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Kanye West, Pharrell, Brian Eno Remember David Bowie | Rolling Stone
David Bowie passed away Sunday after a private, 18-month battle with cancer. The iconic artist was not only an innovative musician, but an actor and fashion icon as well.
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Scientists Pick the Most Beautiful Equations – Scientific American
Are equations beautiful? To scientists, formulas’ ability to represent fundamental truths or concisely capture complexity is indeed exquisite. To many in the public, though, they can be the opposite of beautiful—intimidating, utilitarian and opaque.
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Guantanamo Bay by the numbers – Al Jazeera English
We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going. As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines’ most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?
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UK Athletics wants world records to be scrubbed clean – Al Jazeera English
UK Athletics (UKA) has called for world records to be wiped clean and drug cheats to be banned for at least eight years in radical proposals aimed at heralding a new unblemished era for the sport.
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Aid trucks head for besieged Syrian towns – Al Jazeera English
Aid convoys have departed for besieged Syrian towns where thousands are trapped and the US says people are reported to have died of starvation.
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Which are the best books exploring prejudice? | Children’s books | The Guardian
Can you recommend any books that raise the same issues as Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses? Fifteen years on from its first publication, Noughts and Crosses is still a stand out book for all sorts of reasons.
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Star Wars force holds US box office – BBC News
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has stayed top of the North American box office for a fourth week, beating Golden Globe winner The Revenant. According to weekend studio estimates, Star Wars took $41.6m (£28.5m) in the US and Canada.
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Driverless Ford tackles snowy roads – BBC News
Motoring giant Ford says it has conducted successful tests of its driverless cars in snowy conditions. Snow presents a challenge to driverless cars because the sensors they use to detect road markings and hazards do not work well in wintery weather.
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From religious leaders to celebrities, politicians, and soccer clubs, the world was united on Monday in mourning the loss of David Bowie, who has died at the age of 69.
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The Best Recipe Manager for iPhone
Managing a vast collection of recipes used to be as simple as pulling out a box of index cards. Now things are a little smarter, but that also means they’re a bit more complicated. To wrangle all your recipes into a sensible order on your iPhone, we…
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Walker & Company Introduces The Super Sleek Bevel Trimmer | TechCrunch
Hot off of raising a $24M Series B round and inking a deal with Target for its Bevel brand, Walker & Company Brands has launched a brand new product — Bevel Trimmer.
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There’s One Thing Worse For The GOP Than A Trump Nomination | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump has said that he will not run as a third-party candidate, but Republican leaders are no doubt still considering the possibility.
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Minnesota Vikings v Seattle Seahawks: NFL sides battle -21°c – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
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The U.S. Must Intervene in North Korea | New Republic
The most striking thing about North Korea’s latest nuclear test, which took place just two days before Kim Jong-un’s 32nd or 33rd (we are not sure) birthday, is the world’s uniform reaction of disbelief.
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The Light That Gets Lost by Natasha Carthew – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Light That Gets Lost tells the tale of Trey, a teenage boy determined to get revenge upon his parent’s murderer, who can focus on nothing else besides.
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In-built delays in case reviews make prospect of Guantánamo closure recede | US news | The Guardian
It was supposed to be a crucial part of Barack Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo Bay. But frustrated officials say the special review board designed to speed up the closure of the detention camp in Cuba contains a major flaw which allows the process …
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An unspoken question hung in the frigid air of Detroit’s largest auto show, as work crews fastened the last few bolts and polished down the displays. How long can the North American International Auto Show reign supreme?
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Naked, agitated and restrained in a chair, Jack Marden pleaded with officers to remove a “spit hood” covering his face, to let him breathe.
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China’s Great Famine: A mission to expose the truth – Al Jazeera English
Sparrows were in short supply that summer, which meant that locusts were abundant. Mao Yushi would go to the fields, catch them and eat them. He had no choice. His stomach compelled him.
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The Cecil Rhodes statue is not the problem – Al Jazeera English
It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood in the campus. For the protesters, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, …
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Fraud trial for Princess Cristina opens in Spain – Al Jazeera English
A landmark trial has opened for Spain’s Princess Cristina, accused of helping bankroll a lavish lifestyle with funds her husband received from an alleged scheme to embezzle about 6m euros ($6.5m) in public contracts for conferences and sporting even…
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David Bowie’s Death a ‘Work of Art,’ Says Tony Visconti | Rolling Stone
David Bowie’s longtime producer Tony Visconti paid tribute to his friend and peer in a touching Facebook post after Bowie passed away on Sunday at the age of 69. “He always did what he wanted to do,” Visconti wrote. “And he wanted to do it his way a…
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Watch David Bowie perform some of his famous songs – BBC News
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Music legend David Bowie has died at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer. He was without doubt one of pop’s most influential musicians and created a series of landmark albums over the last six decades. -
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South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn has been ruled out of the third Test against England with a shoulder injury, coach Russell Domingo says. More to follow.
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There was already dramatic evidence that our planet is undeniably warming before 30 December 2015, when the world heard that the ice at the North Pole was melting. (The temperature on 30 December 2015 was, by some reports, 33ºF [0.7ºC], 50ºF above a…
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Belgium ordered to reverse tax breaks – BBC News
Belgium has been ordered by European authorities to recover €700m (£524m; $763m) from 35 multinational companies after giving them illegal tax breaks. Under a tax scheme in place since 2005, some firms could reduce taxable profits in Belgium by up t…
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Andy Murray says he may need number one Novak Djokovic’s form to dip to have a chance of victory in the Australian Open, which starts next week. The Briton has lost four finals in Melbourne – three to Serbia’s Djokovic.
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UK-wide carbon tax would have ‘little impact’ on consumers, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
A “modest” uniform carbon tax of £20 a tonne would have a negligible impact on consumer prices, according to a new study that attempts to make the case for wider adoption of carbon pricing policies.
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Why life is not a thing but a restless manner of bei…
Mike Russell found his moment of inspiration on a warm spring evening in Glasgow in 1983, when his 11-year-old son broke a new toy. The toy in question was a chemical garden, a small plastic tank in which stalactite-like tendrils grew out of seed cr…
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Why does air conditioning make people blow hot and c…
In the 1840s, a Florida doctor-turned-inventor named John Gorrie decided that his patients needed relief from the soggy southern heat. After some tinkering, he came up with a machine, powered by a steam engine, that actually produced cool air; it ev…
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Retaliation Attacks in Cologne as ‘Hooligan’ Gangs Launch Foreigner ‘Manhunt’ | VICE News
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New Report Finds Flaws in the Senior Executive Service – The Atlantic
Forty years ago, Congress set out to fix the government’s broken bureaucracy. It worried that the political appointees who head federal agencies didn’t have solid relationships with the civil servants below them.
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David Bowie: Friends and stars pay tribute – BBC News
The news of David Bowie’s death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from his collaborators and the many musicians he influenced as well as music fans around the world and other public figures.
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Cologne attackers were ‘of migrant origin’, say German police – BBC News
The German official responsible for investigating the attacks on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve says the suspects were “almost exclusively” those with a migration background, mainly North African and Arab. Ralf Jaeger says that recent arrivals i…
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David Bowie: 69 facts – BBC News
David Bowie has released his first new material in a decade on his 66th birthday, a single titled Where Are We Now? It will be followed by a new album, The Next Day, in March, which marks the Starman’s first album of new material since 2003’s Realit…
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Tributes to David Bowie pour in on internet and social media | Music | The Guardian
Rock legend David Bowie has died, 18 months after being diagnosed with cancer. His son Duncan Jones first confirmed the news, and shortly after, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds were overwhelmed with tributes to the pop pioneer. Very sorry and …
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David Bowie: Legendary artist dies at 69 | Ars Technica
David Bowie—an icon whose music and swagger influenced the lives of so many people—has died at the age of 69 after an 18-month-long battle with cancer, his son Duncan Jones confirmed on Monday morning.
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Fixing the Pollster’s Problem of Finding “Likely Voters” Is Harder Than It Sounds – The Atlantic
A month before the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush benefited from a statistical miracle. He started October trailing opponent Al Gore, with a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll projecting a 51-40 split among likely voters.
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Blinq Dating App Uses AI To Judge Hotness | TechCrunch
Swiss dating app startup Blinq is playing around with a little algorithmic hot or not catnip, with a plan to add a machine-learning powered attractiveness assessment feature to help its users pick the photos that show them at their best.
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Tesla’s chief executive and serial technology entrepreneur, Elon Musk, has said his company’s cars will be able to be summoned and drive autonomously across the US to pick up their owners within the next two years.
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The Supreme Court Case That Could Quietly Destroy Public Sector Unions | New Republic
On Monday, January 11, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case that began working its way through California courts in the spring of 2013.
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Cannibalize Your Fellow Astronauts in this Grim Space Survival Game | Motherboard
Space fiction is filled with fantastical antagonists—aliens, robots, alien robots, you get the idea. But if recent blockbusters like The Martian or Gravity are any indication, a more rigorous form of space realism is emerging within the genre, in wh…
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British music legend David Bowie dies, aged 69 – Al Jazeera English
Music fans around the world are mourning the loss of music idol David Bowie. The British singer, songwriter, producer and actor died surrounded by family members on Sunday, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 69.
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An epic tale briefly told | Books | The Guardian
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Why Clemson are undefeated underdogs in the CFP championship game | Sport | The Guardian
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It’s the most dominant team of the last decade against the Clemson Tigers for the national championship on Monday night. -
A New Offering from the Quirky Cass McCombs | Mother Jones
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Soldiers Blow Up 5 Myths About Women in Combat | Mother Jones
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Will the New Dietary Guidelines Make School Food Healthier? | Mother Jones
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Who decides what kids eat at school? The answer is complicated, but one big piece of the puzzle is the US dietary guidelines, the nutritional recommendations released by the federal government every five years. -
Space in Images – 2016 – 01 – Dark pools on Titan
This radar image from the Cassini orbiter shows a thin strip of surface on Saturn’s moon Titan. The yellow-hued terrain appears to be peppered with blue-tinted lakes and seas.
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Lady Gaga bumps into Leonardo DiCaprio at Golden Globes – video | Film | The Guardian
Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor at the Golden Globes on Sunday, but people on social media seem more interested in his close shave with Lady Gaga. DiCaprio’s hilarious reaction, as Lady Gaga brushed past him on the way to collect her best actress a…
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Poem of the week: Poem With Two Endings by Jane Hirshfield | Books | The Guardian
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India firearms charge ex-soldiers sent to jail – BBC News
Six former soldiers from the UK who worked on an anti-piracy ship have each been sentenced to five years in prison in India. They were arrested on firearms charges in October 2013 when the ship they were on was found to be full of weapons.
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Rare UK butterfly under threat as elms disappear | Environment | The Guardian
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A species of rare UK butterfly is under threat after a widespread tree disease caused its only habitat to virtually disappear. According to research, the population of White-letter Hairstreak butterflies has dropped by 96% in the last 40 years. -
David Bowie, Rock’s Chameleonic Maestro, Dies at 69 – The Atlantic
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David Bowie, the mercurial British musician and artist who flitted from one otherworldly persona to the next in a dizzying, boundary-bending, four-decade exploration of rock and roll’s furthest limits, died on Monday. He was 69 years old. -
Spain’s Princess Cristina on trial in fraud case – BBC News
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How To Learn Programming in C | Motherboard
Last weekend I incurred the understandable wrath of many a programmer by suggesting that new coders learn coding “the hard way” via the C programming language rather than the language most of the universe wants them to learn, which is JavaScript.
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Migrant crisis: New camps to open in northern France – BBC News
Plans to move thousands of migrants into more permanent camps in northern France are expected to be given the go-ahead later on Monday. Several thousand people are staying in the camps in Calais and Dunkirk, popular spots for those seeking to cross …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired to turn around Yahoo in 2012, used to inspire hope in Yahoo’s work force just by visiting the cafeteria for ice cream and mingling. Now, morale has sunk so low that some empl…
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David Bowie — China Girl — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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David Bowie – Quicksand – YouTube
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Lax Gun Laws in Indiana Fuel Violence in Chicago | Al Jazeera America
CROWN POINT, Indiana — At a gun show on Indiana’s fairgrounds, hundreds of people filed past tables of firearms — World War Two relics, handguns, hunting rifles, and combat-grade automatic weapons — sprinkled with a selection of knives, Nazi artifac…
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Mambu, The SaaS Banking Platform, Picks Up €8 Million Funding | TechCrunch
Mambu, the SaaS banking platform, has raised a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Acton Capital Partners and CommerzVentures, with participation from existing investors.
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‘I’m stepping through the door And I’m floating’: David Bowie R.I.P.|Dangerous Minds
Crushing news. It has just been announced that David Bowie has died of cancer at the age of 69. Anyone who has followed Dangerous Minds over the years know how much we adore the man. Our hearts are broken.
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David Bowie Takes His Place Among the Stars – The Daily Beast
LONDON—Even David Bowie couldn’t live forever. He fooled the world into thinking he was timeless—perhaps even ageless—but Bowie has stunned us one last time.
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Why did the road teams win wildcard weekend? Because they understand January | Sport | The Guardian
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David Bowie – Quicksand – YouTube
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure – YouTube
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The Trouble With the Christian Adoption Movement | New Republic
In 2009 a Tennessee couple made a life-changing decision. As devout Christians, they decided to open their home to an orphaned girl from Ethiopia, whom they were told had been abandoned.
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Paris attacks cost €70m in December, says Air France-KLM – BBC News
Air France-KLM has said lower bookings after the Paris terror attacks led to a €70m ($76m; £52m) drop in revenues in December. However, bookings picked up towards the end of the month, suggesting a “progressive recovery”, it said.
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Red carpet fashion at Golden Globes 2016 – video | Film | The Guardian
Orange reds, winter whites and bold metallics dominated the Golden Globes red carpet in the year’s first big show of fashion glitz. Jennifer Lawrence’s cutout gown was bold and bright, and Cate Blanchett pulled off a daring ombre pink mashup from Gi…
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Lady Gaga’s tears at the Golden Globes – BBC News
The Revenant has triumphed at this year’s Golden Globes, winning the night’s most coveted prize for best dramatic film. Leading man Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor in a drama, while Alejandro G Inarritu won for its direction.
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Lucy Hill blood appeal: Queues at Thailand hospital – BBC News
People have been queuing outside a hospital in Thailand to donate blood after an appeal to help a young British woman with a rare type went viral. Lucy Hill, 21, suffered a broken pelvis when her moped was involved in a crash with a car in Chiang Ma…
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Birzeit University rises up against Israel’s arrests – Al Jazeera English
Birzeit, Occupied West Bank – National songs echoed throughout the West Bank’s Birzeit University campus as students met during a demonstration on December 21 in solidarity with the students and faculty members detained by Israel.
