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Taiwan’s first female leader, shy but steely Tsai Ing-wen – BBC News
With slightly hunched shoulders and an unassuming manner, 59-year-old Tsai Ing-wen doesn’t look like a threat to Beijing. But she has just won Taiwan’s presidency and is steely in her belief that Taiwan’s future should be determined by its people.
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Tories face fight with Lords over onshore windfarm subsidies | Environment | The Guardian
The government is expected to be forced into a renewed standoff with the House of Lords over David Cameron’s reversal on green energy subsidies.
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Tom Gauld on robot nostalgia – cartoon | Books | The Guardian
Illustration: Tom Gauld
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Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Stella Gordon isn’t even her name. The protagonist of this book is Stella Gordon and her life is a lie. It wasn’t always a lie but now it is. She has been moved for security issue from Philadelphia to Thunder Basin in Nebraska.
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BBC Sport – Charlie Austin: Southampton sign QPR striker
Southampton have signed QPR striker Charlie Austin in a deal reported to be worth £4m. The 26-year-old has passed a medical and agreed terms at St Mary’s.
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Syrian refugee wins a million euros in French lottery – Al Jazeera English
A Syrian refugee based in the northern suburb of the French capital, Paris, has won one million euros in lottery money after buying 10 euros scratch ticket.
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Movie Review: Oscar Nominee ‘Mustang’ Is a Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Film – The Atlantic
Girls, both the song and the French-Turkish film Mustang declare, want to have fun. They want to go to dance all night, wear cute clothes, swim in the ocean, go to soccer games, hook up with boys, and, generally speaking, not have fussy adults alway…
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Bernie Sanders puts boots on the ground in Iowa battle with Clinton | US news | The Guardian
Crowded into a forgotten corner of a shopping mall on the outskirts of Des Moines, a band of Bernie Sanders supporters are plotting a ground campaign they hope will make history repeat itself.
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No matter how you spin it, the business of raw sewage isn’t sexy. But in Colorado, the city of Grand Junction is making huge strides to reinvent their wastewater industry – and the result is like finding a diamond in the sludge.
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Liz Lochhead is one of nature’s talkers, asking as many questions as she answers, and her anecdotes are thick with mentions of friends: good friends; dear friends; oldest, closest, best.
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Taiwan elects first female president Tsai Ing-wen – Al Jazeera English
Eric Chu, the candidate and chairman of the Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT), has conceded defeat in the presidential elections, making Tsai Ing-wen the country’s first female president.
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BBC Sport – Prince Ali asks Fifa to investigate Africa-Asia agreement
Fifa presidential candidate Prince Ali of Jordan says a co-operation agreement between the African and Asian football confederations is a “blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote” in the election.
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Syria: Starvation as a weapon of war – Al Jazeera English
Images of malnourished children and elderly from the Syrian town of Madaya gripped the world last week. A UN aid convoy finally reached the besieged town on Monday with officials describing “horrifying conditions” for the more than 40,000 people tra…
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Taiwan elects first female president – BBC News
At least 23 people of 18 different nationalities are now known to have died after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in Burkina Faso, in West Africa.
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3 Troubling Ways the Charter School Boom Is Like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis | Mother Jones
Acting US Secretary of Education John King has called charter schools “good laboratories for innovation.
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25 Years Later: Photos From the First Time We Invaded Iraq | Mother Jones
Stephen Levin of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, watches President George H.W. Bush announce allied forces’ airstrikes against Iraq at an appliance store in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on the night of January 17, 1991. Amy Sancetta/AP
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The Saturday poem: The Walled Garden | Books | The Guardian
Remember, says the afternoon; the shutdoor shudders brassily beneath my hand. As though to listen, the colossal treeslean out into the tungsten-haloed street.
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Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood at 50 | Books | The Guardian
Though Truman Capote did not, as he liked to claim, invent the non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood (published 50 years ago this week) remains a literary monument.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
People gather round a mural of David Bowie, by artist Jimmy C in Brixton. The iconic rock star, whose career spanned more than half a century and whose influence transcended music, fashion and sexuality, died this week aged 69. Click here to read hi…
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‘Madaya has people but it doesn’t have life’ – Aid worker – BBC News
The first six of 40 lorries carrying wheat flour and medical supplies entered Madaya on Thursday evening. The UN says 40,000 people are living in appalling conditions in Madaya, which is surrounded by government forces.
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Saudi Arabia vs Iran: Is the cold war heating up? – Al Jazeera English
As automation gets cheaper than the cost of labour, developing economies are being hit the hardest. Five Lebanese in Beirut reflect on how their lives have been affected by their country’s civil war in the 1970s and 80s.
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Latin America: Beyond the stereotypes – Al Jazeera English
As automation gets cheaper than the cost of labour, developing economies are being hit the hardest. Five Lebanese in Beirut reflect on how their lives have been affected by their country’s civil war in the 1970s and 80s.
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The Spanish winter finally arrives – Al Jazeera English
After an incredibly mild start to winter across much of Western Europe, the region is now experiencing its first proper cold blast of the season.
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Will glass coffins be a success? : Jokes
Will glass coffins be a success? (self.Jokes) Remains to be seen.
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Tight borders boost business for traffickers | Al Jazeera America
IDOMENI, Greece — The previous night they had defied a deluge to cross secretly into Macedonia, but now a dozen weary people trudged back over the border into Greece, numb with cold, disappointment and uncertainty over what lay ahead. “We were scare…
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Keep-ups Who needs team-mates? Stumped Dummy shot Tunnel vision Get up Get down A beautiful moment ruined Momentum
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Is gentrification inevitable – and inevitably bad? | Cities | The Guardian
In the 1980s, long before his thoughts turned to the US presidency, Bernie Sanders – then mayor of Burlington, Vermont – took it upon himself to try to decelerate the development of the Lake Champlain waterfront.
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From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.
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US releases video of air strike on Islamic State cash depot in Mosul – BBC News
The United States has released video footage of what it says is an air strike on an Islamic State cash depot in Mosul earlier this week. The Pentagon said US aircraft had bombed the group’s cash distribution site which was being used to fund “terror…
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Tim Peake tweets spacewalk selfie – BBC News
UK astronaut Tim Peake described his first walk in space as “exhilarating”, as he posted photos – including a selfie – of the feat on Twitter. It will “be etched in my memory forever – quite an incredible feeling,” said Peake, the first astronaut re…
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Powerball lottery: First winners of the $1.6 billion lottery are revealed – BBC News
A warehouse supervisor from Tennessee in the United States has been confirmed as one of the winners of the world’s biggest ever lottery prize. John Robinson is taking a single lump sum of $328 million (£230 million), rather than annual payments whic…
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The actor Sean Penn said he had “a terrible regret” that the capture of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo has distracted from his article in Rolling Stone, which he had hoped would start a national conversation about the war on drugs. “My arti…
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Polls close in landmark Taiwan election – Al Jazeera English
Polls have closed in Taiwan in a presidential election that is expected to propel the pro-independence opposition party to power.
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England’s former world number one Luke Donald lies two shots off the lead at the halfway point of the Sony Open in Honolulu after a second-round 65.
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Tintin: Hergé’s masterpiece – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
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“In the sand of Brandenburg, every square foot of ground has its story and is telling it, too – but one has to be willing to listen to these often quiet voices.” Thomas Harding chooses this quote, from Theodor Fontane, to open his personal, yet hist…
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Asterix and the Missing Scroll by Jean Yves Ferri – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This story is all about Asterix, his friend Obelix, and a missing scroll. Caesar’s attendant wrote a manuscript on his conquests with the Gauls except one small town named Armorica where our heroes Asterix and Obelix live.
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Burkina Faso hotel siege declared over – Al Jazeera English
The siege of a popular hotel in Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, is over after security forces stormed the hotel which was under siege since Friday evening, the country’s security minister has said.
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Iran FM: Sanctions on Iran to be lifted on Saturday – Al Jazeera English
International sanctions on Iran will be lifted in hours when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issues its final report on Tehran’s nuclear programme, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying.
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‘My son wants to be a girl’ – BBC News
Casual prejudice against transgender people by everybody from doctors, to teachers and the police, is the last bastion of institutional discrimination in Britain today, according to a committee of MPs.
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Countries can deliver on the promises of the historic Paris climate change agreement by rapid scaling up wind and solar power to 36% of the global energy mix by 2030, an international energy gathering will be told on Saturday.
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IllumiBowl is a night light for your toilet / Boing Boing
Let there be light in the bathroom. Now you can add any color of LED light to your toilet bowl and see it glow. That means no more stumbling around when you have to go at night. Simply snap it onto the rim and let it shine: it will automatically tur…
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Burkina Faso hotel siege declared over – 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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Carnegie winner Tanya Landman’s excellent YA novel gets off to a cracking good start. The year is 1752, the setting is the West Country, and when we first meet the main character, teenager Caleb Chappell, he is helping his father Joseph put on the P…
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Death and humiliation: A tale of a Palestinian village – Al Jazeera English
Sa’ir, Occupied West Bank – The gathered men scramble to find their phones as news reached Sa’ir village that yet another young man from the small rural community has just been killed. With no name known yet, frantic phone calls are made all along t…
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PsBattle: This white pigeon wearing a harness of some kind. : photoshopbattles
BattlePsBattle: This white pigeon wearing a harness of some kind. (2.bp.blogspot.com) Gunther! You’re fucking it up!!!
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Ingeniously Simple Paper Aircraft Floats Along On Gentle Air Currents – Digg
4 diggs Design Aviation Curious This flier looks like a scrap of paper, but it will float in front of you for just as long as you feel like walking.
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Turkey frees academics detained over petition on Kurds – Al Jazeera English
Turkish prosecutors have released tens of academics detained for signing a petition calling for an end to the army campaign against Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country.
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Britain’s Dan Evans has reached the Australian Open main draw for the first time in his career. The 25-year-old from Birmingham beat Bjorn Fratangelo 7-5 4-6 6-0 in the third round of qualifying in Melbourne.
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China’s shadow looms over crucial Taiwan election – Al Jazeera English
The atmosphere was calm and relaxed as millions of Taiwanese voters went to the polls on Saturday. Many were voting for the first time. Others have memories of what Taiwan was like before it became a democracy 20 years ago when the island republic w…
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Literature seems to be mainly about absences: giving words to what we can’t quite grasp, to what we wish were there, to what we fear we’ve lost.
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Brexit could create a nightmare scenario for Britain’s food and drink industry, where companies have to abide by EU food regulations if they want to export to the EU but have no say over the regulations.
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The chosen one has arrived. : funny
The chosen one has arrived. (i.imgur.com)
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1980. My dad about to drop a hip hop album. : OldSchoolCool
1980. My dad about to drop a hip hop album. (imgur.com) You should get somebody to photoshop the wallpaper and stocking out of the background and replace it with an urban setting with 1980 low riders and 80s chicks in bikinis.
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After the Circus by Patrick Modiano | Books | The Guardian
I was eighteen, and the man whose face I don’t recall was typing up my legal status, address, and supposed student enrollment as fast as I could state them. He asked how I spent my free time. He cited the name of a café.
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Frozen fecal microbiota transplantation can be used to treat C. difficile infection. : science
MedicineFrozen fecal microbiota transplantation can be used to treat C. difficile infection. (news.meta.com) This is the primary source from JAMA.
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The US secretary of state, John Kerry, was expected to arrive in Vienna on Saturday for talks with his Iranian and European counterparts ahead of the so-called “implementation day” ending sanctions on Tehran.
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I’m not sure if the phrase “the balls on this guy!” is ever uttered in this engrossing, fast-paced documentary about police corruption in New York, but it certainly applies to the man at its center, former officer Mike Dowd.
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Even in the sociopolitically minded world of Italian neorealism, star quality mattered. That’s why Giuseppe De Santis’ sweaty, grubby 1949 drama Bitter Rice introduces its statuesque star, 18-year-old actress Silvana Mangano, with a flourish worthy …
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More than perhaps any other film in history, Gilda is best known for a single quick shot: the first appearance of the title character, played by Rita Hayworth (in her most famous performance).
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The Onion should publish a real article every year on April 1st. : Showerthoughts
The Onion should publish a real article every year on April 1st. (self.Showerthoughts) But wouldn’t that just make a clove of garlic?
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The future of the Egyptian revolution | Books | The Guardian
The video is shot from a balcony, and its style is familiar. A shaky, handheld camera, tracking the action back and forth. Figures below, mustering on some unspecified stretch of tarmac and urging one another forward. The chants of the crowd, and ev…
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Haha exactly. That’s his message to all the people who believed in him
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A brief respite for some, but none for the wrecked bee colony | Environment | The Guardian
The New Year is only a few days old when we walk along the margin of Godshill Inclosure. There’s a chill in the air following a night of frost but the sun is raking this ridge with enough warmth to entice a host of insects to break cover.
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APOD: 2016 January 15 – Wright Mons in Color
Explanation: Informally named Wright Mons, a broad mountain about 150 kilometers across and 4 kilometers high with a wide, deep summit depression is featured in this inset image captured during the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in July 2015.
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this passive-aggressive memorial plaque : pics
Took all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum. My neighbor put a windshield wiper up her butt.
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“Wedlock” · Reign · TV Review Reign gets caught in its own soapy coattails · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Reign is such over-the-top fun to watch and such a bear to recap; some episodes you end up feeling like the show’s designated driver. (Particularly if the show drove to the party in a rocket car that’s always going three times as fast as it seems to…
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Bill Maher Blasts ‘Bloodthirsty’ GOP, Launches Campaign to Get Obama on His Show – The Daily Beast
At the end of the busy week that included President Obama’s final State of the Union address and the first GOP debate of 2016, Bill Maher returned to HBO Friday night for his 14th season of Real Time.
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Connections in the Cosmic Web: Pandora Cluster | Space Wallpaper
About this Image Galaxy clusters are the largest formation in the cosmos maintained by gravity.
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Taiwanese go to polls to elect new president – Al Jazeera English
Voting is under way in Taiwan with polls showing that the island is expected to elect its first female president, who might dynamically change the course of Taiwan’s relations with China.
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Open thread for night owls: More excerpts from the Harper’s Index
One of the world’s three remaining northern white rhinoceroses, all of which live in captivity.
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Putting the Polish on Epic-Scale Telescope Mirrors
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
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The Most District: Which district has the country’s largest Vietnamese population? California’s 19th
Lofgren’s main primary opponent was ex-San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery. Lofgren made national news when she tried to list her occupation as “county supervisor/mother” on the ballot.
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WAUKEE, Iowa – I was late to Donald J. Trump’s unannounced visit to a Pizza Ranch on Friday, his first drop-by of this ubiquitous Iowa chain that is standard stop for candidates, but which Mr. Trump has avoided in favor of boisterous crowds in big h…
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Slipped into “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” among the torrential bullets and convulsive mayhem, is a protracted advertisement for a Mercedes-Benz S.U.V.
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The Stacks: Eddie Murphy’s Gilded Road to Ruin – The Daily Beast
In the ’80s the Beverly Hills Cop star was as hot as it got in Hollywood, and somehow everything went sour. Peter Richmond caught up with him in comeback mode. For a few years there in the early ’80s, few performers—never mind comics—had the kind of…
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Coddled Infants Claim College Victory – The Daily Beast
Perpetually offended students have notched another win—this time at Ithaca College in New York, where President Tom Rochon was forced into early retirement due to his perceived mishandling of racial slights.
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Crooked CEO Blew $500,000 on a Psychic – The Daily Beast
The psychic should have seen it coming.
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Young Hollywood’s Public Coming Out – The Daily Beast
For my partner and I—neither of us particularly ancient—coming out was awkward and messy. For a rising generation of social media stars just a few years younger than us, it’s a polished production. Coming out videos are one of the most popular genre…
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The Man Who Brought Us T-Rex – The Daily Beast
Barnum Brown is perhaps the most important paleontologist—and without him there likely would not have been a Jurassic Park. With Jurassic World having grossed $1.7 billion this year, dinosaurs continue to fascinate and terrify us.
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Hey, Hillary: End Your Cold War With the Media – The Daily Beast
So Thursday night at 9 pm, while everyone was watching the debate (okay, everyone who’s a weirdo politics junkie), I was watching…well, the debate.
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Behind the Dirty, Sexy, Saga of the Spanish Crown – The Daily Beast
In one of the most humiliating events to strike European Royalty in living memory, the Infanta Cristina, the once-glamorous little sister of the King of Spain, this week became the first Spanish royal ever to appear in court charged with a criminal …
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Black America’s Underground Guide to Escaping the Jim Crow South – The Daily Beast
Last week, I spent a day trying to use The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, and I’m happy to say I failed miserably. The book is useless now as a guidebook. The establishments it listed are mostly gone.
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The Man Who Survived Hiroshima & Nagasaki – The Daily Beast
In an excerpt from When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain, Giles Milton profiles a man who survived two nuclear blasts. He was travelling across Hiroshima on a public tram when he heard the droning sound of an aircraft engine in the skies…
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A ‘New York Values‘ Walking Tour for Ted Cruz – The Daily Beast
It’s easy to slag off big cities when you’re running for the red state nomination. It’s an urban vs. rural rivalry that goes back to Hamilton and Jefferson. But Ted Cruz misfired big time when he tried to get cheers from the cheap seats by stereotyp…
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My Interview with David Bowie – The Daily Beast
David Bowie both does and does not exist. Born David Jones in London in 1947, he changed his name when he became a recording artist because there was already a David Jones in entertainment, the pixie-sized frontman of the Monkees, and he was huge.
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Can Whiskey Cure Your Common Cold? – The Daily Beast
With cold and flu season fully upon us, it’s hard to go anywhere these days without hearing a cacophony of chest-rattling coughs and sinus-clearing sneezes. (Gesundheit, people.)
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How We Played at the Playboy Mansion – The Daily Beast
The news that Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles is up for sale for $200 million—reportedly America’s most expensive home for sale—resonated. My reportage is online, so I won’t repeat myself here.
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The Girls of Tri Phi Are Real Monsters
For her fall thesis at MICU, Molly Stanard brought us Tri Phi, a “sorority for collegiate monster girls.” Everything in her series is happening at the same time on a single Friday, confirming that Phi Phi Phi is the best sorority around. See more of…
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Neil Patrick Harris Is About To Get Really Unfortunate On Netflix
A few years back, Jim Carrey played the nefarious Uncle Olaf in the big screen version of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now, that children’s book series is coming to Netflix as a show and they have their own Olaf: Neil Patrick Har…
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Two Bodies Tested for Links to the Ayotzinapa Case do not Belong to the Missing Students | VICE News
Mexican investigators said tests have ruled out that two recently found bodies belong to any of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college who disappeared in September 2014 in the southern state of Guerrero.
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Will Robots Save The Future Of Work? | TechCrunch
Is a robot coming for your job? It’s not a novel question, but if Gartner’s predictions are correct, the answer could be leaning more definitively toward yes. The analyst firm’s research suggests one in three jobs will be converted to software, robo…
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iTunes Radio No Longer Free | TechCrunch
iTunes Radio will no longer be free, as of January 28. In an email to customers, Apple said that the Pandora-like service will only be available for Apple Music subscribers, which costs $9.99 per month. Apple will still be offering free radio, howev…
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What Is Best In Life? To See Brand New Conan the Barbarian Art by Fantasy Mastermind Brom!
