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How our screwed-up CEO pay system makes climate change worse : environment
How our screwed-up CEO pay system makes climate change worse via /r/environment http://t.co/NQG6PYN417 http://t.co/at2w8W50di
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What’s the Best Car Smartphone Mount?
Keeping your phone charged and by your side in your car can be tricky. You want to be able to use navigation or stream music, but you don’t want it sitting in a cup holder next to you. That means you need a mount. This week, we want to hear your fav…
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How Bernie Sanders’ Online Army Is Using Reddit to Fuel His 2016 Campaign Surge – Mic
In the four months since he joined the race, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has emerged as the party’s most dynamic political performer.
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What Does Artificial Intelligence Dream About? – The Atlantic
When a collection of artificial brains at Google began generating psychedelic images from otherwise ordinary photos, engineers compared what they saw to dreamscapes. They named their image-generation technique Inceptionism and called the code used t…
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Attempts to remedy America’s dauntingly long history of racial and gender inequity can, at times, feel slow and incremental.
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Paid Leave for Fathers Is Good for Everybody | The New Republic
Paid Leave for Fathers Is Good for Everybody http://t.co/7lnvyvv1f6
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Hungary: A night of protest at the train station – Al Jazeera English
Budapest, Hungary – The number of refugees arriving in Greece and travelling towards the western countries of the European Union through Macedonia, Serbia, and Hungary has increased dramatically in the second half of August and these countries have …
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Turkey frees British Vice News journalists – Al Jazeera English
Two Vice News journalists from Britain arrested in Turkey have been released as their Turkey-based Iraqi translator has been kept in prison, a senior Turkish official has told Al Jazeera.
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States crack down on food waste, starting with cafeterias and cafes | Grist
By 8 a.m. most days, brothers Adam and Don Collins are piloting a truck full of unwanted food through the outlying cities of the Boston metropolitan area. They make stops in Cambridge, Somerville, and Malden.
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A former aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton who helped set up the server that housed Mrs. Clinton’s private email account plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to congressional questions about the email practices, according to two people…
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Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble | The Nation
In Class, his rude and amusing 1983 guide to the American social hierarchy, the literary historian Paul Fussell noted the strange prominence of the unicorn in working-class culture.
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Aol Confirms It Has Acquired Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads | TechCrunch
This just in: Aol, itself acquired by Verizon earlier this year, has announced that it is acquiring Millennial Media as it continues to build out its presence in digital advertising and specifically mobile ads. Aol will be paying $1.
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Why Bernie Sanders Wants To Make Prescription Drugs Cheaper | ThinkProgress
As a congressman in 1999, now-Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), was the first member of Congress to lead seniors across the Canadian border to buy cheaper drugs. Now he wants to make that possible for all Americans.
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Why Congress Doesn’t Reflect Experts Or The American Public On The Iran Deal | ThinkProgress
The Iran nuclear deal has largely divided congress along partisan lines. The current count in the Senate is 34 for and 32 opposed, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Of the 34 supporters, 32 are Democrats (2 are independent) and 30 of the 32…
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Try AURA, a meditative, musical twin-stick shooter – Offworld
AURA looks like an inventive take on the traditional “twin stick” shooter experience, focused primarily on exploration. It seems really interesting sonic experiences are involved too—the fuel you gather for your tiny flying ship is linked to musical…
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Eight Kansas citizens testified in a hearing Wednesday against the Secretary of State’s plan to purge more than 30,000 people from the state’s voter rolls. But one person was notably missing — Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
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The Invisible Victims Of California’s Drought | ThinkProgress
A 17-year-old pregnant farmworker died in a vineyard of heat exhaustion in the summer of 2008 in triple-digit temperatures. The nearest water cooler was a 10-minute walk and a foreman allegedly wouldn’t let her take a break to get a drink of water.
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Carbon Pollution Is Expanding Global Dry Zones, As Predicted | ThinkProgress
A landmark study in the journal Nature documents an expansion of the world’s dry and semi-arid climate regions since 1950 — and attributes it to human-caused global warming. This expansion of the world’s dry zones is a basic prediction of climate sc…
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If other stars replaced our Sun: Incredible Roscosmos video : space
If other stars replaced our Sun: Incredible Roscosmos video via /r/space http://t.co/HIktXGFrO3 http://t.co/2PHWQLXMG6
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Welcome to the Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable
We are going to start recording and automatically transcribing most of what we say. Instead of evaporating into memory, words spoken aloud will calcify as text, into a Record that will be referenced, searched, and mined. It will happen by our standa…
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BBC – Future – The lost tunnels of Liverpool
The air is still. It’s quiet. Occasionally, the sound of a water droplet bursting feebly onto stone echoes through the chamber. Somewhere, somehow, moisture is getting in. But for the most part, it’s dry.
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Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.
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A Living Typeface That Actually Grows in a Petri Dish | WIRED
Caption: Ori Elisar created a typeface out of bacteria. Ori Elisar Most letters are ink or pixels, static in their existence. The letters Ori Elisar creates, however, are not.
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If your house was slowly falling down, in serious danger of catching fire or getting repossessed you’d know something was wrong and needed changing.
New economic thinking could help tackle the planetary and housing crises | Andrew Simms http://t.co/PUP886wqs9 -
Sixty-one infants die at India hospital in two weeks – Al Jazeera English
Sixty-one infants have died at an Indian children’s hospital in the past two weeks, but a senior official at the hospital in eastern Odisha state insists that the deaths were not due to the negligence of the medics.
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A Menagerie of Viruses Lurks in Microbial DNA | WIRED
Microbes are the silent assassins of the human world. They’re everywhere: Scientists have identified microbial DNA of all sorts in our homes and on the subway, from innocuous bugs to scary ones like Legionnaires and plague.
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Republicans Are Trying Their Damnedest to Dismantle the Endangered Species Act | Motherboard
Over the past few months, Republican members of Congress have been attempting to systematically dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA) through dozens of legislative proposals.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: A win for Obama, a loss for AIPAC on Iran policy.
Ending that mindset has proven a difficult task. The idea that military force is decisive in a way that diplomacy is not remains a very attractive one, especially for politicians looking for cheap ways to appear tough. And to be fair, Obama has move…
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The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep sells to major publisher | Books | The Guardian
The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep sells to major publisher http://t.co/ToSmhvFd7D
The Swedish author of this summer’s surprise self-published hit, a bedtime story that promises to “make anyone fall asleep” using positive reinforcement techniques and plenty of yawns, has landed a book deal with a major publisher. -
Significant Digits For Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Five polar bears have captured a team of scientists in Russia. The bears are, according to CNN, “hungry” and blocking two meteorologists and an engineer…
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ECB keeps interest rates on hold – BBC News
The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its main interest rate on hold at 0.05% for another month as expected. Attention now turns to ECB chief Mario Draghi’s press conference shortly for clues about the bank’s next moves.
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Pictures of my friend’s shirt without, and with camera flash : mildlyinteresting
Illuminati has taken over the clothing industry. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, cuz they illuminating errthing up in here.
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Las Vegas, Nevada (OC) (1400×800) : unitedstatesofamerica
Las Vegas, Nevada (OC) (1400×800) via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/IHQHCH3qPp http://t.co/dgniCjEzve
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Zion National Park, Utah. (OC) (1400×800) : EarthPorn
Zion National Park, Utah. (OC) (1400×800) via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/w3ZJUJ3VII http://t.co/ZxP7x94UBV
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OCLast week, thanks to r/internetisbeautiful’s support, 3 million books were judged by their covers in a game I built with a friend. A lot of people asked us if we were collecting data. The answer is yes, it’s fascinating, and here it is. [OC] (play…
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Caitlyn Jenner and Our Cognitive Dissonance – Issue 28: 2050 – Nautilus
Somewhere in the middle of the night in a Central African rainforest, a chimpanzee gives birth. Soon after, as the sun rises, mother and newborn sit there, dazed, amid a coffee klatch of friends and relatives.
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/X8pKjj8Jv9 http://t.co/NkOpy65NPD
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How the Neurotic Mind Works – The Atlantic
For much of his life, Isaac Newton seemed like he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In 1693, the collapse finally arrived: After not sleeping for five days straight, Newton sent letters accusing his friends of conspiring against him.
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sensual by zieniu by Tomasz Zienkiewicz / 500px
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Bridalveil Falls in Black and White [OC] [2048×1371] : EarthPorn
Bridalveil Falls in Black and White [OC] [2048×1371] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/X9ogG55Ily http://t.co/pbJiwGoZMn
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Dozens missing after crowded boat capsizes off Malaysia – Al Jazeera English
A boat crammed with migrant workers, believed to be Indonesians, has capsized off Malaysia’s western coast, leaving at least 14 people dead, a maritime official has said.
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China: Marking 70 years after WWII with a show of force – Al Jazeera English
China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and victory over invading Japanese forces on Thursday with a massive show of force.
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These bicyclists get it : firstworldanarchists
These bicyclists get it via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/z26h3VgN34 http://t.co/TCx47tIZfF
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Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios ‘to split from Disney’ – BBC News
Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios is to end its distribution partnership with Disney next year, according to Hollywood reports. DreamWorks Studios’ films include War Horse and Lincoln. Its productions are currently distributed and marketed by Th…
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Your guilt-trip won’t stop gentrification | Kalima Rose | Comment is free | The Guardian
Gentrification too often dissolves into a guilt-ridden zero-sum game, whereby new residents are told that to avoid being “part of the problem”, they must simply avoid living in gentrifying areas altogether.
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Security Financings Continue Their Heat Wave With A New $75M Round For Netskope | TechCrunch
Netskope, which sells a technology service protecting businesses’ cloud-based software, has joined the ranks of the massively funded (and potentially overfunded?) security technology companies with a new $75 million round of financing. The Los Altos…
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If Robots Need Jobs, Let’s Make Them Plant Trees | Motherboard
By all accounts, tree planting should be at the top of the list for jobs to be taken over by machines. Every summer, hordes of young Canadian misfits head to the West Coast to spend hours in the hot sun, bent over with their hands in the dirt, plant…
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This Interactive Map Predicts Peak Fall Foliage Times in Your Area
Fall is coming (at least in this hemisphere) and if you enjoy the annual changing of the leaves, this interactive fall foliage map will show you exactly when to mark your calendar, take a day off, and grab your camera to enjoy all of the beautiful c…
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America needs to learn to recycle. Again : environment
America needs to learn to recycle. Again via /r/environment http://t.co/24xqMbY4Uz http://t.co/iT7c3cpLl5
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HMB while I show my girlfriend how strong I am : holdmybeer
HMB while I show my girlfriend how strong I am via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/LMHaH1nhLw http://t.co/T1hm8IgXrd
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Pornotopia: From ISIL to Donald Trump – Al Jazeera English
Throughout the long and lazy month of August, two sites of daily news in particular were competing for the headlines: The ISIL atrocities in Syria and Iraq, and Donald Trump in the United States.
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B O A T . D E A D by Rai / 500px
B O A T . D E A D by raikko http://t.co/V3P8dGkIuT http://t.co/F1XgbU4tke
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Meghan Trainor has posted photos on Instagram to show that she’s recovering after having surgery on her throat. The singer, who’s had hits with All About That Bass and Lips Are Movin, was forced to cancel her US tour in August because of a vocal cor…
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French farmers take tractor protest to Paris – BBC News
French farmers protesting about high taxes have taken a convoy of tractors into the outskirts of Paris.
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The NCAA exploits the college athletes for whom you love to root | Comment is free | The Guardian
When the collegiate sports season kicks off again this week millions of Americans will be tuning in to watch football and basketball games – but most will be blind to the off-screen struggles faced by players.
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IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good | WIRED
It’s always hard to take your eyes off Serena Williams. But it’ll be especially tough at this year’s U.S. Open, where the tennis champ is currently working toward a single season Grand Slam. She’s just so darn good. But what is it, exactly that make…
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Hey Male CEOs, It’s Your Turn to Take Parental Leave | WIRED
Female chief executives face far more scrutiny over certain decisions than men do. Search for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer or YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s names with “maternity leave” and you’ll see dozens of stories about the choices they’ve made as new…
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Migrant Boat Migrants Capsizes Off Malaysia | Al Jazeera America
The boat was believed to be carrying 70 people, said First Adm. Mohamad Aliyas Hamdan, district chief of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Fishermen had earlier estimated that 100 people were on board. He said 13 women and one man were conf…
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Looking for food via /r/cats http://t.co/qPx1tXD1vg http://t.co/62HL0lfJpL
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/8iTHYzNMzw http://t.co/CfS8hd6H4E
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Hunting down witches in northeast India – Al Jazeera English
Guwahati, India – Laila Orang, 24, stands timidly in the small veranda of his mud house, tensing up at each mention of his mother. He hasn’t talked or slept much because he’s worried some night they’ll come banging at his door again – and kill him t…
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Why Are Cases of Shoulder Injuries From Vaccines Increasing? | WIRED
Why Are Cases of Shoulder Injuries From Vaccines Increasing? http://t.co/Wbwsl2hSEU
Elisabeth Cassayre got a shot at her local pharmacy, and the pain in her arm began that night. It refused to go away. Days, then months passed as she couldn’t lift her right arm, couldn’t hang up clothes, couldn’t pick things up. -
Disney Is Going to Sell a Lot of Star Wars Merch | WIRED
Disney Is Going to Sell a Lot of Star Wars Merch http://t.co/fLgFQGKCkl
Starting yesterday and continuing today, the Star Wars Youtube channel is livestreaming a product rollout like we’ve never seen, with 15 locations in 12 countries—in an all of them, people unboxing toys. -
Pocket Pirates & the Great Cheese Robbery by Chris Mould – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is a really exciting adventure story about a band of four tiny pirates and the ship’s cat. The evil skirting board mice steal the ship’s cat and demand cheese for its return!
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Lizzie Skurnick: a passion for Young Adult fiction | Books | The Guardian
Lizzie Skurnick is still unpacking her boxes of books in a new apartment in Jersey City when I visit her mid-summer.
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Six Things You Probably Didn’t Know Were Negotiable
If you’ve ever bought a car, you probably did a little haggling. We’re used to flexing our negotiation muscles for things like vehicles and salaries, but there are a number of other expenses that are perfectly negotiable, if you’d only try.
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Anyone who watched the shenanigans on Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis couldn’t have been left with much doubt: poorly designed compensation policies that encouraged greed and discouraged fear were partly responsible …
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Too edgy for XKCD (meganarchism version) : firstworldanarchists
Too edgy for XKCD (meganarchism version) via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/BF5eYr2Nsh http://t.co/FGBE81auAO
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Hillary Clinton’s Taste in TV Is So Uncool, It’s Charming | The New Republic
For most armchair political observers, the monthly Hillary Clinton email dumps have become a chance to get a rare look at her unfiltered side. The latest batch, released Monday night, offers some irresistible insight into her pop cultural tastes: “C…
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New research shows why cats are more independent than dogs via /r/cats http://t.co/KFDLL2FIVf http://t.co/QOycu2SudN
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Meet the doofinator via /r/cats http://t.co/NLWKkTesOK http://t.co/lSZn6eSOM8
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Doing photography with my cat. She’s not impressed. via /r/cats http://t.co/eYH9thXze5 http://t.co/xDtiqaKuCV
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Wrap Raises $12.7M Series B, Launches Its Mobile Storytelling Platform Publicly | TechCrunch
Spontaneous mobile experiences should be as effortless as possible, and the process of navigating the app store to download a company’s native app can often miss a user’s attention span.
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Sandra Bland activists maintain jail vigil despite dimming media spotlight | US news | The Guardian
The hourlong drive from Houston to the Waller County jail has become a regular commute for Hannah Bonner.
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India politician ridiculed for linking condom ad to rape – BBC News
An Indian politician’s comment that a condom advertisement with a well-known porn star will lead to a rise in rapes has caused outrage on social media. Atul Kumar Anjan of Communist Party of India told a rally on Tuesday that ads starring Sunny Leon…
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‘Swiss army knife of travel jackets’ raises record $8m on Kickstarter | Technology | The Guardian
Long-distance love has paid off for the designers of a travel jacket that has now attracted a record $8m from would-be buyers on crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
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Miyabi combines Japanese and western musical tradition – BBC News
It is a collaboration between the British composer and conductor, Ben Ellin, and the Japanese violinist, Mayuko Katsumura.
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Greater Manchester Police website hit by denial-of-service attack – BBC News
Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) website was attacked on Wednesday, the force said. The site was unavailable for more two hours from 20:00 BST in a “malicious attempt to disrupt services”, GMP said.
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Japanese town’s annual dolphin hunt starts | Environment | The Guardian
A small Japanese town kicked off its controversial dolphin hunt on Thursday after bad weather delayed the start, according to a local fisheries official, while a separate whaling hunt was due to start at the weekend.
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A controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500,000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world’s largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa’s most remote and vulnerable…
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The Riveting, Blackout-Inducing World of Plane Racing | WIRED
For aging pilots looking to knock the wrinkles out of their face, there’s nothing better than the Red Bull Air Race.
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Pink reflection by Jean-Francois Chaubard / 500px
Pink reflection by Jean-FrancoisChaubard http://t.co/sIs9IO9LmD http://t.co/lu9z1mK6mu
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The Eye by Alexander Riek / 500px
The Eye by alexriek http://t.co/ZuunWUuDp8 http://t.co/bbVWwhCS0P
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French farmers converge on Paris in prices protest – BBC News
Hundreds of French farmers and more than 1,300 tractors have converged on central Paris in the latest protest against collapsing incomes. The protesters blocked major arteries into the capital, but officials say they caused little disruption.
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Earth from Space http://t.co/F5WBDUpXcC http://t.co/OvgDj38ADI http://t.co/Si2E81MNJb
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South Africa’s Johannesburg tops Africa millionaires list – BBC News
South Africa has the highest number of dollar millionaires in Africa, according to a new report. According to a report by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth, Johannesburg alone, known as the “city of gold”, is home to 23,400 millionaires. South Afric…
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What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space? | Motherboard
By the end of this year, the European Space Agency will launch a demonstration mission that could lead to a whole new way for astrophysicists to observe the Universe. The mission, called “LISA Pathfinder,” will test new technology to detect gravitat…
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I’m off the water grid, so do I still need to take short showers? | Grist
Q. We live in a drought-stricken part of California (i.e., we live in California), but we get our water from a well, pumped by our solar panels. Household wastewater goes into our septic, where presumably 100 percent of it trickles back into the wat…
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Humpback whales entertain whale-watchers off Queensland coast – video | World news | The Guardian
Two humpback whales enjoy the warmer waters off the Gold Coast in Queensland. The vision was captured by whale-watching tourism company Whales in Paradise during a tour of the Surfers Paradise coast on Wednesday.
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Watermelon by Sylvio Testa / 500px
Watermelon by SylvioTesta http://t.co/DHYfF2Z59A http://t.co/WpoAXSYgzl
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SENSUAL SPOONS by juandevillalba / 500px
SENSUAL SPOONS by Juandevillalba http://t.co/5i1y16rQf9 http://t.co/ZFDReGQF6s
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Samsung Outs A Sleep Tracker That Can Switch Off Your TV | TechCrunch
In its quest to sell more gizmos in our smartphone-saturated era, Samsung is pushing deep into the so-called ‘smart home’. Earlier today Samsung-owned SmartThings released a new line-up of in-home sensors for its Internet of Things connector hub.
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In preparation for the 2015 NFL season, FiveThirtyEight is running a series of eight division previews, each highlighting the numbers that may influence a team’s performance (including projections and rankings based on ESPN’s preseason Football Powe…
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National cycle to work day: how was your commute? | Environment | The Guardian
Kids are heading back to school, and workplaces are full of people with new haircuts and slightly more enthusiastic attitudes. It can only be the start of September, which means it’s the annual cycle to work day.
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September 3, 1991: Frank Capra Dies | The Nation
After scorning motion pictures in the early years of the twentieth century, The Nation began, in the 1940s, to publish some of the best film criticism in the country.
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SpaceX Will Debut Upgraded Falcon 9 Rocket on Return to Flight Mission
PASADENA, Calif. — The return to flight of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, still a “couple of months” away, will also be the first launch of an upgraded version of the vehicle with increased performance, the company’s president said Aug. 31.
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If you’ve never heard of Craig Fugate, that’s probably best for all involved. Most people only know the names of directors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency when something goes badly wrong—just ask Michael “Heck of a Job” Brown, who led the…
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Wild ‘Hitchhiker’ Spacecraft Idea Could Harpoon Comets
That’s the idea behind Comet Hitchhiker, a proposal that received funding this year from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which seeks to encourage the development of transformative exploration technologies.
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The Institute of Public Affairs is in the running to win an international prize for its role in repealing the carbon tax. The rightwing thinktank is a finalist for the $US100,000 (A$142,000) Templeton Freedom award, granted by American non-profit or…
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Donald Trump and Evangelical Voters – The Atlantic
Donald Trump is immodest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice. By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him. Yet somehow, the Manhattan billionaire has attracted their suppor…
Why Do Evangelicals Support Donald Trump? http://t.co/qAjmeqUlsW -
This is what it’s like to talk to Nadia Bolz-Weber, the tattooed Lutheran pastor, former addict, and head of a Denver church that’s 250 members strong. She’s frank and charming, and yes, she tends to cuss—colorful words pepper her new book, Accident…
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Lots of Trees to Hug: Study Counts 3 Trillion Trees on Earth http://t.co/2JXj1WaQLK
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Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro : oddlysatisfying
Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/4kaiqZFvsv http://t.co/SbkC1xjDos
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Lagosians Seek Justice After Slum Demolitions | Al Jazeera America
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria has more billionaires than any other African country, and many showcase their wealth in opulent neighborhoods downtown. Ikoyi and Victoria islands are tiny compared to the mainland, but they are the commercial heart of the c…
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Some Apollo Moon Samples ‘Crumbling to Dust’
Some of the moon soil collected by Apollo astronauts has deteriorated significantly during its four-plus decades on Earth, a new study reports.
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California Is About to Do Something Great That No State Has Ever Done Before | Mother Jones
Back in January, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) made a promise. His state, he said, would pursue a new package of climate goals that are the most ambitious in the nation (and among the most ambitious in the world).
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The GOP’s Problem Is Not Donald Trump | Mother Jones
Only a few weeks ago, pundits and political observers roundly proclaimed that Donald Trump, the reality-show tycoon who’s mounted a takeover of the GOP, would flame out, fade, implode, or whatever.
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Your Cheap Uber Rides May Be Going Away. And That’s a Good Thing. | Mother Jones
No company right now elicits a wider range of emotions than Uber. The on-demand ride service has grown in six short years from an idea hatched by a couple of San Francisco tech bros to a $50 billion juggernaut that serves millions of users in 290 ci…
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How the Migrant Crisis Is Wreaking Havoc on the European Union | Mother Jones
In July, the European Union was supposedly on the verge of disaster. Greece seemed ready to reject the demands of its creditors and dump the euro, paving the way for the potential end of Europe’s common currency—and perhaps the end of a united Europ…
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Red Hot Steel Circle by Gunnar Heilmann / 500px
Red Hot Steel Circle by eetschman http://t.co/QjHaou1ec3 http://t.co/5QrCE0Rawo
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The dangerous idea that life is a story – Galen Strawson – Aeon
Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story http://t.co/U2ptvTYZ4l
‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story. -
Pizza wars.. (x-post from r/funny) : firstworldanarchists
Pizza wars.. (x-post from r/funny) via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/rOF4VIkE9F http://t.co/R6Jn22ETCt
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Refugees Storm Budapest Train Station | Al Jazeera America
Refugees poured into the main train station in Budapest on Thursday after police stopped blocking its main entrance, with people piling on to carriages despite confusion over whether any would leave the terminal.
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People-power and the ‘Guatemalan Spring’ – Al Jazeera English
Guatemala City, Guatemala – An extraordinary groundswell of people-power driving historic political and social changes in Guatemala is making the “Guatemalan Spring” look increasingly irresistible.
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Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel races to No 1 in book charts | Books | The Guardian
Terry Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna Pratchett has said that “somewhere Dad is raising a glass of brandy to you all” after the late author’s final novel The Shepherd’s Crown topped the UK’s book charts with a huge first-week sale.
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The dangerous idea that life is a story – Galen Strawson – Aeon
‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.
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Inventor portrait: Alan Adler – Aeon Video
You’re probably familiar with both of the US inventor Alan Adler’s most famous innovations, but considering how seemingly different they are, it’s easy to be surprised that they’re products of the same mind. That is, until you hear Adler explain his…
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Taylor Swift director defends ‘colonial’ Africa video – BBC News
The director of Taylor Swift’s new video has defended it following criticisms it depicts a whitewashed version of Africa. The video for Wildest Dreams had been accused of glamorising a “white colonial fantasy of Africa”.
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Illustrated history of Soviet space programs : space
Illustrated history of Soviet space programs via /r/space http://t.co/vlEqj2tFPH http://t.co/Q7mu03NGIR
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Overly adorable cats to brighten your day : cats
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Summer Snows in Alta Valtellina 2009 [OC] [3872×2592] : EarthPorn
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Staylittle: The village that is cut off from the UK – BBC News
In the era of smartphone addiction, where people self-consciously take breaks from social media and announce “digital detoxes”, there is one place in the UK that is getting rather annoyed at being cut off from the outside world.
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Hungarian PM: Migrant crisis ‘is a German problem’ – BBC News
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he will enforce strict control of his borders as hundreds of migrants gather at the country’s main international railway station. The European Union has urged Hungary to find a common solution to the proble…
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Joyce Carol Oates webchat – post your questions now | Books | The Guardian
While some writers are novelists, poets or essayists, Joyce Carol Oates simply writes.
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Concussion director accuses New York Times of ‘working for the NFL’ | Film | The Guardian
The director of the film Concussion accused of toning down its message about the prevalence of potentially fatal brain injuries in American football players to appease corporate interests, has responded by accusing the main critic, the New York Time…
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Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, is expecting twins. Investors shouldn’t worry, however. She plans on “taking limited time away and working throughout”.
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UK service sector growth ‘slows’ – BBC News
UK service sector growth slowed to its weakest rate for more than two years in August, a survey has indicated. The latest Markit/CIPS service sector purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 55.6 last month from 57.4 in July.
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You guys, I got my first bootycall! : TrollXChromosomes
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Kim Kardashian Was Never a ‘Slut’: The Myth That Just Won’t Die – The Daily Beast
With the glaring exception of Nicki Minaj, who injected a much-needed dose of Jamaica, Queens realness into the affair by calling out Miley Cyrus for her years-long impersonation of Anne Hathaway in Havoc, and the gloriously ad-libbed exploits of Ka…
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River Lui by Hilda Murray / 500px
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This is professional photobombing : funny
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How claim your free bowl, step 3… : firstworldanarchists
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I live in Australia. : firstworldanarchists
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Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii [OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Chillum, Deosai Pakistan [OC] [3008×2000] : EarthPorn
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Mel Gibson will not be charged over photographer ‘fracas’ – BBC News
Mel Gibson will not be charged over allegations that he pushed and verbally abused a female photographer in Sydney. Photographer Kristi Miller complained to police about an incident outside a cinema on 23 August, saying she thought Gibson was “going…
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Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids’ Apps And Websites | TechCrunch
Given the sophisticated tracking technologies embedded into so many digital products and services as a matter of course, it should come as no surprise that a global privacy audit of children’s websites and apps has highlighted big concerns about the…
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Morocco prepares for local elections amid boycott calls – Al Jazeera English
Rabat, Morocco – Volunteers were knocking on doors in the residential neighbourhood of Agdal in Rabat on Wednesday to drum up votes amid a political malaise that has gripped the country in recent years.