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Church split over homosexuality would be a failure – Welby – BBC News
The leaders of the global Anglican Communion are to confront their very different views on homosexuality when they meet in Canterbury later. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby arranged the gathering last year amid increasing divisions on the …
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David Bowie’s life and career – in pictures | Music | The Guardian
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure – YouTube
Original official video of Queen & David Bowie’s worldwide hit “Under Pressure” originally recorded in 1981 and later included on Queen’s 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group’s second number-o…
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The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided | VICE News
Members of an anti-government militia have occupied the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a remote region of eastern Oregon for over a week, protesting what they claim is an overreaching federal government.
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Malaria Crisis India Doesn’t Want to Acknowledge | Al Jazeera America
CHINTALAVEEDHI, India — It has been two years since Rathnalamma Raasa died, and her family still doesn’t know what killed her. What started as a fever quickly left the 25-year-old unable to eat or move.
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David Bowie: A life in pictures – BBC News
David Bowie has died aged 69 after suffering cancer. The influential musician had a career spanning five decades. Born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, Bowie’s first release was Liza Jane/Louie Louie Go Home in June 1964, under the name of Dav…
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Snake thief caught on camera putting python in his pants – BBC News
The man went into A to Z pet store in Portland, Oregon and walked over to the snake cage, taking a $200 black pastel ball python. Describing what happened, store owner Christin Bjugan said: “You`ll see him put it in his pants, yuck. Just drops it ri…
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David Bowie R.I.P.|Dangerous Minds
It has just been announced that David Bowie has died of cancer at the age of 69. Anyone who has followed Dangerous Minds over the years know how much we adore the man. Our hearts are broken. David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family…
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Foreigners assaulted in Germany amid tension – Al Jazeera English
Two Pakistanis and a Syrian man have been injured in attacks by gangs of people in Cologne, the German city where the vast majority of dozens of New Year’s Eve assaults on women occurred, according to police.
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Ferguson Voting Rights Lawsuit Heads to Trial | Al Jazeera America
Since Brown’s death, community members have pushed for police reform and evened out the racial composition of the heretofore predominantly white Ferguson city council.
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Will the future be augmented reality glasses? – BBC News
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Best actor DiCaprio wins best actor at Golden Globes – BBC News
The Revenant has triumphed at the 2016 Golden Globes, winning the night’s most coveted prize for best dramatic film. Leading man Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor in a drama, while Alejandro G Inarritu won for its direction.
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All Wrapped Up by Holly Smale – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Warning: DO NOT read this review if you haven’t read the first Geek Girl book and are planning to. Harriet Manners knows a lot of things, especially about Christmas. She knows that Rudolph was almost definitely a girl and that the first ever Christm…
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Several months ago, Jann Wenner, a founder of Rolling Stone magazine, received a call from the actor Sean Penn. Mr. Penn, Mr. Wenner said in an interview on Sunday, wanted to discuss something important.
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Australian store recalls ‘toe-chopping’ Worx chair – BBC News
An Australian furniture company is recalling one of its popular dining chairs after claims its design has made people lose parts of their toes. Two people have separately told Australian media they severed a toe after catching it inside the chair le…
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What Goes Around review – confessions of a cycle courier | Books | The Guardian
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Can The Best Financial Tips Fit On An Index Card? : All Tech Considered : NPR
A couple of years ago, University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack did an online video chat with personal finance writer Helaine Olen. The topic was how regular people get steered into bad investments by financial advisers. Your purchase helps su…
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Kenya’s Garissa University restarts teaching after attack – BBC News
Classes have resumed at the Kenyan university where 148 students died in a gun attack last April but only a few students have turned up for its reopening. Security has been tightened at Garissa University College nine months after the attack by mili…
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Four-way Afghanistan peace talks begin – BBC News
Key Afghan, Pakistani, Chinese and US officials are meeting for talks aimed at establishing a roadmap for peace between Afghanistan and the Taliban. The Afghan government has been locked in a bloody conflict with Taliban militants for more than a de…
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David Bowie, Rock Star, Dies at 69 | Al Jazeera America
David Bowie, the innovative rocker whose career touched five decades, has died after a battle with cancer. Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day he released a new album.
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Mere hours after the Golden Globes had come to an end, as the crème de la crème of Hollywood dispersed in a fleet of black cars to fabulous, champagne-flowing afterparties, the sad news broke that music legend David Bowie had passed away at the age …
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David Bowie dies at 69 | Al Jazeera America
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David Bowie, the innovative rocker whose career touched five decades, has died after a battle with cancer. Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day he released a new album. -
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German MPs to discuss New Year’s Eve sexual attacks – Al Jazeera English
German MPs are set to discuss in parliament the consequences of the mass sexual attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, which have prompted debates on migration and security with reports that the assailants were of North African and Arab origin.
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David Bowie, the legendary, influential musical superstar, dies at 69 – Vox
David Bowie, one of the most influential recording artists of all time, has passed away after a battle with throat cancer. He was 69. The following statement was posted to Bowie’s social media accounts.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – digested read | Books | The Guardian
It was July 1805, and all St Petersburg was concerned about the advance of Bonaparte. Though not so much as to cancel a soiree at which Pierre, a bastard by birth but not by nature, was to be introduced to Russian society.
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‘I’m going to be nice tonight’ promises Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais in his opening speech at this year’s ceremony in Los Angeles.
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One of the priorities for the next mayor of London should be to appoint a chief scientific adviser. The current mayor has a range of advisers, but has clearly lacked expert guidance on the scientific aspects of key issues such as local air pollution…
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Obituary: David Bowie – BBC News
David Bowie was one of the most influential musicians of his time, constantly re-inventing his persona and sound, from the 1960s hippy of Space Oddity, through Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke to his later incarnation as a soulful rocker.
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David Bowie, the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of drama, images and personae, died Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday. Mr. Bowie’s death was confirmed by his publ…
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Bernie Sanders Has Massive Ad Blitz | Al Jazeera America
No, it’s not Republican Jeb Bush. Rather, it’s Bernie Sanders, who’s stealthily revved his advertising machine and is now out-gunning Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on television.
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Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant wins top three awards – BBC News
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The Revenant has triumphed at this year’s Golden Globes, winning the night’s most coveted prize for best dramatic film. Leading man Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor in a drama, while Alejandro G Inarritu won for its direction. -
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philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in her masterful treatise on the intelligence of the motions, “they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.” But the emotions and the intellect are just two parts of our creat…
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David Bowie (RIP) Sings “Changes” in His Last Live Performance (2006) | Open Culture
This post was published on our site less than two weeks ago–December 29, 2015–when we had no idea that David Bowie was in the final days of an 18 month battle with cancer. In the post, Josh Jones wondered whether the video featured above would be Bo…
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RIP David Bowie, The Man Who Changed Science Fiction
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R.I.P. David Bowie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
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David Bowie has died at age 69, according to his official Facebook page and The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death given was cancer, following an 18-month battle. His 25th studio album, Blackstar, was released just three days ago, on the singer’… -
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship review – Rwanda’s ‘Big Brother’ | Books | The Guardian
The text arrived one evening: “My life is in danger. I think I may die tonight.” It came from Gibson, a talented young Rwandan journalist who was used to living in fear given his job.
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RIP David Bowie, The Man Who Changed Science Fiction
David Bowie, who just died of cancer aged 69, had an incalculable impact on pop culture throughout his shape-shifting career. But perhaps more than any other musician, he also had a tremendous impact on science fiction. He changed the way we thought…
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David Bowie has Passed Away at the Age of 69 : movies
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A look back at the life of David Bowie, who has died aged 69 – BBC News
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Music legend and cultural icon David Bowie has died, his son has confirmed. The 69-year-old, who released a new album two days before his death, had been suffering from cancer. -
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A senior scientist at Australia’s key research body on the Great Barrier Reef is alleged to have fabricated research expenses worth more than half a million dollars and has been arrested on fraud charges, the Australian federal police say. -
David Bowie, RIP / Boing Boing
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David Bowie died today after an 18 month battle with cancer. The pioneering musician and artist had celebrated his 69th birthday on Friday with the release of his new album, Blackstar. Damn, I’m going to miss him. We all are. -
David Bowie Dies from Cancer at 69 | Vanity Fair
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David Bowie, iconic vanguard of the glam rock scene, has died after a battle with cancer just after his 69th birthday. -
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Jallikattu: India order to allow Tamil Nadu bullfighting challenged – BBC News
Animal rights activists in India have challenged a government order lifting a ban on Jallikattu, a form of bull fighting which has been popular for centuries in the state of Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the petition on Tuesday.
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David Bowie Dead at 69 | Rolling Stone
David Bowie, the legendary singer-songwriter and actor, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. The artist’s Facebook page announced the news, with the singer’s rep confirming his death to Rolling Stone.
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As my fill-in LaToya Ferguson wrote in her review of The Good Wife’s midwinter finale, the only moment worth truly caring about in “KSR” doesn’t come until the very end. Well, keeping with that pattern, “Iowa” picks up exactly where “KSR” leaves us.
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Hollywood Reporter confirms David Bowie passes away. : news
Hollywood Reporter confirms David Bowie passes away. (news.yahoo.com) One of the greatest musicians who ever lived. Rest in peace, Ziggy Stardust.
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Music legend David Bowie dies aged 69 : worldnews
Well god damn. This is the most heart breaking celebrity death for me since Jim Henson. I’m sad.
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Sami al-Hajj: Remembering Guantanamo – Al Jazeera English
But some prisoners lost it. You could see it happening. There was one who just stood in the same spot for days. Others would shout out. There were so many restrictions. We weren’t allowed to talk or to stand while we were in our cells.
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Chat App Kakao Buys Majority Stake In Korea’s Top Online Music Service For $1.5B | TechCrunch
Kakao, South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app that merged with Internet company Daum in a $3 billion deal in 2014, is pinning its international expansion hopes on music after it announced plans to spend $1.5 billion buying a majority stake in K…
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Music legend David Bowie dies – BBC News
Singer David Bowie has died at the age of 69 following a battle with cancer. His son confirmed the news and a statement was released on his official social media accounts.
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David Bowie dies, age 69. : Music
ArticleDavid Bowie dies, age 69. (hollywoodreporter.com) Multiple reports have confirmed it.
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The Elements of Power by David S Abraham: the rare metal age | Technology | The Guardian
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Smartphones, tablets, desktop computers – ubiquitous gadgets for the digital age, they astonish us with their near omniscience and delight us with their myriad apps. -
Hike Adds Quora And Automattic Founders To Its Roster Of Investors | TechCrunch
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Hike, the Indian messaging app competing with global giants like WhatsApp, is adding a quartet of Silicon Valley veterans as investors and advisors. -
Students return to Kenya’s Garissa University after attack – BBC News
Students at Kenya’s Garissa University College are resuming classes on Monday, nine months after the killing of nearly 150 people in an attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab. The BBC’s Tomi Oladipo reports from the campus, where the university…
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Thailand’s King Treated for Lung Infection, Fever | Al Jazeera America
Thailand’s royal palace has released a vaguely worded health report on the country’s 88-year-old king, the world’s longest reigning monarch who has been ailing for years, describing what appears to be a new bout of lung infection and occasional feve…
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Starving Syria as a weapon – Al Jazeera English
Nobody should doubt the tactics that the Syrian regime and its allies will countenance in order to win this war. The horror of Madaya has been told in the pictures of emaciated children and the stories of people forced into eating cats, dogs, grass …
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Golden Globes 2016: ‘Revenant,’ ‘Martian’ Win Big | Rolling Stone
The 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards were a typically loose affair on Sunday, thanks to comically sloshed host Ricky Gervais, and it made for a night filled with bawdy laughs and unpredictable wins.
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UK Athletics has suggested world records should be reset to help achieve a “new era” of clean competition. The sport’s governing body has made several proposals, including a public anti-doping register of tested athletes and longer bans for drug che…
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Subway riders strip down for No Pants winter prank | US news | The Guardian
Thousands of New Yorkers thought it was a hot thing on Sunday to strip to their underwear during winter and ride on public transport, as did pantless crowds in about 60 countries. “I’m a no-pant virgin,” declared a grinning Miguel Ramos, who joined …
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The Golden Globes have gleefully—and tipsily—embraced their reputation as the drunk cousin to stuffier award shows like the Oscars and the Emmys. It’s typically a delight! Surprising winners. Famous people slurring their thank yous in speeches.
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Teens Endangered by Secondhand Smoke | Al Jazeera America
Even though fewer U.S. teens are smoking, secondhand smoke remains a big problem for them, a government study found. Nearly half of nonsmoking kids in middle school and high school encountered secondhand tobacco smoke in 2013, and rates were even hi…
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Afghan peace talks resume in Pakistan – Al Jazeera English
Talks aimed at kickstarting negotiations for a final peace settlement in Afghanistan have begun in Pakistan.
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Netflix’s runaway hit documentary series Making A Murderer is currently raising the ire (and pulses) of viewers across the country, but it’s far from alone in the ranks of real-life injustices that have been documented in hopes of raising awareness …
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Late in 2015, incensed by the perceived lack of justice afforded to Steven Avery (as documented in Netflix’s new Making A Murderer series), someone with the initials “D.R.” sat down in San Bruno, California; typed WhiteHouse.Gov in their URL bar; an…
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A good magician shows off his tools, letting the audience know his amazing feats are accomplished not by something as simple as a trick deck of cards or two-headed coin, leaving them all the more astonished as a result.
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This year’s Oscar nominations will be announced on January 14. In anticipation of the conventional wisdom the Academy will likely uphold, we’re highlighting unlikely candidates—the dark horses we’d love to see compete on Oscar night.
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A Thai company that runs snake shows has paid £2,200 (US$3200) in damages to a Chinese tourist after she was attacked by one of their pythons when she tried to kiss it. A video clip posted online shows two men during a show calmly holding the python.
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AdventureBomb! Wait, is that what it’s called? · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, January 11. All times are Eastern. Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.
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A beginner’s guide to the twisty melodrama of Pedro Almodóvar · Primer · The A.V. Club
Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you.
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The Beatles — Don_t Let Me Down — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Final bill for winter flooding will hit £1.3bn, insurers say | Business | The Guardian
The final bill for the flood damage caused by this winter’s storms is likely to reach £1.3bn, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said. The figure covers damage caused to homes, businesses and motor vehicles by storms Desmond, Eva and Fran…
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This Week in Fiction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Poverty and Fairy Tales – The New Yorker
“The Story of a Painter,” which appears in this week’s issue, is one in a series of modern fairy tales you’ve written. Is this one based on a classic tale? No, this is an original tale. I was telling my children a bedtime story; it was New Year’s Ev…
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Explainer – What can Egypt’s new parliament do? – Al Jazeera English
We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going. As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines’ most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons January 18, 2016 – The New Yorker
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Xiaomi’s Sub-$150 Redmi 3 Gets A Full Metal Body And Much Larger Battery | TechCrunch
Xiaomi has announced the Redmi 3, the latest version of its budget smartphone. The five-inch device, which sports a full metal body for the first time and a new diamond lattice design, goes on sale January 12 for 699 CNY, that’s around $107 and is t…
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APOD: 2016 January 10 – Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Analysis confirms coordinated hack attack caused Ukrainian power outage | Ars Technica
The people who carried out last month’s first known hacker-caused power outage used highly destructive malware to gain a foothold into multiple regional distribution power companies in Ukraine and to delay restoration efforts once electricity had be…
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The Golden Globes are known for being one of the more raucous events of awards season, but even going by those standards, the 2016 ceremony stood out.
