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Experiment confirms that quantum mechanics scoffs at our local reality | Ars Technica
Our day-to-day reality is deterministic; things happen in specific locations and in a well-defined order. But all that nice, orderly behavior seems to go out the window in the quantum world, a fact that has prompted scientists to try to find ways of…
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Mo Farah wins 5,000m to complete ‘triple-double’ – Al Jazeera English
Britain’s Mo Farah stormed to victory in the 5,000 metres to secure an unprecedented third successive distance double at major global championships. The 32-year-old Olympic champion, who won the 10,000m in Beijing last weekend, clocked 13 minutes 50.
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Go See Yinka Shonibare at the Morris-Jumel Mansion This Weekend – The New Yorker
The really wonderful moment in the Yinka Shonibare exhibit at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in Washington Heights—open for one last summer weekend—comes in a room upstairs: the life-size sculpture of a young boy is at play at the foot of the desk of Geo…
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Obama Tries to Soothe Divided Jewish Community on Iran Deal http://t.co/qszgtCGrY5
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Toby says “its breakfast time!” : cats
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Zoo Duisburg. by Michael A / 500px
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Blue Memories by kerivista http://t.co/DNqcVg63FC http://t.co/DTm8acZvu0
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An assistant professor in the law department of the US Military Academy at West Point has argued that legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a “treasonous” fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants.
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I carved some Nintendo controllers on the tip of a pencil. Banana for scale too! Just for you Reddit 🙂 (imgur.com) Fuck that is impressive.
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My cat can be weird sometimes : cats
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The Law of War manual: The Pentagon responds – Al Jazeera English
The Pentagon’s new Law of War manual has prompted concern from media outlets about what the guidelines could mean for journalists covering wars.
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Welcome, to late night imgur – GIF on Imgur
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The car Kennedy was shot in covered in finger prints. : firstworldanarchists
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John Walsh on the Freedom of ‘The Hunt:’ ‘I’m Not Restrained by Lawyers’ | | Observer
He came to what is clearly his calling through tragedy; a personal loss so great that it prompted him to spend his life working to stop criminals from hurting anyone, especially children. John Walsh has become known as the man who catches the bad gu…
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Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and the 2016 Race for President – The Atlantic
Joe Biden and the Democratic Vacuum http://t.co/mFT2tx6lMc
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The weight of the world on his shoulders : cats
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White shirt by Ura Pechen / 500px
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[ … serenity ] by D-P Photography / 500px
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A little peace In the bush by Eddie Takahashi / 500px
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The moment by Hanson Mao / 500px
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Militia releases 163 child soldiers from ranks in CAR – Al Jazeera English
The anti-Balaka militia has released 163 children from its ranks in the Central African Republic, a country where as many as 10,000 youth have been recruited to fight for armed groups since 2013.
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Full Moon Tonight Offers Sneak Preview of September Lunar Eclipse
Astrophotographer Fernando Roquel Torres captured the full moon over Caguas, Puerto Rico on Aug. 10. 2014. Tonight’s full moon is known in some Native American tribes as a “Sturgeon Moon.
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Sand Cave in Ewing, VA. More love for Southwest Virginia [3264×2448] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Arsene Wenger gets it : firstworldanarchists
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doot me like 1 of ur friench girls : ledootgeneration
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Trump plays the media for votes and downplays the fascists
Or maybe it’s just that voters are mad. I mean, Frank Luntz did a focus group with Trump supporters and found that they were “mad as hell,” and after it was over, Luntz said his “legs were shaking.” I mean, that means something. FRANK LUNTZ’S LEGS W…
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The Pentagon’s rules of media engagement – Al Jazeera English
The Pentagon has recently published new rules for its personnel on how to deal with the media, including guidance on how to treat reporters who cover wars.
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Milad Tower in Tehran, Iran. [OC][4896 x 3264] : ArchitecturePorn
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Thailand arrests foreigner over Bangkok bomb blast – Al Jazeera English
Thai police have arrested a foreign suspect and seized bomb-making materials in the investigation of a deadly shrine bombing that killed 20 people, officials said.
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Barack Obama has been put on the defensive over his decision to allow the hunt for oil in the last great wilderness of the Arctic, on the eve of an historic visit to Alaska intended to spur the fight against climate change.
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New Horizons may have a new target, and it’s 1 billion miles past Pluto : space
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Mud and Cracks of Lake Tekapo by Patrick Marson Ong / 500px
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Gotham darkness by Anna Carter / 500px
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Summer morning by Maik Elyk / 500px
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Security News This Week: Oh Good, the Weaponized Police Drones Are Here | WIRED
We’re still feeling the ripple effect from the Ashley Madison hack this week. Not only is its parent company, Avid Life Media, offering a $500K CDN reward for info on the hackers, and not only are the lawsuits rolling in, but on Friday CEO Noel Bide…
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While You Were Offline: Everything You Know About Friends Is Wrong! | WIRED
It’s been one hell of a week, quite literally: financial panic, another shooting, and other disasters all seeking to remind us that the world is a terrifying place that offers little to no hope for humanity in the long term.
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Black Lives Matter Inspired This Chilling Fantasy Novel | WIRED
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most exciting fantasy authors to emerge in recent years, with popular books like The Killing Moon and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which feature diverse characters and non-traditional settings.
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Stunning 3-D Maps Form a Digital Copy of New Orleans | WIRED
Caption: Cyark is a non-profit that records, in extreme detail, heritage sites worldwide. The very same technology that will guide the vehicles of the future is being used to preserve the architectural heritage of the past.
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Space Photos of the Week: A Nebula Becomes a Butterfly | WIRED
Caption: Hubble 47 Tucanae – UV. Caption: The giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and its strange globular clusters.
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US secretary of state John Kerry has joined the family of US marine veteran Amir Hekmati in calling on Iran to release him on the four-year anniversary of his detention by the Islamic Republic.
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Thai Police Arrest Suspect in Bangkok Bombing | Al Jazeera America
Thai police arrested a foreign suspect and seized bomb-making materials Saturday in the investigation of the bombing of a shrine in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, officials said.
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Tropical Storm Erika hits Hispaniola – Al Jazeera English
Tropical Storm Erika was always expected to be a major rainstorm, and it has certainly delivered as it tracked through the Caribbean. At least 20 people are known to have died throughout the region and this toll is sure to rise as many others are st…
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A Sky Full of Stars by NickSW / 500px
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Physicists ‘Squeeze’ the Uncertainty Out of the Uncertainty Principle | Motherboard
Life in the quantum realm means never sitting still. A photon doesn’t rest (or “stop”) because it turns out that achieving zero energy and, thus, complete predictability requires a bit more effort than it does to just buzz around in a probabilistic …
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Al-Jazeera trial: Verdict ‘sends dangerous message’ – Amal Clooney – BBC News
The conviction of three al-Jazeera journalists by an Egyptian court “sends a dangerous message”, a lawyer has warned.
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BBC Sport – Jerome Valcke: Fifa secretary general consider presidency bid
Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke could stand as a candidate in the forthcoming Fifa presidential election. BBC Sport understands he has approached at least one regional confederation and a national association to gauge the support he would recei…
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Dam – Embalse de Contreras 6,Spain[OC][5472×3648] : waterporn
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Al Jazeera Staff Sentenced to Jail in Egypt | Al Jazeera America
Egyptian Baher Mohamed, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Australian Peter Greste were all handed three-year jail sentences when the court in Cairo delivered the verdict on Saturday, sparking worldwide condemnation of the decision.
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Nobody’s I’ve met has ever agreed with me : AdviceAnimals
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Smoke Pooring into Crater Lake, Oregon [OC] 5172×3448 : EarthPorn
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Diamond Lake fire near Crater Lake, Oregon [OC] 5177×3452 : EarthPorn
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The Most Compelling Pop Culture to Come Out of Katrina | WIRED
Some 1,800 people dead. Billions in damages. Families uprooted, businesses submerged, lives irrevocably changed. The immediate effects of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed are a matter of record, and of remembrance. And like so many o…
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Ghost by lolloriva http://t.co/vvI3mgL4lR http://t.co/FFuzZSSHxq
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Antman knows what’s up : firstworldanarchists
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The NSA Has Quantum Fever | Motherboard
Earlier this week, the NSA announced plans to make plans to transition to quantum-resistant algorithms—so much as they currently exist—while advising everyone else to starting planning to plan for the same.
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Nothing is impossible, follow your dreams : gifs
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Good piece of advice written on the wall of the toilet : mildlyinteresting
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The New Tech of Disaster Response, From Apps to Aqua-Drones | WIRED
Hurricane Katrina was a tale of three disasters. The first was natural, a violent storm that devastated the Gulf Coast. The second was man-made, the catastrophic failure of levees protecting New Orleans.
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Amazon’s morning by Zhu xiao ping / 500px
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~ Closed moment ~ by David Gomes / 500px
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Morning dew by edithnero / 500px
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National Dog Day, National Bow Tie Day… : AdviceAnimals
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Porto by night [3256×2170] [OC] : CityPorn
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Affirmative action for all in India – Al Jazeera English
Few case studies are as revelatory of both the vigour and the perversity of Indian democracy as the mass protests in the past week by the influential Patel (or Patidar) community in the western state of Gujarat, which has shaken the ruling politicia…
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HSBC ‘working to fix’ missing payments – BBC News
More than a quarter of a million HSBC payments that were delayed by a computer glitch “should be processed today”, the bank has said. HSBC had said on Friday that 99% out of 275,000 affected payments had been processed, and the rest would be complet…
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HOW satisfied are we with our jobs? Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively disengaged” from their jobs.
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August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast | The Nation
On this day ten years Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, hitting New Orleans, much of which is below sea level, almost directly.
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Music Review: “Sign Spinners” by Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas | Mother Jones
Liner notes: Spectral keyboards, hypnotic bass lines, and lighter-than-air percussion make for a spooky-fun instrumental. Behind the music: Joshua Abrams launched Natural Information Society to showcase the guimbri, an African lute.
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A Syrian Photographer Survives to Show His Country’s Destruction | Mother Jones
Mahmoud al-Basha wore a camera around his neck and an easy smile when I first met him in southern Turkey in the summer of 2014. Four months earlier, he had escaped a kidnapping attempt by an armed group in Syria allegedly associated with the Al Qaed…
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NGC7331 and Stephans Quintet js – Just Space
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, NGC7331 and Stephans Quintet js…
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TGIF by ChrisBurkard http://t.co/fGbTfEibE5 http://t.co/t2unvu6FMx
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Sunset At Arabian Ocean [736×1103] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Sevilla, Metrosol Parasol [1175×800] : CityPorn
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Animal Buddies http://t.co/o0r8CqYqQe http://t.co/yooH2Fs4cm
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Luminous by Marie Rich / 500px
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Woke up like this a few days ago. First time she slept in my bed! :3 : cats
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Sir Ian McKellen: Fight not over on gay rights – BBC News
Actor Sir Ian McKellen has played a variety of amazing parts in his career, but one role he has always held dear in his personal life is as a gay rights campaigner.
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The Wings of the Butterfly – Twin Jet Nebula | ESA/Hubble | We Heart It
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CompaNioNship by Stratos Gazas / 500px
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Curves & Waves II by Manfred Sket / 500px
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[OC] View from the Summit of Mt.Oberon [2048×1365] : EarthPorn
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Police arrest Bangkok blast suspect – BBC News
Calls for increased security on the railways are to be discussed at talks in Paris, following last week’s foiled attack on a high-speed train.
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My dream world by Kannappan sivakumar / 500px
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Ethiopia’s Secret Jews | Al Jazeera America
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Tedros, his wife, his 7-year-old daughter and his parents cannot stop the accusations of witchcraft.
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American Samoan records in athletics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following are the national records in athletics in American Samoa by American Samoa’s national athletics federation: American Samoa Track & Field Association (ASTFA).
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French journalists ‘blackmailed king of Morocco’ – BBC News
Two French reporters have been arrested and accused of attempting to blackmail the king of Morocco, lawyers say. Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, who are writing a book on King Mohammed VI, were reportedly detained after being handed cash by a Mo…
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The gifs that keep on giving: flying goalkeepers, bikes, fists and skis | Sport | The Guardian
Making no man’s land his own Back down and bounce off How to ski through a mountain How to score from distance How to miss from no distance Fists fly.
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Al Jazeera condemns Egypt verdict – Al Jazeera English
Following today’s retrial verdict in Cairo, Al Jazeera Media Network’s Acting Director General Dr Mostefa Souag said: “Today’s verdict defies logic and common sense. The whole case has been heavily politicized and has not been conducted in a free an…
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Czech mates Kvitova, Safarova in New Haven final – Al Jazeera English
Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova will meet in an all-Czech final at the Connecticut Open after the compatriots enjoyed straight sets wins in their respective semi-final matches in New Haven.
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How the BBC covered Hurricane Katrina – BBC News
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and displaced one million more after broken levees led to disastrous flooding in New Orleans.
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Al-Jazeera trial: Egypt gives journalists three-year sentence – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Twilight Rush at Lake Tekapo by Patrick Marson Ong / 500px
Twilight Rush at Lake Tekapo by PatrickMarsonOng http://t.co/0GB3D00TVA http://t.co/JZaBxNcFti
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Dallas Divide by Cinematic Photography / 500px
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West Bank watchmen on guard for Israeli intruders – Al Jazeera English
Duma, occupied West Bank – During the darkest hours of the night in the village of Duma, east of Nablus, Palestinian men stood guard at the edge of their village. They were waiting and watching for potential intruders.
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Spieth loses top ranking after missing cut – Al Jazeera English
Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth’s initial reign as world number one ended after two weeks when the 22-year-old American missed the cut at The Barclays.
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Thunderstorm [OC] : Breathless
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Red Fox National geographic by Roeselien Raimond / 500px
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So there’s an orgy at my school… : funny
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Jenny Lake – Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA [OC] [2048 x 620] : EarthPorn
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HMB while I insult this monkey : holdmybeer
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TIL The National Weather Service’s chief meteorologist suspected Hurricane Sandy would be a devastating storm 6 days before it struck the east coast, and included his personal phone number in the warning for anyone to call and complain if he was wro…
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Draw me like one of your French girls : cats
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The Speed of our Lives by Petricor_Photography / 500px
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Vanie by IvanLee1 http://t.co/D113Un2C05 http://t.co/0FVEnB5Gj6
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I got it… I got it… I got it… xpost from /r/nonononoyes : funny
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UN: Europe must do ‘much more’ to help migrants – BBC News
The UN secretary general has said that “much more is required” to prevent the deaths of refugees and migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in a few days.
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Race in the US: Reflections of an Arab-American – Al Jazeera English
Some say social media has hyperbolised what was there all along. Others see the militarisation of the police force as over-arming already zealous law enforcement. Despite direct video of many of these killings, consequences are never felt, and many …
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British Library rejects Taliban archive over terror law – Al Jazeera English
The British Library has decided not to acquire an archive of Taliban documents over fears that researchers accessing the materials could fall foul of the country’s terrorism laws.
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Bench press PR on my 40th birthday, was a good day. : Fitness
Bench press PR on my 40th birthday, was a good day. (self.Fitness) When my son was born 3 years ago (2nd kid) I basically gave up on working out for more than a year. I felt terrible about myself physically, and since then have been working on getti…
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kashimiri shephard by enrico barletta / 500px
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Rathaus Hannover II by Robert Karo / 500px
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*** by Laura Pashkevich / 500px
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Bug watching together via /r/cats http://t.co/SrTwA4jedx http://t.co/avKaARHV8k
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Devil’s Bathtub Southwest Virginia [642×819] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Seizure alert dog gives her owner warning : AnimalsBeingBros
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Google self-driving car with chrome rims – Imgur
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Jeopardy is hosting a Reddit themed show, what are some of the categories, questions, or answers? (self.AskReddit) This Redditor’s dad beats him with jumper cables.
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The rise of the comic book in the Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Until recently, the Middle East and North Africa have been featured mainly as tropes in Western comic books. Characters have included marginal villains or expendable figures battling heroic protagonists, like Batman’s Ra’s al Ghul (“Demon’s Head”) a…
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the bridge project by Vassilis Tangoulis / 500px
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All part of god’s flan : funny
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Whoops via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/pwzNsiNJKv http://t.co/IzLKF28JUx
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This is a flat painting on canvas. : mildlyinteresting
This is a flat painting on canvas. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/Jso6R6hKjh http://t.co/7qDhLcBSdb
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The truth about iPad nursing by John Wilhelm is a photoholic / 500px
The truth about iPad nursing by horazio http://t.co/A0wF4jHD5n http://t.co/Pcb2ptO4yo
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Nice little edit I found. The creepy side of Hallmark?
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Mt. Jefferson Sunset [OC] 5182×3453 : EarthPorn
Mt. Jefferson Sunset [OC] 5182×3453 via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/FfD3CXWuVh http://t.co/RY8UU0x7sl
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Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 js http://t.co/0aZMx81rmI http://t.co/gQX1nE8Vi4 http://t.co/95pauR0v8h
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[Art] Brother Philip inhales the musty aroma of his vintage mead : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] Brother Philip inhales the musty aroma of his vintage mead via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/JFQ4do6o2S http://t.co/0SZI2p38Di
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The most rigorous test of quantum theory ever carried out has confirmed that the ‘spooky action at a distance’ that the German physicist famously hated — in which manipulating one object instantaneously seems to affect another, far away one — is an …
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Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 js – Just Space
Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 js http://t.co/0aZMx81rmI http://t.co/gQX1nE8Vi4 http://t.co/95pauR0v8h
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A Flash Of Hope by Cinematic Photography / 500px
A Flash Of Hope by Martynas http://t.co/JomWWYRXpc http://t.co/ZD0b5natEp
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Thomas, an old and odd fellow. : cats
Thomas, an old and odd fellow. via /r/cats http://t.co/eAQzYSgrQF http://t.co/KzD08px5QA
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The crow by jose arley agudelo / 500px
The crow by arleyagudelo http://t.co/U5hHfescTV http://t.co/z0dEVQ2M6N
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Tropical storm Erika batters Dominica – BBC News
At least 20 people have died after tropical storm Erika swept across the Caribbean island of Dominica. The storm is currently battering Haiti and the Dominican Republic and the US state of Florida is braced for its arrival.
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Of the more than one million tourists visiting Iceland this year, many will get their first solid impression of the country from the 244-foot tower of Reykjavík’s Hallgrímskirkja.
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MRW I discover Sara Jean Underwood’s Instagram page : reactiongifs
MRW I discover Sara Jean Underwood’s Instagram page via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/DStNbrmlmj http://t.co/eumvKiVM2V
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Nom Nom Nom via /r/InterestingGifs http://t.co/d3upRDr11o http://t.co/NXLbfjD4pv
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My chameleon turned 1 year old today! : pics
My chameleon turned 1 year old today! (i.imgur.com) IM A MAN WITHOUT CONVICTION!!
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Puppis A Supernova Remnant
Puppis A Supernova Remnant http://t.co/WgkWR1Tyvq http://t.co/O7M15n7bTz
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Stayin fresh : trippinthroughtime
Stayin fresh via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/BkQBFY8VGS http://t.co/IwwOkkWhqL
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Please don’t touch the dog sir : funny
Please don’t touch the dog sir via /r/funny http://t.co/xu0tus4JYm http://t.co/IYEu6Lb9j8
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Manhattan seen from the One World Observatory [2048×1365] : CityPorn
Manhattan seen from the One World Observatory [2048×1365] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/MSirlNKWiL http://t.co/J3y80EmAEl
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Google self-driving car with chrome rims : pics
Google self-driving car with chrome rims via /r/pics http://t.co/7JeyIGCehO http://t.co/c64MTUp3od
What the rims actually look like for anyone curious. There was an article from a few months back from the director of Googles self-driving program. He writes about how the car has been involved in 11 accidents but all were due to the error of other … -
My reaction to Reddit’s frontpage posts lately : AdviceAnimals
My reaction to Reddit’s frontpage posts lately via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/EbkkIWgw7m http://t.co/r8EDAj8mwZ
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I’ve been doing toilet paper right my whole life : funny
I’ve been doing toilet paper right my whole life via /r/funny http://t.co/XRs7soDBWj http://t.co/pVuswDovVk
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FenceLoaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/6EjvNPCh3Z http://t.co/NEbG0OCz8H
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Sherriff’s deputy shot dead in Houston | World news | The Guardian
A sheriff’s deputy in uniform died after he was shot while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station on Friday night, police said. Harris county sheriff’s office spokesman Ryan Sullivan said a man approached the deputy from behind …
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I am so… Frick-in’…. Pissed! : funny
I am so… Frick-in’…. Pissed! (imgur.com) Somebody had to.
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Thousands gather to protest against Malaysian PM – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of protesters have started gathering in Malaysia’s capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has weathered public outrage over a multi-million-dollar payment made to a bank account under his name.
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Winter’s Grip by Alister Benn / 500px
Winter’s Grip by AlisterBenn http://t.co/HgHmUmojTl http://t.co/qr5D7ozLDN
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simply by pisoot wangsutthapiti / 500px
simply by hiefadpuiq http://t.co/ZDNWLfUl3Y http://t.co/RH16Vv9VEJ
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Such good timing! : AdviceAnimals
Such good timing! via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/mN28Yflxab http://t.co/nB2heeBLKW
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McDonalds doesn’t give a fuck about your requests : firstworldanarchists
McDonalds doesn’t give a fuck about your requests via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/Zvm14OXtkQ http://t.co/BUgnGEmwNB
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Basket cat via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/87MRVthYM4 http://t.co/LSonMykNSe
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BBC Sport – Jordan Spieth misses cut and loses world number one ranking
Jordan Spieth has lost his world number one ranking to Rory McIlroy after missing the cut at The Barclays in New Jersey on Friday. The American was runner-up to Jason Day at the PGA Championship 12 days ago to overtake McIlroy in the rankings after …
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Why India needs a new debate on caste quotas – BBC News
Caste-related violence involving an influential community in India’s Gujarat state left eight people dead earlier this week. The Patel community is demanding quotas in educational institutions and government jobs.
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/ebAO7s6XrF http://t.co/pELjMADvz7
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I just realized how often I do this. : AdviceAnimals
I just realized how often I do this. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/EhSjQxwAgk http://t.co/AsAiGk7iXD
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Beautiful End by James Gramm / 500px
Beautiful End by gjim9beam http://t.co/LO19xXKped http://t.co/Lb0uJ5kOYS
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jsOrrery – JavaScript Solar System Simulator : InternetIsBeautiful
jsOrrery – JavaScript Solar System Simulator via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/dYSkqjz3YG http://t.co/hbFQz174lm
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Childhood freedoms at heart of a wild life under African skies | Life and style | The Guardian
Most British parents worry about their children crossing the road safely. Saba Douglas-Hamilton worries about snakes and scorpions.