By Crom, it is good to see Conan the Barbarian as reimagined by the great fantasy artist Brom. This new Conan artwork was created for Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, a brand new role-playing game from Modiphius Entertain…
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U.S. Says Pregnant Women Should Stay Clear of Zika – Scientific American
On Friday evening, at the start of a long holiday weekend, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning for pregnant women and those trying to get pregnant: stay clear of places where Zika virus is present.
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Tim Peake: How a British space hero was made – BBC News
Just a few months ago, you could have been forgiven for asking that question. But after a month on the International Space Station, the UK astronaut is rapidly achieving hero status, particularly among children – and adults – interested in science.
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Why pregnant women were just told to avoid travel to the Caribbean and South America – Vox
On Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel alert, warning pregnant women to avoid visiting countries where the Zika virus has been circulating.
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Week in pictures: 9-15 January 2016 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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NASA Spacewalk Cut Short After Spacesuit Malfunction | TechCrunch
NASA terminated a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today due to a spacesuit malfunction with one of the American astronauts.
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How desperate is Rick Santorum? He’s telling people to Google him.
How desperate is Rick Santorum to keep his presidential run going, no matter how many times America tries to tell him we’re just not into him? This desperate.
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Venezuela Declares an Economic Emergency and Releases Data Showing How Bad It Is | VICE News
Venezuela’s socialist government decreed an “economic emergency” on Friday and published the first data in a year showing the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model.
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Neil Patrick Harris will star in Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having recently freed up some manic, borderline shrill time and energy from his busy schedule, Neil Patrick Harris has signed on for his next TV project: starring as the villainous Count Olaf in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Se…
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Letter from Africa: Why Kenya has banned on-air sex – BBC News
In our series of letters from Africa, journalist Joseph Warungu reflects on the recent decision by Kenyan authorities to ban sex talk on radio. The Kenyan government is trying to ban sex on air.
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Why are people arguing about ‘Black Girl Magic’? – BBC News
A hashtag intended to inspire, motivate and celebrate black women has triggered a spate of controversy. But what does “Black Girl Magic” stand for? And why are people arguing about it online?
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Iran nuclear deal: US, EU and Iran to discuss progress – BBC News
The US, Iran and the EU will meet in Vienna on Saturday to discuss progress towards implementing Iran’s nuclear deal, the US State Department says. Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Hope Rekindled for ABC Proof | Quanta Magazine
Earlier this month the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years.
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Vox Sentences: Cruz or Trump? – Vox
Marriage fight in the Anglican Church; it’s looking like a 2-man GOP race; and Walmart is doing something it almost never does. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Are self-driving cars legal? And if so, can I drive home drunk in one? | Grist
In trying to sort out the laws around self-driving car schemes, the government may look for inspiration back to the age of the horse. Poor waste management systems, excessive packaging, and increasing demand for consumer goods make recycling difficu…
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Queen’s Grandson Organizes Her Birthday…And Cashes In – The Daily Beast
Proving that the British Royal family have lost none of their talent for making disastrously bad publicity for themselves when it comes to finance and business, Peter Phillips, the Queen’s grandson, is to be paid a secret fee estimated at several hu…
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India’s Internet activists have a SOPA moment: no “poor Internet for poor people” / Boing Boing
My latest Guardian column, ‘Poor internet for poor people’: India’s activists fight Facebook connection plan, tells the story of how India’s amazing Internet activists have beaten back Facebook’s bid to become gatekeeper to the Internet for the next…
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Graham Snubs Rubio Over Immigration ‘Cut and Run’ – The Daily Beast
Charleston, S.C. — Just a few weeks after ditching the presidential race, Lindsey Graham tried to shake it up Friday by snubbing a close Senate colleague.
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Add Taiwan to the List of China’s Big Problems – The Daily Beast
When the citizens of Taiwan go to the polls on Saturday to choose a president and all members of the 113-seat Legislative Yuan, the national legislature, the outcome promises to be historic.
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The 1950s Rollerway still going strong in Los Angeles – BBC News
Once a staple of American youth during the last century, many roller skating rinks in the US now struggle to pull in a crowd.
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Ever since Simon Petrikov’s former fiancée Betty was introduced to Adventure Time, the series has toyed with the possibility of healing Ice King of his crown-induced madness.
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Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 | Ars Technica
If you own a system with an Intel 6th generation Core processor—more memorably known as Skylake—and run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you’ll have to think about upgrading to Windows 10 within the next 18 months.
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The man who cycled from India to Europe for love – BBC News
Indian artist PK Mahanandia met Charlotte Von Schedvin on a winter evening in Delhi in 1975 when she asked him to draw her portrait. What eventually followed was an epic bicycle journey from India to Europe – all for love.
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Ciao Italia! Germany’s other migrant influx – BBC News
More than a million refugees and migrants from war-torn regions of the Middle East and Africa came to Germany in 2015. It was the news story of the year. But at the same time Germany has been quietly undergoing a radical transformation with another …
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Low-fiber diets mess up gut microbes—and changes can become heritable | Ars Technica
Doctors and nutrition experts have been harping on the importance of fiber for years, particularly how most people in industrialized countries eat less than the recommended daily dose of 25 to 38 grams.
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When Will We See A New Apple Watch? | TechCrunch
We will get new Apple Watch hardware at some point. The possibilities of better battery life, lighter casings and un-tethered utility are self-evident and Apple will capitalize on those. But when?
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‘Jungle’ migrants prepare to move – 100 metres away – BBC News
This has been a stressful week in the camp they call the Jungle. Difficult at the best of times for thousands of refugees and other migrants who crowd here, hoping to make it across the Channel from France to England, the camp turns into a mud bath …
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Walmart to Shutter 269 Stores | Al Jazeera America
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced Friday that it is closing 269 stores, including 154 in the United States. The other big chunk is in its challenging Brazilian market.
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Connie Nielsen to play Wonder Woman’s mom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gladiator star Connie Nielsen has been tapped to strap on her old toga and imperious, “I’m super used to people hitting each other with swords” expression once again, with the Danish actress signing on as the Amazonian queen—and mother of Gal Gadot’…
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Trump rally features kids singing about freedom and strength and crushing things
When fascism comes to America, it will feature perky pre-teens in cheerleader outfits singing about the fabulously rich man who will crush America’s enemies. They continued: “President Donald Trump knows how to make America great. Deal from strength…
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I still hold onto a couple of magazine covers and newspaper front pages, despite their preservation in the digital afterlife, marking the moment when a nation that had embraced African-American slavery chose a black man to be its president.
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René Angélil, the producer who discovered the singer Celine Dion at age 12 and later married her after leading her to stardom, died on Thursday at their home in Las Vegas. He was 73. In a statement posted online, Ms. Dion said the cause was cancer.
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What Animated Series Could Matt Groening Be Creating for Netflix?
He gave us The Simpsons and Futurama—but it’s been years since Life in Hell author Matt Groening has spawned a brand new cartoon series. Now he’s in talks with Netflix about writing and creating something. But what is it? And could it live up to Fut…
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Five Reasons You Should Keep Some Drink Koozies In Your Camera Bag
Drink koozies, the foam cup-like containers you use to keep aluminum cans cold, do more than you might realize. Here are some clever ways to use them with your camera gear.
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Bernie Sanders campaign withdraws bogus copyright threat against Wikipedia / Boing Boing
The Bernie Sanders campaign has sent an abusive DMCA notice to Wikimedia, the foundation that administers Wikipedia, over their hosting of Sanders campaign logos.
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Meet Airbus Ventures, A “Pure-Play” Aerospace Venture Firm | TechCrunch
In late spring last year, the Netherlands-based aerospace and defense giant Airbus Group announced a $150 million corporate venture capital fund.
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Vice-president Joe Biden officially began his “moonshot” initiative Friday to hasten a cure for cancer, aiming to use his final year in office to break down barriers in the medical world that he says are holding back progress.
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Watch The Trailer For The Secret ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel – Digg
2 diggs Trailers Movies According to JJ Abrams, “10 Cloverfield Lane” is “blood relative” of “Cloverfield.” How it relates to the original film is yet to be seen.
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Trapping Bobcats for Fur in the U.S. is Going Strong—And It’s Grisly
When I think of fur trappers, I imagine a frontiersman in a coonskin cap paddling his canoe full of beaver pelts down the Hudson River. But when reporter Tom Knudson thinks of trapping, it’s a guy trudging into a forest in Nevada, or some other West…
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Matt Groening is developing an animated series for Netflix · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has entered into talks with Netflix, with an eye toward developing a new animated series for the streaming service.
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A VFX Breakdown Of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ – Digg
9 diggs Vimeo Movies Art Entertainment Technology It seems “The Force Awakens” learned a lot from the overwhelming flatness in the prequels and landed on a perfect blend of practical and digital.
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Supreme court to revisit corruption conviction of former Virginia governor | US news | The Guardian
Disgraced former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell’s hopes of avoiding prison time were boosted on Friday, when the US supreme court agreed to hear his appeal against corruption convictions.
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Why Sex and the City’s Creator Thought the Show’s Ending Was All Wrong | Vanity Fair
If you were a bit disappointed when HBO’s Sex and the City concluded in 2004 with the exact fairytale ending its celebration of single-dom seemingly opposed, you were not alone.
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I love Lucius — their songwriting is terrific, their harmonies are exquisite, and their live performances are pure joy. Frankly, I’m not quite as fond of their records — I bought their first, of course, and have an advance of their second — which ar…
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Obama talks Trump, Star Wars and Kendrick Lamar in YouTube interview | US news | The Guardian
For his annual video chat about the State of the Union address, President Obama sat down on Friday with three YouTube vloggers. The breezy, hour-long conversation covered topics including his new gun control measures, perceived police brutality and …
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First Member Of Bundy Militia Arrested | ThinkProgress
Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks to reporters during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, near Burns, Ore.
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These five countries are responsible for up to 60 percent of the plastic in the ocean | Grist
The Obama administration has put a moratorium on new coal mining leases on public land, and plans to do a major overhaul of the whole coal leasing program. New research finds that attractive and interesting neighborhoods are what get well-off people…
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The Rams Won’t Get As Much From LA As The Lakers And Dodgers Do | FiveThirtyEight
After years of speculation over which NFL team would be the first to surrender to Hollywood’s siren call, the inevitable finally happened: The league’s owners voted this week to allow the Rams to move from St. Louis to Los Angeles.
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Remains of the Day: Google to Give Freebies If You Use Android Pay
A few news breadcrumbs leading us to the weekend as Skype adds Slack integration, f.lux politely requests to return to the App Store, Lyft cuts ride prices, and more. Night shift drama! The creators of f.
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Obama talks Star Wars and Kendrick Lamar in YouTube chat – video | US news | The Guardian
President Obama picks his favorite Star Wars character, discusses his love of rapper Kendrick Lamar, and shows off his pocket keepsakes as he is interviewed by YouTube stars, Destin Sandlin, Ingrid Nilsen and Adande Thorne on Friday
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First group of Cubans stranded in Costa Rica reaches US – BBC News
Image copyright AP Image caption Thousands of Cubans are expected to travel from South and Central American countries to the Texas and California borders with Mexico this year.
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Donald Trump’s seemingly impassioned defense of New Yorkers’ courage in the face of 9/11 at the GOP debate last night has made the media swoon, and possibly nailed him the nomination. “That was heart,” Mika Brzezinski said on Morning Joe this mornin…
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
After some of our staff spent the past week at CES, TechCrunch is back reporting the hottest tech stories. This week, the U.S. government got serious about self-driving cars, Apple rolled out new software betas, and we uncovered evidence that Facebo…
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Please, Someone Sue Ted Cruz, and Hurry! – The Daily Beast
My law school days are long, long behind me, and my ambition to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court took a hit when I neglected to take the bar exam. So it’s with some caution that I find myself puzzling over the notion that it would be tricky to…
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Will a Birther Lawsuit Derail Ted Cruz? – The Daily Beast
The “birther” claims against Sen. Ted Cruz are heading to court. Houston attorney Newton Boris Schwartz, Sr. filed a suit in federal court Thursday seeking a judgement about whether Cruz is eligible to become president.
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Cartoon: The social justice militia
The Bundy clan are back in the news for making a big show against the tyranny of below-market federal grazing fees. If anybody else took up arms and pulled a similar stunt to advocate for something that actually mattered, they’d be dead before the f…
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Sorry, stoners: Chuck Lorre is developing “The Big Bang Theory of weed” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ensuring that stoners can now indulge in the same mix of laugh track-assisted recognition and annoyed pandering that greets nerds every time they tune into Chuck Lorre’s The Big Bang Theory, the TV impresario has announced that he’s about to turn hi…
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Flooding on the Lower Mississippi : Image of the Day
In early January 2016, communities along the southern reaches of the Mississippi River faced severe flooding from rains that fell weeks earlier and well to the north.
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Feel the Adventure of H.G Wells’ The Time Machine In This Beautiful New Poster
H.G. Wells has inspired people’s imaginations for a century. There’s not an art form out there that hasn’t been touched by his brilliant, fascinating stories like The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau or, most famousl…
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The Best Way to Ask for Cash Instead of Gifts for Your Wedding
Having a registry for your wedding can be complicated, and you might end up with a bunch of stuff you don’t actually need. Asking for cash instead of gifts is becoming more and more acceptable, but there’s a right way to go about it.
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Back In Stock: TiVo’s Roamio OTA DVR With Lifetime Service For $300
The best DVR for cord cutters is back in stock, complete with discounted lifetime service. The TiVo Roamio OTA is the TiVo box you know and love, but designed specifically for users of HDTV antennas. The box itself retails for $50, but it typically …
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Noti Displays a Notification After a Terminal Process Finishes
Mac/Linux: Oftentimes when you’re running a command in Terminal, it takes forever to complete. Instead of checking back in every few minutes, Noti’s a tool that adds desktop (or phone) notifications.
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New Yorkers respond to Ted Cruz’s insults about the city – video | US news | The Guardian
New Yorkers and mayor Bill de Blasio respond to criticism leveled at the city and its inhabitants by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who called out Donald Trump for his apparent ‘New York values’
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The Pakistani Dystopia – The New Yorker
Imagine a country that is embroiled in a long and bloody conflict with its neighbor, and each time its democratically elected Prime Minister tries to reach out and make peace, his own army launches an attack to make sure the peace doesn’t take hold.
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Barack Obama Declares Kendrick Lamar Better Than Drake | Rolling Stone
Barack Obama Declares Kendrick Lamar Better Than Drake President also reveals what ‘Star Wars’ character he would be in YouTube Q&A
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Taurus the Bull Takes Charge in the Night Sky This Week
Get ready to spot a well-known constellation “charging in” this week, ready to dazzle. One of the brightest and best-known constellations is situated high in the southern sky at around 9:30 p.m. local time this week.
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Cosmic Rockers Unite in Honor of ‘Starman’ David Bowie
Steve Spaleta, Space.com senior producer, contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. What did Dave Bowie mean to you? To me, he was a radical idea, a man with vision and of many characters. He was the embodiment of imag…
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Obama Still Hasn’t Seen The Force Awakens, Can We Really Trust This Man to Run Our Country?
“Okay everyone, I’ve got to get to Star Wars.” These were the words uttered by President Barack Obama at the end of a White House press conference on December 18. And yet, Obama did not see the film.
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Marvel Is Introducing a New Wasp
Superheroes pass on mantles all the time: Sam Wilson is Captain America. Batman is Jim Gordon; Peter Parker and Miles Morales are both Spider-Man. And yet, Janet Van Dyne has endured for over half a century as the sole incarnation of the Wasp (in th…
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How Marceline Became One of Adventure Time’s Most Fascinating Characters
Marceline the Vampire Queen was a lot of fun in her first appearances on Adventure Time, but nobody could have predicted how much she’s evolved, and how much of a fascinating, key part of the series she’s become. We talked to Olivia Olson, who voice…
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The Atlantic Daily: Obama vs. Coal, Sierra Leone vs. Ebola, Madaya vs. Starvation – The Atlantic
The Interior Department will suspend all leases for new coal mines on public land until it completes a review of the process, the Obama administration announced Friday. Climate activists have urged governments to prevent fossil-fuel extraction to wa…
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Stock Market Continues to Slide in 2016 | Al Jazeera America
The stock market capped the first two weeks of 2016 with a steep slide Friday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 400 points — marking Wall Street’s worst-ever start to a year.
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Silicone flexible pancake turner / Boing Boing
The silicone rubber part of the OXO Good Grips flexible pancake turner ($11 on Amazon) has just the right amount of give. That, combined with a sharp edge, makes it perfect for flipping eggs, pancakes, and French toast.
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Oregon militia standoff: man arrested driving stolen government vehicle | US news | The Guardian
The standoff with armed militia in Oregon escalated on Friday after police swooped on one of the protesters to make the first arrest in connection with the two-week occupation of a federal wildlife refuge.
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What’s behind the falling price of oil? – Al Jazeera English
With too much global supply and the lowest price in nearly 20 years, there is anxiety about a possible oil market meltdown. US crude prices fell below $30 a barrel on Tuesday, before settling down, but only a bit.
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Shorter Rep. Mo Brooks: Obama continues to be not white and that still ticks me off
He means Obama is not white. So Obama isn’t as “racially divisive” as actual slaveholding presidents, but he’s clearly the most “racially divisive” aside from those guys.
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Alan Rickman as Severus Snape: his ‘Harry Potter’ scenes, in chronological order / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. The story of Harry Potter is so well known that I won’t focus on that here. Instead, I’m going to talk about what makes this new edition so spectacular, and why it’s a must have for your bookshelf.
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2016 is President Obama’s last full year in office, and while he has many important issues to deal with in that year—global warming, curing cancer, fighting ISIS, growing the national economy—he did make time to answer one of the great questions of …
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Each week, Josh Duboff looks at the biggest celebrity news—and amuses himself by imagining how those celebrities might have reacted. Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling present an award together at the Golden Globes, engaging in banter and causing an Interne…
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Chris Carter reveals the truth, says he wrote a third X-Files movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The first minute of the X-Files revival series is out there—along with the truth, of course—and the premiere of the new limited series is less than two weeks away.
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Obama reveals trinkets that he keeps in his pocket – BBC News
In an interview with YouTube personalities US President Barack Obama revealed some of the “lucky charms and keepsakes” that he carries around in his pocket.
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Read This: The hypocrisy of Judge Judy · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Over the last 20 years, Judge Judy’s Judith Sheindlin has presided over her televised court, dispensing justice, cracking wise, lecturing litigants about the importance of personal responsibility, and making viewers feel better about their lives by …
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We’re slowly emerging from the late December/early January TV season divide, which means we’ve got a big treat for all the CW fans and leather fetishists in the audience: A new trailer for the second half of Arrow season four, complete with all the …
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Martha is an exemplar of never backing down — and this should serve as inspiration for anyone fighting the good fight. Bankrupt coal companies are leaving behind a big mess.
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Rapper Mos Def ordered to leave South Africa in passport row – BBC News
The American rapper best known as Mos Def has been ordered to leave South Africa within 14 days after being arrested for breaking immigration laws. Mos Def, now known as Yasiin Bey, was held at Cape Town International Airport on Thursday after tryin…
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Spacewalk selfie / Highlights / Principia / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling. The meticulously planned and executed sortie was stopped early after fellow spacewalker NASA astronaut Tim Kopra reported a small …
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Jeb Bush explains his Hillary Clinton intel: ‘I only get my news from Fox & Friends’
Jeb Bush sounded as confident as Jeb Bush ever does when, in Thursday night’s debate, he said that Hillary Clinton would be a problem as president because “she’s under investigation with the FBI.