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Sean Penn Secretly Interviewed Drug Lord El Chapo — Here’s What You Need To Know – Digg
On Saturday night, Rolling Stone released an exclusive interview, written and conducted by Sean Penn, with the notorious and previously-escaped drug lord El Chapo — who had been rearrested just a day before. Since it’s release, the interview has cau…
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Jennifer Lawrence on Beating Amy Schumer at the Golden Globes: “She’ll Be Fine” | Vanity Fair
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association did something relatively evil with its Golden Globe nominations this year: pit the industry’s most beloved new best friends, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer, against each other in the best-actress-in-a-comed…
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Prince — I Wanna Be Your Lover — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Stevie Wonder — As — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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The meaning of a bumblebee | Environment | The Guardian
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Israeli rights group hit in suspected arson attack – Al Jazeera English
The offices of a prominent Israeli human rights group have been damaged in a blaze that local authorities suspect are investigating as a potential arson attack.
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Mexico opens extradition proceedings against El Chapo – Al Jazeera English
Mexico’s government has notified recaptured drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman that he is wanted in the United States, formally beginning extradition proceedings against him.
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Ever since its first episode, Galavant’s not-so-secret weapon has been Timothy Omundson’s King Richard, an infantile ruler whose tyranny often amounted to one long temper tantrum, even as he ruthlessly sentenced his subjects to death.
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Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Stevie Wonder — Living for the City — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices – The Daily Beast
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Streaming Services Dominate 2016 Golden Globes, But Amazon Takes The Win | TechCrunch
Streaming services showed up in force for Sunday night’s 73rd Golden Globe Awards, but it was Amazon’s year to shine.
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• Read our live coverage of the Golden Globes. • Read our complete coverage of the Golden Globes and the Oscars race.Here are the movies and TV shows that received the top awards. This list will be updated as winners are announced.
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‘El Chapo’: Mexico starts drug kingpin’s extradition process to US – BBC News
Mexico has formally started the process of extradition to the US of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The authorities said Interpol officers served him papers at the Altiplano prison, near Mexico City.
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Monster-Sized Marine Crocodile Discovered
The biggest sea-dwelling crocodile ever found has turned up in the Tunisian desert. The whopper of a prehistoric predator grew to over 30 feet long (nearly ten meters) and weighed three tons.
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Chinese investors buy German firm for $1bn – BBC News
A group of Chinese investors have bought one of Germany’s largest machinery suppliers, KraussMaffei, for €925m ($1bn; £694m).The investors include state-owned firm China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) and investment firms AGIC Capital and Guoxin…
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Russia Is Arming Hezbollah, Say Two of the Group’s Field Commanders – The Daily Beast
BEIRUT — Lebanese Hezbollah field commanders with troops fighting in Syria tell The Daily Beast they are receiving heavy weapons directly from Russia with no strings attached.
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Bunny Ranch ‘Pimpmaster General’ Wants a Senate Seat – The Daily Beast
He’s known as the ‘P.T. Barnum of Booty,’ ‘America’s Pimpmaster General,’ or simply ‘Daddy’ to the working girls at his Nevada brothels. Now world-famous bordello magnate and former HBO reality star Dennis Hof is gunning for a new title: state senat…
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At 104 years old, ANC must be younger – Al Jazeera English
The African National Congress, Africa’s oldest liberation movement and – for the last 22 years – the ruling party of South Africa, has celebrated its 104th anniversary. It is a party whose rich history is headlined by such luminaries as Chief Albert…
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Thank These Trends for Donald Trump – The Daily Beast
People are scratching their heads wondering how Donald Trump is still dominating the Republican primary race. Theories abound—a surprising number of which are astute, but incomplete.
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When the Supreme Court Busts a Union – The Daily Beast
Scott Walker may be yesterday’s news, but his brand of union-busting Republicanism is about to have its day in court—Supreme Court. And it will probably win. The Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Friedrichs v.
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Why the U.S. Can’t Make a Magazine Like ISIS – The Daily Beast
The Obama Administration attributes much of ISIS’s success at communicating to its technological savvy, which has elevated the group to a global media and terrorist phenomenon. The president has gone so far as to say that the Paris attackers were a …
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How China Could Crash the Global Economy – The Daily Beast
“China has a major adjustment problem,” George Soros told a conference in Sri Lanka on Thursday. “I would say it amounts to a crisis. When I look at the financial markets, there is a serious challenge which reminds me of the crisis we had in 2008.”S…
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The Climate Change Book the GOP Needs to Read – The Daily Beast
Back in March, I argued in The Daily Beast that Republican politicians were finally coming around on climate change.
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Sean Penn’s Naïve Encounter with ‘Dr. Death’ in Outer Space – The Daily Beast
Mexican journalist Julio Scherer used to say he would go to hell itself for an interview with the devil. And so he did. Scherer was no run-of-the-mill reporter.
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‘Bordertown’ Turns the Immigration Debate into Crude, Stupid Fun – The Daily Beast
The new Fox adult animated sitcom, Bordertown, is pulling down criticism and praise. It deserves a generous helping of both. Set in the mythical town of Mexifornia, located on the U.S.-Mexico border, the series—which airs Sundays at 8:30 pm—deals wi…
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Win or Lose, Alabama’s Greatest Export Is College Football – The Daily Beast
The state of Alabama doesn’t have an NFL team, an NBA team, or an MLB team, but in one sport, at least, it’s number one with a vengeance. Alabama is the college football capital of the United States.
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What’s Really Behind the Saudi-Iran Clash? – The Daily Beast
Once more Saudi Arabia is executing prisoners en masse; once more Iranians are storming foreign embassies. Both countries are regressing to their basest selves. The question is: why, and perhaps more importantly, why now? Timing is everything here.
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Three Pillars of Astronomy | ESO
This picture, taken at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the full Moon low in the purple sky, a photographer crouching on the rocks, and the New Technology Telescope (NTT) perched on a hilltop.
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The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices – The Daily Beast
And you thought your mandatory physical education class was bad. Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Tulsa, Oklahoma is requiring all incoming students to wear Fitbit fitness tracking devices, according to a press release that the small Christian liber…
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Volkswagen boss apologises to America for cheating diesel emissions tests | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen chief executive Matthias Müller has apologized for cheating diesel car emissions tests on his first official US visit since the scandal broke in September.
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Prayer Flags Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Prayer Flags Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Golden Globes 2016 Recap: Did Anyone See The Revenant Coming? | Vanity Fair
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Our Favorite Golden Globes Couples of 2016 | Vanity Fair
Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt Given that Pitt and Gosling starred in one of the funniest movies of the year, The Big Short, maybe we should have expected some good jokes from these two. But the last thing we expected from Gosling was for him to cast hi…
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Another Golden Globes, another opportunity for the world to gasp in horror as Ricky Gervais says mildly offensive things that are specifically designed to make people gasp in horror and get them talking about the Golden Globes.
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You like praying mantises? : pics
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Sylvester Stallone at Golden Globes: I Still Have Late-Night Conversations with Rocky | Vanity Fair
When Sylvester Stallone took the stage on Sunday night to accept his first-ever Golden Globe award, the Oscar winner mentioned one special person in his speech.
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My puppy gave up on playing : aww
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Behind the Scenes in Oregon, Ammon Bundy Preaches Revolution – The Daily Beast
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My nephew got this for Christmas. : pics
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Mexico Launches Process to Extradite ‘El Chapo’ | Al Jazeera America
Mexican officials on Sunday formally launched the process to extradite recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, starting what could be a lengthy road full of legal appeals and maneuvering.
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Behind the Scenes in Oregon, Ammon Bundy Preaches Revolution – The Daily Beast
MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Oregon—Ammon Bundy came here to preach. But Bundy is not spreading the word of God, though he’s a devout Mormon.
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The 2016 Golden Globes’ most handsome moment: Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling are charming AF – Vox
Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling appeared at the 2016 Golden Globes to present the clips package for their film The Big Short, which was nominated for four prizes, including Best Motion Picture — Comedy. (The movie would come up emptyhanded in all four ca…
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The Golden Globes tried to play Taraji P. Henson off the stage. She told them to wait. – Vox
The most satisfying moment of the 73rd annual Golden Globes was Taraji P. Henson’s Best Actress in a TV Drama win for her portrayal of Cookie Lyon on Empire. Henson is ferocious in that role — it’s equal parts strength and damage.
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: January 10 – The Daily Beast
With less than a month to go to the Iowa caucuses, the presidential frontrunners took to the Sunday news shows to present their cases and argue against their opponents.
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Watch Lady Gaga’s Emotional Speech at 2016 Golden Globes | Rolling Stone
Watch Lady Gaga’s Emotional Speech at 2016 Golden Globes “I wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a singer,” the pop superstar said of winning her first acting award
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: January 10 – The Daily Beast
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Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant Wins Best Motion Picture, Drama | Vanity Fair
The Revenant won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Drama, besting some serious competition and offering some clarity in what, to this point, has been a very, very wide-open awards season.
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Golden Globe Winner Taraji P. Henson Will Enjoy Her Moment on Stage | Vanity Fair
As was predicted, Taraji P. Henson won a Golden Globe for her work as the larger-than-life Cookie Lyon on Fox’s hit drama Empire tonight, and much like Cookie would, Henson wasn’t about to let the wrap-up sign force her off the stage.
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On Sunday night, Leonardo DiCaprio swept the best-actor-in-a-drama category for The Revenant, bringing him one step closer to his first Oscar win in a 27-year career.
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Brie Larson Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama | Vanity Fair
Brie Larson has won the Golden Globe award for best actress in a drama, making the first time she has made a televised speech in this awards season—and, if historical trends between the Globes and the Oscars hold up, probably not the last.
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The House of Cards Season 4 Trailer is a Creepy Frank’s Greatest Hits
During the Golden Globes tonight, the Underwood 2016 campaign released its latest advert: an address straight from the fictional Oval Office, complete with little reminders that the main character is a bona fide psychopath. Season 4 is landing on Ma…
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In the long history of Springfield’s questionable milk products, “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles’” introduction of Buzz Milk, a hormone-heavy milk-like beverage from the makers of Buzz Cola, might not be up to the comedy standards of malk, or Sq…
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Golden Globe Awards 2016: Sequins and stars on the red carpet – BBC News
Some of film and TV’s biggest names posed in designer dresses and sharp suits on the red carpet at this year’s Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, California.
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Why the Golden Globes are often accused of corruption, explained (by Denzel Washington) – Vox
The poorly kept secret of the Golden Globes is that they can be bought. Voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the awards are famous for the lengths to which studios will go to woo the group’s membership — which usually numbers around …
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Watch a Tearful Sylvester Stallone Win First-Ever Golden Globe | Rolling Stone
Sylvester Stallone took home the Golden Globe for his performance in the latest installment of the Rocky franchise Creed. Stallone had last been nominated in 1976 for the inaugural film in the series as the film’s screenwriter.
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Never thought I would run into this guy at a Walmart in Ohio. : pics
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What Ricky Gervais Said to Mel Gibson at the Golden Globes – The Daily Beast
What did Ricky Gervais say to Mel Gibson that got bleeped during the Golden Globes? The better question, maybe, is what the hell was Mel Gibson doing at the Golden Globes in the first place?
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The Martian Called Itself a Comedy, and It Worked | Vanity Fair
Well, the gambit paid off. The Martian, director Ridley Scott’s sublime Mars survival-and-rescue thriller, won the Golden Globe tonight for best comedy/musical. Even though, some might argue, it isn’t really a comedy. (And certainly isn’t a musical.…
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Lady Gaga beat Kirsten Dunst and Queen Latifah to win a Golden Globe. This is not a drill. – Vox
And so it came to pass that Lady Gaga won a Golden Globe. The singer-actress won Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television for her role in American Horror Story: Hotel, and was sure to make her moment in the spotlight shine.
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Jennifer Lawrence Beats Amy Schumer to Take Home Third Golden Globe | Vanity Fair
The Battle of the B.F.F.’s was fought at the 2016 Golden Globes Sunday night between Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence with Lawrence emerging as the winner in the Best Actress in a Comedy category. Don’t worry, somehow we suspect the friendship will…
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Open thread for night owls: Oil-train protestors will employ ‘necessity defense’ at trial
In September 2014, five individuals — now known as the Delta 5 — blockaded a train transporting Bakken shale oil at the Delta rail yard in Everett, Washington. This action was taken to oppose the known risks of the explosive Bakken oil and the risks…
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The ‘Silently Protesting Muslim Woman’ at the Trump Rally Wasn’t Alone – The Daily Beast
When Rose Hamid and longtime friend Jibril Hough set out Friday for Rock Hill, S.C., in a 2013 red Camaro, they had a clear mission: to stand up to Donald Trump and his rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants. They could hardly have predicted how well th…
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Matt Damon Reveals How Frozen’s Elsa Inspired His 2016 Golden Globes Plans | Vanity Fair
It took Matt Damon 18 years but, on Sunday night, the actor collected his first Golden Globe since he and Ben Affleck won the best-screenplay category in 1998 for Good Will Hunting.
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Golden Globes 2016: WTF did Ricky Gervais say to Mel Gibson? – Vox
Lip readers, get to work. The biggest mystery of the 2016 Golden Globes is what Ricky Gervais said to Mel Gibson.
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Three teenagers suspected of taking turns raping an 18-year-old woman at a Brooklyn playground after ordering her father to leave her side were taken into custody on Sunday, a law enforcement official said.
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The Perils of Being a ‘Downton Abbey’ Baby: S6E2 Recap – The Daily Beast
How many more weeks can the Downton Abbey faithful stand the endless back-and-forth between Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson about their wedding day?
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Had a Mini-Titanic Reunion at the Golden Globes | Vanity Fair
It’s been 18 years since their first film together, Titanic, won big at the Golden Globes, but stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have always maintained a tight bond.
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Denzel Washington Accepts the Golden Globes Lifetime Achievement Award | Vanity Fair
In a welcome change of pace from an awards season that has been too white for comfort, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Denzel Washington, who, at age 60, is still one of the most bankable movie stars alive.
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So my church just gave me some lip balm… : pics
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How Che Guevara’s home became a kitesurfing haven – BBC News
Once a seaside getaway for Cuba’s wealthy and the honeymoon home of Che Guevara, Tarara is now becoming a centre for kitesurfing and other water sports. Shortly after the Cuban revolutionaries took power in Havana, Ernesto “Che” Guevara suffered an …
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Catalan Lawmakers Vote in Pro-Secession Leader | Al Jazeera America
Catalonia’s parliament swore in a new separatist leader on Sunday evening, putting the pro-independence movement’s commitment to break with Spain over the next 18 months back on track after a long political deadlock.