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A TV series, a webseries, and 3 newly reissued soundtracks · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
I won’t succumb to the tired cliché of “the best show you aren’t watching” to talk about Married, but it’s so tempting: Judy Greer and Nat Faxon excellently portray a long-time married couple, pushing 40 and painfully aware of how their lives haven’…
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Verdict expected in Egyptian trial of Al Jazeera staff – Al Jazeera English
The retrial of Egyptian Baher Mohamed, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Australian Peter Greste had been adjourned for a tenth time in Egypt early this month. The court is set to deliver a verdict on Saturday.
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Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. In 2004, after toiling for years behind the scenes as an in-house producer at Roc-A-Fella Records, Kanye West made his grand entrance on the world stage.
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copy by Laura Pashkevich / 500px
copy by P_Laura http://t.co/XGKq7xUMYm http://t.co/ptg7EgaXF8
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I have to “follow” him the old fashion way… : AdviceAnimals
I have to “follow” him the old fashion way… via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/WhxeWsVksV http://t.co/WWuu3QPSZ9
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Beyond the unlocked front doors of 60 Clarkson Avenue in Brooklyn, the lobby is a half-lit cavern, its ornate plaster moldings and patterned floor smeared with dirt. The windows gape onto a courtyard dense with weeds and trash. On the days when it c…
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alphabet soup : trippinthroughtime
alphabet soup via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/YpQebTTD4D http://t.co/6UwxIoD0Ag
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One of the perks of working overnights in coastal Maine : FoggyPics
One of the perks of working overnights in coastal Maine via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/POG36B7SPv http://t.co/UFR9sfJxje
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Met this guy on my back patio this morning : aww
Met this guy on my back patio this morning via /r/aww http://t.co/i4rprve5ts http://t.co/ngdvkzhWFT
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Saw this guy standing outside of the Maul : pics
Saw this guy standing outside of the Maul via /r/pics http://t.co/e0GxtcYiMw http://t.co/NJoH577nE1
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My girlfriend just said this to me : AdviceAnimals
My girlfriend just said this to me via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/ciSsTALaV0 http://t.co/CPHGz0Puaf
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Volcan Tajumulco, Guatemala [1920 x 1080] : EarthPorn
Volcan Tajumulco, Guatemala [1920 x 1080] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/yH3My2LB4e http://t.co/GSUUPFS8zB
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A last flare of summer among the rocks | Environment | The Guardian
Today the sky is washed-out blue silk with pearl-grey ribbons trailing.
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In 2008, a paper in Psychological Science found that people were more likely to cheat on a test after they had read an essay arguing that behavior was predetermined by environmental factors. The authors suggested from their findings that belief in f…
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When you uninstall League of Legends : gaming
When you uninstall League of Legends (imgur.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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Sunrise over Toronto, ON [OC] [5472×3648] : CityPorn
Sunrise over Toronto, ON [OC] [5472×3648] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/yXruVCfLwN http://t.co/yfwFmZOT0q
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Dance hall of an abandoned hotel [2048×1365] by Timeless Seeker : AbandonedPorn
Dance hall of an abandoned hotel [2048×1365] by Timeless Seeker via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/LB7VCK8j96 http://t.co/Gg7LKqfQX7
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HIFW every time my SO snuggles me in his sleep. : TrollXChromosomes
HIFW every time my SO snuggles me in his sleep. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/mPnVrlpdPC http://t.co/PAYQI8Hry8
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My brother’s verbal actual exchange with his ex-girlfriend. : AdviceAnimals
My brother’s verbal actual exchange with his ex-girlfriend. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/MlDB6E3KND http://t.co/TG2FcXkCZL
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Which Countries Are Under the Most Strain in the European Migration Crisis? http://t.co/Ffi81i29FX
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TIL Canadians can actually gain time by stopping at Tim Hortons – Imgur
TIL Canadians can actually gain time by stopping at Tim Hortons http://t.co/9mciBn0NPG http://t.co/6SOb7gMgWP
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Astronomers use a technique called parallax to precisely measure to distance to stars in the sky.
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Rattray Head Lighthouse Image, Scotland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Sunset surrounds the late 19th-century Rattray Head lighthouse in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Your Shot member Grant Glendinning captured the dusk’s changing light with a long exposure and a neutral density and polarizing filter attached to a wide-angl…
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NYC from the top of the Rockefeller Center [2048×1536] : CityPorn
NYC from the top of the Rockefeller Center [2048×1536] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/BGnRswcm35 http://t.co/BJRhTX0mXU
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge [4624×3083] : ExposurePorn
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge [4624×3083] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/XJF4LhKcyA http://t.co/jPRaBvUf5N
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Rattray Head Lighthouse Image, Scotland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Painted Pink http://t.co/ZgSkwE7etm
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Kilauea volcano spews out molten lava in Hawaii – BBC News
Lava from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has been spewing out of a newly formed opening. The Kilauea volcano is one of the most active in the world, and has been erupting non-stop for 32 years.
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Refugee crisis strains resources on Greek island – Al Jazeera English
Many Syrians who make it to Turkey via the Mediterranean Sea see the Greek island of Lesbos as a stepping stone to Western Europe. But with local authorities still waiting for help from Brussels, there is little to welcome the new arrivals.
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Black Cat Pushes Orange Cat Into Pool : cats
Black Cat Pushes Orange Cat Into Pool via /r/cats http://t.co/s1DZRStbhd http://t.co/8ve07D0fxD
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Traditional Japanese Fisherwomen from early 20th century via /r/pics http://t.co/5Ocxq23Zzd http://t.co/haYSzsXUN9
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Moulton Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (Mark Keaton) 1600×1200 : EarthPorn
Moulton Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (Mark Keaton) 1600×1200 via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/BOKLkw9p3f http://t.co/Aa2ptQIhC8
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Close-up of Europa crossing the face of Jupiter, from Voyager 1 (March 1979) : space
Close-up of Europa crossing the face of Jupiter, from Voyager 1 (March 1979) via /r/space http://t.co/d4WCRqLNln http://t.co/rPAi7SsCac
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Yosemite Valley from Taft Point [OC] [3840×2400] : EarthPorn
Yosemite Valley from Taft Point [OC] [3840×2400] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/QYDBhPE1zx http://t.co/i0ViXZsk1H
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Donald Trump attacks Clinton aide Huma Abedin over husband Weiner | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump on Friday night criticised Huma Abedin, a key aide to Hillary Clinton, and seemed to imply sensitive information had been leaked to her husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner. Related: Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million migrant…
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Oh look, another video showing what a fucking idiot Piers Morgan is. Do we expect better from Howie? I’m not sure. Do we?
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France train attack: Talks in Paris to debate security – BBC News
European interior ministers and transport officials are due to hold emergency talks in Paris following last week’s foiled gun attack on a train. The BBC’s Hugh Schofield in Paris says France wants tougher security measures after the incident on the …
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Venezuela-Colombia border tensions escalate – Al Jazeera English
Venezuela’s president has escalated his country’s dispute with Colombia by expanding the partial closure of their shared border to four new frontier towns.
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Designing New Mobile Experiences For The Music-Loving Generation | TechCrunch
As music fans go mobile, music festivals are following suit. The kids in America are rocking out to T-Swift with a Natty Lite in one hand and a mobile phone open to native festival apps in the other. Schedules, venue maps, artists and vendors are al…
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I work at a Doggie Daycare. Sometimes, stuff like this happens. : aww
I work at a Doggie Daycare. Sometimes, stuff like this happens. (imgur.com) Not even siblings, just good friends. The britney is Finn and the yellow mix is Bogey.
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MRW I see a “It’s friday post” but i’m unemployed : reactiongifs
MRW I see a “It’s friday post” but i’m unemployed via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/p6GkFQ5WCc http://t.co/hWqLmh7Dc1
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How a dog drinks water via /r/gif http://t.co/K2A08i5Hrt http://t.co/3P05pfbQwt
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Dreaming cat via /r/cats http://t.co/2APOOyYimj http://t.co/68oukzSLQL
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Milky Way over Big Bend National Park js – Just Space
Milky Way over Big Bend National Park js http://t.co/yFRLoiGMjU http://t.co/t0BWesr2Rv
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stackin blocks on the cat : cats
stackin blocks on the cat via /r/cats http://t.co/RW69CMgsnl http://t.co/ScLgd5IaoU
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MOM Whyyyyyy : TrollXChromosomes
MOM Whyyyyyy via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/iggujyQNi3 http://t.co/xtC7h5ss2b
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Stop mom, enough with the pictures! : cats
Stop mom, enough with the pictures! via /r/cats http://t.co/rajvNY0too http://t.co/6Xhlib4VvP
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A text from my mother. : TrollXChromosomes
A text from my mother. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/F7p3t097zB http://t.co/Njemc2lo6A
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Kauai From the Sky [OC] [4288 x 2848] : EarthPorn
Kauai From the Sky [OC] [4288 x 2848] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/kN5YcNyIg5 http://t.co/4lxJaBjVmG
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Open thread for night owls: Tech nerds, economics, and the mythical centrist
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2013—Unfulfilled goals, but also breathtaking change, 50 years after March on Washington: Sarah Palin is going to interview Donald Trump tonight because America is the greatest countr… http://t.co/…
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Emmett Till: civil rights legacy commemorated 60 years after murder | World news | The Guardian
The legacy of the lynching of thousands of black people in America was recalled when the death 60 years ago in Mississippi of just one, Emmett Till, was commemorated on Friday at his gravesite in a suburban Chicago cemetery.
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Ex-Sainsbury’s boss Justin King slams National Living Wage – BBC News
Justin King, the former chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has said the National Living Wage will “destroy jobs”. The National Living Wage, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his July Budget, comes into force in April 2016.
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Chilcot: limit legal advice payments, says Tory MP David Davis – BBC News
The government should limit the amount of money spent on legal advice for politicians, officials and military figures as part of the Chilcot inquiry, a senior Conservative MP has said.
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The view while re-entering the atmosphere : space
The view while re-entering the atmosphere via /r/space http://t.co/YZrSYzzpr9 http://t.co/vyRZ8ZdRu8
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Appeals court reverses ruling that found NSA program illegal : technology
Appeals court reverses ruling that found NSA program illegal via /r/technology http://t.co/ipOHWQn326 http://t.co/THUSF8jiwr
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My daughters’ elementary school hands out free meals to kids in need for the weekends. – Imgur
My daughters’ elementary school hands out free meals to kids in need for the weekends. http://t.co/Lj19AJDUlP http://t.co/X6f36HFJgt
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A very small addition to our family! : cats
A very small addition to our family! via /r/cats http://t.co/wSNkaD9F4X http://t.co/4lr5mzIxgN
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Comforting his big brother after a trip to the vet. : cats
Comforting his big brother after a trip to the vet. via /r/cats http://t.co/DaPoYl4rL4 http://t.co/ozCz6x8OpW
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Cat from last week was right: the new kitten is annoying. : cats
Cat from last week was right: the new kitten is annoying. via /r/cats http://t.co/DdNsnjWxOE http://t.co/w4idPZZ1aw
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Over The Dunes by Cinematic Photography / 500px
Over The Dunes by Martynas http://t.co/q3aokfam19 http://t.co/KiepMokLtb
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Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted. – Vox
The on-camera shooting of two Virginia reporters Wednesday morning seems bound to evoke, like so many shootings before it, some sort of national conversation about gun control.
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Baltimore law enforcement uses cellphone tracking to violate rights of 2,000 defendants
But the mayor doesn’t seem to get it. Keeping the trackers secret is illegal in itself and should result in overturned convictions. Add this to the list of examples as yet another example of misconduct and overstepping by prosecutors and law enforce…
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For the new college students… be a good roommate. : AdviceAnimals
For the new college students… be a good roommate. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/ONsjsiNhhJ http://t.co/W0JTHlvHup
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Get Schwifty via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/k5FAwwCWXY http://t.co/6I1udzOEfs
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Katieloaf wishes everyone a happy Friday : Catloaf
Katieloaf wishes everyone a happy Friday via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/yR2nm5GTlS http://t.co/uUVNGaENxk
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MRW I snap back into reality after masturbating : reactiongifs
MRW I snap back into reality after masturbating via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/hOIRko4akr http://t.co/LALvsF9vXl
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Lovely bros. doing the same task : AnimalsBeingBros
Lovely bros. doing the same task via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/o8lRqhO0yE http://t.co/9AwSwYK7PI
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Milky Way Rising Over Campsite js – Just Space
Milky Way Rising Over Campsite js http://t.co/RtGwXEoFFA http://t.co/EH9mZI82R4
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We adopted Dottie a week ago, and she settled in great right from the start. : cats
We adopted Dottie a week ago, and she settled in great right from the start. via /r/cats http://t.co/vNE5dNl5zg http://t.co/KvNUu3yS8Z
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Majestic Russian Blue (no ps) : cats
Majestic Russian Blue (no ps) via /r/cats http://t.co/0OWZRTKAg0 http://t.co/FTSClXD1NO
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Watkins Glen State Park, NY [OC] [3742×5614] : EarthPorn
Watkins Glen State Park, NY [OC] [3742×5614] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/0njb4cQLJk http://t.co/NaVuaDUyPk
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A mid-September morning on the Mount Morgan Trail, NH, last year. : FoggyPics
A mid-September morning on the Mount Morgan Trail, NH, last year. via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/BLaBeEVIVT http://t.co/gfcDoLMKBQ
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Cautious UN welcome for South Sudan peace deal – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has welcomed the signing of a peace agreement aimed at ending South Sudan’s civil war while warning that it remains ready to impose an arms embargo on the country if the deal collapses.
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Molly’s favourite spot. : cats
Molly’s favourite spot. via /r/cats http://t.co/2Go5XYGSgL http://t.co/PGv72S6jVy
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It was a rough 6month job hunt until one just fell in my lap : AdviceAnimals
It was a rough 6month job hunt until one just fell in my lap via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/ypeRMTdwZD http://t.co/uuQDwZ8lFV
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Abandoned House in Makanda, IL [OC] [4869×3219] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned House in Makanda, IL [OC] [4869×3219] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/59Ph5WyBlj http://t.co/2AFZI6MvqC
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Lion and tiger playing : AnimalsBeingBros
Lion and tiger playing via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/FzB838O3uF http://t.co/pwasrg7p4q
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American bison (Bison bison), Yellowstone NP, WY, [OC][3609×2400] : AnimalPorn
American bison (Bison bison), Yellowstone NP, WY, [OC][3609×2400] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/My8lwZlWiY http://t.co/xZlAqiDEOm
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Angels Landing, Zion NP, UT [OC][2332×1749] : EarthPorn
Angels Landing, Zion NP, UT [OC][2332×1749] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/K5VM2Rk0wz http://t.co/Nzm9mc85o1
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Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate Mars trip – BBC News
Under a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii, the six-person team are to live in close quarters, without fresh air, fresh food or privacy.
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My God, It’s Full of Stars (And Dogs)
Lauren and Robbie’s dogs lounge forlornly on the departing spacecraft as it disembarks from the io9 mothership. Farewell, io9. We will miss you all.
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Lee Daniels confirms Eddie Murphy and Oprah for his Richard Pryor biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Lee Daniels’ long-in-the-works biopic of comedian Richard Pryor seems like it’s finally ready to get underway, with The Weinstein Company indicating that it’s about to give the film the green light, and the movie’s long-contested casting finally con…
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Storm Clouds Approaching Gulfport, Mississippi, USA. [OC] [4783×3189] : CityPorn
Storm Clouds Approaching Gulfport, Mississippi, USA. [OC] [4783×3189] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/WMQCQFRVEV http://t.co/IWgbzw46da
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My dad, smoking at work in a submarine. [late 1970s] : OldSchoolCool
My dad, smoking at work in a submarine. [late 1970s] via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/jVs6gaE98x http://t.co/ndy4CmEpb6
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Is it real? Or a bunch of baloney? It’s a question New Yorkers and visitors to the city may ask themselves when they pass any of the seemingly countless storefront fortunetellers.
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Martin O’Malley Rails at Democrats for Debate Schedule ‘Rigged’ to Aid Hillary Clinton MINNEAPOLIS – Martin O’Malley had one clear chance to make waves within the Democratic National Committee, and he seized it, delivering a fiery speech Friday that…
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Fire inside a tree : interestingasfuck
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Tracked photo of the Milky Way. js – Just Space
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She just won’t let me get my jacket so I can leave : cats
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No TV Required [1320×1320] : RoomPorn
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Using his feet as a pillow… : cats
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Zig Zag river, Government Camp, OR [OC][6000×4000] : waterporn
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In honor of my coming visit to Australia. Saw her at SXSW; a bit rawer than my usual taste, but very good.
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HMB while I ride the stairs : holdmybeer
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Are women obligated to have children? This man thinks so | Grist
Vox recently commissioned an essay by Torbjörn Tännsjö, Swedish professor and public intellectual, and then rejected it after finding his submission too loony for their tastes. In his manifesto, Tännsjö argues that humans have a moral obligation to …
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This is a story about weed and hoes | Grist
I’ve been hearing for a while now that farmers in certain parts of the country were having a hard time, but I didn’t think things were this bad. First of all, farmers had a weed problem. That led to superweeds. And now, farmers are relying on hoes t…
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Here’s a solution for those out-of-control toxic algae blooms | Grist
While Bush is praised for his response to Hurricane Katrina victims in Florida, no one is talking about his Carnival Cruise boondoggle. If you want to change the culture, you have to get your message spread by “trusted advisers.” Then get them to re…
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When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes | The Marshall Project
America’s prison population is rapidly graying, forcing corrections departments to confront the rising costs and challenges of health care in institutions that weren’t designed to serve as nursing homes.
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Most of us have come down from the highs of seeing Pluto up close for the first time. Ever since New Horizons beamed back those photos, the question has loomed: What’s next? We asked a few experts and Times readers what NASA’s exploratory priority s…
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A Group of Historians Debates How the World Ended, But Their Evidence Is…Funny
The short anime comedy Bureau of Proto Society takes us to a post-apocalyptic bunker, when the last remnants of humanity live isolated from the world.
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Cop kills six people in 12 years, now teaches other cops how to use their guns
You may wonder what happened to James Peters. Is he in jail? Fired dishonorably? Forced to pay the family of John Loxas? Nope. James Peters took an early retirement from the Scottsdale, Arizona, police department.
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Watch Paul Bettany Become A Gin and Tonic To Play The Avengers’ Vision
The Vision was by far the most secretive part of Avengers: Age of Ultron as we led up to its release. But now that he’s out there and we know where he fits in, Marvel is finally opening up about the creation of the character.
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Most U.S. Kids Still Get Vaccinated, But Those Low-Vax Pockets Worry the CDC
Good news, bad news: most Kindergarten-aged kids in America are still getting all their shots. But the CDC continues to worry about those stubborn pockets with low rates of vaccination (and, presumably, high rates of uncooperative parents).
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Hall Geometry by Alfon No / 500px
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Hold on! by Valeriy Evdokimov / 500px
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Father Nature. Pile of rocks in Apple Valley, CA. [OC] [2448×3264] : EarthPorn
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My new pencil topper made me want to do some stabbin’. : funny
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Found This amazing wallpaper of an amazing fox : foxes
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Disabled push for a better life in Iran – BBC News
“London has completely changed my life,” says 31-year old Marjan Kalanaki, a post-graduate computer science student from Tehran who now lives in the UK. “Sometimes I can’t believe how independent I have become and how easily I can get by on my own.
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David Sillito: Questioning the vitality of Britain’s TV industry – BBC News
It would be good to be able to quote one or two of Frankie Boyle’s jokes from this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival Awards, but I can’t. I really can’t. Not here. What did strike everyone, though, was the strange atmosphere when it was announced that BB…
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Google begins advertising home services in search results | The Verge
Google is starting to make it easier to find plumbers, locksmiths, cleaners, and other home service workers. It’s rolling out a new type of search ad today that’ll place listings for these services at the top of relevant search result pages, althoug…
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Ukraine crisis: Life on street dividing Ukraine and Russia – BBC News
A dog barks and crosses the street in Milove, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, 10km (6 miles) from the conflict zone.This could be anywhere in Ukraine. But Friendship of the Peoples Street belies its name because, on the other side of the…
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Letter from Africa: Does Nigeria run better without a cabinet? – BBC News
In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali looks at how Nigeria is coping without a cabinet. It is now three months since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president of Nigeria and five months since he won historic elections, t…
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USA uncomplicates things, cancels Complications · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Asking itself why it had to go and make things so persnickety and complex, waffling back and forth for the last few days over whether to end Burn Notice creator Matt Nix’s latest drama for the network, USA has decided to cancel Complications after o…
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Ashley Madison: Founder Noel Biderman steps down – BBC News
The founder and chief executive of the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website has stepped down. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports.
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Bill nye and his bow ties for national bow tie day. : pics
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a ride with my sidekick : cats
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My favorite deleted scene from The Simpsons : television
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Sometimes Jax walks around with his antler in his mouth like a cigar. : aww
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Danna – Natural Light by Dani Diamond / 500px
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Kingfisher. Photographer: Jacopo Rigotti [1200 x 798] [OS] : AnimalPorn
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This Is The Best Cover Of ‘Roxanne’ You’re Likely To Hear – Digg
AnnenMayKantereit sounds like Jim Morrison, but better.
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Bhutan: Formerly the worst football team in the world – BBC News
At the start of 2015, Bhutan were officially ranked the worst football team in the world. But in the spring the small Himalayan mountain nation shocked the world when it won a World Cup qualifying match against Sri Lanka. Now they have high hopes.
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Venezuela extends border closures with Colombia – BBC News
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended border closures with Colombia to another six towns in the western state of Tachira. Mr Maduro also announced the deployment of an extra 3,000 troops in the area, which he says has been infiltrated by …
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Straight Outta Compton charts early days of NWA – BBC News
Rap biopic Straight Outta Compton has spent two weeks at the top of the US box office, not bad for a film about a band who were once considered so dangerous they came under the spotlight of the FBI.
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ISIS and the Curse of the Iraq War – The New Yorker
I’ve been reading up recently on the ancient history of Iraq and Syria, a region that is often referred to, not for nothing, as the cradle of civilization.
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Week in pictures: 22-28 August 2015 – BBC News
The UN says “much more is required” to prevent fatalities among migrants fleeing to Europe, after hundreds are reported dead in recent days.
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Shoreham Air Show: Memorials mark one week since crash – BBC News
A series of memorial events will be held later to mark one week since the Shoreham air crash in which 11 people are thought to have died. Last Saturday, a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed into traffic on the A27, causing the most serious crash at a…
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How does Usain Bolt run so fast? – BBC News
Usain Bolt showed his dominance of men’s sprinting at the athletics World Championship in Beijing this week with wins in the 100m and 200m. What’s his secret? Is the way to win at sprinting to move your legs faster than your rivals do?
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Nasa to start year-long isolation to simulate Mars trip – BBC News
A team of Nasa recruits is set to begin living near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.The isolation experience, which will last a year starting on Friday, will be the longest of its type attempted.
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Radar image ‘almost certainly Nazi train’ – BBC News
Local legend says a Nazi train filled with gold, gems and guns went missing near the city in 1945. Treasure hunters hope the find may finally unravel the mystery.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Happy birthday this Sunday to the late, great Molly Ivins—born August 30, 1944. She left us eight years ago, but her Texas sass has lost none of its bite.