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New Poll Shows Negatives Adding Up for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump http://t.co/3CJvAodn6J
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[OC] El Capitan [4103×5498] : EarthPorn
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Educating the masses : firstworldanarchists
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Is this the world’s woolliest sheep? – BBC News
A sheep found wandering in scrubland in Australia has been given a much needed haircut, shedding almost half of its bodyweight. The animal, rescued by the RSPCA, has now been given the all clear by vets and will be found a new home.
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China poses threat to global growth, IMF warns – BBC News
Slower growth in China and continuing stock market uncertainty pose a threat to global economic growth, the International Monetary Fund has warned. China’s slowdown appears to have bigger repercussions for other countries than had been expected, the…
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Happy adoption day to Mycroft, the most judgmental cat in the world. : cats
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Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You | WIRED
Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You http://t.co/yDAkQEnfrj
Caption: Could I be any more authentic?! Socality Barbie Barbie’s traded her pink Corvette for a Subaru, her designer purse for a Filson backpack, and her ordinary specs for Warby Parkers. -
The US Is Cracking Down on Online Sales of Pure Caffeine Powder | VICE News
In a move to crack down on the sale of pure powdered caffeine online, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warning letters to five companies selling the product, giving them 15 days to come up with a response or run the risk of havin…
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Mira Gonzalez’s poems are quietly defining texts of the digital era | Books | The Guardian
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It was the Instagram image that launched a thousand rumours. Three weeks ago, Lily Allen posted a picture of her hand hovering over a poetry collection called i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, by the American poet Mira … -
Zivame Lands $38M To Change How Women In India Buy Their Lingerie | TechCrunch
Zivame, an online store that wants to revolutionize the (often awkward) way that women in India buy their underwear, has closed a $38 million Series C round.
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Novak Djokovic and Andreas Seppi look ahead to US Open clash – video | Sport | The Guardian
Novak Djokovic and Andreas Seppi comment on their progress at the US Open on Wednesday. Djokovic beat Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. Seppi defeated Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-3, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1. Djokovic will face Seppi in the next r…
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Golden Sunset by Mustafa ILHAN / 500px
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Never ending game. : perfectloops
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MRW my phone dies mid happy time : reactiongifs
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Kim Jong Bub via /r/gif http://t.co/570jd1vc2c http://t.co/6qL3CsT0UT
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Lookout tower in Montana [OC] [1922×2882] : EarthPorn
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I remember the day … I designed the Nigerian flag – Al Jazeera English
Sixty-two years after a British journalist first suggested the name “Nigeria”, a 23-year-old Ibadan-born student gave the new country its national flag.
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There must now be a risk of Berlin-fatigue setting in. This is the fourth large volume of his letters, and it comes on the back of seven collections of essays and other occasional pieces assembled by Henry Hardy before Berlin’s death in 1997, plus a…
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BBC Sport – Valtteri Bottas & Felipe Massa to remain at Williams in 2016
Williams are retaining their driver line-up of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa for the 2016 season. Bottas, 26, is in his third season with the team and has seven podium finishes.
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Daybreak Amazing Fogistan : FoggyPics
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This tomato looks like a fiery hot pepper : mildlyinteresting
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The Greatest Knives In The World Are Made From Meteorites – Digg
Anthony Bourdain heads to Olympia, Washington to see firsthand how master bladesmith, Bob Kramer crafts the perfect kitchen knife from melted meteorites.
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A Smart Home Divided Cannot Stand. This Hub Can Help | WIRED
Call it the Internet of Things, call it the smart home, call it a sign of the imminent robot takeover. Whatever it is, it’s coming to connect your light bulbs, locks, thermostats, fridges, and everything else, to your phone and to the Internet.
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Why MLB should relax and not try to emulate the NFL | Sport | The Guardian
For several years now, Major League Baseball has been something of a whipping boy: the target of sports entertainment options lining up to grab market share from The Grand Old Game.
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Novak Djokovic celebrates second round US Open win with dance – video | Sport | The Guardian
From impersonating his fellow professional tennis players serving to trying his luck playing football, Novak Djokovic isn’t one to shy away from having some fun away from the court.
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Your mobile phone is killing gorillas | Children’s books | The Guardian
Finding a voice to tell a story is probably the hardest part of writing a novel. The ideas are there, the vague outline of a plot is forming, but until that voice emerges and demands their story to be told, the research and information gathered beco…
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2012 PDPA Players Championship 1 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SmartThings Unveils A New Smart Home Hub | TechCrunch
SmartThings’s smart home devices are getting a lot sleeker — and a lot more powerful — as of today. The company today is releasing a new line of updated home sensors and a new, more powerful hub.
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Donald Trump on Kanye West presidency: ‘I hope to run against him’ | Music | The Guardian
It looks as if Republican candidate Donald Trump is more than happy to encourage competition in Kanye West as a prospective candidate for the US presidency.
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passing clouds by Stefan Thaler / 500px
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Attabad lake, Hunza, Pakistan [3072×1728] : EarthPorn
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Caucasian Mountains along the Aragvi River in Georgia [1080×1920] : EarthPorn
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VICE News Capsule – Thursday, September 3 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Indian schoolchildren get food poisoning, Lithuania’s army grows, Greece intercepts an arms shipment, and a Congolese militia leader stands trial.
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The Middle Eastern century that wasn’t – Al Jazeera English
People & Power investigates South Korea’s disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly. Thailand’s prime minister talks about his military takeover, press freedom, poverty, and constitutional reform.
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Why is China showing military might now? – BBC News
China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two, showcasing its military might on an unprecedented scale. President Xi Jinping in his opening speech paid tribute to “the Chinese people who unwaveringly fought h…
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DR Congo bans film on doctor who saves rape victims – Al Jazeera English
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned a film about Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of women raped during conflict, the government said.
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‘Sexting’ boy’s naked selfie recorded as crime by police – BBC News
A boy who sent a naked photograph of himself to a girl at school has had the crime of making and distributing indecent images recorded against him by police, the BBC has learnt.The boy, aged 14, who was not formally arrested or charged, could have h…
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Guatemala President Resigns in Fraud Scandal | Al Jazeera America
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned, local newspaper El Periodico quoted his spokesman as saying on Thursday.
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Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina resigns – BBC News
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned hours after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. Prosecutors accuse Mr Perez Molina of masterminding a scheme to defraud the customs service of millions of dollars. He denies the allegations.
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Migrant crisis: Hungary PM Viktor Orban news briefing – BBC News
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and European Parliament President Martin Schulz hold a joint news briefing in Brussels on the migrant crisis in Europe.
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Guatemala leader resigns after warrant for his arrest – Al Jazeera English
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said after Congress stripped the leader of immunity over corruption allegations and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
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Pre-Owned Luxury Clothes Marketplace Vestiaire Collective Scores $37M Series D | TechCrunch
Vestiaire Collective, the French pre-owned luxury clothes marketplace, has picked up a $37 million Series D round as it aims to bed down on recent expansion to the U.S. and continue to expand to further European markets.
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An autonomous robot that can administer a lethal injection is set to be the latest weapon in the fight against the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. The starfish preys on coral and is responsible for destroying up to 40% o…
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US Open 2015: order of play for Thursday 3 September | Sport | The Guardian
Play begins on all courts at 11amET/4pm BST.
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Ugandan bodies flown home after Somalia al-Shabab attack – BBC News
The bodies of 10 Ugandan soldiers killed in Somalia by militant Islamist group al-Shabab are being flown home, an army spokesman has said. The attack was a “game changer”, and al-Shabab should expect an “appropriate response”, Paddy Ankunda added.
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Rafael Nadal believes criticism of his form this year has gone too far. Nadal moved into the third round of the US Open on Wednesday with a 7-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman, which followed an impressive opening win over the t…
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A look at China’s weaponry on display – BBC News
Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Thursday was the scene of a massive parade to commemorate Japan’s defeat in World War Two 70 years ago. There was no shortage of firepower on display, including upgraded machinery and previously unseen missiles.
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European court says minimum alcohol pricing ‘could break trade rules’ – BBC News
The European Court of Justice is due to issue a preliminary ruling over plans to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland. Legislation to bring in a minimum unit price of 50p was passed by the Scottish Parliament in May 2012.
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Asking For It by Louise O’Neill – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Jeanette Winterson said O’Neill ‘writes with a scalpel’ and, reading this book, I see it couldn’t be more true. Each page packs the emotional punch of a small fire engine, tearing and scraping away bits of your heart. By the end of the novel, I’d ha…
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Great white by Oleg Bazhenov / 500px
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Italian partisan Piero Balbo, ca 1944, Northern Italy [1534×2038] : OldSchoolCool
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Austrian Alps near Ehrwald [4598×1151][OC] : EarthPorn
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AFC South preview: are the Texans wasting JJ Watts’ best years? | Sport | The Guardian
Have the Colts given Andrew Luck the necessary pieces? For Luck’s first couple of NFL seasons Indianapolis were everybody’s surprise. General manager Ryan Grigson did a great job of uncovering gems, drafting smart and finding players nobody else wan…
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Pumping iron with the GCC’s first female bodybuilder – Al Jazeera English
Dubai – In 1997, an overweight Bahraini teenager decided she wanted to become a bodybuilder. Eighteen years later, that young girl, Haifa al-Musawi, is set to become the first woman to represent any Gulf Arab nation in the sport she was inexplicably…
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The Stairway to nowhere by Emil / 500px
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Valley of the Rocks, Lynton, North Devon UK (oc) (1024×468) : EarthPorn
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Aga saga: Middleby urges shareholders to rebuff Whirlpool | Business | The Guardian
The bidding war for Aga Rangemaster, the maker of cast-iron cookers, heated up as one of its US suitors, Middleby, urged the UK company’s shareholders to approve its agreed acquisition. Aga, based in Leamington Spa, agreed in July to sell itself to …
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Cat confused by glass… via /r/cats http://t.co/5bogPfYVhF http://t.co/4jQp0StiuP
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In Corbyn’s book, all is beyond good and evil – Al Jazeera English
A couple of months ago, I sat with a young Libyan gentleman in a coffee shop in London. In 2011, he had travelled to Libya to help bring down Muammar Gaddafi. He had volunteered in a makeshift press office, disseminating news to the Western media ab…
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HK,boats in Aberdeen by Anna Carter / 500px
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This picture makes me incredibly happy. : aww
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Underwater sculptures emerge from Thames in climate change protest | Art and design | The Guardian
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Why Kanye West would be the best president in US history (seriously) | Music | The Guardian
If the lead actor in 1954 classic Cattle Queen of Montana can go on to become commander-in-chief, and The Terminator can be elected to run the eighth largest economy in the world, is it really that hard to imagine successful producer, musician and e…
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Worth a quick mention: The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no cost — the first three volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward Rothstein, of The New York Times, called “the most ambitious overview of map making…
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Twenty years ago this summer, some friends and I decided to invent, or at least christen, a new artistic movement. We planned a conference on “Patheticism” and announced an eclectic lineage: Melville’s Bartleby, Ruskin’s “pathetic fallacy”, lo-fi mu…
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency by Hal Foster review – a deft study of the art of recent decades http://t.co/RqcmbzdYl6 -
China announces massive troop cuts at WWII anniversary – Al Jazeera English
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to cut 300,000 troops from its army, as the country commemorates the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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Three sisters give birth on same day in Irish hospital – BBC News
Three Irish sisters have all given birth on the same day, in the same hospital, while a fourth sister who is also pregnant, was days overdue. The three cousins were all born at Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, on Tuesday, 1 September.
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HMB and watch the stupid shit in train! : holdmybeer
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Harmony by Harry Eggens / 500px
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Is Everyone Qualified to Be a Critic? http://t.co/6UEnmSqQsj
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“The 420 Special” · Key & Peele · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Back when this current season of Key & Peele was supposed to be the second half of season four, “The 420 Special” was to be episode 20 of season four. It was definitely a “get it?” situation, which you really can’t fault the show for trying.
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016 qualifiers: Wales set to leapfrog England in Fifa rankings
Wales are set to be ranked above England in the Fifa world list for the first time ahead of Thursday’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Cyprus. Beating Cyprus in Nicosia would leave Wales within one victory of qualifying for Euro 2016.
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Top 10 liars | Children’s books | The Guardian
All writers are liars, and all stories – even when they contain truths – are make-believe. I am fascinated by con artists and fraudsters who, either out of sheer audacity or sheer desperation, leave reality behind and remake themselves into somethin…
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Got an Apple Watch. Didn’t see this coming. She knows. – Imgur
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Browsing the frontpage while my students fail their biochemistry exam – Imgur
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Bristol and Clifton Suspension Bridge [4896×3264][OC] : CityPorn
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Easyjet raises profit forecast after record month – BBC News
Easyjet has raised its full-year profit forecast to between £675m and £700m after enjoying better-than-expected trading in August. The airline said that it carried 7.06 million passengers in August – the second consecutive month above the seven mill…
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Refugees storm re-opened Hungary train station – Al Jazeera English
Several hundred refugees have stormed into the main train station in Budapest after police re-opened it following a two-day standoff. Thousands of refugees had spent the night outside the station in the heart of the Hungarian capital.
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Barack Obama concluded his Alaska trip on Wednesday by visiting a struggling community in the Arctic circle and calling its plight a wake-up call on global warming.
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BEIJING — President Xi Jinping of China announced on Thursday that he would reduce the country’s military personnel by 300,000, using a parade marking 70 years since the end of World War II to present the People’s Liberation Army as a force for peac…
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“The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.” “For old people,” Ursula K.
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Backpack of bullets : woahdude
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Heavily laden boat sinks off Malaysia – BBC News
Prime Minister David Cameron faces growing pressure at home and abroad for the UK to take in thousands of the migrants fleeing to Europe.
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New Ferguson Report Offers Lessons on Protests | Al Jazeera America
The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law e…
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Resentment of Refugees Builds on Serbian Border | Al Jazeera America
HORGOS, Serbia — In the poor borderland between Serbia and Hungary, the fall is a rare time of plenty, when people work their fields near the River Tisza to gather apples, plums and the grapes they turn into wine and strong brandy.
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Utley’s home run helps Dodgers bring down the Giants – Al Jazeera English
Chase Utley homered, and Clayton Kershaw threw a complete game and tied his career high with 15 strikeouts, guiding the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium.
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Abandoned river cruise boat, Canada OC (1024 x 680) more in comments : AbandonedPorn
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William lounging around the kitchen : cats
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Shane Warne’s warning for ‘young’ Nick Kyrgios – BBC News
Former Australian cricketer Shane Warne has weighed into the debate over Nick Kyrgios with an open letter. It follows Nick Kyrgios’s admission he has learned to keep his mouth shut after the controversy surrounding his recent on-court comments.
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US Open: Nadal, Djokovic march on in the heat – Al Jazeera English
Defending men’s champion Marin Cilic, two-time winner Rafa Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the US Open with straight sets wins as the temperatures and stakes continue to rise at the year’s final grand slam.
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“eps1.9zer0daY.avi” · Mr. Robot · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
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Tiny Creatures: The Marvelous World of Microbes, in an Illustrated Children’s Book | Brain Pickings
“You are mostly not you,” microbial ecologist Rob Knight wrote in his fascinating exploration of the human microbiome, in which he pointed out that only 1% of the genes in our bodies are human and the remaining 99% are microbial.
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Donald Trump gets trampled in Mexican video game – video | US news | The Guardian
Mexican developers have released a new game in which players can hurl objects at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Big Bend Sunrise [4320×3240] : EarthPorn
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The definition of cruel : funny
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MRW I want what the person before me ordered, and I have a lisp. : shittyreactiongifs
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Budapest opens station to migrants – BBC News
Prime Minister David Cameron faces growing pressure at home and abroad for the UK to take in thousands of the migrants fleeing to Europe.
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Nissan invests £100m in Sunderland plant – BBC News
Japanese carmaker Nissan has announced it will invest £100m in its UK plant to build the new Juke model. The investment will secure thousands of jobs at the Sunderland factory, which produces the current Juke, Qashqai, Note and electric Leaf models.
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome unlikely to continue
Briton Chris Froome’s participation in the Vuelta a Espana could be over after he said a stage 12 start was “unlikely” following a crash on Wednesday. The two-time Tour de France winner, 30, hit a barrier at the start of the brutal 11th stage in the…
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Senegal: End of the road for the ‘car rapide’ – BBC News
The “car rapide” is the most popular way of getting around Senegal. The bus is also probably one of the country’s most important symbols.
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Abuse claims ‘ignored’ at elite Australian school – BBC News
Former pupils of elite Australian school have told an inquiry that their abuse claims were ignored for decades. Prince Charles once spent two terms at the school, although he has no involvement with this commission.
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Jarryd Hayne has described as “false and pathetic” an Australian media report that alleged he had made the San Francisco 49ers’ 53-man squad.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. — Of the local officials who refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kim Davis, the clerk here in Rowan County, Ky., is the best known, at least for now. But there is also Charlie Smoak, a former magistrate in Moore Coun…
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UK seems to relax pressure on Caymans over company register | US news | The Guardian
The UK government appears to have relaxed its pressure on the Cayman Islands to create a register of company ownership, despite David Cameron’s plea last year for overseas territories to do so in the interests of tax transparency.
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Newton’s Cradle With Lightbulbs : InterestingGifs
Newton’s Cradle With Lightbulbs via /r/InterestingGifs http://t.co/o7GUEdkRKl http://t.co/ccACdkoJHY
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Aechmea by Anelia Nacheva / 500px
Aechmea by anelia_nacheva http://t.co/CUfXUlgZKe http://t.co/zJvlCS3qEK
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Ensaio: Mundo Marinho – Foto 11 by Ticiano Alves / 500px
Ensaio: Mundo Marinho – Foto 11 by TicianoAlves http://t.co/MemOHmoj90 http://t.co/cFStb4JtcB
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/8vSMJ4sk0g http://t.co/liOk2mEu2G
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/82zaQEJ65a http://t.co/p8Q2ULRrdD
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Key and Peele’s Spoof of Neil deGrasse Tyson Was Astronomically Brilliant
Tonight’s episode of Key & Peele was pretty geeky overall—there was a long sequence about Game of Thrones, which would have been the best bit of any normal episode. But the penultimate Key & Peele also included a fricken brilliant running gag about …
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Sitges. by JUAN ROMERO / 500px
Sitges. by vilrom http://t.co/5vBrJ8pnc7 http://t.co/pcrbqV10I8
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News in Brief: Lockheed Martin Sales Staff Instructed To Really Push Tactical Air-To-Surface Missiles This Week http://t.co/V6xEyO0TqR
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Kung Churles too of Span : trippinthroughtime
Kung Churles too of Span via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/9S3ZK3ot0v http://t.co/nReOWYXzy1
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Earth At Night via /r/space http://t.co/bQpi7VZcFp http://t.co/3xL2vejpE0
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Fed her and she hasn’t left. Reddit, name her. : cats
Fed her and she hasn’t left. Reddit, name her. via /r/cats http://t.co/WnjcpeZzLT http://t.co/U7JI0UcD6c
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Dexter doesn’t like the vet. : cats
Dexter doesn’t like the vet. via /r/cats http://t.co/N9yyDlTA2P http://t.co/87KE6xZbu0
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Pretty soon, it’s THAT time of the year again… via /r/pics http://t.co/JtGt5rdH0U http://t.co/OgQ3wqMEq0
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Antiproductivity device is on again… : cats
Antiproductivity device is on again… via /r/cats http://t.co/h4DwUq7lKB http://t.co/1padJyj80X
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Masterwort by Jacky Parker / 500px
Masterwort by JackyParker http://t.co/MBKWbpx1JX http://t.co/muednwfFAR
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Afterimage by Alister Benn / 500px
Afterimage by AlisterBenn http://t.co/2QNOpnXyNx http://t.co/uQmRl4fu8R
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HMB while i surf on this roof : holdmybeer
HMB while i surf on this roof via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/HMeYKH1573 http://t.co/pTNqUTAIvU
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The Catch-22 that ensures we don’t know why Elena Ferrante chooses to keep her “real” identity a secret because we can’t ask her, or even construct our own theories from extraneous biographical information, isn’t much offset by the explanations she …
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BETHESDA, MD—In an effort to make a dent in the arms manufacturer’s excess inventory, members of the Lockheed Martin sales team were reportedly instructed during their staff meeting earlier this week to really push the company’s supply of tactical a…
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Friend’s Grandma To Give You Hug Too – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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BRISTOL, CT—While looking to retrieve several pages of research notes for an upcoming broadcast of SportsCenter, ESPN anchor Linda Cohn confirmed Thursday that she found what appeared to be Tim Kurkjian’s design for a baseball card of himself sittin…
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China marks 70 years since end of WW2 with military parade – BBC News
China held a large military parade to mark 70 years since their defeat of Japan and the end of World War Two. China says a large number of new weapons systems were on show, from nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to bombers.
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10k Heroes Open Homes to Syrian Refugees – The Daily Beast
As European governments shut their doors to waves of refugees desperately fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa—and as the world grapples with the image of little Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach on Tuesda…
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We Should Have Known He’d Kill Someone – The Daily Beast
No, Donald Trump is not the worst real estate developer New York ever produced. Not even close.
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Trump Rallies Muslim Haters Against the Iran Deal – The Daily Beast
Over the past week, Donald Trump has been called out by many in the media, including myself, for his failure to denounce the growing number of white supremacist groups publicly endorsing him. Trump attracting the support of these groups is not happe…
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The ISIS Slave Girl Buyback Schemes – The Daily Beast
ERBIL, Iraq—In a crowded room in an undisclosed location in Northern Iraq, a Yazidi father is begging an American woman for money to buy back his daughters from the so-called Islamic State.
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He Paints Celebrities With His Penis – The Daily Beast
As death tolls mounted during the Iraq war, it wasn’t hard to find critics who thought George W. Bush and Tony Blair were two pricks. But someone who gave the world leaders the full prick treatment—by actually painting their likenesses via the penis…
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Marissa Mayer’s Two-Week Maternity Leave Is Bullsh*t – The Daily Beast
Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo in 2012 when she was 28 weeks pregnant.
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No, Police Defenders, There Is No ‘War on Cops’ – The Daily Beast
There’s no excuse for the brazen, chilling murder of Harris County Sheriff Darren Goforth, who was shot repeatedly while fueling his police cruiser at a Texas gas station and whose funeral is Friday.
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Hey, Look! Tanks in Tiananmen! – The Daily Beast
HONG KONG—For a while, again, the sky was blue in Beijing. Chinese netizens called it #ParadeBlue.
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No Man’s Sky Is the Coolest Video Game Ever – The Daily Beast
Emily Lakdawalla loves video games with random maps, where discoveries are hers alone. That urge to explore led her to a career in planetary science. Now her field of study is about to be celebrated in a hot new space-exploration game, No Man’s Sky.
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U.S. Sub Takes On Russia in Santa’s Backyard – The Daily Beast
U.S. president Barack Obama was recently in Alaska for three days to highlight the dangers of global climate change. The presidential tour included a stopover in an Inuit town north of the Arctic Circle that’s slowly succumbing to the rising sea.
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Should Sex Ed Be Mandatory? – The Daily Beast
Don’t want your children to learn about sex in school? Too bad, says Quebec. This school year, the Canadian province is rolling out a controversial pilot program in 15 schools that will make sex education mandatory for all students from kindergarten…
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Mistresses and Rookie Blues make for an ABC finale bonanza · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, September 3. All times are Eastern. Mistresses/Rookie Blues (ABC, 9/10 p.m.): As summer officially comes to a close, ABC clears out its remaining summer series to make room for the upcoming glut of f…
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Hillary Rodham Clinton falters, and Republicans ride to her rescue. When White House controversies dogged Mrs. Clinton as first lady, the independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr made her sympathetic with his Javert-like investigations. When Mrs.
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Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine · Film Review · The A.V. Club
At the start of Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine, the prolific documentarian admits that he approached his latest film—his third released this year—with no small amount of personal bias.
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Until Dawn’s biggest idea is a system called the Butterfly Effect. (The developers at Supermassive Games are not afraid of cliches.) Every choice you make, down to the most minute dialogue option, is tracked and tabulated, and your moves shape the p…
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Dragon Blade · Film Review · The A.V. Club
In Dragon Blade—a Chinese blockbuster that’s now making its way here, short about 25 minutes of running time—a Roman legion finds itself on the eastern stretch of the Silk Road, joining forces with a Han Dynasty outpost to fend off a foe from back h…
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Break Point · Film Review · The A.V. Club
When it comes to lightly comic sports movies, Ron Shelton has long been the gold standard, yet rarely does anyone attempt to emulate films like Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and Play It To The Bone.
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Dirty Weekend · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Don’t get too excited: Not only is there nothing especially dirty about Dirty Weekend, the latest and lamest film by erstwhile provocateur Neil LaBute, but the movie doesn’t even occupy an entire weekend.
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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee. Though John Hodgman has answered The A.V.
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What’s it like to get your first taste of multiplayer glory? · Shooter Tutor · The A.V. Club
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown).
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Bloodsucking Bastards · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Bloodsucking Bastards might have had an easier time if it was made 15 years ago.
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Environmental author and activist Naomi Klein doesn’t fly much these days on principle, but she’s come to Australia for the first time in 14 years because now is a crucial moment for climate change.
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Yesterday, we appraised the big releases of September and October, doing our best to determine which among them could be most worthy of your patronage.
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China Marks Japan’s Wwii Defeat With Parade | Al Jazeera America
China held a military parade in Beijing on Thursday to commemorate Japan’s World War II defeat, an event showcasing President Xi Jinping’s determination to make his country Asia’s pre-eminent power even as the pageant was shunned by most Western lea…
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Tasmanian devils thrown a lifeline by facial tumour that threatens them | Environment | The Guardian
The deadly facial tumour disease that has killed large numbers of Tasmanian devils is evolving to increase infection rates but is unlikely to wipe out the species completely, according to new research.
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Arrest warrant issued for Guatemalan president – Al Jazeera English
A judge has issued an arrest warrant for Guatemalan President Otto Perez, who faces prosecution for allegedly masterminding a huge fraud scheme, according to the country’s prosecutor-general.
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18-year-old Brigitte Bardot, 1952. : OldSchoolCool
18-year-old Brigitte Bardot, 1952. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/OivvldrAwi http://t.co/HB9QVSRpyW
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Lap loaf. via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/9oJ3TgpzxV http://t.co/pdPLGO3ZT4
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Denali and the Names of the Past – The New Yorker
Denali and the Names of the Past http://t.co/BobTYoNzxy
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Exact down to four decimal places via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/UBZxOnQmZN http://t.co/DQqkggemow
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Sunny afternoon at the Vancouver waterfront [OC][2048 x 1365] : CityPorn
Sunny afternoon at the Vancouver waterfront [OC][2048 x 1365] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/KvQLKlTbKO http://t.co/Va4W3czVUF
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Sol Levit by EUS via /r/Breathless http://t.co/FM895cJOw4 http://t.co/jTljkGMCyF
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Best at Catloaf v2.0 : Catloaf
Best at Catloaf v2.0 via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/CAmIA2XpQD http://t.co/UdCAlIlbFx
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A Vacation That Ended With the Legion of Honor http://t.co/6SidBp70kB
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A stealthy birth, then to sprout and spore | Environment | The Guardian
Papery seed capsules are the only sign of the bluebells which carpeted this woodland floor in the spring.
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APOD: 2015 September 2 – The Flare and the Galaxy
Explanation: Is this person throwing a lightning bolt? No. Despite appearances, this person is actually pointing in the direction of a bright Iridium flare, a momentary reflection of sunlight off of a communications satellite in orbit around the Ear…
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Guatemala Prosecutor Requests President’s Arrest | Al Jazeera America
Guatemala’s attorney general’s office said late on Wednesday it had sought the detention of President Otto Perez Molina amid a corruption scandal that has gutted his government and plunged the country into chaos days before a presidential election.
