable) Things | Motherboard
These Devices Are Trying To Secure The Internet of (Hackable) Things https://t.co/R3Ya1LklMV https://t.co/Y7lC7lM1Ub
Our future homes will inevitably be full of connected devices. But most of these still don’t work very well, siphon off your personal data, and have gaping security vulnerabilities. -
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Islamic State militant executed his own mother in front of a post office in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa this week, Syrian activists said on Friday, with one monitoring organization adding that the problems
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The Edge: ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Mexico – The Atlantic
Mexican authorities arrested the the drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who escaped from a maximum-security prison last year. In the U.S.
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Gene Luen Yang’s inaugural speech as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature / Boing Boing
Gene Luen Yang burst on the graphic novel scene in 2006 with the Eisner-award winning American Born Chinese, a brilliant memoir about growing up as an Asian American; and followed up with a diverse oeuvre that spanned video games, Asian representati…
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What will happen if the Oregon militia gets its demands? | US news | The Guardian
Allowing cattle to graze across swathes of federal land in Oregon, as an armed band of militia is demanding, could have devastating consequences for the area’s delicate ecosystem, experts have warned.
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Mexican drug lord El Chapo recaptured after prison break – BBC News
Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been recaptured, six months after he escaped from a maximum-security jail. Guzman escaped from jail through a 1.5km (mile) long tunnel dug in the showers, sparking a huge manhunt, with a $5m (£3.
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Why SpaceX Is Changing Its Rocket Landing Location | TechCrunch
SpaceX has confirmed that they will attempt another, more difficult, rocket landing on their next launch January 17th. Their Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with NASA’s Jason-3 satellite on board.
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Next week, five states’ IDs will stop working in federal facilities | Ars Technica
Starting next week, certain state ID cards will no longer be accepted at federal facilities. Five states, along with the territory of American Samoa, aren’t compliant with the 2005 “Real ID” law and haven’t received an extension from the Department …
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One of the best things about Steven Universe is that the show is consistently from Steven’s point of view.
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Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, and Kristen Stewart Kick off the First W | Vanity Fair
BRIE LARSON IN JASON WU A satin stunner perfect for any post–New Year’s party look.
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On Steven Universe, Peridot Finally Makes a Big Decision
Ever since Peridot entered a tentative alliance with the Crystal Gems, the question of just what would happen to her has been on the lips of Steven Universe fans.
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A New Novel About a Pandemic of Spontaneous Human Combustion Is Becoming a Movie
At the movies, we’ve seen the world end almost every way imaginable: disease, zombies, meteors, natural disasters, and the list goes on. But author Joe Hill has a new one—and the idea is so hot, pun intended, that Hollywood scooped it up even before…
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To a particular strain of nerd, it feels like only yesterday that we were bemoaning the loss of Joss Whedon’s Firefly, probably because it was yesterday. Much like the loss of the Unification War for the browncoats, some people will never get over i…
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A little worried about the plane ride : aww
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On Steven Universe, Peridot Finally Makes a Big Decision
On Steven Universe, Peridot Finally Makes a Big Decision https://t.co/SjDF0dYQzT https://t.co/UZgJGkNrCq
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Baftas ‘overlook’ blockbuster movies – BBC News
Baftas ‘overlook’ blockbuster movies https://t.co/BXhriqldRi https://t.co/t3reMjGnqB
The movie awards season got underway on Friday with the announcement of the 2016 Bafta nominations in London. But two big blockbusters were overlooked. -
Milky Way’s Growth Rings Unveiled in 1st Age Map
Colored dots over an artist’s rendition of the Milky Way reveal the location and ages of stars in the galaxy. Red dots show the older stars, which formed early in the life of the galaxy, while blue dots show the younger generations that have formed …
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Female Attorneys File a Remarkable Supreme Court Brief About Their Abortions – The Atlantic
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Philadelphia policeman ambushed ‘in name of Islam’ – BBC News
A police officer in Philadelphia was ambushed by a man who pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials have said.Edward Archer fired at least 11 shots at the officer, in an act done “in the name of Islam”, police said.
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UK tightens drinking guidelines—no more than 6 beers a week | Ars Technica
After 20 years, UK health experts have updated their recommendations for alcohol consumption—and it’s likely the new rules won’t sit well with many Britons.
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Video startup quits T-Mobile’s Binge On over net neutrality concern | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA today continued to face criticism of its online video zero-rating and throttling program with one small video company saying it would quit Binge On. Slidefuse, maker of 4Stream.
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Imagined Celebrity Connections: Jennifer Lawrence Grills Amy Schumer’s New Boyfriend | Vanity Fair
Each week, Josh Duboff looks at the biggest celebrity news—and amuses himself by imagining how those celebrities might have reacted. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth re-unite in Australia for the holidays and New Year’s Eve.
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Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk | The Nation
“In its way [Arthur Szyk’s work] fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts today.
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Lebanon forcibly returns 100 stranded Syrian refugees – Al Jazeera English
More than 100 Syrian refugees have been forcibly returned to their conflict-ridden country by Lebanese authorities after arriving at Beirut’s airport en route to Turkey, Amnesty International said on Friday. Another 150 Syrians are also at risk of i…
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US gun control: What is the NRA and why is it so powerful? – BBC News
It is one of the most powerful players in one of the most hotly-debated issues in the US – gun control – but what exactly is the NRA? Here’s a quick guide. NRA stands for National Rifle Association.
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A Hydrogen Bomb by Any Other Name – The New Yorker
At ten in the morning on Tuesday, Pyongyang time, a mountain in northeastern North Korea shuddered. Seismographs in nearby countries picked up the telltale signs of moving earth. These signals, and their source, suggested to many observers that the …
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Orson Welles’s Mighty “Chimes at Midnight” – The New Yorker
It’s early in the year, but it’s already the year of “Chimes at Midnight,” Orson Welles’s mighty adaptation, from 1965, of Shakespeare’s plays featuring the colossal character of Falstaff.
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“Is this for ussss?” via /r/cats https://t.co/Ua1bSMJTts https://t.co/yJhdkcEI1G
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Finally stayed still for a picture! Meet Odin & Lady! : aww
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NowThis – VP Joe Biden Explains How Gun Profits Are… | Facebook
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Was war ever more “civilized”? — Hopes&Fears
With all of our advancements in science, communication, technology, the humanities and politics, the modern-era could be considered the peak of human civilization. And yet, the barbaric practice of warfare continues to plague us.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is currently leading the best-actor race ahead of next month’s Oscars.
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ParrotRead Scans Your Twitter Feed for Book Recommendations
Figuring out which book to read next can be tough, but assuming you follow some bright, intelligent people on Twitter, ParrotRead can use their knowledge to find reading recommendations. ParrotRead doesn’t do anything magical or tap into anything ot…
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World’s Physicists Probe New Mystery Signal at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
“It was so weird that people were forced to chuck their favorite theories and start from scratch,” says Adam Martin, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame about an unusual bump that appeared in the signal of the Large Hadron…
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Kanye, Beck, potential awkwardness to headline this year’s Governors Ball · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Resurrecting a story we suddenly remember caring briefly about way back in early 2015, the organizers of the 2016 Governors Ball have announced that onetime non-consensual Grammy stage-sharers Beck and Kanye West will both be headlining the long-run…
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Has Trump Made Political Ads Obsolete? | The Nation
During the presidential primary campaign, the news media have operated as if nothing’s worth covering unless a clip of Donald Trump can illustrate it.
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Looks delish [OC][5312×2988] : SkyPorn
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/qH6ujuAbvk https://t.co/C92oBeeKsz
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Barack Obama: Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility https://t.co/sdMA7ZCQmi https://t.co/nAfxCbeXQw
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The Offspring sells its entire catalog for $35 million · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Offspring sells its entire catalog for $35 million https://t.co/FO2v9LSrOB https://t.co/Lo807QItmD
Though its been four years since its last album—and over 20 since the release of its multi-platinum breakout, Smash—The Offspring are proving just how lucrative its catalog remains. -
How a Workplace Injury Left a Man a Double Amputee | Al Jazeera America
‘I thought I was going to die’: How U.S. workers remain at risk on the job https://t.co/0uz11HJ1Xp https://t.co/dpve6qm5QJ
JUAB COUNTY, Utah – As his legs were being sucked into a winding screw conveyor at his father-in-law’s animal rendering plant, John Vrana worried he wouldn’t live long enough to see his wife again, who was at home, six months pregnant with twins. -
NowThis – President Obama Mocks The Idea That He’s Running… | Facebook
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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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Your Next Car’s Dashboard May Have Voice Recognition That’s Better Than Siri | Motherboard
A new voice recognition technology that could be in your next car should have Apple and Google worried. It’s called Houndify, and it lets drivers pull up information like driving directions and weather simply by asking.
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I Went to a Class on How to Give the Best Blowjob Ever, This is What I Learned
Nestled in an airport-adjacent industrial park filled with printing houses, Pink Kitty sticks out with its pink logo and lingerie-heavy window display. It is, after all, the only sex shop in the sterile business mecca that is Irvine, Calif.
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Record $800m Powerball jackpot will be a major win for the IRS | Business | The Guardian
The record Powerball jackpot just keeps on growing. After a record number of lottery tickets were sold on Thursday, lottery officials have increased the jackpot to $800m on Friday and predict it could climb even higher before Saturday’s night drawin…
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Analytics Startup Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees | TechCrunch
Mixpanel laid off 18 people yesterday, representing less than 10 percent of its 230+ person team. Founded in 2009, Mixpanel says it provides mobile and web analytics tools to 3,683 customers including Airbnb, Spotify and Venmo.
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State of emergency in California over toxic gas leak – Al Jazeera English
The US state of California has declared a state of emergency over a gas-well leak in the city of Los Angeles that has forced thousands of families to evacuate their homes.
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The Atlantic Daily: El Chapo’s Arrest, Two Refugee Indictments, Stronger Jobs Numbers – The Atlantic
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord, has been re-captured, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Friday.
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Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe Plans Futuristic Novel | Rolling Stone
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe has found a way to kill some downtime during his band’s upcoming winter trek with Anthrax: According to the singer, he’s currently outlining a futuristic novel. “It’s set 50 to 100 years in the future,” Blythe told …
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There’s a petition to get George Lucas to direct Star Wars: Episode IX · Newswire · The A.V. Club
While most Star Wars fans were thrilled with how The Force Awakens course corrected the missteps of the prequels and reminded them (almost beat-for-beat) of A New Hope, not everyone is quite as happy with the current direction of the franchise. A Br…
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WASHINGTON — In an intense but civil town-hall-style event broadcast live on television, gun rights activists repeatedly pressed President Obama on Thursday night to justify his gun control efforts, putting him on the defensive over
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Obama Pleads for Stricter Gun Laws and Faces Tough Questioning https://t.co/seyYmgI7YU https://t.co/61snPtMasA
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Chewbacca Tim Allen makes a little too much sense · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Chewbacca Tim Allen makes a little too much sense https://t.co/eqtMf6cPs2 https://t.co/fWBvePbmAE
Chewbacca and Home Improvement’s Tim Allen have one obvious thing in common: They’ve both been on embarrassing television programs. Actually, make that two things—they both also regularly communicate in a series of grunts, yowls, and yelps. -
Oedipal Complexes and Coca-Cola: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing – The Atlantic
Around the World in Eighty Cokes Adriane Quinlan | Lucky Peach “The European column also contains a Fanta flavor—Greece’s Fanta Pineapple, an unremarkable candy-flavored concoction.
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In 2015, the investing community sat up and took notice of edtech. LinkedIn acquired Lynda, and ever since, more analysts have been meticulously studying the growth of edtech funding and innovation. With $1.
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BBC Sport – Exeter City 2-2 Liverpool
Exeter midfielder David Wheeler is unlikely to have recovered from an ankle injury in time to face Liverpool. Right-back Christian Ribeiro and midfielder David Noble could start their first games since November after returning from injury as substit…
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Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine | TechCrunch
Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are the hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us. There’s also big platforms for the rest of the world like Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat …
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Hot Looks: Latest Reach from the Vanity Table | Vanity Fair
Sol Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream: It looks like Rio, smells like Rio (well, metaphorically speaking, that is), and may help you to achieve good bumbum like those Brazilian beach babes.
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However, the lack of snow and ice on the beaches has allowed unique features called scratch circles, or Scharrkreise, to form on the sand.
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Republicans Are Trying to Block Syrian Refugees Yet Again | Mother Jones
Republican politicians have restarted their push to stop Syrian refugees from entering the United States after the FBI announced on Thursday that it had arrested two Iraqi refugees on charges of providing material support to ISIS.
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Turkey: Court challenge against Friday prayer time off – Al Jazeera English
A Turkish government order allowing Muslim public employees to take time off from work for Friday prayers has been challenged in the country’s top court. The order announced on Friday gives state employees the right to leave for Friday prayers durin…
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Saudi Arabia’s US-Backed Air War in Yemen May Have Committed War Crimes—Again | Mother Jones
Saudi Arabia is yet again adding to its trail of destruction in its war in Yemen, and its tactics are drawing condemnation from the United Nations.
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Toronto’s former top cop, once vilified for his handling of the crackdown on protesters during the G20 summit in the city in 2010, has been chosen to carry out the Liberal government’s plan to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
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Here’s $100. Can you win $800 million in the Powerball lottery? – Los Angeles Times
This simulator pits your numbers against randomly generated win numbers. While the large jackpot prize may be tempting, it’s extremely hard to have that one ticket in 292 million.
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Pornhub’s 2015 Year in Review – Pornhub Insights
Another year has come and gone, and what a year it has been here at Pornhub Insights! We had lots of fun this year, crunching the numbers and delivering the data on the porn viewing habits of many different types of Pornhub viewers.
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[Letter from Nevada] | The Great Republican Land Heist, by Christopher Ketcham | Harper’s Magazine
Cliven Bundy, the notorious scofflaw cattle rancher from Bunkerville, Nevada, was taking his midday nap when I arrived at his spread.
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With all due respect to the good people of Thackerville, Okla., I am not currently aware of any defensible reason to rumble down their I-35 off-ramp other than to wander, aimlessly and awestruck, around the world’s largest casino.
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Edward Champigny salutes during the U.S. national anthem at a Trump rally in Lowell, Massachusetts, on January 4. Brian Synder / Reuters
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Hands On With Google’s Project Tango Developer Kit | TechCrunch
Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo announced that Lenovo would be making the first Project Tango Phone. While we found out that the device would ship this summer and cost under $500, we didn’t get many other…
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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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Reince Priebus promises his party will rally behind their nominee, even if it’s Trump or Cruz
Yup, he’s screwed. Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus is quite certain that whoever the Republican base nominates for the presidency this year, and the odds are good it will be someone Insane, he will be able to rally his party’s esta…
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Decide Which Programming Language to Learn with This Interactive Quiz
While we’ve walked you through the basics of picking a programming language that’ll suit your aspirations, sometimes an interactive quiz is more fun than reading. Best Programming Language for Me is just that.
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NASA Astronaut to Highlight Space Station History from Orbit
HOUSTON — NASA’s next astronaut to launch to the International Space Station will use his unique position — in both time and space — to share the history of the orbiting outpost.
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Claire and Jamie Go Undercover in Paris in Outlander’s Season Two Teaser
Outlander returns to Starz in April, and “this season changes everything for Claire and Jamie,” according to the trailer above. The duo travels to France to try and change the course of history, and the entire look of the show changes to accommodate…
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Craig Strickland’s Memorial Service Will Stream Online | Rolling Stone
The memorial service for Backroad Anthem lead singer Craig Strickland will be held Tuesday, January 12th in Rogers, Arkansas and will be streamed live.
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El Chapo Captured After Shootout | Rolling Stone
El Chapo Captured After Shootout Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced the capture of the notorious drug kingpin on Twitter Friday
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Gizmodo Diabolical Falcons Trap Living Birds in Rocks For Future Meals | Gawker How Much Did Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Know About Flint’s Poisoned Water? | The Garage How To Own A BMW E46 M3 With A Manual For Next To Nothing | Lifehacker The CES…
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Death Toll Rises to 140 in Ethiopia Protests Against Urban Expansion | VICE News
In the two months since peaceful, student-led demonstrations against the government’s expansion plan for the city of Addis Ababa began spreading through Ethiopia, activists are reporting that security forces have killed more than 140 demonstrators t…
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The four Star Wars movies — we will ignore the prequels — may not be high art, but they are sophisticated creations, full of knowing references to everything from samurai armor to Weimar. And John Williams knew from the start that he was composing a…
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Y C Switches Up Its Management, As Altman Shifts Focus | TechCrunch
Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman, who was appointed president roughly two years ago.
