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mParticle Raises $15M To Help Mobile Marketers Manage Their Data | TechCrunch
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What to Do with the Money If You Actually Win Tonight’s Powerball Jackpot
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Our Academy Award Predictions for 2015 | New Republic
Predicting Oscar nominations often involves understanding the psychology of Academy voters a lot more than it involves understanding movies. That said, the Oscar predictions parlor game is one that we find ourselves unable to resist.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Challenger Has a Chance | New Republic
During the presidential primary, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has managed the impressive feat of angering virtually every liberal in America. Bernie Sanders supporters think she displays a transparent bias for Hillary…
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Obama’s message of hope over hate is an example to us all | Anne Perkins | Opinion | The Guardian
President Obama, greyer and jowlier but still sounding a little like the earnest community activist of a decade ago, has delivered his last State of the Union address.
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Telgruc-sur-Mer, France [OC][OS][2000×1333] : SkyPorn
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Obama after the mic drop at the State of the Union podium tonight. : pics
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Unbecoming by Jenny Downham – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham – review https://t.co/YhLFhLGJRj https://t.co/SQaaukH790
Unbecoming tells the story of three women across three different generations; Katie, her mother Caroline and her grandmother Mary each of them holding their own secret. Mary is a stranger to Katie and enters her life bringing chaos with her due to s… -
A guide to the policies Obama mentioned in the 2016 State of the Union – Vox
A guide to the policies Obama mentioned in the 2016 State of the Union https://t.co/CRWRuc8MoU https://t.co/hEciufcdon
The State of the Union’s original focus is to explain, well, the state of the union. But presidents have also used the high-profile speech to highlight their policy agenda, particularly what they expect to do in the next year. -
Of the over 100 whales that washed ashore on Tamil Nadu coast 45 dead : environment
Of the over 100 whales that washed ashore on Tamil Nadu coast 45 dead via /r/environment https://t.co/IxDPorcQLX https://t.co/uysBKzrZnf
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Robot Wars rebooted for BBC Two : television
Robot Wars rebooted for BBC Two via /r/television https://t.co/roimDxzGYJ https://t.co/N4AjzW8WAD
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Moms Mabley, the original wise old black lesbian comedian: ‘Comedy ain’ pretty’|Dangerous Minds
If you have the opportunity to see the 2014 HBO documentary Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley, don’t pass it up. Clearly a labor of love, Goldberg recreated Mabley’s act as a young performer at Berkeley in the ‘80s and was obviously very inspired…
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India actor Kiku Sharda arrested for mimicking guru – BBC News
Indian comedian Kiku Sharda has been arrested for mimicking a popular religious guru. The actor has been sent to judicial custody for two weeks for allegedly hurting the “religious sentiments” of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s followers.
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U.S. Sailors Released but Iran Won’t Stop Taking Hostages – The Daily Beast
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces seized two U.S. Navy patrol boats and detained 10 American sailors Tuesday after the boats allegedly strayed into Iranian waters near Tehran’s naval base on Farsi Island in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
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Why sad songs can be feel-good and noise music can b…
Why sad songs can be feel-good and noise music can be nice https://t.co/nQe2WCzUMv https://t.co/bjeiEckfen
Adele’s heartbreaking ballad Hello, about a lost lover, has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for weeks, while 25, the album from which it comes, broke records for the highest number of album sales in its first week (3.48 million). -
BBC Sport – Rudi Garcia: Roma sack manager after poor run of results
Rudi Garcia: Roma sack manager after poor run of results https://t.co/WxYaKmLc2g https://t.co/usGpvqq1Zh
Roma have sacked manager Rudi Garcia after a poor run of results in Serie A. Former Lille manager Garcia had seen his side win just once since the beginning of November, a 2-0 home victory against struggling Genoa. -
Bomb Kills at Least 15 at Polio Vaccination Center in Pakistan | VICE News
At least 15 people were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber targeted a polio eradication center in Pakistan’s western city of Quetta, the latest militant attack on the anti-polio campaign in the country.
Bomb Kills at Least 15 at Polio Vaccination Center in Pakistan https://t.co/98uON9IGgN https://t.co/DoWjD7Xtap -
US Admits Some Families It Rounded Up for Deportation Could Qualify for Asylum | VICE News
At 3.30am last Thursday, US immigration agents removed dozens of El Salvadoran women and kids from a South Texas detention center and loaded them onto a plane to be deported.
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NASA Has Opened a Planetary Defense Office to Protect Earth from Cosmic Collisions | VICE News
Three years ago, a meteor flew into Earth’s atmosphere at around 41,600 miles per hour and exploded 14.5 miles above Chelyabink, Russia. At a width of 59 feet and weighing roughly 11,000 metric tons, it was a big meteor, but not the biggest ever rec…
NASA Has Opened a Planetary Defense Office to Protect Earth from Cosmic Collisions https://t.co/DnnmQnx7Or https://t.co/hEbhinTJG3 -
Distil Networks Gets Human Touch With ScrapeSentry Acquisition | TechCrunch
Distil Networks has always been about about automated, intelligent bot detection. Rival ScrapeSentry has gone at it from a different angle, using human analysts to help customers understand bot behavior.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Wednesday it has released 10 American sailors who it had detained a day earlier, according to a statement broadcast on state television. A US official has also confirmed that the servicemen have been freed af…
The American Sailors Held by Iran Have Been Released After the US ‘Apologized,’ Says Iran https://t.co/wzetNFG3ZE https://t.co/DEH4J2YmWw -
Congress Plots More Funding Increases for the National Institutes of Health – The Atlantic
When Americans go to the ballot box, they expect the congressional candidates they support to take their interests to the Hill—to fight for the political issues and programs they prefer with an enthusiasm and dedication that’s deeply personal. That …
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DARPA picks Northrop Grumman to build “tail-sitter” Navy strike drone prototype | Ars Technica
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Richard Branson fronts nail-biting campaign against rhino poaching | Environment | The Guardian
Sir Richard Branson is leading a new campaign against the sale of rhino horn that features the Virgin founder, along with Chinese celebrities and global wildlife ambassadors, chewing their nails.
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Nikki Haley’s Message to America – The Atlantic
Nikki Haley faced a difficult task on Tuesday evening. Tapped by the Republican Party to deliver the response to President Obama’s final State of the Union address, the South Carolina governor attempted to draw a contrast with the president.
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Iran Releases 10 US Sailors | Al Jazeera America
Iran released ten U.S. sailors Wednesday after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers.
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Why Is Hillary Clinton’s Polling Slipping? – The Atlantic
Why Is Bernie Sanders Overtaking Hillary? https://t.co/PMeGqUswXo https://t.co/RhMRe416Pc
A funny thing happened between mid-December and now. When everyone went into holiday slumber, Hillary Clinton was sailing high; Bernie Sanders, after shocking most observers with his impressive popularity, seemed to have plateaued around 30 percent. -
NASA forms new planetary defence office to manage asteroid threats : space
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Distil Networks Gets Human Touch With ScrapeSentry Acquisition | TechCrunch
Distil Networks Gets Human Touch With ScrapeSentry Acquisition https://t.co/jaJX8pKV7H https://t.co/Du9HoWZTru
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Denmark MPs debate tough new laws on immigration – BBC News
Plans to seize the assets of asylum-seekers are among controversial new measures on immigration being debated by MPs in Demark’s parliament. The proposals have been condemned by the UN refugee agency and other rights groups, who say they go against …
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No end in sight for Iraq’s nights of terror – Al Jazeera English
On Monday night, terror descended on the Iraqi capital when gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a shopping mall in a busy, predominantly-Shia area, killing and wounding dozens of people and spreading panic among residents.
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Beautiful night sky – in Wanaka, New Zealand (718 x 1024) (OC) : SkyPorn
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The Future of Campaign Finance Rests with the Next Supreme Court Appointments – The Atlantic
For the last 10 years, the Supreme Court has engaged in a systematic effort to transform American democracy.
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Uber China Lags Despite New $7B Valuation | TechCrunch
Uber China, the U.S. ride-sharing firms standalone company in China, finally closed its long-awaited Series B funding round yesterday ending a long process that began last summer, when many of the company’s financial details were leaked to the publi…
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Cuts force some museums to charge entry fees – BBC News
Nearly one in five museums has introduced charging in the last year or will do so this year, according to a survey by the Museum Association. The survey also revealed that 18% of UK museums have had to close a part or branch of their museum in the l…
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What We’re Following on Wednesday, January 13 – The Atlantic
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Female suicide bombers attack mosque in Cameroon – Al Jazeera English
Two female suicide bombers have attacked a mosque in a town near Cameroon’s border with Nigeria during morning prayers, killing at least 10 people and wounding about a dozen others, the governor of the region has said.
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Apple boss Tim Cook clashes with US government over encryption | Technology | The Guardian
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has challenged the US government to adopt a policy of “no backdoors” in its approach to the encryption technology used by his company and other technology firms.
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Will fencing capitalize on the coolest part of Star Wars – the lightsaber? | Sport | The Guardian
The Hunger Games gave Olympic archery a big boost, with thousands of kids taking up a bow and arrow to be more like Jennifer Lawrence.
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Here’s the Worst Appropriation of #BlackLivesMatter We’ve Seen Yet | Mother Jones
As “Black Lives Matter” chants have grown common in communities nationwide responding to police violence against black men and women, opponents of the BLM movement have controversially altered the phrase to “All Lives Matter.” Now, Missouri state Re…
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A Drone Casually Capturing Another Drone in a Net | Motherboard
A team at Michigan Technological University may have one possible solution to pesky drones flying into airspace where they don’t belong: a drone that preys on other drones.
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The Nets are a total disaster – and John Calipari would be crazy to join | Sport | The Guardian
The Brooklyn Nets are making major moves, but don’t take that to mean they are changing directions. On Sunday, in the midst of one of the worst seasons in franchise history, the Nets dismissed head coach Lionel Hollins and “re-assigned” general mana…
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Five key points from Obama’s State of the Union speech – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has delivered his final State of the Union address. The wide-ranging speech touched on many subjects,including the economy and the battle against so-called Islamic State.
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Private messages at work can be read by employers, says court – BBC News
Employers can read workers’ private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker’s Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at w…
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How Poland’s conservatism is playing home and abroad – Al Jazeera English
Last Saturday morning I was escorted into studio 5 at TVP, Poland’s state broadcaster. On stage, a punk band called Sexbomb was covering ‘Ca plane pour moi’ in front of a live audience including a fairly large number of small children.
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ISIL recruits in the Balkans – Al Jazeera English
Sarajevo, Bosnia – In the weeks leading up to her escape from ISIL-controlled territory in Syria, Noora, a Yazidi from Sinjar, was held captive in a three room-house to the northeast of Raqqa. Her captor was a young Bosnian woman who had travelled f…
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Can Massachusetts Kill DraftKings? – The Daily Beast
Can Massachusetts Kill DraftKings? https://t.co/rZHJoTJPq7 https://t.co/21oBDxzEzU
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu Eyes Investments In Zomato, BookMyShow And Big Basket | TechCrunch
Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is may grow its presence in India by purchasing stakes in Zomato, BookMyShow, and BigBasket. In an interview with the Times of India, Tim Yang, the general manager of Baidu India, said that the company has alrea…
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GE to cut 6,500 jobs in Europe – BBC News
US manufacturing giant General Electric plans to cut 6,500 jobs in Europe over the next two years, including 765 in France.
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Can Massachusetts Kill DraftKings? – The Daily Beast
DraftKings and the Fantasy Sports Trade Association were forced into court in Boston on Tuesday for a public hearing on the proposed regulations that would end “unfair and deceptive acts and practices that may arise in the gaming process.
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Iran ‘releases US sailors held in Gulf’ – Al Jazeera English
All 10 US Navy sailors have been released hours after they were detained by Iran, state media reported on Wednesday. The sailors aboard two small patrol boats were taken into custody after they “inadvertently” strayed into Iranian waters.
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Israel sued in US court over deadly Gaza flotilla raid – Al Jazeera English
Four flotilla activists have filed suit against Israel in a US federal court, seeking damages for injuries they say they sustained during a 2010 Israeli raid on a boat bound for besieged Gaza Strip.
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No Holiday Bounce For PCs In 2015, But Mac Sales Bucked The Trend | TechCrunch
No Holiday Bounce For PCs In 2015, But Mac Sales Bucked The Trend https://t.co/otWPmNmYAK https://t.co/Sfay0y8TQU
Analyst Gartner has charted the fifth consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines, reporting today that holiday sales of full-fat computers fell by 8.3 per cent in Q4 2015 — and by 8 per cent for the year overall. -
IBM’s Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike | Motherboard
No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings. They’re cold, sterile, and still mess up way more than we expect them to.
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Window cleaners rescued from 75-storey building in Houston – video | US news | The Guardian
Texas firefighters rescue two stranded window cleaners from the side of a 75-storey building. The two men were rescued from outside the 71st floor of the Chase tower in Houston on Monday after their scaffolding malfunctioned. Both men are safe and n…
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Atmosphere – God Loves Ugly [Hip-Hop] : Music
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The Who – My Generation [Rock] : Music
The Who – My Generation [Rock] via /r/Music https://t.co/DUYbXFeX5l https://t.co/repvVoV1bh
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Annie Leibovitz ‘trying hard’ for photo session with Angela Merkel | Art and design | The Guardian
Annie Leibovitz ‘trying hard’ for photo session with Angela Merkel https://t.co/N2nI9d0sWA https://t.co/Rs4ummqlze
Annie Leibovitz’s new exhibition features some of the planet’s most influential women, but the photographer has revealed she has not yet been able to clinch a session with the woman she most wants to shoot – Angela Merkel. -
Greek reform: The force awakens? – Al Jazeera English
Until last week, the left appeared unchallenged at the helm of Greece. Conservative New Democracy had been at sea since it lost elections to Syriza a year ago and again last September. It bungled a nationwide election for its own party leadership in…
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How ‘Making a Murderer’ Defense Attorney Dean Strang Is Making America Great Again – The Daily Beast
The epic, stirring monologues. Those wire frame glasses. The crusader’s heart beating underneath that cable-knit sweater—worn over dad jeans—bleeding in the name of justice for convicted murderer Steven Avery.
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Iran releases US navy boat crews who entered territorial waters – state TV https://t.co/fvpDOSdCcw https://t.co/iPkGEUip7y
Iranian state TV is reporting that the country’s Revolutionary Guards have released 10 US sailors who were detained on Tuesday for “violating” Iran’s waters in the Gulf. Two small US navy craft briefly went missing after transiting the Gulf from Kuw… -
Menagerie by Caroline Grigson review – a rhino drinks three bottles of wine | Books | The Guardian
Menagerie by Caroline Grigson review – a rhino drinks three bottles of wine https://t.co/LvdOmSTBBK https://t.co/z5ZYCOTVNo
Most of us today divide neatly into cat lovers or dog lovers. In the past the choice was a good deal more colourful. Roman settlers in Britain imported peacocks to adorn their villas, while medieval animal lovers favoured monkeys and parrots as pets. -
U.S. Patent Grants Dip For The First Time In 7 Years To 298K, IBM Remains On Top | TechCrunch
U.S. Patent Grants Dip For The First Time In 7 Years To 298K, IBM Remains On Top https://t.co/muoauInpET https://t.co/iTFyshhO3C
As patent reform legislation continues to move slowly through the lawmaking system, the number of patents being awarded has declined for the first time in seven years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office issued 298,407 in 2014, according to a new r… -
Iran ‘frees US sailors held in Gulf’ – BBC News
Iran ‘frees US sailors held in Gulf’ https://t.co/dU2exzCYY7 https://t.co/FwbqszjrJj
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. -
Hurricane Pali sets Pacific record – Al Jazeera English
If you were looking for a location that defined the term ‘the middle of nowhere’, Johnston Atoll would have a strong claim. This uninhabited island lies 1,390 kilometres southwest of the Hawaiian Islands, themselves lying in a remote part of the Pac…
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David Bowie producer Tony Visconti performs tribute concert – BBC News
David Bowie’s long-time producer Tony Visconti has celebrated the musician’s life at a tribute concert in Canada. About 900 people packed into Toronto’s Opera House on Tuesday to pay tribute to the pop star, who died on Sunday.
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Moneybox Scores $3M Seed To Make It Easy For Millennials To Save And Invest | TechCrunch
Yet-to-launch Moneybox is a U.K. startup that wants to encourage millennials — who might not be thinking too much about their financial futures — to save and invest.
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New victims movement aims to stop violence | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — David Guizar was 10 years old when police found the oldest of his four siblings, Oscar Martinez, 17, dead on a sidewalk in South Central Los Angeles, shot in a presumed gang attack. The baby of the family, Guizar grew up without a fath…
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Air pollution: UK environment ministers face court action within weeks | Environment | The Guardian
UK environment ministers will be taken to court within weeks to make them speed up plans to reduce dangerous urban air pollution.
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President Obama Takes on Trump and Tribalism – The Daily Beast
In his final State of the Union, which doubled as a farewell address, President Obama did something unusual for a politician: he expressed regret. There’s no question this is urgent, unfinished business.
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EU scientists in row over safety of Glyphosate weedkiller | Environment | The Guardian
A bitter row has broken out over the allegedly carcinogenic qualities of a widely-used weedkiller, ahead of an EU decision on whether to continue to allow its use.
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How to make a full-court shot: “Go deep!” : gifs
How to make a full-court shot: “Go deep!” via /r/gifs https://t.co/XMnqpKUOv1 https://t.co/SajoPXOtCZ
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Saturn and its largest moon reflect their true colors [1417 x 1326] : spaceporn
Saturn and its largest moon reflect their true colors [1417 x 1326] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/fe5U1XgQus https://t.co/g8AFKXOTIF
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Brian Eno & David Byrne — New Feet — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Swedish police under fire over festival sex assaults silence – BBC News
Last year, there were numerous sexual assaults at a music festival in Stockholm – many by migrant youths – but police did not make the information public. They have now admitted that keeping silent was “a big mistake”.
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BBC Sport – Jerome Valcke: Fifa sacks general secretary
Jerome Valcke: Fifa sacks general secretary https://t.co/OfD7KnpBej https://t.co/iIBHHe6CLX
World governing body Fifa has dismissed suspended general secretary Jerome Valcke. More to follow. -
During the anxious early 1970s, when the west was spooked by the oil crisis and economic stagnation, by the first widespread fears for the environment and predictions of global overpopulation, a giddy alternative to it all began to seize the imagina…
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TechCrunch Davos Live: Speakers For Our Wed, Jan 20 Interview Series | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to look at how technology is affecting the world’s economies. Handily, WEF has themed this year’s event “The 4th Industrial revolution” which is right in our TechCrunch ballpark.
TechCrunch Davos Live: Speakers For Our Wed, Jan 20 Interview Series https://t.co/ju4NhaQ7lm https://t.co/FjTrdLm2M4 -
Endangered camel caravans of the Ethiopian salt mines – Al Jazeera English
Danakil, Ethiopia – Salt miners ply an ancient and gruelling trade in Ethiopia’s northeastern Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and lowest places on Earth. Danakil contains vast salt flats as well as sulphur springs and rumbling volcanoes creat…
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US criticised for inaction on citizens trapped in Syria – Al Jazeera English
A member of a US family trapped and starved in the Syrian town of Madaya is criticising the US government for what he described as “total neglect” and “shocking behavior” towards his family members.
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Fleetwood Mac — Save Me — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
Fleetwood Mac – Save Me https://t.co/cmUY1V8FT0 https://t.co/Vzx3m6SDUR
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Nasa uploaded a 4K video of colorful liquid in space to their Youtube channel : space
Nasa uploaded a 4K video of colorful liquid in space to their Youtube channel via /r/space https://t.co/TGhaDy7tsg https://t.co/Emt6tQqoOb
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French Jewish politician found dead with stab wounds in his apartment : worldnews
French Jewish politician found dead with stab wounds in his apartment via /r/worldnews https://t.co/Z26MgqBy2f https://t.co/TqKl22Pqw6
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National Guard to Distribute Water in Flint | Al Jazeera America
Gov. Rick Snyder late Tuesday activated the Michigan National Guard to help distribute bottled water and filters in Flint and asked the federal government for help dealing with a drinking water crisis that began months ago.
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Iran demands apology after US navy vessels enter its waters – video | World news | The Guardian
General Ali Fadavi, the navy chief of Iran’s revolutionary guard, says his country has demanded an apology from the United States. Fadavi confirms on state television that the Iranian military is holding 10 US navy sailors and their vessels.
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‘Making a Murderer’: Steven Avery Claims His Jury Was Tainted – The Daily Beast
Carl Wardman is no jury-tainting bully—says Carl Wardman. The Manitowoc County sheriff’s volunteer served on the jury that convicted Steven Avery of the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2007.
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CarTrade Gets $145M To Ride India’s Flourishing Used Vehicle Market | TechCrunch
CarTrade, a classified site for car dealers in India, has scored an impressive $145 million in new funding to fuel new acquisitions and expand its products. The round was led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek and March Capital, with partici…
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Istanbul bombing: ‘ISIL’s vulgar display of power’ – Al Jazeera English
The explosion that struck Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet Square on Tuesday – killing 10 people, most of them German nationals – was “a vulgar display of power by a cornered ISIL,” according to Turkish analysts, using the acronym of the Islamic Stat…
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The r/gaming starter pack : gaming
The r/gaming starter pack (i.imgur.com)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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The personal touch: Zarif, Kerry and 10 US sailors – Al Jazeera English
According to reports, Iran has detained 10 US sailors after two small patrol boats “drifted into Iranian waters in the Gulf, US officials say”. These reports further add: “The Riverine boats apparently developed mechanical problems and were taken t…
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Japan gripped by fate of pop group SMAP – BBC News
Rumours are rife in Japan that one of the country’s most well-known and long-lived pop groups, SMAP, might be on the verge of a break up. Their talent agency has said only that they are in negotiations over their future, but as the BBC’s Mariko Oi e…
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We owe the way we see California today in part to the painter Richard Diebenkorn, “whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces” of the state “where he spent virtually his entire life.
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Doing Gothic in college for my English Lit class, I decided to read Northanger Abbey because it didn’t seem Gothic although really it is and includes many elements. Austen decides to explore more of the Gothic made famous by Ann Radcliffe in The Mys…
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Ethiopia cancels Addis Ababa master plan after Oromo protests – BBC News
Ethiopia’s government has abandoned plans to expand the boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, which has caused months of deadly protests. Demonstrations by people from the Oromo ethnic group have been sparked by fears that Oromo farmers could be d…
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Shooting Star Above The Northern Lights. Sask, Canada. [OC] [5184×3456] : SkyPorn
Shooting Star Above The Northern Lights. Sask, Canada. [OC] [5184×3456] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/USmrVfvksY https://t.co/ZxxfX1wPhj
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO) https://t.co/Ze3rmFWRU4 https://t.co/mYd0PwiDZu
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The California Nebula
The California Nebula https://t.co/uO0wTj6y9Q https://t.co/YYsqOvLF69 https://t.co/q8qm5CAQRI
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Conan Remembers David Bowie : DavidBowie
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Obama calls for an end to gerrymandering in the State of the Union : politics
Obama calls for an end to gerrymandering in the State of the Union via /r/politics https://t.co/o8jWZj97wh https://t.co/HkucoJ1y4d
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Obama schooled on Twitter about Middle East history – Al Jazeera English
It may have just been one line in an hour-long address, but US President Barack Obama is getting creamed for what some said was perpetuating a lie.
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S. Korea Fires Warning Shots | Al Jazeera America
South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, South Korean military officials said.
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Enter our Paddington book mega giveaway! | Children’s books | The Guardian
Enter our Paddington give away.
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Paddington through the ages – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Enter our Paddington book giveway, including a dedicated book signed by Michael Bond!
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Snow for days. Terrace, British Columbia, Canada (OC) (1400×900) : EarthPorn
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Turkey finally wakes up to ISIL threat – Al Jazeera English
On January 12, on a sunny winter day that tourists saw as a blessing, Istanbul was hit at its most touristic spot.
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Closeup of the moon through a dobsonian [1413×1009] https://t.co/fm5haUtyWH https://t.co/hZdYblmtaG https://t.co/rkZoRgyhV0
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Closeup of the moon through a dobsonian [1413×1009] https://t.co/fm5haUtyWH https://t.co/hZdYblmtaG https://t.co/rkZoRgyhV0
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Counting elephants from Africa’s skies – BBC News
The elephant population in Africa continues to decline, despite an international ban on the trade of ivory tusks. Counting the remaining animals is a difficult task as they roam through vast areas, across 20 countries.
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Cologne attacks put spotlight on Germany’s N African migrants – BBC News
Among the tourists and commuters around Cologne’s main railway station there is the frequent fluorescent flash of a police uniform. Security is tight here after the attacks here on New Year’s Eve.
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What will they call Hillary Clinton if she wins? | Books | The Guardian
In a recent attack on Hillary Clinton, the Republican candidate Donald Trump reached into the Yiddish dictionary, saying she’d been “schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries. More often, though, opponents, writers and pundits have looked to …
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Reddit doesn’t lie, it really does lift… : pics
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The UK’s first books festival dedicated entirely to writers of colour “that has eschewed any panels on diversity” is set to make its debut in February, in an attempt to “empower … these voices that are so often silenced in the literary mainstream”.
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India: Five whales return to Tamil Nadu beach – BBC News
Five whales who were floated back to the sea in the southern state of Tamil Nadu have returned to the shores at Tuticorin. They were among the 36 whales who were rescued and pushed back into the sea on Tuesday.
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‘People are spending a lot of money on this’ Miah Saun, Taslima Newsstand, New York City “People are excited,” explains Miah Saun, a 22-year-old newsstand operator in New York City’s financial district. “The Powerball is going up.” And going up it i…
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Activists: Samar Badawi Detained by Saudi Arabia | Al Jazeera America
Saudi authorities have detained Samar Badawi, a human rights activist known for championing women’s rights, according to local activists. Badawai’s former husband and brother are serving prison terms for their activism.
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Someone stole my side of the bed. : cats
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Blackstar is now the second highest rated album on Metacritic by users : DavidBowie
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David Bowie Tribute Billboard from anonymous fan in Detroit : pics
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The California Nebula : EndorNineWorlds
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The California Nebula
The California Nebula https://t.co/PerQfbfO9g https://t.co/KdoOtzRygY https://t.co/HPwmJH0hMC
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All life is lived in the shadow of its own finitude, of which we are always aware — an awareness we systematically blunt through the daily distraction of living.
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Dozens of whales die in mass stranding on India beach – Al Jazeera English
At least 45 of 81 whales have died after stranding on a beach in the Indian southern state of Tamil Nadu. The short-finned pilot whales washed ashore on the beach of Tiruchendur, a small port city in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district on Tuesday.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO) – YouTube
State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens.But are they? (Spoiler alert: No.)Connect with Last Week Tonight online…Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happe…
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The California Nebula https://t.co/eCqYtgQ9TU https://t.co/R7jnaqcaMB https://t.co/uQ936Hyqdd
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People who’ve seen Bob Saget’s standup won’t be surprised by the complete and total lack of Danny Tanner to be found in “The Sat Pack.” People who know him primarily through Full House might want to wear their pearls while watching, in case they nee…
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EU reforms: Has Poland turned right-wing? – BBC News
EU reforms: Has Poland turned right-wing? 13 January 2016 Last updated at 07:33 GMT The Polish government has tightened controls over the civil service, the courts, and the media – Paul Adams examines the country’s political scene.