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Doodle for Food – Dr. Sloth via /r/sloths http://t.co/KoCyZFOPDs http://t.co/HDWkEBgsG6 http://t.co/NPTbYECJrE
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Doodle for Food – Dr. Sloth : sloths
Doodle for Food – Dr. Sloth via /r/sloths http://t.co/KoCyZFOPDs http://t.co/HDWkEBgsG6 http://t.co/NPTbYECJrE
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In a First, Chinese Navy Sails Off Alaska http://t.co/CM0IHMYuB3
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Denali and the Names of the Past – The New Yorker
President Obama’s decision that the federal government will now call what was formerly Mount McKinley, the continent’s highest peak, by its older, First Nations name of Denali, which means “The High One,” caused some hysteria this week, though mostl…
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Overgrown Australian sheep’s fleece ‘breaks world record’ – BBC News
An overgrown sheep found wandering near Australia’s capital has set a new unofficial world record following a hair cut from five shearers. Animal welfare officials had warned the life of the sheep could have been in danger because it was so woolly.
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Guatemala’s Attorney General calls for the arrest of President Otto Perez Molina – Boing Boing
Right after the office of Guatemala’s attorney general issued an arrest warrant for President Otto Perez Molina tonight, they tweeted the news to the world. Much jubilation tonight in the streets of Guatemala. Background: “In Guatemala, a popular up…
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Right now in California you can tell how much of an asshole someone is by the color of their lawn. (self.Showerthoughts) My lawn is a beautiful green…but that’s because its drought friendly fake grass.
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A four-month-old husky named Michelle swims in the waters off Tulamben, Bali. Your Shot member Novrizal Herdananto captured this “lucky” shot while on a dive vacation with Michelle’s owner.
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When she sucked out all the calcium : ledootgeneration
When she sucked out all the calcium via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/LhBrS7Z0pn http://t.co/OKfSPv2XOj
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We adopted a new member of the family tonight, Reddit, meet Brooke : cats
We adopted a new member of the family tonight, Reddit, meet Brooke via /r/cats http://t.co/NYEP945Bij http://t.co/0yh8FcPhMl
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She won’t be able to say no now. : funny
She won’t be able to say no now. via /r/funny http://t.co/FsafAwsEhv http://t.co/84qDn8q10l
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At least 12 migrants fleeing the war in Syria, including two young boys, drowned on Wednesday while trying to reach the Greek island of Kos from the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, according to Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency.
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US Open: Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Marin Cilic ease into third round | Sport | The Guardian
Novak Djokovic took a while to warm up against Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer but shifted into gear to close out the first set and then raced to a 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win that closed Wednesday’s play of the US Open.
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UN: Middle East wars hit 13 million schoolchildren – Al Jazeera English
More than 13 million children are being denied an education by Middle East conflicts, the UN said, warning “the hopes of a generation” would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms.
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I live on 3rd… : mildlyinteresting
I live on 3rd… via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/J6pXgb5M3Y http://t.co/Fji2WyWLOn
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When you fuck with the hood : trippinthroughtime
When you fuck with the hood via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/BQl4zERVmU http://t.co/5MqsETFuO3
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Why hello there, human via /r/cats http://t.co/qkwRjaP21P http://t.co/7lshBqNR6m
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I don’t think he realizes he’s a cat… : cats
I don’t think he realizes he’s a cat… via /r/cats http://t.co/SXD6wiDSUb http://t.co/R5FvCuDfhd
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Review: ‘Mr. Robot’ Season One Finale, ‘Zero Day’, Reveals the Truth About the Show – The Atlantic
Over the 10 episodes of its first season, it’s become increasingly clear that Mr. Robot is less about hacking computers than about hacking everything—characters, cultures, the audience itself.
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The day before USA Network was supposed to air the first season finale of its mind-bending mystery-thriller Mr. Robot, Christian Slater, who plays the titular character, reflected on the show’s surreal timeliness. “It’s terrifying.
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The MB&F Arachnophobia Tells Time Through Fear | TechCrunch
Everyone’s favorite crazy watch maker, MB&F, has just announced a new model, the so-called Arachnophobia. This wild clock hides a L’Epée 1839 movement in the thorax and abdomen of an articulated spider.
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For some reason, only the center bricks are retaining moisture : oddlysatisfying
For some reason, only the center bricks are retaining moisture via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/agErcqVC6s http://t.co/YrAqn7JWAb
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/DyYRKap5J0 http://t.co/GwAPzjL8b2
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[Cat picture] My 15 year old cat, Flip, after a bath : cats
[Cat picture] My 15 year old cat, Flip, after a bath via /r/cats http://t.co/PmHntMSybM http://t.co/l31FcUjGgT
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The hardest part of owning a cat : TrollXChromosomes
The hardest part of owning a cat via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/uoDLrKjwOb http://t.co/WKws3HM5Ky
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The Internet Was Created For Cat Street View | TechCrunch
Drones are making it easier to share a bird’s eye view of the world around us, but we might be looking at things from the wrong perspective.
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40 Percent Dropout in Mideast Conflict Areas | Al Jazeera America
Forty percent of children from five conflict-scarred Middle Eastern countries are not attending school, the United Nations agency for children said Thursday, warning that losing this generation will lead to more violence, migration and a dim future …
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Migrant crisis: Pressure mounts as UK urged to ‘do more’ – BBC News
David Cameron is facing growing pressure at home and abroad for the UK to take in more of the many thousands of migrants fleeing to Europe. It comes after a picture of a dead boy lying on a Turkish beach sparked an outcry over the crisis’s human cos…
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Migrant crisis: Hungary PM to meet European leaders – BBC News
Hungary’s leader is to meet European leaders in Brussels for talks on the migrant crisis, with hundreds still stranded at a Budapest railway station. Since Tuesday, migrants have been prevented from getting on trains to leave Hungary as EU states st…
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Spent quite a long time working on this Star Wars drawing, entirely in ballpoint pen – Imgur
Spent quite a long time working on this Star Wars drawing, entirely in ballpoint pen http://t.co/fqFhmwRkCW http://t.co/QIqixtuaxF
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I knew I made a face, but I never expected this level of majestic. : funny
I knew I made a face, but I never expected this level of majestic. via /r/funny http://t.co/UnEeZiTSH2 http://t.co/xnGT2mgWHq
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Mmmm via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/5If4aQPf2a http://t.co/J1rlZ0o8iH
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Organic Portrait by Alfonso Elola (xpost /r/ImaginaryWTF) : ImaginaryMindscapes
Organic Portrait by Alfonso Elola (xpost /r/ImaginaryWTF) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/TozsOrdc05 http://t.co/45mZVIA16i
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Kitty does not approve and bleps to show her distaste : Blep
Kitty does not approve and bleps to show her distaste via /r/Blep http://t.co/IO8pIM4fso http://t.co/1it7cx2gOJ
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The colors of Sedona, AZ [OC] [4608×3456] : unitedstatesofamerica
The colors of Sedona, AZ [OC] [4608×3456] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/5xS9LZOseB http://t.co/oXvTSFyhNT
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They only tolerate one another : cats
They only tolerate one another via /r/cats http://t.co/wjCWQgfqJp http://t.co/jBraehKrSz
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Chene & Ferry Market in Detroit [2592×1936] : AbandonedPorn
Chene & Ferry Market in Detroit [2592×1936] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/qy8gVWuBN5 http://t.co/3VVueLSOx9
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Kenai rock, Alaska [2048×1365] by Srini Sundarrajan : EarthPorn
Kenai rock, Alaska [2048×1365] by Srini Sundarrajan via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/IslAUAlXkb http://t.co/1uNGnJwl7x
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Open thread for night owls: Honoring George Pullman?
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—What “Maverick” Really Means:
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Luke Cage casts its Misty Knight, too, while it’s at it · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Netflix’s street-level branch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is continuing to fill out its cast of nearly human superheroes and villains.
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NAB rules out funding Adani’s Carmichael mine as buyer LG pulls out | Business | The Guardian
The National Australia Bank has ruled out funding Adani’s Carmichael mine, as the country’s biggest proposed coal project also lost a key customer in Korean electronics giant LG.
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Who Killed Officer ‘GI Joe?’ – The Daily Beast
FOX LAKE, Illinois — For the past 36 hours in and around the small boating and drinking town of Fox Lake, police have had very little to go on to find the men who killed one of their own. Their only description of the three men suspected of killing…
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The Republican National Committee has challenged Donald Trump and every other candidate for the presidential nomination to sign a pledge ruling out any third-party bid. The challenge, confirmed by multiple campaigns, is aimed squarely at Donald Trum…
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Western Australian organic farmer loses appeal over GM case cost | Environment | The Guardian
An organic farmer from Western Australia who took on his GM canola-cultivating neighbour on contamination claims has failed in his bid to appeal against a large legal costs bill.
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China parade marks WWII victory over Japan – Al Jazeera English
China has put on its biggest display of military might in a parade to commemorate victory over Japan in World War II. The event on Thursday was shunned by many Western leaders but underscored Beijing’s growing confidence in its armed forces.
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How beanstalks find support. : interestingasfuck
How beanstalks find support. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/Pj0OrVMOgJ http://t.co/vWVQ3QAP4s
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MRW someone won’t stop looking at me after telling an unfunny joke : reactiongifs
MRW someone won’t stop looking at me after telling an unfunny joke via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/vlN78vOcdh http://t.co/0V22MCN9Aq
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Day and night.The monument in Kaunas,Lithuania. : woahdude
Day and night.The monument in Kaunas,Lithuania. via /r/woahdude http://t.co/kxSiwfSqpR http://t.co/EGMgxS1upd
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MRW I aggressively convince my friends to make gnocchi for dinner : shittyreactiongifs
MRW I aggressively convince my friends to make gnocchi for dinner via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/S9BNLOTG9k http://t.co/6P95c9n10w
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Just enjoying a cuddle on the sofa : cats
Just enjoying a cuddle on the sofa via /r/cats http://t.co/jmlNmTKRhl http://t.co/eST1CflSrx
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I spent four days painting my playful cats. : cats
I spent four days painting my playful cats. via /r/cats http://t.co/rIJVOwyel5 http://t.co/6EDme7WBCe
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Mount Adams from Cispus Basin, Washington [OC] [1200×800] : EarthPorn
Mount Adams from Cispus Basin, Washington [OC] [1200×800] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/s2qf2s9EAe http://t.co/wwacJYtFDe
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Sam Groth’s US Open campaign ended by Tommy Robredo | Sport | The Guardian
Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo has ended Sam Groth’s US Open with a straight-sets second-round win at Flushing Meadows. Robredo had sent Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios packing from the past two US Opens and was always going to be a tough proposition …
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A former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s email server is planning to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying before Congress about it, according to a memo obtained by ThinkProgress.
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House Republican Matt Salmon terrifies a group of elementary school students, apologizes
And because this is Rep. Matt Salmon, a hard-right House Republican, the story gets worse. To hear the principal tell it:
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Progressive music gets an official chart ’45 years too late’ – BBC News
Progressive music, the oft-maligned genre that had its heyday in the 1970s, is to be endorsed by the Official Charts Company (OCC). Next week sees the publication of the very first monthly Official Progressive Albums Chart Top 30.
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I only just now realize in my life that Uncle Sam stands for U.S. : Showerthoughts
Oh. My. God. Becky, look at her butt!
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California Finds Racial Disparity Arrests, Deaths | Al Jazeera America
Just 6 percent of Californians are African American, yet they are involved in 17 percent of all arrests in the state and a quarter of in-custody deaths, according to what officials called a nationally unprecedented release of data on Wednesday.
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Baby bat being burrito packed for bedtime : gifs
Baby bat being burrito packed for bedtime via /r/gifs http://t.co/BOPNwweglH http://t.co/7qtH4JOTWi
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The Milky Way over Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park,… – Just Space
The Milky Way over Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park, BC, Canada. js http://t.co/h7N9LbplBX http://t.co/ycYg4bKia8
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Battle Born by Ryan Buchanan / 500px
Battle Born by RyanBuchanan http://t.co/0lrjsDr3je http://t.co/R2XdJ2LTa8
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Such a rough life! via /r/cats http://t.co/a7I89OO1hA http://t.co/M84bqkOkjv
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Goat from my trip to Cordoba, Argentina (3264×2448) [OC] : AnimalPorn
Goat from my trip to Cordoba, Argentina (3264×2448) [OC] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/KqHXeFHhT2 http://t.co/CTnJMXlkhw
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Russian girl by Joan Le Jan / 500px
Russian girl by Joan_Le_Jan http://t.co/KNf7FxL4Ze http://t.co/JOcTUH1Doy
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Sometimes /r/BlackPeopleTwitter is pure gold : funny
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China parade to mark 70 years since end of World War Two in Asia – BBC News
China stages a huge military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia, and highlight China’s participation in a war that may have cost 14 million Chinese lives.
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Diabetes drug may help in leukaemia – BBC News
A drug used to treat diabetes could help in the fight against blood cancer, early research in the journal Nature suggests.An international team of scientists gave the drug to patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia, alongside standard treatment.
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Motorhead cancels US show amid health fears for frontman Lemmy | Music | The Guardian
Motorhead cancelled a show on Wednesday after a series of abbreviated performances amid renewed health concerns for the famously hard-living frontman, Lemmy. The English rockers left the stage in Austin, Texas, after playing three songs Tuesday.
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After what was probably a thrilling investigation full of Deep Throat-style clandestine meetings and dramatic e-mail threads, Wikipedia has banned 381 accounts for—as Mashable puts it—“charging or accepting money for their contributions, without dis…
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Wearing mommy’s shoes. via /r/cats http://t.co/vRsrcz23BI http://t.co/kgwW42q86M
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I tried a photography concept. She’s not impressed. : cats
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Middle falls in McCloud, ca [OC] [1280×720] what do you think? : EarthPorn
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Bonneville Salt Flats today. Taken with my cell phone [OC] [2296×1436] : EarthPorn
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Fenghuang, China [2048×1296] : CityPorn
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Taipei at night [2048×1365] : CityPorn
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If I fits via /r/cats http://t.co/1LrgyotfmJ http://t.co/yx9zJAmgi3
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Some fucboi tried to draw Mr Skeltal in the bathroom : ledootgeneration
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NASA Deploys Congressional Rover To Search For Funding (The Onion) : space
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NGC 6302- The Butterfly Nebula js – Just Space
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Does anyone else’s cat like to nap like this? : cats
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R.I.P. Dean Jones, star of The Love Bug and That Darn Cat! · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dean Jones, a mainstay of Disney’s live-action comedy films in the 1960s and ’70s, has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Jones was 84.
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Things are not looking good for Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refuses to issue same-sex marriage licences. On Thursday, she will appear to at a court hearing to determine whether she will be held in contempt for refusing to comply with court ord…
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Middle East wars deprive 13m children of education – UN – BBC News
The UN has said that conflicts in the Middle East are depriving more then 13 million children of an education. The UN children’s fund, Unicef, says in a new report that the hopes of a generation across the Middle East and North Africa are being shat…
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France drops Arafat poising investigation – Al Jazeera English
French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed the case without bringing any charges, a prosecutor said. The decision was blasted as biased by lawyers for Arafat’s widow Suha and rejected by the Pal…
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Asian shares up on oil prices and US stock rally – BBC News
Asian markets opened higher on Thursday, spurred by a rally on Wall Street and stronger commodity prices. US shares snapped a two-day losing streak overnight, rebounding from Tuesday’s steep losses as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones rose nearly 2%.
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Come, tell us tales about the invasion of the seven-foot tall aliens with a single weak spot right in the center of its forehead. And the single-use weapon we made to kill it. Or it’s part of a larger design. Or it’s something used against us.
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Black Panther Cub does the trust jump : gifs
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Community Season 6 now has commentary on Yahoo! Screen : television
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/bni2QBPlZp
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My kitten, Cooper. via /r/cats http://t.co/lJPWV4DXwX http://t.co/Pp6qPbTGVl
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Eternal Flame Falls. Erie County, New York [2048×1365] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Made some new friends at the top of a mountain : pics
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Alright, Cat, I suppose I’ll tolerate your affections : AnimalsBeingBros
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The Dawn Of The Classic Publishing Era | TechCrunch
My father was a journalist. Growing up, I remember how excited I would get when visiting the printing house of the newspaper he worked for. I loved everything about the large, industrial printers — the noise they made, their fading bluish color and …
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Guatemalans Celebrate as President Faces Possible Corruption and War Crimes Charges | VICE News
Protesters in Guatemala City endured torrential rains yesterday as they waited outside the country’s congressional building for the result of a vote to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his immunity from prosecution, and when lawmakers voted 132-…
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Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who has defied court rulings by denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has vaulted suddenly from being one of the state’s thousands of little-known local officials to being a national symbol.
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A day after taking steps to warm relations with Hispanics, Donald J. Trump may have taken a step backward Wednesday when he suggested that Jeb Bush was setting a bad example by speaking Spanish. “He’s a nice man.
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What is the racing world doing about head injuries? | The Verge
IndyCar driver Justin Wilson was in the 12th car to reach the scene of an accident during the Pocono IndyCar 500 two weekends ago. The crash — a relatively unspectacular one — happened further up in the field, but the timing could not have been wors…
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Waterfall on Crowden Brook by Tim McAndrew / 500px
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Stargate by Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim / 500px
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Boat by suske http://t.co/QtDE4R9EI9 http://t.co/eU8mF7W4yY
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Sunrise in Melbourne, FL [OC] [1836×3264] : EarthPorn
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Live streaming United States TV channels : InternetIsBeautiful
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MRW my dad tells me to quit my monkey business : shittyreactiongifs
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A throw up bag on Norwegian airlines : mildlyinteresting
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The Dock at Night [OC][2048 x 1365] : ExposurePorn
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The Pipe Nebula; a Vast Dark Cloud of Interstellar… – Just Space
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Lady Luck Ann Margret 1960’s : OldSchoolCool
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A loaf bought at the grocery store and brought home : Catloaf
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I’m sure my beliefs will be respected : AdviceAnimals
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A View of Mt. Keith in the High Sierra [OC][4533×3023] : EarthPorn
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Gorgeous drone footage of Fall farm harvest in County Tipperary, Ireland – Boing Boing
Silage is harvested grass or fodder that cows, sheep, and horses munch on fresh throughout the winter. Right now, in Ireland, it’s silage harvest time. Video shot by Barry Grogan in Ireland with a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus P2V+.
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Christian Taylor, the black college football player killed by a white police officer in Texas, is likely to have used a synthetic psychedelic drug and marijuana before the deadly confrontation at a car dealership, according to an autopsy report rele…
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Overgrown sheep sheared back to safety – Boing Boing
In Australia, an animal humane society brought in a champion sheep-shearer to trim a badly overgrown sheep that was found wandering in the woods near the capital. Tammy Ven Dange, the chief executive of the Australian RSPCA, said five staff members …
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Are We Getting Too Many New Television Shows For Our Own Good?
Call it the summer of television’s discontent. There’s been an unusually high amount of studio meddling in upcoming TV series this summer. Shows have been retooled, showrunners have been fired, blood has been spilled.
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HIV patient tells of fears of disclosure after details leak – BBC News
A man says he fears having to tell friends and family he is HIV positive after he was among 780 patients whose details were leaked by a health clinic.The 56 Dean Street clinic, in London, accidentally sent out names and email addresses in an online …
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How do German students pay no tuition fees? – BBC News
More than a million young people will be enrolling in universities in England and Germany this autumn. But in financial terms their experience couldn’t be more different.
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All The Coolest Movie Characters Hang Out On Coruscant From Star Wars
Say what you want about Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, but Anakin and Obi-Wan knew where to party. Remember when they went into that Coruscant bar and hung out with Blade, ED-209, The Terminator, Pinhead, and all those other classic mov…
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The finale of iZombie’s first season seemed to promise big changes for the status quo of Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright’s brain-spattered CW show, with Liv Moore (Rose McIver, still bearing her character’s aggressively punny name with pride) b…
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Almost 15 years have passed since I warned about media “balance” that involved systematically abdicating the journalistic duty of informing readers about simple matters of fact. As I said way back when,
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Pop Culture Overload: Too Much is Never Enough — Cuepoint — Medium
Recently, many critics have taken to complaining about the fact that there is just too much content floating around out there.
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LA: internet punk foodies Starry Kitchen resurface at Echo Park video-game bar – Boing Boing
Angelenos, our city’s best Uber-and-Facebook-based restaurant and its banana-suit-bedecked hype man are back. Nguyen Tran and Thi Tran, a husband-and-wife chef and viral marketing powerhouse, will be serving their adventurous Asian fare out of Butto…
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Where the Dead Refuse to Vanish | The New Republic
Three-quarters of the way into Beauty Is a Wound, the sprawling, ambitious novel by the Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, there is a curious scene at a cemetery.
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Brazil indigenous leader’s killing raises tension – BBC News
The Brazilian justice minister has condemned the killing of an indigenous leader who was shot during a land protest in the state of Matto Grosso do Sul. More than a week ago around 1,000 members of the Guarani-Kaiowa community occupied ranches in th…
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Where Did ISIS Get Its Chemical Weapons? – The Daily Beast
An infamous Dutch soldier turned ISIS fighter says the group has acquired chemical weapons once belonging to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, resurrecting fears that what was supposed to be the regime’s destroyed program has instead fallen into jih…
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This Travel Jacket Is The Most Funded Clothing Item In The History Of Crowdfunding | TechCrunch
This jacket is going to need a lot more pockets to stuff all of the $$$ it’s raising. With less than a day to go, Baubax‘s versatile travel jacket Kickstarter project is nearing almost $8.
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Washington Sues Feds Over Nuclear Waste Tanks | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. government has failed to adequately safeguard crews involved in the decades-long cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, leaving workers sickened by exposure to toxic vapors, the state alleged in a lawsuit filed on W…
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A lot of politicians are scheduled to show up on the first few weeks of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, but in a surprising move for a politician to make, one of them is taking advantage of the show to promote their own agenda.
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Nobody Listened to Legendary Physicist Michael Faraday’s Ideas on Mine Safety
Michael Faraday is best remembered as a scientist. But during his time, he was also a scientific investigator—looking into the origins of explosions and accidents. After one great tragedy he filed a safety report that’s still remembered today, but m…
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US Army to Open Elite Ranger School to All Genders | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Army said on Wednesday it would open its elite Ranger School to all soldiers regardless of gender, after two women made history last month by becoming the first to pass the grueling leadership course.
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It did not take much to set off the volatile Australian Nick Kyrgios on Tuesday night at the U.S. Open. Troubled by the late-arriving fans, the positioning of the lights and the defensive range of Andy Murray, Kyrgios began to unravel. Quickly.
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The inside of Alejandro Sarete’s backpack is jammed with the objects of a busy student life: smartphone, USB thumb drive, playing cards, lip balm. Cho Young-Uk’s shoulder bag is more minimalist in content: Lenovo laptop and adapter. Mr. Sarete and M…
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Ted Cruz thinks parental leave is a nice idea, but shouldn’t be law
Yet without a mandate, more than 70 percent of employers offer no paid maternity leave and more than 80 percent don’t offer paid paternity leave. That leaves 88 percent of the workforce without paid family leave if they have a new child.
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The federal government is considering a US request to join airstrikes in Syria, but the prime minister told Radio 2GB that he would await the return of the defence minister, Kevin Andrews, from overseas before making a decision next week.
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This Windows 10 desktop is super simple, but everything just fits. Part of it is because Victor is using it on a 60” TV, but its lack of widgets and toggles doesn’t make it any less useful and good looking. Here’s what you’ll need for a similar look.
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WHO: Ukraine outbreak brings polio back to Europe | Al Jazeera America
Two children in southwestern Ukraine have been paralyzed by polio, the first outbreak of the disease in Europe since 2010, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, in a setback for a global eradication campaign.
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The model who’s bringing a rare skin condition into the open – BBC News
BBC Trending reports on Winnie Harlow, the ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant who is open about the rare skin condition Vitiligo. The condition became widely known after Michael Jackson was diagnosed with it.
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From rotten meat to startup porn sites to a solicitous Snickers bar, what I saw inside the prison-industrial complex—and what it taught me about our criminal justice crisis. The first correctional officer I saw had two teeth.
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Strange Phenomenon Occurs As Ants Circle iPhone When It Rings – Digg
First ants, next humans! Throw all your Apple products in the garbage, they clearly are dangerous mind control devices.
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Ron Johnson Will Discuss His New Approach To Tech Shopping And Support At Disrupt SF | TechCrunch
In just a few weeks, I’ll be onstage with the man who spearheaded the creation of Apple’s friendly, futuristic retail stores.
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Pressure mounts for political solution in Libya – BBC News
Libyans are facing increasing pressure from the West to reach an agreement, with the migrant crisis adding to the clamour for a positive outcome. The envisioned Government of National Accord has been promised unreserved support by some key EU player…
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For one Missouri lawyer, eight clients executed in 18 months – BBC News
At a time when other states in the US are backing away from the death penalty, Missouri has done the opposite. It is currently executing its death row inmates faster than any other state in the country, at a rate of about one per month.
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So this happened yesterday. : AdviceAnimals
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Youngest known planetary nebula: the Stingray Nebula js http://t.co/z2x5fSVaQB http://t.co/a5vB5ALabm http://t.co/ufKxlVV1S5
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My indoor cat Sammie blepping outside : Blep
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My dad has been dead for 6 years, this is the best feeling ever. : AdviceAnimals
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Having one of those days, every day. : funny
Having one of those days, every day. via /r/funny http://t.co/Z1HN9rjtsT http://t.co/jUtUTLimKb
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Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her.
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Denmark wages war on food waste | Grist
You know what’s better than a fresh danish? An old danish on its way to the trash. According to NPR, the Danes are very into reducing food waste right now. So into it, in fact, that they’ve reduced their food waste by about 25 percent compared to fi…
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Climate change will cause the death of one Earth and the birth of another | Grist
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future.
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Google-powered map shows that deforestation isn’t just about the Amazon | Grist
When you hear deforestation, you might think Brazil. It’s a fair association: Over the past four decades, upwards of 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down.
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Dear architects: Stop trying to make shipping container buildings happen | Grist
There are about 120 million shipping containers around the world at any given moment, doing what they were designed to do, which is to encase the oddly sized things that people enjoy (crop tops, frozen fish fillets) and then be completely interchang…
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How our screwed-up CEO pay system makes climate change worse | Grist
Runaway CEO pay at the 30 largest U.S. public fossil fuel corporations rewards short-term actions, with disastrous results for the world’s climate, a new report finds. CEOs at big oil, gas, and coal corporations are rewarded for a short-term fixatio…
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Youngest known planetary nebula: the Stingray… – Just Space
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The Earth with Reversed Elevation[OC][3476×1520] : MapPorn
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Cate Blanchett to play Lucille Ball in new Aaron Sorkin biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Cate Blanchett will be starring in a new biopic about comedy legend Lucille Ball, written by Aaron Sorkin—a man whose convoluted, fast-paced dialogue starts at “Vitameatavegamin,” and only gets more complicated…
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Dean Jones, star of the Herbie films, dies aged 84 | Film | The Guardian
Dean Jones, whose boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favourite young actor for such lighthearted films as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, died from complications resulting from Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles on Tuesday.…
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Should flamethrowers be sold in the US? – BBC News
Why make, build or sell a flamethrower? That is the question posed by the man who designed what he calls America’s first hand-held flamethrower. Byars says he has sold and delivered 30 of his XM42 model, costing $899 (£588). He has received pre-orde…
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President Barack Obama uses a selfie stick to record a video advocating the need to protect Alaska from the effects of climate change, sharing a 360-degree view of a glacier at the Kenai Fjords national park
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Puccio crime clan continues to intrigue Argentina – BBC News
The story of the Puccio family, whose members abducted wealthy Argentines for ransom and hid them in their house before killing them, is making headlines again, 30 years after their convictions. Irene Caselli reports from Buenos Aires.
