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Tales from Uganda’s female former child soldiers – Al Jazeera English
Life was supposed to get easier for Grace Achara after she escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – but the war is only half her story. Abducted as a child, she spent more than half of her life in the Ugandan bush with the LRA. During that time, s…
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Renault shares plunge on reports of police raid – BBC News
Shares in French car manufacturer Renault have fallen 20% on reports of police raids on several of its factories. The raids were reportedly connected to the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
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Three ticket holders win $1.6bn US lottery – Al Jazeera English
A nearly $1.6bn Powerball lottery, the largest in US history, was won with at least three winners from California, Florida and Tennessee officials said. Lottery officers confirmed to Reuters news agency that the California winning ticket was purchas…
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride cinema sales top £21m worldwide | Television & radio | The Guardian
The Sherlock Christmas special, The Abominable Bride, has rocketed to fifth place at the US box office despite a limited release, with total international cinema sales exceeding $30m (£21m).
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How our sense of smell works as a mysterious sixth s…
Noam Sobel can’t stop watching you sniff your hands. In public, he sees people doing it everywhere. Here a man is leaning on one elbow, his palm covering his nose. Over there someone is playing with her upper lip, her fingers hovering just below her…
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Digital art can help us see and judge the internet b…
The internet has created a vast new canvas for artists seeking to explore the intersection of physical and digital spaces.
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With Hospital Hotels Come Medical Waste | Al Jazeera America
Aura Berciano-Reyes has worked as a housekeeper at the Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill for nearly two decades.
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Solar panels still make financial sense for consumers despite the technology being hit by a double whammy of subsidy cuts and a hike in VAT rates, the industry claims. This Friday marks the final chance for homeowners to secure the current incentive…
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Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Deficit Anymore? | FiveThirtyEight
Since the Great Recession, debate over government deficits has often dominated politics and was central to the 2012 campaign.
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Ashley Olsen: man held on suspicion of American’s murder in Florence | World news | The Guardian
A man has been arrested in Florence on suspicion of the murder of Ashley Olsen, an American woman whose death last week sent shockwaves through the Italian city’s art community where she was well-known.
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ISIL claims responsibility for Jakarta attacks – Al Jazeera English
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group has claimed responsibility for the coordinated bomb and gun attacks in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, a news agency linked to ISIL reported on Thursday.
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Democrats Welcome President Obama’s Ultimatum on Guns – The Atlantic
When President Obama vowed last week not to endorse or campaign for candidates who opposed “common-sense gun reforms,” his ultimatum escalated a feud between the two leading Democratic candidates to replace him, who bickered over which of them had t…
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Paul LePage’s Impeachment Proceedings – The Atlantic
For the governor of a small state, Governor Paul LePage has an unusually large national profile. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
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Alps avalanche deaths: Police investigate teacher’s role – BBC News
Investigators in the French Alps are examining why a teacher apparently took schoolchildren on to a closed ski run shortly before a deadly avalanche. Two French students and a Ukrainian tourist were killed in the disaster in Les Deux Alpes area on W…
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Truck Bomb Attack Kills Six in Turkey’s Southeast, Blamed on PKK | VICE News
A truck bomb blasted through a police station in south east Turkey on Thursday morning, killing six people and wounding at least 39, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants.
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In Dunkirk refugee camp, a life of muddy uncertainty – Al Jazeera English
Grand Synthe, France – Sandwiched between a suburban housing estate and a community football field, a few thousand mostly Kurdish refugees are living a life of soiled uncertainty in an informal camp just outside Dunkirk.
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Fox Should Ask the GOP Candidates These Questions at Tonight’s Debate | Mother Jones
On Thursday night, the Republican 2016 wannabes will once again gather for a debate, with the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary just weeks away.
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Meet Comedy Central’s New Odd Couple | Mother Jones
Tonight marks the premiere of Comedy Central’s Idiotsitter, the creative love child of comedians Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse, longtime writing partners and pals who met while performing with well-known Los Angeles improv troupe the Groundlin…
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Ted Cruz’s War on Ethanol Mandates | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared on the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, presidential candidates seeking to compete in the Iowa caucuses have dutifully pledged their support for the production and…
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Marco Rubio Turns His Back on Puerto Rico, at His Own Peril | Mother Jones
In early September, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio campaigned in San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital, on the same day—a nod to the island’s importance in the November presidential election, thanks to a surging population of Puerto Ricans in Florida,…
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General Electric, the nation’s largest industrial company, makes products like jet engines, locomotives and gas turbines. Its corporate reputation is tied to producing big, heavy equipment — atoms by the ton, not the ephemeral bits of software. Yet …
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Athletics doping claims: IAAF braced for WADA anti-doping report – BBC News
The world athletics governing body, the IAAF, is braced for further turmoil as the World Anti-Doping Agency prepares to release another report into doping and corruption. Its first report, in November, led to Russia being suspended from internationa…
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Kids ask US presidential candidates to debate science | Shawn Otto | Environment | The Guardian
Susanlyn Singroy thinks the candidates for US president should be debating science. The eighth-grader argues that the candidates are talking about money, religion and immigration, but rarely mentioning the science challenges impacting her future. Si…
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With $90 Million In New Funding And Unicorn Status, Anaplan Looks Ahead to IPO | TechCrunch
Anaplan announced a $90 million round today at a valuation of S1.09 billion after funding, putting the company squarely in unicorn territory, those companies with valuations of a billion or more.
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My Corgi Winston Briefly Tasted the Sweet Nectar of Online Fame | Motherboard
I’m not famous, but my dog is. His name’s Winston. He’s a two-and-a-half-year-old Pembroke Welsh Corgi with his own Instagram account (I’m his unpaid social media manager).
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Ted Cruz and the Fear of a Canadian Planet | New Republic
The birth conspiracy theories that dogged President Barack Obama were absurd but they had a clear thrust: He was a Kenyan, secret Muslim anti-colonialist (and possibly Marxist).
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“Little Spoon” would entertain and amaze crowds, the opposition and even his teammates with his ball-handling skills and goal-scoring ability. Many times he would leave confounded opposing defenders as spectators and beleaguered goalkeepers with bac…
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Jakarta attack: How assault on city unfolded – BBC News
The blasts were centred around Thamrin Street, a major shopping and business district close to foreign embassies and the United Nations offices. Jonathan Head reports.
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Share markets rattled as oil price slide continues – BBC News
European shares continued the rout on global markets as pessimism over falling oil prices and economic growth weighed on investors. The main stock markets in London, Frankfurt and Paris sank by about 2%, tracking steep overnight losses on Wall Stree…
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Bernie Sanders for President | The Nation
A year ago, concerned that ordinary citizens would be locked out of the presidential nominating process, The Nation argued that a vigorously contested primary would be good for the candidates, for the Democratic Party, and for democracy.
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In Mexico, a mother’s wait for her missing son – Al Jazeera English
Guerrero, Mexico – In Yolanda Gonzalez’s dream she climbs out of bed, feeling dizzy in the heat of the night. Everybody else is sleeping, so she walks to the backyard, where everything is still, apart from the dogs that will not stop barking.
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Netflix links with UK’s Channel 4 for Matrix-inspired drama Kiss Me First | Media | The Guardian
Netflix has struck a deal with the UK’s Channel 4 for a thriller based on a novel partly inspired by The Matrix. Kiss Me First, to be adapted by Skins creator Bryan Elsley, is an adaptation of the bestselling young adult novel of the same name by Lo…
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1) The third Test started on Thursday morning in Johannesburg, and it has plenty to live up to. Since South Africa’s readmission in 1991, England’s Tests at the Wanderers have been highly eventful.
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Israel’s Shimon Peres treated after minor heart attack – BBC News
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has undergone a “successful minor surgery” after suffering small heart attack, officials have said. Mr Peres, 92, was treated for a constricted artery that had caused chest pain, his spokesman Ayelet Frisch said.
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West Africa declared Ebola-free but flare-ups expected – Al Jazeera English
Liberia is marked as Ebola-free effectively by the World Health Organisation (WHO), joining Sierra Leone and Guinea, ending the world’s worst outbreak of the disease.
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Spacewalk live / Principia / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
ESA astronaut Tim Peake was launched into space only a month ago but he is already set for his first spacewalk on Friday, 15 January.
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The closed debate on free speech – Al Jazeera English
Ironically, in the recently revived debate over free speech, there has been a paucity of real, engaged communication – you know, the type where you actually listen to the people with whom you think you disagree.
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Your pictures: Rural life – BBC News
Your pictures: Rural life 14 January 2016 Last updated at 09:31 Each week, we publish a gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. This week it is “rural life” and we begin with a picture by William Baquiast of a scene in Calafate in Argentina.
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Economic hardship forces Yemen’s children to join war – Al Jazeera English
Taiz, Yemen – Hamas Yaseen, a 14-year-old from Taiz’s al-Masbah neighbourhood, usually returned from his job as a motorcycle driver by 8pm. But on the night of October 15, he never came back.
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Oscars 2016: Redmayne and DiCaprio set for nominations – BBC News
Eddie Redmayne is tipped to be in the running for a second best actor award when the Oscar nominations are announced later. He is expected to be cited for his role in The Danish Girl, with competition set to come from Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Udacity Is Now Offering a ‘Job Guarantee’ for Its Nanodegree Program Grads | Motherboard
Udacity and other online education platforms still face a lot of skepticism from within the technology industries they target. A common refrain is that they’re unproven.
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Doing homework with a cat can be a difficult task : cats
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Groups Decrying ‘Dark Money’ Use Shadowy Money Themselves – The Daily Beast
Groups that complain about “dark money” in politics may need to look into the darkness that shrouds their own pots of money. The Center for Public Integrity found 21 groups, vocal about so-called dark money, that put money into politics but do not f…
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Indian Home Healthcare Startup Care24 Gets $4M Series A From SAIF Partners | TechCrunch
Care24 is the latest home healthcare startup to get funding in India. The Mumbai-based company announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series A from SAIF Partners, which it will invest in caretaker training and its technology platform.
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Bend It Like Beckham West End musical to close – BBC News
The Bend It Like Beckham stage musical is to close in March, less than a year after it opened in London’s West End. The show was staged by Gurinder Chadha, who also directed the hit 2002 movie that launched the careers of Keira Knightley and Parmind…
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Mournful, miserable, murky, mundane: that is the North Sea. When I set sail around the world on a cargo ship a few years ago, I paid it little attention, anxious for the more exciting Bay of Biscay or Suez. The Naked Shore makes me regret that snobb…
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How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race https://t.co/jmlMaUv56c https://t.co/yeRplV0FcF
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Willie Nelson – Hello Walls [country] : Music
Willie Nelson – Hello Walls [country] via /r/Music https://t.co/4BMVllBjnx https://t.co/KiSJkI6fcd
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Groups Decrying ‘Dark Money’ Use Shadowy Money Themselves – The Daily Beast
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A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
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ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars. -
David Bowie was always going somewhere — Africa, Japan, outer space, “the hinterland, the hinterland” (from “Red Sails”), up, down, in, out, across. One wavelet of Internet tributes paid to Mr.
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The Other Keystone: The Alberta Clipper, the Pipeline No One Is Talking About – In These Times
After years of political jostling, environmental groups celebrated President Obama’s Nov. 6, 2015, rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline. “America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” he said.
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Sunday in Brazzaville – Al Jazeera English
More than a decade ago, Brazzaville was considered the worst city in the world to live in. But beyond the war and suffering, there exists a different side to the Congo.
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Indonesia cuts rates for first time since February – BBC News
Indonesia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate to 7.25% from 7.5% in an attempt to give its struggling economy a boost. It is the first time that the bank has cut interest rates since February last year.
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David Bowie ‘cremated in New York’ – BBC News
David Bowie’s body has been privately cremated in New York, according to reports. The cremation took place soon after his death, avoiding a funeral service for the star who closely guarded his privacy in his final years.
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A decade in the NFL, and the verdict on Alex Smith is still: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Sport | The Guardian
Of the eight starting quarterbacks still playing this season, five of them – Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson – have won at least one Super Bowl. Their credentials are established.
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Bury My Heart in Dresden – Al Jazeera English
At a Catholic cemetery in Dresden, Germany, the inscription on a weather-beaten tombstone reveals who was buried in the grave in 1914: Edward Two Two, Sioux chief. So where did he come from and why was he buried in Germany, thousands of kilometres a…
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At one end of the country, conservation groups are doing all they can to stop the burning of moors. Challenging the grouse shooting estates, for example, the RSPB argues that “there is an urgent need to restore these landscapes by … bringing an end …
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African lions likely to gain enhanced protection status – BBC News
African lions are set to gain greater international protection this year in the wake of the killing of Cecil by an American dentist in Zimbabwe in 2015. Tough new US regulations on the importation of lion trophies will come into force on January 22.
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Reddit, can you ask me a question and then edit it once I reply to make me look like a freak? (self.AskReddit) What is your favourite food?
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Now food’s the only thing I buy, I am a more mindful shopper | Money | The Guardian
A trip to a budget supermarket wouldn’t be most people’s idea of a good time but when food is the only thing you are buying it becomes a weekly highlight. I’ve never been much of a foodie or culinary whiz.
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Price of renting Airbnb on illegal Israeli settlements – Al Jazeera English
Airbnb may be the next high-profile target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, following media reports this week that the online accommodation service includes listings from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories th…
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Knightley and Son by Rohan Gavin – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Knightley and Son by Rohan Gavin is a fast moving adventure book. The characters in this book are Darkus Knightley, a thirteen year old boy who wants to be a detective like his father, Alan, who has been in coma for the last four years.
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A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum.
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A unique event in tropical storm history – Al Jazeera English
Since records started in earnest, ocean surface waters haven’t been this warm. An ocean surface around 26 degrees Celsius is one of the major factors in creating warm-cored cyclones. That warm heart is a requirement for a cyclone if it is ever to bu…
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There’s nothing better than getting away–and there’s no time like the present. Experience something brand new, and do it without breaking the bank thanks to these must-know travel hacks.
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Americans like to pride ourselves on the numerous ways our pop culture penetrated the Soviet Union and seduced its youngsters, sending them to bed with dreams of Mickey Mouse, Billie Holiday, Elvis, and Star Wars.
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PayPal Adds Bitcoin Entrepreneur To Its Board To Focus On The Future Of Money | TechCrunch
PayPal has made a notable move to position itself for the future of money and currency after it added seasoned fintech figure and bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares to its board. Argentina-born Casares has packed a lot into his 41 years to date.
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Top 10 feminist heroes in fiction | Children’s books | The Guardian
What is a literary feminist hero, exactly? To me, it’s a girl who gets to be anything she wants. A girl who isn’t merely “strong” or “brave” or any of the epithets female leads often have attached to them.
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Even in its finale, American Horror Story: Hotel can’t decide what it’s about.
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EU disastrous for UK, says cabinet minister Chris Grayling – BBC News
Remaining within the European Union under the UK’s current membership terms would be “disastrous”, Conservative minister Chris Grayling has said. The EU was heading towards closer integration – a path the UK “will not and should not follow”, the lea…
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Istanbul attack is no pretext to demonise refugees – Al Jazeera English
Istanbul’s historic peninsula, whose skyline is dotted with Ottoman and Byzantine architecture and which encompasses both the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, was .
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Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud [2048×2048] : spaceporn
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud [2048×2048] via /r/spaceporn https://t.co/FuYCcbCCcG https://t.co/WjI7q4XxZW
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When the former chair of the Environment Agency, Sir Philip Dilley, decided to delay returning from his holiday in Barbados, despite severe flooding in the UK, it proved to be a public relations disaster.
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This is me every night. via /r/aww https://t.co/NSskD0gyjd https://t.co/ifeInBy0vL
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“I just know I can fits!” : aww
“I just know I can fits!” via /r/aww https://t.co/BIIl28GeWd https://t.co/Wkq3KbNRfF
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The balls on this guy via /r/gifs https://t.co/AMVa8mvR3i https://t.co/fnrjzL5UJk
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Queensland miners dispirited by return of black lung disease | Environment | The Guardian
Underground coalminers feel let down by the system amid fears more workers could be diagnosed with the potentially deadly black lung disease in Queensland, a mining union says.
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What a difference a week makes: when we last saw Axl, he might as well have been singing “We Are the Champions,” given all of his victories, but all it took was eight hours at his new internship to send him into an emotional tailspin. Pardon me whil…
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Yes, that’s right. Black-ish wants you to think about your parents “banging it out,” and that’s evident from the very beginning of the episode.
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Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers – Brain Pickings
Why do we read? “A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her beautiful meditation on why we read and write. For Kafka, reading was “the axe for the frozen sea within us”; for James Baldwin, a way to change…
Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers – Brain Pickings https://t.co/NTFjKUfpnt https://t.co/xk0d9I1CQZ -
Sum 41 – The Hell Song [Pop Punk] : Music
Sum 41 – The Hell Song [Pop Punk] via /r/Music https://t.co/g9SRD2wpk4 https://t.co/N3NxJkqLvn
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The Movie Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Want You to See – The Daily Beast
Michael Bay’s latest blockbuster is definitely not going to make Hillary Clinton’s Top 10 list.
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‘We heard a third explosion, then a fourth, fifth and a sixth’ – BBC News
An eyewitness has described hearing a number of explosions in Jakarta, as he arrived at the city’s UN office. Jeremy Douglas said he was around 150m away from one explosion. He then heard multiple more explosions and gunfire.
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In his career as a TV mogul Phil Redmond created Grange Hill and Brookside, series that ran for 30 and 21 years respectively, and Hollyoaks, which is still going after two decades.
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Alabama Officer’s Excessive Force Case Tossed | Al Jazeera America
U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala granted a motion to acquit Madison police officer Eric Parker after his two previous trials ended in hung juries.
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E.B. White wrote in his sublime 1949 ode to Gotham, one of the most beautiful books ever written.
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Third Test: South Africa v EnglandVenue: Wanderers, Johannesburg. Dates: 14-18, January. Time: 08:30 GMTCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles, BBC Sport app & …
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Second aid convoy heads for Syrian town – 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 Avett Brothers – The Weight of Lies [Folk Rock] : Music
The Avett Brothers – The Weight of Lies [Folk Rock] via /r/Music https://t.co/QwWtiWhM4q https://t.co/bY1jTKySa0
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Tesco sales rise 1.3% over the Christmas period. – BBC News
Tesco has hailed a “strong Christmas” after its UK sales rose 1.3% on a like-for-like basis in the six weeks ending 9 January. But the supermarket reported a 1.5% fall in sales for the 13 weeks ending 28 November.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s urgent call in his final State of the Union address to “fix our politics” posed a fundamental question: Who broke them in the first place? The answer is that both sides did. A steady erosion underway for years has acce…
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Metallica, Canadian Cover Band Reconcile Over Cease and Desist Letter | Rolling Stone
Metallica cover band Sandman didn’t expect to have a FedEx package waiting for them over the weekend when they arrived at FitzRay’s, a London, Ontario club where the band was scheduled to play Saturday night.
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Watch Wale Open for Obama’s State of the Union Address | Rolling Stone
Wale made history on Tuesday as the first rapper to open for a State of the Union Address prior to President Barack Obama’s eighth and final State of the Union speech. The warm-up to the big event also included an appearance by Vice President Joe Bi…
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Rapid melting of Greenland glacier could raise sea levels for decades : environment
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Earlier this week, Fox Business Network announced that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had not made the cut for the first GOP Debate of 2016. In turn, the candidate said he would not be participating in the channel’s so-called “undercard” debate because he de…
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The science: Is there any way to stop people from gorging on sugary drinks? | Grist
The presidential candidate says he wants the U.S. to be “number one in renewables,” but just because he wants us to be number one in everything.
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I stand up for 2 seconds… : aww
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The Bison committee would like to have a word with you… : pics
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They Might Be Giants – We Want A Rock [Alternative] : Music
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Chef Goes to War With 2 Crates of Food and 1 Massive Wok : food
Cooking that amount of food is no wok in the park. We get the msg.
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The age of first-time mothers is rising faster in the US – BBC News
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the average age of first-time mothers in the US is on the rise.More US women are waiting longer to become mothers for the first time, according to figures released on T…
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Adele Raps Nicki Minaj and Sings Spice Girls in Epic Carpool Karaoke Session – The Daily Beast
Mariah Carey. Jennifer Hudson. Stevie Wonder. It was all one big prelude leading up to this. Wednesday night, as promised, The Late Late Show’s James Corden presented his full Carpool Karaoke session with the one and only Adele.
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Bodyweight + 33lbs muscle-up attempt : gifs
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Uber Is Finally Creating A Dedicated R&D Team On The Ground In India | TechCrunch
Uber is increasing its focus on India, the country that it foresees becoming its second largest behind only China in the coming years, with plans to establish its first dedicated R&D team in the South Asian country in the coming months.
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Philippe Garrel, France’s ex-junkie film poet of doomed relationships and ghosts, has gone and made a comedy, or at least a movie that could pass for one.
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Perhaps it was only a matter of time before we started seeing movies by people who consider Guy Ritchie a formative influence.
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“Downtime’s the worst; the adrenaline leaves and my mind just starts to wander,” says CIA security contractor Jack Silva (John Krasinski) about two-thirds of the way through 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, inadvertently summing up what’s …
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.
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Colony combines all your favorite genre clichés · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, January 14. All times are Eastern. Colony (USA, 10 p.m.): USA’s latest sci-fi series ticks all the genre boxes: It’s co-created by Lost’s Carlton Cuse and stars Lost’s Josh Holloway and The Walking D…
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No amount of patchy facial hair or shabby attire could help typically dapper movie star Richard Gere convince as a man of no means, which is why the recent Time Out Of Mind, which cast him as a homeless person, never stopped feeling like an anti-van…
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PBS probably wouldn’t mind hearing Mercy Street referred to as “The Knick meets Downton Abbey,” because the network’s rare original scripted drama clearly tries to reach both of those audiences: fans of costumed potboilers about societies in transit…
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In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get…
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We survived for four days eating nothing but survival food · Taste Test · The A.V. Club
Let’s face it: None of us are prepared for the end of the world.
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My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
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LPT: Always enter the email recipient after you have finalized the email body. : LifeProTips
LPT: Always enter the email recipient after you have finalized the email body. (self.LifeProTips) Prevents accidentally sending the email.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Reflections on the 1970s via NASA…
Reflections on the 1970s via NASA https://t.co/Rl7UdpiCVM https://t.co/Nv3AfcdCtQ https://t.co/aa53yl9QYo
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Training when he’s young : gifs
Training when he’s young via /r/gifs https://t.co/tY3RsWd2DL https://t.co/Phot7oaCDy
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/Ovz5L2T4fs https://t.co/20Ed0wPnqi
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Hundreds of writers including Irvine Welsh, Ruth Padel and AL Kennedy are taking part in a worldwide reading in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after being accused of renouncing Islam.
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Jakarta attacks: Latest images as blasts rock city – BBC News
Gunfire was also heard after the blasts and police have cordoned off the area near the Sarinah shopping mall. These are the scenes in Jakarta at this time. This page will be updated.
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Jimmy Fallon as Bob Dylan Nails Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ – The Daily Beast
When Jimmy Fallon sang the theme song from Charles in Charge as Bob Dylan, he transported viewers back to the Don’t Look Back era. Somehow, he thought Drake’s “Hotline Bling” worked better as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue.
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Squee may be a tub of lard covered in fur, but she makes the cutest faces. : cats
Squee may be a tub of lard covered in fur, but she makes the cutest faces. via /r/cats https://t.co/imxaXKOKGm https://t.co/05FQUH0USL
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‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Movie Clip #1 [HD] : movies
‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Movie Clip #1 [HD] via /r/movies https://t.co/nPf0KU0OUX https://t.co/jh13hiHlXE
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APOD: 2016 January 13 – Reflections on the 1970s
Explanation: The 1970s are sometimes ignored by astronomers, like this beautiful grouping of reflection nebulae in Orion – NGC 1977, NGC 1975, and NGC 1973 – usually overlooked in favor of the substantial glow from the nearby stellar nursery better …
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The Powerball winning numbers are in. The numbers are: 8, 27, 34, 4, 19; The Powerball is: 10 : news
The Powerball winning numbers are in. The numbers are: 8, 27, 34, 4, 19; The Powerball is: 10 (nj.com) I’m sure I’ll get it next time.