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The California Nebula by Miilo Astro | We Heart It
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Obama slams climate deniers in State of the Union, and gets greens kind of excited | Grist
The Romans were dealing with smog, too. The disgraced former VP candidate says his “unusual experiences” would make him a great plaintiffs’ attorney.
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Iran ‘wants US apology’ over incursion – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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The St Louis Rams will relocate to Los Angeles following a vote of NFL owners. The Rams had been vying with the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders for the chance to move to LA.
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As the first nominating contest approaches, Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead nationally in the Democratic primary has largely melted away, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. The tightened race between Mrs.
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Sausage dogs are the cutest. : aww
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Here is the fact that everyone debating abortion should know: there is no association between its legality and its incidence. In other words, banning abortion does not stop the practice; it merely makes it more dangerous.
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Are you racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer – video | Opinion | The Guardian
Most of us, says Marlon James, are non-racist. While that leaves us with a clear conscience, he argues, it does nothing to help fight injustice in the world. In fact, we can pull off being non-racist by being asleep in bed while black men are killed…
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In his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, president Barack Obama praised a strong economy, launched an initiative to cure cancer and condemned divisive politics and scaremongering, rife within the current political landscape. Watch h…
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Closeup of the moon through a dobsonian [1413×1009] : spaceporn
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Obama’s Darkly Optimistic State of the Union Address – The New Yorker
By convention, the State of the Union address is part laundry list and part rallying cry.
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Like a lot of film versions of classic modern plays, Tom Stoppard’s 1990 adaptation of his meta-theater masterpiece Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead documents two eras.
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Since her premiere on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in 2004, Mary Elizabeth Ellis has primarily been known to many fans as “Waitress,” the unrequited love interest of Charlie Day’s character, Charlie Kelly.
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Sisters are doing it for themselves, as well as TV Land · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, January 13. All times are Eastern. Younger (TV Land, 10 / 10:30 p.m.
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Pulling Noby Noby Boy apart only brought people together · To The Bitter End · The A.V. Club
Games are often left unfinished. Sometimes they’re too difficult, too vast, or too repetitive to see all the way through to the closing credits. To The Bitter End is Gameological’s look at those endings that are worth fighting for—or at least worth …
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Until recently, it would be odd to hear two anal-bleaching jokes in consecutive episodes of a TV Land sitcom. This was the domain of Betty White and the Hot In Cleveland crew, and before that Roseanne and Dan, who had their foibles but generally sta…
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One of the longest standing traditions in pro wrestling is the gimmick. The term itself is practically meaningless—a multipurpose piece of industry lingo that’s primarily used in place of the word “character”—yet a gimmick often determines a perform…
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Despite the broader conversation about television’s extended auteurish period, TV’s evolution from “idiot box” to “credible storytelling medium” is still in an embryonic stage.
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Racist preferences · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
As a queer man of color—I’m Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual …
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Fans of Jillian Bell’s supporting turn as endearingly weird office factotum Jillian Belk on Workaholics will find Idiotsitter a comfortably familiar companion piece.
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Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. Note: The interviews in this article were conducted before David Bowie’s death on January 11, 2016.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Timmy lovely hot dog via /r/aww…
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Yes it was announced Deadpool would go for an R rating last year however this is the official announcement that the MPAA rated the film R so we are keeping this. I doubt it. Graphic nudity does often mean penis though.
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China’s economic crisis is coming – Al Jazeera English
China’s new year headlines are all about the economy. Official plans call for slower growth in 2016 and beyond, with the 7.5 percent growth target reduced to 6.5 percent. A run of poor results in the manufacturing sector call even that more modest t…
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Campaigners call for new British charter for trees | Environment | The Guardian
Led by the Woodland Trust, 48 conservation and cultural groups have launched a campaign for a new charter in 2017, the 800-year anniversary of the signing of the original Charter of the Forest by Henry III.
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Twin Jet Nebula: The Cosmic Butterfly | Space Wallpaper
About this Image A nebula by any other name — the Twin Jet Nebula, a fabulous cosmic butterfly with two lobes of jets, shooting gases at speeds more than a million kilometers per hour, was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947.
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Suicide bomber hits Pakistan consulate in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
At least three people were killed and several others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
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Didi Kuaidi, The Company Beating Uber In China, Opens Its API To Third Party Apps | TechCrunch
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I ordered that same shirt. : pics
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Didi Kuaidi, The Company Beating Uber In China, Opens Its API To Third Party Apps | TechCrunch
One day after Uber updated its API to add ‘content experiences’ for passengers, the U.S. company’s biggest rival — Didi Kuaidi in China — has opened its own platform up by releasing an SDK for developers and third-parties. Didi Kuaidi, which is valu…
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The one person who can stand up to Donald Trump isn’t Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton – or even Ted Cruz. It’s President Barack Obama.
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APOD: 2016 January 12 – The California Nebula
Explanation: What’s California doing in space? Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the outline of California on the west coast of the United States.
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China said to detain Swedish human rights worker – BBC News
Chinese authorities have allegedly detained a Swedish human rights worker in Beijing, amid an ongoing crackdown on activists and dissidents. Chinese Urgent Action Working Group (China Action) says its founder, Peter Dahlin, was detained on 4 January…
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‘Making a Murderer’ Convict’s Half-Brother Drops Rap Track | Rolling Stone
The half-brother of Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey — who was convicted of murder alongside his uncle Steven Avery — has dropped a rap track expounding the pair’s innocence, the Milwaukee Record reports.
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Major Lazer Will Be First Act to Play Cuba Since Easing of Relations | Rolling Stone
Major Lazer will be the first major U.S. act to perform in Cuba since the island nation and America began restoring diplomatic ties, Spin reports.
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Plashy utopia of the rain inspectors | Environment | The Guardian
The snipe are not skulking, they’re invisible. Six stand together in the rushes beside Venus Pool, six winged probes the colour of winter marshes, so extraordinarily beautiful they cannot be seen except for their eye glints.
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Obama condemns anti-Muslim rhetoric: ‘It betrays who we are’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama took a swipe at Donald Trump-style politics during his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying that anti-Muslim rhetoric, a speciality of the real estate mogul, is plain wrong and diminishes America in the eyes of the world.
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Conservationists and recreational fishers have joined forces to support the release of a specialised herpes virus targeting carp in the Murray river.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday set forth an ambitious vision for America’s future but conceded his own failure to heal the political divisions holding back progress, calling it a lasting disappointment of his tenure.
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Deadly blast hits near anti-polio centre in Pakistan – Al Jazeera English
At least 14 people have been killed and 20 others injured in an explosion near a polio centre in the city of Quetta, police have told Al Jazeera.
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MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Was it a mistake to allow, to have a couple of Democrats show up with representatives of CAIR at the State of the Union tonight? CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist trial.
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Hope and change are all but gone. Obama’s got nothing to lose any more | US news | The Guardian
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose,” wrote James Baldwin. “You do not need 10 such men, only one will do.” Barack Obama had nothing to lose on Tuesday.
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How Much Light Is in the Universe?
Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts “Ask a Spaceman!” and “Realspace,” and the YouTube series “Space in Your Face.” Sutter contr…
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Italian marine ‘not returning’ to India for murder trial – BBC News
An Italian marine accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 will not return to India to face trial after being allowed home for medical treatment, an Italian senator has said. Last year an Indian court granted Massimiliano Latorre a period of …
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Blast near Pakistan polio centre ‘kills 14’ – BBC News
At least 14 people have been killed in a blast outside a polio vaccination centre in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. Many of the casualties are thought to have been police guarding the clinic.
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Barack Obama promised an overhaul of coal mining on public lands on Tuesday, delivering a major blow to the ailing industry.
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Angry Oregon Militia Leader Tells The Internet Trolls To Stop Mailing Them Dildos : nottheonion
Well, it just so happens we’ve got all these rubber dicks…
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The Trolls Who Target Dead Celebrities – The Daily Beast
Whenever someone famous and influential dies, particularly when that person is as influential as David Bowie, a schizophrenic cycle of mourning grips the Internet. First come the shocked tweets and brief personal tributes.
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg has just arrived back home in the Bay Area. The 31-year-old creator of the Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman is in town for SF Sketchfest, the annual sketch comedy festival now in its 15th year.
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2016 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Will Jennifer Lawrence Get Snubbed? – The Daily Beast
MARLOW: Well, the Golden Globes happened, and as you so boldly predicted, the Hollywood Foreign Press went temporarily insane and gave a bunch of awards to Mozart in the Jungle, which sounds like a mind-opening ayahuasca ceremony.
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Foster Kids’ Sad ‘Cockfight’ Goes Viral – The Daily Beast
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman called it a “cockfight.
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Is Brooklyn’s Only Weed Doc a Quack? – The Daily Beast
There is only one doctor openly prescribing medical marijuana in Brooklyn, and he’s suspiciously hard to find. “He doesn’t work here anymore,” says the security guard at Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital, one of the hospitals where Dr. Kevin T. Custis clai…
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Confessions of an Accused Cop Killer – The Daily Beast
As he now begins a 21-year sentence for selling heroin, one-time Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member Robert Vickers remains a prime suspect in the assassination of two New York City police officers more than four decades ago.
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The Gun Issue Even the NRA Won’t Touch – The Daily Beast
Last Thursday, President Obama instituted a series of executive actions aimed at tightening gun control, including closing the so-called “gun show loophole” that provides a means for some private buyers to circumvent background checks.
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How ‘Younger’ Became the ‘Sex and the City’ Replacement We All Craved – The Daily Beast
What would you do if you walked into a Brooklyn bar and saw Hilary Duff sitting there knitting? Thanks to the success of the TV Land series Younger, it’s a very real possibility.
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The Royal Rise of the Middletons – The Daily Beast
This Sunday, the devoted huddle of royal fans at Sandringham church were gathered as usual, waiting to see the Queen arrive for church as she does every Sunday when she is in residence at her Norfolk estate.
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Horse Image, Utah – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Portolano visited the man, Ben, and his wife, Katherine, several times to learn about their self-sustaining lifestyle in urban Salt Lake City. “They have organized their house and backyard in order to produce most of their own food,” Portolano expla…
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What to do with a $1.5 billion lottery win – BBC News
One Powerball ticket costs $2 and carries a 1 in 292 million chance of winning the jackpot. More than 500 million tickets have been sold so far. How much the winner takes home depends on whether prize is paid out over three decades or taken as the l…
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It’s true about the carp herpes. Illustration: First Dog on the Moon for the Guardian
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Showing that “Mel Gibson with a puppet strapped to his hand” was only the first step in Jodie Foster’s journey into cinematic subtlety, we’ve got the first trailer for the director’s new film, Money Monster, in which an angry blue-collar worker (Unb…
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US expects prompt return of US sailors held by Iran – Al Jazeera English
Iran has detained 10 US sailors aboard two small patrol boats in the Gulf in an incident that rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord with Tehran.
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Magnetic MoonWalker Shoes Ditch Gravity
When is the last time a pair of shoes put you over the moon? A New York-based startup wants to send you there, replicating low-gravity environments with their smart, super-magnetic sneakers.
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Obama: The State of the Union Isn’t Trump – The Daily Beast
When President Obama delivered his last State of the Union address Tuesday evening, there was an implicit sense that he had given up working with Congress in his final year in office — and instead was trying to shape the nature of the 2016 presiden…
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iZombie is juggling a tremendous amount of story at the moment, and one of the most impressive things so far in season two is how it’s done this juggling with such dexterity and grace.
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Autonomous car makers hand over data on glitches and failures to California DMV | Ars Technica
If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit a disengagement report—basically a list of every time the human driver had to take ov…
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In Michael Bay’s first Transformers film, there’s a scene about 90 minutes in where the Autobots are at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. They’re not training for battle or clobbering the Decepticons—they’re just standing around talking about…
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Open thread for night owls: Obama gives climate change more attention than ever heard in a SOTU
President Obama spent eight paragraphs on climate change Tuesday night in his State of the Union address. No surprise that this didn’t bring Republicans to their feet. This continued reordering of presidential priorities dating back to his June 2013…
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S Korean president urges Chinese action over N Korea test – BBC News
South Korea’s president has urged China to help build the strongest possible sanctions in response to North Korea’s recent nuclear test claim. Park Geun-hye also warned of possible further action by North Korea, including “cyber terrorism”.
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Obama’s State of the Union Pitch Remains the Same: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff | Vanity Fair
In his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama returned to his roots.
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Ground Control to David Bowie: You Really Made the Grade
Music icon David Bowie passed away on Jan. 11. Astronauts, scientists and members of the spaceflight industry are paying tribute to the artist online.
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Obama’s cringe-worthy line claiming Middle East conflicts “date back millennia” – Vox
If President Obama had any hopes of running for a third term, then he lost the international relations scholar vote on Tuesday night when, in the course of his State of the Union address, he repeated one of the biggest canards about how the Middle E…
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Thurston Moore: ‘Bowie Touched Each of Us in a Remarkable Way’ | Rolling Stone
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth penned a poignant tribute to David Bowie for Pitchfork, writing the late musician’s “love and passion for art, in all its intrigue and interplay with nature, was manifest in his smile, his charm.
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South Carolina governor Nikki Haley decried “noise” in the Republican presidential campaign she said was obscuring her party’s message – and threatening its inroads with non-traditional voters – in a veiled but forceful response to Barack Obama’s St…
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Barack Obama Refuses to Be a Lame-Duck President | The Nation
Barack Obama has finished 87 percent of the mission to which the American electorate assigned him with overwhelming mandates in 2008 and 2012. But he is not prepared to coast cautiously or quietly through the last of his eight years as president.
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Obama: America Is Great Again Already | New Republic
In his final State of the Union address, President Obama all but called Donald Trump out by name. Instead, he tried to outline the case for optimism about America’s future: We don’t need to Make America Great Again, because America Is Great Already.
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Obama’s Final State of the Union Was Basically a List of His Greatest | Vanity Fair
Barack Obama, delivering his last State of the Union address, outlined a vision of the future that relied a lot on the past.
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Gravitational Wave Rumors Rumble Social Media
In the roller-coaster rumor mill that surrounds some of the biggest physics endeavors of our time, it pays to remain skeptical when extraordinary claims of historic discoveries are made on social media.
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Kumail Nanjiani to host X-Files marathon, sneak peek of the new series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stand-up comedian and X-Files-superfan-turned-X-Files-cast-member Kumail Nanjiani will be hosting a marathon of the series this weekend in Los Angeles, allowing his fellow Mulderheads and Scullyites to relive their love of the series before it retur…
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How much character work is too much character work? It depends on the kind of show, really; for a low-key drama, you could spend hours delving into psychology and internal conflicts, whereas with a sitcom, you’d have to convey even the most complex …
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The State of the Union Was About Tech Because Everything Is About Tech | Motherboard
President Obama just spent the vast majority of his final State of the Union talking about technology.
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Nikki Haley’s Two-Front War | New Republic
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was tasked with responding to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Obama Says Biden Will Lead New Effort to Cure Cancer – Scientific American
In a State of the Union speech largely devoid of any lofty legislative goals President Barack Obama did introduce one aspirational goal: curing cancer.
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There Is a New Climate Change Disaster Looming in Northern Canada : environment
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Obama just declared victory in the culture war – Vox
Obama’s final State of the Union address was nominally about “the next five years, ten years, and beyond.
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Nikki Haley Uses GOP State Of The Union Response To Criticize Black Lives Matter | ThinkProgress
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley delivered the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, taking the opportunity to take a shot at the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality and racial discrim…
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Nikki Haley’s State of the Union Response Actually Bashes Donald Trump | Vanity Fair
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, tapped by the Republican Party to deliver their rebuttal to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, dutifully hit several conservative talking points against the Democratic president and liberal policies.
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Australians offered odds on winning numbers in $1.5bn Powerball draw | Australia news | The Guardian
Australians will have a shot at a world record $2bn jackpot after an international lottery bookmaker Lottoland was granted a domestic licence to operate for the first time.
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Republican candidates’ reactions to State of the Union: ‘I just yelled ‘you lie!’ really loud’
What is Mike Huckabee’s appeal, at this point? He’s an off-rack Trump, and the political world wasn’t really crying out for an off-rack Trump. Dr. Ben Carson wants to be in charge of the United States response to both. Have good dreams tonight, kids!
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Mexico moves El Chapo randomly from cell to cell to avoid fresh escape | World news | The Guardian
Deeply concerned that the world’s most notorious drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán could escape for a third time, Mexico has beefed up security at his prison, moving him between cells, reinforcing the floor of his cell and placing a 24-hour gua…
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Barack Obama took all-but-direct aim at the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump on Thursday with a call for Americans “to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion”.
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Obama dismisses idea of ISIL as existential threat – Al Jazeera English
US President Barack Obama has wrapped up his final State of the Union address with a forceful statement of confidence in the future of the United States.
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4 winners and 2 losers in Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address – Vox
For better or worse, President Obama’s final State of the Union address was not the transformationally different event it had been promoted as. It contained the same callbacks to notable administration accomplishments and dutiful recitation of polic…
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A corruption trial in Chicago focusing on allegations that bribes were made by the Australian red-light camera company Redflex to a city official starts on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT).
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Barack Obama admitted his regret that he will leave America more, not less, polarised when he departs office a year from now, using his final State of the Union address to urge the nation not to succumb to demagogues.
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S. Carolina Gov. Defends Immigrants in GOP Reply | Al Jazeera America
Americans should resist “the siren call of the angriest voices” in how the nation treats immigrants, South Carolina Gov.
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Obama calls for an end to gerrymandering in the State of the Union – Vox
Gerrymandering rarely gets primetime political coverage on network TV, but President Barack Obama made an exception during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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The State of the Union, edited down to 375 words – Vox
President Obama’s State of the Union came in at around 5,400 words. That’s too long. Here’s a version we edited and abridged. I’m going make this short. Instead of a wish list, I’m going to ask four questions of the next president. (Spoiler: I have …
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Zack Snyder says Justice League will be about the “mythology” of Doomsday · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The end of the most recent trailer for Zack Snyder’s Batman V. Superman features a surprise appearance from an iconic DC Comics villain: Doomsday, the big monster guy covered in spikes who is most famous for that time he killed Superman in the ‘90s.
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Obama’s radical honesty about ISIS: they don’t “threaten our national existence” – Vox
President Obama, in the section of his state of the union speech discussing ISIS, said something that American politicians don’t usually say: that while ISIS “pose a direct threat to our people,” they “do not threaten our national existence.
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What Was Missing From President Obama’s Final State of the Union | ThinkProgress
by & Kira Lerner President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address presented a sweeping vision for the nation’s future, including calls for more development of clean energy to tackle climate change, the strengthening of voting rights, an end…
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Vice President Joe Biden to lead “moonshot” effort to end cancer | Ars Technica
In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced a “new national effort” to put an end to cancer once and for all—and that effort will be led by Vice President Joe Biden, who last year tragically lost his son Beau to brain cancer a…
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If it were up to us, Julia Roberts and George Clooney would re-unite once a year to make a movie together. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy—hell, we would even take an annual Julia Roberts and George Clooney Lifetime Christmas special.
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State of the Union 2016: The Night Paul Ryan *Became* the Neutral-Face Emoji | Vanity Fair
Paul Ryan no doubt woke up this morning and immediately downed a protein shake. He checked the score of last night’s game (any game, it doesn’t matter to Paul Ryan which game it is).
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Lego changes bulk buy policy after Ai Weiwei backlash – BBC News
Lego has said it is reversing its policy on bulk purchases and will no longer ask customers what they want to use the bricks for. The U-turn follows a recent controversy involving Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
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Obama’s State of the Union Address: Back to Being the ‘Hope and Change’ Guy | VICE News
US president Barack Obama once again became the “Hope and Change” guy. Just a few minutes into his final State of the Union (SOTU) address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, a clearly relaxed Obama had already cited “change” half a do…
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Obama’s Final State of the Union: A Return to Hope and Change | Mother Jones
For his seven years as president, Barack Obama has mounted an ideological war against the Republicans. He hasn’t cast it as such, and, most times, he has not matched his rhetoric with the fury of the fight.
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The most powerful moment from Obama’s last State of the Union – Vox
Early in President Obama’s final State of the Union, there was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it jab at Donald Trump. But later in the speech, Obama really got into it — and he got emotional. He didn’t say the name Donald Trump, but he didn’t have to.
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President Obama Defends Muslims | Mother Jones
“When politicians insult Muslims, whether abroad or our fellow citizens, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid is called names, that doesn’t make us safer,” Obama said. “That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes…
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State of the Union: Full text of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s Republican response – Vox
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union tonight, a generally thankless task. Good evening.
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President Obama’s final State of the Union address / Boing Boing
President Barack Obama tonight gave the final State of the Union Address of his final presidential term. Here is the full text of those remarks.
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Obama’s big regret: He lost on politics – Vox
President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union was a celebration of his presidency’s many achievements — and an admission of its most fundamental failure. In 2008, Obama’s promise was simple: he would pass sweeping policy changes by bridging the …
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President Obama’s State of the Union Address ends. And now the Republican spittle … oops, rebuttal
And here’s her new direction. She’s appealing directly to the viewer, telling us were “not naive.” But we are just so darned frustrated about all the promises made and never kept. (Obamacare replacement, cough, cough.)
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CBS says goodbye to Mike & Molly, hello to crazy Super Bowl tech · Newswire · The A.V. Club
CBS’ recently appointed entertainment president Glenn Geller had to make his first appearance at a Television Critics Association Press Tour as the bearer of bad news, at least for people who get antsy if they have to wait more than a week for a Mel…
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After David Bowie died, readers across the Internet commemorated his life with a flurry of essays, tweets and GIFs. They also listened to his music. When an artist as complex as Mr. Bowie dies, what work do we remember him by? In the past, the answe…
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China exports up first time since June – BBC News
Chinese exports defied expectations in December to rise 2.3% from a year ago in yuan-denominated terms. Forecasts were predicting a 4.1% fall in exports, but a weakening currency may have boosted the lagging sector.
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Obama Absolutely Unloads on Trump During 2016 State of the Union | Vanity Fair
President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address struck a hopeful note, as the nation’s 44th president listed his accomplishments and looked past the end of his term to deliver prescriptions for a better day.
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In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would launch a new national effort to cure cancer, with Vice-President Joe Biden leading the mission: ‘Let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for a…
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Obama Slams Rising Islamophobia: ‘That Doesn’t Make Us Safer’ | ThinkProgress
In his final State of the Union address, President Obama warned against rising animosity toward Muslims. “When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. I…
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Obama Blasts Climate Deniers and Calls for a Clean Energy Revolution | Mother Jones
Fresh off the historic Paris climate change agreement, President Barack Obama used his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to urge Congress to finally act on global warming. “Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around clim…
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Roman Sanitation Didn’t Stop Roaming Parasites – Scientific American
Welcome to Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on January 12, 2016. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode: That’s Piers Mitchell. He’s in the department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
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President Obama’s State of the Union Address, #3
Endorsements 2016 Check out our slate of Daily Kos-endorsed candidates Add your name: Thanks Obama, for taking leadership on gun violence Congress refuses to stand up to the NRA, so President Obama is taking executive action on gun violence.
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‘America can cure cancer’: Obama announces national effort to fight disease | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama has channeled John Kennedy’s space race with the Russians to pledge a new “moonshot”, led by vice-president Joe Biden at “mission control”, for the United States to win a new global health race and find a cure for cancer.
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Scientists weigh in on ‘giraffe relative’ fossil – BBC News
Victorian scientists believed the creature was a giraffe with a trunk and a “missing link” between mammals. Digital reconstructions of the bones show that while the giraffe was gigantic, the theory that it was as big as an elephant was not true.
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Musical ‘twin cities’ emerge from data – BBC News
Beyonce is big in Sudan. Brazilian songwriter Rodrigo Amarante has found fame in Uzbekistan. Leo Sayer is the most popular artist in Peru. Those are the surprising results of a BBC project looking into the music people search for on their phones.
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Seagrass meadows around British Isles in ‘perilous state’ – BBC News
Most seagrass meadows around the coast of the British Isles are in a “perilous state”, say scientists. Plants are being damaged by pollution and human disturbances such as mooring boats, according to researchers.
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Potato-rich diet ‘may increase pregnancy diabetes risk’ – BBC News
Eating potatoes or chips on most days of the week may increase a woman’s risk of diabetes during pregnancy, say US researchers. This is probably because starch in spuds can trigger a sharp rise in blood sugar levels, they say.
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China shares up as currency fears ease – BBC News
Asian shares rose in early trade, taking a positive lead from Wall Street where shares headed higher on easing concerns about China. Both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 saw a second day of gains overnight, rising 0.7% after Chinese shares ended higher.
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Cameron Crowe on Bowie: ‘He Careened Beautifully Into the Future’ | Rolling Stone
Cameron Crowe recalled David Bowie’s creative brilliance and profound wisdom, which he witnessed up close while profiling the musician during the mid-Seventies, in a touching remembrance for The Hollywood Reporter.
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WASHINGTON—Recounting in detail the numerous struggles and tribulations of the past seven years, an impassioned President Obama loftily praised his own strength and resilience in the face of adversity Tuesday evening during his final State of the Un…
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State of the Union 2016: Obama’s joke on himself turns into a joke on 2016 candidates – Vox
President Obama opened his last State of the Union with what sounded like a gentle, self-deprecating joke: “For this final one, I’m going to try to make it a little shorter.” Congress laughed with him. They were in on the joke. Until they weren’t.
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WASHINGTON—Leaning toward the Speaker of the House during the State of the Union address and holding up the device, Vice President Joe Biden reportedly urged Paul Ryan to check out the nude shower scene from Porky’s on his smartphone Tuesday.
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President Obama’s State of the Union Address, #2
He continues talking about how to give everyone a fair shake, which includes Obamacare, and acknowledges in that that the biggest disagreements in Washington center on these issues.
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State of the Union 2016: Obama disses Donald Trump – Vox
Early on in his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama wanted to send a message to the American people: don’t fall for what Donald Trump’s selling.
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Wife of Saudi activist Waleed Abu al-Khair ‘arrested’ – BBC News
The wife of jailed prominent Saudi human rights campaigner Waleed Abu al-Khair has been arrested, activists say. Samar Badawi was detained for allegedly managing a Twitter account calling for the release of her husband.
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US intelligence director’s phone account was hacked, office says | Technology | The Guardian
The top US spy had his phone account hacked, his office confirmed Tuesday. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence (DNI), appears to have become the latest government official who had a personal account accessed by a hacker.
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President Obama says he and Paul Ryan can agree on fighting poverty. That’s half right. – Vox
In the prepared text of his eighth and final State of the Union address, President Obama speaks specifically to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who’ll be standing directly behind him during the speech, calling on him to collaborate with Democrats on expand…
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Obama puts ‘focus on our future’ in State of the Union – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has begun his final State of the Union address, aiming to strike an optimistic tone about the country. He urged Congress to make progress in the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
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Venezuela’s first lady, congresswoman Cilia Flores, has accused US authorities of kidnapping two of her nephews over drug trafficking charges in her first comments on the case since their arrests sparked a scandal.