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Why Todd Haynes’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Carol’ Is Misunderstood – The Atlantic
The beginning of Carol flashes forward to the end, detailing a fraught meeting between the film’s title character (Cate Blanchett) and Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara). Their encounter seems stiff at first; only later, after the entire story has played…
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President Obama Answers the Dog Pants Question – The Atlantic
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In J.K. Rowling’s early Harry Potter novels, Severus Snape is bit enigmatic, but mostly just an antagonistic prig who seems to have it out for Harry for no real reason.
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Sean Penn talks about his “failed” El Chapo interview · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having braved both the Mexican jungles and the eye-rolling disdain of Rolling Stone’s editors to write lines like, “I hear chain saws. I feel splatter.
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Sunrise Sunset : Earth Matters : Blogs
Photographs by Scott Kelly/NASA. Sunrise (upper); sunset (lower). My colleagues and I spend most of our time looking for stories, images, and data related to the latest and greatest remote sensing science happening at NASA and beyond.
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Bernie Sanders campaign sends DMCA notice to Wikipedia over logos | Ars Technica
A lawyer representing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has demanded that several of the campaign’s logos be removed from Wikipedia, saying that reproducing the logos violates copyright law.
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Michael Bay has assured audiences that his Libyan-set military thriller 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is an accurate retelling of the events surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi in 2013, which resulted in the death of four people…
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Republican debate reflects aggravating feuds – Al Jazeera English
A smaller field, a brighter spotlight and some of the angriest exchanges of this long nominating process. The latest Republican Presidential debate in South Carolina showed as that as this race tightens, it is going to get nasty. Alan Fisher looks b…
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Crustacean crime: 4,800 pounds of lobster stolen in Cape Sable Island – Local – The Coastguard
CAPE SABLE ISLAND – Police say 48 crates, around $30,000, of live lobster was stolen from an outdoor pound on Cape Sable Island. Barrington RCMP are investigating a theft that occurred in the overnight hours of Jan. 12 to Jan. 13.
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Suspected Islamist Militants Attack Burkina Faso Hotel | VICE News
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Security forces in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso battled suspected Islamist fighters outside the Splendid Hotel in the capital’s business district on Friday, police and witnesses said.
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Military base pulls ‘Martin Luther King Jr. FUN SHOOT’ flyers because, well, duh
Everybody loves a fun day outdoors on the skeet shooting range. But when you are advertising a skeet shooting “fun shoot” on the Martin Luther King Jr.
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‘Conflicting’ US holidays reflect struggle with racism – Al Jazeera English
It is perhaps one of the best examples of the deep racial divide in the United States and the lingering effects of slavery that continue to shackle parts of the country. On Monday, people in three states will take a holiday to celebrate two very dif…
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Gunfire and explosions heard at Burkina Faso hotel – Al Jazeera English
Hostages are being held after an attack at a hotel in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou, a local journalist has confirmed to Al Jazeera.
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The Former Boss of Mexico’s Ruling Party Was Just Arrested In Spain | VICE News
A former leader of Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, and one-time close ally of President Enrique Pena Nieto has been arrested in Spain, officials said on Friday.
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Twitter, And Pretty Much Everyone Else, Had A Bad Day | TechCrunch
Today was not a good day for tech stocks. Universally tech stocks crashed today alongside everything else, erasing billions in value across the board, as part of a bad day overall for the market.
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Wingnut Week In Review: Haley’s Comment
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley easily gave the most successful GOP State of the Union response in years. So, why do so many in her own party seem to hate her for it? There’s no denying it.
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R.I.P. Dan Haggerty, star of The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dan Haggerty, the burly, bearded actor who starred in the 1974 film The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams and went on to reprise the role in the subsequent TV series, has died at age 74 after a battle with cancer.
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Alan Spencer was in his 20s and still in the early stages of his TV- and film-writing career when he created Sledge Hammer!, a seminal cop spoof that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. Despite his youth, Spencer managed to develop a ser…
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Olmec was just a guy with a microphone operating a big puppet head. The temple guards were sometimes TV writers who wanted to frighten children. And the game was nearly impossible to win because the producers had to stick to a tight budget and could…
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Obama Halts All New Federal Coal Projects: This Week’s Climate-Saving Move – The Atlantic
In his second term, President Obama has taken increasingly forceful steps to fight climate change. He’s forged emissions-limiting deals with China and pushed for the first international climate accord.
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Here’s an Idea: Let’s Not Remake Jumanji
I know, okay? I know that complaining about remakes and reboots and prequels and sequels is basically pointless now. Everyone’s bitched and moaned, and nothing has changed. But I pick this hill to die on. Don’t remake Jumanji. Please.
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Chris Carter Wrote Another X-Files Movie, Because He Enjoys Our Pain
Chris Carter deserves all the credit in the world for creating The X-Files. But he has never, ever been the series’ strongest writer. And, man, have the movies never been a particularly great venue for his creation. So maybe he should just leave his…
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Welcome Space Gal Emily Calandrelli To TechCrunch | TechCrunch
We’re super pleased to say that Emily Calandrelli has joined up with TechCrunch to cover space, science and everything STEM related.
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Important News About the Flash Gordon Movie: ‘Gordon’s Alive!’
Not long ago, we thought the Flash Gordon movie was dead. Then there was talk that Matthew Vaughn, of Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service fame, might direct, although it was never confirmed.
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Tim Curry to return to Fox’s Rocky Horror—as the narrator · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When a 28-year-old Tim Curry burst onto movie screens and into the public consciousness amid scandalized shrieking and glam-rock power chords in 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, he was a manifestation of the danger and excitement of sexual libe…
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What will the city of the future look like? We’re starting to see new technologies capable of helping future urban populations share more resources, reduce costs and communicate in new ways and BMW MINI would like to be at the forefront of this move…
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For the record, having sex will not cause Ted Cruz to follow you · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At last night’s Republican debate, Ted Cruz made a reference to a New York Times article that compared his campaign to the 2015 horror hit It Follows, calling the senator “a menacing, stalking, relentless force to watch for and run from.
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Is The Sanders Campaign “Going Negative?
The Clinton campaign is accusing the Sanders campaign of “going negative.” It’s all over the news today. Did Sanders really “go negative”? Or is this Clinton accusation just an attempt to “muddy the waters” as Clinton’s attacks on Sanders’ health ca…
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Kendrick Lamar to be honored with a key to the city of Compton · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Before he steps on stage to accept any Grammy awards—and with 11 nominations, his chances are looking pretty good—Kendrick Lamar will be given a key to his hometown, Compton.
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Letters: Bowie Love, Headline Hate, and the Continued Vagina Emoji Debate | Motherboard
New Year, new you, new bag of letters! We took a little break from our mailbag purges for the holidays, but now we’re back to the grindstone.
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Why Some GOP Candidates Aren’t Taking The Fight To Trump | FiveThirtyEight
If you, like us here at FiveThirtyEight, were initially skeptical of Donald Trump’s chances of winning the GOP nomination in part because you assumed that the Republican Party would go out of its way to stop him, then you’ll find the following prett…
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Wmail Is a Free OS X Desktop App for Inbox by Gmail
Mac: Inbox by Gmail is great, but there’s no dedicated desktop app for it. That’s fine for most of us, but if you prefer a desktop client, Wmail’s a free option for Mac.
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Brace Yourself: Every Chipotle Will Close For Lunch One Day Next Month | Vanity Fair
In what will surely be the darkest lunch hour millennials have or will ever see, Chipotle will shut down all of its roughly 2,000 restaurants across the country at once on February 8 while the company holds an all-staff meeting to address food-safet…
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Which Risqué Kim Kardashian Photo Did Kris Jenner Even Deem “Cringeworthy?” | Vanity Fair
If you’ve long bemoaned the Kardashians’ intellectually krippling effect on pop culture, a smidge of validation arrives on Friday via an unlikely source: Kris Jenner, Kardashian family matriarch.
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Dealmaster: Get one year of Amazon Prime for only $73 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a great deal on Amazon Prime to share. In honor of Amazon’s series Mozart in the Jungle winning a Golden Globe, the company has discounted its one-year Prime memberships by 26 per…
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Coal is dying. Who’s going to pay for the cleanup? You are! | Grist
Bankrupt coal companies are leaving behind a big mess. The Obama administration has put a moratorium on new coal mining leases on public land, and plans to do a major overhaul of the whole coal leasing program.
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CHARLESTON, SC—Expressing frustration that he had yet to receive any divine counsel on the matter, former Senator Rick Santorum told reporters Friday that he was still waiting for the go-ahead from God to suspend his presidential campaign.
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Michael Pollan gets his own Netflix series
Food writer Michael Pollan — author of The Botany of Desire (my fave of his) and originator of the world’s best simple diet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” — is the subject of a four-part Netflix series called Cooked.
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Here’s Everything You Need To Know About What’s Happened Since El Chapo’s Recapture | VICE News
Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was recaptured exactly a week ago, almost six months after he escaped from a maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
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The US car industry has the technology to make future vehicles meet the federal 54.5-mile per gallon average fuel economy requirement scheduled to arrive in 2025, the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles told journalists at the North American Internatio…
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Yasiin Bey Arrested in South Africa for Fake Passport | Rolling Stone
Yasiin Bey Arrested in South Africa for Fake Passport Rapper has 14 days to leave South Africa after violating local immigration laws for attempting to leave country with unrecognized passport
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‘Making a Murderer’ Lawyer Talks Evidence, Prosecutor’s ‘Sour Grapes’ | Rolling Stone
Since the true-crime docu-series Making a Murderer debuted on Netflix in December, the former Wisconsin district attorney Ken Kratz, who secured a murder conviction for Steven Avery, has accused the program of not showing all of the damning evidence…
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Weekend Rock: What Is David Bowie’s Best Music Video? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is David Bowie’s Best Music Video? Cast your vote in our weekly poll
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Know your obscure fetishes! | Fusion
Today is International Fetish Day, the day on which we honor those among us (and perhaps within us) whose sexual taste err on the wild side. But the holiday isn’t just for the whip-loving leather daddies.
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UK MPs to debate banning Trump – Al Jazeera English
British MPs are set to debate whether US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should be banned from entering the UK, after a petition calling for him to be barred gathered more than 500,000 signatures.
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How Pilots Decide When to Keep Their Planes Grounded – The Atlantic
Eight out of nine passengers, and the flight attendant, were throwing up—whether from the turbulence itself or from fear, I couldn’t tell.
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Critic of Chechen leader Kadyrov ‘apologises profoundly’ – BBC News
Konstantin Senchenko, a local politician in Siberia, had posted criticism of Mr Kadyrov on Facebook. However, Mr Senchenko then posted a grovelling apology, leading to widespread speculation that he had been forced to do so.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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Here’s the first of my exclusive interviews with the 2016 candidates – with former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley who I spoke to at his campaign headquarters in Baltimore. Along with Bernie Sanders, O’Malley is the only credible alternative in th…
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The control room filled with blinking lights and glowing monitors is such a hallmark of movies and TV that viewers may not even give this particular trope a great deal of conscious thought.
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The Southbound trailer takes you down a highway to hell · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
A new trailer has been released for Southbound, an upcoming horror anthology film from a production team that includes Roxanne Benjamin and Brad Miska, who both participated in the V/H/S movies.
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The latest battle of the sexes has gone viral. No, really: researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that when it comes to who gets sick with the flu virus less often, women win because of estrogen’s protective quality.
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Gunfire and blasts in Burkina capital – BBC News
Nasa has cut short the spacewalk involving British astronaut Tim Peake after his US colleague reported water in his helmet.
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Twitter Updates Polling; Touts 1.7 Billion Votes | TechCrunch
Twitter is making an update to its recently released polling feature; instead of a default 24-hour timeframe, poll lengths can range from five minutes to seven days. The news comes as Twitter shares sink to a record low, with investors expressing c…
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How Content Farms Preyed on America’s Powerball Dreams | Motherboard
This year’s $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was a world record, which meant it was a world record pipe dreaming moment for Americans. Content farms had to be there to create content that fueled these pipe dreams, but also let people know that they we…
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Kickstarting an unbelievably cute otter-shaped tea-steeper / Boing Boing
The otter perches on your teacup’s rim while the tea steeps, staring adorably at you while it goes. It’s from our pals at Gama-Go, who have an excellent track record on making stuff and getting it into peoples’ hands, so I would feel safe buying int…
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Michigan seeks US government aid in water crisis – BBC News
Michigan is seeking millions in US government aid for the water crisis in Flint, where the water has become contaminated with lead. Governor Rick Snyder is requesting $31 million (£22 million) from the federal government because the need “far exceed…
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NASA Jason-3 Mission To Track Rising Sea Levels | Video
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Week in Fashion: Cate Blanchett Goes Pretty in Pink in a Givenchy Frin | Vanity Fair
TAYLOR SCHILLING IN THAKOONWe murmured “wow wow wow” while downloading this image. Does that say enough? By Jason Merritt/Getty Images.
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Security firm sued for filing “woefully inadequate” forensics report | Ars Technica
A Las Vegas-based casino operator has sued security firm Trustwave for conducting an allegedly “woefully inadequate” forensics investigation that missed key details of a network breach and allowed credit card thieves to maintain their foothold durin…
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This “Peace Troubador” Wanted to Peform in ISIS Territory | Mother Jones
James Twyman wants you to know that he’s not going to just wander into ISIS-controlled territory with a guitar slung on his back for his upcoming “peace prayer concert” inside Syria. He isn’t crazy, he tells me over the phone from his houseboat in O…
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Washington’s Panda Obsession – The New Yorker
When I was little, I wanted a panda for my birthday. Last August 22nd, which happened to be my birthday, the National Zoo, in Washington, sent out an alert on e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook: its female panda, the gentle Mei Xiang, had gone into labor.
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Oregon Militia’s Updated Supplies Wish List – The New Yorker
Militia leaders in Oregon want people responding to their plea for supplies to stop yanking their chain—by sending them sex toys.
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Congressman: Obama ‘The Most Racially-Divisive President’ Since Slavery | ThinkProgress
A congressman from Alabama who once joked about shooting undocumented immigrants criticized President Obama on Thursday as “the most racially-divisive president” of the United States since the Civil War.
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BBC – Future – Could just two people repopulate Earth?
The alien predators arrived by boat. Within two years, everyone was dead. Almost. The tiny islet of Ball’s Pyramid lies 600km east of Australia in the South Pacific, rising out of the sea like a shard of glass.
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Never Defeated, Rubik’s Warrior Rises Again to Build World’s Largest Cube | Motherboard
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. YouTuber corenpuzzle took that old adage to heart. He’s been trying to build a massive 22×22 Rubik’s cube for a while, but after his first and second attempts ended in tragedy, he swore he was quitting.
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‘Stolen!’, Pulled Over Harassment Concerns, Belongs to a Kinder Internet Era | Motherboard
Stolen!, the fun little twitter profile trading game which we wrote about only three days ago, has been unceremoniously closed.
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A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the exact site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more than three centuries ago.
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Why Does So Much U.S. Coal Come from Federal Land?
By hitting “pause” on granting new federal coal leases, the Obama administration is tackling an uncomfortable reality in its drive to meet climate targets: Nearly 41 percent of American coal comes from government-owned land.
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Will you help us fill the Mundgod library with books? For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area who would like to show support, here’s a quick update on the case of imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who made the documentary “Leavin…
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YouTubers Will Soon Invade Your Netflix | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular or noteworthy new videos of the week. This week, we have a big announcement from a big YouTube star, an ouroboros of a video that should not exist, a new couple to keep your eye on, an impressive …
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Defend Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling | The Nation
What’s going on? The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined.
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What’s it like to have your emails investigated? – BBC News
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it’s not illegal for employers to read workers’ private messages sent via webmail accounts and chat software during working hours. But what’s it like when this happens? One City worker gives his stor…
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Cock.li server seized again by German prosecutor, service moves to Iceland | Ars Technica
The administrator of the cock.li e-mail hosting service told Ars on Friday that a second hard drive had been seized from his Bavarian data center by the district attorney for the City of Zwickau in eastern Germany.
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National Park Advocates Appalled by Yosemite Name Changes
The historic Ahwahnee hotel, Yosemite Lodge, Wawona Hotel, Curry Village, and Badger Pass ski area will be renamed by March 1, when the park changes over to a new concessioner. The National Park Service is locked in a legal fight with DNC Parks & Re…
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NASA to Capture Best-Ever Portrait of Coral Reef Health
NASA is about to get up close and personal with Earth’s corals: The space agency will use airplanes and water instruments to survey these delicate structures and capture the most detailed views ever of the planet’s corals.
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Migrant crisis: ‘Welcome cooling’ at borders across Europe – BBC News
The United Nations is continuing to record as many as 5,000 migrants a day making the sea crossing from Turkey to Greece. At the same time, controls at Greece’s northern border with Macedonia are being tightened.
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French drug trial turns disastrous, leaving 1 brain dead and 5 hospitalized | Ars Technica
French authorities opened an investigation on Friday into an early-stage drug trial that went tragically awry, leaving one trial participant brain dead, five hospitalized, and several others with neurological disorders. Of the five hospitalized, thr…
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Five environmental activists who failed to convince a court that their attempt to block crude oil trains near Seattle was a legally justifiable act of civil disobedience on Friday were nonetheless praised by a judge as “part of the solution” to clim…
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I Am Legend scribe to write Matthew Vaughn’s Flash Gordon movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
HitFlix reports that screenwriter Mark Protosevich will handle the script for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming Flash Gordon reboot.
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Some people have impossible dreams, something stirring deep inside them that forces them to throw common sense, logic, money, and time out the window in order for them to pursue it.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis announce new album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been nearly four years since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis began their plan to take over the world one cute video at a time with The Heist, and now it seems as if they’re primed to do it all over again.
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Coal Ash Wastewater Will Be Dumped Into Virginia Rivers | ThinkProgress
Millions of gallons of treated wastewater from coal ash ponds can be disposed in two major Virginia rivers — one a tributary of the Potomac River — the Virginia Water Control Board ruled Thursday.
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Democrats Should Have a Big, Bold, Rip-Roaring Debate About Electability | The Nation
There is a debate going on with regard to which Democratic presidential contender is most electable, and that’s terrific. It would, of course, be absurd for any party to nominate a presidential candidate solely on the basis of electability, as that …
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Dream Chaser Spaceplane to Supply the Space Station
After losing a bid to SpaceX and Boeing to taxi astronauts to the International Space Station, Sierra Nevada’s miniature space shuttle Dream Chaser will have a new mission — flying cargo for NASA. “It’s pretty emotional.
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Necessity Is Driving Agricultural Innovation Indoors | TechCrunch
According to the United Nations, the earth will house an estimated 9.7 billion people by 2050. Consequently, more food will need to be produced over the next four decades than has been produced over the last 10,000 years. And with more than 99.
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Obama Halts Federal Coal Leasing Citing Climate Change – Scientific American
The Obama administration on Friday brought a temporary halt to new coal mining leases on federal lands while it conducts a three-year review meant to bring coal leasing in line with U.S. climate policy.