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Explosions heard in Indonesian capital – in Jakarta, with reports of casualties. : worldnews
Explosions heard in Indonesian capital – in Jakarta, with reports of casualties. (bbc.com) Police were not immediately available for comment, but according to the an official Jakarta police Twitter account one explosion went off in front of a shoppi…
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Duke Ellington – It don’t mean a thing (1943) [Jazz] : Music
Duke Ellington – It don’t mean a thing (1943) [Jazz] via /r/Music https://t.co/4rfeEqeDu8 https://t.co/OOmGO3fpIp
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Turning cartwheels back to long-lost harvests | Environment | The Guardian
Turning cartwheels back to long-lost harvests https://t.co/adUGgjaIXb https://t.co/rLutbfoiMX
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Clinton Attacks produce windfall of campaign cash for Sanders : politics
Clinton Attacks produce windfall of campaign cash for Sanders via /r/politics https://t.co/3xol3T7wP2 https://t.co/6aCjfDrrd0
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Her best Jabba impression : cats
Her best Jabba impression via /r/cats https://t.co/mKTsydMDjZ https://t.co/X0vqZOoUY8 https://t.co/mJ5UHKLTLN
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Beach Image, Sicily – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Pebbles on the Beach https://t.co/A4SB3cNMoe https://t.co/yTLQVW9eF0
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Her best Jabba impression via /r/cats https://t.co/mKTsydMDjZ https://t.co/X0vqZOoUY8 https://t.co/mJ5UHKLTLN
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Numbers come up for US$1.5bn Powerball jackpot in Florida – video | US news | The Guardian
The six winning numbers are picked for the largest US lottery prize, US$1.5bn, at the lottery offices in Tallahassee, Florida. The winning numbers in the Powerball draw on Wednesday night were 8, 27, 34, 4, 19 and Powerball 10.
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‘War and Peace’ Goes ‘Game of Thrones’ in New BBC Adaptation – The Daily Beast
If you loved Downton Abbey, chances are you will already have earmarked the sofa for next Monday night, in preparation for Part I of the next epic British costume drama due to hit U.S. TV screens, War and Peace.
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Oxford University To Students: Grow The Hell Up – The Daily Beast
Oxford University installed its first female vice-chancellor this week, Louise Richardson, who boldly stressed the importance of free speech and critical thinking at university amid roiling student protests.
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Foster Parents Sue to Tote Guns & Tots – The Daily Beast
An Oklahoma couple who loves carrying guns without government interference, but who also loves being foster parents to children whom the government is charged with protecting, has run into quite the quandary: Store their guns according to best safet…
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Putin’s $300 Billion Brain Fart – The Daily Beast
MOSCOW — This week, Russia slowly returned to its working routine after the 10-day New Year break. It was icy cold and snowy in Moscow, but warm and sunny in Sochi, the Black Sea resort, where President Vladimir Putin was surrounded with magnolias, …
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Is Pippa Middleton in Love? – The Daily Beast
After a full three months of unrestrained singledom—in which time she has not, in fact, been dating Prince Harry—Pippa Middleton is once again back off the market.
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A running theme in my reviews of the seventh season of Modern Family has been frustration at the fact that the show came out of last season with a change in dynamics but has failed to capitalize on the opportunity that change brought about.
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Weezer teases The White Album, or maybe just general whiteness · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what’s either a savvy marketing ploy, or a crucial goof-up by a soon-to-be-fired social media intern, “Buddy Holly”-crooning alt rockers Weezer released a number of blank images to the public today.
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Man On An Icy Street Wants To Take The Trash Out, IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?! – Digg
19 diggs Funny Nature World This is how things are in The Netherlands right now. They deserve our respect and our pity.
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Income Inequality More Pronounced As US Ages | Al Jazeera America
The wide economic disparity between minorities and white people and between men and women is likely to broaden as the nation’s increasingly diverse population ages.
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‘13 Hours’ Is Porn for Conspiracy Theorists – The Daily Beast
Will the new Michael Bay movie become a colossal political firestorm for Hillary Rodham Clinton? Well, there certainly are plenty of people who want to turn it into one.
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GOP Dead-enders Fight to Stay Anti-Gay – The Daily Beast
Charleston, S.C. — The most powerful Republican in South Carolina sent a subtle pro-marriage equality message Tuesday night, and Republicans trying to shift their party’s stance on that issue said Wednesday it was received loud and clear.
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Sorry, Vegetarians: There’s a Cauliflower Shortage – The Daily Beast
Cauliflower may be the new lime—at least, when it comes to shortages. Dwindling supply of the white vegetable has been the subject of finance and farming stories alike since December, sending vegans and vegetarians into panic mode, driving up prices…
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Varsity Basketball Players Raped Teammate and School Let Team Keep Playing – The Daily Beast
When a high school basketball player told his coach he was being bullied, his tormentors retaliated by brutally raping him with a pool cue.
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They’re Murdering Their Mayors in Mexico – The Daily Beast
The Mexican government was in a chirpy mood last week. After six months on the run, Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán was once again in custody.
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Face It: A Vote for Hillary Clinton Is a Vote for War – The Daily Beast
Less than a week out from the next Democratic debate—and less than a month from the Iowa caucuses—it’s time for all of us to acknowledge what is plainly true: A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for war.
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Bosom Buddies: A Galactic Pair | Space Wallpaper
About this Image This pair of spiral galaxies near the The Triangle, a constellation in the northern sky, draw closer and closer to each other.
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Mom’s a Peacemaker, Son’s a ‘Killer’ – The Daily Beast
Robbie Ponsi didn’t like crowds. The 29-year-old restaurant server wouldn’t want anyone to throw a parade in his honor or get excited about seeing his name in the newspaper. In the event of his death, he didn’t even want a funeral and said he prefer…
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‘Making a Murderer’ Star’s Ex-Fiancee: ‘He’s Not Innocent’ | Rolling Stone
Steven Avery’s ex-fiancée, Jodi Stachowski, figures prominently in the Netflix crime docu-series, Making a Murderer, in which she advocates for her former paramour. But in a new interview, which aired on HLN’s Nancy Grace on Wednesday, Stachowski ca…
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Explosions and Gunfire Break Out in Indonesian Capital of Jakarta | VICE News
Several explosions went off and gunfire broke out in the centre of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, and police said they suspected a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one the blasts. Media said six bombs went off and a Reuters witness s…
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – In The Ghetto [Alt Rock] : Music
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – In The Ghetto [Alt Rock] via /r/Music https://t.co/0zi1pP5RJC https://t.co/GEBBr2xoXR
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Guy at coffee shop came in, drank a coffee, drew this and left : pics
Guy at coffee shop came in, drank a coffee, drew this and left via /r/pics https://t.co/La7hpu7yCV https://t.co/QB6ErOXB7r
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Numbers drawn in historic $1.5bn US Powerball lottery – BBC News
The draw has taken place in the US for the biggest single single lottery jackpot in history – $1.5bn (£1.04bn). The winning numbers for the Powerball jackpot are 4, 8, 19, 27, 34, PB 10. It could take several hours to establish if there are any winn…
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Don’t do that to the baby! .. oh, as you were. : funny
Don’t do that to the baby! .. oh, as you were. (i.imgur.com) That freaked me out.
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Blasts and Gunfire Rock Indonesian Capital Jakarta | Al Jazeera America
An unknown number of people were injured in Thursday’s attack. The blasts were reportedly followed by gunfire. The attack is ongoing, local media reported.
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Junior doctors’ dispute: Talks resuming in bid to stop strikes – BBC News
Talks aimed at avoiding further NHS strikes in England are due to resume later, amid warnings the government could impose its controversial new contract on junior doctors.
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Dark wizards at NBC claim they know Netflix’s rating numbers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In an entertainment industry where very little is still left to the imagination, Netflix’s rating numbers remain one of the great unknowns: although it’ll occasionally crow—justifiably, or not, as in its recent proud claims about the inexplicable dr…
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What is wrong with Sean Penn’s writing – and does it matter? – BBC News
It was the scoop of the year – an interview with fugitive Mexican gang boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman by the Hollywood actor Sean Penn.
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Blasts and gunfire rock Indonesian capital Jakarta – Al Jazeera English
At least one policeman has been killed in a series of explosions in downtown Jakarata, Indonesian media reported. The blasts were reportedly followed by gunfire. The attack is ongoing, local media reported.
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Chicago to Release of Shooting Video | Al Jazeera America
The city of Chicago did an about-face Wednesday in asking a federal judge to lift a protective order to allow the public release of video that shows a white police officer fatally shooting a black suspect in a car theft in 2013.
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Ray Parker (Darth Maul) tests Kylo Ren lightsaber : gifs
Ray Parker (Darth Maul) tests Kylo Ren lightsaber via /r/gifs https://t.co/Jf3RUucCNL https://t.co/YnG6xF4jm2
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Open thread for night owls: Virginia officials worry of Trump voter ‘mayhem’ on primary day
Open thread for night owls: Virginia officials worry of Trump voter ‘mayhem’ on primary day https://t.co/pOkxW17T0z https://t.co/eQo3MWk8Zu
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Explosions heard in Indonesian capital – BBC News
Hundreds of extra armed officers are to be trained to help counter the threat of a Paris-style attack in London, the Metropolitan Police is to announce.
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Winning Powerball numbers drawn for massive $1.5bn jackpot | Society | The Guardian
The winning numbers in the Powerball drawing on Wednesday night are: 8, 27, 34, 4,19 and Powerball: 10. The $1.5bn jackpot is the largest ever in the United States. Though it is possible that there still isn’t a winner this time around, and that num…
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Open thread for night owls: Virginia officials worry of Trump voter ‘mayhem’ on primary day
The Washington Post: Officials in Virginia’s largest jurisdiction want to close public schools during the Super Tuesday presidential primaries, saying they fear that supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump could cause mayhem at the polls.
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Powerball winning numbers 1/13/16: Tonight’s drawing for $1.5 billion jackpot – Vox
The winning numbers for the record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot are 08, 27, 34, 04, 19, and Powerball number 10. To win the full $1.5 billion jackpot (or take a lump sum of $930 million), you must have all six numbers correct.
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Palpatine at his first Senate Address and his last one : pics
Palpatine at his first Senate Address and his last one via /r/pics https://t.co/ssCvTYKgkW https://t.co/n8CBvwPb1J
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The EPA’s Hush-Hush Response to the Flint Water Crisis : environment
The EPA’s Hush-Hush Response to the Flint Water Crisis via /r/environment https://t.co/elNaHSKU3P https://t.co/gHoS26E3q5
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The first thing I want to talk about is the scene that I haven’t stopped thinking about since I saw the screener a few weeks ago: Taylor getting a rape kit done by a forensic nurse.
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Car bomb explodes near police post in southeast Turkey – Al Jazeera English
A car bomb blast has injured over 20 people near a police building in Kurdish majority town in southeastern Turkey, local media have reported.
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After teasing a more varied approach to season two in its promising premiere, Man Seeking Woman returns to its Josh-centric season one formula in the entertaining, but underwhelming “Feather.
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Philippines to offer US military use of eight bases | World news | The Guardian
The Philippines is set to offer the US military use of eight bases, a military spokesman has said, after the country’s supreme court upheld a security agreement with Washington forged in the face of rising tensions with China.
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Snoop Dogg Would Like Bill Gates To “Fix His S*&t” | TechCrunch
When something happens like I don’t know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user wa…
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‘Mourning’ kangaroo was trying to mate, says expert – BBC News
Pictures of a male kangaroo cradling its dying mate in apparent mourning were widely shared this week and labelled “heartbreaking” in the media. But a leading kangaroo expert says it was not grief that was behind the roo’s attempt to revive its comp…
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Run-D.M.C. to Receive GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award | Rolling Stone
Run-D.M.C. are among the artists who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the GRAMMYs this year. The iconic rap group will be honored at a ceremony and concert to be held this spring.
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Dog started crying when I disappeared to shower. Problem Solved. : aww
Dog started crying when I disappeared to shower. Problem Solved. via /r/aww https://t.co/pFCSoawVY1 https://t.co/WnF7lDb6Ac
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Police clear crowds from Sydney Opera House – BBC News
Police confirmed that an operation was underway at the Opera House but did not provide further details. Helicopter shots show the usually crowed tourist hub completely deserted.
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/QTW5J9aQGV https://t.co/CUanKqUDRr
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As was the case in last week’s triumphant It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia return (“Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo”), season eleven’s second episode, “Frank Falls Out The Window” sees the show reaching back into its tangled, twisted history…
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Silk Road Founder Appeals Conviction | Al Jazeera America
Attorney Joshua Dratel wrote in papers submitted to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that Ross Ulbricht, 31, deserves a new trial and a sentencing by a different judge. U.S.
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“Hey, whatcha doin?…I love ya!” : aww
“Hey, whatcha doin?…I love ya!” via /r/aww https://t.co/MhZaEudDQP https://t.co/AZl4V5GBUB
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Met Police to increase armed officers to counter terrorism – BBC News
Hundreds of extra armed officers are to be trained to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London, the Metropolitan Police is set to announce.
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UK a long way from transgender equality, MPs say – BBC News
Transgender people in the UK face “high levels of transphobia” on a daily basis and they have “a long way to go” to achieve equality in the UK, MPs say. The Commons Women and Equalities Committee urged ministers to draw up a new strategy to tackle d…
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Giving healthy gay men HIV drugs ‘could help reverse epidemic’ – BBC News
Giving daily HIV drugs to healthy gay men has huge potential to help reverse the epidemic, say scientists. The medication prevents new infections by killing the virus before it has a chance to take hold in the body.
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As reported by Deadline, Workaholics director Kyle Newacheck has signed on to direct an adaptation of Kyle Starks’ graphic novel Sexcastle for Fox.
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With a tone suggesting that it could carry the subtitle Just The Good Parts, No Bummers, We Swear To God, Showtime has released a trailer for its upcoming Michael Jackson documentary, Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall.
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Oasis – Live Forever [Britpop] : Music
Oasis – Live Forever [Britpop] via /r/Music https://t.co/mFP5Av3Dxj https://t.co/dlUBt7ev3V
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Since the early 1970s, the right has conducted a sustained drive to gain power and set policy in the 50 states. The left, by contrast, has been far less effective at the state-level.
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A Millennial Mom’s Guide To CES | TechCrunch
From the newfound consumer tech power of women’s wallets to family-friendly tech and apps to the emergence of audio as the next frontier in innovation, this CES wasn’t without surprises. Here are the most notable things I took away from the big show.
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How Commercial Surrogacy Became a Massive International Business | VICE | United States
In anticipation of the upcoming fourth season of our HBO show, which will premiere February 5 at 11 PM, we are releasing all of season three for free online along with updates to the stories.
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The man behind Iran’s most famous tower – BBC News
For 45 years, Iran’s most famous modern monument, the Azadi (Freedom) Tower in Tehran, has been the backdrop to every major news story coming out of the country. The edifice was built in 1971, to represent a symbol of modernity and project the way f…
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‘Creepy’ pick-up artist ad is not what it seems – BBC News
An advert which shows young women recoiling in horror from somebody who is using your product may not seem like an obvious marketing strategy. But it’s one that’s helped a promotional video for a new portable translation device to amass more than fi…
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A scientist has claimed “heartbreaking” viral photographs showing the “tragic moment” a young kangaroo “reached out to touch its dying mother, one last time”, have been misinterpreted by the media.
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Let’s all take a brief moment and pray to the movie gods that Hollywood never attempts to remake Gone with the Wind.
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Wildlife officers are trying to find and kill a crocodile which bit off an elderly woman’s hand in Western Australia’s far north. The woman is believed to have lost most of her arm in the attack at Three Mile Creek, near the town of Wyndham in the K…
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In pictures: Tanzania anger over Dar es Salaam demolitions – BBC News
Hundreds of extra armed officers are to be trained to help counter the threat of a Paris-style attack in London, the Metropolitan Police is to announce.
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The secret lives of the Mafia hunters – BBC News
The Mafia has been part of Sicilian life for generations, and so has the battle by police to arrest its leaders.
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Hundreds queue to buy tickets in US$1.5bn Powerball – video | US news | The Guardian
Amateur footage shot by Dan Fleyshman on the Nevada to California border shows a long line snaking down the road as hundreds queue to try to get tickets for the largest Powerball jackpot in US history.
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11:00pm on the Washington State Coast by Tanner Seablom [2048 x 1365] : EarthPorn
11:00pm on the Washington State Coast by Tanner Seablom [2048 x 1365] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/790oHBaNjh https://t.co/n1ALZ02UrG
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Great White pup via /r/pics https://t.co/C8kIzXI55O https://t.co/EkFJ3zaRHY
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Uber to pay $7m fine to continue operating in California | Technology | The Guardian
Uber, the on-demand ride-hailing app, has agreed to pay a California regulator more than $7m in order to keep operating in its home state.
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If the distressingly bulletproof rise of Legitimate Political Candidate Donald Trump has had an upside—a dicey prospect, admittedly, but go with us for a second—it might be in the way it’s helped mobilize America’s Latino population, as they struggl…
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Nothing beats catching up with some old friends at the local coffee shop, especially if those friends are the friends from Friends.
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Why Is Ted Cruz So Eager for Phil Robertson’s Endorsement? – The Daily Beast
Remember that time the Duck Dynasty patriarch compared gay sex to beastiality and said African-Americans were ‘happy’ before the civil rights movement? The senator sure does.
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This is the best Donald Trump-as-a-penis GIF / 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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Liberia to be declared Ebola-free, ending world outbreak – BBC News
Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively putting an end to the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. The “end of active transmission” will be declared, after 42 days without a new case in Liberia.
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Utilizing the tried-and-true “take a thing for kids and then say it in a creepy voice” approach to TV and film marketing—looking at you, Age Of Ultron—Orphan Black is gearing up for its fourth season with a good old-fashioned Alice’s Adventures In W…
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As Ted Cruz tells it, the story of how he financed his upstart campaign for the United States Senate four years ago is an endearing example of loyalty and shared sacrifice between a married couple.
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This Hotels Pet Policy via /r/pics https://t.co/zHVTSwpZSq https://t.co/45uridrRoV
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Clapper hacked: US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail and phone breached / Boing Boing
The same entity that claims to be behind a recent hack of CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email now claims to be behind a breach of the accounts of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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Nikki Haley Turns on Donald Trump in Rebuttal Address https://t.co/cPqpbOL88n https://t.co/5eMJBmBL1n
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Turkey police HQ ‘hit by bomb blast’ – BBC News
Image copyright Kadirkonuksever/Al Jazeera Turk A car bomb blast has hit a police headquarters in Turkey’s south-eastern Diyarbakir province, reportedly killing a woman and a baby and injuring at least 22 people, local media say.Rescuers are searchi…
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Ted Cruz failed to disclose loans that helped finance 2012 Senate campaign | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose on federal fundraising reports that he relied on $1 million in loans to help finance his 2012 Senate campaign. The borrowed money included a sum from Goldman Sachs, where his wife, Heidi …
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Wednesday night, just one day after he filed an appeal, the ex-fiancée of convicted murderer Steven Avery made a stunning reversal from the steadfast, supportive partner she appears to be in Netflix’s hit docuseries Making a Murderer.
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Lost and lonely dildo on a conveyor belt / Boing Boing
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye. This dude makes Norway looks cold, but also cool.
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Obama’s New Cancer Initiative Could Use A Shot Of Silicon Valley Innovation | TechCrunch
Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government’s moonshot initiative to cure cancer. President Obama announced this initiative in his last State of the Union address Tuesday night, placing Joe Biden in charge of “Mission Control” for the …
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David Bowie, Internet Service Provider: Interview with the guy who ran BowieNet ISP / Boing Boing
When artist and pop star David Bowie launched an Internet service provider firm in the heady dot-com runup days of 1998, a guy named Ron Roy helped Bowie run the ISP.
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We’ve finally figured out how climate change will benefit future generations | Grist
The presidential candidate says he wants the U.S. to be “number one in renewables,” but just because he wants us to be number one in everything.
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An Undisclosed Goldman Sachs Loan Helped Finance Ted Cruz’s Senate Campaign | Vanity Fair
On the campaign trail, Ted Cruz has spoken movingly about the sacrifice that he and his wife, Heidi, made in order to fund his 2012 Senate campaign in Texas. The Cruz family, as is now well known, put forth their entire net worth, nearly $1 million,…
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Suit Against Ag Gag Law in N.C. | Al Jazeera America
The law allows companies to sue undercover activists or even their own whistleblowing employees for documenting violations of environmental or worker safety rules.
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Ted Cruz Bashed Goldman Sachs—After Taking Their Money – The Daily Beast
Sen. Ted Cruz has been two-faced on Goldman Sachs, the giant investment bank: even while he was publicly decrying the behemoth bank as an agent for “crony capitalism,” he reportedly borrowed as much as $1 million from them to finance his political a…
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Arizona starts using Facebook and Twitter to publicly shame ‘Deadbeat Dads’ / Boing Boing
Fathers in Arizona who aren’t delivering court-ordered child support payments may discover their mugs plastered all over social media soon.
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Reader Alec used a little Übersicht magic to make his mac a little more welcoming when he sits down to work, and informative when he gets up to leave it. Here’s how he set everything up. Beyond that, Alec is running El Capitan’s dark theme.
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According to the Associated Press, the British government is currently considering replacing “God Save The Queen” as England’s national anthem.
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The feds want to give $14 million in taxpayer money to a Koch brother’s coal mine | Grist
The presidential candidate says he wants the U.S. to be “number one in renewables,” but just because he wants us to be number one in everything.
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Check out this highlight reel from the first SpaceX landing, get stoked for the next one | Grist
Remember when SpaceX landed a reusable rocket last month? It happened sometime between your billionth conversation about how crazy this El Niño weather is and that moment when your soul expired on the floor of a Walgreens holiday aisle. Either way, …
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Updated, 3:36 p.m. | Rebuttals to State of the Union addresses are usually directed at the president from a rising member of the opposing party. But Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, a Republican, had a different target in mind on Tuesday night: D…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/vFXfhH56o1
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Vox Sentences: The Iranian crisis that wasn’t – Vox
Why you shouldn’t have panicked about Iran; the state of our union is Paul Ryan’s failed poker face; congratulations on not winning the Powerball! Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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What it’s like to be a Reddit moderator – Tech Insider
Liz Crocker is a 33-year-old graduate student and the mother of a one-year-old. Her days are spent writing a dissertation, teaching a course to PhD students at Boston University, looking after her child, and —oh yeah — dealing with internet trolls.
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Japanese shares follow Wall Street sell-off – BBC News
Japanese shares tumbled 3.7% in early trade after a heavy sell-off on Wall Street overnight made investors nervous about financial markets. The Nikkei 225 index was at 17,053.71.
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Iggy Pop, whose solo recording career began with two albums produced by David Bowie, said in an interview this week that he had still not fully processed Mr. Bowie’s death, at 69, on Sunday.
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License to (Not) Drive — Backchannel — Medium
I have backed out of a lot of parking spaces in my life, but today is different.
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NBC just released Netflix’s top-secret ratings — or so they say – Vox
Netflix is notoriously tight-lipped with its viewership numbers, preferring vague proclamations of success to releasing statistics that could otherwise be torn apart. But NBC claims to have cracked the code.
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Microsoft finally has a proper way to opt out of Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 upgrades | Ars Technica
Microsoft has announced its intent to make the Windows 10 upgrade for existing Windows 7 and 8.1 users more widely available. In tandem with this, the company has also, at last, offered a good way of rejecting the upgrade and making the notification…
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Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch! | TechCrunch
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb’s reaction. “My watch can’t be talking,” he said incredulously.
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Tamanawas Falls, OR [OC] [2667 x 4000] : EarthPorn
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I may be biased but I think my cat should be a model : cats
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Glorious south Vancouver Island in the spring time. (OC)(3200×2400) : EarthPorn
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How Our Appetite for Seafood Is Killing Our Oceans : environment
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is unlike any QB in the NFL
His son had a tendency to speak a bit too much in class. The boy liked attention, which caused a problem for his teachers and — by extension — his parents. So one day, Cecil Newton had an idea. He told his son, “Cam, since you want people to notic…
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I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of horror movies. I’ve become more comfortable with the genre as I’ve grown up, largely because I can distance myself from the story and not have as acute an emotional reaction as I did when I was a kid, but I still …
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Newborns Addicted To Opioids On The Rise | Al Jazeera America
The epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States has spilled over to affect newborn babies, with the number of infants born suffering from opioid withdrawal tripling in a decade, the director of the government’s institute for drug abuse said th…
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Ultimate Design & Animation Bundle | Digg Store
If you crave a life in design, computer animation or game development, this is the one-stop career-defining package you need. Through more than 200 hours of expert instruction, you’ll learn all aspects of computer-aided design (CAD), animation, engi…
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Reminder of his humanity – Compilation of David Bowie getting annoyed : DavidBowie
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David Bowie ‘Thought He Had a Few More Months,’ Says Tony Visconti | Rolling Stone
About a week before his death, with Blackstar nearing release, David Bowie called his longtime friend and producer Tony Visconti via FaceTime, and told him he wanted to make one more album.
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El Chapo Wonders Why Sean Penn Isn’t Making More Movies | Vanity Fair
When we first learned that Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo, our initial curiosity (aside from the whole how thing) was whether the Mexican drug lord was familiar with the Oscar winner’s filmography.