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Bernie Sanders Has Edge in Iowa and Widens New Hampshire Lead, Polls Find https://t.co/SA6oB2SXqY https://t.co/O1UZknvhKj
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WASHINGTON—Taking the opportunity to strengthen his core during the president’s hour-long remarks, House Speaker Paul Ryan is said to have quietly performed a series of ab exercises as he sat through the State of the Union address Tuesday, sources r…
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Ted Cruz Gave A Preview Of His State Of The Union In 2018. And It’s Wild. | ThinkProgress
During a campaign event Tuesday immediately before President Obama’s final State of the Union address, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz gave a speech as if he were giving the address as president in 2018.
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Do we need more than two genders? – BBC News
A growing number of people refuse to be put into male or female categories, either because they do not identify as male or female, or because they are going through transition to the opposite gender.
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Obama to Declare Future Depends on Fixing Politics | Al Jazeera America
Obama’s election-year call for political civility amounts to an admission that he’s failed to make good on the lofty promises to bring Democrats and Republican together that were at the core of his political rise nearly eight years ago.
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Rams to return to Los Angeles with Chargers given an option to follow | Sport | The Guardian
Two decades after leaving the Los Angeles area, the Rams are coming back. On Tuesday night the NFL’s owners voted to let the franchise’s owner, Stan Kroenke, move the team from St. Louis to the nation’s second-largest market – a region that has been…
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Oregon militia to discuss ‘when we will be leaving’ wildlife refuge | US news | The Guardian
The militiamen occupying the Malheur national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon said on Tuesday that they intended to tell the public soon “when we will be leaving”, signalling that the takeover could be heading toward a resolution.
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State of the Union 2016: read the full speech | US news | The Guardian
Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa.
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How to drink your morning coffee in Norway like a boss / Boing Boing
From Sunday night’s upcoming episode “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles.” Last week, our sister site “Doing Doing” was mentioned on the show, so you just know The Simpsons are still relevant!
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Deadly eastern brown snake found under fridge in Adelaide house – video | Environment | The Guardian
An unpleasant house guest has been discovered at an Adelaide home – a highly venomous eastern brown snake. After seeing the snake’s head appear from under her refrigerator, a justifiably shaken Moana resident contacted Snake Catchers Adelaide.
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Updated, 12:46 p.m. | Senator Bernie Sanders is breaking away from Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and is edging ahead of her in Iowa, according to new polls that show him solidifying the support of Democrats ahead the first two 2016 presidential p…
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The Twitter murder that never happened – BBC News
It was a horrific crime that came to light in a series of impassioned tweets that gripped and appalled a nation. But it was all made up. The story of a brutal rape and murder has provoked an outpouring of emotion from South African social media user…
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This is the first report on a two-part story revealing new research reported on Vivian Maier. We’ll be sharing the second part of this story tomorrow. Who was Vivian Maier?
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America should follow Silicon Valley’s lead on paid parental leave – Vox
Tech companies are continuing to lead the way on paid parental leave in America — but they’re also highlighting just how inadequate paid leave policies are for Americans who don’t work in Silicon Valley.
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SpaceX releases new video of Falcon 9 launch and landing / Boing Boing
SpaceX today published some wonderful new footage of its recent successful Falcon 9 launch and landing.
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With Detroit Taking A Lyft In A Driverless Car, What’s Next For Cities? | TechCrunch
Transportation and geography have always been intertwined. Specifically, the auto industry, with Detroit being the prime example, was once more tightly tied to place. The same can be said for the tech industry, which still maintains a dominance larg…
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State of the Union 2016: Read the full text of Obama’s speech – Vox
Ten minutes before President Obama is set to deliver his final State of the Union address, the White House posted the entire text on Medium, as they did last year. Medium claims the text takes 22 minutes to read, but it’s likely to take much longer …
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Good news for fans of patiently-thought-out scene compositions and artistically adapted scripts: The Directors Guild Of America—the bookish, quiet middle child to the Oscars’ confident overachiever and the Golden Globes’ chatty younger brother—has a…
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts to reports of sailors being detained by Iran, criticizing Barack Obama ahead of his last State of the Union address. ‘This isn’t the same country,’ Trump said in reaction to the news. ‘When I …
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The death of Naji Jerf and the battle facing Syria’s citizen journalists – BBC News
That is how Mohammad Mallak, editor-in-chief of Syrian magazine Saiedet Souria, describes his colleague Naji Jerf. Last month, Jerf, a 38-year-old Syrian anti-Islamic State (IS) activist and journalist, was shot in broad daylight with a silenced pis…
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Indian acid attack survivor is new face of fashion brand – BBC News
An Indian fashion retail brand has signed up prominent acid attack survivor and campaigner Laxmi Saa to be the face of its new range of designer outfits for women, in a campaign they are calling “Face of Courage”.
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Showtime renews Shameless for a seventh season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The sixth season of Shameless literally just started, but apparently Showtime is still so happy with the series that it has already picked it up for a seventh.
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I liked “What About Fred” from the moment its guest roster was announced last March.
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Afghanistan Taliban: Mistrust and fear in battle for Helmand – BBC News
For many in Lashkar Gah the question is whether to stay or go. The battle for control of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Taliban’s traditional power base, has lasted for months. Lashkar Gah is the capital and in government hands.
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President Obama’s State of the Union Address, #1
President Obama is delivering his final State of the Union, and he promised in his weekly address that it will be a optimistic speech. The White House promises that it will also be an accessible one.
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China’s stock market and the rise of the ‘pyjama traders’ – BBC News
China’s volatile shares have affected millions of individuals – the shop owners, p-pensioners and other small traders, who make up 80% of China’s investors. How have China’s stock exchanges come to be dominated by “traders in pyjamas”?
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10 US Sailors Detained by Iran for ‘Snooping Around’ Will Reportedly Be Freed Soon | VICE News
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards detained 10 US sailors and seized two US Navy boats in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, accusing them of “snooping around” in Iranian territorial waters.
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Barack Obama’s Final State of the Union Address – The Atlantic
The most powerful man in the world is running out of time. Tonight, the sergeant-at-arms will proclaim President Obama’s arrival to the speaker of the House for the last time, inaugurating 12 months of final occasions.
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The music craze with a dark side splitting opinion in Egypt – BBC News
In the middle of a narrow alley in Cairo’s Ain Shams district, one shop stands out from the rest. While it could be missed from the outside, step inside and you enter a world of neon graffiti, pulsating beats and urban youth.
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The Bowie, Elvis, Warhol ‘Black Star’ connection: Popism Eats itself|Dangerous Minds
Like everyone else on this planet, I feel the loss of David Bowie like a black hole in my heart and this sets me searching and thinking and finding weirdness a go-go (and everything tastes nice).
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NASA Formalizes Efforts To Protect Earth From Asteroids | TechCrunch
Last week, NASA announced a new program called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) which will coordinate NASA’s efforts for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs).
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Jarryd Hayne ‘teaching’ Chris Gayle respect for women after sexism furore | Sport | The Guardian
The fight for gender equality has a new champion: Jarryd Hayne, who has given the disgraced West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle a “#2ndchance” after a lesson on treating women with respect.
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Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival will arrive in “early 2017” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At least one Twin Peaks mystery was solved today with the announcement that Showtime’s forthcoming revival of David Lynch’s surrealist drama will premiere in “early 2017.
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Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users | Ars Technica
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Ex-Guatemala football chief Brayan Jimenez held in Fifa probe – BBC News
Police in Guatemala have arrested a former head of the country’s football federation as part of a major US corruption investigation into the sport’s world governing body, Fifa.
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Hacker breaks into personal email of US director of national intelligence | US news | The Guardian
Personal online accounts linked to James Clapper, director of national intelligence, have been hacked, only months after reports that someone was hacking the personal email of John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Marvel at the Gorgeously Dark Fairy-Tale Visions of Artist Jay Bendt
Jay Bendt is a Minnesota-based illustrator who has been making art and telling stories her entire life.
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Heavily pregnant deadly snake found under fridge by Australian woman | Environment | The Guardian
An Adelaide woman got the fright of her life when she went to get a drink from the fridge and discovered a brown snake peering out from underneath. The venomous eastern brown snake had a surprise in store for the homeowners – it was heavily pregnant…
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The Bowie, Elvis, Warhol ‘Black Star’ connection: Popism Eats itself|Dangerous Minds
Like everyone else on this planet, I feel the loss of David Bowie like a black hole in my heart and this sets me searching and thinking and finding weirdness a go-go (and everything tastes nice).
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Cassidy’s Count: Bernie Sanders Is Gaining in Iowa, and It Matters – The New Yorker
In Iowa on Monday, Senator Bernie Sanders said that his rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign was in serious trouble, and claimed that this explained why she was attacking him on such issues as gun control and health care.
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Vox Sentences: Obama’s “untraditional” State of the Union, explained – Vox
What to watch for if you’re watching tonight; relief for a town under siege in Syria; and Bernie Sanders, early-state Democratic frontrunner. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Over at the battlestations subreddit, repens picked up a shiny new ultrawide monitor and wanted to do something a little different with his desk to accomodate it. The end result is this good-looking, minimal, distraction-free setup.
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LAPD chief defends recommending charges in homeless man’s death | US news | The Guardian
The Los Angeles police chief said Tuesday that politics had nothing to do with his decision to recommend criminal charges against an officer who fatally shot an unarmed homeless man in the back – it was simply the right thing to do.
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Personal computer demand falls by a record amount – BBC News
Falling global demand for personal computers (PC) saw shipments fall by a record 10.6% in the fourth quarter from a year ago, according to market research firm IDC. About 71.9 million units were shipped in the period, which includes the key Christma…
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“President Porpoise Is Missing” is a strange episode of Adventure Time.
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Israelis charged over Eritrean migrant beating – BBC News
Four Israelis have been charged over the beating of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a gunman during a militant attack last October. Habtom Zerhom was first shot by a security guard at a bus station in Beersheba and then kicked and beaten by…
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U.S. official: Iran says the 10 American sailors it has detained will be released on Wednesday
Iran has taken two small U.S. Navy craft into custody and detained 10 American sailors. Iranian authorities say the boats intruded a mile into Iran’s territorial waters. U.S.
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The Sublime Beauty of Powerball, Cont’d – The Atlantic
The jackpot is so big that billboards can’t show billions. Seth Wenig / AP
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UN Says 400 Starving Syrians Need to Be Evacuated From Besieged Town of Madaya | VICE News
A day after delivering desperately needed food and supplies to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, the UN is pushing for the evacuation of some 400 residents it says could die without immediate medical care.
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Infamous ‘dirty rapper’ Blowfly has been diagnosed with terminal cancer|Dangerous Minds
It has been announced via Blowfly’s Facebook fan page that the infamously freaky “dirty rapper” and singer of politically incorrect X-rated R&B parody songs such as “Shittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” and “It’s a Faggot’s World” has been diagnosed wit…
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Obama to take veiled jab at Donald Trump in State of the Union address | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama will use his last State of the Union address to warn against successors seeking to exploit “fear of the future”, in a coded attack on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump that hints at a fiercely political swansong from the president.
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Detained U.S. Navy Sailors Will Spend at Least a Day in Iranian Custody – The Daily Beast
Ten U.S. sailors taken into Iranian custody will be held through Wednesday, senior defense officials tell The Daily Beast. Two U.S. Navy boats in the Persian Gulf were seized by Iran when, according to Tehran, the vessels entered its territorial wat…
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Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery appeals conviction in Halbach case | Media | The Guardian
A convicted killer who is the subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer filed a wide-ranging appeal claiming that authorities used an improper warrant and that a juror was out to get him, among other things.
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Sneak Peek: Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Comes to NYC
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival returns to New York City this Thursday through Sunday (Jan. 14-17).Credit: Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival View full size image The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival returns to…
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WASHINGTON — The crews of two small United States Navy patrol boats were picked up by the Iranian authorities in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday after commanders lost contact with the vessels, and Pentagon officials said that Iran had agreed to return t…
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Threadflip, an online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains the startup founded in 2011 will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, Le Tote.
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The Director of Star Wars Episode IX Is Already Dropping Some Huge Teases
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The Director of Star Wars Episode IX Is Already Dropping Some Huge Teases
We’re about 17 months away from seeing the eighth episode in the Star Wars saga, but the director of the ninth film is already making our minds go into overdrive. In a new interview, Colin Trevorrow talked about Rey’s parents, Luke, Leia as well as …
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Is Alex Ovechkin Better Than Wayne Gretzky? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Jan. 12, 2016), we look at whether Alabama’s onside kick won the Tide th…
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The top five Middle East stories for 2016 – BBC News
The Middle East experienced huge upheaval in 2015 as conflict in Syria, Yemen and Libya continued. Yet the new year started with a rupture between Saudi Arabia and Iran which will impact the entire region.
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World athletics’ governing body feared Russian doping was so out of control that athletes could have died – six years before the country was banned from international competition.
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Joanna Trollope: ‘UK cannot afford to close one single public library’ | Books | The Guardian
The UK is in “absolutely no position to dare to close one single public library”, the bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope has said.
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Colorado community leaders start hunger strike over Denver jail death | US news | The Guardian
Community leaders in Colorado are organizing a form of hunger strike to protest the jailhouse death of a mentally ill homeless man, as they demand that a video showing his treatment at the hands of guards be released.
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Iran Holds 10 US Sailors; Officials Expect Return | Al Jazeera America
Ten sailors aboard two U.S. Navy boats were seized by Iran in the Gulf on Tuesday, and Tehran told the United States the crew members would be promptly returned, U.S. officials said. A senior U.S. defense official said the U.S.
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Here’s How Long Those Small Condiment Packets Last Before They Expire
You open up your cupboard, or take a peak in your camping cooking supplies, and you find a bunch of old ketchup packets. Are they still good to eat? How long do they last? Let’s find out. Saving those single serving condiment packets is a pretty com…
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Announces $100M Philanthropic Education Fund | TechCrunch
Reed Hastings took to Facebook Tuesday to announce that he would be personally funding a new $100 million philanthropic fund, focusing exclusively on education-related projects and organizations. The mission on the website’s homepage details a commi…
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The world’s forgotten first Alzheimer’s patient – BBC News
In 1906, the German psychiatrist and neurologist Dr Alois Alzheimer first identified the illness that would become known as Alzheimer’s disease. His discovery was based on the case of a 51-year-old woman, Auguste Deter, who had suddenly begun to exh…
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Health insurers complain about Obamacare customers ‘gaming’ the system
Health insurers in the federal exchange under Obamacare are complaining that people signing up in special enrollment periods have figured out how to game the system and receive months of care without paying their premiums.
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Durham, N.C. — THE release last month of “Making a Murderer,” a 10-part documentary from Netflix, capped a year in which popular culture’s portrayal of the criminal justice system seems to have shifted.
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Tropical Cyclone Pali : Natural Hazards
On January 11, 2016, Tropical Cyclone Pali strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane. It became the earliest hurricane of a calendar year ever recorded over the Central Pacific Ocean.
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This honeybee dismembers its enemies and leaves them for dead | Grist
The disgraced former VP candidate says his “unusual experiences” would make him a great plaintiffs’ attorney. Despite big talk about preparations, communities up and down the West Coast are failing to protect their most vulnerable residents.
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State of the Union 2016 excerpts: Obama will call for “a better politics” – Vox
President Obama will use his final State of the Union address tonight to call for America to “fix its politics” and go boldly into an uncertain future, according to excerpts released by the White House: We live in a time of extraordinary change – ch…
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Dell’s Inspiron 11 3000: A $199 laptop with intriguing upgrade options | Ars Technica
Now that I’m a few days removed from the noise of CES, I’ve had some time to think more about everything I saw at the show but couldn’t write up at the time. One of those things was Dell’s new Inspiron 11 3000, a series of multicolored plastic Windo…
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Artist Beezy Bailey: ‘I never thought David Bowie would die’ – BBC News
The South African artist Beezy Bailey has paid tribute to his friend David Bowie who died on Sunday at the age of 69. The pair collaborated together in New York and Cape Town producing dozens of pieces of artwork together. Their friendship endured m…
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Smash Mouth’s Tribute Cover Of ‘Under Pressure’ Is Actually Pretty Good – Digg
SoundCloud Music Audio Just goes to show the Bowie’s influence was truly felt by just about everyone.
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Canadian pilot dies after crevasse fall in Antarctica – BBC News
David Wood, 62, was rescued from the ice crack and flown to Davis research station for treatment, where telemedicine via Australia was used. Mr Wood died of his injuries one day after the incident happened during a routine fuel drop on Monday.
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New miniseries to relive the bygone days when Hugh Hefner was cool · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The days when three-martini lunches, bossa nova, and grabbing your secretary’s ass were cool are far behind us as a culture.
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Will the W3C strike a bargain to save the Web from DRM? / Boing Boing
The World Wide Web Consortium, which makes the standards the Web runs on, continues to pursue work on DRM — technology that you can’t connect to without explicit permission, and whose bugs can’t be reported without legal jeopardy lest you weaken it.
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R.I.P. David Margulies, Ghostbusters’ Mayor Clotch · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, character actor David Margulies has died “after a long illness.” He was 78. Margulies was born in Brooklyn in 1937 and started acting in off-Broadway productions at a young age.
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CBS isn’t worried about Stephen Colbert’s Late Show ratings · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite the lurking conventional wisdom that suggests American audiences would rather tune in to giggle-filled parlor games than thoughtfully curated political satire, CBS is apparently perfectly happy with Stephen Colbert’s performance as the host …
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Tinashe Announces Joyride World Tour | Rolling Stone
Tinashe Announces Joyride World Tour Singer and dancer recently joined Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry on respective tours
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Remains of the Day: Internet Explorer Finally Retires
Amazon is giving gamers a discount, Google reveals its plan for the annual I/O developer conference, Internet Explorer is put out to pasture, and more in today’s news roundup. Flowers provided by J_bunina (Shutterstock).
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How has Chicago benefited from Obama presidency? – BBC News
In Washington, President Obama is preparing to deliver his final State of the Union address, setting out the agenda for his last year in the White House. His campaign for the presidency, nearly a decade ago, started in the city of Chicago, from wher…
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“What do I do with the time I’ve got left?”: David Bowie on life, death, and fame – Vox
In the wake of David Bowie’s death, many of his fans have begun to revisit every scrap of his life, work, and words they can find. And rightly so — Bowie was famously prolific.
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English Bulldog waves to fellow biker : gifs
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Andrew Smith, former Butler University basketball star, dies aged 25 | Sport | The Guardian
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The Psychiatrists Prescribing LSD And Ecstasy – Digg
Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine again. At 6:30am on Thursday, October 29, 2009, Friederike…
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Several Uber customers in California received notice today they’re involved in a class-action lawsuit against the rideshare giant. Uber agreed to the terms of a $1.8 million suit alleging it inappropriately charged customers an “airport fee toll” la…
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Arctic seed vault ‘key to future global crops’ – BBC News
A special vault has been built in the Arctic to store thousands of seeds, as scientists fear the impact of climate change and prolonged conflicts could have devastating consequences on food crops around the world.
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Bernie Sanders: college sexual assault cases should be handled by police | US news | The Guardian
Sexual assault cases on college campuses should be handled by the police, Bernie Sanders said on Monday, a controversial position for many activists, who argue that victims should be able to make that choice for themselves.
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Uncle Bobby’s Comin’ Back to Supernatural, Y’all
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GOP Courts LGBT Vote in Ridiculous Snapchat Campaign – The Daily Beast
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New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features : Image of the Day
An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s gravity field, and it is a particularly useful tool. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation, particularly in previous…
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Microsoft’s new support policy for Internet Explorer, announced all the way back in 2014, kicks in today. From now on, Microsoft will only support the newest version of Internet Explorer on each supported version of Windows.
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Anna Faris Interviews Husband Chris Pratt’s On-Screen Love Interest Jennifer Lawrence | Vanity Fair
Should your significant other become a Marvel movie star, be cast opposite Hollywood’s hottest actress, and then proceed to film a love scene with said actress, you should pray that you have the kind of marital cool that Anna Faris exhibits on her n…
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The Koch Brothers’ Father May Have Built an Oil Refinery for the Nazis | Vanity Fair
Adolf Hitler’s name is invoked so often in disagreements online that the Internet has popularized its own rule, Godwin’s Law, to describe the increasing probability that any discussion will ultimately reference Nazism.
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GOP Courts LGBT Vote in Ridiculous Snapchat Campaign – The Daily Beast
Ahead of tonight’s State of the Union, the GOP’s social media team ran head-on into a problem that it won’t stop facing for the next few decades.
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Uncle Bobby’s Comin’ Back to Supernatural, Y’all
Even the most die-hard fans of The CW’s long-running series Supernatural might find it difficult to stay as enthused for the show’s 11th season. So here’s a bit of good news—the incomparable Jim Beaver will return as fan-favorite hunter Bobby Singer…
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This year’s Puppy Bowl lineup is long on cute, short on brutes · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The lineup for this year’s Puppy Bowl has been announced, marking the first time this year that the whole internet has been asked to be collectively starry-eyed.
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Sploid What Happens When a Popular Instagram Account with 8 Million Followers Posts a Picture | Gawker The Case of the Alleged Brooklyn Gang Rape Is Only Getting More Confusing | Vitals The First Mile Always Sucks. Let It Go.
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The guy who played Jar Jar Binks totally gets why audiences hated him · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Nothing brings Star Wars fans together like a little Jar Jar Binks bashing, but mocking a frustratingly misguided character is only fun until someone gets hurt. In this case, that someone is Ahmed Best, the actor who brought Jar Jar to life.
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‘The Martian’ Released on DVD, Blu-Ray
You can start planning a potato meal in front of the TV now, because “The Martian” has arrived on DVD, Blu-ray and digital HD. The home-media release of the movie — a fictional story about a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars — comes just days after th…
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Last month of Keef comics on Daily Kos!!
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See How Much Unproductive Meetings Actually Cost With This Calculator
A lot of meetings end up being a complete waste of time, but that wasted time also means wasted money. This calculator will show how much an unproductive meeting really costs. The folks at Harvard Business Review developed a simple web app that calc…
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Aung San Suu Kyi meets rebel leaders for first time – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met rebel leaders for the first time at talks aimed at ending decades of war in the country. The country’s military rulers are meeting several armed groups this week at the Union Peace Conference in t…
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Pennsylvania police fatally shoot 12-year-old at her home | US news | The Guardian
A police constable in Pennsylvania killed a 12-year-old girl when he fired a shot at the girl’s father that passed through the man’s arm and hit her, officials said on Tuesday.
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io9 This Interview With the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Is Tragic as Hell | Kotaku We’re Making A Change To Video Game Reviews At Kotaku | Deadspin Peter King Sounds New Depths Of Stoogery With Open Letter To NFL Players | Jezebel This Vogue Weddin…
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Mitch McConnell pledges to fight to keep Guantánamo Bay open | US news | The Guardian
Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has vowed to fight Barack Obama’s plan to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center this year. “Guantánamo ought to stay open,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s the perfect place for terrorists.
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The Edge: Obama Prepares to Kick Off His Farewell Tour – The Atlantic
President Obama delivers his final State of the Union tonight, which promises to have a broader scope than the usual laundry list of policy proposals. Just hours before the president makes his way to Capitol Hill, senior U.S. officials said Iran det…
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Ex-New Republic Staffers Knew Chris Hughes Was Fed Up | Vanity Fair
Ever since he entered the public stage as one of the chief hangers-on to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook story, Chris Hughes has been pulled in two main directions: East, by a certain brand of elitism that was unavailable to the small-town North Carolina…
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Iran Detains 10 U.S. Sailors in Persian Gulf – The Atlantic
The Iranian military detained 10 U.S. sailors on two small Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf that reportedly crossed into Iranian-controlled waters, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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With This Chronicles of Narnia News, the Word ‘Reboot’ Is Officially Gibberish
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Everyone Is Freaking Out About The $1.5B Powerball, And The Stats Agree | FiveThirtyEight
Well, this is it: the first North American lottery over $1 billion. With an advertised jackpot of $1.5 billion, and only five other Powerball lotteries1 north of a half-billion, we are far, far from home when it comes to reliably forecasting the tur…
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Ars talks connected cars and tech incubators with Jaguar Land Rover | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—If you’re a car nerd, you may know that Jaguar is based in Coventry, England. If you’re a super-duper car nerd like me, you might also know that its main technology center is on a former RAF base in Gaydon, next door to Aston Martin.
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How to Stream Tonight’s State of the Union Address Online, No Cable Required
Tonight is President Obama’s final State of the Union address, starting at 9pm ET (6pm PT). While many major networks will carry it, you don’t need to rely on broadcast or cable to watch. Here’s how to stream it online for free.
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This Three-Ingredient Curry Chicken Is an Easy, Perfect Weeknight Dinner
Cooking delicious and healthy doesn’t need to take a lot of time. These curry chicken thighs are easy, tasty, and only require three ingredients: curry powder, greek yogurt, and of course, the chicken. (Okay, maybe some salt and oil too.)
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NFL owners meet to solve the riddle of football returning to LA | Sport | The Guardian
The nation’s second-largest city is about to get at least one and maybe two NFL teams for the first time in two decades. But the fight to see which franchises will go to Los Angeles, and where they will play, might be one of the biggest the league’s…
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Maryland court ruling could delay Freddie Gray officer trials for months | US news | The Guardian
A scheduling decision by Maryland’s second-highest court Tuesday could push back for months the trial of several police facing charges for the death of Freddie Gray. Maryland’s court of special appeals ruled it would not hear arguments in William Po…
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With This Chronicles of Narnia News, the Word ‘Reboot’ Is Officially Gibberish
Producer Mark Gordon says there’s active development on a film version of The Silver Chair, based on the fourth book of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Of course, it’s being billed as a reboot. Which makes no sense whatsoever. Good… er ……
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Motorola offers bootloader unlocks for Verizon Moto Xes it abandoned | Ars Technica
People who bought the generally excellent 2014 Moto X because it promised prompt and frequent software updates got a nasty surprise after Android 6.0 came out.
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Vanity Fair’s Fashion Expert Offers Marco Rubio Some Style Advice | Vanity Fair
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio made the unfortunate mistake of tromping through New Hampshire wearing a pair of high-heeled boots, catching a New York Times reporter’s eye and setting off a flurry of commentary among style reporters and political write…
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Tokyo Police Are Cracking Down on Businesses That Exploit Underage Girls | VICE News
When a UN investigator visiting Japan condemned the country’s lack of effort to deal with the sexual exploitation of children, she made special mention of JK businesses. JK stands for joshi kousei, or a female high school student.
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Romania amends law enabling convicts to cut sentences by writing books – BBC News
Romania says it is changing a law that allowed prisoners to reduce their sentences by writing books. Convicts could cut 30 days off their jail terms if they published a work of literature or science.
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Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for it | Grist
Despite big talk about preparations, communities up and down the West Coast are failing to protect their most vulnerable residents. The Vermont senator won a vote by MoveOn members by over 78 percent.