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Here is a Bat Swooping Down to Catch a Frog. It’s Scary. Have a Good Weekend.
Watching a fringe-lipped bat swooping down to eat a tungara frog will give you a new appreciation for bats as predators. It will also give you a new appreciation for how much male frogs want to mate.
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NASA Chooses Target for New Horizons Spacecraft | Al Jazeera America
NASA has selected the next destination for New Horizons, the spacecraft that made a historic flyby past Pluto in July, the space agency announced Friday.
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Bahrain police officer killed in ‘terrorist blast’ – Al Jazeera English
An explosion in Bahrain has killed one police officer and wounded seven other people, among them a child, according to the country’s interior ministry. The attack occurred west of the capital, Manama, in a predominantly Shia village called Karanah, …
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Boulder, Colorado from Bear Canyon Trail. [2956×1958] : CityPorn
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The Governor’s Mansions of the United States. : pics
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Friend swallowed a bottle cap… – Imgur
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MRW I see the “I caught that reference” GIF for the tenth time today : reactiongifs
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West Wing Week: 08/28/15 or, “From the Telegraph to the Smartphone” on Vimeo
This week, the President spoke with clean energy powerhouses in Las Vegas, WNBA superstars back at the White House, and the leaders who rebuilt New Orleans. That’s August 21st to August 27th or, “From the Telegraph to the Smartphone.”
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Ovarium by Philipp Nickerl / 500px
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Various snapchats I’ve saved of my cat, Bagheera. Hope you enjoy! : cats
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The inside of a Violin. : interestingasfuck
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Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. (1024×683) (OC) : EarthPorn
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Two Trimmers, 3 Days… 10,600 trees trimmed : oddlysatisfying
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This is how fast the space probe is. : woahdude
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Mainly the eating part. : TrollXChromosomes
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Malaysia braces for major protests against PM Najib Razak – BBC News
Thousands of Malaysians are set to protest in the capital Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down over a financial scandal. He has faced public anger over a $700m (£455m) payment made to his bank account from …
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GOAT Lets You Cop Kicks Without Getting Jacked | TechCrunch
Yesterday on Facebook, a man named Matt Neal sent out a plea. He’s 26, his blood type is B+ and he has a failing kidney. His ask? “One working kidney from a true sneaker head.” His offer? A pair of some of the hottest sneakers on the planet at the m…
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Drinking water doesn’t prevent a hangover, study says – BBC News
Raiding the fridge or downing glasses of water after a night of heavy drinking won’t improve your sore head the next day, Dutch research suggests. Instead, a study concluded, the only way to prevent a hangover is to drink less alcohol.
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Michael B. Jordan might play a vampire in comic-book movie Blood Brothers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Determined to keep on throwing charismatic smiles at this “comic book movie” thing until it finally just gives in and works, Fantastic Four survivor Michael B. Jordan is in talks to star in the movie version of Dark Horse’s undead buddy-comic Blood …
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The Virginia television reporter and cameraman whose murder on live television has renewed a national debate over gun violence both suffered gunshot wounds to the head, the state Office of the Chief Medical examiner in Roanoke said Friday.
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Google’s self-driving cars might be too good at braking for cyclists | The Verge
Google’s self-driving cars are cautious by design, but in at least one instance, it may be a bit too much. A cyclist posting on a road bike forum says that an encounter between themself and a self-driving car ended up with neither moving more than a…
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Ease Into a Night of Drinking Beer by Starting with Lighter Varieties
You might think it’s better to start your beer quest with hoppy, flavorful beers that have a higher alcohol content, but you’re doing a disservice to your taste buds for the rest of the night.
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Injured war veterans’ care costs prompt new funding call – BBC News
Ministers must provide more funding to protect injured war veterans from spending compensation on social care costs, local authority leaders say. Personnel injured in service before April 2005 receive a War Disablement Pension which counts towards f…
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China’s rapid construction of a string of artificial islands in the South China Sea has entered a more troubling phase.
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Beyond Pluto: 2nd Target Chosen for New Horizons Probe
NASA’s New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto last month, now has a second target to aim for. The New Horizons team has selected an object named 2014 MU69, which lies roughly 1 billion miles (1.
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The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation | TechCrunch
One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates how a company should spend its marketing and sales dollars.
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Former Gears of War Director Shows Off His Next Game | WIRED
Earlier this week, Boss Key Games debuted the first footage from its new game, LawBreakers.
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Bikini Girl on the Boardwalk, France 1959 : OldSchoolCool
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YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically. : technology
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I apologize in advance for the feels… : cats
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The shutter sound on my phone camera went off. : cats
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Banksy’s Dismaland at Night [4754×3170] [OC] : ExposurePorn
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Virginia man dies in jail after arrest for stealing snacks – BBC News
A Virginia man who was arrested for stealing $5 (£3) worth of snacks has died in jail after being held there for more than three months.Jail officials told the Virginia-Pilot newspaper that Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, was being held there because he cou…
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Local sheriff embarks on visionary quest to police Burning Man · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Burning Man, the annual gathering that asks, “What if George Miller directed a community-theater production of Hair?,” will only register a 7.9 on the weird Richter scale this year as NBC 4 NY reports that a local cop has vowed to up the police pres…
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Gadget Lab Podcast: A Child Named Amazon | WIRED
Things are back to normal on our weekly news-chat show: everyone’s arguing about television. The team talks about cord-cutting, and how it’s increasingly a bad financial proposition considering how expensive all that premium content is when you buy …
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UN warns South Sudan rivals to honour ceasefire – BBC News
The UN Security Council has warned the warring sides in South Sudan they face an arms embargo and other sanctions if they do not implement a peace deal due to come into force on Saturday.
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Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alask…
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campus sexual assault cases fair to accused? | Al Jazeera America
Andrew Miltenberg, an attorney who has represented dozens of college students accused of sexual assault, says the new standard of proof used in campus sexual assault cases is an attempt to respond to victims’ rights groups at the cost of the rights …
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Gawker I Love These Goddamn Stock Video Baboons and So Will You | Jalopnik The 2016 Smart ForTwo Isn’t Allowed To Be As Fun As It Could Be | Jezebel Police Officers Leave Reporter Accidental Voicemail About Her ‘Fucking Giant’ Tits | Kotaku A Gory F…
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I believe it is time for my pets : cats
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Family Room with Library [500×750] : RoomPorn
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Happy National Fox Day!!! : foxes
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Skalkaho Falls, Montana [1920×1280] [OC] : waterporn
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News | Greenland Campaign Takes Flight to Measure Ice Sheet
Earlier this month, a NASA instrument nestled in the belly of a small plane flew over Greenland’s ice sheet and the Arctic Ocean’s icy waters.
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Ship Tracks off the Kamchatka Peninsula : Image of the Day
Satellite images of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula often focus on the area’s many volcanoes, which frequently spew ash, steam, and aerosol plumes into the atmosphere. In these images, however, the plumes were produced by ships.
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Nowhere to Run by Alister Benn / 500px
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Mardi Gras Day, 2004, Jackson Square, New Orleans [OC] [600 x 800] : HumanPorn
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Bellevue Square Intersection at Night [OC][1024 x 576] : ExposurePorn
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CrunchWeek: Tech Stocks Fumble, Facebook Announces ‘M,’ And YouTube Takes On Twitch | TechCrunch
Welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. We’re very glad that you are here. This time ’round, our fearless Matthew Lynley headed the ship, while our own Josh Constine and your humble servant were on hand to help out along the way.
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The NYPD Will Now Give ‘Receipts’ To the People They Stop and Frisk | VICE News
Beginning September 21, NYPD officers will have to issue “receipts” to anyone they stop, but do not arrest, and offer an explanation for the encounter.
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Migrant deaths: UN warns of ‘crisis of solidarity’ – BBC News
The UN has said “much more is required” to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a “collective political response” to avert “a crisis of solidarity…
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Syrian refugees: The journey across Europe – BBC News
This year has seen an unprecedented number of migrants arriving in Europe. Most have come from Syria, where four years of civil war has claimed more than 200,000 lives.
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Steve Carell replaces Bruce Willis on Woody Allen’s new movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Just days after Bruce Willis exited Woody Allen’s new movie comes news that the role has already been recast.
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Bryce Dallas Howard lands Gold in first role after Jurassic World · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Bryce Dallas Howard has landed her first post-Jurassic World role. According to The Wrap, Howard will co-star in Gold, Stephen Gaghan’s (Syriana) upcoming drama about the world of mining.
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Cartoon: The GOP’s anti-immigrant stupor
Click to enlarge. With Trump leading Republican polls with a full-blown racist nationalist platform of slurs and insults, the rest of the field is following his lead and it’s ugly.
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The problems were flagrant, and his boss began to document them, only months after Vester Lee Flanagan II started working as a reporter at television station WDBJ in Roanoke, Va.
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Worsening Wildfire Seasons Are Taxing The Forest Service : NPR
This has been one of the worst — and most expensive — wildfire seasons ever in the Northwest, where climate change and a history of suppressing wildfires has created a dangerous buildup of fuels.
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Jeb Bush once tried to house Katrina victims on cruise ships | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Trailing Donald Trump in the polls by a widening margin, former Florida Gov.
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Netflix on Wii U finally catches up to every other box in your living room | The Verge
The Wii U is home to some truly amazing games. But as a set-top box, Nintendo’s console lags far behind the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Most owners would probably tell you they don’t even care; again, it’s all about those first-party games.
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Matt Damon Says Bourne 5 Inspired By A “Post-Snowden World”
The Bourne movies are one of the best spy-fi franchises out there, and the next entry returns with the best pieces intact. After a one-film departure, Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass will start making the fifth Bourne movie next week, and the actor t…
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Get More Out of Boring Lectures by Imagining You’re the Teacher
With lectures, you only get out of them what you’re willing to put in. You might be bored by the slides, but that information is still important. If you spend that time thinking from the teacher’s perspective, you might get a better grasp of the mat…
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Amazon introduces 1-hour alcohol delivery · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Only a few weeks after a New York Times article depicted it as a sort of white-collar labor camp, Amazon is introducing a way for consumers to forget all about its punishing corporate culture.
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This Is The Grumpiest Batman Figure Ever Made
I mean, grumpiness is part and parcel of being the Batman. Darkness. No parents. Being called “The Dark Knight” means grumpiness is part of the job. But my god, the look on this figure’s face is so comically brooding that it looks like Batman’s just…
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Arkham Knight Glitch Clones Nightwing, Makes Batman See Double
Today on Highlight Reel we have Rocket League trick shots, Battlefield 4 plays, illegal wrestling moves, and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe th…
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“Why are you upside down, human?” : cats
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Bangkok Station#2 by Anuchit Sundarakiti / 500px
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He really ties the rug together : cats
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley laid into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in a speech to its annual summer meeting for what he called a “rigged” primary process in Hillary Clinton’s favour.
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Here’s Why Brushing Your Teeth Is Bad for the Oceans | VICE News
The tiny exfoliating “microbeads” that millions of people slather onto their faces every morning are having a dire effect on the marine ecosystems, according to a new research by scientists at Plymouth University in England.
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NASA selects New Horizons’ next destination after Pluto | The Verge
After flying by Pluto on July 14th, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has a new destination. The mission team has selected another object in the Kuiper Belt — the region of icy bodies that orbits the edge of the Solar System — for the probe to explore …
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Balloon Sends a Link for Anyone to Add Files to Your Dropbox
When you’re trying to collect together a lot of files, it’s a pain to everyone on the same page. If you’re a Dropbox user, Balloon is a web app that lets you create a single link you can send to people so they can add files to your Dropbox without n…
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Of course Republican candidates are bashing China: The base wouldn’t tolerate anything less
There are two ways to engage with any very powerful nation that is doing things we don’t like. The first is to, well, engage. The second is what the new would-be leaders of the free world are doing.
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BBC Sport – Eva Carneiro: Mourinho treatment of Chelsea doctor on Fifa agenda
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho’s treatment of team doctor Eva Carneiro is to be discussed by world governing body Fifa. Carneiro’s role was reduced after she and head physio Jon Fearn went on the pitch to treat Eden Hazard in the first game of the seaso…
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Quantum “Spookiness” Passes Toughest Test Yet – Scientific American
John Bell devised a test to show that nature does not ‘hide variables’ as Einstein had proposed. Physicists have now conducted a virtually unassailable version of Bell’s test. It’s a bad day both for Albert Einstein and for hackers.
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Fear The Walking Dead to introduce new character in online special · Newswire · The A.V. Club
AMC has a new gimmick to ensure The Walking Dead fans check out their zombie spinoff show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the channel is putting together a one-off Fear The Walking Dead online special that’s set on an airplane overrun by zombies…
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The Desperation Behind the Migrant Tragedy in Austria – The Atlantic
On Thursday, as Krishnadev Calamur has been tracking in The Atlantic’s new Notes section, Austrian authorities made a ghastly discovery: a truck abandoned in the emergency lane of a highway near the Hungarian border, packed with the decomposing bodi…
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Last year we reported that Joseph Fiennes had signed on to star in Clavius, a noir-ish Bible epic about a Roman centurion investigating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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This gives new meaning to the term ‘optical illusion’ : gif
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Magnus is very intrigued with the moss ball tank I’m setting up. : cats
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All About That Bass, But Give The Drummer Some : NPR
Here’s a duo that’s at the foundation of music itself, but which isn’t always noticed: the musical interplay between the bass and the drum. McBride, a celebrated bassist and host of NPR’s Jazz Night In America, knows a little something about how thi…
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Energy by Moreno Geremetta / 500px
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Burn on my arm looks like a googly eyed cat clock! : cats
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Popular family names in Switzerland [3108×2022] [OC] : MapPorn
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8 Earth Years : oddlysatisfying
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How my buddy’s last relationship ended. : AdviceAnimals
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Michael Jackson on subway in the 80s. : OldSchoolCool
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How to Draw Mickey Mouse : funny
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A giant dead Sequoia tree in Yosemite National Park [OC] [2285×1714] : EarthPorn
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Solar Storms Are Amping Up the Northern Lights This Week
An image of the Aurora Borealis, taken by night sky photographer Dora Miller (also known as Aurora Dora) on Aug. 22, 2015, in Talkeetna, Alaska.Credit: Dora Miller View full size image Space weather events that have been building over the last week …
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Venus Displays Its Brilliant Morning Finery for the Fall
All through the spring and early summer, the planet Venus dominated the western evening sky. Now, as summer turns into fall, Venus will dominate the eastern sky before sunrise. Venus has erupted into view in the eastern morning sky for the past coup…
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Key and Peele Has the Canonical Take on How Gremlins 2 Came to Be
What Joe Dante is linking to is an article with the Key and Peele sketch “’Gremlins 2 Brainstorm,’” which is not just an accurate description of how Gremlins 2 was written, but appears like a direct link to the mind of every sequel writer’s room eve…
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St Paul’s rape trial: ‘A measure of justice has been served’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The family of a teenage girl who accused a fellow New Hampshire prep school student of rape say a ‘measure of justice has been served’ after Owen Labrie was found guilty of some charges in the case.
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Pro-Kurdish MPs join Turkey cabinet – BBC News
The Turkish prime minister has appointed two politicians from the pro-Kurdish HDP party to the country’s new power-sharing cabinet. Ahmet Davutoglu is leading an interim government ahead of fresh elections due in November.
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Here’s How Bees Go Brave New World on Their Offspring
We know that some bee larvae develop into queens and other bee larvae develop into workers because they were fed differently. Until now we didn’t know what “ingredient” in the food made queens. It turns out to be not an additive but an absence that …
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All the Most Thrilling Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming This Fall
Your “to read” pile is about to get much more massive. This fall’s science fiction and fantasy books include new titles by legends like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Jim Butcher and Tanya Huff.
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Pirates May Have Broken Netflix’s 4K DRM | Motherboard
A piracy group known as “iON” has reportedly released the first episode of Netflix’s Ultra HD version of Breaking Bad on a private BitTorrent website.
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Uber hires researchers who hacked Chrysler Uconnect | Ars Technica
Less than a month after their command performances at the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas, security researchers Charlie Miller (late of Twitter) and Chris Valasek (formerly of the security firm IOActive) have been poached by …
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A New Kind of Bomb is Being Used in Syria and It’s a Humanitarian Nightmare | VICE News
Syrian government jets struck a market in Douma, a suburb northeast of Damascus, on August 16, killing almost 100 people. Some reports attribute the lethal strike to a volumetric weapon, also known as a vacuum bomb.
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No black judge has ever been elected in this district. Here’s why.
In the 32nd Judicial District Court, judges are elected at-large, rather than by district. The case shows that by electing judges at-large, black voters are completely silenced. As the press release states:
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Stunt pilot dies in plane crash ahead of New York air show | US news | The Guardian
Police said a stunt plane crashed on Friday while practicing tricks for a weekend air show in New York, killing the pilot. Trooper Steven Nevel said the propeller-driven plane crashed at around 2pm at Stewart international airport in the Orange Coun…
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The best thing about this wearable is its hypothetical-zombie-apocalypse video | The Verge
If you’ve been holding out for a new activity tracker that lets you share contact information by bumping your wrist to another and is made by a company known for more for its gaming devices than anything else, well, this is your lucky day.
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United in-flight Wi-Fi reportedly blocks Ars Technica and New York Times | Ars Technica
United Airlines’ in-flight Wi-Fi service reserves the right to block any website the company deems “inappropriate or unsuitable for in-flight viewing.” It looks like Ars Technica made the list, along with The New York Times and some other news sites.
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Razer’s new $150 Xbox controller is built for e-sports | The Verge
Microsoft isn’t the only one making an expensive new Xbox One controller aimed at hardcore gamers. Today Razer announced its Wildcat controller, which it describes as “a pro-gamer-validated, tournament-grade, console controller.
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Realistic Pluto Fly-By Animation Created From Photos, Trajectory Data | Video
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BBC Sport – Women’s Ashes 2015: England collapse hands Australia series
Australia regained the Women’s Ashes after England collapsed to 87 all out to lose the second Twenty20 international by 20 runs. Needing to win at Hove to keep the multi-format series alive, England were chasing 108 but slipped to 10-3 and 23-5, wit…
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Can corruption be wiped out in Guatemala? – Al Jazeera English
Political corruption, fraud, conspiracy and bribery are allegations currently angering the people of Guatemala. Investigators allege top government officials received a cut from bribes paid by businesses that wanted to avoid import duties. The scand…
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Straight Outta Compton was a hit this summer, drawing in crowds interested in learning about the rise and fall of one of rap’s most prolific acts.
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Ever since it was announced that the yellow pill-shaped things from Despicable Me were getting their own movie, the world has slowly suffocated beneath their ever-growing, indecipherable empire. Minions ruin Miguel lyrics. Minions swear at unsuspect…
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Judge cites John Oliver bit in legal opinion · Newswire · The A.V. Club
John Oliver has influenced the opinions of many Last Week Tonight viewers. But apparently he’s influencing legal decisions as well, as ninth circuit judge Marsha S. Berzon recently cited the show as part of her r opinion in the case of Paeste v. Gua…
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Don’t worry, Chicago Med has showrunners again · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Chicago Med, the Chicago Fire spinoff that’s been Chicago-hemorrhaging cast and crew at an alarming Chicago rate, has managed to staunch at least some of its HR bleeding.
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Win a DVD of the indie drama Five Star · Contest · The A.V. Club
When it debuted at Tribeca Film Fest last year, gang drama Five Star impressed with the way it blurred the line between reality and fiction. This was due in large part to its casting of James “Primo” Grant, a real-life member of the Bloods, as a fic…
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NYC’s Taxi Industry Finally Launches a Smartphone App To Compete with Uber | WIRED
New York is launching the Uber of taxis. Insiders of the city’s taxi industry are finally launching an app that lets users hail cabs and pay for rides using a smartphone. It’s such a great idea you have to wonder what took so long.
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In A Remote Part Of Washington, A Scramble To Save Cattle From Flames : The Salt : NPR
More than 1,000 square miles of wildfires are burning in Washington state. In the remote Okanogan Valley in the north-central part of the state, many cattle ranchers are scrambling to save their herds. Ranchers in Omak, Wash., have lost animals, bar…
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Judge’s Order To Shut Down NSA Phone Surveillance Reversed By Federal Appeals Court | TechCrunch
The three-judge panel issued its ruling Friday, contending that conservative privacy activist Larry Klayman had not adequately argued the likeliness that his own data had been collected as a part of the metadata collection program.
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SocialBattles Is A Photo App For People Who Think Instagram Isn’t Competitive Enough | TechCrunch
Andre and Sandro De Moraes must really like to see people compete. The brothers previously created GoldMic, a now-defunct social network for hip hop battles. Now they’ve launched a new iOS app called SocialBattles, where users compete to post the mo…
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Maturer Andy Murray sets his mind to new priorities on eve of US Open | Sport | The Guardian
After years of a very singular pursuit of a personal tennis destiny Andy Murray’s life at 28 has become inextricably woven into the timetables of two women – his wife and his temporarily absent coach – and he could not be happier about it.
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Kentucky clerk takes same-sex marriage license battle to US supreme court | US news | The Guardian
Two months after it legalized gay marriage nationwide, the US supreme court is being asked by a Kentucky county clerk for permission to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religio…
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Another shocking shooting in the United States. Like most Australians, my feeling of horror is followed by a flicker of relief. Unlike the Americans, when we suffered a tragedy, we acted – we did something that made our country safer.
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Google’s App Search Results Now Look More Like An App Store | TechCrunch
Google has been working for some time to improve how it highlights mobile apps, and the data they contain, in its search results. And now, Android users performing Google searches for apps outside the Play Store will notice a big change in how apps …
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If You Only See One Mad Max-on-BMX Movie Today, Make It Turbo Kid | WIRED
As the summer winds down, it’s easy to think you’ve seen possibly every dystopian/sci-fi/action movie that you can possibly handle. But, should you have a thirst for one more, we have a suggestion: Turbo Kid.
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Uber Hires Security Researchers Behind That Crazy Jeep Hack | TechCrunch
Uber has hired the duo behind a spectacular hack earlier this year that involved taking remote control of a Jeep Cherokee. Wired writer Andy Greenberg experienced this firsthand — he wrote that he was driving on a St.
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Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the US and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expected improvements in ties between the longtime allies to come quickly after the accord was implemented.
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Uber hires hackers who remotely hijacked a Jeep | The Verge
Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek caused a stir last month when they found a way to remotely hijack Chrysler vehicles, using a Jeep Cherokee in an impressive, frightening demonstration.
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Two pro-Kurdish MPs part of Turkey’s interim government – Al Jazeera English
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved the makeup of the provisional government that will run the country until November 1 elections, including for the first time pro-Kurdish MPs.