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Fat chance: the impossible occurrences more likely than winning Powerball | US news | The Guardian
If those numbers sound pretty good to you, maybe these won’t: you’ve got a 1 in 292,201,338 chance of hitting the US Powerball jackpot (assuming you buy a ticket – your chances are considerably lower if you don’t). Still confused? That’s OK.
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City Swans May Tolerate Humans Due To Gene Variant – 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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New Remote Desktop client could almost make me a Continuum believer | Ars Technica
One of Windows 10 Mobile’s truly distinctive and unusual features is Continuum. If you hook a phone up to a screen and, optionally, a mouse and keyboard, you can run desktop-style apps, albeit still powered by the phone.
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[Spoilers] VFX Before and After: Star Wars: The Force Awakens : movies
[Spoilers] VFX Before and After: Star Wars: The Force Awakens via /r/movies https://t.co/VH2twe3Zhz https://t.co/ISCvGClBWh
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What we learn watching the pros.. : gifs
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Implant to treat opioid addiction gets green light from FDA advisors | Ars Technica
Four tiny, implantable rods that steadily ooze drugs could help some patients kick opioid addictions, an advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration concluded Tuesday.
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When drones attack other drones | Ars Technica
When drones go bad, what can you do? Shooting them down could be dangerous, especially if they have explosives on board. So why not pit drone against drone? That’s the reasoning behind this drone catcher, created by a team at Michigan Tech Universit…
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Elon Musk tells BBC he thought Tesla, SpaceX “had a 10% chance at success” | Ars Technica
The BBC has posted an 18-minute interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has offered some interesting insights into his vision of the future and his goals for his companies.
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Another US ag-gag law outlawing data collection is challenged in court | Ars Technica
North Carolina’s so-called ag-gag law is in the legal crosshairs. Activists with groups backing government accountability, food safety, and animal rights lodged a federal lawsuit Wednesday in a bid to block enforcement of the measure that became law…
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Ross Ulbricht’s appeal tries to make hay of corrupt agents | Ars Technica
Ross Ulbricht, convicted last February of being the mastermind behind the Silk Road darknet marketplace, has filed his appeal brief (PDF). It’s a 170-page whopper that revisits several of the evidentiary arguments that Ulbricht’s lawyer made at tria…
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Report: Apple “stepping away” from iAd, giving publishers the reins | Ars Technica
The company isn’t killing the iAd platform, which serves relatively unobtrusive ads that don’t force users to leave the app they’re already in. Instead, Apple will reportedly disband its own internal sales team and require publishers to sell ads the…
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GoPro to cut seven percent of workforce after lackluster 2015 sales | Ars Technica
GoPro has been the king of action cams for the past few years, but it seems like its reign could be faltering. In a statement released today, GoPro says it will cut about seven percent of its global workforce as it plans to “better align resources t…
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Legionnaires’ Spike in Michigan County | Al Jazeera America
The Michigan county already reeling from lead-contaminated drinking water in the city of Flint has seen a spike of Legionnaires’ disease resulting in 10 deaths that may or may not be related to the water crisis, officials said on Wednesday.
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Cold War: How Moscow gets rid of snow – BBC News
Snow storms have hit central Russia this week, including the capital Moscow, where nearly half the January norm fell in just one day. The BBC’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg braved the cold to see how the authorities have been coping with all…
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Flooding on the Lower Mississippi : Natural Hazards
In early January 2016, communities along the Mississippi River witnessed severe flooding after heavy rains drenched parts of Missouri and Illinois. Flooding was not limited, however, to the river’s upper reaches. On January 11, the U.S.
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Sean Penn, Who? — The Leaked Messages Between El Chapo and Kate del Castillo | VICE News
A series of flirtatious mobile phone messages between Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, appear to show the then fugitive drug lord being somewhat careless with his security, as well as ignorant of Hollywood pecking ord…
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Spotlight on green news & views: poisoned in Flint; methane leak still spews in California
Spotlight on green news & views: poisoned in Flint; methane leak still spews in California https://t.co/u32Vsv9G0N https://t.co/ioYFJoyn4O
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Lazarus – 1976 & 2015 : DavidBowie
Lazarus – 1976 & 2015 via /r/DavidBowie https://t.co/XE6SzAfySr https://t.co/dedwnMUJz8
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England must “change their mindset” to return to the heights of 2003’s World Cup win, says head coach Eddie Jones. The Australian’s first Six Nations squad included seven uncapped players and some high-profile omissions.
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Horror movies often try to frighten audiences with fantastical creatures and age-old demons, but, sometimes, it’s the simplest things the can be the scariest. Do you see that doll in the header image? Terrifying.
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VFX Reel Shows Just How They Created Some of The Force Awakens’ Most Brilliant Shots
Star Wars has long been a franchise that prides itself on its visual effects and The Force Awakens is no different. Director J.J Abrams expertly blended practical and digital effects to make a Star Wars film worthy of that legacy. And now you can re…
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Pack Healthy, Hearty Lunches with This Six Layer Formula
Packing your own lunch saves money and gets you to eat healthier, but finding combinations that both taste great and fill you up is tough. This formula makes sure you always have balanced, delicious box lunches.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice | TechCrunch
Hot on the heels of PushDoctor’s $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding.
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Spotlight on green news & views: poisoned in Flint; methane leak still spews in California
Daily Bucket: The Naples Preserve written by Lenny Flank: “The Naples Preserve in the city of Naples FL is a little wildlife refuge right in the middle of town. Its primary purpose is the conservation of Gopher Tortoises, which are an endangered spe…
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Car Buying Platform Carwow Raises £12.5M Series B Led by Accel | TechCrunch
Carwow, the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a £12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who I understand tried but failed to get in on the last r…
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Pizza Waffles Are Real And The World Is A Beautiful Place Again – Digg
3 diggs Food This is the type of innovation the world needs.
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Rubio says he likes renewables, but he clearly likes oil and gas a lot more | Grist
The presidential candidate says he wants the U.S. to be “number one in renewables,” but just because he wants us to be number one in everything.
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Sucks to be the coal industry right now | Grist
The presidential candidate says he wants the U.S. to be “number one in renewables,” but just because he wants us to be number one in everything.
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Troubled ex-NFL star Lawrence Phillips dies in prison – BBC News
An former US professional football player whose career was cut short by disciplinary problems has been found dead inside his California prison cell. Officials believe Lawrence Phillips, 40, killed himself early on Wednesday.
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Wind, solar dominate US new power capacity in 2015 : environment
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Nikki Haley didn’t deny that America has passed racist laws – Vox
The internet is having a lot of fun with a new quote from South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who gave the Republican response to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. Nikki Haley just now: “We’ve never, in the history of this country, passed any la…
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Lucinda Williams Reveals 2016 Tour Dates | Rolling Stone
On February 5th, Lucinda Williams will release her 12th studio album, The Ghosts of Highway 20.
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AWS Now Gives A Discount To Developers Who Reserve Instances On A Regular Schedule | TechCrunch
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is introducing a new pricing tier today that will make its service more affordable for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications during certain hours of the day or only on certain days of the…
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Oregon militiaman loses his cool over donated dildos and sex toys – video | US news | The Guardian
The militiamen who seized the headquarters of the Malheur national wildlife refuge in Oregon are not happy with some of the deliveries they have received after making a wishlist for donations.
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Deal With Passive Aggressive Coworkers by Seeing Their Perspective
Nobody likes to be on the receiving end of a passive aggressive coworker, but if you respond to it with frustration you’ll only make things worse. Instead, look at the situation from your coworker’s perspective and identify what the real issues are.
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The heaviest, sturdiest cat litter scoop / Boing Boing
Cool Tools reader Joe Stirt recommended this large cat litter scoop. I bought one, because the little plastic scoop I’d been using for a couple of years had gotten flimsy from use and would often buckle at the handle. This one is made from cast alum…
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Remains of the Day: “Elephant in the Valley” Highlights Gender Discrimination in Tech
A recent survey of women working in tech takes a hard look at the challenges many women face in the industry, Giphy adds some fun Slack commands to help your GIF output during the workday, and more in today’s news roundup.
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Sedona Arizona a few days after a Storm system. (2976×6752) : EarthPorn
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Apple CEO Tim Cook, America’s greatest cryptofreedom warrior / Boing Boing
Jenna McLaughlin at The Intercept writes that Apple CEO Tim Cook “lashed out at the high-level delegation of Obama administration officials who came calling on tech leaders in San Jose last week.
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US supreme court divided over Iran terrorism victims’ compensation case | World news | The Guardian
More than 30 years after 241 marines died in a terrorist attack in Beirut, the supreme court on Wednesday weighed up whether to introduce a new roadblock for the victims’ families, who are trying to obtain nearly $2bn in judgments against Iran.
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Nikki Haley defends against Republican ire over State of the Union response | US news | The Guardian
After calling on Americans to resist the “angriest voices” at a time of great anxiety, Republican Nikki Haley on Wednesday pushed back against the torrent of conservative criticism directed at her official response to the State of the Union.
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Did You Forget What Marvel’s Secret Wars Was About? Let Us Remind You!
Marvel finally did it. Eight months after it began, Secret Wars came to a close today, after nine issues of reality-bending madness.
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London Recruits – In These Times
The history of the fifty-year struggle against apartheid—arguably the greatest global social movement of the 20th century—continues to be documented.
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Louisiana movie theater shooting gunman’s hate-filled journal released | World news | The Guardian
The mentally unstable gunman who shot up a Louisiana movie theater last summer left a rambling, hate-filled journal in which he called the US a “filth farm”, railed against women, gay people and black people, and thanked a man accused of killing nin…
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This Bonkers American Horror Story Theory Explains How All the Seasons Are Connected | Vanity Fair
Creator Ryan Murphy has said for awhile now that all the seasons of American Horror Story are connected, but despite the occasional cross-over, cameo, and Easter Egg, there hasn’t been a convincingly strong thread connecting the show’s various locat…
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Tom Hardy Didn’t Mind Torturing Leonardo DiCaprio While Filming The Revenant | Vanity Fair
During our informal studies on Tom Hardy, we’ve learned that there are several ways to the English actor’s heart: dogs, more dogs, lip-sync dub smashes, and, as the video above proves, chocolate.
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McConnell and Ryan try to get along : Liberal
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Al Jazeera America shutting down : Liberal
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Secrets of the MIT Poker Course
This story originally appeared in the March/April 2016 issue of mental_floss magazine. The bus to Atlantic City is oversold, over-air-conditioned, and struggling to get out of Manhattan.
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Powerful video campaign in Scotland against mental health stigma / Boing Boing
See Me Scotland’s campaign “The Power of Okay” promotes a culture of openness about mental health by encouraging conversations that will help to dispel the stigma. [YouTube]
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Tropical Cyclone Pali : Image of the Day
On January 11, 2016, tropical storm Pali strengthened to a hurricane, becoming the earliest hurricane ever recorded over the Central Pacific Basin in a calendar year. At 11:30 a.m.
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Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Reported in Flint, Michigan – The Atlantic
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that Flint, Michigan, and the surrounding Genesse County have seen a spike in Legionnaires’ disease over the past year, killing 10 people and compounding the area’s growing water-supply crisis. Dr.
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Detect and Disable an Airbnb’s Hidden Wi-Fi Cameras With This Script
Airbnb renters keep finding hidden Wi-Fi cameras watching them without them knowing. If you want to ensure your privacy in a rental, this Linux script will find any Wi-Fi cameras on the network and disable them.
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Smokey Late Summer Sky at St. Mary’s Lake in Kimberley, BC [5312 x 2988] : SkyPorn
Smokey Late Summer Sky at St. Mary’s Lake in Kimberley, BC [5312 x 2988] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/cfpAGJxHT0 https://t.co/uALEaRfQZG
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This Deadpool Billboard Is the Best Use of An Emoji We’ve Ever Seen
This Deadpool Billboard Is the Best Use of An Emoji We’ve Ever Seen https://t.co/noAwnyIG1E https://t.co/jigVXPHY1a
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US to expand refugee admissions for Central Americans fleeing violence | US news | The Guardian
The US is to expand its refugee programme to help thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America avoid a perilous journey often exploited by human smugglers, Secretary of State John Kerry has announced.
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What’s Going On With Firefly Online?
We may never get another live-action Firefly movie or TV show. So every bit of Firefly media that we do get is precious—and that explains why Browncoats became so excited about Firefly Online, the online role-playing game. But what’s become of this …
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This Deadpool Billboard Is the Best Use of An Emoji We’ve Ever Seen
When it comes to film marketing, we’re used to seeing the same footage and images recycled in posters, trailers, commercials and more. But Fox is doing something different with Deadpool and really playing with people. In fact their latest billboard …
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Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin | TechCrunch
It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world, a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmans…
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These Fugitives Were Caught In Argentina — But We Still Don’t Know How They Escaped | VICE News
Three convicted murderers, whose escape from a high security prison in Argentina, triggered a major manhunt closely followed by national media, have been recaptured.
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Al Jazeera America is shutting down / Boing Boing
Adieu, Al Jazeera America, and the DNA it absorbed from Al Gore’s once-hype Current TV. The network’s closure is particularly sad news for all the great TV news journalists they recruited since Al Jazeera America debuted in 2013.
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If you go to The Guardian’s website these days you can find a section that is just labeled “Protest.” So now, with your morning coffee, you can get your news, weather, sports — and protests.
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QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE – UNDER PRESSURE – YouTube
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Ever year investors pay out hundreds of billions of dollars (that’s billions with a “b”) in fees to money managers that, essentially, they really don’t need to be paying.
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure (Classic Queen Mix) – YouTube
More Queen on DVD: http://adf.ly/aGNvM”This remix is very close to the final album version. The bass lines seem to be a bit more prominent in the mix and the overall sound is a little less muddy. Freddie singing “that’s okay!” has been removed right…
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Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson endorses Ted Cruz for president – video | US news | The Guardian
Robertson, star of the American reality TV show and the patriarch of a Louisiana family obsessed with duck hunting, says Cruz is the man for the job because he is godly, loves America, and is willing to kill a duck to make gumbo soup
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The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei leveraged his international fame in convincing the Lego toy company to abandon its policy of voiding big bulk orders of its bricks that it determines are going to be used to express political views or make a po…
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The Edge: Rand Takes a Stand – The Atlantic
Iran freed 10 U.S. Navy sailors, who had been detained on Tuesday after straying into Iranian waters due to a mechanical failure. In the U.S.
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Secretive Buyers, Beware: Your Luxury Real-Estate Purchases Are Being | Vanity Fair
Take a look out of any Manhattan window and odds are you’ll see the glut of towering high-end skyscrapers that the world’s super-rich are using to park their money.
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Katy Perry “Kept Turning Away” from Orlando Bloom at Stella McCartney’s Fashion Show | Vanity Fair
One of the most entertaining gossip items to come out of the Golden Globe awards earlier this week was Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s night spent together, vaping, dancing and whispering in each other’s ears (some of which was caught on-camera, in a…
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Here’s Why You Won’t Win the Powerball Tonight | Vanity Fair
A little advice: if you’re ticking off the hours to Wednesday night’s more than $1 billion Powerball drawing, you might want to hit pause on that countdown clock. If you’re planning to pick up a ticket after work, it’s wise to use your $2 elsewhere.
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Startups.co | Startup Launch Platform
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Payload concerns, high costs, and competition cloud future of NASA rocket | Ars Technica
Almost from the inception of NASA’s large and costly rocket program, the Space Launch System, aerospace engineers have questioned the viability of a rocket that will fly infrequently, perhaps as little as once every two to four years.
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Michigan church hires Minnesota archbishop linked to clergy sex abuse | US news | The Guardian
A Minnesota archbishop who was forced to resign when his diocese faced criminal and civil charges related to sexual abuse by clergy has been appointed assistant priest at a church in Michigan.
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The Complicated History of Nikki Haley – The New Yorker
Set aside the feuding policy particulars and last night’s pairing of Barack Obama and Nikki Haley, in the State of the Union address and Republican response, becomes a far more compelling exercise.
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Ozzy Osbourne: David Bowie’s Death ‘Knocked the Shit Out of Me’ | Rolling Stone
Ozzy Osbourne is still making sense of David Bowie’s death. “It knocked the shit out of me,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I had no idea that he was so ill.”
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Startups.co Acquires Zana, A Site For Educating Entrepreneurs | TechCrunch
Startups.co has been busy buying services like like Zirtual and Claritfy.fm to build a network of connected products for entrepreneurs. Next up: Zana, a site that says it’s “democratizing entrepreneurship.” The acquisition was reported last week by …
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In his final State of the Union speech, President Obama endeavored on Tuesday to lift Americans above the miasma of a brutally negative presidential campaign to reflect on what the nation has endured and achieved since he took office in the midst of…
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Charlie Hebdo cartoon on dead Syrian child sparks anger – Al Jazeera English
We look at the Saudi-Iran crisis reflected in the media; plus, US elections and “horse race journalism”. We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going.
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Watch the Moon Blot out Bright Star Aldebaran Tuesday
On Tuesday (Jan. 19), the moon will pass in front of the bright star Aldebaran, in an event known as a lunar occultation.Credit: Starry Night Software View full size image As the moon orbits Earth, the satellite regularly passes in front of stars, c…
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Sweden stands firm on probe of Palestinian deaths – Al Jazeera English
Sweden reiterated on Wednesday while it wants good relations with Israel, allegations of extrajudicial killings of scores of Palestinians since the beginning of October must be investigated.
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How James Patterson Helped Reinvent Publishing
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How James Patterson Helped Reinvent Publishing
James Patterson hasn’t always written science fantasy or fantasy, apart from his recent young-adult series. But he’s radically changed the whole publishing industry, and especially the way that genre fiction is handled, over the past two decades.
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Oregon militia take to social media to explain their side of the standoff | US news | The Guardian
The armed militiamen occupying a wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon have increasingly turned to a different weapon in their fight: social media.
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The first text came not long after Jonathan Nichols got his new phone. It was good, Nichols thought, but couldn’t have been meant for him. He was a law student at Seattle University who had just switched to a local number to prepare for the job sear…
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A strange nostalgia has cropped up over the past year for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. There’s a couple of reasons for that.
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Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers | TechCrunch
Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers https://t.co/n7J1wnvHbk https://t.co/8nKnG8MlL1
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”Reality Is Unknowable to Us’: The Dreamlike Fiction of Leena Krohn
Most U.S. readers probably haven’t heard of Leena Krohn, but among connoisseurs of weird fiction like Jeff VanderMeer, she’s a beloved icon. She’s also the winner of the Finlandia Prize, the most prestigious literary honor in her native Finland.
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How could The Winds of Winter get published just three months after George R.R. Martin finishes it? Over at Tor.com, there’s a great breakdown of why book production generally takes a year, and how they might streamline it for A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Give teachers a physics test from a girl, and they’ll give it worse grades | Ars Technica
We saw yesterday that female scientists can face workplace difficulties as they advance through their careers. But all of that happens after the women have been through years of education, which can also be a challenge.
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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Make Plans and Don’t Follow Through
Human beings are prolific procrastinators. It’s easy to make plans and throw dates on your calendar, and yet it’s practically inevitable that you’ll let some deadlines fly by with reckless abandon. Our brains simply prefer instant rewards to long-te…
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Answer the “Tell Me About Yourself” Question by Pointing to Your Strengths
Job interviews can be tricky, especially when you get hit with the dreaded “tell me about yourself” portion. There are a few things you should always include in your response, but it’s also a good time to cleverly work in things that point to your s…
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BBC Sport – Liverpool 3-3 Arsenal
TEAM NEWS Liverpool’s defensive options have been bolstered by the return to fitness of Mamadou Sakho and Kolo Toure, and the loan signing of Steven Caulker. Jordan Henderson, Jordon Ibe and James Milner could also all be back.
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Add stiffer competition to the list of worries at Chipotle.
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Rupert Murdoch, the Greatest Romantic of Our Time | Vanity Fair
Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire 84-year-old News Corp. mogul, made headlines this week, as he’s accustomed to doing, for his engagement to 59-year-old former model and rock-star wife Jerry Hall. This will be Murdoch’s fourth march to the altar, Hall…
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After seeing countless celebrities’ sons and daughters sully the family name on reality television and tabloid covers, it’s easy to expect the worst from mega-star offspring.
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“Blarg, I’m dead! No, really. I’m dead.” : aww
“Blarg, I’m dead! No, really. I’m dead.” via /r/aww https://t.co/VrwzXtRJcF https://t.co/Rx8XoUSaVu
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GoPro Stock Drops 23% After Announcing Layoffs And Disappointing Q4 Guidence | TechCrunch
GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34% to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted.
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What is Ankara’s plan to deal with ISIL threat? – Al Jazeera English
Turkey blames a Syrian suicide bomber for killing of ten tourists in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyib Erdogan says Turkey is the primary target for what he called terrorist groups in the region.
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Justice Antonin Scalia’s already infamous suggestion that blacks need “special schools” in reference to comments about Fisher v.
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Now she can wake up, take you by the hand, and love you in your SuperVan · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Good news for anyone looking to jumpstart another CB radio revolution: A groovy creation by automotive designer George Barris that was featured in the 1977 film SuperVan, as well as glimpsed briefly in Back To The Future II, is up for auction.
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Texas Needs EPA Help To Enforce Its Environmental Laws, Groups Say | ThinkProgress
The conservative state of Texas has for years scaled back its pollution laws as it sought to keep a business-friendly atmosphere, all to the dismay of environmentalists. Now, two environmental groups are pushing back against the state.
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Friends reunited? Cast of famous sitcom sign up for special – BBC News
The cast of the hit sitcom Friends are to reunite for a two-hour special, according to US broadcaster NBC. The actors behind Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross have all signed up for the special, a tribute to director James Burrows.
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US to crack down on high-end real estate purchased with ‘dirty money’ | US news | The Guardian
The US government on Wednesday announced a crackdown on corrupt foreign officials and international criminal masterminds buying up multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartments with “dirty money”.
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Scientists say humans have canceled the next ice age : worldnews
Scientists say humans have canceled the next ice age via /r/worldnews https://t.co/Qv1llH72lt https://t.co/PpIyrrdH8a
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PrintABowl 3D Prints Beautiful “Elevation” Devices For Your Pleasure | TechCrunch
If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O’ Gandalf then you’re going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method.
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Destiny of nephology’s lucky drops | News | The Guardian
Here in the UK we are all too familiar with rain, and this winter we seem to be having more than our fair share. In recent weeks it has been frontal rain – formed where cold air meets warm tropical air – that has repeatedly flooded northern areas. I…
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Shadowhunters Has the Best Fashion Ever (and It’s Totally Ridiculous Fun)
Cassandra Clare’s YA book series begat the 2013 film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones—a box-office disappointment that didn’t capture why so many people loved the books. Round two: TV adaptation Shadowhunters, which is actually way better suite…
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After a 19-month investigation conducted with the NCAA revealed major violations, Missouri’s basketball team will have to vacate all 23 of its wins in the 2013-14 season. The violations occurred under previous coach Frank Haith, who is now at Tulsa,…
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The Prettiest Star: Obscure 70s glam rocker Brett Smiley has died|Dangerous Minds
With the bad news about the death of David Bowie, and the subsequent tsunami of Internet posts about his life and work, the passing of another 70s glam rocker—albeit a much more obscure one—Brett Smiley has gone nearly unreported.
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Powerball Climbs To $1.5 Billion – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The multi-state Powerball lottery, to be drawn Wednesday night, has now shattered world records and reached a new jackpot of $1.5 billion, though the odds of winning are approximately 1 in 292 million. What do you think?
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Lingering El Niño Could Mean Fewer Tornadoes – Scientific American
NEW ORLEANS—Last year brought a huge advance in tornado forecasting: the first seasonal severe weather forecastfor the U.S. The forecast proved to be accurate and now researchers are back with a second forecast: a below average number of tornadoes a…
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Glade Introduces New Spring Meadow Fire Extinguisher – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Carbon emissions ‘postpone ice age’ – BBC News
The next ice age may have been delayed by over 50,000 years because of the greenhouse gases put in the atmosphere by humans, scientists in Germany say. They analysed the trigger conditions for a glaciation, like the one that gripped Earth over 12,00…
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The lawyer for Mexican kingpin Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo, has accused actor Sean Penn of lying in his controversial magazine feature for Rolling Stone.
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‘Friends’ Cast to Reunite for NBC Special | Rolling Stone
‘Friends’ Cast to Reunite for NBC Special Cast will come together to celebrate television director James Burrows
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Officials said that all 10 people killed in the suicide bombing in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district were Germans. The wounded included nine Germans, a Norwegian, and a Peruvian.
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Before the holiday break, I took in the Picasso Sculpture show at MoMA. Sculpture typically isn’t my cup of tea art-wise (or Picasso-wise) and much of the exhibition was lost on me, but Bull’s Head stopped me in my tracks.