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Lottery players have suspended their belief in statistics and handed over $2 for their extremely small chance at winning the record Powerball jackpot. But in Nevada, they also have to drive across the desert and wait in lines that can stretch for ho…
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A State of the Union Embrace of American Muslims and Religious Diversity | The Nation
Members of Congress get a chance each year to invite a guest to attend the State of the Union address, and a number of U.S. House members are using their invitations to make a vital point about religious pluralism.
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Get Yours Now: The Junior Militiaman Anti-Government Playset | The Nation
Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky!
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This just in from the exciting world of storage: The former Glendale, California studio of creature creator and monster maker Rick Baker is being converted into a 70,000-square foot self-storage facility, closing a chapter that began when Baker anno…
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Courteney Cox returns to television in new Fox sitcom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Courteney Cox—and the extra ‘e’ in her name—are plotting their return to primetime network television, Variety reports. Namely, Cox is set to star in a new Fox single-camera comedy that’s still in development at the network.
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Say what you will about Zac Efron, but one of his best roles to date was as conflicted frat boy Teddy in 2014’s raunchy Neighbors. It may not have made him the movie star Hollywood seems to want him to be, but it did prove that, given the right role…
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How David Bowie’s Fashion Transformations Changed the World | Rolling Stone
David Bowie was a master of every kind of drag. Unafraid to play fast and loose with gender, he reinvented himself endlessly, with each new incarnation inspiring boys and girls to copy his fashion as well as his sound.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric appeals terrorism conviction – Al Jazeera English
An Indonesian Muslim cleric has challenged his conviction and the 15-year jail sentence handed out for incitement to “terrorism” and supporting a training camp for fighters in the Aceh province.
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Mac Miller, Miguel Work for the ‘Weekend’ in New Video | Rolling Stone
Mac Miller, Miguel Work for the ‘Weekend’ in New Video Pittsburgh rapper, crooner cruise deserted city streets in latest ‘GO:OD A.M.
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Move Over ‘Berniebros’: A Wave of Young Women Is Boosting Sanders | Rolling Stone
The media of late has been banging on the drum of the “Berniebro.” Don’t let that man-bun fool you, America: The Berniebro is an unrepentant mansplainer, who backs Sanders with a level of devotion matched only by his self-righteousness: “The Bernieb…
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Bob Mould Addresses ‘Voices in My Head,’ Preps New Album | Rolling Stone
Indie rock veteran Bob Mould confronts himself in the new video for “Voices in My Head,” the first offering from a new solo album, Patch the Sky, set to arrive March 25th via Merge. The track finds the former Husker Dü and Sugar frontman flying thro…
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Skogafoss, Iceland [2000×1300][OC] : EarthPorn
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Women looking up the legs of a huge structure at Burning Man. : pics
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Tim Peake shows what happens to water in space – BBC News
Astronaut Tim Peake has held a question and answer session with the BBC Two programme, Stargazing Live. Presenters Brian Cox and Dara O Briain asked how he was settling in on the International Space Station (ISS), and how things were different 250 m…
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Did Sean Penn’s El Chapo Interview Really Violate Media Ethics? – The Atlantic
This is how Sean Penn justified the steps he took to get the interview with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman that Rolling Stone published shortly after Mexico’s most infamous drug lord was arrested on Friday.
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Iran detains 10 US sailors: what we know – Vox
Tuesday evening, ten US Navy sailors were taken into Iranian custody. They are currently being held on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, home to a small Iranian Revolutionary Guards base.
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Astronomy’s sexual harassment problem gets Congressional attention | Ars Technica
Last year, a confidential report was leaked that revealed that University of California, Berkeley had conducted an investigation into one of its prominent astronomy researchers and found that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual harassment.
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Yes, The First New X-Files Episode Is Bad But You Shouldn’t Give up Hope Yet | Vanity Fair
The first reviews for Fox’s rebooted X-Files series broke today and, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but they’re not good. I’ve seen the first episode—the only one the network has made available for review, and I co-sign the negative review…
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Welcome Elsewhere Driving across Australia. Hunting uncrowded waves. I like how hard the spots are to get too. I like being mysto in the desert. I like being in the jungle. EVERYTHING, EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ENDS. CRAIG ANDERSON A CLIP BY KAI NEVILLE…
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David Cameron denies ‘backsliding’ on the environment | Politics | The Guardian
David Cameron has defended his government’s record on the environment and climate change, saying suggestions of backsliding are “total and utter nonsense”.
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Reboot a Dropped Habit by Committing to Only the First Part Each Time
Maintaining momentum is essential for keeping up good habits, but sometimes life gets in the way and stops you dead in your tracks. To get back to your old routine, ease your way into things by making the simplest of commitments.
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Leveling Up Your Life: What Would Your Level 50 Look Like?
Think of role-playing games where we spend hours leveling up our character so we can slay dragons and complete world-changing missions. You start out with just a cloth tunic and a rusted dagger, but eventually you build yourself into an unstoppable …
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Imagining Donald Trump’s future State of the Union address | US news | The Guardian
Good evening, Mr Speaker Paul Ryan. Good evening, members of Congress. Good evening, Mr Vice-President Michael Cohen. Hello to my fellow Americans. In 2016, Americans voted unanimously for Trump. Donald Trump.
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Given that Marvel Studios’ mission is to create an interconnected universe of superhero stars whose films rake in boatloads of money, there’s been one notable omission from that plan: Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow.
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PSA: Amazon Prime gives 20 percent discount on new/pre-release games | Ars Technica
Amazon is making a serious play for gamers’ dollars today, extending a 20 percent discount on all new and pre-release video games to subscribers to the $100/year Amazon Prime service. The discount only applies to physical games (excluding console bu…
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Are Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall the world’s most influential couple? – BBC News
Rupert Murdoch is the kind of man who regularly tops lists of the most influential men in the world. It is the sort of influence that means that whoever enters a relationship with him automatically becomes a member of a power couple.
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Iran detains two US navy ships in Persian Gulf | World news | The Guardian
The crew of two small US navy ships are in Iranian custody, but US officials said they had received assurances from Tehran that the vessels and their sailors would soon be allowed to continue their journey.
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Two US navy boats detained by Iran – Al Jazeera English
The US is seeking the return of two navy boats along with 10 sailors captured by Iran, according to the Pentagon.
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Google’s self-driving cars might not yet have caused a single accident on public roads, but it’s not for want of trying.
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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—the only country in the world to measure its Gross National Happiness—is playing host to its first Western movie shoot, and it’s a supernatural horror movie with both Western and Bhutanese actors, called The Temple. V…
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The 2016 Presidential-Candidate Memoirs: A Definitive Examination | Vanity Fair
Title: A More Perfect Union First Line: “I have been privileged to travel to more than fifty countries, and each time I return I am more thankful that I was born in the United States.
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The Daily Cost Of The Bundy Occupation | ThinkProgress
Although the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge facility may seem to have done little more than camp out with guns and demand snacks, their continuing occupation is costing taxpayers dearly.
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The Atlantic Daily: Deadly Attack in Istanbul, Germany and Refugees, Crisis in Madaya – The Atlantic
At least 10 people were killed and 15 others were injured when a suicide attacker detonated his bomb in a tourist area of Istanbul. Most of the victims were Germans.
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Unlocking Trapped Engineers | TechCrunch
Millions of software engineers are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software engineers. An estimated 1 million technology jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to a report put forth by …
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Palestinians raise funds to rebuild demolished home – Al Jazeera English
Israel demolished the family home of Muhannad Halabi in the village of Surda near Ramallah on Saturday, three months after he stabbed two Israelis in Jerusalem.
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Frozen soap bubbles are beautiful
I saw a sparkle in her eye so I promised to make a film to show her that. She was so excited about this idea that of course she forgot that she didn’t want to put her jacket on.
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WASHINGTON — When President Obama speaks to the nation in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he will offer a familiar reassurance that the country is expending enormous effort to protect Americans against international terrorism.
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US solar industry now employs more workers than oil and gas, says report | Business | The Guardian
The US solar industry now employs more workers than oil and gas, a new report from the Solar Foundation claims, with most of the jobs in power panel installation. Last year, the US solar industry grew by 20% for a third year in a row, according to t…
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Why Labyrinth is awesome / Boing Boing
The mid-1980s’ fantasy movie Labyrinth, starring David Bowie as the Goblin King, was something of a dud when it was released. Over the years, though, it’s become a genuine classic. Tanya Pai explains.
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R.I.P. Richard Libertini, comedic character actor · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Actor Richard Libertini, the bearded actor best known for his comedic work in such films as The In-Laws, All Of Me, and Fletch, died on January 7 at age 82 after a two-year battle against cancer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Libertini was a gra…
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Maybe, just maybe, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace would have been more coherent and enjoyable if its core characters, like Qui-Gon Jinn, Jar Jar Binks, and troubled little moppet Anakin Skywalker, had just been portrayed as a bunch of incom…
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One of the most wonderful things about the internet is that you can find all sorts of people on it. Sure, a lot of them are just looking for weird porn, but the ones who aren’t are just as fascinating.
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Sperm off-switch may offer men reversible contraceptive | Ars Technica
With the flip of two switches, men could one day curb their sperm flow and activate easily reversible birth control, according to ballsy German inventor Clemens Bimek.
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David Bowie and Freddy Mercury singing “Under Pressure,” a capella / Boing Boing
YUME is a simple musical experience where the songs change as you explore 3D floating islands—just click and drag them to move around. It’s restful, easy to get lost, and the evolving tracks are great.
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Obama prepares to deliver final State of the Union address – live updates | US news | The Guardian
Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address. It’s his last one, his peace-out, his Parthian shot, his doch-an-dorrach. Cheers! In 12 short months, Obama will step aside, making way for the historic…
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Watch the State of the Union Live Here – The Daily Beast
President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address tonight. Don’t have a television? You’re in luck! Watch the address below starting at 9:00 pm ET
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BBC Sport – Newcastle United 3-3 Manchester United
Newcastle expect captain Fabricio Coloccini to be fit after he was taken off as a precaution on Saturday. However, midfielders Jack Colback and Vurnon Anita are both doubtful with hamstring injuries, while Rolando Aarons is not yet match fit.
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Inside Sesame Street’s HBO Makeover – The Daily Beast
After 45 years on PBS, Sesame Street inked a deal with HBO to air the next 5 seasons of the beloved children’s show. With the move to the premium cable network comes some premium upgrades. Oscar the Grouch will be abandoning his classic metal garbag…
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Any Movie Studio Can Make Its Own Star Wars Movie Right Now
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Visa Checkout Announces Walmart, Starbucks As Merchant Partners | TechCrunch
Today, Visa Checkout announced that some major new partners would be joining the service as merchant partners. Starbucks, Walgreens, NFL Shop, HSN and Match.com have all signed on and will be joining Checkout’s more than 250,000 merchants using the …
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Who’s Who: The Guests at Obama’s Last State of the Union | Rolling Stone
Kim Davis, an Empty Chair and Other Guests at Obama’s Last State of the Union Paul Ryan has invited a preschooler who raised $1,300 to to send Christmas gifts to overseas service members
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Brock Lesnar’s Bad Tattoo Can Now Actually Kill You | Rolling Stone
Brock Lesnar’s Bad Tattoo Can Now Actually Kill You The Beast’s chest ink gets turned into a real-world weapon; how long until he brings the Lesnar Knife to the ring?
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John Fogerty: ‘Run Through the Jungle’ Is Plea for Gun Control | Rolling Stone
John Fogerty has clarified the meaning behind one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s biggest hits: “Run Through the Jungle” was a statement about gun control.
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Hear Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones’ Short and Sweet ‘Goodbye’ | Rolling Stone
Little Windows, the first collaborative album from singer-songwriters Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones, packs a whole career’s worth of sparkling pop gems and sobering country ballads into a collection that runs just short of 26 minutes.
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Conflict Is Keeping More than 20 Million Kids Around the World Out of School | VICE News
More than half of the school-age children living in South Sudan are not enrolled in classes, as the civil war gripping the country drags into its third year.
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Florida’s judge-only death penalty sentencing ruled unconstitutional | US news | The Guardian
The US supreme court announced on Tuesday that Florida’s death penalty sentencing system is unconstitutional, in a ruling that could spark challenges from hundreds of death row prisoners and reignite the national debate about capital punishment.
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If a giant chasm opens under the Capitol on Tuesday night during the State of the Union and swallows the building whole, the next president will be Utah senator Orrin Hatch. Hatch, the president pro tempore of the Senate, is the “designated survivor…
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Any Movie Studio Can Make Its Own Star Wars Movie Right Now
Star Wars is back. The space-opera juggernaut that ruled the late 70s and early 80s is once again reigning supreme over pop culture. Disney paid $4 billion for the contents of George Lucas’ toybox. But really, any movie studio that wants to can make…
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California regulator rejects Volkswagen’s plan to fix 2.0L diesels, EPA agrees | Ars Technica
On Tuesday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) rejected Volkswagen Group’s proposed fixes for 2.0L diesel engines that were caught with software to cheat the cars’ emissions control systems.
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Half of South Sudan children ‘not in school’ because of conflict – BBC News
More than half of children in South Sudan are not in school, the highest proportion in any country, UN children’s agency Unicef has said. Government forces have been battling rebels for the past two years, although a peace deal was signed in August.
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EA launches $5 monthly subscription plan to access “vault” games | Ars Technica
EA is shaking up the market for downloadable PC games with a new subscription-based service that apes some of the most popular features of console offerings like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold.
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Change the Dropbox Syncing Icon to Anything You Want on OS X
The Dropbox syncing icon is a handy way to easily see what folders are synced to Dropbox. If you don’t like the boring old Dropbox checkmark, Jacob Salmela shows how to change it. One the surface, the process simply requires you to replace one set o…
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ISPs will be able to charge anything they want if Republican bill passes | Ars Technica
Republicans in Congress are advancing a bill that could strip the Federal Communications Commission of authority to protect consumers from unreasonable broadband prices.
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Meet the Great Pyrenees, AKC’s breed of the day / Boing Boing
Life with a Great Pyrenees is really everything great about having a dog. My buddy, Nemo, is pretty darn amazing. It is no surprise the AKC is honoring them, today. I can not say enough good things about Nemo.
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Obama Celebrates Last Time He Has to Talk to These Bastards – The New Yorker
Asked which member of Congress he would most enjoy never looking at again, Obama responded, “That’s tough. It’s a toss-up between Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell. But the beautiful thing is, I don’t have to choose, Matt. After tonight, I don’t have to …
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I’m starting to think David Brooks doesn’t much like Ted Cruz – Vox
I’m starting to think David Brooks doesn’t much like Ted Cruz. In December, Brooks, a gently conservative New York Times columnist, wrote that there were two kinds of Machiavellians in politics: Selfish Machiavellians and Kind Machiavellians.
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J.K. Rowling Celebrated the End of Harry Potter by (Very Lightly) Trashing Her Hotel Room
Many a rock star has trashed a hotel room to celebrate a triumphant performance. It turns out rock stars of the children’s literature world do the same, they just tend to be a lot more polite about it. Harry Potter author J.K.
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The Authentically Pleasurable Nonsense of Predicting Oscar Nominations – The New Yorker
Predicting the Oscar nominations (which will be announced this Thursday) may be nonsense, but it’s authentically pleasurable nonsense precisely because of the peculiar impersonality of the awards, in contrast to my own—and to each viewer’s—wishes an…
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Why You Shouldn’t Park Your Car Beside Lake Erie in the Winter – The Atlantic
The owner of this Mitsubushi Lancer left it parked overnight outside a restaurant in Hamburg, New York, beside Lake Erie, on a cold and windy night. By the next day, spray blown from Lake Erie had encased it in ice.
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People in the Western US Really Do Want Federal Regulation of Land | VICE News
As the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in rural Oregon enters its second week, a new public opinion poll shows that a majority of people surveyed in seven states in the American West do not share the demands of Ammon Brundy’s armed, camouf…
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida’s Death Penalty – The Atlantic
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death-penalty system in an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, ruling that the state’s sentencing procedures violated the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a jury trial. The case, Hurst v.
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Are Capitol Hill Inters Classified As Federal Employees – The Atlantic
Anyone who has ever had to fill out paperwork for a new job knows that it is a daunting task. Pages of forms filled with jargon outlining roles and responsibilities can seem like an unnecessary formality.
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John Edwards tries to weasel his way in on the Volkswagen emission suit | Grist
The disgraced former VP candidate says his “unusual experiences” would make him a great plaintiffs’ attorney. Despite big talk about preparations, communities up and down the West Coast are failing to protect their most vulnerable residents.
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MoveOn Political Action Endorses Bernie Sanders
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday won the endorsement of MoveOn.org Political Action, in what executive director Ilya Sherman described as a “record setting 78.6 percent” of the vote over challenger Hillary Clinton.
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Iran holds US boats and sailors – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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California cities fail to keep homeless safe during El Niño rains | Grist
The disgraced former VP candidate says his “unusual experiences” would make him a great plaintiffs’ attorney. Despite big talk about preparations, communities up and down the West Coast are failing to protect their most vulnerable residents.
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Rubio moves to curb benefits for Cuban immigrants over ‘outrageous abuse’ | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio on Tuesday introduced legislation that would eliminate automatic federal benefits for Cuban immigrants.
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Paul Ryan goes for crassly political in his first State of the Union address as Speaker
House Speaker Paul Ryan freely admits that he’s got absolutely nuthin’ when it comes to replacing Obamacare. But that’s not going to stop him from being as politically obnoxious as he possibly can be on this issue. For example:
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American woman killed in Florence was strangled, autopsy reveals | World news | The Guardian
An autopsy has determined that an American woman whose naked body was found last week in her Florence apartment was strangled with an object such as a rope or cord, according to an Italian prosecutor.
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Steven Avery — Files Appeal … A Key Juror Had it In for Me | TMZ.com
Steven Avery has just filed an appeal, asking a judge to throw out his conviction for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. Avery claims in new legal docs the search that ultimately produced incriminating evidence … including blood and the key to Hal…
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The New Republic meltdown and why the media world cares so much, explained – Vox
On January 11, staffers of the New Republic learned via a note to the staff and a post on Medium that their beleaguered owner Chris Hughes had decided to sell the publication.
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Et tu, Fortinet? Hard-coded password raises new backdoor eavesdropping fears | Ars Technica
Less than a month after Juniper Network officials disclosed an unauthorized backdoor in the company’s NetScreen line of firewalls, researchers have uncovered highly suspicious code in older software from Juniper competitor Fortinet.
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Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corporation, and the former model Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend and announced their pending nuptials Tuesday in the classifieds of a newspaper he owns.
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On the title track of “Blackstar,” the David Bowie record released just a couple of days before his death on January 10th, Bowie sings, “I’m not a pop star.” True, he was an attractive celebrity with hit records, great hair and a vaguely gender-bend…
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Why is this famous physicist tweeting rumors about gravitational waves? – The Washington Post
The science-y corners of the Internet are positively buzzing with rumors that gravitational waves have been detected. Where is this coming from, and what does it all mean? Here’s the deal: My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independen…
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What if Sherlock and Watson were women? That’s the premise of Herlock, a gender-flipped Sherlock parody by production company Grumble Pack. It turns out that a female Sherlock is not that different from the male one. She’s impossible to live with, h…
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Philadelphia Inquirer owner donates news outlets to non-profit institute | US news | The Guardian
The billionaire owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving newspaper in the US, has donated the newspaper to a non-profit in an attempt to allow it “to continue long-term in the new digital age”.
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Sensoria smart clothing reviewed: A ton of running data at your toe-tips | Ars Technica
Wearables are becoming more common, but smart clothing—arguably the most wearable wearables—remain somewhat obscure.
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Adam Driver to star in Jim Jarmusch’s next movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Adam Driver has signed on to star in Paterson, the next film from director Jim Jarmusch.
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Oklahoma Residents Sue Energy Companies Over Earthquake Damage | ThinkProgress
Oklahoma has been hit by swarms of earthquakes over the last few years, and some residents have had enough.
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When the first trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming period comedy Hail, Caesar! dropped in October, it promised a sprawling, zany extravaganza full of big-name stars (George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Josh Brolin, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinto…
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The Trials of Alice Goffman https://t.co/6Dn0pmem1T https://t.co/1sS3uC55Zg
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Before the morning last September when I joined her at Newark Airport, I had met Alice Goffman only twice.
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Zika Virus Cases Confirmed in the U.S.–What You Need to Know – Scientific American
Dina Fine Maron is an award-winning journalist and the associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. She is also a contributor to the publication’s podcasts and Instant Egghead video series. She is based in Washington, D.C. Follow…
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Obama expected to frame election issues in optimistic State of the Union address – BBC News
President Barack Obama is set to strike an optimistic and hopeful tone in his final State of the Union address. The president will focus on cementing his legacy rather than unveiling new policies, officials have said.
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The lead negotiator in the Cuban government’s talks with the US said in an interview published on Tuesday that the American presidential campaign has added some uncertainty into how she views her country’s future relations with its northern neighbor.
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Great white sharks appear to use darkness and depth to ambush prey, marine biologists have learned, thanks to unprecedented footage by an undersea drone that was attacked nine times by four sharks.
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Assyrians and Kurds clash for first time in north Syria – Al Jazeera English
Several people have been killed in rare clashes between Assyrian Christians and Kurds in Syria’s al-Hasakah province, Al Jazeera has learnt. The province in the northeast of the country is divided and in parts controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq…
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Join the Mechanical Keyboard Club For $70
If you’re curious about mechanical keyboards, this tenkeyless Corsair Vengeance includes Cherry MX Red switches, and will only set you back $70 today, about $20 less than usual. [Corsair Vengeance K65 Mechanical Keyboard, $70]
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The Canadian Government’s Digital Cash Tech Is Finally Going Commercial | Motherboard
A Canadian startup wants to replace cash with a government-developed virtual payment platform they say is more friendly to regulators and the cops than Bitcoin.
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SpaceX Recaps its Falcon 9 Launch in Corny Video | Motherboard
In December, SpaceX made history when it stuck the landing of its Falcon 9 spaceship at Cape Canaveral. In case you missed the dramatic launch and surrounding fanfare, the space company has now recapped it in cheesy video for you.
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Super Browse Integrates Those Secret Netflix Categories Into the Netflix Search Page
Chrome/Firefox: Last week, we showed you how to access Netflix’s secret codes pages that direct you to specific movie categories like film noir, satires, or slapstick comedies. Super Browse is an extension that integrates that directly into the Netf…
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The Marathon Runner of Mumbai – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Oregon judge proposes militia pay $75,000 per week for occupying refuge | US news | The Guardian
A local judge in Oregon has raised the prospect of making the armed militia occupying a federal wildlife refuge pay as much as $75,000 per week for the toll the standoff is costing the rural county.
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What Becomes of Lottery Winners? – The Atlantic
This week, many Americans will be buying into the same dream: winning the unprecedentedly large $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot on Wednesday night.
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Millennials in Poll Fake Right, Go Left
At first glance, a poll released this week by USA Today and Rock the Vote, done by Ipsos, seems to confound our narrative that a majority of millennials identify more with progressives than conservatives.
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If there was a theme to Ricky Gervais’s performance at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, it was that pop culture’s purported “transgender moment” is awfully funny. He pretended that he thought Eddie Redmayne, who plays a transgender woman in The Danish …
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Will new laws bar Syrians from fleeing to Lebanon? – Al Jazeera English
New residency laws in Lebanon could lead to exploitation and abuse of Syrian refugees. That’s the warning from Human Rights Watch, which says the majority of Syrians who fled to Lebanon to escape persecution and war have in effect lost their legal s…
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Citrix Latest Enterprise Tech Firm Under Pressure From Activist Investors | TechCrunch
Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products and jobs.
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For some reason, Miles Davis was super into Scritti Politti|Dangerous Minds
A few months ago a friend’s dad, while clearing out his attic, came upon three capacious boxes of LPs he wanted to get rid of; many of the albums had been purchased by his kids in the mid-1980s, with the rest representing the his own generation’s do…
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Why marijuana growers want champagne-like labels for their weed | Society | The Guardian
For Kristin Nevedal, Super Silver Haze is not always the same Super Silver Haze. Like the concept of “terroir” in foods, she and many growers believe the characteristics of cannabis plants vary depending on their local environment.
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How Gun-Control Advocates Are Getting Around the Gun Lobby | Rolling Stone
When Hollye Dexter was a child, her 7-year-old brother sustained a gunshot wound to the head. Years later, her childhood best friend, who had sat in the hospital with her while her brother recovered, was shot five times. “I did not grow up in Afghan…
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Skype Brings Group Video Calls To Mobile Devices | TechCrunch
In celebration of its 10th year anniversary, Skype announced today the launch of free group video calling on Android, iPhone, iPad, and Windows 10 mobile devices. The feature has been available for a couple of years on the desktop, for those on both…
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Our final chance to get information from the Philae comet lander probably failed | The Verge
One of the final attempts by the European Space Agency to communicate with the Philae comet lander has most likely failed.
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Editing as Punctuation in Film
Riffing on Kathryn Schulz’s piece about the five best punctuation marks in literature, Max Tohline explores how editing in film can function as punctuation to separate or join together characters, shots, and ideas within movies.
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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Will Meet Up With Jonah Hex
No, you didn’t fall down and hit your head. The CW and DC are really letting Legends of Tomorrow spend part of its very first season time traveling to the Old West. Where they’ll meet up with Jonah Hex. When you have a show that involves time travel…
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Anti-LGBT Bills Pile Up In Indiana As Governor Prepares To Set 2016 Agenda | ThinkProgress
If Indiana lawmakers actually want to repair the image of their state to make it seem more LGBT-friendly, they have odd ideas for how to do that.
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A stunning map shows how living on America’s coasts really is so different – The Washington Post
You probably know that New York City is an expensive place to live. But did you know that the total value of property in Manhattan is about the same as the total in Michigan? Or that the total value of property in Queens is on par with that of Louis…
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Neko Case releases a new video for 2013’s “Man” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Never let it be said that Neko Case is one to allow a good song to go by without making a video for it just because that song is a few years old.
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Last week, as the nation reeled from a holiday break spend binge watching Making A Murderer, a list of facts excluded from the docuseries for whatever reason started making the rounds.
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Morgan Freeman says he’d like to play God again (in Bruce Almighty 2) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The world may or may not be ready for another installment in the Bruce Almighty saga, but Morgan Freeman seems prepared to step back into the role of God if a sequel to the 2003 hit comedy were to suddenly materialize.
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The poster for Deep Throat, the controversial film that ushered in the era of so-called “porno chic” in 1972, memorably asked this question: “How far does a girl have to go to untangle her tingle?” Sometimes, she has to go all the way down to Florid…
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2 GB hard drive from 1996 next to 64 GB flash storage in 2016 : pics
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Five things to expect at Obama’s final State of the Union address – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama will take the stage Tuesday night for his last State of the Union address in front of Congress. Jamiles Lartey takes a look back at the president’s past speeches and pinpoints the five basics he has used every time he has stood before C…
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SyFy Channel Renews ‘The Expanse’ for a More Expansive Second Season
The Syfy channel’s sweeping space adventure “The Expanse” has been renewed for a second season, set to air early in 2017. The television program is based on a series of books by James S. A.