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How long should mothers take off after they give birth? – BBC News
The announcement that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is planning to take limited time off from work after having twins later this year has re-ignited the debate over how soon new mothers should return to their jobs. The United States is one of the few coun…
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The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law e…
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Iran: A Done Deal – The New Yorker
The riskiest gamble of the Obama Presidency, the nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, was basically won today.
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The Steepest Streets in San Francisco
On an overcast day in 1996, surrounded by a mob of raucous, screeching denizens, David Letterman stood atop San Francisco’s Filbert Street. Beside him, rested a giant, refrigerator-sized crate of watermelons; below him, one of the city’s steepest de…
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Watch Drunk History Slur Its Way Through An Explanation of the Big Bang Theory
Comedy Central’s hilarious Drunk History—a show in which comedians get sloppy-drunk and share historical tales, which then are acted out by sober actors who earnestly lip-sync every slurred line of dialogue—kicked off its third season last night wit…
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Watch ‘Sesame Street’ Skewer Trump: ‘Trashiest,’ ‘Grouchiest’ Creature – The Daily Beast
Future U.S. President Donald J. Trump has long been a target for casual parody. There are music videos, Simpsons clips, sketches, and spoof porn, all made for the simple pleasures of sending up The Donald.
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Marco Rubio attacks EPA and pledges to reverse key Obama climate moves | US news | The Guardian
As Barack Obama wraps up a three-day visit to Alaska centered on the urgency of tackling climate change, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Wednesday previewed what energy policy would look like under his administration.
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Will Hillary Clinton’s Emails Burn the White House? – The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton’s email problems are already causing headaches for her presidential campaign. But within American counterintelligence circles, there’s a mounting sense that the former Secretary of State may not be the only Obama administration offic…
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Hodei: The man who vanished – BBC News
Tens of thousands of people go missing in Europe every year. Some for days, some for months, some for years. Some vanish entirely. This is the story of one of them – and the extraordinary response his disappearance generated.
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Londongrad: New TV series on Russian expats in London – BBC News
The first Russian television series filmed almost entirely on location in London is about to air on the Russian commercial station STS. The drama series Londongrad deals, in exaggerated fashion, with the lives of Russian expatriates, tens of thousan…
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Make More Nutritious Salads by Paying Attention to Water Content
If you’re on a diet or just trying to eat healthier, salads are likely a staple of your meal plan. While they’re great for filling you up with fiber, to create truly nutritious salads you should also consider the water content of each ingredient.
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Asking For It by Louise O’Neil – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Louise O’Neil tackles a very difficult subject in her brand new book – rape. Following on from the brilliant Only Ever Yours, she tackles a highly controversial subject that is prevalent in the news at the moment.
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Today at Lifehacker: After Hours, we’re wishing you a happy hump day. That’s all.
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‘If these images don’t change Europe, what will?’ – Al Jazeera English
Heart-rending pictures of a toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach sparked horror as the cost of Europe’s burgeoning refugee crisis hit home.
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in September!
The summer beach reads are finished—but the book party is just getting started! This month’s science fiction and fantasy must-reads include Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, plus new books from Stephen Baxter, Seanan McGuire, Salman Rushdie a…
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Rival traffic app PhantomAlert wants to shut Waze down after alleged theft | Ars Technica
PhantomAlert, a company that makes a Waze-like traffic smartphone app, has now sued its better-known rival for copyright infringement.
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Rand’s Cure For A Summertime Of Sadness: Selfies – The Daily Beast
What do you do when your candidate is polling in the low, single digits percent? Publish an app that lets voters take selfies with the candidate because obviously that’s the ticket to bumping up public support.
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Sept 2012 Sunset on Saba, Netherland-Antilles [OC] [2560×1920] : EarthPorn
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Serena Williams battles through errors to beat Kiki Bertens at US Open | Sport | The Guardian
If this were a fight, it might have been called off before a blow had been landed.
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Syfy Space Shows ‘Dark Matter’ and ‘Killjoys’ Will Be Back for 2nd Seasons
The space-based action shows “Killjoys” and “Dark Matter” will both be getting second seasons in 2016, the Syfy network announced this week. “Dark Matter” tells the story of six people who wake up on a spaceship with no memory of who they are, or ho…
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California lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday requiring the state’s two largest pension plans to divest their holdings in thermal coal as part of a push this legislative session to address climate change.
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Powerful Rocket Launches Light Up the Skies Just Hours Apart (Photos)
The MUOS-4 satellite launched aboard an Atlas V rocket on Sept. 2, 2015. The rocket trail reflected sunlight in the early dawn hours to create this stunning aerial light show.
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Kobane family in Hungary: ‘We need Europeans to save us’ – BBC News
In the Hungarian capital, Budapest, scuffles have broken out between migrants and the authorities outside Keleti station. Under the station in the passenger tunnels and ticket areas there are crowds of people many with young children wondering when …
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Spotlight on green news & views: Obama in Alaska; wildfires in the West; otters on the boat
You can find more excerpts from green diaries below the orange spill.
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Telephone Etiquette – The Atlantic
When the telephone was new, it was a sensation. And not an altogether positive one. Sure, it was a machine that enabled a person to speak—as if by magic—to another person in another place in real time. But also, what if ghosts were sneaking through …
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The many faces of Tobey :3 : cats
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Emissions ‘far above’ 2C target – BBC News
Global plans to curb carbon dioxide are well below what’s needed to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees according to a new analysis. It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions.
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Selfie stick diplomacy?: putting a 21st-century spin on Teddy Roosevelt’s famous maxim Photograph: White House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Man shot by Texas police had knife, says county sheriff – video | US news | The Guardian
A man fatally shot by police last week near San Antonio appeared to have a knife in his hand, Sheriff Susan Pamerleau of Bexar County said on Wednesday, citing a new video of the incident. Gilbert Flores, 41, was killed on Friday by two Bexar County…
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Clips Offers Easy Video Editing On Your iPhone | TechCrunch
But you know what sounds more fun? Going to the park with CEO Tim Novikoff, helping him to shoot some footage and watching him edit it all together with Clips. So that’s what we did.
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Quebec Political Party Renounces Separatism, Picks Canada Over ‘Imaginary’ Country | VICE News
A former champion of the Quebec independence movement is now vowing that he’ll be pushing to move Quebec past its fractured political landscape, and give Canada a new constitution in the process.
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Game Of Thrones casts a Greyjoy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You know how it is. You’re a critically and commercially lauded premium cable TV show preparing to cook up a sixth season of sex and graphic fantasy violence. Realizing your recipe calls for a dash of murderous Ironborn pirates, you go to the cupboa…
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Kid Rock to Host Weeklong Johnny Cash Tribute on CMT | Rolling Stone
Kid Rock to Host Weeklong Johnny Cash Tribute on CMT ‘Johnny Cash: American Rebel’ doc highlights movie screenings, videos and tributes
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Bloomberg’s Future Is the Future of News for Everyone | WIRED
Bloomberg News is going through some big changes. The company laid off dozens of journalists yesterday.
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Nope Island found on /r/pics : thalassophobia
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Awesome Launch Photos: US Navy’s MUOS-4 Satellite Streaks Into Space
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This Is Your Body in an Office Job vs. Your Body in a Physical Job – Mic
Centuries in the future, when our present-day selves are depicted as wax statues in museums, they’ll probably come with little wax desks and little wax monitors.
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Disney’s Love Bug actor Dean Jones dies at 84 – BBC News
The US actor Dean Jones, best known for his starring role in Disney’s The Love Bug, has died at the age of 84. He died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles.
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A New Identity for Denali : Image of the Day
Physically, not too much has changed on Denali, North America’s highest peak. What did change in 2015 is how people describe and measure Alaska’s majestic mountain. On August 30, 2015, U.S.
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Chinese naval ships spotted off Alaska coast during Obama visit to state | World news | The Guardian
The Pentagon has confirmed the presence of five Chinese naval vessels in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska, which Barack Obama is currently visiting.
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Lenovo “Magic View” concept is a crazy mix of a smartwatch and Google Glass | Ars Technica
After checking out the second generation Moto 360 at a recent Motorola/Lenovo event, we stumbled upon this crazy smart watch concept from Lenovo. Called the “Magic View,” this device takes the round Moto 360 form factor and adds a second display to …
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Gizmodo Physicists Discover “Hidden Chaos” Lurking Everywhere | Jalopnik You’re Gonna Want To Watch This Car Video Again | Jezebel Was Banning Tyler, the Creator, the Victory International Feminism Needed? | Kotaku Rocket League Is Better With Overl…
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Government launches video to tackle sexual assault rates in US colleges | US news | The Guardian
As part of a campaign to lower sexual assault rates on college campuses, the Obama administration has released a new public service announcement, a reminder to viewers that sex without consent is rape.
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Earth in 10,000 Years – The Atlantic
A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical tree species in small, geodesic greenhouses.
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Online drug dealer betrayed by poor opsec pleads guilty to importing molly | Ars Technica
A Massachusetts drug vendor who bought methylone (also known as “molly”) from China and was busted by the digital trail he left on the USPS tracking website has pleaded guilty to four drug-related charges.
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Two Mining Robots Prove the Importance of Teamwork
In Wire Cutters by Jack Anderson, two mining robots with very different capabilities meet, team up, and fall out over their work’s quantitative way of measuring success. Shouldn’t efficiency count for something? Contact the author at katharine@io9.c…
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Weekend of Wonder: Attendees will get a signed, limited-edition Coop print! – Boing Boing
Our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza in Riverside, CA is a just couple of weeks away! Attendees are going to be treated to all kinds of cool stuff, one of which is a signed, limited-edition print by the artist Coop.
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Way to go, Akron, Ohio, for giving the world Chrissie Hynde, a malcontent for the ages — or, at a minimum, for the post-punk era — with a look to match: kohl-rimmed eyes, a low hedgerow of bangs, the best sneer since Elvis’s. Androgynous and possess…
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Pure As White in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC] [4428×2704] : AnimalPorn
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Duck feeding fish : AnimalsBeingBros
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healing power by Ralf Kuhn / 500px
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How my dad differentiates Netflix users on his account : funny
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Flying Fox by Tony Blakey : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Ensaio: Mundo Marinho – Foto 10 by Ticiano Alves / 500px
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Everyone else on the freeway has seen Final Destination too : funny
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Anita Ekberg being fitted into a devil costume, Hotel Commodore,1955 : OldSchoolCool
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Fight Off Secondhand Stress From Your Colleagues With a “Power Lead”
Stress can be spread to other people, just like an infection. If you find that your colleagues are always spreading their stress to you, you might be able to prevent it next time by opening your conversation with a positive comment.
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‘Slow Down And Be There’: Lizz Wright On Singing To The Present : NPR
Soul singer Lizz Wright is starting over. Her new album, Freedom & Surrender, comes after a tough few years, during which she left behind a failed marriage and her own expectations about starting a family. And yet, she found a creative spark in that…
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Starz picks up Survivor’s Remorse for a third season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Starz has renewed Survivor’s Remorse for a third season. The show stars Jessie T.
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Five Chinese ships seen off Alaska coast, Pentagon says – BBC News
Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, US officials confirm. It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area.
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The Pope’s chair for New York mass unveiled – video | World news | The Guardian
The chair Pope Francis will use when he celebrates mass in New York was unveiled on Wednesday. Simple and unadorned, as requested by the pontiff, the solid oak chair was shown to the media at Madison Square Garden, where Francis will lead mass on 25…
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US Open: Serena keeping calendar Slam hopes alive – Al Jazeera English
Serena Williams took her second step in a drive to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in 27 years by beating Kiki Bertens 7-6,6-3 in the second round of the US Open.
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The Errors of Albert – Scientific American
Physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, talks about his article “What Einstein Got Wrong,” in Scientific American’s September issue, devoted to the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publi…
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Cecil Beaton Through the Decades – The New Yorker
The massive new volume “Beaton: Photographs,” out next week from Abrams, presents an expansive chronological survey of Cecil Beaton’s career, with images spanning more than half a century, from the nineteen-twenties, when Beaton was first experiment…
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the distribution deal between DreamWorks and Disney will end next year with the release of Steven Spielberg’s Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG, at which point Spielberg will most likely be packing up the studio and …
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Even though they’ve been collectively melting faces since 1965, it took until the mid-1980s and early ’90s for German rockers Scorpions to hit its commercial peak.
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Win the ‘70s-heavy soundtrack for The Diary Of A Teenage Girl on vinyl · Contest · The A.V. Club
One of the delights of the summer film season was Marielle Heller’s The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel of the same name.
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Deep Breaths, You Rich Sonuvabitch: Tesla’s Model X Is Coming September 29 | Motherboard
After years of false starts, you can finally pre-order the much-delayed, much hyped Tesla Model X, an electric SUV crossover car/vehicle/status symbol that’s more likely than not a very premium, luxurious, and environmentally friendly way to say fuc…
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Star Wars is everywhere in 2015, even bullish reports by securities analysts. According to one report, even if it fails Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens is going to make Disney and everyone involved a shit ton of money—$5 billion, in fact.
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New Dating App Mix’d Is Basically Techno Tinder | Thump
Everyone knows Tinder is the big, bad app that made meeting people online for a quick drink (or just a quickie) “mainstream.
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Sons Of Anarchy’s Theo Rossi joins Netflix’s Luke Cage series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Netflix’s upcoming Marvel series Luke Cage has its Luke Cage (The Good Wife’s Mike Colter), its showrunner (Cheo Hodari Coker), and one of its major villains (Alfre Woodard).
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Tomorrow’s Generation // News // Notre Dame Magazine // University of Notre Dame
It wasn’t until 2005, when Majak Anyieth was about 12 or 13 years old, that he realized he needed to have a birth date. His father, a soldier, had been killed in Sudan’s Civil War when Majak was young. His mother, a poor farmer with five children, n…
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Welkom – Welcome by William Mevissen / 500px
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Aurora by Antonio Ferreira Silva / 500px
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Mt Rainier National Park, WA [3264 x 1836] : EarthPorn
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(OC) It’s hard to believe this is England, Cornwall. [5184 x 3456] : EarthPorn
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My cat Melissa doesn’t like the plant : aww
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Rand Paul: Troll Me, and I’ll Track Your Phone | Mother Jones
Rand Paul’s campaign established itself as the cool internet campaign early when it hired Austin-based GOP digital hipster Vincent Harris to run a small social media empire heavy on memes.
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Attacks accessing Mac keychain without permission date back to 2011 | Ars Technica
On Tuesday, Ars chronicled an OS X technique that’s being actively used by an underhanded piece of adware to access people’s Mac keychain without permission. Now there’s evidence the underlying weakness has been exploited for four years.
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The UN Says Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years | VICE News
Gaza could become uninhabitable by 2020 due to war, its economic blockade, debilitated infrastructure, and environmental concerns, according to a new UN report on Palestine released this week.
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Texas man killed with hands up may have been armed, police say – BBC News
Texas authorities say a new video shows that a man killed by police officers was holding what appears to be a knife when he was shot. An earlier video taken by a bystander shows Gilbert Flores, 41, with his hands up before being shot, though one of …
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You Can Livestream the New Star Wars Toys’ Unboxing Starting….NOW | WIRED
At 2:30 PDT (sorry, we’re in California) two very peppy people at YouTube Studios in Los Angeles began screaming.
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Police officer killed in Illinois was on verge of retirement | US news | The Guardian
Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was on the brink of retiring after a 30-year-career in law enforcement. At 52, the tall, tattooed police officer with a shaved head could still be tough and intimidating if the job called for it.
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Jake Gyllenhaal wows crowds at Venice Film Festival – BBC News
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal apparently found it difficult to tear himself away from adoring fans as he arrived for the 72nd Venice Film Festival. He is co-starring in the film, Everest, which opened the festival on Wednesday – and was one of a host of sta…
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Be Ready for Anything In the Wilderness With This DIY Survival Watch
It’s always good to be prepared when you’re trekking out into the wilderness, but survival gear can take up all of your space that’s better served for tasty things like sandwiches. This custom five-in-one survival watch has you covered.
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BBC Sport – US Open 2015: Serena Williams made to battle against Bertens
Serena Williams took another step towards her first calendar Grand Slam with victory over Kiki Bertens in the second round of the US Open. The world number one trailed 4-0 in the opening tie-break but came back to win 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 on Arthur Ashe St…
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YouTube Gaming Video Maker Settles With FTC After Pay-For-Coverage Complaint | WIRED
YouTube gaming network Machinima has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after an investigation into undisclosed paid endorsements, the FTC said today.
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Arafat poisoning inquiry dropped by French prosecutors – BBC News
French judges say they have dropped an investigation into claims Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned. Arafat died in Paris in 2004, aged 75. His wife says he was poisoned, possibly by highly radioactive polonium.
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Elliott Smith Documentary Producer Details Soundtrack | Rolling Stone
Elliott Smith Documentary Producer Details Soundtrack “Right now, my track list is 20 Elliott songs from the film with only around four or five having been previously released,” Kevin Moyer says
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See Dustin Lynch Bring Heart-Pounding ‘Hell of a Night’ to ‘Today’ | Rolling Stone
See Dustin Lynch Bring Heart-Pounding ‘Hell of a Night’ to ‘Today’ Luke Bryan’s tourmate —and possible heir apparent — brings big grins, big beats to morning show
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An Oscar-nominated HBO documentary that showed American homeowners near hydraulic fracturing sites setting fire to their tap water may have been the main trigger for a surge in public opposition to the oil and gas production technique, according to …
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Fears Of Marijuana ‘Monopoly’ In Ohio Undercut Support For Legalization : NPR
Yellow Springs is a small college town in Ohio that has more than one head shop and a lot of tie-dye and hemp. Many would consider it ground zero for likely supporters of the referendum on the ballot this November that could make Ohio the fifth stat…
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Selling plasma to survive: how over a million American families live on $2 per day – Vox
In early 2011, 1.5 million American households, including 3 million children, were living on less than $2 in cash per person per day. Half of those households didn’t have access to in-kind benefits like food stamps, either. Worst of all, the numbers…
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‘Inside Amy Schumer’ writer Kurt Metzger harasses Twitter personality @literalporn
There are plenty of ways to get someone to be on your podcast, but for comedian Kurt Metzger, it requires a lot more aggression than one would think. On Tuesday Twitter user @literalporn (she’s contributed to Vice as “Claudia C.
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Kermit Has a New Girlfriend? Good. His Last One Was a Domestic Abuser. | The New Republic
Kermit the Frog is moving on. After 40 years with Miss Piggy, he’s got a new, svelter, blander, girlfriend named Denise—who is, somewhat improbably, also a pig. Reaction to the news has been mixed.
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When Andy Murray beat Tomas Berdych in a minor gale here three years ago to reach and win the final for his breakthrough major title, Sir Alex Ferguson famously invaded his compatriot’s press conference after the semi-final, with Sir Sean Connery an…
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Judges seem hesitant to stop NSA bulk collection before ban takes effect | US news | The Guardian
Judges who issued the harshest rebuke to the National Security Agency have expressed skepticism at a civil libertarian attempt to stop the twilight phase of US bulk phone records surveillance, one of two challenges to the NSA in federal courtrooms.
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This Is What An Office Run By Vampires Would Look Like
Even if you haven’t worked in an office environment, you probably have an idea what it’s like. Monotonous, quiet, bland—at times, it’s almost like everyone is possessed. Which is pretty much the set up of the new vampire movie Bloodsucking Bastards.…
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Which TV Show Went Downhill…But Then Ended on a High Note?
There’s nothing more frustrating than watching a once-decent TV show slide downhill into mediocrity or worse. But sometimes, there’s one last flash of brilliance. Sometimes, a show pulls off a series finale that actually puts an exclamation point at…
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I waited 70 years for this bj : AdviceAnimals
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May no one ever forget the greatness of Chuck! Jeffster Forever : television
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Unlike most other shooting sports, shotguns are fast-paced and full of action. Whether it’s trap, skeet, sporting clays or upland bird, you’ll be using a lot of shells, targets will be numerous and your success will be high. This is how to start sho…
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Wrongfully Imprisoned North Carolina Men Receive Payout : NPR
In North Carolina Wednesday, two half-brothers wrongfully imprisoned for more than 30 years for a murder they did not commit were awarded $750,000 each. They were released last year.
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For A Baltimore Boutique Owner, A ‘Joyous’ Reopening After The Riots : NPR
It’s been four months since more than 400 Baltimore businesses were damaged in riots following the death of Freddie Gray. Most — but not all — of those businesses have reopened, although some are still struggling to get back the customers they lost.
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Tree Counter Is Astonished By How Many Trees There Are : Goats and Soda : NPR
Here is a pop quiz: How many trees are on the planet? Most people have no idea.
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The psychedelic hairscapes of Cathy Ward|Dangerous Minds
This is a guest post by artist/director Nick Abrahams. Los Angeles gets the pleasure of being the first city in America to stage a solo show by the London-based artist Cathy Ward.
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‘Three trillion trees on Earth’ – BBC News
There are just over three trillion trees on Earth, according to a new assessment. The figure is eight times as big as the previous best estimate, which counted perhaps four hundred billion at most.
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Why a Criminal Record Shouldn’t Disqualify Someone from Public Assistance | The Nation
Americans believe in the idea that everyone should get a second chance—a chance to redeem ourselves and make things right.
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LONDON — When the authorities in Hungary prevented hundreds of migrants who had overwhelmed the central Keleti station in Budapest from boarding trains for Germany this week, it nearly set off a riot. Outside the station, the migrants were chanting:…
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Canada’s Top Security Advisor Met With the Kurdish Government Amid Clashes With Turkey | VICE News
Canada’s National Security Advisor held a low-key meeting with a key member of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil last week, as Ottawa navigates its complex relationship with the semi-autonomous regions of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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Canada’s Top Security Advisor Met With Kurdish Leader Amid Clashes With Turkey | VICE News
Canada’s National Security Advisor held a low-key meeting with a key member of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil last week, as Ottawa navigates its complex relationship with the semi-autonomous regions of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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Hell On Earth: NASA Recreates Venus’ Extreme Atmosphere
Scientists interested in studying Venus, as well as other extreme places in the solar system, now have an option besides expensive, one-off space missions.
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Gone catfishin’: Lost kittens rescued from Alabama river – video | World news | The Guardian
Two fishermen scooped up a pair of kittens that swam toward them in Alabama’s Warrior river this past weekend. ‘Are you kidding me?’ one of the men says as he spots a scraggly kitten in the water; a second appeared just seconds later.
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Sorry, NFL Games Streamed Free to TV Won’t Become the Norm | WIRED
Next year, CBS will broadcast the Super Bowl for the first time since 2013. When it does, it will send the game not just to its traditional television viewers or its mobile app, but to Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, and Xbox One, all for free, with no …
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US army to keep elite military school open to women – Al Jazeera English
The US army has decided to keep its elite Ranger School open to women, a high profile step in the Pentagon’s efforts to remove barriers to women serving in combat.
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A large ocean might have once existed on Mars js – Just Space
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NASA TV to Air Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility Opening | NASA
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RC car driving on water : interestingasfuck
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Efe by Murat Aslankara / 500px
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From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton Scandal Primer http://t.co/oXMULTlq1z
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Nearly Every Seabird on Earth Is Eating Plastic
So much plastic trash is flowing into the oceans that 90 percent of seabirds eat it now and virtually every one will be consuming it by 2050. That finding, revealed in a new study published this week, tracks for the first time how widespread plastic…
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Why A Londoner Became a Backwoods California Gold Prospector
When British journalist Steve Boggan, author of Gold Fever: One Man’s Adventures On The Trail Of The Gold Rush, swapped the comforts of London to become a gold prospector in the backwoods of California, he had few illusions of striking it rich.
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9 Animals You Didn’t Know Were Cute Until #CuteOff Happened
The competition? A #CuteOff. Instigated by Anne Hilborn, the same ecologist who started the recent #JunkOff hashtag that inspired scientists to post pictures of increasingly incredible critter genitalia, the Cute Off gained steam when the Herpetolog…
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This is John. He’s almost 40 and has given pony rides to thousands of kids. : aww
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Just a few months difference : aww
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Moby – The Violent Bear It Away : Breathless
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A Coca Cola company delivery truck in Knoxville, 1909. : OldSchoolCool
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Kitten and the Electronic Trashcan : cats
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Three Tips For Worker Classification For The Next On-Demand Startup | TechCrunch
While Uber and TaskRabbit have become household names, and the on-demand economy continues to boom, the problem of worker classification continues to bedevil companies in the on-demand marketplace.
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Tatooine-Like Planets with 2 Suns Need Perfect Ingredients to Form
An artist’s impression of Alpha Centauri, which involves two close-orbiting stars, with an Earth-mass planet in orbit around one. A third star orbits the close pair from a distance.Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.
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Though his character, Jimmy Brooks, ostensibly wheeled himself across that grade 13 graduation platform back in 2007, no one’s about to let Drake forget that he was once on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
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Is Teesta Setalvad India’s most hounded activist? – BBC News
She has been called a “threat to India’s national security” and a prosecutor wants to send her to prison. Her house and office have been raided a number of times, her bank accounts have been frozen and she has been relentlessly vilified and threaten…
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Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit | Ars Technica
An Illinois man arrested when his residence was raided for parodying his town’s mayor on Twitter is settling a civil rights lawsuit with the city of Peoria for $125,000. The accord spells out that the local authorities are not to prosecute people fo…
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The Federal Aviation Administration’s recent approval of a company’s request to operate 324 drones for “aerial data acquisition” is ratcheting up the long-running debate between privacy advocates, tech innovators, corporations, and government regula…
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For those hungry for even more details and news about Stephen Colbert’s Late Show revamp, The New York Times has you covered. In an incredibly interesting and endearing profile, the paper talked to the host, who it calls “The Late Night Hope.
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Fox anchor sues Hasbro over likeness to toy hamster – Al Jazeera English
An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5m over a toy hamster that shares her name and possibly even her resemblance. Harris Faulkner sued the US company this week over its plastic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of its popular L…
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The Daily Show adds three correspondents to its fake-news team · Newswire · The A.V. Club
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Lenovo gives PC gaming another shot with new angry-looking desktops, laptops | Ars Technica
BERLIN—While Lenovo is perhaps better known for catering to the suit-and-tie brigade with its ThinkPad laptops and data centre servers, for the past few years it’s also been half-heartedly churning out middling machines for the PC gaming crowd, such…
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Real Money eSports Betting Site Unikrn Comes to the US with Virtual Currency | Motherboard
Unikrn, one of the bigger players in the emerging space of online eSports betting, is finally coming to the United States, but it won’t let users make bets with real money.
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Wes Craven never intended A Nightmare On Elm Street to become a franchise: His original ending for the 1984 horror classic simply revealed that the entire film was a bad dream.
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The Danish Girl is an upcoming film starring Eddie Redmayne as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, who was one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery. It’s based on a novel of the same name which presents a fictionalized account of El…
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China parade to commemorate WW2 defeat of Japan – BBC News
China is set to showcase its military might in a parade commemorating the defeat of Japan in World War Two. Some 12,000 troops and 200 aircraft, as well as tanks and missiles, will go on display in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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It’s happening! You, yes you (and me!), might be able to afford a Tesla sometime soon. On Twitter today, Musk shared that the holy grail of Tesla’s, the lower cost Model 3 sedan, will officially be unveiled next March (along with taking preorders).