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NEW ORLEANS — Striding up the sidewalk of one of this city’s most affluent neighborhoods on Monday evening, S. Scott Sewell seemed an unlikely figure to be attending a fund-raiser for Senator Ted Cruz. An oil industry executive, Mr.
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Maryland may reform policing — but a police union says it opposes “any and all changes” – Vox
After a Maryland task force advanced 22 policing reforms for the state, a police union representative made a blunt, telling comment to the Baltimore Sun: “At this point we remain opposed to any and all changes,” Frank Boston III, lobbyist for the Ma…
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Surf faster with the NetSpot Pro Wi-Fi optimizer now 87% off in the Boing Boing Store / Boing Boing
NetSpot lets you visualize, optimize, and troubleshoot your wireless networks with any MacBook so you can get the best connection possible at all times. Use the mapping feature to view dead zones and optimize hotspot placement, and use the troublesh…
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Red-flagging Canada’s children on no-fly lists – Al Jazeera English
Nearly two dozen children, some as young as six-weeks old, have been red-flagged as airline threats by the Canadian government with little recourse to extricate themselves from a highly secretive no-fly list.
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Heroes Reborn is dead, and it isn’t coming back · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You did it, America. For the second time in history, your general indifference/active distaste for Heroes has convinced NBC to pull the plug on a show that was once the hottest thing on TV.
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Clinton Campaign Ramps Up Attacks on Sanders’ Health Care Plan | Mother Jones
Hillary Clinton’s attack on Bernie Sanders over health care policy isn’t done yet. On Wednesday afternoon, her campaign convened a press call to slam her Democratic primary opponent for his single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care plan.
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Spike In Fatal Bacteria Near Flint Could Be Linked To Ongoing Water Crisis | ThinkProgress
Health officials in Michigan are investigating an unusually large spike in cases of Legionnaires’ disease — a respiratory disease caused by Legionella bacteria — that could be related to an ongoing water crisis in the Flint area.
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Now you can play Grand Theft Auto V as Lemmy · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In what may be the greatest Grand Theft Auto mod ever, GTA mod-makers Christian Brandes, FunGT and jedijosh920 have combined their efforts to create the Lemmy Kilmister Tribute Möd.
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Drew Goddard to direct an episode of Kristen Bell’s new NBC sitcom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Whether or not The Martian gets a mention for Best Adapted Screenplay when the Academy Award nominations are announced tomorrow morning, its screenwriter, Drew Goddard, is having a pretty good week.
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Southeast Asia’s GrabTaxi Opens Office In Seattle To Attract U.S. Engineering Talent | TechCrunch
GrabTaxi, the billion-dollar taxi on-demand service that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is opening its first office in the U.S. as it seeks to widen its hiring efforts. The growth of unicorns worldwide has made the sight of overseas companies hiring…
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GoPro Cuts 7% of Staff, Sees Revenue Short of Estimates – Bloomberg Business
GoPro Inc. is cutting 7 percent of its workforce, and released a preliminary 2015 sales forecast that fell short of analysts’ projections. The action-camera maker said fourth-quarter revenue is forecast to be $435 million. That compares with the ave…
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Yeasayer – I Am Chemistry on Vimeo
‘I Am Chemistry’ taken from the forthcoming Yeasayer album ‘Amen & Goodbye’ – released 1 April 2016. Pre-Order ‘Amen & Goodbye’ at iTunes and receive an instant download of ‘I Am Chemistry: http://po.st/YeasayerAGiTunes Al… http://po.st/YeasayerStore
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Al Jazeera America to shut down cable news channel – BBC News
Al Jazeera America will shut down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market. CEO Al Anstey said the business model “is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges”.
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New CBS ‘Nancy Drew’ Series Will Star an Actress of Color – The Atlantic
When the teenage detective Nancy Drew was created in 1930, America was a very different place. The Great Depression had just begun, women had only recently won the right to vote, and racial and gender discrimination was still legal.
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Rand Paul Tries to Fight His Way Back to the GOP Debate Main Stage – The Atlantic
The past few days haven’t been kind to Rand Paul. On Monday, Fox Business declared that the Republican presidential candidate didn’t make the polling cutoff for Thursday’s GOP primetime debate.
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Jennifer Lawrence And The Problem With ‘It’ Girls
I have never really been a fan of Jennifer Lawrence. One might even say that, over the past few years of her meteoric rise to fame, I have actively, enthusiastically disliked her.
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What’s Behind Donald Trump’s Obsession With Beauty Pageants? | Vanity Fair
At one time or another, Donald Trump, the presidential candidate and newly minted anti-sexism warrior, has owned or co-owned three beauty pageants: Miss U.S.A. pageant, Miss Teen U.S.A., and Miss Universe. (All three of which fall under the Miss Uni…
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The Canadian Man Who Killed a British Guy at an Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru Speaks Out | VICE News
A Canadian man who killed a fellow tourist while on an ayahuasca retreat in the Peruvian Amazon says he was forced to take action to save his own life, and that of two others.
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8 years is a big difference even if you aren’t president : pics
8 years is a big difference even if you aren’t president via /r/pics https://t.co/nQGKN9vcPb https://t.co/V3JR7631jS
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Alps avalanche: ‘It was a massive rescue operation’ – BBC News
Alps avalanche: ‘It was a massive rescue operation’ https://t.co/m4EiZRJoCT https://t.co/GBNQtz2zNd
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Learn How American Horror Story: Hotel Created its Scariest Monster
As you count down the minutes to tonight’s American Horror Story: Hotel finale, feast your peepers on this clip highlighting the work of the show’s talented makeup crew.
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Ghosts of the G.O.P.’s First Nationally Broadcast Debate – The New Yorker
The first-ever national broadcast of a Republican Presidential debate (of any such debate, in fact) was held on May 17, 1948, in a Portland, Oregon radio studio. It was watched by about fifty reporters, carried on hundreds of stations, and heard by …
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What Was the Darkest Moment on Last Night’s Expanse?
“Rock Bottom,” true to its title, basically spent an hour trying to one-up itself in how dark and bad things could get for its characters. The remaining Canterbury survivors get off the lightest. The random characters on the freighter—Mateo and Diog…
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Movie of the Week: “Hard, Fast and Beautiful” – The New Yorker
The stock character of the stage mother has often been an object of cinematic derision veering to pathos (as in Luchino Visconti’s “Bellissima,” from 1951).
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WASHINGTON — Over the course of 48 hours, Americans will confront two starkly disparate views of Barack Obama’s America that will frame the debate over the future of the country in this election year and beyond.
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Speaker Paul Ryan describes his struggle to ‘be respectful’ during Obama’s State of the Union speech
Poor, poor Paul Ryan. Can anyone truly understand the sheer difficulty of his new job? Yes, this is where we’re at. The Republican Speaker of the House complaining about the difficulty of maintaining basic civility during major presidential speeches.
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The Confounding Commandments Of Cancer Screening | Popular Science
These are images generated from a mammogram, a breast cancer screening test. Last year, at the age of 43, Chicago-based writer Jessica Gardner had her first mammogram.
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How to Dress Up Like a President – The Awl
A presidential candidate can wear the same sweater four days in a row.
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The Renewal Awards presented by Atlantic Media and Allstate – The Atlantic
Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2016)—The federal system may be mired in stalemate, but that doesn’t mean America has lost capacity for self-renewal.
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Huge waves pummel North Sea oil platform. : gifs
Huge waves pummel North Sea oil platform. via /r/gifs https://t.co/Rhp025GYxG https://t.co/YJLf6W685k
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The Rejected Fantastic Four Concept Posters Are About 4,000 Percent Better Than the Movie
The Rejected Fantastic Four Concept Posters Are About 4,000 Percent Better Than the Movie https://t.co/Mt26GbQhOH https://t.co/XbJCVizriy
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Longform: The Trials of Alice Goffman by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.
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The Great PC Decline Isn’t As Bad As It Looks
Last year was a rough one for PCs. There’s no getting around that. It wasn’t, though, bad enough to merit the doom and gloom that has accompanied the release of two separate reports detailing the decline. If anything, the PC situation is much better…
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Conservative Crybabies and at Obama’s Last SOTU
Crybabies. That’s the perfect word to describe conservatives’ reaction to President Obama’s final State of the Union address — as well as the official GOP response by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. It started even before the president even del…
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4 ways the lottery preys on the poor – Vox
You hear it a lot: The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. When Powerball jackpots get high enough, like now, media coverage increases. People who normally don’t play start buying tickets. It drives up the jackpot even higher. Then event…
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An Algorithm Could Know You Have A Genetic Disease Before You Do | FiveThirtyEight
As a biomedical informatics researcher, Nigam Shah spends his days using math to try to make sense of giant, unwieldy data sets.
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Al-Jazeera America to shut down after less than three years on air | Media | The Guardian
Less than three years after its launch, Al-Jazeera America is shutting down. The news was abruptly announced to staff on Wednesday afternoon. The network’s last day on the air will be 30 April.
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If it seems like there are a lot more comedy festivals now than, say, 10 years ago, that’s because there are.
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Al Jazeera America is shutting down · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The New York Times reports Al Jazeera America is shutting down later this year.
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Canada’s loonie lunacy – Al Jazeera English
This week, Canada’s dollar sunk below 70 US cents, its lowest level against the greenback since 2003. And my country’s currency – affectionately known as the “loonie” – looks set to continue sagging against the US dollar.
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The Three Common Strategies Behind Most Scams
Scammers are everywhere using manipulative tactics and snake oils to weasel money out of your pocket. Most of these scams aren’t particularly complicated, and Consumer Reports was able to break them down into three main strategies.
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Danish MPs debate plan to seize refugees’ valuables – Al Jazeera English
Denmark’s parliament began debating Wednesday a controversial plan to seize refugees’ valuables, with the bill widely expected to be passed on January 26 vote after being backed by a majority of lawmakers.
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Nevada’s Right Wing Could Get Burned Trying to Shut Solar Power Down
Judy Treichel was just trying to do the right thing for herself and for the planet – and for that she’s being penalized as a result of efforts by the Koch brothers and other right-wingers working to protect the state’s fossil-fuel monopoly.
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They said it was going to be nontraditional — and it was (relatively speaking). They said it was going to be optimistic — and it was.
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The Shannara Chronicles Is Like Watching Level One D&D Characters Start a Campaign
While watching the latest episode of The Shannara Chronicles, I realized what this show reminded me of: the first time a Dungeons and Dragons campaign sets out, with everyone starting at their first level.
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It’s amazing how much information can be transmitted in film without having to explicitly state anything. Beginning in media res, the short film Gear never stops for exposition and yet viewers will not feel lost in its futuristic plot.
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Cops Collared Kiddie Slave Mom in May – The Daily Beast
Cops Collared Kiddie Slave Mom in May https://t.co/jrvitk9XIE https://t.co/hcKovmrjrb
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Trump campaign loses Texas state director : Liberal
Trump campaign loses Texas state director via /r/Liberal https://t.co/s8H0thg8zO https://t.co/H7qP6nFT5Q
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iZombie Spent a Whole Episode Critiquing Itself
This was one of the two greatest moments in “Method Head.” We usually see Liv’s visions from her perspective, and they’re usually dramatic or funny or plot-related. But this time we see how it looks from the outside. And Liv looks like her brain bro…
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‘Making a Murderer’ and True Crime in the Binge-Viewing Era | Rolling Stone
The jury is still out, so to speak, on whether the runaway success of the Netflix series Making a Murderer will have any effect on the convictions of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. But its impact is already being felt far outside the judicial syst…
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The UN Refugee Agency is condemning a Danish plan to seize cash and valuables from would-be-refugees crossing the border, calling it “an affront to human dignity.
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Oil and US share prices tumble over fears for global economy | Business | The Guardian
Brent crude dipped below $30 a barrel for the first time in nearly 12 years and the Dow Jones slumped more than 300 points on Wednesday, after new figures showed US gasoline stockpiles had increased to record highs. Industry data showed that US gaso…
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Spike Lee Unveils ‘Off the Wall’ Michael Jackson Documentary Trailer | Rolling Stone
Spike Lee Unveils ‘Off the Wall’ Michael Jackson Documentary Trailer “I found my falsetto because of ‘Off the Wall,’” the Weeknd says of King of Pop’s breakout solo LP
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GOP hyperventilators really must be bummed today since sailors were freed from Iran without bullets
The two Riverine Command boats taken and released by Iran this week. Not one missile launched, not one bomb dropped. What a great disappointment there must be in GOP Land today.
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There’s an outdated tradition in the DC Comics universe of giving every superhero a counterpart who can be reductively referred to as the hero’s “girlfriend.” Some of them, like Lois Lane, have been fleshed out over the years and turned into proper …
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Cops Collared Kiddie Slave Mom in May – The Daily Beast
A Queens woman accused of keeping two children as slaves—by allegedly passing herself off as their mother—and forcing them to give her manicures and hours-long massages was arrested by police for suspected child abuse back in May, The Daily Beast ha…
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Barack Obama’s Quixotic Quest | New Republic
One week before he would be elected President of the United States for the first time, Barack Obama offered his closing argument at a campaign event in Canton, Ohio. His tone was optimistic as he ticked off policy goals and promises.
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Loopback for Mac Manages Multiple Microphones and Other Audio Inputs
Mac: If you need to route audio from one Mac to another, say, from a microphont to Skype to Audacity, the go-to tool has long been the often baffling, occasionally unreliable Soundflower. Loopback is a new app that does the same basic thing, but mak…
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New York art dealer sues Qatari royal family over Picasso sculpture | US news | The Guardian
Was Pablo Picasso’s sculpture of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter so good they sold it twice?
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Nikki Haley: reject ‘siren call’ of Republicans’ angriest voices – video | US news | The Guardian
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley gave the official Republican response to Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, taking a softer tone on some divisive issues such as immigration, in which she called on the nation to reject the ‘siren call…
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Illustrating Diet Advice Is Hard. Here’s How USDA Has Tried To Do It : The Salt : NPR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first stab at offering nutrition advice came in 1894, when W. O. Atwater, a chemist and pioneering nutrition investigator for the agency, published this warning in a Farmer’s Bulletin:
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Kyle Miller (previously) writes, “I’ve recently launched my newest Kickstarter, featuring the third model in my crowdfunded series of Steampunk style Soviet-era nixie tube clocks. Each is handmade in black walnut or purpleheart, brass, and steel and…
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US turning to UN over flow of Central American migrants – BBC News
The US is looking to the United Nations for help in dealing with thousands of migrants fleeing to the US to escape violence in Central America. The hope is that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will set up processing centres for people to apply…
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Nikki Haley’s State of the Union Response Provokes Right-Wing Backlash | Vanity Fair
Whatever Republican leaders were expecting from Governor Nikki Haley’s State of the Union rebuttal, they probably didn’t expect it would provoke a vicious backlash against the establishment wing of the party she represents.
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Android launcher update adds auto-rotate, forces icon size consistency | Ars Technica
An update to the Google Now Launcher has brought some nifty new features to Android’s home screen. Google is reining in unruly app icons to make everything a consistent size and adding auto rotate support to the launcher.
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Michigan Calls in the National Guard to Distribute Water to the City of Flint | VICE News
The state of Michigan has activated its National Guard. The reserve forces can be called up in cases of natural disasters or domestic emergencies, but this time around the state’s governor is dispatching the troops to tackle a spiraling water crisis…
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Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has drafted in his father, libertarian icon Ron Paul, to directly attack Republican rival Ted Cruz in a robocall in Iowa, the first time the former presidential candidate has gone on the offensive on his son’s behal…
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Are immigrants to blame for America’s economic rut? In his recent cover story for The Atlantic, David Frum points to that belief as a major reason for the dynamics of the Republican primary, particularly Trump’s rise.
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Rubio: Let’s Be Number One In Renewables | ThinkProgress
At an event in New Hampshire Tuesday evening, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio appeared to take a different tack from the usual party line when asked about how to make more clean energy jobs in America.
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Weeks After Deportation Raids, the Obama Administration Plans to Admit More Refugees | Mother Jones
In response to the surge of families fleeing violence in Central America, Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the United States will expand the number of refugees it admits.
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This Climate Victory Was Buried in Obama’s State of the Union | The Nation
Climate activists heard a bit of welcome news during Tuesday’s State of the Union address: a hint from President Obama that he’ll soon reform the way public lands are leased to fossil fuel companies for mining and drilling.
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Trout jumped and froze to wall in -22 degrees in decorah, IA 2014. : pics
Trout jumped and froze to wall in -22 degrees in decorah, IA 2014. via /r/pics https://t.co/C79Hro3tsg https://t.co/YqxqBJ67Bc
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A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System – Todd W. Schneider
In the conclusion of my post analyzing NYC taxi and Uber trips, I noted that Citi Bike, New York City’s bike share system, also releases public data, totaling 22.2 million rides from July 2013 through November 2015.
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Comcast Is Annoying Customers With Pop-Ups Telling Them to Upgrade Their Modem | Motherboard
Comcast is sending pop-up alerts to select customers while browsing the web, telling them to upgrade their cable modem in order to “receive the full benefits” of their internet connection.
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Scientist of Letters | New Republic
James Joyce died in Switzerland, the last truly neutral country in western Europe. Since his escape from France, he had been living with his family in Zurich—in the same house, we are told, that they occupied in the World War.
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Nvidia: Chrome ‘Incognito’ Porn Leakage Is on Apple, Not Us | Motherboard
Over the weekend, a Canadian software engineer named Evan Andersen posted about an unfortunate bug he’d experienced in which some porn imagery leaked from within a Google Chrome “incognito” session—the browser’s mildly anonymized setting in which co…
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Reports: Manziel could be done as Browns make Jackson head coach | Sport | The Guardian
As one era begins in Cleveland, another may be about end. According to reports, the Browns have appointed the Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson as their new head coach, a move that will put an end to Johnny Manziel’s career in Cleveland.
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PRINCETON, Ore.
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Everyone But Me Loves “Thing Explainer” – Scientific American Blog Network
Let me start by saying that I’m a huge fan of the Web comic XKCD. It’s almost always smart, and often hilarious in an understated, intellectual way. It’s usually about science, which I particularly love, and which makes it a perennial favorite of ge…
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The GOP’s Civil War Gets Even More Fun – The Daily Beast
“Vice President Nikki Haley,” blared the blunt headline on Eric Erickson’s paean to the South Carolina governor after her Tuesday night State of the Union response. Erickson is not a Donald-bro, to put it mildly, so Haley’s obvious swipes that the G…
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D&D 5e opens up, lets adventurers sell creations in print and online | Ars Technica
If you’re a tabletop RPG player who has spent a lot of time building adventures and characters for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, you might be able to make a little money from your creations.
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Conor McGregor Loses Bid to be Featured on Euro Coin | Rolling Stone
Conor McGregor Loses Bid to be Featured on Euro Coin You blew it, Ireland: Legislature deems petition to feature the Notorious Conor Mac on a Euro coin “inadmissable”
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See Lauren Alaina’s Flirtatious “Next Boyfriend” Video | Rolling Stone
See Lauren Alaina’s Flirtatious “Next Boyfriend” Video Skateboarders and hip-hop dancers add energy to clip directed by TK McKamy
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France’s Jewish Community Torn Over Religious Leader’s Call To Avoid Skullcap | VICE News
Two days after a high school student brutally attacked a Jewish teacher in the southern French city of Marseille, the town’s top Jewish leader has urged Jews to not wear skullcaps in public.
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Friends Reunion: Why Is It So Hard to Get the Entire Cast in One Room? | Vanity Fair
NBC is actually planning a tribute to James Burrows the legendary producer of sitcoms like Taxi, The Bob Newhart Show, and Cheers. But, in order to honor him, the network has locked down the six cast member of Friends to pay homage to the man who he…
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Volkswagen’s Recall Proposal Isn’t Good Enough for the EPA – The Atlantic
By now, Volkswagen’s explanations, apologies, lawsuits, and goodwill programs have all had their turn in the headlines.
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America is finally waking up to its inequality problem | Opinion | The Guardian
To critique Barack Obama’s presidency is to be guilty of these cardinal sins: blasphemy, ingratitude and a lack of realism. What was once the nation of Jim Crow produced the first African-American president, the most liberal commander-in-chief since…
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January Is the Best Time to Donate Blood
If you’ve been thinking about donating blood, this month would be a great time to do it. Donations are always low in January, the Red Cross says, so donors are especially needed. The annual shortage results from a few factors.
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Gaza faces harsh winter after Israel cuts gas supply – Al Jazeera English
Palestinians say Israel has severely curtailed gas supplies to the occupied Gaza Strip this winter, fueling a major disruption to ordinary life for most families and exacerbating the harsh impact of the cold weather.
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Programming Trends To Look For This Year | TechCrunch
There has never been a more exciting time for technologists and developers worldwide. The number of active development languages and frameworks, as well as development tools and learning avenues, continues to soar.
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On Charlie Hebdo’s Aylan Kurdi cartoon – Vox
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, has published a cartoon on Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish shore when he drowned on the journey to Greece, captivating global attention to the plight of refugees.
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Banksy painting comes with free house! / Boing Boing
If you purchase Banksy’s “Spy Booth” mural for $300,000, you get a three-bedroom Victorian home in Cheltenham, England for free! The house, in dire need of renovation, features the Banksy artwork on an outside wall. It’s now fenced in as the mural w…
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It’s been nearly 20 years since GoldenEye 007 was released for the Nintendo 64, splitting the CRT televisions of millions of households into four slugfest quadrants.
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A video of an oscillating fan is blowing away the competition on Netflix · Newswire · The A.V. Club
“Some people will watch anything” is a common refrain when encountering a show or movie of dubious quality that’s nevertheless quite popular.
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In 1983, David Bowie released his mega-selling Let’s Dance album and handily proved he could not only survive but thrive in the MTV era.
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Obama accused of “bungling and treachery,” and other tabloid stunners / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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Midday open thread: U.S. clueless on location of its Afghan clinics; what Bowie fans like most
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Gun conundrum: • Video shows every climate change promise Obama made in all his SOTU addresses—and how well he kept them. • Fans are listening to David Bowie’s “Heroes” most: Mr. Bowie’s death was announced early Monda…
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I get why Steven Avery’s girlfriend falls in love with him | Fusion
Central American governments warn immigrants in the U.S. to lock their doors to strangers without warrants
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From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over | TechCrunch
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve.
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In his State of the State address on Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) called for the passage of legislation that would ensure that state residents can take 12 weeks of paid family leave for a new child or a serious illness.
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The Tragedies Far More Likely to Hit Than Your Powerball Number – The Atlantic
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The Aquaman Movie Wants to Crown Amber Heard as Queen of Atlantis
Amber Heard is in talks to join the DC cinematic universe as Mera, the aquatic love interest of Aquaman. THR says her character would first appear in the Justice League movie before starring in Aquaman with Jason Momoa.
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The US defense chief has said that 2016 will be the year the American-led coalition assaults the Islamic State in its strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul, offering Barack Obama a last chance to deal the jihadist army a lasting defeat before his administr…
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Watch The Insane ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ Row About David Bowie – The Daily Beast
Some thought it was strange for Angie Bowie to remain in the Celebrity Big Brother house; some thought Channel 5 was exploiting her grief over her dead ex-husband David Bowie for ratings. Then the real shitstorm hit approximately seven fans.
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r/aww needs more koalas. : aww
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A Red Sky – East London, UK (Nexus 5) [3200×2368] [OC] : SkyPorn
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The CW Really Wants to Make a Live-Action Vixen Show
It looks like Megalyn Echikunwoke’s appearance on Arrow next week is only the first step for Vixen. According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, the hope is to use a series of small appearances by the character to jumpstart a spinoff.
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A decade ago, British civil servants were packed off on a training day about, in a then-fashionable phrase, future-proofing UK plc. The idea was to game the mid-century economy on a range of feasible assumptions, one of which concerned the oil price.
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The Guardian view on the geopolitics of falling oil prices | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
In the geopolitics of oil production, predictions are always risky. However important it may be, the price of crude is never the single factor driving events. That a global shakeup will occur if the spectacular tumble in prices persists is, however,…
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US sailor apologizes for vessels entering Iranian waters – video | World news | The Guardian
Iranian television broadcast footage on Wednesday of one of the US sailors held overnight by Iran apologizing for an incident in which Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said they had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake.