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Midday open thread: 2015 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy; more overseas U.S. bases
• No, Gov. Christie, the Second Amendment was not the second most important in the minds of the drafters of the Constitution.
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An opposition demonstrator gestures toward soldiers and tells them it is shameful to shoot on people who cannot defend themselves, in the Ngagara neighborhood of the capital Bujumbura, in Burundi Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
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Amazon gets permission to subcontract freight ships from China to the US | Ars Technica
This week, Amazon China registered to become an “ocean freight forwarder” with the United States Federal Maritime Commission. That means Amazon, one of the largest online retailers in the world, would be able to subcontract companies to ship goods f…
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China to Send a Mission to Moon’s ‘Dark Side’
China is moving forward with plans to land a probe on the far side of the moon, state news agency Xinhua reports.
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Colony Is Terrifying Because It Feels Like Real Life
Mr. Robot was a thrilling experience because it touched on real-world issues and concerns in a way that felt visceral and grounded. And now, USA’s latest drama, Colony, seems to be pulling off the same trick—only for an alien invasion story.
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What the Hell Is Going On With the Avengers in the Comics?
It’s taken them a while, but Tony Stark has finally, officially brought back the Avengers for Marvel’s All-New, All-Different universe! It’s about time, especially when you realize that Marvel has been putting out two additional Avengers comics for …
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‘Teen’ Hacker Claims Another Victim In Campaign Against Government | Motherboard
The alleged teen hacker who hacked the telephone account of US spy chief James Clapper earlier this week, diverting calls to his house to a pro-Palestinian organization, is back at it again.
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Venezuela decrees 60-day economic emergency – BBC News
The Venezuelan government has announced a 60-day economic emergency to deal with the country’s worsening crisis. President Nicolas Maduro will rule by edict for two months.
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Why Your Next Car Should Be 3D Printed — Backchannel — Medium
Meet the Blade. It goes from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds, boasts 700 horsepower, and has a top speed that is totally illegal. Typical sports car stuff. That’s where the similarities end.
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Ted Cruz Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Eligibility for President – The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s attacks on Ted Cruz’s citizenship have intensified in recent weeks. Now, the question of whether the Canadian-born Texas senator is eligible to become president could come before a federal court.
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See Black Sabbath Rehearse Deep Cuts in Tour Teaser | Rolling Stone
See Black Sabbath Rehearse Deep Cuts in Tour Teaser Band tears through 1970 epic “Hand of Doom” in behind-the-scenes clip for “The End” trek, which launches this month
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About half of retiring senators and a third of retiring House members register as lobbyists – Vox
Members of Congress now make $174,000 a year — not a bad living. But usually they can at least quintuple that salary by switching over to lobbying once they retire. And many of them do just that. A new study by three political scientists has some go…
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Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Have ‘Hair’
This artist’s concept shows a black hole’s surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field.Credit: ESO/L.
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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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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The harshest and most antagonistic phase of the Republican presidential race began in earnest on Friday as the candidates departed the debate hall for the campaign trail, leaving behind any pretense of good will that might h…
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Ashley Olsen Didn’t Deserve to Die, No Matter How Hard She Partied – The Daily Beast
ROME — It is increasingly difficult to report the details of the death of American Ashley Olsen without sliding into the dangerous territory of victim-blaming. The 35-year-old Florida native was found dead on Jan.
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Why Contemporary Theater Has a Role to Play in Theaters of War | VICE News
Man at a podium, veins bulging as he spits words: “Foot kicking. Foot kicking harder. Wood splitting. Man’s voice. Foot kicking harder through the door. Bottle crashing. Bottle breaking. Fist through the door. Man cursing. Man going insane.” People …
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It looks like it’s a bit too early to celebrate the end of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Just hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spread of Ebola over in West Africa, Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health has confirmed …
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The GOP debate described a terrifying world that doesn’t actually exist – Vox
Ted Cruz ended his performance at Thursday’s night’s debate, at which he was one of the clear winners, by pitching not a policy but an action movie: 13 Hours — Michael Bay’s Hollywood retelling of the real-life 2012 Benghazi attacks. 13 Hours.
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Cook Smaller Portions in the Slow Cooker with a Bowl or Casserole Dish
We love the slow cooker, but sometimes the pot can be ridiculously large compared to the amount of food you want to cook—and cooking fewer servings could throw the timing off. So here’s a workaround.
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The Anglican Church is embroiled in controversy after a group of high-ranking bishops issued a statement barring members of the Episcopal Church from sections of leadership because of their endorsement of same-sex marriage, a disciplinary measure so…
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Europe excited by cargo mini-shuttle – BBC News
The European Space Agency (Esa) says it is excited by its US counterpart’s selection of a winged vehicle to resupply the space station. Nasa has extended contracts to existing commercial cargo carriers, Orbital-ATK and SpaceX, but has added a third …
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Last June, Will Brooker, a professor of film and cultural studies at London’s Kingston University, decided to become one of his heroes, and not just for one day.
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Anthropologie Is Selling a Rusty Trash Can for $100 – The Atlantic
Anthropologie, on its website, is selling a trash can. But not just any trash can. A design-forward trash can. A “West Village” trash can. The item—composed of matte, corrugated metal—is handmade, the site notes, and comes complete with either a rop…
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Obama’s latest big climate move: Keeping more coal in the ground | Grist
Climate activists have been pushing for reform of the federal coal leasing program, and the president heard them.
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Is There a Streaming Ceiling? — Cuepoint — Medium
Based on recent numbers, it seems streaming services are on the march to domination. Apple Music recently announced that it had 10 million paid subscribers worldwide; Spotify reported 20 million worldwide in June and is rumored to be north of 25 mil…
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Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation — National Geographic Magazine
This box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) is only about half an inch across, yet it possesses 24 eyes, housed in four rhopalia. Four of the six eyes in each rhopalium (left) are simple photo sensors, but two have light-focusing lenses.
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Hundreds of Indonesians gathered at the site of Thursday’s deadly attacks by Islamic State-linked militants in downtown Jakarta today, chanting “we are not afraid,” in an act of resilience in the face of the worst terrorist attack in the city in mor…
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We did the math on “New York values”: about 10% of people in Manhattan are conservative – Vox
During the sixth Republican debate, in Charleston, South Carolina, an argument broke out over Donald Trump’s hometown. “Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan, I’m just saying,” said Ted Cruz, repeating an attack he’d leveled at the bombas…
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How Your Social Life Changes Your Microbiome – The Atlantic
Social contact can clearly spread disease: That’s why we lean away from snotty hugs, tell sick colleagues to go home, and quarantine people during epidemics. But the germs behind infectious illnesses are but a tiny fraction of our full microbiome—th…
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Croatian cake pirates threatened with lawsuits | Ars Technica
As Harlan Ellison once said about Disney, “Nobody fucks with The Mouse.” Even if you live in Zagreb, Croatia, the long hand of The Mouse can reach in and change your birthday party plans.
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Oregon armed militia to announce how and when it plans to end protest | US news | The Guardian
The armed militia occupying a wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon plans to tell the local town of Burns on Friday how and when it plans to end its protest – it just needs to find a space to hold a community meeting.
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Adventure Time has always taken creative risks in its content, whether it be the storytelling which can get rather dark and meditative for a “kids program,” or the occasional forays into other artists’ vision of the world that Pendleton Ward has cre…
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I’m currently reading an interesting and provocative book called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. He calls the Agricultural Revolution “history’s biggest fraud”.
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Saudi Arabia v Iran: Who is to blame for the row? – Al Jazeera English
As automation gets cheaper than the cost of labour, developing economies are being hit the hardest. Five Lebanese in Beirut reflect on how their lives have been affected by their country’s civil war in the 1970s and 80s.
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10 Heroes Whose Parents Were Somehow Not Dead or Evil
All of our favorite characters are orphans. Or else, they had horrendously abusive childhoods. Basically, giving characters childhood trauma is an all-purpose motivation—why else would someone be a vigilante/wizard/etc.
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All MLB Teams Hire Spanish Translators – The Daily Beast
This season is going to be a lot easier for professional baseball’s Spanish speaking players. MLB is requiring each team to hire a staff interpreter this year. Nearly a quarter of major league players are native Spanish speakers.
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After winning a Golden Globe for the hilarious comedy The Martian last weekend, director Ridley Scott seized the opportunity to talk about his upcoming heartwarming film, Alien: Covenant, the movie formerly known as Alien: Paradise Lost, which is al…
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A 1,000 BTC Bounty Is the Perfect End to a Strange Week in Bitcoin | Motherboard
There’s a manhunt for a hacker underway in the world of Bitcoin, and this time (yes, there was a last time) the bounty is nearly half a million dollars’ worth of the virtual currency.
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ChangePolitics Sends Citizens’ Questions Directly to Our Presidential Candidates
Even if you’ve been watching the debates and know the candidates’ stances on different issues, you probably have questions that the would-be presidents haven’t answered yet. ChangePolitics.org could help. The site, which comes from petition platform…
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These Meta-Psychedelic GIFs Show the Future of Brain Mapping | Motherboard
In 1956, Aldous Huxley and psychiatrist Humphry Osmond were in the throes of a multi-year struggle to come up with a term to describe the mind-altering effects of mescaline when Osmond suggested the neologism “psychedelic,” drawing its roots from th…
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Across the street from my apartment building in Washington there’s a gigantic supermarket and a CVS. Above the supermarket there had been a large empty space with floor-to-ceiling windows.
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Six Critical Issues That The Fox Business GOP Debate Missed
If you thought Thursday night’s Fox Business Republican presidential debate left a lot of questions unanswered, and even more unasked, that are central to the national debate about jobs, the economy and the challenges working people face, you would …
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After a 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling, ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra are back inside the International Space Station.
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OurMix Is Social Music Discovery Done Right | TechCrunch
Spotify does a great job at helping users find music they’ll, thanks to features like its popular “Discover Weekly” playlist filled with personalized recommendations, and sections that point you to trending tracks and new releases.
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The Explorers Guild graphic novel – “Rudyard Kipling meets Indiana Jones” / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala is a throwback to the golden age of adventure stories. It’s one part pulp novel and one part graphic novel, brought to cinematic life by Hollywood direc…
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California beachgoers have been urged to steer clear of a species of highly venomous sea snake following a third, and unprecedented, instance of an aquatic serpent washing up onto the state’s beaches.
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Smartphone app initiative feeds pregnant women in Homs – Al Jazeera English
It costs just $0.50, and all it takes is a simple tap on your smartphone, yet it can have a profound impact on the lives of vulnerable Syrians facing severe hunger and malnutrition.
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The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is a remarkably skilled politician. The combination of sincerity when he speaks with misdirection in his silences is one that many more worldly creatures would envy.
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The Bravery in the N.B.A.’s Push Against Gun Violence – The New Yorker
As Thursday night’s G.O.P. debate reminded us, the gun lobby and its allies want every discussion of firearms in this country to be about the Second Amendment, and President Obama’s putative determination to trample on that text on his way out of of…
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Help fill the first free public library for India’s Tibetan exile community with books / Boing Boing
When China’s military took over Tibet in the early 1950s, many ethnic Tibetans fled on seemingly impossible journeys over the Himalayan mountains. Those who survived found a new life, and relative ideological freedom, in refugee camps in India.
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Flameouts of 7 promising startups / Boing Boing
This 8-minute video gives the rise-and-fall stories of powerful or promising online startups that went bust: Friendster (social network), AltaVista (search engine), Napster (file sharing), The Torquing Group (drone maker), boo.
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US drugmaker settles painkiller lawsuit for $830m – BBC News
US drugmaker Merck has agreed to settle a lawsuit with investors related to statements the company made about the safety of one of its painkillers. The company will pay $830m (£581m) to investors who bought Merck securities between 1999 and 2004.
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Calais migrant ‘jungle’ on the move before deadline – BBC News
Migrant residents of the makeshift Calais camp called “the Jungle” have told the BBC they will resist efforts to move them to new accommodation in converted shipping containers. Migrants living in the camp said they wanted to stay in their tents, de…
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Jeb Bush’s Donors Are Only Giving Him Money Out of Pity | Vanity Fair
On Friday, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham handed his endorsement to Jeb Bush, a minor piece of good news for the struggling presidential candidate.
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Water Leak in Astronaut’s Spacesuit Helmet Halts Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, bottom, and cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov help NASA astronaut Tim Kopra out of his spacesuit. Kopra’s spacewalk with ESA astronaut Tim Peake (still in airlock) was terminated early due to a droplet of wate…
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News | NASA’s Stardust Sample Return was 10 Years Ago Today
It was less than an hour into the new day of January 15, 2006 (EST), when tens of thousands of miles above our planet, two cable cutters and two retention bolts fired, releasing a spring which pushed a 101-pound (46-kilogram) sample return capsule a…
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At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, Ben Carson made a surprise appeal for civility in American political discourse, decrying the internet’s lack of manners as ungodly. One biblical scholar, however, disa…
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Michael B Jordan wouldn’t mind doing another Fantastic Four movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Michael B. Jordan’s impressive turn last year as a plucky pugilist in the revived Rocky franchise—which we guess is now known as Creed—has probably afforded him a lot of interesting offers, including reprising the role of said pugilist.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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In the new movie 400 Days, a group of astronauts are being sequestered for over a year to make sure they’re psychologically equipped to make a trek into deep space. But mere days into the trip, things take a turn for the weird. Is this part of the s…
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Watch Star Wars Rebels Go Into Jedi Hyperspace With This Astonishing New Trailer
And you thought those trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens were good? The latest one for Star Wars Rebels gives those a serious run for their money, with three minutes of insane action, jaw-dropping teases and plenty of connections to the Star …
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Scream Queens Has Been Renewed, But It’s Leaving College Behind
Like a masked killer who won’t stay dead, Scream Queens will be back for a second season.
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Dan Haggerty, ‘Grizzly Adams’ Star, Dead at 74 | Rolling Stone
Dan Haggerty, ‘Grizzly Adams’ Star, Dead at 74 Actor who played iconic mountain man in both TV series and film passes away following battle with cancer
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See Aubrie Sellers’ Lively ‘Sit Here and Cry’ Video | Rolling Stone
When it came time to shoot her video for the tongue-in-cheek blues-rocker “Sit Here and Cry,” Nashville native Aubrie Sellers found a spot in her hometown that’s ideally suited to the same what-you-see-isn’t-necessarily-what you-get vibe surrounding…
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Adjusting for inflation, Victor Fleming’s Gone With The Wind is still the highest-grossing motion picture of all time, with box office receipts topping $3 billion.
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3 charts that show the Republican establishment is getting torched – Vox
Break down the Fox Business debate by the data and you get this story: The Republican establishment is getting torched. The Thursday night debate was supposed to be a moment for one of the establishment picks — namely Marco Rubio — to punch through.
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Dutchman arrested on suspicion of killing IS fighters – BBC News
A former Dutch soldier has been arrested on suspicion of killing Islamic State militants while fighting alongside Kurdish militiamen in Syria.The 47-year-old was later released but had to surrender his passport to stop him returning to Syria.
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Bosnia police arrested over armed robbery of bank van – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Bosnia is ruled under two entities, each with their own police force. File photograph Five members of Bosnia’s special police have been held over an armed raid on a bank van that netted 617,000 marka ($344,000; …
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Leonardo DiCaprio Still Doesn’t Understand His Lady Gaga Golden Globes GIF | Vanity Fair
Leonardo DiCaprio may have won a Golden Globe this past Sunday for his work in The Revenant, but the Oscar favorite made more Internet headlines for what he did sitting at his table than he did for standing at the podium to accept the award.
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NASA’s New ‘Dream Chaser’ Cargo Ship Can Fly to the ISS and Back In Hours | Motherboard
NASA will soon be able to customize resupply missions to the International Space Station, ordering them a la carte or in bundles from three different providers.
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Sociable Chimps Get Richer Gut Microbiomes – Scientific American
KAREN HOPKIN, a freelance science writer based in Silver Spring, Md., wrote about circadian rhythms in the April 1998 issue.
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‘Light Pillars’ Draw a Glowing City Map in the Sky Above Eura, Finland – CityLab
To get around the Finnish municipality of Eura, you could ask for directions or use your phone. Or if you happened to be there Tuesday night, you could just gaze upward, where a golden map of town glowed in the sky:
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Mock NASA Space Shuttle ‘Inspiration’ Moving for River Tour
The mock space shuttle “Inspiration” is set to move from the former U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida to be prepared to go on tour along the waterways of the United States.
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What Happens to Your Body When You Hold Your Urine
When nature calls, sometimes we don’t answer right away. Maybe you’re in the middle of an email. Maybe you’re on the phone, or you’re driving.
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Sleepless in Des Moines: Trump goes straight from debate to stump in Iowa | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump turned from an apparent victory in the battle of the airwaves to the start of an intense period of retail politics on Friday, as he flew without sleep to Iowa to try to persuade his supporters to vote on 1 February. “I love you folks.
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A Portuguese court has decided to extradite an ex-CIA agent to Italy, where she has been convicted of involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric under the US “extraordinary rendition” programme.
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Rich Friend, Poor Friend — MEL Magazine — Medium
I heard from a friend recently that Billy Joel is still close with his best friend from kindergarten. “Just this regular guy,” she explained; the regular guy being a cousin of hers by marriage.
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Adele Covers The Spice Girls And Nicki Minaj In Her Car Karaoke With James Corden – Digg
19 diggs Late Night Entertainment Music We’d be totally fine with Adele incorporating these tracks into her regular touring schedule.
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Photos of the Week: 1/9-1/15 – The Atlantic
Wild horses in Northern Ireland, a ‘No Pants Subway Ride’ in NYC, icy weather across the north, the unveiling of a new Titanosaur fossil display, a glass shoe-shaped church in Taiwan, tributes to David Bowie, and much more.
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A ‘Jungle Bro Session’ and Statue-Toppling: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing – The Atlantic
The Tragic Farce of El Chapo Patrick Radden Keefe | The New Yorker “A number of journalists who have spent years covering the border and the drug wars pointed out that whereas the [Sean] Penn interview is a bit of a stunt—a mutually admiring jungle …
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Obama Ends New Coal Leases On Public Lands | ThinkProgress
The Obama administration announced Friday that it is stopping most new coal leasing on America’s public lands as it moves to modernize and reform the federal coal leasing program, which has not been updated in more than 30 years.
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Fox renews Empire and Scream Queens, revives 24 and Prison Break · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s big day for camp and nostalgia following Fox’s announcement that monster hit Empire will be renewed for a third season, while Ryan Murphy brand extension Scream Queens will get a second. Meanwhile, the network is going forward with its plans to…
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The Real Reason Behind the Wild Rollout of Rashida Jones’s New Show | Vanity Fair
What on earth is going on with Angie Tribeca? It’s O.K. to be puzzled by new TV shows—there’s more and more of them every year, it seems, and usually impossible to keep track of—but TBS’s new sitcom Angie Tribeca actually wants you to be a bit mysti…
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The morning after Larry Wilmore (and the rest of the Oscar-prognosticating press) predicted that we would once again have an all-white group of nominees in the Academy’s acting categories, that sad truth came to pass. Last night, The Daily Show set …
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Chipotles Close for Food Safety Talk – The Daily Beast
Don’t plan of getting a burrito bowl on February 8th. In response to the recent E. coli outbreak, Chipotle will be closing in order for all employees to food hygiene.