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Bomb Attack on Yemeni Mosque | VICE News
The branch of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group in Yemen has claimed responsibility for bombings at a mosque in the capital Sanaa that took place on Wednesday.
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NASA Wants to Use Hoverboard Tech to Control Tiny Satellites
It’s a vision of the future that may even have eluded Marty McFly: hoverboard tech in space. NASA wants to make this vision a reality, and soon.
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Android ransomware uses XMPP chat to call home, claims it’s from NSA | Ars Technica
A new variant of mobile ransomware that encrypts the content of Android smartphones is putting a new spin on both how it communicates with its masters and how it spurs its victims into action.
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Donald Trump says Jeb Bush should ‘set the example’ by speaking English only
Donald Trump professes he can’t quite figure out why white supremacists, neo-Confederates and others in America’s rich tapestry of overt and non-overt racist bastards are flocking to Donald Trump. He just happens to be saying the things modern Repub…
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Fix a Warped Wood Cutting Board With a Damp Cloth and an Iron
Wood cutting boards can easily warp if you let too much moisture get to them for extended periods of time. Fortunately, you can fix it by warping it back with a couple household items. Despite what you may have heard, a warped cutting board is not i…
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Pope Francis says priests can now forgive abortion – Al Jazeera English
It is considered a serious sin by the Roman Catholic church that can lead to excommunication. But Pope Francis says he is showing mercy to women who have had abortions.
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Journalists arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey for using crypto software | Ars Technica
Three journalists working with Vice News have been charged with “engaging in terrorist activity” on behalf of ISIL (ISIS), because one of them used encryption software.
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A Cop Comes Back to Life, Younger, Stronger, and Better in Lookinglass
A 75-year-old former sheriff — forced to resign for corruption 15 years ago and “a drinker, womanizer and a father” — is killed. But then he’s brought back to life and has to a) solve his own murder and b) work with a son suddenly older than him. Lo…
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Yep, Apple And Samsung Are Going to Court Again | WIRED
Apple’s legal battle against Samsung still isn’t over. Next year, the two companies will face off over damages in the fourth jury trial spawned by Apple’s 2011 lawsuit alleging Samsung infringed on Apple’s smartphone patents.
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Hear the Zombies Tackle Mortality on Bluesy ‘Moving On’ | Rolling Stone
Hear the Zombies Tackle Mortality on Bluesy ‘Moving On’ ‘Still Got That Hunger’ track’s opening lyrics penned in 1977 following Elvis Presley’s death
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Migrant crisis: Photo of drowned boy sparks outcry – BBC News
At least 12 Syrians trying to reach Greece have drowned off Turkey after the boats they were travelling in sank. An image of one of the victims – a young boy lying face-down on the beach – has sparked an international outcry over the human cost of t…
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Physicists Discover “Hidden Chaos” Lurking Everywhere
It appears that the standard tools used to identify chaotic signatures might be missing lots of hidden chaos — especially in systems that seem like they’re not chaotic at all.
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Family Dog Leads Missing Kids To Safety – The Daily Beast
There is no greater horror than discovering that your young children have disappeared. That’s exactly what happened to one family in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee on Tuesday, when Hannah Gideon Musgrave, 7, and her brother, Matthew, age 4, vanished in the …
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“Ruins” by Florent Llamas : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Where’s The Outrage? #AllLivesMatter And The Zachary Hammond Case : Code Switch : NPR
We were at a just after sunset on Friday July 7th in the Hardees parking lot where Zachary was killed. Zachary’s family, friends, and a small group of Seneca community members placed a White cross and flowers on a grassy patch at the edge of the roa…
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Akron, Ohio, To Hold Fall Election After Long-Serving Mayor Resigns : NPR
Akron, Ohio, had one of the longest serving mayors in the country. Now it’s working on selecting its fourth mayor in less than a year after the long-time mayor abruptly resigned.
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Obama Clinches 34th Vote To Secure Iran Nuclear Deal : NPR
Winning over its 34th member of the Senate, the Obama administration now has enough votes to block Congressional efforts to derail the nuclear deal with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry also boosted the deal in a speech Wednesday in Philadelphia.
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Baltimore Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss Charges In Freddie Gray Case : NPR
Baltimore’s chief prosecutor Marilyn Mosby scored a victory Wednesday at a pre-trial hearing for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the April death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was killed while in police custody.
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Biden Fuels Speculation Of Presidential Run With College Affordability Speech : NPR
Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Miami on Wednesday to talk about college affordability fueling speculation that he will launch a bid for the Democratic nomination for president.
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U.N. Presents Bleak Outlook In Latest Report On Gaza : NPR
A United Nations report says if things continue as they are now, Gaza won’t be “habitable” by 2020. Water shortages are a major problem, among other things.
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Yahoo CEO To Take Limited Leave After Giving Birth To Twins : NPR
NPR’s Rachel Martin talks with Slate DoubleX Gabfest’s Hanna Rosin about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to take just two weeks worth of parental leave after having twins in December.
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Pope Visit Highlights Latino Role In The Future Of The Catholic Church : NPR
Latinos are a big part of the shift of the Catholic Church’s strength from the Northeast to the West and South. NPR speaks to Latino Catholics in California about the Pope’s upcoming visit.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch Denounces Recent Attacks On Police Officers : NPR
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, sworn in on the day of Baltimore unrest, again confronts tension between minority communities and police. Lynch condemns recent police killings and calls on everyone — law enforcement and civilians — to come together …
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Is Marco Rubio The Candidate Republicans Date But Don’t Marry? : It’s All Politics : NPR
Marco Rubio has been flying under the radar this summer, not picking any social media fights with his Republican rivals and steering clear of controversial issues, such as Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
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Most Migrants Hope To Settle In Germany After Long Journey To Europe : NPR
Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees have struggled to reach Europe after fleeing war, oppression and poverty. The vast majority have one destination in mind: Germany.
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Some Hungarians Aid Migrants Waiting Outside Budapest Train Station : NPR
Many of the migrants waiting outside the rail station in Budapest hoping to get to Germany are showing the effects of exhaustion, malnutrition and days of sleeping rough. Now some Hungarians are trying to help.
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Fall In Shipping Commodities Threatens Commercial Railroad Industry : NPR
After decades of growth, some railroads are cutting staff because some of the most lucrative businesses for railroads — shipping commodities such as coal, crude oil and ore — have fallen off steeply.
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Spreading The Word: Obamacare Is For Native Americans, Too : Shots – Health News : NPR
As a member of the Navajo tribe, Rochelle Jake has received free care through the Indian Health Service her entire life. The IHS clinics took care of her asthma, allergies and eczema — chronic problems, nothing urgent. Recently, though, she felt sha…
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Hillary Clinton’s Fight For Gefilte Fish : It’s All Politics : NPR
Gefilte fish is a Jewish dish (some would say delicacy) made of chopped fish. The night of the email release, reaction and theories on the story behind that email came in quickly: @WeeLaura @OKnox The panic when you know you’ve let the Secretary dow…
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The indiscreet art of ass puppetry|Dangerous Minds
The title of this video doesn’t give the slightest inkling of what the viewer is in store for—and it’s also fairly hilarious. The title is: “This girl is going places. Not college, but places.”
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Hungry polar bears trap Arctic researchers | Grist
Earlier this summer, we found out that some polar bears like to skip hibernation in order to snack all year like spoiled little divas (blame Coca Cola).
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News | NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science Continues
Mission managers for NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite’s two science instruments, can no longer return data.
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Love/Hate: Design Experts Debate The New Google Logo | ThinkProgress
Google unveiled a new logo on Tuesday. It’s all very crisp and clean and easy to scale up or down. The new style maintains its essential Google-ness: The color scheme, the white background.
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It’s cicada season – hear them roar – Boing Boing
Late August, and the roar of the crowd is unmistakable. It’s the season-ending song sung by the largest chorus imaginable: the Cicada.
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Where Kim Davis’ Hypocritical, Anti-Gay Theology Comes From | ThinkProgress
On Monday, a same-sex couple entered the county clerk’s office of Rowan County, Kentucky to ask for a marriage license. Kim Davis, the local county clerk, refused, openly defying the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage na…
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Nickelodeon mulls revamping, relaunching Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, more · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Get ready for Rugrats 2.0, you nostalgia-hungry heathens. Russell Hicks, president of content and development for Nickelodeon, told Variety that the network is looking into revamping some of its properties.
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French Police Arrest Suspect in Deadliest Blaze in Paris in Last Decade | VICE News
French police have arrested a man in connection with a fire that ripped through a Paris apartment building early Wednesday morning. Eight people — including two children — died in the blaze, which police suspect may have been arson. Four others were…
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Acer’s Little Modular PC Snaps Together Like Legos | WIRED
Building your own PC rig used to involve a lot of rigamarole.
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Hillary Clinton proposes $10bn plan to combat substance abuse ‘epidemic’ | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton has unveiled a $10bn plan to help contain substance abuse across America, as the nation grapples in particular with a growing opioid crisis that in some states cost more than 1,000 deaths last year.
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Kentucky clerk unknowingly issued marriage license to transgender man | US news | The Guardian
A transgender man and his wife were issued a marriage license in February by the Kentucky county clerk who, in defiance of a US supreme court order, cited “God’s authority” this week as reason to deny paperwork to same-sex couples.
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Google Maps Adds Curated Restaurant Recommendations In NYC, San Francisco And London | TechCrunch
Google Maps on Android is getting an upgrade today that will make the app, often used for getting directions or accessing business information, a better guide to local restaurants, too – at least in select cities.
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Build a Smartphone-Controlled Garage Door Opener
If you have an older garage door, you probably have a bunch of obnoxious large remotes sitting around. If you’re prefer something a bit more sleek (and secure), Make shows you how to build a garage door opener you can control with your smartphone.
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A boutique that only sells white noise records will soon open in England · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Of all the little subcultures people have created in order to better understand the things that they’re really obsessed with, the audiophile world seems like one of the most difficult to comprehend for people on the outside.
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15 Common English Words That You Probably Didn’t Know Were Still Trademarked
The English language is a voracious eater, consuming words and digesting them into whole new things. Sometimes words that used to be trademarked by companies pass into generic use—like escalator, thermos, and aspirin.
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Hayley Atwell’s Dubsmash Wars For Charity have officially begun, with Team Carter firing their first shots of the lip-sync battle between stars of Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel’s Agent Carter.
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Cole Closser’s “Black Rat” – The New Yorker
“I’m one of those weirdos who gets nostalgic for times I never actually lived through,” Cole Closser, a cartoonist who’s known for his retro sensibility, says. About his new book, “Black Rat,” he adds, “I exorcised some art demons.
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NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science Continues | NASA
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WASHINGTON — Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland on Wednesday came out in support of President Obama’s Iran nuclear accord, the 34th Democrat in favor. Her decision gives Mr. Obama the votes needed to assure the deal will survive a congressional ch…
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LOS ANGELES — Books about the unsavory alliance between the Boston mobster James (Whitey) Bulger and a corrupt F.B.I.
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It was early afternoon when the man with the twitching legs was dragged from the ground into an ambulance. Another man selling books washed away the vomit. And the lovers. They were unable to find a room.
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WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. — When Jeb Bush stopped by the Hampton Synagogue here on Saturday, he was expected to offer a critique of the Iran deal and a short version of his stump speech to the Orthodox congregation. But something else was on his mind:…
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In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in Nature, a team of 38 scientists finds that the planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, blowing away the previously estimate of 400 billion. That means, the researchers say, that there are 422 trees for eve…
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How the Internet Causes Depression
That the internet is a miserable place is rarely still disputed. The New York Times ran an article about it in 2012—which suggests most of the rest of us had been aware of it since 2006.
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Netflix, Streaming, and the Premature Death of Physical Media | Flavorwire
Matt Desiderio isn’t sure how he feels about me taking photos of his movie collection. It’s not that he isn’t proud of it — quite the contrary.
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Trump Tells Jeb Bush To Speak English | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump slammed his favorite punching bag, Jeb Bush, for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail.
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Verizon Is (Apparently) Changing Its Logo, Too | TechCrunch
According to AdAge, our corporate overlords Verizon will be introducing a new logo this week. Proving that we have little or nothing to do with AOL or Verizon really, this was also news to us. Let’s have a look.
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Lyft Line’s Express Re-Route Feature Aims To Get You Where You’re Going Faster | TechCrunch
Lyft has quietly added a new feature to Lyft Line, its service that lets passengers share rides with other people heading their same direction for a lower price, called Express Re-route.
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Blight club: Mr. Robot, Hannibal, and self-destructive TV · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
They say every piece of film is a documentary of its own creation. No wonder Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot looks like a funhouse. Our hero sits mostly off-screen, his hooded head peeking out from a corner.
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South Carolina Governor Insists Confederate Flag Lovers ‘Are Not Racist’ | ThinkProgress
When South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was 10 years old, she watched shop owners in rural South Carolina call the police on her father, an immigrant from India, just because he was wearing a turban.
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California To End Unlimited Solitary Confinement – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
California has agreed to no longer indefinitely isolate inmates who are known gang leaders, a policy change that will affect some 3,000 prisoners currently in solitary confinement. What do you think?
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California To End Unlimited Solitary Confinement – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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The messy history of the pie fight, from vaudeville to Nickelodeon — Hopes&Fears — flow “Film”
Ali vs. Frazier. Axis vs Allies. Rebellion vs. Galactic Empire. When you hear the phrase “Battle of the Century,” if these names might flash in your mind, but you’d be wrong. As of last month, the only names you should see are Laurel and Hardy.
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Greening America’s Energy Workforce
Oil permeates the whole economy. Even if you telework in a solar-powered home and tote your groceries home by bicycle, the price of petroleum affects what you spend on goods and services. This impact, of course, is uneven. The collapse from $105 per…
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Man busted for stealing from pot dispensary has perfect last name – Boing Boing
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Women react to really weird old sex advice throughout history – Boing Boing
Women sure got some weird sex advice back in the day. Glamour (and Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia’s video team) dug up popular tips from 1680 to 1963, then asked what a few modern women thought about them. We hardly know what word to use, but luckily, th…
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The Weirdness Of The Huawei Watch | TechCrunch
As a watch obsessive you can’t help but look at the new Huawei Watch and chortle knowingly. Announced a few months ago at MWC, the product lay dormant until now and our poor brothers at Engadget, forced to go to IFA, have some shots. They are very w…
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Earth Has 3 Trillion Trees Per New Count – Scientific American
There are roughly 3 trillion trees on Earth—more than seven times the number previously estimated—according to a tally by an international team of scientists. The study also finds that human activity is detrimental to tree abundance worldwide.
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China Wants Everyone to Watch While It Flexes Its Big Peace Muscle | VICE News
On Thursday, 12,000 Chinese troops and 500 military vehicles will parade through Beijing, with fighter jets and attack helicopters flying overhead. Ending at Tiananmen Square, the display will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War…
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Vice President Joe Biden will be on The Late Show next week · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The second coming of the war for late night is, uh, coming—Jimmy Fallon may be the current ratings king over at The Tonight Show, but he’s in for a fight once The Late Show With Stephen Colbert premieres next week.
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Meet Alex, the Javascript Tool to Make Your Code Less Offensive | Motherboard
Alex—the script’s fittingly androgynous name—will alert you if any input text contains offensive phrasing, and suggests neutral alternatives. For example, an input of “businesswoman” suggests “entrepreneur” or “business executive” as viable options …
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Alabama police officer testifies against colleague who beat Indian man | US news | The Guardian
A police officer didn’t need to use a leg sweep to take down an Indian man because he didn’t pose a threat, one of the officer’s colleagues said Wednesday.
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Is a Jaws extra the victim in an unsolved murder case? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Author Joe Hill knows a thing or two about horror and mystery—after all, his dad is famed horror writer Stephen King. So when he comes up with a new theory about an unsolved murder, people listen.
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How On Earth Can Pixar Make a Worthy Sequel to The Incredibles?
Ever since Disney and Pixar announced they’d be making The Incredibles 2, I’ve been obsessed with it. Partially that’s because I’m such a huge fan of Brad Bird’s original, pitch perfect superhero team/family film.
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Stan Lee knows why Fantastic Four sucked: No Stan Lee · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s been a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacking over just why the new Fantastic Four movie tanked so hard. (Or “Tranked” so hard, as director Josh Trank probably hopes his friends don’t say to him at dinner parties for the rest of his life.
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With the pressure resting squarely on his shoulders, Hannibal asks fans what he should do for this season’s final episode. Tune in CTA: Catch up on episodes of Why? with Hannibal Buress anytime on the Comedy Central app or cc.com.
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Mothers Demand Justice for Sons Killed by Police | Al Jazeera America
After her son, Dontre Hamilton, was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer in 2014, Maria Hamilton formed Mothers for Justice United to bring together women who have lost children to police violence.
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SpaceX Is Planning At Least Four More Launches This Year | Motherboard
For a company that just had a major mission failure for the first time in its history, SpaceX sure seems gung-ho about its return to orbit.
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73 percent of Trump’s Iowa supporters back deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants
Among Donald Trump supporters, nearly three-fourths (73 percent) say so.
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School Nurses Are Bad At Diagnosing Head Lice
If a school nurse says your kid has head lice, they’re probably wrong—and if you got the news from a doctor, be even more suspicious. Head scratching and white dots in the hair are usually not lice—but they’re mistaken for lice more often than you’d…
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Why the NFL Must be Loving the Misleading Sony Hacker Leaks on ‘Concussion’ Film | The Nation
The day after the trailer for Will Smith’s NFL head injury film Concussion made its way onto the web, news broke that seemed to undermine the seemingly searing polemic, and there is no doubt in my mind the NFL is thrilled about the convenient timing…
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Deadly explosion hits Zaidi mosque in Yemen capital – Al Jazeera English
A suicide bomb attack and a subsequent car bomb at a Zaidi mosque in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa, have killed at least 20 people, in an operation claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) Yemeni affiliate The suicide attack…
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Motorola announces new Moto 360 smartwatches – BBC News
Motorola has announced its second generation Android Wear smartwatches. There will be two versions of the Moto 360, one of which will have a GPS location chip to help the collection of fitness tracking data when the device is not linked to a phone.
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Obama pledges clean drinking water and climate aid for Alaskan villages | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama closed out his visit to Alaska on Wednesday, promising to provide remote native villages both 20th-century standards of flush toilets and sanitation and much-needed protection against the 21st-century consequences of climate change.
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Why Two Rappers Are Bringing Smoothies To Their Neighborhood | ThinkProgress
For more than 20 years, hip-hop artists Jadakiss and Styles P spat bars about what they saw in Yonkers, New York, a low-income community north of the Bronx. However, their latest venture, a local chain of juice bars, allows them to not only be neigh…
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Horny Nerds Used Artificial Intelligence to Stop Seeing Tattooed Women on Tinder | Motherboard
If you’re anything like me, Tinder’s romantic dystopia is mostly an exercise in denial.
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BBC Sport – Italian Grand Prix: Lotus set to race despite uncertain future
Lotus are set to race at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix despite the British-based team facing an uncertain future. It comes after former reserve driver Charles Pic took legal action for an alleged breach of contract.
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Midday open thread: Wildfires consume 8 million acres; Cheney continues ridiculousness in new book
And the numbers are still growing: 65 large fires are currently raging across the country, particularly in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. That includes three Washington state fires or fire complexes that are larger than 100,000 a…
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MRW immediately after I pass my PhD qualifying exam… : reactiongifs
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Land Rover Has a Cloaking Device for Your Horse Trailer | WIRED
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Why college students are now smoking more pot than cigarettes – The Washington Post
Daily marijuana use among U.S. college students is rising, and, for the first time since data has been collected, their use of pot has surpassed cigarette smoking, according to a new national survey. In 2014, 5.9 percent of of college students were …
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More College Students Use Marijuana Daily, Study Finds – WSJ
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More Proof Workers Are More Productive But Less Rewarded
Today’s positive economic news that worker productivity in the second quarter of 2015 was better than expected – up at an annual rate of 3.
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US Open 2015: Serena Williams v Kiki Bertens – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime why not read Kevin Mitchell’s account of Serena Williams’s first-round win over Vitalia Diatchenko.
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On Tuesday, 10 California inmates succeeded in stopping the decades-long use of indefinite solitary confinement in the state’s prison system.
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Officials at a daycare center are apologizing to parents after two workers were accused of instigating scuffles among the young children as part of a “fight club”.
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Just How Far Can a Motorcycle Lean in a Turn? | WIRED
A motorcycle leaning hard into a turn looks sort of like magic. Of course, the whole process is actually governed by some basic physics. In short, the motorcycle leans in a turn because of torque and fake forces. You can read a simple overview of a …
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Review: Moto X Pure Edition | WIRED
Everything about the smartphone is metamorphosing before our eyes. Phones are no longer just a place to collect your apps, throwing them in a drawer to open and close and sometimes hamfistedly share data between.
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Mardy Fish overcomes anxiety disorder for one final bow at the US Open | Sport | The Guardian
Mardy Fish said goodbye to professional tennis on Wednesday at the US Open, bringing to an end a career that contained plenty of highs but which, with the exception of a brave finale, was taken away from him just as it was really getting going.
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Google Docs Adds an In-App Research Mode, Dictation, and More
Google Docs is rolling out a slew of updates today, including a new research mode for the Android app, voice typing in Chrome, and more.
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For whatever reason, Tumblr is pretty into Pride And Prejudice. Sure, most adaptations of the Jane Austen classic are cool and everything, but that still doesn’t really explain why the following DJ Snake-infused fan edit of the classic Lizzie Bennet…
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The New Moto 360 Might Be the Prettiest Smartwatch Yet | WIRED
In just the past two days, we’ve seen a telling trend in the next generation of smartwatches. As their capabilities improve, they’re looking a lot less like wrist-computers. They’re actually starting to look like fashionable timepieces that just hap…
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Burger King continues quest for Peace Day burger after McWhopper rejection | Business | The Guardian
Burger King is refusing to give up on its attempt to release a showpiece burger in conjunction with rival fast-food chains to mark the United Nations’ International Day of Peace, despite being publicly rebuffed by McDonald’s.
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The second trailer for Eli Roth’s Knock Knock makes a compelling, if awkward, case for not letting suspiciously attractive people into your home.
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Grey swans are extremely rare, damaging storms. How will climate change affect them? | Grist
Black swans are catastrophic events that no one sees coming, while “grey swans,” as they are known, are extreme events for which there’s no historical precedent, but that could still potentially be predicted.
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MAVEN Using Stars To Study Mars’ Atmosphere | Video
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Snapchat Hires A New Growth Lead | TechCrunch
Snapchat has hired a new growth lead from Facebook as it continues its trek to being one of the most valuable social networking companies in the world.
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Hands-on with the new Moto 360: Righting the wrongs of the original version | Ars Technica
The first Moto 360 was Android Wear’s flagship device. It was a unique take on the smartwatch form factor, with its round display and relatively compact body.
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Mysterious dead creature found near the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant – Boing Boing
A woman in Sosnovy Bor, Russia found this mysterious, tiny, deteriorated creature on a river bank. She named it Kesha. Local biologists reportedly haven’t yet been able to identify it yet.
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Visit the imaginary nightclub where movie characters mingle – Boing Boing
“Hell’s Club,” a mash-up. Brilliant edit by AMDS Films.
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For all the changes happening in late-night comedy, and the new hosts taking the chairs of retired veterans like David Letterman and Jon Stewart, the genre remains one of television’s most homogenous fields, populated almost entirely by men.
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Women Pick the Perfect 3D Printed Penis – The Daily Beast
Forget about tissue engineering and chocolate sculptures. 3D printing has finally achieved its true purpose: helping scientists discover the size and shape of the perfect penis.
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I Have Some Serious Concerns About the Captain America: Civil War Movie
The way Marvel keeps jamming superheroes into the third Captain America movie, the more it sounds like it’s going to be Avengers 2.5, with the twist being that the Avengers are taking sides against each other.
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In September 1965, just three months before turning 50, Frank Sinatra released September Of My Years, a concept album that focuses on a man turning 50 and reflecting on his life with a certain amount of wistful longing and nostalgia.
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Government-backed egg lobby tried to crack food startup, emails show | US news | The Guardian
A US government-appointed agricultural body tried to crush a Silicon Valley food startup after concluding the company represented a “major threat” and “crisis” for the $5.5bn-a-year egg industry, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.
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Chicago Hunger Strikers Bring The Fight To Keep Their School Open To Washington D.C. | ThinkProgress
Last month, 12 parents and community members decided to go on a hunger strike to protest the closure of Dyett High School in Chicago.
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Neko Case gets a massive career-spanning box set · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Neko Case is hopping on the career retrospective bandwagon. This November 13, the singer will release Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule, a vinyl box set spanning all of her releases.
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The literary labors of three women have brought American readers the best-selling Neapolitan novels, which have met with a level of acclaim rare for serious fiction of non-English origins.
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When you at da club : trippinthroughtime
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Welcome to Recife by Antonio Ferreira Silva / 500px
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Taiwan Air Force and Navy Air Bases [oc] [2000×1850](osint) : MapPorn
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Fading Beauty by Kotomi Ito / 500px
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Yemen crisis: Sanaa mosque bombings kill at least 20, officials say – BBC News
A double suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Yemen’s capital Sanaa has killed at least 20 people and left many more injured, medical officials say.
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Set in the slums of Hillbrow, an overpopulated urban area of inner city Johannesburg, Umkhungo tells the story of Themba, a young boy shrouded since birth by paranormal events; most say haunted by the ancestors. When his mother is murdered, and his …
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Entertainment Podcast: We Are Not Your Friends, VMAs Beef Edition | WIRED
Maybe it’s just the heat of the dog days of summer finally setting in, but things are getting a little agitated on the Monitor podcast this week. (Apologies in advance.) First off, we do not have friendly things to say about We Are Your Friends.
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The death toll from a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a western Illinois veterans home has climbed to seven, and the state’s public health director has warned that more fatalities could occur.
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Don’t Be Fooled: This Adorable Little Drone Means Business | WIRED
When you first look at the Vantage Robotics Snap drone, you might think it’s just another flying toy. Perhaps even a 3D-printed flying toy.
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Shocking Images of Drowned Boy Spark Anger as Europe Disagrees Over Migrant Crisis | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. Warning: Graphic images below.
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Republican hopeful John Kasich says he, too, will re-rename that mountain
As to the actual achievements of President McKinley, let’s just say they were spotty at best. All right, so it’s John Kasich.
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Blast at Yemen Mosque Kills at Least 20 | Al Jazeera America
The suicide bomber blew himself up inside the mosque during the evening call to prayers, while the car bomb exploded outside an entrance, they said. Medical officials said the death toll may rise with people now in operating rooms in several hospita…
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Jellyfish POV [X-Post from /r/itookapicture] : natureporn
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Remembering China’s Forgotten WWII Veterans (10 photos) http://t.co/fNlO2IzoYf http://t.co/NxkefoKRnM
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This is how my cats nap. : cats
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September in California by Rafael Atempa / 500px
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Bloody Catch! by Salah Baazizi / 500px
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The Hottest Bar in Philly Is on Top of a Shuttered Public School – The Awl
In 2013, the Philadelphia school district shut Bok Technical High School, along with twenty-two other schools—nearly ten percent of the city’s public schools—to wipe out a budget deficit of nearly a billion-and-a-half dollars.
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Deadly car bomb targets Syria government stronghold – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 people have been killed and 25 others injured in a car bomb that went off in a square in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia, according to state media and a monitoring group.