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Ex-St Louis Cardinals scout pleads guilty to hacking Astros’ database | Sport | The Guardian
The former director of scouting for the St Louis Cardinals pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to hacking the player personnel database of the Houston Astros in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs.
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People Are Just Drinking Pee on YouTube Now | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular and noteworthy new videos of the week.
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It’s 2016, and the Promise of the Internet Is Dead | Motherboard
The internet in 2016 has no promise. There is minimal room for disruption. No one media company, writer, Tweeter, vlogger, or snapper can ‘do it better,’ or come up with a new narrative that inspires change in any direction.
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Weaving numerous callbacks into multiple storylines while setting up visual gags was something that Arrested Development seemed to do effortlessly, which is why the news that the fifth season will reportedly be a serialized murder mystery that also …
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Netflix has an almost unimaginably large content library. So large, in fact, that it can be pretty daunting. How do you pick a movie when you could just keep scrolling and looking at descriptions infinitely, searching for that perfect flick?
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Every time I hear “Golden Globes” since 2008 : pics
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Why Polls Have Been Wrong Recently https://t.co/R4AYeVzSKH https://t.co/XF2j4z49Mh
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MEXICO CITY — Nearly six months after his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, has been arrested by the Mexican authorities, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday.
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The polling industry has been hit hard by high-profile misfires in recent years. Pollsters got last November’s Kentucky governor’s race wrong, as they did the 2014 midterm elections. They have missed predictions in elections in Israel and Britain.
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Are We Really Made Up Of More Bacteria Than Human Cells? | Popular Science
Each microbiome is a snowflake. “Invisible Worlds” by MJ Richardson via geograph.org.uk. We’ve been taught for decades that the microbes inside us outnumber our own cells. And we’ve often been told it’s by a ratio of 10:1.
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io9 Everything That’s Wrong With Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Kotaku Stepmania Played At Super Speed Is Just Not Human | Adequate Man How To Win At A Casino | The Muse Leonardo DiCaprio Does Not Deserve An Oscar for The Revenant. Come On. |
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Freeze-dried poop pills being tested for obesity treatment | Ars Technica
‘The freeze-dried poop method’ might not sound like a weight-loss strategy that would catch on, but—as some researchers are now testing—it may be an effective way to slim down.
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Among all the gadgets and equipment at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday was Sony’s hotly anticipated PS–HX500 record player that allegedly not only offers great playback, but also a digital recording feature.
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There will be a noticeably empty seat at the State of the Union this year. Here’s why. – Vox
It’s a longstanding tradition for the first lady to invite several lucky guests to sit in her box for the State of the Union. They’re typically ridiculously high achievers and individuals whose life stories illustrate a major point the president is …
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.08.16 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Ari Weinstein, Matthew Panzarino, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT.
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Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 units already sold. While that’s not as massive as Apple Watch…
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Cable industry thinks US broadband deployment is already fast enough | Ars Technica
Broadband industry trade groups are hopping mad about a government report that says fast Internet service isn’t being deployed to Americans quickly enough.
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A Democratic senator has accused Europe of using antitrust cases to disguise its own technology interests, the latest exchange in an ongoing tussle between American tech giants and European governments over privacy.
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New Evidence Revealed About My Opinions About “Making a Murderer” – The New Yorker
It turns out that the Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer” left out crucial elements from the story—such as every opinion I had while watching it. Now the time has come for me to right that wrong. Below, please find my illuminating thoughts:
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Adventure Time’s Stop Motion Episode Looks Totally Mathematical
Eat your heart out, Anomalisa. Adventure Time is doing its first ever stop-motion-animated episode, as part of a whole week of episodes starting next Monday. PLUS there’s a new Ice King episode! The stop-motion episode airs Thursday, Jan.
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Build a Smart Calendar and Notification Center for Family Agendas with a Raspberry Pi
We’ve seen a Raspberry Pi combined with a cheap LCD screen to create a smart calendar before, but Instructables user ozua takes it a step further with a family agenda, weather forecasts, local events, and even live transport info. The basics here ar…
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Sky at sunset in South West England [OC] [2272×1562] : SkyPorn
Sky at sunset in South West England [OC] [2272×1562] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/zhdcQX1Tk7 https://t.co/DdKuEdwUba
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Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, who was the twin sister of the last shah of Iran and who was known for her diplomatic skill and sharp political instincts, died on Thursday. She was 96. Robert F.
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Why the Picture of Dinosaur Sex Bouncing Around the Internet is Insane | Inverse
On Thursday, a group of dinosaur experts from the University of Colorado, Denver, made a plausible case that they’d found evidence of theropod mating rituals.
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More People Are Identifying As Bisexual, National Survey Shows | ThinkProgress
More people consider themselves bisexual, according to a national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday. The survey included more than 9,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 44 and interviews took place betwe…
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Maine governor apologizes for drug dealer remarks – but was he all wrong? | US news | The Guardian
Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, apologized on Friday for making racially charged comments about drug dealers at an event on Wednesday night.
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Why Alabama Is Terrible On Third Down | FiveThirtyEight
The last seven years of Alabama teams have looked a lot alike. They’ve had a dominant defense, a dominant running attack, the occasional dominant wideout and a quarterback who doesn’t screw things up.
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New Ghostbusters toys are coming, but where are the guys? · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Director Paul Feig recently tweeted a photo of action figure prototypes from the new Ghostbusters film, due in theaters this summer.
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Arizona lawmaker wants to make filming cops a crime—if you’re too close | Ars Technica
An Arizona lawmaker is proposing legislation to make it a crime to get too close to the police to film them in action. The proposal from Republican state Sen.
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With the success of Making A Murderer, it should come as no surprise that Reddit is on the case, wielding its collective power to do everything from sign petitions to share bits of trial testimony that were left out of the docuseries.
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DENVER—Tearing her blouse seams as she angrily flexed her massive, rippling biceps, Ashley Manning, the 14-foot-tall wife of Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, crushed the skull of a journalist inquiring about allegations that she received s…
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Save $4 On Your Larabar or Nature Valley Resupply, Courtesy of Amazon
If Nature Valley or Larabar snacks are part of your daily routine, you can stock up on your favorites from Amazon today, and save $4.
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Q&A: Nepal’s Maoists and forgotten promises – Al Jazeera English
Last September, when Nepal passed its much-delayed constitution, it was met with jubilation on the streets of the capital, Kathmandu. But people in the southern plains bordering India also took to the streets alleging the new charter failed to addre…
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Standard Life says it will vote against Shell BG tie-up – BBC News
Standard Life Investment – a major investor in Royal Dutch Shell – has said it will oppose the oil company’s proposed takeover of BG Group. Few investors or analysts have openly challenged the deal’s strategic benefits for the firm.
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Youngling goes apeshit at Jedi Training Camp : gifs
Youngling goes apeshit at Jedi Training Camp via /r/gifs https://t.co/tVY7kNKmAm https://t.co/xaZcAx7itp
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/bZOhpVIBIX https://t.co/IpVYI6ySVj
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The cutest of thieves. via /r/aww https://t.co/Wt9eOhe64X https://t.co/ip7LG7rve1
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January 8, 2016. Happy birthday, Roy. : pics
January 8, 2016. Happy birthday, Roy. via /r/pics https://t.co/8ghzRcUFbR https://t.co/SjeFgErK7M
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Gallup: Jeb Bush Is Now Even Less Popular Than John Kasich : politics
Gallup: Jeb Bush Is Now Even Less Popular Than John Kasich via /r/politics https://t.co/6ObvcjFj3T https://t.co/KDXqAxWh84
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Largest ever ‘age map’ traces galactic history – BBC News
Astronomers have measured the age of 70,000 stars across the Milky Way and put the results into a galactic map. It confirms what was already suspected about our galaxy’s growth: it started in the middle and grew outward.
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Regime Change in Poland, Carried Out From Within | The Nation
Warsaw—It is natural for parliaments to pass new legislation when new governments take power.
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Terror Arrests Pose New Threat to Syrian Refugee Program – The Atlantic
When congressional Republicans were trying to halt the Syrian refugee program last fall, a central pillar of the Obama administration’s defense was that there was no more arduous way to enter the United States and that few if any refugees had ever b…
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Inside Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Broadway Bluegrass Extravagan | Vanity Fair
Edie Brickell was standing at her stove, cooking dinner while freestyling lyrics over a banjo melody that Steve Martin had sent her.
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Healthy Diet Helps 183-Year-Old Tortoise Feel Young Again
“What a drag it is getting old,” the Rolling Stones famously sang. And nobody knows that more than Jonathan, the 183-year-od Aldabra giant tortoise that’s thought to be the oldest known living animal on Earth.
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Thanks to Netflix’s true-crime series Making A Murderer, the mid-2000s conviction of Wisconsin resident Steven Avery on rape and murder is one of the most hotly debated criminal cases in America today, with many feeling that Avery was framed and/or …
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Starz wants more diverse programming, so it’s turning to witchcraft · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You can probably thank the winter edition of the Television Critics Association press tour for all the recent (and forthcoming) news about TV shows that will either be forgotten or in production by the time the summer press tour rolls around.
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It’s a weird time to be an American woman — so let’s read some great writing by them | Grist
Climate-friendly standards for home appliances will cut carbon and save billions in electricity and water bills.
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All is not OK: Oklahoma records 70 earthquakes in a week | Grist
Climate-friendly standards for home appliances will cut carbon and save billions in electricity and water bills.
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This fellow came to me on the beach today : pics
This fellow came to me on the beach today via /r/pics https://t.co/np9NiWkc4t https://t.co/7uQwrMfpA7
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Photos of the Week: 12/3-1/8 (35 photos) https://t.co/6OPgC0cRcI https://t.co/B3TPvwEQlY https://t.co/x24mkdaVok
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Charles Koch seriously butthurt by presidential race. ‘You’d think we could have more influence.’
What does a conservative billionaire trying to buy himself a president have to do in this country to get the respect he (thinks) he deserves?
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My chair loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/wRYXJNaM8P https://t.co/9cnDWWC4J1 https://t.co/yZF3n7XoqJ
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You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers | TechCrunch
Despite the glorified status that entrepreneurship has obtained in modern culture, it’s a huge pain in the pass. The work is long. The lows are low. Showering? Good luck with that.
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Hedge-Fund Billionaire Steven Cohen Can Make a Comeback in Two Years | Vanity Fair
Hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who could be called the luckiest man on Wall Street for escaping federal charges as his hedge fund fell into the flames of an insider-trading scandal, won’t be out of the game for long.
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In 1993, Trey Parker directed, wrote, and co-scored a black comedy musical film, Cannibal! The Musical, while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The film is loosely based on the true story of Alferd Packer, the only person convicted …
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9 Reasons to Be Excited About Pop Culture in 2016
War. Racism. Global warming. Donald Trump. There are so many reasons to fear the future, but there are also a few reasons to continue getting out of bed in the morning for the next 12 months— they all just happen to be pop culture events.
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What makes Star Wars Star Wars?
A short entertaining look at Star Wars’ secret sauce. Joseph Campbell? Kurosawa? Flash Gordon? The ancient future? The sounds? (PS: The Wilhelm Scream shows up pretty early on in The Force Awakens, as Poe and Finn exit the First Order hangar bay.)
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Armed Oregon Occupiers Create a Fearsome New Enemy: Birders | Vanity Fair
Because life imitates art, and especially satire, The New York Times reported Friday that the armed protesters who seized a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon last week have angered an equally passionate, camo-clad group: birders.
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NASA Confirms 100 New Alien Planets
After being crippled by a mechanical malfunction, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft is back in action and has found tons of planets orbiting other stars.
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Police Say Philadelhia Officer Was Shot ‘in the Name of Islam’ – The Atlantic
The suspect, Edward Archer, 30, fired at Officer Jessie Hartnett, 33, and his car 13 times from a semiautomatic pistol, Ross said. Hartnett returned the fire, hitting Archer at least three times, Ross said. He added the gun was a stolen police weapo…
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Kanye West Drops New Songs ‘Real Friends’ and ‘No More Parties’ | Rolling Stone
As promised, Kanye West kicked off his Every Friday series with a pair of new tracks, “Real Friends” and a snippet of “No More Parties,” the rapper’s first and much anticipated pairing with Kendrick Lamar.
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Photos of the Week: 12/3-1/8 – The Atlantic
The draining of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, snow in California’s mountains, a butter sculpture in Pennsylvania, trash pandas in Shanghai, a standoff in Oregon, a sun pillar above Stockholm, a whale made of starlings above Israel, and much more.
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Search This Database for Hidden Illegal Drugs in Your Supplements
Supplements are sold for weight loss, muscle gain, sexual performance, and more. Technically they aren’t drugs and aren’t supposed to contain drugs, but plenty of supplements break the rules. This database from Vox lists 850 products that were found…
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ZHUSHIGANG, China — Just two days after images of a giant golden statue of Mao in the bare fields of Henan Province spread across the Internet, the statue was gone — torn down apparently on the orders of embarrassed local officials.
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Wingnut Week In Review: Tears And Wingnut Clowns
When President Obama introduced his executive actions on gun control, he wept as he talked about Sandy Hook Elementary. Wingnuts couldn’t understand why he would still cry over 20 dead first graders. It took a long time. It took over 20 mass shootin…
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The $800 Million Powerball Jackpot Is A Stat Nerd Dream Come True | FiveThirtyEight
The largest-ever jackpot drawing for the Powerball lottery will take place Saturday, with a reported $800 million advertised jackpot.
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‘American Sniper’ widow: ‘The laws we create don’t stop gun violence’ | US news | The Guardian
The widow of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle confronted Barack Obama during a town hall meeting about guns on Thursday, putting the president on the defensive over what may be the final major domestic policy initiative of his presidency.
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Three US state attorneys general criticized Volkswagen AG on Friday for citing German law to withhold documents from a group of states investigating the German automaker’s use of illegal diesel emissions software.
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Mexico Just Recaptured El Chapo, the World’s Most Notorious Drug Lord | Mother Jones
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Twitter Friday that the infamous drug kingpin and expert tunneler Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán had been captured. Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha…
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TransCanada Just Gave Environmentalists A Huge Boost | ThinkProgress
For many, the Keystone XL pipeline was a catalyst for environmental action, and when the State Department denied developer TransCanada’s permit application in November, it was a signal that the environmental movement had triumphed over corporate and…
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Did Kim Jong Un Blow Up a Nuclear Weapon For His Birthday? | The Nation
Suppose someone asked you what you really wanted for a birthday present, and your answer was ‘my own private H-bomb’? Suppose you wanted to impress your primary enemy of 70 years, which happened to be the greatest power on earth, by blowing it off—a…
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The capture of “El Chapo” Guzmán, Mexico’s notorious cartel chief, explained – Vox
On July 11, one of the most famous criminals in the world — Mexican cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — escaped from prison. Guzmán’s escape is a huge deal for Mexico — and an enormous embarrassment to its government.
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The Dandy Warhols, who just finished a tour of the West Coast and the South and are currently making their way around the world, dropped a new single today on all of your favorite streaming services.
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Most of the ranchers I know are decent folks, men and women of a few well-chosen words, slow to rouse, distrustful of a show horse on four legs or two. And then there’s the armed gang who seized an Oregon bird sanctuary — Y’all Qaeda, as the twitter…
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New Phishing Scam Targets American Taxpayers – BuzzFeed News
You shouldn’t ignore the IRS — but only if you’re totally sure it’s the IRS. According to a cyber threats researcher with Kaspersky Labs, the security analysis giant, a new email phishing scam has hit inboxes just in time for tax season.
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Adam Driver Tries on a Bomb Suit in Kuwait (Extra Scene from ‘Arts in the Armed Forces’) | VICE News
Marine-turned-actor Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Girls) is the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing thought-provoking and impactful contemporary theater to American military perso…
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What the phrase “stay woke” means | Fusion
For years, the idea of being “woke” was a hallmark of socially-minded, black social media, but it’s recently crossed over onto the broader, whiter internet.
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Japan’s suicide forest is way creepier than any movie | Fusion
The locals say three types pass through: hikers, rubberneckers, and those who aren’t planning to come back out. There are signs posted telling visitors to think about it.