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Canadian Gets Life in US Prison for Huge Pot Smuggling Ring Through Mohawk Territory | VICE News
A 45-year-old Ontario man who ran a marijuana ring that smuggled Canadian pot into New York state, through a Mohawk reserve that straddles the border, has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Behind Chris Christie’s Misleading Claim That Obama Is Allowing ‘Lawlessness’ | ThinkProgress
He has claimed that recent demonstrations on college campuses over racism are a product of the “lawlessness” that President Obama allows. He has said that Democrats are “allowing lawlessness to reign in this country” by supporting Black Lives Matter…
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Defunct 4-Year-Old Sports Blog Still Lurking On Internet – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
FORT COLLINS, CO—Noting that the site devoted to the Colorado Rockies and their minor league affiliates had long ceased being updated without any explanation, sources confirmed Friday that local man Ben Gutowski’s defunct four-year-old sports blog, …
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Minimum wage-earners to 2016 candidates: ‘Come get our vote | US news | The Guardian
Fast-food workers are flocking to Charleston, in an attempt to make sure that when the Democratic presidential candidates debate on Sunday, they do not forget about America’s low wages. The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor…
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From GoPro to Oh No: investors reeling from stock price plunge | Business | The Guardian
Its specialist action cameras allow surfers, skiers and other thrillseekers to record their exploits.
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Plane passenger snaps photo of shadowy humanoid walking on cloud / Boing Boing
This incredible photo, shot from a plane at 30,000 feet, captures what looks like a silhouette of the Iron Giant strutting across a cloud. When passenger Nick O’Donoghue, who was on his way back to Ireland from Austria, first saw the image, he thoug…
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Variety reports that Fox has ordered a new baseball drama, Pitch, to pilot. The hourlong pilot comes from Rick Singer and Dan Fogelman, and Under The Dome’s Kylie Bunbury is set to star as a young female pitcher who becomes the first woman to play m…
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A Cup of Coffee (1980) Mormon anti-coffee short / Boing Boing
If you haven’t subscribed to the Hard-to-Find Mormon Videos YouTube channel, you don’t know what you’re missing. Watch this anti-coffee film from 1980.
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In this week’s podcast we investigate how words can be pitched between the page and the ear with three rising stars.
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When was the last time we saw all three Pfefferman children in the same place? The break fast during “The Book Of Life,” sure, but there, they’re just part of the larger dysfunctional unit.
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With the 2016 television season slowly staggering in after the holidays, there are not many new releases to inspire us.
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As much fun as it’s been to see Jim Gordon as Gotham City’s mecha-Batman, it’s inevitable that Bruce Wayne will be back in the cowl in time for his big-screen appearance in Superman V Batman: Dawn Of Justice, and the character is getting ever closer…
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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.
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Perfect for online viewing and social media sharing, movie trailers have become more important than ever in the marketing and mythologizing of motion pictures. When skillfully done, they can even be works of art unto themselves.
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LONDON — Six men were hospitalized — and one of them was pronounced brain-dead — after a drug trial in northwestern France, the country’s health minister said on Friday.
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At the Republican debate last night in South Carolina, Republicans were happy to talk about, and denounce, the budget deficit and debt. Senator Marco Rubio said that we must “bring our debt under control.” Mr. Rubio, like other G.O.P.
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Burundian Security Forces Gang-Raped Women and Slaughtered Tutsis, Says the UN | VICE News
The United Nation’s human rights office on Friday accused Burundi’s security forces and affiliated militias of raping and sexually abusing women and allegedly murdered residents in the country’s capital, who were targeted because of their Tutsi ethn…
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FACEPALM: Bernie Sanders campaign tries to censor Wikipedia / Boing Boing
The Bernie Sanders campaign has sent an abusive DMCA notice to Wikimedia, the foundation that administers Wikipedia, over their hosting of Sanders campaign logos.
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Department of Transportation going full speed ahead on self-driving cars | Ars Technica
We’ve been hitting the tech of self-driving cars pretty heavily this week, taking a look at what companies like Audi, BMW, Ford, QNX, and Tesla are doing in the field.
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Obama administration halts new coal mining leases on public land | Environment | The Guardian
The Obama administration will halt new coal mining on public land for the next three years with immediate effect as it undertakes a review of the “environmental and public health impacts” of coal production.
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Whores of Yore: a history of sex workers, told one tweet at a time / Boing Boing
Postdoc researcher Kate Lister has fun, weird and often NSFW Twitter feed called Whores of Yore. She describes it as a “catalogue of jilts, cracks, prostitutes, night-walkers, whores, she-friends, kind women, and others of the linnen-lifting tribe.”
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We Are Programmed To Bring You This Friday GIF Party!
It’s Friday, and it’s been the longest week ever. But that’s why it’s most excellent to engage in our traditional celebration, the gif party. What gifs have you got for us this week?
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US not ready to end Iran sanctions over nuclear deal – Al Jazeera English
America has said it is not ready to suspend economic sanctions against Iran because its compliance with the nuclear deal has not been verified.
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Kyle Lowry Could Make Toronto An NBA Finals Dark Horse | FiveThirtyEight
By just about any measure, the last three seasons have been the best time to root for the Toronto Raptors in their 20-year history. The Vince Carter era was thrilling but brief, and Chris Bosh’s dinos never quite realized their potential.
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Apple may owe $8bn in back taxes after European Commission ruling | Technology | The Guardian
Apple may owe $8bn in back taxes from its use of potentially illegal tax shelters in Ireland. The European Commission’s recent ruling against tax breaks for multinational corporations, means that the tech behemoth could be subject to a hefty bill.
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How one man’s fight for his Detroit neighborhood went viral | Local News | Detroit Metro Times
It’s late afternoon on a chilly November night and Jonathan Pommerville is prowling the streets of Brightmoor as a one-man neighborhood patrol, something he’s spent about 100 hours doing over the last year.
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The Black Market Dealers Selling Tactical Surveillance Equipment Online | Motherboard
Across a tinny Skype connection, a Hong Kong tech company is trying to sell us state surveillance equipment. It’s a $15,000 IMSI catcher operated via an Android app. Tian shows us the user interface in a grainy video.
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Cologne attacks: Migrant men banned from German swimming pool – BBC News
A German town has banned male asylum seekers from a public swimming pool after women complained of harassment.A government official in Bornheim said men from a nearby asylum shelter would be barred until they “got the message” that such behaviour wa…
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‘Grizzly Adams’ actor Dan Haggerty dies at 74 from cancer – BBC News
Actor Dan Haggerty who rose to fame starring as frontier woodsman Grizzly Adams in a film and TV series in the 1970s has died aged 74. The actor’s manager Terry Bomar told ABC News that Haggerty had been suffering from cancer.
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Surviving Ebola in Sierra Leone – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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The gap between publishing’s rich and poor continues to widen, as figures from Nielsen BookScan reveal that the top 50 authors account for more than 13% of UK sales.
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Things Just Got Even Worse For Coal | Mother Jones
Just a few days after President Barack Obama promised new actions on climate change during in his final State of the Union address, his administration has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of how coal can be extracted from federal land.
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How to Crack, Devein, and Devour Tasty Crustaceans
I love crustaceans. Lobsters, prawns, crabs, and crawfish are some of the tastiest things our beautiful ocean has to offer, but all those shells and legs can make them intimidating. Knowing how to eat them is an important skill, and we’ve rounded up…
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You To Still Die One Day – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—Saying that despite the possibility you may have briefly been able to distract yourself from the incontrovertible fact by browsing the internet, hanging out with friends, reading, working out, or via some other diversion, sources confirme…
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Here’s Why the Ted Cruz Birther Story Isn’t Going Away | Mother Jones
During the memorable clash between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at last night’s Republican presidential debate, the real estate mogul explained why he has been persistently raising questions about his Canadian-born rival’s eligibility to serve as presi…
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder asks for federal emergency declaration in Flint; White House to decide
The White House will decide soon if President Obama will declare a federal emergency in Flint, Michigan. The declaration will provide federal funds for relief coordination among local and state agencies and actors, will help ensure clean water, and …
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Can Novak Djokovic End Tennis’ ‘Big Four’ Era Forever? | Rolling Stone
From short shorts-wearing chip-and-chargers to heavy spin-producing court sliders, one thing has always been present in men’s tennis – rivalries. Distinctive contrast between the games of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg created audience-captivating tilt…
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Hear Ariana Grande, Nathan Sykes on ‘Over and Over Again’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Ariana Grande Join Ex-Boyfriend Nathan Sykes on ‘Over and Over Again’ Former couple last paired up on duet “Almost Is Never Enough” in 2013
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Here’s What Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville Stole from the Period Drama’s Set | Vanity Fair
We may be doing our best to deny that Downton Abbey is coming to an end in mere weeks, but the period drama’s cast certainly isn’t helping—with their Twitter countdowns and talk-show appearances touting the series’s farewell.
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Does anyone at AT&T netops read Boing Boing? / Boing Boing
Say you’ve just scammed someone out of all their financial details using an online fraud, but now you need to call up their bank and impersonate them, and you don’t speak their language, have the wrong accent, or are of a different gender — what do …
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Copyright troll Rightscorp must pay $450,000 over robocalls / Boing Boing
Copyright shakedown company Rightscorp, which threatens suspected music sharers with lawsuits unless they give Rightscorp money, has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle claims it illegally targeted thousands of people with recorded messages.
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Book reviews roundup: First Bite; Avenue of Mysteries; The Prose Factory | Books | The Guardian
“Be brave. Drop the diet. Make peace. If any book can effect long-term weight loss, it should be this one,” wrote Melanie Reid in the Times of Bee Wilson’s First Bite: How We Learn to Eat.
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On The Line: Henry Langston Discusses the Oregon Standoff | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype. With support from Skype.
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Is This A Picture Of The Internet? – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Ordinary People Will Finally Begin to See Benefits Of The Iranian Nuclear Deal | ThinkProgress
Iran has taken a big step toward meeting the conditions of the nuclear deal, which is good news for the Iranians who are struggling to meet basic needs under sanctions. Iran removed the core of its key heavy water reactor in Arak this week.
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Remember the Titanosaur – The New Yorker
A black curtain hung in the American Museum of Natural History on Thursday morning. The opening chords of a brass fanfare played on repeat.
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Drafting the Perfect Text – The New Yorker
Draft 1: I had so much fun last night! You’re great. Draft 2: I had so much fun last night! You’re great. I’m an alien.
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The single most important piece of advice during a stock market crash: don’t sell – Vox
Most people on most days don’t pay too much attention to the stock market or spend much time thinking about it. One big exception is on days when the market crashes dramatically. These days are very important to the financial press, and lead to a lo…
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The Jurassic Extinction May Have Happened More Slowly Than We Thought
Researchers from Italy and Tunisia recently uncovered an unusual fossil: a bus-sized marine crocodile with teeth meant to crush bones.
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On Wikipedia’s 15th birthday, Ars shares the entries that most fascinate us | Ars Technica
Today is Wikipedia’s 15th anniversary. The digital, collaborative encyclopedia has grown quickly and today boasts articles in hundreds of languages. Those articles are managed by 80,000 volunteers who make 15,000 edits an hour according to the site’…
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“Against School” is a previously unpublished Aaron Swartz essay about the centuries of word-perfect complaints about the US public school system, which have led to mass-scale, sneak privatization of the public system.
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Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Fastest Rising Startup Of 2015 | TechCrunch
The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, people from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House to take part in an event that’s best described as the Oscars of startup…
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Chipotle will close Feb. 8 for a companywide meeting on food safety / Boing Boing
Business is bad for Chipotle as a result of a string of food poisoning outbreaks last year. According to the Chicago Tribune, the share price has dropped 40% and sales have dropped 30%. I believe it. On Saturday night, around 8:30, Carla and I went …
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How to Build an 80-foot-wide Telescope Mirror to See Deep Space – Scientific American
When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae or quasars, they’re collecting light that’s traveled millions or even billions of light-years through space.
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Turn the clock back a month. It is the week before Christmas and the Federal Reserve has just raised interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. The mood in the markets is upbeat. A so-called Santa rally is in full swing.
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Amal Clooney Talks About Her New Celebrity Status for the First Time | Vanity Fair
Amal Clooney may be best known as the wife of George to the majority of the population, but as you no doubt know if you have so much as opened an Internet browser over the past two years, she is also a prominent human-rights lawyer, and was a promin…
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Economists and veteran journalists slammed Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network anchor and senior vice president Neil Cavuto for framing a question in the January 14 Republican presidential debate in a way that implied President Obama was to bl…
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RIP Robert Banks Stewart, the Man Who Gave Doctor Who One of its Best Monsters
British writer Robert Banks Stewart, best known as the creator of Doctor Who’s shapeshifting alien menace the Zygons, has passed away at the age of 84. The Zygons might be Stewart’s most famous creation, but his brief association with the series gav…
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It looks like Netflix has finally worked out this whole “combining images with sound” thing, as the streaming giant has just released a teaser for its Fuller House series that offers an audio-visual (re)introduction.
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United Nations Asks for Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia | VICE News
Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in decades, with around 10 million people in need of food and humanitarian assistance after 18 months of minimal rainfall. The United Nations requested $50 million in emergency funding on Friday to tackle the cri…
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Last week, Ooltewah High School in Tennessee canceled its basketball season nearly two weeks after a violent incident at an out-of-town tournament in Gatlinburg resulted in three players being charged with the aggravated rape and assault of their 15…
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Walmart to shutter 269 stores – including more than half in US | Business | The Guardian
Walmart is closing 269 stores, more than half of them in the US and another big chunk in its challenging Brazilian market.
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Lindsay Graham endorses Bush: ‘South Carolina is going to reset this race’ | US news | The Guardian
South Carolina senator and former presidential candidate Lindsey Graham endorsed former Florida governor Jeb Bush on Friday. The endorsement gives Bush a major boost in South Carolina, which holds the third contest in the Republican presidential nom…
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Unearthing the Sea Witch | Hazlitt
Mermaid princess Ariel has dreams of somewhere else.
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How Twitter “quietly banned” harassment and hate speech / Boing Boing
Sarah Jeong reports on how Twitter has begun to take control of the hatred, harassment and general horseshit posted on its site. The “free speech wing of the free speech party” couldn’t have done this but two years ago.
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Archbishop Justin Welby hopes for fixed Easter date – BBC News
The Archbishop of Canterbury is working with other Christian churches to agree on a fixed date for Easter. Justin Welby made the announcement after a meeting of primates from the Anglican Communion in Canterbury.
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The lone climate change denier – interactive game | Environment | The Guardian
Who will win in the fight against climate change: mounting scientific evidence, or a lone climate change denier? Play our game to find out. Guide The Lone Denier through the levels as he tries to shut down evidence that climate change is real
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David Bowie albums make up 25% of top 40 – BBC News
Nineteen of David Bowie’s albums have entered the UK album charts, after fans sought out his classic hits in the wake of his death. His new album, Blackstar, reached number one, selling almost 150,000 copies since its release last week.
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12-year-old girl suspended because she lent her inhaler to a gasping classmate / Boing Boing
A 12-year-old honor student from Texas got suspended from school for giving her asthama inhaler to another girl who was wheezing and gasping in gym class. She could also be tranferred to an “alternative schoo for up to days.” The girl told Fox 4 New…
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This is certainly not the early, bubblegum pop Bee Gees / Boing Boing
Now I know where Carlton learned to dance. 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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It took me a few minutes to realize that FootGolf, like chessboxing, is an actual sport and not a Funny or Die skit. As you might have guessed, FootGolf is golf but with soccer balls and feet instead of golf balls and clubs.
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Walmart shuts 269 stores as US holiday shopping disappoints – BBC News
On Friday, Walmart announced it will close 269 stores globally as it struggles to compete with online retailers like Amazon. The news came as US retail figures showed lower than expected holiday sales figures across the market.
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Los Alamos Rolodex: The Professional Network That Made the Atomic Bomb – The Atlantic
How do you tell the story of nuclear weapons? One way is to focus on the vast system that produced them. “The atomic industry is a continental industry, with global implications,” says Matthew Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interp…
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Harry Reid wants to help Republicans out by giving them chance to vote on Donald Trump’s policies
Feel the love. Harry Reid’s unleashed, not-running-for-reelection persona is at it again—and this time, he’s going to make Republicans demonstrate whether or not they stand with Donald Trump. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.
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Come To My Book Tour, and I Will Explain the Secrets of the Universe*
Unless you’ve been visiting one of the outer planets, you might know that I’ve got a book coming out in a week and a half. It’s called All the Birds in the Sky, and it’s the story of a witch and a mad scientist who feel all alone in the world, until…
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Red, Dead Galaxies Are Also LIERs, Scientists Say
An elliptical galaxy, full of dark lanes of gas, likely formed in the merger of two other galaxies. Elliptical galaxies host less (or no) star birth than spiral galaxies like the Milky Way.Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) …
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The IRS’s Direct Pay Tool Lets You Pay Your Tax Bill Online
If you pay estimated quarterly taxes, or if you just want to pay your individual taxes online, the IRS has an online tool that makes it incredibly easy. As a self-employed freelancer, the IRS sends me convenient mailers to send in my estimated quart…
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Bryan Cranston and Alison Brie will also be in The Disaster Artist · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Most updates on the making of The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of the book about the making of The Room, have elicited merely bemusement, whether it was learning that James and Dave Franco were leading the cast, or that Hannibal Buress and K…
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Most Americans want US gun laws to change – Vox
As Congress continues to do nothing on guns, Americans’ dissatisfaction with US gun laws has skyrocketed over the past few years, hitting at least a 15-year high in 2016.
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Authors call for boycott of festivals that do not pay | Books | The Guardian
The fight to ensure literary festivals pay authors appearing at their events has gained momentum after a number of prominent writers, including Linda Grant, Denisa Mina, Joanne Harris and Francesca Simon, signed an open letter calling on publishers …
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US stock markets take a major fall as Dow reaches lowest level since 2014 | Business | The Guardian
US stock markets fell heavily on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing more than 400 points to reach its lowest level since September 2014.
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Obama administration hits pause on new coal leases | Ars Technica
Today, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would put a halt to new leases for coal extraction on public lands. While coal companies could continue to mine on existing leases, no new ones would be permitted until a comprehensive revie…
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Synthetic marijuana has a short but ugly history in sports – The Washington Post
Synthetic marijuana is an ugly drug. It doesn’t mellow a person out or make them want to listen to jam bands in tie-dye T-shirts.
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Standing Up To Sexual Harassment And Assault In L.A.’s Comedy Scene
One night last fall in Los Angeles, two rising comedians met each other for drinks.
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The racist history of US immigration policy – Vox
Banning an entire racial or ethnic group from entering the US isn’t new, and the data shows it. Immigrants and their descendants largely make up today’s US population.
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Police: Woman had 50 pounds of pot in foosball table
LEWISTON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Canadian woman has been caught trying to smuggle more than 50 pounds of marijuana into western New York by hiding it in a foosball table. U.S.