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Surprise Military Reunions At NFL Games Reach Peak Bullshit
During last weekend’s preseason St.
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Five foot seven and claws out of its head: meet Earth’s first big predator | Science | The Guardian
Earth’s first big predatory monster was a giant underwater scorpion that reigned in the ocean almost half a billion years ago, well before the dinosaurs, scientists have discovered.
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The broken girl and a mother’s war with UnitedHealth | City Pages
The toffee-skinned waif appeared beyond the glass partition, sucking her thumb as an escort toted her up the airport walkway. The woman had been charged with bringing the girl from an orphanage 7,000 miles away to a life of upper-middle class fabulo…
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Who are Japan’s Yakuza? In 60 seconds – BBC News
Who are Japan’s Yakuza? In 60 seconds 2 September 2015 Last updated at 19:35 BST Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate have been a thorn in the side of Japanese authorities for years.But what role do they play in the country? And how big a presence are the…
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Hulu to offer an ad-free option for monthly subscribers | Ars Technica
Hulu is announcing an option to go ad-free for a $12-per-month subscription fee. The streaming service has long required that all viewers—even paid subscribers—watch ad content in between programming, but this new tier helps Hulu take a stab at its …
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Fox News anchor sues Hasbro over toy hamster’s shared name and likeness | Media | The Guardian
An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5m over a toy hamster that shares her name and possibly even her resemblance.
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What is the lethal dose of various substances? – Boing Boing
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If you’ve ever looked at a mindbending, impossible piece of architecture designed by M.C. Escher and thought, well, I would love to play that, then you just might love Back to Bed, a video game for Windows, Mac, Google Play and Playstation.
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Why America Needs a Slavery Museum
The Whitney Plantation in Louisiana is the only US museum and memorial to slavery. The Atlantic has a video about the museum and its founder, John Cummings, who spent 16 years and $8 million of his own money on it.
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The Iran deal will not be scuttled by Congress, now that President Obama has secured the support of enough Senate Democrats to sustain any veto of any attempt to strip Obama of his authority to waive sanctions. It’s a historic win for peace and dipl…
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When it comes to influential sports video games, the early ’90s release NBA Jam stands tall next to Tecmo Bowl, the Madden NFL series, and RBI Baseball.
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The Oscars are sort of like America’s yearly junior prom, in that we always make a huge deal about the show, and then the next day talk about how disappointing the whole thing was and think of ways to maybe make it better next year.
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The Scream Queens main title sequence has lots of screaming · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Ryan Murphy has revealed the full main-title sequence for Fox’s upcoming anthology series Scream Queens, and it’s fittingly full of people screaming at the top of their lungs.
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Dark-Matter Experiment on Space Station Hits a Glitch – Scientific American
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The operators of a US$2-billion dark-matter experiment aboard the International Space Station are striving to figure out how to keep three crucial cooling pumps working after the failure of a fourth last year. -
There will be two hosts for next year’s Oscars : television
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Port au persil en Charlevoix by Yvon Lacaille / 500px
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How to Do Your Own Yearly Home Inspection
Before you buy a home, it’s always a good idea to get a professional home inspector—but that shouldn’t be the only time you give your home a thorough look. Here’s a checklist of what to look for when performing a yearly visual inspection on your own…
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Halo 5’s cinematic opening – Boing Boing
Can the Halo series survive without the Masterchief and Cortana? Halo 5 introduces Fireteam Osiris, a new team of Spartan-IV heroes, but will we care? Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is the greatest hero in FPS history.
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US army officially opens Ranger School to women | US news | The Guardian
The US army said on Wednesday it would open its elite Ranger School to all soldiers regardless of gender, after two women made history last month by becoming the first to pass the grueling leadership course.
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Swansea Bay tidal energy scheme strives to generate waves of optimism | Business | The Guardian
Tyrone O’Sullivan is not an obvious evangelist for the vast Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project, lauded by its developers as world leading but dismissed by one critic as Britain’s “pottiest ever” renewable energy project.
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This Website Lets You Search Google with Its Old Logo | Motherboard
Google revealed a new logo this week, and there has been a lot of discussion about the new design. In fact, people are still debating it and working through their complex feelings: Some people (including some people at Motherboard) really don’t like…
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Baltimore judge will not dismiss charges in Gray case – Al Jazeera English
A Baltimore judge has refused to dismiss charges against six police officers accused over the death in April of a black man who was in their custody in the US state of Maryland.
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Remembering China’s Forgotten WWII Veterans – The Atlantic
Tomorrow, China will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II in 1945.
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We Thought These Microscopic Invertebrates Never Had Sex. Maybe We Were Wrong.
Chances are, you’ve never heard of bdelloid rotifers, strange microscopic creatures that typically live in freshwater ponds and streams. In the grand scheme of things, they’re related to arthropods, a group which includes insects, spiders, and crust…
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Republican presidential candidate and current Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked by a member of the work/family policy organization Make It Work about paid family leave at the Iowa State Fair.
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Missouri school to allow transgender student to use girls’ facilities | US news | The Guardian
When a transgender high school student in Missouri received backlash for her request to use the girls’ bathroom and locker room, she found one very important ally: the school board, which granted her permission to use the facilities.
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Trevor Noah Promises ‘Nothing’s Going to Change’ in ‘Daily Show’ Promo | Rolling Stone
Put your vuvuzela back in the closet – Trevor Noah is taking over as the new Daily Show host later this month, but the South African comedian isn’t planning any dramatic cultural shifts.
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Motorhead Cancel Another Date as Lemmy Recovers From Altitude Sickness | Rolling Stone
Motorhead Cancel Another Date as Lemmy Recovers From Altitude Sickness “Lemmy will resume duties the moment he is properly rested and firing on all cylinders again,” band writes
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News | At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others
Fast Facts: › A study suggests the particles in one section of Saturn’s rings are denser than elsewhere, possibly due to solid, icy cores. › The findings could mean that particular ring is much younger than the rest.
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The Latest And Largest Batch Of Clinton Emails Was Released This Week | Mother Jones
On Monday, the US State Department released the latest and largest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state.
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Last month, one of the largest coal companies in the United States filed for bankruptcy, citing an “unprecedented period of distress” in the industry. The demise of Alpha Natural Resources wasn’t exactly a surprise.
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Conservatives Think “Ice Melts in Summer!” Is a Convincing Argument | The New Republic
Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe threw a snowball on the Senate floor last winter as proof that it was “very, very cold out,” which must mean climate change is a hoax. Now, President Barack Obama is using a glacier to make the opposite case.
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8 Minimalist Maps [OC][1904×515] : MapPorn
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Camping Under The Milky Way Along The John Muir… – Just Space
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Hillsborough River, Tampa, FL : FoggyPics
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500-year-old tea house in Wales : pics
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Sheriff Susan Pamerleau of Bexar County told the San Antonio Express-News that Gilbert Flores was carrying a knife when the deputies confronted him on Friday outside a home north-west of San Antonio, having responded to a domestic disturbance call a…
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40 Days in the Desert – timeless, eternal mythical tale by Moebius – Boing Boing
When you are trying to imagine the details of an alternative world, try Moebius.
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What do you do when you’ve got a plumbing clog? – Boing Boing
We live in an older house and the plumbing clogs up frequently (usually an hour before a dinner party). I rarely get good results from Draino or other lye-based clog dissolvers. I end up with a sink full of caustic swill that splashes on me when I v…
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Movie of the Week: “You and Me” – The New Yorker
Fritz Lang’s most celebrated German film, “M,” from 1931, is the story of gangsters who beat the police at their own job by catching a serial killer when the police investigation impinges on their usual criminal activities.
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Gluru Shows You Files, Emails, and More Right When You Need Them
Web/Android/iOS (Coming Soon): One of the best things about Google Now is that it floats useful information right when you need it. Gluru is a new app and web service that wants to do the same, just for your productive life, by pulling from Dropbox,…
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Noah Baumbach, Kicking and Screaming Into Middle Age – The New Yorker
Noah Baumbach’s first movie, “Kicking and Screaming,” from 1995, is about a group of guys, recent college graduates, who don’t want to leave college.
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It only took 30 years for “My Baby Just Cares For Me” to be a hit · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: With Labor Day on the horizon, we’re once again talking about our favorite “baby” songs.
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Windows 10 Picks Up Global Market Share Following Debut, Finds Quick Adoption By Gamers | TechCrunch
Windows 10 has completed a full month in the market following its formal release, meaning that we have new data to parse regarding its in-market performance.
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Louis Malle teams a young Susan Sarandon with an aging Burt Lancaster · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Venice Film Festival begins, so we’re recommending some of the best winners of the fest’s highest honor, the Golden Lion.
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Zachary Hammond shooting inquiry should find new prosecutor, family says | US news | The Guardian
In documents filed Tuesday, the parents of Zachary Hammond say the state supreme court should declare that solicitor Chrissy Adams has a conflict of interest because the 19-year-old was shot by a police officer in her jurisdiction.
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Teenager faked pregnancy with FakeABaby.com products – Boing Boing
FakeABaby.com deals in faked ultrasound images, pregnant belly prosthetics, and other materials.
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It’s not lost on Samantha Bee that she’s entering schlong-infested waters by joining the late-night scene as the host of her own talk show. In this new promo for Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, she shows that she’s more than capable of holding her o…
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Woman who sued Uber over alleged New Delhi rape drops her US lawsuit | Ars Technica
The Indian woman who sued Uber in an American federal court after alleging she was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi has now withdrawn her case, according to a Tuesday court filing. Such a move suggests that the woman, whose identity was kept ano…
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Why deep fry a fish sandwich 7 times? Because it’s there – Boing Boing
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Adult Swim announces its Drive-In tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Adult Swim is going on tour. Billed as a mix of “totally unaired pilots and specials” as well as “a fantastical night full of Adult Swim, food trucks, trivia, and prizes,” the Adult Swim Drive-In tour is free to attend, but only open to those 18 and…
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White Noise Boutique to sell ‘artisanal white noise’|Dangerous Minds
Residing at the precise point where conceptual art meets commerce meets mathematics meets cyptography meets transcendental meditation meets, shall we say, hipster excess is the White Noise Boutique, a pop-up shop that will exist in the city of Brigh…
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Google Docs Gets Voice Typing, Templates, Smart Sheets And More | TechCrunch
“Get ’em while they’re young” is a battle cry for every company. The younger your users are, the more you can evolve with them over time and keep them locked into using your products.
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Google calls Classroom a “mission control for teachers,” allowing them to access all of Google Apps for Education within one central place. Teachers can use the product to chat with students, help students with their work and keep track of the daily…
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RSPB and the fear of the feline whip | Letters | Life and style | The Guardian
As a vice-president of the RSPB, Chris Packham (Charities silent over animal hunting and culls, says Packham, 2 September) is not well-placed to accuse other conservation and animal welfare organisations of silence on topics that might upset some of…
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A young Linda Ronstadt, Santa Monica, 1968 : OldSchoolCool
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Nepal Hasn’t Spent Any of the Billions Donated To Recover From Devastating Quakes | VICE News
The Nepalese government has admitted it has been slow to start rebuilding and assisting citizens four months after one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit the South Asian nation killed nearly 9,000 people, and left nearly 10 percent of the po…
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Machinima settles with FTC over “deceptive” Xbox promotion | Ars Technica
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a proposed settlement with massive YouTube gaming network Machinima over a “false and misleading” promotion that paid video creators to talk about the Xbox One following its launch.
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The Backlash to Taylor Swift’s ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video Shows the Perils of Nostalgia – The Atlantic
Taylor Swift’s music video for “Wildest Dreams” isn’t about the world as it exists; it’s about the world as seen through the filter of nostalgia and the magic of entertainment.
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When Book Research Means 250 MPH Winds, A Crash Helmet and Goggles
You know that moment where you feel like a good breeze could lift your feet from the ground? You lean into it a little. You might even unbutton your coat to let the wind fill the cloth.
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Update Your Graphics Drivers: It Can Make a Big Difference in Games
We’ve told you before that you should keep your graphics drivers up-to-date if you’re a PC gamer. But how much do they actually increase performance? Linus Tech Tips does a little experiment to find out.
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What’s going on? President Obama is winding up a tour of Alaska intended to highlight the effects of climate change and the desperate need to address it.
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Throw Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis in Jail | The New Republic
Kim Davis, a county clerk in Morehead, Kentucky, will face a contempt hearing Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples—an act of unlawful defiance that has made her a hero to the religious right and a villain to progressives.
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Carly Fiorina looks set to appear on the main stage at the second Republican presidential debate, which will take place in Simi Valley, Nevada on 16 September. This may be the best thing that could happen to the presidential campaign of the former H…
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U.S. restaurants are terrible at getting wasted food to the hungry. Can we change that? | Grist
There’s a bagel place two blocks north of my apartment. During the day, it serves hundreds of people. One of its points of pride is that its bagels are made fresh, daily. From what I understand, that’s kind of the thing with bagels: They have to be …
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Elliott Smith documentary soundtrack to feature previously unheard music · Newswire · The A.V. Club
One of the more fascinating aspects of the 2014 documentary film Heaven Adores You, about the incredible life and sad end of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, was its inclusion of previously unheard music.
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Proving that no one is safe from the wrath of a roast, Hannibal assembles an all-star dais to roast a newborn baby. Catch up on episodes of Why? with Hannibal Buress anytime on the Comedy Central app or cc.com.
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Supercut proves Psych took a lot of potshots at The Mentalist · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In many ways, Psych was the embodiment of a USA Network program. It was light and breezy, never taking itself too seriously. It ambled along fine with effective B-list supporting character actors, minimal budget, and an audience that was loyal and l…
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Waiting for the Northern Lights by Dagur Jonsson / 500px
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This horse NEEDS more petting : aww
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Radiant glow by Jontake . . / 500px
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Not your average Milky Way js – Just Space
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Private Infinity Pool overlooking a Lake Erie Sunset [960×631] : waterporn
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FBI probes man’s videoed death by cops as ethics of posting footage questioned | Ars Technica
A Texas broadcaster’s decision to publish a bystander’s video capturing Texas deputies shooting a man with his hands raised has prompted an FBI investigation into the death of a 41-year-old San Antonio man whose killing has been viewed around the wo…
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When it first launched in 1997 as one of the first digital-only publications, Nerve raised eyebrows. It’s mission was simple and its moment was singular: create a smart sex magazine that both men and women can enjoy.
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They Remember, the Little Brother of War – SBNation.com
The big man in the creaky office chair hasn’t always been here, but he’s here now and will be here as long as he needs to be. The guy known to everyone as Doc sits upright, almost statuesque, scanning the field, stretches of silence interrupted by h…
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Hello Kitty museum exhibit headed to Seattle in November – Boing Boing
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What Reddit could have looked like in the 1980s – Boing Boing
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Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz · Miley Cyrus · Music Review · The A.V. Club
There’s no question that Miley Cyrus’ free surprise album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, is deeply flawed. At 23 tracks and 92 minutes, it’s a slog to get through.
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There has been a recent effort to link the Black Lives Matter movement to a spate of murders of police officers last month. On Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly brought on Peter Moskos, a professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College and a former pol…
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Patti Lupone returns as series regular for Penny Dreadful season 3 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Patti Lupone was affecting as a strange old crone known as the Cut-Wife in “Nightcomers,” a strong stand-alone episode of last season’s Penny Dreadful that focuses on how Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) came to cultivate her own dark powers.
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Jeb! Bush tries to escalate feud with Donald Trump, Trump sort of notices
Bush had “no choice” but to attack him with a recent ad, Trump said on Wednesday. “And you know, he has a lot of money from the hedge-fund guys from the special interests, from lobbyists. He raised over $100 million, they control him totally, so he …
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CBS developing yet another legal drama, this one based on Gloria Allred · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because cranking out legal dramas by the truckload is what CBS does, it’s already got another one in development. In addition to the “Tom Sawyer is a lawyer” show just announced, Variety reports the network is now developing a series inspired by the…
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Cabo Verde Hit by First Hurricane in a Century : Natural Hazards
Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean typically start to develop off the west coast of Africa, then move westward across the basin and intensify as they approach North America or the islands of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
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American Chess May Finally Emerge From The Shadow Of Bobby Fischer | FiveThirtyEight
If you are a super-elite chess player, odds are that you’ve spent the past week in St. Louis.
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Bubl’s Spherical Video Camera Gets Samsung Backing | TechCrunch
Canadian startup Bubl, maker of a 360-degree camera for capturing spherical panoramas, has closed a $3.5 million (CDN$4.6 million) seed round, led by Samsung Ventures and J-Tech Capital, with other unnamed investors also participating in the round.
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Warm bedroom with postless corner window [1,500×1,000] : RoomPorn
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New York – Top of the Rocks – Sunset (2048×1366) : SkyPorn
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Hong Kong, China. Photographer: Weerasak Sae-ku [2048 x 1367] [OS] : CityPorn
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HMB while I ride this sheep : holdmybeer
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Sex Workers To Feds: Go F**k Yourself! – The Daily Beast
On August 25th, Rentboy.com’s CEO, Jeffrey Hurant, was arrested along with six of his employees by agents from the Department of Homeland Security.
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Brad Paisley to Perform, Predict on ‘College GameDay’ | Rolling Stone
College football action officially heats up this Saturday. Ahead of the gridiron challenges, ESPN’s football preview series, College GameDay will welcome back country superstar Brad Paisley, to share his predictions with the panel of expert commenta…
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It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought | Motherboard
Have you ever wondered how many trees there are on Planet Earth? Well, an international group of researchers have discovered that Earth is home to just over three trillion of them—that’s a lot more than the current global estimate of 400 billion.
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Popcorn Time’s Era of Lawsuit-Free Piracy Is Over | Motherboard
A Hollywood studio is suing 16 alleged users of Popcorn Time, a Netflix-style piracy service that is so popular your mom probably uses it.
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US Government Settles with Network that Secretly Paid YouTubers to Shill Xboxes | Motherboard
The Federal Trade Commision today proposed a settlement with Machinima, a video network that in 2013 paid gaming YouTubers to promote Xbox products without disclosing they were being paid to do so.
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See Morrissey Cover Waylon’s ‘Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way’ | Rolling Stone
Morrissey is an outspoken stage presence, attracting headlines throughout the past 30 years for his rants against Madonna, the Cure, the British royal family, the cast of Duck Dynasty, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel and meat-eat…
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Tom DeLonge Hopes Blink-182 Remains ‘Part of My Life’ | Rolling Stone
Eight months after Tom DeLonge abruptly left – but did not quit – Blink-182, the guitarist has revealed that he still hopes the punk trio will remain “a part of my life.” However, DeLonge reiterated that a reunion is not imminent and probably unlike…
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Andrew Luck: The Natural | Rolling Stone
Early in the morning, in a little place called Joanie’s Cafe in Palo Alto, just outside the Stanford campus, Andrew Luck sits down for breakfast. He’s dressed in a blue T-shirt and shorts, with his trademark sea-captain beard. If anyone recognizes h…
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Watch Jason Aldean’s White-Hot Alabama Medley at ACM Honors | Rolling Stone
When Luke Bryan first won the ACM’s Entertainer of the Year award in 2013, he wept tears of joy. “What I always wanted to be was just a country singer that got to ride on a tour bus and show up at a new stage and play music every night,” he said, wh…
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Nick Offerman gently tickles fellow dipshits. AMA : IAmA
Actor / Entertainer – LiveNick Offerman gently tickles fellow dipshits. AMA (self.IAmA) Nick Offerman, Actor – Woodworker – Writer, thoroughly tumescent to appear in a small role in A Walk In The Woods, opening today. …
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Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha On The Road From Entrepreneur To Investor | TechCrunch
Many folks in the tech industry dream of making the jump from entrepreneur to investor, but few actually succeed in taking the leap.
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Guatemala is a place where justice seldon reaches those who deserve it most. But today in Guatemala, something amazing has happened. And they’re calling it “Guatemalan Spring.”
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Some Cranky Camels Aside, This Week’s Zoo Is All About Human Drama
Zoo has just three episodes to go after this week’s “Emotional Contagion,” and the title is apt; this might be the show’s most emo week yet, and it’s overloaded with heavy plotting. It’s also way too low on insane animal action.
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Kim Davis, the anti-gay clerk in Kentucky who has refused to comply with court orders requiring her to issue marriage licenses, will appear in federal court Thursday for a hearing that will determine if she will be held in contempt of court.
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As scientists with expertise in environmental issues, veterinary medicine, wildlife and livestock health and welfare, we are disappointed by the recent announcement that the government intends to allow the shooting of free-roaming badgers in Somerse…
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Anna by Michael Schnabl / 500px
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Antipsychotic drugs are widely used to blunt aggressive behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities who have no history of mental illness, a UK survey of medical records finds, even though the medicines may not have a calming effect.
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A Look At Open Bionics 3D Printed Robotic Hands For Amputees | TechCrunch
Open Bionics, a startup out of the U.K that makes bionic hands, figured out how to dramatically lower the cost of prosthetics using a combination of open-sourced 3D printing software and robotic sensors. Nearly 2 million people live with the loss of…
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Ars is hiring! Can you handle healthcare? | Ars Technica
Ars is looking to hire someone to cover healthcare, medicine, and all things related to the science of the body! Our ideal candidate would know the difference between absolute and relative risk, and would be able to intelligently discuss both the fa…
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US secretary of state John Kerry reiterates the case for congressional passage of the Iran nuclear deal, asking Congress and the American public to ‘consider the facts’ as they make their decision.
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Scientists reveal there are 3tn trees in the world in latest count | Environment | The Guardian
Scientists have already calculated how many fish there are in the sea (230,000 species), and how many species there are on the planet overall (8.7m). Nowthey have had a crack at counting all of the world’s trees.
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Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner sues Hasbro over hamster toy – BBC News
A Fox News anchor is suing a US toy company, Hasbro, for more than $5m (£3.3m) over a toy hamster that she says resembles her and shares her name.Harris Faulkner said the company’s portrayal of her as a plastic hamster “was demeaning and insulting”.
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New Thin, Flexible ThinkPads Come With Plenty of Ports | WIRED
Since it bought the ThinkPad brand from IBM in 2004, Lenovo has spiced up the straight-laced lineup with new tricks.
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Hope you like feeling sad, because this looks like a real wrist-slitter of a movie. Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette, tells the story of two best friends, one of whom gets diagnosed with cancer at the same time the other f…
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Elfquest and Wendy Pini art books – Boing Boing
Wendy Pini and Elfquest, the graphic novel series she creates with her husband, Richard, are among my favorite things in the world. So I immediately jumped on the chance to order a three-volume series of art books featuring her work on Kickstarter.
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Apple v. Samsung is headed toward an incredible fourth jury trial | Ars Technica
In March or April of 2016, yet another jury will be summoned to federal court in San Jose to weigh in on the long-running dispute between the world’s two biggest smartphone companies.
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Chromebooks Have Come a Long Way
Chromebooks have come a long way since they were first introduced. While they used to be laptop-shaped browser machines, they’ve grown capable enough to actually stand up to other laptops. I didn’t expect to love my Chromebook, but it’s replaced my …
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Kanye West’s VMA speech reimagined as a Seinfeld cold open · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Kanye West’s speech at the MTV Video Music Awards this year made quite an impression on many people.
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Salman Rushdie’s Baffling Arabian Nights | The New Republic
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie’s first adult novel in seven years, is so baffling that you have to wonder whether it’s some kind of a prank.
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Amazing video of Prince debuting “Purple Rain” that he doesn’t want you to see – Boing Boing
Footage from the August 1983 concert at Minneapolis’ famed First Avenue club when Prince debuted the magnificent 13-minute original version of Purple Rain – with an additional third verse – that was later edited and overdubbed for the Purple Rain al…
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NYPD Officers Say They’re Being Punished For Refusing To Target People Of Color | ThinkProgress
More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed this week allege the system requiring officers to make a certain number of arrests and issue a specified nu…
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Marco Rubio’s Energy Plan Is Big on Fossil Fuels, Silent on Clean Energy | ThinkProgress
Ending the Clean Power Plan, lifting America’s crude oil export ban, and allowing states — not the federal government — to regulate fracking would be some of Marco Rubio’s top energy priorities if he becomes president.
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California Scales Back Solitary Confinement in Ashker v. Brown – The Atlantic
Solitary confinement may be activists’ most successful battlefront in the growing war against mass incarceration.
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Lego Profits Are Up: Courtesy of Ninjas and Elves – The Atlantic
The Danish toy maker Lego reported strong sales and profit numbers on Wednesday. The company said it has ninjas and elves to thank for the good news (Lego ones, of course). For the first six months of this year, Lego saw profits rise 27 percent alon…
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Tumblr Finally Makes “Reblogs” More Readable, Especially On Mobile Devices | TechCrunch
One of blogging site Tumblr’s flagship features, the reblog – meaning the reposting of another person’s content onto your own site – is getting a significant makeover starting today.
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Louisiana seeks to block release of Angola Three inmate Albert Woodfox | US news | The Guardian
Louisiana attorneys asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to block the release of longtime inmate Albert Woodfox and allow prosecutors to try him a third time in connection with the 1972 death of a prison guard, but Woodfox’s lawyer said a fair…
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Something unusual happened in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend: There were three hurricanes, all with category-four status at the same time, lined up across the central and eastern region of the world’s biggest ocean.
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Big yellow taxi: a history of New York City’s cabs – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
On Tuesday, the Nissan NV200, known as the Taxi of Tomorrow, officially became New York’s standard cab. The radical redesign means the city’s trademark cabs will be more of a minivan than a car – with more legroom, a phone charger and sunroof.
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Have we passed the peak era of globalisation? – BBC News
This weekend many of the world’s top central bankers met in the picturesque setting of Jackson Hole in Wyoming to debate “inflation dynamics and monetary policy”.
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Urge by Oliver Sacks | The New York Review of Books
Oliver Sacks, who died on August 30, was a longstanding contributor of thirty essays to The New York Review of Books. His last published article, below, appears in the Review’s September 24 issue. Walter B., an affable, outgoing man of forty-nine, c…
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9 baby monitors wide open to hacks that expose users’ most private moments | Ars Technica
The security of Internet-connected baby monitors got a failing grade from researchers who found critical vulnerabilities in all nine of the models they reviewed. The weaknesses make it possible for hackers half a world away to perform a host of nefa…
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Microsoft Azure Cuts Some VM Prices, Brings Premium Storage Options To G-Series VMs | TechCrunch
Microsoft is announcing a couple of updates to its Azure cloud computing service today that, among other things, include the launch of a new variant of its performance-optimizes G-type virtual machines (VMs) and price cuts for its compute-centric D-…
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A Florida Man Captured Some Dreamy Video of the Rocket Launch This Morning | Motherboard
Just before dawn today, the US Navy launched a new communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, carried into orbit by an Atlas V rocket—and an onlooker caught it all in this stunning video.
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How Steve Jobs Drew on Myth to Build the Cult of Apple | Motherboard
At a release party for the video app Vine last week, director of UX Jason Mante took the stage with his dreadlocks and charisma to announce the app’s latest feature. Following a call-and-response moment in his presentation, my friend whispered, “he’…
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On the trail of an elusive marine mammal. The following Longreads Exclusive comes from the latest issue of Orion magazine. Subscribe or sign up for a free trial issue.
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Why Astronauts Are Stuck on a Two-Day Trip to the Space Station | Motherboard
Two days is a long time to be stuck with two other dudes in a cramped space capsule. Then again, it’s preferable to putting the ISS at risk of a Gravity situation, and that’s exactly why a trio of astronauts are currently facing a very long detour i…
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What’s Happening in Guatemala? | The Nation
The post-Cold War settlement put into place in the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala—neoliberal “free trade” economics combined with limited constitutional democracy—is coming apart.