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After years of rumors, speculation, and NFL owners using the empty Los Angeles market as the ultimate bargaining chip to get cities to pony up millions in taxpayer dollars to fund exorbitant stadiums in order to keep their teams, it’s now official: …
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Serial Might Be Making Bowe Bergdahl’s Life a Whole Lot Worse
In season one of Serial, host Sarah Koenig made no bones about her bias in questioning the conviction of Adnan Syed. She wasn’t pilloried by fellow journalists or the public at large for such subjectivity; that the crime took place so long ago lent …
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Obama’s Last State of the Union: Wonderful Rhetoric, Messy Realities | The Nation
Seven years ago, incoming President Barack Obama gave a series of soaring orations — his electoral victory speech in Chicago, his inauguration speech in front of one of the largest crowds ever assembled in the United States, and his first State of t…
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Why SpaceX’s ‘Next Few Missions’ Will Attempt to Land a Rocket at Sea | Motherboard
You wouldn’t be crazy to assume that, after last month’s successful rocket landing, SpaceX would ditch its giant drone boats and focus solely on terrestrial landing attempts. For the foreseeable future, however, the company will return to trying to …
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Google actually seems to have a plan for VR | Ars Technica
Google has quietly been building up its virtual reality offerings with Cardboard and its Spotlight Stories app for watching 360 video.
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How Kurt Vonnegut’s Famous Older Brother Inspired Him To Write Science Fiction
How Kurt Vonnegut’s Famous Older Brother Inspired Him To Write Science Fiction https://t.co/wrQYPw7GO1 https://t.co/PdRYaEOpNy
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Al Jazeera America is Shutting Down : television
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Al Jazeera America Is Shutting Down – The Atlantic
Al Jazeera America is shutting down in April less than three years after it began broadcasting in this country, The New York Times, Politico, and others are reporting.
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Apple Watch Scooped Up Over Half The Smartwatch Market In 2015 | TechCrunch
Despite a late arrival to the wearables market, Apple claimed the top spot in terms of device sales, according to new research from Juniper out this week, which stated that the Apple Watch accounted for over 50 percent of smartwatch sales in 2015.
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Al Jazeera America to Close Down | Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America will shutter its cable TV and digital operations by April 30 of this year, the company announced Wednesday. The decision by the AJAM board was “driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the e…
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Climate change means we’ll all be buying less fancy crap | 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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The United States’s 2016 Election, From China – The Atlantic
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Inside a cramped dorm room on the campus of South China University of Technology, Yin Hao leads an operation to decode American politics.
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Khloé Kardashian Tells Howard Stern About Her ‘Humiliating’ Marriage to Lamar Odom – The Daily Beast
Khloé Kardashian may live her life in public, but until this morning’s interview with Howard Stern she had never revealed so much about what led her ex-husband, former LA Lakers star Lamar Odom, to be found unconscious in a Las Vegas brother this pa…
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Volkswagen CEO meets head of US agency that exposed emissions scandal | Business | The Guardian
The chief executive of Volkswagen on Wednesday met the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the regulator that exposed the German car company’s emissions cheating scandal.
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Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Google’s Student Data Collecting | TechCrunch
In a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives.
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The Coal Industry Is Off To a Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Year | Mother Jones
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama reiterated his call to eliminate federal subsidies for fossil fuels in an effort to speed up the transition to cleaner energy sources.
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Get Walmart Pricing Without Shopping at Walmart
Love Walmart’s low prices but don’t actually want to shop there? Use price matching at these popular other retailers and you might even get lower than Walmart prices. Rather Be Shopping’s Kyle James has gathered the details on Walmart price matching…
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Gentrification X: how an academic argument became the people’s protest | Cities | The Guardian
When Amal had stopped crying, she apologised. “I wake up so sick, you know? I have to go to study but I feel so sick.” A victim of domestic violence and now a single mother, she lives with her three young children in grimy temporary accommodation in…
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Serpentine vertebral modular sofa / Boing Boing
The DS-600, a modular sofa from Swiss manufacturer De Sede, was designed by U. Berger, E. Peduzzi Riva, H. Ulrich, K. Vogt in 1972, and remains otherworldly and wonderful. The sections zip together and come with backs or as stools.
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Al Jazeera to expand digital services in US – Al Jazeera English
Doha and New York: Al Jazeera Media Network today announced from Doha its intention to expand its existing international digital services to broaden its multi-platform presence in the United States.
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New book teaches Python programming with Minecraft / Boing Boing
In this beginner friendly book, called Learn to Program with Minecraft, you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.
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OK, Paul Ryan is messing with our heads, although “messing” isn’t really the word I want to use.
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How Kurt Vonnegut’s Famous Older Brother Inspired Him To Write Science Fiction
When Kurt Vonnegut was working as a PR flak at General Electric, his older brother Bernard was a famous scientist. And Kurt was there when Bernard demonstrated his incredible new invention: a way to seed clouds with dry ice and silver iodide and mak…
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Got an Oscar Nomination? Then This Guy Is Sending You Flowers | Vanity Fair
America may have Valentine’s Day but Hollywood has two flower-fueled holidays on its calendar—February 14 and Oscar-nomination day, that morning every January when the Academy announces its industry sweethearts, and film’s power players bury nominee…
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From Ben Schott, an examination of the inner workings, personnel, and lingo of casinos. It is curious how irrational even experienced dealers and floor men can be, though inexplicable runs of luck may signal a flaw in security.
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US woman in Italy ‘strangled to death with rope or cord’ – BBC News
An American woman living in Florence was strangled to death with an object like a rope or cord, an Italian prosecutor has said. The naked body of Ashley Olsen was found last week in her flat, shocking friends and the local community who described he…
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Oscars 2016: Academy Award nomination predictions for Best Actor and Actress – Vox
Go here for our predictions for Best Picture, Director, and screenplays. Everything about the 2016 Oscars is chaotic. That includes the acting categories.
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Readers Respond to the Lonesome Single Men of New York https://t.co/hquZCp0F6L https://t.co/vOxruyLYKN
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Heroes Reborn Cancelled at NBC : television
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Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April https://t.co/OhcMBgphwT https://t.co/zEaTA5iOGk
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The cable news channel Al Jazeera America, which debuted in 2013 to great fanfare when it promised to cover American news soberly and seriously, is shutting down at the end of April. The move was announced at a companywide meeting on Wednesday.
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Taking too many diesel cars off the road because they have been blamed for Europe’s air pollution problems would risk the industry missing its climate change targets, the boss of Volkswagen UK has warned.
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A storm of readers’ comments — over 650 on The New York Times’s site and over 200 on The Times’s main Facebook page — followed the posting of “Meet the Bachelors Who Yearn for Something More,” an article by Sridhar Pappu on aging single men in New Y…
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Fear itself: why Obama wants to change how Americans think about terrorism – Vox
The least popular line in President Obama’s State of the Union address, judging by the hear-a-pin-drop reaction from members of Congress and others in the audience, came when he declared that ISIS may “pose a direct threat to our people” but its mem…
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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. There’s a lot to love about David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” but the highlight of highli…
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Airlines with the highest –and lowest – safety ratings / Boing Boing
They say that flying is safer than driving. In fact, according to travel statistics, the odds of dying in a car crash is 1 in 98 in a lifetime, while the odds of dying in a plane wreck is 1 in 7,178 in a lifetime.
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Homeland Is Radically Reinventing Itself Once Again for Season 6 | Vanity Fair
After whisking Carrie Matheson off to Pakistan and then Germany, the sixth season of Homeland is bringing her home. The Showtime series will set its upcoming season primarily in New York City. Given Season 5’s prescient foretelling of ISIS, should N…
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Han Solo is on Twitter making the corniest dad jokes ever · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Part of what has made the Star Wars saga endure over the decades is that, beneath its exotic sci-fi trappings (dazzling weaponry, grotesque alien species), it deals with recognizable human emotions and problems.
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Hillary says women leaders are better listeners. Research backs her up. – Vox
It’s a familiar dilemma for women: Should we highlight our gender or overcompensate for it? In 2008, when Hillary Clinton was running as the first candidate with a credible chance of becoming the first woman president in the nation’s history, she st…
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Former NFL first-round pick Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison cell | Sport | The Guardian
Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips was found dead in his California prison cell early on Wednesday. It is believed he took his own life. Guards at Kern Valley State Prison found Phillips, 40, unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight.
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SoundCloud Signs Up Universal Music, Subscription Service Comes Closer to Reality | Billboard
SoundCloud has reached a multi-territory licensing deal with Universal Music Group and the Universal Music Publishing Group.
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The Duncan Butterfly, world’s greatest yo-yo / Boing Boing
My daughter wanted a yo-yo, and I knew that only one would do! The Duncan Butterfly! I spent hundreds of hours playing with one just like this! We randomly got the same green I had as a kid. Just holding the yo-yo in my hand, and feeling the wings i…
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For the first time in 15 years, there’s a new Violent Femmes album / Boing Boing
The Femmes broke up in acrimony, and while there have been some noteworthy projects since (frontman Gordon Gano’s gospel band, The Mercy Seat, produced an album that was as good as anything the Femmes made together; there was also a reunion show in …
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Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Are Finally Going at It | Mother Jones
The bromance is over. Once Donald Trump and Ted Cruz complemented each other and spoke of mutual respect, an island of civility in the rancorous GOP primary.
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How to Put Android On Your Desktop with Remix OS
Remix OS, which came out yesterday, is a killer Android variant that brings a slick desktop-style interface to Android. Now, you can install it on a USB stick and try it out on your computer. Android isn’t exactly built for a keyboard and mouse, but…
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The lifting of Iranian sanctions: what happens next? | World news | The Guardian
The European Union and US are expected to formally lift sanctions against Iran this weekend, dismantling an intricate network of punitive measures built up over nearly a decade and reconnecting Tehran to the global economy.
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Michigan governor orders National Guard to assist in Flint’s water crisis | US news | The Guardian
Michigan governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday ordered the Michigan National Guard to help distribute supplies in response to the city of Flint’s lead-tainted water crisis.
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Anti-fracking protesters defiant after eviction from Upton camp | Environment | The Guardian
Protesters evicted from the UK’s longest-running anti-fracking camp have responded defiantly, saying they will not be defeated.Activists had built fortified tunnels, treehouses and a moat, months after the high court ordered them to leave so drillin…
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Flashback: David Bowie Rips Into MTV for Ignoring Black Artists | Rolling Stone
The stunning news of David Bowie’s death earlier this week has led people all over the world to tearfully dig out their old Bowie records and re-live the countless amazing moments from his five-decade career.
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Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties.
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Nikki Haley Called Out Donald Trump and Escaped the State of the Union Rebuttal Curse | VICE News
In the official Republican response to the State of the Union last night, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley took a veiled jab at her party’s frontrunner for the presidential nominee by calling for inclusion and mutual respect over anger and divisi…
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That time Marco Rubio called for a “cap-and-trade or carbon tax program” – Vox
Back in 2008, when he was Speaker of the Florida House, Marco Rubio wanted to give Florida’s state environmental agency a “mandate” to design a “cap-and-trade or carbon tax program.
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Friends was a great show — that just happened to ruin TV comedy – Vox
You probably remember Friends as one of the best comedies of its era, a mega-hit that nonetheless possessed warm, funny, relatable characters and a surprisingly soapy storytelling style.
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‘The X-Files’: Chris Carter on Bringing Back the Landmark Sci-Fi Show | Rolling Stone
The first thing visitors notice upon entering the sun-drenched four-story Santa Monica office of X-Files creator Chris Carter is the artwork on the walls. Massive, imposing canvases and decorated surfboards loom overhead, each emblazoned with a uniq…
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Listen to David Bowie the DJ (1979) / Boing Boing
On May 20, 1979, David Bowie was invited to take over BBC Radio One for a two-hour DJ set titled “Star Special” that’s a fantastic tour of underground, unfamiliar, or avant-rock sounds of that time mixed with tunes by popular artists he loved: Iggy …
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions | Vanity Fair
As we’ve discussed a lot over the last few months, it‘s been an unusually hard to predict Oscar season, and even now, many, many pundits will admit they‘re more in the dark than usual about what will be on the Academy’s shortlist.
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French Jews’ fears ‘intolerable’ – Francois Hollande – BBC News
Francois Hollande has called the idea French Jews would hide their religion out of fear “intolerable”, after an anti-Semitic attack in Marseille. The French president’s comments come after a Jewish leader in the city urged men to stop wearing their …
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Turkey arrests more suspects linked to Istanbul bombing – Al Jazeera English
Turkish authorities have arrested four people as part of investigation into Tuesday’s deadly suicide bombing that killed at least 12 people, including ten Germans, in Istanbul’s main tourist area of Sultanahmet district, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutog…
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The Muslim woman who stood up to Trump – Al Jazeera English
Wearing a headscarf and a shirt that read, “Salam, I come in peace”, Rose Hamid was forcibly removed from a rally in support of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump last week.
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The most frequently used words in every State of the Union speech ever made – Quartz
Barack Obama covered a range of topics in his final State of the Union speech on Jan. 12.
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A Visual Forecast for the End of the Century – Scientific American Blog Network
Amanda Montañez is an assistant graphics editor at Scientific American. Follow on Twitter @unamandita.
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Who’s Opposed to Syrian Refugees in Detroit? – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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ABQ Families Seek Justice After Police Shootings | Al Jazeera America
In “Albuquerque Police: A History of Violence,” “Fault Lines” investigates a pattern of excessive force used by the Albuquerque Police Department—and whether it ignored records of misconduct in hiring officers. The film airs on Sunday, Jan. 17, at 9…
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The U.S. military veteran Dave Manning served two combat deployments in Iraq and was the sole medical provider for more than 100 people on a Navy ship. But as he contemplated his post-military job prospects, he struggled.
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Venezuela suspended opposition legislators to stand down – BBC News
Three opposition politicians in Venezuela have agreed to give up their seats in the National Assembly while the electoral authorities investigate allegations of voting irregularities. On Monday, the Supreme Court declared all the actions of the asse…
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Why the Mainstream Media Adores Megyn Kelly | The Nation
A few paragraphs into Vanity Fair’s recent cover story on Fox News host Megyn Kelly, comedian Bill Maher says something about her that is both true and significant (albeit also obscene and ungrammatical): “We think of Megyn Kelly as the sane one ove…
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Actual conversations with rude or odd customers at a used book store / Boing Boing
The Book Mine is a used book store in Fair Oaks, CA (Northeast of Sacramento) has a web page with snippets of funny conversations with customers who are obnoxious, rude, or weird. Do people donate all these books to you?
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Meet the “King of Revenge Porn” / Boing Boing
Scott Breitenstein is the much-hated proprietor of such delightful Internet outposts as Complaints Bureau, STD Registry, and Report My X, is the “King of Revenge Porn.” Or rather, he was.
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Obama hints at a reform greens have been pursuing for a long time – Vox
In last night’s State of the Union speech, just after affirming the urgency of climate change and rehearsing a few of his clean energy accomplishments, Obama delivered this somewhat enigmatic passage: Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away …
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An electricity company has reneged on a promise to compensate tens of thousands of households in Lancashire and Cumbria after three-day power cuts following Storm Desmond in December.
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Why did Iran release US Navy sailors so quickly? – BBC News
Why did Iran release US Navy sailors so quickly? 13 January 2016 Last updated at 18:29 GMT Jonathan Beale explains why the US Navy personnel were returned so swiftly.Ten US sailors were taken into custody for entering its territorial waters, on Tues…
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Noah Baumbach has spent the past 20 years writing and directing films that all seem to fit together in the same universe, even if it’s never explicitly said.
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Seth Meyers agrees to be on TV for at least another five years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Seth Meyers will continue to sit behind that big desk on stage for at least another five years, as Deadline reports that Meyers has extended his Late Night contract with NBC through February 2021.
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Showtime orders Jim Carrey stand-up dramedy I’m Dying Up Here to series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Showtime has ordered to series the Jim Carrey-produced “hour-long dramatic comedy” I’m Dying Up Here, which sounds like it’s about a sickly grandmother hiding in an attic but actually focuses on struggling comedians.
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After spending two seasons trying to fight his feral urges, it looks like Josh Hartnett’s Ethan Chandler might give in and enjoy the lupine ride in the upcoming season of Showtime’s horror drama. And more importantly, the guy finally got a damn hair…
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The First 180 of 8,000 Cuban Migrants Stranded in Costa Rica Are Back on the Road | VICE News
After months of being trapped in Costa Rica, a group of 180 Cuban migrants resumed their journey toward the United States late on Tuesday night via a specially-negotiated air bridge to El Salvador.
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England may finally choose its own national anthem / Boing Boing
Britain has one—God Save The Queen—as do Scotland and Wales, but England itself has no national anthem. After many years of talking about it, it might finally happen. Jerusalem, a much-loved and rather ambiguous song derived from a William Blake poe…
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Jordan Spieth’s sponsorship stock rises with new Coca-Cola deal | Sport | The Guardian
The latest indication of the commercial pull of Jordan Spieth has arrived from Coca-Cola, which has confirmed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal.
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Matthew McConaughey is synonymous with the South for many reasons—the drawl, the home in Austin, the iconic roles in True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club and even all the way back to A Time to Kill.
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DURHAM, NC—Providing insight into the potential causes underlying the unhealthy behavior, a Duke University study released Wednesday has discovered a strong correlation between binge eating and feelings of stress, contentment, depression, joy, bored…
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Why England Is Pushing for Privately Sponsored, Charter-Like Government Schools – The Atlantic
Without a doubt, the biggest change to the educational landscape in England over the next few years will be the growth of so-called academies and free schools, both modeled at least in part on U.S. charter schools.
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Plato’s Cave Allegory Animated Monty Python-Style | Open Culture
There’s something about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that inspires people to get creative. Orson Welles once narrated an animated adaptation of the Cave allegory.
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I think my left and right eyes perceive color differently. Is that normal? – Vox
If I close my right eye, the world just looks … colder. White walls take on a very subtle blue or green tint. If I close my left eye, the world becomes a bit warmer, as if filtered by very pale rose glass. The effect is extremely, extremely subtle.
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Former Obama voters on his final State of the Union: too little, too late | US news | The Guardian
In his final State of the Union address, which focused predominantly on the future of the United States, Barack Obama promised to fight for equal pay and higher wages and touted the more than 14m jobs added over the last six years of his presidency.
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The Best Places to Buy a Home, Based on How Long You’ll Live There
So many factors go into the decision of renting versus buying a home. One of the most important ones: how much time you’re going to spend in a place. This interactive map from Smart Asset shows you where the best places to buy or rent, depending on …
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Treasonous Bundy-led militia prepare to open kangaroo court / Boing Boing
Seems the “patriots” in Oregon, who have occupied a wild life sanctuary, are fixing to start trying local officials for undisclosed, but “substantial” crimes. They have brought in a phony judge and are raring to go! According to the Oregonian, self-…
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Neo-hippie ‘bliss ninnies’ captured in their natural habitats|Dangerous Minds
What does it mean to be a hippie in the age of Obama? Photographer Steve Schapiro is one of the people best positioned to answer that question. In the 1960s, he documented the Haight-Ashbury scene, and a few years ago got to wondering where that kin…
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Village votes to keep seal depicting white founder fighting Native American | US news | The Guardian
A village in upstate New York has overwhelmingly voted in favor of keeping an emblem showing a white man in combat with a Native American that has perturbed outsiders for decades.
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The real lesson of Iran detaining those US sailors – Vox
Late Tuesday night, news broke that Iran had detained 10 American sailors.
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Germany launches smartphone app to help refugees integrate | The Verge
The German government has launched a new smartphone app to help asylum seekers integrate in their new country. Known as Ankommen (“Arrive”), the Android app is available for free on the Google Play Store, and will launch on iOS soon, according to it…
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New Walking Dead Promo Reveals Major Tragedy | Vanity Fair
AMC just released a piece of key art for the back half of The Walking Dead Season 6. At first glance it seems spoiler-free, but if you look a little deeper, several clues about the tragedy awaiting our scrappy band of zombie survivalists become clea…
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CoinDesk Acquired By Digital Currency Group | TechCrunch
CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a post on the company’s site. A source close to CoinDesk tell TechCrunch the price of the deal was around $500-600k.
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Adam Ozimek has a nice article arguing against the view that economics is just ideology, that economists and those who read economics are locked into ideologically motivated beliefs—liberals versus conservatives, for example—and just pick whatever e…
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Will One Doctor’s Radical New Vaccine End the AIDS Epidemic?|Portland Monthly
The bodies of young men arrived in the morgue of Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital emaciated, displaying the ravages of a phenomenon that had only recently been named. Blood-filled red and purple lesions riddled the corpses’ skin. Creamy white patches o…
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Why did you wake me humam? : cats
Why did you wake me humam? via /r/cats https://t.co/XEspF0L5mE https://t.co/O8F7VVQ1BX
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Extremely realistic animatronic head built for “The World’s End” / Boing Boing
Matt Denton says, “This is test footage and images of the animatronic head built for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End. This is a fairly simple head with only eye and jaw movement but has just enough functionality to sell the gag! Used during the fight…
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NBC says letting Donald Trump host SNL was worth it for the ratings – Vox
NBC knows people were pissed about Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live. NBC doesn’t care.
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Neo-hippie ‘bliss ninnies’ of the Obama era, captured in their natural habitats|Dangerous Minds
What does it mean to be a hippie in the age of Obama? Photographer Steve Schapiro is one of the people best positioned to answer that question. In the 1960s, he documented the Haight-Ashbury scene, and a few years ago got to wondering where that kin…
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Obama promised to cure cancer in 2016. Here’s how the disease affects Americans. – Vox
President Obama promised nothing less than a miracle when he announced a new push to cure cancer. “For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” he said in Tu…
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U.S. states that allow you to keep tigers, monkeys and bears as pets / Boing Boing
Why anyone would want to keep a wild animal like a tiger, monkey or bear as a pet is beyond me. But in the U.S. it’s not a federal crime to own exotic animals – it’s up to the states to decide which animals are legal – with or without permits – to k…
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Pa. Constable Fatally Shoots 12-Year-Old Girl During Eviction Dispute at Family Home | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Neighbor of Flores ‘Hobbit’
Stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi predate the arrival of modern humans to the area by more than 60,000 years—but researchers aren’t sure who made them.
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David Bowie’s ISP, as remembered by the guy who helped create “BowieNet” | Ars Technica
When David Bowie became an Internet service provider in 1998, a man named Ron Roy helped him start the business. Now, three days after the legendary musician’s death at age 69, we’ve interviewed Roy about how “BowieNet” came to life and why it was s…
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Fantastic 1970 short film about a hyperkinetic short-order cook named Spider / Boing Boing
Look at Spider go! In this short movie from 1970, we see an energetic short order cook experiencing full-blown Csikszentmihalyi flow state as he prepares dishes for a late-night pre-hangover crowd at a small diner in New Hampshire.
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Exposed ice on Rosetta’s comet confirmed as water / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
These sizes contrast with the very small grains, just a few micrometres in diameter, found in the Hapi region on the ‘neck’ of the comet, as observed by VIRTIS in a different study.
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A Falafel House Divided – Roads & Kingdoms
Some afternoons, when his uncle Zouhair was unable to open shop, Mustapha Sahyoun’s father, Fouad, drove him to work in a bulky Peugeot 304 that bounced across roads pockmarked with bullet holes and rocket craters.
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Traces of the First Stars in the Universe Possibly Found
An enormous cloud of dust and gas may bear the fingerprints of the first stars in the universe.
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Clinton Once Sent Sanders a Thank-You Note for His Work on Health Care | Mother Jones
With Bernie Sanders zooming up the polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton has taken to attacking him on several issues, most recently his proposals for health care reform.
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Exposed Water Ice on Comet Reveals Clues About Its Evolution
Images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captured by the Rosetta spacecraft’s navigation camera, showing two patches of exposed water ice (which are seen close up in images C and D).Credit: Filacchione et al.
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Hairspray Is NBC’s Next Live Musical | Vanity Fair
Hairspray! It might seem like a long time ago now, but there was a period when big, funny, lavish movie musicals were a thing, and 2007’s Hairspray—adapted from the Broadway show—was part of that, grossing $118 million on the power of Zac Efron’s sh…
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Fossil fuel-burning ‘postponing next ice age’ | Environment | The Guardian
Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels is postponing the next global ice age for at least 100,000 years, according to new research that has discovered the tipping point which plunges the planet into deep freezes.
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Low-Fiber Diets Kill Off Some Species of Gut Bacteria – The Atlantic
In the decades after World War II, a one-eyed Irish missionary-surgeon named Denis Burkitt moved to Uganda, where he noted that the villagers there ate far more fiber than Westerners did.
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Oscars 2016: Academy Award nominations predictions for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay – Vox
This is the first of two articles predicting this year’s Oscar nominees. Look for an article predicting the acting nominees later today. Everything about the 2016 Oscars is chaotic.
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It Turns Out the Next Game of Thrones Book Isn’t Late at All
It Turns Out the Next Game of Thrones Book Isn’t Late at All https://t.co/35I74wdn0r https://t.co/FRleXSs2aK
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Africa-China exports fall by 40% after China slowdown – BBC News
African exports to China fell by almost 40% in 2015, China’s customs office says. China is Africa’s biggest single trading partner and its demand for African commodities has fuelled the continent’s recent economic growth.
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On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism | The Public Domain Review
Celebrated for his innovative wit, Oscar Wilde and the notion of originality are common bedfellows. The pairing, however, is not without its complications. Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N.