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For six seasons now, and over the years between 1912 and 1925, the residents of Downton Abbey have spoken of changes underway, of a seismic social shift, but the actual changes have been so gradual as to be almost invisible, tiny cracks in the old w…
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When Showtime petitioned to have Shameless designated as a comedy series at the Emmy Awards, I was—perhaps embarrassingly, but I must acknowledge my truth—angry. Shameless is a dramatic television series, and its finest moments come when it explores…
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Threat from deadly bushfire eases in Western Australia – BBC News
A massive bushfire in Western Australia that killed two people continues to burn, but milder conditions are helping firefighters bring it under control.The fire engulfed the entire town of Yarloop near Perth last week, destroying at least 128 homes.
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Donald Trump says NFL has ‘gone soft’ like America | Sport | The Guardian
Donald Trump believes he has found the perfect encapsulation of the decline of America: the NFL’s efforts to stop head-on collisions in football.
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Catalan Lawmakers Vote in Pro-independence Leader | Al Jazeera America
Catalonia’s parliament swore in a new separatist leader on Sunday evening, putting the pro-independence movement’s commitment to break with Spain over the next 18 months back on track after a long political deadlock.
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General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age | TechCrunch
The conventional wisdom is that the recently agreed-upon General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most-lobbied piece of legislation in the history of the European Union. I’m not quite sure how you quantify that, but it’s not surprising.
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Madaya: UN aid convoy to leave for besieged Syrian town – BBC News
An aid convoy is expected to leave for Madaya, a Syrian town under government siege, where people are reported to have been starving to death. Some 40,000 people are in Madaya, near Lebanon’s border, with residents said to be eating pets and grass t…
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Planned Parenthood endorses Hillary Clinton in presidential race | US news | The Guardian
Women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood is endorsing Hillary Clinton in the race to become the Democratic presidential candidate, but says that won’t mean negative campaigning against her primary opponents.
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Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt are the Golden Globes’s Best Comedy Duo | Vanity Fair
Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, comedy duo of 2016? The co-stars in The Big Short don’t actually share any screen time in the movie, which we now know is a major loss—their chemistry onstage at the Golden Globes, co-presenting footage from The Big Short…
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The 2016 Golden Globes’ funniest moment belongs to America Ferrera and Eva Longoria – Vox
The 2016 Golden Globes got off to a rocky start. Ricky Gervais’s monologue fell flat, and the Channing Tatum/Jonah Hill chaser sucked the air out of the room. We thought we’d be in for a long night (and I understand this may still be a possibility).
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Sylvester Stallone won a Golden Globe, got a standing ovation, blew our minds – Vox
Sylvester Stallone is a Golden Globe winner. If you’re someone who’s followed his career over the years — especially the terrible dry spells he went through in the 1990s and 2000s — that must seem incredibly strange.
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Best graffiti I’ve seen yet : pics
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House of Cards – The Leader We Deserve : television
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Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer Win the Golden Globes, Our Hearts – The Daily Beast
Joined by her new BFF Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence got her revenge against Ricky Gervais Sunday night at the Golden Globes by delivering a joint appearance that outshined the host and was reminiscent of the previous Tina Fey and Amy Poehler era of…
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Star Wars breaks China box office record, studio says – BBC News
The latest Star Wars film has taken $53m (£36.5m) in ticket sales on its first weekend in China – the country’s highest ever opening weekend. Globally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the third most commercially successful film in history, a…
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Jihadis ‘may be in Calais camp’, ex police terror chief claims – BBC News
The so-called jungle camp in Calais may be a refuge for returning jihadis to “hide in plain sight” before “smuggling themselves” into the UK, a former head of police counter-terrorism has said.
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Watch Ricky Gervais’ Hilarious Golden Globes 2016 Monologue | Rolling Stone
The 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards were held in Hollywood on Sunday night, and controversial British comedian Ricky Gervais was back to host the ceremony for the fourth time — his first since he emceed things for three years in a row between 2010 a…
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Golden Globes 2016: The Complete Winners List | Rolling Stone
Golden Globes 2016: The Complete Winners List Check out the full list of everyone who’s taking home the gold tonight
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Watch Rachel Bloom’s Spirited Golden Globes Speech | Rolling Stone
Rachel Bloom won her first Golden Globe award for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the show she created and stars in.
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The 2016 Golden Globes kicked off with a surprise, at least for Kate Winslet, who was so certain that she wouldn’t win her supporting actress award that she went ahead and made plans for after Sunday night’s ceremony.
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Riding the Shuttle’s Booster with enhanced sound : space
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Sleepy Tim | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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How to get out of paying rent : gifs
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Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes opening monologue – FULL VIDEO : movies
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Golden Globes 2016: Rachel Bloom wins, giving hope to CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Vox
If anyone was sleeping on The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend before the Golden Globes, Rachel Bloom’s win for Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical just woke them up.
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Silicon Valley is still getting it wrong on income inequality
As Ezra Klein thoroughly documented for Vox, “Graham’s focus on startups as a cause and consequence of inequality is also empirically wrong.” It’s not just that the vast majority of start-ups produce not riches but failure for their founders.
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Spain’s Princess Cristina to go on trial for fraud – BBC News
Spain’s Princess Cristina is due to appear in court on fraud charges – the first member of the country’s royal family to be put on trial. She is charged with being an accomplice in an alleged embezzlement scam involving her husband and 16 other defe…
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Golden Globes 2016: Jon Hamm Wins One Final Award for Mad Men | Vanity Fair
Four months after Jon Hamm received his long-overdue Emmy for his work as the dramatic anchor on AMC’s Mad Men, the actor won one final award for his portrayal of the dapper, deeply troubled ad man Don Draper—a Golden Globe.
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Had to walk by this in my building at 3AM. : creepy
Had to walk by this in my building at 3AM. (imgur.com) I like how each picture looks like its taken from a point a little closer to the ground than the previous. If I thought my death was imminent I would want to document it as best I could.
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Chinese markets start week with new falls – BBC News
Asian shares opened lower on Monday as jitters from the sell-off in the markets last week continued to keep investors on edge. China suspended the use of that tool on Friday, a move that reassured traders.
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Pit Bull fosters blind kittens : aww
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Body found at Dyatlov Pass where 9 hikers mysteriously died in 1959 : worldnews
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“You disgusting, pill-popping, sexually-deviant scum,” Ricky Gervais said at the top of his Golden Globes monologue Sunday night, full beer in hand. “I want to do this monologue and then go into hiding, OK? Not even Sean Penn will find me…Snitch.
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Eight Actresses Wearing Capes on the Red Carpet | Vanity Fair
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The legal and constitutional issues around qualification for the presidency on grounds of US citizenship are “murky and unsettled”, according to the scholar cited by Donald Trump in his recent attacks on Ted Cruz.
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Golden Globes 2016: here’s the best joke from Ricky Gervais’s bad monologue – Vox
The alleged reason Ricky Gervais keeps getting hired to host the Golden Globes is that he’s a shocking host who’s willing to say mean things to celebrities that people don’t normally say. It’s a decent reason. But this year it didn’t quite come toge…
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Ricky Gervais Best Jokes at the Golden Globes | Vanity Fair
It didn’t take long for Sean Penn’s surprise interview with Mexican drug lord El Chapo to become the butt of a joke at tonight’s Golden Globes.
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Deja vu for Australian economy as China woes portend another bad year | Business | The Guardian
It’s always great to come back from the holidays ready to get into the new year afresh. Alas, the early signs this year on the economic front are hardly fresh – indeed they seem gloomily repetitive of last year. Related: Australia bet the house on n…
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“You disgusting, pill-popping, sexually-deviant scum,” Ricky Gervais said at the top of his Golden Globes monologue Sunday night, full beer in hand. “I want to do this monologue and then go into hiding, OK? Not even Sean Penn will find me…Snitch.
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Planned Parenthood Endorse Hillary Clinton | Al Jazeera America
Women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood is endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, but says that won’t mean negative campaigning against her primary opponents.
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Channing Tatum’s Bizarre Golden Globes Haircut. . .Explained | Vanity Fair
Viewers were quick to take notice of Channing Tatum’s Golden Globes haircut as the actor made his way down the red carpet with wife Jenna Dewan Tatum on Sunday. Long on top, short on the sides, and slicked over to the right, the hair was nothing lik…
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Green Bay Packers in control as they stroll past Washington | Sport | The Guardian
Aaron Rodgers recovered from a poor start to throw for two touchdowns, Eddie Lacy and James Starks each ran for a score, and the Green Bay Packers came back to beat Washington 35-18 on Sunday in their NFC wildcard game.
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Tonight’s midseason premiere is driven by all the ridiculous things the various dinner party attendees want. As far as Bob is concerned, the recently divorced archaeologist Steve is the spitting image of Indiana Jones, and Bob wants nothing more tha…
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Someone’s going to die in Marvel’s Civil War II comic event · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Whenever there’s a big comic book event, it’s basically to be expected that some character—either a big name or a nobody—will get killed off.
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Golden Globes 2016: the complete list of winners – Vox
The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards should be entertaining, to say the least. For one thing, Ricky Gervais is hosting for the fourth time.
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The Legend of Lynn Wyatt, the Best Little Socialite in Texas | Vanity Fair
A loud “pop” erupts over the normally hushed, elegant dining room of the Carlyle hotel, in New York, as a waiter accidentally lets the cork of a just-opened bottle of Canard-Duchêne Brut fly clear across the room.
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Golden Globes 2016 Winners List | Vanity Fair
The Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, were handed out in a live televised ceremony on January 10. Below is a complete list of winners, updated live as they are announced (the winners are indicated in bold).
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With the dramatic temperature changes this winter, Al Roker might need to prepare to break his own Guinness World Record, set in 2014, when he gave an uninterrupted 34-hour weather report.
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A blind pit bull playing fetch : gifs
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Here’s What to Do If You Actually Win the Powerball – Mic
As the Powerball jackpot reaches an estimated $1.3 billion, many have started making plans for what they would do with the money if they were to win: buy an island, pay off debt, buy luxury cars.
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Jane Fonda’s Mega Ruffles Owned it on the Golden Globes 2016 Red Carpe | Vanity Fair
Jane Fonda made a strong early bid for this year’s Golden Globes most memorable dress in Yves Saint Laurent Couture. Standing out in a sea of deep-plunge sequin dresses, Fonda wore a pastry-like skirt of jacquard, sequined ruffles on her shoulders, …
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The ‘Rosa Parks’ of Saudi Arabia – BBC News
Nawal al-Hawsawi is outspoken, black, a qualified pilot and married to a white man – everything her critics say a Saudi woman shouldn’t be. But despite receiving waves of abuse on social media, she refuses to bow to convention and hits back at her d…
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Golden Globes 2016: How Amy Schumer Has Already Won the Night | Vanity Fair
Amy Schumer is up against her close friend Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Actress in a Comedy category at the Golden Globes and while we’ll have to wait a little while longer to see if either leaves tonight with a shiny new piece of hardware for thei…
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The men who sell Brooklyn’s cool – BBC News
It was over a glass or two of bourbon that friends Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler hatched their plan to tap into the undeniable coolness of Brooklyn.
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A loaf stole my seat! : Catloaf
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World’s Smallest Camera Drone + 2GB Micro SD Card | Digg Store
This tiny flyer is the smallest drone of its kind to carry its own camera for taking epic shots in the smallest places. Four fast blades make this new quadcopter omni-directional, which in layman’s terms means it can dip, dash, zip, spin, and flip a…
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The 19th Century plug that’s still being used – BBC News
After rumours that Apple was going to get rid of the headphone jack in its imminent iPhone 7, more than 200,000 people have signed a petition asking them to reconsider. This humble plug is a rare example of technology that has stood the test of time…
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A hidden cost of gerrymandering: When even competitive seats are rendered uncompetitive
Let me, to use a popular Twitter meme, state my unpopular opinion: I do not believe that, reflexively, “every district” should have a Democrat running in it.
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How Contact Lenses Plucked From A Corpse Helped Close This Murder Case – BuzzFeed News
On April 26, 2005, someone murdered 26-year-old Janet Abaroa, stabbing the young mother to death in her own home while her 6-month-old child slept nearby. Her husband, Raven Abaroa, who had called 911, distraught, to report her death late that eveni…
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Hillary Clinton has often said she launched her own political career in 2000 because of the encouragement of a 17-year-old high school girl named Sonia Totti. So where is Totti now?
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How Che Guevara’s home became a kitesurfing haven – BBC News
Once a seaside getaway for Cuba’s wealthy and the honeymoon home of Che Guevara, Tarara is now becoming a centre for kitesurfing and other water sports. Shortly after the Cuban revolutionaries took power in Havana, Ernesto “Che” Guevara suffered an …
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Keeping productive is as much about maintaining your momentum as it is about managing your use of time. You’re better off finishing everything you start, not saving halfway done tasks for later. Obviously some tasks are long-term projects that requi…
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Hulu doesn’t want to wait for all six seasons of Dawson’s Creek · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As part of a big licensing deal with Sony, Hulu has picked up the streaming rights to a handful of beloved shows from recent TV history, the crown jewel of which is a certain series about a rogue cop who does whatever it takes to bring criminals to …
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A New Hope for a Perplexing Mathematical Proof | WIRED
Earlier this month the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years.
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Hope Rekindled for ABC Proof | Quanta Magazine
Earlier this month the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years.
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Dishonored – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dishonored is a 2012 stealth action-adventure video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released worldwide in October 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
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The consultants are in charge now: How admen and advisers conquered American politics – Salon.com
Ten miles from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, located in a low-rise office building in Towson, Maryland, is a successful business few Americans know about. Mentzer Media Services is one of the leading political consulting firms in the country.
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New Tesla Update Allows Your Car To Clunkily Park Itself – Digg
15 diggs Cars Technology A proud Tesla owner shows off the most recent software update, which allows cars to park themselves in users’ garages.
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Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations : technology
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Inside China’s plastic surgery boom – BBC News
More and more people in China are going under the knife in the name of beauty. In 2014, more than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed.
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Milky Way over the Henbury Meteorite Impact Site : space
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Which TV Shows Will Win at Tonight’s Golden Globes? | New Republic
Esther’s pick: Mr. Robot. Empire would have been a shoo-in if these awards were given out six months go, but I doubt that even the Globes can ignore season two’s steep dive in quality.
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Aerodrome Is The First Commercial Airport For Drones | TechCrunch
Aerodrome is working with the City of Boulder, Nevada, to launch the first commercial drone airport — the Eldorado Droneport. It’s one of only a handful of FAA-appointed UAS test sites in the United States.
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Madaya: Desperate wait for aid to besieged Syrian town – BBC News
An aid convoy which was delayed in reaching the besieged Syrian town of Madaya is now due to arrive on Monday. People there are reported to have been starving to death, and eating pets, leaves and grass to survive.
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Car Breathalyzer Company Gets Hacked, Internal Docs Dumped on Dark Web | Motherboard
Absolutely any company in the world can get hacked. Apparently that now includes, rather bizarrely, a firm that sells car breathalyzer technology.
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If Google was a guy – vaccines. : gifs
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Laura Dern has also moved to Twin Peaks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite all of the weird things that are known to happen there, a lot of people are deciding to move to the town of Twin Peaks lately.