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Hillary: Deport Kids. Just Not Too Many. – The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton is against federal agents raiding undocumented immigrant families’ homes, except when she isn’t.
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Ricky Gervais Calls Those Offended By Golden Globes Jokes ‘Whiney Cunts’ – The Daily Beast
Were you offended by some of Ricky Gervais’s off-color jokes at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards? Well, what’s your problem you whiney cunt? That’s just one choice phrase Gervais has for critics of his hosting performance in a series of tweets Tue…
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Who says Sean Penn isn’t a real journalist? – Columbia Journalism Review
Sean Penn’s career as a journalist is not without its achievements. Over the years, Penn has scored interviews with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Raúl Castro of Cuba.
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Two weeks after France began bombing Libya, in March, 2011, Hillary Clinton’s old friend and advisor Sidney Blumenthal passed her an intelligence memo that supposedly revealed France’s true — and quite unflattering— motivations for toppling Libyan d…
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Hiérophante – Clichés (Official Music Video) on Vimeo
Follow Hiérophante : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hierophante.music Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hierophante Previous music video (-16) : https://vimeo.com/126918200
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The (Non-Stick) Chemicals Between Us – The Awl
The world is a horrible place filled with terrible things; some we embrace, some we avoid, and some we push back against.
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When NBC first dissolved its 30-year comedy institution “Must See TV” and then passed on the critically beloved Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt within the same year, some people were ready to call it: the NBC sitcom was over.
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Have fun picking this see-through padlock / Boing Boing
John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It’s fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
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David Margulies, Ghostbusters Mayor and New York Stage Veteran, Dead at 78 : movies
David Margulies, Ghostbusters Mayor and New York Stage Veteran, Dead at 78 via /r/movies https://t.co/yKseMW2wLN https://t.co/LjfPBVodtE
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch Is Way Weirder Than You Remember
Sabrina the Teenage Witch dominated the TGIF lineup when it premiered in 1996. It aired Friday nights on ABC, alongside Boy Meets World, Family Matters, and Two of a Kind. And it was much, much weirder than any of those.
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This amazing GIF shows 300 years of global population shifts – Vox
Over the past 200 years, the global population has changed dramatically, in terms of both pure numbers and where populations are growing — and how quickly.
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Signs Of Dinosaur ‘Foreplay’ Discovered – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Paleontologists in Colorado have found scratch patterns left by dinosaurs that appear to be nest-building maneuvers, but because no evidence of nesting was found at the site, scientists hypothesize these marks were in fact part of the males’ mating …
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Team Obama Brags: We ‘Ended’ Two Wars (Just Don’t Count the Dead Troops) – The Daily Beast
Since Dec. 21, seven American service members have died in Afghanistan—most recently a week ago when Sgt. Matthew McClintock was killed in a firefight with the Taliban. But according to the White House, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have “ended.”
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How the New Science of Freezing Can Save Your Life | Outside Online
Amazing stories of animals and humans surviving extreme cold are fueling futuristic research that verges on sci-fi.
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In Photos: The Safe House Where the Navy Caught Up With El Chapo | VICE News
In the early hours of January 8, 2016, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, found himself under siege from the Mexican navy in an operation that left five dead. He was holed up in a safe house in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, surrounded by bodyguards when the raid com…
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Midday open thread—1st mention of ‘climate change’ in an SOTU: 1997. ‘Counting coup’ on KXL
Join us here tonight at 6 PM PT for a live blog of President Obama’s final State of the Union address. • Although James Hansen warned us in 1988, “climate change” didn’t make it into a State of the Union address until 1997.
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WATCH: documentary on Walt Disney, the futurist / Boing Boing
John Frost writes, “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: The Futurism of Walt Disney new documentary captures a side of Walt Disney that other recent documentaries miss. He was a lover of technology, innovation, and a futurist with an eye toward improving …
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Study: How Urban Planning Can Influence Obesity Rates – The Atlantic
There are so many causes of obesity—poverty, social and emotional factors, lack of sleep, genetics—that it becomes difficult to sift through them all. But the relationship between cities and obesity is perhaps even more complicated.
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Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix Online: When Video-Game Worlds End – The Atlantic
In English, the word “apocalypse”—ety. Greek, n. apo (un-) + kaluptein (-veil)—has three non-exclusive meanings. The first and most common is simply the end of the world, whether by divine punishment or whatever transpires in movies directed by Rola…
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Tributes to Somali composer Ali Sugule Egal who dies aged 80 – BBC News
Tributes are being paid to legendary Somali composer, playwright, actor and poet Ali Sugule Egal, who has died at the age of 80. Mr Egal, who founded the Hargeisa Brothers music band, died at his home in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
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Meet Nikki Haley: State Of The Union Responder And Vice Presidential Hopeful | ThinkProgress
Tuesday night marks President Obama’s seventh and final State of the Union address and, for the third year in a row, a Republican woman will deliver her party’s official response: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
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Keiko, Nessie, and giant squids: a collection of picks on animals from the deep. An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.
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Longform: 52 Blue by Leslie Jamison
The story of the loneliest whale in the world.
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This summer, television audiences got their first glimpse of Jude Law in character as the fictional American Pope Pius XIII, in Paolo Sorrentino’s upcoming series The Young Pope. But on Tuesday, additional photos surfaced of Law filming in Venice in…
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John Edwards seeks lead role in Volkswagen emissions scandal lawsuit | US news | The Guardian
John Edwards, the disgraced former presidential candidate, is among more than 140 plaintiffs’ lawyers competing to lead private litigation against Volkswagen over its emissions cheating scandal.
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Bernie Sanders Has Snagged His First Lead in the Polls Over Hillary Clinton in Iowa | VICE News
Three weeks from the start of primary season in the US, Bernie Sanders has scored his first lead over frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus, the first contest in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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The Hidden Risk of Plummeting Oil Prices: War | The Nation
As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss, restoring the petroleum-centric world of the past half-century.
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The Surprisingly Pro-Gay Moment In Yesterday’s Anti-Union Supreme Court Argument | ThinkProgress
In an otherwise brutal day for public sector unions, Monday’s argument in the Supreme Court included a surprising admission by one of the nation’s leading Republican lawyers.
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Kristen Bell and Ted Danson to star in Mike Schur’s new NBC sitcom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mike Schur sitcoms have proven irresistible to NBC, as the network made a “hefty production commitment” to a single-camera comedy less than a month after ordering The Good Place straight to series alongside fellow comedy-catnip Tina Fey’s still-unti…
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About a month after its release, the Making A Murderer media train rolls on, though the latest news is a bit surprising. The Milwaukee Record reports that Brad Dassey, Brendan Dassey’s half-brother, has recorded a Christian rap song calling for his …
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NBA Jam almost didn’t exist · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
What would life be like without NBA Jam and its tinny Tim Kitzrow catchphrases like “Ugly shot!” and “He’s heating up!”? That frightening scenario is explored in a Great Big Story interview with NBA Jam’s creator, Mark Turmell.
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Join our Skype Group Chat about Gun Control | VICE News
On Thursday, January 14th at 7pm ET, join VICE News for a Skype group chat about gun control. To join the conversation, add VICE News on Skype and ask us how to take part.
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How a psychedelic sex GIF animator went viral after getting banned on Facebook / Boing Boing
Jean Francois Painchaud, aka PHAZED, is Canadian animator/producer who works on the PBS kids show, Wild Kratts. He also makes trippy, NSFW Gifs and posts them to his accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.
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Google Shifting Its Focus Squarely On Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
According to a report by Re/Code, Google is doubling down on virtual reality, with its VP for product management, Clay Bavor, dropping his responsibility for other apps like Gmail and Drive to focus solely on VR.
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The gloomy Arctic seed bank that’s key to future crops – BBC News
In just under a month, world leaders will gather in Paris to try to agree a new course of action to tackle climate change. One key concern is that global warming could affect food crops.
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Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch To Marry Climate Hawk Jerry Hall | ThinkProgress
So I don’t normally cover engagement notices. But on Tuesday, climate activist Jerry Hall and climate super-denier Rupert Murdoch announced their impending nuptials in one of his many newspapers.
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Making sense of Donald Trump – Vox
The current fight for the GOP presidential nomination is mystifying. Observers are focused on what the longevity of Donald Trump’s candidacy means for the Republican party and even for American politics more generally. I’m going to say that it doesn…
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The Dubious Logic of Stock-Market Circuit Breakers – The New Yorker
Many things that are supposed to make you safer don’t actually do so. Taking off your shoes at airports, for example, is largely security theatre.
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The Far-Right Revival: A Thirty-Year War? – The New Yorker
In the winter of 1999, the Kansas City Star asked several local dignitaries and writers to herald the upcoming century by writing predictions, replicating an exercise that the paper had conducted a hundred years earlier.
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Etsy loses share value as market continues to offload risky bet | Business | The Guardian
After months of decline, Etsy briefly lost more than 7% of its share value on Tuesday, as the market continued to offload one of the startup world’s riskiest bets. The stock recovered shortly after noon, but remained well below its opening.
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Barack Obama’s legacy on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights will be front and center during his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening: Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff Obergefell v Hodges, the landmark supreme court case …
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Dealmaster: Get a 32-inch Dell UltraSharp 4K IPS monitor for $1,349 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a ton of new deals to start 2016 off right! One of the highlights is a sale on Dell’s newest UltraSharp monitors, but it won’t last long. For one day only, you can get Dell’s 32-i…
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Nigeria parliament ‘loses 2016 budget documents’ – BBC News
Hundreds of copies of Nigeria’s 2016 budget have gone missing at the country’s parliament, an MP who requested anonymity has told the BBC. The senate was unable to start considering the proposed budget because of the missing documentation, he said.
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Who’s Winning Iowa And New Hampshire? | FiveThirtyEight
We launched our forecasts for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries today. For much more detail about how this all works, you can read here.
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Bernie Sanders has a bold, simple idea for improving public education – Vox
At Monday night’s Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum in Iowa, Bernie Sanders came out in favor of a massive change in the way the US funds schools: “One of the things that I have always believed is that, in terms of education, we have to br…
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What to Expect From President Obama’s Final State of the Union Address | Mother Jones
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address to cap what has been, in many ways, a historic presidency. Obama is the third consecutive two-term president, and his predecessors’ final addresses offer hint…
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An unknown anti-Islam group has created a fake website that spouts hateful rhetoric while pretending to represent an Illinois Muslim organization — adding fuel to an already volatile debate at a nearby evangelical college over a professor who said C…
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How We’re Forecasting The Primaries* | FiveThirtyEight
Forecasting primaries and caucuses is challenging, much more so than general elections. Polls shift rapidly and often prove to be fairly inaccurate, even on the eve of the election.
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Iowa Republican Caucuses | 2016 Primary Forecasts | FiveThirtyEight
According to our latest polls-plus forecast, Ted Cruz has a 49% chance of winning the Iowa caucuses. Chris Christie, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Carly Fiorina have less than a 1% chance of winning.
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Why Obama Can’t Win on Immigration | Mother Jones
These days, President Obama can’t win on immigration. The Republican presidential candidates have been slamming his policies from the right for months.
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Criminal Justice Reform Could Stall Over This Dispute – The Atlantic
The stars seem to have aligned. An unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives has coalesced around criminal-justice reform, as the public appears to be paying more attention to fatal police shootings and mass incarceration.
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State renewable energy mandates are producing enormous benefits – Vox
Much has been made of the rapid rise of renewable energy in the US, but the policy workhorse behind it does not get nearly enough attention or credit.
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Is Obama responsible for Donald Trump? Hardly.
During an interview on NBC’s Today show that aired Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama fielded a baffling set of Trump-centric questions from host Matt Lauer. Chief among them was a question in which Lauer asked if Obama feels responsible for Tr…
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VLC Arrives on the Apple TV with Support for Multiple Streaming Options and Video Formats
VLC is one of those fantastic little apps we’ve all come to love, and today Apple TV users can finally get in on the action with the new Apple TV app. VLC gives you a pretty wide variety of ways to access videos on your new Apple TV.
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Rarely has a player – male or female – dominated a World Cup final like Carli Lloyd did as USA won the third world title in Canada last year.
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Ted Cruz is / is not eligible to be president – legal scholars duke it out / Boing Boing
Ted Cruz is the Schrödinger’s cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president. There’s no argument – Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president because he was born in Canada.
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Bryce Harper on Killing His Hair and Keeping ‘The Mighty Ducks’ Alive | Rolling Stone
Bryce Harper is just 23 years old, but his resume is already stacked: National League Rookie of the Year, three All-Star appearances, the best hair in the bigs – you don’t even need to check his references to know he’s legit.
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Nile Rodgers on How Little Richard and Jazz Shaped David Bowie | Rolling Stone
Ever since linking up with Tony Visconti on his 1969 eponymous second album, David Bowie has employed a string of innovative and high-profile producers to help him craft his indelible sound.
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Madaya: ‘Horrifying conditions’ in besieged Syrian town – BBC News
A senior UN official says the suffering in the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is the worst he has witnessed during the country’s brutal civil war.
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SpaceX Celebrates As Falcon 9 ‘Sticks Its Landing’ | Video
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The 23 people Obama chose to showcase for his final State of the Union address – Vox
Each year, the president invites several guests to attend his State of the Union address, seated alongside the first lady in a viewing box.
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The US Is Making Military Promises It May Not Want to Keep | VICE News
Last week, North Korea lit off a nuke and put the global community into full-on denunciation mode.
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Continue to Use Outdated Versions of Internet Explorer | Motherboard
Unless you regularly visit Microsoft’s product support pages, you might not know that today, January 12, is the day that the company pulls the plug on support for Internet Explorer versions 8-10.
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Life Aquatic beanie, my favorite winter hat / Boing Boing
As it is cold out, I’ve taken to wearing my Team Zissou beanie most days, and nights. For $10, delivered, you too can emulate the greatest adventurer never to sail the 7 seas. The stop light symbol differentiates it from my Cousteau one.
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The lady had dropped her napkin. More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us c…
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Then we were Ziggy’s band…Berkeley Breathed tribute this morning : DavidBowie
Then we were Ziggy’s band…Berkeley Breathed tribute this morning via /r/DavidBowie https://t.co/ZqnNnF7R5V https://t.co/RzvxdS3CjQ
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Astronomy News from the 227th AAS Meeting: Complete Coverage
Astronomy News from the 227th AAS Meeting: Complete Coverage https://t.co/z0KZMFdQGw https://t.co/lpED13gq2b
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‘We told you so,’ Eastern Europe tells Germany : worldnews
‘We told you so,’ Eastern Europe tells Germany via /r/worldnews https://t.co/dAJ7hyvVug https://t.co/cYkOFFXV31
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The title Robin Hood: Origins by itself is enough to raise eyebrows, but nevertheless it’s a real project and not a nature-themed cosmetics line, or a piece of Young Adult fan fiction.
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Hackers caused power cut in western Ukraine – US – BBC News
A power cut in western Ukraine last month was caused by a type of hacking known as “spear-phishing”, says the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The attack caused a blackout for 80,000 customers of western Ukraine’s Prykarpattyaoblenergo utili…
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If The Good Wife returns next season, its showrunners won’t · Newswire · The A.V. Club
CBS hasn’t ruled out a potential eighth-season renewal for its flagship legal drama The Good Wife, but if it does return in the fall, creators Robert and Michelle King won’t be back as its showrunners.
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Saying “Wham bam thank you ma’am” to “Suffragette City” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: We pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time, David Bowie. For whatever reason, I’ve never been much of a Bowie person. That doesn’t mean I didn’t …
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ER’s daring storm rescue made George Clooney a star · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With the 2016 television season slowly staggering in after the holidays, there are not many new releases to inspire us.
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This Periodic Table of Investment Returns Shows Why You Really Need to Diversify
Diversification—spreading your money across different types of investments—is a critical strategy for protecting your money and helping it grow. If you want proof, all you have to look at is this chart showing the best and worst performing asset cla…
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His expeditions into the polar unknown earned him a legacy as one of the most heroic explorers of our time.
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Texas window cleaners rescued from 71st floor of Chase Tower – BBC News
Two window washers were rescued from the 71st floor of the Chase tower in Houston on Monday, after their scaffolding malfunctioned. Fire officials removed a window to rescue the men, Houston fire spokesman Jay Evans said.
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Meet Square’s Gloria Kimbwala, An Engineer Dedicated To Advancing Diversity In Tech | TechCrunch
First and foremost, Gloria Kimbwala, a campus program specialist at Square, is an engineer. She went through Square’s College Code Camp exactly two years ago. Today, she’s running it.
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Volkswagen recall plans rejected by US – BBC News
US regulators have rejected Volkswagen’s recall plan for diesel cars equipped with emissions “cheat” devices. The California Air Resources Board said its proposals did “not adequately address overall impacts on vehicle performance, emissions and saf…
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Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the neutron star in the center of the supernova of 1054 A.D.…
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Nikki Haley Will Be Responding to Donald Trump, not President Obama | New Republic
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has been tagged to respond to President Obama’s State of the Union response tonight, yet it is hard not to see her as the Republicans party’s response not to an outgoing president so much as an internal threat.
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Rami Malek’s Mom Agrees That Jon Hamm Deserved the Golden Globe Over Her Son | Vanity Fair
Just how potent is Jon Hamm’s combination of charm and acting talent? So powerful that, on Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the Mad Men star a Golden Globe for the AMC series which concluded this past May—an eternity in televi…
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The best way to wake up in the morning : aww
The best way to wake up in the morning via /r/aww https://t.co/2REOVPBmNA https://t.co/Uxues9eid5
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America’s Fittest Cities Are Also Its Richest – The Atlantic
The beginning of January is prime time for making resolutions to improve one’s fitness and health. But maintaining a healthy lifestyle isn’t as simple as burning holiday calories.
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At the BBC today, Jennifer Pak has a fascinating report on the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture, taking place this month in Shenzhen (it starts 17 minutes in).
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Get Your Crunchies Tickets Now, And Remember The Crunchies Of Yore | TechCrunch
The 9th Annual Crunchies are a little over a month away, and we’re gearing up to make this show one of the best ones yet.
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Months ago, I stumbled upon this pretty wonderful video of David Bowie playing an “acoustic” version of “Heroes,” one of my favorite songs, and I thought I’d quickly share it today. Why wait?
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Somewhere between Azealia Banks’ unfiltered stream of broken-clock consciousness and Sean Carter’s online (almost) non-presence lies an entire industry of musical artists who engage with social media with all the colorful distinction of eggshell whi…
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‘A bronze age Pompeii’: archaeologists hail discovery of Peterborough site | Science | The Guardian
Almost 3,000 years after being destroyed by fire, the astonishingly well preserved remains of two Bronze Age houses and their contents have been discovered at a quarry site in Peterborough.
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New York village to keep seal depicting man choking Native American / Boing Boing
The residents of the small New York village of Whitesboro voted last night to keep this emblem that appears to show a man choking a Native American. From the Associated Press: In a non-binding vote Monday night, residents voted 157-55 to not change …
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Marseille teacher attack: Jewish leaders agonise over skullcap – BBC News
The main Jewish leader in the French city of Marseille has urged men to stop wearing the skullcap after a violent, anti-Semitic attack on a teacher. Zvi Ammar, head of Marseille’s Israelite Consistory, said the “exceptional measure” was needed to pr…
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Why we grieve artists we’ve never met, in one tweet – Vox
David Bowie is dead, and millions of people are mourning. Any time a revered person dies, the established stages of grief seem to launch into hyperdrive. The second the news drops, final and cutting to the quick, the ripples start to spread.
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CNN turns The State Of The Union into a Wes Anderson movie · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Numerous networks will air President Barack Obama’s final State Of The Union address tonight, and they will likely do so in a very straightforward manner without too much thought given to aesthetics.
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Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira to play Tupac’s mom in his biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In case there was anyone left out there unclear on whether Danai Gurira, a.k.a. Michonne from The Walking Dead, was indeed the total badass she comes across as, this should put that lingering uncertainty to rest.
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Seeso announces Cameron Esposito’s standup special and original series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Cameron Esposito, comedian and erstwhile A.V. Club columnist, has teamed up with budding streaming service Seeso on her first standup special—and an original series.
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MoveOn Endorses Sanders After He Wins 79 Percent Support in Member Vote | The Nation
With polls suggesting that the Democratic race is getting tighter in the first-caucus state of Iowa and the first-primary state of New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders has won the support of one of the nation’s most prominent progressive networks.
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74% of Whitesboro voters support racism / Boing Boing
The voters of Whitesboro, New York, have declared, 157 to 55, that keeping a racist town logo is what they want. I guess they want to honor their long history of racism. Of 212 votes cast, 157 of them were in favor of retaining the current seal.
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Amphigorey: 15 mid-century stories by the macabre genius Edward Gorey / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. A cute cat wearing a scarf on the front cover, ABAB rhyming schemes, an amusing title that rolls off the tongue … yes, to the naked eye Amphigorey: Fifteen Books seems like the perfect book of books to calm…
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For his first State of the Union address in his new role as Speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has invited a group of guests aimed at demonstrating that developing local organizations, rather than relying on government, is the solution to t…
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Angela Merkel’s Response to the New Year’s Eve Assaults in Cologne – The Atlantic
For months, Angela Merkel has remained resolute in her position that Germany must remain open to people seeking refuge from war and civil strife.
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A negative-sum game: Policing Counter-Strike: GO cheaters with Overwatch | Ars Technica
In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the absolute lowest strata of the community is occupied by cheaters. No matter the game, we all know the pain of going up against an obvious cheater: that person who makes the lives of other players a misery, and…
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Dark matter and dinosaurs: meet Lisa Randall, America’s superstar scientist | Science | The Guardian
It’s a bright, chilly winter morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Peet’s cafe, just around the corner from Harvard University, the coffee grinders are going hell for leather.
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Bernie Sanders thinks police should investigate campus rape. That’s not enough. – Vox
Last night, Sen. Bernie Sanders was asked at a presidential forum about sexual assault on campus. His response was that it should be a matter for the police: “It is a crime, and it has to be treated as a serious crime.”
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Turkey says Istanbul suicide bomber linked to ISIL – Al Jazeera English
A Saudi-born suicide bomber affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul killing at least 10 people, including at least eight Germans, officials say.
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Notable people write about the breakthrough moment that changed their lives / Boing Boing
NY Magazine has a great collection of essays from a bunch of writers, performers, athletes, directors, and photographers about the incident or realization that made them answer their calling. I wore that [cardboard Howdy Doody] magic set out.
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An ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Story Ends in Murder – The Daily Beast
The latter, it seems, was her destiny.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
If you haven’t yet seen “The Big Short” – directed and co-written by Adam McKay, based on the non-fiction prize-winning book by Michael Lewis about the housing and credit bubble that triggered the Great Recession — I recommend you do so.
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Lyft Announces Partnership To Help Seniors Without Smartphones Get Around | TechCrunch
Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have always been awesome at empowering people without viable forms of transportation to get around. A key demographic that’s been left out of reaping these benefits, however, are the nation’s senior citizens.
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Environment group warns against reducing manatees’ endangered status | US news | The Guardian
A US government move to downgrade the conservation status of manatees and green sea turtles is premature, an environment group has warned, despite encouraging signs that both species are recovering.
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The Good Wife May Limp Along for Another Season Without Original Creators | Vanity Fair
There have been rumors swirling for a while now that the current seventh season of The Good Wife will be its last, if nothing else because show creators Robert and Michelle King seem ready to move on.
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Helpful toddler brings Dad water : gifs
Helpful toddler brings Dad water via /r/gifs https://t.co/hVUiNgCSng https://t.co/ATlXbJUpnK
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Your Kids Can Now Walk to School Alone Without You Getting Arrested
You might have heard a few news stories recently of parents getting arrested because their children were walking to school alone or playing outside unsupervised. You can relax a little: A new federal law allows parents to choose whether your kids ca…
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What If Bernie Sanders Is the Democrats’ Best Bet? Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Netflix’s Making a Murderer exposes flaws that go far beyond Steven Avery’s trial – Vox
Netflix’s Making a Murderer has, for many, led to just one question: Is Steven Avery innocent? This has been the focus of the discussion surrounding the documentary series, which follows a Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, man who was wrongly convicted o…
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Democrats Slam President Obama’s ‘Inhumane’ Deportation Raids | ThinkProgress
Lawmakers across the country are pushing back against the nationwide immigration raids recently authorized by the Obama administration, which are spreading fear and anxiety among Central American families who are desperate to avoid being deported to…
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David Bowie and the Return of the Music Video – The New Yorker
In the 1983 music video for “Let’s Dance,” David Bowie and his co-director, David Mallet, draw out Bowie’s command to “put on your red shoes and dance the blues.
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Once upon a time (maybe around 2004), the social bookmarking service Delicious was the hottest thing on the web. It hit all the right buzzwords of the time (collaborative tagging, folksonomy, AJAX), but like so many other services, Yahoo simply let …
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Zimbabwe MP’s Grace Mugabe insult charge dismissed – BBC News
A court in Zimbabwe has thrown out a “criminal insult” charge brought against an MP accused of calling first lady Grace Mugabe a “fool”. Justice Wadyajena of the ruling Zanu-PF party will now be tried on the lesser charge of “disorderly conduct”.
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There is only one State of the Union. But in 2016, for the fifth time, there will be two official Republican responses to the State of the Union: one in English and one in Spanish. This year, the Spanish-language response will be delivered by Miami-…
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Man invents implantable switch to turn on/off male birth control / Boing Boing
Clemens Bimek invented a shut-off valve for the vas deferens, the tubes that bring sperm from the testicles out of a man’s body. The Bimek SLV Spermatic Duct Valve is essentially a vasectomy with a gummy bear-sized on/off switch that you control fro…
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Watch every State of the Union climate promise Obama has ever made | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If history is any guide, climate change is likely to make a prominent appearance when President Barack Obama gives his final State …
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Huge Hits from Female Directors Don’t Make a Dent in Hollywood’s Sexist Glass Ceiling | Vanity Fair
Though it may feel like the tide was turning for women in Hollywood in 2015, a new study shows that not much has actually changed in the male-dominated field of directing. In fact, the number of female directors on top-grossing films are barely any …
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6 Heroes Who Had Their Asses Thoroughly Kicked by Wonder Woman
It’s amazing that anyone would ever dismiss Wonder Woman. She’s a better fighter than Superman, and more powerful than 99.9 of most other DC characters… and she’s got the fight card to prove it.
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The First Mile Always Sucks. Let It Go.
It’s not just you. The first mile of a run (or about the first ten minutes of any exercise) sucks for everybody. Go easy on yourself in that first mile, though, and you can set yourself up for a great workout or race. We ask too much of ourselves, s…
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Mad Max, Spotlight, The Big Short and More Stay Strong with DGA Nominations | Vanity Fair
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Tom McCarthy, Adam McKay, George Miller, and Ridley Scott have been nominated from awards from the Directors Guild of America, the industry group that represents most directors working in the business, and one of many gu…
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Who Cares About Soil Composition? Q&A With Soil Scientist Douglas Miller : Earth Matters : Blogs
The maps above, featured in our , show soil composition across the United States (bottom) and the space available for water to reside within those soil types (top).