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How Should A Scientific Meta-Analysis Be? | New Republic
To understand if a new treatment for an illness is really better than older treatments, doctors and researchers look to the best available evidence. Health professionals want a “last word” in evidence to settle questions about what the best modes of…
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Benghazi attack film 13 Hours targets conservative audiences | Film | The Guardian
Despite claims by its director Michael Bay that it has “no political agenda”, Libyan-set military thriller 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is specifically being marketed to rightwing audiences, it has emerged.
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Viral video: David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Adele, Golden Globes | Media | The Guardian
This week was dominated by the untimely deaths of two stars – David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Both died at the age of 69, and both leave bodies of work that have been widely shared by their fans in the wake of their passing.
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China will launch a mission to land on the dark side of the moon in two years’ time, state media reported, in what will be a first for humanity.
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How rich do we need the rich to be? That’s not an idle question. It is, arguably, what U.S. politics are substantively about.
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Trinity University announced that it would opt out of Texas’ campus carry law Thursday, making it the 20th private college to do so since the legislation passed in June of last year.
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Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ’13 Hours’ Is a Simplistic Take on Benghazi – The Atlantic
Films about modern American military engagements often follow the same model of trying to graft heroic narratives onto stories about failure. Black Hawk Down detailed the disastrous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. Lone Survivor dramatized an unsuccessful …
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Watch Ethiopian Kids Cover Nirvana – The Daily Beast
Looks like the Seattle grunge movement is still well and alive in Ethiopia. Students of Yechila Secondary School sent a birthday tribute to legendary Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl after learning the lyrics of the band’s hit Smells Like Teen Spirit to p…
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Do Republicans Have Any Real Reason to Worry About Gun Confiscation? – The Atlantic
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Hillary Clinton doesn’t trust you – Vox
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent the past few days indulging its worst instincts. It blundered into a dumb attack on Bernie Sanders, but rather than back down it raised the stakes. The result has been a reminder, to liberals, of what they like a…
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The dangers of outsourcing emotional labor to robots.
This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Future Tense will host a lunchtime event in Washington, D.C., on human-robot interaction. For more information and t…
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FCC had “productive” net neutrality talks with Comcast, AT&T, T-Mobile | Ars Technica
The Federal Communications Commission says it has held “productive” meetings with Comcast, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA about whether data cap exemptions conflict with the goals of net neutrality.
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The first time you see Hamilton might be on NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s late at night. You’re hurrying home, the sky a threatening dark rumble of potential storms. You look around—the street seems deserted. Suddenly, you hear it: A low, ghostly moan, echoing through your head, coming from seemingly all directions a…
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The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrongly challenged President Obama’s State of the Union comments about wind energy by citing a study linked to the oil billionaire Koch brothers. By contrast, FactCheck.
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Structural Racism Needs to Be Debated, Too | New Republic
A presidential debate may not be the ideal place to discuss race and gender in a nuanced manner. That said, the urgent fight against structural bias and discrimination can’t wait for a proper setting. Both the Democrats and Republicans should at lea…
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The Inspiring New Face Of ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ | ThinkProgress
Sunday Night Baseball is getting a new look this season, and there’s a compelling reason to make room in your regular Game of Thrones/Quantico/Veep lineup come April.
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Tim Peake spacewalk ends early – BBC News
Nasa has ended the spacewalk involving British astronaut Tim Peake after his US colleague reported water in his helmet. Tim Kopra reported a “small amount” of water, but the flight director took the precaution of ending the event early.
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Chris Christie shoots the messenger over claims he is politically moderate | US news | The Guardian
Chris Christie has denied claims by Republican rival Marco Rubio that he is a political moderate who once wrote a check to reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood, and supported the nomination by Barack Obama of Sonia Sotomayor to the su…
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Mitt Romney: “I think we’re nuts not to raise the minimum wage” – Vox
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Mitt Romney surprised some by coming out strongly in favor of a boost in the minimum wage. “I think we’re nuts not to raise the minimum wage,” he said.
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How Hunger for Shrimp and Slavery Destroy Mangroves [Excerpt] – Scientific American
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Flash Friday: Birthday | Books | The Guardian
My wife still wouldn’t leave her room so I had to take the afternoon off to bring Buster into the vet. At home the dog was hungry and all the lights were off. There were two more sympathy cards in the mail. I threw them away.
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Shares on both sides of the Atlantic sink in investor sell-off – BBC News
The UK’s benchmark index was down 8.65 points at 5,909.58, with mining shares proving the biggest drag as commodity prices remained under pressure. Anglo American shares fell 7.8% and BHP Billiton dropped 4.6%. Earlier, BHP announced it was writing …
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: January 8th to 15th
Did you win the lottery this week? Good for you buddy! It might not really make your life any better, but this week we explained what you should do if you suddenly up with a large sum of money. That and much more in this week’s top posts.
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Tennessee couple claim they won the Powerball jackpot | US news | The Guardian
A Tennessee couple on Friday claimed they bought one of the three winning tickets for the largest Powerball lottery jackpot in history.
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Researchers Are Teaching ATLAS To Do Household Chores Like Rosey from The Jetsons
The DARPA Robotics Challenge put countless robots through a series of real-world challenges that involved driving, drilling holes, and climbing stairs. But let’s be realistic, the only thing any of us really want a robot for is housework, and that’s…
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Today’s Best Deals: Amazon Prime, Airplay, Auto Detailing, Winter Wear
Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here to learn more.
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Ammon Bundy and The Sheriff (Extra Scene From ‘The Oregon Standoff’) | VICE News
As the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon reaches its sixth day, Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward and Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed protestors, hold a surprise meeting in a remote wilderness area.
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China to attempt a space first: Landing on the far side of the Moon | Ars Technica
China plans to become the first nation to land a probe on the far side of the Moon, according to Xinhua News Agency, the country’s official press organization.
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F.lux Asks Apple To Let Its Screen Brightness App Back Into App Store | TechCrunch
As many noted when Apple released its beta version of iOS earlier this week, one of the mobile operating system’s newest features, a nighttime reading mode with reduced blue light emissions, looked awfully familiar.
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Bicycle Big Foot playing cards / Boing Boing
The backs on this deck are just lovely. An absolutely homage to the Bicycle Rider Back, but done with Big Foot. Each face card is an illustration of a specialized, geographical Big Foot, and you’ll rapidly learn the names from Ucu to California Dese…
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Michael Bay’s 13 Hours wants to be the sexiest Benghazi movie ever created – Vox
Like a sexually confused teenage boy, Michael Bay’s fondness for taut, bulging muscles topped by poreless skin is only matched in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi by the uncertainty of whether he’s flagrantly lusting for these sinewy lats a…
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Planned Parenthood to Undercover Video Group: We’ll See You in Court | The Nation
Since July, when an anti-abortion group calling itself the Center for Medical Progress released the first in a series of heavily-edited smear videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood officials haggling over fetal organs, Planned Parenthood h…
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Nigerian ex-military chiefs in arms fraud probe – BBC News
The Nigerian president has ordered 20 former military chiefs and officers to be investigated over alleged arms procurement fraud. Among them are the chiefs of defence and air staff under the last administration.
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Wendy Davis Did Not Have Two Abortions, As She Claims | Mother Jones
On Thursday night, Wendy Davis, the former Texas state legislator and candidate for governor, wrote a column for CNN about her personal experience with having two abortions.
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Refugees say it with flowers – BBC News
Refugees have been handing out flowers to try to challenge negatives perceptions that have arisen following wave of sexual assaults on women in some German cities on New Year’s Eve.
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FILE – In this June 3, 2014 file photo, Honduran migrant Velma Flores holds her friend’s 7-month-old son Miguel Antonio while arriving with fellow migrants, escorted by human rights activists, to Mexico City.
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Netflix Viewers Don’t Care About the Company’s Proxy Crackdown | Motherboard
Thursday, Netflix announced that it plans to crack down on people using proxy servers to access content that isn’t licensed to be streamed in their country.
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Hear the 1975’s Funky New Song ‘The Sound’ | Rolling Stone
The 1975 debuted their funky, catchy new song “The Sound” on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show Thursday night. The track will appear on the band’s sophomore album I Like It When You Sleep for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, out February 26th. List…
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‘Making a Murderer’: Steven Avery’s Lawyer on the Evidence Left Out | Rolling Stone
The Netflix documentary Making a Murderer was made over the course of 10 years. The murder trial at the center of the series took place over six weeks. The episodes themselves total just 10 hours.
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This Is What Will Happen to Williamsburg Without the L Train | Motherboard
The tunnel that allows the L train to shuttle European tourists and junior advertising executives between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Manhattan will soon be shut down for repairs, according to recent reports.
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The GOP debate on Iran was American foreign policy at its most juvenile — and dangerous – Vox
By the time the Republican presidential candidates gathered onstage for their most recent debate, on Thursday evening, the 10 US sailors who’d drifted into Iranian waters had long since been safely released, and the incident that had first looked qu…
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Sean Penn breaks silence over ‘El Chapo’ meeting – BBC News
US actor Sean Penn says he thinks the Mexican government felt humiliated after he conducted a magazine interview with on-the-run Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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Jung Chang, famous to millions of readers for Wild Swans, the harrowing account of her family’s experience of China’s 20th century, presented three PEN awards on Thursday night in The Hague.
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This Adventurous Margarita-esque Cocktail Uses Tiny Bananas for a Garn | Vanity Fair
At Foreign Correspondents in Austin, Texas, Leslie Ross mixes up cocktails with a strong focus on the visual. “Seeing as how we eat with our eyes,” she says, “we often drink with our eyes as well, and the garnish can make or break a drink on your me…
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How Beyoncé Wound Up on Lip Sync Battle | Vanity Fair
“Only Channing and Beyoncé know the back and forth,” says Lip Sync Battle executive producer Casey Patterson of the high-stakes negotiations that led to Queen Bey’s appearance on the show last week.
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Warning: This Parkinson’s drug can make you addicted to gambling, sex, or food – Vox
In 1998, a West Virginia high school teacher named Ann Klinestiver was prescribed a drug called Requip to treat the tremors she suffered from due to Parkinson’s disease. The drug worked, curing her tremors.
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Tony Visconti: David Bowie’s death was ‘just about the worst day of my life’ | Music | The Guardian
Hundreds of David Bowie devotees gathered in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday night for a performance by tribute band Holy Holy, in which the late singer’s producer Tony Visconti plays bass.
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Dirk Koetter ‘the right man’ to lead Buccaneers’ rebuilding project | Sport | The Guardian
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are turning their rebuilding project over to Dirk Koetter. The longtime NFL offensive coordinator on Friday became the team’s fifth coach since 2008, succeeding Lovie Smith, who was fired after going 8-24 over the past two s…
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It’s common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors… we want so badly to touch their lives in some way, as their lives touch ours.
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New Agent Carter Clip Introduces Peggy and Jarvis to a New Member of the Stark Family
If there was any doubt that the second season of Agent Carter was going to be anything other than wonderful, this latest clip from IGN puts them all to rest. This clip has everything.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
This radar image from the Cassini orbiter shows a thin strip of surface on Saturn’s moon Titan. The yellow-hued terrain appears to be peppered with blue-tinted lakes and seas.
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What Happened After Zappos Got Rid of Workplace Hierarchy – The Atlantic
The online shoe retailer Zappos has always stood out for its unconventional human-resources philosophy. For nearly a decade the company has been making something it calls “The Offer” to new hires—an opportunity to take a $2,000 stipend instead of st…
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Viewers Disappointed That Trump and Cruz Did Not Fight – The New Yorker
CHARLESTON (The Borowitz Report)—Americans who watched Thursday night’s Republican debate on the Fox Business Network expressed deep disappointment that the billionaire Donald J. Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz did not actually punch each other’s f…
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Burkina Faso issues arrest warrant for Ivory Coast speaker – BBC News
Burkina Faso has issued an international arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro, Ivory Coast’s speaker of parliament. The warrant concerns his alleged role in a coup attempt in Burkina Faso in September, which sparked deadly street protests.
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Egypt steps up raids ahead of revolution anniversary – BBC News
Egypt’s security forces have stepped up raids ahead of the fifth anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak. At least five people have been arrested in recent days, including activists accused of running Facebook pages supporting the outlawed…
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In colonial times he might have put them in the stocks. In the wild west their faces could have appeared on “wanted” posters nailed to hitching posts. In 2016, Arizona governor Doug Ducey is using a Twitter account and a hashtag in a bid to make the…
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122-Foot Titanosaur: Staggeringly Big Dino Barely Fits into Museum – Scientific American
An incredibly long-necked dinosaur, with leg bones the size of couches, is so massive that is has invaded not one, but two rooms at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City.
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Significant Digits for Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Tropical Storm Alex graduated into Hurricane Alex on Thursday, making it just the third active hurricane in the Atlantic in the month of January since 1…
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Republican Debate Turns Inside Out | Al Jazeera America
It would be easy to sum up Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate as a “battle within a battle”: Two outsiders duked it out for the top spot, while the GOP establishment continued its struggle to coalesce around a single candidate — and to …
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Flint Residents Are Suing The City And State Of Michigan For Poisoning Water | ThinkProgress
Three residents of Flint, Michigan have filed a class action lawsuit against the state, Gov. Rick Snyder (R), and the city of Flint for negligence in the town’s deadly water crisis.
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Loading the player reg… ALISYN CAMEROTA (HOST): You always manage to have many memorable lines in these debates. And last night was no different. And, in fact, one of your lines — well, many of your lines — the crowd always seems to eat up. So l…
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The Book That Turns Hillary Clinton Into a Cartoon | The Nation
Doug Henwood has replied in Jacobin to my column in which I reviewed his new book My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency. As he notes, it’s a little unusual for a writer to respond to a review – my friends have talked me out of it several t…
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The Art of the Con: Maria Konnikova on scams, grifters and being easily duped | Books | The Guardian
While researching her book on con artists, Maria Konnikova spent a lot of time posting on message boards, asking for help in tracking down one particular hustler. She never quite found him, not officially. But the con artist eventually realized that…
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How Clinton and Sanders can agree to save Obamacare and move to sustainable single-payer healthcare
The Hillary Clinton campaign appears to be trying to erode Bernie Sanders’ support in the liberal base by being less than truthful about his healthcare reform proposals.
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Arcade Fire Plan Memorial Parade for David Bowie | Rolling Stone
Arcade Fire Plan Memorial Parade for David Bowie Facebook page instructs attendees in New Orleans to wear “best Bowie outfit or something more strange”
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How Joko Widodo Responded to the ISIS Attacks in Jakarta – The Atlantic
On Thursday, militants affiliated with ISIS set off a series of explosions in the Indonesian city of Jakarta, killing at least two civilians. The country’s president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, responded in a remarkable way. The New York Times has more:
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The Weeds: Obama’s Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare’s jobs impact – Vox
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt take the occasion of the State of the Union to take stock of the successes and failures of Barack Obama’s administration — especially his efforts to change politics and rescue thr economy.
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“350 Trillion Suns!” –ESO’s ALMA Peers Inside Ancient Quasar: Brightest Galaxy in the Universe
The most luminous galaxy known in the Universe – the quasar W2246-0526, seen when the Universe was less than 10% of its current age – is so turbulent that it is in the process of ejecting its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new obser…
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Green news roundup: the next ice age, climate change and deadly snakes | Environment | The Guardian
Environment news On the blogs Features and comment Multimedia And finally … An Adelaide woman got the fright of her life when she discovered a brown snake peering out from underneath her fridge – it then went on to lay 15 eggs.
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Hellblazer and Scarlet Witch use magic to transform the comics page · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic books of significance.
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The self-serving “disgrace” of the NFL playoffs · Block & Tackle · The A.V. Club
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. It was gone for a while because John was busy becoming the father of a brand new baby person. And now it is back. With Wild Card Weekend in the books, Saturday marks the beginning of the Divis…
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The Crackpot Alternative Legal System That Threatens To Escalate The Oregon Standoff | ThinkProgress
Events in Harney County, Oregon, seem to be taking a turn toward escalation. Armed men have been occupying a wildlife refuge for two weeks by now, saying they’re taking a stand against the federal government’s management of public land.
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Chicago, see a special early screening of Kung Fu Panda 3 for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Kung Fu Panda 3 is set to have its star-studded premiere tomorrow afternoon in Los Angeles. Although we can’t fly you there, we’ve got the next best thing: Dreamworks Animation is hosting a special advanced screening of the movie, featuring a live s…
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Jill Heinerth: The mysterious world of underwater caves | TED Talk | TED.com
Cave diver Jill Heinerth explores the hidden underground waterways coursing through our planet. Working with biologists, climatologists and archaeologists, Heinerth unravels the mysteries of the life-forms that inhabit some of the earth’s most remot…
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Taiwan set to vote in crucial polls – BBC News
Taiwan is set to vote in polls that could see the island elect its first female leader and set an uncertain course for future relations with China. China sees the island as a breakaway province, which it has threatened to take back by force if neces…
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Longform: “Yes, and … No.” by Katie J.M. Baker
How women in the L.A. comedy scene, long pressured to stay quiet about sexual abuse and harassment for the sake of their careers, began to fight back.
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Alabama’s Republican Gov. Robert Bentley is coming under fire from the state’s auditor — and the public at-large — for using money given to the state by BP in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to renovate a long-neglected state mansion o…
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In sickness and health: how Beethoven tested the Takács Quartet | Books | The Guardian
A football manager can replace an injured player with a substitute eager to come off the bench, but when a small music ensemble goes a man down it faces a trickier situation.
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A Kind of Compass review – stories about feeling far from home | Books | The Guardian
Belinda McKeon has curated a diverse collection of 17 stories loosely bound together as an exploration of “the many ways in which it is possible to feel far from home”.
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How well do you know Severus Snape? – quiz | Children’s books | The Guardian
Snape was Head of which house at Hogwarts?GryffindorRavenclawSlytherinHufflepuff2After Snape’s death, what did Harry do?He brought him back to lifeHe renounced his wizardryHe gave his son the middle name ‘Severus’He threw his wand in the Great Lake3…
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Watch Stephen Curry Wow the Globetrotters With Pregame Warm-up | Rolling Stone
Watch Stephen Curry Wow the Globetrotters With Pregame Warm-up The Warriors’ MVP puts on a clinic for the all-time kings of basketball showmanship – maybe he needs a red, white and blue uniform
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Watch Eerie Trailer for ‘Cloverfield’ Quasi-Sequel | Rolling Stone
Watch Eerie Trailer for ‘Cloverfield’ Quasi-Sequel ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ J.J.
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Panic! at the Disco Leader: Band Is ‘Outlet for Nonchalant Chaos’ | Rolling Stone
Panic! at the Disco’s career has been defined by change.
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See Hank Williams Jr.’s Reflective ‘Just Call Me Hank’ | Rolling Stone
Hank Williams Jr.’s 37th album It’s About Time is out today, marking the country legend’s first full-length release since 2012’s Old School New Rules. Released through the new Big Machine offshoot Nash Icon, It’s About Time showcases the 50-year mus…
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Keeping immune cells engineered to kill cancer from killing everything else | Ars Technica
One of the more exciting developments in cancer research involves tweaking the immune system to attack cancer. It’s possible to engineer the immune system’s T cells to attack and kill tumor cells based on the specific proteins those tumors produce.
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Apple Calls Shareholder Push To Increase Diversity ‘Burdensome’ And ‘Not Necessary’ | ThinkProgress
Apple’s board and senior management teams are dominated by white men. But its leadership still feels that speeding up efforts to change that makeup are “unduly burdensome and not necessary.”