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Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter – A New York artist’s travelogue / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is a beautiful travelogue of stasis with three covers to choose from.
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Midday open thread: A new geological age; dancing dinosaurs; global warming hurts food harvests
Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is: United States of Militiadom: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … •Denise Oliver Velez • GOP must lie to make Democrats sound extreme.
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Local Stakeholders React to Malheur Occupation | Al Jazeera America
The armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon has interrupted important habitat restoration work that must be completed before spring migration — when hundreds of thousands of birds descend on the area’s vast wetlands, conservatio…
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Golden Globes 2016 Predictions: Leonardo DiCaprio and Amy Schumer Will | Vanity Fair
The Golden Globes, famously known as the rowdier, more drunken cousin to the Oscars, are a chance to celebrate the best in both film and television—and, yes, to watch your favorite stars cut just a bit loose on national television and imagine what i…
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The Most Important Message in the December Job Figures – The New Yorker
Friday’s employment report from the Labor Department, which showed that the U.S. economy added nearly three hundred thousand jobs in December, is obviously good news. Coming after a spate of China-inspired turmoil in the financial markets this week,…
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Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy https://t.co/LLaLjgFAsM https://t.co/7e1EFx5Ol3 https://t.co/CDWFwZF4sq
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President Obama’s Gun Control Agenda May Be Good News for the Gun Lobby – The Atlantic
Good News for the Gun Lobby https://t.co/BCX3V158PB https://t.co/83obhdTfMW
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How Intermarriage Created One of the World’s Most Delicious Foods | Atlas Obscura
Laksa is said to get its name from the Sanskrit word “lakh,” which means 100,000. (Photo: InterContinental Hong Kong/Flickr) A few things are definitive of an afternoon on the coasts of Southeast Asia: inescapable heat, the smell of the sea, and a s…
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Bill Clinton avoids taking Donald Trump’s bait as he campaigns for Hillary | US news | The Guardian
While political rivals, pundits and journalists remain obsessed with Donald Trump, granting him publicity that money can’t buy, one man spent the week studiously avoiding any mention of him.
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I Bet You’ve Never Seen This Many Goddamn Bats | Motherboard
Every day at dusk, an estimated three million bats emerge from the mouth of one of the world’s largest caves to hunt. In order to make themselves a more elusive target for birds of prey, they gather in an eerie formation akin to a tornado, or a ribb…
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LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Economic Forum | The Nation
Join us on Saturday, January 9, for a live video stream of a nonpartisan forum exploring how the presidential candidates plan to reinvest in our communities.
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Space Fungus! Mold Attacks Space Station Plants
Four zinnia plants on the International Space Station are sickly or dead after mold was discovered in the Veggie experiment facility late December, according to NASA. The problem was immediately traced back to excessive water in the experiment, whic…
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Electricity From Cheese Is Possible — And Happening Around The World | ThinkProgress
Savoy, a region in the French Alps, is famous for its food — namely its cheeses, some of which have been made in the area since the 13th century.
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NASA Opens Planetary Defense Office to Protect Earth from Asteroids
A major step has been taken to coordinate U.S. agencies and intergovernmental efforts to respond to future near-Earth objects that threaten Earth. NASA has announced the creation of a Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO).
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NY requires 300Mbps speeds from Charter in TWC merger condition | Ars Technica
Charter gained approval of its Time Warner Cable acquisition from New York state regulators today in exchange for providing 300Mbps speeds to all customers by 2019 and continuation of a cheap (but very slow) entry-level Internet service.
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Gunmen open fire on Egyptian resort hotel – Al Jazeera English
Gunmen on Friday opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said. One of the gunmen was killed, state television reported. A suicide belt has been recovered…
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Salt Chicken Before Freezing for Juicier Meat
If you ever buy chicken and freeze some to use later, here’s a simple trick that’s better than brining for turning out juicier meat: Salt the chicken before you freeze it. Cook’s Illustrated conducted an experiment comparing moisture loss before and…
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Gunmen Open Fire at Egyptian Hotel, Tourists Hit | Al Jazeera America
Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said. The assailants had arrived by sea to launch the assault, the sources added.
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Cologne attacks: Police chief removed following NY Eve attacks – BBC News
Cologne’s police chief Wolfgang Albers has been placed in temporary retirement over his handling of scores of sexual assaults on women in Cologne on new year’s eve. The state interior minister said the move would help “restore public trust in the po…
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My brother got married today. My dog however stole the limelight. : aww
My brother got married today. My dog however stole the limelight. via /r/aww https://t.co/RzR3u8raK8 https://t.co/0W6jO2MIfp
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Raging Fires in Southern Australia Have Destroyed 100 Homes | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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Those Mass Executions Won’t Stop Canada From Shipping Even More Weapons to Saudi Arabia | VICE News
The Canadian government will not tighten rules on how automatic weapons are sold to Saudi Arabia. It will not reconsider a $15-billion deal between a Canadian light armored vehicle manufacturer and Riyadh. It will not do much more, it seems, than is…
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Golden Globe and Oscar Winners, Compared | Flavorwire
Because they’ve been around and on television for so long – before most of the other year-end awards ceremonies and critics honors – the conventional wisdom holds that the Golden Globes are one of the key bellwethers for the Academy Awards. But ther…
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Man Suspected of Shooting Philadelphia Cop Acted ‘In the Name of Islam’ | VICE News
The man suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a Philadelphia police officerin an ambush-style attack admitted to committing the assault in the name of Islam, and pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State militant group.
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Saudi Arabia’s latest panicky move: a possible IPO of its state-owned oil company – Vox
Apple is currently the world’s largest company by market capitalization. But the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is seriously considering creating a much larger company — by staging an initial public offering (IPO) for shares in its state-owned oil company,…
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John Coltrane meets Terry Riley in free jazz minimalist mashup|Dangerous Minds
Yesterday His Name Is Alive honcho Warren Defever posted an intriguing file to his Mixcloud account, a mashup lasting in excess of 35 minutes featuring the works of spiritual jazz icon John Coltrane and minimalist composer par excellence Terry Riley.
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As man confessed on Friday to opening fire on a police officer at an intersection, and reportedly claimed affiliation with ISIS — although local authorities say he doesn’t represent Islam.
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The raccoon learned not to dunk cotton candy in water / Boing Boing
A couple of days ago I posted a video of a raccoon that dipped a block of cotton candy in water and became confused when it dissolved instantly. What I didn’t know is that the video was part of a longer video that shows that the raccoon learned on t…
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Raymond ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow convicted of racketeering and murder | US news | The Guardian
A jury convicted a former gang leader of racketeering, murder and other counts in a case centered in the Chinatown district of San Francisco. Defendant Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow stared straight ahead on Friday and showed no reaction as the initial v…
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Rise in number of sick refugees as temperatures fall – 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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Beyoncé and Bruno Mars join Coldplay for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show – Vox
When the NFL announced that Super Bowl 50 will feature Coldplay as its halftime performer, the immediate follow-up question was whether the band could enlist a famous friend to join them.
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Why books like Fifty Shades of Grey are worthy of study | Books | The Guardian
Politicians hate romance. In Missouri, over 100 state legislators have called for assistant professor of journalism Melissa Click to be fired.
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Junior doctors strike to go ahead on 12 January – BBC News
Talks to resolve the junior doctors dispute will “not prevent” strike action next week, conciliation service Acas has said.
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Fraternity settles lawsuit over fatal accident at Yale-Harvard football game | Sport | The Guardian
A Yale University fraternity and more than 80 of its members have settled lawsuits over a fatal rental truck accident outside the popular Yale-Harvard football game in 2011, bringing an end to all litigation in the case, a lawyer said Friday.
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Philadelphia police have released footage of a 30-year-old shooter, who has been arrested, firing into the car of officer Jesse Hatnett
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Three Theories Of Donald Trump’s Rise | FiveThirtyEight
Oh, just that little detail? Trump actually needs people to vote for him? I’ve been encountering a lot of this lately: Coverage implying that Trump’s lead atop the Republican polls (which he’s held since mid-July) is a watershed event, perhaps even …
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Even random members of New Kids On The Block have opinions about Making A Murderer.
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Converse unveils its ‘Sex Pistols’ line of Chuck Taylors|Dangerous Minds
Converse has unveiled a new line of Chuck Taylor sneakers with Sex Pistols iconography on them. There are four pairs of Chuck Taylor hightops available and two pairs of Chuck Taylor low tops. The sneakers are priced from $65 to $80.
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What South Carolinians Think About Paul Ryan’s Poverty Forum | The Nation
This Saturday, conservative leaders will gather in South Carolina for the “Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity” co-hosted by Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator Tim Scott.
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Residents of flood-hit Aberdeenshire told to remain alert over weekend | UK news | The Guardian
Residents in parts of the north-east of Scotland have been told to remain prepared over the weekend after heavy rain caused record river levels and severe floods across the region.
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Lost Whaling Ships Discovered in Arctic Thanks to Global Warming
When archaeologists searched the remote northwestern coast of Alaska this fall, they didn’t think they’d find much of interest, or anything intact, due to the area’s extreme weather and destructive cycles of freezing and thawing.
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According to Variety, Martin Scorsese is producing a biopic based on the life of classical pianist Byron Janis for Paramount Pictures.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Canadian Company Netsweeper to Censor Bahrain’s Internet for $1.2M | Motherboard
The tender, posted by the Bahraini government, states that Netsweeper, a Guelph, Ontario-based company, will be paid $1,175,000 for supplying the government with a “national website filtering solution.”
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On Nov. 2, 2013, Mike Perez defeated Magomed Abdusalamov in a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden.
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BERLIN — At least 18 asylum seekers are among 31 people who have been identified so far by the federal police as having played a role in a violent assault on young women in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve, the Interior Ministry said on …
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dogs show their incredible discipline! : aww
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Here’s the Best View of the Most Powerful Light in the Known Universe | Motherboard
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Gamma rays are the universe’s big guns. Produced by pyrotechnic events like exploding stars, pulsar bursts, or galactic cores, these rays represent light at its most energetic and powerful, and are capable of ravaging wide swaths of space like merci… -
The Awesome World of the Future | The Nation
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“Giantess” Fetish Porn Is Getting Bigger… And Bigger
When PornHub released its list of the most popular search terms on its site in 2015, all of the usual suspects were there—sexy moms, naughty teens and pretend “lesbians.” Yawn. But hidden amidst those perennial favorites was something, well, enormou…
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What It’s Like to be Allergic to Semen | Broadly
Semen allergy is real, but rare. Not as rare as you might think, but so rare that most people’s first reaction is to piss themselves laughing. Regular VICE readers will of course know this is a bona fide affliction, with a recent handful of cases of…
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The Best Night-Sky Events of 2016: What to Watch for This Year
This photo of the partial solar eclipse of Sept. 13, 2015, was snapped by astrophotographer K.J. Mulder from his home in South Africa.Credit: K.J. Mulder/Worlds in Ink View full size image Another year of skywatching is upon us, and there’s a lot to…
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Fans are braced for one of the coldest NFL games in history this weekend when the Minnesota Vikings host the Seattle Seahawks in an NFC Wild Card game. Daytime temperatures as low as -15C are expected, although forecasters say with wind chill it cou…
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Uber to encrypt rider geo-location data, pay $20,000 to settle NY privacy flap | Ars Technica
On Thursday, Uber settled with New York State authorities, paying a $20,000 fine to end investigations into two data breach incidents from 2014 and 2015.
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2015 Was The Second Hottest Year On Record For The U.S. | ThinkProgress
If you thought 2015 was unusually hot, you were right. Last year was the second hottest on record in the United States since data collection began in 1895, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.
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Gunmen ‘attack Egypt tourist hotel’ – BBC News
Seven staff at a young offenders institution in Kent are suspended over allegations of abuse and assault on teens uncovered by a BBC investigation.
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The business about Marco Rubio’s boots is, of course, incredibly stupid. But it’s part of a pattern — as David Roberts says, Cool that one of the major parties in earth’s most powerful country is utterly dominated by sexual insecurities.
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A Brief Exercise Meant to Illuminate the Prejudices of Donald Trump – The Atlantic
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High-Flying Balloon Captures Dazzling Views of Meteor Shower (Video)
A high-flying balloon captured some dazzling video footage of the Quadrantid meteor shower as it peaked early Monday (Jan. 4), showing spectacular views of “shooting stars” from the stratosphere.
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It Took 20 Years For The Government To Pay For An Obvious Way To Prevent HIV | FiveThirtyEight
A few days ago, after I heard the news that Congress had lifted a federal ban on funding for needle exchange programs, I called Alisa Solberg. She runs the Point Defiance AIDS Projects in Tacoma, Washington, which includes the oldest legally sanctio…
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Justin Bieber thrown out of Mexico’s Tulum ruins, official says | Music | The Guardian
Justin Bieber and his entourage were asked to leave the Mayan archaeological site of Tulum after the Canadian pop star apparently tried to climb on to or among the ruins, according to a Mexican official.
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Everything That’s Wrong With Star Wars: The Force Awakens
We pretty much loved Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The things this movie got right were so much more important than the things it got wrong. That said, it did get some things wrong. Allow us to elaborate.
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White House seeks tech help to thwart terror – BBC News
The White House is meeting Silicon Valley leaders to discuss ways that technology can thwart terrorists. Government officials are in San Jose, California, on Friday to talk to representatives from Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter.
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Reports of sexual assaults at the three US military academies surged by more than 50% in the 2014-15 school year, and complaints of sexual harassment also spiked, according to Pentagon officials.
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Gunman who shot a Philadelphia cop pledged allegiance to ISIS: what we know – Vox
A gunman ambushed a Philadelphia police car on Thursday, firing at least 13 shots at officer Jesse Hartnett, who is in critical but stable condition, according to the Washington Post.
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Marvel’s New Falcon Is a Latino Falcon Man-Hybrid
Ever since Sam Wilson took on the mantle of Captain America, his former superhero alter ego of the Falcon has lain dormant. That is, until next week, when The Falcon returns… as Joaquin Torres, a man who is literally part-falcon.
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“Sucker for Love” by the Bayonets / 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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Fareness Finds the Lowest Priced Trips Based on Your Flexible Schedule
Planning a vacation can take hours, if not days. If you’re not sure or set on specific dates to travel, Fareness can make finding your travel destination a breeze.
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Obama Just Slapped Down a GOP Attack on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood | Mother Jones
President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a GOP-backed bill that would have fulfilled two conservative dreams all at once: to gut the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature health care law, and to pull funding from Planned Parenthood for a year.
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What a load of rubbish we humans are | Sam Leith | Opinion | The Guardian
What is it, we’re sometimes asked, that makes us human? What is it that marks our species out among all the others on this big ole blue space-marble we call Earth? Tool use? No, any number of other creatures use tools; corvids especially well.
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Philly Cop Ambushed by ISIL Sympathizer | Al Jazeera America
Gunman Edward Archer of Philadelphia, who has been arrested, fired about 11 shots through the window of the officer’s car, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters. He walked toward the car as he fired, eventually getting close e…
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Obama Just Slapped Down a GOP Attack on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood | Mother Jones
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Technology show pretends to be from 1983 / Boing Boing
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Republicans and Democrats Agree on One Thing: Revoking Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom | VICE News
A Republican Congressman is pushing legislation that would give the president power to revoke Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, based on the allegations that the comedian is a serial rapist and his own admission that he gave women drugs to…
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MatterHackers Releases A Tablet That Lets You Design 3D Prints On The Go | TechCrunch
Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you to place items, edit them, and even print them on the fly using an…
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The publication of 532 pages of transcripts of conversations between then President Bill Clinton and prime minister Tony Blair this week provides a rare and authentic insight into the workings of modern western politics and statecraft.