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Mumbai considers ‘no selfie zones’ after drowning – Al Jazeera English
Mumbai police has identified 16 dangerous selfie spots across the Indian city and may introduce “no selfie zones” after a man drowned trying to save a girl who fell into the sea while taking a photo of herself.
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The best podcast about Los Angeles: Home / Boing Boing
I finished listening to all six episodes from the first season of the new podcast, Home: Stories From L.A. It’s reported, produced, hosted, and edited by Bill Barol, who has never done a podcast before, which is surprising because Home is so excelle…
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Three Days Before France ‘Bulldozes’ a Third of Calais Refugee Jungle | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. Some 2,000 migrants and refugees in France’s Calais Jungle camp are to be forcibly evicted from their tents and constructed shelters are bulldozed in…
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Five Myths About Gravitational Waves
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling against the Florida death penalty system, explained – Vox
In an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, the US Supreme Court issued a mostly procedural ruling against Florida’s death penalty system, ultimately requiring that the state change how it issues death sentences. The majority opinion, written by Justice Sonia So…
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Why The Obamas Invited A Formerly Homeless Veteran To The State Of The Union | ThinkProgress
Cynthia Dias is one of the lucky few Americans selected to get a seat at President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Dias is a veteran, having served as a nurse during the Vietnam War.
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DDoS extortion gang suspect arrested by European police – BBC News
Officers said they believed they had apprehended a key member of the group DD4BC, while another suspect was also in custody after raids. Forces from various European countries, including Scotland Yard detectives, worked together on the operation.
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A Coral Reef Revival – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Study: Could Having More Kids Slow Down the Aging Process? – The Atlantic
Growing a human being inside you for nine months, and then expelling it with a force that can fracture your pelvis can take its toll on the body. (So can, you know, raising it.)
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Young People Are Poorer, Jobless, and Believe That the American Dream Is Dead | VICE News
Young Americans are facing higher levels of poverty, unemployment, and student loan debt than the two generations before them, and their predicament is fueling the view that the American Dream is bankrupt, according to the authors of a new State of …
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Why crude oil prices keep falling and falling — in one simple chart – Vox
For the past two years, global crude oil prices have been in free-fall, and no one seems to know when the bungee cord will catch. In June 2014, you had to spend $110 to buy a barrel of Brent crude. By early 2015, that had dropped to just $60.
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Google I/O Hitting Mountain View On May 18th-20th At Shoreline Amphitheatre | TechCrunch
We don’t have too many details as of yet, but Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai just let the world know where and when Google I/O will take place this year. I/O’16 coming to neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain V…
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Starlings form spectacular ‘dancing clouds’ over Israel. – BBC News
Starlings form spectacular ‘dancing clouds’ over Israel. 12 January 2016 Last updated at 18:04 GMT Starlings from Russia and eastern Europe have created a spectacular show in the Middle Eastern sunset.They group together to help find food and fend o…
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Why Obama’s Final State of the Union May Hint at His Next Steps | Vanity Fair
Back in 2006, a couple of years after averring that he was just “a lowly state senator trying to get to the U.S.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross works alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United Nations (UN), shows a convoy containing food, medical items, blankets and other materials being delivered to the town of Madaya in Syria,…
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Hillary Clinton calls for end to ‘divisive’ deportation raids – BBC News
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for an end to deportation raids targeting Central American families living in the US illegally. Mrs Clinton said the raids “have sown fear and division in immigrant communities acr…
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These Are the Space Missions to Watch in 2016 – Scientific American
Spaceflight fans will have a lot of cosmic action to keep them happy in 2016. While the coming year does not appear to promise anything quite as spectacular or awe-inspiring as 2015’s signature moment—the by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft—there will…
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Authentic Drugs Tagged with Plant DNA Could Help Snare Fake Meds – Scientific American
In the U.S. it’s uncommon to encounter counterfeit pharmaceuticals, drugs that are manufactured illegally and passed off as the genuine articles.
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Despite the dreams that felt so real, you are still not filthy rich. Your vision of a more fulfilling life, attained by purchasing it with money, was punched in the eye by the cruel jab of reality shortly after 10:59 p.m.
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Guns filled with guts: Anatomy of War / Boing Boing
Noah Scalin’s “Anatomy of War” sculptures are polymer clay cutaway guns filled with colorful, wet-looking human viscera. The gun has been clinically dissected revealing a remarkably human set of internal organs – rather than the cold steel and bulle…
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The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Atlanta And Boston | TechCrunch
It’s that time of the year again. After a restful holiday season, filled with Disrupt Europe and CES, we’re ready to hit the road again and visit some of our favorite cities. The first TC Meetups of the year will go down in Boston and Atlanta, on Fe…
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Podcast episode about creativity, paradox, and what if questions / Boing Boing
Last month I attended a lecture by David Ben, and became an instant fan. He’s a fascinating Toronto-based magician and the co-founder of Magicana, a “not-for-profit organization dedicated to exploration and advancement of magic as a performing art.
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What Explains the Trump-Sanders Crossover Vote? | New Republic
Last week a survey from Washington-based Mercury Analytics surfaced with a most curious finding: Roughly 20 percent of Democrats said they would defect from their party to vote for Donald Trump, with a surprising number of them declaring with 100 pe…
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American held in North Korea is Christian missionary – defector | World news | The Guardian
Ma Young-ae said she had met the man identified as Kim Dong-chul in 2007, and claimed he was a missionary helping North Koreans. Kim, 62, told CNN on Monday he had been detained in North Korea since October.
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In Monday’s oral arguments at the US supreme court, US solicitor general Donald B Verrilli, Jr sought to put the court’s five conservative members on the spot.
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BBC – Culture – Space oddities: David Bowie’s hidden influences
Personas, he’s had a few. David Bowie was the Man Who Sold the World, and the Man Who Fell to Earth. He was the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. And during his Scary Monsters incarnation, he was a white-faced Pierrot.
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My name is Alex, and I’m addicted to SoulCycle. My last class was a 90-minute post- Thanksgiving ride on Friday at 10:45 a.m. and my next one will be on Tuesday night. I didn’t used to be this way.
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Wait for The Wolf, who should be coming directly…
A company called Studio D recently published their corporate end-of-the-year report for 2015. It is unlike most other companies’ year-end reports.
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A science-backed New Year’s resolution to help fix American politics – Vox
Political polarization and the ills of the contemporary campaign finance system are two of the most vexing political conundrums of our time. Even on a recent New York Times editorial page, Rep.
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David Bowie – Heroes (live) – YouTube
Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the #wall.
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Sketchfab Adds ‘View In VR’ Button To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform | TechCrunch
In its latest feature expansion, 3D model repository Sketchfab has just added a VR button, allowing owners of Google Cardboard to don their VR goggles to get a more immersive view of the content on its platform.
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Fight Against Islamic State Not Going So Well, Say Former Administration Officials | VICE News
A trio of former Obama administration officials painted a grim picture of the fight against the Islamic State group, on the day of the president’s State of the Union speech.
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18 microfiber cleaning cloths for $8 / Boing Boing
My glasses are always a mess, and I am always scrounging around in my car or pockets for a cloth to clean them. This 18 pack of excellent micro fiber cleaning cloths will last me for months. These are also just fine for cleaning camera lenses, my iP…
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Hear Keith Urban and RipCORD Tourmates’ Loose Adele Cover | Rolling Stone
Keith Urban is the latest country artist to cover a song from pop’s reigning queen, Adele, and he had some help from a pair of rising country stars with whom he’ll be spending a lot of time this year.
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Erykah Badu on Covering Drake, Duetting With André 3000 | Rolling Stone
On a quiet side street in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood — a few short blocks from the Barclays Center, and right above a natural-hair salon — is the low-rise red-brick building where Erykah Badu has lived on and off since the mid-Nineties.
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Delusional Group Declares Donald Trump a ‘Problem Solver’ | Rolling Stone
On Monday, the nonpartisan group No Labels gave him a new, and hilarious, one: problem solver.
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So let us suppose, reader, that you have won Wednesday’s $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. Congratulations! You have some important decisions to make, such as what ailing magazine to aquire and what congressional seat your spouse should run for.
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Obama’s Executive Action on Guns ‘will Save Lives’ | Al Jazeera America
Before President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control last week, he consulted with experts across the country. One of them was Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson, a hunter and a gun owner who says the president’…
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Joe Biden: Obama offered money to help support my ailing son’s family | US news | The Guardian
Vice-president Joe Biden said he considered selling his home to help support his dying son’s family, prompting president Barack Obama to offer him financial support.
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Loading the player reg… JON SCOTT (HOST): Well right now the president is gearing up for his final State of the Union address. It comes just as the race to succeed him is really heating up amid new concerns about terror attacks here and abroad, an…
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Here’s Every State of the Union Climate Promise Made by Obama | New Republic
If history is any guide, climate change is likely to make a prominent appearance when President Barack Obama gives his final State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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“If I was 19 again, I’d bypass music and go right to the internet.” Those were David Bowie’s words back in 1998 just before he launched his own ISP, BowieNet, which offered his fans “uncensored” access to the internet.
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Obama: US voters will reject Donald Trump’s message in November – video | US news | The Guardian
Speaking to NBC TODAY’s Matt Lauer, US president Barack Obama says ‘tell me if he [Donald Trump] win’ the election on 8 November 2016. Obama says he is confident the majority of US voters want politics that feeds hopes rather than fears and division.
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Is Katy Perry’s Golden Globes Hair Going to Bring Back the Bumpit? | Vanity Fair
Katy Perry was an unexpectedly prominent force at the Golden Globes Sunday night, cavorting with Jennifer Lawrence on the E! pre-show, providing In-N-Out for best-actress winner Brie Larson, and generating next-day headlines for sharing a vape pen (…
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This Interview With the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Is Tragic as Hell
Jar Jar Binks is the epicentre of so many people’s rage about the issues of the Star Wars prequels, or even Star Wars in general. But people often forget that under the CG alien was actor Ahmed Best—and he’s spent over a decade having to deal with J…
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Sunni mosques firebombed after Iraq attacks hit Shias – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 people have been killed and Sunni mosques firebombed in suspected reprisal attacks following a series of ISIL attacks on Shias in Iraq left scores dead. Attackers firebombed seven mosques in Diyala province on Tuesday in what a Sunni lea…
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Nearly half of Americans think streaming music is too expensive · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Americans, who 15 years ago were accustomed to paying $18.99 for a CD that would be scratched irreparably within hours of its purchase, have now decided that $10 a month is too much to pay for the entirety of recorded music.
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Though not as high-profile as its universe-expanding partnership with Marvel, Netflix has been working with Dreamworks Animation to spin off some of its popular franchises into family-friendly series.
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The seven charts you need to fathom California’s water prospects | Grist
With electric motors in place of fossil fuel-burning jet engines, this test wing could one day make planes more efficient and aerodynamic. We could — not to be too dramatic about it — save the world. Or at least make it slightly less terrible.
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Courts in Florida Ruled That Residents and Visitors Can Get All the Tattoos They Want – CityLab
Key West just wanted to protect people from making a mistake they couldn’t easily erase. The Florida city’s blanket prohibition on tattoo parlors in its downtown area lasted from 1966 to 2007; local lore has it that the ban came at request of the U.…
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New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has a new book coming out, Dark Money, which chronicles the influence of a small handful of ultra-rich dynastic American families on US politics.
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Venezuela Assembly defies Supreme Court but fails to get quorum – BBC News
Venezuela’s opposition-held National Assembly has failed to meet for the first session since a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Monday. National Assembly speaker Henry Ramos Allup said there was no quorum. He has scheduled a new session for Wed…
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Most Women In Silicon Valley Report Being Sexually Harassed. Most Men Play Dumb. | ThinkProgress
To get a better sense of sexism in tech, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm launched a survey on sexual harassment. The results: Nearly two-thirds of women in tech reported unwanted sexual advances — but their male counterparts were completely un…
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A lightbulb moment for the old-fashioned filament | Life and style | The Guardian
As a metaphor, the “lightbulb moment” doesn’t work so well now that we have to wait five minutes for a low-energy bulb to get going. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have had a bit of a lightbulb moment.
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Steelers’ injuries mount as Roethlisberger confirms torn shoulder ligaments | Sport | The Guardian
The Pittsburgh Steelers only just squeezed past the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday night, and now they’ll face the Denver Broncos this weekend with a compromised quarterback – if he plays at all. Ben Roethlisberger confirmed on Tuesday that he has t…
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America’s Gun Laws: How the Rest of the World Compares – The Atlantic
The debate over gun control in the United States has waxed and waned over the years, stirred by a series of mass killings by gunmen in civilian settings.
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The Injustice of New York City’s Public-School Metal Detectors – The Atlantic
On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed their jackets, gloves, and belts, shivering as they wait to pass through a metal detector …
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Tattooing the Name of God on Your Body as an Act of Faith and Defiance – The Atlantic
A century ago low-caste Hindus, deemed ‘untouchables,’ faced widespread discrimination, and were not allowed to attend temples alongside those in the higher castes.
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Meet the Therapists Who Want to Reclaim LSD as Treatment – The Atlantic
At 6.30 a.m. on Thursday, October 29, 2009, Friederike Meckel Fischer’s doorbell rang. There were 10 policemen outside. They searched the house, put handcuffs on Fischer—a diminutive woman in her 60s—and her husband, and took them to a remand prison.
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A New Target For ISIS: Tourists – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — A suspected ISIS suicide bomber killed 10 tourists in the heart of Turkey’s largest city on Tuesday, sending a chilling message to the country that borders on the self-styled jihadist caliphate.
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David Bowie’s Blackstar sales soar as tribute shows announced | Music | The Guardian
Sales of David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, have soared after the singer’s death, as a series of tribute shows and memorial events in his honour were announced.
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PSA: Windows 8 and Old Versions of IE Are No Longer Supported
It’s the end of the line for Window 8.0 and Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10. With Microsoft pulling support on them today, it’s upgrade or get hacked time. If you haven’t updated Windows to 8.1 or upgraded to Windows 10 yet, you’re not alone.
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Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief | Motherboard
One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned.
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An Expedition Is Digging Up a Lost Civilization In Honduras | VICE News
The legend of the mysterious White City began in the 16th century as the Spanish conquerors explored the jungles of the Caribbean Coast of what would later become modern day Honduras. The city was said to boast vast riches, white buildings, and a gi…
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Fixing the Eyewitness Problem – The New Yorker
One Sunday night in March, 1985, Michele Murray, a sophomore at Texas Tech University, tried to find a parking space near her dorm.
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Tardigrades — the microscopic, oddly cute toughest animals on Earth — explained – Vox
Paul Bartels gets a rush every time he discovers a new species of tardigrade, the phylum of microscopic animals best known for being both strangely cute and able to survive the vacuum of space.
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David Bowie Changed My Life | Vanity Fair
I lost track of the times I saw David Bowie in concert. Seventeen for sure, possibly nineteen. But it was the first and final concerts that left the greatest impression. I had first glimpsed Bowie in action on TV on Top of the Pops, the weekly Briti…
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Barack Obama offered Biden money when son Beau sick – BBC News
President Barack Obama offered Vice-President Joe Biden money when Mr Biden was concerned about his son’s finances. Mr Biden’s son later died from brain cancer but when he had lost the ability to speak, his father thought he might have to sell his h…
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Watch the Trailer for BloodMania, Directed by the Legendary ‘Godfather of Gore’
It’s been over 50 years since Herschell Gordon Lewis directed exploitation classic Blood Feast. And now the 86-year-old, whose gleefully bloody filmography dominated drive-ins in the 60s and early ’70s, has a brand-new picture: horror anthology Bloo…
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Dragon Drive is the best car voice activation system we’ve spoken to | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—Distracted driving is a real problem. Even though most of us intrinsically know that playing with our phones isn’t compatible with piloting a vehicle surrounded by other vehicles and pedestrians, it’s a common enough problem that more than…
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What We’re Following on Tuesday Afternoon, 1/12 – The Atlantic
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Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe review – the winner of the TS Eliot prize | Books | The Guardian
Poetry, as RS Thomas once claimed, is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart. The poet’s task is to find the effective middle ground; to perform that lyric trick whereby thought and emotion seem to effortlessly combine.
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SmashFly, A Service That Looks To Snag New Hires More Effectively, Raises $22M | TechCrunch
Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time.
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Hillary Clinton proposes tax ‘surcharge’ on Americans who earn over $5m | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton would add a 4% tax “surchage” on Americans who earn more than $5m a year if she became president, expanding on her campaign promise to ensure that the super-rich pay a rate higher than middle-class families.
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Supreme Court won’t force DHS to reveal secret plan to cut cell service | Ars Technica
The Supreme Court is setting aside a petition from the Electronic Privacy Information Center that demanded the Department of Homeland Security release the US government’s secret plan to shutter mobile phone service during disasters.
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What ABC Family renaming itself “Freeform” really means – Vox
While companies, networks, websites, and panicking uncles scramble to prove they can relate to the youth, ABC Family has just proved that with its very own identity crisis.
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People Are Begging to Play ‘Literally the Worst App’ | Motherboard
It’s 3 AM and while you sleep, I steal. The dim glow from my phone the only light in the room. My battery burnt hubristically low as I check to see what I can thieve.
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White House Releases Guest List for President Obama’s State of the Union Address – The Atlantic
When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he’ll be doing away with the litany of policy proposals and will instead be laying out his vision for the country. But viewers only have to look up to the First Lady’s bo…
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Texas gun owners lament new open carry laws / Boing Boing
Appears the new open carry laws in Texas, which have expressly allowed guns onto College campuses and into psychiatric hospitals, are back firing against open and concealed carry enthusiasts.
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Rare Bowie photos / Boing Boing
PEW PEW! Best Star Wars shirt evar I spotted a kid wearing one of these yesterday and was disappointed that all he knew was that his dad got it somewhere; luckily it turned out to be a quick search away.
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ISIS Kills 10 People in Istanbul Suicide Bombing | Mother Jones
One day after ISIS claimed responsibility for a major attack on a mall in Baghdad, a suspected member of the terrorist group killed 10 people in a suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul’s most famous tourist area on Tuesday.
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When I was eight years old, I used to hold my breath when I walked to school. My route was along a busy road, and I had been told that lead in petrol hurt children’s brains. I stopped worrying as the years went by and there was a successful campaign…
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Coming Out Like a Porn Star: collected memoirs of sex workers / Boing Boing
Coming Out Like a Porn Star is genderqueer porn star Jiz Lee’s new anthology collecting the personal stories of porn stars and other sex-trade workers, in which they describe “coming out” to their friends and family as workers in the trade.
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Parsing The Tipping Point (Humanoids) is a frustrating experience.
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Meet my neighbors cat Finnigan. : cats
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller already have a lot on their plates. Writing the Lego Movie sequel, directing that Han Solo spinoff film, producing all those Lego movies and The Last Man On Earth, all while trying to finish creating that animated Spider-m…
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DES MOINES — Iowa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hillary Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize suppor…
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The Republican debate stage will be noticeably smaller when the candidates gather in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday night for their first debate of the year.
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The First Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Will Take You To Space | TechCrunch
Following CES in Las Vegas last week, VR is on the minds and lips of everyone in the tech and gaming space. But even though virtual reality is more immersive than any form of entertainment previously known, it still can’t manipulate all the senses a…
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Oculus founder: “Your crappy PC is the biggest barrier to [VR] adoption” | Ars Technica
For most of the mainstream market, the entry-level cost to get into PC-based virtual reality goes well beyond the $599 Oculus is charging for its first consumer Rift headset.
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See a horrible accident? Bill would bar you from posting about it for an hour | Ars Technica
A new bill pending in the Kentucky state legislature would impose a ban of “at least one hour” on the online publication of “any information identifying the potential victims” of serious physical injury. The legislation, which was proposed by State …
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Holy Bricks! I Love Everything About Lego’s New Classic Batman TV Series Batcave Set
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the classic campy Batman TV series starring Adam West that premiered on January 12, 1966, today Lego has officially revealed a massive new 2,500-piece Batcave set that includes the retro Batmobile, Batcopter, and…
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How Charlie Kaufman uses the extraordinary to explain the ordinary – Vox
Charlie Kaufman may be Hollywood’s most accomplished absurdist.
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The Rapture Index: One Man’s 28-Year Quest To Forecast The Apocalypse – Vocativ
Strandberg began compiling The Rapture Index shortly after he became a Christian. He owes his faith largely to Carl C. Carlson and Hal Lindsey’s book “The Late, Great Planet Earth,” the highest-selling non-fiction biblical prophesy book in history.
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These Spidery ‘Veins’ On Mars Are Just Plain Weird (Photo)
Nobody knows yet whether or not Mars has ever hosted life, but the Red Planet itself looks strangely alive in a newly released NASA photo.
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Stephen Leather accused of cyberbullying by fellow thriller writers | Books | The Guardian
The bestselling thriller writer Stephen Leather has been accused of “smearing” and “cyberbullying” two fellow authors in a lengthy online campaign described as “despicable” by one of its alleged victims.
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In three decades, the Saatchi gallery has survived relocations, incarnations and vicissitudes: the controversies over the 1996 Royal Academy exhibition Sensation (based on Charles Saatchi’s collection); the 2004 Momart storage warehouse fire, in whi…
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I’m Not Happy with My Witness-Protection Service – The New Yorker
When I joined the Witness Protection Program, after witnessing that Mob hit a few months ago, I knew how it worked: Witness Protection would relocate me to a new city and set me up with a new job and a new identity. I thought I was prepared for that…
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Impression master Ross Marquand nails the tiny moments of A-list actors / Boing Boing
Impression master Ross Marquand nails the tiny moments of A-list actors, including Antonio Banderas forgetting his password, Harrison Ford losing a sneeze, and Brad Pitt forgetting what he was about to say.
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Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 1-12-15
Two weeks have passed since the last time we did this, so time to vote on your primary presidential preference! Here are the trends: That last poll was heavily freeped, and unlike previous freeping editions (basically any poll over 9K votes), Bernie…
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Giant Saturn Dwarfs Tiny Moon Tethys in Dazzling New Photo
An amazing new photo serves as a reminder of just how big Saturn is.
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Ben Higgins has fond memories of high school. He said so out loud, on Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor. As though that doesn’t sound ridiculous to most of us, who were traumatized by adolescence, and are stunned to have escaped alive. Ben know…
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An appreciation of Labyrinth and David Bowie’s magical Goblin King – Vox
David Bowie accomplished many things during his long career, but it’s impossible to discuss that career without a nod to his bizarre but unforgettable role as the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s movie Labyrinth.
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Oil prices steady after hitting 12-year low – Al Jazeera English
Crude oil steadied at around $32 per barrel, recovering slightly as investors booked profits after it fell to a near 12-year low on concerns about oversupply and fragile demand from China.
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Anti-refugee protesters rampage through German city – Al Jazeera English
At least 200 masked far-right supporters, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern German city of Leipzig throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalising buildings, police said.
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Jeremy Corbyn Talks Common Sense on Nuclear Weapons | The Nation
The new leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has sparked a political firestorm by challenging the myths around nuclear weapons and Cold War deterrence. Corbyn announced that he would never use a nuclear weapon.
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Rich Americans are embarrassed by Donald Trump / Boing Boing
It must suck to have spent good money on an office or apartment in an upscale business with “TRUMP” on the front of it, only to wake up one morning and discover that your real estate investment has forever become synonymous with a crass, racist, sex…
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HackerRank Makes Technical Recruiting More Transparent | TechCrunch
Recruiting software engineers is a massive headache for both startups and established companies. For a while now, HackerRank has tried to make both applying for these jobs and hiring the right talent a little bit easier.
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While discussing a Supreme Court case focused on union fees, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed that public employees were “forced to join unions” and to pay fees that went directly “to political causes.
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Mogwai Announce New Album Atomic, Share “U-235” : Music
Mogwai Announce New Album Atomic, Share “U-235” via /r/Music https://t.co/L0ap51ZsfW https://t.co/tCSJoK623o
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Turing’s Martin Shkreli is worth at least $45 million | Ars Technica
To bail himself out of the slammer after being arrested on charges of securities fraud on December 17, Martin Shkreli put up an E-Trade brokerage account to secure his $5 million bond, court documents revealed. As of January 6, that account had $45 …
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The Wow! signal may have been a pair of comets / Boing Boing
In 1977 radio astronomers at the Big Ear space telescope, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, came across a signal that wasn’t just odd, it was unbelievably strong! The signal, broadcast at at 1420.
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Meet the little-known religious group that turned Kim Davis into a right-wing superstar – Vox
One year ago, almost no one knew who Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was. She wasn’t even an elected official of Rowan County, Kentucky — the county clerk position Davis holds today was then held by her mother, Jean Bailey. But in her first year of …
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Why boredom is anything but boring : Nature News & Comment
In 1990, when James Danckert was 18, his older brother Paul crashed his car into a tree. He was pulled from the wreckage with multiple injuries, including head trauma. The recovery proved difficult.
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The Decline of the Bundy Rebellion in Oregon – The Atlantic
What did Ammon and Ryan Bundy learn from their father’s 2014 standoff in Nevada? Not enough, apparently.
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Could We Colonize Ceres Like in SyFy’s ‘The Expanse’?
In the new SyFy channel series “The Expanse,” colonists live on a Ceres that is very different from the dwarf planet seen today — but what if NASA were to send a human mission out to Ceres as it is now, without changing the dwarf planet?
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John Legere apologizes to EFF for mocking group in throttling debate | Ars Technica
T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere apologized to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for mocking its concerns about the wireless carrier’s “Binge On” program that throttles online video.
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Resolution review – jazzy jumps and froggy squats in dance showcase | Stage | The Guardian
Every January, the Resolution festival sweeps away dance’s Christmassy diet of sparkles and replaces it with – well, almost anything else. The six-week festival is a platform for new choreographers, each evening showcasing works by three entrants.
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Donald Trump: “Who the Hell Wants to Woo” Megyn Kelly? | Vanity Fair
The one-sided feud between G.O.P. front-runner Donald Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly rages on.
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Could Slacktivism Help Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery? | New Republic
After watching the new Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, huge numbers of viewers have taken to social media to express outrage and advocate for the release of Steven Avery, the subject of the ten-episode series.
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The Speech That Black Lives Matter’s Founder Wants To Hear From Obama Tonight | ThinkProgress
Last year, Black Lives Matter activists made it a practice to interrupt politician’s speeches to chant the name of their movement and to demand that elected officials recognize the high rate that black men and women are killed at the hands of police.
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Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform | TED Talk | TED.com
I love being a police officer, but we need reform https://t.co/wDsm8EmArB https://t.co/ojBBrmvSfh
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VLC Arrives On Apple TV With Support For Casting, Playback Of Local And Network Files | TechCrunch
VLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available for Apple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able to play your files on your TV’s big screen without having to…
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Telegram’s Troubled Times In The Middle East | TechCrunch
Telegram has been down in Saudi Arabia since Sunday evening and the company has been left bewildered by the abrupt disruption to their platform. “I confirm, Telegram traffic is partly limited in Saudi Arabia since yesterday evening. The reasons are …
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Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform | TED Talk | TED.com
We’ve invested so much in police departments as protectors that we have forgotten what it means to serve our communities, says Baltimore Police officer Lt. Colonel Melvin Russell. It’s led to coldness and callousness, and it’s dehumanized the police…
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What You Need To Know About The Istanbul Attack | ThinkProgress
A suicide attack in a storied tourist district of Istanbul has killed at least nine people and rocked a country where political violence has largely been limited to peripheral and border regions.