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Uber Hires the Hackers Who Wirelessly Hijacked a Jeep | WIRED
If it’s possible to wirelessly attack an Internet-connected Jeep to hijack its steering and brakes, what could hackers do to a fully self-driving car? A pair of the world’s top automotive security researchers may be about to find out, with none othe…
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Police shooting in Oakland among spate sparking concern over use of force | US news | The Guardian
Three police killings within a day in California have sparked a quick response from activists in California and across the country demanding thorough investigations into the three separate incidents.
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Zodiac Starforce Is an Interesting—If Slow—Deconstruction of the Magical Girl Genre
After Sailor Moon Crystal failed to reignite the magical girl genre this year, the idea of a western deconstruction of it in a comic like Zodiac Starforce, which began this week, is enough of a hook to pull you in.
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My fiancee can have her “books”. I’ll stick to my video games – Imgur
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Mitzpe Ramon, Israel js – Just Space
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How Europe Is Grappling With The Realities Of The Migrant Influx : NPR
Several European countries are coming under criticism for their response to a recent surge of migrants. Peter Sutherland, a special representative for the United Nations, discusses the situation.
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What the climate movement can learn from the war on smoking | Grist
If you want to understand how culture can change, head for where the smokers are — or, to be more precise, where they aren’t. Just a few decades ago, nearly all spaces, indoors and outdoors, were the territory of the smoker.
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Air pollution at home could lower kids’ GPAs | Grist
It’s a safe bet that most kids who make excuses for bad grades are just totally full of it. Couldn’t upload your homework because the internet was down? Nice try.
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NASA Finally Picked New Horizons’ Next Destination | WIRED
New Horizons has a new destination! The spacecraft, as you might remember, whizzed by the former planet known as Pluto earlier this summer. NASA has now picked its next stop: a small, cold Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 that is billions of mile…
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BBC Sport – Jo Konta only Briton to come through US Open qualifying
Jo Konta came through the final round of qualifying but Kyle Edmund suffered a shock defeat to leave six British singles players at the US Open. Konta beat Austria’s Tamira Paszek 6-4 3-6 6-2, taking her winning run since Wimbledon to 13 matches.
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‘This Instrument Can Kill’: Tasers Are Not as Harmless as Previously Thought | VICE News
Natasha McKenna was being held at the Fairfax County jail in Virginia this past February for allegedly assaulting a police officer. She weighed just 130 pounds, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 12, and was the mother of a young girl.
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White House appoints ‘first hostage affairs envoy’ – BBC News
The White House has appointed its first presidential envoy for hostage affairs as part of the US government’s review on responding to hostage situations. James O’Brien will serve in the new role created to boost efforts “to safely recover American h…
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Lionsgate is making a movie version of the Borderlands games · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fans of swearing, explosions, and virtual piles of guns have something new to look forward to/dread, because Lionsgate has announced that it’s giving Gearbox Software’s popular firearm-collection simulator Borderlands the feature-film treatment.
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Add AirPlay Mirroring to Any TV with a Raspberry Pi
AirPlay Mirroring, the tech that allows you to display your iOS device’s screen on your Apple TV, it great, but you need an Apple TV to use it. Instructables user edyboy12 shows how to use a Raspberry Pi instead. You’ll basically only need to downlo…
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Uber Just Hired the Two Infamous Jeep Hackers | Motherboard
Uber has hired the two security researchers who made headlines earlier this month after hacking into a Jeep. The researchers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, both this week quit their previous jobs at Twitter and security firm IOActive, respective…
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Twitter Wants to Be (Slightly) More Diverse by 2016 | WIRED
Twitter announced new goals today to reinforce its commitment to becoming a more diverse company. But if you look at the numbers, their goals aren’t all that, well, progressive.
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What with their Fiery Chicken Fries, Apple Watches, PewDiePies, and various and sundry Snapchats, today’s jaded schoolchildren are more difficult than ever to impress.
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Attention synth heads, Fulci fanatics, and hipper-than-thou horror dorks: Italian soundtrack composer and Goblin contemporary Fabio Frizzi is playing his first-ever U.S. shows this fall.
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Delaware Sen. Tom Carper announces support for Iran nuclear deal
On Friday, one more of those undeclared Democrats declared. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware wrote this thoughtful, intelligent, and well-informed op-ed stating that he will support the agreement and enumerating the many reasons why he will do so.
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Fox Chalk Drawing [x-post from r/adorableart] : foxes
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Different space by Ichiro Murata / 500px
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Death of Knut the Polar Bear Is Explained at Last http://t.co/Hjc22b9nIR
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Dancing in Love by Sue Hsu / 500px
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The Architecture of American Houses
From Pop Chart Lab, a beautiful poster showing 121 architectural styles of American houses. Useful if you don’t know your Victorian from your Tudor from your Greek revival.
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Wright Thompson on life, loss and renewal in New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina
Editor’s note: This story contains mature language. ith the air conditioner off for filming, the only noise in Steve Gleason’s home is the breathing machine that keeps him alive.
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The next Apple TV remote may have Wii-like motion controls | The Verge
Apple is widely expected to introduce an overhauled version of the Apple TV next month, and one of the big changes is supposed to be in how you control it.
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The Pop Art of Sister Mary Corita Kent to be Shown at Harvard | Observer
Mary Corita Kent was a Catholic nun, an activist in 1960s, and prolific pop artist who is only now beginning to be recognized for her influential artistic output.
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Netflix’s 4K video reportedly cracked, Breaking Bad episode posted online | The Verge
Pirates might have managed to break the copy protection on Netflix’s Ultra HD video. TorrentFreak reports that a 4K copy of the first episode of Breaking Bad has been posted to a private torrent tracker site.
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The Week in Fashion: Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora, and Mary-Kate Got a Crazy | Vanity Fair
Rita OraPart rock star, part alien princess, Rita radiated otherworldly appeal in this fearless getup, featuring a sheer purple top by Lea Peckre.
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The GOP lurches to the far right: Trump, Cruz to attend event hosted by radical anti-Muslim group
Sen. Ted Cruz The press still can’t come to grips with just how far right the Republican Party has become in the last few years, and just how far right campaign candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running.
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New Target For New Horizons – Boldly Going | Orbit Animation
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New Horizons Locks Onto Next Target: Let’s Explore the Kuiper Belt!
We don’t have the funding but we have the target: the New Horizons spacecraft will adjust its course to make a flyby of Kuiper Belt Object MU69 in January 2019. This will be the most distant world ever explored.
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Former Residents of New Orleans’ Demolished Housing Projects Tell Their Stories | The Nation
Soon after Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans’ failed levees displaced 400,000 of the city’s residents, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made a move that would dramatically reduc…
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Roger Waters’ ‘Wall’ Pig, Inflatable Freddie Mercury Headed to Auction | Rolling Stone
The giant pig head that adorned the stage of Roger Waters’ 1990 Berlin performance of The Wall, as well as other large-scale inflatable props and models used by the Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Queen are headed to auction, the BBC reports.
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F.lux for Mac Adds “Backwards Alarm Clock” to Show How Much Sleep You’re Missing
Mac: F.lux is a great app for changing the temperature of your display when you’re working late at night, but working late at night also tends to mean you’re skipping sleep. The Mac version of the app now has a new “Backwards alarm clock” that count…
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Toro y Moi Drops Free, Surprise ‘Samantha’ Mixtape | Rolling Stone
Toro y Moi Drops Free, Surprise ‘Samantha’ Mixtape 20-track collection features guests Washed Out, Nosaj Thing, Kool A.D.
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How Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter – The New Yorker
Yale University’s Robert Fernandez prepared the lab bench for the camera as a chef might arrange his mise en place, deftly laying out a mini vortex, a fly aspirator, a T-maze, and a thermometer.
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A Deeper Look at Some of the Most Stunning Exploitation Movie Posters of All Time
Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of Bronson, Drive, and the upcoming Neon Demon, has a problem. That problem is his insane amount of exploitation posters from New York’s down and dirty Times Square days. To solve this problem, he put them into a b…
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Hear Cee Lo’s Soulful New Song ‘Sign of the Times’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Cee Lo’s Soulful New Song ‘Sign of the Times’ Laid-back track from singer’s upcoming ‘Heart Blanche’ LP samples iconic groove from ‘Taxi’
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I Am Awaited in Valhalla: Farewell to io9
The time has come for me to make a difficult announcement: August is my last month as a staffer at io9. I am taking many slow, deep breaths and trying not to cry.
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MRW my friend asked me how the sauna was. : reactiongifs
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Rori-sama demonstrates her technique (GATE ep09) : animegifs
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Tavira Salt by Luis Pereira / 500px
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Don’t you tell me what you’re supposed to contain, cup. : firstworldanarchists
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HYPNOTIC SIGNAL by SEPEHR GHASSEMI / 500px
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How Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter – The New Yorker
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By Boat, By Bus, By Any Way Possible: One Refugee’s Perilous Journey : NPR
Munzar Omar, a teacher from Syria, left his wife and children behind as he searches for a safer home for them. He’s one of hundreds of thousands fleeing war in Syria and heading towards Europe.
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A Close Look At The Volatility Index : NPR
As the stock market has swung wildly this week, investors have gotten intimately acquainted with volatility. Robert Whaley, a professor at Vanderbilt, explains the VIX, his gauge of market volatility.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Bipolar Stars and a Radio Phoenix
Two of the ringed planet’s moons make an appearance, and a telescope spies quirky asteroids lined up in a row.
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See Which Animals Have the Most Enormous—and Tiniest—Babies
When the National Zoo’s giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a miniscule baby on August 23rd, it looked like the tiny, hairless infant just tumbled right out of her. A couple hours later, a second baby popped out.
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3 Timelines Show a World Turning Against Elephant Ivory
The world has stepped up attempts to shut down the illegal ivory trade in recent years, though demand for ivory figures and trinkets still claims some 30,000 elephants a year.
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Illinois fires coach Tim Beckman one week before season opener | Sport | The Guardian
Once there was a time when college football coaches held supreme power over their players. They could dictate which classes to take, how much of their lives to dedicate to football and push them to play through injury, all to add to the wealth and g…
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The Top Rosé Wines In New York and the Hamptons This Summer | Observer
As Fashion Week approaches, a shift begins to happen. It’s not the foliage we’re talking about, more the transition from glasses of rosé to flutes of bubbly.
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U.S. Vaccination Rates High, But Pockets of Unvaccinated Pose Risk – Scientific American
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The vast majority of U.S. kindergarten-age children are vaccinated against preventable diseases but sizable pockets of unprotected children still exist, posing a public health threat, according to a government study. Only 1.7% of…
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3 Reasons You Will Lose Your Job If You’re On the Ashley Madison List | Observer
This week, Fast Company featured an article, “Should Ashley Madison Members Lose Their Jobs?” The story surmised that those who cheat in one area of life won’t necessarily cheat in another, and that they shouldn’t lose their jobs.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.28.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.
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BBC Sport – EuroHockey 2015: England reach final with victory over Spain
England have reached the final of the EuroHockey Championships following a 2-1 victory over Spain at the Olympic Park. More to follow.
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Oklahoma death row inmate mumbles incoherently during insanity hearing | US news | The Guardian
An Oklahoma man scheduled to die for killing his nine-month-old daughter mumbled about religion Friday during a hearing about his sanity, but only answered a few questions when testifying. Attorneys for Benjamin Robert Cole don’t think he’s sane eno…
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A Federal Court Sided with the NSA Today | Motherboard
A federal appeals court reversed a ruling against the National Security Agency’s phone data collection program on Friday, officially undoing a 2013 decision that found the surveillance program unconstitutional.
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Jessica Lange in talks to return to American Horror Story · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As the American Horror Story: Hotel cast list swells to monstrous proportions, the AHS franchise as a whole grows as well, with Ryan Murphy recently teasing that the show could possibly pull double duty with both a fall season and a spring season ne…
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French writers held for ‘bid to blackmail Morocco king’ – Al Jazeera English
Two French journalists known for their critical writings about Moroccan King Mohammed VI have been arrested in France for allegedly trying to blackmail the monarch, according the Paris prosecutor’s office and the king’s lawyer.
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Watch This Remake of the ‘Pokémon Intro’ Someone Made in ‘GTA V’ | Motherboard
Video games are rarely about “points” anymore—instead, they’re about experiences. And that includes pulling off a heist, bailing out of a helicopter, or, in the case of one YouTuber, creating a shot-for-shot remake of the intro of Pokémon.
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And now, Bruce Campbell with your traffic and weather · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last weekend, groovy Bruce Campbell himself was in the Chicagoland area attending Wizard World Chicago and hanging out with the likes of Tom Holland, Michael Rooker, and Barry Bostwick.
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How Katrina Changed Eating in New Orleans – The New Yorker
On the weekend of New Year’s Eve in 2005, Frank Brigtsen cooked the most memorable meals of his life. They were the first meals served at Brigtsen’s, his restaurant in New Orleans, when it reopened four months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
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In Wake Of Riot, Ariz. Governor Fires For-Profit Prison Firm : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks to KJZZ reporter Alexandra Olgin about Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision to cut ties with a private-prison operator in the wake of a prison riot last month in Kingman.
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On Cusp Of History, Serena Williams Bears Big Expectations Into U.S. Open : NPR
The U.S. Open begins Monday in New York, with Williams seeking to become the first women’s tennis player since 1988 to win a grand slam. If she wins, this would cap a remarkable year in sports.
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Remembering ‘Chocolate Thunder,’ An NBA Legend Straight From Planet Lovetron : NPR
ESPN reporter Tom Friend discusses the legacy of Darryl Dawkins, who could have been one of the best players in NBA history. Injuries sapped his talent, but his eccentric personality and jaw-dropping dunks still left a lasting impact. Dawkins died T…
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A New Ride Down Dylan’s ‘Highway’: What Do Millennials Think Of The Album? : NPR
Bob Dylan’s seminal album, Highway 61 Revisited, celebrates its 50th birthday over the weekend. To mark the occasion, we’re asking five of NPR’s millennials to take a listen to the 50-year-old LP.
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Hundreds Of Desperate Migrants Feared Dead Off Libya And In Austria : NPR
Austrian police say that dozens of people died after being crammed into the back of a smuggler’s truck, which was found abandoned on a highway Thursday. And hundreds are feared dead after two boats sank off Libya’s coast.
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Week In Politics: Biden’s Possible Run And Bush’s Handling Of Katrina : NPR
Political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times discuss the prospects of Vice President Joe Biden running for president, as well as former President George W. Bush’s visit to New Orleans to commemorat…
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Letters: A Correction, And Comments On Coverage Of The Virginia Shooting : NPR
All Things Considered corrects a figure from a report earlier this week on the anniversary of the war in Gaza. Audie Cornish also reads audience comments on coverage of the shooting of a Virginia TV reporter this week.
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On Eve Of Katrina Anniversary, Bush Takes A Tour Of New Orleans 10 Years On : NPR
Former President George W. Bush is visiting the city on Friday in honor of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. His administration was criticized for how it dealt with the storm’s aftermath.
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Clinton Takes The Stage At Democratic Summit, Trying To Quell Concerns : NPR
As speculation swirls on a possible run by Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is trying to show strength. She addressed Democratic National Committee members Friday in Minneapolis.
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CEO Pay Ratios: Comparing The Top Boss’ Pay To Yours : NPR
Companies have long had to disclose what their CEOs make, but soon, for the first time, large companies will have to disclose how salaries at the top compare to their median compensation level for employees worldwide.
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Billions Spent On Flood Barriers, But New Orleans Still A ‘Fishbowl’ : NPR
In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has nearly completed one of the world’s most remarkable hurricane protection systems to encircle New Orleans.
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China’s Tricky Economic Transition: From Steel Mills To E-Commerce : Parallels : NPR
After a huge drop in the past couple of weeks, Shanghai stocks rose Friday for the second day in a row. For many, that’s a relief. But China’s economy has a long way to go.
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Jace Clayton Translates Stocks Into Sound : NPR
News about the stock market’s ups and downs hardly comes as music to the ears — unless you happen to be experimental musician Jace Clayton.
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Ocado Wants to See off Amazon Fresh by Licensing its Food Tech – Bloomberg Business
At Ocado Group Plc’s warehouse in Hatfield, a half-hour north of central London by train, hundreds of red shopping crates wind their way through a labyrinth of conveyor belts.
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NASA wraps up Space Launch System engine test, Buzz Aldrin points way to Mars | Ars Technica
On Thursday, NASA completed an initial developmental test series using an RS-25 engine of the sort that will drive NASA’s next-generation launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS). NASA’s SLS is a successor to the Space Shuttle program and the s…
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Fall means back to school time not only for students but also for their overworked, underpaid teachers.
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Rick Springfield’s butt makes triumphant return to Central New York · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last night, Rick Springfield and his newly vindicated butt returned to the scene of the crime, performing a concert at the opening day of the 2015 New York State Fair at Chevy Court.
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Legionnaires’ disease case prompts San Quentin prison to shut off water | US news | The Guardian
The water has been shut off at California’s oldest prison after an inmate was hospitalized with a confirmed case of Legionnaires’ disease, officials said Friday.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho set for 100th home league game as Chelsea boss
Ninety-nine games, seventy-six wins, one defeat, 250 points. Jose Mourinho takes charge of his 100th home fixture as a Premier League manager on Saturday, with visitors Crystal Palace facing perhaps the most difficult away trip in world football.
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Rafael Nadal’s US Open Plan and Why He Loves Broadway | Vanity Fair
Rafael Nadal is a 14-time Grand Slam winner, Tommy Hilfiger model, Shakira music-video muse, worldwide sex symbol, and a very big fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. At a cocktail party on Thursday at the New York Palace, Nadal told VF.
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New Game Of Thrones fan theory adds an “M” to “R+L=J” · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
This post contains plot details and theories about Game Of Thrones, which is why you clicked on it. It will likely be at least nine months until Game Of Thrones returns for its sixth season, but fans have already taken a deep dive into crazy specula…
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Filipino army says rebels killed in hostage rescue bid – Al Jazeera English
Three fighters have been killed after the Philippine military launched a second attempt in two weeks to rescue hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf group, the army has said.
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Owen Labrie Cleared of Most Serious Rape Charge in St. Paul’s Case | Vanity Fair
A New Hampshire jury today ruled that Owen Labrie, a student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, was not guilty of felony rape in a trial that has seized headlines throughout the nation.
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Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) has a new home and employer in season five of Homeland, but she quickly finds herself draw back into foreign affairs in the trailer.
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Palin Drone: Sarah Defends Curt Schilling From ‘Liberal’ ESPN | Rolling Stone
Palin Drone: Sarah Defends Curt Schilling From ‘Liberal’ ESPN After the network suspends Schilling for a tweet that compared Muslims to Nazis, Palin rides to his defense, rips ‘intolerant PC police’
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Why Is Donald Trump Winning Over Evangelical Voters? | The New Republic
As Donald Trump has enjoyed an astonishing lead in a packed Republican primary field, a vexing question has gone unanswered: Why are evangelicals, those most desired of conservative voters, fond of Trump? There isn’t a single Republican in the mix w…
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CONCORD, N.H. — A prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at the elite St. Paul’s School was found not guilty Friday on the main sexual assault charges, but guilty on several lesser counts. The defendant stood and sobbed as he liste…
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On Friday, VICE and HBO released a trailer for Fixing the System, an upcoming special on criminal justice in the US that will air on September 27.
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AMC is putting zombies on a plane in a new Walking Dead special | The Verge
There’s never really a good place to run into a bunch of zombies, but on a plane might be the worst. That’s the premise of a new stand-alone Walking Dead special, which will follow a group of people who suddenly have to deal with a bunch of zombies …
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St Paul’s rape trial: Owen Labrie breaks down as mixed verdict read | US news | The Guardian
Owen Labrie, a former New Hampshire prep school senior, is found not guilty of raping a 15-year-old freshman, but guilty of lesser charges, including misdemeanor sexual assault. Labrie breaks down in tears as the judge reads out one of the guilty ch…
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NASA’s One-Year Astronaut Takes Spin In Soyuz | Video
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This week’s most important songs: Justin Bieber, OMI, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s roundup of the most important music from the week that was. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’m looking forward to this Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards hijinks.
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Late last month, the creators of Netflix’s hit original series told the Television Critics Association how freeing it was to work with a company that didn’t gauge success by Nielsen ratings. “It’s wonderful,” Grace and Frankie executive producer Mar…
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Friday summer Dealmaster: you can take it with you, with the right backpack | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! The fine folks at TechBargains have sent over a veritable plethora of deals to round out the week, with the featured deals focusing on a combination of gift cards and backpacks (which you can fill using the gift cards!). Yakkity-…
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Seventeen-year-old sentenced to 11 years in prison for pro-ISIS Twitter account | The Verge
Today, a federal court sentenced a 17-year-old Virginia resident named Ali Shukri Amin to 11 years and four months in prison for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS.
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Raw Milk’s “Health Benefits” Are Mostly Imaginary
Maybe you like the taste of raw milk. (That’s more likely because it’s grass-fed than because it’s raw, but okay.) But if you’re chasing after health benefits in raw milk, think again.
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Watch Footage from ‘LawBreakers’, a New FPS from the ‘Gears of War’ Designer | Motherboard
Developer Boss Key Productions and publisher Nexon have revealed the first gameplay trailer for their free-to-play first-person shooter LawBreakers.
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FDA Approves New Cholesterol-Lowering Drug – Scientific American
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Amgen Inc’s Repatha (evolocumab) drug for patients with hereditary forms of high cholesterol and those with cardiovascular disease.
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Mobile Gaming Livesreaming Service Mobcrush Has Raised Around $10M | TechCrunch
We’ve heard from sources that Mobcrush, which streams mobile games much in the same way Twitch is known for streaming popular eSports desktop games, has raised around $10 million in new financing, though the number could have gone beyond that.
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Emma Watson Has Adopted a New Cause | Vanity Fair
Between her inspiring work as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and her busy acting schedule (Beauty and the Beast included), Emma Watson has found the time to nurture a new cause, and it relates to fashion.
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Hazmat teams investigate deaths near Chicago – BBC News
Investigators are trying to determine what killed two people and made five others sick, including four police officers, inside a home near Chicago. Four police officers entered the home in Des Plaines, Illinois, on Thursday after someone called emer…
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How to Weather Hurricane Season | | Observer
It’s that time of year again. Hurricane season. Tropical Storm Erika has already turned deadly, claiming the lives of 12 on the small Caribbean island of Dominica, and is now inching toward Florida. For city dwellers, it;s usually not a big deal.
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Game|Life Podcast: Metal Gear and Mario Maker Take Over Our Lives | WIRED
Additionally, literally as we were recording this, a press release showed up in both of our inboxes announcing the Shovel Knight Amiibo, so we have some Hot Takes on that as well.
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Rebekah Brooks is reportedly coming back to News Corp as chief executive of its U.K. division, according to the Financial Times. Sources told the newspaper that Brooks, who a year ago was cleared of all charges related to the phone-hacking scandal t…
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Up to 200 individuals likely seeking humanitarian relief in Europe may have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea near western Libya on Thursday, according to various media reports.