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Buy an original “Smokey and the Bandit” Trans Am! / Boing Boing
This killer 1977 “Smokey and the Bandit” Pontiac Trans Am, customized by Universal Studios to promote the classic Burt Reynolds/Jackie Gleason film at car shows and other public events, will be sold at auction on January 30! Original Smokey and the …
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Skywatching 2016: The Year’s Must-See Events (Infographic)
From planetary meet-ups to eclispes of the moon and the sun, the year 2016 has a lot to offer for skywatchers. Here’s a look a the year’s most promising events to help you plan. For the latest on what’s up in the night sky, visit our Skywatching sec…
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Migrants Come Under Fire After A Spate Of Sexual Assaults In Europe | ThinkProgress
At least 18 migrants are among the 31 people believed to have carried out a spate of attacks on women at a New Year’s Eve celebration in Cologne, Germany. More than 170 criminal complaints have been filed, the majority of which claim sexually motiva…
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Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Head of Sinaloa Cartel, Captured, Mexico’s President Says – The Atlantic
This post was updated on January 8 at 1:57 p.m. ET Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the Mexican drug lord, has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Twitter.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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$3 multi-tool, good for campers / Boing Boing
This emergency multi-tool has made its way into my camping pack. For less than $3 delivered, what looks like a Spork has been modified to act as a wrench, for several metric nut sizes, screwdriver, and bottle opener.
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Will Ferrell is now a part-owner of the new MLS side Los Angeles FC, meaning supporters of the LA Galaxy or the Seattle Sounders may feel compelled, or even required, to dislike Ferrell and his movies.
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China turmoil takes toll on global stocks in turbulent start to 2016 | Business | The Guardian
A punishing week has left global stock markets nursing losses of more than $2tn in the first week of the new year after worries about China’s faltering growth and turmoil on its stock exchanges reverberated around the world.
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Mexico recaptures notorious druglord ‘El Chapo’ – Al Jazeera English
The Mexican druglord who made a brazen prison break through underground tunnels has been recaptured, the president announced on Twitter. “Mission accomplished, we have him,” President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted on Friday.
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Mexico Recaptures Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ | Al Jazeera America
Notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured in Mexico six months after being sprung from jail, the country’s president announced Friday. The fugitive broke out of a high security prison through a tunnel in July, sparking a m…
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Justin Bieber Was Kicked Out of Ancient Mayan Ruins, Naturally | Vanity Fair
Imagine you’re Justin Bieber. Or, for most of you, continue imagining you’re Justin Bieber. You had a bumpy few years there, with some embarrassing behavior and some unpleasant arrests and depositions and whatnot.
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The Secret Service Just Thwarted a Plot to Kidnap Obama’s Dogs | Vanity Fair
When Scott Stockert, a man who drove a pickup truck loaded with two firearms, 350 rounds of ammunition, a billy club, and a machete 1,700 miles from North Dakota to New York, and another 250 miles to D.C.
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Karma Is Cutting Back Speeds on its Unlimited Data Plan
Karma, one of our favorite mobile hotspots, announced a flat $50 unlimited plan a few months back. If you jumped on it, be warned—your bandwidth speeds are about to slow down a bit. Here’s why.
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At Least Half of UK Banks Have ‘Insecure’ Logins, Research Says | Motherboard
Even though a quarter of the encrypted web is about to be broken, over half of login pages for UK online banking sites are insecure.
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The Company Behind LA’s Methane Disaster Knew Its Well Was Leaking 24 Years Ago | Motherboard
Last fall, a 7-inch injection well pipe ruptured 500 feet below the surface of Los Angeles, after ferrying natural gas for six decades.
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Big brother helps his little sister cross a gap. : aww
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Escaped Mexican Drug Lord Chapo Guzmán Has Been Recaptured | VICE News
Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been recaptured six months after he escaped from maximum-security jail through a mile-long tunnel from his cell. Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto confirmed the rumors on his twitter account on Fri…
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German Police Chief Removed From Post After Mass Sexual Assaults in Cologne | VICE News
The police chief in the German city of Cologne has been removed from his post following criticism of his handling of mass sexual assaults and violent clashes on New Year’s Eve, a state government source has said.
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News from The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced Friday that fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was recaptured seven months after he escaped from a maximum security prison.
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I’m the first woman to graduate with a doctorate from Juilliard and now I play the toy piano. Life works in mysterious ways. You can hear more of Tan’s toy piano music on Spotify. (via @robinsloan)
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Mythbusting the Cotton-Candy Raccoon – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, before the high drama of #DrummondPuddleWatch, another riveting puddle—and its furry co-star—captivated the Internet. In a rather emotional Vine, a lone raccoon drops his cotton candy into an unassuming puddle, only to have the tr…
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Finally, someone has come up with a use for holograms better than making it look as though dead pop stars are still somehow alive and performing.
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‘El Chapo’ recaptured after jail break – 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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Harrison Ford is now America’s highest-grossing actor of all time · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When most people hit their 70s, they’re just thrilled if they can show up to the septuagenarian party a halfway graceful fashion. Harrison Ford prefers to crash land his way in, though, something that shouldn’t come as a surprise given his well-esta…
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A Mulled Wine That Will Have You Rethinking “Dry January” | Vanity Fair
Remember last Friday when you woke up with a champagne headache and thought to yourself, “Hey, maybe I’ll give this ‘dry January’ thing a try”?
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The Last, Best Hope For American Unions Is Probably Justice Scalia | ThinkProgress
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case seeking to starve public sector unions of funds.
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Well, it was probably going to be hard to top “Best New Girl” as an extended flashback story.
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Turkey’s Heartless Merchants of Death are Killing Refugees – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — They are fleeing the war that’s raging in their country and have scratched together their last money to pay for a place on a flimsy boat that is supposed to take them from Turkey to Greece and to a better, safer life in Europe.
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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. Like his countryman Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director Kim Jee-wo…
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Exclusive DC preview: Renae De Liz retells The Legend Of Wonder Woman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With Wonder Woman slated to make her big-screen debut in two months, DC Comics is giving the Amazon princess a considerable comics push, beginning with the release of the new The Legend Of Wonder Woman miniseries by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon.
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RZA on Black Lives Matter: ‘Image We Portray’ Could Invoke Police Fear | Rolling Stone
RZA has addressed the Black Lives Matter movement in a wide-ranging political interview with Bloomberg, stressing that “image” is crucial in police relations.
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Deer kisses his new friend : aww
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Cibo Matto provides an unlikely anthem to teen rebellion · Hear This · The A.V. Club
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In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games. Jet Set Radio is Sega’s cel-shaded, inline-skating game that takes place in a future Tokyo where free expression is outlawed. -
This Video Tells You How to Optimize Your Vacation Happiness
Vacations are designed to help you relax and get away from the grind. Sometimes, though, they’re more stressful than they’re supposed to be. This video tells you how to make the most of your next vacation.
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Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse | TechCrunch
Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore… until now.
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Man loves bear, and bear loves man right back. For now. / 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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Philadelphia police officer shot and wounded after man ambushes patrol car | US news | The Guardian
A Philadelphia police officer was shot and seriously wounded in an ambush-style attack while sitting in his patrol car and the shooter admitted to committing the assault “in the name of Islam”, the city’s police commissioner said on Friday.
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3D-Printed Insole Maker SOLS Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff | TechCrunch
SOLS, a company using 3D-printing technology to make custom shoe insoles, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, or 14 employees in total across all teams, TechCrunch has confirmed.
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Maine governor warns that drug dealers come to his state to impregnate “white girls” / Boing Boing
Maine Gov. Paul LePage insists he wasn’t being racist when he claimed heroin dealers with names like “D-Money” come to his state and “impregnate a young white girl before they leave.” Here’s the full quote from his town hall event on Thursday.
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The Simpsons vs. Miami Vice and 1980s glitzy TV / Boing Boing
From Sunday night’s upcoming episode “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles.” Last week, our sister site “Doing Doing” was mentioned on the show, so you just know The Simpsons are still relevant! Jerry Seinfeld does 5 minutes of hilarious stand-up last…
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Russian rage over Finland extradition to US – BBC News
Russia has denounced the possible extradition by Finland of two Russian citizens to the US on cyber-crime charges. It says that the move is a violation of international law because the pair will receive “absurd punishments” of up to 100 years in jai…
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Charles Koch complains that he doesn’t have enough political power – Vox
Do you feel the American political system doesn’t do a good job representing your views? Well, you’re not alone.
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Greece debt crisis: Scuffles at pension reforms protest – BBC News
Scuffles broke out in central Athens during a protest against the Greek government’s proposed pension reforms. Tensions reportedly flared when demonstrators from the Communist-affiliated PAME union broke past a line of riot police near the prime min…
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Do Pregnancy Tests Really Need Bluetooth? – The Daily Beast
For years, companies have been trying to create a more meaningful reputation for Bluetooth than simply being that weird arrow-squiggly thing at the top of your phone’s screen, and a new product unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES)…
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Sweet Freedom: A Devotional by Sarah Palin – digested read | Books | The Guardian
This has been a heck of a year for me and my family, and I wouldn’t have been able to get through it without knowing God had a plan for me and America. Here it is. Read five of these devotional passages each weekday, before allowing yourself to go o…
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There’s a storm brewing in Wyoming [1200×295] : SkyPorn
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A friend of mine left his car in a parking lot for 6 days : pics
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Do Pregnancy Tests Really Need Bluetooth? – The Daily Beast
Do Pregnancy Tests Really Need Bluetooth? https://t.co/jQRrYuVguV https://t.co/jz5UMXiLxb
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LOS ANGELES — Ten minutes into a recent recording session with a Grammy-winning producer they had never previously met, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, the in-demand pop songwriters of the moment, had a bouncy new hook. “She’s a new girl now,” Ms.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Donald J. Trump touched down in one of America’s most progressive cities Thursday night, bringing the bombastic message that has captivated Republican voters into the backyard of a Democratic opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Ver…
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Last month Fox News released a poll showing Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders in Iowa by 14 points. But the amazing part of the poll was the generation gap. Among likely caucusgoers under 45, Sanders was crushing Clinton 56 to 34 percent. Among…
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On The Line: Justin Ling and Nilo Tabrizy Discuss Justin Trudeau’s Canada | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype.
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You may have heard the rumors, Apple might be doing away with the headphone jack on the iPhone to push forward the wonderful world of wireless listening. Awesome, right? Well, hold on.
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The Daleks are here! Automated surveillance at an affordable price / Boing Boing
This in via Tech Crunch, so take it with a grain of salt, but it appears proto-Dalek’s are going to be patrolling our malls.
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Making an MRI a less scary place for kids : pics
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White Chocolate Sphere Dessert : gifs
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In June, the Environmental Protection Agency released a draft report on fracking that concluded the practice has not led to “widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water. Now, the agency’s own advisory board is taking some issue with those findin…
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Cardinals Scouting Coach To Plead Guilty To Hacking In Espionage Case | ThinkProgress
Former St. Louis Cardinals scouting coach Chris Correa plans to plead guilty Friday to criminal charges related to the breach of the Houston Astros data servers last year, the Wall Street Journal reported. Correa was fired in July following the open…
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What a Loss in Syria Would Mean for Putin’s Russia – The Atlantic
Last September, Russia deployed dozens of jets to Syria to rescue the ailing regime of Bashar al-Assad. Vladimir Putin aimed to protect one of Moscow’s few foreign allies and gain leverage for the coming peace negotiations over the Syrian Civil War.
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Native Californian mother and son’s 600 mile “Walk for Ancestors” / Boing Boing
Caroline Ward Holland and her son Kagen toured all 21 California missions, on foot, this summer. They took this walk “in order to protest the Junipero Serra canonization, to honor their ancestors and ‘to tell the truth.’” reports Mark Day, at Indian…
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Russia’s Putin gets video tirade over late blizzard rescue – BBC News
A blizzard survivor has addressed an angry video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin after about 80 people waited 15 hours for rescuers in the Orenburg region of Russia.
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In a rare interview published Friday, US businessman Charles Koch spoke candidly about his role as a power broker for Republicans and his disappointment with the candidates for the 2016 election.
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Half-Life 1 & 2 writer answers fan’s HL3 question by announcing retirement | Ars Technica
It’s almost like clockwork, the semi-annual chirping of non-news related to the never-announced, never-canceled notion of a new Half-Life video game.
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Bill Bryson on Notes from a Small Island – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
Twenty years after publishing his affectionate portrait of British eccentricity, Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson has charted the ups and downs of a second voyage around the United Kingdom in The Road to Little Dribbling.
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How much it costs to rent in Berlin – mapped by its metro stations | Cities | The Guardian
This week’s stories range from a map tool that lets Berlin renters see if their landlord is illegally overcharging them to plans for Singapore’s new non-High Line and the role of sound in architecture. We’d love to read about your favourites too: sh…
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The end of Girls tells us a lot about how TV cancellations are changing – Vox
We think we know how TV cancellations work. A network realizes that a show’s ratings aren’t where they should be, and it pulls the plug. Often that happens right away — after a few episodes. Sometimes a show lasts a full season and then quietly disa…
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The Forest Is a Genuinely Scary Horror Movie About the Burden of Guilt
Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer stars in The Forest, a decent horror movie that offers plenty of shriek-worthy moments.
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The Trends We Saw at CES This Year That Will Matter In 2016
The Consumer Electronics Show is wrapping up in Las Vegas this week. Every year, tech companies get together to show off all their coolest stuff. Most of it isn’t as cool as they think. However, some trends give us an idea of what we can look forwar…
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Iraq’s Yazidis: Horrors of the past refuse to go away – Al Jazeera English
It’s been two months since Kurdish fighters recaptured the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But for the ethnic Yazidis driven out in 2014, the possibility of returning home is a grim prospect.
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Oil-Patch States Are Feeling the Pain As Crude Prices Plunge | VICE News
The steep plunge in the price of black gold is leaving state governments in the oil patch up to their necks in red ink. States that saw a steady flow of cash when oil was $100 a barrel are now looking at prices around $35 or less.
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For those about to rock, salute you, we do. Just in time for The Force Awakens, Instagram user WhyTheLongPlayFace has remade classic album covers with Star Wars characters.
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H&M’s New Scarf Looks Remarkably Like a Jewish Holy Garment – The Atlantic
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The latest from artist Gus Harper / Boing Boing
I’ve always loved sharing artist Gus Harper’s work. Regardless if it is time-lapse videos of Gus working, photos our readers have told me ARE safe for work, or just news about a forthcoming show.
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AMC’s zombies to stagger on indefinitely · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Few things are certain in the apocalyptic zombie wasteland of The Walking Dead. You could be bitten at any moment. The stupidity of the people around you might get everyone killed.
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VR game devs ready for a slow launch after $599 Oculus Rift reveal | Ars Technica
When Oculus started taking preorders for its Rift headset at $599 on Wednesday, plenty of potential consumers experienced a bit of sticker shock, thanks in part to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s admittedly poor job of setting price expectations.
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Mad Max: Fury Road fans craving more post-apocalyptic blood, oil, and dirt in their veins and on their screens are going to have to wait a while for George Miller’s follow-up. This guy is probably pissed. John Teti’s mom could probably go either way.
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The season two premiere of Better Call Saul is now just a month away, so AMC has been releasing teaser images and trailers to remind us of the seemingly uphill battle that is Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) downward spiral.
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St. Louis anxious about EPA plan for barrier between fire, toxic waste : environment
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A powerful video of young British Muslims talking about Islamophobia – Vox
Life for British Muslims is getting harder: Islamophobic violence has risen since the Paris terror attacks, and British fears of refugees and migrants is becoming so high that it may help lead the United Kingdom to exit the European Union.
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Movie Review: The Emotional Drudgery of Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’ – The Atlantic
The first act of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s animated film Anomalisa plays out as an unassuming, slice-of-life drama: It follows an Englishman named Michael Stone (David Thewlis) as he flies to Cincinnati, takes a cab to his hotel, and checks…
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BBC Sport – Yaya Toure angered by African player of the year award snub
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has reacted angrily after failing to win the Confederation of African Football’s player of the year award.
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Travel Off the Beaten Path in 2016 – The Daily Beast
Thinking about taking a trip this year? Does the thought of traveling to Tulum, the proclaimed “Williamsburg of Mexico”, nauseate you? Great, this is the perfect travel guide for you! Here are 2016’s top in-the-know destinations no matter your prefe…
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Chris Christie Needs to Renounce the Endorsement of Maine’s ‘Overtly Racist’ Governor | The Nation
When does an endorsement go bad? When does a supporter become so foul that a candidate cannot accept the support any longer?
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Retiring members of Congress illustrate the problems with the campaign finance system – Vox
Once again, this is a news story: Member of Congress retires, bemoans the campaign finance system that he/she spent decades working. If it sounds like you’ve heard this before, you have. A bunch of times.
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Way back in 2010, ahead of the release of his critically lauded album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West launched a campaign that he called G.O.O.D. Fridays where, at the end of each working week, he would post a brand-new song online.