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We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we won’t see one for a long time | Ars Technica
Recorded human history has played out within one type of climate—an interglacial period. During the glacial periods of the last million years (commonly referred to as “ice ages”), great ice sheets grew to cover Canada and some points south, as well …
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Test Out a New Camera with These Exercises
Got a brand new camera? Congratulations! Let’s get to know your camera a little better and find out what it can do.
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Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Best Overall Startup Of 2015 | TechCrunch
There are only a few short weeks until the 9th Annual Crunchies show on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. At the show, some of the best and brightest startups and leaders are contending for the opportunity to win a Crunchie in …
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Obama’s Wrong. Lincoln Or Roosevelt Wouldn’t Have Fixed Partisan Rancor Either. | ThinkProgress
It was the most humble moment of President Obama’s last State of the Union address.
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NBC sets Hairspray as its next live musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Following this year’s unexpectedly snark-proof rendition of The Wiz Live!, NBC looks to be out to further ruin the internet’s mean-spirited good time by airing a musical that’s supposed to be campy.
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The making of Thomas J. Kuntz’ “Lilly’s Cabinet of Mystery” / Boing Boing
Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet created the “Ethiopian caterpillar” in 1820 (or thereabouts) for a wealthy Chinese collector. It’s covered in gold and encrusted in jewels and peals. It was sold at Sotheby’s in 2010 for $415,215.
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Patterns of the Universe: A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty / Boing Boing
I’ve already reviewed a few adult coloring books for Wink and thought I had moved on, but then came my way and I couldn’t resist. When I was editor of Craft Magazine we used to cover projects that involved mathematical crafting, such as crocheting a…
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Linkin Park’s “In The End” assembled from 185 different films · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Crossing decades, genres, and tones, one YouTube user has created the ultimate lyrical tribute to Linkin Park that few knew was needed. The Unusual Suspect (a.k.a. Ross Thompson) has gone through over 180 films to borrow words and phrases to fit the…
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Punk Under Reagan: Texas in the 80s|Dangerous Minds
Houston-based photographer Ben DeSoto has been snapping photos in and around his nativeTexas for four decades. Back in the early 80s, DeSoto ended up interning as a photographer for the Houston Post.
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Q&A: South Sudan moves towards forming unity government – Al Jazeera English
We look at the Saudi-Iran crisis reflected in the media; plus, US elections and “horse race journalism”. We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going.
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Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn – The New Yorker
In Leena Krohn’s novella “Datura, or A Figment Seen by Everyone,” the narrator, who works for a paranormal-news magazine, transcribes the inscrutable fifteenth-century text known as the Voynich manuscript while slowly poisoning herself with the seed…
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The First Step to Overcoming Money Anxiety Is Facing Your Own Finances
The more you learn about something, the less intimidating it becomes. That’s true for most things, and it’s certainly true for money. Money isn’t that scary once you learn about it, but the first step that holds most of us back is facing our own fin…
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WATCH: documentary featuring some of the best aurora borealis footage ever captured / Boing Boing
Back in 2012, I wrote about ‘Magnetic Reconnection’, a beautiful, haunting experimental film about the aurora borealis, scored by Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Wilco) and narrated by Will Oldham (Matewan, Old Joy). Now it’s available as a DRM-free down…
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The Official Costco Food Court Power Rankings | Lucky Peach
It’s 2016! Balls have been dropped, stars have been risen, hangovers nursed, and funny glasses put back in storage.
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The 13 Most Nonsensical Theories About The Identity of Supreme Leader Snoke
Without a doubt, Supreme Leader Snoke has become one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Played by Andy Serkis, this mysterious evil being leads the terrible First Order, turned Kylo Ren to the Dark Sid…
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Charlie Hebdo backlash over ‘racist’ Alan Kurdi cartoon – BBC News
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is facing yet another backlash after depicting Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian refugee who drowned, as an adult committing a sex assault in Germany. The cartoon depicts Alan’s body alongside a caption suggesting …
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London Has Already Exceeded 2016 Pollution Limits Set By The European Union – The Atlantic
This first month of the year, London needed only seven days to breach pollution limits set by the EU for all of 2016.
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It Turns Out the Next Game of Thrones Book Isn’t Late at All
I know a lot of people were bummed out when author George R.R. Martin finally confessed that the much-anticipated fifth in his A Song of Ice and Fire series wouldn’t be out before the sixth season of Game of Thrones. But it turns out the long-delaye…
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What We’re Following on Wednesday Afternoon, 1/13 – The Atlantic
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Spain breastfeeding MP Bescansa causes stir in parliament – BBC News
A Spanish MP has provoked criticism by taking her baby into parliament and breastfeeding him during its first session since an inconclusive general election last month.All eyes were on Carolina Bescansa, who was standing as candidate for speaker.
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Hillary Clinton tries to outflank Bernie Sanders with gun control strategy | US news | The Guardian
During Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton released an ad, titled I’m with Him, in which she aligned herself with the president on gun control.
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The Space Launch System Is a Big Rocket With Nowhere To Go
According to all previous public statements, the Space Launch System (SLS) should be the next big rocket, ready to launch astronauts into deep space from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center.
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The continuing search for MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, hasn’t provided the answers that investigators and grieving families were looking for, but it hasn’t been entirely fruitless, either.
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You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy | US news | The Guardian
Last week, with little fanfare, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York did something very few private companies would ever do to protect its users’ privacy: it quietly began to purge its interlibrary loan records.
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A look at Airstream’s new limited edition $114,600 trailer / Boing Boing
Airstream is making only 100 of these Pendelton Limited Edition trailers. They have a U.S. National Park Foundation motif, and Airstream will donate $1,000 to the National Park Foundation for each Pendleton trailer sold. The base price is $114,600.
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A little-known mosquito-borne tropical virus that scientists believe could be connected to a serious birth defect reached the mainland United States this week, one of what is expected to be an increasing number of cases.
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The Haters Are Losing The War On Kickers | FiveThirtyEight
Over time, athletes get stronger and faster, come from a broader talent pool, are better trained, and benefit from ever-growing institutional knowledge of their chosen art. This is most readily apparent with such individual skills as swimming, runni…
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Virginia Lawmaker Wants To Fine Transgender Students For Going To The Bathroom | ThinkProgress
Numerous attempts to restrict where transgender people can use the restroom have been proposed in recent years, but one Virginia lawmaker’s latest legislation might be the most vicious. He actually wants to fine transgender children $50 if they use …
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The American Public Sells Its Coal And Oil Cheap. Obama Wants To Change That. | ThinkProgress
President Obama might have started off his State of the Union address Tuesday night by saying he wasn’t going to list a bunch of policy priorities, but he did offer up some climate change policy changes that we will likely see this year.
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What Happens to Drivers in the Driverless Future? | New Republic
Self-driving cars are becoming a very real technology. The latest Tesla car has an autopilot feature. The CEO of Uber has stated that he will buy every self-driving car Tesla can produce for a year (about 500,000). The Google self-driving car occasi…
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ESO/NASA: “Was Interacting Dark Matter Observed for the 1st Time?” (Today’s Most Popular)
In spring of 2015, dark matter may have been observed for the first time interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity.
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Jimmy Kimmel Helps The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully Enter the 21st Century – The Daily Beast
Before they return to television on January 24 for an all-new X-Files mini-series, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully popped up on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. And they needed to some help getting up to speed on what they’ve missed since the ‘90s.
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Body cam footage leads to indictment for cop accused of beating woman | Ars Technica
A Las Vegas police officer is being indicted on accusations that he roughed up a woman he arrested on suspicion of prostitution and other crimes.
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Notorious Warlord Joseph Kony’s Fighters Kidnap Dozens in Central African Republic | VICE News
The rebel group headed by Joseph Kony, one of the world’s most wanted warlords, reportedly killed one villager and abducted dozens more during two raids carried out over the weekend in a remote diamond-producing region of the Central African Republi…
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A Lawyer Told Us Why Your Boss Is Entitled to Snoop on Your Private Messages at Work | VICE News
If you’re reading this at work, be careful — you may be being watched. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Sunday that companies have a right to monitor their employees’ internet usage during working hours and fire them if it is not e…
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Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü and Sugar): killer new video, new album / Boing Boing
Our prolific punk pal Bob Mould (ex-Hüsker Dü and Sugar) just released a new video, “Voices in My Head,” to whet our appetites for his new album , out March 25. Stereogum recently joined Bob on a walking tour of New York, and a conversational capsul…
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Watch Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie Discuss Rivers Cuomo | Rolling Stone
Watch Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie Talk Working With Rivers Cuomo “He’s been a hero of mine for so long,” says Urie of Weezer leader, who co-wrote P!ATD’s single “Victorious”
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Anonymous drives Nissan offline in dolphin hunting protest – BBC News
Two of Nissan’s main websites have been driven offline by a cyber-attack. The Japanese carmaker said it had suspended its global and Japanese sites early on Wednesday after they had been bombarded with traffic.
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Mother makes knitted version of her son so she can cuddle with ‘him’|Dangerous Minds
Well here’s something you don’t see every day: Self-proclaimed “Smother Mother,” Marieke Voorsluijs, knitted a life-size version of her son because he didn’t want to cuddle with her anymore. My son is reaching puberty. We used to cuddle all the time…
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3D printing giant 3D Systems has experienced a terrible year and a change in leadership, and seems to be backing away from consumer products, meaning that it’s orphaned its Cube home 3D printers. But the Cube was born dead, because it was born with …
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Joan Baez Recruits Paul Simon, Mavis Staples for Tour-Launching Event | Rolling Stone
Joan Baez has recruited an all-star lineup for her 75th birthday celebration – including Paul Simon, Mavis Staples and Richard Thompson – planned for January 27th at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.
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See Kelsea Ballerini’s Charming ‘Dibs’ on ‘Good Morning America’ | Rolling Stone
See Kelsea Ballerini’s Charming ‘Dibs’ on ‘Good Morning America’ “Love Me Like You Mean It” singer makes ‘GMA’ debut with new single
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Luke Bryan Extends Kill the Lights Tour, Adds Stadium Dates | Rolling Stone
It’s safe to say that Luke Bryan won’t be spending 2016 savoring the fruits of his labor at home.
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Hear Unsane, Today Is the Day Members’ New Collaboration | Rolling Stone
Members of some of the most celebrated bands in the noise-metal underground have united for a new group called UXO.
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Rick Ross on Dissing Donald Trump, Why He Wants to Meet Adele | Rolling Stone
Last year was a rough one for Rick Ross, who spent most of the summer and fall of 2015 under house arrest at his Atlanta mansion due to a pending case involving the alleged assault and kidnapping of a former groundskeeper.
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I know you guys like cats, but how about wolf cubs… : aww
I know you guys like cats, but how about wolf cubs… via /r/aww https://t.co/Jk3R0AY1gJ https://t.co/xbN5Kk5NHF
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Longform Podcast #175: Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone is the host of On the Media and the author of The Influencing Machine. Thanks to Audible, Open Source, MailChimp, Igloo, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week’s episode.
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(Early) Weekly polling roundup: Dems get top billing with genuine Sanders surge
Real movement. I usually write these on Thursday, but I’ll be on a plane tomorrow and didn’t want to wait until Friday to start examining what is now a very real surge from Team Bernie Sanders.
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The New US–Russian Cold War Originated in the 1990s | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new American-Russian Cold war.
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Neil Diamond sings “Holly Holy” / Boing Boing
Isolated vocal tracks from Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981). Original below. 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 lo…
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Farewell St Louis Rams: from champions to the NFL’s most reliable losers | Sport | The Guardian
Twenty-one years after getting the Rams from Los Angeles, St Louis has lost its NFL team again. Like the Greatest Show On Turf, the Rams’ stay in St Louis was quick and ultimately disappointing.
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QNX shows Ars its new in-car communications and advanced driver assistance | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—Several years ago, Blackberry bought QNX, a company known for its real-time automotive operating systems. The idea was to leverage that for Blackberry’s smartphones, but that didn’t last since the latest handheld from the company now runs …
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‘Pastafarian’ wins right to wear colander in driving license photo – BBC News
A man in Russia who identifies himself as a ‘pastafarian’ has won the right to wear colander on his head in his driving license photograph. Andrei Filin is a follower of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a light-hearted United States-bas…
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How Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Can Unite on Health Care | New Republic
In ably explaining why all the passion that drove the public option campaign back in 2009 completely disappeared after Obamacare passed and hasn’t reemerged in this primary, the liberal writer Digby has opened the door further to a possible resoluti…
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Criminal justice reform gets little mention in Obama’s State of the Union | US news | The Guardian
For criminal justice reform advocates, their moments came early, but not often. In the final State of the Union of his presidency, Barack Obama began with a list of bipartisan issues he hoped to work on with Congress, with the prospect of reform – b…
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Is James Joyce’s Ulysses the hardest novel to finish? | Books | The Guardian
When James Joyce finished writing Ulysses, he was so exhausted that he didn’t write a line of prose for a year. I can believe it; I needed a nap after reading 40 pages. For the last three months, I’ve glared at its fat, lumpen form on my floor with …
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Fifty Years of FOIA – Nieman Reports
Dave Philipps was well acquainted with the plight of troubled veterans when he heard about a soldier in the El Paso County jail two years ago. As a reporter at The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, Philipps had written extensively about veterans coping wi…
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TEHRAN — Iran’s release of 10 United States Navy sailors on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after they were detained on the Persian Gulf, is being hailed in both countries as a sign that their relations have evolved since the signing of the nuclear ac…
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The New Republic lost the battle over American liberalism – Vox
The New Republic is in another period of turmoil. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who purchased the magazine in 2012 and provoked a mass staff exodus last year when he replaced its editor, is selling the magazine.
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Guilty Pleasure · thewalrus.ca
In the criminal justice system, guilty people sometimes go free. It can be a result of a lack of evidence, a convincing defence, or errors in the investigation.
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Hillary Clinton Plans To Go After The Rich With One New Idea, Several Familiar Ones | ThinkProgress
Hillary Clinton called for a new “fair share surcharge” tax of 4 percent on multi-millionaires Tuesday, making the proposal a centerpiece of her official tax plan. The rest of Clinton’s tax plan is built on more familiar ground.
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The Glass-Half-Empty Case Against Ted Cruz | FiveThirtyEight
DES MOINES — Like so much else at this point in the campaign, Wednesday morning’s Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll could be looked at in either of two ways for the leading candidates.
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Went to the shelter. Came home with this little troublemaker. Meet Daisy! : aww
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How to separate and stack frighteningly strong neodymium magnets / Boing Boing
How to separate and stack frighteningly strong neodymium magnets https://t.co/zSq1ktBOxi https://t.co/2lqWf7zCvz
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Classic game publisher cleans out its closet, makes thousands on eBay | Ars Technica
These days, it’s not uncommon to see unopened, “factory sealed” copies of games from decades-past selling on eBay for huge markups over the original price they demanded on the shelves of Funcoland or Babbage’s.
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Florida Whooping Cough Outbreak Fuels Anti-Vaxxers – The Daily Beast
According to a report released today in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, over a five-month period starting in late 2013, more than two dozen children in a Florida preschool were diagnosed with pertussis (also known as whooping cough).
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Uber will help Bay Area felons become drivers under Prop. 47 – SFGate
Would-be Uber drivers who fail the company’s background check may soon get a second chance. The catch is this: If applicants can get their their felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors, or get the crimes expunged under Proposition 47, Uber will r…
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In her job as a “dream director,” Jessica Valoris is tasked with unleashing the potential of disadvantaged students at an inner-city high school in Washington, D.C.
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You Can Now Visit The World’s Largest Model Railroad In Street View | TechCrunch
Over the years, Google has taken Street View to a number of exotic places. Today, it’s stepping things down by launching a set of Street View images for the world’s largest model railway, the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany.
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What If You Bought All 292 Million of the Possible Powerball Combinations? – The Atlantic
At the time of this writing, the Powerball jackpot is up to $1.5 billion. The cash grand prize is estimated at $930 million. In a Powerball draw, five white balls are drawn from a drum with 69 balls and one red ball is drawn from a drum with 26 ball…
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It was anything with a child’s name on it that headteacher Clare Cope found hardest to deal with: exercise books, little PE bags, violin cases – all covered in a thick, black, smelly sludge.
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After Barack Obama’s Final State of the Union, a Look at the History of Applause – The Atlantic
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A surge of undocumented children and families from Central America detained at the US border could trigger a repeat of the 2014 migrant crisis just as the presidential campaign gathers pace.
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Filmmaker Pamela Romanowsky Brings a Baroque Masterpiece to Life, Make | Vanity Fair
Only a handful of filmmakers can say, “I’d like to thank Zeus,” but count Pamela Romanowsky among them.
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Outlook’s Mobile App Gets Integrated With Skype For Easier Access To Calls And Meetings | TechCrunch
Following yesterday’s news of its planned support for group calling on mobile, Skype just launched an integration with Microsoft’s mobile email and calendar application, Outlook.
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The 50 Unicorns Hiring the Fastest– and the 50 Losing the Most Employees | TechCrunch
Every day, we’re starting to hear about startups laying off employees – sizable percentages of them, too. Last week, it was Mixpanel, Maker Media, and SOLS.
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This week we’re barely putting up with Full House “secrets” · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
The return of TV Land’s excellent coming-of-age-again dramedy, Younger. She’s a 40-year-old pretending to be 26, the NYC publishing industry is thriving, and people say “the Burg” with a straight face—but Sutton Foster makes it all believable.
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A video exploring Stanley Kubrick’s use of color in his films. See also Kubrick’s use of the color red. (via @john_overholt)
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Jonathan Nichols, a public interest attorney in Magnolia, Washington, has a slight problem with his cell phone, but it’s a hilarious, entertaining problem.
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19th Century Shipwreck Discovered by Australians Still Looking for MH370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014—nearly two years ago, if you can believe it. And while Australian researchers still haven’t found the plane, they recently discovered a shipwreck dating back to the 19th century.
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How to turn a plastic bottle into 20 yards of string / Boing Boing
I don’t think I’ll make string from a plastic bottle, but I enjoyed watching how this guy made his PET bottle-cutting tool with some screws, washers, and a pencil sharpener blade.
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David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ set to hit No. 1 in U.S., unseating Adele’s ‘25’ | Newsday
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Letter: Norman Harris obituary | Books | The Guardian
As a 12-year-old on the Isle of Mull in 1964, I read The Legend of Lovelock, the biography of the enigmatic New Zealand runner Jack Lovelock by Norman Harris.
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Does our Microbiome Control Us or Do We Control It? – Scientific American
We may be able to keep our gut in check after all. That’s the tantalizing finding from a new study published today that reveals a way that mice—and potentially humans—can control the makeup and behavior of their gut microbiome.
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Former US Attorney General Eric Holder Endorses Hillary Clinton for President | VICE News
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has secured an endorsement from Eric Holder, the nation’s first black attorney general, whom she worked with for four years in Barack Obama’s administration.
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Google Cardboard’s SDK Gets Spatial Audio Support | TechCrunch
When you think about virtual reality, you probably think about visuals and imagery and immersive far-off places. However, the key to a really fantastic immersive experience is not only what you see, but what you hear. And not just what you hear, but…
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Video shows moment Iran detained US Navy sailors – BBC News
Footage has been released showing the moment Iranian forces detained 10 US Navy sailors. It comes after the country released the men in an incident that tested newly improved US-Iranian ties.
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AiCure Raises $12.25 Million For Its Treatment Monitoring Technology | TechCrunch
Raise your hand if you’ve ever forgotten to take a pill you were prescribed? The chances are, if you’re in the U.S. at least, you probably have. The failure to take prescribed medicine, whether as part of a clinical trial or treatment regimen costs …
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Alps avalanche hits school party – 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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Mr. (Swipe) Right? — The California Sunday Magazine
The California Sunday Magazine More Stories from California Sunday Home Share Tweet Subscribe Made with Atavist. Make your own. Phone Number ( ) – Address Birthday You’ve read the 3 free articles available to you. You’ve exhausted the 3 articles ava…
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Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It’s The Best : movies
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It’s The Best via /r/movies https://t.co/nBSomxcRiK https://t.co/p01tZjWAGC
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Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica finally begin journey to US | World news | The Guardian
After more than three months stranded in Costa Rica, 180 of the 8,000 Cuban migrants trapped there have finally begun their long-awaited trip north toward the US border, flying into El Salvador and then travelling by bus to Guatemala on Wednesday.
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Watch Madonna Sing “Rebel, Rebel” in Tribute to David Bowie | Vanity Fair
Madonna’s admiration for the late David Bowie is something she’s never been quiet about.
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The Powerball prize as of this writing is hovering at $1.5bn and everybody is freaking out.
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See You Tonight And Tomorrow At The New York Micro Meetups | TechCrunch
It’s that time of month again: micro meetup time. I’m holding two small meetups in Manhattan and Brooklyn: a mini pitch-off on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 and a BTC event on Thursday, January 14, 2016.
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I was live-tweeting President Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight. For those of you not on Twitter, or dizzied by the blizzard of Obama-related tweets, here’s what I had to say. And I welcome your comments. Gov.
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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2016
Your education doesn’t have to stop once you leave school. We’ve put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this fall for the latest term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your lif…
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10 creepy and disturbing documentaries / Boing Boing
Mental Floss’ list of 10 (More) Haunting Documentaries That Are Stranger Than Fiction (see also 10 Haunting Documentaries That Are Stranger Than Fiction) lives up to its headline.
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US frenzy for world’s largest lottery draw – BBC News
Shops across the US are bringing in extra staff to cope with the influx of customers hoping to win the world’s biggest lottery prize. The US Powerball lottery has grown to $1.5bn (£1.04bn) ahead of Wednesday night’s draw.
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Why Public Schools Should Reinvent Mentorship – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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Iranian news footage of detained US sailors – video | World news | The Guardian
Footage obtained by IRIB news agency appears to show the moment ten US sailors are captured by the Revolutionary Guards after they entered Iranian territorial waters on Tuesday.
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Google X gets a new name and a new logo | Ars Technica
A report from Recode gives us a nice update on the goings-on inside of Google X—Google/Alphabet’s moonshot division—and the group has a new name and a new logo. It dropped the “Google” and is just “X” now, and you can the division’s big yellow X log…
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New edition of Mein Kampf set to land on German bestseller lists | Books | The Guardian
A new critical edition of Mein Kampf is set to make its debut on German bestseller lists this weekend, after Adolf Hitler’s political manifesto went on sale in the country last week for the first time since the second world war.
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BELLEVUE, WA—Imparting his profound enlightenment and worldly understanding onto all who would heed his words, local billing clerk and learned sage Cameron Wenzel reportedly pointed out Wednesday that the Powerball jackpot is not worth as much after…
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Tajikistan poised to slide back towards war – Al Jazeera English
A nearly two-decade-old peace agreement that ended Tajikistan’s civil war is quickly unravelling and threatening to plunge Central Asia’s poorest country back into violence, a new report warns.
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Unraveling Obama’s final State of the Union address – Vox
President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address last night. Below, I dissect and interpret it. Like any good essay delivered under pressure, it (and the address) starts coherent and then degenerates into something both less intelligib…
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: What Group Should We Really Be Afraid Of? / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH fear and panic rip across the nation when a report reveals that more Americans are shot by toddlers than by Islamic terrorists. Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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SpaceX to Attempt Another Rocket Landing Sunday – Scientific American
SpaceX is planning to try another epic rocket landing during a satellite launch Sunday (Jan. 17), according to media reports.
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The rent is high at 123 Sesame Street. It’s always been an expensive address. But for a while, the funding was there: From the federal government, a few philanthropists, viewer donations to PBS, and, most of all, Sesame Street stuff.
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This Drug Dealer Is Fighting Canada’s ‘Cruel’ Mandatory Minimum Sentences | VICE News
A drug dealer from Vancouver’s crime-ridden Downtown Eastside neighborhood is taking his fight against Canada’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offences to the country’s top court on Wednesday.
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David Bowie in the Movies – The New Yorker
A road at night, unreeling before our eyes. Dashed yellow line down the center, flickering by at unmanageable speed. Yellow lettering to match it, rushing toward us, bearing names that scatter and burst.
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The 3-year-old was sitting on a stool behind the counter near the cash register while his father, the owner of a small convenience store in North Carolina, chatted with a customer on Sunday.
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Since it was listed for sale last summer, a century-old house made famous as the home of a serial killer in the 1991 movie “The Silence of the Lambs” has attracted plenty of curiosity, but it has mostly languished on the real estate market. The home…
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Longform: The Road Goes on Forever by Amanda Petrusich
Looking for the ghosts of the Allman Brothers Band in Macon.
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Free on Hulu: Stream Fellini’s 8 1/2, La Strada & Other Classic & Contemporary Films | Open Culture
You’re at a social gathering, in a classroom, at a weekend getaway. Someone makes a reference and everyone gets it but you. It happens, so what? No one can possibly have seen all the films, read all the books, heard all the albums.