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Walsh misses 27 yard kick for win against Seahawks : sports
Vikings can’t hold it against him too much. He’s the only one who scored any points. It would’ve helped if the laces were in. That holder screwed that up twice. I say burn him at the stake.
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Golden Globes 2016 Red Carpet Fashion | Vanity Fair
The Golden Globes may be one of the more relaxed and genuinely fun events on the awards-season calendar, but that doesn’t mean that the stars in attendance will skimp on fashion.
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Give Your Headphones a Futuristic Touch with a Pair of Smart LEDs
Find yourself bored with those simple old black headphones? If you want to spice them up, Adafruit’s put together a guide to add Bluetooth controlled animated lights.
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As I rode in a cab across the Brooklyn Bridge, a man I barely knew was sucking my toes. The lights of the bridge streaked overhead, and Manhattan was a jeweled kingdom shrinking behind us in the darkness of the rearview mirror. Sprawled in an awkwar…
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San Antonio, Texas : Image of the Day
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this detailed photograph of San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1691, the city has been central to the history of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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This Fantastic Video Looks At Van Gogh’s Work Ethic For A Lesson In Struggling To Succeed
Adam Westbrook has been putting together some really interesting video essays on the artist world, and for his latest video, he’s put together a really interesting look at Vincent Van Gogh’s work ethic in an era obsessed with popularity. Westbrook l…
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Mayor Bill de Blasio ‘disgusted and deeply saddened’ by Brooklyn gang rape | US news | The Guardian
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New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, on Sunday said he was “disgusted and deeply saddened” by accusations of a group rape of an 18-year-old woman at a Brooklyn playground. Every possible step will be taken to find the suspects, the mayor said. -
What’s Your Customer’s Online Personality? | TechCrunch
In the retail world in which we live, it’s hard to know who your customers are.
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The Industrialist’s Dilemma | TechCrunch
Ford made headlines at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon’s technology into its cars, also following rumors that the company is working with Google to develop and manufacture self-driving cars.
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“What am I supposed do with this?” : cats
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Striated Thornbill | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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After The Honeymoon, She Realized … She Married A Monster from Outer Space!
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Let’s be real about guns, safety, open carry, and privilege
Guns do not make America safer. No other developed country on earth has a higher per capita gun related homicide rate than the United States. In fact, the United States rate is four times that of both Turkey and Switzerland. Both of these countries …
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Who Will Win Tonight’s Film Golden Globes? | New Republic
Elaine’s pick: Spotlight. Not just because it was a great movie, but because the Golden Globes is run by the Hollywood Foreign Press, and journalists love themselves. Alex’s pick: Mad Max: Fury Road. I mean, look: Spotlight is definitely going to wi…
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Neuroscience‘Window of Recovery’ Can Reopen after Stroke – Using mice whose front paws were still partly disabled after an initial induced stroke, researchers report that inducing a 2nd stroke let them “rehab” the animals to successfully grab food p…
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After The Honeymoon, She Realized … She Married A Monster from Outer Space!
For today’s Weekend Matinee, we’re going back to 1958 to watch She Married A Monster from Outer Space! After coming back from her honeymoon, Marge Farrell notices her husband acting… strange. Give it a watch, and weigh in with your fellow commente…
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How to Watch the 2016 Golden Globes Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
The 73rd Golden Globe Awards start Sunday, January 10, at 8 p.m. ET on the NBC broadcast network. Ricky Gervais returns as host for the fourth time, his first since 2012. The Daily Beast has all the pre-game analysis you’ll need.
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Watch 2016 Golden Globes Red Carpet Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
It’s that time of year! When all your favorite celebrities throw on some couture and walk down the Golden Globes red carpet, on their way for a night of drunken revelry. The official red carpet coverage begins at 5:55 p.m. ET, airing on the E! Netwo…
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Watch 2016 Golden Globes Red Carpet Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
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New Year gale followed by signs of Spring: Country diary 100 years ago | Environment | The Guardian
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Oregon standoff tension mounts as so-called ‘3%’ groups refuse to leave | US news | The Guardian
The heavily armed rightwing groups who descended on rural Harney County in eastern Oregon on Saturday – to protect the peace, they said – made clear they had no intention of leaving, as the occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge entered …
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Flint Wants Safe Water, and Someone to Answer for Its Crisis https://t.co/lhShyde9A5 https://t.co/S9HRMNlOs0
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Bernie Sanders Makes Strong Showing in New Polls https://t.co/kYoINDS9IP https://t.co/IUnt1luoEZ
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Matthew McConaughey takes on the Confederacy in this trailer for Free State Of Jones https://t.co/IsZvmpZ1Yi https://t.co/GBHNCemONi
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A Visit from Chelsea Handler, And A Nervous Wait Afterward | TechCrunch
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Muhammad cartoons censored at Charlie Hebdo exhibit in Tel Aviv : worldnews
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Chile is expanding its largest open-pit copper mine below the northern desert to dig up 1.7 billion additional tons of minerals, even as metal prices plummet around the globe.
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Hillary Clinton holds a three-point edge over Senator Bernie Sanders in Iowa, a tightening of the race with roughly three weeks until voting begins, according to a new set of surveys of likely voters from NBC/The Wall Street Journal/Marist.
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New Catalonia leader pledges secession within 18 months – BBC News
The new leader of the government in the Spanish region of Catalonia has pledged to continue his predecessor Artur Mas’s plans to secede within 18 months. Carles Puigdemont was speaking in the regional assembly ahead of a vote that confirmed him in o…
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DENVER — Ken Ivory, a Republican state representative from Utah, has been roaming the West with an alluring pitch to cattle ranchers, farmers and conservatives upset with how Washington controls the wide-open public spaces out here:
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Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin Arrested for Trashing Former House | Rolling Stone
For Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin, 2016 started much like 2015 ended: With the singer under arrest.
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NASA’s Latest Rover Concept Is Inspired by Worms and Amoebas | Motherboard
Every rover we have sent to explore other planets has had the same basic “lab-on-wheels” design, with the exception of the adorable skiing Prop M robots of the Soviet space program.
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Reported Attacks Grow in Germany, Sparking Debate | Al Jazeera America
Attacks on women in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve have prompted more than 600 criminal complaints, with police suspicion resting on asylum seekers, putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and her open door reufgee policy.
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Palestinian ideas of freedom take stage in India – Al Jazeera English
Palestinian ideas of freedom and liberation are taking the stage in India. The plan is to share Palestinian ideas of freedom and liberation with Indian audiences.
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The ‘Michelin curse’ comes to Hong Kong – BBC News
Winning recognition in the annual Michelin Guide is one of the most sought-after honours in the restaurant business. But in Hong Kong, a city plagued by high rents, the accolade may bring unexpected challenges.
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Admiral in unserm Garten im August 2012 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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How Trafficking a Rare Fish Threatens an Even Rarer Porpoise
Just last week, a friend at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) emailed me to ask if I’ve ever written about the trafficking of totoaba swim bladders, adding that she’s been working on vaquita conservation in the…
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You Won’t Be Able To Tell Where Your Meat Comes From Now, Thanks To Congress | Motherboard
The meat in your pork chop or hamburger may have come from halfway across the world, and thanks to the repeal of a popular law by Congress last week, you’ll never know where.
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Syrian Refugee to Be Guest at State of the Union | Al Jazeera America
President Obama has committed to accepting an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees, but some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are critical of the expansion. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, for example, noted the recent arres…
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California Spending on Schools Set to Rise | Al Jazeera America
Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum proposed by Gov.
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Dust from distant lands | Environment | The Guardian
It seems astonishing that the Amazon rainforest is fertilised by Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic. The large sand grains in dust storms fall quickly to the ground, but smaller particles can travel thousands of kilometres.
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Starvation Deaths Reported in Besieged Syrian City as UN Prepares to Send Aid | VICE News
Doctors Without Borders announced on Sunday that its patients in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya are starving to death, just days after the UN announced that it will deliver food aid to the region.
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Micah Hayman figured out that the best way to get his son to stop crying was Imperial March. Parenting done right.
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Track of the Day: ‘Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding’ – The Atlantic
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New York homeless people report little sign of mayor’s outreach initiative | US news | The Guardian
Tens of thousands of homeless men, women and children are struggling to live in New York City, but dozens of homeless people made it clear in interviews that it will take more than outreach by the mayor and governor to bring them in from the cold.
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Blair Walsh’s 27-yard field goal try into the frigid wind for Minnesota hooked left with 22 seconds remaining, handing the Seattle Seahawks a 10-9 victory over the stunned Vikings in their wildcard round playoff game in below-zero weather on Sunday.…
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Released Guantanamo Bay detainees: Where are they now? – Al Jazeera English
United States President Barack Obama is years overdue on his promise to shutter the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In all, some 780 men have been held at the US facility. Many prisoners left Guantanamo in the same manner they arrived: on …
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This Raging Bush Fire Has Consumed Over 181,000 Acres in Western Australia | Motherboard
In Western Australia, the shires of Harvey and Waroona have been plagued with particularly vicious bush fires set off by a lightning strike last Wednesday.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Well, almost twins via /r/cats…
Well, almost twins via /r/cats https://t.co/gnqcHocPZG https://t.co/4KIcobQl1B https://t.co/t2MhwepPmu
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Frozen Web | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Frozen Web by mejud https://t.co/WlLQK8llDI https://t.co/iWDplt4JHp https://t.co/bL4gqXck4r
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J.J. Abrams: Person Of Interest Is Likely In Its Final Season
J.J. Abrams: Person Of Interest Is Likely In Its Final Season https://t.co/RWdfCHmsNy https://t.co/03jPQcjPok
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The Most Common Health Issues That Affect 25 Different Dog Breeds
Dogs are our friends, and they rely on us to make sure they’re healthy. Some breeds are prone to specific health concerns, and this infographic breaks it down. If you have a dog, you might be aware of some of these already.
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Lebanon Arrests Suspected Mastermind of Twin Bombings Last Year in Beirut | VICE News
Authorities in Lebanon announced on Sunday that the suspected mastermind behind a pair of suicide bombings that rocked Beirut late last year has been arrested. According to Lebanon’s Daily Star, police released a statement announcing the arrest of a…
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J.J. Abrams: Person Of Interest Is Likely In Its Final Season
While he’s been helping with the promotion of Hulu’s 11.22.63, J.J. Abrams dropped some bad news on us: this upcoming season of Person of Interest is likely its last.
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Piazza Navona from above, Roma, Italy. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Piazza Navona from above, Roma, Italy. by lorenzolattanzi https://t.co/rbrUvWwNwA https://t.co/m6HqOpeujH https://t.co/1EwyfX6tUX
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Piazza Navona from above, Roma, Italy. by lorenzolattanzi https://t.co/rbrUvWwNwA https://t.co/m6HqOpeujH https://t.co/1EwyfX6tUX
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Marco Rubio turns fire on Republican rivals Ted Cruz and Chris Christie | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio tore into his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination on Sunday, arguing that Ted Cruz helped the Islamic State by limiting US surveillance powers and that an elected Chris Christie would amount to a third term for Barack Obama.
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Golden Globes 2016: Join our live-blog during this year’s awards! – Vox
The Golden Globes are tonight, which can mean only one thing: it’s time for us to host a live-blog both celebrating and gently mocking awards season’s drunk uncle.
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Death toll in Russian raids on Syria’s Idlib nears 100 – Al Jazeera English
The death toll of Russian air strikes in Syria’s Idlib province has nearly reached 100, as several dozen of those who were critically injured in the attacks on Saturday have died, a volunteer rescue group reports.
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Jethro, a police dog who was shot three times in the face, shoulder and neck during a burglary investigation in north-eastern Ohio, has died. The shooting happened early on Saturday morning, as Canton police investigated an alarm at a grocery store.
Ohio police dog Jethro dies from injuries a day after shootout at grocery store https://t.co/HkwW1vvul1 https://t.co/BieYwpTqyO -
The Less Sporty Side Of E-Sports | TechCrunch
The e-sports industry is getting big. Really big. More people watch Twitch than CNN. Riot, Valve, Activision-Blizzard and EA all have e-sports initiatives.
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My youthful adviser tells me that I should say a bit about myself so that you can know something of my perspective. Born in San Antonio in a lower middle-class environment, I attended grades 1 through 11 in the public schools. volunteering for the M…
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Here Are The Men Who Built Star Trek’s Original Enterprise
Here Are The Men Who Built Star Trek’s Original Enterprise https://t.co/YDoADLkXzs https://t.co/3Fyk70jm3F
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Here Are The Men Who Built Star Trek’s Original Enterprise
This is pretty awesome: A picture of the original Star Trek model, along with the men who assembled it, taken in December, 1964. The model was constructed by Richard C. Datin Jr.
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NFL playoffs: Green Bay Packers v Washington – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Hunter will be here shortly. In the meantime why not check out Dave Caldwell’s look at how Packers fans don’t share the prevailing optimism about Green Bay’s playoff chances. To capture the feeble NFC East, Washington won its last four games, three …
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Fears grow over Saudi-Iran row – Al Jazeera English
The war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia has escalated, with the two Middle East rivals swapping accusations about endangering regional security and targeting their respective embassies.
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How much support will Saudi Arabia win against Iran? – Al Jazeera English
When the Arab League met in an emergency session on Sunday, tension with Iran topped the agenda. Saudi officials accused Iran of interfering in Arab affairs and undermining regional security.
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Requiem for a Union Boss in His America – The Daily Beast
It was nearly 9 PM the other night and more than a couple thousand people had already paid their respects at a wake held in a union hall for a man who led his life helping others climb the ladder.
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Shopping in Cuba – The New Yorker
A Spanish-English dictionary, sunscreen, insect repellent, a towel, chocolate ice cream: these are the items that eluded me during a recent trip to Cuba.
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ISIS Chief Abruptly Cancels Meeting with Sean Penn – The New Yorker
HOLLYWOOD (The Borowitz Report)—Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group known as ISIS, has cancelled a long awaited meeting with the actor Sean Penn, a spokesman for the group announced on Sunday.
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Arab League Condemns Iranian Meddling Arab Affairs | Al Jazeera America
Arab foreign ministers, with the exception of Lebanon, condemned in a Sunday statement what they called Iran’s meddling in Arab affairs.
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Sean Penn: Hollywood hellraiser turned activist – BBC News
Sean Penn is one of the more colourful Hollywood stars of recent decades, emerging from his early incarnation as a hard-drinking young Hollywood actor to become a double Oscar winner and high-profile campaigner on social and political issues.
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Paying for Journalism that Matters | The Nation
What a year it has been! In 2015, we celebrated our 150th anniversary. We toured the country with a live show and a documentary film. We published a coffee table-bending 268-page special issue. We delved into our archives with daily explorations of …
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Six Transformations From 2015 That Will Reshape The World | TechCrunch
Looking at the list of finalists for the Crunchies, you could get the impression that the greatest advances of 2015 were sharing and delivery apps, software platforms, and pencils. Yes, these are cool. But much bigger things happened last year.