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Judgmental Towers Apartment Complex, Application to Rent – The New Yorker
Thank you for your interest in the Judgmental Towers apartment complex. Please fill out and submit this form, along with your application fee, a copy of a recent credit report, and a DNA sample. What is your full name?
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Midday open thread: On publishing graphic images, a Sunday preview and The Great Escape
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Wedgewood Church in Charlotte, North Carolina isn’t shy about its progressive beliefs.
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In a new clip from the year 2029, Neil deGrasse Tyson walks the world through the manned expedition to Mars.
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Nobody Should Be Making a Musical About Burning Man | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at popular new videos uploaded this week. This week, we have a proposed musical about Nevada’s hippie/druggie/freaker fest, a man teaching his son a valuable lesson and inexplicably sharing it with the world, and the world’s…
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What a Pack of Cigarettes Costs, in Every State – The Awl
Every summer since 2011, The Awl has divined the price of a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes by calling a convenience store in every state in America because—here’s a definitive fact for you—cigarettes are cool.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CarPlay, Booze, And Keyboards | TechCrunch
Welcome to the second edition of the TC Gadgets Podcast on Minecraft. This week, we’re discussing Apple CarPlay, the MixStik (which helps you to be an awesome bartender), the new full-size keyboard for mobile devices from LG, and the Sensel Morph (a…
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The Flooding of America | The New Republic
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Why It’s Hard to Sue the NSA: You Have to Prove It Spied on You | WIRED
Here’s a big problem with secret spying programs in the US: To dismantle them with a lawsuit, someone has to prove that their privacy rights were infringed. And that proof is almost always a secret.
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Video Shows Hamas Has Rebuilt The Tunnels In Gaza | VICE News
Hamas, the militant Islamist group based in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, published a video showing the group conducting training exercises amid reconstructed underground tunnels.
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Dearest Internet mammals: This is it. After years of faithful service, I’m leaving io9. If you’re reading this, you already know how special this place is, so I’ll do my best to keep this brief and spare you my gushing praise.
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Become a Mystery Shopper to Earn Some Cash on Vacation
Mystery shopping is one of the ways you can make some pocket money in your spare time. If you get assigned to mystery shops at airports, on your next vacation you could not only kill time waiting for your flight, you could earn some money and possib…
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NASA really doesn’t want to rely on Russia to take astronauts to space anymore | The Verge
NASA administrator Charles Bolden is very disappointed in Congress — and he’s letting everyone know it. Today in Wired, Bolden published an open letter to the law-making body titled, “Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA.
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Destiny’s Promposal Has Idaho Police Scrambling for Leads | Vanity Fair
In a compelling story that should be considered as the basis of True Detective Season 3, police in a small Idaho town are baffled by an increasingly unsolvable case: Who is Destiny, and more importantly, who was her prom date at Spring Fling 2015?
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Betty White will appear on Bones next season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you watch TV, you’ve probably witnessed at least a few Betty White guest appearances, be they on 30 Rock, WWE’s Monday Night Raw, or most of the game shows ever invented. But if, for some strange reason, you watch Bones exclusively, you’ve been d…
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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The New Girlfriend trailer seduces and confuses · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The red band trailer for The New Girlfriend spins a sexy and dangerous thriller in the span of just over a minute.
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Learn how to be a model in the ’80s with this helpful montage · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Sure, being a model in the ’80s may seem like a grueling and demanding job. But thanks to the glut of VHS tapes out there instructing people, it couldn’t be simpler to land a gig.
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The Walking Dead Will Make a TV Special About Zombies on a Plane
It’s not a surprise that the success of Fear the Walking Dead has spurred AMC to make more content set in that period. But this time, they’re going to make a special that both stands alone and introduces a new character to one of the ongoing series.
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If you’re a music fan in America between the ages of, say, 25 to super-old, chances are you spent some quality time in a Tower Records.
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R.I.P. Peter Kern, Austrian actor and director · Newswire · The A.V. Club
First attracting attention as a familiar face in the films of the New German Cinema of the ’70s, Austrian-born Peter Kern later became a prolific director and documentarian in his own right, often using film to express his outspoken views about sexu…
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Ex-Student at Elite School Cleared of Rape | Al Jazeera America
A jury of nine men and three women took eight hours to reach its verdict in the case against 19-year-old Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, who was accused of forcing himself on the girl in a dark and noisy mechanical room at St. Paul’s School in C…
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War Room · Film Review · The A.V. Club
War Room is the fifth film by director Alex Kendrick and his brother and regular collaborator Stephen, and their first since 2011’s Courageous.
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What’s the difference between a religion and a cult? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. Today, we speak to theologians and psychologists about worship, fanaticism and blurred lines. The rise of interest in cults in the 1970s and 1980s cemented th…
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To track the rise of Birkenstocks, one might look to their reinterpretation in Céline’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection, peep under the tables of any Brooklyn coffee shop, or read Vogue’s seal of approval (“Pretty Ugly: Why Vogue Girls Have Fallen for…
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Has Defra shown that badger culling stems cattle TB? – BBC News
The government says that it is ready to extend its badger cull policy to Dorset, following pilots in Gloucestershire and Somerset. But will it work?
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Hurricane Katrina: UK satellite revisits New Orleans 10 years on – BBC News
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the morning hours of 29 August, 2005, it wrought devastation on a huge scale.
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Why Utah is giving homes to the homeless – Susie Cagle – Aeon
David Hogue isn’t sure that he should tell me his name. He sits in a back office in the shelter where he has lived for the past 18 months, hands folded neatly in his lap. It isn’t that he doesn’t want to talk. He tells me about how he’s had trouble …
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New Jersey teacher who was late for work 111 times blames it on breakfast | Education | The Guardian
An elementary school teacher who was allowed to keep his job despite being late for work 111 times in two years said on Friday that breakfast is to blame for his tardiness.
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Fellow enjoys VR sex simulation so much he won’t stop when asked to – Boing Boing
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Apple, Boeing, MIT, and more partner with Pentagon to improve flexible electronics | The Verge
A consortium of top tech companies, laboratories, and universities is partnering with the Department of Defense to improve the manufacturing of flexible electronics, which could one day end up in aircraft, health monitors, military tools, or consume…
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Everything You Need To Know About iOS 9’s New Content Blockers | TechCrunch
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Jury Finds Former Prep School Student Not Guilty Of Felony Rape | ThinkProgress
Owen Labrie, the former St. Paul’s School student at the center of an explosive rape case involving one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country, has been cleared of the most serious charges brought against him, including felony charges f…
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Wright Home Will Open This Fall at Arkansas Museum | Observer
The Bachman-Wilson House, a New Jersey home originally designed in 1954 by world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Abraham Wilson and Gloria Bachman, was being threatened by repeated flooding at its original location along the Millstone River.
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IBM’s Dr. John Kelly Is Bringing Watson To Disrupt SF | TechCrunch
IBM’s Dr. John Kelly is joining the TechCrunch crew onstage at this year’s Disrupt SF. But he won’t be alone. Instead, Kelly is bringing Watson along with him. Watson is an IBM project that answers questions using artificial intelligence to accept a…
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Dominica badly hit by Tropical Storm Erika – BBC News
Helicopter rescue teams in Dominica are flying to the aid of hillside villagers still trapped in their homes after the Caribbean island was hit by Tropical Storm Erika. Flash floods and landslides have killed at least four people. Another 20 are mis…
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A Musically Clueless Person Predicts the ‘MTV Video Music Awards’ | | Observer
The MTV Video Music Awards (or VMAs for short, or “lol, really?” for very short) are this Sunday, hosted by the ever-unpredictable Miley Cyrus. Ms. Cyrus, for her part, promised an evening that is both “psychedelic” and “raw.
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Republican Presidential Candidates Say Climate Change Isn’t A Foreign Policy Issue | ThinkProgress
In two separate foreign policy addresses in South Carolina on Friday, Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker and Marco Rubio both criticized Democrats for addressing climate change as a foreign policy issue.
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School gives children orphaned by Boko Haram new start – Al Jazeera English
Many of the pupils are still in shock, including a boy who witnessed his father’s beheading. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Kano.
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Building a Video Game Studio in Post-Revolution Tunisia | Motherboard
Walid Sultan Midani is a man on a mission: prove that video games can be successfully developed in post-revolution Tunisia. Tunisia is a North African country widely considered the only success story of the Arab Spring.
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BBC Sport – Everton sign Uruguayan striker Leandro Rodriguez
The 22-year-old Uruguayan has agreed a four-year contract which will keep him at Goodison Park until June 2019. Rodriguez, who has an Italian passport, has scored 19 goals in 71 games for his hometown club and boss Roberto Martinez says he is an exc…
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The American Lawn: A Eulogy – The Atlantic
The hashtag #droughtshaming—which primarily exists, as its name suggests, to publicly decry people who have failed to do their part to conserve water during California’s water crisis—has claimed many victims. Anonymous lawn-waterers. Anonymous sidew…
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Domain hijacking spear-phisher foiled by the last line of defense—paranoia | Ars Technica
As the old joke goes, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that everybody isn’t out to get you.” Based on the contents of my e-mail inbox lately, I can confirm that my paranoia is well-founded.
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Hubble captures stunning image of the Twin Jet Nebula : space
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1 Billion Users Log Onto Facebook In Single Day – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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You must be literally kidding me – Imgur
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So my friend got this question – Imgur
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Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry speaks out about misogynist trolls · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unfortunately, dealing with online trolls spewing violence and misogyny is commonplace for many women these days.
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Migrant crisis: Why do politicians seem unable to act? – BBC News
“We can’t cope!” is the collective cry from across Europe, as the huddled masses spill onto its shores and scramble over hastily-assembled razor wire fences. “The numbers are too great. It’s biblical!”A little perspective, however, would not go amis…
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70s-Inspired Duster Earrings for Fall | Vanity Fair
CélineOversized hoops have never looked this chic. Céline Madison Avenue, $780; celine.comPhotograph courtesy of brand.
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Peep Like the Elite With These $3,500 Binoculars | WIRED
Usually when the Germans and Italians get together to make something, it just results in some crappy techno. But the latest collaboration between those ever-fashionable Europeans is aimed not at the dance floor, but at the eyeballs of the elite.
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Nintendo Is Letting Developers Make Their Own Amiibo. Can This End Well? | WIRED
Nintendo’s Amiibo interactive figurines are still hot commodities, and now it’s letting other game developers get in on the action. At an event in Seattle last night, Yacht Club Games, the developer of the throwback indie hit Shovel Knight, unveiled…
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Australia police stop random visa checks after protests – Al Jazeera English
People & Power investigates South Korea’s disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly. South Sudan’s president talks about the ongoing violence, internal rivalries, and the future of his country.
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Review: NutriBullet 12-Piece High-Speed Blender/Mixer System – Boing Boing
I am a busy geek, and I have no time for your complicated salads, nor do I fancy Soylent. This gadget—buy it on Amazon for $80—is an especially great model for college students in dorms, so consider shipping one to the freshman on your list. Eating …
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome loses time on summit finish
Chris Froome lost time on his rivals for overall victory on the first mountain test of the Vuelta a Espana. Bert-Jan Lindeman won stage seven’s summit finish but the interesting race was going on further down the mountain.
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Washington’s disappearing glaciers unite tribe and scientists in study | US news | The Guardian
Mauri Pelto digs his crampons into the steep icy slope on Mount Baker in Washington state and watches as streams of water cascades off the thick mass of bare, bluish ice. Every 20 yards, the water carves vertical channels in the face of the glacier …
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The iPhone Adventure Game Inspired by an 18th-Century Architect | Observer
When former architect Dan Walters decided to create an adventure-style video game for the iPhone he turned to familiar source material for inspiration: the 18th-century Neoclassical designs of French architect and urbanist Charles de Wailly’s Théâtr…
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Man with almost-perfect poop donates it to help patients with C-diff infection | fox4kc.com
It’s the middle of the day for Eric, a 24-year-old research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and nature is calling. Eric leaves his job and hops a train. Then a bus. Then he walks some more. He passes countless toilets, and he…
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Nitrogen triiodide: “So volatile that a mosquito landing on it will make it explode” – Boing Boing
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Fun and inexpensive pocket-size wood puzzles – Boing Boing
I found these matchbox size wood puzzles at a general store in Colorado and bought three of them.
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Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble | TechCrunch
Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $800 billion home services space.
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Who represents the Palestinian people? – Al Jazeera English
People & Power investigates South Korea’s disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly. South Sudan’s president talks about the ongoing violence, internal rivalries, and the future of his country.
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Jon Hamm Will Be the Holographic Husband of a Dying Widow’s Dreams
Sure, we all know Jon Hamm as the star of Mad Men, but the guy has crazy range. He’s done a lot of comedy, some family stuff and even a little scifi—his episode of Black Mirror is one of the series’ best.
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Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop shares his love for Ennio Morricone – Boing Boing
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16 Things You Probably Never Knew About The Short Circuit Movies
Right now, we’re falling in love with BB-8 from Star Wars—and yet, there’s still a special place in our hearts for Johnny Five, the robot from the Short Circuit films.
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News | NASA’s Summer Research on Sea Level Rise in Greenland
On Greenland’s ice sheet, a vast icy landscape crisscrossed by turquoise rivers and dotted with meltwater lakes, a small cluster of orange camping tents popped up in late July. The camp, home for a week to a team of researchers, sat by a large, fast…
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New Hampshire prep school senior found not guilty of raping freshman | US news | The Guardian
A former New Hampshire prep school senior was found not guilty of raping a 15-year-old freshman days before graduation during an unofficial tradition at the elite school known as a “senior salute”.
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Moo-q Tells You What Time of Day Your Brain Works Best
iPhone: We track just about everything these days, why not add our brains to the list? Your cognitive function works differently throughout the day, and moo-q will tell you when your brainpower is at its best. It’ll also try to find a link between y…
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Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ Is Pablo Escobar By Way of Ken Burns – The Atlantic
Netflix’s new series Narcos is possibly arriving at the wrong time: The doldrums of summer aren’t really the ideal moment for a narratively dense, documentary-like look at the rise and fall of the Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
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Watch a Luthier Birth a Cello in This Hypnotic Documentary | Open Culture
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People Are Still Dying From Cancer Likely Linked to 9/11 | VICE News
The death this week of the iconic 9/11 “dust lady” has again shed light on the thousands of cancer cases some believe are linked to the 2001 terrorist attack. Marcy Borders, who was photographed covered in ash as she escaped the World Trade Center’s…
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As CEO Resigns, Ashley Madison Desperately Tries to Wipe Leaked Data From the Internet | VICE News
The man who founded AshleyMadison.com, the marital cheating site at the center of a massive privacy breach, has stepped down as chief executive of the company that owns it. Noel Biderman has agreed to vacate the helm of Avid Life Media Inc.
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On Tuesday, courts in Guatemala ruled that the country’s former military dictator is to stand trial for genocide — but he will not be sentenced because he suffers from dementia.
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The Pentagon’s Inspector General is currently looking into allegations that Central Command (CENTCOM) provided intelligence was spun to make the anti-ISIS campaign appear more successful than it actually was.
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
1. Tech companies suffered from the hostile stock market environment as stock markets around the world plummeted following concerns over China. When stock markets opened on Monday, Facebook was down 12.1 percent, Apple was down 10 percent, and Googl…
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An Ohio high school on Thursday presented a live tiger cub at a football game, despite reportedly being unable to prove it had met state regulations on the keeping of exotic animals, amid protests from animal rights campaigners.
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How to become the next minor reality celeb: ask for retweets | The Verge
Here’s how people used to score Hollywood representation with little more than wit and a Twitter account. Open an account, make topical jokes, follow thousands of comedians, flatter those more famous than you to curry favor and get retweets, repeat.
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Is Rick from Rick And Morty the ideal scientist? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Rick And Morty’s Rick Sanchez is capable of many things: teleportation, freezing time, maintaining a consistent buzz throughout the day.
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Modern press junkets can be awkward, what with clueless regional morning show journalists asking everyone from Kristen Stewart to Bill Murray the same monotonous questions about their co-stars and green screens before making some sort of hack joke a…
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Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The River – YouTube
Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The RiverSong origins:The song was written on Morrison’s three week trip to Ireland in October 1973, along with seven other songs that would feature on Veedon Fleece.Biographer Clinton Hey…
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UN: Dutch Must End ‘Black Pete’ Racial Stereotypes | Al Jazeera America
The comments from the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will stoke an already heated debate on the custom, described as a harmless piece of fun by defenders, but condemned by other groups as an offensive stereotype.
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NYC Taxis Are Testing An Uber-Like App Called Arro | TechCrunch
The battle between yellow cabs and Uber cars is about to get that much spicier. According to Crains New York, a new app called Arro is being beta tested among 7,000 yellow and green taxis in the NYC area, allowing potential passengers to e-hail a re…
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Radar Detects Object Believed Lost Nazi Train | Al Jazeera America
Local lore says a German train filled with gold, gems and armaments went missing around the city of Walbrzych while it was fleeing the Red Army in the spring of 1945.
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Sport picture of the day: all hail American Pharoah | Sport | The Guardian
Spectators watch Triple Crown winner American Pharoah work out at Saratoga Race Course. American Pharoah is preparing to run in the Travers Stakes on Saturday. Photograph: Will Waldron/AP
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North Carolina officer who fatally shot unarmed black man won’t be retried | US news | The Guardian
North Carolina state prosecutors announced on Friday that they will not retry a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man, saying that talking with jurors after the mistrial helped convince them they cannot get a conviction.
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You Can Legally Add (Some) Music to Your Vine Videos Now | Motherboard
A new Vine update rolling out today allows users to add music to their videos, legally licensing snippets of handpicked songs. An additional feature, “Snap to Beat,” attempts to match the length of the music loop to the length of the video.
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Happy Friday, Remember This Insane Music Video About DOTA LAN Parties | Motherboard
Nine years ago today, the Swedish electronic artist Basshunter released the single “Vi sitter i ventrilo och spelar DotA,” which, for non-Swedes, translates to “We’re Sitting in Ventrilo [chat client] Playing Some DoTA.
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Why Bernie Sanders Will Win This Election—Even If He Doesn’t Win the White House – In These Times
The good news is that the 2016 presidential race has become a “mad-as-hell” campaign. The better news is: Bernie Sanders will win it. Campaigns of the mad-as-hell type are rare in our American politics.
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Pentagon announces Silicon Valley joint venture for wearables, warfare | Ars Technica
The Pentagon said Friday it is funding, in part, a $171-million venture with local government, academia, and more than 160 tech companies—ranging from Apple to Lockheed Martin—to develop electronics and wearables with flexible and stretchable sensor…
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Two UK journalists working for VICE detained in Turkey – Al Jazeera English
A British journalist and cameraman working for Vice News and their fixer have been detained in Turkey while reporting in the main city of the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, officials have said.
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Michigan court says juveniles can be raped and abused in prison
Seems crazy? Well, welcome to Michigan. In yet another example of America’s disturbing incarceration traditions, Michigan imprisoned a number of 17-year-old juveniles with adults, and prison guards and other staff did a terrible job of providing the…
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Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The River – YouTube
Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The RiverSong origins:The song was written on Morrison’s three week trip to Ireland in October 1973, along with seven other songs that would feature on Veedon Fleece.Biographer Clinton Hey…
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Five Things You Should Watch Before Summer Ends | Vanity Fair
With only two weekends left of the summer season (yes, we know that summer isn’t technically over until September 23, but if kids are back in school, and work has stopped allowing summer Fridays, summer is over), you may find yourself panicking that…
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Republicans Come to Terms with Their Worst Trump Nightmare | The New Republic
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The tenor of Republican Party rhetoric has darkened. Until recently, most Republican candidates and strategists regarded Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as something ephemeral—a flash in the pan; a storm to be waited out. -
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NSA phone data collection ‘not illegal’, US court rules – BBC News
A US appeals court has overturned a ruling that deemed the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone records to be illegal.District of Columbia judges said the plaintiffs had failed to prove they had been targeted for NSA surveillanc…
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How Journalists Deal With The Trauma Of Covering Tragic Shooting Deaths | ThinkProgress
For many reporters, the on-air shooting of Roanoke, Virginia-based reporter Allison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward has prompted a deeper conversation about the perils of the industry, with a particular focus on the mental trauma that news people exp…
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a-ha – Take On Me (Official Video) – YouTube
Check out our killer New Wave playlist on Spotify! http://spoti.fi/1pbPsuI- – – -The official video for a-ha “Take On Me”. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for “Take on Me” won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, …
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‘Armikrog’: Inside the Modern Claymation Gaming Revival | Rolling Stone
Building an entire planet out of clay isn’t easy, but point-and-click adventure game Armikrog succeeds in doing just that.
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Galaxy Note 5 (and S6 Edge+) review—big, premium phones, big premium prices | Ars Technica
Specs at a glance: Samsung Galaxy S6 Screen 2560×1440 5.7″(518 ppi) AMOLED OS Android Lollipop 5.1.1 with TouchWiz CPU Eight-core Samsung Exynos 7420 (Four 2.1 GHz Cortex-A57 cores and four 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 cores) RAM 4GB GPU Mali-T760 Storage 32G…
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New report: Solyndra executives lied to DOE officials to get loans | Ars Technica
In a few short years, Solyndra went from a promising US-based manufacturer of high-tech solar panels to a bankrupt political football. The company received substantial loans from the Department of Energy during the financial stimulus that followed O…
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Photos of the Week: 8/22-8/28 – The Atlantic
Hikers on a moonlit night in Mexico, Homer Simpson calls for calm at a protest in Chile, Kumbh Mela in India, a massive ball pit in Washington, D.C., Usain Bolt taken down by a Segway in China, a squirrel monkey riding a capybara in Japan, a confere…
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: August 21st to 28th
This week we looked at life lessons from working in retail, shared some insider perspective on fitness trends, laid out all those confusing carrier phone-buying plans, and more. Here’s a look back. People say that “everyone should work retail or ser…
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Simeon Rice on His ‘Kill or Be Killed’ Horror Film, ‘Unsullied’ | Rolling Stone
During his 12-year NFL career, Simeon Rice made three Pro Bowls, won a Super Bowl and was named Defensive Rookie of the Year.
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Gun Control Advocates Make Slow Progress—Just Not in Washington | The New Republic
The response to the fatal shootings of two journalists in Virginia feels depressingly familiar: the same calls from Democrats to ramp up gun control; the same calls from Republicans to blame mental illness; the same Onion article popping up on frien…
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Next Week/This Week: Rise and Fall | Observer
WHO HAD A GOOD WEEK? 1. Economic optimists: Because sometimes it pays off to keep your eyes closed during the rollercoaster.
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Antonio Banderas wants to be the next Manolo Blahnik or something · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Antonio Banderas—now free of all things Shrek and having satisfied his need for undersea adventures—has embarked on a whole new creative journey. Yahoo! News reports that Banderas has gone back to school to study fashion design.
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Adele’s new album is coming in November · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been nearly four years since British soul singer Adele released her diamond-certified smash hit album 21, and according to a new report from Billboard the wait for a follow-up is nearly over.