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Be careless with your wishes: A Igoni Barrett on the writing life in Nigeria | Books | The Guardian
One day eleven years ago I swallowed fear, stuck my neck into the noose of fate and swore I would swim or drown. I was 25 years old and had never held a job, never strayed far from my mother’s protection, never stopped depending on her for feeding m…
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Lives Fit for Print: Exposing Media Bias in Coverage of Terrorism | The Nation
On a brisk November 13 night in Paris, armed gunmen killed 130 people and shocked the world. Global media snapped into full focus, covering the attack with a frequency and depth unmatched by coverage of any terrorist attack since the Charlie Hebdo s…
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Sage Northcutt does 10^30 flips : gifs
Sage Northcutt does 10^30 flips via /r/gifs https://t.co/Eu6APu7GWC https://t.co/8rbXb72jd4
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The American Textile Industry Was Woven From Espionage | Atlas Obscura
Samuel Slater, who established the United States’ first textile mill in 1793, is widely regarded as the father of America’s industrial revolution, having received that very accolade from Andrew Jackson.
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What Happens When the Handsome Children of Celebrities Meet? | Vanity Fair
There is a world that exists just outside our own, a half-dimension away. It is the world of celebrity scion, an amorphous cluster of children born into access and good fortune. At the center of that cluster exists an even more rarefied jumble of yo…
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US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail, phone hacked | Ars Technica
The same individual or group claiming to be behind a recent breach of the personal e-mail account of Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan now claims to be behind the hijacking of the accounts of Director of National Intelligence James C…
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Hong Kong to Shut Down Legal Ivory Trade
In late October, we reported that Hong Kong announced it would “consider” shutting down its domestic ivory trade. Now, it says it’s ready to take the plunge.
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ESO’s GRAVITY Begins 1st Probe of Supermassive Black Hole Event Horizons
ESO’s GRAVITY Begins 1st Probe of Supermassive Black Hole Event Horizons https://t.co/1tsPeneU6x https://t.co/MQaCck6dvo
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SoundCloud Signs UMG And CEO Ljung Says Subscriptions Are Coming This Year | TechCrunch
As free music streaming continues to grow in popularity, one of the bigger services has hit an important milestone in its bid to build a profitable business.
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How Police Departments Can Evaluate Threats By Using an Algorithm – The Atlantic
When Tamir Rice was killed by police officers in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014, some observers assigned a portion of the blame to a 911 dispatcher. She relayed a citizen’s concern that a black male was sitting on a park swing, pulling a gun from his wais…
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Google Maps For Android Gets Predictive With Driving Mode | TechCrunch
You might have noticed that Uber has started to pay attention to your habits. For example, the app often suggests my home address as a destination whenever I request a driver. Google is today rolling out similar functionality across Google Maps for …
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Is Sean Penn’s Story About El Chapo Even Plausible? Experts Disagree. | ThinkProgress
American actor Sean Penn led authorities to capture Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, according to a Mexican federal law enforcement official who spoke with reporters from the Associated Press after the notorious drug lord was arrested on Friday.
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Waterfront Mansions Taking Over (Extra Scene from ‘Gullah Geechee Nation’) | VICE News
On the Sea Islands along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, a painful chapter of American history is playing out again.
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/Z4F1tWr7Qj https://t.co/oLE0lHvTCs
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There’s a man outside Runcorn station in tinted glasses and parka leaning, arms crossed, against the bonnet of his car. Add a few years and it could be Liam Gallagher, giving Cheshire the evils for having to do the school run. But no.
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Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin review – tales of the unexpected | Books | The Guardian
Valerie Martin’s work is distinguished by an alluring precision – her details, both exact and provocative, position the reader just where she or he needs to be in order to understand what Martin is getting at.
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General Motors shares jump after it raises profit outlook – BBC News
General Motors (GM) shares have jumped after the firm said it would be more profitable and return more money to shareholders. Shares in the biggest US car maker rose more than 2% after it raised its 2016 earnings forecast by 25 cents to between $5.2…
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HBO Takes On Netflix With A New Kids Section Featuring “Sesame Street” And More | TechCrunch
HBO’s quest to more directly compete with streaming service rivals like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu is kicking off this week, with the company’s launch of a new “Kids” section in its mobile application and the rollout of new children’s programming on i…
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What Will HBO’s Sesame Street Look Like? — Vulture
In August, PBS made a surprising announcement: It was handing over the reins of its iconic children’s show Sesame Street to HBO, where new episodes will begin airing this month.
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This 3D-Printed Watch Doesn’t Tell Time Well But That Doesn’t Matter | TechCrunch
Not unlike Ke$ha, things that go tick-tock are quite interesting and this 3D printed clock is no exception.
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Udacity is launching a new spin on its Nanodegree cerfification programs programs today. With its new Nanodegree Plus offerings, the for-profit education company will now guarantee you that you will get a job within six months after you graduate.
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Oath of the Gatewatch review: Magic has a new colour of mana—kinda | Ars Technica
The latest Magic expansion set, Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW), will be released on January 22. OGW is the follow-up to Battle for Zendikar, continuing the story of Zendikar with a smaller set of 180 cards, including a new buddy for the Eldrazi titan U…
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At a recent town hall event in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was asked whether he supports paid sick days by a member of the New Hampshire Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy.
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New Lithium-ion Battery Will Not Burst Into Flames – Scientific American
When coated onto a lithium-ion battery electrode, a new composite material protects the battery from bursting into flames if it is overcharged or develops an electrical short.
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EU probes Poland over media and court reforms – Al Jazeera English
The European Commission says it will launch a probe over Poland’s new constitutional court and media legislation that have been criticised as running counter to the bloc’s fundamental principles about the rule of law.
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100 Women Will Be Live-Streaming Their Abortion Stories Next Week. Here’s Why. | ThinkProgress
Congress’ focus on restricting women’s health care this past year has left abortion as an issue that’s treated more like a heated debate topic than a basic health choice.
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In praise of Viggo Mortensen and the interdependent actor · Oscar This · The A.V. Club
This year’s Oscar nominations will be announced on January 14. Will the Academy uphold conventional wisdom or think outside of the box? With Oscar This, we highlight unlikely candidates—the dark horses we’d love to see compete.
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It didn’t take long for conservative commentators to start hurling childish insults at their television sets last night during President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Ai Weiwei: Lego decision is ‘victory for free speech’ – BBC News
Lego’s decision to stop asking bulk customers what they want to do with the bricks is a “victory for freedom of speech”, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has told the BBC. Last October, Ai accused Lego of censorship when it refused to sell its bricks direct…
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South Africa an Outlier on Ivory Policies
This week, representatives from countries around the world are gathered in Geneva to discuss the wildlife trade. The agenda ranges from rhinos to totoabas, but one of the hottest topics is ivory.
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Pathankot attack: Pakistan says arrests Jaish-e-Mohammad militants – BBC News
Pakistan has said it has arrested several militants from Jaish-e-Mohammad, the group India believes was behind the recent deadly assault on the Pathankot air base. Islamabad said it was also considering sending a team to Pathankot to investigate the…
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The Razzie nominations are (mostly) 50 Shades Of Grey · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Razzie Awards nominations, in addition to being a dubious honor for everyone involved, also serve as a palate cleanser between the more earnest festivities of the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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It’s Kazaam‘s turn on the chopping block over at the How Did This Get Made? podcast, with Paul Scheer and company dissecting the misbegotten 1996 genie comedy starring NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
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A view of the Milky Way from Hunters Beach in Maine. credit: Mike Taylor. : space
A view of the Milky Way from Hunters Beach in Maine. credit: Mike Taylor. via /r/space https://t.co/lT56InwiDv https://t.co/LBldNKVCwW
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Deadpool has officially received an “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Get ready for “strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity.” [Box Office Mojo]
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Ten Germans Were Killed in Tuesday’s Istanbul Attack, Foreign Ministry Says – The Atlantic
Ten of the fatalities in Tuesday’s suicide bombing have been identified as German, and a Turkish official says one person has been arrested in connection with the attack.
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Object Lessons: short, thrilling books and essays about everyday objects / Boing Boing
The Object Lessons project, edited by game theory legend Ian Bogost and cultural studies academic Christopher Schaberg, commissions short essays and small, beautiful books about everyday objects from shipping containers to toast.
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How Many Cells Are in the Human Body—And How Many Microbes?
Your body is a microbial melting pot, home to trillions of bacteria that help keep you healthy and regular. And for decades, scientists have shown their importance with this alluring factoid: The microbes in your body outnumber your own cells ten to…
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When Burn Rate Outweighs Enthusiasm | TechCrunch
Many business critics of Uber contend that the company is spending “unsustainably.” Despite that nearly all venture-backed startups burn capital unsustainably, Uber’s level of spending is viewed as particularly problematic among its naysayers.
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Did Life Ever Exist On Mars? Russian/European Probe To Find Out | Video
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The last thing the NFL in Los Angeles was ever about was the fans | Sport | The Guardian
The world’s most lucrative sports league has retired one of their most valuable money-making tools. For 21 years the NFL wielded a giant golden hammer over America’s cities, using the threat their local football team might move to Los Angeles to ext…
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The Republican Party’s immigration split was reflected Tuesdayin the two responses hand-picked party members gave — one in English, one in Spanish — to President Obama’s final State of the Union address. The Spanish version, offered by a Cuban-Ame…
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Is Boring Better Than Bernie? – The Atlantic
Is Boring Better Than Bernie? https://t.co/B67FqkKGov https://t.co/cegI9V72bM
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HOUSTON — After more than two decades, the N.F.L. has found its way back to Los Angeles. The St. Louis Rams will move to the Los Angeles area, where they intend to build a new, nearly $3 billion stadium in an entertainment complex in Inglewood, Cali…
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How You Can Help Make Tor Faster for $10 a Month | Motherboard
Your computer’s IP addresses can be correlated to an online identity and even a physical location, typically accurate within a city block. In other words, any website you visit can know your physical location, even with every ad blocked and every so…
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Why Was Bumble Trying to Match People with Underage Users? | Vanity Fair
A glitch in the dating app Bumble is limiting some adult users to only matching with users between the ages of 13 and 17.
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El Chapo Really Liked To Visit His Mom in the Mountains, Locals Say | VICE News
Angel Zepeda Guzmán, a heavyset man with an impressive grey moustache and a white cowboy hat, sits on the porch of his yellow house in Arroyo Seco, a hamlet in the part of the Sierra Madre mountains where Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán grew up.
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Scientist makes case to edit embryos – BBC News
Dr Kathy Niakan said the experiments would provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life and could reduce miscarriages. The regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), will consider her application on T…
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Wael Ghonim: Let’s design social media that drives real change | TED Talk | TED.com
Let’s design social media that drives real change https://t.co/nk6FcDdvqI https://t.co/7aBt1yrY1U
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a package containing $68,000 in cash arrived at a FedEx store in Palo Alto, California. The bills had been washed in lantern fuel, as per instruction, then double-vacuum-sealed and placed inside the cavity of a stuffed animal, which was then gift wr…
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Michigan governor calls National Guard to help in water crisis – BBC News
Michigan has deployed the National Guard to distribute bottled water and filters to residents in Flint who are struggling with a water crisis. The move ordered by Governor Rick Snyder comes after recent tests found elevated blood-lead levels in chil…
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Neil Middleton obituary | Books | The Guardian
As managing editor of the publishers Sheed and Ward, Neil Middleton, who has died aged 83, played a key role in the renewal of the Roman Catholic church in Britain during the period of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
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The GOP response to the State of the Union sounded pretty different in Spanish – Vox
The most controversial part of the Republican response to the State of the Union on Tuesday night, delivered by Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, was cut out of the version delivered in Spanish by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida. It wasn’t dropp…
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Wael Ghonim: Let’s design social media that drives real change | TED Talk | TED.com
Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt … by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media f…
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NFL’s St. Louis Rams Headed to L.A., Chargers Could Follow | Rolling Stone
After a 21-year hiatus, the NFL is back in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve St.
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Colbert to ‘Making a Murderer’ Filmmakers: Is Steven Avery Guilty? | Rolling Stone
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, the documentarians behind the Netflix hit Making a Murderer, dropped by The Late Show Tuesday to discuss the series that has tantalized the nation, whether or not they believe Steven Avery is guilty and what they’d l…
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Imagine Dragons on Loving Halsey, New Tour Film | Rolling Stone
On March 2nd, Imagine Dragons fans who missed out on the band’s 2015 tour can experience the next best thing. That night, at 7:30 p.m.
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Watch Madonna Honor David Bowie With Strutting ‘Rebel Rebel’ Cover | Rolling Stone
Watch Madonna Honor David Bowie With Strutting ‘Rebel Rebel’ Cover “If you haven’t heard about David Bowie then look him up, motherfuckers,” singer says during live tribute to late musician
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Watch Tor traffic flow around the world / Boing Boing
Tor, the internet anonymity network you can use to hide your activity from prying eyes, is beautiful in blue. Torflow is a visualization of the vast amounts of traffic streaming between its many nodes, delineating a map of the internet as it can’t o…
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Manual mail-sorting at the turn of the 20th century / Boing Boing
These Library of Congress clips from 1903 look like a time-motion study straight out of the Cheaper by the Dozen playbook, waiting for someone with a green eyeshade to come along and refactor the workflow.
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Kim Davis’s Four-Word Review of Obama’s Speech | Vanity Fair
Kentucky County clerk Kim Davis, who became a conservative Christian icon after she was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, did not have much to say about President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address T…
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REVEALED: the trick behind magicians’ baffling coin-vanishes / Boing Boing
This dude makes Norway looks cold, but also cool. 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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Obama’s quiet push to ban LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace – Vox
President Barack Obama’s 2016 State of the Union speech didn’t, as previous speeches did, land any firsts on LGBTQ issues.
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If Americans spend more on healthcare, why do Costa Ricans live longer? | Ars Technica
Citizens of the United States have a higher income than Costa Ricans, and they spend more of it on health care. In spite of this, Costa Rica has a higher life expectancy than the US—a new article published in PNAS attempts to explain why.
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What’s the programming language for you? / Boing Boing
Lenovo is on top of a shrinking market; only Apple is shipping significantly more machines this year than last, according to trade group numbers. HP is sinking fastest among the big players, but still in #2.
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Solidify a Creative Idea by Brainstorming in Three Phases
Whether you’re coming up with a side business or trying to figure out what kind of website to launch, chances are, you have ideas bouncing around your head all the time. To organize and work through your brainstorm, break it up into a three-step pro…
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John Oliver’s hilarious, horrifying look at state-backed lotteries – Vox
Did you buy tickets for the recent $326-million Mega Millions drawing? If so, John Oliver wants to talk to you, but maybe even more so, he wants to talk to the state that sold you the tickets. On his latest Last Week Tonight, Oliver skewered the lot…
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Where once we slaughtered whales, now we grieve for them | Philip Hoare | Opinion | The Guardian
The stranding of 80 pilot whales on an Indian beach is a physical confrontation. It addresses the chasm between ourselves and the natural world. On one hand a sleek, beautiful animal is driven, by loyalty, to follow its fellow whales on to land in a…
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Gravitational-Wave Rumours in Overdrive – Scientific American
Physicists have for months been buzzing about the possible detection of gravitational waves—a finding that would confirm one of the key predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
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The hit podcast Serial will release new episodes of its second season biweekly, instead of weekly, producers announced on Tuesday.
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What did Republican lawmakers hate about President Obama’s State of the Union address?
For those keeping score at home, here are just some of the issues that President Obama raised during Tuesday’s State of the Union address that Republican Senators and Congressmen in attendance refused to clap for, let alone get off their asses and c…
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The Important Difference Between The GOP’s English And Spanish SOTU Responses | ThinkProgress
The GOP offered two different responses to President Obama’s final State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening — and the small differences between them reveal an internal conflict over a policy issue that’s especially important to Latino voters. So…
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Iran Detained 10 US Sailors — Here’s What We Know – Digg
On Tuesday, the White House revealed that 10 members of the US Navy are in Iranian custody after their ships entered Iranian waters. Here’s what we know so far.
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BYRON, IL—In a rare moment of candidness between verbally and physically abusing his peers, local bully Pete Pachego, 14, shared his concerns with reporters Wednesday that his victims might one day realize he was actually a retarded faggot himself.
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This is what makes Republicans and Democrats so different – Vox
MSNBC asked Benjy Sarlin, its reporter on the Republican race, and Alex Seitz-Wald, its reporter on the Democratic race, to flip jobs for a week and write up what they learned. Their conversation is worth reading in full, but something Sarlin wrote …
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With her first column of 2016, The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd returned to her decades-long crusade attacking Hillary Clinton. Dowd has increased her vitriol towards Hillary Clinton in her New York Times columns since Media Matters first analyzed h…
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Hacker hits US spy chief James Clapper’s personal accounts – BBC News
The US director of national intelligence has had several of his personal online accounts hacked, his office has confirmed. As director of national intelligence, James Clapper serves as a key adviser to the US president on security matters including …
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Police Officer Accidentally Shoots, Kills 12-Year-Old Girl | ThinkProgress
On Monday, 12-year-old Ciara Meyer stayed home from school because she was sick. But later that day, when a Pennsylvania police officer approached her home to “enforce an eviction order,” she was shot and killed on the spot.
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How The Iran Deal Helped Get American Naval Boats Out Of Hot Water | ThinkProgress
An international incident was avoided yesterday in the Persian Gulf, when Iran picked up and subsequently released two U.S. Navy patrol boats.
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Massive data analysis of NYC Citi Bike data
Late last year, Todd Schneider did a big data analysis of taxi and Uber usage in NYC. This morning, he posted the results of a similar analysis for Citi Bike. But unlike the taxi data, Citi Bike includes demographic information about its riders, nam…
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Asking For It by Louise O’Neill- review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Asking For It is a novel about an eighteen year old girl named Emma O’Donovan, who goes to a party and is gang raped by a group of boys from her school’s football team.
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Chris Hughes and the dangers of impact investing | Fusion
Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought The New Republic for a reported $2.1 million in 2012, has now decided that he’s going to sell it.
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Again, I don’t know how this show is doing, ratings-wise, but Girlfriends’ Guide continues to impress week after week.
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Does the weight of all the ants in the world equal all the humans? | Life and style | The Guardian
When I started in school in 1968 we were told that the weight of all the people on earth (then about 3.5 billion) was equal to the weight of all the ants on earth. Was this true? I heard this repeated as a fact on the radio just the other day, with …
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App Annie Adds Support For Apple TV Apps, Including A “Top Charts” Section | TechCrunch
Curious to see which apps are in the Top Charts on the Apple TV App Store, without having to actually browse to that section on Apple’s new media player? Starting today, you can get this information more easily, thanks to App Annie’s addition of App…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Says There Is “Misinformation” Out There About What Actually Eats | Vanity Fair
If your understanding of the world was based solely on jokes people make on Twitter and, like, late-night-show monologues, it would probably seem like Gwyneth Paltrow lives inside a hut made of seasoned kale, meditating all day long (while dressed i…
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Map: Here’s where Powerball is most popular – Vox
Along with Mega Millions, Powerball is as close as the United States comes to a national lottery (tickets are sold in 44 states as well as Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands).
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PC sales drop to 2007 levels / Boing Boing
Lenovo is on top of a shrinking market; only Apple is shipping significantly more machines this year than last, according to trade group numbers. HP is sinking fastest among the big players, but still in #2.
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Architecture’s Biggest Prize Was Just Awarded to Someone You’ve Probab | Vanity Fair
Last year, the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most celebrated award in architecture, selected the German architect Frei Otto, who was 89 when he got the good news. Otto died two weeks later and never made it to the award ceremony.
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Gwen Stefani Caught the Bouquet at a Wedding This Weekend | Vanity Fair
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, judges on The Voice and musicians in their own right, are dating. We know this. But what level of dating are they, exactly? Are they “using the BF word or the GF word” dating? Are they “meeting each other’s parents” d…
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Here’s What Happens to the Billions of Powerball Dollars That Nobody Wins | VICE News
The last Powerball jackpot was won on November 4, 2015. It was for a mere $142 million. Since then, more than 1 billion tickets have been purchased at $2 apiece.
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Astrophysicists May Have Found Gravitational Waves. Or Not | WIRED
My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting.
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All The Incredible Comics That Will Melt Your Wallet in 2016
2015 was a great year for comic books, and 2016 is shaping up to be just as exciting—and financially ruinous. Seriously, take a deep breath, look longingly at your wallet, and get ready to write up your pull list of some of 2016’s coolest sounding c…
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Plan Your Work Week Around Your Energy Level to Make the Most of Your Time
Taking advantage of your “good hours”, when you have the most energy, to focus on what you need to get done is great for your productivity. Expand this idea to your whole work week by figuring out which days work best for the tasks on your plate.
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New Balance will make a runner’s Android Wear watch powered by Intel | Ars Technica
The world of wearables is taking a turn as we see more nontraditional entrants into the smartwatch and fitness tracker market. The newest to jump into the game is the sportswear company New Balance, announcing that it will make its own Android Wear …
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Hillary Clinton’s estate tax plan leaves rates way lower than they were in Bill’s day – Vox
With Bernie Sanders now leading in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton’s been trying to blunt his economic populist appeal by showing that she, too, is serious about taxing rich people.
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The Guillable Kiss of Mr. Patokos on Vimeo
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The Surreal Drama of Actors Playing Sick for Med Students | WIRED
Few people can say they’ve never faked the flu to skip school or stay home from work. The people who play sick in Corinne May Botz’s fascinating series Bedside Manner do so for noble reasons: Helping medical students learn how to diagnose patients a…
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Solar panel users in Nevada are feeling the heat on higher power costs | Environment | The Guardian
There are 36 solar panels sitting in a row behind Richard Stewart’s home in north Las Vegas. The panels cost about $40,000 – most of his savings, he said. He made the investment with his wife, who has since died, hoping to save money heating and coo…
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Online Ad Company MediaMath Launches New Unit Focused On Customer Data | TechCrunch
There’s a lot of talk about using data to power programmatic advertising, but according to MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki, the reality hasn’t lived up to “all the hopes and dreams.
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What Will It Take for Humans to Colonize the Milky Way? – Scientific American
The idea that humans will eventually travel to and inhabit other parts of our galaxy was well expressed by the early Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who wrote, “Earth is humanity’s cradle, but you’re not meant to stay in your cradle…
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Why Ted Cruz Could Actually Hurt the G.O.P. More than Donald Trump | Vanity Fair
By all conventional accounts, Donald Trump is the presidential candidate who should scare the Republican leadership the most, given the widely held assumption that he would be unelectable opposite Hillary Clinton. But according to experts, it’s actu…
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Casablanca Camerawoman – Al Jazeera English
In 2004, Morocco implemented the Moroccan Family Code (Moudawana) to improve women’s rights within a family and bring positive social change for women. But nine years have passed since the implementation of these reforms and many believe they have f…
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Anthony Bourdain’s planned market in Chelsea will sell food as authenticity. That leaves little room for the democratization of cuisine he promises. CHEF-TURNED-MEDIA personality Anthony Bourdain has made a career of bringing far-flung food culture …
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Inside Brothers Osborne’s Eclectic ‘Pawn Shop’: Ram Report | Rolling Stone
It’s not lost on Brothers Osborne that they received a Grammy nomination before their debut album was even released. And they want everyone to know it too. Siblings T.J.
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Blowfly in Hospice Care With Terminal Liver Cancer | Rolling Stone
R&B singer Clarence Reid, who doubles as the masked purveyor of sexually explicit songs Blowfly, revealed Tuesday that he is suffering from terminal liver cancer and multiple organ failure. Reid was admitted into hospice care Tuesday, the singer’s o…
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Syrian Refugee Kicked In Hungary Starts a New Life in Spain – SPIEGEL ONLINE
One kick was all it took to make Osama Mohsen, a professional soccer coach from Syria, into one of the most famous refugees to arrive in Europe last year. After a Hungarian camerawoman sent Mohsen tumbling, his life took an unexpected turn.
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Why Moveon endorsed Bernie Sanders / Boing Boing
Moveon polled its members to see if enough of them supported a candidate to win the organization’s support, something that’s only happened once before (Obama 2008). 340,665 members cast a ballot, returning an unprecedented 78.6 majority in favor of …
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China’s Unique Challenge: Healthcare for Billions – Al Jazeera English
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Serial moves to a biweekly episode schedule · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Bad news, Serial listeners (and The Serial Serial listeners)—the wait between episodes just became a little more excruciating.
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Obama Forecasts Economic Opportunity in Fighting Global Warming – Scientific American
President Obama tied climate change to soaring economic hope rather than damaging catastrophes in his final State of the Union address, delivered to a nation that remains gripped with partisan rancor over the basis for climbing temperatures.