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Hear Dr. Dre’s Simmering ‘Back to Business’ With T.I. | Rolling Stone
Hear Dr. Dre’s Simmering ‘Back to Business’ With T.I.
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Laura Dern May Have Joined Showtime’s Twin Peaks Revival | Vanity Fair
Nobody actually knows who the hell will show up in Showtime’s forthcoming Twin Peaks revival.
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Can Paul Ryan Save the GOP from Itself? – The Daily Beast
In ways large and small, newly-minted House Speaker Paul Ryan seems to be doing his best to prevent his fellow Republicans from throwing themselves and their party into an abyss they could never climb out of.
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Plane carrying Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany came off runway – BBC News
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany was on a charter plane which came off the runway during take-off, the BBC understands. The Citation CJ2 came to a stop on the grass at Norwich Airport just after 18:00 GMT on Saturday.
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Gamma Cyg Mosaic [4720×2868][OS][OC] : spaceporn
Gamma Cyg Mosaic [4720×2868][OS][OC] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/w7CzJK5cTn https://t.co/fJ9ju7mqGO
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Give Yourself a “Think Break” to Keep Your Long-Term Work Focused
Give Yourself a “Think Break” to Keep Your Long-Term Work Focused https://t.co/r4yEKKV6rJ https://t.co/Ddp5xWxaXV
The day-to-day life is where you live, but over the long-term it’s easy to lose focus. Every once in a while, give yourself a day or so to stop everything, think, and refocus on what your long-term goals are. -
How the Whiskey Industry Gets Hacked – The Daily Beast
If you ask any major whiskey maker what their biggest problem is today, every single one, without exception, will tell you they need more stock.
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Golden Globes 2016 Live Updates | Vanity Fair
You never really know what’s going to happen at the Golden Globes, which is what makes them so much fun to watch.
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Did Sean Penn inadvertently have a hand in El Chapo’s recapture? | World news | The Guardian
It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood film: an actor-turned activist sits in a jungle clearing interviewing the world’s most wanted drug lord, a notorious fugitive who after two decades on the run decides the time has come to tell his life story.
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Fans, players and officials braved one of the coldest NFL games in history as Minnesota Vikings took on the Seattle Seahawks in an NFC Wild Card game. Sunday’s temperatures were -21C (-31C wind chill) at kick-off – making it the third coldest ever g…
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Here’s Why We’ve Never Been Able to Tame the Great White Shark | Motherboard
After three days of floating around listlessly and ramming its head into the walls of its tank, a great white shark died last week at an aquarium in Japan. But the story is only the most recent episode in the saga of the animal that zoos haven’t bee…
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I love it when he has this look. : aww
I love it when he has this look. via /r/aww https://t.co/BjxtXDtIdW https://t.co/RAmmtIjY75
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Top 10 asteroid close approaches : space
Top 10 asteroid close approaches via /r/space https://t.co/HsrD1jnpaH https://t.co/bXVX0wxPSn
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Mosque vandalized with ketchup but officials won’t call it a hate crime | US news | The Guardian
Mosque vandalized with ketchup but officials won’t call it a hate crime https://t.co/PcCac7VLj4 https://t.co/iJYhykWywM
A a mosque in western Kentucky was vandalized on Friday, but law enforcement officials said the vandalism had been carried out with ketchup and they did not think it was a hate crime. -
Bristol man delivered tumour sample by mistake – BBC News
Bristol man delivered tumour sample by mistake https://t.co/OR1PQHI8Ja https://t.co/g1NDPGlkBL
A man who ordered a Kindle electronic book reader received a patient’s tumour sample instead, in a courier delivery mix-up.James Potten said when he opened the FedEx package the box was marked as “patient tumor – specimen enclosed”. -
Chicago to conduct independent review into division that defends police | US news | The Guardian
Chicago to conduct independent review into division that defends police https://t.co/BASDn8LM2P https://t.co/wsl9YPnjOu
A former US attorney will conduct an independent review of the division of Chicago’s law department that defends police after a judge last week accused a city attorney of hiding evidence in a lawsuit over a fatal police shooting, the head of the dep… -
The general played a big part in the Clone Wars, collecting dead Jedi’s lightsaber’s along the way and using them to do a crazy spin-attack. Unfortunately, they all get cut off by Obi-Wan just a little too quickly.
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Apple Music Surpasses 10 Million Subscribers | TechCrunch
Apple Music has surpassed 10 million subscribers, according to a report from the Financial Times. Showcasing rapid growth, the number is a 50% increase from the 6.5 million paid subscribers that CEO Tim Cook claimed in October.
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Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed Donald Trump’s disparagement of her husband, the former president Bill Clinton, saying the personal attacks “didn’t work before, won’t work again”.
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In the lead-up to the release of The Hateful Eight, it seemed like there was just as much hype for the soundtrack as there was for the film itself.
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England’s Scott Waites thrashed unseeded Canadian Jeff Smith 7-1 to win the BDO World Championship at Lakeside for a second time. The 38-year-old regained the title he first won in 2013 and is the eighth player to win the crown more than once.
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This Stop Motion Doctor Who Video Is Utterly Delightful
This is pretty awesome – the official BBC America twitter feed shared this short, stop motion video created by Lawrence Becker. His caption is fitting: We’re all just stories in the end.
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Coyote playing fetch by himself : aww
Coyote playing fetch by himself via /r/aww https://t.co/194TKnixBh https://t.co/W60srwkRRv
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Stereotypical Japanese girl with stereotypical Russian guy : pics
Stereotypical Japanese girl with stereotypical Russian guy via /r/pics https://t.co/sU6EcABAFx https://t.co/tqqYdCrVX6
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‘Fake it ’til you make it’ is psychologically damaging – Quartz
Our lives and careers are filled with examples of inauthentic behavior. We feign interest in meetings or laugh at our boss’s bad jokes in order to be positive team members, build relationships, and accomplish shared goals. This is how we get along—a…
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But it’s the correct answer. : funny
But it’s the correct answer. https://t.co/1HL3MzOjVi https://t.co/u89kmGrUyl
But it’s the correct answer. (imgur.com) Look at his face in the last frame. -
Bill Belichick says Patriots are wary of ‘dominant’ Chiefs | Sport | The Guardian
Bill Belichick says Patriots are wary of ‘dominant’ Chiefs https://t.co/LxxSks7Qtv https://t.co/nIzLig021R
There are two Kansas City games on Bill Belichick’s mind right now. One is the Chiefs’ most recent one, when they beat Houston Texans 30-0 on Saturday in the first round of the NFL playoffs. -
Isis: Paris attacks planner Abdelhamid Abaaoud ‘met jihadists on UK visit’ : worldnews
Isis: Paris attacks planner Abdelhamid Abaaoud ‘met jihadists on UK visit’ via /r/worldnews https://t.co/9QD1MUI291 https://t.co/IYShewfu5t
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At Least Four Dead After Another Attack on a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen | VICE News
For the third time in as many months, a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen has been bombed, and this time at least four people are dead and 10 injured.
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New York Gov. Announces Plan To Let Prison Inmates Take College Courses | ThinkProgress
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a new plan to fund college courses for prisoners in New York state, arguing that educating inmates will reduce the chance that they will end back up in jail. According to the New York Times, the governor announced on S…
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Yes, Obama’s gun efforts could have stopped that killing
First let’s address the popular right-wing argument that we don’t need any more gun laws because we actually don’t have enough people who are carrying a gun concealed or openly, enough armed “good guys” to take down the bad guys.
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Transparent marble via /r/pics https://t.co/s69ONUBv0S https://t.co/GCkDDiPBc7
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Chris Stuckmann – The Force Awakens and Star Wars Formula : movies
Chris Stuckmann – The Force Awakens and Star Wars Formula via /r/movies https://t.co/UW7f5vVjv8 https://t.co/UmPdzIU5J2
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“All Lives Matter” is now being used against abortion rights – Vox
Opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement often use the phrase “all lives matter” to dismiss activists’ concerns about police violence against black Americans. But now lawmakers in Missouri, where the Black Lives Matter movement began, are using …
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Mini Object Lesson: The Airport Restroom of the Future – The Atlantic
Mini Object Lesson: The Airport Restroom https://t.co/PhYMi1ZVHX https://t.co/cwSxGjFJUz
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Hyundai’s augmented reality manual: A simple but extremely good idea | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—If you kept a look out for it, you could find a few examples of augmented reality on display at CES this year. There were concept cars with AR heads-up displays (JVC Kenwood and McLaren Automotive had a modified 675LT with such a system), …
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Cologne attacks: New Year’s Eve crime cases top 500 – BBC News
The number of criminal cases committed during new year celebrations in the German city of Cologne has risen to 516 – 40% of which relate to sexual assault, police in the city say. The figures are a big increase from the 379 cases police reported on …
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Why Bitcoin Can’t Help The Poorest – Yet | TechCrunch
The term “financial inclusion” is a new buzzword in the fintech space. With the rise of services like Abra and MPesa, we are convinced that bitcoin is the solution to the problems of the unbanked.
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Clever Ways to Transform Cup Noodles Into Actual Food
Cup noodles are pretty much last-resort or office food for most of us, but just because they’re all you have doesn’t mean they have to be disgusting. The fine Brothers Green Eats has a few methods to upgrade those waterlogged, microwaved noodles, pr…
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15 Things We Learned About Sean Penn From His El Chapo Profile | Vanity Fair
Sean Penn was ultimately disappointed by his Rolling Stone interview with El Chapo, who was recaptured by Mexican authorities on Friday after months of evading escape. “I had not gotten the kind of in-depth interview I’d hoped to achieve,” wrote Pen…
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CrowSledding via /r/gifs https://t.co/SMf53aqFsb https://t.co/89UYaBdqgs
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The enchanting Watkins Glen of upstate New York [OC][4800×2400] : EarthPorn
The enchanting Watkins Glen of upstate New York [OC][4800×2400] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/xLignqixYg https://t.co/PUAOcGB8IS
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My baby passed last night… Rest well, Sawyer. : cats
My baby passed last night… Rest well, Sawyer. via /r/cats https://t.co/wPrnKaLuKt https://t.co/SZ3L0n2S3r
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Feets via /r/cats https://t.co/Db3xcrL4DH https://t.co/oMw68o389F
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Egypt Holds First Parliament in more than 3 Years | Al Jazeera America
Egypt’s first legislature in more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, held its inaugural session on Sunday, signaling the completion of a political road map announced after the 2013 military…
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‘Better Call Saul’ Embraces Its Seedy Side in New Trailer | Rolling Stone
Following its Emmy-nominated first season, Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul will return February 15th for the next chapters in the Bob Odenkirk-played lawyer’s slow descent from the somewhat-principled Jimmy McGill into the sleazy, immoral Saul…
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She’s clearly not comfortable at all. : cats
She’s clearly not comfortable at all. via /r/cats https://t.co/vZTYCgqEvO https://t.co/OE3ZkMPZu4
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Greetings Fellow Living Being : gifs
Greetings Fellow Living Being via /r/gifs https://t.co/I4vYYCmhAN https://t.co/ma3wXSA2ZR
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Sean Penn interview with El Chapo causes controversy – BBC News
Sean Penn interview with El Chapo causes controversy https://t.co/4u88RD35nx https://t.co/pfRRcNnfWY
The Obama administration and a US presidential hopeful have criticised Sean Penn’s interview with Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. It was conducted in October in the Mexican jungle after Guzman’s jail break, and published by Rolling S… -
Powerball jackpot hits world record and the odds of winning keep widening | US news | The Guardian
Lottery officials say the estimated $1.3bn Powerball prize on offer after no winner was drawn on Saturday is the largest ever offered, anywhere in the world.
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Ledger Wallet Is One Of The Most Secure Bitcoin Wallets You Can Get | TechCrunch
You can call Ledger Wallet CEO Eric Larchevêque the Winklevoss of France given that he stores around 1,000 bitcoins on his bitcoin wallet — that’s around $450,000 as of today. But it also shows how secure the company’s wallet is. I interviewed him o…
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On Friday, notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera—better known as “El Chapo”—was apprehended by authorities after a fiery gun battle in Sinaloa, Mexico.
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Milky Way Reflections [OC] [5534×3891] : spaceporn
Milky Way Reflections [OC] [5534×3891] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/SaOzUhmXta https://t.co/BqZb6A5yE9
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Why didn’t Sean Penn ask El Chapo how many real journalists his organization has killed? https://t.co/YRwVi9VfI2 https://t.co/ldPcdLhxa8
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Why didn’t Sean Penn ask El Chapo how many real journalists his organization has killed? https://t.co/YRwVi9VfI2 https://t.co/ldPcdLhxa8
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Perfect timing via /r/pics https://t.co/ZNoBwbjyUN https://t.co/rTJJ4qQVRJ
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Syrian Refugees Say They Aren’t Angry After Pepper Spray Attack in Vancouver | VICE News
Two weeks after arriving in Vancouver as one of hundreds of Syrians to find refuge in Canada’s open arms, Shahadi al-Rady found himself in a cloud of pepper spray.
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BBC Sport – Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Leicester City
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino will rotate his squad, so Nacer Chadli, Danny Rose, Nabil Bentaleb and Son Heung-Min could earn starts. Mousa Dembele, Alex Pritchard and Clinton Njie remain sidelined.
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Meet Kate del Castillo, the Actress Who Brought Sean Penn to El Chapo – The Daily Beast
While the media negotiates the ethics of Rolling Stone allowing the world’s most notorious drug lord final copy approval—or a glowing profile, for that matter—and prose connoisseurs break down phrases like “Espinoza is the owl who flies among falcon…
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Purported Nvidia Bug Could Resurrect Your Last Porn Session | Motherboard
That said, it’d be nice to not have to worry about content from your most recent porn session being barfed back at you hours after shutting it down.
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The lottery is a great example of how if everyone just pitched in a couple dollars, how much money could be accumulated to get something big done. (self.Showerthoughts) Or get a lot of boats filled with coke.
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The view while sitting on the Toronto subway : gifs
The view while sitting on the Toronto subway via /r/gifs https://t.co/HPxOqG8Sh1 https://t.co/G1EEiJBoNk
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ISS with docked Space Shuttle : space
ISS with docked Space Shuttle via /r/space https://t.co/UKJDb4Ho1G https://t.co/Jf3Vfpdezc
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Sunset near Mont-Tremblant, Qc(2592×1936) via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/Ql7413Q2z7 https://t.co/Ml6FZ1yVZV https://t.co/loQra8RUqB
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Marvel’s Most Wanted Is Coming To Television After All
Marvel’s Most Wanted Is Coming To Television After All https://t.co/yGWNXi45h2 https://t.co/Z7fIkz0mLI
Remember that Agents of SHIELD spinoff show that ABC wanted to make? It looks like it’s going to happen. ABC has ordered a pilot for Marvel’s Most Wanted, starring Adrianne Pallicki and Nick Blood. -
Tale of journalist mistakenly held as al-Qaeda chief – Al Jazeera English
Mauritanian journalist Cheikh Ould Salek was temporarily arrested when he boarded a flight from Senegalese capital Dakar to Dubai on January 3 after he was mistakenly accused of being a terrorist mastermind.