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Pixar has created its fair share of indelible images over the past few decades.
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Sitting in a small cafe in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, Gorjit recalled the harrowing experiences that led him there as he outlined his hopes and fears for the future.
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Join Me Next Week For Two Micro Meetups In New York | TechCrunch
It’s that time of month again: micro meetup time. I’m holding two small meetups in Manhattan and Brooklyn: a mini pitch-off on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 and a BTC event on Thursday, January 14, 2016.
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South Korea blasts K-pop music at North Korea to piss off Kim Jong Un / Boing Boing
The government of South Korea is playing loudly amplified anti-North Korea propaganda along the North Korean border today. The sonic assault combines K-Pop music with throwing shade at the North’s nuclear program and its leader Kim Jong Un. North Ko…
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About 100 miles downstream of Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, the small Missouri town of West Alton has spent the past week without almost its entire population as it has been completely swamped by water. William Richter is the mayor of a …
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New rules could exclude Martin O’Malley from next Democratic debate | US news | The Guardian
Martin O’Malley could be excluded from the next Democratic presidential debate, under new criteria announced by NBC on Friday.
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There were only 14 days in all of 2015 when police didn’t kill anyone
One caveat: Even though the Black Lives Matter movement has focused a lot on unjustifiable or excessive use of force by police, it’s possible that many or most of the incidents on this calendar were justified.
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Justin Bieber sets UK singles chart record – BBC News
Justin Bieber has pulled off another chart coup by occupying the number one, two and three spots with his songs – a feat never accomplished before. The Canadian singer remains in pole position in this week’s singles chart with Love Yourself and also…
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The Trump-fueled charge Ted Cruz never counted on: He’s quite simply too un-American to be president
Only a Canadian would hide his hand under his jacket. After watching Donald Trump go after so many disadvantaged people who don’t deserve it, the one saving grace of his candidacy is watching him target Ted Cruz for not being American enough to hold…
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Report: NFL Will Live-Stream All London Games, Bidders Include Apple & Google | TechCrunch
The NFL continues to embrace streaming as it furthers its attempts to reach a generation of fans who don’t necessarily tune in through traditional TV viewing.
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Read President Obama’s op-ed: https://t.co/QcO1
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LaBelle residents implore the DEP to deny coal ash permits (PA) : environment
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B’Tselem defends executing Palestinians who sell land to Jews : worldnews
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This is the Most Bed Bug Infested City in America | Van Winkle’s
Philadelphia lost an honor it’s held for the last four years, but there’s no need to cry for the city of Brotherly Love. In fact, residents are probably breathing a sigh of relief. This year, Detroit unseated the home of the steak hoagie as America’…
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IKEA’s secret passageways and other behind-the-scenes surprises / Boing Boing
IKEA isn’t just the largest furniture store in the world. It’s also the amusement park of shopping malls – or a claustrophobic shoppers’ hell, depending on both your mood and how mobbed the winding labyrinth of Swedish goods happens to be on any giv…
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See If You’re Saving Enough For the Future With Fidelity’s Retirement Score
The sooner you start saving for retirement, the better. Whether or not you’re saving enough is a different story. Fidelity’s new Retirement Score tool tells you whether or not you’re on track.
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Islamic State group claims Libya police bomb attack – BBC News
The Islamic State group (IS) says it was behind a bomb attack which targeted a police training centre in Libya on Thursday, killing at least 47 people. More than 100 people were injured in the truck bomb attack in the western city of Zliten, the dea…
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Syrians in Madaya ‘eating tree leaves to survive’ – BBC News
People in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya are eating “tree leaves” to survive, an activist has told the BBC. Speaking under gunfire, he said that there was “no food” there.
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Monster Galaxy Cluster Is the Biggest Ever from the Early Universe
This image of the massive galactic cluster IDCS 1426 combines data taken by three major NASA telescopes. The off-center core of X-rays is shown in blue-white near the middle of the cluster, and was captured by Chandra.
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China hospital demolished ‘with people inside’ – BBC News
A hospital in China has been bulldozed while still in use, reportedly causing doctors inside to flee and burying six bodies from its morgue under rubble, state media say.
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Kristen Stewart on Directing: “I Can’t F—king Wait” | Vanity Fair
Kristen Stewart has what she calls “dropped on my ass” syndrome.
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Flash Friday: Patrick, My Great Uncle Adolphus’s Duck | Books | The Guardian
My Great Uncle Adolphus had a pet duck named Patrick. Patrick was insecure, needy, foul-tempered, and brilliant. Not just brilliant for a duck either, my Great Uncle would say. Patrick possesses a keen mind.
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BBC America’s Dirk Gently Series Is Really Going Forward
We’ve known since last year that BBC America were working on bringing a new version of Douglas Adam’s holistic detective to U.S. shores—but now it’s official: BBC America have announced that they’ve greenlit Dirk Gently for an order of eight episode…
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Saudi Aramco eyes $1 trillion listing – Al Jazeera English
The world’s largest oil company Saudi Aramco confirmed on Friday it is considering selling shares as part of a privatisation drive – a move that could create the first listed firm valued at $1 trillion or more.
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He Killed His Own Mom for ISIS – The Daily Beast
She was simply trying to save the life of her child. Instead, Leena al-Qasem fell victim to the first rule of any successful cult: Turn your followers against their friends, their family, and most importantly their parents.
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Kanye West, the Strokes, the Killers to Headline 2016 Governors Ball | Rolling Stone
Kanye West, the Strokes, the Killers and Beck will headline the 2016 Governors Ball Music Festival, which takes place Friday, June 3rd through Sunday, June 5th at New York City’s Randall’s Island Park.
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‘Making a Murderer,’ and the Huge Problem of False Youth Confessions | Rolling Stone
Much of the conversation around Making a Murderer, the sensationally popular Netflix documentary series that came out last month, has revolved around the question of guilt or innocence.
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Defense Lawyers Claim FBI Peddled Child Porn in Dark Web Sting | Motherboard
On Tuesday, Motherboard reported that the FBI had carried out an “unprecedented” hacking campaign, in which the agency targeted at least 1,300 computers that were allegedly used to visit a site hosting child pornography.
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This White Chocolate Sphere Dessert : food
That is awesome! So that’s where dessert comes from…
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Stinson Beach, Cali [OP][1080×1350] : SkyPorn
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THE WEEKND- “In The Night” on Vimeo
Director/Edit- BRTHR Executive Producers- Tom Berendsen, La Mar C. Taylor Producer: Sara Greco Production Company- LEGS MEDIA Video Commissioner- Kevin Kloecker Director of Photography- Lasse Frank Starring- Abel Tesfaye, Bella Hadid, Yoshihisa Kuwa…
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How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
The lovable rodent, who sports bright red shorts, a pair of gigantic yellow shoes, and circular ears, has achieved, in his 87 years, what no other animated character has: He has won an Academy Award. He has spawned social clubs, theme parks, and eve…
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Home Depot Explains Why It Offers “Do-It-Herself” Workshops – Consumerist
Interested in learning how to do a few handy things around your home? Home Depot, like some other retailers, offers free workshops to customers.
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Looks like a scene from a Kubrick film, but it’s just a snapshot of a cat hiding under the blankets. Uploaded by Redditor attigirb. Cats have a million different ways of being pissed off. This is one we hadn’t seen before.
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The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe wrote off reports that Donald Trump’s campaign screened attendees at an event to admit only supporters as something “candidates on both sides of the aisle” typically do, but previously condemned Hillary Clinton for t…
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Obama on Our Shared Responsibility regarding guns
From a current Washington DC resident and father, an opinion piece in the NY Times called Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility. Even as I continue to take every action possible as president, I will also take every action I can as a citizen.
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Donald Trump: I will end gun-free zones in schools – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to bring an end to gun-free zones in schools and on military bases, saying he would do it on day one of his presidency.
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The White House Just Weighed In on Making a Murderer | Mother Jones
Ever since Netflix released the true-crime series Making a Murderer last month, internet dwellers have been in a tizzy dreaming up schemes to exonerate the protagonists of the show, arguing that they were framed by a corrupt justice system.
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Europe Is Going After Donald Trump In the Most Amazingly European Way | Mother Jones
The story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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Volkswagen sales drop for first time in 11 years – BBC News
German carmaker Volkswagen has posted its first drop in sales in 11 years as the company continues to cope with its emissions scandal. Sales of VW cars fell 4.8% in 2015 to 5.82 million cars from 6.12 million a year earlier.
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OkCupid Adds a Feature for the Polyamorous – The Atlantic
Online dating behemoth OkCupid is adding a feature tailor-made for polyamorous people.
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How Star Wars Tourism Is Boosting the Economy of a Tiny Irish Fishing Village – The Atlantic
If you’ve seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you will undoubtedly recognize Skellig Michael. You know, that place where that guy appeared? The guy wearing the robe? It was a brief (but vital) scene, so here, a reminder:
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RIP Crypt Keeper, the Superstar That Won’t Return to Tales From the Crypt
When you say “Tales from the Crypt” most people immediately think of the Crypt Keeper. He didn’t have the most screen time but the gross, frightening, cheeky host of the 90s HBO anthology series was undoubtedly the star. And he probably won’t be bac…
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“A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration – The New Yorker
When I was growing up, my mother, Bette Parks Sacks, often told me stories about her youth in Mississippi. She spoke in a slow, sweet drawl, despite the fact that she’d spent her entire adult life in Chicago.
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‘The Martian’ Story Continues – Bonus Features Reveal Plot Twists | Video
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All the Sex Stuff on Sex and the City Really Happened | Vanity Fair
They had a rule in the writing that nothing can be written that didn’t literally happen to someone in the writers’ room or someone they knew firsthand. It couldn’t be my father’s brother’s sister’s shoe-repair guy heard once that, you know.
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Cologne’s Police Chief Is Ousted Over New Year’s Eve Assaults – The Atlantic
Cologne’s police chief has been provisionally suspended following outrage over his department’s handling of the sexual assaults of women on New Year’s Eve reportedly by as many as 1,000 Arab or North African men.
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Strange New State of Hydrogen Created – Scientific American
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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Philadelphia officer ambushed by gunman – BBC News
Three of the 13 or more shots that the as yet unnamed gunman fired struck the officer, who is said to be recovering. The officer returned fire, striking the gunman at least three times, in what the police chief described as an attempted “execution”.
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It’s Not You, It’s Your Man Bun – The New Yorker
Lucas, we need to talk. We both know that things haven’t been working. Sure, we had something good going for a second there, but I’m afraid we’re just not compatible anymore. I don’t want you to feel bad, but I really mean it when I say this: it’s n…
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How Connected Cars Will Transform Our Lives at Home
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If irony died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize, it might be argued that the prestige of the presidential library was fatally compromised when George W Bush got one.
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Saving Suburbia – Issue 32: Space – Nautilus
With suburbs, architects gave adults just what they wanted: Affordable houses with lawns and garages, homes where children can be raised free from the threats of urban and natural life. By this measure, suburbs are a success—as long as you can stoma…
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Beyoncé and Channing Tatum tag team “Run The World” for Lip Sync Battle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The second season of Lip Sync Battle started with a bang last night, as Beyoncé made a special guest appearance alongside Channing Tatum. The Queen Bee strutted onstage near the end of Tatum’s rendition of “Run The World (Girls),” easily upstaging t…
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Kendrick Lamar performs a new track, “Untitled 2,” on The Tonight Show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last year, Kendrick Lamar performed a completely new and (as of that point) unreleased song on The Colbert Report following the release of our No. 1 album of the year, To Pimp A Butterfly. And last night, he went on the Tonight Show and did it all a…
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You’re invited to The A.V. Club’s Golden Globes live-chat · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time once again to disguise our misgivings about personal shortcomings by sniping about people winning awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But enough about Ricky Gervais: The 73rd Golden Globe Awards are b…
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
An American white pelican
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Another Hostile Takeover At The Malheur Wildlife Refuge | ThinkProgress
Ammon Bundy and his group of armed occupiers are not the only ones invading the Malheur National Wildlife Regufe. They’re holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, and they’re unwelcome. There are too many to count.
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Sri Lanka president pardons militant who tried to kill him – BBC News
Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, has pardoned a former Tamil Tiger militant convicted of trying to assassinate him more than a decade ago. Mr Sirisena set free Sivaraja Jenivan at a ceremony to mark his first year in power. The men shook…
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Taxidermy “gooseneck” lamp / Boing Boing
Sculptor Sebastian ErraZuriz rescued a damaged stuffed goose from a taxidermy museum’s trash and turned it into a “gooseneck” lamp. Rescued from the trashcan of an old taxidermy museum, the taxidermy bird with a broken neck get’s given a new life as…
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Paris attackers’ Belgian hideout discovered in Schaerbeek district of Brussels – BBC News
Belgian police have identified a flat in Brussels where they believe one of the Paris jihadists hid after the 13 November 2015 attacks. Traces of explosives and a fingerprint of fugitive Salah Abdeslam were found in an apartment in the Schaerbeek di…
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National Centre for Writing project in Norwich granted £900,000 | Books | The Guardian
Backed by major writers including JM Coetzee, Margaret Atwood and Anthony Horowitz, plans to open the National Centre for Writing, in Norwich – a first in the UK – have moved closer to fruition after the project was awarded a grant of almost £1m.
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The economics of prettiness: more attractive women get higher grades – Vox
Women who are conventionally attractive have an advantage in college — and it continues later in life, according to research from two economists at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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Trump Demands Security Throw Protester Out into Freezing Weather | Vanity Fair
Thursday night’s campaign rally for Donald Trump was already headed for disaster when protesters and would-be hecklers arrived with tickets for the Vermont event.
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Chip Kelly talks to 49ers as DeSean Jackson says ‘karma’ led to coach’s exit | Sport | The Guardian
Chip Kelly has spoken to the 49ers about the vacant coaching position in San Francisco, as former Eagles star DeSean Jackson presented his own theory about why Kelly was fired from Philadelphia: karma.
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Campbell Soup to become first major food company to label GMO ingredients | US news | The Guardian
Campbell Soup Co said it will label all its US products for the presence of ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms, becoming the first major food company to respond to growing calls for more transparency about ingredients.
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New Protections For World’s Largest Population of Giant Manta Rays
Giant manta rays captured the world’s attention last April when a fisherman in northern Peru unintentionally caught a behemoth weighing 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms).
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So far, given the lack of damage from the Canada story to his image among conservatives, Cruz actually benefits from Trump’s full-spectrum dominance of the national media conversation. Cruz does this by blaming every incoming attack on two factors.
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‘American Sniper’ widow confronts Barack Obama over gun control | US news | The Guardian
The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle confronted Barack Obama during a town hall meeting about guns on Thursday, putting the president on the defensive over what may be the final major domestic policy initiative of his presidency.
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China closes 2% higher but other markets fall after US jobs data – live | Business | The Guardian
Good morning and welcome to the live blog. It’s been another lively morning on the financial markets and it’s tense ahead of the opening of the Chinese mainland markets at 12.30 AEDT.
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Nigerian Military Accused of Killing Suspects | Al Jazeera America
Villagers in northeast Nigeria are saying that Nigerian soldiers shot and killed a teacher and two middle-aged men who had been detained.
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President Obama to Democrats: Support gun control — or else – Vox
Even as I continue to take every action possible as president, I will also take every action I can as a citizen. I will not campaign for, vote for or support any candidate, even in my own party, who does not support common-sense gun reform.
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The Trouble With Drinking In Singapore | VinePair
As is typical of our people, my fellow Americans were not shy to tell me all they knew about the little equatorial nation-state I’d be moving to last summer.
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The Difference Between Life And Death? Google Cardboard. | ThinkProgress
Barely out of the womb, newborn Teegan Lexen was given a death sentence. She was born with one lung and little more than half a heart, a defect so unusual that doctors told her parents that there was nothing to be done.
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To get some sense of just what a monster it has become, try counting the number of times in a week you see some permutation of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster.
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Can We Fix Opioid Abuse by Rethinking Chronic Pain? | New Republic
Over the last few decades, medicine has witnessed a sea change in attitudes toward chronic pain, and particularly toward opioids. While these changes were intended to bring relief to many, they have also fed an epidemic of prescription opioid and he…
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The A.V. Club live-chats The 73rd Golden Globe Awards · Live Chat · The A.V. Club
Join The A.V. Club’s TV and film critics for a Golden Globes live-chat at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 Central on January 10. You can also contribute to the live-chat on Twitter, using the hashtag #avctv.