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Batman V. Superman May Be Getting Yet Another Major Supervillain
You know the deal. This is a rumor for the moment, but it might be true. If it’s true, then it’s also a spoiler, so read on at your own risk. Okay. You know how Doomsday is obviously going to tussle with DC’s main three heroes in Batman V.
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Sneak-privatization of public schools: attacking teachers, unions and standards / Boing Boing
A scorching editorial by public education advocate Marion Brady describes the 30 year program of sneak-attacks on public education in America.
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Enterprise Founders Take Note: A New $100 Million Fund Just For You | TechCrunch
Enterprise startups have a new venture fund to pitch. Leaders Fund, a new, North American venture firm, is taking the wraps off its debut, $100 million fund, and the capital is earmarked exclusively for software companies selling to businesses. Give…
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Motorist jumps through window to stop thief – BBC News
A quick-moving car owner stopped his vehicle being stolen at a petrol station, by leaping through the car window as it was pulling away.Police have released footage of the attempted theft, which happened in Malak, northern Australia, on 30 November …
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Playboy Mansion For Sale – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The 20,000-square-foot Playboy Mansion is currently on the market for $200 million, one of the highest asking prices for a home in the United States, though the terms of the sale dictate that owner Hugh Hefner may continue living in the home until h…
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Pakistan’s conundrum over the Saudi-Iran feud – Al Jazeera English
Pakistan has called for a peaceful resolution to escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, offering to act as a mediator for the two Middle Eastern rivals while refraining from making specific commitments to its ally Riyadh.
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Transform Day-Old Pastries Into Decadent Bread Pudding
Bread pudding is already an indulgent delight when made with regular bread, but using leftover pastries can take it to great new heights. I know, I know, you guys have “never heard of leftover pastries,” but trust me, it can happen.
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Fight Back Against Winter With This Deeply-Discounted Humidifier
If dry winter air is giving you cracked lips and a scratchy throat, you can remedy it today with this discounted humidifier. The Rowenta Ultrasonic 360 can maintain your preferred level of humidity in any room, and at only 40db, you’ll barely even h…
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‘El Chapo’: LA company cashes in on drug lord’s shirt – BBC News
A US shirt maker says its shirts are flying off the shelves after Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was pictured wearing one.The distinctive patterned blue and grey number is seen in a picture of Guzman shaking hands with US actor Sean Pen…
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Horizontal History – Wait But Why
Most of us have a pretty terrible understanding of history.
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Mossberg: Apple and Google should win the war for the dashboard | The Verge
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code. Silicon Valley is forcing its way onto Detroit’s turf…
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The chill teen genius of Instagram’s @selfie account
The best way to present yourself on the Internet is with a selfie. Whether you want to reflect your actual identity or craft an idealized image, a well-executed self-portrait can send the world whatever message you please.
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Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA’s otherworldly treasures | Ars Technica
HOUSTON, Tex.—Building 31 on the campus of Johnson Space Center lacks the Tower of London’s majesty and history. No Queen’s Guard stand outside. But this drab, 1960s-era building is nonetheless where NASA keeps the crown jewels of its exploration pr…
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Significant Digits for Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Humanity may have kicked off an entire geological age in which we littered the ground with plastic, nitrogen and concrete.
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Double Star Detected By New Black Hole Probe | Video
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DG Media briefing / Director General / About Us / ESA
On Friday, 15 January, ESA Director General Jan Woerner meets the media at ESA headquarters in Paris, to provide an overview of ESA’s achievements in 2015 and the opportunities ahead in 2016. This will be followed by background briefing on the Europ…
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Sale forward Josh Beaumont is one of seven uncapped players in England’s new-look squad for the Six Nations. Beaumont, son of former England skipper Bill, is joined by new boys Maro Itoje, Sam Hill, Jack Clifford, Elliot Daly, Ollie Devoto and Paul …
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Ask the Experts: Is El Niño to Blame for So Much Weird Weather? – Scientific American
El Niño has become a hot topic. Most people in the general public now know the term, and they have a vague idea that it is some kind of pattern in the Pacific Ocean that means the U.S. will have a warm winter…or snowy winter…or hot summer—or somethi…
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Who has the better breakfast cereal, Batman or Superman? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
By day, Gabe Fonseca is a busy TV writer whose credits include Wizards Of Waverly Place and Private Practice. (He currently toils on NBC’s The Night Shift.
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Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are funny together. There’s not much evidence of this in Ride Along 2, wherein they reprise their buddy-cop roles of tough guy James (Cube) and his bumbling prospective brother-in-law and wannabe partner Ben (Hart)—nor even, …
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J.J. Abrams Has Solid Advice For Whoever Plays Young Han Solo | Vanity Fair
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Narcissiana: On Collecting : Longreads Blog
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Mortar and Pestle: The Evolution of Two Age-Old Culinary Tools – The Atlantic
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The Rams Are Headed Back to LA – The Atlantic
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Income inequality makes the 1% sad, too / Boing Boing
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One of the few human rights activists still willing to speak out in Saudi Arabia is currently being interrogated by Saudi authorities after having been held at the facility where her former husband and brother are imprisoned.
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Robot Wars is coming back to the BBC later this year | Ars Technica UK
While there’s no denying that today’s hyper-produced, relentlessly gritty television shows are immensely entertaining, we’re sorely lacking in the rough-around-the-edges, do-it-yourself attitude of British TV in ’90s. Knightmare, The Crystal Maze, S…
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The Unlikely Way That Agent Carter Will Connect with Doctor Strange
The World War Z sequel loses its director. Zack Snyder teases the mythology of Batman v Superman’s villain. Supergirl could actually cross over with The Flash and Arrow. Plus, new TV spots for Deadpool and Legends of Tomorrow, plus images from the r…
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Watagan Lightning | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Republican debate 2016: start time, schedule, and what to expect – Vox
The next primetime Republican presidential debate will be Thursday at 9 pm Eastern. It will take place in North Charleston, South Carolina, and will air on the Fox Business Network. A live stream will be free and available to all at FoxBusiness.com.
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These days many Americans live in an alternative political reality, in which the simplest factual assertions are met with anger and derision.
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Spend Less Time in the Kitchen With This $46 Pressure Cooker
If you don’t own a pressure cooker, today’s a great day to fix that. You can score a highly-rated T-fal 6.3 quart model for just $46 today as part of an Amazon Gold Box deal.
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He was a robot: DM catches up with ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür|Dangerous Minds
You know those Pink Floyd laser shows that set trippy visuals to either the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album or to a hodgepodge of greatest hits? Imagine being at one of those, but Roger Waters is there. In fact, he’s not just there, he’s onstage.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
It’s a new day, and here’s hoping that the Internet’s Tubes are more cooperative than they were yesterday. Imagine if the State of the Union had to wait for Internet service to be restored before getting started!
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Google’s self-drive cars had to be stopped from crashing – BBC News
Google drivers had to intervene to stop its self-driving cars from crashing on California’s roads 13 times between September 2014 and November 2015. The disclosure follows a local regulator’s demand for the information.
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Is this the world’s first full virtual-reality motion/voice capture session? | Ars Technica
Forget latex suits and white ping-pong balls.
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Powerball: if you actually win $1.5bn, calm down and follow this advice | US news | The Guardian
So you won the $1.5bn Powerball jackpot. Now what? Unending lists of places to purchase vacation homes and images of disappearing debt are perhaps running through your mind. Dreams of what you could do with the money are easy to conceive. The realit…
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Transcript: Michael Flynn on ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Mehdi Hasan (VO): In the days and weeks after 9/11, the US decided to fight a war in the shadows. George W Bush: Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.
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Who to Declare Ebola Outbreak Over | Al Jazeera America
The two-year Ebola epidemic which laid waste to communities across West Africa and killed more than 11,000 people is due to be declared over Thursday with Liberia expecting the all-clear from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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It has been about 5 years since I lost her. But I still love my baby girl. : cats
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Palm trees and Sky – northwest Pakistan (4256 x 2062) (OC) : SkyPorn
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Bird of Paradise mating dance : gifs
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Temple of the Dog – Call Me a Dog [Alternative] (1991) : Music
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Hong Kong bans import and export of ivory | Environment | The Guardian
Hong Kong will ban the import and export of ivory, the city’s leader announced on Wednesday, in a “historic” move hailed by animal welfare activists.
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Rockstar North boss leaves Grand Theft Auto developer after 17 years | Ars Technica
Leslie Benzies, boss of the Edinburgh-based Rockstar North studio behind the development of the Grand Theft Auto series, has left Rockstar Games. Benzies had been on sabbatical for the past 17 months and decided not to return to work for the company.
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PC sales drop to levels not seen since 2007 | Ars Technica
A combination of holiday sales and the launch of Windows 10 weren’t enough to slow the decline of PC sales, which have fallen to their lowest levels since 2007. Shipments declined by as much as 10.6 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015…
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Top 10 failed romances in fiction | Books | The Guardian
As Tolstoy said: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Is this true of romance too? Is a happy romance a cliche? Is a mess more familiar to us? Readers are witnesses to the unseen motives, fears, and fantasie…
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11 Fights Obama Picked During His Last State of the Union | Rolling Stone
The White House promised something special — something “non traditional” — in advance of President Obama’s seventh and final State of the Union address, but anyone who was hoping for an hour of Lin-Manuel Miranda lyrics was left wanting on Tuesday n…
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Chrome Can Now Cast From the Browser, No Extension Required, With This Flag
Chrome: Since the original Chromecast came out, you’ve been able to send your Chrome tabs to your TV with a handy extension. Now, Google’s experimenting with building that feature directly into Chrome. Here’s how to try it out.
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Bernie Sanders is on the rise in Iowa — and it looks like he could win there – Vox
BOONE, IOWA — People connected to the Democratic establishment still tend to view the Bernie Sanders campaign with bemusement, incomprehension, or scorn. They might get a wake-up call when the Iowa caucus results come in on February 1.
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The US Thought One of its Afghani Hospitals Was in the Mediterranean Sea | Motherboard
The United States military has a horrifying recent history when it comes to hospitals and medical clinics in the Middle East.
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After a video was posted to Facebook that showed a man attempting to cuddle with a Kodiak bear, over 11 million people had a logical response: Click. Presumably, because human-bear encounters are not known for ending well, these millions of viewers …
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David Bowie’s Death Itself Was a Science Fiction Masterpiece | Motherboard
David Bowie doesn’t just die. He turns his death into a spectacle that forces everybody to think about the end.
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Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Brainstorm Celeb Names At Golden Globes – Digg
Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence gave the world a preview of their upcoming film by showing off their comedic rapport when presenting Best Motion Picture Comedy at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
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The celebrity cycling guide | Environment | The Guardian
I have loved this area ever since I was working there for TVS back in the late 1980s presenting Coast to Coast with Fred Dinenage.
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Loading the player reg… STEVE DOOCY (HOST): At one point the President of the United States turned around to Joe Biden and said essentially there’s a moon shot, we’re going to try to cure cancer during the final year of his presidency.
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The Greatest Universal New Yorker Cartoon Caption? – The Atlantic
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Iran state television announces release of US sailors – video | World news | The Guardian
Iran state broadcaster IRINN says the country has released 10 US sailors who were captured by Revolutionary Guards after entering Iranian waters.
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Note: Today is Wednesday the 13th. No need to take any special precautions, except perhaps an extra dollop of hand lotion and new deadbolts on your doors, windows, dryer vent and chimney. Also avoid ISIS strongholds—those people are rude. Have …
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Muslim professor blocked from game because his name was on US blacklist | Technology | The Guardian
Epic Games has apologised after mistakenly barring an American professor from playing its online game Paragon because someone who has the same name as him was on a US government blacklist.
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Jezebel Breaking Bad Writer Is Bringing Anne of Green Gables Back to Television | Sploid Here’s the Best Way to Cook a Steak | Gawker America Wants to Know: What’s Wrong With Nikki Haley’s Teeth? | Truck Yeah New Honda Ridgeline Has More Bed Than A …
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When You Need More Energy, Do Something Active, Not Passive
When you’re not feeling super energetic, your first instinct might be to chill out on the couch and relax. If you want to get your energy back, though, do something more active than watch Netflix.
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Jezebel Breaking Bad Writer Is Bringing Anne of Green Gables Back to Television | Sploid Here’s the Best Way to Cook a Steak | Gawker America Wants to Know: What’s Wrong With Nikki Haley’s Teeth? | Truck Yeah New Honda Ridgeline Has More Bed Than A …
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The World Is Hemorrhaging Methane, and Now We Can See Where
For more than two months now, a ruptured storage well has poured thousands of tons of gas into the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles.
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Turkey Detains 3 in Deadly Istanbul Blast | Al Jazeera America
Turkish police in the Mediterranean city of Antalya detained three Russian nationals in a raid on suspected fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkey’s state-run news agency said Wednesday, a day after a suicide bomber ki…
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Hong Kong to introduce measures to fight ivory poaching – BBC News
Hong Kong will introduce tougher legislation to tackle ivory poaching from elephants in Africa, Chief Executive CY Leung has said. Mr Leung said Hong Kong would ban the import and export of elephant hunting trophies and impose tighter restrictions o…
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As Barack Obama sought to ease the fears of an anxious nation in his final State of the Union address, the Republicans seeking to replace him in the White House said it was the president who had sown divisions among the American public.
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Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response bashed Trump — and racial justice activists – Vox
In her official response to President Obama’s final State of the Union, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley repeatedly returned to a theme that went all but unmentioned in the President’s own address: racial justice.
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Sierra Leone mulls more time for President Koroma – BBC News
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Craters on Dwarf Planet Ceres Shine in Stunning New Up-Close Photos
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured this image of the 16-mile-wide (26 kilometers) Kupalo Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres on Dec. 21, 2015.
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Awesome SpaceX Video Recounts Epic Rocket Landing
Last month, the private spaceflight company SpaceX achieved an amazing feat: launching a rocket into space, and then landing it back on Earth in a history-making moment. Not only that, SpaceX stuck the rocket landing at night, and did it live online…
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New South Africa Test captain AB de Villiers says he is “not sure” if he wants to remain in charge beyond the Test series against England. De Villiers, 31, replaced Hashim Amla, who resigned after last week’s drawn second Test with England in Cape T…
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Harriet Cleveland’s only crime has simply been having too little money. First the Montgomery, Alabama resident got traffic tickets for falling behind on paying her car insurance while driving to and from her part-time job at a daycare and bringing h…
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High Tech Manufacturing’s Disposable Workers | The Nation
The global electronics industry boasts of technical perfection and seamless production. But look closer and you can spot assembly lines tangled with rotten nerve endings and veins swollen with toxins.
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Endorsements Pour In For Hillary Clinton From Gun Control Advocates | ThinkProgress
Clai Lasher-Sommers, who survived being shot by her stepfather in 1970, was still conflicted in September about who to support for president. She told ThinkProgress that she believed in “everything” Sen.
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Turkey: IS suspects held after Istanbul suicide bombing – BBC News
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San Francisco Has A Plan To Support Public School Students With Parents In Prison | ThinkProgress
Roughly half of all kids living in the U.S. — 33 to 36.5 million — have a parent with a criminal record, and 2.7 million of them have a parent behind bars. Those kids are more likely to live in poverty and develop mental illnesses.
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Nevada Solar Could Be A Big Deal This Election Season | ThinkProgress
Nevada has a Republican governor, three out of four Republican representatives, and a Republican senator.
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Longform: Inside the Snitch Tank by Edward Humes
What seems like a slam-dunk case against a mass murderer exposes widespread prosecutorial misconduct in Orange County.
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Brian Eno — First Light — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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The best quotes about loss and bereavement | Children’s books | The Guardian
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With the tragic loss of one of the greatest musicians of all time earlier this week, comes a collective mourning that transcends generations. -
Iran frees US sailors : worldnews
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How to Build a Homemade Gun Without a 3-D Printer – The Atlantic
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You don’t need 3-D-printing technology to make your own gun. Individuals have been fashioning homemade firearms for as long as guns have existed. -
Inside the Hidden World That Handles Your Holiday Returns | WIRED
For most retailers, the weeks leading up to Christmas are a frenzied crescendo of activity. But for Michael Ringelsten, the excitement starts after the holidays.
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He Fell In Love With His Grad Student — Then Fired Her For It – BuzzFeed News
Christian Ott, a young astrophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology, fell in love with one of his graduate students and then fired her because of his feelings, according to a recent university investigation.
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Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA’s otherworldly treasures | Ars Technica
HOUSTON, Tex.—Building 31 on the campus of Johnson Space Center lacks the Tower of London’s majesty and history. No Queen’s Guard stand outside. But this drab, 1960s-era building is nonetheless where NASA keeps the crown jewels of its exploration pr…
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New Cisco Service Helps IT Understand Employee Cloud Utilization | TechCrunch
By now, every IT pro is acutely aware that cloud services are so easy to provision that people often do so without their knowledge. Tracking cloud usage has proven a challenge for IT as a result.
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My husband raped two women — and I had to answer for his crimes – Vox
I was writing a thank-you card for a wedding gift when I heard the knock at my door. It was 2005, I was 30 years old, and my life was about to change forever. I was away from home, staying at a hotel for a school guidance counselors’ conference.
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Next Up at the Supreme Court: Obama’s Immigration Policy | New Republic
The answer to this question, and the ultimate fate of the administration’s program—officially called the Deferred Action for Parents of American Citizens and Permanent Residents, or DAPA—will turn on how the Court handles, as a precedent, its blockb…
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Better Solar Forecast Gives Earlier Warning to Protect Tech – Scientific American
Migratory Birds May Use Magnetic “GPS” November 10, 2015 — Benjamin Meyers and Christopher Intagliata
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Obama’s 2016 State of the Union, in four minutes – Vox
In his final State of the Union, President Obama reminded Americans of his accomplishments, cautioned against the politics of fear, and (almost) sounded like a freshman Senator again. There were the requisite nods to his major victories: Obamacare, …
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President Obama Cites Space Race in Final State of the Union Address
President Barack Obama evoked the space race of the 1960s as a model for the future of the United States in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening (Jan. 12).
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A smartphone video that its owner and defense lawyers said showed a brief verbal encounter before a suspected gang rape at a Brooklyn playground emerged on Tuesday, another development in an increasingly complex inquiry that has roiled the city.Poli…
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Obama’s Changing State of the Union Addresses – The Atlantic
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To put President Obama’s last State of the Union speech in context, I reread his first. Placing them side-by-side illustrates not just the way Obama’s agenda has changed during his terms in office, but the way America’s entire political debate has c… -
Is Dark Matter Making Waves at Milky Way’s Edge?
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Dark matter has been making waves in science for years, but apparently it’s been making ripples in the Milky Way for even longer. New research reveals that dark matter may be responsible for creating waves observed at the outer edges of the galaxy. -
New Cisco Service Helps IT Understand Employee Cloud Utilization | TechCrunch
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Sports Direct buy stake in US gun seller Dick’s Sporting Goods | Business | The Guardian
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought a stake in one of the biggest sellers of guns in the US with the aim of working closely with the American company. Sports Direct said it had bought a 2.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Bernie moves the polls in his favor
Keep in mind that polling in both IA and NH are tricky, and that at least in IA we have J. Ann Selzer. That gold standard DMR/Selzer IA poll for Rs is out later today and for Ds is out tomorrow.
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Unlock Google Maps’ New Hidden Driving Mode In the Latest Update
Android: Google Maps’ Navigation feature has been one of Android’s best for a long time. It would be nice, however, if you could see things like traffic updates and nearby gas stations without entering a destination. Now, you can.
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At the far southeastern tip of Haiti, just outside the border town of Anse-à-Pitres, there was a farm. When the farmer’s grandfather bought the land years ago, he arrived with a cow that birthed twin calves.
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‘Gigantic chasm under Antarctic ice’ – BBC News
Hints of its presence are seen in the shape of the white continent’s surface, in a largely unexplored region called Princess Elizabeth Land. If confirmed by a proper geophysical survey – now under way – the winding canyon network would be over 1,000…
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Breaking Bad writer to create new version of Anne of Green Gables | Media | The Guardian
Breaking Bad writer Moira Walley-Beckett has been picked to adapt the much-loved Anne of Green Gables books for Canadian broadcaster CBC.
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Police have confirmed that a 12-year-old girl in Pennsylvania has been accidentally shot dead by a local constable who came to evict her family from their apartment. Ciara Meyer died when Constable Clarke Steele fired a shot at her father, who had p…
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Powerball: Winning numbers could earn a $1.35 billion jackpot – Vox
At 10:59 PM eastern time, the winning numbers in the Powerball lottery will be announced with the current jackpot up to a record-high of $1.5 billion after the past several drawings have failed to produce a winner.
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Paris attacks hideouts found in Belgium – BBC News
Three properties used by men involved in the 13 November attacks in Paris have now been identified, Belgian prosecutors say. Investigators discovered fingerprints of suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Stade de France bomber Bilal Hadfi at a…
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IMF calls for carbon tax on ships and planes | Environment | The Guardian
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The International Monetary Fund is calling for a carbon tax on aviation and shipping to help deliver global climate goals. In a report released after 195 countries struck a UN climate pact in Paris, it said carbon pricing should be “front and centre… -
How Encryption Technology Can Be Traced Back to the Kama Sutra – The Atlantic
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Never in history have more people had access to advanced encryption in their homes, offices, and pockets. The most basic online transactions and communications that Internet users conduct every day are thoroughly encrypted in transit, and are undeci… -
Iran Releases 10 American Sailors and Their Boats – The Atlantic
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Iran has freed the 10 U.S. sailors who strayed into its territorial waters Tuesday. The two U.S. vessels had been en route to Kuwait from Bahrain on a routine exercise, when, a senior defense official said, contact was lost with them Tuesday. -
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EU launches probe into new Polish laws – 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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Afghanistan deadly gun battle near Pakistan mission in Jalalabad – BBC News
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Playing around with BMW’s 7 Series gesture control user interface | Ars Technica
LAS VEGAS—Yesterday, we showed you Dragon Drive, the voice-activation system that’s now included in BMW’s 7 Series. That’s not the only advanced user interface that the Munich-based car maker has included in its technology-laden sedan—it also featur…
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Barack Obama’s final State of the Union marked the beginning of the end of his time in the White House and stands as an epitaph for the dream of a peace presidency.
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Ai Weiwei: Lego u-turn ‘victory for freedom of speech’ – BBC News
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Investment Bankers Severely Dissociate Their Sense of Self from Their Work – Scientific American
For most people, identity is inextricably tied to work. We strive for meaning within our jobs and take criticism of our labors personally. Not so for senior investment bankers.
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New York’s homeless left out in the cold – Al Jazeera English
New York, United States – Glistening skyscrapers tell one story about the financial heart of the world’s biggest economy; the homeless bodies sleeping in their doorways tell another. Not every New Yorker is enjoying a rebound from the 2007-2008 fina…
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Bears in books – quiz | Books | The Guardian
1What are the names of the Brown children who adopt Paddington?Victoria and EustonJonathan and JudyMax and MaryBobby and Beatrix2In JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Beorn the shape-shifter can transform into a bear.
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Mike Oldfield — Moonlight Shadow (extended version) — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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The Rolling Stones — Ain_t Too Proud to Beg — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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David Bowie — Slow Burn (Radio Edit) — Listen and discover music at Last.fm
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Predictions for boxing in 2016 | Sport | The Guardian
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We have a new heavyweight champion after a decade of Klitschko dominance, so things are about to get interesting, right? Sadly, no. Batman (well, Tyson Fury) is set for an April or May rematch with Wladimir Klitschko, a fight he is not certain to wi… -
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When You’re A Soccer Star, Posting On Instagram Pretty Much Bricks Your Phone – Digg
Demy de Zeeuw is a defensive midfielder for the Netherlands national soccer football team who just so happens to have 88,000 very dedicated Instagram followers… with an additional 8 million on the football-centric 433 account. Maybe now would be a…
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mParticle Raises $15M To Help Mobile Marketers Manage Their Data | TechCrunch
At first glance, mParticle might seem to be focused on a pretty specific niche — helping mobile app-makers consolidate their data. But the New York City startup counts companies like Airbnb, SeatGeek, Soulcycle and Spotify among its customers, and i…
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Oil price slide may force new Russian budget, Medvedev says – BBC News
Tumbling oil prices could force Russia to revise its 2016 budget, prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned. He said that the country must be prepared for a “worst-case” economic scenario if the price continued to fall.
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Razzies Awards: Fifty Shades of Grey scores six Golden Raspberry nominations – BBC News
The contenders for the worst films of the year have been announced, with Fifty Shades of Grey dominating the nominations. It is up for six Razzies – including worst picture, worst director, worst actor and worst actress.
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Tales from Uganda’s female former child soldiers – Al Jazeera English Life was supposed to get easier for Grace Achara after she escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – but the war is only half her story. Abducted as a child, she spent more than half of her life in…
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