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The single-payer debate we should be having – Vox
Bernie Sanders’s argument in favor of single-payer health care is pretty simple.
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Ebola Re-Emerges in Sierra Leone – Scientific American
When the World Health Organization , it cautioned that cases of the virus might yet re-emerge. That is exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone, where a new death from Ebola was announced hours after the WHO’s statement.
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Frozen Tardigrade Brought Back to Life After 30 Years
Tardigrades, or “water bears,” are renowned for their remarkable survival skills. But these microscopic creatures are far more indestructible than we thought. In a recent experiment, scientists in Japan successfully revived a tardigrade that had bee…
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2001-2016: The evolution of Wikipedia – Al Jazeera English
As automation gets cheaper than the cost of labour, developing economies are being hit the hardest. Five Lebanese in Beirut reflect on how their lives have been affected by their country’s civil war in the 1970s and 80s.
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Deadpool Is the Most Romantic Movie of the Year, According to This Fan Trailer
Once the Deadpool movie released those highly deceptive—and hilarious—posters which made the R-rated superhero action-comedy look like a tender romance, I knew an actual trailer couldn’t be far behind. It wasn’t. Turns out YouTuber Antony Marchiando…
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Venture Capital Is Terrible At Online Shopping | TechCrunch
Another day, another series of Silicon Valley e-commerce explosions: Gilt Groupe just sold for a fraction of its valuation (and its capital raised) and One King’s Lane is reportedly the next to die. Previously it was Fab.
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Acid attack survivor is new face of Indian fashion brand – BBC News
An acid attack survivor has been signed-up to be the new face of an Indian fashion brand in a campaign they are calling Face of Courage. Laxmi Saa was 15 when a 32-year-old man threw acid at her after she rejected his marriage proposal.
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COLOGNE, Germany — In early December, the Cologne police made their New Year’s Eve preparations. Drawing on the previous year’s experience, they identified their biggest worry as pickpocketing and fireworks among the crowds.
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Big environmental disasters often highlight the role new technologies can play in prevention.
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Google Play Adds Support For Promo Codes, Including In-App Purchases | TechCrunch
Promo codes are coming to Google Play! Android developers will finally be able to market their applications, as well as distribute copies of paid apps for free, and more, by way of promo codes – a feature Apple has supported for years.
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Republicans debated in a city with a horrible police shooting. It got no attention. – Vox
The Republican debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, was supposed to be the one where the presidential candidates finally talked about the racial disparities in police shootings. Last April, a North Charleston police officer shot a fleeing bla…
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Upskirt underpants umbrellas are a thing in Japan|Dangerous Minds
The latest supposed craze in Japan are upskirt umbrellas featuring images of popular schoolgirl anime characters. Certainly something like this would never fly in the states, but Japan is Japan and so we must experience brain freeze and go with it, …
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DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc (a division of one of the largest privately owned companies in the world) used to have the concessions to operate various businesses around Yosemite National Park.
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England’s Joe Root scored a dazzling century to reverse the momentum of the third Test after South Africa looked set to take control in Johannesburg. Replying to the Proteas’ 313, England were wobbling at 22-2 and 91-4.
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Liberty Ridge Farm in upstate New York just lost an appeal in its effort to justify discrimination against same-sex couples.
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Down The Rabbit Hole 2016 on Vimeo
A stunning animation by Merijn Hos for Down the Rabbit Hole, a Dutch music festival that takes place from June 24 to 26, 2016. Visit http://downtherabbithole.nl for more info. Client: Mojo/Live Nation Art direction: Merijn Hos Illustration: Merijn H…
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BBC Sport – Guus Hiddink: Chelsea boss says relegation threat exists
Relegation is a possibility for Chelsea, says the Premier League champions’ interim boss Guus Hiddink. The Blues are 14th in the top flight, six points off the bottom three, and their next two league games are at home to Everton before a trip to Ars…
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Loading the player reg… JEFFREY LORD: One last thing about Governor Christie. I was really surprised he denied that he had supported Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. I happened to have written a column about this last week for The American S…
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In Q4, VCs Kept Funding Young Companies But Slowed Later Bets | TechCrunch
Call it the Fidelity effect.
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Trump’s more obsessed with me than I am with him, says Clinton – video | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discusses Donald Trump during an appearnace on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night. Trump has routinely criticised Clinton during his campaign for the Republican presidential can…
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10 Cloverfield Lane: J.J. Abrams Has Surprised the World Yet Again | Vanity Fair
In a statement to Abrams called the film a “blood relative to ” and admitted that they wanted to keep the title a secret “for as long as possible.
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Draymond Green is an all-round superstar – and he’s perfect for the new NBA | Sport | The Guardian
On Wednesday night, with Draymond Green resting on the sidelines, the Warriors lost 112-110 away to the Denver Nuggets.
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Mystery Object 50 Times Brighter than the Milky Way –“May Reveal Something Never Seen Before”
Astronomers have been viewing a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns.
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Jim Woodring: ‘I am extremely interested in wrapping up Frank’ | Books | The Guardian
The meticulous, surreal cartoons of Jim Woodring are some of the most highly regarded in comics today.
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In his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama said that rising wages, progress on climate change and increasing peace and security were all within reach. But success is only possible if America fixes its politics, he said. Obama observed that trust…
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Oscars 2016: why Star Wars missed out, and other takeaways from this year’s nominations – Vox
Nobody is under the impression that the Oscars seriously reward the best films of the year. The awards have a spotty track record, having given their top prize to far more mediocre films than great ones. But they’re a unique window into what Hollywo…
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NEWPORT, OR—Saying there’s nothing better than watching people “totally freak out,” a stingray at the Oregon Coast Aquarium confirmed Friday that it loves when visitors squeal and recoil in horror after touching it.
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Why I Want to Replace Marissa Mayer | Vanity Fair
Last spring, a former C.E.O. of Yahoo was sitting across the table from me at an outdoor Starbucks, when this person asked me a pretty simple question: “Why in the world do you care so much about Yahoo?” It was a fair question.
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Once merely a staple of middle school talent shows, miming the words to popular songs has now reached an unprecedented level of mainstream popularity. NBC executives must be kicking themselves for passing on golden boy Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle…
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Planned Parenthood Sues Anti-Abortion Group over ‘Sting’ Videos | VICE News
Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against an anti-abortion group that it said secretly filmed tapes that attacked and damaged the reputation of the women’s health provider — and ultimately led to a Congressional inquiry into its activities and …
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Dutch to set up Kosovo war crimes court – BBC News
Twelve former residents of children’s homes say they were abused by Lord Janner, a BBC investigation finds, as criminal proceedings against the late peer end.
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Trevor Timm reads through the latest poll numbers and finds that Bernie Sanders is gaining on Clinton with key Democratic demographics: people under 45; women under 35; African Americans and Hispanics.
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What was missing from the Republican presidential debate? Oh, right. Women.
No women, and nothing much to say about women. It seems safe to say that the Republican presidential candidates were not pitching real hard for women’s votes in Thursday night’s debate.
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The Quest For a Safe Gun – The Atlantic
There’s that old line, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” How absurd is that? Of course guns kill people. Killing is what guns do. And they do it really, really well. Plenty of people, however, are skilled at keeping guns around, and usin…
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The Best Time to Book a Flight to 10 Popular Travel Spots in the U.S.
Timing is everything when it comes to booking affordable travel. Prices vary quite a bit depending on when you’re traveling and how far in advance you book. Kayak ranked 10 of the most popular vacation spots in the U.S., including detail on what fli…
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Human Mars Exploration – How Landing Sites Could Evolve | VIdeo
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Loading the player reg… CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Here’s what is so striking to me. What the president is really trying to do, I think, in good faith, and whether he is effective or not, is trying to persuade people on these issues, I mean he really is …
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Fox News host Neil Cavuto told Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Trey Gowdy (R-SC), that his on-going investigation into the attacks will only “carry currency” if the FBI acts against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinto…
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Everyone at the Fox Business Debate Ignored the Biggest Financial Stor | Vanity Fair
Another dreadful week for global markets drags on, as concerns over China’s lagging economy and its sinking currency continue to loom. Chinese stocks slid further and further into the red over the first two weeks of the year, with the Shanghai Compo…
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Shortly before Michael Bay’s latest movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, hit theaters, The Hollywood Reporter published a long report on how the film had been carefully marketed to conservative pundits.
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The Lawsuit Over Katy Perry’s Met Gala Dress Proceeds to Trial | Vanity Fair
Katy Perry’s dress is going to court! Or rather, the guy who designed Katy Perry’s dress is. The dress in question is the bold, graphic number that Perry wore to last year’s Met Gala, a black gown with a bright design on it.
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Creepy skinless animatronic babies
Has your day been insufficiently creepy? Not anymore! You may not be able to sleep properly after looking at this video of animatronic babies, some of them without their “skin” on. (via @machinepix)
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Shipwreck Found In Search For MH370 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The remains of a 19th-century ship have been found by search teams currently sweeping the Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370, the second shipwreck the search has uncovered within the past year. What do you think?
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Oil prices drop below $30 as global markets slide – Al Jazeera English
Oil prices have fallen below $30 a barrel, a new 12-year low, amid renewed concerns of slow growth in China – the world’s second largest economy. The oil price had briefly fallen below $30 previously on Tuesday.
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The sixth Republican presidential debate was notable for sharp exchanges between Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a heated argument about immigration and taxes between Mr.
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For much of his career in Washington, Ted Cruz has been dismissed as a cartoonish sideshow — an ostrich-boot-wearing ideologue who once delivered a sleep-inducing 21-hour monologue on the floor of the Senate reading from the children’s story “Green …
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MicSwap Turns Your iPhone Into Rock And Roll | TechCrunch
If it’s been a long time since you’ve rock and rolled and it’s been a long lonely time since you did the stroll, it might be time to model some old-fashioned microphones on your iOS device. An app, MicSwap, makes it easy to do just that.
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Gambia’s President Revokes Headscarf Order For Female Government Employees | VICE News
Just a week after Gambia garnered international attention by ordering female government employees to cover their hair at work, President Yahya Jammeh has reversed course.
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Corruption trial begins for former Thai PM Shinawatra – BBC News
The trial has begun in Thailand of former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. She faces corruption charges related to a rice subsidy scheme that ended up costing the Thai government billions of dollars.
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Build Your Own Affordable, Freestanding Climbing Wall
Climbing gyms are great, but often expensive for the facilities they offer. If you’ve got the space and want to do your climbing workouts at home, try building this freestanding climbing wall in your garage or backyard.
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Gentlemen, Here Are 13 Essential Winter Coats Under $200
Stores are presently unloading their vast winter offerings in order to make room for spring, which means that there are some downright indecent deals to be had.
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Elderly birdwatcher makes mincemeat out of Oregon domestic terrorist/mall ninja / Boing Boing
79-year-old Robert Saunders was birdwatching at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — checking on some owl chicks — when a “red-faced pudgy man with a big gun” demanded he identify himself and get down on the ground.
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The Peach App Is Dead, But It Taught Us Something About Social Media | New Republic
In truth it’s far too early to figure out whether Peach will establish itself. The app is, however, more interesting than my quick explanation suggests.
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Pinterest Hires Candice Morgan as Its First Head of Diversity – The Atlantic
In October 2013, Pinterest became one of the first tech companies to share hard data on the demographic breakdown of its employees.
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UNICEF says Teenager in Madaya Died of Malnutrition in Front of Its Representatives – The Atlantic
UNICEF says its representatives saw a Syrian teenager die of malnutrition in the besieged town of Madaya, where several cases of severe malnourishment were found among children.
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When President Obama announced a few limited gun control measures he was enacting using an executive order, it didn’t take long for the Republican presidential candidates to warn of jackbooted Obama thugs at our doorstep. (Not to mention the silly l…
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Today, flapping wildly in the breeze and grinning maniacally with outstretched arms, the giant balloon men known as “tall boys” grace shopping malls, banks, and Family Guy cutaway gags, but these ubiquitous, colorful, arm-waving inflatable novelties…
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This satirical Chinese account live-tweeted the GOP debate, and it was amazing – Vox
Thursday night, Fox Business hosted a Republican debate. During the debate, many people thought they had funny things to say about it on Twitter. But few of them could match the running live-tweeting from an account called the Relevant Organs.
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News | Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart
In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs up gas across its entire galaxy.
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Rip a hole in 2016 with the experimental pop of Heimat|Dangerous Minds
I don’t know how you’ve been dealing with the new year’s glut of death and terror, but I’ve been taking refuge in the drones, beats and chants of a French duo called Heimat.
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IBM Scoops Up IRIS Analytics Fraud Detection Firm | TechCrunch
Anyone who has a credit card has probably experienced some sort of fraud over the last few years. I personally have had it happen several times and I am by no means unique. Today IBM purchased IRIS Analytics, a firm that helps banks detect fraudulen…
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Michael Bay’s 13 Hours promotes some of the worst Benghazi conspiracy theories – Vox
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Michael Bay’s new film depicting the 2012 attacks that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, sets out on a daring mission of its own.
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Listen to Black Sabbath’s earliest demo recording from 1969|Dangerous Minds
In 1969 while Black Sabbath was still sort of transitioning from their original name “Earth” (the band had booked gigs late into the summer of 1969 as “Earth,” and continued to billed as such for a few months), they recorded a few demos of songs wri…
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Beacon Technology Company Estimote Raises $10.7 Million Series A | TechCrunch
Estimote, a beacon company whose small, wireless sensors and accompanying software provide indoor location technology to some of the largest retailers as well as 65 percent of the Fortune 100, has now closed on $10.7 million in Series A funding.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney- review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Old School is the continued journey of a middle school kid Greg Heffley who is still learning the ropes of living with a pig. Yes I said it! A pig!
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The power of two: twins in literature | Books | The Guardian
In the final scene of Twelfth Night, when the resemblance between fraternal twins Sebastian and Viola is discovered, Antonio can barely contain his astonishment. “How have you made division of yourself?” he exclaims. “An apple, cleft in two, is not …
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Texas Sets New All-Time Wind Energy Record – Scientific American Blog Network
On December 20, a low-pressure weather system crossed through the Texas panhandle and created sustained wind speeds of 20 to 30 mph.
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1916 – Scientific American Blog Network
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 15, 1916. The image on the cover of the January 15, 1916, issue of Scientific American (below) is full of violent drama: a huge steamship sinking, as boatloads of desperate survivors…
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Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan Show Brain Changes Related to Explosion Exposure – Scientific American
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Las Vegas On Your Own Terms: A CES Recap | TechCrunch
CES 2016 has been over for five days now, which in tech-news terms is like a month. Still, I came across one more unexpected gem during the show that, while not directly related to CES, definitely needs to be shared.
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France’s Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron On French Startups | TechCrunch
Last week, 190 French startups came to Las Vegas for CES. Everywhere around Vegas, people were talking in French, as if French entrepreneurs were trying to take over the city.
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Donald Trump’s Surprising (and Very Brief) Moment of Decency | Rolling Stone
Conservatives sure do hate New York City. They hate the New York Times. They hate the liberal politicians. But most of all, they hate those damn New York values.
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Hank Williams Jr. on Hank Sr., the Opry and ‘Weird Pop Country’ | Rolling Stone
“I’ve got a bunch of platinum on the wall. . . but this is the best one I’ve ever put together,” says Hank Williams Jr. of his new album, It’s About Time, out today. “This is a real special one, folks, believe me.
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Hillary on ‘Tonight Show’: Trump Battle Would Be ‘Quite the Showdown’ | Rolling Stone
Hillary Clinton isn’t intimidated by Donald Trump. The Democratic presidential hopeful made her case against the Republican frontrunner Thursday night on The Tonight Show, laughing at Jimmy Fallon’s mere mention of Trump’s name.
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28 WTF Moments from the Sixth Republican Debate | Rolling Stone
It featured a nasty spat between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz over the “birther issue”; a firefight over immigration between Marco Rubio and Cruz; Jeb Bush insulting the pair as “back bench senators”; Trump blasting Jeb as a weakling; Chris Christie re…
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Watch Father John Misty’s Passionate ‘Holy S–t’ Performance | Rolling Stone
Watch Father John Misty’s Passionate ‘Holy S–t’ Performance on ‘Colbert’ Singer-songwriter showcases ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ cut and his dance moves on ‘Late Show’
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Donald Trump and ‘New York Values’ – The Atlantic
On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz tried to undermine Donald Trump by declaring that he has “New York values.” The crowd of South Carolina Republicans laughed when Cruz declared that “most people know exactly what New York values are.
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Hillary vs. Bernie – The Atlantic
Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at Iowa State University on January 12.
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Marco Rubio Changes Course During Thursday Night’s Republican Debate – The Atlantic
It was a debate with several ugly moments. Chris Christie called President Obama a “petulant child” and vowed to “kick” his “rear end out of the White House come this fall,” evidently forgetting that the man he once hugged is leaving at the end of t…
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The Unforgivable Half Truths of Memoir | New Republic
Ten years ago this month, the name James Frey became a byword for autobiographical malfeasance when the website The Smoking Gun revealed what discerning readers already knew: his memoir A Million Little Pieces, about overcoming drug addiction, was a…
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USA Is Making a TV Show About Shared Dreams and the End of the World
The show is called Falling Water, which is surprisingly not about Frank Lloyd Wright, but is actually about three people who find out that their dreams are all part of one larger dream.
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Chipotle will close Feb. 8 for companywide meeting on food safety – Chicago Tribune
Following successive food poisoning outbreaks last year, Chipotle is closing its stores for a few hours next month to talk about food safety. Chris Arnold, the company’s spokesman, said the meeting would happen Feb. 8 and involve all staff. A range …
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Citigroup profits jump after fall in legal costs – BBC News
US bank Citigroup has reported a jump in fourth quarter profits compared with a year earlier, helped by a big fall in legal costs. The bank said net profit rose to $3.34bn (£2.43bn) compared with $344m in the last quarter of 2014 when it paid $3.5bn…
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
A flock of bar-headed geese in a park in Lhasa, Tibet. Photograph: Zhang Rufeng/Xinhua Press/Corbis Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Two US military helicopters collide near Hawaii – BBC News
Two US Marine helicopters have collided near the Hawaiian island of Oahu, each with six people on board. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers said debris was seen in the ocean. It is unclear how it happened.
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Mark Burnett to bring dating apps to life in new reality series for Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mark Burnett has been successfully dramatizing the more tedious parts of life like applying for a job, singing in the shower, and scrounging for survival under the banner of reality TV for years, but now he’s ready to tackle something a little gritt…
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Chipotle will close every restaurant on February 8 – Vox
Every Chipotle restaurant will close for several hours on February 8 so that the company can hold an unprecedented all-hands meeting to discuss issues related to the chain’s food safety crisis.
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Top Economic Risk of 2016 Is Global Warming – Scientific American
Climate change is the most severe global economic risk of 2016, the World Economic Forum said yesterday.
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3D printed, open-source “pocket watch” with tourbillon / Boing Boing
Swiss engineer Christoph Laimer has built an open-source hardware, 3D printed watch with a tourbillon mechanism, uploading it to Thingiverse for you to print and assemble yourself.