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It is absolutely scandalous and ridiculous that American immigrants can’t become president – Vox
Nor, more pertinently, should Nancy Pelosi, Josh Earnest, John McCain, Donald Trump, or any number of other public figures who’ve decided to make an issue out of the fact that Ted Cruz — the son of an American citizen and as such almost certainly a …
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The Golden Globes and the controversial group that decides the awards, explained – Vox
The Golden Globes — the trendy, tipsy cousin of more “prestigious” awards shows like the Oscars and the Emmys — has been handing out shiny trophies to movies and television series for the last 73 years.
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Arab League ministers back Saudi Arabia and condemn Iran – BBC News
Arab League foreign ministers have condemned recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic missions in Iran. It was set on fire by a crowd angry over the execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia.
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Powerball’s $1.3bn prize tempts Britons with lottery fever | UK news | The Guardian
Thousands of Britons who missed out on this weekend’s £66m Lotto jackpot have turned their attention to a draw in the US that is offering an eye-watering $1.3bn (£900m) top prize.
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Angela Merkel’s Cologne Test – The New Yorker
On Saturday, at least three groups of marchers assembled outside the main train station in Cologne, Germany. They had each come to offer their response to the attacks on women who had gathered in that spot a week earlier, to celebrate New Year’s Eve.
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‘Non-traditional’ State of the Union address will focus on America’s future | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama will deliver a sweeping and “non-traditional” State of the Union address that touches on inequality, criminal justice and gun violence, the White House chief of staff said on Sunday.
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Sunset near Mont-Tremblant, Qc(2592×1936) : SkyPorn
Sunset near Mont-Tremblant, Qc(2592×1936) via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/Ql7413Q2z7 https://t.co/5UHRHHV7dg
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Cat charging station. via /r/cats…
Cat charging station. via /r/cats https://t.co/f7tT5rHjMW https://t.co/3WKHSTkOUP https://t.co/a0UTwn8iWV
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Cat charging station. via /r/cats https://t.co/f7tT5rHjMW https://t.co/3WKHSTkOUP https://t.co/a0UTwn8iWV
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My babies when I first got them three months ago via /r/aww https://t.co/QXDPYcyApg https://t.co/7dXdBbggAZ https://t.co/MoSHbpfVmh
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A Vegas Drone Rodeo In The Rain | TechCrunch
A Vegas Drone Rodeo In The Rain https://t.co/XBqdJHffyI https://t.co/DzNsQU9IvY
Just like last year, we paid a visit to the annual Drone Rodeo in the Nevada desert ahead of the first day of CES this year. Unlike last year, though, the weather was horrible. -
A COUNTRY that gives every citizen enough cash to live on whether she needs it or not: It’s got to be either a fool’s paradise or a profligate Northern European nation. And lo, in November, the Finnish government proposed paying every adult 800 euro…
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Resolving to Read, Write, and Travel More in 2016 : Longreads Blog
Let’s be real: My 2016 resolutions are intentionally vague. I tend toward self-loathing, so settling on achievable goals is important for my mental health. But I’m still excited for a fresh year and a fresh start, even if time is a social construct.
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Arab League backs Saudis in Iran row – Al Jazeera English
Top Arab diplomats have condemned attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran and warned that the Islamic Republic would face wider opposition if it continued its “interference” in the internal affairs of Arab states.
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Brooklyn Nets fire head coach Lionel Hollins and start search for new GM | Sport | The Guardian
The Brooklyn Nets have responded to a terrible start to the season by firing head coach Lionel Hollins and reassigning general manager Billy King, who had been in his role since 2010.
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World number 11 Allen knocked in breaks of 137 and 91 to lead 3-2. Murphy then went two frames behind when he forfeited the sixth after failing to hit the reds with three successive shots when not snookered.
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My babies when I first got them three months ago : aww
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Pink Floyd — Shine on You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 https://t.co/TXc62zArb6 https://t.co/fP4AiKYwYS
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My first cat, Castiel. via /r/cats https://t.co/P8eT2QQtjq https://t.co/14YaEC83o7
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Perfectly nestled loaf : Catloaf
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On the eve of a six-episode reunion series, creator Chris Carter, stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, and the executives who put the risky show on the air in 1993 recall how the pop sensation all but minted money for a fledgling network. A ve…
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A Médecins Sans Frontières-Supported Hospital Bombed in Yemen – The Atlantic
At least four people have been killed and 10 others injured after a strike on a Médecins Sans Frontières-supported hospital in Yemen, the medical aid group said Sunday. At around 9:20 a.m.
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Why Democrats should climb onto the No Labels stage with Joe Lieberman
On January 11, Joe and his non-drinking buddy John Huntsman are going to drag their egos up to the stage in front of yet another yawning chasm of disinterest to announce the presidential candidates who have signed on as No Labels Problem Solvers.
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Swing Dancing in the ’40’s : gifs
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Loading the player reg… GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (HOST): President Obama made a brand new bid for background checks on gun sales this week, and one of your recent ads said that President Obama’s plan would take away our guns. The president took on th…
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German minister: Cologne attacks may be coordinated – Al Jazeera English
The German justice minister has told a German newspaper that he assumes the crimes that took place in Cologne during New Year celebrations were “coordinated or prepared”, as police say the number of sexual assaults and robberies reported have risen …
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From the January 10 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co. Fox News Sunday: Loading the player reg…
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Pope Francis has reiterated his relatively tolerant stance towards LGBT people, offering new details about a 2013 incident where he responded to a question about gay priests by saying “who am I to judge?” In a new book set to be published on Tuesday…
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Egg assembly line from a butchered turkey. : mildlyinteresting
Egg assembly line from a butchered turkey. (i.imgur.com) That 1st one looks gross.
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How to Watch the 2016 Golden Globes Live Stream Online – The Daily Beast
The 73rd Golden Globe Awards start Sunday, January 10, at 8 p.m. ET on the NBC broadcast network. Ricky Gervais returns as host for the fourth time, his first since 2012. The Daily Beast has all the pre-game analysis you’ll need.
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Blink and You’ll Miss This Gamer Hit 30 Keys Per Second With Perfect Timing | Motherboard
The 2016 Awesome Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon happened last week, and as usual, it was full of stunning displays of gaming prowess ranging from a nail-biting Mega Man X race, blindfolded Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!, and a team battle to finish…
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Rally in protest at disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers – BBC News
Thousands of people in Hong Kong have attended a protest rally following the disappearance of five booksellers from a shop known for selling works critical of China. Chanting “say no to political kidnapping”, the protesters marched to the offices of…
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The US Trolled Kim Jong-un by Flying a B-52 Bomber Over South Korea | VICE News
The United States deployed a massive B-52 bomber plane on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, a show of force following North Korea’s nuclear test last week. The B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range bomber based in Guam that is ca…
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Everyone has the same personality online – Quartz
Ever notice how the same jokes, phrases and hashtags keep cropping up again and again on social media? All those “I can’t even…” comments on Facebook, the emojis on Slack or Gchat, that endlessly snarky tone on Twitter. We all sound exactly the damn…
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A “substantial” number of teachers from at least 40 schools in Detroit’s public school district will participate in a “sickout” on Monday, the Guardian has learned.
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Kirby Krackle Rocks Out To All Things Nerd In Their Latest Album, Mutate Baby!
I’ve been a fan of nerd-rockers Kirby Krackle for a couple of years now: the band released their fifth album, Mutate, Baby!, and more recently, released a new video for their track, ‘We Had A Good Run’. We chatted with them about their music and roc…
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Not a Moba guy but DAMN! this looks amazing : gaming
Not a Moba guy but DAMN! this looks amazing (gfycat.com) What’s the game?
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Today i was served by a dog at the counter : aww
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Asian Rap’s Biggest Fan Is a White Guy from Staten Island | VICE | United States
When pressed to name just one Asian-American rapper, most people can’t. I’m Asian myself, and a year ago, I couldn’t identify any besides Heems and Big Baby Gandhi.
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Strike Doctors Without Borders Yemen Kills Four | Al Jazeera America
The medical aid organization said it was not clear who was behind the attack that also wounded 10 other people in Shiara Hospital in the Razeh district, where the group has worked since November last year.
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Clinton Renews Criticism Of Sanders Gun Record | ThinkProgress
With a new poll now showing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie in Iowa and New Hampshire, Clinton renewed her attack on Sanders’ record of support for the firearms industry on Sunday.
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‘El Chapo’: Sean Penn interview provokes scorn in US – BBC News
The Obama administration and a US presidential hopeful have criticised Sean Penn’s interview with Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. It was conducted in October in the Mexican jungle after Guzman’s jail break, and published by Rolling S…
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“Tumbling Below”, Eric Zener, oil on canvas, 2012 : Art
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Afghan Military Suffers From No-show Soldiers | Al Jazeera America
Afghan forces are struggling to man the front lines against a resurgent Taliban, in part because of untold numbers of “ghost” troops who are paid salaries but only exist on paper.
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The Epic Quest for a Quantum Theory of Gravity (Weekend Feature)
Present-day physics cannot describe what happened in the Big Bang. Quantum theory and the theory of relativity fail in this almost infinitely dense and hot primal state of the universe.
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Honk If You Know The Reason Behind Your Car Horn’s Existence
Happy Sunday! Welcome to Holy Shift, where we highlight big innovations in the auto and racing industries each week—whether they be necessary or simply for comfort. Some people just can’t drive.
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ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio’s next project “Devil In The White City” will reunite him with Martin Scorcese and will see him play one of the most horrific serial killers of all time, the infamous H.H. Holmes, the architect of the “Murder Castle” in Chic…
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See Kendrick Lamar’s Vibrant ‘Austin City Limits’ Set | Rolling Stone
See Kendrick Lamar’s Vibrant ‘Austin City Limits’ Set Rapper breathes new life into ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ and ‘good kid, m.A.A.d.
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Kookoo thinks she’s superman : cats
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White House of Chief of Staff Says Obama Won’t Endorse Candidate in Primaries | VICE News
President Barack Obama has reportedly met with both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in recent months, but the White House chief of staff says the president won’t endorse either candidate in the Democratic presidential primary.
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State of Union seat to be left empty to represent victims of gun violence | US news | The Guardian
When Barack Obama gives his final state of the union address on Tuesday, one seat in the first lady’s box will be empty. Announcing Michelle Obama’s guest list on Sunday, the White House said the seat would represent “the victims of gun violence who…
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Money Transfer Showdown: Square Cash vs. Venmo vs. PayPal
With peer-to-peer payment services like Square Cash, Venmo, and PayPal there’s no need to carry cash anymore. These mobile apps make splitting checks, paying friends back, and lending money to family members as easy as tapping your finger.
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Hillary Clinton, Snapchat, selfies and the road to wooing millennials | US news | The Guardian
In the run-up to the Iowa caucus in 2008, the Hillary Clinton campaign quipped disparagingly that Senator Barack Obama’s supporters looked “like Facebook”. At a coffee shop in Iowa City on Saturday, 23 days before 2016 caucus, the crowd of Clinton s…
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Us Bomber Flies Over South Korea in Show of Force | Al Jazeera America
A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepened between its ally Seoul and North Korea following Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test.
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Virtual Reality Could Provide Healthy Escape for Homesick Astronauts | Motherboard
You know that feeling you get when you’re homesick? That longing feeling in your gut when you miss the people you know and the places you like? If you think that’s bad, imagine being 200 miles above Earth, crammed into a small, apartment-sized room,…
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CINCINNATI — This city awoke Saturday by peeking out from under its covers, one wary eye at a time. Was it safe to come out? Did it even want to? A full day of waiting for Bengals postseason football awaited, and that annual tradition of suppressing…
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Snow and frost expected as Britain prepares for big chill | UK news | The Guardian
Britain is bracing itself for an icy blast over the coming week when temperatures are expected to drop below freezing and bring snow and widespread frosts.
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From inside the epic crater of Mount Rinjani, Indonesia. (1600×1067) [OC] : EarthPorn
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19 uncommon & devastating movies to destroy a beautiful day with : movies
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Hang in there, Teddy! via /r/aww…
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Damhert (Dama dama) — In explore | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Mark Zuckerberg Announces That His Six-Week-Old Daughter Is Getting Vaccinated | ThinkProgress
Mark Zuckerberg, new dad, is just like all the other new parents out there: He posts stuff about his kid on Facebook. On Friday, he shared an image of his daughter with a note that it was time for the six-week-old baby girl to get vaccinated.
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Longform: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare by Nathaniel Rich
Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.
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Enough of this console nonsense: It’s time to put a gaming PC in my living room | Ars Technica
Way back at the beginning of 2015 I tasked myself with building a gaming PC for the living room.
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US elections and ‘horse race journalism’ – Al Jazeera English
In the US, the race for the White House is well under way and some news outlets have succumbed to syndrome known as “horse race journalism”. This is when journalists focus on candidates’ polling positions rather than their policies.
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Egypt holds first parliament in three years – BBC News
Egypt’s parliament has opened for the first time in more than three years, packed with supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The previous Islamist-dominated legislature was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012.
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Poland summons German ambassador over politicians’ comments – BBC News
The Polish foreign ministry has criticised German politicians for what it calls “anti-Polish” comments but has given no details of which ones. However, both the German president of the European Parliament and the German EU commissioner have been sha…
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In one of the most affluent neighborhoods of New York City, a pocket on the Upper East Side with stately buildings and ice cream shops where scoops can be as expensive as entrees, a street sweeper waited in line on Saturday to make a
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Golden Globes 2016: Predictions for who will win in every category – Vox
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The Golden Globes are upon us, ready to name the “best” films and TV series of the year. Of course, in this case, “best” usually means “most famous” or “most likely to win an Oscar” or “most talked about at Hollywood dinner parties.” -
Saudi Arabian Startup NOMADD Looks To Clean Up Solar Energy Production | TechCrunch
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Sunrise over Kashojwa village in Nakivale, SW Uganda, which has become home to thousands of refugees from Burundi. https://t.co/URA6lFvpHz – UN Refugee Agency (Refugees) http://twitter.com/Refugees/status/686214936209522688
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The Amazing True Story Of How “Jungle Gold” Went From Boom To Bust
On the morning of May 10, 2013, George Wright woke up in the small Ghanaian town of Domenase to learn that the country’s largest media outlet was accusing him of murder.
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Exclusive: Leaked UN Memo Shows There’s No Plan to Prevent Genocide in Burundi | VICE News
The UN is woefully unprepared to tackle the possibility of worsening bloodshed in Burundi, according to a confidential memo written by the organization’s peacekeeping office and obtained by VICE News.
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College sports exploits unpaid black athletes. But they could force a change. – The Washington Post
On Monday night, college football will crown a new champion. In the process, a lot of money will be made. No matter who wins, the University of Alabama’s Southeastern Conference and Clemson University’s Atlantic Coast Conference will be paid $6 mill…
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The ‘Soft Hair’ on Stephen Hawking’s Black Holes | Motherboard
On Tuesday, Stephen Hawking and friends posted a new paper to the arXiv server. It has a great, or at least peculiar, title: “Soft Hair on Black Holes.” What in the great wide universe could that possibly mean? Glad you asked.