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The Rebellion Against Standardized Tests Is Exploding | The Nation
Opting out is in. Over the past two years, the movement to boycott standardized tests across New York State has mushroomed from a fringe rebellion to a mass mobilization against what many see as an anxiety-provoking, creativity-stifling, and hyperco…
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Obama gains enough Senate support to protect Iran deal – Al Jazeera English
Barbara Mikulski of Maryland became the 34th senator to announce her support for the accord on Wednesday, which means any attempt by the US Congress to halt the deal will fail.
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Hulu introduces “no commercials” plan that still has some commercials · Newswire · The A.V. Club
High on the list of so-called “first-world problems”—coming in just behind “this latte is too hot” and “my Uber driver tried to talk to me”—is the complaint that “Hulu keeps playing the same ads over and over again.
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Two years have passed since Edward Snowden exited Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and began a new life in exile. His revelations of hitherto unknown US and UK programmes of mass surveillance initiated a global debate, and some minor reforms.
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome crashes during 11th stage
Great Britain’s Chris Froome crashed during the Vuelta a Espana 11th stage, which was won by Spain’s Mikel Landa from the Astana Pro Team. Froome suffered a cut to his right leg in the accident on the first climb of the stage. He was able to continu…
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I love him like a son, he tolerates me at best. : cats
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The Washington Post ran a story last week about some 200 retired generals and admirals who sent a letter to Congress “urging lawmakers to reject the Iran nuclear agreement, which they say threatens national security.
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Donald Trump’s success is no surprise. The public and the press have focused on his defiant rejection of mannerly rhetoric, his putting into words of what others think privately.
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Hulu Finally Challenges Netflix With Ad-Free Movie Streaming | WIRED
Redoubling its challenge to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, Hulu is finally offering an ad-free version of its Internet movie and television streaming service. On Wednesday, the big-studio-backed Hulu announced that users can now watch movies and sh…
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Most Adults’ “Heart Age” Exceeds Their Actual Age – Scientific American
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Three out of four U.S. adults have a predicted “heart age” that is older than they are, putting them at increased risk for heart attacks and strokes, government researchers said on Tuesday. “Your heart may be older than you are.
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DC Superhero Red Tornado Blows Into the Supergirl TV Series, But With a Twist
Twist? Tornado? Spinning? Never mind. Peaky Blinders and Salem star Iddo Goldberg has been cast as the superheroic android in the utterly fabulous-looking new Supergirl TV series, but not quite as DC fans will recognize him.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s office scrubs press release that clears Planned Parenthood
The state released its findings of the Planned Parenthood investigations on Aug. 5.
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How People With Disabilities Have Sex | Broadly
“It essentially does the thrusting for you,” a voiceover explains as a man moves himself from a wheelchair to a canvas structure resembling a hinged camping chair. After he gets in the chair, it’s implied, he’s going to fuck. It’s not just a chair, …
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NEW ORLEANS—A more or less orderly line of 4-year-olds, the boys in uniform blue polo shorts and the girls in plaid-checked jumpers, line up in the corridor of St. Rita Catholic School in the neighborhood known as Uptown.
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Build a Wall-Mounted Battery Organizer (and Flex Your Woodworking Skills)
I don’t know about you, but digging through half-opened battery packages buried in a drawer isn’t an easy way to get what you need. This simple battery organizer makes it easy to grab and go.
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Coinbase Expands To Singapore | TechCrunch
Coinbase has added Singapore to the list of countries where you can buy and sell bitcoin using their platform. This is Coinbase’s first foray into Asia and it will allow users with Singapore Dollars to buy bitcoin.
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Freddie Gray hearing sparks new protests in Baltimore – video | US news | The Guardian
Dozens of demonstrators gathered at a hearing for six Baltimore police officers criminally charged in the death of Freddie Gray. The charges range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree ‘depraved-heart’ murder.
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‘Operation Cyber Juice’ Shuts Down Underground Steroid Labs Across US | VICE News
Agents with the Unites States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have arrested more than 90 people in a series of raids on illegal steroid labs across 20 states, it was announced Tuesday.
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Everest: how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips with the world’s highest mountain | Film | The Guardian
Imported snow from Holland was among the secret weapons deployed by Everest director Baltasar Kormákur in his quest to make his 3D film about the disastrous 1996 expedition, when eight climbers died on the world’s highest mountain, as realistic as p…
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BBC Sport – David De Gea: Man United keeper could miss Euro 2016 for Spain
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea is likely to miss the Euro 2016 finals if he does not feature for his club side this season, according to Spain boss Vicente del Bosque.
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Don’t Buy Into Acer’s LEGO-Like Modular Computer | TechCrunch
Acer just debuted this adorable computer. Called the Revo, it’s tiny and modular and cute and a waste of your money. The thought process is that owners can easily upgrade their systems with different components that snap into place. It’s a series of…
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River Song will appear in the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas Special · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fans of Alex Kingston’s River Song have something else to look forward to as the next season of Doctor Who approaches. The Doctor’s wife will meet the 12th incarnation of her husband for the first time during this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special.
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MTV’s ‘Scream’: The Kids’ Guide to Slasher Flicks – The Atlantic
“#Mindblown”—pronounced “hashtag, mindblown”—is a hell of a line for a serial killer to deliver after revealing his or her true identity.
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The ISIS Economy: Crushing Taxes and High Unemployment – The Atlantic
Before Islamic State militants overran her hometown of Mosul in June 2014, Fahima Omar ran a hairdressing salon. But ISIS gunmen made Omar close her business—and lose her only source of income. Salons like hers encouraged “debauchery,” the militants…
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With All-Day Egg McMuffins at McDonald’s, America Is Reverting to its Adolescence – The Atlantic
To fully gather the vital feathers of the Egg McMuffin, you first have to start with Eggs Benedict. The Benedict is an American invention.
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. In or out of character, Colbert does the best version of smart, sharp late-night host. One Direction’s announcement that they’re taking a hiatus.
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Kenny Chesney on Life Post-‘Revival’: ‘There’s a Double-Edged Sword’ | Rolling Stone
It is likely that right now, somewhere off the coast of the Virgin Islands, Kenny Chesney is bobbing on the ocean and reflecting on his remarkable year. The ringing may be especially loud this year.
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Tinashe on New Album: ‘Motherf–kers, I Can’t Be Ignored’ | Rolling Stone
“I can’t be ignored,” says Tinashe in the new preview for her sophomore album Joyride, due this fall.
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Phil Collins Details ‘Face Value,’ ‘Both Sides’ Reissues | Rolling Stone
Phil Collins will kick off his “Take a Look at Me Now” reissue campaign on November 6th with remastered deluxe versions of his 1981 solo debut, Face Value, and his fifth LP, 1993’s Both Sides.
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The Wolfpack, the lost tribe of the Lower East Side
The Wolfpack is a documentary that follows the six Angulo brothers, whose father kept them sequestered (along with their sister and mother) inside a four-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for fourteen years because he thought the…
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Pokémon is terrifying when recreated in Grand Theft Auto · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V is both a murderous psychopath and a severe methamphetamine addict. But maybe there’s something sweeter and more innocent buried in the cratered wreckage of his brain.
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Baltimore Judge Denies Motions to Dismiss Charges Against Officers in Freddie Gray Death | VICE News
A Baltimore judge has denied a motion by defense lawyers to dismiss charges against the six officers involved in the high-profile death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody in April.
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Tokyo is Ditching Its 2020 Olympics Logo | WIRED
Faced with allegations of plagiarism, the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2020 Olympics has withdrawn its chosen logo for the summer games. The logo, created by Japanese graphic designer Kenjiro Sano, features a set of geometric shapes built to f…
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A Clinic’s Email Screwup Revealed 780 Patients’ HIV Status | Motherboard
A stereotypical data breach might involve state-sponsored hackers, or cybercriminals looking for a payday. But yesterday, a leading HIV clinic in the UK revealed the identities of hundreds of its patients—by accidentally copying them all into the sa…
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World’s First Water-Cooled Gaming Laptop Looks Like a Bad Idea But Here We Are | Motherboard
PC Gaming hardware is notoriously ugly and often completely impractical, but you kind of have to admire the audaciousness of ASUS’ GX700, the world’s first water-cooled gaming laptop. Computer hardware manufacturer ASUS announced the laptop today, b…
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Three Space Station Crews to Answer Media Questions from Orbit | NASA
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We all do it and they love us for it : cats
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” Grandpa, why do you have such a big tongue?” : cats
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Scaleway Now Provides Crazy Cheap Virtual Private Servers For $3.40 Per Month | TechCrunch
Online.net’s Scaleway is an interesting beast in the cloud hosting world. Instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean and other VPS providers, the company designed its own …
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Tesla Model X pricing revealed, and it’s not cheap | Ars Technica
The problem with being at technology’s bleeding edge is that it isn’t cheap. This is particularly true in the car world. Clever new vehicles like BMW’s i8 and Tesla’s Model S are quite remarkable, but neither is particularly affordable.
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Americans Keep Working Harder But Aren’t Getting Paid More For It | ThinkProgress
Americans keep working harder and producing more economic growth. But they’re not getting rewarded with any extra pay for it, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
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Denali is not just the new Mount McKinley – it’s also 10 feet shorter | US news | The Guardian
North America’s tallest mountain doesn’t just have a new name. It also has a new elevation.
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Uh-oh, Could Spielberg Be Rebooting Back to the Future and Jaws?
Steven Spielberg’s company DreamWorks is going back to Universal after a deal with Disney runs out next year and you probably don’t care. What you may care about though is the article about this deal mentions potential reboots of Back to the Future …
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An Oral History Of Me As Told Through My Exes* — Medium
Fran Hoepfner is an adult. She began dating at the age of 17 in her hometown of Mount Prospect, Illinois. Her earlier relationships were defined by proximity and convenience and a taste for chubby male musicians who let her call the shots.
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Wikipedia bans editors suspected of being paid shills – Boing Boing
There are 381 socks currently being blocked as a result of this investigation. All of the socks are linked by both technical data and behavioural evidence. The list of socks has been posted at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody/Accounts. All of t…
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Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM | TechCrunch
I’m often told I have a face for radio, which works out well given that TechCrunch has its own radio show on Sirius XM each week. On Tuesdays, John Biggs and I head to midtown to host TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121, which includes the pat…
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Watch ants weirdly circle an iPhone when it rings – Boing Boing
These ants circle an iPhone like it’s the Ka’aba in Mecca.
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Bodies of drowned Syrian refugees found on Turkey beach – Al Jazeera English
At least 12 people believed to be Syrian refugees have drowned after two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek island of Kos, a senior Turkish naval official has said. The two boats, carrying 23 people, had set off separately from…
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If China had to choose, it would be South Korea – Al Jazeera English
On September 3, the Chinese capital will witness a massive military parade. The parade will become the highest point of the lavish celebrations, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Asia.
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Elliptical Galaxies –“More Likely to Be the Cradles of Life in the Universe”
The field of astrobiology has made huge strides in understanding the habitable zones around stars (stellar habitable zones) where life can begin, sustain its existence and evolve into complex forms.
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Under a Pier at Twilight [5121×3353] [OC] : ExposurePorn
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I will never leave you alone : cats
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She’s got a very serious look… : cats
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From NASA and the Makers of the Hoverboard: Tractor Beams | Motherboard
Arx Pax, the California company that brought you the 90-pound magnetic hoverboard that actually works and lasts 10-15 minutes, has its eyes set on bringing a grander sci-fi trope to life.
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Kash Now Offers Faster And Cheaper Alternative To Old Payment Networks | TechCrunch
Payments, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Kash whose multi-year mission is to “clear financial transactions instantly (like cards) and have much lower fees and fraud rates (like ACH.
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Lenovo’s new MIIX 7 is a Skylake-powered Surface Pro clone | Ars Technica
Lenovo’s ideapad MIIX 700 (the capitalization there is all Lenovo’s; what “ideapad” lacks in upper case, “MIIX” makes up for in spades) has a familiar look to it. It’s a 12-inch tablet with an integrated kickstand and a detachable keyboard cover, ju…
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Google’s Street View Trekker Makes A Return Trip To The Galapagos Islands | TechCrunch
Google’s Street View cameras recently made a return trip to the Galapagos to catch up with the local population of giant tortoises.
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The Green Rush: Finding Tech Business Opportunities Within The Cannabis Sector | TechCrunch
Cannabis, marijuana, pot, weed, ganja, Mary Jane, doobage. Whatever you call it, it has taken center stage in the world of investment. It’s getting the 15 minutes of fame it rightfully deserves, and it’s getting it right now.
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My Brother’s Keeper | The Verge
I’ve seen my younger brother Zach in person a handful of times in the past eight years. He’s spent a little over two of those years incarcerated — not counting time in county jail awaiting trial or the times he broke parole and fell off the grid.
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Existence of Super Mario’s penis challenged – Boing Boing
In all seriousness, I think it’s clear Mario would have a penis, (i.e. an embodied sexuality) in canonical Nintendospace, the abstract world in which Mario exists, but that it would not exist in Nintendoanschauung, the view of that creation to which…
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Migrant crisis: Syrian family tell of journey to Germany – BBC News
Many migrants who have arrived in Germany after travelling through Europe are waiting to be processed at reception centres. The BBC’s Jenny Hill spoke to a Syrian family at a centre in Bavaria who have travelled through five countries to flee civil …
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Judge gives free pass to elderly man who solicited prostitute – Boing Boing
Howard Arthur Klein, 87, was nabbed in Grand rapids, Michigan for soliciting a prostitute.
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The resistance of Kim Davis, the country clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, to the law of the land would be funny if it weren’t sincere. After bucking various court decisions in recent months, Ms Davis has yet again declined to administer marriage lic…
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Uber Downplays Class Action Case, But It’s Still a Big Deal | WIRED
Yesterday, a federal judge in San Francisco granted class action status to a lawsuit brought against Uber by three of its drivers. This ruling made it possible for thousands of drivers to join the suit, arguing that they ought to be classified as em…
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Starfish-killing robot close to trials on Great Barrier Reef – BBC News
An autonomous starfish-killing robot is close to being ready for trials on the Great Barrier Reef, researchers say. Crown-of-thorns starfish have have been described as a significant threat to coral.
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We’re Looking For An Experienced Political Reporter | FiveThirtyEight
Too much campaign coverage is crappy — credulous, overheated and unenlightening. FiveThirtyEight was founded to help remedy that (or at least to try), and as the 2016 election gets going, we’re looking for a chief political reporter to help us conti…
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It’s one of the more poignant entries on Setlist.fm I’ve ever read, by far. It’s a list of the songs played at last night’s Motörhead show at Emo’s in Austin, Texas, and it reads, as follows, in full: 1. Damage Case 2. Stay Clean 3. Metropolis (part…
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Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream | TED Talk | TED.com
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet — accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.
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Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the Ukrainian crisis and the New Cold War.
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Indonesia pledges to cut carbon emissions 29% by 2030 | Environment | The Guardian
Indonesia will pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 29% by 2030 the environment and forestry minister said on Wednesday, but gave few details on how this would be done.
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Supergirl’s roster of villains continues to grow with Red Tornado casting · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Poor Supergirl, a.k.a. Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Kara Zor-El. Upon discovering her powers, she seems more than willing to help the innocent people of National City: Both trailers feature her safely guiding an out-of-control passenger jet to safety.
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Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard drops surprise album as Thunderbitch · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Between releasing her band’s new album, Sound & Color, and jamming onstage with Sir Paul McCartney at Lollapalooza, 2015 has been a pretty good year for Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard.
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Buy Windows 95, Dances With Wolves and Myst in this vaporwave classic – Offworld
Mall Quest is a fun dirge for that age, shuttling you among self esteem-ified pixel goons and chunky graphic renderings of the things you have to buy: Games like NBA Jam 2 and Myst, Silly Putty and movies like Dances With Wolves.
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Uber Hits Back Against Class Action Lawsuit Approval, Prepares to Appeal | Motherboard
Yesterday a federal judge ruled that the employment lawsuit against Uber would be allowed to proceed as a class action potentially encompassing 160,000 drivers. Uber has announced that it will likely appeal the certification ruling.
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Judges Killed a Patent That Would Have Stopped SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket Plan | Motherboard
One of the more bizarre patent suits in the commercial spaceflight world is finally over: A team of federal judges has thrown out Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s attempt to patent a reusable rocket concept that was already being used by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Protesters Gather as Six Baltimore Officers Face Pretrial Hearing in Freddie Gray Death | VICE News
A band of protesters assembled outside of a downtown Baltimore courthouse Wednesday morning where six officers were set to make a pretrial appearance in the high-profile case concerning Freddie Gray, who died in police custody in April. The officers…
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Don DeLillo to receive National Book award for lifetime achievement | Books | The Guardian
Don DeLillo is pleased to receive an honorary National Book award medal for lifetime achievement, but a “little intimidated” by the citation for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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This Is The Poll That Explains Why Trump Dominates Iowa | ThinkProgress
It’s been shown before: People, particularly Republicans, don’t hate the idea of mass deportation. In July, a CNN poll found that a majority of Republicans want the government’s immigration strategy to focus on deporting undocumented people.
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Indonesia’s Protest Generation and Biggest Punk Band Are Fighting Land Reclamation | VICE News
A couple of days after Indonesia celebrated its 70th year of independence from the Dutch empire, a group of around 500 people on the island of Bali exercised their right to protest — supported by the country’s biggest punk band.
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D-Wave unveils new quantum computing benchmark (and it’s fast) | Ars Technica
D-Wave, a company we have covered extensively in the past, has taken some heat because a number of tests have shown that its adiabatic quantum optimizer is no faster than a regular computer.
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These Ancient Dolphins Left the Sea to Swim Through Prehistoric Rivers
Most dolphins are saltwater animals, but there are a few dolphins around the world that decided to leave the saltwater behind and swim upriver. This is an artist’s rendition of one of those prehistoric dolphins that swam through the rivers of Panama…
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Hulu Launches Ad-Free Subscription Tier For $12 Per Month | TechCrunch
Streaming service Hulu just announced a new subscription tier to remove advertisements. As a reminder, a standard Hulu subscription costs $7.99 per month. The new commercial-free option costs $11.99 per month. It removes all the advertisements, with…
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Dear incoming freshmen: don’t fear failure. It may lead you to success | US news | The Guardian
My first year of college was an utter failure. Literally – I flunked out. I spent my freshman year at Tulane University culture-shocked and out-of-place, desperate to leave.
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Tanium Gets Another $120M To Unpick The Cybersecurity Patchwork | TechCrunch
Enterprise security and system management firm Tanium has announced another big tranche of funding, taking in $120 million, led by TPG and Institutional Venture Partners, with existing investor Andreessen Horowitz also participating.
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Catering to a TV-viewing audience that increasingly watches on a variety of connected devices, including mobile phones and tablets, CBS has announced plans to live-stream coverage of two regular-season NFL games for the first time.
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Run a Renaissance art guild in this Leonardo da Vinci simulator – Offworld
If you’ve ever dreamed of being—or perhaps of micromanaging—the great artists of the Italian Renaissance, then it’s time to play Painters Guild.
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Ultimate Chicken Horse is like Mario Maker for asshole animals – Offworld
Sure, Mario Maker looks like a lot of fun. But will it let you and your friends turn into horses and raccoons and cut each other up with buzzsaws?
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Elena Ferrante pours scorn on speculation she could be a man | Books | The Guardian
The elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante has said that women writers tend to be shut “in a literary gynaeceum” by the books industry, even though “we know how to think, we know how to tell stories, we know how to write them as well as, if not bette…
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Syria conflict: How far is Russia prepared to bolster Assad? – BBC News
Just how far is Russia prepared to go to back the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad?
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“The midnight sun” filmed in gorgeous 4k – Boing Boing
The light during midnight sun is a surreal and unforgettable experience. Hues of pinks, purples, reds and oranges that you may be lucky to see for a few minutes during a normal sunrise/sunset can explode for hours in an epic display of nature’s mast…
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Hulu Is Adding a New $11.99 Plan Without Commercials (Mostly)
Hulu is the only place where you can legally watch the newest episodes of many shows online—but its incessant commercials have always been pretty annoying. Today, Hulu is launching a new tier of service priced at $11.99 a month, without commercials—…
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Waiting for Eviction – Al Jazeera English
Hundreds of people in remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia will be forced to abandon the land their families have lived on for generations. The state government is reviewing plans to cut services to up to 150 towns.
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No bail for pair accused of threat at Boston Pokemon tournament | Ars Technica
Two men who police say were arrested with heavy weaponry and ammunition outside of a Boston Pokemon card tournament last month will be held without bail for at least four months as they await trial.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 2nd – The New Yorker
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Karen Gillan rounds out lead cast of The Circle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
And The Circle gets the square—we mean, Karen Gillan: Deadline reports the Guardians Of The Galaxy actress has signed on for the latest film adaptation of a Dave Eggers’ novel. Gillan rounds out a cast that includes Tom Hanks (of course), Emma Watso…
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How To Talk To Your Child About Death – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
When your family has experienced a loss, it can be a difficult concept for young children to process.
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In the past year, intense tensions around race in America have re-emerged, sparking protests, civil unrest and reams of media coverage.
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Image of the Day: “Ghosts of the Universe”
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory near the South Pole of the Earth has begun to detect nearly invisible particles of very high energy. Although these rarely-interacting neutrinos pass through much of the Earth just before being detected, where they s…
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NASA Discusses First Ground Tournament Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge | NASA
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He was purring so loud like it was comfy : cats
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Nero: Why the EDM Cosmonauts Are Moving Closer to Arena Rock | Rolling Stone
British electronic trio Nero have traveled deeper into a sci-fi blackhole for their sophomore album Between II Worlds, creating dark, ambient, transportive tracks.
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Abaddon is a place of suffering and purification. Written and Directed by Rogerio Silva Choreographed and Performed by Harriet Waghorn and Troy Savic Music by Alaskan Tapes Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/justrogerio Twitter: @justrogerio Website: http://www.th…
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Neko Case Readies Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set | Rolling Stone
Neko Case will release Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule, a career-spanning vinyl box set that pools all of her studio albums, a live LP and an EP in one limited edition package.
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Bid to block Springboks from Rugby World Cup fails – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters A legal attempt to block the South African team flying to the UK to play in the Rugby World Cup in a row over racial discrimination has failed. A judge in Pretoria dismissed a minor political party’s bid to block the Springbo…
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Listen to Shawn Mullins Channel Fab Four in ‘My Stupid Heart’ | Rolling Stone
Shawn Mullins will release his first new album in five years next month. Nothing fires up the muse as readily as heartbreak. Shawn Mullins recently relearned that lesson, via a divorce from his third wife that left him both crushed and inspired.
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Nick Kyrgios Loses His Racket (and His Mind) at the US Open | Rolling Stone
Nick Kyrgios Loses His Racket (and His Mind) at the US Open Tennis’ human highlight reel also took a quick nap and cursed out an umpire during his first-round loss to Andy Murray.
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Janis Joplin’s Bandmate Talks Heroin, Pool Hangs in Exclusive Doc Clip | Rolling Stone
A new documentary detailing the brilliant rise and sudden death of Janis Joplin, Janis: Little Girl Blue, will make its world premiere on September 5th at the Venice Film Festival.
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Ron Perlman on ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ Holy Rollers and Donald Trump | Rolling Stone
Before Hand of God, Ron Perlman had never spoken in tongues. Then, his character, Judge Pernell Harris, had an religious epiphany, so the 65-year-old actor had to learn quickly.
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Mystery at the Birth of the Universe –“The Matter-Antimatter Imbalance”
What did the universe look like shortly after it came into being? The ALICE experiment (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at CERN in Switzerland concerns itself with this question.
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Last month, we featured poet, professor, and WFMU radio host Kenneth Goldsmith singing the theory of Theodor Adorno, Sigmund Freud, and Ludwig Wittgenstein — heavy reading, to be sure, but therein lay the appeal.
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Tajikistan creates planet, names it after self – Boing Boing
A central asian nation may have no easy path to the sea, but its future among the stars is assured—at least in its dreams.
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Migrants in Athens: ‘In life, you must take risks’ – BBC News
Thousands of migrants are continuing to arrive in Greece from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Two ships carrying 4,200 people docked at the mainland port of Piraeus after leaving the island of Lesbos.
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Many politicians seem intent on holding themselves as far back from us as possible, on parceling themselves out in only the smallest and most controlled bits. Even as they implore us to love them and insist that we trust them, they’re stingy. Cagey.…
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Obama prevails on Iran deal. : politics
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Soyuz Snaps Amazing View of Space Station Dock Switch | Time-Lapse Video
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Fat cat pay at fossil fuel companies drives climate crisis – report | Environment | The Guardian
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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2015
Your education doesn’t have to stop once you leave school. We’ve put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this fall for the latest term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your lif…
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Netflix “NightShift” caches shows on your home network to boost speed | Ars Technica
Are you having problems streaming Netflix? A startup called Aterlo Networks claims it has a solution: download Netflix shows and cache them locally so you can view them later without problems.
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Sweet Caress by William Boyd review – love and war in the 20th century | Books | The Guardian
Amory Clay is at boarding school and working her way through the standard teenage rebellions – smoking, sexual experimentation, talking back to a headteacher who’d like to persuade her to try for Oxford – when her father arrives on an unexpected vis…
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The Harvest · Film Review · The A.V. Club
For its first 45 or so minutes, The Harvest plays like a creaky, made-for-TV domestic drama, until a barely foreshadowed twist turns the film into a lurid (though still creaky) adolescent-wish-fulfillment potboiler of the V.C. Andrews variety.
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The 34th vote supporting the Iranian nuclear deal is secured meaning that the Senate will not be able to sustain a veto. “Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.
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Josh Gad to play Roger Ebert in Russ & Roger Go Beyond · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in January, we reported that Josh Gad might play Roger Ebert to Will Ferrell’s Russ Meyer in Russ & Roger Go Beyond, the story of Meyer and Ebert’s misadventures in making Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls.
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Houston teenager fatally shoots himself while taking a selfie with a gun | US news | The Guardian
The 19-year-old was at an apartment in the city on Tuesday afternoon when the weapon fired, hitting him in the throat. Media reports named the man as Deleon Alonso Smith, who had two young children and had been scheduled to start college on Wednesda…
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Across India an entire category of architecture is slowly crumbling into obscurity, and you’ve probably never even heard it. Such was the case 30 years ago when Chicago journalist Victoria Lautman made her first trip to the country and discovered th…
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The last known photographs of Jim Morrison in Paris, dated June 28, 1971|Dangerous Minds
Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 at age 27. The official cause of death on his death certificate was “heart failure.” No autopsy was performed. Here are the last known photographs of the lizard king taken on June 28, 1971 during a day trip to Saint…
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Though the extraordinarily gifted musician Scott Miller died almost two and a half years ago, the idea that there will never be another Loud Family album, or that the Game Theory reunion he was readying will never happen, remains very hard to take.
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I found filling this out to be curiously satisfying : oddlysatisfying
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Sony smartphone has 4K screen and new camera module – BBC News
Sony has unveiled the first smartphone to feature a 4K-resolution screen. It means the Xperia Z5 Premium can both capture video in “ultra-high definition” quality and then play it back on its 5.5in (14cm) display without downgrading the footage.
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Sony Xperia Z5 Premium phone boasts a 4K display – BBC News
Sony has announced a new phone, which it says is the first to feature a 4K screen. It means the handset can display videos at four times the quality of 1080p high definition.
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Obama secures enough support from senators for Iran deal – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has secured enough support in US Senate to ensure that the Iran nuclear deal will go into effect. Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland became the 34th senator to back the deal on Wednesday.