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Why SpaceX Needs to Land a Rocket on a Floating Drone – Bloomberg Business
SpaceX made history last month by landing one of its Falcon 9 rocket stages on land. Elon Musk’s company now wants to pull off that same feat on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean, a maneuver that has been attempted without success twice before off t…
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Starved Dead Birds Are Washing Up On Alaska Beaches, And No One Knows Why | ThinkProgress
This photo taken Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, shows dead common murres on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Federal scientists in Alaska are looking for the cause of a massive die-off of one of the Arctics most abundant seabirds, the common murre.
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El Chapo arrest: How authorities hope to stop another escape – BBC News
Federal Social Readaptation Centre Number One – or as it is more commonly known, El Altiplano – sits on a flat plain about an hour and a half’s drive from Mexico City. You can see the tall blue and grey watchtowers rising above the horizon.
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Migrant crisis: Switzerland defends asset seizure law – BBC News
The Swiss government has defended its law requiring asylum seekers to hand over assets in excess of $1,000 (£700; €900) following international criticism of similar proposals in Denmark.
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Watch Ryan Adams’ Tender ‘ACL’ ‘Desire’ Performance | Rolling Stone
Watch Ryan Adams’ Tender ‘ACL’ ‘Desire’ Performance Singer-songwriter’s set will debut on January 16th episode of long-running show
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Kate Middleton Will Make Her Web-Editing Debut | Vanity Fair
It’s sometimes hard to imagine the Duchess of Cambridge—with all of the formal engagements she must attend and the teas with the Queen and the ballroom dancing and the polo matches and the like (we’re not sure where “ballroom dancing” came from, but…
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I 2D printed the N64 logo : gaming
Cheeky cunt. Now somebody print it in the right colour and we’ll be sorted.
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Netflix Signs YouTube Star Miranda Sings For Scripted Series | TechCrunch
Netflix has signed a deal with YouTube star Miranda Sings for its first scripted series with a social media star. Miranda Sings has more than 5 million followers on YouTube and averages around 1.
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Morning Digest: Republican congressman quits swing district in swing state
There are a number of Hampton Roads Republicans who could run here. Indeed, Del. Scott Taylor quickly confirmed that he was “strongly considering” a bid, and he says he’ll make a formal decision on Friday.
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The New Strategy in the Auto Industry: Cars Nobody Will Buy – Bloomberg Business
The fancy-car selfie is a social media staple. And there will be a steady stream of them starting Saturday, when the masses pour into the annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit. But it will be difficult to picture people actually b…
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Inside NASA’s Plan To Radically Redesign How We Fly
It’s probably been a long time since flying amazed you. Air travel tends to feel like an inconvenience these days—not a miracle of engineering. This is partially due to market forces and security theater. It’s also the fact that aircraft design itse…
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George W Bush tops Wikipedia 15th birthday list – BBC News
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has marked its 15th birthday with a list of the most edited pages on the site. The English language version of the site, which can anyone can edit, has more than five million entries and has been edited around 808 mill…
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Nerds is a stage musical chronicling Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates | Ars Technica
A musical “dot comedy” (see what they did there?) about tech rivals Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will open on Broadway later this year.
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Donald Trump Publicly Breaks Up with Ted Cruz: “The Bromance Is Over” | Vanity Fair
After a long and at times vicious debate Thursday night, Donald Trump declared that he was breaking up with Ted Cruz, fellow Republican presidential candidate and ideological life partner, with whom he’d maintained, until recently, something of a tr…
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Exciting news for Jeb! Bush: He’s nabbed the coveted Lindsey Graham endorsement
Lindsey Graham dropped out of the Republican presidential primary last month, but his moment has really come now. Yes, he’s endorsing. And the lucky candidate is … Jeb Bush.
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Congress is actually working together on something: reforming foreign aid – Vox
Congress, against all odds, appears to be working again.
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Over a century on, Oscar Wilde continues to hypnotise us.
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Hitman won’t be the last game Square Enix makes episodic | Ars Technica
Earlier this week, the upcoming Hitman reboot was quietly removed from the PlayStation Store in Europe, with Square Enix cancelling pre-orders for the PlayStation 4 version. With the game scheduled for release in just a few months, fans were underst…
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States lead the way in extending open-carry gun laws | US news | The Guardian
President Obama’s executive action last week to expand the definition of gun dealers who must perform background checks elicited loud outrage from conservatives, as Republican presidential contenders warn that Obama wants to take all Americans’ guns…
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Spurs edge Cavaliers to make it 32 straight wins at home | Sport | The Guardian
The Cleveland Cavaliers gave San Antonio another tense test at home before the Spurs rose up on defense for what they deemed their biggest win of the season.
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New Catalyst Can Reduce Mercury Emissions – Scientific American
A gold-based catalyst over 30 years in the making is set to help fight the harm China’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic industry is causing the country’s environment.
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Iranian Americans dismayed by discrimination in new visa regulations | US news | The Guardian
Dr Firouz Naderi has served America for 35 years, climbing the ranks at Nasa, landing spacecraft on Mars and meeting Michelle Obama at the White House. But lately, he feels he has been treated like a second-class citizen in the country he calls home.
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Rogue One Could Feature a Star Wars Character We Thought We’d Never See Again
Civil War will balance its dark moments with some superhero humor. The long-awaited Jumanji reboot gets a director. Chris Pine talks Wonder Woman. The Magicians will lean into the horror elements of the books. Plus, more superheroes in DC TV shows, …
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Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh · Random Roles · The A.V. Club
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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KeyMe Raises $20M For Its Key Copying Service | TechCrunch
KeyMe, a startup that could help ensure that you never get locked out again, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The company allows you to scan your key, either via mobile app or at an in-store kiosk, creating a digital copy. It can then sh…
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Why Did “Share a Coke” Blacklist These 24 Countries? | Atlas Obscura
At this point, you’ve likely seen billboards, subway posters, or television commercials advertising Coca-Cola’s newest marketing gambit: the “Share a Coke” campaign.
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Start Managing Your Money With Just One Minute Each Day
Money management can be intimidating, but the first step to facing your financial anxiety is coming to terms with your own financial picture. If you’re not sure where to start, spend just one minute each day looking at your finances.
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Cruz and Trump Get New York Wrong – The Atlantic
At a key moment in the GOP presidential debate on Thursday night, Ted Cruz criticized Donald Trump for his “New York values.” When pressed by the moderator to define the term, Cruz stopped short of insulting the entire Empire State.
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io9 Poe Dameron is Getting His Own Star Wars Comic | Kotaku Life-Sized Anime Schoolgirl Statue Costs Only $16,000 | Deadspin Claire McCaskill Might Actually Do Something About The Publicly-Financed Stadium Scam | The Slot This Donald Trump Theme Son…
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Skype Translator Rolls Out to the Main Skype App For Everyone
Windows: Skype’s relatively new translator app that allowed users who speak different languages to video chat together. Now, it’s becoming a feature of the regular Skype app.
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Donald Trump didn’t announce his candidacy until mid-June of last year, but still managed to be covered as the second biggest news story for all of 2015 on the network evening newscasts.
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Longform: The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death by Peter Stark
Peter Stark Outside Jan 1997 A step-by-step account.
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The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels – The New Yorker
“He said things that I could never have thought, or at least said, with the same assurance, and he said them in a strong engaging Italian.
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The slowly fading art of flying—and maintaining—Cold War fighter jets | Ars Technica
HOUSTON—My first thought was that I should have rented a wider lens. Sitting in front of me was a vintage two-seat Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk, and this aircraft dominated the space. It loomed like a temporarily grounded raptor, simultaneously enormous an…
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Search under way after two marine helicopters collide off coast of Hawaii | US news | The Guardian
Two marine helicopters have collided off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the US coast guard has said. Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers of the coast guard told the Associated Press that the marine corps reported a collision of two helicopters off the coa…
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Gizmodo A Mysterious Mammoth Carcass Could Change Human History | Gawker Donald Trump Has No Idea How the Government Works | Foxtrot Alpha Fox News Pundits Shit The Bed More Than Usual Over Iran’s Detaining Of U.S. Sailors | Lifehacker All the Best,…
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How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year | Ars Technica
Seven years ago, Twitter began its rise to prominence by billing itself as a space where people could speak freely because nobody was censored. The company’s rules enshrined this ideal, promising “we do not actively monitor and will not censor user …
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The Mysterious Link Between Autism and Savantism – The Atlantic
“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” Rex Lewis-Clack croons, his head joyfully bobbing in time with the Duke Ellington standard. The 20-year-old musician accompanies himself on a grand piano, deftly striking the keys with a dexterity …
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Sierra Leone Confirms a New Case of Ebola – The Atlantic
Officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, a day after the WHO declared West Africa free of the virus.
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My name is Colin Blakemore. I’m Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford (where I worked in the medical school for 33 years).
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Church built in the shape of a high heel in hopes of attracting women|Dangerous Minds
I’m not sure the saying “If you build it, they will come” will necessarily work in this circumstance. Perhaps maybe in a Disney attraction sort of way. A giant glass high heel—made out of over 320 tinted glass panels—was built in Chiayi, Taiwan to a…
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Remember that phase of the campaign when Ted Cruz spoke no ill of Donald Trump, who returned the favor? You may now forget it. Bury it. Write its obituary, in a pen dipped in acid.
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David Bowie: the man who read the world | Books | The Guardian
It’s long been clear that David Bowie’s was a polymath, an artist as much as a musician, that “chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature”, he wrote of in his 1971 song “The Bewlay Brothers”. But what can we make of his literary legacy, of his i…
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Loading the player reg… BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I know Hillary Clinton was a common theme last night. She’s likely the opponent of whoever the nominee is. You had this line to talk about not only her foreign policy but her legal problems.
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Al-Shabab Attacks African Union Base in Somalia | Al Jazeera America
Fighters from the Al-Shabab group in Somalia attacked a base for African Union (AU) troops in southwestern Somalia on Friday, military officials and insurgents said.
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Poll: white Democrats are feeling the Bern – Vox
The battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is heating up. There looks to be a great deal of enthusiasm for Sanders on the ground in Iowa, and both early state and national polls are getting quite close. This has led Clinton to lash out wi…
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Getting a Hustle: How to Live Like a King Behind Bars | The Marshall Project
This article was published in collaboration with Vice. Cash rules everything — even inside prison.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Also, gotta tape a show for Monday. Luckily, there’s lots to talk about. Like the debate! Not that I watched it or anything. But do you really have to any more?
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The Drug Trial of a ‘Cannabis’ Painkiller Has Left One Person Brain Dead | VICE News
The drug trial of a painkiller containing cannabinoids, the active ingredient found in cannabis, has gone drastically wrong in France, leaving one person brain dead and five others in a serious condition.
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A confession. A 911 call the jury never heard. Was Tyra Patterson forced to lie – or has she spent decades in prison because nobody helped her tell the truth? The second chapter of a Guardian special report
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Alan Rickman’s glorious voice transformed every line he spoke into something more – Vox
Alan Rickman, who died of cancer on Thursday at age 69, was one of our most versatile and reliable actors. He also had one of the best voices ever to appear on film.
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Josh Marshall notes that during last night’s debate Neil Cavuto seemed to imply that the financial crisis happened on Obama’s watch without saying anything explicitly false. Indeed. But there’s something else going on here, and it’s part of a larger…
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Crimson Peak director Guillermo del Toro is starting work on an adaptation of the popular children’s horror books Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Scary Stories comprises a trilogy of story collections by Alvin Schwartz, published between 1981 and…
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Does anyone remember the classic first post-9/11 issue, which declared “Rest of Country Temporarily Feels Deep Affection for New York”? (I can’t find a direct link.) Sure enough, Ted Cruz has declared war on “New York values.” America’s finest news …
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Burundi security forces gang-raped women, UN says – BBC News
The United Nations says it has evidence that Burundi’s security forces gang-raped women while searching the homes of suspected opposition leaders. Security forces separated the women and raped them, the UN said in a statement. It said it had documen…
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Budget Hotel Platform RedDoorz Bags $1.4M To Expand Across Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
It’s looking like 2016 will be a big one for budget accommodation in Southeast Asia. Which is great news for business travelers, and my expense claims. RedDoorz, one of a number of companes offering a standardized hotel stay without breaking the ban…
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In the predawn hours of December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein stood calmly at the gallows, as one of his three executioners—men in black ski masks and leather jackets—prepared to slip a thick yellow noose around his neck. Hussein stepped toward the plat…
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Researcher Bypasses Apple’s Updated Malware Protection in ‘5 Minutes’ | Motherboard
Apple’s Mac computers have long been considered safer than their Windows-powered counterparts—so much so that the common belief for a long time was that they couldn’t get viruses or malware. Even Apple adopted that cliche for marketing purposes. The…
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Use the RASCI Matrix to Manage Responsibility On a Project
Running a project is complicated. If you have a large group of people with poorly defined roles, work can quickly grind to a standstill. Instead, manage who should be doing what with a RASCI matrix. As business blog Inc.
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Trump speaks in Iowa after debate clash with Cruz – live coverage | US news | The Guardian
Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the day in politics – starting with lines out of last night’s Republican debate in South Carolina. There’s a lot popping today, including the promise of some telling new campaign finance filings, so let…
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Groups Sue Over North Carolina’s Ag Gag Law, Saying It Violates The Constitution | ThinkProgress
Last year, North Carolina made it nearly impossible for citizens to legally gather evidence on and report instances of wrongdoing — animals being mistreated by farm workers, for instance, or pollution being dumped into a stream.
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How The New Webseries ‘Her Story’ Could Revolutionize Queer-Made Media | ThinkProgress
After months of buzz, the webseries Her Story will finally premiere next week on YouTube. The show was written by queer people, produced by queer people, directed by queer people, and it stars queer people playing queer characters. And the best part…
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Churches across the country are gearing up to defy the federal government’s deportation efforts, preparing to offer Central American asylum-seekers sanctuary in their churches and protect them from an aggressive new wave of federal raids.
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Will The Neurotic Basketball Player Make His Next Free Throw? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up a problem related to the things we hold dear around here — math, logic and probability. These problems, puzzles and riddles come from lots of top-notch puzzle folks around the world, including you, the …
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Wikipedia Turns 15 [Q&A] – Scientific American
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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A personal history of Islamophobia in America – Vox
Don’t stay out past sunset. Don’t talk to people you don’t know.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP debate showcases failed policies, bad ideas and lies
Eighteen days before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican nomination contest has come down to two big questions: Can Donald Trump actually become the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, and if he falters, who can emerge to seize the crown? What was unth…
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Calais ‘Jungle’ migrants resist container move – BBC News
Migrant residents of the makeshift Calais camp called the “Jungle” have told the BBC they will resist efforts to move them to new accommodation in converted shipping containers. Migrants living in the camp said they wanted to stay in their tents, de…
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Migrants feel chill as Europe tightens frontier checks – BBC News
Running in looping coils, razor-wire now stretches along part of Macedonia’s border with Greece.
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SKRWT Brings Perspective Correction To Your Smartphone Photos
Android/iOS: Most photo editors for your smartphone come with the same features: color correction, maybe a few filters, and basic cropping. SKRWT adds something new with a ton of perspective correction tools. SKRWT allows you to adjust the perspecti…
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Online music videos ‘expose teens to smoking and drinking’ – BBC News
Online music videos are heavily exposing teenagers to positive depictions of smoking and drinking alcohol, research suggests. Such portrayals posed a “significant health hazard that requires appropriate regulatory control”, researchers said.
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The Late, Great Alan Rickman Reads Shakespeare, Proust & Thomas Hardy | Open Culture
Just this week we lost Alan Rickman, one of the most beloved British actors of his generation. And like all the best beloved British actors of any generation, he could, of course, do Shakespeare the way the rest of us can tie our shoes — and not jus…
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Turkey detains academics over petition on Kurdish issue – Al Jazeera English
Turkish authorities have detained at least 15 academics after they called on the government to stop “breaches of rights” during the army’s military offensive against Kurdish rebels in the country’s southeast.
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Kate del Castillo ‘will share’ her story of Sean Penn-El Chapo interview | Film | The Guardian
The Mexican actor Kate del Castillo, who arranged the Rolling Stone magazine interview between Sean Penn and drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán that reportedly led to the cartel leader’s arrest this month, has said she is ready to tell the full sto…
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How Waiting for SAT Scores Complicated One Student’s Efforts to Apply to College – The Atlantic
Jamal Trotman is a star at Eagle Academy for Young Men in Brooklyn. He made the All-State football team and was a team captain. He wants to be a journalist, and he’s interned at NBC and at the investment firm Blackstone.
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Space in Videos – 2016 – 01 – Replay of EDRS media briefing, 15 January at ESA HQ
A special media briefing on the European Data Relay System (EDRS) is took place on 15 January, at ESA HQ in Paris.
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Pathankot attack: Pakistan raids Jaish-e-Mohammad schools – BBC News
Pakistan has shut down several religious schools run by the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group, Punjab province’s law minister has said. Fourteen people were arrested in a police raid on a mosque and seminary near the city of Daska, officials said.
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How Marco Rubio is signaling moderation — without being moderate – Vox
Those of us who follow climate change and clean energy news have found Marco Rubio sliding all up in our headlines over the last week. First there was the kerfuffle over his past support for cap-and-trade, which his campaign has hotly contested.
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Six ‘critically ill’ after French drug trial goes wrong – Al Jazeera English
At least six people are critically ill in France after a trial involving a new medical treatment went wrong, the French health ministry said.
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New Horizons Pluto Mission Leader Alan Stern Wins Carl Sagan Award
The accolades keep rolling in for NASA’s New Horizons mission, which performed history’s first-ever flyby of Pluto this past July.
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‘The Martian’ Gets 6 Oscar Nominations
Matt Damon plays NASA astronaut Mark Watney in ”The Martian,” which has been nominated for six Oscars.Credit: ™ and © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. View full size image “The Martian” is poised to take home some more awards-season hard…
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The Widow of a Man Killed in Islamic State Attack Is Suing Twitter | VICE News
Twitter is being sued by the widow of an American killed in Jordan who accuses the social media company of giving a voice to Islamic State (IS), adding to the pressure to crack down on online propaganda linked to terrorism.
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Only Republican Voters Can Stop Donald Trump Now – The New Yorker
At about eleven-thirty on Thursday night, Donald Trump stepped off a stage in the North Charleston Coliseum, in South Carolina, and posed for some pictures with his wife, Melania, his daughter Ivanka, and his sons Eric and Donald, Jr.
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South African Airways bans passenger over ‘mid-air theft’ – BBC News
South African Airways (SAA) has blacklisted a passenger amid reports that gangs of thieves are operating 30,000 feet in the air on its flights.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas sharply attacked each other on Thursday night over the Canadian-born Mr. Cruz’s eligibility to be president and Mr.
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Why a Mathematician Spent Years Mulling Over How to Slice a Pizza | Motherboard
Leave it to mathematicians to look at a pizza and see a problem. While most of us consider the cheesy treat to be a solution to basically all of life’s struggles, the venerable dish has long posed a puzzle for mathematicians: how many ways are there…
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Taiwan’s first female leader, shy but steely Tsai Ing-wen – BBC News With slightly hunched shoulders and an unassuming manner, 59-year-old Tsai Ing-wen doesn’t look like a threat to Beijing. But she has just won Taiwan’s presidency and is steely in her belief that Taiwan’s future should be determined by…
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