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It’s always impressive when any given human soldier pushes himself not only to the limits of his body, but of his mind. Climbing Mount Everest, after all, isn’t just about arm strength. It’s about brain strength.
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Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell Original Version 1983 – YouTube
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WASHINGTON — The attacks on Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, since he announced his support for the nuclear accord with Iran
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On Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd goes from enigma to pop star | The Verge
The man born Abel Tesfaye began his career as a mystery. His first mixtape, House of Balloons, was released for free on his website in March of 2011. The tape was as gritty and dark as Tesfaye’s voice was angelic, its sex appeal came with a sidelong…
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“Free Candy” van creeps out parents in Sacramento – Boing Boing
This van, complete with blacked-out windows and lacking a license plate, was freaking out parents (and kids) in a Sacramento, California suburb this week. Turns out the van was headed to Burning Man.
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A Decade After Katrina, New Orleans Is A Haven For Startups | Observer
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005, the city’s economy suffered as much damage as its infrastructure—as a result of business closures, New Orleans lost an estimated $125 billion in revenue.
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Former FEMA Director Who Oversaw Katrina Does Not Accept Sea Level Rise | ThinkProgress
Michael D. Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director who resigned in disgrace after criticisms of how he handled the storm, is also a climate change science denier, particularly on the idea that seems most relevant to his former…
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An all-male council in India has ordered that two sisters, ages 15 and 23, be raped and paraded in public with blackened faces because their brother eloped with a married woman. “Nothing could justify this abhorrent punishment,” the Amnesty petition…
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The first person, and cat, to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel – Boing Boing
In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, then 63, was the first person to make it over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She designed her own barrel, containing a harness and mattress, and sent her cat over the falls first as a test. The cat survived so Taylor went fo…
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How a Weezer song almost ruined my kid’s birthday · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we felt we had to hide from others. Every anticipatory parent maintains that theirs will be the child who grows up with a model musical pedigree.
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A friend of mine somehow stumbled on a YouTube video of some Japanese teens doing spot-on covers of Promise Ring songs—clearly very well rehearsed, intensely earnest, and surprisingly career-spanning.
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Elisabeth Moss’s New Film Explores the Psycho-Horror of Female Friends | The New Republic
There’s a long tradition in cinema of women who keep their friends so close that they begin switch places with one another.
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Looking for love at the end of the summer, à la the French · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With the fall movie season upon us, we wave goodbye to the warmer months with some of our favorite films about the end of summer.
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Video of celebrity Iraq fighter slicing body goes viral – Al Jazeera English
Video has emerged of a high-profile Iraqi commander of a Shia milita slicing the charred body of an alleged fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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BBC Sport – Olympics 2016: German sailor makes Rio pollution claims
German sailor Erik Heil claims he has contracted an infection after competing in polluted waters which will host sailing at next year’s Rio Olympics.
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Jess Glynne tops UK album chart with debut – BBC News
Jess Glynne has topped the UK album chart with her debut I Cry When I Laugh, calling it an “insane dream”. The singer already has five number one singles to her name, including Rather Be with Clean Bandit and her Tinie Tempah collaboration Not Letti…
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What Does Scientific Literacy Really Mean? | WIRED
Let’s look at the definition of literacy. If you type “define literacy” into Google, you get this: So clearly a literate person can both read and write. Could we then assume that “science literacy” means the ability to “do” science? I think so. That…
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VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. When Barack Obama heads north to Alaska next week, he’ll be getting a firsthand look at a place where climate change is no longer theoretical.
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A Wildly Detailed 100-Year Plan for Getting Humans to Mars | WIRED
Caption: Ron Jones’ Integrated Space Plan outlined the next 100 years of space travel. Ron Jones In the summer of 1986, Ron Jones was sitting on a beach in Oahu drawing lines in the sand.
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As CEO Resigns, Ashley Madison Desperately Tried to Wipe Leaked Data From Internet | VICE News
The man who founded AshleyMadison.com, the marital cheating site at the center of a massive privacy breach, has stepped down as chief executive of the company that owns it. Noel Biderman has agreed to vacate the helm of Avid Life Media Inc.
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Steve Jobs Documentary Director Gave Q&A at Film’s NYC Premiere | Observer
Last night, a new documentary chronicling the life of Steve Jobs and his nearly life-long project Apple premiered at the Crosby Street Hotel in Manhattan.
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From ‘Buffy’ To ‘Mr. Robot’: When Pop Culture Collides With Real-Life Violence | ThinkProgress
In the aftermath of a shooting in Roanoke, Virginia on Wednesday that left journalists Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, dead, USA announced it would postpone the season finale of Mr. Robot, its most critically-buzzed-about show of the summer.
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George W Bush dances in New Orleans during Katrina event – video | US news | The Guardian
Ever the awkward showman, Bush broke out in dance in New Orleans on Friday during an event commemorating 10 years since Hurricane Katrina. The former US president was visiting the Warren Easton charter school, and started dancing while a student mar…
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A billion people logged into Facebook on Monday · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Facebook: It’s not just for hacking into Death Cab For Cutie’s page to post images of rim jobs.
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The Complete Inverse of Man of Steel, in One Perfect Image
This photo is so great I can barely stand it. If Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl executive producer Greg Berlanti ever applies for the job of Running All DC Live-Action Stuff, his resume should literally just be this picture. Contact the author at ro…
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Tom Hardy has been secretly Dubsmashing all along · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
As the Great Dubsmash War wages on, bringing lovers closer together and dividing Agent Carter from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tom Hardy, it turns out, has been a stealthy participant all along.
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Journeyman Fan Joins Sixth NFL Team In 5 Years – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) – YouTube
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Ukraine Has Reached a Debt Deal. Now What? | The Nation
Yesterday, with the announcement that the Ukrainian government had reached an agreement on restructuring its private debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton, there was much rejoicing.
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10 Great End of the World Movie Romances | Vanity Fair
In this weekend’s Z for Zachariah, Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine are trapped in a post-apocalyptic love triangle. We won’t tell you how it all plays out, but suffice it to say that you could have worse options when it comes to who …
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Neighbors conspire to shut down Jerry Seinfeld and son’s lemonade stand · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a situation that’s surprisingly not already the premise of a Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, police in Jerry Seinfeld’s East Hampton neighborhood ordered that his son’s lemonade stand be shut down because peddling of any form in the are…
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Best pals Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence dance on stage with Billy Joel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Long Island native Amy Schumer just got a bit more local cred. The comedian, her sister Kim, brother Jason, and her pal and writing partner Jennifer Lawrence all showed up on stage at last night’s Billy Joel concert in Chicago.
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1,400 Dead After Mike Trout Fouls Line Drive Into Stands – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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If the surprisingly poignant “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever” finale was too deep for you, don’t you worry. Hidden on the Adult Swim website is a full length follow-up episode called “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” (We linked directly to it, but it’…
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Journeyman Fan Joins Sixth NFL Team In 5 Years – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
HELENA, MT—Continuing his lengthy trek around the league, sources confirmed Friday that 36-year-old journeyman fan Brian Ferretti has joined the Arizona Cardinals, his sixth team in the past five years.
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‘Big Brother’ Week 10 Recap: Battlefield Earth | | Observer
I recognize the fact that there are a few different types of Big Brother watchers. Not everyone goes in for the spoilers and Livefeeds. With that in mind, I never want to put out any info here that would give something away before its proper time.
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Netflix Hit With House of Cards Spoof Over Parental Leave | WIRED
The national women’s advocacy group UltraViolet is demanding Netflix expand its paid parental leave program to include all of its employees.
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Zac Efron’s New Movie Spawns the Saddest Club Night Ever | WIRED
On a Friday night at San Francisco’s Mezzanine nightclub, it’s rare to have a line down the block before 9PM. Tonight, though, is different.
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Like a lot of tech companies in Silicon Valley, Twitter last year published numbers about the different backgrounds and cultures of its employees, and its numbers were revealed to be rather white and very male. As of roughy one year ago, 70 percent …
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Oshkosh, B’Gosh: The US Military Is Finally Replacing the Humvee | VICE News
This week marks the beginning of the end for the Humvee. That’s because the US Army chose Oshkosh Defense to manufacture about 55,000 joint light tactical vehicles (JLTVs) that will become the successors to Humvees and mine-resistant, ambush-protect…
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How to Make Me Come: A New Anonymous Website Written by Women, for Guys | GQ
Talking about what you want in the bedroom can be hard. Sometimes it’s because you’re not even sure what you want. Sometimes it’s because you’re totally sure what you want and are embarrassed to admit it.
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Watch Bill Withers play “Ain’t No Sunshine” in 1971 – Boing Boing
Withers was inspired by the film “Days of Wine and Roses,” starring Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon. The song is from his masterpiece LP “Just As I Am”, produced by Booker T. Jones.
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Straight Outta Compton: the Ben Folds edition – Boing Boing
Kern Saxton recut the Straight Outta Compton trailer to Ben Fold’s cover of Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit.”
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The Perfect Storm Bass Preamp Contains Secret Soviet Technology | TechCrunch
There’s a lot about this Kickstart project to dissuade me from writing about it. First, this is a bass preamp, a little box that sits between the bass player and the amplifier.
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Iraq’s top Shia cleric voices support for protests – Al Jazeera English
Iraq’s top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced support for continuing protests in Baghdad and other cities in southern Iraq.
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Namely, The All-In-One HR Platform, Hires Radhika Samant And Teresa Dietrich | TechCrunch
Namely, a startup that does all the heavy HR lifting for you, is today announcing two new strategic hires in the form of Radhika Samant and Teresa Dietrich.
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Of Course Tom Ford Has a Beauty Product That Results in Flawless Skin | Observer
In today’s narcissistic, selfie-fueled world, there’s no kinder compliment than being called flawless. Perhaps we have Beyoncé to thank for that. Or at least apps like Facetune.
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Appeals court overturns judge who would have stopped NSA data collection | Ars Technica
The first major judicial ruling slamming the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records has been overturned. In 2013, US District Judge Richard Leon ruled the program was likely unconstitutional, but held off on shutting it down until an appeals court c…
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Shoreham air crash: Sixth victim named as Tony Brightwell – BBC News
The sister of a man missing after the Shoreham air crash has said he will always be in her family’s “hearts and memories”. Daniele Polito was in the same car as Matt Jones, who is known to have died when the Hawker Hunter plane crashed and exploded …
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Courts Side With The Government On NSA Phone Surveillance Program | ThinkProgress
In an upset to privacy and anti-government surveillance advocates, an appellate court ruled Friday in favor of the National Security Agency’s telephone metadata program, overturning another federal judge’s ruling that the program was illegal. The U.…
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The Planned Parenthood ‘sting’ videos are total bullpucky, but that won’t stop the GOP
Fusion GPS created three teams experts in “video forensics, production, and transcription.” These teams reviewed the initial five secretly recorded videos.
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FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would soon start beta testing an app that would help drone flyers understand where they can and — more importantly — can’t fly.
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The Saints Did Not Save New Orleans | The Nation
In 2009, Dashiell Bennett at Deadspin compiled four years of clichés about how the New Orleans Saints were somehow central to the “recovery” of New Orleans.
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Autoplay Is the New ‘Clickbait’: a Scapegoat for What We Don’t Like Online | Motherboard
In Bedford, VA this week, Vester Flanagan acted as a killer who was motivated to deliver compelling, viral content built for the social mediums of today. He succeeded, his message spread, and he forced us to think about race, mental health, and work…
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Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) – YouTube
MP3: http://www.symphonyofscience.com My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn – Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan’s Cosm…
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Priest Charged With Pedophilia Dies Before Trial | Al Jazeera America
The Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, the highest-ranking Holy See official to ever be charged with sexually abusing young boys, was found dead Friday as he awaited trial, the Vatican said. A Franciscan priest who works as a con…
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Twitter sets public goals for increasing diversity in its workforce | The Verge
Twitter today made public its hiring goals for increasing diversity in its workplace, committing to increasing the number of women and minorities on its staff and encouraging the world to hold it accountable.
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YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically | The Verge
Would you pay to avoid ads on YouTube? The way you experience YouTube may be dramatically different before the end of the year.
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Maddie & Tae on ‘Start Here’ LP: ‘It’s Not Just Love, Boys & Rainbows’ | Rolling Stone
When Rolling Stone Country first encountered Maddie & Tae, they were a teenaged duo, so new to the spotlight that they hadn’t quite worked out the elegant dance of taking turns responding to interviewers’ questions.
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Hear Keith Richards’ Brash, Funky New Song ‘Substantial Damage’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Keith Richards’ Brash, Funky New Song ‘Substantial Damage’ Brash cut from guitarist’s upcoming solo LP, ‘Crosseyed Heart,’ was unlocked by fans as part of ongoing viral campaign
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Happy 100th Birthday, Ingrid Bergman! | Vanity Fair
“When people hear my mother’s name, they immediately think of glamour, or the awards, or the success and the fame,” says Isabella Rossellini, speaking about her beloved “Mama,” Ingrid Bergman, the three-time Oscar-winning star of Hollywood classics …
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches two Android phones | Ars Technica
A startup co-founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley has launched two Android phones targeted at mid-range customers in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Hot Looks: Summer Favorites | Vanity Fair
With summer winding down (only a few weeks left—where has the time gone?), we decided to take a look back at all of the makeup we’ve gotten to play around with this season. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorites that are keepers.
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Play Iron Maiden’s Addictive ‘Speed of Life’ 8-Bit Video Game | Rolling Stone
Play Iron Maiden’s Addictive ‘Speed of Life’ 8-Bit Video Game Heavy metal act’s iconic Eddie the hero in a ‘Donkey Kong’-inspired adventure
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Please Make This Show About Time-Traveling Crime-Fighters Happen, People!
Seriously, we need this new time-travel cop show (called Time) to be on television now. Or maybe a year or two ago, if the creators of the show have an actual time machine. The series is described as “Mission Impossible meets Back to the Future,” an…
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Is Fantasy Football Changing the NFL? | Rolling Stone
Is Fantasy Football Changing the NFL? From pass-happy offenses to defense-altering rule changes, it’s becoming difficult to separate the online games from the real ones
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Behold a Glorious Cavalcade of Monsters in the New Goosebumps Trailer
Our first look at the Goosebumps movie relied a little less on the monsters and a little more on the jokes. However this new international trailer, packed with a chunk of new footage, gives us a lot more monster-y goodness… and of course, more Jac…
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Watch Lamb of God Start Mosh Pit With ‘512’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ | Rolling Stone
Lamb of God offset the Los Angeles sunshine with the darkness of “512” during Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing the brooding single on the show’s outdoor stage.
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A federal appeals court has rejected a high-profile challenge to the ongoing mass collection of US phone data by the National Security Agency without ruling on the merits of bulk surveillance.
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Chad sentences 10 Boko Haram fighters to death – BBC News
Chad has sentenced 10 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death on terror charges, after a three-day trial in the capital N’djamena. The 10 were convicted over their roles in attacks on the capital in June and July, which killed at …
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Paris prepares to rid its streets of cars for one day | Cities | The Guardian
The best city stories from around the web this week see Paris gearing up to get rid of cars (for one day only), vacant homes spreading across Tokyo’s satellite cities, a floating food forest in New York and a skycraper made of shipping containers in…
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FBI demanded Scandinavian countries arrest Edward Snowden should he visit | US news | The Guardian
The FBI demanded that Scandinavian countries arrest and extradite Edward Snowden if he flew to any of those countries and claimed asylum, newly released official documents reveal.
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Former president George W Bush returned on Friday to New Orleans – the scene of one of his presidency’s lowest points – to tout the region’s recovery from the nation’s costliest natural disaster on the 10th anniversary of hurricane Katrina.
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[META] /r/InternetIsBeautiful hits 4,000,000 subscribers!!! : InternetIsBeautiful
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Jalalabad, Afghanistan. 2015. [OC] [640×640] : EarthPorn
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Palmyra: Satellite image of IS destruction – BBC News
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The ancient building, which dates to the 1st Century AD, was blown up by Islamic State militants. The “before” image was acquired on 22 May by the Pléiades Earth-observation system, which is managed by Airbus Defence and Space. -
Is The Nation Ready For The Next Katrina? – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Aboriginal Community in Canada Declares Emergency Over Unsafe Drinking Water | VICE News
In an event that’s all too common in Canada’s Aboriginal communities, a First Nation in Ontario has declared a state of emergency due to undrinkable water. The drinking water issues in Grassy Narrows First Nation are not new.
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Virginia shooting: Two journalists ‘shot in the head’ – BBC News
The two journalists shot dead in Virginia this week were shot in the head, officials have said. Both of their causes of death are listed as homicides by the Virginia medical examiner’s office.
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Appeals court overturns earlier ruling against NSA surveillance | The Verge
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has overturned an injunction against the US government’s phone surveillance program. Today, the court handed down a decision in Klayman v. Obama, a lawsuit arguing that the NSA’s mass collection of p…
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What to Do When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Than You Do
Aaargh. You just found out that your coworker makes more than you do, even though you both do the same kind of work, you’ve been there longer, and you do a better job. You feel demoralized, insulted by your not-such-a-great friend employer, and rese…
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Is The Nation Ready For The Next Katrina? – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Friday marks the 10-year anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, and many commentators have argued that not enough has been done over the past decade to address infrastructure and emergency response issues that could put coasta…
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What science says about meditation: it improves your focus and emotional control – Vox
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced by Buddhists for thousands of years. But today, in our electronic, distraction-filled world, the ancient practice seems to be having an unlikely moment of trendiness — so much so that it’s the focus of a new…
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City Planning Chair: ‘Nothing in Times Square That Ever Surprises Me’ | Observer
While the bare breasts of Times Square’s painted ladies seemed to have shocked some officials, City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod—often credited with cleaning up Times Square the first time around—is a bit non-nonplussed. “There’s nothing in Times…
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Critics slam Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO resignation as ‘farce’ – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ resignation from the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee has been slammed and ridiculed by analysts, political opponents and members of his own Fatah party.
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The scene at a centre processing asylum seekers in Berlin – BBC News
The BBC’s Tom Burridge has visited a reception centre in the German capital Berlin, as Europe’s migrant crisis grows. Earlier on Friday Hungarian police arrested four people after finding the bodies of 71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, in a lorry i…
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Orphaned giraffe calf rejoins the herd at San Diego zoo – video | World news | The Guardian
There’s a welcome back nuzzle for two-month-old giraffe Congo, orphaned earlier this month, as he rejoins his herd. Congo continues to be hand-fed from the back of a lorry by San Diego zookeepers, who wrap the bottle in a giraffe skin-patterned blan…
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A Broken Well Has Been Leaking Oil Into The Gulf Of Mexico For The Last 10 Years | ThinkProgress
For more than a decade, oil has been continuously leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that environmental groups and the New Orleans energy company responsible for the spill had finally reached a settlement ahe…
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Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book: A Whispered Introduction | Open Culture
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Wingnut Week In Review: Have They No Decency?
Wingnut reactions to the on-air shooting of two Roanoke, Virginia journalists brings to mind the famous question Joseph N. Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” No, they don’t.
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Kevin Kelly has travelled in every sort of way, from five-star hotels to penniless hitchhiking. And he says that when traveling, more time is better than more money. When you have abundant time you can get closer to core of a place. You can hang aro…
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This London Rebel DIY Regeneration Shows How to Solve the Housing Crisis | VICE | United Kingdom
We’re told the only solution to the housing crisis is to build more homes.
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Yves Morieux: How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done | TED Talk | TED.com
Modern work — from waiting tables to crunching numbers to dreaming up new products — is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly, in brand-new ways. But as Yves Morieux shows in this insightful talk, too often, an overload of processes…
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Redemption Song | Playing For Change – YouTube
http://playingforchange.com/episodes/40/ – Hello everyone, today we are honored to share with you all the first video from our new CD/DVD titled, “PFC2: Song…
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Skullcandy SLYR gaming headset – Boing Boing
The headset that came with my Xbox One was chewed by a dog. This Skullcandy SLYR is a fantastic step up! Playing a networked FPS shooter with your friends requires good in-game chat. This Skullcandy set is a fantastic mic, and the sound is really im…
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Today Is The Final Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets | TechCrunch
After a one-week extension, today is the absolute last day to get your early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015, so if you want to secure your spot to the hottest show in tech while saving a serious amount of cash in the process, be sure to get your ti…
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DIY Filmmaking and the End of Hollywood – The Business of Life (Episode 10 Trailer) | VICE News
With streaming services, video games, and advances in consumer video, the movie business is changing.
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Jon Hamm might play a handsome hologram in Marjorie Prime · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mad Men’s Jon Hamm is in talks to co-star in Marjorie Prime, a film adaptation of the award-winning play by Jordan Harrison. The play, a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, tells the story of Marjorie, an elderly former violinist with arthritis.
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Merritt wins bronze medal days before kidney transplant – Al Jazeera English
Olympic champion Aries Merritt claimed an extraordinary bronze medal days before he undergoes a kidney transplant as Russian Sergey Shubenkov stormed to the world 110 metres hurdles title.
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 28th – The New Yorker
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Hurricane Katrina in The New Yorker – The New Yorker
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First foster – meet Elliot! : cats
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Milky Way taken just outside Bozeman, MT last… – Just Space
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Borderlands is being turned into a blockbuster movie | The Verge
Every few years, Hollywood takes another chance on video game adaptations. This time, it’s looking at Borderlands. The post-apocalyptic shooter is having its space western world transformed into a movie for Lionsgate, the studio behind the Hunger Ga…
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Chrome Will Soon Save You from Autoplaying Flash Videos | Motherboard
Come September 1, Google Chrome will block, by default, all Flash video on websites where video isn’t “central to the web page.” And yes, that includes Flash-based ads. Sorry, marketers.
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Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell | US news | The Guardian
A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, on the same day that one of the city’s officers fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for steal…
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Asia – Heat of the Moment – YouTube
1982) When they appeared in the early ’80s, Asia seemed to be a holdover from the ’70s, when supergroups and self-important progressive rockers reigned supreme. Featuring members of such seminal art rock bands as King Crimson (John Wetton), Emerson,…
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RuPaw’s Drag Race serves up feline fishiness eleganza · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
No T, no shade—this pussy is looking fierce. Serving up true kitty couture, the Instagram account RuPaw’s Drag Race recreates looks from RuPaul’s Drag Race but puts them onto an incredibly patient cat.
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World’s biggest coal port joins fossil fuel divestment push | Environment | The Guardian
Newcastle city council in Australia has voted to exit holdings in the big four banks if they continue to fund fossil fuel projects. About 80% of the Australian city of Newcastle council’s $270m investment portfolio is held in the big four banks, mos…
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A Substance So Volatile That A Mosquito Landing On It Will Make It Explode – Digg
Nitrogen triiodide is a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. So we disturbed it. In slow motion.
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Fake EFF site serving espionage malware was likely active for 3+ weeks | Ars Technica
A spear-phishing campaign some researchers say is linked to the Russian government masqueraded as the Electronic Frontier Foundation in an attempt to infect targets with malware that collects passwords and other sensitive data.