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Teacher Says She Was Fired For Teaching Students About The Central Park Five | ThinkProgress
A New York City high school teacher says she was fired after teaching her class about the Central Park Five — a case involving five black and Hispanic men who were accused of raping a jogger as teenagers but later exonerated after spending between s…
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Holy Shit, NBC Is Really Gonna Make That “The Office But With DC Superheroes” Show
Hey, remember how DC and NBC were looking into making a workplace sitcom about regular people working at an insurance office inside the DC universe? Apparently they liked what they saw, because NBC has officially ordered the comedy, currently titled…
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Kate Middleton and Prince William to Visit Bhutan Without George and C | Vanity Fair
It’s shaping up to be a busy year for the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate, who turns 34 Saturday, and Prince William will make an official trip to Bhutan, Kensington Palace today announced. The Duke and Duchess will travel to the Himalayan kingdom this s…
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The inventor of the hoverboard says he’s made no money from it | Technology | The Guardian
Shortly before Christmas, with sales of hoverboards surging as the must-have gadget of 2015, Shane Chen flew to China to confront his tormentors. Chen is the man who developed and patented the hoverboard design in his lab on the US west coast four y…
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The Community-Owned ISPs Building an Alternative to Big Telecom in New York City | Motherboard
If you want high speed internet in most any spot in New York City, you’re stuck with Time Warner Cable. Or at least, that’s how it usually works. But increasingly around the city, citizens and small community groups are setting up their own locally …
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Britney Spears’ Guide to Physics Is Still the Best Science Website From 1999 | Motherboard
At the dawn of the millennium, something beautiful and weird emerged from the era’s cultural detritus and made it onto the then-burgeoning internet: Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics, found via the unassuming URL britneyspears.ac.
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‘Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt’: A Review of Topical Erotica | Motherboard
From the author of Pounded By Pluto: The Crappiest Planet, Invaded By the iWatch, and Sex Boat: An Erotic Novella About Sex on a Boat, comes the new short story, Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt. Leonard Delaney is one of my favorite perverts curren…
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Cucumber (my cat) with her best friend Hal (my headphone holder). : cats
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Bright Idea? Talk to Your Lightbulb to Control Your House – Scientific American
LAS VEGAS — In the few short years that LED bulbs have been available, there’s been many innovations in how you can interact with them.
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Want to buy a data plan? There’s a Microsoft app—and SIM card—for that | Ars Technica
The Verge has spotted a mysterious app in the Windows Store. Published by Microsoft, the “Cellular Data” app “allows you to connect to a trusted nationwide mobile data network using only your Microsoft account.”
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The Unique Challenges of Teaching Migrant Children – East of Salinas – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Watch Animal Collective’s Seizure-Inducing ‘FloriDada’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Animal Collective’s Seizure-Inducing ‘FloriDada’ Video Band decorates first ‘Painting With’ single with bright colors and “alien love story”
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CHICAGO—In response to calls for increased transparency and accountability, the Chicago Police Department announced Friday that it will begin monitoring all interactions with the public by using new bullet cams.
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Chris Stapleton Set for Coachella, ‘SNL’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Chris Stapleton Set for Coachella, ‘SNL’: The Ram Report With a coveted national TV appearance and a slot on the all-genre Coachella lineup, Stapleton cements his crossover
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This Cat Love This Bottle : cats
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Snowy El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, Ca [OC] 5616×3744 : EarthPorn
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Job Growth Was Great In December, But Can It Last? | FiveThirtyEight
The U.S. job market ended 2015 on an unexpectedly high note. Now the question is whether it can sustain that momentum in a new year that is already off to a rocky start. American employers added 292,000 jobs in December, the biggest gain all year, t…
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Fox Business host Stuart Varney opened his show this morning by downplaying the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) jobs report for December 2015, marking the third consecutive month that Fox personalities have attempted to cast stellar job creation f…
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Ah, The Tale of Genji — a veritable Mount Everest for students of the Japanese language, and a fixture on so many reading lists drawn up by fans of world literature in translation as well.
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Smartphone-based system does job of pancreas, treats type 1 diabetes | Ars Technica
People suffering from type 1 diabetes may soon be able to ditch constant finger pricks and manual insulin injections—if they have a smartphone on hand, that is.
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Ancient Cloud of Pristine Gas Observed –“May Contain the Signature of the Very First Stars”
Researchers from Australia and the USA have discovered a distant, ancient cloud of gas that may contain the signature of the very first stars that formed in the Universe.
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Maine governor: Drug dealers impregnating ‘white girls’ – BBC News
The governor of the US state of Maine is facing criticism after he said drug dealers with names like “D-Money” were impregnating “white girls”. Governor Paul LePage, who has a history of making controversial statements, made the remarks while speaki…
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I’m a few days late on this characteristically lucid Justin Fox column on why it took so long for economists to focus on income inequality.
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Maine Governor Paul LePage, no stranger to inflammatory and offensive remarks, delivered a doozy Wednesday night. Maine, like many northeastern states, is facing a serious heroin problem. And LePage knows who to blame: The traffickers—these aren’t p…
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Israel Kills Suspect in Deadly Tel Aviv Shootings | Al Jazeera America
Israeli police said Friday that the man alleged to have killed three people on Jan. 1 after opening fire at a bar in Tel Aviv has been killed in a shootout with police.
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So, will China’s problems cause a global crisis? The good news is that the numbers, as I read them, don’t seem big enough. The bad news is that I could be wrong, because global contagion often seems to end up being worse than hard numbers say it sho…
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Oil-Rich Oklahoma Has Been Hit by Nearly Three Dozen Earthquakes Since Wednesday | VICE News
Nearly three dozen small to mid-sized earthquakes have rocked northern Oklahoma towns since Wednesday, rattling windows and nerves in a region where scientists have linked seismic activity to oil wells. The quakes included a magnitude 4.4 and a magn…
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Having sex with a politician is generally an activity you want to keep to yourself — barring, perhaps, a close circle of friends — and it’s certainly something to keep off the public record. But if you’re a lobbyist and live in Missouri, you may no …
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New technique can help us understand signaling direction of brain networks | Ars Technica
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to record activity in different brain regions. When different regions exhibit simultaneous activity, we generally conclude that they are functionally connected in a network.
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Rosa Parks on To Tell the Truth
In 1980, civil rights hero Rosa Parks appeared on To Tell the Truth, a long-running game show. Parks appeared alongside two other women claiming to be Parks and a celebrity panel tried to guess the identity of the true Parks.
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YouTube Will Join Netflix And Amazon With Support For HDR Video | TechCrunch
YouTube will be joining Netflix and Amazon with support for HDR (high dynamic range) video, the company announced this week at CES 2016.
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The first batch of Oculus Rift preorders is already sold out · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although the company missed the holiday-season shopping frenzy by a few weeks, Oculus VR recently announced that preorders for the Rift would open on January 6. (Of course, this was after having promised that preorders would be available in 2015 for…
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James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | TED Talk | TED.com
Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along …
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A Disney Artist Mashed Up Calvin and Hobbes With The Force Awakens
The Force Awakens fan art is everywhere. But none can top Brian Kesinger’s mashup of the film’s characters with the wonderful stylings of Bill Watterson. None of it. Over the past few days Kesinger, a storyboard artist for Disney, has been posting s…
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The Ultimates #3 cements the series as Marvel’s premier Avengers comic · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s The Ultimates #3.
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This strikes me as going overboard: Users Are Suing Fitbit Over Inaccurate Heart Monitors. Maybe there’s a legal case, but people should know better.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: January 1st to 8th
The year is new and we’ve hit the ground running—literally, because I am out of shape and need to hit the gym after some time away. Aside from exercise this week, we’re improving our lives by purchasing better quality clothes, investing in index fun…
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LePage clarifies: Drug lords aren’t impregnating ‘white women,’ just ‘Maine women,’ who are white
Maine Gov. Paul LePage held a rambling, angry press conference Friday morning, addressing the racist statement he made at a town meeting about Maine’s drug problem. Here’s what he said in that town meeting:
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You Don’t Have to Be a Kid to Want All the New Star Wars Little Golden Books
Following up on the first series that condensed all of the original Star Wars movies into six illustrated children’s books, Random House Kids is releasing five new Star Wars Little Golden Books that now focus on the various characters from that univ…
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Fracking test explosions allowed without planning permission – BBC News
The government is set to remove another obstacle to the exploration for shale gas deposits in the UK. Fracking firms will no longer need planning permission to drill exploratory boreholes and drop explosive charges down them.
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Happy Birthday to this fantastic loaf : Catloaf
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The US Releases New Dietary Guidelines, And Experts Say They’re Unclear | VICE News
The United States’ official dietary guidelines received a much-anticipated update Thursday — but also received criticism for bowing too much to the pressures of the food industry and offering mixed messages to the American public, in the midst of an…
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On the first Friday of every month, I’m bringing you a new episode from the first season of the Pickathon Pumphouse Series. Each episode is a live performance filmed in the tiny Pumphouse studio on the grounds of the Pickathon music festival in Happ…
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Portraits of imprisoned Iranian girls awaiting capital punishment / Boing Boing
Though Iran won’t actually execute people under 18, their courts will readily sentence children as young a nine to physical punishment, including death, and hold them in inhumane, crowded conditions until they are old enough for their sentences to b…
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The Value In Virtual And Augmented Reality | TechCrunch
In 2015, the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industry was widely heralded as the next tectonic shift in computing. But it’s also an industry that investors are cautious to enter while everyone’s cards are still face down.
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Piet: Turing-complete abstract art / Boing Boing
Piet was named for Piet Mondrian, and its programs look like Mondrian paintings — which makes Mondrian Turing-complete. (Shown above: a Piet “Hello World” program.) The Piet language interpreter begins executing a program in the colour block which …
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Rebooted Kepler Spacecraft Hauls in the Planets – Scientific American
In the second phase of its life as a planet hunter, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is raking in exoplanet discoveries that are surprisingly different from those found during its first iteration.
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What happens when a black hole eats all the nearby gas? Its quasar dims | Ars Technica
Here’s a mystery Encyclopedia Brown probably couldn’t solve: the case of the missing quasar. But astronomers appear to be up for the task.
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Loading the player reg… ALISYN CAMEROTA (HOST): Donald Trump on the campaign trail has been saying that President Obama is coming for your guns, he hates the Second Amendment. Last night the president basically called that a conspiracy theory and …
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Pulsating Stars At Milky Way’s Outskirts —“May Reveal Dwarf Galaxies Dominated by Dark Matter”
This new method to characterize dark matter marks the first real application of the field of galactoseismology.
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Polio eradication is at risk from the very thing that made it a success – Vox
The world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, the horrible paralysis-inducing disease that primarily infects children. But the tail-end efforts are at risk from the very thing that made eradication programs a success: the vaccines themselves.
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BBC Sport – Louis van Gaal: Man Utd boss unfazed by Pep Guardiola’s plans
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal says he is unfazed by Pep Guardiola’s desire to manage in the Premier League. The former Barcelona boss has been linked with both Manchester clubs as well as Chelsea and Arsenal.
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GM embraces white-hats with public vulnerability disclosure program | Ars Technica
On January 5, General Motors quietly flipped the switch on Detroit’s first public security vulnerability disclosure program, launched in partnership with the bug bounty and disclosure portal provider HackerOne.
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How Jeb Bush Plans To Destroy Anti-Poverty Programs | ThinkProgress
On Friday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush released a wide-sweeping plan to reform many of the country’s largest safety net programs, calling them “broken,” “bloated,” and “destructive.
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Republicans Would Rather Be Shot Than Agree with Obama – The New Yorker
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A day after President Obama held a nationally televised town hall about guns in America, a new poll shows that a majority of Republicans would rather actually be shot by a firearm than agree with him.
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US releases last Kuwaiti detained in Guantanamo – Al Jazeera English
The US military said on Friday it released the last of 12 Kuwaiti nationals detained at its Guantanamo Bay prison for years without charge. The repatration of Faez al-Kandari – held for about 14 years – leaves 104 inmates still languishing at the co…
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An insight into the peopling of Europe has emerged from an unlikely source — the stomach contents of a 5,300-year-old body pulled from a thawing glacier in the eastern Italian Alps.
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Trans People Told to Leave Gender Blank on Canada’s Census | VICE News
Transgender Canadians people won’t be counted in the upcoming census of the population.
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Loading the player reg… PAUL BABEU: We have to look to solve these issues, $500 million dollars, quite frankly, that he proposed, isn’t going to cut it.
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Why the Fight Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Isn’t About Religion | VICE News
When Saudi Arabia unexpectedly executed the prominent political dissident and Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr a week ago, the Sunni Kingdom may not have known how Iran’s Shia-dominated government would respond — but it certainly knew that Iran wou…
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Menstruation is the mother of invention / Boing Boing
Rose Eveleth presents us a history of patented menstrual devices from 1928 on, from cellular tampons that message you when they need changing to a “Nether garment for and method of controlling crotch odors.
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The World’s Billionaires Are Having a Bad Week | Vanity Fair
All the world seems to have slipped into a mild panic over the global stock-market meltdown this week.
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The Red Planet setting over Saigon, VN (OC) (2048×1366) : SkyPorn
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Star-forming region ‘Gum 29’ [3000 x 2000] : spaceporn
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Suicides and ‘Shorter, Bleaker’ Lives Plague Indigenous Groups Around the World | VICE News
A chronic failure to secure the land rights of global indigenous populations has led to systematic loss of land and displacement that has exposed tribes to new diseases, generated malnutrition, and driven indigenous suicide rates well beyond nationa…
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You’re Probably Not Mostly Microbes – The Atlantic
We are, supposedly, outnumbered in our own bodies. We play host to an extraordinary menagerie of bacteria and other microbes—the microbiome—and it’s frequently said that these teeming cells outnumber our own by ten to one. This 10:1 ratio crops up e…
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December Jobs Report – The Atlantic
The December jobs report is out, and it’s smashed the moderate expectations that economists had for it. Figures released by the Labor Department on Friday morning show that the economy added 292,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate remain…
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The Steep Costs of Imprisoning Juvenile Offenders in Adult Prisons – The Atlantic
On December 14, 2015, Philip Chism, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was convicted of raping and murdering his high-school math teacher, Colleen Ritzer.
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South Korea Resumes Propaganda Broadcasts to the North – The Atlantic
Unfolding at 11 locations along the heavily fortified frontier, the broadcasts provide a rare source of outside news and music for North Korean frontline troops and residents of border towns in the reclusive society.
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NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports | New Republic
On the front page of NBA.com there is a section called NBA Pulse, which ranks the top three trending players on Twitter by “mentions per hour” in real-time. This prominent placement is no gimmick.
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Obama shows how respectful gun talk is done at town hall event
President Obama talked to both supporters and opponents of stronger gun laws at a CNN-sponsored town hall Thursday night, in what’s being described as an unusually civil and substantive exchange on a contentious topic.
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Hardcore Cosby fans won’t let it go / Boing Boing
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby now faces criminal charges over sexual assault allegations, but despite a lifetime of reported abuse and his admission of drugging women, the man still has his defenders.
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Access Tons of Books, Photos, and Videos in the New York Public Library’s Digital Database
Libraries are a pretty awesome resource. They’re full of tools, information, and materials anyone can use. Even better, all of it’s free. And the New York Public Library now offers access to a massive database of digital collections.
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5 Tough Gun Questions Obama Tackled at Thursday’s Town Hall | Rolling Stone
President Obama confronted scrutiny over his executive actions on guns head-on Thursday night in a town hall hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
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Kendrick Lamar Unveils Powerful New Song ‘Untitled 2’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
Kendrick Lamar Unveils Powerful New Song ‘Untitled 2’ on ‘Fallon’ Rapper also sits down with ‘Tonight Show’ host to discuss his 11 Grammy nominations
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What the BAFTA Nominations Tell Us About the Oscars | Vanity Fair
The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for its annual awards, the BAFTAs, offering us some insight into the Oscar race from a British perspective.
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Tea and Unaccountability: Bureaucracy and the Drug War | Popehat
Last week Radley Balko described a Kansas case in which loose-leaf tea led to a police raid.