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Family Begged Girl to Ditch Brutal Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka – The Daily Beast
Her defiled face was on display in an open casket during a wake at a funeral parlor in her hometown of Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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Children paralysed in Ukraine polio outbreak – BBC News
Two children have been paralysed in the first polio outbreak in Europe for five years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Both cases were in Ukraine where only half the children are fully immunised.
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Obama secures Iran victory as 34th senator endorses nuclear deal | World news | The Guardian
Democrat Barbara Mikulski has become the 34th senator to support the Iran nuclear deal, ensuring a landmark victory for the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent it being derailed.
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Coal Ash Can Contain Radioactive Elements Up To 10 Times Higher Than Coal Itself | ThinkProgress
Scientists have known for years that coal — and its burned byproduct, coal ash — contains radioactive elements.
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Citymapper Tells You Where to Sit on the Subway so You Can Exit Faster
(Web/iOS/Android): Subway stations can be big and complicated. Depending on where you get off, you could end up walking a bit to the right street exit or to your next platform. Citymapper will tell you the best spot to hop on and off your train for …
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Kiona Mack, a 25-year-old Baltimore resident and friend of Freddie Gray, told ThinkProgress she is watching the hearings in her friend’s case closely.
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Hearthstone exhibited as modern art at the V&A Museum in London | Ars Technica
LONDON—Last Friday, I found myself in Room 48a of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the shadow of some of the finest and most valuable works of art in the world: giant 500-year-old paintings by Rafael that would later be turned into tapestries that…
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Rand Paul Defends Kentucky County Clerk Who Won’t Issue Marriage Licenses | ThinkProgress
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has come to the defense of Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, who now faces contempt charges for violating a court order by refusing to issue marriage licenses.
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The Moral Panic Over Sexting – The Atlantic
It is extremely common for American teenagers to text one another naked photographs. Much less frequently, they get caught. If they’re discovered by a parent or teacher, they might get off with a stern lecture or a suspension from school.
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Haiku Is A Nifty Bike Assistant That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket | TechCrunch
Chances are you haven’t found the perfect solution to get directions while riding your bike. Meet Haiku, a tiny little bike computer that wants to solve that by being a sort of smartwatch for your bike.
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Jayson Werth Catches Foul Ball Without Spilling Beer – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—In an incredible play that drew cheers from the whole stadium, Washington Nationals left fielder Jayson Werth managed to catch a foul ball Tuesday night without spilling the beer he was holding in his other hand.
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Millions strike in India over government labour reforms – Al Jazeera English
Millions of workers across India have begun a 24-hour strike in protest against planned labour law reforms, the biggest show of strength by trade unions since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office last year.
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Ferrante Fever in Brooklyn – The New Yorker
At exactly—or just about—midnight on Tuesday, a bearded employee of the Community Bookstore, in Park Slope, rushed into the back room of the shop and, waving his hands, proclaimed, “Ferrante fever forever! It’s midnight! The book is now on sale!”
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Help Get the Webcomic Chief O’Brien at Work Out of Cyberspace and Into a Book
We’ve written about Chief O’Brien at Work, the webcomic about the true misery suffered by Miles O’Brien during his days on the Enterprise, before.
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In an exclusive report, The Wrap has revealed that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII is zeroing in on its female lead.
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If you recut the scenes from seasons seven & eight of Seinfeld to emphasize certain aspects of Susan’s death-by-envelope, you get a feel-good TV movie about George Costanza, a man who finds triumph in the midst of tragedy.
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The World Lost 45 Million Acres of Tree Cover Last Year, Half of It Tropical | Motherboard
Global tree cover loss is once again nearing an all-time high, according to new satellite data from Google and the University of Maryland, and tropical forests are disappearing fastest.
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A Retelling: The Clubwomen | The Nation
The grandmothers were enthralling. Improvising dowager status for themselves. Mine had both grown up in Mississippi, gone to Rust College, and taught in small country schools. They both worked in dressmaking when they moved North (the Jeffersons to …
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Sydney, Australia — I OFTEN wondered what it would be like to have a cancer growing inside your body. To suddenly discover you are carrying something that is eating you away, growing in an ugly, consuming mass in or around your bones or organs.
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On Thursday at 12pm EDT VICE News environment editor Robert Eshelman joins On The Line to discuss this year’s record-breaking temperatures, as well as the Obama administration’s response to climate change.
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Sony “took most of the bite out of” football concussion movie to please N.F.L. – Boing Boing
The screenwriter claims that cuts make the film “better and richer and fairer,” but emails exposed by hackers show studio lawyers altered the film to avoid tangling with the National Football League.
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Freddie Gray police death case goes to court in Baltimore – BBC News
Freddie Gray police death case goes to court in Baltimore A pre-trial hearing has begun for six US police officers charged over the death of a black man in police custody, a case that sparked widespread looting and rioting in Baltimore in April.
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Journalist Spends Four Years Traversing India to Document Crumbling Subterranean Stepwells Before they Disappear http://t.co/exFpZ8ydeB
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My shower drain glows when the light in the basement is on. : mildlyinteresting
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/kOGcZS0zvC http://t.co/gWcoVQrSxR
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Ferrante Fever in Brooklyn – The New Yorker
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Don’t HMB while I taunt the bull. : holdmybeer
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Evolution of The Moon : woahdude
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Someone got this amazing pic of the Atlas Launch : woahdude
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Rock Thrush by Arshad Ashraf / 500px
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A new report from app store analytics firm App Annie this morning offers insight into the most popular – and profitable! – iOS applications of all time.
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Sen. Mikulski declares support for Iran nuclear agreement, giving Obama the 34 votes he needs
“No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime,” Mikulski wrote in a statement Wednesday. “I have concluded that this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the best option available to block Iran from having a nuclear bomb.
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Acer unveils ‘building block’ Revo computer – BBC News
Acer has unveiled a desktop PC whose parts are designed to be fitted together like building blocks. The idea behind the Revo Build is to make it easy to customise a computer without having to unscrew parts of its body to install new components or co…
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Racist who threatened Lakota children at a hockey game found not guilty – Boing Boing
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The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games | Atlas Obscura
When you walk into the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games in St. Petersburg, the first thing you’ll see is a series of gray, hard-edged soda machines from the early 1980s.
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If You’re Lying About Being a Navy SEAL, This Man Will Catch You | Washingtonian
The mud feels grimy and viscous, with a greenish tint that makes you think of Superfund sites and names for new diseases. I’m crawling through it on my elbows with 25 other slimy recruits. The scene is a boot camp called Extreme SEAL Experience, hel…
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How Do You Handle Your Difficult Family Members?
We all have family members we have a tough time dealing with. Some of us stick to safe topics of conversation, some of us avoid particularly prickly family members as much as possible. How do you handle the more demanding members of your family?
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“Private room” advertised for rent was plastic shed in corner – Boing Boing
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The People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger—Before His Death | The New Republic
Henry Kissinger was 26 years old when he wrote a nearly 400-page undergraduate thesis arguing that “power is not only the manifestation but the exclusive aim” of history.
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Cartoon: The stock market, explained
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To the fucker I saw on the way to work this morning : AdviceAnimals
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Browne Lake, Ashley National Forest, Utah [OC][1600 x 1066] : waterporn
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Burning Sky by Nicholas Roemmelt / 500px
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Brooklyn Dreams by Lazy Desperados / 500px
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London skyscraper wins award after melting cars – Boing Boing
The award, given to architecture deemed ugly, hostile or otherwise bad, came with an affirmation that the skyscraper met every possible criterion for recognition.
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Snapdragon 820’s custom CPU is twice as fast, efficient as disappointing 810 | Ars Technica
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 820 flagship won’t actually ship in any phones before early 2016, but the company continues to dole out bits of information ahead of the launch. Today it’s talking in very broad terms about the CPU, which is based on a bran…
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A Reality TV Show Profiles Female Farmers in Tanzania – The Atlantic
Reality-show contestants typically spend their time scrambling to win a man’s heart or a record deal. On Female Food Heroes, which is known as Mama Shujaa Wa Chakula in Swahili, the official language of Tanzania, contestants might be found scramblin…
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Anyone can betray anyone… Reds are commoners, living in poverty stricken lands under the rule of the Silvers.
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Apparently, you can appeal a Supreme Court ruling to a higher authority.
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Bringing Irish short stories by women into the spotlight | Books | The Guardian
Richard Ford calls the short story the “high wire act of literature”, but my favourite description comes from Irish writer Mary Lavin, who described it as an “arrow in flight”.
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Deadspin RGIII Almost Saved Washington, And Then He Didn’t | Gizmodo Google’s Logo Killed Serifs Because Serifs Had It Coming | Jezebel I’m Sorry, But Who the Fuck Does This Homewrecking Pig Think She Is? | Kotaku Mad Max: The Kotaku Review |
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We all know restaurants where the menu changes daily. Last week at Superiority Burger, a vegetarian medium-fast-food outfit in the East Village, it changed in the middle of my meal.
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Canning byelection poll: renewable energy trumps national security | Australia news | The Guardian
Renewable energy is of greater concern to voters in Canning than national security and two-thirds of voters would support a 50% renewable energy target, according to a poll released on Thursday.
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River Song Is Returning to Doctor Who. Great. Whee.
River Song will return to sass the Doctor in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special, according to the BBC. It’s like a Christmas present, except you can’t leave it under the tree and you can’t regift it later. Sorry, I’m still burned out on River …
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WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: The Americans | WIRED
Way back in 2001, the hottest spy show on television was Alias, starring Jennifer Garner as a grad student with a secret life of espionage. J.J.
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The World Lost An Area Of Trees Twice The Size Of Portugal In 2014 | ThinkProgress
Some tropical countries saw an “alarming” surge of tree cover loss in 2014, according to a new report.
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It’s an armor. On a woman. It doesn’t have to look feminine. [posted on /r/GirlGamers] : gaming
It’s an armor. On a woman. It doesn’t have to look feminine. [posted on /r/GirlGamers] (imgur.com) Fuck yes. It’s about time.
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The Weeknd, Carly Rae Jepsen, Taylor Swift: Why the sound of the 1980s became the sound of 2015.
My favorite music meme of the summer was this mix boiling down the Human League’s 1981 hit “Don’t You Want Me?” to its opening phrase: “You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,” repeated in endless, sublimely moronic variations.
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This Rock Climbing Gym Wants to Disrupt Your Work-Life Balance – Bloomberg Business
When Joe Lemay, a 38-year-old developer in Boston, decided to leave his corporate job to launch a startup, he opted against a permanent office. Instead, Lemay spends his days at Brooklyn Boulders (BKB) Somerville, a rock-climbing gym designed to dou…
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There are lots of ways to spy on baby monitors | The Verge
Baby monitors are a lot smarter than they used to be. The devices began as little more than two-way audio and video feeds, but more recent models come with sophisticated web services, including app access and remote viewing.
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Super Mario Maker pulls the curtain back on game design’s promise and peril | Ars Technica
It’s easy for a longtime gamer to be a little hipster about Super Mario Maker’s existence. Through the magic of emulation tools, hobbyists have been able to craft their own Mario levels on PCs since at least the mid-’90s.
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Aquicore helps commercial building owners monitor and analyze their energy usage and bill their tenants based on usage. The company today announced that it has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by 1776 Seed Fund, a newly launched global incubator…
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Bird Cries Wolf to Deceive Predator 40 Times Its Size – Scientific American
In the classic story, a boy tries to repeatedly fool his town into believing that there is a wolf on the prowl. This morality tale ends poorly for the boy, but a small Australian bird can do one better.
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On any given day in downtown San Francisco, you’re bound to people zipping around on push scooters, wearing either blue jackets or yellow shirts. Their jobs are basically the same, which is to provide on-demand parking services, but they work for on…
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Criminal protip: don’t confess “off the record” – Boing Boing
Matthew D. Muller, 38, is in jail after confessing to a kidnapping, “off the record and on background” to a TV reporter. Kevin Poulsen reports on the bizarre, Gone-Girl like convolutions of the case.
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This Week On Bullish: Bitcoin Is Coming To A Block Near You | TechCrunch
Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show.
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It’s worrying that tales of Robin Hood and his Merry Men remain so popular.
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Flooding Fields in California’s Drought | VICE News
Faced with a severe drought, California enacted mandatory water conservation rules in early April for the first time in the state’s history. But the agriculture industry — which consumes 80 percent of the state’s water — was exempt from the new rest…
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Nowadays, people think about traveling and eating in much the same way they do about watching movies and TV, listening to music, and reading: They do so obsessively, exhaustively, and with lots of input from the internet.
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Users of Popcorn Time, movie streaming app, sued – Boing Boing
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BBC Sport – Rory McIlroy handed place in European Tour Final Series
Rory McIlroy has been given a special exemption by the European Tour to play in the season-ending Final Series. With the Northern Irishman leading the rankings, Tour officials have used their discretion to ensure the 26-year-old can compete in the s…
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Sao Paulo massacre highlights disturbing trend in Brazil – Al Jazeera English
Sao Paulo, Brazil – When her son Luiz was shot and killed by masked men, Zilda Maria de Paula was at home watching an evening soap opera in Osasco, a working-class area on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.
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Watch These Ugly-Cute Naked Mole-Rats Party in the Lab | Motherboard
Cambridge University just posted a video of its ugly-cute community of naked mole-rats. Watching these bizarre creatures manically running around and cuddling up together is a wonderful salve for the brain. What’s more, these rodents have genuine su…
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Baby Monitors Are Still Really Easy to Hack | Motherboard
In 2013, a man hacked into a Houston couple’s baby monitor and started yelling at their daughter. That was only one of the first in a long list of widely publicized and incredibly creepy security incidents involving internet-connected baby monitors.
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Red Cross: Water being used as weapon of war in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Civilians in the city of Aleppo are undergoing enormous suffering because of deliberate cuts to water and electricity supplies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.
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US health watchdog to take legal action against e-cigarette makers | US news | The Guardian
A health watchdog is to take legal action in California against the manufacturers of some of the best-known brands of e-cigarettes, following tests to establish the levels of toxic chemicals they contain.
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BBC News – Racism video leads to protests at prestigious South African university
Racism video leads to protests at prestigious South African university What’s popular and why A video about racial discrimination faced by black students at an elite South African university has led to protests and an intense debate about race and e…
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Easily Save Over-Whipped Cream Without a Time Machine
Whipped cream isn’t difficult to make, but it requires a watchful eye. Get distracted during the process and your creamy, fluffy clouds of dairy can become a stiff grainy mess. Luckily, over-whipped cream can be brought back from the brink; you just…
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Running in to the summer sky by Takasi Siraisi : ImaginaryMindscapes
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My friend’s mom is a vet. This is her latest patient, Winter. : aww
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Amazon Expands Dash Buttons To More Brands, Effectively Makes The Buttons Free | TechCrunch
Amazon this morning announced an expansion of its Dash Buttons program, as well as incentives to encourage more Amazon Prime members to bring these new hardware devices into their home.
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Babies have a better moral compass when their parents are fair and just, too | Ars Technica
Understanding the difference between right and wrong is part of a cognitive toolkit that starts out early in life and grows in complexity.
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Acer unveils the Revo Build: A tiny, modular, stackable PC | Ars Technica
BERLIN—At IFA 2015, Acer has unveiled the intriguing Acer Revo Build, a modular mini PC that that can be upgraded with a series of stackable blocks. The NUC-like base unit, which has a footprint of just 12.5×12.
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Danish Astronaut Andreas Mogensen takes Lego to space – BBC News
Denmark’s first ever astronaut has begun his journey into space, heading for the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz rocket Andreas Mogensen will be testing new technologies on board the ISS and, being Danish, he is taking some Lego with him.
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Google to penalize sites for popup ads touting apps – Boing Boing
Ever been to a website, and just when you settle into the second or third sentence, the screen darkens subtly and a giant popup ad covers everything begging you to sign up? Google hates them too.
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A Dust Pile the Size of Arizona is Slowly Moving Across China
In China, west and slightly south of Beijing, lies the Ordos Basin. It resembles a teenager’s messy room—one corner is flat and clear, and the other is a giant pile of debris. And when we say, “giant,” we mean “the size of a state”—nd it’s on the mo…
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This is the best toy ever! : cats
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Expectant loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/QW3IFfZ2pT http://t.co/RPGmu3FDSF
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Weaving the cloth of the Pharoahs : interestingasfuck
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On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees of his CBS “Late Show” who had gathered for a roof party as he stood on a staircase with a megaphone in …
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Obama plans to announce climate change strategy on last day in Alaska | US news | The Guardian
On the final day of his trip to Alaska, President Obama was set to announce a slate of initiatives to help remote Arctic communities beset by the effects of climate change.
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Gay marriage protesters converge on Kentucky clerk’s office – video | US news | The Guardian
Pro and anti gay-marriage protesters gather outside the office of a county clerk who invoked “God’s authority” as she defied the US Supreme Court yet again on gay marriage on Tuesday.
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Acer launches Lego-like stackable computer – Boing Boing
The Taiwanese machine-maker’s taking another look at the modular computing mirage. With neatly-stacking components and a clean, fairly minimal look, it’s got as good a chance as anyone. The Verge’s Jacob Kastrenakes thinks it’s cool, and points out …
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Amazon’s Offering Great Discounts on Popular Bike Accessories, Today Only
Whether you put in 20 miles every night, or just need some motivation to take your bike out of your garage every now and then, Amazon’s offering some great deals from Allen Sports bike accessories, today only.
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Brooks to return as News Corp UK boss – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants protest for a second day at Hungary’s decision to stop them from travelling by train to other European destinations.
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This underwater nightmare scorpion was Earth’s first “big predator” – Boing Boing
Those are the words of James Lamsdell of Yale University, author of a study on the nasty thing. The study was published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. It’s like reading about a very complex fossilized puzzle.
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Life in New York City is often defined by a willingness to stand in lines that stretch for blocks. “I come here because it’s too hot to do anything else. You can stand in the hot sun for an hour, just to get in. When you have to wait that long, it’s…
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State fair accepts, then rejects Bill Cosby portrait made from rapeseed|Dangerous Minds
Rapeseed, more commonly known in the U.S. as “canola,” can be used to make vegetable oil, bio-diesel, animal feed, or—apparently—portraits of Bill Cosby, the famous comedian accused of drugging and having non-consensual sex with nearly 50 women.
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Social CRM Provider Capillary Technologies Raises $45M, Acquires MartJack | TechCrunch
Capillary Technologies, the Singapore-based social CRM company, has raised a $45 million Series C to fuel its evolution into an omnichannel retail platform.
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Alaskan husky – sled dog in Denali national park [OC] [4272×2848] : AnimalPorn
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Yosemite National Park, California [14467 x 2421] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell – Boing Boing
Well-funded arguments are often made that copyright should last forever, replacing its original purpose (encouraging the creation of new works) with a plainly proprietary system of cultural ownership. Eric Crampton explains why this is a bad idea.
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Web: http://EvosiaStudios.com FB: http://Facebook.com/evosiastudios Twitter: @evosia The light during midnight sun is a surreal and unforgettable experience. In the middle of summer, magic hour in Iceland lasts all night long with the ever present s…
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Big yellow taxi: a history of New York City’s cabs – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
On Tuesday, the Nissan NV200, known as the Taxi of Tomorrow, officially became New York’s standard cab. The radical redesign means the city’s trademark cabs will be more of a minivan than a car – with more legroom, a phone charger and sunroof.
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Pornhub: Our New $25,000 Scholarship Is Legit – The Daily Beast
But Pornhub wants to prove that it supports the pursuit of higher education—even when it doesn’t involve sexy coeds banging their hot professors.
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S. Leigh Savidge made his first of many cinematic splashes in 1986, when he founded Xenon Pictures. The company, still alive and well, is often heralded as being the first home entertainment label for “independent black audience films.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 122 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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Stream the new solo LP from Megafaun’s Phil Cook · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fans of Megafaun and Hiss Golden Messenger are probably familiar with Phil Cook. As a full-fledged member of the former, Cook has contributed greatly to excellent LPs like Gather, Form, & Fly and the self-titled Megafaun.
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Kirk Goldsberry Fixes the Scorekeeping for Your Pickup Basketball Game | Grantland Channel – YouTube
Grantland’s Kirk Goldsberry analyzes the most common scorekeeping practices in pickup hoops, explaining why the current system sucks and how we can fix it. Visit Grantland: http://www.Grantland.comGrantland on Twitter: … http://www.facebook.com/
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Does Mario have a penis? – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
This article is part of Mario Week, our seven day-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of Super Mario World and 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. To read more articles from Mario Week, go here.
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Morning Digest: Two polls show presumptive gubernatorial frontrunner David Vitter in real danger
• LA-Gov: A few weeks ago, Market Research Insight raised plenty of eyebrows when they unveiled a survey showing presumptive gubernatorial frontrunner Sen. David Vitter tied for second place with fellow Republican and Public Service Commissioner Sco…
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We love the idea of a peace burger. We’re just not sure what to call this thing. Any ideas? Let’s take our signature Slamburger™ with your classic Whopper™ and bring them together for a good cause. We can name it The Whamper, The Slamopper, The Whop…
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Oliver Sacks’s final writings begin to appear | Books | The Guardian
One of the final articles by the late Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed neurologist and author of Awakenings who died on 30 August, has just been published. Sacks, who revealed he had terminal cancer in February, was “writing to the last”, according to a …
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Gunman Kills Red Cross Workers in Yemen | Al Jazeera America
Two Red Cross employees were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran by an unknown attacker on Wednesday, the international aid group said, in a rare case of violence against humanitarian workers in a five-month war.
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Keep Calm And Ignore The 2016 ‘Game Changers’ | FiveThirtyEight
If you were to rank the most exciting presidential nomination contests, the 1996 Republican race would be near the bottom.
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This Star Wars Casting News Changes Everything. Plus ANOTHER Wild Spider-Man Rumor!
Tatiana Maslany could still appear in a Star Wars film—and there’s one detail that could be huge. Game of Thrones is filming a huge scene from the books, minus one important character. There’s a shocking Walking Dead rumor. Star Trek Beyond reveals …
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Marijuana wine the next big thing – Boing Boing
Kathleen Wilcox on the trend for weed-infused wine, here quoting Dr. Carl Ruck… Come for the history lesson, stay for sneering about stoners. It’s going to be a lot of fun watching Wine People come to terms with the new normal!
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What Einstein Really Thought about Quantum Mechanics – Scientific American
Few of Albert Einstein’s sayings have been as widely quoted as his remark that God does not play dice with the universe. People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed to quantum mechanics, which views randomness as a…
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Google logo: Why do businesses change their typeface? – BBC News
Google has altered its typeface. Cue much discussion about what subtle message the company is trying to convey. After Google’s biggest logo redesign since 1999, people have likened the typeface to that used in a children’s book.
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Wills of millions of Americans now available online
BOSTON (AP) — Paul Revere left all his household furniture to an unmarried daughter. Harriet Beecher Stowe bequeathed her stock in several railroads and a Florida orange grove to her son.
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How Harry Styles sent SeaWorld’s image diving – BBC News
One Direction’s Harry Styles sent SeaWorld’s reputation plunging on social media when he urged concertgoers to boycott the chain of aquatic theme parks, research by the investment bank Credit Suisse suggests. Are young people turning en masse agains…
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David Cameron: Taking more and more refugees not answer – BBC News
David Cameron has said “taking more and more refugees” is not the answer to the EU’s current migration crisis. The UK has faced calls to take more of the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in Europe, many from Syria.
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Paris police have arrested three people on suspicion of robbing victims while they were in a hypnotic state brought on by the drug scopolamine. The Telegraph reports that two Chinese women approached people on the street and blew the drug into their…
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Awesome photo of the Atlas V launch this morning : space
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Milky Way with the moon setting off to the right [OC][3000×1888] : ExposurePorn
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Hand-Drawn Map Captures the Frenetic Energy of London | WIRED
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Caption: Big Ben doesn’t know what time it is, and the Houses of Parliament are a circus tent. Gareth Wood Any city is more than the sum of its topography, buildings, and streets. -
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A woodpecker and a little Owl. [2400×1600] : AnimalPorn
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Amazing library in a restored home in Sunnybrook, California. [1000 x 1294] : RoomPorn
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Sunset at Rajgad Fort, Maharashtra, IN [OC][6000×3375] : AbandonedPorn
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Yet another new video format touted – Boing Boing
This one is open-source and royalty-free, and has the backing of Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix. You’re thinking the last bullet point is about DRM and the first bullet point is therefore a lie.
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Kentucky clerk denying licenses to gay couples has been married four times | US news | The Guardian
When a gay couple went to the Rowan County courthouse on Tuesday to obtain a marriage license, clerk Kim Davis turned them away – despite the fact she herself has tied the knot four times.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
It’s September now, which means we all think Congress is coming back to work, but they’re really not. Not yet. Because there’s a holiday next week! And then some more holidays after that! So Joan will tell us about all the things they’ll fail to do …
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Buy a Confederate Flag From a Black Guy – The Daily Beast
There’s been controversy and even tears of rage as the U.S. has moved to abandon what many recognize as a symbol of hatred and division in our culture.
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NEW ORLEANS—A more or less orderly line of 4-year-olds, the boys in uniform blue polo shorts and the girls in plaid-checked jumpers, line up in the corridor of St. Rita Catholic School in the neighborhood known as Uptown.
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Polar bears have hollow fur. Other bears, like brown bears, do not. : Awwducational
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Treating the Elusive, Disabling ‘Flatness’ of Schizophrenia | Motherboard
John A was a junior in college when things fell apart. He was 20, a typical age for schizophrenia to come crashing down, and had begun to suspect that his roommate was poisoning his food.
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Blue whale caught on camera in English waters ‘for the first time’ | Environment | The Guardian
The great creature surfaced from the murk of a deep-sea canyon, lingered just long enough for observers to grab a few pictures, and then vanished from sight into the fog and rain.
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I Spent the Day at a Greek Refugee Camp | VICE | United Kingdom
There is rubbish absolutely everywhere and the smell of bodily fluids is ripe in the heat. Used nappies, empty crisp packets and scrunched up cans of Pepsi, Coca-Cola and fruit juice cartons litter the ground. Even with a brisk breeze, it’s uncomfor…
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How Much Sympathy Do Overwhelmed White-Collar Workers Deserve? – The Atlantic
Over the past few decades, workers without college degrees have not only seen jobs disappear and wages stagnate—the jobs that remain have, all too often, gotten worse. Constant surveillance is common; schedules are erratic; escalating performance qu…
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Google Now Update Brings Better Card Organization, Smarter News Suggesions
Yesterday, Google announced a new logo. While that wasn’t a big deal, the company also started rolling out a new version of Google Now last night. This one is a lot different. For the better. The new version of Google Now actually organizes your car…
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Campaign rallies are crawling with hidden cameras these days as opposition researchers from rivals, activist groups or political action committees spare no expense in hopes of finding a gaffe or, ideally, signs of unlawfulness.
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Donald Trump Meets With Javier Palomarez, Head of U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce http://t.co/3EHdCDpQL7
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Len: Yes…it definitely possibly may be. It’s a well-known fact that emails can and have gotten people in big trouble. This is an email, Hillary is a person, therefore it would be irresponsible to rule this out as a smoking gun. Len: Excellent questi…
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Roost Raises $5.5M To Retrofit Dumb Gadgets Into Smart Gadgets | TechCrunch
In 2014 the Roost Smart Battery accumulated nearly $100,000 in Kickstarter pledges. But that was just the start for Roost. Today the company is announcing a $5.5 million Series A lead by RPM Ventures as the company expands its operations and gears u…
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Robot riding a bicycle : interestingasfuck
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