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Vietnam grants amnesty to 18,000 prisoners – BBC News
Vietnam says it has granted amnesty to more than 18,000 prisoners to mark the country’s 70th anniversary of independence from France. Thousands convicted of murder or drug-related offences will go free, while 34 foreigners are also among those given…
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — Donald J. Trump said in an interview on Thursday that he would soon decide whether to sign a pledge to support the ultimate Republican presidential nominee, something the South Carolina Republican Party is requiring to compete in …
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Baby Jellies by Shahul Hamid / 500px
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Raquel Welch entertaining the troops in Vietnam (1967). : OldSchoolCool
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Cat and Dog…e : AnimalsBeingBros
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire Is a Beautiful Gem of a Movie That Deserved Better Than It Got
In 2001, Disney released its 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. They did a lot of things differently with this movie, and that may have influenced its mediocre box office. But it was all those risks that make it so wonderful.
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The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse | TechCrunch
If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much.
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Ashley Madison CEO Resigns in Wake of Hack, News of Affairs | WIRED
It’s been a month since news first broke that cheating site Ashley Madison was hacked. During that time Noel Biderman, CEO of the site’s parent company Avid Life Media, has remained confident in his company’s strength and endurance.
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Would warming stop after greenhouse gas emissions end? Not quite | Ars Technica
The latest IPCC report estimated our remaining “carbon budget” that would give us a chance of reaching the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius this century.
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Make a DIY Beam Compass for Drawing Large Circles
If you don’t have a compass on hand and need to draw a large circle, you can turn a few scrap pieces into a beam compass. A speed square can replace a compass for drawing small circles, but a beam compass is the preferred tool for drawing large circ…
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Vice and Live Nation Launch News Site for Concert Culture | | Observer
Vice and Live Nation have launched a new channel, Live Nation TV, devoted to covering the culture of live music. The site is now in beta. The channel reports on the scene surrounding live music. The staff write in their welcome blog post:
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More Nearly-Naked Models, This Time with Jessica Biel | | Observer
Be it Rafael Nadal-sponsored tennis attire or a handbag line, one marketing tactic seems to be all the rage these days amongst fashiony folk: parading around nearly-naked models. The latest instance of near-nudity occurred yesterday at L.A.
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Florida declares state of emergency over storm Erika – Al Jazeera English
Florida has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Erika, which has already wreaked havoc across the Caribbean, moves towards the US state.
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Every Single Part of the New Star Wars Canon, in Chronological Order
While it’s not close to the size of the old Expanded Universe, the new Star Wars universe is filling up fast. This lengthy infographic contains every movie, comic, book and video game out now or in the works that will be make up the new canon, helpf…
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Welp, Here’s a Blow-Up Doll You Can Do Sex at in Virtual Reality | Motherboard
Your porn dreams—or nightmares—may finally be coming true with the advent of virtual reality.
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“King of Infidelity” Noel Biderman Is Out as Ashely Madison C.E.O. | Vanity Fair
In a move that seemed inevitable in the midst of a massive hacking scandal at Ashley Madison, its parent company, Avid Life Media, said Friday that C.E.O. Noel Biderman is no longer heading the infidelity-enabling Web site. Avid Life, which owns onl…
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Bill Clinton’s Congo, North Korea Invitations Rejected by State Department | Vanity Fair
Sometimes, people are confronted with decisions that test their ethics: Is it cool to eat someone else’s lunch in the company fridge? Should the boss remain uninformed about the toilet paper stuck to his shoe? Can one be a former president of the Un…
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Watch Aerosmith Play ‘Walk This Way’ in New Concert Film | Rolling Stone
Having concluded their summer Blue Army Tour a few weeks back, Aerosmith are gearing up to release a new concert film, Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014, on September 4th.
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Exclusive Z for Zachariah Clip Margot Robbie | Vanity Fair
In this exclusive clip from the new post-apocalyptic drama Z for Zachariah, opening August 28, Margot Robbie’s character, Ann, delivers an emotional monologue about living on her own after losing her family to a cataclysm that has wiped out most of …
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See William Clark Green Bring Circus to Life in ‘Ringling Road’ Video | Rolling Stone
“Ringling Road” — a twisted tale of circus freaks and vice from sharp-tongued country-rocker William Clark Green — comes to life word-for-word in its eerie, coulrophobic new video.
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Usain Bolt knocked down in Beijing – in pictures – BBC News
Usain Bolt was knocked down by a cameraman in Beijing on Thursday night, shortly after winning a race.
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Virginia gunman was a ‘professional victim’, says former manager – video | US news | The Guardian
A former colleague of Virginia gunman Vester Flanagan speaks out about his work conduct, calling him a ‘professional victim’. Dan Dennison, a former news director at WDBJ7 and current Hawaii state official, says Flanagan had a ‘long history’ of work…
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These Families Provide Devastating Proof That ‘Anchor Babies’ Are A Myth | ThinkProgress
Christian Hervis-Vazquez called his wife Viviana on Thursday afternoon to confirm her worst fear: He was in Mexico. The U.S. federal immigration agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had deported him earlier that day. Hervis-Vazquez is an…
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Android Wear Device Supports iOS, Per This Pre-Order Page | TechCrunch
Apple Watch not for you? The Amazon preorder page for the Huawei Watch states that the device will support iOS. Now, at this point, it’s unclear if this is a typo or unreleased information — let’s hope it’s the latter.
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Enroll in Buzz Aldrin’s space institute and help colonize Mars | The Verge
Colonizing Mars is on everybody’s to-do list these days. NASA plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet in the 2030s — and SpaceX will unveil its plans for a future Mars settlement later this year. Now, famous Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin is a…
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British Library declines Taliban archive over terror law fears – BBC News
The British Library has declined to store a large collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns regarding terrorism laws. The collection, related to the Afghan Taliban, includes official newspapers, maps and radio broadcasts.
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“It’s sort of lounge-y in here,” I remarked to my co-worker as I walked past his office late one April afternoon. The room’s fluorescent lights were off, and jazz floated quietly from his computer. He laughed.
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WASHINGTON — When Carly Fiorina found herself relegated to the “undercard” for the first Republican primary debate this month, she seized the opportunity to stand out.
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Greece Rounds Up Migrants on Kos, Locking Them in Stadium Overnight http://t.co/1mm3F6YbMB
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World children.Malaysia by Spiller / 500px
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Global Outrage Follows Sentencing of Two Indian Women to Punishment by Gang Rape | VICE News
India’s treatment of women is again eliciting shock as reports circulate about an unofficial council of village elders who ordered two Indian women to be gang-raped after their brother eloped with a married woman of a higher caste.
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Malem: how Belgium’s garden-city suburb is sinking into a swamp | Environment | The Guardian
With street names such as Gijzelaarsweg (Hostage Way), Politiek Gevangenenlaan (Political Prisoners’ Avenue) and Helden Plein (Heroes’ Square), the Ghent suburb of Malem is a place of highs and lows. Especially a place of lows.
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How JSOC Became a Manhunting Machine, From Panama to Iraq – The Atlantic
At the cutting edge of the U.S. military’s campaigns against al-Qaeda and its offshoots over the past 14 years has been an organization still unused to the spotlight.
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Greece vote set for 20 September as interim PM takes office – BBC News
Greece’s new caretaker government has been sworn in and snap elections confirmed for 20 September. The country’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, becomes caretaker prime minister – the country’s first female PM.
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The National Zoo’s panda parents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, have another son. The zoo announced on Friday morning that the surviving panda cub is male and the son of the zoo’s male panda Tian Tian.
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Poland radar image ‘almost certainly Nazi train’ – BBC News
A Polish official says ground-penetrating radar images have left him “99% convinced” that a World War Two German military train is buried near the south-western city of Walbrzych.Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said images appeared to show a…
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Devs can now emulate in-car experience with Android Auto Desktop Head Unit | Ars Technica
One of our chief complaints about Android Auto when we reviewed it last month was the lack of third-party apps.
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Huawei Watch preorders suggest Android Wear will soon support iPhone | The Verge
The Huawei Watch, another nice looking, round Android Wear smartwatch, is now up for preorder at Amazon. Pricing starts at $349 for a stainless steel model with black leather strap and goes all the way up to $799 for a gold-plated stainless steel wa…
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Meet The First Woman To Announce A Major League Baseball Game On ESPN | ThinkProgress
It may have come as a surprise to some fans tuning in to Monday’s match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks to hear a woman in the broadcast booth — the first woman, in fact, to ever be a Major League Baseball game analyst on…
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The People of the Pokemon World Championships | Motherboard
Who goes to the Pokemon World Championships in 2015? We did, for one—mostly to find out who else was there. Well over a decade after its heyday, Pokemon is still going strong. There’s now nearly 800 Pokemon, but there are still lots of kids, teens, …
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Six Suspected Lizard Squad Customers Arrested, 50 Given a Lecture | Motherboard
When cybercrime pops up in the news, it’s often accompanied by footage of dramatic raids, or grand press conferences held by law enforcement. This time, however, the National Crime Agency (NCA)—which is essentially the UK’s version of the FBI—has ta…
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Is the US ready to stomach eating bugs? | Life and style | The Guardian
Chapul, Exo and Jungle – three protein bars making their way to supermarket shelves – have one thing in common: crickets. All three include cricket flour, which is touted by their manufacturers as an environmentally friendly alternative to milk or s…
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CP Foods condemns, in the strongest possible terms, all aspects of human trafficking and slavery, and we take this opportunity to reassert our strong commitment to human rights and a sustainable supply chain.
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Badger cull extended to Dorset | Environment | The Guardian
The government will extend the badger cull to Dorset as part of a drive to limit tuberculosis in cattle, it was announced on Friday.
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Scientific American, on the Move – @ScientificAmerican – Scientific American Blog Network
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Aerial by Emmanuel Coveney / 500px
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Stunning Rainbow Jets from Dying Stars Spied by Hubble
Rainbow jets of gas blast away from twin dying stars in a gorgeous new photo snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image, which was released Wednesday (Aug. 26), shows the Twin Jet Nebula.
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The road to the near future of tennis winds through the exclusive northern New Jersey borough of Alpine, to an unmarked drive where, behind formidable bi-parting gates, there lies a forty-million-dollar, forty-eight-acre wooded estate.
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MSF charity accuses Bollywood film Phantom of ‘endangering staff’ – BBC News
Aid charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is taking legal action over a Bollywood film it claims could endanger its staff in conflict zones.
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IndyCar’s Marco Andretti drove Justin Wilson’s No25 car across the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday, leading a motorcade to honour the late driver. Wilson died on Monday, a day after a piece of debris from another car struck him on the head at Pocono …
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Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit on Vimeo
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Ridley Scott confirms his next film will be Prometheus 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Word on the digital street is, we’ll be getting another Ridley Scott alien movie soon—it’s just not the one anyone really wants (well, other than the director). In an interview with Empire (via /Film), Scott was talking up his latest film, The Marti…
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Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s NEW MGMT #1.
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Judge Blocks Clean Water Rule Hours Before It Takes Effect | ThinkProgress
Late Thursday, a North Dakota federal judge issued a temporary injunction just hours before an Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers rule to protect small streams and wetlands went into effect.
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Strawberries, Basil and Beans Thrive in Underwater Greenhouses – Scientific American
In transparent plastic bubbles 20 feet beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, an experimental garden grows. The strawberries, basil, beans and tomatoes within these air-filled biospheres thrive in their submerged homes.
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CEO of Ashley Madison parent company quits | Ars Technica
The CEO of Ashley Madison’s parent company has left under unexplained circumstances, less than a week after gigabytes’ worth of his private e-mail were published online by hackers who rooted the company’s network.
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How The Controversy Over Planned Parenthood Made Its Way Into An Art Gallery | ThinkProgress
The ongoing political controversy over Planned Parenthood, which has intensified in the wake of several highly edited videos that accuse the group of profiting off the sale of fetal tissue, has made its way from the Capitol to a quite different kind…
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Most Of The Biden Speculation Is Malarkey | FiveThirtyEight
Another day, another batch of mostly redundant and anonymously sourced stories about whether Vice President Joe Biden will run for president. Some of those stories, however, are getting ridiculous.
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Quasar Nearest to Earth Harbors Two Supermassive Black Holes
Astrophysicists have found two supermassive black holes in Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth, using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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As Many as 200 Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Sinks Off Libyan Coast | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. As many as 200 refugees and migrants may have been killed in the Mediterranean after a boat sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday evening.
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The “transactional love economy” – Boing Boing
Scrooge McFuck (not his real name) does not want a chub or an older girl (say, over 30), and he does not want “a black,” and yes, maybe you’ll think he’s a jerk, but he wants what he wants, and what is so wrong with that?
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It doesn’t matter how good a school is if students don’t show up to class. In 2012, about 7.5 million students were chronically absent from schools nationwide. According to a report from the Center for American Progress, truancy, defined as unexcuse…
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David Adier missed two mortgage payments on his home in Morris Township, NJ, so Wells Fargo, his mortgage lender, sent contractors who illegally broke in and “trashed-out” his home as though it was abandoned, stealing the family treasures his father…
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He is always scouting out new talent. : funny
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2012 taken from Glacier… – Just Space
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Tennis 2.0 http://t.co/b3gMnZbeNb
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HMB while I nail this jump… : holdmybeer
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Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails | Technology | The Guardian
The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails, this one containing emails from his personal Gmail account suggesting he too had affairs.
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How Do You Streamline Your Grocery Shopping?
Grocery shopping isn’t a particularly enjoyable experience, but it has to get done. What tips and tricks do you have for making your regular shopping trip quick and easy? I always want to get in and out of the store as quickly as possible.
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Russia Raises an “Ice Curtain” in the Arctic Thanks to Climate Change – Scientific American
Russia has developed an “anti-access” presence in the Arctic in the past year with a stronger military presence, a push for more territory, and nationalist rhetoric, a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies notes.
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Readers Respond to Rise of the Tyrannosaurs – Scientific American
In “Wooing the Fence-sitters” [Science Agenda], the editors suggest that rather than “strong-arm tactics,” we should use a more subtle social strategy of “little nudges” to convince parents to vaccinate their children. But strong-arm tactics are not…
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Only Metal Gear Solid Could Give Us An Action Figure Of A Dog This Crazy
If you’re familiar with the frequently ridiculous batshit insanity that is the Metal Gear Solid franchise, you’ll look at the above picture of a dog, in a sneaking suit, with an eye patch, and holding a knife it its mouth, and treat it as perfectly …
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Wildlife officers move an orangutan on to a stretcher to perform a health examination, at Kao Pratubchang conservation centre in Ratchaburi Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Verizon did kill wireless contracts, but only for new customers | Ars Technica
Verizon Wireless’ announcement three weeks ago that it’s no longer offering contracts and device subsidies was missing one caveat: customers who are still on contracts can continue to renew them and get new phones under the traditional subsidy model.
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BBC Sport – World Snooker investigates betting patterns at Paul Hunter Classic
World Snooker is investigating “unusual” betting patterns in a match between England’s Martin O’Donnell and Thailand’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon at the Paul Hunter Classic in Germany. O’Donnell won Friday’s fourth-round match 4-2 in Furth.
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The CEO of Ashley Madison’s Parent Company Is Stepping Down in Wake of Hack | Motherboard
It’s been a pretty terrible August for the extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison and its parent company, Avid Life Media (ALM). Now it’s just got worse, at least for ALM CEO Noel Biderman. In a statement forwarded to press minutes ago, ALM announ…
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Space Elevators Are Totally Possible If Someone Will Just Pay for It | Motherboard
That was the defining topic at this year’s annual meeting of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) in Seattle last week, which saw scientists gather from around the world to plot the next step in humanity’s march to space.
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Short List / This One’s For the Kids (and Their Parents, Too) | Observer
This post is from Observer Short List—an email of three favorite things from people you want to know. Sign up to receive OSL here.
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Cosmic Collision Triggers Rebirth of a “Radio Phoenix”
Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud “coming back to life,” much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided. This “radio phoenix,” so-called because the high-energy electrons radiate primarily at radio freque…
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Short List / This One’s For the Kids (and Their Parents, Too) | Observer
Radio is built mostly for ears willing to gulp down mondo commercials for things you don’t want, but what if there was a place on the dial where commercials went the way of the subprime mortgage (okay they still have those for cars, unfortunately…),…
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Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence Dance Atop Billy Joel’s Piano | Rolling Stone
Watch Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence Dance Atop Billy Joel’s Piano Actresses reenact ‘Trainwreck’ “Uptown Girl” dance sequence at Wrigley Field concert
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Darius Rucker on Charles Kelley, Charleston Love and ‘Homegrown’ Hit | Rolling Stone
Before performing a surprise show for CMT Instant Jam in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, this week and then traveling to New York City to headline Today’s summer concert series, Darius Rucker celebrated the Number One success of his sing…
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Kill the Noise ‘Getting Really Weird,’ Being Inspired by Tame Impala | Rolling Stone
Kill the Noise’s forthcoming first album, Occult Classic, opens with heavy drums, tooth-grinding blasts of distortion and Awolnation’s Aaron Bruno repeating the artist’s name as unanswered command.
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Miley Cyrus Slams Nicki Minaj Over VMAs Snub Reaction | Rolling Stone
MTV Video Music Awards host Miley Cyrus has revived one of the event’s more interesting subplots by criticizing Nicki Minaj for the way the rapper handled being snubbed in the Video of the Year category. “If you want to make it about race, there’s a…
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Who Put Me in the Ashley Madison Database? | The New Republic
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A few days ago I received an email with the subject line “Urgent Lonely Blonde Request.” Urgent lonely blondes do not usually make requests of me, and they don’t usually make it through my spam filter. -
How my cat reacts when the air conditioning comes on : aww
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Life on the edge by Tom K / 500px
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Austrian lorry deaths: ‘No ventilation’ in lorry – BBC News
Hungarian police say they have arrested four people over the discovery of the bodies of 71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, in a lorry in Austria. The decomposing bodies were discovered by Austrian police on Thursday morning in the abandoned lorry, n…
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The world’s longest tunnel is almost finished | The Verge
At more than 35 miles long, the Swiss Gotthard Base Tunnel is set to be the longest railroad tunnel in the world, and now it’s just about here. Construction for the project is nearly finished, and tests are set to begin October 1st, the Swiss newspa…
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Bernie Sanders Update: Plan for Enormous D.C. Rally Gains Steam | | Observer
Here is the latest news about the Facebook-driven grassroots movement proposing a huge march on Washington this fall to support the presidential candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): I wrote in a column on Monday that advocates for the D.C.
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Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman Exits Company Following Ashley Madison Hack | TechCrunch
Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman is stepping down, the company announced this morning.
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Texas doctor’s consent form for women seeking abortions – Boing Boing
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Short List / This One’s For the Kids (and Their Parents, Too) | Observer
Noel Macneal is one of New York’s best puppeteers, performing on Sesame Street and as Disney’s Bear in the Big Blue House. His book, “10-Minute Puppets,” gives you step-by-step instructions to make lots of different types of puppets from stuff you …
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Ashley Madison founder steps down – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Ashley Madison parent company CEO stepping down | The Verge
Noel Biderman, formerly CEO of Ashley Madison parent company Avid Life Media, is stepping down. Avid Life Media released the news in a short statement this morning.
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Ted Cruz and Donald Trump teaming up against Iran deal
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) loves him some Trump Ted Cruz really, really wants those Donald Trump voters to turn to him if and when they ever turn away from Trump. Or who knows, maybe he’s gunning for a VP nod. He’s sucking up to Trump, is the point.
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Taxi King Gene Freidman Appears Concussed in Bloomberg Video | | Observer
Gene Freidman is not the most eloquent of speakers. In fact, from the looks of a new video produced by Bloomberg Business, Mr.
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Here it is, the unlikeliest contender for Christian rock song of the year: “Angel” by The Weeknd.
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Tesla Breaks Consumer Reports’ Rating Scale | Vanity Fair
Tesla reviewers got themselves into quite the pickle. The Tesla Model S P85D sedan impressed Consumer Reports so much that it broke the magazine’s ratings system. The electric car initially scored a 103 out of 100, forcing editors to change its scor…
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How the Ballpoint Pen Changed Handwriting – The Atlantic
Recently, Bic launched a campaign to “save handwriting.” Named “Fight for Your Write,” it includes a pledge to “encourage the act of handwriting” in the pledge-taker’s home and community, and emphasizes putting more of the company’s ballpoints into …
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Photos Show French Police Evicting the Residents of ‘France’s Oldest Slum’ | VICE News
Police officers showed up Thursday morning at the Samaritain slum in the northern Paris suburb of La Courneuve and proceeded to evict the roughly 300 residents who called the area home.
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Breaking Bad’s Most Implausible Scene Is Actually Totally Possible | Vanity Fair
Whether or not you fully buy Walter White’s meteoric rise from lowly chemistry teacher to drug kingpin, one of the many appeals of Breaking Bad was its placement within the real world—you could go to Lowe’s after watching an episode and wonder if th…
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Elena Ferrante Explains Why, For the Last Time, You Don’t Need to Know Her Name | Vanity Fair
In the first part of Elena Ferrante’s conversation with Vanity Fair, the elusive author spoke frankly about the dangers of writing while female, how the personal is political, and the inspiration behind The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and fi…
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Survivor of Virginia shooting says gunman’s weapon malfunctioned | US news | The Guardian
The only survivor of the shooting that killed two journalists on live television in Virginia has revealed new details of the terrifying events, through her husband.
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In the Lonely Hour by Jeff Isy / 500px
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Bros from the beginning : AnimalsBeingBros
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ROANOKE, Va. — For two years after losing yet another television job, Vester Lee Flanagan II lived in a nondescript apartment across the street from WDBJ Channel 7, the station that had fired him. He worked in modest jobs at several insurance compan…
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Will China’s stock crash trigger another global financial crisis? Probably not. Still, the big market swings of the past week have been a reminder that the next president may well have to deal with some of the same problems that faced George W. Bush…
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FOR as long as New York has been New York, its inhabitants have looked for ways to escape the city’s frenzy. They have sought out breathable air, fresh vistas or a simple patch of greenery. In 1880, Harper’s Weekly offered its readers a helpful tip.
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[IFF] I terminated a pregnancy for medical reasons last week. This was one of the consent forms I had to sign./r/all (i.imgur.com)submitted 56 minutes ago by loading…[–]Bee_Hummingbird [score hidden] 45 minutes ago(0 children)Your doctor is awesom…
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Potato salad attack on mom lands Florida man in jail – Boing Boing
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At least 200 feared dead in Libya refugee boat disaster – Al Jazeera English
At least 82 people have been killed and more than one hundred others are still missing after a boat, reportedly packed with refugees bound for Italy, capsized and sunk off the Libyan coast. The Libyan Red Crescent said on Friday it had recovered 82 …
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Are square photographs as bad as square books? – Boing Boing
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Iraq ‘to open Baghdad Green Zone’ – BBC News
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered officials to open up to civilians the heavily-fortified area of Baghdad known as the Green Zone. The 10km (four miles) sq area housing government buildings became off-limits to the public as a securit…
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Jessica Lange Isn’t Done With American Horror Story
Even though it’s been said for ages that Freak Show was going to be Jessica Lange’s final season of American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy’s now saying that they’re finding a way of bringing her back. I’ve been talking to her. It’s always possible.