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Calypso looking pretty via /r/cats https://t.co/xkqAa4KwZT https://t.co/VvbiYNufdy
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Sand Tufa at Mono Lake, CA [1280×854][OC] : spaceporn
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Global Warming Helped Exacerbate Biggest Year Ever for U.S. Wildfires – Scientific American
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Sugar Is the New Public Health Enemy #1 – The Atlantic
On Thursday, the U.S. government issued a new version of its dietary guidelines, which include the new, concrete recommendation that people receive less than 10 percent of their daily calorie intake from added sugar.
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India one-day captain MS Dhoni has been summoned to a local court over a magazine cover that depicts his image. The wicketkeeper has now been asked to appear at a court in Anantapur.
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If you just got a contact high after reading the title of this post, then congratulations.
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Israeli-Palestinian love story becomes a bestseller – BBC News
A love story between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim has topped the list of bestsellers after Israel’s education ministry refused to allow the book in the school curriculum.Officials feared Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan could encourage relati…
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Cartoon: United States of Militiadom
Hoo boy, where to begin with this one? Hypocrisy always makes for good cartoon material but the militia “takeover” in Burns, Oregon is like peeling the proverbial onion of hypocrisy. (Is that a thing? It is now.) Should we begin on the Bundy side o…
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After declining an invitation to participate in CNN’s town hall discussion on gun violence with President Obama on Thursday, the National Rifle Association sent its top lobbyist, Chris W.
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The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck | Tampa Bay Times
The last time you were on this page, you bookmarked your spot in the story. Would you like to pick up where you left off? Do not automatically bookmark my position in the future.
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180 Muslim Workers Were Fired For Taking ‘Prayer Breaks’ | The Nation
The Somali refugee community of Colorado has struggled with cultural conflict for years, transitioning from life in war zone to homesteading in Middle America. But now a surprisingly quiet cultural quirk has come between them and their new livelihoo…
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Finding Brooklyn’s Ghost Streams, With Old Maps and New Technology | Atlas Obscura
On a chilly Sunday morning, Eymund Diegel stands at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 2nd Street in Brooklyn, just a block from the park where the Old Stone House, built in 1699, now lives. There’s a blue tube full of maps slung across his shoulde…
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Sometimes I get sick of being myself. It’s boring, and I’ve been myself basically my whole life: a smart, anxious young man.
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Peel Turns Your Apple Watch Into A Universal Remote Control | TechCrunch
Does it make sense to use your Apple Watch as a remote control for your media devices? Smart remote maker Peel thinks so, having just launched a universal remote control application for the Apple Watch which lets you operate over 400,000 models of h…
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Alan Moore’s early comic Monster to be republished | Books | The Guardian
A “forgotten” early work by the Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell author Alan Moore, about a disfigured man who murders those he doesn’t like, is to be brought back on to bookshelves after being out of print for more than 30 years.
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Sri Lankan leader pardons man who attempted to kill him – Al Jazeera English
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has pardoned a former Tamil rebel who attempted to assassinate him 10 years ago at a ceremony marking the government’s first year in office on Friday.
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Certain films, like those featuring daring superheroics or thrilling space adventures, are likely to inspire robust action figure lines. Other films, like those featuring juvenile delinquency, crime, fashion, and the death penalty, are not.
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Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton Face Off On Who Should Pay For Paid Family Leave | ThinkProgress
Bernie Sanders, left, makes a point as Hillary Rodham Clinton listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both announced plans this week to give all U.S.
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Carol ties with Bridge Of Spies for the most BAFTA nominations this year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Audiences will get an earful (or two) of one Brit’s opinions of the film industry on Sunday when Ricky Gervais returns to host the Golden Globes, though most of the actual attendees will probably be too drunk to register his barbs.
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The 2 Refugees Charged With Terrorism-Related Crimes, In Context | ThinkProgress
Two Palestinian refugees, both born in Iraq, were arrested in Sacramento and Houston respectively on Thursday for terror related charges. The arrests have already elicited responses from certain U.S. governors who vowed to not accept Syrian refugees.
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The Internet of Things That Talk About You Behind Your Back | Motherboard
SilverPush is an Indian startup that’s trying to figure out all the different computing devices you own. It embeds inaudible sounds into the webpages you read and the television commercials you watch.
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Updated, 8:52 p.m. | When the “super PAC” backing Senator Marco Rubio assailed Gov. Chris Christie’s record in New Jersey in tough new television ads this week, it was as if Mr. Christie had been presented with a gift. Mr. Rubio is deft at deliverin…
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Tel Aviv shooting suspect ‘killed’ – BBC News
The first full guidelines issued on alcohol for 20 years cut recommended drinking limits and say that any amount of alcohol carries a risk to your health.
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It’s a GIF Party, Come Dance Your Friday Away
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your GIFs. It’s Friday, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to party. Let us know how your week has gone. Good? Bad? Busy? Relaxing? But remember, readers, to do it with gifs.
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When we’re absorbed by the love of our craft we’re often carried away by a state of flow. For Philip, this happens when he rides saddle buck. His experience is informed by his Cheyenne heritage.
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“Je Suis Charlie,” but your free speech is terrorism / Boing Boing
It’s been a year since the horrific Charlie Hebdo attack and the subsequent outpouring of defense of free speech from all quarters — the insistence that free societies demand tolerance of viewpoints, even deeply offensive ones.
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Ted Cruz Tells Young Immigrant That He Would Deport People Like Her | ThinkProgress
Young undocumented immigrants, beware: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will unabashedly tell you to your face that if he’s president, he would deport people like you.
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Marius Myerdorf is a young boy who lives in Blatten. His tutor reports of tragic news that his parents have died.
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Join Facebook Travel Groups for Insider Tips from the Pros
Facebook groups are a great way to connect with other people, including locals or other travelers while you’re on vacation. You can even join groups to find travel deals or get insider tips.
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In 1845 a dullish bookseller from Reading ruined his life by falling in love with a painting.
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The world has never eradicated a parasite. But Jimmy Carter is about to – Vox
Guinea worm is a debilitating parasitic disease that in the mid-1980s used to infect millions in the developing world. But thanks to the work of the Carter Center, there were only 22 cases of guinea worm in 2015, a stunning public health victory.
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Watch Jamie Foxx Train Daughter Corinne for Her Miss Golden Globe Turn | Vanity Fair
It would be very understandable if this year’s Miss Golden Globe, Corinne Foxx—daughter of Jamie—had some nerves in anticipation of fulfilling her duties this Sunday night.
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Design your own planet, Populous-style / Boing Boing
Oskar Stalberg’s online game/toy “Polygonal Planet Project” runs in the browser and lets you design your own wee planet. You can raise and lower land, ice, forests and cities in a way similar to Amiga classic Populous, and watch the 3D globe rotate.
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Why You Can’t Buy A Smart Gun | ThinkProgress
President Barrack Obama’s call for tougher gun control this week quickly triggered rebuffs from GOP presidential candidates and gun enthusiasts.
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EMC Confirms Layoffs As Cost-Cutting Measures Begin Ahead Of Dell Sale | TechCrunch
Some EMC employees got some harsh news this week as anticipated layoffs have begun at the Massachusetts company. A company spokesperson confirmed the news, but declined to offer a specific number of affected employees. CRN first reported the news.
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Netflix’s Making a Murderer: the case of Steven Avery, explained – Vox
Warning: Spoilers for Netflix’s Making a Murderer ahead. Netflix’s Making a Murderer tells a chilling story: Steven Avery of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, was sent to prison for 18 years for a crime he didn’t commit, only to be released after a prolo…
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo slag Snooper’s Charter | Ars Technica
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have made an unusual collective submission of written evidence to the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee, in which they criticise a number of key elements of the UK government’s proposed S…
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If you grew up in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s, you remember the ubiquitous popularity of Starter apparel. The company’s jackets and hats were a must have if you didn’t want to be laughed at in middle school and forced to eat with the janitor.
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The Showdown: Hikaru Nakamura and “The Invulnerable Chess Demon From Hell” | Inverse
The fifth-best chess player in the world brought out his queen on the third move. Today, on day two of a four-game chess exhibition between grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and Komodo, the single strongest chess-playing entity on the planet, rooting for …
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Despite being the rapidly aged offspring of a shape-shifting dog and his rainicorn lover, Jake and Lady Rainicorn’s pups have been at the center of some of Adventure Time’s most grounded, emotionally mature episodes.
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Find out your “drinking nationality” / Boing Boing
You’d be forgiven for thinking the videocassette format long-dead, but it turns out that Betamax is still around. Sony is finally going to withdraw tapes from sale, bringing a 40-year story to an end. The last recorders were sold in 2002.
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Maine Governor Slammed for Remark About Drug Dealers Impregnating “Young White Girls” | Vanity Fair
Maine governor Paul LePage, who rules the frozen north like something out of a Stephen King fever dream, has a penchant for provocative, if not bizarre statements.
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TP-Link unveils world’s first 802.11ad WiGig router | Ars Technica
TP-Link has unveiled the world’s first 802.11ad (aka WiGig) router: the rather unique looking Talon AD7200. The router is on the show floor at CES in Las Vegas and will be available to buy “in early 2016.” No word on price, but I doubt it’ll be less…
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We just got some really great news about the economy – Vox
The US economy created new jobs at an unexpectedly strong pace in December. There was a net increase of 292,000 jobs in the month, according to figures released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Somewhere, Blade Runner’s Roy Batty Just Stepped Off the Assembly Line
According to Ridley Scott’s 34-year-old (!!!) scifi classic Blade Runner, January 8th, 2016, is the day the replicant designated N6MAA10816 was first incepted. But you may know him better as Roy Batty, the philosophical, sociopathic antagonist playe…
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Erupting Superstar Gets Siblings
Weird & Wild The Incredible Dr. Pol on Why He Became a Vet The star veterinarian’s popular show, which premieres for its sixth season on January 9, is even more wild and woolly.
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21 Things You Learn Hanging Out With 5 Seconds of Summer | Rolling Stone
For our 5 Seconds of Summer cover story, the Sydney, Australia, heartthrobs welcomed Rolling Stone to hang out with them over the course of a week in Los Angeles – at the band house, at various promo stops like the Late Late Show With James Corden a…
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Natalie Cole’s Family Reveals Singer’s Cause of Death | Rolling Stone
The family of Natalie Cole revealed Thursday that the singer passed away December 31st from heart failure brought on by idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). Cole was first diagnosed with IPAH, a rare lung disease, shortly after undergo…
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I had the best geek day ever – Edoras, Middle Earth (Mt Sunday, NZ) [OC] : pics
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Lady Macbeth or just Princess Ashraf Pahlavi? – Al Jazeera English
The death of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi at the age of 96 on Thursday marks the end of an era in more than one sense. The now standard assessment of the twin sister of the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, that she “was a close ally and staunch defender …
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December Jobs Report: Island of Calm amid World’s Tumult
Amid the clamorous tumult of global stock markets, the December BLS jobs report offers reassuring stability – 292,000 new jobs with the headline unemployment rate steady at 5%. The US has now enjoyed a record 70 months of private sector jobs growt…
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Juniper’s products are still insecure; more evidence that the company was complicit / Boing Boing
It’s been a month since Juniper admitted that its firewalls had back-doors in them, possibly inserted by (or to aid) US intelligence agencies. In the month since, Juniper has failed to comprehensively seal those doors, and more suspicious informatio…
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Maine Gov. LePage: Dealers named ‘D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty’ are impregnating Maine’s white girls
Maine Gov. Paul LePage continues to be quite the piece of work. “These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty … these types of guys … they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home,” L…
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If fashion houses can have “faces,” then Marc Jacobs has a new one: Lana Wachowski. This is notable not just because Wachowski is a film star of the behind-the-camera variety—she directed, among many other recent classics, The Matrix—but also becaus…
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Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park – The New Yorker
On an overcast day in November, 2014, just before Thanksgiving, two men dug a rather large hole in a lawn in Central Park. They started at seven-thirty in the morning, and by midday the hole was big enough for them both to stand in. As they dug, the…
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Fixing a bug during the deploy – DevOps Reactions
by @uaiHebert
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Two Iraqis who came to the US as refugees arrested on terrorism charges: what we know – Vox
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced it had arrested 2 men who came to the US as refugees on terrorism charges.
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Rhino poacher-hunting dog from South Africa gets hero medal – BBC News
K9 Killer’s tracking skills have led to the arrest of 115 poachers in Kruger National Park over the last four years. His contribution to saving the rhino population was “truly remarkable”, said UK vet charity PDSA, which awarded the gold medal for a…
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Hillary Clinton’s autism plan shows just how far the autism rights movement has come – Vox
On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign revealed her plan for tackling autism. That in and of itself isn’t huge news.
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‘Good Day, Mr. Kubrick’: The most memorably goofy audition tape of the 1980s|Dangerous Minds
One of the central difficulties about acting is the sheer act of putting yourself out there—giving it your all, emoting, gesticulating, chewing on a bizarre accent.
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Happy Birthday, Roy Batty / Boing Boing
Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) developed VertiGo, a mobile robot that can roll up walls. It uses two tiltable propellers that keep it rolling and also provide the thrust that keeps it against the wall w…
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Oregon Sheriff Meets Ammon Bundy, Greets Him With Handshake Not Handcuffs | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, Harney County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Ward met Ammon Bundy in a remote area near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Bundy has been leading an illegal armed occupation of a federal building for almost a week. But Ward greeted Bundy with …
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Lifesum Launches Movesum, A Step Tracker To Shock You About Calories | TechCrunch
After raising a $6.7M Series A round to bolster it’s position, health tracking startup Lifesum has added another quiver to its bow in the form of a new app called Movesum. You can download it here.
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MedicineAskScience AMA Series: I’m Elana Simon, a liver cancer survivor. At 18, I published gene sequencing research about my cancer in the journal Science. AMA. (self.askscience)
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‘Case is made’ for Earth’s new Anthropocene Epoch – BBC News
An international scientific panel believes that the Earth has entered a new geological age. The team, which has been tasked with defining the so-called Anthropocene, says humanity’s impacts on Earth will be visible in sediments and rocks millions of…
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Refugees arrested in California and Texas on terror charges – BBC News
Authorities have arrested two men from the Middle East who came to the US as refugees on federal terrorism charges. The arrests took place in California and Texas, but neither man was charged with plotting an attack on the US.
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Beyoncé May Have Played a Key Role in Rihanna’s Career Taking Off | Vanity Fair
Beyoncé and Rihanna have always seemed to have a somewhat complicated relationship. Jay Z, of course, is a pivotal figure in both of their lives, as husband to Beyoncé and the person who initially signed Rihanna.
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What It’s Like To Be Shia Inside The Ardently Sunni Saudi Kingdom | ThinkProgress
Iranian men take a selfie with a poster of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite cleric, who was executed last week by Saudi Arabia, at the conclusion of a rally protesting his execution, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.
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The Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie Rumors Have Grown Into A Whole Obi-Wan Kenobi Trilogy
Ready Player One gets a villain. Zack Snyder talks casting Wonder Woman for Batman v Superman. A Firefly alum heads to Legends of Tomorrow. Plus, Ryan Reynolds talks fitting Deadpool into the X-Men movie universe, new posters for Jungle Book and Dar…
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‘Dragon Power,’ the disco tribute to Bruce Lee|Dangerous Minds
Given that people like to make money, I suppose it was inevitable that Bruce Lee mania and disco fever would intersect—but when, and where? In 1978, history chose as its instrument England’s JKD (as in Jeet Kune Do) Band.
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WASHINGTON — He thought George W. Bush was perpetrating “a fraud” on America as a presidential candidate, Vladimir V. Putin had “enormous potential,” and the people of Wyoming would be “shooting at me” if he visited.
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HONG KONG — When President Xi Jinping of China convened a group of top officials to discuss the economy last month, the highly publicized meeting was seen as a moment of triumph. A stock market plunge last summer, and a messy currency devaluation th…
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Blunt Political Assessments in Bill Clinton Transcripts https://t.co/7FasXCwiit https://t.co/n0T8tU0849
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A New Economic Era for China Goes Off the Rails https://t.co/GYaJmNFywz https://t.co/xe1tFge0K1
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Red-baiting water speculator plans to drain the Mojave of its ancient water / Boing Boing
Scott Slater, a former water lawyer, is the CEO of Cadiz, Inc, a hedge-fund-backed company that’s purchased the water rights for 45,000 acres of the Mojave on Route 66, 75 miles northeast of Palm Springs.