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Kim Davis, martyr to the cause of bigotry, gets anonymous invite to SOTU
Choosing attention-grabbing guests is one of the rituals of the State of the Union, and the Family Research Council has nabbed a good one: Kim Davis.
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Ronnie O’Sullivan made a winning return in his first major tournament for nine months with a 6-5 victory over Mark Williams in the Masters first round. The five-time world and Masters champion took a break from the sport after last year’s World Cham…
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SpaceX to Attempt Another Rocket Landing Sunday : space
SpaceX to Attempt Another Rocket Landing Sunday via /r/space https://t.co/VdnhhMY88e https://t.co/effriM5PVD
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‘Flaring’ Wastes 3.5% of World’s Natural Gas – Scientific American
TREND WATCH: Around 3.5% of the world’s natural-gas supply was wastefully burned, or ‘flared’, at oil and gas fields in 2012, according to the latest estimates from satellite data.
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Remix OS—a multitasking, windowed Android OS—can now run on your PC | Ars Technica
Jide’s Remix OS—a… well, remixed version of Android that is more suitable for a PC’s mouse and keyboard—is now available for download. The OS turns Android into a windowed desktop environment with the ability to multitask, just like Windows, Mac O…
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Lane Kiffin left behind by team bus after Alabama’s title victory | Sport | The Guardian
How’s that for gratitude? Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin helped his team to a thrilling victory in the national championship on Monday night – and then watched as the team bus left the University of Phoenix stadium without him.
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The bizarre rise of a massively popular porn star in ever-prudish India
For four years in a row, the most Googled person in India has been Sunny Leone. Who? The daughter of Indian immigrants to Canada, Leone was a successful pornography star in America before returning to India to launch a movie career in Bollywood, whe…
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Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam seen on petrol station CCTV – BBC News
Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam seen on petrol station CCTV https://t.co/THTLxrv0BP https://t.co/3GVynPXabO
CCTV images have emerged that show a man suspected of involvement in the Paris terror attacks visiting a French petrol station. The images were captured on the morning of 14 November, a day after the attacks in which 130 were killed. -
TinyLab Is A Prototyping System In A Box | TechCrunch
What could be cooler than a name like “Bosphorus Mechatronics?” How about a little box that lets you connect almost anything to anything including wireless connections and rotary input.
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Recreational Pot Shops Are ‘Blazing a Trail’ in Canada | VICE News
Toronto is getting a taste of what a recreational marijuana market could be as a new dispensary and lounge opens in the city’s east end.
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A Brief History Of College Football Championship BS
“If there are any Big Ten teams that shoot for a national championship, they’re fools,” said legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, speaking to a crowd at a luncheon in 1989. “If they choose to vote you number one, then you…
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Map of power outages caused by squirrels / Boing Boing
Cyber Squirrel 1 is a Google-powered map that tracks power outages caused by small animals. Occasionally buzzards cause some chaos, but it is mostly the fault of squirrels. Pictured above is the map for December, 2015.
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All of Bach is Putting Bach’s Complete Works Online: 100 Done, 980 to Come | Open Culture
Memorably synthesized by Wendy Carlos (and memorably beloved by A Clockwork Orange’s Alex DeLarge), J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos epitomize the playful verve of so much Baroque music.
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Satellite Images Show Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site
This DigitalGlobe satellite image shows Punggye-ri, a site of apparent activity in North Korea. Some experts believe Punggye-ri is a nuclear test site, but that claim is under dispute. This photo is one of a series of Punggye-ri images that have bee…
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Why Is Epic Games Checking Names Against a Watchlist When It Doesn’t Have To? | Motherboard
Epic Games, developer of the successful Unreal series of game engines, had to deal with an especially bizarre PR nightmare Sunday evening. The customer was Zakir Khan, professor and executive director of the Transparency and Accountability Project.
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Here’s Every State of the Union Climate Promise Made by Obama | Mother Jones
If history is any guide, climate change is likely to make a prominent appearance when President Barack Obama gives his final State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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Supreme Court Declares Florida’s Death Penalty Sentencing Scheme Unconstitutional | ThinkProgress
The scheme Florida uses to sentence people to die is unconstitutional, according to an 8-1 decision handed down by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. As a matter of legal doctrine, Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion for the Court in Hurst v. Florida is no…
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The Last, Desperate Attempt to Contact the Philae Lander Has Probably Failed
Philae, the brave little comet lander that captured our hearts last year, has probably fallen silent for good.
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Hear Brothers Osborne’s Scorching ‘It Ain’t My Fault’ | Rolling Stone
Brothers Osborne’s long-awaited debut album Pawn Shop is out January 15th and the duo behind “Stay a Little Longer” has made “It Ain’t My Fault” available for listening before the release. “It Ain’t My Fault” was written by T.J.
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‘WWE Raw’: Brock Lesnar Returns and Makes Roman Reigns His Bitch | Rolling Stone
They say you can only count on death and taxes. But I say: Nay, you can also count on one hand, two hands and vintage Texas Instruments SR-16 calculators.
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Children, Goats Go Mad in Blood-Curdling Trailer for ‘The Witch’ | Rolling Stone
In the film, an English farmer, William (Ralph Ineson), is forced to move his family from a colonial plantation to a plot of land on the edge of a forest after being threatened with banishment by the church.
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Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? – The New Yorker
There was a lot said last week about the reemergence, in Germany, of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”)—which just became legal to publish and sell there, for the first time since the end of the Second World War—albeit in a heavily hedged “…
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Blerhp blerhp blerhp blerhp I am stoopid hooman : aww
Blerhp blerhp blerhp blerhp I am stoopid hooman via /r/aww https://t.co/9MERhNP0BS https://t.co/T0QB34bVrN
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Before Quantic Dream broke through with games like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain, the French studio bet it all on an ambitious debut that, despite some commercial success, has largely been forgotten.
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“Life on Earth May have Started Almost Instantaneously” –UCLA (Today’s Most Popular)
“Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking,” said Mark Harrison, a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a a member of the National Academy of Sciences. “Life on Earth may have star…
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Explore musical variations amid floating 3D islands / Boing Boing
YUME is a simple musical experience where the songs change as you explore 3D floating islands—just click and drag them to move around. It’s restful, easy to get lost, and the evolving tracks are great.
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So no Dad, not that I’ve lacked for stand-ins. Only my fathers have all been mayfly dads, the kind that are here one day and gone after three days at most.
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What Cheap Gas Means for the Economy (and Your Wallet)
What Cheap Gas Means for the Economy (and Your Wallet) https://t.co/J7WamYpx7o https://t.co/DIa4SrcZDM
Falling oil prices mean cheaper gas, and that makes most of us pretty happy. The average price for gas in the States is now $2.05 a gallon, nearly fifteen cents less than it was a year ago. Over time, though, cheap gas isn’t always a good thing. -
“There are no more cats and dogs alive”: the starvation crisis in Madaya, Syria – Vox
In July 2015, forces aligned with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad began laying siege to the Syrian town of Madaya, cutting it off from the outside world, including its access to food supplies. By early January, residents had been reduced to eating gra…
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Space in Videos – 2016 – 01 – LISA Pathfinder commissioning simulation
This timelapse video shows teams from ESA and Airbus Defence and Space (the prime contractor for LISA Pathfinder) carrying out a simulation of the commissioning of the LISA Technology Package, the scientific heart of the mission.
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Slingshot Dakota announces a new album, streams “Paycheck” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
“I think, in the past, I felt like I needed to write a certain style to connect with the people that liked the band,” says Carly Comando, the vocalist and keyboardist for Pennsylvania two-piece Slingshot Dakota.
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Survey: One in four people admit to having sex at the gym | Fusion
Without fail, every January, gyms across the world see huge spikes in attendance and new membership signups.
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An inspiration for this session was a conversation with my 3year old daughter while dressing up to go out: – Daddy, I don’t want to put this jacket on. – she moaned – Me too, darling but it is very cold outside. – I explained – How cold? and I had t…
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Endangered Japanese Eels Threaten a Centuries-Old Tradition – The Atlantic
One morning on a recent trip to my dad’s hometown of Hamamatsu, Japan, I found myself on a secluded bank of Lake Hamana, overlooking a small dock where seaweed harvesters keep their boats.
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Microsoft Today Ends Support For Windows 8, Old Versions Of Internet Explorer | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s push towards Windows 10 continues. Today, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 8, as well as older versions of its Internet Explorer web browser, IE 8, IE 9, and IE 10.
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What does he make of my bourgeois life? He does not appreciate the middle-class obsession with sanded floorboards, when we could all afford wall-to-wall carpets. He cannot believe I own a cook book holder.
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Vietnam Begins Huge Effort to Identify War Dead – Scientific American
Digging foundations for temples or schools, harvesting rice in paddy fields: these are some of the ways that the decaying remains of Vietnam War victims still turn up, 40 years after the conflict ended.
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David Bowie January 1986 Vanity Fair Cover Story | Vanity Fair
The pity of it is that no one managed to film Colin MacInnes’s Absolute Beginners twenty years ago.
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Massive Online Backlash After Planned Parenthood Endorses Hillary Clinton : Liberal
Massive Online Backlash After Planned Parenthood Endorses Hillary Clinton via /r/Liberal https://t.co/fyX5YNxx5P https://t.co/VXU1fR9RpX
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Lindsay Kemp on directing David Bowie: ‘God knows, he was a chameleon’ | Stage | The Guardian
We first met in 1966, probably late summer, when David came to see me perform in a little show called Clowns. He was much taken by it and came to see me afterwards. It was love at first sight. He asked if he could study with me.
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Is America ready to enter the age of the smart gun?
Just days after President Barack Obama, wiping tears from his eyes, made an impassioned plea for America to help stem the tide of gun violence, organizers of one of the largest electronics shows on the planet wouldn’t let Omer Kiyani bring a gun ont…
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It’s hard to choose my favourite Bowie song because they are all so influential in my life. Something about Young Americans really got me as a teenager: I discovered it when I was just getting into music and parties and boys, and it had this swagger…
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of January 12, 2016 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The interesting thing about your future isn’t its extreme brevity, but how many angry, drunken Cossacks it holds. Your quest for abs of steel ends tragically this week when you cut yourself in half with a welding torch. Sometimes it is best to simpl…
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 12th – The New Yorker
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Area Dad Stares Longingly At Covered Grill In Backyard – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
EUCLID, OH—Placing his right palm against the glass of the sliding back door as he softly whispered reassurances to the device, local father Paul Chesney, 48, spent nearly an hour Tuesday gazing longingly at the covered grill in his backyard, family…
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Aw, Fer Crying Out Loud! – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Come on! Are you serious? You can’t be serious. Really? Really? Aw, fer crying out loud!
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It was 1983 and I was at university when I first saw the film clip. Here was a music superstar featuring my own people, putting Indigenous faces on a world stage. The song was Let’s Dance, the singer David Bowie.
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How To Arrange A Funeral – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Losing a loved one can send mourners into a haze of emotion, and funeral planning can seem like a daunting task amidst one’s grief.
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Canadian Cops Can Decrypt PGP BlackBerrys Too | Motherboard
On Monday, Motherboard reported that leading Dutch forensics investigators say they are able to read encrypted messages sent on PGP BlackBerry phones—custom devices which are advertised as more suited for secure communication than off-the-shelf mode…
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Hippo Meat-Munching May Explain Their Anthrax Outbreaks – Scientific American
Jason G. Goldman Jason G. Goldman is a science writer based in Los Angeles. He writes about human and animal behavior, wildlife biology, ecology and conservation for Scientific American, the BBC, Earth Touch, Conservation magazine and elsewhere.
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Almost all of us have an impression or two in our back pockets to break out at parties. But do you have 17 impressions? And can you get them across in a matter of seconds? Well, Ross Marquand can.
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The Troubled Quest to Find a Better Mosquito Repellent – The Atlantic
Leslie Vosshall is stalking a mosquito. We’re in a small room that’s full of the little blood-suckers, which are being deliberately bred and raised.
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Ghana’s leader Mahama defends accepting Guantanamo detainees – BBC News
Ghana’s president has strongly defended the government’s decision to allow two Yemenis freed from Guantanamo Bay to live in the West African state. Opposition and church groups had condemned the decision, saying the men were a security threat.
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Keith Urban Enlists Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris for Tour: Ram Report | Rolling Stone
When Keith Urban hits the road in June on his Ripcord World Tour, he’ll do so with old touring partner Brett Eldredge and rising star Maren Morris. The “Break on Me” singer and Eldredge toured together previously on Urban’s Raise ‘Em Up Tour.
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Discover the Origins of Abe Sapien’s Latest Occult Villain in This Exclusive Comic Preview
The adventures of Hellboy and his friends in the pages of Dark Horses comics have always examined the spooky underpinnings of the occult.
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Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie Honor Natalie Cole at Memorial Service | Rolling Stone
Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie Honor Natalie Cole at Memorial Service “I feel so blessed to have called you my friend, and my buddy, and many times my confidante,” Smokey Robinson says in eulogy
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Fox News gave GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump at least $29.7 million in free airtime from May 2015 through the end of the year.
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UK Surveillance Bill A Risk To Data Security And Privacy, Says ICO | TechCrunch
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Internet Explorer users ‘at risk’ as tech support ends – BBC News
Microsoft has ended technical support and security updates for older versions of its Internet Explorer browser. The changes, which will affect versions 8, 9 and 10 of the browser, were announced in August 2014.
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Mexico: Penn meeting was ‘essential to Chapo’s capture’ – BBC News
Mexico’s Attorney General has said that the meeting between Hollywood actor Sean Penn and fugitive cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman had been an “essential” element in his arrest.
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Thousands of UK Doctors Go On Strike | Al Jazeera America
Thousands of junior doctors walked off the job Tuesday in England in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions — the first such strike in 40 years.
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Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh – Al Jazeera English
In Bangladesh, 13-year-old Beezly Roy is preparing for her wedding. She is to be married the following day.
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Original Stitch Raises $1.1 Million To Put The Shirt On Your Back | TechCrunch
As a fan of clothing I find custom shirt services to be quite exciting. No longer must we be held back by societal rules about what color your collar must be or whether or not blue goes with orange plaid. That’s why Original Stitch is so cool and th…
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More People Work In U.S. Solar Industry Than In Oil And Gas Extraction | ThinkProgress
Two of 105 solar panels are installed on the roof of a barn Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, north of Hesperus, Colo.
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Mammograms every other year for women 50-74, gov’t panel recommends | Ars Technica
A government panel tasked with making recommendations for preventative medical treatments finalized its latest position on breast cancer screening Tuesday: Women with an average risk of the disease will have the best balance of benefits and harms if…
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El Chapo Shirts Are the Latest Fashion Craze | Vanity Fair
If 9/11 couldn’t kill irony, nothing can.
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Asking for Regular Feedback Can Boost Your Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is important. It can help you figure out how to hone certain skills, adapt to situations, and make better decisions. To understand yourself a little better, make a habit of asking for regular feedback. We all have blind spots in our t…
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The Oscars Really Want You to Believe The Force Awakens Will Be Nominated | Vanity Fair
So you enjoyed that silly, boozy, little awards show on Sunday night, did you? OK, now get ready for the REAL show. The one with all of the EMOTIONS. The one with all the MEANING. Are you tearing up yet? Don’t worry, the tears will come.
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Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone – Slashdot
An anonymous reader writes: There’s some good news for “free-range” parents and fans of children being allowed to walk places on their own. A recently approved federal education law will allow students to take alternative forms of transportation to …
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Barack Obama’s Final State of the Union – The Atlantic
During his presidency, Barack Obama took on health-care reform, helped make gay marriage legal, reopened the diplomatic relationship with Cuba, made a nuclear-arms deal with Iran, rode herd on negotiations on global-climate change, and introduced gu…
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Obama Looks to the Future on Climate Change – Scientific American
Don’t expect big proposals tonight. In past State of the Union addresses, President Obama floated a clean energy standard, pushed Congress unsuccessfully to act on climate change and signaled to the nation the start of an executive agenda to reduce …
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New US law says kids can walk to school by themselves / Boing Boing
After years of documenting instances in which parents and kids are terrorized by law enforcement and child welfare authorities because the kids were allowed to be on their own in public places, the Free Range Kids movement has gotten some justice: a…
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and so when the burgeoning VHS market was crying out for a steady stream of newly produced action films in the 1990s, a company called PM Entertainment was there to provide all the explosions, car chases, kickboxing, and utte…
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HP Spectre x2 review: All the quality of the Surface Pro, hundreds of dollars less | Ars Technica
It took Microsoft three attempts to come up with a Surface concept that had broad appeal. With the combination of screen size, resolution, system flexibility, and performance, the Surface Pro 3 became a PC that worked for a lot of people.
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State of the Union 2016: Full coverage and analysis – Vox
Thomas Jefferson’s stage fright! Woodrow Wilson’s academic research on presidential rhetoric! Reagan’s special guests!
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British doctors go on strike over changes to contracts – Al Jazeera English
Tens of thousands of junior doctors have gone on strike in the United Kingdom over government plans to amend their contracts, the first walkout of its kind in 40 years.
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The History and Uses of the Magical Mandrake, According to Modern Witches | Atlas Obscura
Grimassi, who along with his wife Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi is a practicing witch, is talking about one of the 20-plus mandrake plants that the couple has been growing at their Massachusetts home.
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From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans.
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Hunter S Thompson’s son: ‘Whatever my father’s virtues, he was a basket case’ | Books | The Guardian
Hunter S Thompson was known for lots of things: the frenetic pace of his writing, his fondness for guns, smoking with a clear plastic filter known as a TarGard. And, of course, taking drugs and drinking alcohol at a rate rivaled only by the likes of…
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Dramatically Sharper Gamma-ray Telescope Spots Energetic Sites | Video
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Dolce & Gabbana Debut Hijabs, Abayas – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has released a line of floral hijabs and abayas to begin catering to Muslim women, a $266 billion market that Tommy Hilfiger and DKNY have recently begun designing for as well. What do you think?
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Quitters Prosper : Democracy Journal
Numbers from Friday’s jobs report underscores a persistent problem for the U.S. economy: Wages aren’t growing fast enough for most Americans. According to the data for December, the average wage for all workers grew at 2.5 percent over the last year…
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Angie Tribeca · Sponsored TV Trailer · The A.V. Club
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How the Government Underestimated the Extent of Income Inequality – The Atlantic
The financial picture for Social Security isn’t as dire as some describe: Without any modifications to its funding, Social Security will generate enough revenue to pay for three-quarters of promised benefits.
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News | New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at Ceres.
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Late-night hosts pay tribute to David Bowie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Late-night hosts pay tribute to David Bowie https://t.co/awsDV6oesO https://t.co/UUMPWShJSd
As fans continue to mourn David Bowie, who died Sunday at the age of 69, tributes and other remembrances have also poured out from the rock ’n’ roll icon’s friends. The hosts of late night paid their respects Monday night with words and music. -
Frame Your Goals As Personal “Rules” To Achieve Them
The next time you make goal, focus it into a rule to make it easier to accomplish. Creating a specific rule that’s easy to follow gives you an actionable step that helps you build—and keep—momentum.
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Putin does not rule out granting Syria’s Assad asylum – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not rule out granting political asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a long-time ally. In an interview with a German paper, he said political reforms were needed in Syria, including a new cons…
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This Fracking Case at Canada’s Supreme Court Could Make a Big Difference | VICE News
For eight long, trying, expensive years, Jessica Ernst has waged war. It’s a difficult war, slow and undramatic, fought with legal factums and motions and submissions. It’s cost her money and her career, and victory is far from certain — yet she pre…
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San Franciscans: see Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland on Jan 17 / Boing Boing
The SF in SF reading series is back with a fantastic pair of readers: Kim Stanley Robinson (author of Aurora and interstellar colony skeptic) and historical novelist Cecelia Holland.
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How Gatorade Plans To Reinvent Sports Drinks—Again
An exclusive look at how Gatorade, the ultimate hangover companion, is attempting to become, once again, the future of sports fuel.
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If you have an extra $500,000, here’s a gold skull armchair to buy|Dangerous Minds
A 24-karat gold skull armchair for that special supervillain in your life. I can’t imagine too many people will be buying this as it’s retailing for $500,000. Holy crap, Batman! The company who makes it is called Harow. Here’s their information just…
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Sexism Valley: 60% of women in Silicon Valley experience harassment | Technology | The Guardian
Sixty percent of the women working in Silicon Valley experience unwanted sexual advances, according to a new survey released this week. About two-thirds of them say that these advances were from their superior.
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Aurora Borealis and a shooting star in Karkkila, Finland [OC] [5621×3748] : SkyPorn
Aurora Borealis and a shooting star in Karkkila, Finland [OC] [5621×3748] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/J3c9pLzDgM https://t.co/wePnfUJlXV
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Intriguing Seismic Activity Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone – Scientific American Blog Network
Dana Hunter is a science blogger, SF writer, and geology addict whose home away from SciAm is En Tequila Es Verdad. Her book Really Terrible Bible Stories vol. I: Genesis is available on Amazon.
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Apple Now Lets Developers Track Their Apple TV Apps’ Analytics Data | TechCrunch
Along with the release of new versions of its software across its all platforms yesterday, Apple also rolled out a change that will have a major impact on those publishers building apps for Apple TV.
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How David Bowie’s Ceaseless Re-invention Changed Fashion | Vanity Fair
Count “style icon” as the third, or maybe fourth, box that many a tribute to David Bowie, who died Sunday at age 69, has checked these last few days as they’ve attempted to go about the impossible work of describing his cultural impact.
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Sex, death & fishnets in the surreal film ‘Satan bouche un coin’ (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
Paris 1968: While students riot on the streets and fight pitched battles with the police, journalist, filmmaker and writer Jean-Pierre Bouyxou was making an improvised short film—Satan bouche un coin—in collaboration with Raphael Marongiu and a grou…
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Photos of AC/DC live at CBGB’s in 1977|Dangerous Minds
AC/DC at CBGB’s, August 27, 1977 There are few bands in the world that bring me as much fist-pumping joy as AC/DC.
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Grindr Sells a Majority Stake to Chinese Company | Vanity Fair
Grindr, the ubiquitous dating app for gay men, found a new, wealthy mate. The social-networking kingpin sold its majority stake to Beijing Kunlun Tech Company, a Chinese online-gaming company controlled by newly minted Chinese billionaire Zhou Yahui.
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Toronto’s mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband / Boing Boing
In Canada, as in the UK and many other countries (including the USA, until the mid-2000s), the big telcos are required to wholesale their lines to small, upstart competitors as payback for access to rights-of-way and municipal infrastructure.
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NOFX – Don’t call me white [Punk] : Music
NOFX – Don’t call me white [Punk] via /r/Music https://t.co/bG7xfz0uTd https://t.co/rmq1QBR9dI
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Second Innings by Andrew Flintoff – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is an autobiography of Andrew Flintoff’s life. As you may know, Flintoff was an England cricketer between 1998 to 2009. He has already written a book, which is mainly about his statistics and cricketing life.
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How to become Internet famous in under a year – The Washington Post
The first step to becoming Internet famous, according to people who know about such things, is recognizing what makes you extraordinary. One guy earned 1.7 million Instagram followers on the strength of his “man-bun.
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President Obama offered to personally give Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. money to help out when the vice president’s son became sick, Mr. Biden recalled in an interview that aired on Monday. Mr.
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Cartoon: Sexy show names for male comedians
When I learned the name of Daily Show alum Samantha Bee’s new show recently, my heart sank a little. “Full Frontal?” Really? Here’s my theory about why prominent comedy shows hosted by women have titillating names. From a studio exec’s point of vie…
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David Bowie performed on Saturday Night Live a few times over the course of his career, but his best and most revered turn on the Studio 8H stage came in 1979, when he acted as the musical guest alongside host Martin Sheen.
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World War Z sequel keeps its release date, loses its director · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The World War Z sequel seems bent on recapturing the behind-the-scenes tension of the original, running through screenwriters and setting a tight timetable for production. And the film has just suffered a serious setback, as Deadline reports directo…
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Kentucky’s new Republican governor is entrenching Obamacare while pretending to dismantle it – Vox
Kentucky’s new Republican governor, Matt Bevin, plans to dismantle his state’s Obamacare marketplace, Kynect. On the surface, this looks like a Tea Party conservative governor taking a stand against the law he campaigned against in 2015. Except Bevi…
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Little-known disease found to be a threat to millions – Al Jazeera English
Research into the little-known but deadly bacterial disease Melioidosis has revealed millions of people are at threat. Also known as Whitmore’s disease, the illness is caught from skin contact, inhaling or by drinking contaminated water infected wit…
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Schlonging, Spamming, and ‘SNL’: These Are the FCC Complaints Inspired by Donald Trump | VICE News
Over the past seven months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been fielding complaints from the American public about Donald Trump, whose comments on the campaign trail about Mexicans and Muslims, for example, were described by one let…
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The First City To Guarantee Paid Sick Leave In 2016 | ThinkProgress
Ahead of tonight’s State of the Union address, Spokane, Washington passed a law guaranteeing residents the right to paid sick leave when they or their family members fall sick, or to deal with sexual assault and domestic abuse.
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Lebanon regulations ‘put Syrian refugees at risk of abuse’ – BBC News
Regulations being imposed in Lebanon effectively bar many Syrian refugees from renewing their residency permits, Human Rights Watch says. Only two out of the 40 refugees HRW researchers interviewed said they had been able to renew their residencies.
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Bernie Sanders Is Right: Hillary Clinton Is in “Serious Trouble” | Vanity Fair
The aura of inevitability surrounding Hillary Clinton is suddenly looking more fragile.
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Last year, police officers in the United States killed no fewer than 1,134 people. 210 of those killings were in California. 41 killings were in Los Angles County. 19 were in the city of Los Angeles. And at least two were in Venice Beach, the neighb…
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Top Wintry Soups with Granola for Crunchy, Nutty Goodness
Croutons are pretty much flawless, but if you’re looking to shake up your seasonal soups, consider topping them with that prince of a breakfast item: granola.
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The Next Wave of Star Wars Toys is All About Rey
The way toy manufacturing works, it’s likely Hasbro had always intended that the first post-release Force Awakens toys would include more merchandise that highlights Rey.
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We Demand a Prequel to This Short Film About a Girl and Her Robot
“Gear” is a short film written and directed by Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander. It’s about a girl named Mazzy, who is hiding from the authorities, and her robot friend, Three. The short opens up so many questions we demand more.
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Mapping Hundreds of Power Disruptions and ‘Cyberattacks’ Caused by … Squirrels – CityLab
An electrified squirrel causing a black-out in your neighborhood is more than an unfortunate occurrence for all parties involved—it’s a regular event that happens much more often than you might think.
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In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law.
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Where was Ted Cruz born and does it matter for his presidential bid? | US news | The Guardian
With Ted Cruz emerging as a threat in Donald Trump’s path to the Republican presidential nomination, the real estate mogul has looked to blunt Cruz’s momentum by questioning his eligibility to run for president because he was not born in the United …
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Nick Saban, CEO of Crimson Tide Inc, Is Back in Business | Rolling Stone
I am imagining the sound of the hard drive whirring in Nick Saban’s head in that fourth quarter, just over 10 minutes to play, game tied at 24, the national championship on the line.