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Katrina photographer returns to New Orleans – BBC News
In late August of 2005, Getty photographer Mario Tama was preparing to cover the Burning Man festival in Nevada. But with his bags packed, his editor told him that a hurricane known as Katrina was threatening New Orleans and he should instead fly th…
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Why You Should Add Electrolyte Packets to Your Outdoor Survival Kit
Staying healthy and hydrated when you’re outdoors hiking and camping is important, but you only have so much packing space for food, water, and supplies.
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How The First MTV VMAs Saved The Network At A Crucial Time
For almost 35 years, MTV has been in the business of selling relevance. For artists, it’s been a place to get in front of the coveted 18-to-34 demographic.
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Telluride Film Festival: Pickup Lines | Vanity Fair
For more high-profile interviews, stunning photography, and thought-provoking features, subscribe now to Vanity Fair magazine.
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Walker and Rubio roll out foreign policy with tough talk on Isis and China | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says the US under his leadership would aggressively confront “evil” and “radical Islamic terrorism”.
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AT&T grudgingly accepts $428 million in annual government funding | Ars Technica
AT&T has struck a deal with the US government to get nearly $428 million per year to bring 10Mbps Internet service to parts of rural America after protesting that it shouldn’t have to provide speeds that fast.
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New trailers: Star Wars, The Martian, Ash vs Evil Dead, and more | The Verge
All the shows and movies you should be looking out for Maybe it’s because we’re moving out of summer movie season, but this was actually a kind-of sort-of slowish week for trailers! That said, a few big upcoming titles made a lot of noise without sh…
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Hurricane Katrina: George Bush in New Orleans 10 years on – BBC News
Former US President George Bush has returned to New Orleans 10 years on since Hurricane Katrina, a crisis his administration was criticised for at the time over its slow response. He is due to deliver a speech at a secondary school his wife, Laura, …
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Chrome Will Begin Pausing Flash Ads By Default, Starting In September | TechCrunch
Google’s Chrome web browser keeps getting better. According to a new post on Google+, the company says that, starting on September 1st, Chrome will begin to pause many Flash ads by default in order to improve performance for its users.
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David Cameron, chillaxing with his wife Samantha in Cornwall, presumably thought he was safe from a shower of excrement – at least until PMQs begins again in September. But the unlucky PM chose the wrong moment to bodyboard with his wife Samantha, a…
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David Roberts has a very nice essay on American politics, framed as an analysis of what nerds don’t get; but it’s not just nerds who seem weirdly blind to the reality here.
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What is the meaning of life for an atheist?
BuzzFeed’s Tom Chivers asked several atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe.
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The Overlooked Architecture That’s Hip Again in New Orleans | WIRED
The shotgun home has been a fixture of New Orleans since the 1830s. The modest structure, so named because one could, if so inclined, fire a bullet clean through without hitting anything, first housed poor workers.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
Our week through the lens: Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image Access the image
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What’s Inside Caladryl Will Not Make You Hallucinate | WIRED
The itch-relieving action starts with this eponymous pink stuff, a cocktail of iron oxide and (mostly) zinc oxide. This skin protector helps to dry the oozy, weepy blisters from the poison ivy/oak/sumac triple threat—and zinc can prevent mast cells …
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Another scenery by Tony Lee / 500px
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What a stylish sloth, with its hair gel and dye job! : sloths
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/HrZGNB57fx http://t.co/exDQaCiepd
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It’s starting to get colder, and these two are snuggling more : AnimalsBeingBros
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Cartoon: Smokey the climate scientist
It always amazes me that climate deniers can still call global warming a hoax when looking at hotter temperatures, dying forests and increasing wildfires. Millions of burning acres are a little more obvious to most than calving glaciers or seas risi…
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Valve’s VR Headset Is Still Coming This Year, but in ‘Limited Quantities’ | Motherboard
Vive, the virtual reality headset made by smartphone manufacturer HTC and gaming company Valve, is one of the main reasons people are so hyped on virtual reality right now, and even more so because the companies originally announced that we’ll be ab…
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Lindsay Ellingson’s Makeup Debut, Thom Browne’s Suit Theory and More | Observer
Makeup model: From her vantage point of many makeup chairs over many years, model Lindsay Ellingson has learned a thing or two about beauty. And now she’s preparing to launch a cosmetics line of her own. Sadly, a model physique is not included with …
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The Former Beats Music CEO Suddenly Quit Apple | Motherboard
The Financial Times reported this morning that Ian Rogers, the former CEO of Beats Music, the streaming service that Apple acquired in 2014 as part of its $3 billion acquisition of Beats, has left the company.
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Migrant crisis: Libya boats search for more bodies – BBC News
Fishing boats off the Libyan coast are searching for more bodies after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday. Around 200 people are feared to have drowned as they tried to cross from Zuwara, west of Tripoli, to Italy.
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The Communist Computer Club for Kids | Motherboard
Entire folders full of videos with names like “The best of girls falling,” “Handcuff Fail!” and “Sexiest Wheel of Fortune Ever.” Full Mumford and Sons and Jason Derulo albums. A very bad-looking movie called Jurassic City. Episodes of 2 Broke Girls …
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Celebrating 170 Years of Scientific American – Scientific American
From world-changing inventions to discoveries that shaped our understanding the natural world, a look back at the evolution of the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S.
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Donald Trump, the GOP, and the Hispanic Vote – The Atlantic
With Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush running for president, many Republicans hoped 2016 would be the year when the GOP won its biggest ever share of the Hispanic vote. Now Donald Trump is the frontrunner.
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BBC Sport – Saido Berahino treated like a lump of meat, says Tony Pulis
West Brom boss Tony Pulis says Saido Berahino has been treated like a “lump of meat” during this transfer window. Pulis, who admitted the player could still leave The Hawthorns, said: “He has emotions and he needs protecting.
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Eyewitness: Baldwin, Iowa, US | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton addresses a crowd at the Tabor Home Vineyards and Winery in Baldwin, Iowa, as part of her campaign for the presidential nomination. Polls gave her 30 points ahead of rivals in the state.
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This Is a Very Strange Cure for Cyanide Poisoning
Cyanide poisoning is not a nice way to go. Essentially it’s open-air suffocation. Cyanide ions in the body interact with an enzyme called cytochrome oxidase. This enzyme works with hemoglobin in the blood.
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Deadspin Here Are The Details From The Derrick Rose Rape Lawsuit [UPDATED] | Gawker This Is a Good Newspaper Front Page | Gizmodo How To Survive A Mass Shooting | Lifehacker How to Stop Over-Planning (Even If You’re a Perfectionist) |
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Sprint takes aim at AT&T, offers a year of free service to DirecTV customers | The Verge
Sprint is offering a year of free cell phone service to DirecTV subscribers that switch to its network. The deal — which includes unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of data — is a direct shot across the bows of rival AT&T, which recently acquired the sat…
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer Dance on Billy Joel’s Piano | Vanity Fair
The Jennifer Lawrence-Amy Schumer Summer of 2015 B.F.F. Tour continues. After a jet-skiing trip in the Hamptons in July that briefly subdued the Internet, Lawrence revealed this past week that the two are working on a screenplay together, for a movi…
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71 migrant bodies recovered from truck in Europe – Boing Boing
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Why William Kristol Keeps Returning to Donald Trump | The New Republic
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While many political pundits have been thrown into a tizzy by Donald Trump’s unexpectedly strong and robust popularity as a GOP, none have been quite so addled as Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, who in the space of two months has gone from b… -
States of Nigeria with similar-sized countries and dependencies [976×455] : MapPorn
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She had a little too much fun last night : cats
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Enjoy the moment by Hanson Mao / 500px
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Valve/HTC Vive VR headset only doing a “limited” launch in 2015 | Ars Technica
While Valve and HTC are technically keeping their promise to release the extremely compelling Vive headset in 2015, it seems most consumers won’t be able to get their hands on a unit until early next year.
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This State Just Became The First In The Nation To End Chronic Veteran Homelessness | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, the federal government announced that Connecticut is the first state in the country to end chronic homelessness among veterans.
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100 psychology experiments repeated, less than half successful | Ars Technica
Since November 2011, the Center for Open Science has been involved in an ambitious project: to repeat 100 psychology experiments and see whether the results are the same the second time round.
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Lorry driver and 27 stowaways held at Cobham services – BBC News
Police said officers went to the Cobham services at about 10:50 BST after suspicions were raised about an HGV. They said 27 people found in the lorry were arrested on suspicion of illegal entry to the UK.
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Poland schedules Roman Polanski’s extradition hearing for September · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Roman Polanski will have a day in court next month in Poland to help determine whether or not he’ll see any more jail time for a rape he committed in 1977.
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Sony’s Xperia Z5 smartphones will include a fingerprint sensor on the side | The Verge
If the design ain’t broke… Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen an increasing pace of leaked photos of Sony’s next smartphone, the Xperia Z5. Actually, we’re expecting three different models: the Z5, the Z5 Compact, and the Z5 Premium (or maybe Z5 …
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Why it was right to publish this picture of an execution… | Media | The Guardian
There were many intelligent criticisms of my opinion, both on my blog and on Twitter, most of which suggested I had been overly lenient to editors by suggesting that it was simply a matter of editorial (and audience) taste.
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David Adjaye Talks to Lisa Fletcher | Al Jazeera America
Lisa Fletcher: There is a lot of racial tension in America right now. How do you integrate past, present and future into your designs, like the one for the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History? David Adjaye: It’s amazing that architectur…
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Watch the first gameplay trailer for Cliff Bleszinski’s LawBreakers | The Verge
Earlier this week former Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski finally unveiled his much anticipated new game, a free-to-play, multiplayer shooter called LawBreakers. But the announcement didn’t include a look at the actual game, instead settling f…
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Bring The Barbecue Indoors With This Discounted Lodge Grill Pan
It might still be nice enough outside to use your barbecue, but winter is coming, and you’ll need a good way to grill indoors. Luckily, this 12” cast iron grill pan from Lodge is down to $27 on Amazon today, an all-time low.
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Military show of strength in South Korea – BBC News
South Korean and US military forces have conducted a joint live firing exercise to test their capabilities in the event of an attack from the north. Tensions bubbled over in a brief exchange of fire at the heavily guarded border last Thursday.
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Use Your Spiralizer to Make Beautiful Crispy Potato Pancakes
The vegetable spiralizer may have been invented so you could make plant parts into healthy impostor noodles, but I’m here to suggest you use it for a higher purpose. I am here to suggest you use it for latkes.
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Baroness Prep ‘Purple’ LP, Pour Powerful New Song ‘Chlorine and Wine’ | Rolling Stone
Savannah, Georgia alt-metal outfit Baroness have served a new track, “Chlorine and Wine,” the first taste of their long-awaited fourth LP, Purple, set for release on December 18th via the band’s new label, Abraxan Hymns.
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The supporters of Bernie Sanders keep telling me that I’m wrong about their coalition, which I’ve written is too narrow to succeed. At this rate, Mr. Sanders doesn’t have nearly enough support among moderate, nonwhite and Southern voters to win the …
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Paid Leave: What It’s Like to Have Cancer & A Baby Working at Amazon | The New Republic
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Old street by Eduard Gorobets / 500px
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Indianapolis launches literacy-promoting “Big Free Libraries” – Boing Boing
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What’s The Actual Impact Of Setting Ivory Stockpiles Ablaze? | ThinkProgress
Thailand crushed and incinerated two tons of ivory from its stockpile on Wednesday. The move was praised by conservation groups who have long believed that the country has turned a blind eye toward illegal trade of ivory.
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Marine corps’ first black aviator Frank E Petersen Jr dies at 83 | US news | The Guardian
Frank E Petersen Jr, the first black aviator and brigadier general in the US marine corps, has died. He was 83. Frank E Petersen III said his father died on Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, on Maryland’s Kent Island, of complications from lung c…
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Police in Japan are bracing for an outbreak of gang violence after reports that the Yamaguchi-gumi — the country’s biggest crime syndicate — is about to split.
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Migrant crisis: 71 bodies found in Austria lorry – BBC News
Police in Austria say the bodies of 71 people, believed to be migrants, were discovered in an abandoned lorry found near the Hungarian border on Thursday. The victims included 59 men, eight women and four children who are thought to have been dead f…
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Inside Bellerby and Co., A Look at the Painstaking, Intricate Art of Globemaking – CityLab
To be an artisanal globemaker, you’ve got to be patient and stubborn. Ask Peter Bellerby, one of the few people left who still makes globes by hand. Nowadays, globes are mostly made by machines, and Bellerby says he knows why. “It’s horrendously dif…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Is the Thinnest, Lightest Tablet Ever | Observer
I walked into Samsung’s product launch event Wednesday night and proceeded to pick up both a cocktail and the new Tab S2 tablet. Guess which was lighter.
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Shara Proctor wins long jump silver
Great Britain’s Shara Proctor won a silver medal in the long jump at the World Championships in Beijing. Team-mate Dina Asher-Smith came fifth in the 200m in a British record.
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Is Gotham Seriously Introducing Yet Another Major Batman Villain?
Jeremy Renner confirms the accuracy of that new Civil War promo art. Mads Mikklesen talks up his Rogue One role, and may be joining the cast of Doctor Strange. Another crazy Doctor Who rumor involves a connection to past Doctors. Plus, our first loo…
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HSBC customers not paid after IT glitch – BBC News
Thousands of HSBC customers have not received credits in their accounts on Friday following an IT failure. The bank said on Twitter there had been “an issue affecting BACS payments by some HSBC customers”.
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The spear-phishing attempt appears to be part of “Pawn Storm,” a massive attack that’s been underway across the net for more than a month, and involved a rare zero-day (previously unknown) Java exploit.
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The Technological Alt-History of ‘Metal Gear Solid’ | Motherboard
Game designer Hideo Kojima has always been something of a futurist, even when his games are set in the past. Take his most famous creation, the espionage-themed Metal Gear series.
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Why We Should Use This Jumping Robot to Explore Neptune | Motherboard
A robotic explorer is dropped off on an alien moon in the outer reaches of the solar system. The surface is extraordinarily frigid this far out, but it is also rich in natural resources, which the explorer mines in order to fuel its rocket-powered l…
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Why the Federal Reserve is facing a tricky choice – BBC News
After a volatile week for global markets, investors’ eyes are turning to this weekend’s meeting of top central bankers at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. The Federal Reserve’s annual symposium is always closely followed – but this one is seen as especially…
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The Economy: Beneath the Din http://t.co/MCxIi2Apej
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Review: Tesla Model S P90D | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. “The sad thing is,” I say to my passenger while slowing down in the newest Tesla Model S, “this is becoming less fun as I get used to it.” I stomp on the accelerator, again. The car rockets to more tha…
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Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The year was 2003, and Mark Siddall was in South Africa a-hunting the elusive hippo butt leech.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 117 | 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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Op-Ed: US tech policy needs real tech research behind it, FTC chairwoman says | Ars Technica
As the chief US agency charged with protecting consumer privacy, the Federal Trade Commission strives to help foster a marketplace where technology flourishes, while also ensuring that consumer privacy is safeguarded.
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Should Governments Nudge Us to Make Good Choices? – Scientific American
Our decisions are constantly shaped by subtle changes in our environment. Even choices that feel deliberate and conscious can be swayed by cues that we may not even notice, such as social norms or the setting of a default option.
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Wolfmother, 10 Years Deep — Cuepoint — Medium
There was something instantly nostalgic about Wolfmother’s self-titled debut album, even before you popped the disc in or heard any number of its now classic tunes in the air.
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“I Will Follow You Into The Dark” helped Plans go platinum · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
On August 30, 2005, Death Cab For Cutie released its major label debut, Plans. It seems quaint now, but at the time it was somewhat a big deal that Seth Cohen’s favorite band had jumped from their long-time indie home, Barsuk Records, to Atlantic.
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Life Lessons From the NYPD’s Top Hostage Negotiator – WSJ
When Lt. Jack Cambria talks about what he looks for in hostage negotiators for the New York Police Department, he sounds more like a philosopher than a law-enforcement veteran of three decades. Beside a dozen years on the force and 88 hours of train…
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Morning Digest: Business owners remove all voters from business district, but forget one college kid
• Gerrymandering: Normally gerrymandering in a medium-sized town that doesn’t even pertain to city council elections would be too down-in-the-weeds, but this story from the Columbia Tribune is too funny to ignore.
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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. What a week! The Nasdaq Composite gained 2.45 percent Thursday, rebounding from a tumultuous couple of days when the market appeared to be in a correcti…
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Successful Negotiation Isn’t About Being Dominant
Most of us think of haggling as asserting our dominance and showing we’re unafraid to get what we want. But successful negotiation isn’t necessarily about being dominant; it’s about finding common ground. Researcher Scott Wiltermuth explains this co…
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On the Market: Morning links from the New York Observer | Observer
The taxi industry’s last, best hope to survive the Uber age is an app that allows them to hail yellow and green taxis via phone, according to Crain’s.
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Torrent of molten lava flows from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano – video | World news | The Guardian
Fast-moving lava from a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii flows into the surrounding forest on Thursday. Although it is not expected to pose a threat to nearby communities, the river of lava has felled hundreds of trees. Kilauea is one of the most…
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New Bushwick gallery unveils fierce design | Observer
Bushwick, one of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods, has been cultivating a burgeoning gallery scene, punctuated by the sprawling and impeccably designed Luhring Augustine Bushwick space. Now the neighborhood is getting Artes Amant. What is Artes Aman…
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Vester Flanagan: cameraman describes assignment that led to WDBJ firing | US news | The Guardian
The man who shot and killed a reporter and cameraman and injured their interviewee live on television had an aggressive history of rage, trespassing and claims of workplace sabotage and racial and sexual harassment, according to another cameraman an…
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Joe Biden faces obstacles in long-shot run against Hillary Clinton | US news | The Guardian
As Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates gather in Minneapolis on Friday, one question looms over the gathering: is vice-president Joe Biden about to join them in the race?
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Justin Bieber Means Business on New Single “What Do You Mean?” | Vanity Fair
Justin Bieber set expectations quite high for his new single, titled “What Do You Mean?,” as he recruited a bevy of celebrities (including Britney Spears, Martha Stewart, and Kendall Jenner) to promote the single on his Instagram account, and announ…
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APOD: 2015 August 28 – Puppis A Supernova Remnant
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Wallops Flight Facility Gets New Command Center | NASA
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Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet js – Just Space
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Glasgow bin lorry crash: Driver ‘not selfish coward’ – BBC News
The Glasgow bin lorry inquiry into the deaths of six people has heard that the driver is not “selfish” or a “coward”. The inquiry has heard Harry Clarke, 58 was unconscious when the lorry veered out of control on 22 December 2014.
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3D cameras plan to save monuments from IS threat – BBC News
Thousands of 3D cameras will be given out across the Middle East in an attempt to preserve ancient sites from destruction by the Islamic State group. Residents will be asked to capture images as part of a project by Oxford and Harvard archaeologists.
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Hubble captures shimmering, luminous Twin Jet Nebula – Boing Boing
Bipolar planetary nebulae occur when a twin star system lies at the center, forming beautiful wing-like symmetrical lobes. The Hubble team estimates this translucent beauty occurred only 1200 years ago. Below is an example of the precessing jet of M…
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Jury convicts man who tried to buy ricin on Darknet marketplace | Ars Technica
A jury convicted a 22-year-old New York man named Cheng Le yesterday of attempting to buy the deadly poison ricin on a darknet marketplace called Evolution, according to Reuters.
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Mars colony planned – Boing Boing
Space sailor Buzz Aldrin and the Florida Institute of Technology are planning to colonize Mars within 25 years. More specifically, he’s shooting for 2039, the 70th anniversary of his own Apollo 11 moon landing, although he admits the schedule is “ad…
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Yet another Martian UFO found, say UFO enthusiasts – Boing Boing
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Mobile phone use may worsen depression – Boing Boing
PUMP, or Problematic Use of Mobile Phone, happens when users turn to their phones instead of in-person contact to alleviate depression, according to a new study in Computers in Human Behavior. Probably the best thing to do is meet up with a friend a…
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WATCH: Black light body painting timelapse – Boing Boing
John Poppleton demonstrates how he creates eye-popping body-painted landscapes using fluorescent paint and UV light. Below are a couple of examples: More at his website.
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Greece braced for 200,000 more migrants this year – BBC News
In Greece, it is estimated that 210,000 refugees and migrants have arrived since the beginning of the year, and aid agencies believe as many as another 200,000 could arrive before the end of 2015. Chris Buckler reports from the island of Lesbos, jus…
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Instagram images no longer all square – BBC News
Facebook-owned image-sharing platform Instagram is allowing its 300 million users to post landscape and portrait videos and pictures for the first time. Until now, images shared via the site could only be uploaded in a square format.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Pretty much every day this week brought news that demanded near-exclusive attention. What else did we miss? That’s what Fridays are for. Unless, of course, Donald Trump says something.
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In Praise of Beach House – The New Yorker
In 1990, the Anglo-Irish band My Bloody Valentine recorded a song called “Soon.
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Three Arrested Over Austria Refugee Deaths | Al Jazeera America
Three people have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 refugees found dead in a truck on an Austrian highway, Austrian police said on Friday.
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Libya Collects Bodies From Refugee Disaster | Al Jazeera America
The bodies of scores of refugees have been recovered by Libyan authorities responding to two off-coast sinkings of smuggling ships thought to be carrying hundreds of people.
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Spock on Take Your Son To Work Day Circa 1965 : OldSchoolCool
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Thread, The U.K. Online Personal Styling Service For Men, Scores $8M Series A | TechCrunch
Using a mixture of algorithms and human stylists, London-based Thread works on the premise that a lot of men hate clothes shopping, however much they like stylish attire.
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Iran Nuclear Deal AMAScience AMA Series: We are physicists Rush Holt and Frank von Hippel, here to answer your technical questions on the Iran Nuclear Deal (and anything else), AMA! (self.science)
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Swype Update Adds Custom Themes, Emoji Keyboard and More
Swype is such a popular keyboard alternative that nearly every other phone keyboard has copied its signature feature. If you’re still devoted to the classic, you can now get a few new features including some sweet custom themes, and an emoji keyboar…
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A Nerd’s Guide To The 2,229 Paintings At MoMA | FiveThirtyEight
NEW YORK — Through the lobby thronged with tourists, the line for tickets, the line for the cloakroom, and the line for the ticket taker, up the narrow escalators, past the cafe and bookshop on the second floor, the photographs and drawings o
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A Rite of Passage That Pushes Young Girls Into Sex and Marriage | | Observer
In countries throughout Africa, girls are being streamlined past adolescence to adulthood through sex initiation camps widely condoned in their communities.
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