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Howthe Klan Got Its Hood | New Republic
Long before the artist Philip Guston was celebrated for his cartoonish paintings of pink flesh, cigarettes, and Klansmen, he was Phillip Goldstein, a member of the Los Angeles socialist Bloc of Mural Painters, and a kid on a road trip.
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US Employers Added 292,000 Jobs in December | Al Jazeera America
American employers added a strong 292,000 jobs in December — robust hiring that suggests the U.S. economy is so far defying more downcast global economic trends. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate remained 5 percent for a third straight…
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Ritualistic Cat Torture Was Once a Form of Town Fun | Atlas Obscura
Are you an evil omen? (Photo: Ralph Daily/flickr) If you’re fond of cats, you should probably stop right here and switch to looking at photos of kittens wearing tiny hoodies.
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The great British curry crisis – FT.com
The familiar aroma of tempered spices and caramelised onions begins to emerge at noon from the Spice Rouge curry house on Stevenage high street, a full six to seven hours before the evening rush begins.
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Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes | New Scientist
Here’s one thing to impress your friends with the next time you order a takeaway: new and exotic ways to slice a pizza. Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet in the middle.
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Has President Obama Broken the Political Stalemate on Guns? | New Republic
On Thursday night, for the first time since he rolled out his plan to expand background checks for guns, President Barack Obama publicly faced his critics—some of them, that is.
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Gov’t reports strong gain of 292,000 new jobs in December. Unemployment rate unchanged
In its regular report of the previous month’s job situation Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated Friday that 292,000 seasonally adjusted new jobs were added to the economy in December, 275,000 in the private sector and 17,000 in gov…
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How new regulations saved consumers billions in credit card fees – Vox
Millions of Americans, particularly those with modest incomes or those who are just starting out, struggle with their credit cards. My wife and I often had high balances when we lived on one modest income and had two kids in day care. My students of…
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Loading the player reg… STEVE DOOCY: So give the credit to having different points of view but then at the same time, you know you would like to hear from the NRA but they really stacked the deck against the NRA. And the president went after the N…
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The Coupon Information Center Tells You If a Deal Is Too Good To Be True
Most coupons are pretty worthless—promising to save you a few cents when you buy five items you don’t really need—but every now and then, you’ll run into a decent deal. Sometimes, though, that deal is too good to be true. You can look up the validit…
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Kick Off 2016 With New Yoga and Resistance Training Gear, On Sale Today Only
Amazon’s Gold Box team has really fallen in love with the new year’s resolution theme this week, but it’s tough to complain with so many great deals on yoga and fitness products.
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‘Racist’ Thailand skin-whitening advert is withdrawn – BBC News
A Thai cosmetics firm has withdrawn its video advertising a skin-whitening product after it was attacked on social media for being racist.The advert for ‘Snowz’ features famous Thai actress Cris Horwang attributing her success to fairer skin.
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The Hard Left Team Venezuela’s Maduro Just Appointed to Tackle the Country’s Crisis | VICE News
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has moved his left wing cabinet further leftward in answer both to the political crisis unleashed by the ruling party losing control of the legislature, as well as to the country’s acute economic crisis.
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“Bleeding-Heart,” Or Just Bloody? The GOP Poverty Show
Republican leaders, including six of the GOP presidential candidates, on Saturday will engage in one of their occasional displays of “compassionate conservatism,” in which they seek to convince voters that they actually do care about people struggli…
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‘Mein Kampf’ Publish Germany 1st Time Since WWII | Al Jazeera America
An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” the first version of Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II, went on sale Friday — a volume that many hope will help demystify the book and debunk the Nazi le…
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What I Learned In 12 Weeks Of Therapy For Social Media Addiction
I set out to treat an unproven disorder with an unproven form of therapy. This is what happened. For two days last September, a 30-foot-long mirror sculpture stood at the center of a busy New York City plaza, reflecting the last of the summer’s hars…
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ISIL claims Cairo attack on Israeli tourists – Al Jazeera English
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said on Friday its members carried out an attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo in response to a call by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to target Jews “everywhere”.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, My cat is pixelated via /r/aww…
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Cologne attacks: 18 asylum seekers among 31 suspects – BBC News
German authorities say they have identified 18 asylum-seekers among 31 suspects linked to crimes committed in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. An interior ministry spokesman said the suspects’ alleged offences were “mostly theft and causing bodily harm”.
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Belgian Police Found Paris Fugitive’s Prints | Al Jazeera America
The prosecutors said they found Salah Abdeslam’s fingerprint in a search of the apartment on Dec. 10, but wouldn’t say why they waited a month to announce it. The search also turned up three suspected suicide belts, traces of the same explosive used…
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US economy adds 292,000 jobs in December – BBC News
US jobs growth remained solid in December as the economy added 292,000 jobs, beating expectations. The data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also showed the jobless rate held at its seven-and-a-half year low of 5%.
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Kotaku Fallout 4’s Graphics Cranked So Hard It Becomes A Cartoon | Deadspin Fred Smoot: The Sex Boat Wasn’t Even That Cool | Jezebel Woman Goes on Date with Martin Shkreli, Says He Ordered $120 Cup of Tea | Toyland The Coolest Star Wars Rey Toys Tha…
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Petition launched to name new element after Terry Pratchett’s colour of magic | Books | The Guardian
A petition to name one of the new elements added to the periodic table “octarine”, in honour of the late Terry Pratchett’s colour of magic, has garnered more than 12,000 signatures in less than two days.
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Director Paul Feig Reveals the New Ghostbusters Figures
After replying to a fan’s tweet to assure her that all four female characters in the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot will be made it into action figures, last night Paul Feig, the film’s director, revealed prototypes of Mattel’s upcoming six-inch line …
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The First Artificial Insemination Was an Ethical Nightmare – The Atlantic
Assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, are more common in the U.S. than they’ve ever been: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that around 11.3 percent of women between 15 and 44 have used some sort of infertility service.
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Here’s a Great Look Into How Facebook Controls Your News Feed
Facebook’s process for determining what goes into your News Feed is frustratingly opaque. However, a recent profile in Slate helps explain some of the behind the scenes, and it’s rather informative.
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Yes, Donald Trump will implode. Here’s why. – Vox
More than any political candidate in memory, Donald Trump’s value proposition to voters is simple and crystal clear: He’s a winner. Everything else follows from that. He doesn’t owe wealthy political donors or political elites anything.
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Loading the player reg… JOE SCARBOROUGH (HOST): We were just having the debate about gun-free zones.
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Significant Digits for Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The change in life expectancy for Mexican men between 2005 and 2010, according to a new study.
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Economy Added 292,000 Jobs In December; Unemployment Rate Stayed At 5 Percent | ThinkProgress
The economy added 292,000 jobs in December while the unemployment rate stayed at 5 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 200,000 jobs to be added.
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I feel like I’m being judged this morning but I’m not quite sure what for. : cats
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Slow-mo of catching a carrot. His skills never fail to impress. : gifs
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Slovakia vows to refuse entry to Muslim migrants : worldnews
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‘Star Wars’ Reimagined In ‘Calvin And Hobbes’ – Digg
Over the past few days, Disney artist Brian Kesinger has been remixing the worlds of Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes in some clever illustrations. Fair warning, if you have not seen The Force Awakens1, the last image contains some mild spoilers.
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Ted Cruz: Evangelical Hero Or Religious Imposter? | ThinkProgress
When Texas senator Ted Cruz took the stage at Liberty University last March to launch his bid for the White House, both the location of his announcement and the first words of his campaign made his election strategy clear: he wants conservative reli…
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Does Size Matter—for Brains? – Scientific American
While “size does not matter” is a universally preached dictum among the politically correct, everyday experience tells us that this can’t be the whole story—under many conditions, it clearly does. Consider the size of Woody Allen’s second favorite o…
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Roman Toilets Were Actually Pretty Gross – The Atlantic
Though the ancient Romans may be more well-known for things like military prowess and leafy hats, they have also been lauded for being awesome at toilets.
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Chinese Stocks Close Higher After Circuit-Breaker Is Removed – The Atlantic
Chinese stocks closed up Friday after a week of upheaval that roiled global markets from Tokyo to New York in the first days of the trading year.
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The Incredible Dr. Pol on Why He Became a Vet
Star veterinarian Dr. Pol has handled a lot of animals in his day—but his show’s sixth season on Nat Geo WILD is getting even more wild and woolly. Beyond your average array of barnyard friends, Dr.
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Cover Story: Kim Jong-un’s Big Announcement – The New Yorker
The new year begins and, in defiance of even its allies in Beijing, North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong-un test a nuclear weapon. An H-bomb, they insist, but the atomic kind is frightening enough.
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Tech giants raise concerns over UK draft surveillance bill – BBC News
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo have expressed concerns to the UK Parliament over the draft Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill). The firms are worried about the phrasing of proposals on encryption, bulk collection of data and openness.
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Why people love Lip Sync Battle so much, in one clip – Vox
The current TV climate is such that 350 brand new reality shows debuted in 2015. Many of those shows were truly awful (remember The Briefcase?), but the best ones managed to transcend reality-show schadenfreude to become something genuinely enjoyabl…
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Obama’s State of the Union Balancing Act – The New Yorker
Let the word go forth: the oratory of Barack Obama might sometimes show the qualities of classical, Ciceronian rhetoric, with its emphasis on eloquence and utility, but it also owes a debt to those locker-room interviews in which athletes speak in s…
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Europe will send humans back to the moon by 2030, ESA says : space
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Broadband City: How New York Is Bridging Its Digital Divide | The Nation
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NBC Launches Seeso, Yet Another Streaming Site, For $4 a Month
There obviously aren’t enough sites streaming video content these days, so NBC decided to make another one. Seeso, as this one’s called, is acutely focused on comedy, and comes with a much easier-to-stomach price tag of $3.99 per month.
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China stocks: ‘circuit breaker’ mechanism explained – BBC News
Chinese shares have risen on the first day of trade since the lifting of a “circuit breaker” mechanism, which had been introduced to prevent sharp falls. The mechanism, which had been in place since the start of this year, suspends trading on China’…
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BBC Sport – Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid forward staying – Zinedine Zidane
Cristiano Ronaldo will not be leaving Real Madrid in the near future, says new manager Zinedine Zidane who described the forward as the “soul” of his club. More to follow.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
On 14 March, the launch window opens for ExoMars 2016, ESA’s next mission to Mars, composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli.
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So, Like, Why Are We So Obsessed with Podcasts Right Now? | Vanity Fair
In last month’s column, I squeezed America’s heart with a poignant account of how there’s just too much good TV to keep up with these days. No matter how hard one grips the arms of the speeding treadmill, the view queue just keeps growing and, oh, t…
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Why Canada’s Telecom Regulator Is Suddenly Acting More Like the Cops | Motherboard
These might sound like the words of a police chief or FBI official, but they were actually spoken in 2014 by Jean-Pierre Blais, the buttoned-down head of Canada’s equally buttoned-down telecommunications regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and …
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Beyoncé Joins Channing Tatum on Lip Sync Battle | Vanity Fair
Why would Beyoncé appear onstage for less than a minute to lip sync one of her own songs? Welcome back to the wild and wonderful world of Lip Sync Battle, which returned for a second season last night with a blockbuster matchup, Channing Tatum vs. h…
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Geoffrey Whatmore obituary | Books | The Guardian
My fellow news librarian, Geoffrey Whatmore, who has died aged 95, was one of the key figures in the world of media information during the second half of the 20th century.
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Chelsea’s wage bill highest in Premier League – BBC News
Chelsea Football Club’s wage bill shot up £25m in the year to 30 June 2015 its latest Companies House filing shows. It means Chelsea’s wage bill was the highest of all the Premier League clubs at £215.6m, compared with £190m a year earlier.
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I made $1,000 an hour as an SAT tutor. My students did better without me. – Vox
Melissa is a 17-year-old high school junior. She’s bright, hard-working, and ambitious. Her parents, both extremely successful entrepreneurs, have enlisted me to help Melissa raise her SAT scores. Their only goal is to get her into her dream school:…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
OK, it’s Friday. We made it! There was a story or two I meant to get to yesterday, in order to get out in front of the situation before it boiled over, so we’d all be ready and look super-smart when it finally did.
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Washington Post Disses Electric Cars As Sales Soar Tenfold In 5 Years | ThinkProgress
The Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car is unveiled at CES International Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas. The 200-mile range electric car was introduced Wednesday at CES. Plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales are exploding.
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What It’s Like To Escape Ex-Gay Therapy — And Then Defeat It | ThinkProgress
In July of 2010, Chaim Levin and Ben Unger first spoke out about the mistreatment they experienced at the hands of “life coach” Alan Downing, to whom they were referred by the Jewish ex-gay organization JONAH.
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Asteroid-Mining Company 3D-Prints Object from Space Rock Metals
An asteroid-mining company is giving the world a glimpse at its vision of the future. Planetary Resources, which aims to extract water and other useful materials from asteroids, has 3D-printed an object using metal powder gleaned from a space rock.
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How Badly Can A Car Salesman Swindle You? | FiveThirtyEight
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Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up a problem related to the things we hold dear around here — math, logic and probability. These problems, puzzles and riddles come from lots of top-notch puzzle folks around the world, including you, the … -
What it is like living in a bunker by the DMZ – BBC News
South Korea has resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb. When North Korea wishes to “flex its muscles” against the south it launches shells across the DMZ into the bo…
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Worldwide Telescope Network Will Take Best-Ever Images of Black Holes
An image from a simulation showing how matter might be moved around in the extreme environment around a black hole. The simulations will be compared to observational data collected by the Event Horizon Telescope, which will be increasing its sensiti…
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Israel Shoots Dead Four Palestinians Following Attempted Stabbings | VICE News
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On Pluto, ‘X’ Marks the Spot (Photo)
There’s a big “X” on Pluto, and it marks buried treasure of a scientific kind.
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Where Are Amazon’s Data Centers? – The Atlantic
Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of highly popular websites and services have suddenly gone down.
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Syrians say world has forgotten them as winter sets in – Al Jazeera English
As winter takes its toll on Syria, at least 400,000 people are cut off from food and medical supplies. The government and opposition are laying siege to towns and villages, according to the UN.
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On base in Ft Gordon, GA [OC] [3264×2448] : SkyPorn
On base in Ft Gordon, GA [OC] [3264×2448] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/sg8lJvxKZ2 https://t.co/3lkiZpyPFG
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i think he needs glasses : cats
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Tweety Pie Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/dSgXODAuzg https://t.co/H7P6Euq66w https://t.co/2fein40uIj
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Tweety Pie Loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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Swiss woman kidnapped from Mali home in Timbuktu – BBC News
Sources told the AFP news agency that she is the same missionary who was held for more than a week by Islamist gunmen in 2012 when the north had been taken over by groups linked to al-Qaeda. On that occasion the woman was freed with the help of medi…
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Venezuela’s economic crisis worsens as oil prices fall – Al Jazeera English
Caracas – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has said that the country’s economy is in a state of emergency as oil prices fall to just $33 a barrel, the lowest rate in more than a decade. Venezuela needs oil prices to hit $111 a barrel just to bre…
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The case for Martin O’Malley – Vox
Alex Seitz-Wald’s report on Joe Biden’s feelings over his not-quite presidential campaign made me profoundly sad. Not for Biden (his family tragedies have been sad enough without the need for any new pathos) but for former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Mal…
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Book Review: A Brief History of Creation – Scientific American
Clara Moskowitz is Scientific American’s senior editor covering space and physics. She has a bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University and a graduate degree in science journalism from the University of California, Santa Cru…
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: ‘A national crisis like this demands a national response’
A national crisis like this demands a national response. Reducing gun violence will be hard. It’s clear that common-sense gun reform won’t happen during this Congress. It won’t happen during my presidency. Still, there are steps we can take now to s…
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Declare Your Intentions First, Then Build Your Goals On Top of Them
Goals are an easy thing to come up with, and they’re even easier to screw up. Before you try to plan your long-term goals, narrow down your intentions, first. As business blog Inc. points out, there’s a distinct difference between goals and intentio…
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ESA – Destination: Moon : space
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Love Everyone Often 01/09/2016
www.nytimes.com Donald J. Trump trails Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa but has a commanding double-digit lead in New Hampshire with less than a month to go before voting begins in the first contests in the Republican presidential nominating fight, according to new Fox New… tags: Pocket maggie haberman new york…
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