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Watch Conan O’Brien Remember David Bowie’s ‘Late Night’ Visits | Rolling Stone
Watch Conan O’Brien Remember David Bowie’s ‘Late Night’ Visits https://t.co/VMFI6XWcr2 https://t.co/LQOGzcO3Tr
On Monday night’s episode of Conan, Conan O’Brien paid tribute to David Bowie, a frequent guest in the Late Night era, with a five-minute clip that spotlighted the humorous side of the rock legend. Bowie passed away Sunday following a long battle wi… -
After sticking a land-based return, SpaceX will try the ocean again | Ars Technica
Less than a month after successfully flying the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket booster back to a landing site along the Florida coast, SpaceX plans to try a seaborne return.
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The Clintons’ long history of pandering to young black voters like me – Vox
Sometimes kids just cry. According to my folks, that fact defines my first encounter with a Clinton. In August 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore made a campaign stop in the first city I called home, Cleveland.
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U.S. Panel Finalizes Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations – Scientific American
An influential panel of U.S. experts issued final recommendations on Monday reaffirming their controversial position that mammogram screening should start at age 50, but also said some women may benefit from screening starting at age 40. Under the U…
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International relief agencies have delivered aid to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya where as many as 28 people are reported to have died of starvation. A U.N.
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Right-wing media personalities have incessantly attacked President Obama’s six previous State of the Union addresses — from calling the speeches “boring” to questioning his decision to invite a wounded veteran to the event — and have even frequent…
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The most important fact about Monday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is that this case—one of the most important of the term—will be decided on the basis of no facts at all.
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Artist illustrates what it’s like to live with anxiety and depression|Dangerous Minds
If you don’t live with anxiety and/or depression (or know someone who does), these illustrations will probably not mean a lot to you. If you, like me, do suffer from one or both, then these illustrations will hit close to home. The wording and situa…
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Bakery Owned By Anti-Immigrant Texas Politician Hired Undocumented Immigrants | ThinkProgress
Thomas McNutt, who’s currently running to be a state representative in Texas, is relying on a stringently anti-immigrant platform.
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11 Embarrassing Things Media Outlets Have Tweeted About Powerball | ThinkProgress
The record $1.4 billion prize for the next Powerball drawing, scheduled for Wednesday, is not an accident. In October, the group of states that runs Powerball decided to change the rules to make it much harder to win.
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Think You Know the Red Planet? Watch This.
People have been enthralled by the red planet, Mars, for centuries, long before the blockbuster book and movie The Martian. The planet has been known since antiquity, but if NASA gets its way, human beings may set foot there as early as 2030. (Getti…
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Longform: How a 90-Year-Old Missing Person Became a Hit on Spotify by Rosie Cima
Nobody noticed Connie Converse when she was trying to get a record deal in New York in the 1950s. Nobody stopped her when she left her life in Michigan in 1974, never to be seen again. Today, her music is heard by tens of thousands.
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China’s Hollywood studio buy-up begs questions – BBC News
When Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened in Beijing over the weekend, it took $53m (£37m). That is still under a fifth of the $238m that it took on the opening weekend in the United States, but the Chinese market is growing at a phenomenal rate – up…
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Vontaze Burfict lands three-game ban after Bengals’ stormy playoff defeat | Sport | The Guardian
Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict will be suspended for the first three games of next season as the NFL began handing down punishments for an ugly wildcard playoff game.
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De-mining Sri Lanka: a job for widows and survivors – Al Jazeera English
Sprawling over 12 square kilometres, the minefield at Muhamalai in the northern district of Kilinochchi is unique even in an area on intimate terms with mines.
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From Yoda to Ewoks to BB-8, the Star Wars franchise has long had a penchant for cute characters, despite all that unpleasant space genocide going on in the background. That’s why it appeals to multiple generations.
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The Little-Known Virus Causing a Panic Over Infant Brain Deformities in Brazil | Motherboard
Microcephaly is hard to miss. Babies with this potentially life-threatening condition are born with noticeably smaller-than-normal heads.
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The Surprisingly Sophisticated Science of Making a Keyboard Feel Great
In June of 2012, Microsoft announced the first devices in its new Surface line, twin tablets to take on the ascendant iPad while simultaneously challenging the idea of what a tablet could be. And as part of that reveal, it also introduced two new bu…
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Jewish-Israeli band making waves with Arabic song – Al Jazeera English
A girl band in Israel has been making waves after its debut single became the first song entirely in Arabic to top the charts in Israel. “Habib Galbi” by the band A-WA – made up of three sisters – gives traditional rhythms and lyrics from Yemen a hi…
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Your smartphone knows your ATM and phone PIN / Boing Boing
Because a PIN-pad is so constrained and predictable, the accelerometer in your smartwatch is able to guess with a high degree of confidence (73%) what you enter into it — it can also serve as a general-purpose keylogger, though with less accuracy (…
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Obama to look past Congress and toward the future in State of the Union address
President Obama is set to deliver his final State of the Union address, and word is this one will be different. The White House says President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night will be non-traditional.
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Today’s State of the Union might be the least watched in 20 years. That’s not a bad thing. – Vox
Tonight’s State of the Union might be the least watched address of the past two decades. Viewership for the speech has declined steadily since at least 1993, when Bill Clinton’s first message garnered nearly 67 million viewers.
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Watch Out for These Red Flags When Hiring a Tax Preparer
Even if someone prepares your taxes for you, you’re still on the hook for the information they submit to the IRS. That’s why you don’t want to just pick anybody to help prepare your taxes. The IRS offers a few tips for finding a reputable tax prepar…
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Where People Doing High Intensity Interval Training Often Go Wrong
High intensity interval training (or HIIT, for short) sounds simple enough: go as hard as you can for a short period, rest, repeat, and reap the benefits. HIIT is great, for sure, except what most people consider HIIT isn’t actually HIIT. Your all-o…
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Upgrade To This Highly-Rated Hoover Vacuum For Just $75, Today Only
If you’re in any way dissatisfied with your current vacuum cleaner, Amazon will sell you a highly-rated Hoover for just $75 today, an all-time low.
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The Incredible Hulk May Have Just Revealed Cate Blanchett’s Role In Thor: Ragnarok
A new hoodie probably doesn’t give us a glimpse of Spider-Man’s Civil War costume. There’s plans for a lot of characters in Avengers: Infinity War. Pacific Rim 2 still lives. Arrow’s executives firmly deny recent rumors about Felicity’s fate.
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Fear Invades the 17th Century Wilderness in This Harrowing New Trailer for The Witch
We’ve had plenty of sequels, remakes, and found footage—but for my money, the most thrilling new horror films are the ones with their own distinct sense of style.
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One two-minute video that encapsulates every clichéd punk rock documentary ever made|Dangerous Minds
Punk scholars, this is everything. If you’ve ever watched ANY documentary on the early days of punk rock, this video will make perfect sense. As a parody, it’s almost too spot-on.
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Anatomical Illustrations from 15th-century England | The Public Domain Review
Anatomical illustrations from an English medical treatise dating from the mid 15th century.
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America’s New Plan to Fight ISIS Online – Defense One
On Friday, State Department officials announced that they would revamp their efforts to counter ISIS messaging online — among other ways, by opening a new “Global Engagement Center.
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Requiem for David Bowie, Master of Cosmic Salutations | Vanity Fair
After the news hit us all sideways this morning, a former high school teacher of mine reminded me today that when I was a college student at Frostburg State (cue the newsreel footage of snow streaking the bare, strip-mined mountain and whistling win…
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How Strange Twists in DNA Orchestrate Life – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). DNA is probably best known for its iconic shape—the double helix that James Watson and Francis Crick first described more than 60 years ago. But the molecule rarely takes that form in living cells.
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The Wall Street Journal has a remarkable editorial titled The Carnage in Coal Country, accusing President Obama of destroying jobs through his terrible, horrible, no good regulations on coal: “According to the National Mining Association, 40,000 coa…
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China Has Arrested a Group of Lawyers Already Being Secretly Detained | VICE News
China formally arrested several Chinese human rights lawyers on suspicion of subverting state power after months of secret detention, one of their colleagues said on Tuesday, the latest move by authorities to crack down on dissent.
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Gene editing shows promise in treating muscular dystrophy | Ars Technica
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung muscles.
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Oculus cofounder building a -43° propane phase-change-cooled PC | Ars Technica
Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR and creator of the Oculus Rift, somewhat unsurprisingly, is a fully paid-up member of the PC Master Race. During a recent Reddit AMA, Luckey was asked about the hardware specs of his PC.
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Spotify Teams With Genius To Annotate Music Tracks | TechCrunch
Ever wanted to learn a bit more about a song you’re listening to on Spotify? Now you can.
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The last time a Los Angeles police officer faced criminal charges for shooting an unarmed civilian, it was 2000 and the city had just been shaken by a major corruption scandal involving officers framing suspects and dealing drugs right out of the ev…
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Alabama’s title proves Nick Saban is the greatest college coach in history | Sport | The Guardian
It was the onside kick that clinched it. With 10:34 left in the national championship and the score tied 24-24, Nick Saban had his kicker pop the ball down the right sideline where cornerback Marlon Humphrey ran under it to set Alabama up with the b…
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Paranoia strikes deep in the new trailer for The Witch · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Thanks to its strong showing on the festival circuit, The Witch has become one of the most anticipated horror movies of the year—so much so, that distributor A24 has moved up its release date.
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Somewhere Else by Sandra Glover – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Somewhere Else is about a girl called Jade, who woke up one day thinking she was somebody completely different, called Janet.
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Last Days of Chavez’s Legacy: The Fall of Chavismo in Venezuela | VICE News
Venezuela’s December election was an historic moment. After exactly 17 years of dominating the country’s institutions and politics, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) — founded by the late President Hugo Chavez — was defeated at the poll…
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ISTANBUL — A large explosion rocked a square in Sultanahmet, the historic central district of Istanbul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others.
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“I am not a terrorist”: Muslim man barred from playing Paragon beta | Ars Technica
Last weekend Muhammad Zakir Khan, an avid gamer and assistant professor at Broward College in Florida, booted up his PC and attempted to sign up for Epic Games’ MOBA-inspired Paragon beta.
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – Christ and Pilate – YouTube
David Bowie vs. Willem Dafoe
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More than half of Detroit Public Schools were closed Monday after teachers stayed home in what they called a large-scale sickout.
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Space in Images – 2016 – 01 – Esrange launch tower
An interior view of a launch tower for suborbital rockets at Esrange, near Kiruna in Sweden. ESA launches sounding rockets from here to run experiments in microgravity as they climb to heights of 270 km before returning to Earth, offering six minute…
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UK storms: Direct Line expects insurance claims to reach up to £140m | Business | The Guardian
Direct Line, one of Britain’s biggest insurers, will take a hit of up to £140m from the three storms that flooded parts of Britain in recent weeks. The company put the total cost of clients’ claims in its home and commercial divisions at between £11…
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The Future of Hollywood Blockbusters Moves Even Closer to China | Vanity Fair
The future of American blockbusters has long been in China, where growing business relationships and a booming moviegoing audience have made it more possible than ever for films like Furious 7 and Transformers: Age of Extinction to make box-office k…
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The Sorry Legacy of Internet Explorer | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Internet Explorer soon will be a thing of the past.
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19th-Century Atlases Included Hundreds of Fake Islands | Atlas Obscura
In 1913, a small group of explorers set sail from New York and headed towards Greenland. They were looking to solve what Donald MacMillan, the head of the expedition, called “the last great geographical problem of the North.” They were planning to e…
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NASA’s New Office Is Our Defense Against Death From the Skies
It’d be such a shame to lose this fragile, watery planet to an asteroid strike. NASA’s newly-formalized Planetary Defense Coordination Office will do its best to save us — money and physics permitting.
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I Went On Air At QVC And Sold Something To America
To reverse engineer the secret sauce driving QVC’s $8.8 billion business, I went to their school and then sold a product on air. It’s five minutes to air, and I’m practicing my “card tricks”—what I’ve come to see as my greatest nemesis.
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Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical / Boing Boing
“Radical ecology” has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Good morning and Happy Tuesday. Today we’ll welcome Monte Frank of Team 26 back to the show, to catch up on their activities, and discuss developments in the gun safety policy arena.
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From Oscar Wilde to The Remains of the Day, Guardian writers have been sharing the books they wish more people would read on our blog for the last few weeks. To end our series, here are our readers’ favourite titles to share – and some of their most…
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Significant Digits for Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Number of toys Rey, a character from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” appears in, out of 70 toys featuring characters from the film. She is the main chara…
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David Bowie, remembered in 9 songs that sampled him – Vox
The incredible legacy that David Bowie left behind after he died late Sunday night is so large, it’s hard to document in a single way. His gender-fluid performances, a space-cover of “Space Oddity,” his role in the fall of the Berlin wall, we’ve wri…
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German Anti-Refugee Right-Wingers Go on Rampage | Al Jazeera America
Over 200 masked right-wing demonstrators, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern city of Leipzig on Monday night, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalizing buildings, police said.
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Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Engagement Is ‘Not That Surprising’ – The Daily Beast
It is perhaps fair to say it has not been the best of weeks for Mick Jagger. First, his old friend, collaborator and contemporary David Bowie died. Now his former wife, Jerry Hall, has announced that she is to marry the 84-year-old media magnate, R…
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What It’s Like to Be the “Designated Survivor” for the State of the Union – Mic
Aside from the celebrity-studded White House Correspondents Association dinner, the annual State of the Union address is Washington’s ultimate see-and-be-seen affair.
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Protesters tell Obama: closing Guantánamo is your responsibility | US news | The Guardian
Wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods, two dozen protesters stood outside the White House on Monday to give short shrift to Barack Obama’s claim that the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay is beyond his control.
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Mobile Clinics, Medical Teams Needed in Madaya | Al Jazeera America
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked the Syrian government for permission to send mobile clinics and medical teams to the besieged town of Madaya to assess the extent of malnutrition and evacuate the worst cases, its representative said Tue…
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Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own? – Scientific American
Among dance forms, tango holds a unique and potent allure.
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Note: Today is National Pharmacist Day. They’ll celebrate the usual way, by inviting customers to pick a goodie from the giant bowl full of pills they find on the floor over the course of the year. (Note: if you pick the one shaped like a dodecahe…
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9 times David Bowie songs transformed movies and television – Vox
9 times David Bowie songs transformed movies and television https://t.co/zJaB6fnugy https://t.co/n3zEwYvFQq
David Bowie’s contributions to the world of film and television are as substantial as those of any recording artist in history. Yes, many will remember him for his memorable roles in several films, but his songs and performances have scored some mem… -
The complex causes of worldwide bee declines : environment
The complex causes of worldwide bee declines via /r/environment https://t.co/dzKMBJUSSL https://t.co/fPK3GQRIpG
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Today, in search of a way through a constantly expanding morass of information, people often turn to infographics—points of data, spatially arranged to help visualize the relationships between them. They’re helpful and nice to look at. You probably …
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Is It Your Turn to Speak? Watch My Eyes – Scientific American
You may think the fine art of conversation is all about the words you speak. But research suggests your eyes have something to say, too, letting others know when it’s their turn to pipe up.
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How the Brain Perceives Color Could Help Explain Consciousness – The Atlantic
When Isaac Newton was 17 years old, he performed a series of experiments with prisms and light beams.
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The $1.5 trillion spending measure that just passed in Congress is particularly good news for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will see its budget increase by $2 billion, or 6 percent, the largest increase in over a decade.
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Travel Search Site Skyscanner Raises $192M For International Expansion | TechCrunch
Travel search engine Skyscanner announced today that it has raised £128 million (about $192 million). The Edinburgh-based company did not disclose its valuation, but the Financial Times reported that it has hit unicorn status and is now worth $1.6 b…
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US-led coalition strike ‘destroys IS bank in Iraq’ – BBC News
He estimated that millions of dollars earned by IS through oil sales, looting and extortion had been destroyed. Video posted online by IS showed damage to a building. The coalition has increased strikes against facilities that fund IS activities inc…
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Tracey Ullman returns to TV ‘on fighting form’ – BBC News
Tracey Ullman’s return to British TV screens after some 30 years has been largely welcomed by critics. Tracey Ullman’s Show, on BBC One on Monday, included impressions of a kleptomaniac Dame Judi Dench and a “sex bomb” German Chancellor Angela Merke…
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Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s ‘wardrobe tunnel’ – BBC News
The BBC has been shown around the apartment hideout used by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman before his recapture, which included a tunnel behind a wardrobe. Guzman escaped through the tunnel when the apartment was raided and came up through a drain at a n…
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As winter sets in around the country, thousands of the nation’s poor are struggling to keep the heat on thanks to intentional underfunding of a key federal progam.
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Last-Ditch Attempt to Contact Philae Comet Lander Fails | Motherboard
Things have gone from bad to worse for Philae, the comet lander sent up to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 as part of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission.
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Thanks to Ammon Bundy, White Supremacy Is Already Having a Banner Year | Vanity Fair
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This Energy Company Wants To Legally Dump Coal Ash Waste Into Virginia Rivers | ThinkProgress
This Energy Company Wants To Legally Dump Coal Ash Waste Into Virginia Rivers https://t.co/XxKH31XIuR https://t.co/hOUMs16Peo
The Possum Point Power Station will transfer millions of gallons of treated water from toxic coal ash ponds into Virginia’s Quantico Creek if the state water board decides Thursday to allow Dominion, an energy company, to do so. -
RemixOS Brings Desktop-Style Android to Intel-Based PCs
Android is a pretty versatile operating system, but it’s not really ready for desktop-style uses just yet. RemixOS shows that it could be, with windowed Android apps, running on Intel-based PCs.
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State of the Union 2016 live stream: How to watch Obama’s presidental address online, TV – Vox
President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address at 9 pm Eastern tonight. You can find a live stream at the White House’s website here.
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WATERLOO, Iowa — Facing new pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders in Iowa, Hillary Clinton confronted him in direct terms on Monday, warning Iowans that if elected president, he would put their health insurance in the hands of Republican governors an…
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Kotaku North Korea Is Now Faking Video Footage, Apparently | Deadspin Clemson Doomed Themselves By Giving Up Too Many Big Plays | Jezebel Judge Refuses Josh Duggar’s Request to See Evidence in Sexual Battery Suit | Gizmodo Why Finding Gravitational …
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Computer games that heal you – The Long and Short
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The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won’t Win Powerball | WIRED
According to recent research, the winning Powerball numbers are 86 75 30 9… Just kidding, that’s Jenny’s number. Not to say that would be the worst choice. Your odds of winning this week’s record Powerball jackpot with Jenny’s help, or any other com…
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Graduate Students at Private Universities Could Soon Have the Right to Unionize | The Nation
This semester, graduate students across the country will return to the same old routine of shuttling from the library to the lecture hall, hitting the archives in the afternoon and dozing off over a stack of half-graded papers by dusk.
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Scientists discover 2,100-year-old stash of “fine plucked” tea | Ars Technica
Researchers in China have positively identified a block of ancient vegetable matter as tiny tea buds that were lovingly tucked away in Han Yangling Mausoleum, a sumptuous tomb north of Xi’an.
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Obama’s State of the Union addresses: has he kept his promises? | US news | The Guardian
Guardian verdict: The implication then was that these challenges, though time-consuming, would eventually be met during his presidency. Instead, in previewing his final state of the union in 2016, Obama acknowledges much remains: “I want to focus on…
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Taking stock of Obama’s promises: speech idealisms fall short of reality | US news | The Guardian
The return to Saudi Arabia on Monday of the 104th detainee left languishing in Guantánamo Bay marks a concerted scramble to shore up Barack Obama’s legacy as he gives his final State of the Union address to Congress this week.
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How Hillary Clinton embraced the female vote and won loyal followers | US news | The Guardian
The Des Moines crowd that filed in from the 10-degree weather to see Lena Dunham talk about Hillary Clinton this past weekend was decidedly young and female.
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Photographer recreates Star Wars on Cromarty Firth rigs – BBC News
Image copyright Craig Mann A photographer has created images that place some of Star Wars’ best loved characters on oil rigs parked up in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands.Craig Mann, whose photography usually features landscapes from around the w…
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Fewer than half of Barack Obama’s biggest promises as president have been kept, according to a Guardian audit published on the eve of his final State of the Union address.
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Broken heart for David Bowie : DavidBowie
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The 40,000-Mile Volcano https://t.co/rQvT096EVQ https://t.co/lQLWT7Mife
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The Turtle Pits site on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, consisting of two sulfide mounds and a black smoker chimney. Picture a volcano. Now imagine that its main vent extends in a line.
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Life on Earth Can Thank Its Lucky Stars for Jupiter and Saturn
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Without Jupiter and Saturn orbiting out past Earth, life may not have been able to gain a foothold on our planet, new simulations suggest.
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In the Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova Explains Cons and How to Avoid Them – The Atlantic
In November, I came across a story that made absolutely no sense to me. A 33-year-old consultant named Niall Rice gave $718,000, little by little, to two Manhattan psychics who promised to reunite him with an old flame.
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Iraq conflict: Shia ‘reprisals’ after bomb kills 20 in cafe – BBC News
Shia Muslim militiamen in eastern Iraq have carried out reprisals against Sunni Muslims after a double bombing, security sources say. Bombs killed at least 20 people at a cafe in Muqdadiya on Monday.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Previewing the State of the Union
Here is what he probably will not say, at least not this bluntly: Americans are more likely to die in a car crash, drown in a bathtub or be struck by lightning than be killed by a terrorist. The news media is complicit in inflating the sense of dang…
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Best-Ever Map of High-Energy Sky Unveiled
Astronomers have performed the best-ever census of the high-energy sky.
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Enter Shikari – Redshift (New Music) [Rock] : Music
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Obama’s has a good record to brag about tonight, but people still hate the government – Vox
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In tonight’s State of the Union address, Barack Obama is likely to try to argue loudly and proudly that life is pretty good in the United States of America. He’ll have a lot of data on his side as he tries to make his case. -
Winners of Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards announced | Children’s books | The Guardian
Winners of Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards announced https://t.co/SMrjUM99qD https://t.co/1d3ExFu9Zt
Yesterday was a massive day for US children’s and YA literature prizes – so let’s all celebrate this year’s winners of the 2016 Newbery medal, Caldecott illustration medal and the Printz award for YA lit – all awarded by the the Association for Libr… -
Stranded whales die on the shore at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu – BBC News
Stranded whales die on the shore at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu https://t.co/GUqSnt8aCE https://t.co/7JhQW5ftvr
At least 45 whales have died in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after more than 100 of the animals were stranded on the shore at Tuticorin. The whales were spotted along a stretch of beach on Monday evening. -
JustWatch Finds the Best Place to Buy or Rent Movies Online
JustWatch Finds the Best Place to Buy or Rent Movies and TV Shows Online https://t.co/JVR2NDLEh3 https://t.co/GOYFG4DwIz
There are a bunch of places to buy or rent movies online, but prices can vary from one service to another. JustWatch checks most major online services to find you the best price. -
Istanbul Explosion: What We Know So Far https://t.co/wMFdqRvuF6 https://t.co/3HrEXTtzHW
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in televised remarks, identified the attacked as a suicide bomber with “Syrian roots. -
SpaceX to Attempt Another Rocket Landing Sunday
SpaceX to Attempt Another Rocket Landing Sunday https://t.co/gOGx358jtu https://t.co/UqElswe9Je
The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket attempts to land on an uncrewed ship in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 2015. The booster hit its target but ended up toppling over on the ship’s deck. -
Sanders to top Clinton aide: ‘There’s always room at Bernie 2016’ : politics
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Thousands of Doctors Walk Out of England’s Hospitals in First Strike in 40 Years | VICE News
Doctors across England walked out today in the first of three planned strikes over pay and working hours, causing hospital services to be severely disrupted.
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David Bowie tribute by Glasgow museum organist – BBC News
An organist in a Glasgow museum has stunned crowds with his tribute to David Bowie. Crowds were stunned when Kris Nicol performed Life on Mars on the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum’s 115-year-old organ.
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Pharmaceutical giant Bayer has said it has put forward proposals for extra protections for bees after initially accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of overestimating the harm caused to the vital pollinators by a widely used pesticide.
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Tokyo-based Sansan Scores $16.9M To Help Companies Wrangle Business Cards | TechCrunch
Tokyo-based Sansan has raised a $16.9 million Series C to help companies store and manage information scanned from business cards. The funding, which brings Sansan’s total funding so far to $35.
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Anti-fracking protesters dig in as eviction battle starts in Cheshire | Environment | The Guardian
An eviction battle has begun at the UK’s longest running anti-fracking camp, which protesters have fortified with underground tunnels, tree houses and a moat.
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100M Live Broadcasts In, Periscope Streams New Life Into Your Twitter Feed | TechCrunch
Periscope, Twitter’s livestreaming app, has played around in the outskirts of Twitter, with nothing more than a screenshot and link being shared when you see a stream pop up in your timeline.
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Dutch police ‘read’ Blackberry emails – BBC News
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It did not go into details about how it does this but said that its methods allow police to read messages. Troubled phonemaker Blackberry has prided itself on providing customers with one of the safest methods of communication. -
100M Live Broadcasts In, Periscope Streams New Life Into Your Twitter Feed | TechCrunch
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Bill Cosby and Black Lives Matter – The Atlantic
Bill Cosby and His Enablers https://t.co/yYNAl3RptL https://t.co/mLqodiYDH0
Long before the Black Lives Matter movement raised the problem of immoral police (and vigilante) violence, African Americans grappled with its reality and the seemingly impenetrable logic which undergirds it. -
Some of the Best Science Can Slumber for Years – Scientific American
Some of the Best Science Can Slumber for Years https://t.co/FEFGGutXIC https://t.co/jlD6JDMied
Discovery lies at the core of science, but rediscovery can be just as important. -
What If Yoga Weren’t So Expensive? – The Atlantic
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Yoga, whose name is derived from a Sanskrit word for “unite,” has done quite a bit of dividing in the U.S. -
Tokyo-based Sansan Scores $16.9M To Help Companies Wrangle Business Cards | TechCrunch
Tokyo-based Sansan Scores $16.9M To Help Companies Wrangle Business Cards https://t.co/kXpORpcusF https://t.co/SNpzHas7Dq
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Grindr sells 60% stake to Chinese gaming company | Business | The Guardian
Grindr sells 60% stake to Chinese gaming company https://t.co/FMblo8epLd https://t.co/djzGr4P7Ca
Grindr, the dating and social networking app for gay and bisexual men, has hooked up with a Chinese partner for its first injection of outside capital. Beijing Kunlun Tech, a gaming company, has bought a 60% stake in Grindr, valuing the US business … -
Investors Feed Datadog A Hefty $94.5 million Round | TechCrunch
Investors Feed Datadog A Hefty $94.5 million Round https://t.co/yirX9N572C https://t.co/mTDmpEG9D8
Every startup needs a steady diet of funding to keep it strong and growing. Datadog, a monitoring service that helps customers bring together data from across a variety of infrastructure and software is no exception. Today it announced a massive $94…
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