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Obama’s final SOTU to focus on optimistic future, aide says | TheHill
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Poll: Clinton, Sanders neck-and-neck in Iowa, NH | TheHill
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European Starling | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Fist of Legend – my favorite Jet li movie : movies
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GOP must lie to make Democrats sound extreme. Their ideas are extreme enough without embellishment
The guy who was supposed to bring those crazy House Republicans in line, Speaker Paul Ryan, characterized President Obama’s action on guns as “a form of intimidation that undermines liberty.
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Why ISIS Cannot Be Negotiated With – The Atlantic
In his recent Atlantic piece on “What to Do About ISIS,” Jonathan Powell, a former senior British diplomat, posits that eventually, the West would have to negotiate with the so-called Islamic State.
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Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations | Ars Technica
Juniper Networks, which last month made the startling announcement its NetScreen line of firewalls contained unauthorized code that can surreptitiously decrypt traffic sent through virtual private networks, said it will remove a National Security Ag…
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Mike Davies obituary | Sport | The Guardian
Mike Davies, who has died aged 79, became the No 1 tennis player in Britain in 1957, and, in 1960, the only Welshman to reach a Wimbledon final. He and Bobby Wilson played in the men’s doubles, and were beaten by Rafael Osuna and Dennis Ralston.
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Obama declines to back Democrat candidate before primaries over – BBC News
President Barack Obama will not publicly back any presidential candidate before the Democratic Party has chosen who is to lead its battle to retain the White House in November.
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For every person bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers : nottheonion
For every person bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers (bbc.co.uk)submitted 21 minutes ago by loading…
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A young woman was walking with her father in a Brooklyn park on Thursday night when five men approached them, pulled out a gun, ordered her father to leave and then took turns raping her, the police said on Saturday.
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Why RoboCop is not the cyborg lawman we need
“We need a 24-hour-a-day police officer,” declares malevolent corporate schemer Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) in the 1987 film RoboCop. “A cop who doesn’t need to eat or sleep. A cop with superior firepower and the reflexes to use it.” He unveils a giant r…
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The high-tech cop of the future is here today
L-3 Communications makes a product called RANGE-R. It uses radar to help officers “see” through walls. One can see how such a device would be helpful; imagine an officer standing unsuspectingly on one side of a wall when someone on the other side is…
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Beyond sectarianism: The Saudi-Iran confrontation – Al Jazeera English
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran reached new heights this week after the kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Tehran. The current media discourse didn’t come from Saudi media outlets but externally, and Iran successfully took advantage of…
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Seventy Years Ago, We Bounced Signals Off the Moon for the First Time | Motherboard
The Moon exerts a tidal force on Earth, but it also holds a similar sway over the human imagination. Few objects have inspired as much speculation and worship than our beaming silver satellite, and the drive to reach it is a cornerstone of civilizat…
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Sunday’s Best Deals: Yoga Gear, Cheap Supplements, 5TB Hard Drive, and More
Yoga gear, 4K monitors, and a 5TB hard drive highlight today’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, …
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Bernie Sanders Versus Hillary Clinton on Taxes – The Atlantic
On Thursday Hillary Clinton released the much-anticipated details of her paid family-leave plan, and those details are further evidence of a stark divide between her and Bernie Sanders on the topic of taxes.
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Don’t Hold Your Breathe For A The Force Awakens Extended Cut
There’s clearly been some material cut from of Star Wars: The Force Awakens: and J.J. Abrams was asked if that means that there’ll be an extended cut of the film when the DVDs hit.
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Freeze-dried poop pills being tested for obesity treatment : science
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This DIY Thermal Camera Reveals Hot and Cold Spots Around the House, Is Fun to Build
A thermal camera is a really useful device to have, especially for home improvement projects. You can see hot and cold spots where your home may be losing heat, is poorly insulated, or you’re not getting airflow from the HVAC.
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Colin Munro hit the second-fastest Twenty20 international half-century, off only 14 balls, as New Zealand beat Sri Lanka in their final tour match. Munro’s 50 not out, which included seven sixes, came in two more balls than Yuvraj Singh took against…
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Golden Globes: Eddie Redmayne and Dame Maggie Smith await ceremony – BBC News
This year’s Golden Globes will be handed out in Los Angeles later with British hopes pinned on the likes of Eddie Redmayne and Dame Maggie Smith. Lesbian romance Carol, starring acting nominees Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, has five nominations.
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5 maps that show how sex education in the US is failing – Vox
If you want to start a controversy in education, just say two words: sex ed. What students learn about pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, and human sexuality is one of the most hotly contested debates in education.
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Ted Cruz insists he is a natural-born citizen after new Donald Trump attack | US news | The Guardian
Ted Cruz once more dismissed claims from that he is not qualified to be president on Sunday, as Donald Trump and other Republicans question whether the former Canadian-American dual citizen is eligible to run.
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Advices from Mozilla Firefox on privacy : InternetIsBeautiful
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Doll Bones by Holly Black – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is called Doll Bones, written by Holly Black. It is about three kids named Poppy, Alice and Zach who love playing with dolls. But, the three are in middle school now and Zach’s dad is pushing Zach to join the basketball team and quit girls…
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Penn’s Interview With El Chapo Led to Capture | Al Jazeera America
The recapture of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman took a surprise, Hollywood twist when a Mexican official said security forces located the world’s most-wanted trafficker thanks to a secret interview with U.S. actor Sean Penn.
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Communities under siege in Syria – Al Jazeera English
We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going. As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines’ most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?
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Longform: Why We Keep Playing the Lottery by Adam Piore
“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Find the predator via /r/pics…
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Man orders Kindle and receives ‘tumour sample’ in courier mix-up – BBC News
A man who ordered a Kindle book reader apparently received a patient’s tumour sample instead in a courier delivery mix-up.James Potten said when he opened the FedEx package the box was marked as “patient tumor – specimen enclosed”.
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Watch Dave Grohl’s Emotional Eulogy From Lemmy’s Memorial Service | Rolling Stone
Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister was laid to rest Saturday with a memorial service at Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery.
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To Build a House on Mars, Start With Martian Concrete – The Atlantic
Try building a house without any of the materials mere Earthlings use to build houses. That’s the challenge facing astronauts as they move forward with colonizing Mars.
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IN a typical presidential campaign, the most successful candidates lay claim to leadership with their high-mindedness. They reach for poetry. They focus on lifting people up, not tearing them down. They beseech voters to be their biggest, best selve…
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Syrian refugee children transform Iraqi prison with art – Al Jazeera English
Akre, Iraq – For Hanan, who’s more familiar with conflict than anyone her age should ever be, it’s the chance to create beauty that helps the most.
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Islamic State crisis: Naji Jerf murder suspects held in Turkey – BBC News
Three people have been arrested in Turkey over the murder of an anti-Islamic State activist and filmmaker who was shot dead in broad daylight, state media have reported. No other details were provided as to their identity.
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R.I.P. Angus Scrimm, Phantasm’s Tall Man · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Angus Scrimm, star of the Phantasm films, has died. According to Phantasm director Don Coscarelli’s Facebook page, Scrimm died peacefully Saturday surrounded by his friends. He was 89.
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Horny CES Attendees Can’t Stop Cruising Tinder | Motherboard
This week, more than 170,000 tech and media professionals converged on the city of Las Vegas to see the latest in technology at the Consumer Electronics Show, and––inevitably––some of them used their smart, connected devices to try to get laid.
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BBC Sport – Oxford United 3-2 Swansea City
Kemar Roofe scored twice as League Two Oxford knocked Premier League strugglers Swansea out of the FA Cup. Liam Sercombe levelled from the penalty spot before Kemar Roofe curled into the bottom corner from 20 yards.
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The Bengals failed to control the chaos … and the fallout was excruciating | Sport | The Guardian
Control in the chaos. In the NFL where bodies fly and tackles can feel like being hit by a car, control is the hardest thing to have. The irony of professional football is the game fuels every human instinct to throw yourself into a rage while also …
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February 13, Raleigh, North Carolina: Join the march for love, justice, and the vote
Mark your calendars. The day before Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb 13, 2016, a massive group of citizens will be gathering again in Raleigh, North Carolina, to highlight issues affecting not just the people of NC—but all of us. The Rev. Dr.
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Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU | Ars Technica
It’s been quite a few months for the Tor Project.
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Golden Globe 2016: Time and TV schedule – Vox
The 2016 Golden Globe Awards — helmed by returning host Ricky Gervais — will air live on NBC on Sunday, January 10 at 8 p.m. EST.
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The Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia – The New Yorker
For hundreds of years, nomadic groups known as Badjao have lived on boats in the waters of Southeast Asia, heading to shore only to trade or to take shelter from threatening weather.
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Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism / Boing Boing
In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather than the other way around.
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Doctors Without Borders hospital hit by rocket in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
A hospital supported by the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen has been hit by a rocket killing at least four people, the charity says. The incident on Sunday in the northern governorate of Saada near the Saudi Arabian border also left another …
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France open mosque days hailed but racism fears remain – Al Jazeera English
A weekend that saw mosques across France fling open their doors in bid to foster integration and overturn negative stereotypes about Muslims has been hailed as successful first step, but fears remain over the wellbeing of a community which has suffe…
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Ever since Keynes’s seminal 1930 paper Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren predicted that technological progress would virtually eliminate work by making labor much more productive, economists have puzzled over why Americans’ working hours …
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Jason Swindle has already learned the best and hardest lesson that his dog can teach. “It’s about trust. River does the craziest things when we’re out here – she charges up cliffs or hillsides – and I have really just had to learn to trust her.”
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Yemen crisis: MSF clinic in Saada ‘hit by missile’ – BBC News
At least four people were killed when a missile hit a clinic operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, the aid agency says. MSF condemned the strike on the facility in Saada province, a Houthi rebel movement stronghold.
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Watch Toyota Snap A Two-Story Home Together Like Lego Bricks | Motherboard
Constructing a house from lumber and drywall can take months or even years—but in Japan, Toyota is erecting entire homes from pre-built segments faster than some people build Ikea furniture.
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Mickey Rat: lovable vermin tee-shirt / Boing Boing
Bob Jaroc used to obsessive record long stretches of random TV on VHS cassettes. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring four new staffers: a criminal defense staff attorney, a technology generalist and two new activists (here’s what life is li…
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Milos Raonic beat Roger Federer 6-4 6-4 to win the Brisbane International. The 25-year-old Canadian lost to 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer in three sets in last year’s final.
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Juniper blinks: firewall will nuke the NSA’s favorite random number generator / Boing Boing
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Pharma Watch: A User’s Guide to Sleeping Pills – Scientific American
Last year a new sleep drug called Belsomra came on the market, featuring a mechanism unlike any other pill: it mimics narcolepsy. That might sound odd, but the potential users are many. More than 8.
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How imaginary friends went from a parental worry to a badge of honour / Boing Boing
For a long time, kids’ imaginary friends were a cause for concern: Dr Spock recommended taking kids to “a child psychiatrist, child psychologist or other mental-health counsellor” to figure out what kids with imaginary friends were “lacking;” while …
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All of the 2016 Golden Globe nominations – Vox
It’s time for the Globes. The 73rd annual Golden Globes are tonight. The awards recognize both television and film, and are seen as an early litmus test for Oscar contenders. And Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais will host the ceremony for the fourth…
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Oklahomans don’t blink when they hear warnings about tornadoes, drought or ice-storms. Earthquakes, however, catch their attention.
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War and Peace: Everything you need to know about the new BBC epic : television
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Hostage review – an audacious, satisfying thriller | Books | The Guardian
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White man pathology: inside the fandom of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump | US news | The Guardian
You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you don’t notice the police not bothering you. You get the job so you don’t notice not getting it. Your c…
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Idaho mountain lion had teeth growing from forehead – BBC News
A mountain lion killed in the US state of Idaho had a set of fully formed teeth growing out of its forehead, wildlife officials say.The lion was legally shot dead by a hunter on 30 December.
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We tell you how to make soy, almond, and coconut milk — and whether it’s worth the effort | Grist
When the U.S. sends deportees back to Central America, they face not only violence but some of the worst climate disruption on earth.
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France remembers victims of Charlie Hebdo attacks – BBC News
President Hollande laid a wreath in the Place de la Republique, where a commemorative oak tree was unveiled, and a minute’s silence was observed. In the attacks, jihadist gunmen killed 12 people at the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, four hostages…
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Motorhead’s Lemmy remembered at Los Angeles service – BBC News
The funeral of Motorhead frontman Lemmy has taken place in Los Angeles. The British rock star, who was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, died on 28 December, aged 70, just two days after discovering he had an “extremely aggressiv…
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Saving Peru’s macaws – Al Jazeera English
The Peruvian Amazon is home to one of the region’s most breath-taking and iconic creatures, the macaw. Since the 1960s, the number of the brightly-coloured rainforest birds has severely declined.
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Obama’s State of the Union and the Bully Pulpit – The Atlantic
As President Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address, many Americans still wonder why his eloquence on the campaign trail didn’t translate into a greater ability to build support for his proposals once he took office.
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A grim start to the new year in Bethlehem – Al Jazeera English
Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Each year, tens of thousands of Christians make their way to the historic city of Bethlehem for Christmas.
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El Chapo proves Mexico is failing – Al Jazeera English
The re-recapture of Mexico’s dreaded drug kingpin, Joaquin Guzman Loera or El Chapo, after an epic manhunt by security forces is a significant event in the history of countering organised crime. But hauling him back into prison is not in itself a so…
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Nearly 400,000 Syrians go hungry in besieged areas – Al Jazeera English
As aid agencies prepare to deliver food to Madaya, on the outskirts of Damascus, and two other besieged towns in Idlib province, an estimated 400,000 people are living under siege in 15 areas across Syria, according to the UN.
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A paradox: The war on drugs and marijuana legalisation – Al Jazeera English
United Nations, New York – The world’s governments used to agree on tackling the use of cocaine, cannabis and other narcotics. Policies, such as locking up dealers, traffickers and even users, were underpinned by global treaties from the 1960s onwar…
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January Book Reviews Roundup – Scientific American
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Officials to begin talks aimed at reviving Afghan peace process | World news | The Guardian
Officials from the four countries will meet in Islamabad on Monday, Pakistan foreign office sources said, in what they hope will be a first step towards resuming stalled negotiations, and eventually bringing to an end 14 years of bloodshed fighting …
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Warning notes raining over eastern Ghouta – Al Jazeera English
As the residents of the eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, struggle to piece their lives back together amid ongoing air strikes by both the Russian and Syrian air forces, they have been subject to a psychological warfare as regime warplan…
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Love Everyone Often 01/11/2016
www.nytimes.com BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. tags: Pocket brooks barnes and michael movies new york times nyt nytimes popular Kanye West, Pharrell, Brian Eno Remember David Bowie | Rolling Stone David Bowie passed away Sunday after a private, 18-month battle with cancer. The iconic artist was not only an innovative musician, but…
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